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One Republican state senator sought pain relief in Colorado. After testing it himself, he now wants to legalize medical marijuana in Utah.

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One Republican state senator sought pain relief in Colorado.

After testing it himself, he now wants to legalize medical marijuana in Utah.

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Letters Classmates With Rasmuson

I loved John Rasmuson’s column [“Be My Valentine,” Feb 12]. I was in the same class as he at Rosslyn Heights Elementary School. It brought back great memories: I dated Sharon E. in fourth grade. It was my first date: We were driven by her dad. I took her to the movies in Sugar House. I was lucky to play football with Gary S. at Highland High School.

I follow Rasmuson’s columns. He does a fantastic job! I’m proud to have been a schoolmate and to have exchanged valentine cards with him.

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Don’t Tax Marijuana

On Feb. 20, U.S. Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., introduced two new bills for federal marijuana legalization. The U.S. government’s practice of imprisoning, fining, harassing and stigmatizing marijuana users is tragic and has damaged many lives. Ending prohibition is a welcome change, but these bills have severe problems. If passed, they would turn marijuana into a cartelized industry rather than a business opportunity for everyday people.

Blumenauer’s bill, The Marijuana Tax Revenue Act of 2015, would place a federal excise tax on marijuana,

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Polis’ resolution, The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, would end federal prohibition of marijuana and transfer enforcement from the Drug Enforcement Administration to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

The bills would subject marijuana to the same sort of taxation and regulation as alcohol and tobacco, using Colorado as a nationwide model. Such a regime would lead to the development of “big marijuana” firms similar to “big alcohol” and “big tobacco.”

Large conglomerates dominate the alcohol (AnheuserBusch, InBev and SABMiller) and tobacco (Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds) markets, under the existing system of state-imposed excise taxes, licensing and mandatory three-tier distribution. The extra costs of these requirements keep small producers out of these industries. The result is stifled competition and ripped-off consumers.

The same process will ultimately lead to “big marijuana” conglomerates with Anheuser-Busch-like market power and advertising budgets.

Supporters of marijuana prohibition are not getting any younger. More than 213 million Americans live in jurisdictions with some form of legal marijuana use. Growing numbers recognize marijuana as a means of relaxation, a catalyst for creativity and an exciting business opportunity. The only choice is whether to end prohibition in a way that keeps money in the hands of small producers and sellers, or one that concentrates it the hands of big busi-

ness. The free-market approach of decriminalization and nonintervention does the former. Polis and Blumenauer’s “regulate and tax” approach does the latter. If American 20-somethings want to earn money by selling pot to their friends, let them. If it helps them pay their bills and keep themselves off welfare, we are all better off for it.

Government interventions tend to benefit big business and economic elites at the expense of ordinary people.

Marijuana policy is no exception. The state’s current prohibitionist policies benefit violent drug cartels, just as hyper-regulatory policies will benefit cartels of big corporations. This is just another area of life to get the state out of. In a free society, consenting buyers and sellers can make their own decisions about marijuana. The state and Big Business can stay out of it.

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Call Me Maybe

For many years, I worked in an office with a desk, a bookshelf and three chairs. It had a door to close when secrets were shared or noise intruded. The tools of my trade were an electric typewriter and a telephone with an intercom and a hold button.

A secretary in another room answered the phones. She left a call-back note on my desk when I was in a meeting. At 5 p.m., we locked the front door, suspending the work with the turn of a key. The next day, we picked up where we left off.

My typewriter was displaced by a clunky Zenith computer whose floppy-disk drive responded only to acolytes who had memorized the requisite DOS commands.

People like me who struggled with DOS rejoiced in 1984 when the Apple Macintosh made DOS obsolete. Eventually, despite an institutional reluctance to invest in new technology, our office toolkit was upgraded with a facsimile machine, callwaiting, voice mail, electronic mail and, finally, cellphones. A co-worker, having landed a new job, exulted that her boss had given her a BlackBerry—a status-conferring perquisite in those days. It didn’t take long for her to realize that it wasn’t so much a perk as it was a yoke to keep her on the job until midnight.

She wasn’t the only one awake to catch Johnny Carson’s final guest. Plenty of midnight oil had been burned as millions of people—infatuated by a new, “You’ve got mail!” AOL account—traded e-mail with everyone they could. “Infatuation” (“with a new way of being friends”) is what the late Nora Ephron labeled Stage 1 in her wry taxonomy “The Six Stages of E-mail.” In Stage 2, infatuation yields to the realization that typing an e-mail is not the same as composing a letter, but e-mailing is more efficient than telephoning. In Stage 3, the barbarians are at the gates offering penis enlargement, mustwatch videos, spa-day packages, FW: 7 Dangers to Human Virtue and a succession of “Snopes-verified” defamations. By

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the fourth stage, Ephron is disenchanted by a torrent of e-mail from people who don’t even know her telephone number.

Nevertheless, she is drawn to the inbox again and again in a Pavlovian response to arriving messages. In Ephron’s penultimate stage, “Accommodation,” she dispenses with accumulated e-mail with the likes of: “Yes. No. No :). No :(. Can’t. No way. Maybe. Doubtful. Sorry. So Sorry.

Thanks. No thanks.” And finally, in Stage 6, irony takes center stage in two words— “Call me.”

My own experience with e-mail is less ironic. Ephron’s assertion that e-mail is “intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not” seems a bit precious.

Granted, it is no candlelight dinner, but e-mail is as valuable as word-processing software to a dyed-in-the-wool scribbler like me. I have never reached Ephron’s Stage 4 disenchantment. I would rather spend eight hours writing a letter than talking for eight minutes on a telephone.

But then, I am not deluged with e-mail as Ephron was. I thought e-mail’s popularity was declining. I don’t get as many as I used to on weekdays, and the weekend is down to a trickle. So I was surprised that “e-mail remains the most common form of communication in the business space,” according to The Radicati Group, a market research company in California.

On average, today’s office worker receives 85 e-mails a day and sends 36. Those numbers are projected to increase in each of the next five years. It seems that e-mailing has become an essential task in the Information Age workday. If so, does it add value? Increase productivity?

Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein don’t think so. “Soul-sucking work” is how Rosenstein described it to Michael Liedtke of the Associated Press recently.

The two young entrepreneurs, wealthy alumni of Facebook and Google, lead a start-up company called Asana whose hybrid software promises “teamwork without e-mail.” A prototype is currently used by Facebook employees to manage projects, and Rosenstein says Asana cli-

ents have seen reductions of up to 80 percent in their e-mail traffic. (I’ll bet the Asana software has no “reply all” option.)

Recalling my telephone & typewriter days, I try to imagine how a daily flood of 100-plus e-mails would have impacted me and my fellow workers. It seems like a straightforward, zero-sum calculation, but there are efficiencies that offset the workload imposed by electronic mail.

Had we had e-mail, we would have typed fewer memos, filed fewer carbon copies, attended fewer meetings and made fewer telephone calls. E-mail would have certainly added to our workload, but we would have been more productive.

My back-of-the-envelope productivity calculation evokes the management bromide we heard too often as budgets were cut—“do more with less.” Any “officeautomation initiative” in those days required a “bill-payer.” In other words, if you sought to do more with less by replacing typewriters with computers, you had to show a resultant dollar benefit.

The most expedient way of doing that was to sacrifice the secretaries. They were vulnerable. Their jobs had already been undermined by computer-based telephone systems with call-waiting, call-forwarding and voice mail. Not so many years later, then, most of the secretaries are gone, as are the typewriters on which they plied their trade. Cubicles have replaced offices. The 40-hour workweek is elastic. Voice mail is passé! The telephone is fast becoming a machine for texting, not talking. The trend favors cool technological efficiency over the warmth of human interaction.

Ephron faulted e-mail for suppressing the human voice. E-mail’s “new way of being friends with people” proved to be superficial and overwhelming. For her, “call me” was as much a plea as it was a dodge. CW John Rasmuson is a freelance writer living in Salt Lake City. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.

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Do you still phone people? Or are you strictly a texter?

Nicole Enright: At this point, it seems like we are all strictly texters. For me, this isn’t really by choice. One of my friends still calls me regularly on the phone, and I really appreciate her for that. It’s nice to hear people’s voices, since we are all primarily behind our smartphones and computer screens.

Jeff Chipian: I’m a texter. When I text, it’s not an emergency. But when I call, people know it’s important, and they’d better answer!

Jeremiah Smith: Since its part of my to-do here at the Weekly, I have to say that the phone is my preferred method. I feel the propensity to ignore people is too great with any new-fangled gadgetry.

Bryan Bale: I’ve never really liked talking on the phone; I strongly prefer text and e-mail. Text-based communication gives me a chance to organize my thoughts before sharing them.

Mason Rodrickc: I use my phone to check if someone called, then I text them, unless they were born after 1980 and aren’t my parents (such hip texting parents, lol, g2g, cya).

Scott Renshaw: lol this question tl;dr Kolbie Stonehocker: I try to respond in the same way the person contacted me, but I vastly prefer e-mail (impromptu phone conversations make me sweat).

Texts and Facebook messages need to get to the point or I don’t respond: Nothing infuriates me more than the vague “Hey.” Larry Carter: I prefer face-to-face, but the next best is to call. My fingers are too big to be texting.

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The Geography Challenge You k now Ogden—that city north of Salt Lake City but not north enough to be Logan. Well, Salt Lake Magazine stepped off a cliff recently when its 2015 Dining Awards announced Utah’s 25 best restaurants, one of which was Elements. The discerning reader might notice that Elements is actually in Logan, although the magazine put it in … Ogden. After getting a parade of comments, SLMag changed the category to Ogden/Northern Utah.

Not soon enough. The Facebook page OnlyInOgden is up to 65 comments on the issue, including “Nothing exists outside of the Salt Lake Valley.” The magazine cut off its website comments, and we await a FB post from Boulder, whose best restaurant was in the Moab category.

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You could call it Common Core for townships, but don’t. That would be the kiss of death, for sure. The much-misunderstood Common Core is a state-led effort in which states and school districts decide how to teach math and reading.

The township initiative now is similar in that townships from unincorporated areas are duking out a proposal to solve infighting over what kind of governments to have. To quiet the incorporation cabal, Mayor Ben McAdams came up with a megacity plan, but it too was controversial. Now Sen. Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, is carrying Senate Bill 199, a yearlong compromise that will allow unincorporated areas to govern themselves while using county services.

Seems it’s all good—just don’t tell the Legislature that it’s about local control born of consensus.

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Matthew Beckstead is the recipient of university research that allows him to move his “hands,” prostheses with a neural interface, according to a Deseret News story. This kind of breakthrough is what you get with research grants—and the researchers to figure it out. Meanwhile, the U of U and Utah State University are seeking $10 million to attract researchers who are bypassing Utah for more money elsewhere. Graduate students aren’t the priciest researchers, but Utah isn’t offering them enough to be attractive. The universities told the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee that the money could fund some two dozen new positions and help solve the need for those highly trained workers the state is always seeking—and help more people like Beckstead.

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Writer, speaker and theologian Father Shay Kearns is the founding pastor of House of the Transfiguration in Minneapolis. As a transgender person of faith, Kearns will speak on the power of personal narrative at the Salt Lake City Main Library (210 E. 400 South) on Saturday, March 7, at 1:30 p.m., during “Reimagining Inclusive Religious Spaces: Gender and Sexualities.” The symposium is sponsored, in part, by the Main Library and the University of Utah colleges of social work and humanities. More information can be found at SLCPL.org.

Were you brought up in a religious household?

I grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical church (very conservative), where women were not allowed to be ministers. I felt a call to ministry in junior high but didn’t quite know what to do with it for a long time. But it was always there, waiting for me to answer.

How did you come to found your own church?

I was unable to find a church that mixed the best of what I missed from my evangelical upbringing with my newfound love for liturgy and ritual. I figured there would be others who were longing for the same thing. So, I set out to create a church that mixes ancient ritual with modern practice, and that is centered on the lives of those who are often excluded from other worshipping communities because of who they are.

Many LGBTQ individuals feel excluded from organized religion. What’s your message to the disenfranchised?

I totally get it. And for many, that is the healthiest choice (either for a time or permanently). You cannot be in a place that damages your soul. But to those who are longing to integrate their faith, who miss being in spiritual community, who want to be people of faith, I say this: Be strong. Know that you are loved by God. You might have to create the community you are longing for, but don’t give up.

After what you faced to get where you are now, how would you like to see religions address gender identity?

There are a lot of things communities of faith can do to be more inclusive: Make sure you have accessible gender-neutral bathrooms, ask everyone to wear name tags that include what pronoun you use; don’t separate things by gender (for example, when singing, say “people with high voices” or “people with low voices”); pay attention to the language you use. It’s also time to let transgender people share their own stories and journeys. There are so many talented transgender speakers and ministers and faith leaders; we don’t need other people telling our stories for us anymore. We simply need to be given the microphone.

What do you hope to accomplish by making your story heard?

When I was growing up, I never saw anyone like me. If I can make it easier for a transgender kid to know they can not only grow up to be who they are and to be happy and healthy, but also to pursue their calling to ministry, that will be a success. I also want to make queer and trans theology accessible to people who are not academics. There is such richness in theology done from a queer and trans perspective (and a richness for people who are not queer or trans as well), and I want to share that more broadly.

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it was $277 billion. Driverless cars would probably have the occasional accident as well, but the most dangerous factors could be eliminated—crucially, drunken driving. Of the roughly 33,000 traffic fatalities each year in the United States, about 10,000 result from alcohol impairment. On a pure dollars & cents level, that’s a total loss of something like $19 billion in future earnings that the government won’t get to collect taxes on.

Additionally, the government savings on public transportation would be huge.

The Chicago Transit Authority system gets about $700 million in annual public subsidies; much of this could be eliminated if bus service, which runs up major labor costs, were replaced by privately operated fleets of driverless minivans. Other pluses on the balance sheet: The disabled and elderly would have greater taxable earnings potential because transportation would be easier, and fewer Medicaid and Medicare dollars would be spent on those involved in car accidents.

The journey from a Google engineer’s wet dream to reality is a long one, of course, and we’ve still got a ways to go before any of these considerations becomes relevant.

Some don’t think we’ll ever get there: Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, is working on a driverless car, too, but he doesn’t think the human element can be totally eliminated— his version would be more of an autopilot feature. Google’s autonomous car has covered 700,000 miles without incident in and around the Bay Area, but the programmers have fed it tons of data specific to local roads—it wouldn’t work if you dropped it in the middle of Tokyo. Google has preempted one obvious objection by saying it should be liable for any tickets its cars incur, but plenty of unresolved questions remain: How will the car choose in a nowin situation—say, when it has to hit either a jaywalker or another car? Is there a cheat code to get the car to drive faster? Or can you trick the software into speeding by telling it your wife’s in labor?

But if you’re asking whether driverless cars are, on balance, actually worth pursuing, the answer is: duh. It’ll surely take a while for it all to play out, but if this thing winds up being half the big deal it could be, the change in traffic-ticket revenue is going to look like a rounding error.

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What I’m wondering is why you’re even thinking about this. Driverless cars may well reshape the urban world—for one thing, autonomous car-sharing could wipe out taxis, limos and Ubers in a single swat—and you’re focusing on parking tickets. Could you possibly have picked a more boring aspect of this development to analyze? But since you asked, yes: This particularly irritating form of revenue extraction would be mostly eliminated in the event that cars became autonomous.

As it stands, issuing tickets is something governments do a lot of. New York City gave out more than a million in 2012. Roughly 23 percent were for tinted windows or seatbelt violations (conjuring a rather unsavory image of what New Yorkers are doing in their cars), but the rest were for infractions that wouldn’t exist if cars were automated: speeding, phone use while driving, etc. Financially, this is an incredible boon for states and municipalities—the NYPD’s recent hissy-fit strike against Mayor de Blasio cost the city $10 million a week in parking-ticket money. It’s hard to find an ironclad nationwide total for ticket-fine revenue, but (for example) Virginia raked in roughly $97 million on speeding tickets in 2010; scale that up to a population of 320 million, and you get a national figure of about $3.7 billion. If autonomous cars make that sum just go away, budget committees are likely to notice.

Google, the apparent frontrunner in the race to driverless cars, claims their increased efficiency (in part because they can travel in a tightly spaced convoy, reducing drag) will ultimately cut commuting waste by 90 percent. Forbes works the annual savings out as 1.9 billion gallons of gas and 4.8 billion commuting hours, for a total value of $101 billion. I’m not sure I completely buy the details where Google is concerned—two of the past five times I trusted Google Maps, I spent a lot more time in Indiana than I’d intended—but undoubtedly the government would lose some money here, too. The current federal tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents a gallon, and the average state tax is 23.5 cents a gallon, so 1.9 billion gallons saved means a $350 million annual loss in federal tax revenue and a loss of $447 million for the states.

On the other hand, the total yearly economic cost of all U.S. motor vehicle accidents dwarfs both these figures—in 2010,

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Breaking the Cycle

Sex workers trying to start anew are shackled by barriers to housing and resources.

By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark In summer 2013, sex workers Donna Steele and two others, Candyss and Tina (both pseudonyms for this story), were living and working on State Street in downtown Salt Lake City. Steele and Tina walked State Street between 1300 South and 2100 South, waiting for drivers to signal their interest in paid sex in parked cars or motel rooms. Candyss took refuge in a cramped, dark motel room she shared with Tina, who was also her romantic partner. Their lodging was paid for by Candyss’ sole longtime client.

All three were trapped in a vicious cycle of using sex work to pay for lodging and drugs. Their only recourse for medical care, as reported in the Aug. 22, 2013, City Weekly cover story “One Way Street,” was a two-person mobile-medical outreach from Fourth Street Clinic, which connected them with limited services. Housing and a life beyond prostitution seemed beyond their reach.

Fast-forward 20 months, and two of the three women, Steele and Candyss, have recently obtained housing through Utah’s Housing First program, which prioritizes housing over all other considerations. A key element in Utah’s much-praised 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, Housing First uses a “Vulnerability Index” (VI) to prioritize those most in need.

While sex workers score high on the VI, and advocates say there are increasing conversations on how to get them services, they remain, paradoxically, a largely invisible population. Due to federal guidelines, an annual count of the chronically homeless in the state, known as Utah Point in Time, does not include street sex workers, whose chronic homelessness is masked by a complex cycle of sex work used to pay for lodging in dingy motel rooms and for drugs, which help quell mental-health issues tied to sex work and sexual abuse.

Masked Homelessness The Asian Association of Utah provides help for refugees and immigrants. Its case manager for human-trafficking

H OMELESSNESS victims, Gina Salazar—a longtime advocate for sex workers, impassioned by her own 15 years as a street sex worker in Salt Lake City—knows of five impoverished sex workers who have achieved permanent housing. From her own count at the 2014 Point in Time, Salazar estimates that still leaves more than 100 female sex workers, and an unknown number of males, living in “masked” chronic homelessness—not considered homeless because they live in rented hotel rooms used for work and shelter.

That Candyss, Steele and the others found stable housing, Salazar credits primarily to the determination of advocates who helped the women overcome nearly insurmountable roadblocks.

These barriers include a severe shortage of low-income housing and a complicated, time-intensive application process required for housing vouchers.

Then there’s dealing with federal and local regulations that weed out those with eviction histories, violent felony records and drug addictions. Replacing lost or stolen IDs requires hours of wait time at state offices which, for homeless sex workers, means worrying about money for that night’s rent. Most difficult of all, advocates say, is attempting to clear up outstanding warrants and accompanying fines in court, and facing possible jail time in the process.

A Time Out in God’s Hospital Steele, who is 55 years old, was close to getting housing in summer 2014 until black mold in an apartment lined up for her by Volunteers of America derailed it. Subsequently, she was bitten savagely by a dog while walking State Street and, at times, had no place to sleep except in a stairwell.

Ed Snoddy, VOA’s medical-outreach coordinator, succeeded in getting her into an apartment, albeit only a few blocks from the section of State Street where she sold sex and used drugs.

While appreciative of VOA and Fourth Street Clinic’s efforts to get her housed, “I felt like I was set up to fail,” Steele said one afternoon in mid-January while curled up on an easy chair in her apartment’s living room, the curtains drawn.

Her front door is marked by stickers from notes she’d put up asking people she knew from her nine years of homelessness and street sex work to stop knocking on her door. She pays $214 a month in rent to The Road Home, which leaves her $500 from Social Security. As she is concerned about ending up back in the milieu of street drugs, she says, “One reason I’ve asked to be moved from here” is so she can pursue a fourday detox program at LDS Hospital through Medicaid. Being so close to that world, “They can’t expect me to quit.”

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Moving on to safety: Candyss (left) and Tina in their motel room in August 2013. After years as a street sex worker, Candyss now has her own place.

Candyss and Tina moved from State Street to a motel in the Smith’s Ballpark neighborhood. “It was hard to pay money to slumlords and have anything left over,” Candyss says. She resolved to get into housing and, with Salazar’s help, went to court and cleared up outstanding warrants at the Sunset City and Salt Lake City justice courts. She then applied for Shelter Plus Care, a program that provides both housing and case management, to the Housing Authority of Salt Lake County. The program includes weekly case-management meetings and other wrap-around services such as counseling and harm-reduction programs relating to drug addiction.

Initially, Candyss’ application was denied, because, Salazar says, “of her criminal history.” On appeal, Candyss talked to the two-member hearing committee about her efforts to get clean and start afresh, while Salazar spoke of Candyss’ promotion of medical outreach to sex workers in the media. On Jan. 3, 2015, Candyss learned she had won her appeal.

No sooner had Candyss moved into a small basement apartment a few blocks from North Temple in mid-January than Tina was arrested on drugrelated charges and is now serving 180 days in the Salt Lake County Metro Jail. “I was so happy she was in jail,” Candyss says. “I was afraid she’d hurt

someone or herself, she was acting so desperate.” Salazar concurs, referring to jail time as “God’s hospital” for the time out it offers from the cycle of sex work and addiction.

In a jail interview, Tina demonstrates the benefit of that time out. Her eyes and skin are clear, her infectious laugh rings loudly in the visiting area, and she’s lost the puffiness Candyss associates with her drug use. Tina says she wants to get into housing, too. But when she is released, she faces a gap in services for women who, while sober, have to deal with years of sex-work-related trauma and mental-health issues without shelter, except for The Road Home.

That gap became painfully apparent to Fourth Street Clinic’s former mobile medical-outreach team director Joel Hunt who—with the help of Jimmie Long, the Salt Lake County Jail’s mentalhealth director, and Lynn Unger, a social worker who runs a program at the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association office that connects the incarcerated mentally ill with services at Valley Mental Health—began conducting “in-reach” to jailed sex workers and the homeless in 2014. Hunt achieved significant progress with Diane (a pseudonym), a veteran sex worker who turned a corner in terms of beginning to address the complex issues at the root of her sex work and addiction.

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The night Diane was being released in November 2014, she was desperately trying to locate a “Captain Save-a-ho”—in this case, she was trying to phone a meth-using client who promised her a bed to sleep in with no strings attached. When she couldn’t find him, she ended up at what she called “her old stomping ground”—namely The Road Home.

“I don’t want to go back there,” she said.

Early the next morning, an ambulance was called to the shelter after Diane relapsed and overdosed. “It’s terrible to see there’s nothing for her right now,” Hunt said. Diane subsequently went back to the streets.

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Now that Hunt has relocated to a clinic in Texas, his replacement at Fourth Street Clinic, nurse practitioner Phil Taylor, is a quieter but equally impassioned advocate for the homeless and street sex workers.

Taylor, along with his medical assistant Leticia Vasquez, as well as Shannon Cox with the nonprofit Journey of Hope—which helps women at risk of incarceration— and the Asian Association’s Salazar, all share deep frustration that Utah’s largest domestic-violence (DV) shelter, the Y WCA, does not accept sex workers, due in part to the complexity of their needs.

Keri Jones, the YWCA’s chief of programming, says criticism that the shelter only takes “cookie-cutter” DV cases is not fair.

“It’s not about falling into simple definitions; it’s about us trying to meet demand.”

Jones noted that the YWCA is typically at capacity with 250 people, 150 of whom are children. Sex workers, she says, “are really complicated cases. While I appreciate DV can be part of their history, that may be only a piece of what’s going on for them.” Can the YWCA best serve those in need of intensive case management, she asks? “Bottom line is: We can’t serve them all.”

Steele expresses concern for the increasingly young women and even girls she sees working State Street. “I just wish we’d put something in place for these vulnerable ladies,” Taylor says of the valley’s sex workers. “I think if we don’t do something, we just sort of perpetuate the vulnerability to another generation.”

In the past six months before Tina went to jail, her highly complex relationship with Candyss’ had already deteriorated to the point where neither was sure if they had a future together. According to the court docket, if Tina successfully completes the jail’s substance-abuse Community Addiction Treatment Services program, she will be considered for early release.

Tina does not know where she will go, but in her newly found sobriety, she knows she wants housing.

“While you’ve got the ability to do something different, it just sucks there’s nothing different to go out and do,” Salazar says. CW

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On Thursday, Wasatch Mountain State Park is hosting a meeting about trails.

One trail under consideration would stretch 17 miles from the park toward Guardsman Pass. Later, the Legislature’s Prison Relocation Commission will discuss potential new locations where it might be palatable to plop down a state prison. And, to kick off March, conservation, wildlife and outdoor-recreation groups will gather at the Capitol to protest Utah’s continued costly efforts to seize federally managed public lands.

Wasatch Over Wasatch Trail Meeting Thursday, Feb. 26

Wasatch Mountain State Park and the Wasatch Trails Alliance will discuss the Wasatch Over Wasatch (WOW) trail. The trail would stretch 17 miles and run roughly parallel to Pine Canyon Road.

The park received a $100,000 grant in matching funds from the federal government to build the trail.

Wasatch County Administration Building, 25 N. Main, Heber, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m., StateParks.Utah.gov

Eight clues that a police-dispatched teenage CUB (Covert Underage Buyer) is in your bar:

8.

He hands out business cards that say, “Ask me about my affordable entrapment services.”

7. She asks for her favorite

drink, “An alcohol with two umbrellas, please.”

6.

The name on his driver license is “Blaze Rambo Grownup, Esq.”

5. She requests that the

bartender change the TV channel from basketball to “like, Netflix or something.”

4. His strap-on beard keeps

Prison Relocation Commission

BEAR (ID#A029994) This older gentleman is 10years young black Labrador Retriever mix. He is friendly, energetic and happy. He does great with older kids (that will not pull on him or rough house with him) and adults. He’s also lived with small dogs in the past.

presence of a live band: “Why are those old guys making noise?”

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Includes neuter, preliminary vaccines and microchip.

2.

He says, “Give me a craft beer, like a Shock Top—and don’t skimp on the orange slices.”

1.

She remarks, “This is a nice bar. Too bad it’ll be shut down before I turn 21.”

The Legislature is running out of time to make a decision on where to build a new prison. The commission’s first crack at selecting sites was met with sharp protests from communities pegged as possible homes for the prison. Paralleling this relocation is an effort by some lawmakers to fund more programs for the mentally ill and drug addicts. A question that remains is whether this enthusiasm for reforming prison programs would persist if the prison were to remain on the valuable Draper dirt that has every developer drooling.

Utah State Senate Building, 350 N. State, Room 210, Feb. 27, 1 p.m., Le.Utah.gov

Public-Lands Rally

getting caught in his retainer.

3. She’s perplexed by the

Friday, Feb. 27

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Monday, March 2

Utah lawmakers have continued to press the federal government to hand over the public land it manages in The Beehive State, despite the fact that the state would most likely lose massive sums of money if it succeeds. Several groups will oppose these efforts at a rally called The Great Public Lands Gamble, where speakers such as Black Diamond Equipment CEO Peter Metcalf and Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, will speak.

Utah Capitol Rotunda, 350 N. State, March 2, 4:30-6 p.m., GreatPublicLandsGamble.org

Curses, Foiled Again

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Jeffrey Wood, 19, announced a robbery at a convenience store in Washington, D.C., where two police detectives were shopping. They were in plain clothes, but one had her badge hanging from her neck. She told the suspect, “Stop playing, I got 17,” referring to the number of bullets in her gun. Wood reportedly replied, “I got 17, too.” He was bluffing, however, and was easily arrested. (The Washington Post)

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Overreaction

Mitzi Lynn Martinez, 50, admitted setting fire to a tent where two men were sleeping after drinking beer with them at her home in Palm Bay, Fla. She said she gave one of the men $15 to go buy more beer, then got into a “heated argument” with the other one, who left. He met the other man, and they took the beer to their tent. Five hours later, Martinez lit a soft drink container filled with lighter fluid and rolled it down an embankment toward the tent, which burst into flames. Police charged her with attempted murder. (Orlando Sentinel)

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n Someone reported two men acting suspiciously in a parked car in Rexburg, Idaho, but before police could respond, the men, aware that they had been observed, assumed they had been discovered by undercover officers. They called 911 and admitted possessing 20 pounds of marijuana. Rexburg police, who said they had no idea the men were driving through town with drugs, arrived to find Leland Ryan Kaimipono Ayala-Doliente, 21, and Craig Seward, 22, standing outside their car with the pot.

(Pocatello’s Idaho State Journal)

Victim of the Week Adam Wisneski, 31, rode his bicycle to a Chicago police station to report a stolen iPhone. He didn’t have his lock, so he asked if he could leave his bike inside the station. After filling out a police report, he turned around to find someone had stolen his bike.

(Chicago’s WBBM Radio)

Forgive and Forget

When Guns Are Outlawed

n Authorities charged Tewana Sullivan, 50, with murdering her 66-year-old friend by beating her over the head with a slow cooker and tying the cord around her neck. The incident occurred while the two residents of a senior-housing complex in Livonia, Mich., argued over “presidential politics,” Sullivan’s lawyer said, and “whatever the controversy is between Democrats and Republicans.” (The Detroit News)

n Spanish authorities on the resort island of Ibiza said Dimitrina Dimitrova, 29, was so excited when her boyfriend proposed to her at a scenic spot overlooking the Mediterranean Sea that she began jumping up and down, lost her balance and fell 65 feet to her death. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

Shirking-Class Hero A.K. Verma, an assistant executive engineer at India’s Central Public Works Department (CPWD), went on leave in 1990 but declined to return to work. “He went on seeking extension of leave, which was not sanctioned, and defied directions to report to work,” a government statement said, noting that an inquiry found Verma guilty of “willful absence from duty” in 1992. He remained on unauthorized leave for another 22 years, however, before Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu finally ordered his dismissal to “streamline the functioning of CPWD and to ensure accountability.” (Britain’s The Guardian)

Them That Has, Gets Although China owns at least $1.3 trillion of the United States’ debt, the U.S. government sent it $12.3 million in foreign aid last year and is handing it another $6.8 million in 2014. An official for the State Department’s USAID program said the money is earmarked to help Tibetan communities “preserve their threatened cultural traditions” and to help China “address environmental conservation and strengthen the rule of law.”

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Police said Andrew Rak, 28, threatened Will Flanagan, the former mayor of Fall River, Mass., with oversize scissors used at ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Rak reportedly stole the prop scissors from Flanagan’s SUV, along with other items, including a small souvenir baseball bat, which he smashed against the ground outside Flanagan’s apartment while stating he was going to “kill the mayor.” Flanagan, who was ousted from office by a recall election in December, confronted Rak, who said, “I’m going to kill you. You lost the election.” (Fall River’s The Herald News)

One byproduct of legalized marijuana is a rash of exploding houses, according to Colorado authorities, who reported 32 such blasts across the state in 2014. The incidents result from people using flammable liquids to extract hash oil from marijuana. “They get enough vapors inside the building, and it goes off,” Grand Junction fire marshal Chuck Mathis said. The fires have injured dozens of people, including 17 who received skin grafts and surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital’s burn center. Arguing that such tragedies aren’t crimes because of the 2012 constitutional amendment that legalized marijuana use, attorney Robert Corry said using butane to make hash oil is “the equivalent of frying turkey for Thanksgiving,” where “someone spills the oil, and there’s an explosion.” (The New York Times)

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POT FOR PAIN What a long,

strange trip it’s been for Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs. In February, the conservative Mormon lawmaker and grandson to the late LDS Church President Ezra Taft Benson trekked across the state line to a Denver hotel room to ingest a cannabis gummy and inhale a dose of marijuana through a vape pen. But make no mistake: The libertarianleaning senator wasn’t there to party. He was doing his own personal research to determine if Utah should continue its ban on medical marijuana.

After seven hours behind the wheel, this long, strange trip had indeed left Madsen’s back aching. For years, Madsen has suffered from chronic back pain that has required multiple surgeries paired with opioid prescriptions to manage the pain. By the time he rolled into the Mile High City, he was Politics are always personal, ready to test an alternative to pain meds and see first-hand if there could and while individual liberty is key be benefits from legislation that would allow for growing, dispensing and for Madsen, the issue runs deepusing medical marijuana in Utah. er for his family since his wife’s With his wife watching him, Madsen vaped the magic dragon and, mother passed away in October then, he was … well … disappointed.

2014 after a tough bout with breast “Frankly, I was kind of let down for all the hype. I remembered back to cancer. my first DARE class in sixth grade, and I was thinking, “When is this huge Madsen’s wife, Erin, says that mental contortion going to overcome me?’ ” Madsen says. He recalls the in her mother’s waning days, her subtle sensation that things were now more vivid, that the music he liked pain-management options were before he really liked now and that, all of a sudden, room service sounded limited. Even opioid prescriptions such as fentanyl patches presented pretty appetizing. He also realized that his back felt much better and, for a problem for her mother, since the all the hype, the gateway drug hadn’t changed him much. patches require a certain amount It was then that the lawmaker had perhaps his first of body fat on a person in order for them grass-powered epiphany: “My heavens! Reefer to absorb the drug safely. “She was only 80 madness is just propaganda,” Madsen pounds,” Erin says. “She didn’t have any fat left recalls thinking.

You Have Your Own Choices

Of course, Madsen wasn’t there seeking relief just for himself. He had long been considering whether Utah should be the next state among 23 others (24 if you include the District of Columbia) to offer medicinal marijuana as an alternative treatment option for patients stricken by pain and desperate for options. If it passed, Madsen’s proposed bill (not yet numbered at press time) would be a historic first for Utah, assuming Madsen can get his colleagues to support it and Gov. Gary Herbert (who has already said he does not support medical marijuana) to sign off on it.

The bill’s passage is a big if, especially given the Swiss-watch efficiency needed to get intricate wheels of state agencies to interlock and create an entirely new industry of stand-alone medical-marijuana dispensaries. For Madsen, who is retiring from the Legislature and won’t run for re-election in 2016, it’s a fight worth going out on. Madsen knows how divisive marijuana can be among his fellow LDS lawmakers and constituents—he himself discussed his decision to use marijuana with his LDS bishop before embarking on his research trip. But he also knows that if his colleagues can focus on marijuana as medicine, they will appreciate that the government has no place in doctor/patient decisions.

“I didn’t run for office because I think I know how to run people’s lives better than Democrats,” Madsen says. “I ran for office because I want people to live their own lives, to own it. You have your own choices, and you have the consequences of your own choices.”

on her.”

According to Erin, the bill is intended for lawabiding people. “People that aren’t law-abiding are already doing whatever they want. This is for people stuck between a rock and a hard place.”

The challenge Erin sees is getting people not to immediately associate marijuana with the image of a couple of slackers smoking weed in a basement.

“But how do you get from there to seeing my retired schoolteacher mom who was just metastasized down to the bones?” Erin asks.

Pot Patriot

Madsen’s Senate office is a veritable shrine to individual liberty. His bookcase is filled with tomes written by the likes of Ayn Rand and Thomas Friedman. A TV constantly streams Fox News in the corner, while above it a sign bearing the image of an armed figure reads: “An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a subject.” But don’t expect to see any marijuana-leaf miniature flags festooning Madsen’s desk, and there never will be, even if the issue of medical marijuana should come to define his legislative legacy.

Madsen stresses that the conceptual framework of the bill he shared with City Weekly will likely be tweaked during the legislative process.

For his bill to stand a chance of passing into law, Madsen knows that people need to think about marijuana differently. To that end, Madsen’s bill will not legalize the smoking of medicinal marijuana.

Not only does he think that smoking is an ineffective delivery mechanism, but he says smoking simply should not be encouraged. He wasn’t even particularly fond of the vape pen he inhaled in Denver, since using it made him feel like Franklin D. Roosevelt, a

One Republican state senator sought pain relief in Colorado. After testing it himself, he now wants to legalize medical marijuana in Utah.

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president famous for his long cigarette holders.

Madsen’s bill seeks to allow other treatment delivery methods such as edibles, tinctures, drinks, vape pens (preferably with an inhaler-type design) and vaporizers. The bill is also ambitious in that it seeks to establish Utah’s own medical-marijuana industry.

It would not allow for products to be sold in existing pharmacies but would instead rely on the creation of new dispensaries. Dispensary employees would have to be licensed under the Division of Occupational & Professional Licensing, and would be ineligible for employment if they had felony-level drug trafficking or distribution charges on their records. The process for obtaining medical marijuana would require the development of more bureaucracy than Madsen is normally comfortable with.

First, Madsen stresses that no doctor would be required to prescribe something he or she isn’t comfortable with. In fact, Madsen’s bill requires a strong degree of doctor/patient cooperation and trust. “The criticism is you go in for a hangnail, right, and the doctor is like, ‘Oh sure, here you go,’ and he just sets himself up to write prescriptions for pot,” Madsen says.

But under his bill, only certain specialists would be able to offer the treatment; for example, cancer patients would need a prescription from their oncologist. No family doctor or general practitioner would be allowed to write cannabis scripts.

The patient and the specialist would fill out a joint application that would then be taken to the Utah Department of Health. As long as both the patient and the doctor agree and the appropriate boxes are checked, Madsen says the health department would have “zero discretion” to turn down an application.

The Utah Department of Financial Institutions would then create a kind of ID/payment card.

Patients would use it as their ID at dispensaries and also load money onto the card. To avoid violating federal money-laundering laws, the card would not deliver payment to the dispensary but would instead direct payment to the state tax commission, which would collect a fee to administer the program and then send the payment to the dispensary.

The “how” of medical marijuana in Utah may remain moot, however, if Madsen can’t sell his colleagues on the “why” of it, and the biggest challenge to overcome is the lack of medical-marijuana research. Madsen calls out the federal government for fumbling marijuana research, because in 1970, the feds decided marijuana had no medical benefit and lumped it as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, in the same category as heroin.

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A bill “for law-abiding people”: Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, with his wife, Erin.

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Madsen isn’t an advocate for marijuana replacing existing pain medications, but rather complementing them. At one point, he says, his back pain was so severe, it caused him to have a sedentary life, but once he started taking pain meds, he was able to shed 80 pounds and could be active once again.

Madsen brushes off the severity of his pain, especially when compared to the suffering of his mother-in-law or constituents who have talked to him about their trials. Even still, he readily admits there were times during the 2010 legislative session when a pinched nerve caused severe pain and nearly 80 percent of his right arm and shoulder to be paralyzed.

One summer, after his surgeries and subsequently prescriptions for pain medicine, Madsen was working in his yard unaware that a fentanyl patch on his shoulder—meant to slowly release opioid pain relief—had ruptured. He suddenly felt incredibly tired and told his kids he was just going to lie down for a nap and to wake him up later.

Madsen lay down and soon stopped breathing.

Luckily, his family was right there and his panicked wife yanked him from the couch to resuscitate him.

Ultimately, an ambulance had to be called. Since then, Madsen has learned the difference between too much opiate and too much marijuana, and the difference can be deadly.

If you take too much marijuana, there’s likely to be adverse effects, Madsen says, “But you know what?

It’s not going to stop your breathing. It’s not going to stop your heart.”

It’s a point bolstered by an August 2014 study by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that examined the rate of opioidoverdose deaths between 1999 and 2010 and found that, on average, the 13 states legalizing medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioidoverdose mortality rate.

According to Anna Fondario of the Utah Department of Health, in 2013, Utah ranked seventh nationwide for unintentional and undetermined drug poisoning deaths.

That year—the most recent for which data is available—saw 353 Utahns lose their lives related to prescriptiondrug overdoses, with 270 of those deaths related to opioid prescriptions.

Pat Bird doesn’t mind that the feds have maintained their stance on marijuana. Bird works for the Utah County Department of Health’s Drug & Alcohol Prevention & Treatment team, and in 2014, he helped contribute to a document originally dubbed the Utah Marijuana Compact, which seeks to keep policy leaders from legalizing marijuana in the Beehive State. The compact urges elected officials to proceed cautiously with medical marijuana, basing decisions on rigorous studies and to prohibit smoking medicinal marijuana or using the whole plant.

“We don’t smoke opium to get its medical benefits. The tree bark that aspirin is from—we don’t smoke [it] to get the medical benefit,” Bird says. “We pull those things out, control them and have a standard dose so we know what we’re dealing with.”

Madsen’s bill, however, would allow for wholeplant consumption of marijuana: the vaporizing of marijuana buds and the juicing of marijuana leaves. Otherwise, he says, medical-marijuana treatments would be too costly for patients.

Bird acknowledges that classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug has held back research into the whole plant but points out that there have been hundreds of recent clinical trials looking into into marijuana’s different compo-

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“Why damage the people in their interests and restrict their freedom because government has had a policy in place that didn’t provide the answers we otherwise would have?” Madsen asks.

PTSD that found medical marijuana worsened their symptoms and even increased violence among some patients.

“This isn’t about prohibition,” Bird says. “It’s about protection.” Bird simply wants the state to proceed cautiously and at its own pace.

Plume sees how legislative health initiatives can be problematic, but that doesn’t mean they don’t eventually become law, if federal and state tobacco laws that regulate where people may smoke are any example. “For a legislator, that’s their job, with all kinds of laws,” he says.

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nents. Bird has been in the prevention game for a long time and can appreciate the shortcomings of the War on Drugs, especially in treatment support for addicts. Even still, he doesn’t see the need to rush to implement a medical-marijuana system in Utah without the research to support it.

Jason Plume, a visiting professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., studies the politics behind federal and state marijuana laws. He agrees that medicinal marijuana is gaining traction in certain clinical trials, but also points out that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration have resisted rescheduling the drug into a class that would allow for more federal research dollars. “They hold the key to research in America for the most part,” Plume says.

In 1972, Plume notes, two years after marijuana was lumped as Schedule 1 with drugs like heroin, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) petitioned the federal government to reconsider its decision. The FDA and the DEA, in turn, stalled the petition process for 24 years, before denying the petition in 1996. At the federal level, marijuana is still considered to have no medicinal value.

It’s a position that the Utah Medical Association, the lobby group for the state’s doctors, stands by in concert with the American Medical Association, which also refuses to recognize marijuana’s medicinal benefits.

Dr. Seth Ammerman, a California-based author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Jan. 26, 2015, statement against medical marijuana, says that while evidence has shown medical marijuana’s beneficial outcomes for adult patients with neuropathic pain, HIV/AIDS, post-chemo nausea and spasticity in multiple sclerosis, there still is little known about the use of the whole cannabis plant.

“Medical marijuana is really a misnomer because what we’re really talking about is not marijuana per se, but the active ingredient in the cannabis plant called cannabinoids,” Ammerman says. “There will be at least 200 different cannabinoids in any given plant, and we know very little about most of the cannabinoids.” The AAP did, however, call on marijuana to be placed on a less restrictive federal schedule to allow for more research.

If people are frustrated by the FDA approval process, Bird says, then that should be the focus of the debate. He disputes the idea that public health is something that should be determined by a popular vote—especially with lawmakers not having all the facts. For example, Madsen says his bill would allow medical marijuana to be prescribed to patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but Bird referenced a recent study of 2,000 Veterans Administration patients being treated for

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Compared to the rest of the nation, Utah is a latecomer when it comes to trailblazing medical-marijuana legislation. That means Utah can take advantage of the experiences of other states. Political-science professor Plume says that most states watched how California implemented its vague medical-pot regulation in 1996 and corrected theirs accordingly. Arizona passed a bill that same year and quickly repealed it to enhance regulations and oversight.

In 2012, Plume says Montana repealed its existing medical-marijuana program by a single vote in the state assembly and replaced it with a more detailed program with limited conditions for which medical marijuana could be prescribed.

“They’re closing the gap between the vague, Wild West of California’s medical-marijuana laws and becoming more honed and fact-based,” Plume says.

As for the slippery-slope argument that says legalizing medical marijuana will lead to full legalization of marijuana, Plume points out that advocacy organizations are in distinct camps when it comes to medical marijuana versus recreational use of marijuana. While the groups may be supportive, their advocacy work doesn’t overlap.

Medical-marijuana advocates take great pains to distance themselves from the work of the recreational-use crowd. Utah can also benefit from other studies Plume points out that have shown that crime has not increased with legalized medical marijuana.

While Madsen says his bill borrows much of the language from Nevada and other nearby states, it is a Utah solution, with unique components. Madsen wants to encourage a business in Utah, similar to dispensaries he visited in Colorado, where “you step in, and it’s not like Purple Haze—it’s just a pharmacy.”

Creating a custom Utah model will require more bureaucracy, which only adds to the myriad challenges the idea faces on Capitol Hill. It’s all par for the course for a bill with the objective, according to Madsen, to introduce “a small degree of highly regulated freedom.” The custom approach would put a Utah spin on the process, especially when it comes to branding. Hopefully that would mean that a new generation of local weed entrepreneurs would be able to give their products Utah-friendly names instead of peddling out-of-state brands like “Charlotte’s Web” or “Hells Angels OG.” Maybe something like “Highly Regulated Freedom” perhaps?—since Life Elevated is already taken.n

A mother of five boys, a Brigham Young University alumna, a returned missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a temple-sealed marriage and a home in the heart of Utah County: not the typical résumé for a medical-marijuana advocate.

But Tenille Farr is all of these things. She also has Stage II lymphoma in her chest and neck—a diagnosis she received in autumn 2014 when she was 18 weeks pregnant with her fifth son.

Faced with commencing chemotherapy, a treatment that she felt put her unborn child at risk, Farr and her husband settled on a treatment that is illegal in Utah and one certainly frowned upon by many members of the LDS Church.

Farr, who spent months living in Colorado and California using cannabis oils ingested by placing drops beneath her tongue, now finds herself an unlikely spokesperson for a pioneering bill pushed by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, to legalize medical marijuana in the state.

Farr says she hopes her story can help Utahns and lawmakers cast aside their doubts about the drug and truly examine its medicinal uses that have long been praised and accepted in other states.

“I honestly believe the people in Utah are good people and that they want to help people,” Farr, 38, says. “For me, right now, I have lots of hope that this bill will pass. I think once people see, then their fear can leave a little bit, and they can begin to see what [cannabis] has to offer.”

In 2014, lawmakers approved a bill by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, that made it legal to obtain cannabis extracts that provide treatment for a small spectrum of conditions, including seizures caused by epilepsy. The extracts covered under Froerer’s bill do not contain any THC, the compound in marijuana that contains psychotropic qualities.

Madsen’s bill would take legalizing medical marijuana a few steps further, allowing dispensaries to sell lozenges and other digestible marijuana products.

Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute of Utah, called Froerer’s 2014 bill “monumental.” And he says the natural next step is to help a much wider swath of Utah’s population that is also in need of cannabis products.

“We’ve had a year for these lawmakers to become comfortable with the issue,” Boyack says. “We’ve seen that the apocalypse has not arrived with Utah legalizing some form of cannabis. Therefore, this year, it is entirely reasonable in Utah to broaden that conversation and provide this option to many other needy Utahns.”

After deciding to forgo chemotherapy treatments, Farr says she connected with members of the LDS Church in Las Vegas who had also chosen marijuana as a treatment for their illnesses. A short time later, Farr found herself in an apartment building in Colorado, grinding up leaves from marijuana plants that she says lack significant psychotropic effects.

Shaun & Tenille Farr hope the bill will pass.

Farr says she took this approach because she was still shaking off the stigma she had for marijuana.

“I won’t lie, it was really difficult for me at the beginning to say, ‘Oh, my gosh, I could be using cannabis or marijuana or whatever in any form,’” she says. “I was still working through my cannabis fears.”

The leaves, Farr says, did the trick. In a couple of weeks, she says her cough, caused by a growth in her lungs, was gone.

At this point, Farr went to California where she began ingesting cannabis oils, which she deposited beneath her tongue.

Before taking this leap toward becoming a bona-fide cannabis user, Farr says she, her husband and family members prayed and fasted. Fearful that she could lose her temple recommend that allowed her to attend LDS ceremonies, Farr consulted her bishop.

“He basically just told me that if I wasn’t breaking the law, that this was a decision between me, my husband and the Lord,” she says.

After more than a month in California, Farr says she returned to Utah, where doctors tol her the cancer had ceased growing. Then, on Jan. 4, she gave birth to her son.

Since then, Farr says she’s remained in Utah. A lump in her neck, she says, seems to be growing. Farr doesn’t want to do chemotherapy, and she says that cannabis is the treatment that best suits her.

“I need to get back on the oil,” Farr says. “I would love to be able to stay home and be a mom to my kids and take care of my cancer at the same time the way that I choose to take care of my cancer.”

The past few months has provided Farr with an education on marijuana that she didn’t know was coming.

One truth she has learned is especially poignant: Lots of legal drugs are dangerous, and good and bad can come of any of them, including marijuana. This is what she tells her young children about her decision to use marijuana.

“This is a plant, an herb that God has given us,” she says.

“Just like anything, we teach our kids to find the good in it and stay away from the bad.”

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When subcultures with a diverse community are united, the community as a whole benefits as strengths within that diversity are made manifest. Latino culture in America today is as American as any other culture. The subjects and themes of a new art exhibition at UMFA, Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, describe diversity within Latino culture—an act of both Latino and American unification—through 80 works by 60 artists.

One constant in this work—representing artists of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican decent—is unabashed honesty. The art—whether it’s documentary photography, colorful and bold painting, abstract art, conceptual art, print or film—is neither glorification nor patronization of the artist’s heritage, but truth. Thematic elements including family and the sacred allow viewers to connect with each artist’s portrayal of his or her own unique heritage, and to see the beauty in the vibrancy of the whole.

“Carlos” (pictured), by Mexican artist Joseph Rodríguez, is a photograph that conveys these unifying truths. The cityscape is a panorama of Spanish Harlem in New York City but, in the foreground, against the sky, a tattooed arm stretches to the center of the image, fingers spread wide. All across America, from every Latino culture, this declaration of individual identity against a hectic urban backdrop might resonate. With a hand reaching for the sky, this is not only a Latino dream, this is the American Dream. (Ehren Clark) Our America @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through May 17, adult $9, youth $7, students free. UMFA.Utah.edu.

Since the 2008 economic downturn, art galleries have been forced to reconsider their strategies about how they present and market their works— and, even more practically, how they find space to do it. As in the restaurant industry, “pop-up” has become a buzzword in the art world for temporary artistic venues, and even has become a way of celebrating the transitory nature of these artistic experiences.

Guerrilla Gallery is a new local pop-up artistic venture and, for the second of four quarterly shows, founder and curator Cecilia Anthony has opted to create an exhibit that challenges the very physicality of the traditional gallery setting, producing an exclusively online art show. The current iteration of online experience is becoming less about visiting websites and more about social media; the gallery is hosting Tune In on its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages.

The exhibit will include pieces by photographer Jamie Clyde—Salt Lake City-born but now living in New York City—whose work often comments on economic and social issues (“Visceral Motion No. 7” is pictured); literary work by Salt Lake City poet and raconteur Karl Geiger; and video performances by local choreographers Temria Airmet and Ashlee Vilos. The gallery will come to you— or at least to your preferred electronic device—so, in a sense, there’s no “there” there. Without the sometimes intimidating or overwhelming gallery setting, spectators might be freer to embrace the sheer imagery of each work.

Artists will upload their work 6-9 p.m., and the entire collection will be taken down at midnight.

(Brian Staker) Tune In @ Guerrilla Gallery, Feb. 27, 6 p.m.-midnight, free.

Twitter: @popupartutah, Facebook.com/PopUpArtUtah, Instagram: guerrilla_gallery

When Alton Brown first started out in show business, he was behind the camera instead of in front of it. As a cinematographer in the 1980s, Brown filmed music videos for bands such as R.E.M. (“The One I Love”) and served as a camera operator on Spike Lee’s School Daze.

So how did he become the face of Food Network and an everyman patron saint of home cooks all over America? It took a career shift in the 1990s, when Brown, dissatisfied with what he saw in television cooking shows, enrolled at the New England Culinary Institute.

Within a year of graduating, he created a pilot for what would become his signature show Good Eats. The show aired on PBS before it moved to Food Network for a decade-long run that catapulted Brown to fame as host of popular competition shows like Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen.

It takes a very particular kind of celebrity chef to turn his renown into a live stage production. Alton Brown Live certainly offers the useful kitchen-wizardry tips for which Good Eats was known, but Brown takes his multimedia theater version of a cooking class in an audience-participation direction, giving attendees a chance to don aprons and learn side by side with the pro. Music, comedy and showy culinary science meld into an event that shows how Alton Brown made the right choice moving his talents out from behind the scenes. (Scott Renshaw) Alton Brown Live @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 27, 5 p.m. & 8 p.m., $35-$55. ArtTix.org

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Another Language Performing Arts Company is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and co-founders Beth and Jimmy Miklavcic are commemorating the occasion with their newest project, Ghost Town. Unlike the “Interplay” online theatrical performances they’ve produced for the past decade, Ghost Town is a completely online, crowd-sourced, ongoing project on the subject of Utah’s ghost towns—as the Miklavcics say, “remnants of bygone eras where change required the inhabitants to leave their dreams behind.”

Utah has approximately 150 ghost towns, and 35 have already been explored in this ongoing project that began last year. Responses have come in a variety of media formats. Marden Pond composed the “Sanctuary” suite based on the Great Salt Lake’s Gunnison Island; Gretchen Reynolds is creating a puppet piece about the ghost town of Alta; and Barbara Chamberlain is working on a short story based on Bullion Canyon in Sevier County. Anyone can participate, but artists must register online at Another Language’s site, and all entries are curated by Another Language.

Contributors include Babs DeLay and Bella Hall, Alyssa Kay and Sego Lily School students, Callous Physical Theatre, folk-music duo Hauns Mill, renowned folklorist Hal Cannon and bluegrass band Red Rock Rondo, including composer Philip Bimstein and singer/songwriter Kate MacLeod.

By the very nature of its technological medium, Ghost Town also explores the implications of digital “presence” at such sparsely inhabited sites.

Another Language provides an opportunity for participants to look back at Utah histories that might have been lost and contemplate how echoes of the past may resonate in the present. (Brian Staker) Ghost Town @ AnotherLanguage.org/ projects/2014/ghosttown/ghosttown.html, ongoing

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ne of the most sublime intersections between the worlds of comedy and politics in the 2012 presidential race took place at the Twitter account of Rob Delaney. The stand-up comedian and writer spent much of that year trolling the @ mentions of Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Here are just a few examples: “Take a day off. Why don’t I swing by and we can flip through some Land’s End catalogs and close a factory via Skype or something?” “do u have a favorite blog about wheat thins?”

“Thousands of A merica’s homeless suffer from schizophrenia. As president how would you help them? JK bro! Have a great weekend!”

In 2012, Delaney’s expert Mitt-trolling and Dadaist tweets made his account a must-follow on Twitter. But, as soon as it was clear that Utah’s favorite adopted son wouldn’t become president, Delaney knew when to move on.

“I’ve had fun joshing around with you on this microblog, but in all honesty, I’m so glad you won’t be our president,” Delaney tweeted the day before Romney’s loss, effectively closing the chapter on his Mitt obsession. It should be noted, however, that the next time Delaney found himself touring through Utah, in 2014, he made sure to beg a retweet from his old “pal” to get the word out.

W hen buzz of a third Romney presidential campaign started spreading earlier this year, the anticipation may have caused some fans’ toes to curl. But, when asked in an e-mail interview with City Weekly how he felt about Romney’s January announcement that he wouldn’t make a 2016 run, Delaney showed no pangs of nostalgia.

“I don’t care,” he said. “It was fun to antagonize him, but there will always be clowns in politics. It’s like Whac-a-Mole.”

Trying to pin down exactly what makes Rob Delaney one of comedy’s most gigantic voices can be a bit like Whac-a-Mole, too: Whatever the reason, it’s not the same one for long.

No, Utah’s progressives won’t find the Romney jokes they thirst for when Delaney comes to town. His attention is instead fixed on new standup material and on his series that recently debuted in the U.K. Both are projects that Delaney says he does best in a collaborative environment.

You can lob unrequited zingers at a former presidential candidate for only so long, after all.

Delaney recently wrote at length about what it was like to work with co-creator and co-star Sharon Horgan when they began conceiving Catastrophe, which premiered on BBC Channel 4 in January. Delaney and Horgan play an American man and an Irish woman who navigate an unexpected pregnancy while living in London.

Writing the series with a partner was liberating for Delaney, who enjoyed taking a break from the solitary experience of writing his acclaimed 2013 memoir Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon.

Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

“When you work with a good partner or partners, the work you do isn’t twice as good, it’s exponentially better,” Delaney wrote recently for Britain’s Independent.

“In 2012, when I was writing a book (by myself: yuck) I would hear from my editor that something was funny—or worse, not funny—about once a month. Insufficient!

As a man who can charitably be described as a needy clown, banging away at a typewriter in a dusty orphanage basement is no way to live.”

Catastrophe is now airing to favorable reviews across the Atlantic, and Delaney says he’s happy to see his humor finding a home with British audiences. “I’m happy, but not surprised,” he said. “I’ve watched so many British comedies, and British audiences have watched so many American shows—lots of cross-pollination these days.” American audiences will soon get a chance to watch Catastrophe online; the series was recently picked up

by Amazon.

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Delaney’s breakthroughs into other media haven’t yet torn him away from standup. He told City Weekly that he hopes to release a second standup special after he finishes writing Catastrophe’s second season.

While writing a show and performing on stage are two different experiences, Delaney says he feels a similar collaborative spark when he’s in front of an audience. “Standup is collaborative because the audience is a huge, indispensable part of it,” he said. “I guess when you’re doing standup, you’re driving the bus. When cowriting a show, you’re both driving and navigating. They’re both incredibly fun.”

His new standup tour, Meat, deals with many of the same themes he explored in his 2012 one-hour special Live at the Bowery Ballroom, a set that was at once raunchy and sweet as it weaved through the joys of fatherhood and a healthy obsession with bodily fluids.

“I’m talking about being a dad and a husband, and how angry I am at God,” Delaney said. “Also, sex and butts—male or female.” CW

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Collective Voice, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-572-2010 Pirates of the Scaribbean, Desert Star Dinner Theatre, 4861 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-266-2600 Ghost: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr., Salt Lake City, 801-984-9000 The Radical Reels Tour, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Melange 6.0: The Composer’s World Showcase, Ladies’ Literary Club, 850 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-364-3451 Wind Ensemble, Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 The Crucible, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6961 Two Stories, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7522 Children of a Lesser God, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-7651 Moshe Kasher, Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909

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Friday 2.27 Performing Arts

Mark Valenti, Brigham Larson Pianos, 1497 S. State, Orem, 801-701-0113 Alton Brown, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Rob Delaney, The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-467-8499 Pirates of the Scaribbean, Desert Star Dinner Theatre The School for Lies, Studio 115, Performing Arts Building, 240 S. 1500 East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7100 Ghost: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre The Crucible, Pioneer Memorial Theatre Hellman v. McCarthy, Pygmalion Theater Company, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787 Two Stories, Salt Lake Acting Company The Last Five Years, Utah Repertory Theater Company, Sugar Space Studio Theater, 616 Wilmington Ave., Salt Lake City, 435-612-0037 Fiddler on the Roof, The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd, Ogden, 855-944-2787 Children of a Lesser God, Westminster College Ryan Hamilton, Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588 Moshe Kasher, Wiseguys West Valley City

Saturday 2.28 Performing Arts Pirates of the Scaribbean, Desert Star Dinner Theatre Martin Boykan, Gardner Hall, University of Utah, 1375 E. President’s Circle, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6762 Ghost: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre The School for Lies, Studio 115 The Crucible, Pioneer Memorial Theatre

Hellman v. McCarthy, Pygmalion Theater Company Two Stories, Salt Lake Acting Company Fiddler on the Roof, The Ziegfeld Theater The Last Five Years, Utah Repertory Theater Company Children of a Lesser God, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-7651 Ryan Hamilton, Wiseguys Ogden Moshe Kasher, Wiseguys West Valley City

Literary Arts Mark of the Thief, Provo City Library, 550 N. University Avenue, Provo, 801-852-6650

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John Keahey, Marriot Library, University of Utah, 295 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-8558

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Tuesday 3.3 Performing Arts Ghost: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre

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Rumi Poetry Club, Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8611

Wednesday 3.4 Performing Arts Pirates of the Scaribbean, Desert Star Dinner Theatre

Visual Art Continuing The Power of Three, A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-583-4800, through March 14 Black North, Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 27 Remapping the Natural World in Black & White, Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 27

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Copper Kitchen aren’t cookie-cutter Comfort food at its best: Copper Kitchen’s beef replicas of Copper Onion. A duo of bourguignon is served with mushroom buttons, duck croquettes ($7) as a starter is glazed shallots and housemade pappardelle pasta. simple but exceptional: duck confit and pulverized cremini mushrooms are breaded, deep-fried and served with a lots and garlic, all in a rich, silky jus on splendid orange aioli for dipping. It’s fin- a bed of first-rate homemade pappardelle ger food at its finest. Even better is grilled pasta noodles, sprinkled with parsley. porkbelly ($13). I know I’m on the record The perfect topper is a dollop of creamy as being so over porkbelly; I see it on far mustard with a mayo-like texture.

Earlier in the month, Copper Kitchen too many restaurant menus—and, far too often, it’s not given the respect (nor tech- began lunch service with menu items like nique) it deserves. But Nelson presses and tuna Niçoise, Philly cheesesteak, fried-egg grills it, serving crispy porkbelly sticks on a sandwich and pasta dishes. And, I’d be bed of frisee with carrot-ginger vinaigrette remiss if I didn’t spill some ink on the and apple-cider reduction, sprinkled with outstanding weekend brunch. If you never pomegranate seeds. It’s a dish that rekin- order any other Copper Kitchen dish, be sure to try Mike Richey’s Famous Chicken dled my lost love-affair with porkbelly.

Copper Kitchen’s pear salad ($10) is an Hash ($10). It’s named for ex-Pago Chef example of the sort of dish that has made Mike Richey, whose chicken-hash recipe all of the Copper eateries so popular. On is re-created (with his consent), and it’s paper, it might look a little “meh.” But, when absolutely killer. The “hash” looks more like a handful of excellent fresh ingredients are a crab cake or croquette: lightly breaded judiciously combined—Asian pear, fresh and sauteed minced chicken with vodkafennel, celery, Gorgonzola and pine nuts, in mascarpone cheese bechamel (I know, this case—what happens is a party in your right?), cherry tomato and a light, perfectly mouth. In fact, the only appetizer I tasted scrambled egg on top, garnished with chive. that wasn’t a total bullseye was the chicken It’s a died-and-gone-to-heaven experience.

There’s also an inventive take on poubrodo soup ($8), and that’s only because, although the chicken broth was heavenly, tine, called divorciados. It’s a reference I don’t care for ricotta in sage dumplings. to the Mexican breakfast of two fried eggs, separated (divorced) by a chilaquiles What can I say? I’m a dumpling purist.

Speaking of chicken, you’ll want to try barrier. At Copper Kitchen, it’s poutine Copper Kitchen’s chicken entree ($24). It’s with shredded pork and frites, topped with a grilled Mary’s airline chicken breast atop gravy and a fried egg, and sauced on one a battered & fried Mary’s boneless thigh side with salsa verde and on the other with (even though it mistakenly says “leg” on salsa roja. Simply put, this food is bitchin’.

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hen Ryan and Colleen Lowder moved back to Utah after a lengthy stint in New York City, they couldn’t have possibly imagined what their lives would look like a half-decade down the road. In a word: busy.

That’s because, in the past five years, they’ve been painting the town Copper.

Their flagship bistro—The Copper Onion, where Ryan is executive chef—has been successful pretty much from Day 1. I recall writing shortly after its opening that “restaurants like the Copper Onion remind me how much I love my job.” The eatery celebrated its fifth birthday just last month.

My, how time flies.

Then, in spring 2014, Lowder opened Copper Commons, an excellent addition to the downtown bar & bites scene. But he wasn’t done yet. Lowder had his sights set on Holladay—specifically, the shiny new Holladay Village complex, which is also home to a new Caputo’s Deli, Taqueria 27, Tonyburgers, 3 Cups and other independent businesses. The newest jewel in the Copper empire is called Copper Kitchen, described simply as “an American restaurant.”

With Copper Kitchen’s large, airy, open space and high, copper-colored ceilings, I think of it more as an American brasserie, featuring a large service island in the center of the dining room, an open kitchen and bar/counter seating in the rear. Thanks to talented designer Rachel Hodson, the décor of Copper Kitchen, while immensely appealing, is also a lesson in restraint. It’s not a theme park, but rather a place where the food is front and center: It’s not all about the décor. Having said that, the vibe is typically bustling, with frequent table-hopping among customers.

Frankly, I’d expected Copper Kitchen to be Copper Onion 2.0, but I should have known that an ambitious guy like Ryan Lowder wouldn’t take the easy way out. The Copper Kitchen menu isn’t a photocopy of its predecessor’s. In fact, there’s very little overlap in the two restaurants’ menus.

However, Lowder’s culinary sensibilities and his dedication to f lavor above all else— not cuteness or food fads—shines through in every Copper Kitchen dish.

They are primarily executed by sous chef Justin Nelson, who has a few tricks up his own sleeve. Lowder encourages his cooks to experiment and create, which is one reason why Copper Commons and

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Shogun Japanese restaurant and sushi bar has closed, and Yellowtail Japanese Bistro (321 S. Main, 801-364-7142, YellowtailSLC.com) has opened in its place. If you remember what the interior of Shogun looked like, you’ll be amazed at the makeover. A long sushi bar now occupies the entire length of the restaurant on the right side, with a few tables in front and a bar in back. Gone are the tatami rooms, and you’ll wonder how they ever fit into the narrow space to begin with. Even the restrooms have been upgraded. Contemporary lighting and furnishings have been installed, as well as a totally new menu which includes sushi and sashimi, and an extensive menu of cooked items ranging from grilled yellowtail cheek and tempura squid to deep-fried chicken karaage, tuna with kimchee, tonkatsu, donburi, shioyaki, soba, udon and more. There’s also a small but surprisingly appealing wine list, plus beer, sake, cocktails and such.

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Powder restaurant in the Park City Waldorf Astoria (2100 Frostwood Drive, 435-647-5566, ParkCityWaldorfAstoria. com) now hosts weekly Wine Down Wednesdays (on Wednesdays, of course) featuring value-priced wines, live entertainment and informal wine education for attendees. The weekly wine gettogethers take place fireside in the Waldorf Astoria’s Grand Lobby from 5 to 8 p.m.

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Salt Lakers Josh and Becky Rosenthal— Josh is managing partner of Charming Beard Coffee—have written Salt Lake City Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes From the Crossroads of the West ($26.95).

Although beating the “pioneering� theme a bit to death, it’s an interesting collection of recipes and snapshots of local chefs, artisans and restaurants, including some spots based outside Salt Lake City, such as Hell’s Backbone Grill, Beehive Cheese, Black Sheep Cafe, Communal, and High West Distillery & Saloon. The authors managed to research and write the book in a mere three months, so I can’t vouch for the recipes, which I doubt could all have been home-tested. But, if you’re looking for a book devoted to the Utah restaurant scene, this is a good place to start.

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Given the nature of modern capitalism, it’s not surprising that total domination of the beer market is the goal of mega-brands like Budweiser. What is surprising is the offensive nature of the campaign to win over the 7.8 percent of the American beer market that is the craft-beer share. As evidence, I submit the “Brewed the Hard Way” TV ad that Anheuser-Busch spent $9 million to air during Super Bowl XLIX. The ad begins by making it clear that Budweiser is proud of being a “macro” beer, not something to be “fussed over.” Cut to a bearded (of course) hipster-looking dude in dorky glasses sniffing the “nose” of a dark (clearly not Budweiser) brew. The spot then goes on to say that Budweiser is brewed for a “crisp” and “smooth” finish, not to mention being the “only beer beechwood aged.”

Hey, did you know that beechwood aging imparts zero flavor to beer? Budweiser forgets to mention that.

The commercial continues: “The people who drink our beer are the people who like to drink beer.” I’ll concede that point.

There’s no real reason to drink Budweiser except that it’s, you know, an intoxicant. I can’t really imagine that anyone truly drinks Bud for the flavor. Which signals an important difference between Budweiser drinkers and those who drink craft beers: Bud drinkers “like to drink beer.” True, but craft and microbrew drinkers like to taste beer. “It’s

DRINK brewed for drinking, not dissecting,” the Budweiser ad goes on.

Well, that’s for sure.

After all, what’s to dissect? Jell-O isn’t made for dissecting, either.

The ad concludes, “Let them sip their pumpkin-peach ale.

We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.”

This in-your-face commercial suggests that only hipsters and losers—in other words, not “real men”—drink craft brews such as pumpkinpeach ale. But wait! Didn’t Anheuser-Busch just purchase Seattle’s Elysian Brewing last month? And, doesn’t Elysian make a beer called Gourdgia on My Mind, a pecan-peachpumpkin amber ale? Oops.

It reminds me of Keystone Light’s (Coors Brewing) old “bitter beer face” ads from the mid-1990s. They featured unsuspecting dorks taking sips of non-Keystone beer and winding up

with—god forbid—bitter beer face! I remember seeing those commercials and thinking, “No, you idiots! Bitter beer is good beer!” I love a wellhopped, bitter beer. But, to find one, I must turn to craft brewers, because it’s not economical for the mega-breweries to make beers utilizing expensive ingredients such as Cascade, Hallertau or Fuggle hops anymore.

Still, biggest is best, right? That’s what Budweiser would like you to think. You know, just like Taco Bell tacos are the best.

Well, as I eat my kale salad with a side of porkbelly, the one beer I won’t be drinking is Budweiser. There was a time when I didn’t mind sipping a cold Bud. But, now that this shot has been fired across the craft-brew bow, I’ll be sipping something along the lines of Epic Brewing’s Brainless on Peaches or Uinta’s Punk’n Harvest Pumpkin Ale. CW

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f you watched the Super Bowl on television this year, or the 40th-anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Live on NBC, you probably saw a really obnoxious Budweiser beer ad aimed squarely at craft-beer consumers. It’s not enough that Anheuser-Busch—brewers of Budweiser, Beck’s, Michelob, Stella Artois, Rolling Rock, Busch and many more—along with mega-brewers like Coors and Miller’s, already own more than 92 percent of America’s beer market: They want more.

They want the other 7.8 percent (according to data compiled by The Brewers Association): the folks who drink microbrews and craft beers.

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This quaint gourmet deli offers a wide selection of inventive pasta, fruit & veggie salads, fresh sandwiches and entrees including bourbon salmon and pepper steak.

The store also carries imported chocolate, cheese and candy. Among Cucina’s specialties are the Thai beef salad, chicken scaloppine, lamb burgers, linguini carbonara, crab cakes, confit duck tostada, and macaroni & cheese with roasted jalapeños and smoked bacon.

Cucina makes it easy to dine in or take out, with its “executive” box lunches to go. 1026 E. Second Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-322-3055, CucinaDeli.com

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For an appetizer, the wild-mushroom tart is splendid, as is the goat-cheese creme brulee. There’s a nod to France on the menu with three-cheese fondue, as well as New World specialties such as organic Southern-fried chicken, pan-seared sea bass and smoked duck breast & confit leg. Franck’s take on meatloaf is slowly braised pulled pork, veal and chicken in a blueberry-lavender sauce. Don’t miss out on Franck’s not-so-traditional take on steak: Wagyu sirloin steak served with porcini purée, crimini mushrooms and blackberries. 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264, FrancksFood.com

Royal Jade

Friendly service and terrific Chinese cuisine is probably all you need to know about Royal Jade. Well, that and the fact that, in 2009, Royal Jade was inducted in the Chinese Restaurant News’ Top 100 Chinese Restaurants in the United States. Royal Jade prides itself on serving Chinese cuisine using the highest quality and freshest ingredients. Classics like beef & broccoli or kung pao chicken with egg rolls appeal to the masses, but there are more exotic options on the extensive menu as well. 70 S. Fairfield Road, Layton, 801-444-3388, RoyalJade.us

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Steak Pit

The Steak Pit is Snowbird Resort’s oldest restaurant, a favorite with locals and tourists alike for more than 30 years. As soon as you walk in, you are welcomed by a smiling staff, some of whom have been at the Steak Pit since its inception. The enjoyment continues with a second helping of the bottomless salad. The Steak Pit offers only the best USDA Prime steaks and fresh seafood. Popular Steak Pit items include the filet mignon or Alaskan king crab served up with your choice of a side of steamed asparagus or a traditional baked russet potato. While you’re choosing your sides, be sure to add in one of the exquisite sauces like the bearnaise or sherry-mushroom sauce. 9600 E. Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird, 801-9332260, Snowbird.com/dining/steak-pit

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This South Jordan Hawaiian-barbecue grill is family owned by native Pacific islanders, so you might just think you’re on Maui when you dine here. Disposable utensils and plates are the norm, so don’t get the idea that this is fancy fare. But customers rave about the mahi-mahi and the garlic chicken dishes. Lupulu, kalua pork and barbecued beef are other specialties, as are friendly faces. 1072 W. 10600 South, South Jordan, 801-446-5586, LanikaiBBQ.com

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Named for Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Frida Bistro is the upscale restaurant from Rico Brand’s founder Jorge Fierro. Step into the sleek space with its limegreen and fuchsia walls, craft-paper-covered tables (with linen napkins), and be prepared to be wowed.

The artichoke, cheese & asparagus tamale steamed in banana leaf is wonderful. Presented like a gorgeous painting on a plate, it is moist and light, nicely paired with tomatillo & avocado salsa and a side of frijoles ranchero—pinto beans with a chunk or two of porkbelly. Tender shredded chicken cooked in mole negro is equally impressive: sticky, sweet and savory.

In addition to meals at Frida Bistro, you can also purchase Rico products such as salsas, tamales, burritos and guacamole, fresh from the factory floor. 700 S. 545 West, Salt Lake City, 801-983-6692, FridaBistro.com

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Known for burritos, margaritas and casual, friendly service, this is probably the funkiest joint at Park City Mountain Resort. It has a pub atmosphere, with many year-round regulars creating an “everybody’s your friend� ambience. The place is at the far end of the second level of the resort center. 1284 Lowell Ave., Park City, 435-649-2252, BajaParkCity.com

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Despite its contemporary décor, Avenues Proper somehow manages to feel comfy and cozy—an inviting neighborhood space. The amazing “Prop-corn” appetizer features popcorn tossed in seasoned duck fat with sea salt and fennel pollen, while the “small” side of the menu includes appetizers like a cheese plate and roasted beet salad. Entrees include comfort-food classics like rarebit, fish & chips, burgers and an interesting spin on chicken & waffles: two pieces of chicken sausage (made in-house) and a duo of sunny-side-up eggs atop two toasted waffles with thyme-infused maple syrup on the side. Avenues Proper’s poutine offers deeply flavored braised short-rib beef and dark roasted-chicken gravy smothering homemade pommes frites, garnished with truffled cheddar and minced scallions—and the fries at Avenues Proper are so good that it’s almost tragic to see them soaked in gravy. Of course, there are the craft beers, adding to a terrific spot that’s perfect for proper food, proper drinks and proper service. Reviewed Feb. 19.

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its way into many other dishes. The main sections of the menu are barbecue-heavy. Barbecue items come with a choice of house-made barbecue sauce or jerk sauce; I recommend requesting both, on the side. I opted for a BBQ combo with ribs and half-chicken; the chicken was tender and juicy, but the ribs were tough and chewy.

The cedar-plank salmon was lightly spiced, juicy and flavorful—not an easy feat to achieve on a blast-furnace temperature wood-fired grill. The sides of rice and a veggie medley were also enjoyable and perfectly cooked.

Service is about as good as it gets—not something I was expecting from a place self-identified as a “family” restaurant. Reviewed Feb. 12. 3176 E. 6200 South, 801-994-0505; 440 Main, Park City, 435-6497337, BanditsBBQ.com

Provisions

Occupying the old Lugano space, the brainchild of chef/ owner Tyler Stokes makes a bold design statement with its emphasis on the color orange. The cuisine is just as bold: comfort food with an edge. Steak tartare incorporates soy sauce and mint, not to mention Meyer lemon and sunflower seeds—and it was a revelation. There’s a small section of the menu devoted to “raw” fare like the aforementioned steak tartare, plus a dozen smallplates options, a half-dozen or so large plates, and a dessert quartet. Our favorite small-plate choice, by far, was the pig’s head torchons: Niman Ranch pork formed into hockey-puck-like torchons, deep-fried and served crispy with a cherry-ginger compote, pickled mustard

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seeds and butter-leaf lettuce for assembling pig’s head wraps. That’s what I like about Provisions: The food is complex, but not contrived or convoluted. Reviewed Jan. 29. 3364 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-4104046, SLCProvisions.com

The Mariposa

At Deer Valley Resort’s main fine-dining venue, settle in beside a toasty fireplace for delicious appetizers like Kumamoto oysters on the half-shell with housemade seafood sauce and mignonette, or delightful sashimistyle diver scallop drizzled with lime & aji-chile-pepper vinaigrette and cilantro emulsion. I appreciate that The Mariposa menu is mostly small-plate-oriented, so it’s easy to try a lot of tasty dishes rather than just one or two big ones. More divine dishes came and went: pan-roasted boneless quail saltimbocca and miso-braised kale and mushrooms in a Cabernet reduction; Niman Ranch beef short rib with Pontack sauce and salsify-parsnip puree; and my favorite dish, housemade lemon-thyme gnocchi with beurre blanc, Rockhill Creamery aged Edam cheese and slow-poached wild Gulf shrimp. Table and wine service were, as always, up to Deer Valley’s ultra-high standards, where guest-pampering is taken to extreme levels.

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Walking through this Indian eatery’s front doors brings you into a fashionable and beautiful space. However, as appealing as Karma is to the eye, it’s the cuisine that will keep you coming back. The korma—we ordered korma paneer—is divine. The paneer, a housemade South Asian-style cheese curd with a tofu-like consistency and texture, is bathed in a stupendously delicious and silky korma sauce made with coconut milk, curry spices, ground cashews and golden raisins. I can never resist vindaloo, the traditional curry dish of Goa, when I see it on a menu. Like the korma, the vindaloo at Karma was superb. The tanginess in vindaloo comes from vinegar, which is blended with curry spices and made into a fiery (I ordered mine hot) sauce ladled over tender boneless chicken pieces and potato. Reviewed Jan. 8. 863 E. 9400 South, Sandy, 801-566-1134, EatGoodKarma.com

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mélange of fresh, wild mushrooms with sunchokes, cranberries, crispy prosciutto and sweet Pedro Ximenez balsamic vinegar—and a roasted-beet salad that looks as beautiful as it tastes. But the entree section of the menu is where things really get interesting. Potato gnocchi, made with organic spuds, is paired with duck confit, caramelized pear, arugula, lemon and a big dollop of housemade burrata. The service, beverage selection and ambiance are terrific: friendly when called for, crisp and professional when necessary. A citrus-olive-oil torte dessert with lemon mousse, pistachio and blood-orange sherbet sent us back to our cozy upstairs room grinning like idiots. Reviewed Jan. 15. 7570 Royal St. East, Park City, 435-6497770, GoldenerHirschInn.com

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Complicating matters even further is that the filmmakers are ultimately going to explain the trick to you in a way that makes you feel like you should have seen it coming. A con artist will do everything he can to keep you from figuring out how you just got fleeced; a con-artist movie had better put the puzzle together at the end, and in such a way that you never feel like that last piece was being hidden from you. It was merely turned upside-down, over on the corner of the table, the whole time.

In short, Focus is the kind of movie that should almost never work.

Like many such movies, Focus tries to raise the stakes by making them emotional as well as financial. Con-game movies demand a protĂŠgĂŠ as an audience stand-in so we understand the rules of the game, and thus the relationship between Nicky and Jess begins as a purely professional one, as Nicky indoctrinates her into his team of expert swindlers, pickpockets and frauds for a big cash-in in New Orleans during the week of the [Professional Football Championship That Would Be Identified as the Super Bowl Only If the NFL Chose to Endorse an Image of Super Bowl Week as a Buffet for Crooks Looking to Rip Off Attendees, So Instead Is Called Something Else]. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s during this segment that Focus is at its most purely entertaining,

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But eventually, things start to get personal, as Nicky and Jess fall into a romantic relationship togetherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here that Focus is in risky territory. In part, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the very nature of the premise has us forever second-guessing whether the relationship is authentic, or whether one of them is setting up the other for a takedown, or maybe both are. Yet thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the simple matter of chemistry, and Smith bumps up against the limits of his appeal as a screen performer. While his strength has always been his charisma, here heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to play a character whose entire livelihood is predicated on not being noticed, and swallowing his biggest emotions so he can maintain a single-minded attention to getting the job done. Robbie is a magnetic performer, with just enough elusiveness here that her true motivations remain unknown, and she just never quite clicks with Smith when it feels like he has shut off his personality entirely.

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Yet, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another way that con-game movies are different from actual congames, and more like magic shows: We want to be delighted that we were duped.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bouncy playfulness missing for long stretches of Focus, as Requa and Ficarra keep their focus on a romance that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really working. When all the deceptions have been uncovered, we want to feel like the payoff for everyone involved was worth the gamble. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, I did not see that coming,â&#x20AC;? itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to settle for, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, that was nice.â&#x20AC;? CW

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The DUFF HHH Bianca (Mae Whitman), a nerdy high school senior, discovers that she’s perceived as the “DUFF”—or Designated Ugly Fat Friend— within her semi-popular clique, and enlists longtime friend/popular jock Wes (Robbie Amell) as a guru to change her image. The story takes a loooong while to get rolling, cruising for a good 40 laughstarved minutes on its tag-along similarities to stuff like Mean Girls and Easy A, except with more self-aware nods to teenagerdom in the age of ubiquitous social media. But it’s got the tremendous appeal of Whitman, whose quirky charisma and chemistry with Amell make it easy to root for her. Even though there’s never a moment’s doubt where it’s headed—as a romance or as a “be

A La Mala [not yet reviewed] A young woman begins a business being hired by women to test their significant others’ fidelity. Opens Feb. 27 at Megaplex Valley Fair. (PG-13) Focus HH.5 See review p. 28. Opens Feb. 27 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) The Lazarus Effect [not yet reviewed] Medical students experiment with a procedure for bringing the dead back to life. Opens Feb. 27 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

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Maps to the Stars HHH.5 This is one of Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg’s least trippy films, and it’s rather hilarious in a disturbing way. It might forever ruin you as a lover of movies, leaving you with the nagging suspicion that the people who make the magic really are this messed up. There’s teen movie star Benjie Weiss (Evan Bird), already a veteran of rehab. Dad Stafford (John Cusack) is a woo-woo therapist to the stars; one client is neurotically insecure actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore). Her new personal assistant, Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), is loaded with demented secrets. And that’s only the beginning. The incestuousness of this insular community is literal; the ghoulishness of these people is palpable. Cusack and Moore left me with the sense that they had been aching for years to be this honest, while Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson (as a wannabe actor) seem to revel in the lack of constraints. The script

by Bruce Wagner is delighted to be shaking off the movies’ own fantasies about Hollywood of recent decades. I can’t recall a film this nasty, bitter and cynical about Hollywood in my lifetime. Opens Feb. 27 at Tower Theatre. (R)—MAJ

Fifty Shades of Grey HH I think I get it, to the extent that a guy can get it: E.L. James’ erotica phenomenon is actually a potent empowerment fantasy. Strip away the purple prose, and you’ve got the tale of innocent, young Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) opening herself up to new experiences offered by billionaire BDSM enthusiast Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), yet also deciding whether she can “fix” a tormented bad boy. Johnson’s performance is often terrific at capturing Anastasia’s self-discovery, but while Grey as written is merely a brooding dream hunk, that doesn’t entirely excuse Dornan’s bland performance or the lumbering plot progression. And the sex scenes themselves

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Leviathan HHH.5 Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan has angered homegrown authorities who don’t like its harsh criticism of that nation’s endemic corruption. But the angry grandeur of its despair over how ordinary people get screwed by the powerful will be familiar everywhere. Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) is about to lose his home because Mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov) of his fishing village wants the prime seaside acreage for his own; Kolya’s lawyer pal (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) has a plan to use some dirt on Vadim to get him to back down. But Kolya and Vadim are locked in a battle of wills: Power cannot give in to a nobody, yet the nobody has had enough. More betrayals pile onto Kolya; some see a retelling of the story of Job in this, but it’s a not-unfamiliar story of a man who simply should never have trusted anyone around him. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this is everything you should expect from a Russian film: anguish, melancholy, bitter irony, lots of booze and beautiful visual metaphors. You may need a drink yourself by the end. Opens Feb. 27 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

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The three remaining guys travel to the future this time (taking nostalgia-related comedy off the table), and only 10 years ahead (a waste). Playing Cusackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, Adam Scott partly fills the fourth slot in the ensemble, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly been reduced to a trioâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one without an authentic emotional core to ground it. These three buffoons and jerks are acceptable (and sometimes funny) as one-dimensional vulgarians, but pretty unappealing as protagonists. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric D. Snider

Mr. Turner HHH.5 Writer-director Mike Leighâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biography of British painter J.M.W. Turner is one of the most rigorously holistic artist biopics ever made, approaching something like a critical study. Leigh and cinematographer Dick Pope, working in digital for the first time, visually mimic Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compositional and lighting techniques, resulting in a film thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as beautiful as Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art. The living axis of Mr. Turner, though, is in Timothy Spallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t romanticize Turner in the slightest, making him every inch a man of this earth. But rather than that being a means of cutting a genius down to size, this approach renders Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work all the more moving; his paintings seem like things made by a person rather than conjured from thin air by magic. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a far better way to celebrate art and to inspire its creation. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;DB

Still Alice HH.5 It explores a tragic subject sensitively, but also in the least interesting way imaginable. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland adopt Lisa Genovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel about Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a 50-year-old Columbia University professor who discovers that she has rare hereditary early-onset Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. Moore beautifully captures the frustration of an intellectual woman facing the disintegration of her intellect, yet the arc of the narrative focuses almost entirely on the progressive diminishing of her capabilities, pushing aside potentially compelling angles. A story that needed to be about something more than the diseaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relentless onslaught ends up feeling like little more than the second half of Flowers for Algernon, without the benefit of the first half. (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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it lights the way for nonwhite people. Director Niki Caro gets solid performances out of the cast, but those pleasures are outweighed by the queasiness imposed by the need to make everything cute, non-threatening and neat. The real world, for better or worse, is not Disney. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Danny Bowes

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Season Premiere: It’s always been crazy-good, but is House of Cards just more crazy than good? Now-President Frank Underwood’s (Kevin Spacey) rise to the top has seen him plowing through one deliciously ridiculous politico-soapopera scandal after another, as well as a slew of unsatisfying toothless opponents—from the outset of Season 3, it seems his only equal in the Beltway is wife Claire (Robin Wright), who has ambitions of her own beyond simply being First Lady. House of Cards is still entertaining as hell, like The West Wing with the idealism extracted and replaced with Itchy & Scratchy bloodlust, but it’s time to dial back those Prestige Television expectations.

Battle Creek Sunday, March 1 (CBS) Series Debut: Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul’s Vince Gilligan created Battle Creek more than 10 years ago, and it’s finally made its way to broadcast TV. Dean Winters (Law & Order: SVU, Rescue Me) and Josh Duhamel (Transformers, Las Vegas) star as mismatched law-enforcement partners in the titular bankrupt Michigan city; grizzled local

Secrets & Lies Sunday, March 1 (ABC) Series Debut: A cat & mouse mystery that pits a possibly innocent family man (Ryan Phillippe) against a determined homicide detective (Juliette Lewis) in what looks like a direct-to-Blockbuster-Video potboiler from the ’90s (and even then, Secrets & Lies would have been a lousy title). Phillippe and Lewis act as hard as they can against each other, but this is just midseason filler worth no DVR (or VHS) space.

The Last Man on Earth Sunday, March 1 (Fox) Series Debut: It’s been a looong while since Fox made a truly weird live-action comedy, and they’re making up for lost time with The Last Man on Earth, starring ex-Saturday Night Live player Will Forte as Phil Miller, who appears to be the lone human left (at least in North America) after a virus sweeps the planet in 2020. Other than growing an impressive hipster beard and inventing mankind’s final crowning achievement, the Margarita Pool (complete with salt rim), Phil’s resigned to keeping himself entertained with explosive car bowling, mocking Tom Hanks in Cast Away and wallowing in loneliness in his hometown of Tucson, Ariz. While the first episode is a one-man show, which Forte carries well, more characters do eventually show up to provide some “only other people make us a better person” perspective and future episode fodder—though only four have been produced so far.

Which is fitting, since The Last Man on Earth plays more like a comedic indie flick than a 13-episode TV series. Try it out; it won’t be a long commitment. CW 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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Series Debut: When cane-wagging “watchdog” groups are outraged, I’m interested—thanks for drawing my attention to Sex Box, Parents Television Council. Not that there’s much to be worked up about here: In Sex Box, couples enter an opaque, soundproof box on a stage in front of a studio audience, knock one out, then emerge to discuss their “feelings” with “celebrity” relationship experts, none of whom you’ve ever heard of. There’s more visible sex happening on network TV every night, and yet the PTC is going after what would/should have been a blip on a cable channel few even know exists. Like everything else on We, Sex Box is terrible, but worth your ratings point to give the finger to the PTC.

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or two videos released by the same group a mere five months apart, the clips for Los Rakas’ “Sueño Americano” and “We Dem Rakaz (Hola)” can’t get more tonally dissimilar.

Armed with a track from the Oakland, Calif.-rooted, Panamanian-American hip-hop duo’s 2014 record, El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo, the first clip chronicles the Panamanian immigrant experience going deathly off course. Tied to a gurney as he awaits an inevitable lethal injection, Raka Dun rhymes in Spanish about delinquency, desperation and denied chances to achieve the American dream. The footage flashes back to a pensive Dun in church, then to a botched store hold-up that ends with a clerk fatally shooting Dun’s masked accomplice— presumably Raka Rich, his real-life older cousin and musical cohort—and Dun retaliating by murdering the clerk. Both the audio and the video are gray, bitter and elegiac.

On the other hand, there’s “We Dem Rakaz (Hola),” a celebratory, Auto-Tune-happy banger that remixes Wiz Khalifa’s “We Dem Boyz” and is standard party music/local-pride fare. That video starts with Rich bicycling through Oakland side streets, flanked by his peers and, later, Dun. Each song/video is one side of the same coin, which speaks to the ideological disparity that lies at the root of Los Rakas’ story.

In 2001, a 14-year-old Abdull Rubén Domínguez—later known as Raka Dun—moved from Panama to the United States. Upon Dun’s arrival in the Bay Area, he met his cousin Rico (aka Rich)—a California-born, ex-Panamanian citizen—at their aunt’s place.

Early on, Rich and Dun never talked about music, and they had little in common perspective-wise. Dun was just learning about black issues and history—slavery, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, black pride—and was serious about his interests, while Rich was, as Dun puts it, “doing more crazy stuff in the streets.” But, as time passed, Rich started becoming more interested in Dun’s passions, and, as each grew open-minded, they began to bond.

“That right there also explains the type of lyrics we do. We talk about everything,” says Dun, 26. “Even though we like keeping it positive ’cause that’s what we are, we’ve also got some negative lyrics ’cause that’s where we’ve come from, that’s the things we’ve seen where we grew up. Los Rakas is a balance. It’s positive and negative, because we’re not perfect.”

By 2005, the two had become solo rappers who connected, clicked and started working on material together well enough that a promoter wanted a package deal. Drawing their name from the Panamanian slur “rakataka”—think “hood rat” or someone from the ghetto—Los Rakas debuted with 2006’s PanaBay Twist and have since come to self-identify their style as “PanaBay.” Fundamentally, it’s hip-hop, but it’s liberally seasoned with dance hall (of Jamaican origin), plena (of Puerto Rican), salsa (of a mixed Latin American background), reggaeton (of Panamian), Caribbean

Dem Rakaz heard ’round the world: Raka Rich (left) and Raka Dun soca and ’90s-style R&B. The flavors are big, lively, versatile and constantly on the move.

Los Rakas rap in Spanish much more often than in English, creating a possible barrier to entry for English-speaking audiences, but that doesn’t worry and won’t sway Dun. “In Panama, they play a lot of reggae, a lot of dancehall. We don’t understand it, but we sing and listen to that song like we understand every word he’s saying,” he says. “They play a lot of Haitian music. We don’t understand it, but we sing it, and the whole family’s dancing to it.

The way we learned how to do music was among people that only do music in English, so we take the same approach they do, but in Spanish, so when the English speaker listens to our music, they’re going to be like, ‘I don’t understand it, but it sounds familiar.’ ” Those roots in genre- and culture-bending, and appreciating the foreign, are crucial to Dun and his aspirations for Los Rakas.

“I just want to be able to travel the world with our music. That’s really it, man,” he says. “If we get a big hit, a couple of big hits, that’s extra for me. I really want to be able to make good music— not hits, [but] good music—and just travel the world, and have people in Africa, people in Asia, people in Europe and America moving to our sound.” CW

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PRhyme What happens when you get two hip-hop veterans together in a room? In the case of legendary producer DJ Premier and Detroit emcee Royce da 5’9,” aka rap duo PRhyme, something pretty damned great. The two have collaborated here and there for years, but PRhyme—released in December—is their first album as a group, and it has plenty of the type of eyebrow-raising moments that result from combining the talents of two musicians whose combined collab track

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The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $20, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

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mall batch spirit brands are having a moment in Utah, and the latest to join the mix is Beehive Distilling—Utah’s first gin distillery since 1870. The brand currently consists of Jack Rabbit, a clear, botanical gin, and Barrel Reserve, a flavorful gin that has been aged in hand-charred French oak chardonnay barrels from seven to nine months.

What started out as a conversation between longtime friends Chris Barlow, Matt Aller and Erik Ostling became a reality in 2013 when the company first launched. “In my typical obsessive-compulsive nature, I researched it inside and out, and the three of us ended up going for it,” says Chris Barlow, Partner and Lead Distiller of Beehive Distilling. And just like that, an incredible new spirit was born.

“Gin was a natural fit because its distilling process calls for some creativity, which appealed to us due to our professions in photography and advertising,” relayed Barlow. “We have always enjoyed drinking new spirits and felt like Utah was ready for its own gin.”

What sets Beehive Distilling apart from other gin products is a combination of quality ingredients, the process and passion. “We take special care when running the still to really be on top of our cuts, which ensures only the best tasting product actually makes it into the bottle,” says Barlow. “We also went for a flavor profile that is—I think—unlike any other out there.”

By law, gin must contain juniper berries, but you can be more experimental with additional ingredients that allow unique flavors to shine through. Aside from juniper berries, Jack Rabbit includes lemon peel, sage leaves,

coriander seeds, Orris root, grains of paradise, and rose petals, which give it a striking herbal, botanical flavor. Barrel Reserve includes the same ingredients as Jack Rabbit, but the charring and aging process add a sweet, smoky flavor that make it a perfect for sipping neat or on the rocks.

Aside from the classic gin and tonic, mixologists and bartenders are creating innovative craft cocktails with Beehive Distilling’s products. Current favorites include the Hachi Hive at Takashi and the Bee’s Knees at Bodega in downtown Salt Lake City, and the Gimlet at O.P. Rockwell in Park City. For those looking to blend up their own concoctions at home, majority of Utah State Liquor Stores now sell both Jack Rabbit and Barrel Reserve.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Lately your life reminds me of the action film Speed, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. In that story, a criminal has rigged a passenger bus to explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour. In your story, you seem to be acting as if you, too, will self-destruct if you stop moving at a frantic pace. I’m here to tell you that nothing bad will happen if you slow down. Just the opposite, in fact. As you clear your schedule of its excessive things-to-do, as you leisurely explore the wonders of doing nothing in particular, I bet you will experience a soothing flood of healing pleasure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) One of the most dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is the fouetté en tournant. The term is French for “whipped turning.”

As she executes a 360-degree turn, the dancer spins around on the tip of one foot. Meanwhile, her other foot thrusts outward and then bends in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her supporting leg. Can you imagine a dancer doing this 32 consecutive times? That’s what the best do. It takes extensive practice and requires a high degree of concentration and discipline. Paradoxically, it expresses breathtaking freedom and exuberance. You may not be a prima ballerina, Taurus, but in your own field there must be an equivalent to the fouetté en tournant. Now is an excellent time for you to take a vow and make plans to master that skill. What will you need to do?

z. That letter is rarely used in the other three languages, but is common in Polish. Keep this general principle in mind as you assess the value of the things you have to offer. You will be able to make more headway and have greater impact in situations where your particular beauty and power and skills are in short supply.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have to make them all yourself.” So said Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card game known as bridge. I think this is excellent advice for the game of life, as well. And it should be extra pertinent for you in the coming weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes and wrong turns that are useful for you to study. In the future, you’ll be wise to avoid perpetrating similar messes yourself.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Love her but leave her wild,” advised a graffiti artist who published his thoughts on a wall next to the mirror in a public restroom I visited. Another guerrilla philosopher had added a comment below: “That’s a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a society that puts so many demands on us in exchange for money to live?” Since I happened to have a felt-tip pen with me, I scrawled a response to the question posed in the second comment: “Be in nature every day. Move your body a lot.

Remember and work with your dreams. Be playful. Have good sex. Infuse any little thing you do with a creative twist. Hang out GEMINI (May 21-June 20) with animals. Eat with your fingers. Sing regularly.” And that’s If you’re a martial artist and you want to inject extra energy into also my message for you, Scorpio, during this phase when it’s so an aggressive move, you might utter a percussive shout that crucial for you to nurture your wildness. sounds like “eee-yah!” or “hyaah!” or “aiyah!” The Japanese term for this sound is kiai. The sonic boost is most effective if it SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) originates deep in your diaphragm rather than from your throat. “Don’t worry, even if things get heavy, we’ll all float on.” So sings Even if you’re not a martial artist, Gemini, I suggest that in the Modest Mouse’s vocalist Isaac Brock on the band’s song “Float coming weeks you have fun trying out this boisterous style of On.” I recommend you try that approach yourself, Sagittarius. yelling. It may help you summon the extra power and confidence Things will no doubt get heavy in the coming days. But if you float you’ll need to successfully wrestle with all the interesting on, the heaviness will be a good, rich, soulful heaviness. It’ll be a challenges ahead of you. purifying heaviness that purges any glib or shallow influences that are in your vicinity. It’ll be a healing heaviness that gives you CANCER (June 21-July 22) just the kind of graceful gravitas you will need.

The prolific and popular French novelist Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym George Sand. Few 19th-century CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) women matched her rowdy behavior. She wore men’s clothes, “What I look for in a friend is someone who’s different from me,” smoked cigars, was a staunch feminist, and frequented social says science fiction novelist Samuel Delany. “The more different venues where only men were normally allowed. Yet she was the person is, the more I’ll learn from him. The more he’ll come up also a doting mother to her two children, and loved to garden, with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.” What make jam, and do needlework. Among her numerous lovers about you, Capricorn? What are the qualities in a friend that help were the writers Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau, and Prosper you thrive? Now is a perfect time to take an inventory. I sense that Mérimée, as well as composer Frederic Chopin and actress Marie although there are potential new allies wandering in your vicinity, Dorval. Her preferred work schedule was midnight to 6 a.m., and they will actually become part of your life only if you adjust and she often slept until 3 p.m. “What a brave man she was,” said update your attitudes about the influences you value most.

Russian author Ivan Turgenev, “and what a good woman.” Her astrological sign? The same as you and me. She’s feisty proof AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) that not all of us Crabs are conventional fuddy-duddies. In the At the turn of the 19th century, Russian laborers constructed coming weeks, she’s our inspirational role model. thousands of miles of railroad tracks from the western part of the country eastward to Siberia. The hardest part of the job was LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) blasting tunnels through the mountains that were in the way. I It seems you’ve slipped into a time warp. Is that bad? I don’t think reckon you’re at a comparable point in your work, Aquarius. It’s so. Your adventures there may twist and tweak a warped part of time to smash gaping holes through obstacles. Don’t scrimp or your psyche in such a way that it gets healed. At the very least, I bet apologize. Clear the way for the future. your visit to the time warp will reverse the effects of an old folly and correct a problem caused by your past sins. (By the way, when I use PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) the word “sin,” I mean “being lax about following your dreams.”) The British rock band the Animals released their gritty, growly There’s only one potential problem that could come out of all this: song “The House of the Rising Sun” in 1964. It reached the top Some people in your life could misinterpret what’s happening. To of the pop music charts in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia, prevent that, communicate crisply every step of the way. and was a hit with critics. Rolling Stone magazine ultimately ranked it as the 122nd greatest song of all time. And yet it took VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) the Animals just 15 minutes to record. They did it in one take.

In English and French versions of the word game Scrabble, the That’s the kind of beginner’s luck and spontaneous flow I foresee letter z is worth ten points. In Italian, it’s eight points. But in you having in the coming weeks, Pisces. What’s the best way for the Polish variant of Scrabble, you score just one point by using you to channel all that soulful mojo?

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This year the Downtown Alliance and Salt Lake City wants to pretty up Main Street and join in the blooming displays. They are seeing artists to design, build and install mini parks/parklets along Main Street that will be seen from April 4th until May 10th. Artists will build out from 8’ X 20’ platforms (provided) and design a floral theme for five unique staging sites between South Temple and 300 South. The call for entries must include a rendering of the proposed design with the following elements and specifications: n floral/garden them with park-like

elments n designs must be appropriate for the public right of way n any vertical elements must have a mimum clearance of 84 inches n consideration that all sides of the design may be visible n contain green elements such as flowers or plants. Plants that provide habitat, native plants and drought-tolerant plants are encouraged n ensure wheelchair access (36” wide) n designs must include permanent seating all non-permanent seating must be bolted down or removed at night n includes timeline and plans for the construction of the piece.

Artists can submit more than one application and if chosen must be responsible for the care and upkeep of their mini-parks.

Partnerships with local floral designers and landscape specialists are encouraged and you’ll have to figure out how to keep your living plans watered and groomed. Yes, you’ll have to figure out how to remove gum, trash and well, crap that appears on your parklet.

There’s no formal entry form. Just submit designs, timeline and plans to Kristin Beck with the Downtown Alliance at kristin@ downtownslc.org . Google ‘where are the best parklets’ and click on images to see the creativity of designers around the world and let’s get some blooming fun on Main Street for spring!​​n

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