City Weekly April 16, 2015

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Victim of the state or child predAtor, Scott Gollaher's judgment day is looming.

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Victim of the state or child predator, Scott Gollaher’s judgment day is looming.

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Bill Frost has outdone himself! The Ocho about Obama was hilarious [“Eight reasons President Obama is visiting Utah, according to local talk radio,” April 2, City Weekly].

Rarely do I laugh out loud while reading anything. I also called an elderly friend, who loved it when I read it to her.

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Charlee Kone South Salt Lake

LGBT Families Are Real

This legislative session, our entire state benefited from the creation and passage of historic legislation that protects all Utah citizens. It was successful because it was crafted with the intent to honor the dignity of each and every one of us.

After our positive interaction with the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are left disappointed by recent statements by church authorities such as Elder L. Tom Perry denigrating the validity of our families. As LGBT Utahns, our families are not counterfeit. They are real, they are beautiful, and they reflect the diversity and the greatness of our state.

We have made great progress, and we still have more

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As we reach out to all Utahns, we will not waver in our commitment to equality in all things—not only in the workplace and housing, but also in family and marriage.

Troy Williams Equality Utah executive director Salt Lake City

The Silver Tsunami of Alzheimer’s

As the executive director for the Utah chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, I am in a unique position to see how little our state understands about the devastating disease of Alzheimer’s. Most people don’t know that, at age 65, 1 in 9 people will have the disease; or, at age 85, that jumps to 1 in 3.

We hear so much about cancer research and the impact of that research, which is wonderful. I am thrilled every time I hear about a friend or loved one who has conquered cancer. But more people die each year from Alzheimer’s disease than from breast and prostate cancer combined.

Increased cancer success rates can be directly attributed to wonderful research. In fact, the National Institute of Health (NIH) spends more than $5 billion annually in cancer research. This is com-

pared to only about $500 million spent annually on Alzheimer’s research.

I applaud the Utah Legislature for passing House Bill 175, which will bring Alzheimer’s disease to the forefront and create a foundation for the state Alzheimer’s plan to be implemented through the Utah Department of Health.

Unfortunately, requests to our federal congressional contingent for increased Alzheimer’s research funding have fallen on deaf ears. I ask Sens. Hatch and Lee, as well as Reps. Bishop, Chaffetz, Stewart and Love, to vote in favor of increasing funding for Alzheimer’s research to help us turn the tide of the Silver Tsunami that will ravish our society if a cure, or at least a way to slow the progress of this disease, is not discovered soon.

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Clutch & Hug

“They’s scandalous things goes on in this here camp,” she said darkly. “Ever’ Sat’dy night they’s dancin’, an’ not only squar’ dancin’, neither. They’s some does clutch-an’-hug dancin’!

I seen ’em.”

—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath If you have been to a high-school prom, you have probably witnessed some “clutch-an’hug dancin’.” I don’t judge it to be scandalous, but it is certainly artless. The clutchand-huggers resemble a twosome, entangled in a straitjacket, which has quit struggling and is drifting on the swells of a hormonal tide. That said, I well remember a time when “clutch-an’-hug dancin’ ” was the goal of every Saturday night party. The formula didn’t vary much from weekend to weekend: A basement paneled in knotty pine; a table of Cokes, chips and onion dip; Johnny Mathis on the record player; lowering lights; the intoxicating scent of Old Spice and Avon.

The clutch-an’-hug had a different objective than the foxtrot and waltz we were taught in sixth grade willy-nilly. I presume our teachers intended the ballroom-dancing lessons to introduce social grace to the awkward and reluctant. I don’t remember any explanation.

I do remember sitting self-consciously on the periphery of the Rosslyn Heights Elementary School auditorium—boys on one side, girls on the other. The dancing took place in the linoleum no-man’s land in between. There, I gamely joined my classmates to do-si-do my way through the “Bye Bye Blackbird” square dance. It offered cover, safety in numbers, which the waltz didn’t. That one-on-one encounter was daunting. You had to touch a girl in two places and synchronize your feet with hers. Then—elbows locked, eyes down—you had to count silently, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, and avoid stepping on her left foot. The ordeal made me sweat.

My ballroom-dance technique evolved alongside my interest in girls. I think the Gold & Green Ball (G&GB) bridged my innocent foxtrotting days with those of the carnal clutch-an’-hug. The annual G&GB was a

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mainstay of LDS culture back in the day. At the G&GB, you could watch teenagers doing a chaste cheek-to-cheek as younger dancers, their partners at arm’s length, navigated the dance floor, all while concentrating on the old 1-2-3. My friends who attended Catholic schools report similar transitional experiences. The difference was the nuns’ insistence that there be sufficient space between dance partners for the Holy Spirit to occupy.

No clutches, no hugs allowed, because chestto-breast proximity left no room for anything but unholy imagination. So said the vigilant nuns.

The nuns would have disapproved of an admonition I eventually got from Mona, the ballroomdance teacher. “Lead with your thighs!” she told me.

More on that presently.

Some religions forbid boy-girl dancing. The Quakers, Southern Baptists and Muslims come to mind. By comparison, Mormons are party animals. Joseph Smith was a pretty good dancer by all accounts, and Brigham Young told the pioneers, “I want you to sing and dance and forget your troubles.” My forebears complied. They danced around campfires during the long walk across the plains in 1856. Nevertheless, just as Steinbeck showed in The Grapes of Wrath, self-anointed watchdogs of propriety are as ever-present as Gayle Ruzicka. I was not too surprised to learn that Brigham Young’s 1871 Retrenchment Association (the forerunner of the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association) in Cache Valley adopted a code of conduct which proscribed loud laughter, immodesty, association with non-Mormons, and “round dancing” (aka the waltz). The prohibitions didn’t take root, however. In 1893, the LDS Church built the largest dance floor in the world at Saltair and urged everyone to use it.

The 1960s were tough on those whose dance-floor ability was limited to variants of the “clutch-an’-hug.” The Twist was the first challenge. I watched Chubby Checker twisting on American Bandstand. It looked pretty easy—just cut the girl loose and swivel till

you sweat—but it wasn’t. Neither were any of the dance fads that followed each other like incivilities on Fox TV. I was soon sidelined by ineptitude. Eventually, at a BYU Stomp (of all places!), I developed a Watusi-Frug hybrid dance which served me adequately for a few years. On rare occasions, when my hips had been unlimbered by alcohol, I reminded myself of John Travolta.

By the time I met Mona, I was a middleager who shuffled his wife around the dance floor when the DJ “slowed things down” by playing “Unchained Melody” or “Lady in Red”— songs as dear to unreconstructed hug-dancers as “Let It Go” is to tweens.

Six couples paid Mona for lessons. She owned a studio with floor-toceiling mirrors where we met on Saturday nights.

I fancied myself a swing dancer. My wife, whose career on Broadway was nipped in the bud by a mother too poor to pay for ballet lessons, had her own ambitions. We were soon in conflict. Mona began where I had left off in the sixth grade—the foxtrot and the waltz. The venerable 1-2-3 had been updated to “step, step, step-close-step.”

Even before Mona introduced the tango, merengue and samba, my feminist wife was objecting to the fact that the male always led—with his thighs no less! “He can’t lead,” she complained to Mona. I knew she was wrong, because I had been monitoring my performance in the mirrors. Mona was a traditionalist—men lead, women follow. On that discordant note, Mona’s dancing lessons ended.

I was in Texas last year and tried the Two-Step in an Austin honky-tonk. I didn’t see any clutch-an’-huggers, but I did note I was the only one without a cowboy hat and boots. Somewhat self-consciously, then, I loosed the thighs, summoned the old foxtrot step, and—I’m not kidding you!—I turned a few heads. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

“Lead with your thighs!” she told me.

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Did you ever attend school or church dances?

Brandon Burt: In gym class, we danced with the girls every third Friday of the month. Our grade depended on us dancing with at least three girls. If we got turned down by every girl, it was our tough luck. One girl turned me down with the explanation that she was Pentacostal. I’d never heard of that religion. I thought she made it up.

Jeff Chipian:

The best thing about attending school dances would have to be my choice in clothing. I would only go to the formal dances so I could dress like James Bond. Let me know if you want to see me in a white tux with a black tie and black pants. I won’t even go into detail about talking and acting like him, but I did.​“Chipian, Jeff Chipian.”

Christian Priskos: The best part about high school dances was that it was socially acceptable to invite your date to the dance in the most embarrassing and humiliating way possible. The worst part about high school dances was the actual dance itself.

Josh Scheuerman: Whenever church chaperones reminded us to keep a 12-inch space for The Spirit, it always felt a little claustrophobic for the three of us dancing.

Jerre Wroble: I remember, in eighth grade, I was slow dancing to a Beatles song with a freckle-face chubby boy at a house party (at his house). His parents made him keep his hair pretty short, and I could feel the short stubbly hairs above his collar where I had my hands clasped. Imagine my surprise when I found out years later he became my dad’s doctor, and ended up being there at the hospital the day my pop died.

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Am-not-sty Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is pretty predictable when it comes to President Barack Obama, in case you hadn’t noticed.

Her latest screed calls the president a dictator because of the Department of Justice’s immigration policies. The Texas judge ruling on the case thinks so, too. Lies, lies, lies, the attorneys said, in asserting that the DOJ had gone forward with Obama’s immigration plan after saying it wouldn’t. But here’s the deal: Love and her compatriots call the plan “amnesty.” Visit PolitiFact. com to find out the nuances among the many immigration policies. The only immigration policy going forward is one from 2012, in which the federal government renewed 100,000 applications for deferred action from eligible immigrants. It’s a third category not covered in the case. But to Love and Sen. (and presidential hopeful) Ted Cruz, R-Utah, that’s just amnesty.

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Speaking of Rep. Love, she is now one of the go-to people when delegations of Utahns visit Washington, D.C. Whether she heeds constituent concerns is another issue, but you have to give her a thumbs-up for meet-ups. When Everette Bacon, a Utah representative of the National Federation of the Blind, stopped in, he and his group were led to a committee meeting Love was attending. She came out, shook hands and took photos. Not so for Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. In the five years that Bacon has visited D.C., he has never met Chaffetz personally—only his staffers. Teresa Tavares, who runs Centro Hispano in Chaffetz’s district, went to Washington, D.C., to speak with him about immigration reform—which Chaffetz says his constituents are against. He wasn’t there, so she talked about supporting immigration reform—to his staffer.

Utah Women Earn Less Utah’s in the news again as one of the top four states for economic competitiveness. This is a victory for those who agree with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative, corporate-backed group that crafts model legislation across the nation.

ALEC is all about supply-side economics.

Here in Utah, corporations have low taxes, and poor people have no health care. Low unionization is another of ALEC’s goals.

You can see how Utah meets that goal when two of its cities show up on another ranking: the 10 worst-paying cities for women. Ogden/Clearfield got No. 2 and Provo/Orem came in at No. 1. “Nationwide, women did not have higher median earnings than men in any of the occupations reviewed by the census,” wrote Thomas C. Frohlich in 24/7 Wall St.

Many remember the now-defunct Evergreen International, an organization that sought to help its members overcome same-sex attraction and live according to LDS Church teachings. Evergreen ceased to exist in early 2014, and North Star International (NorthStarLDS.org) absorbed many of its resources. North Star bills itself as “a faith-affirming resource for Latter-day Saints addressing sexual orientation or gender identity” and will host its second annual conference April 23-25 at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo. Greg Harris, North Star International’s vice president, explains why such an organization remains relevant.

Why North Star International?

The purpose and promise of the gospel of Jesus Christ is not to make gay people straight, but rather to help individuals become “new creatures” in Christ. The focus of North Star’s education and support resources is not on changing sexual orientation, but rather on supporting those who desire to live within the framework of the doctrines of the church. … Whether or not individuals choose to make efforts to diminish or eliminate homosexual feelings, and whether or not those efforts succeed, is personal and less important to North Star’s purposes.

Does North Star continue Evergreen’s tradition of conversion therapy?

Conversion therapy is not, nor has ever been, a part of our organization’s mission.

At our annual conference or other events, we may hold workshops on general themes of health and wellness facilitated by licensed mental-health professionals. Those workshops focus on holistic well-being and personal growth, not sexual-orientation-change efforts.

What is North Star’s relationship to the LDS Church?

North Star operates wholly independently of the church—it is not owned by or affiliated with the church, and does not receive funding or direction from the church.

Does North Star believe that faithful LGBT people should live a celibate life?

We support the [LDS] doctrine outlined in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” which states, “We … declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife.”

What do those who are openly gay gain by being active in the LDS Church?

Many of God’s children, LGBT or otherwise, have followed the exhortation of Jesus Christ to seek out truth and have received a confirming witness of the veracity of the restored gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith. This gospel and membership in the [LDS Church] provides a deep understanding of our worth as God’s children, our purpose here on Earth, and our divine potential in the hereafter. Sacred covenants and ordinances provide a path for each son or daughter of God to reach this potential and return to their heavenly home. These principles and teachings are universal in appeal—especially to God’s LGBT sons and daughters—many of whom have struggled with feelings of worthlessness or rejection throughout their lives.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Vax Facts The Jenny McCarthy contingent is going on about the risks of vaccinations, but absent from this discussion is any consideration of the risk of the diseases.

—Mark J. Costello This recent measles outbreak got me wondering about the cost. I read an article saying the Centers for Disease Control report that “every dollar spent on the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine saves the U.S. $23.30 in medical costs.”

I understand the necessity for vaccinations, but what costs are they talking about?

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You’re asking whether vaccination is worth it. There could be stupider questions— just wait till some C-grade celebrity leads the charge against indoor plumbing and electric lights. However, for now those questioning the value of vaccination pretty much have the market cornered on idiotic. By any measure, childhood immunization has been one of humanity’s great achievements, substantially eradicating diseases that, in centuries past, depopulated continents and, in the memory of persons still alive, killed or crippled thousands every year. But today, few have any clue, leading some to ask why we still need to poke babies with needles and all that jazz.

So, fine. Let me explain why locking up mass murderers makes sense.

The argument has changed since we last talked vaccines in 2007. The second McCarthy era has seemingly come and gone, as Jenny has walked back many of her claims about the mercury-autism link, now thoroughly debunked. Likewise, Andrew Wakefield’s findings tying the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease have been judged bogus at best. However, newer and equally daft vaccine myths have taken their place: It’s not the mercury, it’s the aluminum.

Aluminum is added to some vaccines to boost their effectiveness. But aluminum is common in the environment—many babies get a fair amount via the water mixed into formula.

After conducting a study in 2011 the FDA concluded, along with the rest of the scientific community, that the amount currently used in vaccines poses no significant risk.

Too many vaccines administered simultaneously or in close succession can overwhelm the immune system. This has become a popular “reasonable” position: We’re not against vaccinations, we just want to space them out better. Problem: there’s no evidence of anything harmful about the current vaccination schedule but good reason to think monkeying with it leads to lower immunization rates.

A 1994 paper found an effort to administer MMR shots at the same time as other vaccinations would have spared a third of the unvaccinated preschoolers who got measles during an early-’90s U.S. outbreak.

Vaccines haven’t actually been that effective—death rates were decreasing in the relevant diseases even before the vaccines were introduced. No shit, death rates were going down—health care in general improved

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drastically once we got past the era of bloodletting, and mortality from all sorts of causes declined throughout the 20th century. None of that accounts for the massive drops in disease period immediately after the introduction of vaccines. Just before the measles vaccine was licensed in the U.S., in 1963, annual average incidence was around 500,000 cases (with probably several million more unreported); by 1966, we were down to about 200,000 new cases; and by 1968, just 22,000. During its first 20 years, the measles vaccine prevented an estimated 52 million cases, 17,400 instances of mental impairment, and 5,000 deaths.

Then there are smallpox, diphtheria, and whooping cough. They killed thousands of Americans per year at their respective prevaccine peaks; by 2004, annual deaths had been reduced by more than 99 percent. Polio vaccination led to equally dramatic drops— the U.S. has been polio-free since 1975.

But you asked about MMR cost, possibly thinking measles is a mild disease. Not for everybody. A 2004 paper estimated the hypothetical cost of not giving the MMR vaccine to any of the 3.8 million American babies born in 2001, factoring in medical treatment, long-term care of kids left disabled, lost wages for the dead, reduced earnings for the hearing-impaired, and so on. Grand total: $7.9 billion for that one batch of babies, against $300 million in vaccination costs.

A study of polio vaccination found a net benefit of $180 billion from 1955 to 2014.

When the value of avoided suffering, paralysis, and death was included, the benefit rose to $800 billion.

Are vaccines risk-free? Nothing is riskfree. In 1955, when the polio vaccine was in development, the release of a defective specimen led to 200 cases of paralysis and 10 deaths. Tragic? Absolutely, but the program went on; no one doubted a successful vaccine would save far more lives.

Since the beginning of this year, lawmakers in a dozen states have introduced bills modifying vaccination policy—some eliminating the personal or philosophical exemption, others requiring school districts to make vaccination-rate information publicly available. Medicofascism? Some think so. But if ever there were justification for public intrusion into private decisionmaking, this is it.

Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago, Ill. 60654.

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“Does it seem logical that on a $10 retail theft of, say, a candy bar, that a district court judge is going to send this guy to prison?”

L aw & O r d e r —Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill

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A softer approach by Salt Lake County prosecutors to low-level retail theft has some asking who will pay the price.

Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark On April 2, 2015, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill informed the police chiefs within his jurisdiction that his prosecutors would no longer be pressing felony charges against repeat retail-theft offenders of products or services valued at $50 or less.

Gill says once you get beyond “what I call a knee-jerk emotional response, then I think this makes sense.” He describes the new policy as part of the broader discussion that has taken place in Utah over criminal justice reform as well as the push to reduce the state’s prison population by focusing on probation and treatment rather than sentencing.

For some, the decision is good news.

Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association’s director Patrick Anderson had been hounding Gill for years, he says, to stop hitting shoplifters with felony charges when they were caught within a 10-year period with multiple prior misdemeanor theft convictions. Felony shoplifters, he says, “are a growth population, let me tell you”—particularly among the downtown homeless.

He cites examples of Salt Lake City’s homeless population being hit with felonies for stealing mouthwash to drink or not paying Trax fares. “Why put that stigma on them?” he says, referring to the impact felony convictions have on those seeking federally-subsized housing or employment.

Half the cities in the state follow Utah’s Good Landord program, says Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, which compounds the problem, since it bars people with felonies from renting.

“At this point, we might as well be creating a leper colony,” he says. “The reality is, you look at people who have committed more than three petty larcenies—is prison the right place for them, or do they need a psych eval?”

Retailers, however, see theft by members of the homeless population as a more nuanced problem. The Utah Retail Merchants Association represents 400 members, says President David Davis.

Under a new policy, Salt Lake County will no longer charge minor repeat thefts as felonies.

His members see certain individuals stealing over and over again. If those individuals know that thefts less than a certain dollar amount may not result in a strict enforcement action, he says, “That takes away the deterrent factor.”

Gill says the decision to not “rubber-stamp” cops wanting low-level retail thefts enhanced to felonies, “isn’t going to result in a crime wave in our community,” saying that there are several hundred such cases per year.

Reviewing his agency’s statistics for 2014, SLLDA’s Anderson says his legal defenders handled 1,118 cases last year where felony retail theft was the lead charge, and some of those were repeat offenders. He estimated 10 percent to 20 percent of those cases involved thefts of $50 or less.

Others, however, express frustration both with the way the decision was made and its potential ramifications for retailers and consumers. Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Ian Adams says Utah has been in the grip of a property-crime wave for some time. For one county prosecutor to “override how thefts are prosecuted is not how our system works.”

The Salt Lake City Police Department declined to comment.

One reason behind the move is jail overcrowding: “What we’ve said is we ought to use jail for those people who are a genuine risk to our community,” Gill says.

FOP’s Adams argues, however, that what is driving concerns about jail overcrowding is the recent legislative move in Utah to reduce charges relating to possession of hard narcotics from felonies to misdemeanors.

Gill says his decision is also driven by justice-court judges reluctant to give a repeat low-level thief six months in jail.

“Does it seem logical that on a $10 retail theft of, say, a candy bar, that a district court judge is going to send this guy to prison?” Gill asks. If a law-enforcement agency, however, determines that a serial or nuisance thief is causing problems in a community, “then let’s discuss that.”

Cottonwood Heights Police Chief Robby Russo welcomes the move. “If we really need to make an impression on somebody, [the DA will] do it,” he says.

Ironically, he notes, criminals typically get harsher sentences from municipal-court judges than district courts.

Community courts, he adds, “are more about getting a pound of flesh.”

Gill says he’s simply exercising his right to prosecutorial discretion. But the FOP’s Adams says it’s not the DA’s place to change laws—it’s the Legislature’s.

Adams cites street cops he knows who, for example, were called to a grocery store to arrest a homeless man who had stolen a candy bar and some underwear. The officer, he says, talked to the corporation owning the store, and negotiated an agreement whereby the officer issued the man a ticket and let him go on his way. “There’s nothing to be gained, no advantage to booking someone like that into jail,” Adams says.

Which is why Adams views the DA’s decision as not so much an issue for law enforcement as for community stakeholders. “I don’t think the root of this is candy-bar felonies,” he says, predicting that the number of $48- or $49-dollar thefts will rise in the wake of this decision. “It’s a criminal’s job, so to speak,” he says, to pay attention to such information.

When violence is committed—for example, when someone hits a cashier after being caught trying to run out of a store with some beer—that, Gill says,

will certainly get a different response from his office. “Let’s not confuse violence with a nonviolent offense,” Gill says. “We need to recognize the proportionality of conduct.”

He recalls a third degree felony charge for a $2.94 theft that recently came across his desk. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” he says. “We pleaded it down and disposed of it.”

David Davis says Utah merchants have seen an upswing in recent years of organized retail-theft rings sweeping through the state. His association, he says, was not consulted by the District Attorney regarding the move to scale back theft prosecutions, in contrast to Sen. Daniel Thatcher’s legislation that successfully passed in 2014 reducing sentences for felony retail-theft of items valued at $500-plus. “That’s a better example of how the process should work,” Davis says, “getting stakeholders together and having a reasonable and intelligent discussion about where is the line regarding what are minor infractions and what constitutes repeat behavior,” Davis says.

Gill argues that the punishment needs to fit the crime. “If you can tell me that charging third-degree felonies for stealing candy bars is making a dent, then I will stand up and listen.” But, he continues, the majority of criminal conduct is driven by substance abuse, poverty and mental-health issues.

“We can no longer afford to have the luxury of our ambivalence or inaction.”

Davis believes that those who ultimately will bear the cost of this decision are Salt Lake County retail customers.

“This is no good for retailers, but more importantly, it’s not good for consumers.

The cost of shrinkage or theft is inevitably passed on to them.” CW

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or the better part of a century, the ghost town of Grafton, Utah, and the wilderness of Gooseberry Mesa were places that travelers zoomed past as they entered and exited Zion National Park.

The decades of these areas being overlooked, though, appear to be over. Visitation at Zion crested 3 million for the first time in 2014, with 400,000 more visitors than the previous year. And many of these folks, hungry for a slice of history and adventure, appear to be venturing off the beaten path, snaking their way through the town of Rockville to hunt down the ghosts and trails that lie beyond.

The cost of increased traffic appears to be weighing heavily on the Rockville Bridge, a one-lane steel structure that has delivered covered wagons, gun-slinging outlaws and SUVs safely across the Virgin River for the past 81 years.

With rising traffic on the bridge hastening its deterioration, Rockville residents and city officials are beginning in earnest to grapple with the landmark’s unknown future—one that could involve removing the bridge altogether, refurbishing the bridge or building another bridge.

Narrowing this range of possibilities is important, but one path seems concrete: The bridge, registered as a National Historic Landmark in 1995, will, one way or another, survive. At least, it will as long as Rockville City Councilman Bernie Harris is around.

“The bridge, as far as I’m concerned, stays as long as I’m alive,” Harris says. “I’ll do whatever I have to do to see that happen.”

In 2012, the Utah Department of Transportation downgraded the bridge’s weight limit from 25 tons to 14 tons. Since then, Harris and other Rockville residents say traffic across the bridge has exploded, leading to further deterioration of the bridge and congestion.

What Rockville needs, Harris says, is another study to discover how badly the bridge has deteriorated since 2012. This, he says, could cost around $20,000. Once this study is done, the city would need to raise $230,000 to receive matching government

funds to pay for a full-scale design to rehabilitate the bridge.

If all of this happens, Joyce Hartless, a Rockville resident who lives near one end of the bridge, says $3.2 million that UDOT has allocated toward new bridge construction could be re-appropriated to remodel the existing bridge.

The present hurdle in these plans is Rockville’s pocketbook. With its quaint pioneer houses and iconic light bulbs that drape the main drag, the city is more of a pass-through on the way to other places than it is a hive of economic activity. This leaves city coffers scant on cash.

As a result, the city is trying to generate the funds through donations.

Although Harris hopes a thorough refurbishment of the bridge could go a long way toward ensuring its preservation, he believes the growing use in the area will eventually require construction of an additional bridge.

For the past 30 years, Coby Jordan has lived near the bridge. He helped get it placed on the historic register and says it was, at one point, the primary access route to the park.

For anyone who drove across the bridge a decade or more ago into the sleepy ghost town of Grafton—which perhaps had its most famous day as the location where Paul Newman and Katharine Ross pedaled around on an old bicycle in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—the fact that traffic in the area is now a problem might come as a surprise.

Harris says average daily trips across the bridge range from 600 to 900. In addition to day-trippers visiting Grafton, Jordan estimates that half of those making their way to Gooseberry Mesa for mountain biking, ATV riding and other adventures drive across the bridge.

One example specific to Gooseberry Mesa, Jordan says, is the Red Bull Rampage mountain-biking event, which is held in the area each year. “Mountain biking has just really exploded down here,” Jordan says. “There is a tremendous amount of additional pressure on these resources than there was 20 or 30 years ago.”

And, not unlike a primitive camping site that is ruined by fire pits and human waste, the bridge and the surrounding lands are being loved to death.

“I’ve seen the river come up over that bridge; I’ve stood on that bridge and had water come over and lap my feet,” Harris says. “I’d just hate to see it go away.” CW

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Friday, April 17

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Alta Ski Area’s Earth Day bash runs from morning till night—you can check out eco-friendly vendors or go birding and snowshoeing with naturalists, or skiing with nature guides—all for free.

In the evening, enjoy some drinks and snacks before a screening of Disruption, a documentary about the troubling consequences of inaction in the face of climate change.

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Saturday, April 18 Join the tree huggers (and planters) of Tree Utah in partnership with Mark Miller Subaru for Project Oxygen.

Participants will get free lunch and a chance to do some pre-planting yoga before getting their hands dirty cleaning up the air.

Wheeler Historic Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, 801-364-2122, April 18, 9 a.m., Facebook.com/TreeUtah

Legislative Management Committee Wednesday, April 22

This legislative committee will discuss the economic viability of the Utah State Fairpark at its location on Salt Lake City’s west side. Should it be relocated? And, if so, should the land then house a prison, or a homeless shelter (just kidding about that last part, that’s not on the agenda—but, hey, you never know). This committee will also hear two ethics reports: one from the Independent Ethics Commission and another from the Utah Executive Branch Ethics Commission.

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Curses, Foiled Again Joey Patterson, 22, eluded Idaho authorities for several months, but then he posted his whereabouts on Facebook. He invited friends to play softball at Armory Softball Field in Caldwell. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where police found him. Monitoring social media has led officers to suspects before, Sgt. Joey Hoadley noted, explaining, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surprisingly, even fugitives canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep from updating their Facebook status.â&#x20AC;?

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n Police arrested three suspects in a tailgate-stealing spree in Volusia County, Fla., after one of them tried to return one of the nine stolen tailgates to claim a reward. The victim paid the reward but called deputies, who located the trio. (Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WESH-TV)

Opportunity Knocks The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest international sperm bank moved its main U.S. office from New York to Orlando, Fla. Cryos International is definitely targeting college students, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jim Londeree said, noting nearby University of Central Florida is among the largest universities in the nation, providing â&#x20AC;&#x153;a huge donor base here.â&#x20AC;? He added that approved donors â&#x20AC;&#x153;can make up to $750 a month.â&#x20AC;? (Orlando Sentinel)

Do As I Say, Not As I Do The Rev. Shaun O. Harrison, 55, a Boston educator known for preaching anti-violence to young people, was charged with the execution-style shooting of a 17-year-old boy he had enlisted to sell marijuana for him. Prosecutors said Harrison shot the youth in the back of the head in Roxbury, Mass. The victim survived. Harrison denied charges stemming from the shooting, but Suffolk Assistant District Attorney David Bradley said a surveillance system at a nearby business recorded the episode.

(Springfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Republican)

n Jerome Clemons, 44, set fire to his house in Boynton Beach, Fla., authorities there said, after his niece refused to give him a ride to a liquor store. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

The Sound of No Hand Clapping Organizers of Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Union of Students (NUS) Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conference asked delegates to use jazz hands instead of clapping to avoid â&#x20AC;&#x153;triggering anxiety.â&#x20AC;? The aim, delegate Nona Buckley-Irvine explained, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to show appreciation of someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point without interrupting or causing disturbance.â&#x20AC;? Gee Linford-Grayson agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus,â&#x20AC;? she added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like jazz hands?â&#x20AC;?

(BBC News) Obvious Solution Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death row, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest, has run out of room.

With 738 inmates in lethal limbo since a court invalidated the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lethal injection method nearly a decade ago, Gov. Jerry Brown asked the Legislature for more than $3 million to open 100 new cells for condemned men at San Quentin Prison, which already has 715 inmates facing execution. Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request, the Los Angeles Times said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;anticipates an average of 20 new arrivals on death row yearlyâ&#x20AC;? without a decrease in the existing condemned population. (NPR) Way to Go Stephan Woytack, 74, died while attaching a cross to a grave marker at a family plot in Scranton, Pa. The tombstone unexpectedly tilted off its base, toppled and crushed him to death, according to police Officer Andy Kerecman, who called the accident â&#x20AC;&#x153;freaky.â&#x20AC;? (New York Daily News) Bottoms Are Tops Luxury toilet seats topped the list of souvenirs brought home by the record number of Chinese tourists who celebrated this lunar new-year holiday in Japan. Costing around $540, the heated seats feature pulsating water jets, deodorizers and even music to cover up the sound of natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call. Many offer hands-free lid opening; some are portable and battery-operated. Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state-run media reported that many of the toilet seats sold in Japan were made in China. (The Economist)

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Missing the Point A speaker at Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth annual National Disability Summit had to be lifted onto the stage because there was no ramp for wheelchairs or mobility scooters. In addition, disabled participants, who each paid $2,000 to attend the privately organized event, were all seated at one table in the back of the room. A blog post by participant Jax Jacki Brown noted that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;accessible toilet was filled with chairs and used as a storage space,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the food provided was up on really tall tablesâ&#x20AC;? so wheelchair users couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach it. (Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ABC News)

Slightest Provocation Police said Phyllis D. Jefferson, 50, stabbed her 61-year-old boyfriend while the two were eating chips and salsa at home in Akron, Ohio, after they got into an argument over who was eating all the salsa. (Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WKYC-TV)

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Victim of the state or child predator, Scott Gollaher’s judgment day is looming.

BY STEPHEN DARK sdark@cityweekly.net

n July 13, 2012, just before 11 a.m., two groups of police officers armed with search warrants swooped in on separate addresses in Morgan County and Salt Lake City. Their target in the bucolic rolling hills of Morgan County was a mansion used as a weekend retreat by property developer Scott Gollaher and his wife Sharon. Their target in downtown Salt Lake City was the Gollahers’ condo in a neighborhood north of Temple Square.

The search warrants followed allegations by two 11-year-old girls claiming that Gollaher, a convicted child sex abuser, had molested them during their May and June 2012 recreational visits to the Morgan County residence.

A small contingent of officers entered the unfurnished Morgan County property, while a much larger group of cops from four police agencies and FBI agents attached to the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children task force knocked on the door of the Salt Lake City condo, then battered it open with a ram. Hands raised above his head, 53-year-old Gollaher emerged from the bedroom and was cuffed.

Along with Gollaher’s wife, Sharon, the cops also found an 11-year-old girl, the daughter of a friend of the couple, according to court testimony in Morgan County. A Salt Lake City detective took the child to the Children’s Justice Center for an interview, and then Child Protective Services workers took her to the Christmas Box House. FBI special agent Jeff Ross attempted to interview Gollaher, who was already requesting a lawyer. “Don’t take my silence as acquiescence of guilt,” Gollaher told him, Ross recalled in a Salt Lake County court hearing.

A FBI forensic specialist located what Ross later testified were “hundreds” of images of child porn on a computer in Gollaher’s small, high-end condo.

Gollaher is now facing prosecution in two Utah counties simultaneously. In Morgan County, he faces four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, based on allegations from the two girls who went to his country mansion. In Salt Lake County, he faces one count of sodomy on a child and 10 counts of sexual exploitation

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of a minor, relating to child porn that was allegedly found on a computer “and digital media,” at the condo, three images in which Gollaher himself appeared, according to a probable-cause statement.

Child molestation charges are nothing new for Gollaher (pronounced “GOLL-yer.”) The talkative, heavy-set building contractor did four years in prison for a 1996 jury conviction for child sexual abuse involv-

Gollaher is now facing prosecution in two Utah counties simultaneously. ing a 10-year-old girl. “I was the first person to go to prison for a touch,” he says to a City Weekly reporter during a jailhouse interview, referring to his victim’s testimony that he rubbed her genitals for six seconds.

Since that conviction and time served—and prior to his current set of charges—he was prosecuted for one count of child sex abuse in 3rd District Court in 2011, but the case was dismissed after the victim recanted.

If Gollaher is convicted this time around, he may not see daylight again. “I’m facing charges that could put me away for the rest of my life,” he says.

Former Salt Lake City cop turned Morgan County prosecutor Jann Farris says Gollaher “gets a lot of people’s attention for being a child molester sitting in jail.”

While the state sees him as a monster—“the worst of the worst,” Farris says—Gollaher paints the state as the true monster, keeping him locked up for several years while they build their cases against him, he claims.

Farris says Gollaher “should stop molesting children” if he wants the accusations to stop. “I have just had to read so many reports and videos,” he told Morgan County court. “I am so pissed at this guy.”

The world of Scott Gollaher is one layered in ambiguity, denials and accusations against those aligned against him, be they victims, witnesses or part of the criminal justice system. He describes his alleged child victims and their families as being motivated by a desire for attention. “They got their social reward already,” he says. City Weekly interviewed the parent of an alleged victim and the parents of the victim linked to his 1996 conviction. Those interviews highlighted that Gollaher got close to parents of children he was later accused of molesting by exploiting Mormon cultural commonalities or by allegedly presenting himself as an “expert” in child sexual abuse who can counsel child victims. Farris says Gollaher is “enough of a chameleon to use whatever he has in common with that person to build common ground.”

Gollaher comes across as dismissive or even angry when his past is brought up, preferring to focus on current problems. But some issues in his past aren’t so easy to dismiss. Take, for example, a chilling four-page list provided to City Weekly by one of the mothers of one of the children listed among 100-plus children’s names he compiled in jail, prior to going to prison in 1996.

Whether it’s a list of victims or, as he contends, a list of children he had the opportunity to victimize but did not, it’s a document that haunts parents of offspring who are named on it.

After dozens of interviews with former friends, colleagues, business partners and relatives, the truth about who Gollaher is remains as opaque as the thick bifocals he prods repeatedly back up his nose. Indeed, 15 years after he was initially released from prison after, he says, finally admitting to the Board of Parole and Pardons that he committed the crime he was sent to prison for, he still dances around his own culpability. He says he lied to the board because that was the only way to get out of prison. Now, he says, “I don’t have any memory of touching her.”

There’s a crudeness and tenacity to him that creates a formidable and at times overbearing presence in the courtroom. Gollaher says he has been the victim

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Scott Gollaher appears at 2nd District Court in Morgan, Utah, representing himself.

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Scott Gollaher grew up in Cottonwood Heights on a street lined with modest ramblers. The youngest of four brothers with a younger sister in tow, according to 1996 testimony by Gollaher’s defense attorney at his sentencing, he left home when he was 14 and, two years later, opened his own concrete-contracting firm—even employing two of his own high school teachers during the summer.

In the late 1970s, he went on a LDS mission to Alberta, Canada. Gollaher married and had two children (he and his first wife divorced in 1998). He grew his company, employing 45 people, including ex-felons, homeless people and those down on their luck, according to court documents. He developed residential properties, notably several apartment complexes in Holladay, which residents nicknamed “Gollaherville.”

Gollaher routinely set himself at the center of his Holladay, Utah LDS ward’s social life, according to neighbors and former friends, by a combination of overly familiar bluster, pushiness and acts of kindness, such as ploughing people’s driveways clear of snow.

In the early 1990s, Gollaher’s friend and fellow ward member Alan Call and his wife Liz were struggling with their marriage.

“That made us vulnerable to Scott’s helpfulness,” Alan’s now-former wife Liz tells City Weekly. Alan Call and Gollaher went on camping trips together, where the latter solicited information about the marital strife, Alan recalls.

That friendship came to a deeply bitter end when the Calls’ daughter Sarah said Gollaher had taken advantage of the family’s trust to molest her, allegations that ultimately led to a jury sending him to prison.

Gollaher had hired Sarah Call to do ironing and to babysit his toddler son. In 1994, after watching a 20/20 special on childsex abuse, Sarah, then 11, told her mother Gollaher had touched her genitals the year before while she slept on an outdoor trampoline at Gollaher’s house.

Attorney Helen Redd grew up with Gollaher’s younger sister. When news broke in the ward about allegations of child sexual abuse against Gollaher, his ward members initially defended him. “The instinct was to

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of conspiracies because he refuses to hide his conviction. His ambition led him to develop the Rail Event Center, a multimillion-dollar concert venue a block from West High School. His sex-offender registry status brought controversy and consternation, all of which was highlighted in a February 2010 City Weekly cover story called “Bad Vibrations.”

He alleges that others have repeatedly tried to use his conviction against him, whether to send him back to prison or extort money from him. “I have had people sit in my house asking me for a $1,000 a week, or they’re going to call my parole officer,” he says. His parole was terminated in 2010.

Behind bars now for almost three years, he is set to stand trial in Morgan County in late April 2015 for one of the two sets of cases against him. Gollaher complains his court-appointed legal defender in Morgan County did little for him over several years, while the state and the FBI, he claims, have hidden evidence from him.

“That’s the first thing you learn at law school,” prosecutor Farris says. “Don’t have the facts on your side, argue the law.”

Now, Gollaher is representing himself in Morgan. “I’m running around with a fire extinguisher that doesn’t have any water in it,” he says. He fights hard, flooding Morgan County court with dozens of motions and subpoenas to try to pick apart the evidence against him and raise questions about his accusers. “I want the truth,” he says.

Prosecutors and law enforcement “are afraid of the truth. Some of this stuff makes me look fucking innocent.” He calls FBI agent Ross the “architect” of the evidence against him.

Gollaher’s response to the question of whether he’s attracted to young girls varies over time. In 1998, a parole-board hearing officer asked him if he had “a problem with sexual deviance?” Gollaher replied that he had been “challenged” with such an issue in the past, then added, “I suspect I’ll have it for a lifetime, Sir.” Ask the endlessly combative Gollaher now if he’s attracted to prepubescent girls, he bats the question back to the reporter. “Are you?”

When the reporter says, “No,” he replies, “So, I can say ‘no,’ too.”

Gollaher (left) with Morgan County prosecutor Jann Farris

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rally around him,” Redd says. In the process, the Calls were shunned.

“The fall-out from him being arrested was we were completely ostracized,” Liz Call says. “People would talk about the things Scott had done at Christmas time, the clothes he had given away, the help he had given people looking for work,” she says. “He was practically a saint.”

Redd, along with many others, wrote letters of support for Gollaher after the jury reached a guilty verdict.

Gollaher fought the conviction, fired his attorney and filed motions seeking to undermine Sarah Call’s testimony.

But on Aug. 15, 1996, Judge Timothy Hansen sentenced him to one to 15 years in prison, telling Gollaher that what Sarah testified in court, “is the truth. Whether you accept it, whether you’re willing to accept it, whether you know it or whether you don’t, that’s the truth.”

Shortly after, he was excommunicated from the LDS Church following a church court in Holladay, an event that distresses him to this day. He’s concerned that publicity about his excommunication could hurt his defense in his upcoming trial in Mormon-dominated Morgan County.

Gollaher maintained his claims of innocence throughout much of his time in prison. “I have no conscious memory of touching her,” he told a parole-hearing officer in a November 1998 hearing about the night on the trampoline.

Back then, some in Gollaher’s family still believed him.

One of his nieces told a friend that her uncle “wasn’t in jail for hurting kids. He’s on a mission. The Lord sent him to help other people.”

But some of those who had believed and supported Gollaher throughout his prosecution were in for a horrific surprise two years after his conviction. In early 1998, according to a Salt Lake County Sheriff’s police report, Gollaher’s first wife gave the police lists of names that were written by her husband while in the Salt Lake County jail.

The four pages Gollaher had compiled included names of more than 100 pre-teen girls, who had, during his teenage and adult years, lived in the south end of the valley. A series of 10 separate initials ran along the top edge of the paper, x’s marked against the names below some or all of the initials.

Uniquely among all the names on the list, the line containing Sarah Call’s name ends with the word “guilt.”

Then-Salt Lake County Sheriff Det. Mike Mitchell

theorized, according to notes City Weekly gained through a record request, that the initials were potentially references to acts of abuse: ‘TP,’ touch penis, ‘RV,’ rub vagina— constituting what Mitchell thought was a possible victim log prepared by a convicted pedophile.

Gollaher told a parole-board hearing officer that he wrote the list for himself, “simply to list as many young girls” with whom he had been alone, in case he needed to defend himself against future false accusations of abuse.

Gollaher alleges that an attorney working for his first wife had used the four-page document—which he claims was altered from what he wrote—to undermine his support, as some of those who had sided with him against the Calls’ accusations found their own children’s names on his list.

When a detective knocked at Redd’s door and showed her Gollaher’s list with her daughter’s name on it, her ears rang as if she were in a tunnel. “Why didn’t I realize this was going to happen? Why didn’t I have her checked?” she thought. Redd repeatedly asked her daughter but she did not remember any abuse.

Bottom line, Gollaher says, while in jail looking at the reporter through the glass, the “list” investigation did not result in a single charge, despite exhaustive efforts by detectives to interview parents and their children. “How does that feel going up your ass?” he asks.

The parole-board hearing officer said at the 1998 hearing that the letter that had most impacted him regarding Gollaher was one from the inmate’s sister urging the board to keep her brother locked-up until he could tell his victims he was sorry.

Apologizing, however, was something Gollaher struggled to do. It had cost him so much to deny his guilt for the crime he had gone to prison for, he told the hearing. “Can I admit to Sarah Call? I’ve spent $133,000 saying I haven’t.

I’m divorced; I’m in the process of having my parental rights terminated, in the process of losing roughly $1 million,” he said. He then said he would admit to molesting Sarah, “if it could make anything better. These people seem to be pleading for my acknowledgment that I have a problem.”

In order to parole, Gollaher had to admit to a crime. “I was on a 1-to-15,” he says now. “Absent the admission of guilt, they’re going to give you silent time. It doesn’t matter how innocent you are, you’re going to do the time.” He says, “It took me a very long time to say to the board ‘I accept responsibility.’”

In 2000, he was released to a halfway house.

Post-prison, Gollaher shifted his business model from residential to commercial development, putting up an office complex called Trackside on the west side of Salt Lake City, then turning an adjacent warehouse into a marble and granite entertainment venue called the Rail Event Center.

Among those Gollaher involved in the Rail was his thenattorney Blake Nakamura—now one of two deputies over the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s criminal division—and one-time LDS mission companion turned contractor, Scott Cook, a former friend going back 30 years. As a convicted felon, Gollaher couldn’t own a liquor license. According to district-court documents, Gollaher’s second wife, Sharon, whom he married in 2004, leased the property, which was in her name, to Nakamura and Cook, and they were to run the venue.

Gollaher’s penchant for helping others, including single mothers and their children, repeatedly got him into trouble.

His parole was revoked four times, the last time stemming from an encounter on Christmas Eve 2009, when he went to a Walmart to meet a former tenant to buy presents for her children. An anonymous call to his parole officer alleging he was with not only the mother, but also her children, resulted in him spending nearly five months in prison before the parole board decided to terminate his parole a year early on June 8, 2010, in part because of a recommendation by Adult Probation & Parole.

It was only a few months later that Gollaher was again the subject of law-enforcement interest. On Oct. 25, 2010, he visited a single mother’s home at 9 p.m. with sunflower seeds, cookies and ice cream for the woman and her children. A young Hispanic girl present at the gathering alleged Gollaher touched her “private spot” while she sat on his lap surrounded by numerous children and teenagers. The child’s mother phoned the Salt Lake City Police Department who brought in Gollaher for questioning.

“I’m sensing a pattern here, Scott,” an investigating SLCPD detective told him in a transcribed interview, referring to his prior conviction and the Christmas Eve 2009 allegation.

“That I help people out?” Gollaher replied. Then he

“It was everything I had always wanted in a family situation.”

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In late April 2015, Gollaher is scheduled to stand trial in 2nd District Court in Morgan, Utah, on four charges of aggravated sexual abuse, although at press time, no specific date has been set. Judge Noel S. Hyde has set aside 19 days for what Farris says is a two-and-a-half-day trial. Each side blames the other for long delays, but regardless of nearly three years having gone by since Gollaher was charged, Farris says, the alleged child victims and their families have never faltered in their desire to seek justice.

Gollaher has been adamant from the beginning of his current prosecutions that the multiple county, state and federal agencies aligned against him have withheld evidence from his discovery and record requests. Farris rejects the accusation. The rules of evidence are very clear “that we can’t have Perry Mason moments,” he says. “There is no smoking gun. If I didn’t give it to him, I couldn’t use it.”

In order to defend himself, though, Gollaher needs evidence, and it hasn’t been easy to come by. At a March 2015 appeal hearing before the State Records Committee, Gollaher alleged that government entities, over a year-long period, had been playing “a shell game” with his GRAMA requests for information relating to the 2012 condo raid.

Not long after the Records Committee heard his case, and just days before the hearing, he abruptly received 136 color photos—not of child porn, but rather law-enforcement shots of the condo raid that Weber County authorities had previously denied having.

One key motion that Judge Hyde has yet to rule on relates to whether Gollaher, since he is representing himself, can question the two 14-year-old girls in the upcoming Morgan County trial or if stand-by defense counsel must do it instead, as Farris maintains. The case, Farris says, rests on their testimony, since there is no forensic evidence.

“I feel like I’m rowing in a river of shit,” Gollaher says to City Weekly, “but I’m making progress.”

While Gollaher orchestrates his defense from his Salt Lake County jail cell in the days running up to his Morgan County trial, he can still play devil’s advocate. The state and the FBI should stop hiding evidence from him, he claims. “Let’s say I am guilty,” he says. “They’re totally destroying the case.”

If he does manage to defeat these charges and regain his liberty, don’t expect him to stay away from children. When he is a free man, “I am around children and adults,” he says.

“Have you ever taken care of somebody’s kids? Have you ever been at somebody’s party and been around kids? Why would I stay away from something that is not an issue other than society has labeled and said it is?” CW

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Two girls from different families who were related to the bishop and his wife visited Gollaher’s Morgan County ranch on two separate Saturdays in mid-2012. They complained to their parents about him allegedly touching them. Their parents filed complaints with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office and, late in May 2012, Gollaher was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual abuse.

Despite his arrest and his brief stay in jail and a visit from DCFS instructing Maxfield, she says, to keep her children with relatives when she had to work—the Child Protective Services worker declined to answer her questions about whether Gollaher was acceptable—she nevertheless continued to trust a couple she had come to view as almost part of her family. “All I saw was this great stuff coming from Scott. My kids were getting better, the school saw things were getting better. Why would you think there was anything wrong?” She asked the Gollahers to care for her daughter while she attended a funeral in Delta, Utah.

When Maxfield returned from Delta, she found out FBI agent Ross had arrested Gollaher on July 13 and that her daughter had been taken into foster care.

She was charged with child endangerment, pleaded no contest and, after multiple supervised visits over a yearlong period, she and her daughter were reunited. They now live in California, and Maxfield says her daughter is a bright and happy teen—until the topic of Gollaher or law enforcement arises.

The multi-agency raid on the Gollaher’s Salt Lake City condo ultimately resulted in Gollaher also being charged by the Utah Attorney General’s office with 11 counts in March 2013 relating to child porn.

Gollaher’s attorney, Edwin Wall, who declined to comment, has significantly slowed down progress of the Salt Lake County preliminary hearing by raising issues relating to the FBI’s failure to comply with subpoenas for the agents’ case files that Gollaher’s defense was seeking. He has also highlighted federal prohibitions of the dissemination of child porn as restricting his client’s ability to defend himself in court. Wall sought to show several child-porn images that feature Gollaher and an unidentified child to Maxfield’s daughter as part of the preliminary hearing, but state and federal law would make that a crime.

In the court-filed information, Ross stated that the dates the photographs were taken “coincided” with the dates and times Maxfield’s daughter stayed with Gollaher and his wife.

In late December 2013, Gollaher finally got to examine in the Salt Lake County case one of the three photos the FBI had found in his condo of child porn where he was himself featured performing oral sex on a naked girl’s torso.

For 18 seconds in court, Gollaher says, he intently stared at the photograph of his face and the child’s midriff. While acknowledging his features are on the photo, “it’s very easy for me to know there’s something wrong with that photo,” he says. “It doesn’t reflect reality.” Ask if he means the image has been Photoshopped, he declines to comment further.

Other photos shown in Salt Lake County court included one of Maxfield’s laughing daughter in a bubble bath, with Gollaher outside the bath, a bubble beard on his face.

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According to prosecutor Farris, the origins of Gollaher’s current slew of charges go back to his befriending “a distressed single mother,” Marie Maxfield, in late 2011, and taking on almost a parenting role for both the mother and her troubled daughter. The Gollahers “became surrogate parents,” Farris says.

In summer 2014, Maxfield gave multiple interviews to City Weekly. She recalled that Gollaher told her he suspected her daughter was being abused by another man.

Gollaher said he was a self-taught specialist in child sexual abuse. He introduced Maxfield to families he worked with, including one Latina child, whose father was in prison for abusing her. “He said he had worked with many families and children of abuse, to help get their family together and on the right track,” she says. Gollaher denies presenting himself as an “expert” in child sexual abuse, but says he tried to help Maxfield and her daughter.

That help included introducing Maxfield to a therapist close to Gollaher and also advocating for her with Maxfield’s LDS bishop. “He positioned himself almost like a missionary, he and his wife under this self-appointed … mission to strengthen families and especially little girls who were victims of abuse,” the bishop recalled during a 2013 Morgan County court hearing.

Even Maxfield’s bishop and his wife came to trust the Gollahers to “the point they agreed to have their daughters come up to play” unaccompanied by their parents, at the Gollaher’s sprawling Morgan weekend retreat, Farris says.

Maxfield says the Gollahers served as parental figures for her and grandparents for her children. “It was everything I had always wanted in a family situation,” she says.

Gollaher took Maxfield’s daughter to a daddy-daughter dance at the ward house and, afterward, Maxfield recalls, told her about how “Scotty”—shifting to the third person— had been in jail for a while, although “Scotty didn’t really do anything wrong.” He told her it was an accidental “twosecond touch on a trampoline.”

Gollaher says, to this day, he loves Maxfield—”as much as I understand about love.” While he says he will “burn her” if she lies on the stand, “I desire no harm to [Maxfield and her daughter] at all. They’ve been drug through the fucking gutter to try to be used to harm me,” in support of his prosecution, he says.

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added, “Somebody could call that grooming, couldn’t they?”

On Nov. 3, 2010, Sim Gill was elected to Salt Lake County District Attorney and appointed Blake Nakamura as deputy chief of his criminal prosecution division. By then, the Gollahers had filed for bankruptcy and, after 2011, had no further links to the Rail. The relationship between Gollaher and Nakamura and Cook had deteriorated to the point that wife Sharon Gollaher sued to evict Nakamura and the Rail Management Group.

In the midst of his losing battle for control of the Rail, Gollaher was charged by the Salt Lake County District Attorney on Nov. 12, 2010, with a single count of child sex abuse.

Sim Gill’s office issued an internal memo in February 2011 to identify Nakamura’s potential conflicts of interest, including Gollaher’s child sex-abuse charge. But it wasn’t until June 6, 2011, that Gollaher’s case was handed over to the Utah County prosecutor’s office. Two and a half months later, Utah County prosecutor Craig Johnson dismissed the charge after the victim’s aunt recorded a 10-minute conversation with the victim where the child recanted her claim. Gollaher provided a copy of the audio to City Weekly, claiming that former business associates had attempted to set him up. The little girl told her aunt that her mother’s best friend had promised her a “bike or a scooter,” if she lied about Gollaher molesting her.

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Usually, the beginning of the Salt Lake Bees baseball season marks the end of a long Utah winter and hope for warmer days ahead. Even though we pretty much skipped winter in Salt Lake City this year, this is still a time to celebrate, as the Bees open their 21st season this week, and we enjoy the return of the national pastime at Smith’s Ballpark.

The Bees—the Pacific Coast League AAA affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim—opened the season on the road in Sacramento on April 9. The home opener on April 17 is the first of 72 home games running through Sept. 3. Fireworks will follow the opener and will also be shot off on July 4, July 24 and several other nights.

Special events scheduled for this season include Beard Appreciation Night (April 24), Mother’s Day Brunch (May 10), a Bobblehead Giveaway (June 6) and a Throwback Night on Aug. 1, paying tribute to the Salt Lake Gulls, who played from 1975-1984 at Derks Field (where Smith’s Ballpark now sits). There also will be various weeknight deals throughout the season. Get $1 hot dogs on Wednesdays, or grab three friends on Mondays and get four tickets plus hot dogs for $20 by saying you are “family.”

Whether we’re coming out of a rough winter or no winter, the return of the Bees heralds warm nights at the ballpark, which is always cause for celebration. (Geoff Griffin) Salt Lake Bees vs. Sacramento River Cats @ Smith’s Ballpark, 77 W. 1300 South, April 17, 6:35 p.m., $10-$27, SLBees.com

Art Access—the gallery and the affiliated nonprofit arts organization—helps the disabled and disadvantaged realize their artistic visions. When vision itself is affected by a disability, the artwork on produced by those who seek to treat the disability as well as those experiencing the disability can be especially enlightening. The University of Utah’s Moran Eye Center is collaborating with the gallery on an exhibit called Visions, featuring retinal photographs by a number of photographers, and fused-glass sculptures by Sarinda Jones, inspired by retinal art.

Professor Bryan Jones is a retinal neuroscientist at the Moran, working on cutting-edge research into the neurology of vision, and his fascination with vision led him into photography. His photographic work, for example, “Metabolomic Eye” (detail pictured above) has been featured on NPR’s Science Friday as well as in National Geographic, The Smithsonian, Wired and many other noteworthy publications.

His photographic eye is as likely to be drawn to neurons under a microscope as impromptu portraits of colleagues, vistas snapped during travels, the shape of twilit trees on a walk or shattered shop windows—but it’s all from a refreshing viewpoint. As is true of all the artists in this exhibit, it reminds us our vision isn’t something to take for granted.

Participating artists include James Anderson, Michele Banks, Nico Cuenca, Jim Gillman, Bryan Jones, Helga Kolb, Gabe Luna, Paula Morris, Hope Morrison, Scott Peterson, Rebecca Pfeiffer, Stuart Stansbury and Peter Westonscow. The exhibit runs concurrently with the show in the organization’s Access II Gallery including artists who have varying ranges of vision, and even a painting designed to be touched rather than viewed. (Brian Staker) Visions @ Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, 801-328-0703, April 17-May 6, AccessArt.org.

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Utah Symphony: Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter” Jupiter, the Roman counterpart of Zeus, was chief god of the Pantheon, ruler of the sky and hurler of lightning bolts. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 41—nicknamed “Jupiter” when it played in London in the early 1800s for its grandiosity and energy—captures the jovial humor, larger-than-life story and personality of the mythological figure.

Throughout all of the movements, different themes emerge: playful but full of grandeur, noble and hearty, intense and anxious (atypical of the Classical period). The final movement of the symphony is as emotionally dramatic as the sky that Jupiter ruled, ranging from powerful and classical, to distressed, with the timpani sounding like thunder.

For bonus points, listen for the four-note phrase that becomes a fugue in the fourth movement.

This work was among Mozart’s last; he wrote his final three symphonies when he was desperate and poor, over three months. His tumultuous personal life is hardly reflected in the brilliant and bright symphony.

One hour before the performance, Toby Tolokan, vice president of artistic planning for the Utah Symphony, will hold a free discussion about the evening’s pieces for all ticket-holders. The symphony will perform two additional pieces

by Mozart as part of this program: Symphony in D after Serenade “Posthorn,” and Concerto No. 21 in C major for Piano and Orchestra.

(Tiffany Frandsen) Utah Symphony: Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter” @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, April 17-18, 8 p.m., $18-$69, UtahSymphony.org

SATURDAY 4.18

An Evening with Neil Gaiman

When a writer becomes a brand name, it’s often because of becoming a powerhouse in a specific medium or sub-genre. Far rarer are cases like that of Neil Gaiman, who has become a superstar for a body of work that runs from comic books to television, from adult novels to children’s books, from The New York Times best-seller list to The Simpsons.

After an early career as a journalist and book critic, Gaiman broke into the pop-culture world with his work in graphic novels and comic books of the 1980s and early ‘90s, including Marvelman, Violent Cases and an Eisner Award-winning run on Sandman. As he made the transition to novels and works for children, he still maintained his eye for the fantastical, creating works like Stardust and Coraline which were subsequently adapted as feature films, the 2005 feature film MirrorMask, the creepy kid-lit tale The Graveyard Book and even writing for the long-running BBC series Doctor Who. Yet while Gaiman is unquestionably a writer first and foremost, that doesn’t mean his public appearances are merely readings from his published work.

His speaking engagements have often shown a unique side of the writer, like his inspiring keynote graduation address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts in 2012. Take advantage of an opportunity to listen to this talented storyteller tell different kinds of stories than the ones you might usually associate with him. Considering the widely varying kinds of stories he’s already told, that’s saying something. (Scott Renshaw) An Evening With Neil Gaiman @ Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, April 18, 7:30 p.m., $20-$69, ParkCityShows.com

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Love & War Three new theater productions address unique romantic complications.

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Ryon Sharette and Emilie Starr in Mr. Perfect

Pilot Program

Melissa Leilani Larson’s Pilot Program manages the tricky balance of being an “issue” play—dealing with polygamous marriage— while still being a poignant, accessible work unburdened with the specific issue itself. The narrative concerns a near-future Salt Lake City heterosexual married couple who, due to the wife’s infertility, are selected for a “pilot program” as a test case for polygamous marriage. They choose one of the wife’s former students, with whom she was close—and who, it also transpires, once had a bit of a crush on the husband.

It’s hardly a spoiler to note that the arrangement doesn’t go off without a hitch.

But where Larson’s approach succeeds is in not putting the premise through the wringer of melodrama. Pilot Program’s greatest strength is its willingness to be quiet, to forgo simplistic binary morality, and ot abstain from meretricious attempts at wrapping the story up in a neat bow.

Jerry Rapier’s direction upholds the fine Plan-B Theatre Company tradition of regarding bodies in space as inherently interesting, which never fails to make for visually compelling theater. The actors whose bodies traverse this particular space are topnotch; Mark Fossen, April Fossen and Susanna Florence Risser (pictured below) use both written text and interstitial silences to full advantage. Their collective ability to be grounded helps keep the text human and relatable. One needn’t have direct experience with polygamy to know what it is to lose someone who’s still in the same room—thus, Pilot Program, while Utah-specific in a literal sense, could play anywhere in America with similar effect.

Plan-B Theatre Company, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 9-19, $20, PlanBTheatre.org

Ryon Sharette and Emilie Starr in Mr. Perfect

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche

Mr. Perfect

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche opens with the audience being given name tags and informed that they are attending the annual quiche breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein. It is 1956; Communism and nuclear war threaten the free world. It is a time to gather with your fellow “widows” (the lesbians take a while—despite overwhelming evidence—to realize that they are, in fact, lesbians; until that point, “widows” is the preferred nomenclature) and eat some quiche.

Despite the title, which sounds like either a far-too-aggressive grab at instant cult status or a photograph from Annie Leibovitz’s Brunch Period, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche is a sharply observed tale of friendship and Cold War paranoia, with fondly celebratory melodrama and plentiful broadly comic innuendo. The ensemble is a capable and winsome one, although the actresses— Lulie Stanwyck, Veronica Schultz, Wren Robin, Ginny Cadburry and Dale Prist (pictured below)—are left largely to support the entire show with little more than energy. The direction lacks focus, to the point where stretches of the show feel entirely unblocked, a different thing entirely from blocking derived from organic motivation.

But this does not, by any means, keep the show from being entertaining, as the text and actors generate enough goodwill to more than compensate for any lack of focus. The text works because, for all the surface silliness, there is a support layer of textual richness, and characters an audience can’t help but regard with fondness. Crucially, the lesbians all do actually eat quiche—and in very humorous fashion. Silver Summit Theater Company, Sugar Space for the Arts, 616 E. Wilmington Ave., April 10-26, $15, SilverSummitTheatre.org

Salt Lake Acting Company’s latest production is a wonderfully smooth piece of stagecraft: visually inventive, energetic and cleverly wrought. That the production works is all the more impressive, considering that the text at its center is a bit of a dud.

William Missouri Downs’ script—focused on a series of comedic romances—doesn’t lack for cleverness, but it’s a glib, superficial variety, with broad, easy jokes and vintage archetypes in place of characters. It may be that one’s taste for this style depends on how much one enjoys TV sketch comedy. Mr. Perfect feels, more than anything else, like a series of interconnected Saturday Night Live sketches that benefited from a longer rewrite process, and were pitched at a slightly more literary level. If that sounds like a good time, the previously criticized elements are not likely to spoil the night’s entertainment.

And, despite those caveats, Downs does pose interesting questions about how we interact with texts, and delivers some quality word-nerd jokes about tenses, voices and so forth. His dialogue delivers comfortably, and the actors handle it well, though the men (Darrin Doman, Ryon Sharette) have less of an uphill climb than the women (Stephanie Howell, Emilie Starr), who come off more as impenetrable mysteries than people.

Finally, to circle around to the beginning in a formally similar way to Mr. Perfect, the production itself is gorgeous.

Keven Myhre’s set is terrific, as is James M. Craig’s lighting. Despite the script not holding up under close scrutiny, Mr. Perfect is still a show one can have fun with, as most of these flaws are things that will come to mind later, rather than in the moment. Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, April 8-May 3, $24-$38, SaltLakeActingCompany.org CW

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David Levithan: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story In a publishing career that only spans just over a decade, David Levithan has already contributed to several books that provide unique perspectives on the youngadult experience. Sometimes that comes from collaborations—like Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist with Rachel Cohn or Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green—and sometimes it’s in solo projects like the fascinating fantasy Every Day, about a teenager who awakens every day to find his/her consciousness occupying a different body.

Levithan’s latest book, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story, approaches the emotional complexity of teenagerdom from another unusual perspective: It’s a “musical novel.”

More specifically, it’s something of a spin-off from Will Grayson, Will Grayson, expanding on the autobiographical musical that one of the novel’s supporting characters, gay teen Tiny Cooper, was creating. Take this chance to hear a distinctive voice in young-adult fiction—and maybe even, given the subject matter, the singing voice. (Scott Renshaw) David Levithan: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, April 21, 7 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com

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STARRING: Jackson Cash, A Band Named Sue, Waymore Blues Band, June Carter Singers SPECIAL GUESTS: Toi Higgins, Utah Slim, Mark Viar, Zach Parish, Johnny Kennecott & The Great Walt Gregory

Friday, April 17 @ 10pm A Bar Named Sue-Highland

Saturday, April 18 @10pm A Bar Named Sue-State

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche Silver Summit Theater Company, Sugar Space, 616 E. Wilmington Ave. (2190 South), 888-300-7898, April 17, 8 p.m.; April 18, 8 p.m. and April 19, 4 p.m. (See p. 22) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Through April 17, 7:30 p.m. and through April 19, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Mr. Marmalade Good Company Theatre, 260 25th St., Ogden, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 4 p.m. through May 3.

Les Misérables The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30-10 p.m. through May 16.

Mary Poppins Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, through April 18, 7:30 p.m.; April 18, 2 p.m.; April 20, 7:30 p.m Mockingbird Pygmalion Productions, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, April 16-18, 7:30 p.m. and April 19, 2 p.m.

Mr. Perfect Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7522, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m.; Through May 3. (see p. 22) Pilot Program Plan-B Theatre Company, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, April 16, 8 p.m.; April 17, 8 p.m.; April 18, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m.; April 19- 2 p.m. (see p. 22)

Dance

Ballet West: Almost Tango Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, through April 17, 7:30 p.m.; April 18, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; April 19, 2 p.m.

India Cultural Center: Kathak Dance South Jordan Senior Center, 10778 South Redwood Road, South Jordan, 862-520-8686, April 19, 4:30 p.m.

Comedy & Improv

$5 Thursdays ComedySportz Provo, 36 W. Center St., Provo, 801-377-9700, Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Brent B-Real & Spanky The Hotel/Club Elevate/ The Barrel Room, 155 W. 200 South, 801-9717349, April 18, 6 p.m.

The Improvables CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Fridays, 10 p.m.

Jamie Kennedy Live Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, Thu., April 16, 7:30 p.m., Fri., April 17, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. and Sat., April 18, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Laughing Stock Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays, Saturdays, 10-11:45 p.m.

Off the Wall Improv The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-ZIG-ARTS, Fridays, 10:30 p.m.

Old Jews Telling Jokes Feldman’s Deli, 2005 E. 2700 South, 801-906-0369, April 18, 7-8:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-4632909, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Quick Wits Comedy Improv Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St. (7720 South), Midvale, 801-824-0523, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

Red vs. Blue ComedySportz Provo, 36 W. Center St., Provo, 801-377-9700, Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

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Friday Night Flicks United Studios of Self Defense, 78 W Center Street, Provo, 801-3734844, Fridays, 7 p.m.

Summit Land Conservancy: Seventh Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, 435-649-9884, April 22, 7-9 p.m.

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Annual Student Exhibition Gittins Gallery, Art Building, 375 S. 1530 East, University of Utah, April 16-May 8.

Art Stroll Arts of the World Gallery, 802 S. 600 East, April 17, 6-9 p.m.

Caryn Feeney: Fellow Earthlings Art At The Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through April 30.

Collective Experience Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., through April 29.

CUAC: 444 CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, April 17-May 9.

David Wolske: Vessels Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1325 E. 100 South (Reservoir Park), Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, through April 17.

Human Landscapes Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, 801-596-5000, through April 17.

Laura Hope Mason: Organic Elements Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through May 1.

Lily Harvey: Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-824-9122, through May 9.

No Fixed Address The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, Mondays-Sundays, through May 15.

Other Places Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-245-7272, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through May 8.

Our America Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-7332, through May 17.

Rebecca Pyle: In the Open Air Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, April 16-May 29.

Recent Paintings By 3 Award-winning Artists Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801532-1956, Mondays-Fridays, through May 8.

Senior Student Art Exhibition Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-448-4660, Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-9 p.m., through April 29.

Star Party University of Utah South Physics Observatory, 125 S. 1400 East, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Student Exhibition Opening Reception and Award Ceremony Gittins Gallery, Art Building, 375 S. 1530 East, University of Utah, April 16, 6-8 p.m.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Through May 21.

University of Utah BFA/ALT Show Gateway Mall, 100 S. 400 West, April 17-25, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Utah Wilderness 50 Exhibit Member Party!

Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-797-8940, Thu., April 16, 6-8 p.m.

Utah Wilderness 50 Photographic Exhibition Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through June 7.

Museums

Number 04: Actual Source Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Through May 16.

OUT LOUD: Youth Workshop Exhibition Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through June 27.

Panopticon: Visibility, Data, and the Monitoring Gaze Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25. salt 11: Duane Linklater Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-7332, through Aug. 2.

Trivia Night The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-531-9800, third Friday of every month, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Other

Southern Utah Watercolor Society, April 20, 5:30 p.m.

Literary Arts Author Appearances

An Evening with Neil Gaiman Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City, 435-655-3114, April 18, 7:30 p.m.

John Neelman: Logos Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, April 18, 2 p.m.

David Levithan: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story The King’s English Bookshop, 1151 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, April 21, 7 p.m. (see p. 24)

Other

Eat. Read. Play. Trolley Square, 602 E. 500 South, Saturdays, 10 a.m.

Lit Knit Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, fourth Wednesday of every month, 6 p.m.

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particularly liked the kibbeh: ground Middle Eastern Mezze-terpieces: Sample sirloin shaped into croquettes and mixed with pine nuts, onions and platters supply a variety of spicy meats and dips Middle Eastern spices—allspice, cinnamon and such—deep-fried and the musakhen flavors, which are simultaserved with cucumber-mint yogurt. The neously savory and slightly sweet, and the fire-roasted red-pepper hummus is equally delicious, especially if you love garlic, and vermicelli rice was outstanding as well.

I had high hopes for a dish of Egyptian we also enjoyed the muhammara. It’s similar to hummus—a blend of toasted wal- origin called kushari, but found it to be one nuts, roasted red-peppers and pomegran- with great, unrealized potential. On paper, it ate molasses. I found the falafel to be a tad sounded delicious, containing many ingreovercooked and dry, but certainly couldn’t dients I like­—such as brown lentils, rice, complain about the overall value of the mezze macaroni pasta, caramelized onions and spices, all topped with what is described on combos at Layla.

A word about service: Based on visits the menu as “tangy mild tomato sauce” and to Confetti’s long ago, I expected to find crispy fried onions. Well, I absolutely loved the same family-style warmth at Layla (the the mélange of pasta, rice and lentils—so Tadros’ kids also work at the restaurant), subtly spiced and nutty-tasting—but the dish but wasn’t really anticipating the level of was murdered with an immense smothering service professionalism that we happily of bitter (rather than “tangy”) tomato sauce. encountered. There’s a team approach to The sauce tasted like slightly diluted tomato table service at Layla; the person who takes paste, and was so acidic that it completely your order might not be the same one who masked the other flavors. And, it killed my refills an empty wine glass. Every server wine. It’s a shame; where I could scrape off seems to be watching every table, so you the offending sauce, I loved what was lurkwon’t be neglected. Add to that the fact that ing underneath. Next time, I’ll ask for tomato servers are not only very informed on the sauce on the side.

To end the evening, we enjoyed a small but ingredients of quite complex dishes, but they also are well-versed in wines, includ- satisfying order of “mini roses” ($5). These ing a number of interesting selections from are delicate, bite-size rose-shaped pastries Lebanon. At the suggestion of our waiter, we (three of them) made with phyllo dough that’s sipped a soft white wine from Lebanon with been stuffed with cashews and pine nuts, butterscotch notes called Massaya Blanc then baked and drizzled with orange-blos($8/glass or $28/bottle), which is lovely with som water. It was a delicious finish to a nearly perfect Middle Eastern meal. CW fragrant Middle Eastern flavors.

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’d been meaning to check out Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze restaurant for some time, but it kept disappearing from my radar. Then I heard underwriter spots for the restaurant on KUER 90.1 FM, which nudged Layla back to the forefront of my noggin (who says advertising doesn’t work?), and I finally found myself in Holladay, pulling up to the eatery.

As soon as I saw the nondescript exterior, I was jolted a couple decades into the past.

I realized I’d come upon the location that for many years, was home to Confetti’s, a restaurant I could never quite wrap my head around, although it had a loyal following. At Confetti’s, you’d find Italian staples next to hummus and baba ghanoush. Throw in a rib-eye steak with Gorgonzola, and you can see why Confetti’s had an identity problem.

In 2010, Confetti’s morphed into Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze, still owned

by Leila and Raouf Tadros. The restaurant underwent quite an overhaul. Inside, you’ll find a very appealing ambience and atmosphere with clever lighting, such as an entire wall lit solely by tea lights. Its look is contemporary yet timeless—in short, a huge improvement over Confetti’s.

With Layla, you could say the owners went back to their roots; she’s from Lebanon, and he comes from Egypt. After they had run Confetti’s for so many years—and possibly seeing the success of other Middle Eastern restaurants, such as Mazza—the Tadroses felt like the time had come for Utah to embrace Middle Eastern cuisine and opened Layla. The Black Angus Gorgonzola rib-eye ($30) is still on the menu, but virtually everything else is Middle Eastern.

There’s a small, attractive bar at Layla where you might stop in for mezze—appetizer-size dishes that go great with a beer, cocktail, Lebanese mint tea, Turkish coffee or glass of wine. I opted for the “Harissa mary,” a zesty take on the classic bloody mary, kicked up a few notches with red pepper flakes and Tunisian harissa paste.

A good option for sampling mezze are the combination platters, which allow guests to sample slightly smallerthan-normal hot or cold mezze, priced at $14 for three, or $17 for four. Our platter included kibbeh, falafel, hummus and muhammara, plus warm pita bread for dipping. I

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The newest kid on the Salt Lake City foodtruck scene is Fat Kid Mac n Cheese, the city’s self-proclaimed “cheesiest food truck.” Since I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love macaroni & cheese, this sounds like a wise business move to me.

Fat Kid Mac n Cheese makes its offerings fresh daily with a proprietary blend of eight different cheeses. A basic serving of mac & cheese is $6, and additional veggies, meats and toppings are also available. Extras include broccoli, caramelized onions, barbecue chicken, bacon, sauteed mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, all-beef hot dogs and sauces like ranch, barbecue and jalapeño.

According to Fat Kid’s Chef Kimo, “We’re here in Salt Lake, on the street, slinging the greatest Mac since Fleetwood.” Visit FatKidMacNCheese.com for more information, or find them on Facebook.

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The evening, with tunes supplied by Vinyl Tapestries, will bring together local chefs to prepare a six-course dinner. The chefs are Buzz Wiley of Pallet Bistro (amusebouche), Jason Dreelin of Even Stevens (appetizer), Joshua Hoellein from U.S. Foods (salad), Hasen and Terri Cone of Sweet Lake Limeade (intermezzo), Katie Weinner from SLC Pop and Top Chef Season 12 (entree) and Tom Call of Food Made by Tom (dessert). For tickets, visit EventBrite.com.

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hen you dine at restaurants such as Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze (see p. 27), Mazza Middle Eastern Cuisine or Cedars of Lebanon, you’ll not only encounter the exotic flavors of the Middle East, you’ll be able to explore the distinctive wines and other libations of Lebanon. All three of these restaurants offer the opportunity to taste Lebanese wines, arak and beers, and most of them are pretty easy on the budget.

You might be surprised to learn that wine has been made in the region that is now Lebanon—not much bigger than New Jersey—for some 6,000 years.

Today, Lebanon is strewn with vineyards and wineries—some 30 different ones— that produce around 600,000 cases of

wine annually. In the Bible, the Israelite prophet Hosea (780-725 BC) wrote, “they will blossom as the vine, their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.”

French g rape varieties are wel l-r epr esented in L eba nese winemaking, and it’s typical to see varietals such as Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Grenache and Carignan used in red wines, and Chardonnay, Viognier, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscat in the whites, along with Obeidi, a grape native to the area. Most Lebanese wines come from vineyards in the southern Beqaa Valley, with the best-known producer being Chateau Musar. These wines are on the higher end of the price spectrum for Lebanese wines, but a wine like Chateau Musar Rouge—one of the world’s great red wines—is still a steal, retailing for around $50. It’ll cost about twice that in restaurants.

Chateau Musar was the first wine producer in Lebanon to be “certified organic” and, blessed with some 300 sunny days per year, the vineyards’ production is reasonably predictable. Chateau Musar Rouge is rich and muscular, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan and Cinsault. It’s a wine with enough depth (not to mention sediment) that you’ll want to decant it at least an hour before serving. So, if you’re planning a visit to any

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DRINK of the aforementioned Middle Eastern restaurants, call ahead, so they can have the wine decanted and ready to drink when you arrive.

Another popular wine producer from Lebanon is Massaya, a partnership between brothers Sami & Ramzi Ghosn and the owners of France’s Chateau Trianon and Le Vieux Telegraphe.

It’s named Massaya, according to the winemakers, “for the time of day when twilight sets on the vineyard and the sky turns purple as the sun sets behind Mount Lebanon.”

Recently, at Layla Mediterranean Grill & Mezze, I enjoyed sipping Massaya Blanc 2013, a white blended wine that retails for about $15.

It’s quite dry, but aromatic and easydrinking—a blend of Clairette, Obeidi, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay

serves as a good aperitif, but also pairs nicely with light fare such as falafel, chicken or fish.

Lebanon’s largest winery is Chateau Ksara, which accounts for approximately 70 percent of the country’s total wine production. While Ksara makes some wines you can get in local restaurants for around $40, I urge you to track down a bot t le of 2004 Chateau Ksara Le Souverain 150th Anniversary.

It‘s an amazingly wellbalanced and beautifuly structured red wine made from Cabernet Sauvignon and a rare grape variety called Arinarnoa, which itself is a crossing of Merlot and Petit Verdot. It’s a bold wine that will stand its ground with game and red meat.

The next time you’re looking for a little something out of the ordinary in your wine glass, take a little trip to Lebanon. CW

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Ab’s Drive In

Since 1951, Ab’s Drive-In has been filling folks’ cravings for old-fashioned hamburgers, hand-cut french fries and thick milkshakes. The speciality at Ab’s is the Fat Boy burger, which always tastes best with a thick, peanutbutter shake next to it. Beyond burgers, Ab’s also serves up grilled chicken, corn dogs, chili dogs, fish & chips and tasty onion rings. 4591 S. 5600 West, West Valley City, 801-968-2130, AbsDriveIn.com

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At Pho Green Papaya, you order at the counter from a wide range of appetizers—such as spring rolls with your choice of filling—and entrees like bahn mi (Vietnamese baguette sandwiches), vermicelli bowls, rice bowls, stir-fry noodles, ramen and pho. Then, take a seat in a comfortable booth and enjoy your delicious dishes while enjoying the atmosphere created by eatery’s vaulted ceilings and large windows. Wash down your meal with a boba smoothie—maybe piña colada or Thai tea? 2000 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-886-1548, GreenPapayaUtah.com

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Serving loyal customers since 1993—first at the original Foothill Boulevard location and now on Parley’s Way and University Avenue. in Provo—Bombay House combines authentic Indian flavors with equally authentic Indian warmth and hospitality. Starters like onion Bhaji and chicken pakora combine with soups like saag shorba and mulligatawny to get things rolling. The lamb, chicken and shrimp tandoori offerings are quite popular. We also favor the fragrant briyani dishes at Bombay House. Naan, paratha, and roti flatbreads are perfect for sopping up every last drop of the luscious curries. For those looking for heat, give the vibrant vindaloo a go. Bombay House also features lots of vegetarian options, along with Indian tea and coffee, rose milk, strawberry and mango dassi, and mango soy shakes. A Best of Utah winner!

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Bella’s is a family-run Mexican restaurant specializing in steak, ribs and seafood. They have just about everything you could hope to find in Mexican cuisine and more, like ceviche, specialty burgers and baby-back ribs. It’s traditional Mexican fare amped up with meatier options. But it’s not just for carnivores: Vegetarians, vegans and gluten-free goers will feel right at home with all the options available on the special menus created just for them. A variety of traditional Mexican soups, breakfast items and desserts completes the impressive menu. If choosing is difficult with so many enticing options, Mama’s chicken enchiladas with white cheese sauce drizzled on top— the restaurant’s most popular dish—is a safe bet. A nice patio provides a great dining spot in fair weather. 2651 N. 1850 West, Ogden, 801-7370540, ILoveBellas.com

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Forage is the brainchild of chef/owners Viet Pham and Bowman Brown, who’d previously cooked at San Francisco’s The Fifth Floor and Gary Danko restaurants, respectively. There are two dining options available at Forage: a three-course menu, and an extensive chef’s tasting menu. It’s crystal clear at Forage that food is the star. The small dining space is clean and uncluttered; there’s almost nothing, including wall art or music, to distract from the dining experience. It’s not dinner and a show; dinner is the show. Forage isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a food enthusiast, you’ll definitely want to foray to Forage.

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Comfort food rules at The Philadelphian (located in a Sandy strip mall), which, not surprisingly, specializes in Philly cheesesteaks. But there is an array of other sandwiches to choose from as well as hand-cut french fries, deep-fried mushrooms, onion rings and more. And, while folks can argue until the cows come home about who makes the best Philly cheesesteak, everyone agrees that the Philadelphian’s hot pastrami sandwich is the bomb! 9860 S. 700 East, Sandy, 801-572-3663, PhillyUtah.com

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Chabaar Beyond Thai

Like Tea Rose Diner—also the creation of Anny Sooksri— Chabaar goes way beyond Thai. American breakfast items like omelets, pancakes, waffles, eggs and hash browns mingle in the spirit of multicultural detente with Thai breakfast soups like kow tom kai and a Thai vegan omelet.

It’s a Midvale melting pot, right down to the lunchtime Reuben and tuna sandwiches. But as good as the American staples are, I come for the flavors of Thailand, like an appetizer of fresh spring rolls. I’d heard others sing the praises of the drunken noodles (pad kee mao) at Chabaar, and I can see why. The pad thai is excellent as well: a hefty serving of thin rice noodles tossed with a tangy, citrusy and slightly sweet pad-thai sauce; scrambled egg; green onion; and a half-dozen medium-size shrimp, all topped with shredded carrot, bean sprouts and crushed peanuts, plus lime wedges on the side. It’s nearly as good heated up as leftovers for lunch as it is fresh from the kitchen. For those who prefer their Thai food on the mild, lighter side, I recommend Chabaar’s Jungle Curry with tofu. Reviewed March 26. 87 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-566-5100, AnnysTakeOnThai.com

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In Ogden, restaurateur Steve Ballard (of Sonora Grill) is providing a low-cost introduction to Thai flavors with a cool concept: a Chipotle-style walk up & order eatery with a small but tantalizing menu that tops out at $8.95. There are three Thai salads and six curry-bowl options—three of

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which are vegetarian—and each includes a choice of brown or white rice. I loved the flavors of the coconut-milk-based red panang beef curry, but unfortunately, the meat was of poor quality. A much better option is the green chicken curry with carrots, mushrooms, chicken, bean sprouts and fresh basil. Kale lovers will enjoy the Papuan yellow curry, while the more adventurous might try the tangy, slightly bitter sour-orange curry with cashews, long beans, tamarind and jackfruit. Impressively, everything at Thai Curry Kitchen is made from scratch, right down to the deep-fried crispy shallots that are just one of many garnishes available. It might not be the most authentic Thai food in town, but it’s a good and inexpensive place to start. Reviewed March 26. 582 E. 25th St., Ogden, 385-333-7100, ThaiCurryKitchen.com

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red trout is also as tasty as it is colorful, and the veal chops are grilled perfectly. For dessert, the Dutch apple cake is irresistible, served in a cast-iron pot with vanilla ice cream, hot caramelized butterscotch and pecans. With Riverhorse on Main firing on all cylinders, it might just be around for another three decades of meaningful dining experiences. Reviewed March 19. 540 Main, Park City, 435-649-3536, RiverhorseParkCity.com

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With its large, airy, open space and high, copper-colored ceilings, the latest venture by Ryan and Colleen Lowder is sort of an American brasserie, with a bustling vibe. I’d expected Copper Onion 2.0, but the Copper Kitchen menu

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.

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. 376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385-227-8628, AvenuesProper.com

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The original Bandits was created in the greater Los Angeles area in 1990 and, while the menus are similar at each location, the décor and ambience of each Bandits is unique. A cup of tri-tip chili was easily the best chili I’ve had in ages, and tri-tip—a specialty at Bandits—finds 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

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You might know Tamales Tita from various farmers markets, and now they’ve finally opened their first restaurant, which features not-so-typical Mexican fare. There are no burritos, for example, and the tacos aren’t standard, but rolled tacos dorados. As the name suggests, tamales are the big draw—housemade from scratch, and in a wide assortment of flavors, including chicken, pork, jalapeño & cheese, chicken with mole, bean & cheese and vegan. There’s also a selection of sweet tamales, plus a breakfast tamale with bacon, sausage, egg and cheese.

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Tuesday is a particularly good day to drop in; that’s when all tacos are $2 each. But I’d enjoy the tacos here any day, especially the chicken mole negro taco, and the excellent zucchiniblossom tacos are a good choice for vegetarians. However, my favorite item is the carne asada burrito. It’s a large flour tortilla stuffed—and I mean stuffed—with heaping amounts of tender, flavorful, slightly salty morsels of grilled beef along with white rice, corn and black beans. I love the simplicity of the tacos and burritos, all of which can be adorned with a variety of garnishes and sauces from the salsa bar. I’ll go so far as to say it is Salt Lake City’s best burrito. Reviewed March 5. 208 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-428-2704, TacoTacoSLC. com

is far from a photocopy of its predecessor’s. A duo of duck croquettes is simple but exceptional—finger food at its finest. Even better is grilled porkbelly, pressed, grilled and served on a bed of frisee with carrot-ginger vinaigrette and apple-cider reduction. Copper Kitchen now offers lunch service—with menu items like tuna Niçoise, Philly cheesesteak, fried-egg sandwich and pasta dishes—plus, there’s an outstanding weekend brunch including a delicious chicken hash. Reviewed Feb. 26. 4640 S. 2300 East, 385-237-3159, CopperKitchenSLC.com

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MONKEY KINGDOM

Human Animal Disney again makes you care about creature characters in Monkey Kingdom.

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f you watch enough movies for a long enough time, it’s hard to imagine something about “The Disney Way” isn’t bound to drive you nuts eventually. Maybe it’s the sameness in the design of their bigeyed animated heroines, or the structure of the post-1989 wave of animated musicals.

And lately, maybe it’s the apparent desire to raid the entirety of their animated feature catalog to create live-action offshoots and remakes because it’s a license to print money. When you’ve figured out an identity that breeds success, you’re bound to develop certain formulas that perpetuate that success, and there will always be people who find those formulas as exasperating as many others find them irresistible.

Disney has been doing nature documentaries in some fashion going back more than 60 years, to the time when their True Life Adventures were winning Oscars and charming audiences with the folksy narration of Winston Hibler. These documentaries were successes in large part because Disney figured out that the same rules that applied to the animals in their animated features applied to the realworld animals they were filming: People care about characters, and the more like humans those characters seem, the better.

It’s not enough to give the audience information; you need to give them a story. With the Disneynature label now offering its latest annual Earth Day-scheduled release, Monkey Kingdom, you can see that notion behind everything in this story that’s charming, educational and occasionally exasperating.

The focus is on a troop of toque macaque monkeys living in the forests of Sri Lanka, a landscape full of misty treetops and long-abandoned temples. Because this is a Disney story about these monkeys, we get to know them by name (narrated by Tina Fey): There’s Maya, our plucky heroine who’s

at the bottom of the macaque social hierarchy, dominated by alpha male Raja and a trio of females known as the Three Sisters. There’s a roguish young male named Kumar who wanders in one day and sweeps Maya off her little monkey feet before being chased off by Raja. And, soon thereafter, there’s baby Kip, Maya’s adorable little offspring who becomes the focus of her survival instincts.

The directing team of Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield return from their work on Earth and Chimpanzee, and they once again demonstrate a talent for getting shots that become even more impressive when you see the behind-the-scenes footage during the credits showing what they had to do to get those shots. An annual termite swarm becomes a feast for the macaques as they grab the flying insects out of midair; a desperate quest for food that leads to a dangerous encounter in a lily pond gives us underwater glimpses of the monkeys’ swimming skills. From adorable snippets of baby monkeys playing to a sequence in which the macaques raid a human house in a nearby town, Monkey Kingdom delivers the kinds of images that can keep audiences from feeling they’re being forced to endure something (horrors!) educational.

But it is educational, and that educational component works largely because the narrative, through effective storytelling, keeps reinforcing what these creatures’ lives are like. Making Maya the equivalent of a plucky underdog—a single mom surviving on the scraps left by the upper class, yet

Maya and Kip in Monkey Kingdom determined to give her offspring a better life—allows Monkey Kingdom to focus on power dynamic, and how much this world is about preserving and demonstrating that power. It’s a savvy move to place both the struggling mom and her cute baby at the center of the narrative—particularly for children viewers—because it makes the details that follow memorable on an emotional level, rather than mere bullet points from a textbook.

It is hard, though, not to feel a little bit overly manipulated by the structure of Monkey Kingdom’s story. The “villains”—the red-faced Sisters, and the leader of a rival macaque troop with a battle-torn face—are almost too perfect in their Shakespearean physical ugliness, and it’s hard to believe that the top-of-the-hierarchy folks are quite as helpless and in need of guidance from their plucky inferiors when they’re driven from their home by that rival troop.

By the time Maya gets her almost princess-like happy ending, it might be tempting to roll your eyes at the Disney-ness of it all. Then again, maybe it’s that Disneyness that keeps you watching all the way to that happy ending in the first place. CW

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Beyond the Reach HH There’s a particular frustration that comes from a movie that spends 80 minutes as a fairly satisfying genre exercise, then implodes so spectacularly in the last 10 minutes that you have to wonder what the hell everyone involved was thinking. In the desert southwest, rural guide Ben (Jeremy Irvine) escorts wealthy corporate shark John Madec (Michael Douglas) on a hunting trip that turns sour when Madec accidentally kills a man, then decides to set up Ben to take the fall. The ensuing cat-and-mouse survival game keeps the energy level up for quite a while, as Ben uses his knowledge of the terrain to compensate for Madec’s firepower. But while the economic disparity between the two men initially provides subtext—including a David-vs.-Goliath reference that’s fairly on-the-nose—the climax turns it into underscored, capital-letters text. And if the coda resolving the conflict wasn’t part of the book by Robb White on which it’s based, I hope the author was paid particularly well for now being associated with such pandering preposterousness. Rich people shouldn’t be able to get away with murder, sure, but screenwriters shouldn’t be able to get away with this. Opens April 10 at Tower Theatre. (R)—Scott Renshaw

Monkey Kingdom HHH See review p. 40. Opens April 17 at theaters valleywide. (G)

Unfriended [not yet reviewed] A possibly malevolent spirit becomes a presence in an online chat room. Opens April 17 at theaters valleywide. (R) Wild Tales HHH Anthology films are always a tricky business, almost impossible to get perfect because there’s no way for any given segment not to feel disappointing relative to a better one. But writer/director Damián Szifrón does a pretty decent job in this sextet of shorts—nominated for a Foreign Language Film Oscar—with a darkly comic sensibility, most of them revolving around vengeance and/or rough justice with a few moral twists and turns. That focus places the tone somewhere between Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt, kicking off with the terrific pre-credits prologue, and including an effectively brutal segment about a case of over-the-top road rage. It’s a shame that Szifrón doesn’t have the same degree of control over the pacing of other segments, including one featuring Ricardo Darín as an engineer losing his patience with bureaucracy that builds to a too-obvious payoff, and the over-long finale set at a wedding reception gone haywire. There are plenty of satisfying moments throughout, enough that perhaps it’s better to think about how this would play as a weekly series: Even the weaker ones are good enough that you’d probably keep watching.

Opens April 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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Queen and Country HHH It took nearly 30 years for John Boorman to revisit the characters he created in his semi-autobiographical London blitz-set Hope and Glory—and while the story itself doesn’t seem essentially connected to the earlier film, it maintains much of the same tone and spirit. Set in 1952, it follows Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) as an 18-year-old conscripted for his mandatory two-year service in the British Army, where he meets his best friend Percy (Caleb Landry Jones) and falls for

True Story HH.5 Much like the true story it re-creates, it begins better than it ends, with tantalizing details that suggest a more satisfying tale than is actually in store. Based on journalist Michael Finkel’s memoir, the film opens with a cocky reporter (Jonah Hill) and a scruffy nobody (James Franco), both claiming to be Mike Finkel. The scruffy one is charged with murder; the cocky one wants to tell the accused’s story (and find out why he was using his name). Intriguing, no? First-time director Rupert Goold, who adapted Finkel’s book with David Kajganich, draws parallels between the men, some compelling (both are persuasive but somewhat truth-challenged), some mundane (both handwrite in block letters). Is the journalist being suckered? Or is the supposed killer really innocent? “Sometimes the truth isn’t believable,” he says. “That doesn’t mean it’s not true.” No argument there. But baby-faced Hill isn’t believable as a tough journalist, and prankster Franco seems unsure how seriously to play his character. Moreover, when all is eventually revealed, it

has a disappointing “Is that it?” air to it. Such a well-crafted story ought to be more insightful than this. Opens April 17 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 [zero stars] Imagine being asked to empathize with the Three Stooges, except there’s only one of them, a combination of Larry and Curly (incorporating Moe would bring too much gravitas and intelligence to the character). Presenting Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. Six years after thwarting a Die Hard-type plot at the West Orange Pavilion Mall, Paul Blart (Kevin James) is off to a security-guard convention in Las Vegas, where he will accidentally thwart an Ocean’s 11-style heist through almost no genuine effort of his own. Along the way, we will be invited to laugh at this veritable personification of the seven dullest sins—including idiocy, gluttony, clumsiness, self-delusion and obnoxiousness—until we are pushed to cheer Blart’s alleged awesomeness. There is, apparently, no failing a man can have, no emptiness he can embody, that Hollywood will not embrace as heroic. Director Andy Fickman lays it out for us with all the gusto of a toilet-paper commercial, not a would-be action comedy—which is sort of fitting for a movie in which competence equals villainy and incompetence, Paul Blart style, is a virtue. Opens April 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

a mysterious, emotionally damaged girl (Tamsin Egerton).

Only Peter Hayman (as Bill’s father) reprises a role from Hope and Glory, yet Boorman doesn’t seem fundamentally concerned with continuing the story of this family. Rather, he’s looking into a shift in the sensibility of England in the post-war years toward something more skeptical of institutions and authority, focused on the clashes between Bill, Percy and their by-the-book sergeant major (David Thewlis).

The fundamentally episodic nature of the narrative limits its impact somewhat, but Boorman again finds a spark in a frisky coming-of-age story that tracks the growing pains of an entire nation. Opens April 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

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CURRENT RELEASES Cinderella HH In theory, it’s not a terrible notion that director Kenneth Branagh might attempt an earnest re-telling of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale via the Disney animated classic about a plucky young girl (Lily James), an evil stepmother (Cate Blanchett), a romantic ball and a glass slipper. The problem is that this version is just about the humans—almost entirely a nice, slow-build romance between nice people. It –is, therefore, almost entirely a huge bore, abandoning the animal characters and songs that gave the animated version all of its charm. When Helena Bonham Carter shows up as Cinderella’s fairy godmother, goofing her way through prosthetic teeth, there’s a brief glimpse of the spark that’s lack-

ing during the rest of the film. As Disney continues exploiting its own intellectual property, maybe next time they’ll wind up with something more than sappily ever after. (PG)—SR

Danny Collins HHH.5 When you can honestly say “I laughed, I cried,” somebody’s doing something right. Writer/director Dan Fogelman’s drama follows Danny Collins (Al Pacino), a beloved 1970s singer-songwriter living as a wealthy but self-destructive nostalgia act who attempts to track down the son (Bobby Canavale) he’s never met after discovering that John Lennon once wrote him a letter—never delivered— about the perils of fame. The arc of a tale like this is inevitably schematic; you could figure out when somebody’s going to walk in on Danny doing something awful pretty much to the second. But it’s beautifully acted all around—from a seemingly rejuvenated Pacino to lovely supporting turns by Plummer, Annette Bening and Jennifer Garner—and the kind of writing touches that bring characters to detailed life. This kind of warm, funny redemption story is … well, I laughed, I cried. (R)—SR

Freetown HHH Director Garrett Batty and Utah playwright Melissa Leilani Larson adapt the fact-based story of a group of African LDS missionaries in Monrovia, Liberia circa 1989 attempting to flee that country’s civil war for safety across the border in Freetown, Sierra Leone. As in many such tales, deus ex machine miracles are part of the package, and plenty of time musing over keeping the faith in the face of difficulties. But Batty’s also working with a genuinely tense lifeor-death narrative, and shows the smarts to know when to subvert expectations. It’s a satisfying surprise indeed to find a “Mormon movie” willing to confront the church’s legacy of racism head-on, and even make a joke out of the missionaries being able to escape threatening soldiers who would rather let them go than listen to someone attempting to proselytize them. (PG-13)—SR

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Woman in Gold HH Helpful tip: A movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flashback subplot shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t draw attention to how dull the actual central plot is. The true story of Austrian Jewish refugee Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) unfolds in 1998, as she enlists attorney Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) to help her recover from an Austrian museum art works stolen from her family by the Nazis, but also circa 1938, as young Maria (Tatiana Maslany) attempts to escape. Those flashbacks provide every ounce of urgency the story has, while the rest is merely a tedious paper chase, with Austrian officials propped up as sneering obstacles to the justice we want to see done for Maria and catalysts to Schoenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing sense of his own Jewish identity. Mirren gives Maria all the blunt conviction she can muster, but the story canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deliver anything more complex than â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nazis bad; reparations good.â&#x20AC;? (PG-13)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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While Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Young HHH Noah Baumbach once again turns his satirical eye on generational angst, this time observing childless 40-something New Yorkers Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) as they become friends with 20-something couple Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyvried). At first, it feels like Baumbach is mostly out for a slickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; though very funnyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;skewering of a particular species of Brooklyn â&#x20AC;&#x153;hipster.â&#x20AC;? But more significantly, he takes on the notion of the midlife crisis as a confrontation with the opportunities no longer open to you, and the role that being a parent often plays in an adultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame that Baumbach fumbles much of his momentum down the stretch, focusing on a series of plot twists. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more satisfying in its loose performances, and showing the humor behind wondering if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the right life track. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

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Axe Cop Thursday, April 16 (FXX) Season Premiere: Few watched Fox’s failed attempt to take on both Adult Swim and Saturday Night Live with the late-night Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD— get it?) in 2013; fewer still are aware that the cartoon block moved to FXX in January of this year. Only the puttin’-the-“high”-in-High-Def Lucas Bros. Moving Co. and some lazy scribbling called Stone Quackers have been offering new episodes—until now! Axe Cop, about a cop with an axe and a great catchphrase (“I’ll chop your head off!”), finally returns for a second season of epic ridiculousness from the mind of a 5-year-old, voiced by Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation). But wait! There’s more ADHD goodness …

Major Lazer Thursday, April 16 (FXX) Series Debut: Major Lazer, the musical entity, is DJ/producer Diplo and a series of collaborators specializing in electro-house dancehall, reggae, moombahton, soca and other possibly fictitious genres.

Major Lazer, the cartoon, is a “rasta commando” with an ’80s G.I. Joe bent based on album covers and concert posters. It may look like an aesthetic clone of Adult Swim’s Mike Tyson Mysteries at first, but Major Lazer kicks the retro style up to frenetic levels to match the pounding beats. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost) voices the titular lead, but the guest-actor list is where it really goes rando: Andy Samberg, Aziz Ansari, singer Charli XCX, rapper Riff Raff, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons(!), and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig as a “vegan vampire”(!!).

Bitten Friday, April 17 (Syfy) Season Premiere: Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) didn’t make much of a first impression in Bitten’s 2014 debut as a she-werewolf just trying to make it on her own in whatever big city Toronto is supposed to pass for onscreen.

She was all blond hair and blank stares, with none of the

edge or humor that made surrounding Syfy hits like the late Being Human and the soon-to-be-late Lost Girl click— but she did get naked frequently, so there’s that. Season 2 looks to be more of the Twilight-adjacent same, as her ambition to break free from her beardy, mansplaining kin is further hampered by the arrival of … witches. Did we learn nothing from True Blood?

Lost Girl Friday, April 17 (Syfy) Season Premiere: On the downside, Season 5 will be the last for Canadian import Lost Girl. On the upside, the sexy supernatural soap’s final ride will consist of 16 episodes, bringing the total number of Lost Girl episodes to 69, a figure that succubus Bo (Anna Silk) and her quippy sidekick Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) would find hilarious—if Kenzi hadn’t sacrificed herself to the Underworld at the end of last season, anyway. Bo’s final mission is to bring her BFF back from the “dead,” which could prove difficult, as actress Solo is currently trapped somewhere at least as bad as Hell: AMC’s soggy period drama Turn: America’s Spies.

Orphan Black (BBC America) Orphan Black Saturday, April 18 (BBC America)

Season Premiere: Ksenia Solo is also a guest on the new season of cult phenomenon Orphan Black—Tatiana Maslany can’t play every role … can she? In Season 3, the militaristic male Castor clones are targeting Sarah (Maslany) and her myriad clone sisters with—probably safe to assume—malicious intent, Helenas (Maslany) is pregnant and imprisoned in a compound, Cosima is (Maslany) somewhat on the mend, and season-opener episode “The Weight of This Combination” will be hard to miss, as it’ll be premiering simultaneously on BBC America, AMC, IFC, Sundance and We. “Sister” networks … oh, how cheeky.

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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surviving for itself, and a train, which is the exact opposite but in some ways the exact same thing,” Snow says. “It runs, it’s born to run and be wild, but at the same time, it’s confined to tracks—it’s a machine vs. nature-type aspect.”

Although Buffalo vs. Train is meant to capture the feel of Snow and Davis’ duo shows, it’s a highly collaborative release featuring contributions from additional local songwriters and musicians. It also includes a few covers of material by Steve Earle and the late folk singer, activist and reallife train-hopping hobo Utah Phillips. Kate MacLeod, who co-produced Buffalo vs. Train, sings backup vocals and adds violin to the mix; Michelle Moonshine Gomez performs her original track “Make You Mine” and sings backup; and Utah Phillips’ son Duncan Phillips does a spoken-word piece on a track his father penned, “Phoebe Snow.”

Their musical collaborators “are definitely our elders,” Snow says. “Those are the people that we look up to, and you can learn a lot from people that have handled themselves the way they’ve handled themselves. They have a lot of grace and a lot of integrity.”

“It’s good to tap into the big tree, the ultimate big tree of music, which is many thousands or billions of years old,” Davis says.

Buffalo vs. Train was recorded live—songs were often captured in only one take—in a studio Morgan and Davis made to look and feel like a living room. It’s easy to hear the chemistry and camaraderie between Triggers & Slips and their guests. Intimate and inviting, the acoustic-driven Buffalo vs. Train provides an overview of Utah’s musical past and present. It’s also a snapshot of the magic that transpires when a group of modern musicians pay homage to their roots.

That unedited immediacy of performing together in the studio is what Triggers & Slips “really wanted to capture” on Buffalo vs. Train, Snow says. “We’ve been able to have some really good friends and really good parties where we just get to jam and play in the living room, and it’s one of my favorite times to play music. … We want you to feel like you’re in that living room with us.” CW

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wo contrasting eras meet in the music video for “Modern Age,” a track from Triggers & Slips’ new sophomore album. Symbols of postcards and trains appear, evoking nostalgia for days when communication ran deeper than texts or online comments—when ramblers could spend their lives riding the rails. But the video is set in present day, and the vehicles aren’t rusty antiques—they’re sleek, shiny Trax trains.

A similar duality is present in the local band’s classiccountry-influenced 2012 self-titled debut, and Triggers & Slips have always seemed to inhabit two worlds. Their twangy, rootsy sound is influenced by legendary country artists and folk singers. “We have a bit of the oldness in us,” says co-lead vocalist/guitarist and co-songwriter Morgan Snow. Yet these fans of traditional music don’t shun the modern world.

They drew on time-tested musical styles to create Buffalo vs. Train, yet the record is still largely about what it means to be present, exploring a crossroads where old meets new.

“We were not born in 1950, we’re not the Charlie Daniels Band, we’re not living in the ’70s—we live in 2015. I think pulling from old and new is just something that’s our generation,” Snow says. “We’re one of the last generations that will actually know both.”

If you catch Triggers & Slips at a local show, you might see the full group perform, but it’s more likely you’ll watch core members Snow and co-lead vocalist/guitarist/songwriter John Davis, who have also been playing strippeddown versions of the band’s material as a duo for the past five years. Buffalo vs. Train features first-time recordings of some of those arrangements, as well as songs the pair has never played with the full lineup.

And while Buffalo vs. Train represents a wide range of songwriting periods for Snow and Davis—spacey instrumental piece “The Bridge” was one of the first songs Snow ever wrote, but “Modern Age” and “Stars” are newer—the album is loosely inspired by its title’s inherent juxtaposition.

“It’s the literal interpretation of a wild animal that’s free and roams and doesn’t have any real purpose other than

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2015’s RSD ambassador, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, recalls spending his afternoons putting hard-earned lawn-mowing money toward purchases at indie record stores. “These places became my churches, my libraries, my schools. They felt like home. And I don’t know where I would be today without them,” he says.

With limited copies of each record (between 150 and 10,000) available at the nearly 1,400 participating shops nationwide, RSD often starts with customers scrambling for rare gems. But even those who don’t score any vinyl can still celebrate the day with live music, food and festivities at any of these Utah locations:

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There won’t be live music at Graywhale this year, but the University of Utah location (208 S. 1300 East, 801-583-3333, FatFin.com) will feature art prints from local artists, plus coffee and food. All stores will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Arrive early for breakfast and the widest selection.

Get in the groove on Record Store Day. The Heavy Metal Shop

Starting at 11 a.m., The Heav y Metal Shop (63 Exchange Place, 801-467-7071, Heav yMetalShop.com) will have records available, including a purple Lydia Loveless vinyl—her “Would I Die For You” single, with Corey Branon’s “Under the Cherry Moon” on the B-side. 14-year-old singer/songwriter Sammy Brue will perform at 6 p.m. with indie/bluegrass singer Jack Parker.

Diabolical Records

A long w ith records, Diabolical (238 S. Edison St., 801-792-9204, Facebook.com/DiabolicalRecords) will have coloring-book pages, live music, food and coffee. The lineup includes local artists Baby Ghosts, Big Baby, High Counsel and label Hel Audio (with an experimental electronic album release). Music starts at 4 p.m.; the store is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Raunch Records

Raunch (1119 E. 2100 South, 801-467-6077) is this year’s source for underground albums.

The store won’t have titles from the official list, but the RSD spirit will be in no short supply. Look for vinyl from The X, Iron Lung and Heresy, as well as eight copies of a Nirvana tribute compilation album.

Albatross Recordings & Ephemera

Check out live performances by local artists including Aaron Smith, Sneaky Long, Chaseone2 and Fisch.

The relatively new shop (870 E. 900 South) will also feature The Rose Establishment’s barista and cafe manager Cody Kirkland making specialty drinks.

Randy’s Records

There are giveaways galore at Randy’s Records—even a raffle for a Led Zeppelin mobile. Other prizes include posters and assorted RSD merchandise. The first 100 (or so) people will receive record bags. CW

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Jaffa Printing does both corporate and event printing. Jaffa Printing also offers both digital and offset printing, which allows the company to provide many different kinds of printed products, including raised print. Buying directly from a printer allows clients to save time and money and ensure that they are getting exactly what they paid for.

“My favorite part [of working at Jaffa Printing] is the design end of things,” says Christensen. “I love working with customers online to make their vision come to life!”

And their customers obviously love them. On TheKnot.com and WeddingWire. com, brides leave glowing reviews of the company—almost all five stars, across the board. So whatever your printing needs are, Jaffa Printing can meet them— producing brochures, postcards, f lyers, stationar y, Christmas cards, save-thedate cards, menus, birth announcements and more. “We care about the success of our customers, and we love what we do,” says Christensen. “We have excellent prices, so whatever your printing needs are, we have something for ever y budget.”n

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Jaffa Printing began in 1927 when Charlie Jaffa opened a printing company in his garage in the Avenues. “Charlie had a difficult childhood and lost both of his parents at a ver y young age,” says Christ y Christensen, who has worked with Jaffa Printing for over 20 years.

“He was just a boy when he started Jaffa Printing Company as a means of supporting himself.”

Jaffa started out printing business cards and f lyers for local companies. It didn’t take long for his business to outgrow the garage, and he moved into a bigger space. Though the business was put on hold while Jaffa fought in World War II, Jaffa Printing Company is now celebrating its 88th year in business and is in its third generation of family ownership.

“Charlie’s stor y is one of my favorite stories about overcoming adversity and never giving up,” says Christensen. “The processes we use have changed with technolog y, but Charlie’s legacy lives on as we provide quality printing at affordable prices.”

That long histor y of experience really shows in the people who work for Jaffa Printing and the products they create.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) My message this week might be controversial to the Buddhists among you. But I’ve got to report the cosmic trends as I see them, right? It’s my sacred duty not to censor or sanitize the raw data. So here’s the truth as I understand it: More desire is the answer to your pressing questions. Passionate intensity is the remedy for all wishy-washy wishes and anesthetized emotions.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Karelu is a word from the Tulu language that’s spoken in South India. It refers to the marks made on human skin by clothing that’s too tight. As you know, the effect is temporary. Once the TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The time between now and your birthday will provide you with close-fitting garment is removed, the imprint will eventually excellent opportunities to resolve lingering problems, bring drawn- disappear as the skin restores its normal shape and texture. out melodramas to a conclusion, and clean up old messes—even I see the coming days as being a time when you will experience the supposedly interesting ones. You want to know what else a metaphorical version of karelu, Scorpio. You will shed some this upcoming period will be good for? I’ll tell you: 1. Surrendering form of constriction, and it may take a while for you to regain control-freak fantasies. 2. Relieving your backlog of tension. 3. your full flexibility and smoothness.

Expelling delusional fears that you cling to out of habit. 4. Laughing long and hard at the cosmic jokes that have tweaked your attitude. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Georgia is not just an American state. It’s also a country that’s at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Many people GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the mid-19th century, the entrance exam for the British Royal who live there speak the Georgian language. They have a word, Navy was quite odd. Some candidates were required to write down shemomedjamo, that refers to what happens when you love the the Lord’s Prayer, recite the multiplication table for the number taste of the food you’re eating so much that you continue to pile three, get naked and jump over a chair, and drink a glass of sherry. it in your mouth well past the time when you’re full. I’d like to use I’m guessing that your own initiation or rite of passage may, at least it as a metaphor for what I hope you won’t do in the coming days: initially, seem as puzzling or nonsensical as that one. You might be get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly hard-pressed to understand how it is pertinent to the next chapter of fine to get just the right, healthy amount of a good thing. your life story. And yet I suspect that you will ultimately come to the conclusion—although it may take some time—that this transition CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) When you’re a driver in a car race, an essential rule in making was an excellent lead-in and preparation for what’s to come. a successful pit stop is to get back on the track as quickly as possible. Once the refueling is finished and your new tires are CANCER (June 21-July 22) In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes, a Parisian ballet in place, you don’t want to be cleaning out your cup holder or companythatultimatelyrevolutionizedtheartform.Thecollaborative checking the side-view mirror to see how you look. Do I really efforts he catalyzed were unprecedented. He drew on the talents of need to tell you this? Aren’t you usually the zodiac’s smartest visualartistsPicassoandMatisse,composersStravinskyandDebussy, competitor? I understand that you’re trying to become more designer Coco Chanel, and playwright Jean Cocteau, teaming them up skilled at the arts of relaxation, but can’t you postpone that with top choreographers and dancers. His main goal was not primarily until after this particular race is over? Remember that there’s a to entertain, but rather to excite and inspire and inflame. That’s the difference between the bad kind of stress and the good kind. I spirit I think you’ll thrive on in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s not a think you actually need some of the latter. time for nice diversions and comfy satisfactions. Go in quest of Ballets AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Russes-like bouts of arousal, awakening, and delight.

Until the early 20th century, mayonnaise was considered a luxury food, a hand-made delicacy reserved for the rich.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Don’t ever tame your demons—always keep them on a leash.” An entrepreneur named Richard Hellman changed that. He That’s a line from a song by Irish rock musician Hozier. Does it developed an efficient system to produce and distribute the have any meaning for you? Can your personal demons somehow condiment at a lower cost. He put together effective advertising prove useful to you if you keep them wild but under your control? campaigns. The increasing availability of refrigeration helped, If so, how exactly might they be useful? Could they provide you too, making mayonnaise a more practical food. I foresee the with primal energy you wouldn’t otherwise possess? Might their possibility of a comparable evolution in your own sphere, presence be a reminder of the fact that everyone you meet has Aquarius: the transformation of a specialty item into a mainstay, their own demons and therefore deserves your compassion? or the evolution of a rare pleasure into a regular occurrence.

I suspect that these are topics worthy of your consideration right now. Your relationship to your demons is ripe for PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Piscean author Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated over 40 books transformation—possibly even a significant upgrade. for children. Midway through his career, his publisher dared him to make a new book that used no more than 50 different VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Will you be the difficult wizard, Virgo? Please say yes. Use your words. Accepting the challenge, Seuss produced Green Eggs and magic to summon elemental forces that will shatter the popular Ham, which went on to become the fourth best-selling Englishobstacles. Offer the tart medicine that tempers and tests as language children’s book in history. I invite you to learn from it heals. Bring us bracing revelations that provoke a fresher, Seuss’s efforts, Pisces. How? Take advantage of the limitations sweeter order. I know it’s a lot to ask, but right now there’s no that life has given you. Be grateful for the way those limitations one more suited to the tasks. Only you can manage the stern compel you to be efficient and precise. Use your constraints as grace that will keep us honest. Only you have the tough humility inspiration to create a valuable addition to your life story. necessary to solve the riddles that no one else can even make sense of.

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There was a little blurb in the Salt Lake Tribune this week: “Historic Felt Building Sold.” You’ve driven, biked or walked by the building a million times downtown. Located between 300 and 400 South on Main Street, the building has stood for more than one hundred years and has been on the National Register of Historic Places for decades. Not coming to mind? It’s across the street from The Melting Pot restaurant and Post Office Place, on the north side of the twin bookend-looking buildings. These twin structures, known as the Boston and the Newhouse buildings immediately next south at Exchange Square, were Utah’s first skyscrapers.

Ever since I moved to Salt Lake City in 1972, I’ve loved wandering around, sketching and admiring the majestic historic buildings and their facades downtown. Sunday mornings are especially great for discovery because there’s no one out except the random jogger and snoozing homeless bundles.

All the buildings immediately surrounding the Felt Building were built between 1903 and 1917, and were erected with steel frames— that in its day, was considered progressive and fireproof. The Felt Building is an example of Sullivanesque design, popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s in the U.S. It’s an architecture design that may be lost in today’s cityscape, but is a prominent remnant of a time when new and awe-inspiring skyscrapers were becoming the standard in construction. Louis Sullivan was a Chicago architect who is credited with the phrase, “form follows function.” Although his building designs weave lines of geometric forms sideways and skyward from the streetscape, he also had a love of floral decorations. The top of the Felt Building has decorations made of terra cotta (‘baked earth’ or clay/ceramic) of leaves and large cameo faces of a woman. Sullivan loved the work of Irish artisans from the early Middle Ages that appear as decorations on mansions and castles and he brought that kind of beauty into his high rise designs. The Felt was built for offices back then and will stay offices, says the new owner from Ogden.

These days, the sad thing about walking down Main Street (or any street for that matter), is that no one is looking up from the sidewalks. Just about everyone is staring down at their phones and missing out on the beauty of cityscape American Western architecture has to offer. “Mid-Mod” is so 2000.

Craftsmanship is what’s in: Buildings and homes where you can smell the quality and feel the hard work…and not the paycheck.

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