City Weekly April 30, 2015

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To Write a Wrong By eric s. peterson

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The Raise Your Pen group wants to rewrite the tragic story of Siale Angilau.

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To Write a Wrong

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The Raise Your Pen group wants to rewrite the tragic story of Siale Angilau.

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I love reading City Views! I appreciate Babs Delay’s humor and insight on urban history, places and events.

Although I do not fit within your target demographic, Delay is one of the key reasons I am a regular reader of City Weekly. Thank you!

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Transcendent Tamales Tita

I was very happy to read dining critic Ted Scheffler’s review of Tamales Tita [“Best Burritos, Top Tamales,” March 4, City Weekly]. I enjoy Scheffler’s reviews, and we love the tamales at Tamales Tita.

We started buying tamales at Tita’s when the business was in a tiny cafe on 5400 South, just a couple doors down from Rancho Market in Kearns. My husband and I have tried several different types, and they have all been delicious. We buy them by the dozen and take them home. We have also taken tamales to relatives who live out of town.

We were sorry to see that the Tamales Tita store had closed, and we wondered where we were going to get our tamale fix.

We were driving around in West Jordan when, by chance, I spotted the neon sign at Tamales Tita’s 7760 S. 3200 West location. We bought a dozen tamales, and they

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I worried about Tita’s new location because it is hidden and at the back of a building. After reading Scheffler’s review, I no longer worry about the location, because I’m sure word-of-mouth and City Weekly have given Tita’s business a boost.

Thank you, Ted Scheffler and Tamales Tita!

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Trade Deal Would Be Disastrous

I am not down with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Let me preface this by saying I support President Obama and believe, for the most part, he is doing a good job. But, in my opinion, he is wrong on the TPP. You see, I am not a fan of trade deals negotiated behind closed doors with multinational corporations and foreign countries. And keeping the whole thing secret from the people who put him in office is an issue, but that is not the biggest issue.

This trade deal will cause this country to lose jobs and cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars.

My first concern is the Buy American policy will be gutted. The United States would agree to waive domestic procurement policies for all firms operating in TPP countries.

And so, instead of creating well-paying American jobs, our government will be creating jobs in other countries.

The next concern is the applicability of patents. That they are longer-lasting makes the approval process more difficult for generic drug makers and extends protections for biologic medicines. So this means higher costs for us— and bigger profits for Big Pharma.

The person to whom we owe a great deal of thanks is Edward Snowden—you know, the guy who our government says is a traitor? He was actually the source used by the few media outlets that dared talk about this albatross of a trade deal.

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OPINION

Thank Us Not

As a college senior, I wasn’t worried about getting a job, landing an internship or going to graduate school. I was worried about firefights with Viet Cong. Earning a bachelor’s degree meant the end of my student draft deferment and the inevitability of a years-long stint in the military, including 12 months in Vietnam. All my friends were in the same predicament. No one I knew in those days wanted to be a soldier, but most of us acquiesced.

The pre-lottery draft required us to spend two years in uniform. We soon learned the gamesmanship associated with that involuntary service. Draftees mostly found themselves carrying an M-16 in an infantry platoon. If the life of an infantryman was unappealing, you could enlist as a mechanic, journalist or linguist; but you had to give the Army an additional year or more to seal the deal. And that is what I did. As a result, I now find myself classified a “Vietnam-era volunteer.” The label is as uncomfortable as a hair shirt. I was not a “volunteer” in the strict sense of the word. My enlistment in the Army was not motivated by civic responsibility or patriotism. It was dictated by self-interest.

Absent a wartime draft, I would not have enlisted; self-interest would have led in a different direction. That notwithstanding, I must say that my five years on active duty was a transformative experience, one which I have come to value and recommend to others.

On Veterans Day, I got an e-mail from a “Generation Z” relative who—at the behest of a teacher or parent—wrote, “thank you for your service.” I winced as I read the words.

Because a wince is an odd response to a thank you—even a perfunctory one— I began to unpack it. I soon found I was late to the task. “Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service” headlined a story in The New York Times. The story quoted veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq who, like myself, had dealt with unexpected thank yous. “The thanks comes across as shallow, disconnected, a reflexive offering from people who, while meaning well, have

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no clue what soldiers did over there or what motivated them to go, and who would never have gone themselves nor sent their own sons and daughters,” Matt Richtel wrote. To find veterans half my age giving voice to my own ill-formed thoughts was surprising. My wince, it seemed, sprang from the incongruous pairing of “unwelcome” and “gratitude.”

Ironically, a much-publicized lament of Vietnam veterans was the cold shoulder they got upon returning from the war.

Worse, many were spat upon, mistreated and reviled as “baby killers” for no other reason than they had served in Vietnam.

My experience was different. I was ignored: I remember a Veterans Day parade in Boston where there were more soldiers marching with me in the parade than there were spectators on the sidewalk.

I don’t think much has changed. In fact, the end of the draft in 1973 may have had the unintended effect of eroding the connection between soldiers and civilians even further. In a recent article in The Atlantic, James Fallows wrote about the “reverent but disengaged attitude toward the military—we love the troops, but we’d rather not think about them—[which] has become so familiar that we assume it is the American norm.”

It is the norm in Utah. Yes, we designate highways as veterans’ memorials; yes, redeploying soldiers get 30 seconds on the 10 o’clock news; and yes, national defense and F-35s are as dear to our wingnuts as states’ rights and Browning .45s. But don’t look for Utahns to have much skin in the game. Utah has the lowest military-enlistment rates in the country. We are, however, blessed with an abundance of “chickenhawks,” defined

by Fallows as those who are eager to go to war so long as someone else does the fighting. Utah is not the only state with chicken-

hawks aplenty, and as a result, the burden of fighting America’s longest wars has been shouldered by less than 1 percent of the population—16 times less than the percentage during Vietnam.

Back then, everyone had a friend or relative in Vietnam, and our collective disapproval brought the war to an end (but not before 361 Utahns were KIA.) Today’s disengaged population makes wars easy to start and hard to stop. Since the end of the draft, there have been more than 140 military deployments, according to the Congressional Research Service. Between 1945 and 1973, with conscription the order of the day, there were 19.

“Veteran” comes from veteranus, a Latin word meaning old and experienced. The experience of this old, oncereluctant, Vietnam-era volunteer aligns with the view of a more distinguished veteran, Adm. Mike Mullen: Namely, America pays dearly for its lack of engagement.

Utah legislators have related concerns. One of this year’s bills, Senate Bill 60, stipulated that high-school students pass a civics test to qualify for a diploma. SB60, now signed into law, treats symptoms, not disease.

The Aspen Institute is promoting a much better idea: the Franklin Project. Drafted by such notables as Jon Huntsman Jr., Robert Gates and Ariana Huffington, the initiative proposes a year of full-time national service as “a civic rite of passage for every young American.” While they could choose to serve in such areas as “health, poverty, conservation or education,” the military would be an attractive option. Like so many worthwhile service options, however, it will likely languish in this slacktivistic age where a pro forma thank you, a banal tweet, a lapel pin or a “Support the Troops” bumper sticker are construed as being meaningful. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net.

My enlistment in the Army was not motivated by civic responsibility or patriotism. It was dictated by self-interest.

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How would you serve a year of national service for your country?

Scott Renshaw: I’d be happy to spend a year volunteering to teach critical thinking to American students, because heaven only knows that’s one skill the adults in many of their lives appear to be sorely lacking.

Jeremiah Smith: Education for me. I love the thought of teaching impressionable minds things. Not sure everyone likes the thought of me volunteering in education—but, meh, different strokes.

Brandon Burt: I’d volunteer for the Niceness Corps. We’d be an elite squad of tastemakers, etiquette mavens and militant grammarians who would handle situations that weren’t exactly, you know, war-worthy, but something obviously has to be done. We’d put the smack-down on people who misplace apostrophes and use margarine instead of real butter. But we’d do it in a nice way.

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I’d probably go with conservation, because I imagine that would minimize the number of people I’d have to talk to.

Mason Rodrickc: My gut says military health. Being raised by a father who has been a nurse in the Air Force, I understand the importance of tending to those with the bandages and sutures.

Death and injury take no sides in war.

Eric S. Peterson: A year of service in the poverty arena would probably be pretty rewarding and likely good preparation for a career in journalism.

Jerre Wroble: I’d like to take care of wild mustangs for a year. At the end of my year, I’d spring them and run off to the high plains with them to live out the remainder of my days.

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Dirty Coal We’re sending coal to the Third World. Really? Maybe we think this will actually help those countries, but more than likely, it’s about helping Utah’s struggling coal industry. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah is poised to invest $53 million in a new California port to ensure shipments of mostly coal to Asia and South America.

But wait: While coal generates 44 percent of U.S. energy, it is also the single biggest polluter, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, which notes that coal pollutes when it’s mined, transported, stored and burned. Meanwhile, urban air pollution is estimated to kill 1.3 million a year, disproportionately in middleincome countries, according to the World Health Organization. We’re not just talking about pollution somewhere else. Bad air travels across oceans and comes back.

It’s not a good idea from any perspective.

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We all love a little fluff once in a while. That’s why we have Entertainment Tonight and, well, “feature” stories in newspapers. The Deseret News, always ready to cheer on family values, decided it was a good idea to look into how you know you’re with the right person. A study from the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships says that the people you’re with shape your self-image. Apparently, you have to ask yourself, “Does that person bring out the best in me?” because the happiest, most positive relationships lead to positive change. And we learn to watch out for arrogant, moody people, and even people with bad habits because they can become a “social allergy for a romantic partner.” The story doesn’t tell us what to do if we’ve picked one of these people, or if the right partner happens to be of the same sex.

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Imagine a Republican who is not former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett striking out publicly against the majority party in the state. That’s Sheryl Allen, a retired legislator, whose letter to the editor in The Salt Lake Tribune suggested facetiously that GOP chairman James Evans should institute his candidate-screening panel because it might get rid of all the closeted Libertarians in the party. Evans has been thinking of strategies to undermine a court-challenged compromise bypassing caucuses to nominate candidates. Allen said she’s been called a RINO (Republican in Name Only) but is actually a moderate Republican. There were 57 comments on her letter, many wondering what a “moderate” Republican was. One said moderate Republicans became extinct when Utah Gov. J. Bracken Lee died in 1996.

Artist Shae Peterson straddles the line between graffiti artist and street artist—his work is legal, so he doesn’t consider himself a graffiti artist, but his tools of the trade are cans of spray paint rather than a paintbrush. His painter handle is SRIL (pronounced “surreal”), in tribute to the surrealism of Salvador Dali, and he creates massive murals on building walls—some commissioned, others for his own enjoyment (with permission). Peterson’s work includes portraits of Walter White from the AMC series Breaking Bad, a giant polar bear swimming, and the face of Albert Einstein (and the unnamed work-in-progress above). His work is realistic, looking less like spray paint than a photo. See his art on his website, SRILArt.com, or on Instagram, @srilart.

Why did you decide to paint graffiti, and why such big murals?

I literally can’t do anything else. I can’t paint with a brush, I’ve tried to use acrylics and it’s awful. I’m so used to the medium, that it’s almost a limiting factor. If I want to do an art show, every canvas I paint has to be at least a certain size. Doing small-scale work, for me, is far more difficult because of the medium I’ve learned and gotten mildly proficient at.

Compared to other places you’ve painted, how is Salt Lake City’s graffiti scene?

In the past couple years, it has definitely exploded, but there aren’t a lot of spots. Here, you could pretty much see all of what we have to offer in just a few hours of driving around.

The scale is larger in other cities, and they are far more prominent. Here, I’ve got a wall in Sandy and somewhere tucked away downtown, but they’re not huge murals along State Street, or in the heart of Main Street downtown. Walls are a little harder to come by, especially if they’re large murals, rather than the wood-panel storefront temporary-art spots.

Are the local governments pretty tolerant?

It depends on the neighborhood. Downtown, I haven’t had any issues. South Salt Lake, no problem. I think, in Sandy or more residential-type areas, there is some pushback, because there are more vocal residents who put pressure on it. For the most part, I haven’t had any significant issues or complaints.

What are graffiti and street artists up against?

This whole Street Art Throwdown show was not the best representation. There’s always a thing that comes up with street artists and graffiti artists—they’re not the same thing. You’ve got guys who have been doing graffiti for years and then all of a sudden, you’ve got guys like Banksy making millions. The exposure is good for everybody, whether it’s positive or not. A guy like Banksy is going to provide a lot more opportunities for guys like myself because he’s creating awareness, and he’s creating a trend, in a way. While I may not personally like what he’s doing, I definitely respect what he’s doing for the movement, or the craft, as a whole.

Do you ever paint over your walls?

I like to keep things temporary. There’s a certain level of progression; maybe what I painted a month ago, I’m capable of painting much better at this point. It’s always trying to progress and push myself. I don’t like keeping old stuff up very long if I can help it. There are a few exceptions: If it was a commission thing, and the owner wants the piece to stay longer than usual, or maybe it’s something that’s out of my way or harder to get to, or requires scaffolding—things like that. For the most part, I would prefer they didn’t last long.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Urine Trouble

BY CECIL ADAMS

When I interview for a professional job, the company usually has me sign a statement saying drug use is against company policy.

Yet when I apply for a low-wage job they want to test me for drug use. What gives? Does drug testing work?

—J.P. At what point on the career ladder do most industries stop mandating drug testing? I just picked up cat food at PetSmart, where they proudly display on their doors that they test their employees. Does this include the CEO? Why test nurses, but not doctors? Why bank tellers but not the “masters of the universe”?

Testing might serve a public-safety function for airline pilots and selected others, but for the folks that stock the bags of kitty crunchies?

It seems like a subtle form of control over people in lower social and economic levels.

—Ken Asking somebody to pee in a cup is subtle? Maybe compared to being chained to an oar. You raise a good point about drug tests, though—there’s definitely a lowgrade class war going on here. However, the subset of the proletariat being lashed into submission isn’t minorities or the poor (not for lack of trying). Rather, it’s a demographic so oppressed even defenders like the ACLU dare not speak its name: stoners.

OK, technically store clerks. But big business is seeing lots of overlap.

Workplace drug testing, like the war on drugs generally, was and is motivated by a tangled web of impulses—some legitimate, some pretty sketchy. The one few quarrel with is safety. Following the 1981 crash of a U.S. Marine jet on the carrier Nimitz, killing 14 and injuring 47, it came out that six of the dead tested positive for marijuana and that drug use was common on the ship and in the military overall. Although drugs didn’t cause the crash (the plane’s crew, or what could be found of it, tested clean), the Reagan administration established a zero-tolerance drug policy for U.S. military personnel, to be enforced by testing.

Things spread from there. Prodded by the feds, people all over were soon peeing into cups: civilian federal workers in sensitive jobs, federal contractors, employees in federally regulated industries such as transportation. Many private companies started testing on their own. By 1990, surveys by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found, 46 percent of worksites with more than 250 employees were administering drug tests.

The prevalence of testing varied widely by industry, the BLS discovered. At the top of the range with 72 percent was communications, transportation, and utilities, followed by construction and mining at 70 percent. At the bottom was finance, insurance, and real estate, with 23 percent. Aha, you say, the masters of the universe get a pass! I guess, but face it: While financial and other white-collar oopsies can cost you your retirement money, the blue-collar

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version can get you killed now.

And that’s the thing: drug testing evidently does result in fewer people getting killed or hurt. General Motors reported a 50 percent reduction in workplace injuries after implementing a testing program.

Southern Pacific Railroad saw an 86 percent reduction in worker injuries within five years after its program began. A nationwide study of truck drivers found a 24 percent reduction in alcohol-related fatalities.

But here’s something else. According to the BLS figures, one industry was an exception to the rule that the likelihood of drug testing correlates with the potential for mayhem: wholesale/retail. The worst that can happen to the average stock clerk is you drop the jumbo Tide off the top shelf. But 54 percent of wholesale and retail worksites test for drugs.

Why? Browse around on drug-testing websites and you get a sense of the executive mindset: we don’t trust these thieving peons.

One drug-test equipment supplier says flatly, “80 percent of drug abusers steal from their workplace.” (Source for this preposterous claim: a single small study published in 1994.) Others are less blatant, making noises about helping the afflicted get treatment and so on. Reducing workplace accidents is in there, but mostly what you see is stuff like this: “To convince ‘casual users’ that the cost of using is too high” and “establish grounds for discipline or firing.” Translation: drug testing helps keep the slackers in line.

Big Brotherish? Yeah. A violation of your civil rights? Not unless you can make the case that you’re part of a group that’s being unfairly singled out. Civil liberties advocates are happy to whale on knuckleheads who propose drug-testing programs that are too obviously discriminatory—to cite one egregious example, mandatory testing for welfare recipients. One page from the ACLU site features a beef from a 40-yearold mother of three who was humiliated by being forced to produce a urine sample while an attendant watched; they contend such things are intrusive and bad for workplace morale, which gets no argument from me. But let’s be clear: nobody’s defending your right to be stoned on the job.

Still, we want to be fair, right? I wrote PetSmart asking if their CEO had submitted to drug testing. So far no response. If I hear something I’ll let you know.

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NEWS Wolf’s Mouth

I m m i g r at i o n

“I don’t want people driving on the road with no license, no insurance.”

—Immigration-law attorney Aaron Tarin

An amendment to the driving-privilege law has advocates for Utah’s undocumented community worried.

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tarting July 1, 2015, undocumented individuals who apply for an original Utah driving-privilege card, or for the annual renewal of an existing card, will have their fingerprints sent to the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) database.

Since 2011, applicants have had their fingerprints checked against eight Western state databases for felony convictions. The 6-month-old FBI NGI system significantly “expands” the bureau’s abilities to mine information from fingerprints, according to an FBI press release, providing nationwide criminalbackground checks that include misdemeanors along with felonies. Utah immigration advocates fear it also has the potential of identifying to Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents undocumented residents—whose only crime relates to their being caught re-entering the United States after being deported or traveling back to their native countries to visit family.

In excess of 30,000 residents hold Utah driving-privilege cards, down from a peak of 43,000 in 2008. The 2015 legislative amendment to Utah’s 10-year-old driving privilege statute means that, as of July 1, 2015, those who hold the card will have to decide whether to submit his or her fingerprints for a comprehensive criminal background check, or drive without the card and pay a much higher insurance rate— or even drive uncovered. The drivingprivilege card allows drivers without papers to obtain insurance, but advocates believe the FBI’s national database will also include U.S. Border Patrol records.

Luis Garza is executive director of Latino-advocacy nonprofit Comunidades Unidas. Illegal re-entry, Garza says, “is very, very common.” He estimates that at least one-fifth of Utah’s 88,000 to 110,000 undocumented residents have gone back to their native countries—typically to be with ill or dying relatives—have been caught trying to get back into the United States and deported, with a minimum 5- or 10-year ban on returning. They have subsequently returned without detection, “and that’s the only thing they’ve done wrong,” he says.

Luis Garza of Comunidades Unidas: “They are putting more and more barriers up, and people are going to drive anyway.”

Immigration-law attorney Aaron Tarin says, “I don’t want people driving on the road with no license, no insurance. But I’m also concerned a lot of people are unknowingly going to walk into the wolf’s mouth.”

Department of Public Safety’s Commissioner Keith Squire approached the Legislature last fall in search of a more extensive background check, following news last year that a man who had killed two police officers in another state was nevertheless able to secure a Utah driving-privilege card. That news offered opponents of the driving card an opportunity to repeal it, says the amendment’s Senate sponsor, Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo. According to Bramble, he told immigration advocates they were “better off” with the amendment, rather than risking “losing the program altogether.”

The federal-level background check and a price hike from $80 to $109.50 for the initial application makes advocate Garza wonder, “Do they want people to get it or not? They are putting more and more barriers up, and people are going to drive anyway.”

Applicant fingerprints taken by the Driver License Division are sent to Utah’s Bureau of Criminal Information [BCI].

Since the 2011 introduction of the eightstate criminal background check, BCI has sent out 1,430 notifications to ICE of applicants identified by the databases as having felony convictions, as well as 1,360 notices of outstanding warrants to local police departments. If an undocumented individual has a felony on their record, that makes them a top deportation priority for ICE. Information from the FBI database

will be available to ICE via a secure website, says BCI chief Alice Moffat. “It really hasn’t changed, other than it’s on a nationwide basis.” She expressed doubt that border-patrol records would be included. But, after City Weekly supplied her with a copy of a recent FBI fingerprint report for a Utah resident whose criminal record was a 1998 “attempted illegal entry into the U.S.” from Mexico, she acknowledged such reports could be included in the FBI check.

Since the implementation of the driving-privilege card, Tarin estimates that, after applying for cards, thousands of Utah residents “have been picked up,” by ICE. “ICE is very unpredictable in their enforcement priorities, and we just never know when and to what extent they might decide to go after people in the database.”

“Anibal” (not his real name), resides in Utah and is the 27-year-old father of an infant son. The child resides with his mother in Hawaii. Anibal, who requested anonymity because of his immigration status, came to Utah from Guatemala with his parents and brother when he was 3. It wasn’t until he was 13, he says, that he realized an invisible line separated him from his U.S. born younger sister. “The word ‘undocumented’ is like a stain,” he says. “Being undocumented, your possibilities of a future are extremely crippled.”

Anibal’s parents took their children back to Guatemala several times and in the process were picked up at the border, resulting in several removal orders for them and their then-minor sons. “His immigration history is such that I don’t recommend he get his prints taken,” Anibal’s attorney Tarin says.

Anibal rejects the option of waiting to see the new amendment’s impact. “I don’t have the luxury to wait. I just don’t.

My future depends on it, and my son depends on me.”

As a minor, he secured a standard driver license prior to the privilege card becoming law. At age 25, however, once the license had expired, he had to enroll in the driving-privilege card program.

He then decided to give up his $50,000per-year software-programming position, out of fear of being asked to leave because of his undocumented status.

Then he learned that, if he were to renew his driving-privilege card in 2016, his presence in the country with his removal history from his childhood might result in his being red-flagged by ICE. While he is applying for citizenship, he first has to resolve the prior deportation orders from his childhood in order to be eligible.

“To me, it’s devastating,” he says.

“Here I was an individual pursuing education; I have goals in my life. One moment to the next, I felt like I had no exit. The walls were just tumbling down.

—I had no choice but to stand still, take the hits and see what I could do.”

Word has yet to filter down to most of the Latino community about the amendment, Garza says. “People don’t know yet the type of consequences it will have,” he says—and he and his nonprofit cannot tell them what to do. “I know people will ask us, but it’s up to them. It’s up to each family.” CW This is the second in a series of articles on technology, the law and society.

Development

All Shook Up

Eric S. Peterson

NEWS Historic homes damaged by construction has resident riled over citypermit process.

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“In reality, it’s up to the homeowners to make sure their homes can withstand this,” White says.

That’s not an opinion shared by Condit— especially since one company he spoke to quoted him a price of $18,000 to reinforce his sagging foundation.

Condit says that when he discovered the damage that was occurring to his home, he began a frustrating game of phone tag with various city officials to find out what could be done. He learned that, in the end, damage claims resulting from permitted construction must be litigated, and damages can be difficult for homeowners to prove unless they have cameras set up in their houses to document damage.

“They can basically tear your house down, and they have permission by the city to do it,” Condit says.

Downtown construction has also elicited groans from others like David Littlefield, whose law firm at 426 S. 500 East has been surrounded by construction and has likewise suffered from constant noise, downed Internet and loss of water.

“It was like having mini-earthquakes here behind us,” Littlefield says. He’s positive that the problems are only temporary.

Still, he says it would be nice if the city could do a better job of explaining to businesses the impact adjacent construction can have.

“I would have loved to have the city come in and say, ‘Here’s what you can expect; these are the kinds of things that happen.

In order to insure you’re not damaged, take pictures beforehand,’” Littlefield says.

Salt Lake City Councilman Luke Garrott, whose District 4 covers most of downtown, says making city building permits more sensitive to nearby properties would unfortunately run against Utah’s buildingpermit law. But, he says, the city should send out mailers to residents adjacent to new construction so they know who to call for complaints. He also recommends residents document their properties before construction begins.

Ultimately, he would like to see the city code strengthened but isn’t sure the council can maneuver around state law. “The state code on building issues totally trumps local ordinances,” Garrott says. Cw

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or residents on Montrose Avenue in west downtown Salt Lake City, their street of early-1900s bungalow homes are like Salt Lake City’s best-kept secret. The quaint neighborhood—tucked away between 200 West and 300 West, and 700 South and 800 South—has Norman Rockwellian charm, despite being surrounded by office parks.

Chris Condit loves his circa-1913 home and his quiet street—that is, until the recent renovation began at the nearby Utah Nonprofit Housing Association building.

Condit says if it weren’t for the fact that he often goes home for lunch, he would not have felt the vibrations from the construction team’s industrial jackhammers a few hundred yards from his home. That’s also when he noticed a crack etching its way along his bedroom ceiling and walls, and the fact that one corner of his house had sunk 3 1/2 inches into the ground.

“The windows would be shaking like it’s an earthquake, and that’s acceptable [for] the city to do that to your home?” Condit says.

It’s an issue that some in the city chalk up to unavoidable discomfort in the service of urban renewal—but residents, like Condit, wish the permit process would take more consideration of homes surrounding construction sites. Condit and other residents on Montrose are aware that their charming street has other less-than-charming features—including sandstone foundations beneath old brick construction, under unconventionally supported roofs.

“These houses are a perfect example of balance and gravity,” says Montrose resident Tim White, who owns a home and a duplex on the street. “There’s no steel in there, there’s no ties—you know it’s missing all the typical reinforcing features.”

White had to reinforce the roof of the Montrose Avenue rental duplex he owns by stringing an aircraft cable across the base of the roof and cinching it up with a farm jack—with the cable serving to keep the ends of the roof from splaying and collapsing. Since the construction has started, he’s seen a crack several feet long emerge on one corner of the duplex.

Despite the apparent damage, White places little blame on the city. Rather, he hopes homeowners on the street fully appreciate the extra care they need to put into their historic homes.

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In a week, you can Change the world

the list of EIGHT

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Activism

Walk to End Lupus Now Liberty Park, 700 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, 801-364-0366, Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Utah Labor Monthly Luncheon Dale Cox and Judy Barnett of Utah Labor Community Services will speak. Red Lion Hotel, 161 W. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-7373, Saturday, May 2, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Archaeology and Preservation Open House Salt Lake Community College (South City Campus), 1575 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-245-7249, Saturday, May 2, 12-3 p.m.

NKUT Adoption Weekend Utah State Fairpark, 1000 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-574-2454, Friday, May 1, 12-7 p.m. and Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Service of Remembrance for Victims of Genocide Cathedral Church of St. Mark Episcopal, 231 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-322-3400, Friday, May 1, 7 p.m.

Starry Night in Ogden Benefit for the Weber Morgan Children’s Justice Center, Ogden Eccles Conference Center, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-778-6261, Saturday, May 2, 6-10 p.m.

Workshops

Meditation Weekend, Powder Mountain Resort, 6965 E. Powder Mountain Rd., Eden, 801-557-2723, May 1-4.

Seeds of Remembrance Grief support group. U. College of Nursing, 10 S. 2000 East University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 801-5859522, Tuesday, May 5, 7-8:30 p.m.

Nature & Environment

Eight Marvel superheroes and supervillians not featured in the new Avengers: Age of Ultron:

8. Iron Vegan 7. Doctor Oz 6. The Purple Nurple 5. The Scarlet @#$%&!

4. Waka Flocka Flame 3. She-Pimp 2. Captain Ameritrade® 1. The Incredible Utahn (shows

up 15 minutes after movie begins)

Annual Birdhouse Competition and Exhibit Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th Street, Ogden, 801-621-7595, through June 30.

Backyard Birding with Bill Fenimore Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Tuesday, May 5, 7-8:30 p.m.

Flying Wild Tracy Aviary, 589 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-596-8500, Saturday, May 2.

Preschool Discovery Days: Floats and Fins and Things that Swim Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th Street, Ogden, 801-621-7595, Thursday, April 30, 9:30, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Saturday Nature Walk Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 435-649-1767, Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m.

Star Party University of Utah South Physics Observatory, 125 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-587-7223, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

Tree Planting Sponsored by Tree Utah, Scott M. Matheson Nature Preserve & Governors Groves, 2401 Sunnyside Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-364-2122, Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m.-noon.

Wild Wednesdays: Mother Nature Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th Street, Ogden, 801-621-7595, Wednesday, May 6, 3:45 p.m.

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When the Minnesota Department of Transportation replaced signs marking the town of Lindström, it removed the umlaut, twin dots over the “o.” It subsequently rejected town officials’ request to restore the umlaut, citing a rule that names in road signs contain only standard letters. The town said the umlaut honors its Swedish roots and had been on the signs until 2012, when the state removed them for road construction. Gov. Mark Dayton intervened, calling the rule “nonsensical” and ordering the umlauts restored immediately, “even if I have to drive to Lindström and paint the umlauts on the city-limit signs myself.” (The New York Times)

Firebuggery

Verlin Sexton, 48, told authorities investigating a fire that destroyed his garage and damaged his house in Fremont, Ohio, that it started while he was using spray paint and a lighter as a torch to kill a mouse. He also said he went to the garage to smoke, noticed black smoke filling the garage and saw flames in the corner, so he ran to get a pan of water; when he returned, the fire was out of control. Then he said he saw flames in boxes and tried to kick the fire out, but it spread. He was charged with intentionally setting the fire. (Fremont’s The News-Gazette)

QUIRKS

Curses, Foiled Again

Tyler Lankford, 21, entered a bakery with a loaded and cocked revolver, pointed it at the 58-year-old clerk and demanded money, according to police in McKeesport, Pa. The clerk emptied the register, but when the robber picked up the money, he put the gun on the counter. The clerk grabbed it and chased away the robber, whom police identified from surveillance video. (Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV) n Casey Hueser, 30, pulled into a driveway, left the car running and entered the house, police in St. Joseph, Mo., said. When homeowner Marti Wilson returned, she saw the car, removed the ignition keys and slashed the tires. She confronted the burglar, who regained the keys during a struggle and drove off. Wilson called police. “His front left tire had a big hole it, and apparently, with my description of the vehicle, and the fact that he wasn’t moving really fast, and then they found a bunch of the rubber out in the road,” she said, “so he kind of left a trail.” (Kansas City’s WDAF-TV)

Now that affluent Chinese have become big-spending travelers, the China National Tourist Administration announced it would document “uncivilized” behavior by travelers abroad who have “tarnished” China’s image and need to “learn a lesson.” Inappropriate behavior includes violating customs, destroying public infrastructure and historic sites, causing disturbances on public transport and participating in gambling and prostitution. The agency said it would compile reports from local tourism bureaus, media reports and the general public and keep records for up to two years. It didn’t specify the nature of any punishment. In February, Thai authorities issued thousands of Chinese-language etiquette manuals after Chinese tourists were caught drying underwear at a temple, kicking a bell at a sacred shrine and washing their feet in a public restroom. (Reuters)

n Mohammed Almarri, 21, illegally entered his neighbor’s apartment in Tampa, Fla., forced the owner to retreat to his 30th-floor balcony, put the owner’s wallet in a microwave oven and turned it on, according to fire officials who responded to a report of a fire and a man trapped on a high-rise balcony. The victim told them Almarri also took the victim’s collection of lighters, piled them on the floor next to a small electric heater and turned the heater on. No fire was found, but Almarri was charged with first-degree arson. (Tampa Bay Times)

Problem Solved

Authorities concerned with large numbers of boarded-up homes in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area because of widespread foreclosures launched a pilot program to disguise the vacant houses by installing vinyl siding with painted doors and windows over the plywood. The program aims to upgrade the aesthetic condition of the buildings to reduce vandalism and improve nearby property values. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) n Officials in Lee County, Fla., proposed cutting down 40 palm trees along the narrow median of a Fort Myers boulevard, citing safety concerns. A vehicle could run off the road and hit a tree, resulting in damage, injury and a possible lawsuit against the county, according to some officials, including county commissioner Cecil Pendergrass.

Some residents insist the trees add more safety than danger by defining curves in the road and preventing head-on collisions. Even if the trees are removed, the county has no plans to remove light poles that share the median with the trees. (Fort Myers’s WBBH-TV)

When Guns Are Outlawed

Aaron Anthony Doney, 19, an inmate at Montana’s Cascade County Detention Center, was charged with possession of a deadly weapon after he reportedly sharpened a plastic spork. (Great Falls Tribune) Compiled by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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The Transportation Security Administration last year collected almost $675,000 in loose change left behind by travelers at security checkpoints. According to TSA figures, that amount is up from $638,000 the year before. Travelers at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport left the most change, $43,000. Overall, the agency has collected $3.5 million in loose change since 2008. (Time)

n Scott Kemery, 44, told authorities investigating a car fire in Eastport, N.Y., that he believed his rental car was filled with bedbugs, so he doused the interior with rubbing alcohol. Confident it worked, he got back in the car and lit a cigarette, igniting the alcohol. He fled the vehicle but suffered first- and second-degree burns. The rental car was destroyed, and intense heat from the fire badly damaged two other cars. (Newsday)

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n April 21, 2014, convicted Tongan Crip gang member Siale Angilau began his federal racketeering trial by lunging at a witness testifying against him. He was armed with a pen. He was stopped in his tracks by four bullets fired by a deputy U.S. marshal. Twenty-fiveyear-old Angilau later succumbed to these wounds. Within hours, his name took on a life of its own, garnering the typical breathless, frantically breaking coverage from local TV and print media, as well as from outlets such as CNN and even England’s Daily Mail.

Locally, one daily newspaper initially identified Angilau as “a get for law enforcement”—essentially a prime arrest for the good guys. Another account quoted a witness to the shooting—and a family relation to one of Angilau’s robbery victims—who told reporters that his being shot in front of his mother was a sad turn of events, but “obviously, he has no heart.” Another local publication noted Angilau’s tragic turn from an all-region football player at East High School in 2005 to an incarcerated gang member a few years later. That article quoted a woman set to testify about how, in 2002, a then-14year-old Angilau punched her in the face while stealing cigarettes from a 7-Eleven. The woman’s epitaph of Angilau, the teenage career criminal, was simple: “He wasn’t going to change. He just got worse.”

On Salt Lake City’s west side, the close-knit and insular Polynesian community lives in a tradition born of the islands. But here in the Rocky Mountains, many live on a cultural island, seemingly apart from others. They revere their elders, the law and the law enforcers. When a youth breaks the law, it brings shame on the elders and silence from loved ones. Shame casts young people away from church, family and friends and into a kind of exile.

Angilau had already been behind bars for seven years, having pleaded guilty to robbery and assault charges in state court, under the impression that he would not be federally charged for the same crimes. During that time, Angilau refused to see visitors and returned letters and packages from family members. In the rare times he talked to family, he told them he just didn’t want them to become sad, thinking about him locked up.

The first time in years many of his family members had seen him was the day he was shot and killed.

Angilau’s death—and the reaction to it—is what prompted his sister Tolina Tausinga, along with others, to form the Raise Your Pen Coalition. To Tausinga and other coalition founders, the group’s work—to provide a voice for disenfranchised Pacific Islanders—is very personal, in that they refuse to let others write off her brother’s legacy simply as that of a violent gangster.

She remembers the brother who got into trouble, made serious mistakes when he was a teenager and deserved an appropriate punishment for those crimes. But she also clings to the memory of her protective little brother—the one with an old soul who acted like the eldest child. The one who made her laugh when, one moment, he would be carrying her kids around like footballs and the next moment would be calling on his siblings to help their parents clean their house. The brother who every Sunday brought groceries to the grandparents of a friend on the street who lived by themselves, and even mowed their lawn.

“He just had a solid heart,” Tausinga says.

He was the brother who laughed and played Wrestlemania with his brothers as a kid, and made his sisters scrunch their faces in disgust when he would eat his peanut-butter & jelly sandwiches with ramen noodles. He was the brother who chewed his siblings out for smoking, drinking or sneaking out to parties and who would make certain his friends never used bad language around his sister.

He was the brother they remember who, before his incarceration at 18, desperately wanted his younger brother to not make the same mistakes he had.

In this era of seemingly never-ending police shootings, it is not uncommon to see communities galvanized along color lines and protests organized among citizens who disproportionately find themselves in the crosshairs of police-issued firearms. That phenomenon, however, was relatively unknown to Pacific Islander youth in Utah— until Angilau’s death. Right or wrong, his example has now ignited a first in Utah: a Pacific Islander youth-advocacy group challenging the “school-to-prison pipeline” and educating community members about their rights when it comes to the law and those tasked with enforcing it.

The group has clamored for more information about Angilau’s death—hoping to legally challenge the federal government’s refusal to release video footage of the courtroom incident—but they’ve also held peaceful marches and contributed to food drives. In May, the coalition will be honored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah for community organizing. But, even as they organize, they still mourn. And they still await the sentencing of Siale’s younger brother, Villisoni, who will be sentenced in May—on the same day as the ACLU award ceremony—after pleading guilty to a gang-related manslaughter.

The Raise Your Pen coalition struggles for recognition, even among some

To Write a Wrong The Raise Your Pen group wants to rewrite the tragic story of Siale Angilau.

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of the conservative elders in the Pacific Islander community who still aren’t completely onboard with the group. One of the organizers’ biggest challenges is making sure their message remains positive despite the negatives stacked up against them.

“It’s hard to push and want to bring positive change when there is so much pain everywhere,” Tausinga says. “But at the same time, that’s where all the passion and the love come from. We don’t want to see anyone else’s kids or the young men in Glendale—or any community, for that matter—follow through with what society has already labeled them as. It’s not OK.” For Tausinga, her brother’s death provided a visceral and very rude awakening about the need to bring her community together.

“I wasn’t living life until after they took my brother’s,” she says.

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While the west side is a place Tausinga is proud to call home, it’s also a place haunted by the ghosts of brothers gone—either incarcerated or killed.

“It’s like a slideshow in my mind,” Tausinga says. “When I think of all the streets and blocks of Glendale, it’s like Memory Lane, but its also like a cemetery.”

Tausinga’s friend was shot dead on California Avenue; others were taken from the neighborhood and incarcerated at the Point of the Mountain and in federal lockups far from Utah. A brother of another coalition member, who had been swept up in racketeering charges, was serving time in a Virginia federal penitentiary when he was stabbed to death by another inmate in 2010. To this day, the family doesn’t know why or how it happened.

For Tausinga, death, incarceration and crime have for too long been just a shockingly “normal” way of life in her neighborhood. Kids grew up in homes where parents juggled two or more jobs, and the kids wound up on the streets. They engaged in the kinds of petty crimes their older brothers did, such as “beer runs”— convenience-store robberies for which, in 2010, the U.S. Attorney’s Office brought down federal racketeering charges on 16 members of the Tongan Crips gang, including Angilau.

Tausinga fatalistically accepted the way of life the young men in her family and on her street lived. She didn’t condone it; it was just how things were. She now sees that her community has contracted this fatalism as a kind of sickness, swallowing the stereotypes forced on it by society and the media.

“We were never looked at, except for being frowned upon,” Tausinga says. The stereotype of the Tongan gangster from Glendale was so persistent, she says, it

effectively brainwashed entire generations of her community.

“Why try if you’ve already told me I’m not going to be anybody but a gang member and a danger to society?” Tausinga says. It’s a question that she has to deal with on a day-to-day basis in her current gang-prevention work with neighborhood youth. Her answer now is clear, wrought from the deepest pain over the loss of her brother.

“You are so much more—your talents do matter, don’t let the label define who you are,” Tausinga says. “But before my brother was taken, I don’t think I would have been in that mindframe or that type of thinking.”

Tausinga still carries the grief with her wherever she goes. When she first met a City Weekly reporter, she was clad all in black, as a sign of mourning. Her expression flitted from exuberant and joyful when she laughed about a good Siale story, to countenancing a sudden grief and a thousand-yard stare in remembering the loss that’s driven her and the coalition over the past year.

After Angilau’s death, she says, she was gripped by hate, fear and anxiety. The sight of any kind of a police officer made her sick. Even the sight of a police car could give her a panic attack—and, after her brother’s death, there were plenty of police cars around.

In Tongan tradition, a funeral is such a moment of communal solidarity that the ceremony can last up to two weeks, during which time family and friends come to visit the family and bring gifts. In turn, the family feeds all those who come to pay their respects. For a week, the block surrounding the Angilau home was lined with funeral attendee’s cars—and, for that week, marked and unmarked police cars hovered close-by with officers stopping attendees on the street asking what they were up to, Tausinga says.

“I felt like they were taunting us,” says Dee Ann Tuakalua, another founding member of Raise Your Pen, whose brother John Tuakalau was also indicted as part of the racketeering charges against the Tongan Crips.

The coalition started within a month of the shooting, and its first event was a peaceful march and a vigil on the steps of the federal courthouse. It was a successful first event for the newly formed coalition, but even then, members had to struggle with the challenges of community organizing. For Tuakalau, the members had to be cautious about who spoke to the media for the group’s first event, when emotions ran so strong they didn’t want to show up on the news as just a bunch of angry islanders.

“We wanted to say how we felt, but at the same time, we didn’t want to be portrayed as angry monsters,” Tuakalau says.

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number of allies, including NeighborWorks Salt Lake, a west-side community-development and advocacy organization that hosted the town-hall meeting that led to the coalition’s creation. Since then, the organization even helped send coalition members to a conference with other nonprofit advocacy organizations in Cincinnati.

The group has since learned the ins and outs of holding meetings, keeping minutes and building bridges with other groups. Since the beginning, its focus has been both on preventing community members from being ground under the wheels of the criminal-justice system and on raising awareness about how those wheels of justice ran over their family members.

Coalition members have never denied that their family members were involved in crimes worthy of punishment, but they questioned the political motivations that came with labelling the Tongan Crip gang as an organized criminal enterprise worthy of being charged with racketeering.

Like others, Angilau pleaded guilty to state charges in 2009 after U.S. marshals recommended that no federal charges be filed. A year later, however, Salt Lake District Attorney Lohra Miller joined the FBI in announcing new racketeering indictments against Angilau and 16 other TCG members.

In a defiant press conference, Miller applauded the new charges, saying they had effectively “cut the head off the snake.”

Angilau’s attorney Michael Langford told City Weekly in 2014 that for prosecutors to prove racketeering, they need to show that crimes benefited a criminal enterprise. He doesn’t deny TCG is a gang that has committed serious crimes, but he wouldn’t go so far as to call it organized crime, which the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 was designed to target.

It’s true that Angilau’s crimes and those of other gang members were brazen and sometimes violent. But they weren’t necessarily akin to the actions of a foot soldier in a mafia family who might rob a truck and then kick some of the illicit profits up to the head of the family. Angilau’s first robberies, in 2002, were for potato chips and cigarettes—not exactly the kinds of items one might divvy up to the capo in charge. Even according to the federal government’s own 2010 indictment, “there is no formal structure or hierarchy” within the TCG gang.

The coalition is hoping to raise funds to mount a legal battle to have the video of Angilau’s shooting released. Too many questions hover around the incident: Community members want to know whether or not the marshal verbally warned Angilau before firing or perhaps acted with malice (one of Angilau’s charges stemmed from being in the same car as another TCG member who had fired on U.S. marshals in 2007).

The coalition is equally committed to offering other resources to the community. They’ve raised barrels of canned food in a west-side food-donation drive, and collaborated with Racially Just Utah to host a spoken-word event called “Race Matters” in February. Justice for their fallen brother is still a personal goal—but, more than that, they want to create the change they wish had occured in their community years ago.

“That’s our whole motive now, is trying to wake our people up,” Tuakalau says. “We feel if we did this a long time ago, Siale would still be here—our brothers wouldn’t be incarcerated. They would have had these resources. They would have had someone to tell them there are other ways.”

Pacific Islanders on Salt Lake City’s West Side alt Lake City’s west side is just a 15-minute drive from the foothills of the east bench, but a world away in terms of opportunity and diversity. Minutes away from the whitest hipster dives and coffee shops east of State Street, Glendale and Rose Park are home to taquerias, Latino malls, African markets and a Buddhist temple. They are also neighborhoods struggling against some stacked odds.

In 2013, the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business studied the housing and economic conditions of Salt Lake County and flagged Salt Lake City’s west side as an area with “neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and segregation.”

The study used the Housing and Urban Development’s 10-point “Opportunity Index,” which ranks locales by how well they connect their residents with schools, jobs and other community assets like stable housing. The west side is ranked at 2.5, while the east side offers more than double that level of opportunity, with a rank of 6.3.

The west side is also home to one of the largest populations of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in the country. The most recent census data ranks Utah as No. 3, after Hawaii and Alaska, for NHPI population as a percentage of state population. Salt Lake City has the largest population of Tongan-Americans in the country, with West Valley City ranking second.

Unfortunately, Utah also claims some very unfortunate statistics when it comes to the NHPI population. According to analysis done by the California advocacy group Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, between 2002 and 2010, the number of NHPI prisoners in Utah increased 134 percent, while the total number of prisoners increased only 27 percent over the decade. Statewide, the demographic has also struggled in the education system. According to the Utah State Office of Education 6.6 percent of Pacific Islander youth dropped out of high school in 2014, more than two points higher than the 4.4 percent rate for white students and still outpacing the 5.4 percent dropout rate average for all student groups that year.

Salt Lake City Councilman Kyle LaMalfa’s 2nd District covers much of the west side, including the Glendale and Poplar Grove neighborhoods, and he’s hopeful that a finely tuned west-side master plan can significantly bump up the west side on the opportunity scale. He believes the plan can encourage more commerce along Redwood Road and the 9th & 9th West business node. When it comes to the policing issue, though, LaMalfa says there are no easy answers.

“There is one contingent of people who have been here a long time, mostly older white folks who feel that there is a lack of police presence,” LaMalfa writes via e-mail. “But at the same time, I’ve heard grown Pacific Islanders say out loud that they live in fear of the police, that the police presence is too much.”

He’s also heard very sincere teachers and administrators argue that the full-time police officer at the Glendale Middle School busts kids for the same adolescent problems that happen at the Hillside Middle School on the east side— but, since it’s Glendale, the punishments are more severe and push kids into the criminal-justice system. Even so, says LaMalfa, “There is a cultural perspective with some parents at the PTA who I’ve heard say that they want the police officer to ‘crack down’ on the ‘bad kids.’”

The only clear thing that stands out to LaMalfa is a sincere desire for better relations and mutual respect between the community and the police. As far as criminal activity goes, LaMalfa says serious gang activity hasn’t been a problem since the 1980s and ‘90s.

“A lot of those systemic crime problems have gone away,” LaMalfa says. “What seems to linger is a public perception problem and an investment problem.”

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community’s youth from being flushed down the schoolto-prison pipeline. It’s a cause she fights for in encouraging culturally responsive policies in school discipline and teaching.

Ultimately, she thinks the coalition has helped the community talk and have a dialogue among itself.

“The great thing that came to light out of the Siale situation is that, as a community, we realize there are allies that want to help us, but we really need to help ourselves,” Lui says.

Raise Your Pen is unique in giving youth a platform to speak their minds, even where elders might hold their tongues. It is also unique because of the sister power behind the coalition. Faka’apa’apa can also apply to the covenant between brother and sister, in a culture where, traditionally, brothers were always expected to protect their sisters. The sisters, far from being powerless, were in charge of ceremonial powers over many of the rituals governing daily existence.

“Usually, it’s the brothers protecting the honor of the sisters [in Tongan society],” says Kinikini-Kauvaka. “So, it’s kind of a reversal—but it’s very organic, it’s very much in line with the cultural ethic of love and respect.”

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Kinikini-Kauvaka, as a Fiji-based researcher and activist, sees disturbing parallels in the police response to Pacific Islanders in Salt Lake City to the way blacks and Latinos find themselves the target of law enforcement across the country.

“In Salt Lake City, there are very few minorities and very few black people, and I think that Tongans kind of fill a niche of this dangerous individual with a dark body,” Kinikini-Kauvaka says. All the issues that Raise Your Pen has dedicated to fighting are simply another chapter in the ongoing American conversation about what race is, she says. “It’s coming out more and more that we’re not through with this conversation.”

In a modest apartment off Redwood Road, the core members of Raise Your Pen held an April meeting to plan the group’s future. Tausinga took to taking minutes, and the group looked ahead at their coming goals skeched out on poster-sized note sheets while Angilau’s toddler nephew ran circles around the apartment when not periodically being herded back to his mother’s side.

In the near future, organizers hope to finalize obtaining 501(c)(3) nonprofit status—a big milestone. But perhaps even more pivotal is the coalition’s one-year anniversary celebration, to be held on Angilau’s birthday: May 23.

With everything the coalition had been through over the past year still fresh in the group’s memory, the focus again was how to craft a message into something positive. Tuakalua wanted to be sure that, while they called on support from groups opposed to police brutality, the event didn’t get taken over by the shouting of “angry-ass people.”

“We want a celebration, not a protest,” she said.

The women know they have goals set beyond those sketched out on poster sheets that may never be accomplished during their lifetimes. But that lack of progress isn’t daunting compared to what they have already accomplished: establishing a new legacy for themselves, their families, their community and their brother.

“The last thing you will remember of our brother that will live on forever is his legacy through Raise Your Pen,”Tausinga says. CW

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In Tongan, there is a word—faka‘apa‘apa—which, in the loosest sense, means simply “respect” but, in a greater sense, goes to the heart of Tongan culture: respect for parents, respect for elders, respect for authority.

“They’re basically our grassroots,” Tausinga says of her elders. “[They’re] why we’re alive.” That being said, her generation has not always done as the elders have, deferring to external authorities of the law and government. “I’m not being racist at all, but it’s usually whatever the white man says—whatever the policeman or the man on TV, whatever they say—is what they go by. I don’t see it like that.”

But this respect is a strong current to swim against, and one Tausinga says wouldn’t be challenged if it weren’t for the restless feeling among her community’s youth about the sweeping federal racketeering charges and the final indignity of her brother’s death in a setting meant to be an arena of fairness and justice.

This tension in challenging the criminal-justice system’s authority stems from an intensely hierarchical culture in Polynesian society. Lea Lani Kinikini-Kauvaka is a former university lecturer and scholar-activist working on issues of Tongan migration and diaspora. She’s currently working on a book expanding on her doctorate thesis about how Pacific Islander men have been disproportionately targeted and incarcerated by law enforcement.

Tongan culture, Kinikini-Kauvaka says, has long relied on top-down authority. Tonga itself can claim one of the oldest monarchies, dating back to 950 A.D. As an empire defined by hundreds of islands, Tonga was able to resist being colonized by Western forces and by other Polynesian societies through its rigid hierarchical system, she says. Villages deferred to chiefs and priests. In a culture of navigators, each canoe operated within militaristic chains of command, deferring ultimate authority to canoe captains to ensure the boat party’s survival in battle and on long journeys.

When these cultures migrated to the United States, this sense of obedience was transplanted to a new set of leaders and circumstances.

“It’s the position of the reverend or the bishop that took the place of the village chief, and the church kind of took the place of the village.” Kinikini-Kauvaka says.

This strong communion remains a bedrock in Tongan communities, where Kinikini-Kauvaka says children regularly give up part of their paychecks to their parents. It’s frowned upon for children to leave their parent’s home while in their 20s, and every family member pitches in to cover expenses for funerals, weddings and births.

“These things happen regularly, and you’re constantly connected to this wider collective in your extended family,” Kinikini-Kauvaka says. It’s a beautiful harmony, but it’s also one where the youth—which sometimes can be a term applied to islanders even in their 30s and 40s—aren’t expected to speak out of turn.

Charlene Lui is the executive director of education equity at Granite School District and has, for decades, been an advocate for the Pacific Islander community.

During that time, she’s seen that community make incredible strides. Now, with Raise Your Pen, she recognizes a unique coalition that may feel a little more impatient about social-justice issues than the older generation does.

“I think they might look at us and think we’ve compromised because we’ve been here for so many years,” Lui says. “But I think instead what it is, is that, for some of us who have been activists for many years, it’s just that there are multiple ways for us to address the situation.”

Working in the school district, Lui says she agrees wholeheartedly with the coalition’s efforts to stop the

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THURSDAY 4.30 David Sedaris

When it comes to a writer’s literary voice matching his actual speaking voice, it’s hard to think of anyone who has the two parts more in sync than David Sedaris. He speaks exactly like he writes, and vice versa. His voice comes across as short, nasal, nebbishy—and gay enough that he was featured in the documentary film, Do I Sound Gay? His speaking voice also brings alive his writerly view of life. He’s world-weary, but still finds a lot of fun in the world. He knows his family and loved ones will let him down, but he still can’t help loving them.

He constantly feels put-upon, yet can’t stop putting himself in situations where he’ll be put upon. You can hear the irony in every pause, balanced with just the right note of resignation.

Sedaris’ spoken words put him on the map before his written words. In 1992, he was discovered in Chicago by Ira Glass—who went on to create the radio program This American Life—and debuted on National Public Radio reading from his essay SantaLand Diaries, later adopted for the stage. Once Sedaris’ humor was launched on radio, it became a huge success on the page, and Sedaris has gone on to publish multiple collections of essays and short stories.

It’s a rare chance to hear a writer’s written voice and actual speaking voice joined in perfect harmony when Sedaris reads from his works tonight.

(Geoff Griffin) David Sedaris @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, April 30, 8 p.m., $32.50-$47.50, KingsburyHall.Utah.edu

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David Gessner: All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West For three generations, the writings of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have shaped readers’ vision of the American West, inspiring young would-be environmentalists to thoughtfulness and action. Yet as established as their legacy may be, their words may never have been more relevant than they are today in an increasingly arid region still being plundered for its resource potential.

In his new book All the Wild That Remains, environmental journalist David Gessner explores Abbey and Stegner not just by revisiting their published works, but by following in their footsteps: journeying to childhood homes, visiting the settings of their most celebrated writings and talking with friends and family who knew them best. Along the way, he comes to terms with their distinctive roles in environmental consciousness—Stegner, the cautious, disciplined thinker; Abbey, the wild-man monkey-wrencher—and how much of what they warned of has come to pass.

But while his name doesn’t appear in the subtitle, there’s a third central subject of Gessner’s book: Gessner himself, who finds himself rafting down the San Juan River, biking through the Salt Lake City hills and drinking with the men who inspired Abbey’s fictional characters. With his lively first-person voice, Gessner creates something more vital than a standard biography. All the Wild That Remains digs into the lives that inspired such distinctive perspectives on the American West, while also providing a reminder of how potent those visions can remain for the lives of those still living in this place. (Scott Renshaw) David Gessner: All the Wild That Remains @ Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, May 1, 7-9 p.m., free, KenSandersBooks.com

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What do we know about Dave Attell from TV shows he’s hosted? If we start with his comedy travelogue Insomniac, we know he’s a glutton for booze and experiences. From 2001-‘04 on Comedy Central, Attell redefined all-night partying—and taught us something, too! Sure, the lesson might’ve been that it’s possible to get a job in Florida shooting giant rats (nutria, actually) on the graveyard shift, but that’s information we didn’t have before.

Suppose we watched The Gong Show, which Attell revived on Comedy Central for a season in 2008? Well, that’s an extension of Attell’s hedonism: He loves a good freakshow. That’s how we fell in love with Katie Balloons, a woman who takes off her shirt, undulates, then disappears into the business end of a giant balloon.

And from two seasons of Dave’s Old Porn—the Showtime series Attell called “the Mystery Science Theater [3000] of porn”—we know that he’s an unabashed dirtbag and goofball. In other words, just the right moderator for vintage-porn commentary from comedians like Whitney Cummings and a one-dick pony like Ron Jeremy.

So, what do we learn about Dave Attell from his stand-up comedy? More of the same. Attell recognizes no sacred cow, and if he did, he’d take about a nanosecond to turn it into kebabs. Attell’s insult humor spares no one—not even himself; his concept of self-deprecation is self-flagellation.

Always willing to go that far, Dave Attell never disappoints. (Randy Harward) Dave Attell @ Wiseguys West Valley, 2194 W. 3500 South, 801-463-2909, May 1-2, 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., $25. WiseguysComedy.com

Never heard of Independent Bookstore Day? Maybe that’s because 2015 is the first year that Utah shops are celebrating this noble made-in-California attempt to direct a little more traffic through the doors of locally owned bookstores.

Two of Salt Lake City’s bookstores, The King’s English Bookshop and Weller Book Works, will be among 400 independent stores celebrating this Saturday. Throughout the day at Weller, visitors can munch on free bagels and coffee, and listen to a lineup of authors—Heather Fisher, Bonnie Glee, Jenniffer Wardell—as they read from their books. More interactive activities include scavenger hunts, book binding, a literary-based improv workshop and a contest for the best alternative book-cover design.

Over at The King’s English, start the day with a cozy, family-friendly reading: the hour-long Seuss-a-Thon. Then, get ready for a slightly more raucous afternoon with a game-show-style literary trivia contest featuring 16 local authorcompetitors—including Robert Kirby and Ann Cannon—with local author Brodi Ashton serving as quizmaster.

If Independent Bookstore Day makes you nostalgic for the days when turning a page actually meant touching paper, before people were plugged in and tuned out; if it brings back memories of losing yourself in the corners and stacks of bookshelves or of the scent of new bindings and fresh ink, then let yourself return to those days and rediscover why independent bookstores are local gems worth treasuring. (Katherine Pioli) Independent Bookstore Day @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, KingsEnglish.com; Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, May 2, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com

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hen you head out on vacation and want something different from the typical multistory, off-therack hotel experience, consider the many options for bed & breakfast getaways right here in Utah. Each option offers its own slice of Utah history.

The Iron Gate Inn (100 N. 200 West, Cedar Cit y, 435-867-0603, TheIronGateInn.com): Just sitting on the back patio of this mansion on a beautiful morning is worth the trip, but the experience gets even better when dining on a homemade breakfast strata, baked French toast or shredded-potato quiche.

What’s particularly notable about Iron Gate is the winery on the property. Opt for the “Wine and Unwind” package, and your hosts will have a glass waiting for you when upon arrival. You’ll also get to do a tour of the winery production area, taste some handcrafted wines and take home a souvenir bottle. Choose one of the mansion’s nine rooms, or stay in the private carriage house across the street.

The property is also within easy walking distance of Utah Shakespeare Festival venues. Iron Gate can book your tickets, or even get you a discount.

Seven Wives Inn (217 N. 100 West, St. George, 800-600-3737, SevenWivesInn. com): This property consists of a cottage and two neighboring homes dating back to the 19th century—you may not be surprised to hear one of the original owners really did have seven wives.

Even with all that history, Seven Wives is very 21st century, with Wi-Fi, cable and a pool—and en suite bathrooms for all rooms. For breakfast, try the baked herb soufflé made with eggs fresh from the backyard chickens. If you’re headed out to one of the nearby national parks, they’ll even pack a to-go lunch for you.

Alaskan Inn (435 Ogden Canyon, Ogden, 801-621-8600, AlaskanInn.com): Enjoy peace and quiet at this adults-only location along the banks of the Ogden River.

All guests enjoy freshly baked chocolatechunk cookies at check-in, and rooms are stocked with signature Mrs. Cavanaugh’s mints, a chilled bottle of sparkling cider and a Jacuzzi tub. Ask for the “Lovebird” romantic package, which includes tea-light candles, a rose-petal path and chocolatedipped strawberries.

Once you and your lovebird do manage to emerge from the room, you’ll find yourselves in a beautiful mountain canyon surrounded by hiking and biking trails and

The Iron Gate Inn, above, and the Alaskan Inn, right three local ski resorts. A hot breakfast is served right to your door every morning.

Old Rock Church (10 S. Main, Providence, 435-752-3432, OldRockChurch.com): No matter your religious affiliation, you’ll want to attend this church. A former LDS meeting house built in 1869 just outside Logan, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Each room has its own unique style of décor, ranging from Victorian to Pioneer to Colonial.

After enjoying a night in a room with a jetted tub built for two, arise to worship the cream-cheese-stuffed French toast topped with raspberries and whipped cream.

Harvest House (29 Canyon View Drive, Springdale, 435-772-3880, HarvestHouse.net): Visiting Zion National Park could hardly be any easier when you stay at a spot located just half a mile from the entrance. You’ll also enjoy views of the park from a private deck adjoining your room. Fortify yourself before you set out to hike Angel’s Landing with a breakfast of ham & egg croissants or chili-cheese eggs all while taking in views of Watchman Peak.

Torchlight Inn (255 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 508-989-0459, TorchlightInn.com): The deck of your room is the perfect place to sit idly watching skiers come down the mountain—or grab your own skis from a private, in-room ski locker and be on the slopes in minutes. All of the rooms are named after Olympic host cities—and yes, there is a Salt Lake room that features a king-size bed, pullout couch, fireplace and private deck. Breakfast, the most important meal of the day, is the highlight: The inn features a menu that includes the traditional

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(housemade corned-beef hash or biscuits & gravy) alongside the novel (crabmeat-scallion quiche or four-mushroom frittata with herbed goat cheese).

Hines Mansion (383 W. 100 South, Provo, 800-428-5636, HinesMansion.com): You can find Victorian elegance without having to drive—just take FrontRunner down from Salt Lake City, and the mansion staff will be happy to pick you up from the terminal. Once at Hines, you’ll find nine suites combining turn-of-the-century décor with modern conveniences like Wi-Fi, as well as a two-person jetted tub in each room. For breakfast, enjoy strawberry-stuffed French toast or whole-wheat pancakes topped with chopped pecans.

When it comes to a great in-state getaway, get your rest, get a good breakfast, and you’re well on your way to adventure. CW

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Theater

Brian Moote Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th Street, Ogden, 801-463-2909, May 1-2, 8 p.m.

Dave Attell Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, May 1-2, 8 & 10 p.m. (see p. 20) David Sedaris Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Thursday, April 30, 8 p.m.

The Park City Follies Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, April 30-May 2, 8 p.m.; May 3, 6 p.m.

Tom Segura Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, Sunday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.

Comedy & Improv

Ballet Senior Showcase Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Wednesday, May 6, 6-7:30 p.m.

Danza Azteca de Salt Lake City Grupa Quetzalcoatl and Mariachi de Mi Tierra, Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, 801-328-8941, May 3, 8 p.m.

Classical & Symphony The French Connection: Duruflé & Poulenc Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Saturday, May 2, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Fun, Folk & Fancy Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-572-2010,

Poetry

Rumi Poetry Club Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, first Tuesday of every month, 7-8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY 4.30 The Little Dog Laughed

In a society that’s increasingly accepting of gender and sexualidentity differences, there are still some pockets of resistance. And one of them is among the more improbable: the Hollywood movie industry. Sure, everyone there is OK ≠if you’re gay—but that doesn’t mean the powers-that-be want audiences to look up at a movie star and think, “Gay.” Douglas Carter Beane’s 2007 farce The Little Dog Laughed tells the story of a celebrity agent whose latest client, Mitchell Green, may be the next big screen idol. There’s just that little problem of keeping Mitchell’s fondness for men out of the public eye—especially when Mitchell himself doesn’t seem to care much about remaining in the closet. Wasatch Theatre Company and Silver Summit Theatre copresent this Utah premiere about the collision between reality and movie fantasy. (Scott Renshaw) Wasatch Theatre Company/Silver Summit Theatre Company: The Little Dog Laughed @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 30-May 16, ThursdaySaturday, 8 p.m.; matinee May 9, 2 p.m., $15, ArtTix.org

Author Appearances

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho: Barefoot Dogs King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Thursday, April 30, 7 p.m.

David Gessner: All the Wild That Remains Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801521-3819, Friday, May 1, 7 p.m. (see p. 20) Jenniffer Wardell: Beast Charming Barnes & Noble Gateway, 6 N. Rio Grande St., 801-456-0100, May 2-3.

Laura McBride: We Are Called to Rise The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Wednesday, May 6, 7 p.m.

L.K. Hill: The Botanist Barnes & Noble Layton, 1780 N. Woodland Park Dr., Layton, 801-773-9973, Saturday, May 2, 2 p.m.

Maggie Stiefvater: Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures Barnes & Noble Layton, 1780 N. Woodland Park Dr., Layton, 801-773-9973, Tuesday, May 5, 7 p.m.

Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Monday, May 4, 7 p.m.

Vicki Hoefle: The Straight Talk on Parenting The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Tuesday, May 5, 7 p.m.

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Independent Bookstore Day Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586; The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, various events, May 2 (see p.20)

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Intersections: Staged Readings Directed by Charles Lynn Frost Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, April 30-May 2, 7 p.m.; Sunday, May 3, 2 p.m.

Into the Hoods Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Mondays, Wednesdays-Fridays, 7 p.m., Fridays 9:30 p.m., Saturdays 2:30, 6, 8:30 p.m., through June 6.

Julius Caesar New World Shakespeare Co., Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801719-7998, Thursday-Saturday, April 30-May 2, 7 p.m.; May 3, 5 p.m.

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

The Little Dog Laughed Wasatch Theatre Company/Silver Summit Theatre Company, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 30-May 2, 8 p.m. (see p. 23) Mr. Marmalade Good Company Theatre, 260 25th Street, Ogden, 801-564-0288, April 30-May 2, 8 p.m.; May 3, 4 p.m.

Mr. Perfect Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, April 30-May 2, 7:30 p.m.; May 3, 1 & 6 p.m.

Mockingbird Pygmalion Productions, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 30-May 2, 7:30 p.m.; matinee May 2, 2 p.m.

The Music Man Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6356, Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Mondays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Saturdays 2 p.m., through May 16.

Over the River and Through the Woods Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Dr, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Mondays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., matinees Saturdays 12:30 & 4 p.m., through May 23.

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City Weekly has an immediate opening for a part-time, freelance Music Editor.

Is your love of live music getting in the way of your day job? Are you able to write critically (and succinctly) about the city's entertainment options? Could you produce an incandescent music section that readers would love to read?

And, most importantly, can you do it on deadline?

If you can answer yes to the above, and have the clips to prove it, you may be in line to be City Weekly's next music editor/critic. We need someone passionate and knowledgeable about the local nightlife scene with a strong writing voice and deft line-editing skills. This person must have an interest in touring bands, local musicians, club bands, DJs and music festivals -- in a variety of music genres, showcased across the Wasatch Front. Stories may also include music-adjacent performances such as burlesque and Vaudeville-style performances, open mics and karaoke.

The position demands the requisite people skills to assign and edit freelancer stories and to cultivate relationships with publicists and concert/club venues.

The City Weekly Music Editor also will generate two or more music blogs each week and maintain a strong socialmedia presence.

If you love working your own hours (about 25 per week) and from a laptop at your favorite coffee shop, this job may have your name on it.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter, résumé, and clips to editor@cityweekly.net by May 5.

Visual Art Galleries 444 CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, through May 9.

Adam Thomas: Looking Up Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through June 5.

Anne Munoz: “... with trees in mind” Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays., through June 5.

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

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

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.

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, through May 29.

Recent Paintings by Three Award-Winning Artists Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, Mondays-Fridays, through May 8.

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Scott Peterson: Etched Finch Lane & Park Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, Mondays-Fridays, through June 5.

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

Adjunct Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25.

Brian Charles Patterson: Missileblower (And The Selected Good) Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through June 20.

Levi Jackson: Bushwacker Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 21.

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

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

Out Loud 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.

Visions Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, Mondays-Fridays. through May 6.

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with tasty biscuits & gravy, eggs Benedict, mimosas and more.

E is for Em’s (271 North Center St., 801596-0566, EmsRestaurant.com), where you and your mom can escape the Mother’s Day brunch crowds and enjoy a pleasant Sunday supper on the patio or inside Em’s. Located in historic Marmalade Hill, Em’s is the original Salt Lake City neighborhood bistro, and chef/ owner Emily Gassmann continues to enthrall loyal customers with her splendid dishes, typically made from organic and locally sourced ingredients. I can’t imagine a mom who wouldn’t love the sensational chèvre-stuffed tamales and chipotle con crema appetizer. And for an entree, I’d tempt her with Em’s leekstuffed wild salmon roulade, served over a bed of creamy cabbage. Bonus: You wouldn’t think a place as cozy as Em’s would have such an excellent wine selection, but it does.

Runner-up: What deserving mother wouldn’t love to be treated to dinner at Eva (317 S. Main, 801-359-8447, EvaSLC.com), where small plates and big flavors co-exist?

R is for Red Maple (2882 W. 4700 South, 801-747-2888), where you’ll treat your dear mother to Chinese-style dim sum. During Sunday’s dim sum service, an endless Conga line of food carts are wheeled from table to table with an immense array of appetizer-size tidbits. The dim sum menu features 40-or-so offerings ranging from steamed dumplings and rice rolls to baked custard buns, noodle soups, turnip cakes, chicken feet with black-bean sauce, steamed barbecue pork buns, various types of congee, sticky rice in lotus leafs and stuffed taro.

Why, there’s even a respectable wine/sake/ beer list, or you could treat Mom to a bottle of bubbly in the form of Segura Viudas Spanish Cava.

Runner-up: A meal on the pretty patio at Ruth’s Diner (4160 Emigration Canyon Road, 801-582-5807, RuthsDiner.com) is a nobrainer. Check out the new Ruth’s Creekside while you’re there; it’s a liquor outlet and grocery store all in one.

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fast, lunch and dinner on Sundays, including Mother’s Day. T is for Tiburon (8256 S. 700 East, Sandy, 801-255-1200, TiburonFineDining.com). Back before “contemporary American cuisine” was a culinary catchphrase, Tiburon Fine Dining restaurant was dishing it up. They’ve been doing so in Sandy since 1999. Ken Rose and his crew will tempt Mom with menu options such as the house specialty: New Zealand elk tenderloin, char-grilled and served with mushroom duxelles, greenpeppercorn demi-glace and garlic mashers. Or, she might prefer the ahi tuna, dusted with Asian spices and black sesame seeds, seared to rare, topped with honeysoy sauce and accompanied by pineapple fried rice.

Runner-up: Trio (680 S. 900 East, 801-533-8746; 6405 S. 3000 East, 801-944-8746, TrioDining.com), where at both the downtown and Cottonwood locations, you and Mom can enjoy brunch on the sunny patios with menu choices such as paninis, stone-fired pizzas, flatbreads and breakfast/brunch dishes like salmon hash, sweet focaccia French toast and eggs Italiano.

H is for Himalayan Kitchen (360 S. State, 801-328-2077, HimalayanKitchen. com). I know, you thought I was going to recommend Hooters, didn’t you? Well, not so fast. I think many mothers would love to mix things up on Mother’s Day with the sort of exotic flavors you’ll find at Himalayan Kitchen, where both Nepalese and Indian cuisines await. Start Mom off with an order of Himalayan momos: steamed dumplings stuffed with a choice of veggies, bison or chicken with onion, garlic, ginger, spices and homemade sesame sauce. The adventurous might want to try the traditional Nepali goat curry or rayo ko saag: spiced and stir-fried mustard greens. For fans of Indian food, there’s plenty here, from curries (korma and masala), to vindaloos (tikka and tandoori). There’s also a terrific little wine list and lots of lassi libations.

Runner-up: Harley & Buck’s (2432 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-745-2060, HarleyAndBucks.com) serves Sunday brunch

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t goes without saying that we should be thankful for our mothers 24/7/365. But too often, we forget to thank our moms for all the nurturing and support, and— against all odds—somehow keeping us from becoming evil rat bastards like Dick Cheney. So, we designate a day in May each year to say, “Well done, Mom!” And, we take her to breakfast, brunch or dinner.

Of course, all the usual suspects will be polishing the silver for Mother’s Day feasts: places like La Caille, Log Haven, Tuscany, Bambara, Faustina and The Grand America, among others. But I’m trying to think out-of-the-box this year with a few dining destinations that might not be on your Mother’s Day radar. This is how I spell “M-O-T-H-E-R.” M is for Mariscos Mi Lindo Nayarit (145 E. 1300 South, 801-908-5727), a brightly colored, festive Mexican restaurant specializing in fish and seafood of all types at ridiculously reasonable prices. That this gem hasn’t been colonized by hipsters yet is miraculous, although it could be because there’s no porkbelly or kale on the menu.

Instead, you’ll find oysters on the half-shell, shrimp ceviche, whole fried tilapia with garlic sauce, crawfish soup, octopus ( pulpo) tostadas and specialties like camarones a la diabla: shrimp in a fiery “devil’s” chile sauce. So, why not treat Mom to a Mexican getaway this year for Mother’s Day? Runner-up: Take mom to the Irishthemed Sunday brunch at MacCool’s Public House (multiple locations, MacCoolsRestaurant.com).

O is for Oasis Cafe (151 S. 500 East, 801-322-0404, OasisCafeSLC.com), where Mom can leave the household chaos behind and find respite on the serene, sun-drenched Oasis patio. On May 10, Oasis Cafe is offering a special Mother’s Day brunch from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The smorgasbord will feature hot and cold entrees, including a primerib carving station, maple-mustard glazed salmon, cheese blintzes with blueberry sauce, shrimp enchiladas, crab cakes with mango salsa, Mediterranean pasta salad, a chocolate fountain and other temptations too numerous to name. If you’d prefer instead to treat Mom to dinner, the cafe opens at 5 p.m. on Mother’s Day for its regular supper service. Runner-up: Enjoy the flavors of Greece at the Other Place Restaurant (469 E. 300 South, 801-521-6567), serving break-

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Dave Cannell and Pete Cannella, co-owners of Fratelli Ristorante in Sandy (9236 S. Village Shop Drive, FratelliUtah.com) invite you to join their Motorcycle Ride for RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) on Sunday, May 31. According to a press release issued by Dave and Pete, “Bella, age 10, and Lizzy, age 13, both have RSD. This condition is known as the highest level of pain one can experience. Bella has recently been diagnosed and is in a wheelchair, but Lizzy has been living with the pain for years. Yahvel, the single mother of the girls, must constantly fly back and forth between Utah and Florida to visit a specialist for transfusions for Lizzy. We are hoping to raise money for the family to offset the exponentially rising cost of treatments.” The ride, which is hoped to become an annual event, begins with registration, coffee, bagels and scones at 9:30 a.m. Following the motorcycle ride (10 a.m.-1 p.m.), there will be a barbecue at Fratelli, with a raffle and live music by DJ Sayo. The contribution is $15 per rider, which includes the registration breakfast, barbecue lunch, raffle ticket and shirt.

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Take Mom to Tuscany

Tuscany restaurant (2832 E. 6200 South, 801-277-9919, TuscanySLC.com) is pulling out all the stops for Mother’s Day 2015, offering both brunch from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and a Mother’s Day grand dinner, with seating available beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The brunch is $50 for adults/$20 for kids under 12, and will feature prime rib, carved ham, an omelet station, seafood, salads, breakfast items, pastries and more. The grand dinner is $45 per person, and menu choices include a Tuscan pear salad; sous vide Wagyu steak with triple-cream potatoes, roasted Romenesco and Gorgonzola hollandaise; salmon piccata with lemoncaper sauce, a Tuscany dessert platter and more. Be sure to RSVP as soon as possible, because seating is limited.

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couple of months ago, I received a review copy of a book in the mail.

I took a quick glance at it and then placed it in a pile with about 50 other cookbooks, cocktail books and such that I thought I’d never get around to reading. But then I stumbled upon it again recently and picked it up. I’m glad I did, because Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History is a really fun and informative read.

It’s a boozy book that will appeal to libation lovers and Hollywood historians alike.

Written by Mark Bailey and illustrated by Edward Hemingway, Of All the Gin Joints is a fun and fascinating romp through Hollywood’s alcohol-soaked golden years: The Silent Era, The Studio Era, Postwar Era,

the 1960s/New Hollywood (1960-1979). Its cast of characters reads like a Hollywood Who’s Who, with tipplers ranging from Spencer Tracy, Mary Pickford and Frances Farmer to Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Taylor and Dennis Hopper. In total, the book documents some of the more spirited stories of some 70 iconic actors, actresses, directors and screenwriters in Hollywood and elsewhere.

But there’s a lot more than just the boozy bite-size bios in this very readable (think bedside or bathroom) compendium. There are also cocktail recipes, clever quotes about alcohol and imbibing, fascinating behind-the-scenes tales of the making of some of America’s most memorable movies and—one of my favorite features—sidebars detailing with history of Hollywood’s legendary watering holes: places like Musso & Frank’s, Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vic’s, The Brown Derby, Chateau Marmont, Mocambo, Formosa Cafe and many more.

All of it is imbued with illustrator Edward Hemingway’s keen eye for caricature. As Chelsea Handler put it, “This book is like being at the best dinner party in the world.”

Oh, what today’s paparazzi wouldn’t give to be flies on the wall at some of Hollywood’s most gin-soaked moments—such as the moment when Tallulah Bankhead, selfdescribed as “pure as the driven slush” and “ambisextrous,” pretending to be a

DRINK damsel in distress, flung herself into a pool at Hollywood’s resplendent Garden of Allah Hotel. She hoped to be rescued

by Olympic gold-medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, who had just debuted on the big screen as Tarzan. Yes, there was plenty of booze involved, and—once in the water— Tallulah’s dress disappeared. Bankhead “found her way into Weissmuller’s arms, naked,” Bailey wrote. As she was carried out of the pool, she said to the gathering crowd, “ E v e r y b o d y ’s been dying to see my body.

Now you can.”

W h i le in Hol l y w o o d’s heyday, whisk y and gin were the libations of choice, t her e were exceptions: Steve McQueen had a fondness for Old Milwaukee beer (along with LSD, hash, peyote and other drugs, apparently), while John Wayne was a tequila man (Sauza Conmemorativo, to be exact). Frank Sinatra’s

legendary love affair with Jack Daniel’s is well known, but Humphrey Bogart’s allegiance to Bourbon milk punch, not so much. Bogie celebrated Christmas and his birthday—both Dec. 25—with a big bowl of Bourbon milk punch, the ingredients of which include 16 ounces Bourbon, 1 quart half & half, 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 2/3 cup confectioner’s sugar and freshly grated nutmeg.

With a cast of semitragic characters like Natalie Wood, William Holden, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Judy Garland and Lon Chaney Jr., Of All the Gin Joints contains moments both sweet and sour. But it’s the incredible wit of so many of the subjects that keeps shining through.

May be d i r ector John Huston summed it up best, saying, “I prefer to think of God as not dead, just drunk.” CW

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This is very good New York-style pizza, close to the type bought by the slice at any of a thousand pizzerias in the Big Apple. A slice at Lucky Slice sells for $3-$3.50, and it’s a generous wedge taken from a 20-inch pizza. Whole pies run from $10 for a basic 14-inch cheese pizza, to $23 for a 20-inch pie with five or more toppings.

The options for toppings and sauces at Lucky Slice are mindboggling: Thai peanut, ranch, herbal, barbecue, creamy pesto and more. Then, there are specialty pies, like the unusual potato pesto or tapenade (chef/co-owner Will Shafer is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu). Still, the best way to experience Lucky Slice pizza is the simplest: hand-tossed crust, with cheese and fresh tomato sauce. The pizzas are stone-fired and the crust is light, with exactly the right amount of sauce and cheese. Transplanted New Yorkers will approve (although the super-friendly service might take some getting used to). Reviewed April 23. 200 E. 25th St., Ogden, 801-627-2229; 1245 S. Legend Hills Drive, Clearfield, 801-820-6992, TheLuckySlice.com

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Slices run from $2.75 to $3.25, and a one-topping pizza is $15.50 for a 16-inch pie, $17.50 for the 19-inch. The crust at Slices is excellent; at its thinnest point a mere 1/32-inch thick or so, with a delightfulsnap,whiletherestofthethincrustisslightlychewy.Ilove the housemade meatball topping, although I do wish Slices would go the extra mile and pony up for top-notch Grande mozzarella cheese for their pies. Reviewed April 23. 4655 S. 2300 East, 801-613-9901, SlicesPizzaUtah.com

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Carl’s Cafe

This diminutive strip mall coffee shop/café is only open for breakfast and lunch but packs enormous flavor into a small space. The jumbo omelets at Carl’s Café are perennial crowd-pleasers and the French toast gets raves as well. At lunchtime, the delish “Easterner” sandwich features hot pastrami with cheese and tomatoes. The service is always friendly and efficient at Carl’s, but get there early to avoid the breakfast lines. A good choice for a pre-ski breakfast before heading up Little or Big Cottonwood Canyon. Bring cash, Carl doesn’t accept credit cards. 2336 E. 7000 South, Salt Lake City, 801-943-5138

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Located in West Jordan, Wok King fires up the woks to bring you Chinese fare such as kung pao chicken, potstickers, paper-wrapped chicken, Szechuan-style shrimp and much more. The lo mein and sesame chicken are popular with the regulars, but also try the jumbo fried shrimp, egg rolls and egg drop soup. 9117 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-562-8928

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Sea Salt is a beautiful but casual space—open and airy, with wide swatches of white everywhere. The semicommunal tables are a nice touch, too. The menu is extensive, with many dishes based on the owners’ Italian grandmother’s recipes. As a tribute to her, some menu items, like the meatballs and ravioli, carry her name, Nonna Maria. Good starters include olives and focaccia, or the bruschetta alla checca (wood-oven baked grilled filoni, Campari tomato, basil, garlic and grana padano).

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arly in Avengers: Age of Ultron, there’s a scene that plays to some of the movie’s biggest laughs, built around one of the pillars of the Marvel Universe: the fact that the hammer of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) can only be wielded by one who is worthy. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) throw on their respective Iron Man and War Machine gauntlets to get a little power behind their pull; Captain America (Chris Evans) seems to budge it, briefly freaking Thor out. Built on the kind of looseygoosey character moments that made writer/director Joss Whedon seem like a great choice for the first Avengers, it’s a frisky bit of business—and it also happens to be the key to why Age of Ultron is more than just the latest pop-culture machine cranked off the Marvel Studios assembly line.

Because as it turns out, Age of Ultron is fundamentally about what makes humanity worthy. When Stark, inspired by disturbing visions of a ruined Earth, decides to create an artificial intelligence to help protect the world, the result is Ultron (James Spader), an entity that doesn’t take long to conclude that humanity itself is the world’s greatest threat. And he’s got a pair of allies in superpowered twins Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)—the former a telepath/telekinetic, the latter with super speed—whose own experience with the Stark name was seeing a bomb created by his company kill their parents.

Whedon is choreographing a metric ton of moving parts here, introducing new characters while dealing with subplots for our established Avengers, like the neverbefore-seen personal life of Clint Barton/ Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and a budding romance between Natasha Romanoff/

Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce Banner/Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

The movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are part of a great alwaysforward-looking system, serving up snippets of fan service and setting up down-the-road stories—the African nation of Wakanda, home of Black Panther, makes an appearance—which on some level might always make them more cumbersome and less individually satisfying than they could otherwise be.

But there’s also some potent subtext rolling around here, partly kicked off by Wanda getting inside our heroes’ heads to make them face some of their darker thoughts. Multiple characters are framed in terms of their “monstrosity”: Banner with his out-of-control id; Stark with his often-more-out-of-control ego; Natasha with a history of being trained from childhood to be a killing machine. The threat of Ultron is a threat created by the worst in us: Something our fear tells us we need in order to feel safe, when that good old Rooseveltian “fear itself”—represented here, not coincidentally, by a monolithic consciousness that pokes its way into all electronic communication—is ultimately more damaging.

That’s why some of the centerpiece battle sequences here pack more than just a CGI wallop. The donnybrook between Iron Man and Hulk on the streets of South Korea may be a whoop-it-up blast, but it also culminates in a skyscraper collapsing to the ground in a disturbingly familiar plume of smoke and debris. Then the grand finale showdown revolves around not just the obligatory destruction of Ultron’s seemingly infinite robot army, but around the pre-

Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Evans in Avengers: Age of Ultron

viously fragmented Avengers once again pulling together in a crisis, and overseeing the evacuation of thousands of people from a threatened city. Hollywood movies have taken some heat at times for appropriating the visual language of real-world catastrophe, but in Age of Ultron the decision feels earned, because Whedon is making his grand summer entertainment into a story about the circumstances that bring out the best in people, about the self-sacrifice and compassion that we can show when we set aside petty nonsense and pull together.

Of course it’s possible to enjoy Age of Ultron without giving such a reading the slightest consideration, full as it is of geeky pleasures and action spectacle; it’s equally possible to see it as the latest exhausting pinnacle of the MCU’s bigger-faster-more aesthetic. But comic books have always been, in part, a modern mythology, and mythology has always been humanity’s way of understanding our place in the world. Sometimes the super-heroism is just brightly colored junk food. And sometimes, it’s a way of giving us a glimpse of how we flawed, messed-up, occasionally monstrous humans can sometimes prove ourselves worthy. CW

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TRY THESE Serenity (2005) Nathan Fillion Gina Torres Rated PG-13

Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) Robert Downey, Jr. Chris Hemsworth Rated PG-13

Iron Man 3 (2013) Robert Downey, Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow Rated PG-13

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Merchants of Doubt HH.5 There are times when a documentary seems so eager to keep you engaged and entertained that the filmmakers forget to stick to their ostensible subject. Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) adapts the book

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Dior and I HHH Even those with no interest in fashion will be completely fascinated by this peek into Parisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House of Christian Dior, and the mad rush of new creative director Raf Simons to bring his first haute couture collection from concepts to finished garments in a mere eight weeks (rather than the usual six months) in Spring 2012. Filmmaker FrĂŠdĂŠric Tcheng got unprecedented access to the ateliers (workshops), and the result is a tapestry portrait of creativity and craft coping with practical limitationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as when the demands of business and art clashâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to give birth to the modern-art fantasies we see on the runway. While Simons is clearly a brilliant artist with bold ideas who took big risks, this film also serves as a corrective (in a way similar to 20 Feet From Stardom) to the notion that a Great Man makes Great Art entirely by himself, with its focus on the seamstresses, some of whom have worked for Dior for more than 40 years. The heads of the two ateliers, Monique Bailly and Florence Chehet, are talented and dedicated artists, too. Here, they get their due. Opens May 1 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;MaryAnn Johanson

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Morano who gleefully conduct personal-attack campaigns against climate scientists. But there’s also a framing structure in which illusionist Jamy Ian Swiss tries to compare his profession to the work of spin doctors, and a structure that pulls in too many tangential subjects, like a Republican legislator who was trounced in a primary election because he dared to suggest climate change is real. The calculated mechanics of conservative PR machinery are fascinating enough without needing to employ similar tactics of telling the audience everything you think they want to hear. Opens May 1 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Big Men At Main Library, May 5, 7 p.m. (NR) The Boxcar Children At Main Library, May 2, 11 a.m. (NR)

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CURRENT RELEASES The Age of Adaline HHH Despite an almost self-destructive need to be taken seriously, this romantic drama still finds swoony soul in its odd meditation on the solitude of eternal life. Blake Lively plays Adaline, a woman who— at the age of 29, in 1937—survives an accident to find herself no longer aging; in 2015, she at last considers a romantic connection after years of isolation. Krieger makes the odd decision to employ voice-over narration, attempting to bestow a scientific basis on the fanciful premise, and Lively is unevenly effective at conveying centenarian serenity and worldly wisdom (particularly when juxtaposed with wonderful, lived-in supporting performances by Ellen Burstyn and Harrison Ford). But the story does capture the sense of personal connection we all long for; nobody cares about hypothermia and cellular elasticity if you make them feel the collision between regret, love and hope. (PG-13)—SR

Ex Machina HHH It’s rare for a science-fiction film’s high-concept to get stolen out from under it by a performance—but Oscar Isaac is a rare kind of actor. Writer/director Alex Garland casts Isaac as Nathan, a billionaire engineer/entrepreneur who brings employee Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) to his isolated estate to test the “humanity” of his artificial-intelligence robot, Ava (Alicia Vikander). Garland creates an effectively ominous environment full of reflective surfaces, yet like those surfaces, Ex Machina seems mostly to be reflecting back whatever genre notions a viewer might already be bringing to the experience. That would be a huge problem, if Isaac weren’t making his performance as this narcissistic genius so start-to-finish brilliant. There may ultimately be a bit more going on here, but it only takes one viewing to realize what it looks like when an actor is in complete command. (R)—SR

Little Boy HH For 99 of its 105 minutes, Alejandro Monteverde’s period drama seems like it might be a singularly daring example of faith-based filmmaking … and then. In a California town circa 1945, diminutive 8-year-old Pepper (Jakob Salvati) is devastated when his beloved father (Michael Rappaport) heads off to war, but a local priest (Tom Wilkinson) convinces him that he might have within him the ability to bring Dad home safely. What follows involves Pepper’s reluctant befriending of the town’s lone, ostracized Japanese-American resident (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Monteverde builds a potentially fascinating theology around the idea that faith is most potent because of what it changes inside the believer. But he surrenders to a pandering resolution, undermining everything the rest of the movie had developed. The result is savvy, but shallow: Monteverde may sell more tickets, but he won’t change any souls. (PG-13)—SR

The Water Diviner HH In 1919, years after the Australian defeat at Gallipoli, a father travels to the Ottoman Empire to find his lost sons. Think Saving Private Ryan, except Dad (Russell Crowe) searches for bones among those of 80,000 soldiers. Herein lies the major fault with The Water Diviner: Dad is a dowser, farming parched land Down Under using that “trick” to find water. And Dad will use this “skill” to … uncover the bodies of his sons? This could work as fantasy—except Russell Crowe, making his directing debut, has not made a fantasy film. Where the film sticks to historical adventure, it’s on steadier footing, and Crowe captures a nice sense of place, in a place that hasn’t been seen so often onscreen that it has become cliché. But it’s tough to believe in the story he wants to tell. (R)—MAJ

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Season Premiere: Season 1 of Penny Dreadful crammed a lot of story into a mere eight episodes—so much so that you have to wonder who/what’s left for Vanessa (Eva Green), Ethan (Josh Hartnett), Dr. Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and the rest of the Victorian X-Filers to battle. Witches, of course. It’s always witches. They’re out to get Vanessa, and there are a handful of scenes in Season 2 opener “Fresh Hell” that are as creepy the entire Coven run of American Horror Story. But unlike that and WGN’s visceral period horror-show Salem, Penny Dreadful relies on atmospherics that tend to meander; there’s a satisfying story here, but it requires patience. And more candles—19th-century London is ridiculously dark.

250th Episode: Yes, only 250—it seems like Family Guy has produced at least twice that many episodes, and even more jokes about how it’s “not as good as it used to be.” Thing is, Family Guy is as good as it’s ever been, but we’ve become so numb to the delivery system (setup, cutaway scene, commentary on random modern inconvenience, etc.) that it makes the traditionally linear storytelling of cartoons like Bob’s Burgers more appealing. It could also be that Bob’s Burgers is a far, far, far better show than Family Guy. Let’s go with that—happy 250th, Griffins!

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Monday, May 4 (HBO) Documentary: Brett Morgen’s doc Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck arrives long enough after Cobain’s 1994 suicide (sorry, no cover-up conspiracy theories here) that it seems fresh— more importantly, this deconstruction of The Man, The Myth, The Grunge Superstar is fresh, like nothing that’s come before it. Besides the usual Behind the Music mix of childhood home movies, Nirvana concert footage and talking-head testimonials, Morgen uses stylized animation to illustrate the journal passages of a young Aberdeen, Wash., weirdo who didn’t fit in anywhere—as well as Cobain’s own artwork and appropriated pop-cultural imagery—

Penny Dreadful (Showtime) all mashed up into a narrative almost as dizzying as the mixtape the documentary is named after. The kitchen-sink visual technique Morgen used for 2012’s expansive Rolling Stones doc Crossfire Hurricane, surprisingly, works just as well in the intimate inverse, shattering the decadesfostered grunge-cartoon image of Cobain and replacing it with a real human being. Courtney Love-haters will be glad to see that she, however, doesn’t come off nearly as well—and Montage of Heck has her (and daughter Frances Bean Cobain’s) stamp of approval. Just as curious, presentday Dave Grohl is absent, making this the only rock-doc in recent memory without his participation.

David Letterman: A Life on Television Monday, May 4 (CBS) Special: A 90-minute special marking Dave’s 30-year TV career and upcoming retirement, and there’s no space to include that one time he read my letter in the Viewer Mail segment on NBC’s Late Night? Fine, whatever.

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He’s hit his “joy ceiling.” There are plenty of funny moments from Coogan, as well as co-stars Kathryn Hahn and Bradley Whitford, but Happyish feels like a circa-1999 take on “edgy.”

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n 1983, long before They Might Be Giants blossomed into a beloved indie-pop institution, their nascent career was brief ly derailed—after only their third show—by twin misfortunes: Guitarist John Flansburgh lost his equipment when his apartment was burglarized and keyboardist/accordionist John Linnell broke his wrist in a bicycle accident. Forced to take a break from public performances, the two Johns kept up their creative energies by recording new material and releasing it through Flansburgh’s answering machine. They placed an ad with Flansburgh’s phone number in the Village Voice, coaxing diehard fans and curious Voice readers to call up for a direct line to soon-to-be standards and fresh-from-demo cuts. They called the service Dial-a-Song.

And, Flansburgh says, it made They Might Be Giants who they are—not only in terms of the attention Dial-a-Song brought the band, but in more abstract ways, too.

“The one thing that I’ll be forever grateful for is that the original Dial-a-Song just introduced the band to so many people in such a singular way,” Flansburgh says. “As much as bands try to sort of set themselves apart from the crowd, it’s very difficult to give people a different experience. A lot of the ways people are introduced to bands are very standardized, and the great thing about the Dial-a-Song thing was that it was so different. It really put the songs first. It really just changed us. It really focused us on what we could do that was our own unique ‘us.’ ” Dial-a-Song waxed and waned over the years, depending on the band’s own creative course and various technological advances, but over the lifespan of the phone number (and the DialASong. com website, which first went online in 2000), it’s estimated that more than 500 distinct songs were recorded, giving the band one of the largest recorded catalogs of its generation. Dial-a-Song was mothballed in 2006, but late in 2014, the Johns revived it—but without the original true-Brooklyn 718 area code. Instead, it has been replaced by a toll-free 844 number.

“When it started, it didn’t have the 718 area code anyway, because all New York area codes were the same,” Flansburgh chuckles. “When they invented the 718 area code, I was afraid that Dial-a-Song would be kind of ruined, because we would be exposed as kind of non-New York City residents. There was such an expansion-team feeling about the 718 area code.”

Thirty years later, Dial-a-Song—which anticipated (by two decades) the rise of every web-based method of making rough song sketches available to the masses—operates something like a podcast. Flansburgh and Linnell post a song a week, and not only via the resurrected phone line. The Dial-a-Song website has been reupholstered; a YouTube page is constantly refreshed; an e-mail subscription delivers album-quality downloads into inboxes each week; and the Dial-a-Song Radio Network reaches more than 125 terrestrial radio stations.

“The thing that’s really coming across is that by being in people’s lives on a weekly basis like this, people really are experiencing this project with us,” Flansburgh says. “And so they have an equity in the band in a way that’s really different than just hearing that a band’s put an album out and consuming it.”

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It’s not exactly the same project that the original Dial-a-Song was, Flansburgh concedes, but he contends the peg for its audience has shifted from the novelty of hearing a song on the phone to hearing a new song each week. And that has rejuvenated They Might Be Giants, which, after more than three decades, got ground down by the typical record/release/tour rigmarole and listeners’ limited-attention spans.

“It’s a little bit frustrating to not have people really take in full albums these days, so we’re just backward-engineering our output to get a little bit more hang time with listeners,” Flansburgh says. “So far, it’s been a pretty glorious result. We’re back in people’s lives in an ongoing way, and that’s really exciting for us.

It’s an exciting thing to be doing, and … our energy has really been buoyed by the public response. People seem psyched, and that, in turn, has made it easy for us to redouble our efforts in making it great.”

The returns from Dial-a-Song reinforce that notion. Glean, released April 21, collects most of the output of the first weeks of the 2015 Dial-a-Song project, and the songs are as sharp as they are varied. The string-and-horn-driven new wave of “Music Jail, Parts 1 & 2” abut the herky-jerk pop of “Erase.” The tongue-incheek disco of “I Can Help the Next in Line,” inspired by customer-service patter, sits against the dark and absurd “Answer.” The self-referential “No Cops” (one of the singles that was released in 2015 but not included on the album) offsets the self-deprecating “I Am a Coward.” “Hate the Villanelle” rails against the rigid poetic form—while also being a perfect example of one.

Like everything else in the band’s world, the songs are reliably—and often brilliantly—off-kilter. And, in a nod to the purists, call Dial-a-Song old-school style, and you’ll hear the music in all its hissy, lo-fi glory—just like in 1983.

“It’s not much better now, actually,” Flansburgh laughs. “One of the nice things about bringing [Dial-a-Song] back is that people can experience just how chaotic it really was.” CW

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“I adapt easily to new places,” she said.

“I really enjoy being in a new place and being kind of transient.”

Her songs are what take her on the road now, but it wasn’t until Spaltro faced the unsettling prospect of being stationary that she even considered making music in the first place—let alone performing it for an audience.

When she was 18, Spaltro deferred her first year of college to go on a yearlong volunteer trip to Central America.

But when that fell through suddenly, she found herself stuck in her hometown while her friends left for school. Spaltro says she began songwriting as a way to “work through some things” after the setback.

She began recording those early songs after closing up shop in the basement of the town video store where she worked. “I had no plans to perform,” she said. “For a while, I had no outside opinions at all. I was doing it in secret.”

Since the release of her 2013 debut album, Ripely Pine, as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (she goes simply by Lady Lamb now), the secret has gotten out, and her latest album and tour is the first real showcase of the growth Spaltro has made since she was a lonely teenager in the basement of a video store.

A self-described introvert, Spaltro says she is much more comfortable on stage than she has ever been before.

“I think a lot of performers are actually very introverted in their lives, but they’re able to get onstage and be vulnerable and expressive,” she says. “[Performing] wasn’t something that I planned on doing, but it is a very natural thing for me now.”

Her songs, which are known for their wordy lyrics and meandering melodies, are still very personal, but Spaltro also understands that they’re no longer meant just for her. That awareness imbues her latest album, After, with a new kind of self-assurance.

“I can’t say I make it only for myself at this point,” she said. “I feel like I have a responsibility to people, too.”

After is musically leaner, and takes better advantage of Spaltro’s strengths as a composer. Instead of arranging in the studio as she did with her debut, Spaltro

had every song fully formed by the time she began recording. “I wanted to be very prepared for this album,” she says. “I did all the pre-production in my apartment.”

Still, there is a lot Spaltro has to say, and her lyrics remain her most defining quality as a songwriter.

“I obviously put a lot of care into the music, but it doesn’t ever come first,” she says. “The music is always a vehicle for the lyrics.”

In her single “Spat Out Spit,” Spaltro makes an earworm out of a train-ride daydream that spirals deeper and deeper until the chorus finds her questioning her own existence. “Have I been asleep this whole damn time, dreaming up a life?” she sings.

“Will I wake to find that I’m deep in the woods, and I’m snarling on all fours?”

That’s a heavy question, but Spaltro’s too busy searching for the next question to ever arrive at a definitive answer. In a voice that can either explode or simmer— and sometimes do both within a single phrase—Spaltro tears through themes of lost love, past innocence and existential micro-obsessions in ways that glimpse her deepest subconscious without dwelling on any one thought for very long.

If there’s one thing Spaltro can’t handle, it’s dwelling. CW

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That’s how Urban Lounge may be tonight; Strong Words, an alternative-rock band out of Salt Lake City, is throwing a party for their sophomore, self-released album, There Is a River, There Is a Choice. The follow-up to last year’s Come Clean features the same dreamy, hazy vocals from Cathy Fox (with Brian Lord and Jamie Richards on backup vocals), with almost-psychedelic rock and groovy bass rhythms. Lord and Fox’s complementing guitar riffs in “Parting” are surf-pop-like, but with a calmness and restraint that gives the whole song a nostalgic feel. The final track, “The Inner Light Is a Violent Home,” captures tension and traps it under a glossy, soft (and slightly atmospheric) soundscape, slowly escalating into the second part, which releases the pressure while holding on to the dark undertones. Fellow locals High Counsel, The 213s and Soft Limbs complete the lineup.

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Jared & The Mill (The State Room) (see p. 42) Mastodon, Clutch (The Complex) (see p. 42) Mortigi Tempo, Temples (Velour) Strong Words, High Counsel, The 213s, Soft Limbs (The Urban Lounge) (see p. 42) Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Chris Webby, Murs, King 810, Zuse (The Great Saltair) The Verb Garden, Suburban Birds, Grand Banks, BOT Gravitron (Kilby Court)

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LunchBOX, a waxing salon designed to get clients in and out and freshly waxed in less time that a lunch-hour break, has just opened its second Utah location in the Sugar House Shopping Center near Whole Foods.

Cheleste Deveraux, director of the Sugar House salon, has been in the waxing business for a long time and is definitely amused by what she calls LunchBOX’s “genius marketing.” She first learned about LunchBOX while on a trip to Boise. “LunchBOX caught my eye and, after a blushing chuckle, I had to know more,” she says.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect TAURUS (April 20-May 20) eBay is a multi-billion-dollar e-commerce business that has him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. been around for almost 20 years. But it had an inauspicious I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, beginning. The first item ever sold on the service was a broken Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a laser pointer. Even though the laser pointer didn’t work, and the personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you seller informed the buyer it didn’t work, it brought in $14.83. tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness.

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‘Escalator Temporarily Out of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.’” I think a similar principle applies to you, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Poetically speaking, it’s time to purify your world of all insanities, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation profanities and inanities. It’s a perfect moment for that once-in- with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual a-blue-moon Scour-a-Thon, when you have a mandate to purge array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we all clunkiness, junkiness and gunkiness from your midst. And as adopted a perspective like Hedberg’s, we could rightly say that you flush away the unease of your hypocrisies and discrepancies, this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way. as you dispense with any tendency you might have to make way too much sense, remember that evil is allergic to laughter. Humor CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I’ve got a tough assignment for you. It won’t be easy, but I think is one of the most effective psychospiritual cleansers ever. you’re ready to do a good job. Here it is: Learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel CANCER (June 21-July 22) I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods. The shopper ahead of unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on me had piled her groceries on the conveyor belt, and it was her this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your turn to be rung up. “How are you doing?” she said cheerfully to so-called imperfections. I also suggest you cast a love spell on the cashier, a crabby-looking hipster whom I happened to know yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror, and your favorite is a Cancerian poet and lead singer in a local rock band. “Oh, I am creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground living my dream,” he replied. I guessed he was being sarcastic, and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds, or engage in although I didn’t know for sure. In any case, I had a flash of intuition unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas? that his answer should be your mantra in the coming weeks. It’s time to redouble your commitment to living your dream! Say it 20 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, times in a row right now: “I am living my dream.”

“Oprah” was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is “Orpah,” a name her aunt borrowed from a character LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) As I awoke this morning, I remembered the dream I’d just had. In who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her the dream, I had written a horoscope for you. Here’s what it said: friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing “Orpah,” and often “The Kentucky Derby is a famous horse race that takes place on turned it into “Oprah.” The distorted form eventually stuck. But the first Saturday of every May. It’s called ‘The Run for the Roses’ if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime because one of the prizes that goes to the winning horse and soon, maybe even restoring “Orpah.” For you Aquarians, it’s a jockey is a garland of 554 roses. I suspect that your life may soon favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal bring you an odd treasure like that, Leo. Will it be a good thing, or meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes. too much of a good thing? Will it be useful or just kind of weird?

Beautiful or a bit ridiculous? The answers to those questions may PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) depend in part on your willingness to adjust your expectations.” What I propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Don’t calm down. Don’t retreat into your sanctuary and relax into down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem you’re dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement. I’m not that was permanently beyond your ability to solve. Once you’ve exaggerating, my dear explorer. You’re on the verge of tapping compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare the frustration. You’re close to unlocking the deeper ambitions yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom. that are trapped inside the surface-level wishes.

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If you’ve got a well in your back yard, who owns the water? Most likely, not you. The State of Utah owns the water here, and you’re not allowed to use it without permission.

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Mormon pioneers knew how precious water was when they settled the capital city. The first thing they did was to dig irrigation ditches and dam up City Creek to soften the hard clay soil, so they could plant potato crops. There were more than 1,000 miles of irrigation canals in Utah by 1865, and a water ditch ran downtown in front of the Beehive and Lion Houses. Our fine state was successful getting up and running, in part, because we were the first irrigation-based economy in the entire country.

I laugh when I see folks buying large bottles of water in the grocery store. Who knows where that water comes from, and how much energy and resources were wasted in transporting it to Salt Lake City? We have a wonderful, free source of drinking water: Artesian Park at 800 South & 500 East is continually fed by a deep underground aquifer.

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