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LETTERS The Redneck Rebellion Is an Embarrassment

The modern conservation movement has protected many of our greatest natural treasures from the basic human tenets of stupidity and greed.

The so-called Sagebrush Rebellion that began in the ’70s is actually a Redneck Rebellion (the sagebrush is innocent) being perpetrated by welfare ranchers and entitlement cowboys like Cliven Bundy and his anarchist sons, who have the audacity to raise cattle and imperil endangered species on public lands, then short-change the American people by refusing to pay millions of dollars in federal taxes. In the Bundy’s case, this is a mere fraction of the total profits made.

The ideals of conservation and stewardship mean nothing to the Bundys or their Tea-publican brethren throughout the Western states. Their demands include that all lands under federal jurisdiction be relinquished to them and their seditionist regime to be used as they see fit.

These uses include virtual killing fields for unregulated hunting and fishing, rampant destruction from ATV use, and militia-style training tactics for the inevitable war against a perceived threat to their personal liberties by an out-of-control federal government.

Ironically, many of these parasitic “patriots” receive welfare checks from the same government they so vigorously despise.

By storming the Malheur bird sanctuary in Oregon

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Their ulterior motive, of course, was to ignite a nationwide movement to overthrow local and federal institutions, but it appears that even their fellow rednecks in other states are embarrassed by these fools, resulting in an epic fail.

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Take Comfort, Stephen Dark

Steven Dark’s agonies about gun responsibility [“Biting the Bullet,” Jan. 14, City Weekly] may be slightly assuaged by understanding the international statistics of rampageshooting fatalities.

According to Kyle Becker, Independent Journal Review senior managing editor, of the 34 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States actually lags behind Norway (15.3 shooting fatalities per million population), Finland (1.85 per million), Slovakia (1.47 per million), Israel (1.38 per million), Switzerland (.75 per million) and United States (.72 per million population) for the period Jan. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2013. And the United States has by far the most private gun ownership.

John Lott—economist, political commentator and gun rights advocate—compares crime and gun laws within the United States and notes that jurisdictions with more restrictive gun laws also have more gun crime.

Perhaps Mr. Dark in contemplating immigrating to the OECD country with the fewest rampage shootings between 2009-2013—should actually consider France—a country that had .06 victims per million population.

VICKI MARTIN Clearfield

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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders voted to give your tax dollars to the illegal state of Israel. He voted to continue funding the illegal occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Guess those innocent people in Palestine and the other two countries are really feeling the Bern, huh?

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OPINION

Refugee Clout

One of my conservative Republican buddies, Don Almeida—a Fox News-watching dentist who’s leaning toward Trump—and I don’t agree on much of anything when it comes to politics. In fact, we just discovered our first point of common consensus, and that may be significant for more than just the two of us.

During a discussion of the Islamis State group dilemma, Almeida floated the nucleus of an idea that I’ve since expanded. Pardon my presumptuousness, but what a Tea Party sympathizer and his ultra-lib friend have just concocted with may just be the solution to the Syrian/Iraqi/ISIS problem, reducing the risk of domestic terrorism, and it could also appeal to most sides in the refugee debate. But first, some history.

During World War II, most of Europe fell under Nazi control. Many citizens of those countries fled their homelands, but most didn’t sit idly in refugee camps or in sanctuary countries. Instead, they were formed into expatriate military units. The army of Free France, for example, was composed of French citizens in exile, and it distinguished itself valiantly in battle against the Third Reich.

That’s where future French president Charles de Gaulle came to prominence. Similar units were formed by Poles, Czechs, Norwegians, Belgians and several others and all contributed to the defeat of Hitler’s Wehrmacht.

Many other citizens who opposed Nazi and fascist aggression remained in their own occupied countries but formed secret subversive paramilitary forces that engaged in acts of espionage or sabotage.

These partisan bands also made significant contributions toward harassing and ultimately defeating the Axis.

Likewise, in the war in the Pacific, Chinese, Philippine and other nationals organized in various ways to fight the Japanese. Many of these efforts received training and logistical support to a greater or lesser degree from Allied forces.

Secondly, in times of crisis, nations regularly summon their own citizens to fight, and such calls to action often do not

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come voluntarily. Conscription has been a reality in U.S. history since before the creation of our republic. Military service in local militias was required in colonial times and continued after Independence. The first draft by the federal government came about through the Enrollment Act of 1863, and, although at times bitterly opposed as during the Civil War, World War I and Vietnam, conscription has been a key element for staffing armies during times of all major conflicts and some minor ones ever since.

Finally, throughout U.S. history, our nation has been a beacon and refuge for those escaping tyranny and persecution in the homelands. Since the founding of our country, it has been a point of national pride that we do take in refugees, especially those who assisted in U.S.-sponsored activities before their lands were taken over by opposing forces and consequently face reprisals.

So why not creatively combine all of these elements to protect the worthy refugees who are fleeing oppression or extermination in Syria and Iraq and ratchet up the battle to defeat the Islamic State group and other terrorist groups? This is an idea that would engage those who will benefit the most from defeating extremism to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. This concept is so simple, I can’t believe it hasn’t already been developed by our political leaders, but here goes.

The U.S. and other nations with adequate resources could conceivably take many more refugees under this arrangement.

It allows all women, children, the infirm and elderly to enter well-organized and protected refugee camps or take up temporary residence in host countries. On the other hand, all able-bodied men—let’s say between 16 and 60—would be “drafted for the duration,” just like my father and uncles were during W WII, into fighting units that would be trained and equipped by coalition forces and then be deployed to take

back their countries from extremist forces.

This arrangement would have several benefits and advantages over sending Americans or Europeans to fill the boots on the ground: 1. These warriors would be extremely well-motivated.

2. Their military pay would go toward supporting their families living in host countries.

3. Having them engaged in combat abroad eliminates the risk of any being infiltrators intent on carrying out acts of terrorism in host countries.

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Any potential extremists would be closely watched and most likely discovered by being in close contact with their countrymen. Some might even be de-radicalized by the experience, but those who are not could be dealt with by their peers without involving us.

5. The understanding would be that any fighters who defected and became extremists would have their families deported back to their home countries and dropped at the border without further assistance.

6. Any conscientious objectors would be given non-combatant medical, technical or clerical duties.

7. These troops could form the nucleus of the reconstituted military and police forces in their home countries and would receive veterans’ benefits and other help to relocate and rehouse them and their families once ISIS is defeated and the situation stabilizes.

I’m sure this concept could be enhanced and expanded, but it’s a start. You might even share your version of it with your elected representatives. I’m just about to do that with mine. While this certainly won’t appeal to committed pacifists, I can’t think of any other solution that could accomplish as much while being appealing to just about anyone who is anywhere on the political spectrum. CW

THIS CONCEPT IS SO SIMPLE I CAN’T BELIEVE IT HASN’T ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED BY OUR POLITICAL LEADERS.

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Never mind the polls that say most Utahns favor a dual path to ballot access, oh, and that they really, really don’t like the caucus system. It doesn’t matter to the Republican elite, who apparently have put the fear of God in some of their constituents. Utah County GOP Chair Craig Frank doesn’t put a lot of trust in the people. “I think a lot of people who have a petition gatherer come to their door and ask to sign something, are not inclined to actually educate themselves on the issues,” he told KUTV Channel 2’s Chris Miller. Apparently, only the anointed are smart enough to vote. He did get lots of comments from people asking if they were “discouraged” from signing petitions. While it’s clear he doesn’t like the process, his answer was that it’s “simple … and complex.” Unless you’re the lieutenant governor who’s going to abide by the law until a judge rules differently.

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You know—bitch in front of an audience.

Bottom line: Rural Utah doesn’t like the Bureau of Land Management. Listening sessions in St. George, according to the Deseret News, included gripes about “agencies colluding with environmental groups in illegal, backdoor meetings,” and basically being dismissive to ranchers and other residents. All this comes amid Utah’s effort to wrest public lands from the feds. Well, good luck with that, but hey, at least you can’t say you were ignored.

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You go, Salt Lake City. Even if it’s a lost cause. Maybe the 2016 Legislature will throw you a bone, especially since they forced the state prison on you. Keeping open the sales-tax option is good policy because there’s no way on earth the construction will come in at budget. Meanwhile, Salt Lake City and County are seeking funding for the homeless population (they’ll deal later with opposition to locating small homeless shelters in neighborhoods). House Majority Leader Jim (no Medicaid expansion) Dunnigan says, ah heck, there are so many competing interests, and maybe the city and county will get a smidgen over several years, the Des News notes. But we could all be surprised, and legislators may just see the wisdom in funding clean-air solutions, prison relocation and homeless services.

Dan Folger, 22, is a photographer out of Pittsburgh traveling the world and taking photos documenting everyday life. He is currently working with recording artist Wiz Khalifa—who’s in town for the Sundance Film Festival—and the two are inseparable. Folger enjoys being on tour with his team and says there isn’t anything like it. He’s also worked with other recording artists such as G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky and many more. Folger now lives in Los Angeles where he owns a lifestyle brand called The GLD Shop, which sells clothing and jewelry.

Who were the photographers you looked up to when you were younger?

Derick G. from Miami. He did all the YMCMB videos; he was their right-hand camera man. He did the photos, the day-in-the-life videos, and that was right around when I had just got a camera. I used to think, “Man, it’s so sick that he travels with them doing all the visuals and stuff.”

Has your style changed since you first started?

Yeah, my style has definitely changed. That comes with everything, though. Just practice. I’ve definitely always had my own lane, but now, it’s like people know even without a logo that it’s a Dan Folger photo.

I know you launched the GLD shop. How did you start it?

That’s my baby. I own it with a couple of friends from back home. You know, one day, they were all still in school at the time, and I was traveling with Wiz doing my thing and I was like … “Dang! All my homies are about to be done with school. We need to figure out a way to make money together.” So I pulled out some money and me and my friend, Justin, had a plug in New York to get jewelry, and then made an Instagram—just started re-selling stuff and then we brought in clothes and more people to the team. We have a full office, fulltime staff, and we got a new agenda in Vegas, so that’s the future for us.

Would you agree that we live in an era where artists need to be multi-faceted to keep things interesting?

It just depends. I just like to start a lot of new things—I’m so ADHD. I work on multiple things at once, but that’s just me. But I do think working on a bunch of other things helps.

What’s it like shooting the “DayToday” web series with Wiz?

They’re tight, man, they’re also so fun. Wiz is such a funny and good character. He brings so much good energy to the camera—I’ll never have to be bored. If I just put that camera on him, he’s just gonna say crazy things. Also, make sure the readers know “Khalifa” drops on Feb. 5 and to go cop that.

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A friend warns that the impending collapse of the petrodollar, devised by Henry Kissinger as the world’s reserve currency when the United States dropped the gold standard, will bring down the entire U.S. financial system. How worried should I be?

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ow many gallons of water should you stock in the emergency cellar? Will three AR15s suffice, or does the wellequipped arsenal really demand four? If these be your concerns, Kingsley, you’ll find a fantastic resource in the Internet, the petrodollar and the havoc that’ll result from its impending collapse being an extremely popular topic among the black-helicopter set. You can’t go wrong with freeze-dried peas, I hear.

A calmer assessment reveals a more prosaic concept. What we talk about when we talk about petrodollars is international oil sales as transacted in U.S. dollars—which is to say, oil sales: the dollar has long been the standard currency for all such dealings.

The primary world reserve currency, meanwhile, is the very same dollar—full stop.

The origins of this arrangement hark back to Bretton Woods, the 1944 confab of Allied nations where it was decided that the dollar would be the world’s backup buck, backed itself by gold at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce.

International spending, though—and it was a spendy era, what with the rebuilding of Europe, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, etc.—promptly grew to dwarf the Fort Knox reserves, which at one point held only a third of the gold needed to cover the dollars in foreign circulation, prompting fears of a run on the place. In 1971 President Richard Nixon suspended the direct convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold, bringing about a system of floating, rather than fixed, exchange rates.

Among other things this move, the so-called Nixon Shock, increased the ability of the Federal Reserve to influence monetary policy, which in turn, decades later, led yahoos like Ron Paul and Ted Cruz to pine for a return to the gold standard. (Most economists continue to see this as a pretty bad idea.)

But the key development of the era, for our purposes, was a deal where, in exchange for U.S. military support and other preferential treatment, the Saudis agreed to conduct oil transactions in dollars only. Soon OPEC as a whole signed on. As prices shot up in the ’70s, oil-exporting countries in the Middle East found themselves with more dollars than they knew what to do with; they placed them in U.S. and British banks, which in turn used the dollars to make loans to developing countries that needed the money to … import oil, the resulting relationship of indebtedness a boon to U.S. global hegemony. Sound a bit Kissingerian? Well, the whole thing was Henry’s baby: he called the scheme “recycling petrodollars.” (“Petrodollars” as opposed to, say, “dollars” because they don’t circulate in the U.S.; economists thought it’d be useful to make the distinction.) Conveniently, the Saudis also used their petrodollar surpluses to buy

munitions from American arms manufacturers, who, with Vietnam winding down, were grateful for the business. All around, a shining example of U.S. foreign policy: we enrich ourselves and impoverish the developing world while selling weapons to jerks.

Doffing your tinfoil hat, then, you come to see the petrodollar bathed in the glow of ’70s and ’80s nostalgia, like disco and Oliver North. What relevance does it have nowadays? Well, to hear the, er, more concerned parties tell it, if the oil-producing countries decide to stop using the dollar for oil transactions—switching to, say, the euro—it’ll send the world economy into a tailspin. There has been a little attrition, most notably in 2000 when the United Nations’ “oil for food” program gave Iraq permission to sell its oil for euros; hardcore skeptics cite this threat to the rule of the petrodollar as a contributing factor in the U.S. invasion. Since then Iran has switched to conducting its oil transactions in euros, and recently Gazprom Neft, Russia’s third-largest oil producer, began selling oil to China in exchange for renminbi. But an abrupt abandonment of the petrodollar system is in nobody’s best interest: since most major nations continue to back their own currency with the U.S. dollar, everybody’s got some skin in the game vis-à-vis keeping that currency stable.

That’s not to say the petrodollar regime isn’t a bit sensitive these days, but it’s for another reason: fracking. Environmental implications aside, hydraulic fracturing (discussed here in 2013) has put major shale oil reserves in play and (for now, at least) upended the world energy market. In 2011, for instance, the U.S. imported about $360 billion worth of oil; by 2015, that number had dropped to $120 billion. One estimate last year pegged OPEC’s 2015 profits at $350 billion lower than those in 2014— the largest year-over-year drop ever. Oil gazillionaires who spent the commodityboom aughts buying up Manhattan penthouses are now rapidly burning through their petrodollar savings; if the trend continues, Bloomberg suggested, demand will fall for “everything from European government debt to U.S. real estate.” Not nothing, in other words, but neither is it global collapse. CW

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Parents don’t “want us to put lipstick on a pig. They didn’t want us to go in and just put minor renovations.”

—Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley

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A Title 1 West Valley junior high faces a make-over to placate parents of a STEM elementary school.

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t an early November 2015 meeting in a mobile-office next to West Lake Junior High, principal Ike Spencer explained impending changes at the Title 1 school to a group of Latino parents. Through a translator, he told the dozen Spanishspeaking mothers that as of the next academic year, the seventh and eighth grade West Valley school would be receiving around 100 students from Neil Armstrong Academy, a Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)focused school, also in West Valley City.

In order for graduates of the K-6 grade school to continue their STEM education, West Lake was going to become a STEM school.

Neil Armstrong’s principal Tyler Howe says the school he opened in the summer 2013, “teaches all of the Utahcore standards through the process of inquiry. [STEM] really has the goal of helping kids learn to be more critical thinkers.”

West Lake Junior High has a reputation as a tough school, if not the toughest in Utah, due to its faculty grappling with high levels of gangaffiliation, absenteeism, truancy and teen pregnancy.

While, in 2014-15, West Lake was the only Title 1 school to have growth in every academic area, progressing from an F to a D in state tests, it still was not reflecting the scores of schools statewide that did not have its 90 percent lowincome population, a fifth of whom are English language learners.

Howe says the school’s community council at Neil Armstrong “were very informed of what the thinking was,” as to the creation of a new STEM junior high for their children to go to. The parents at West Lake, however, were mystified as to why Granite School District (GSD) had not consulted them about what they saw as a radical change to their children’s school. Howe says he never met with West Lake’s community council, “but my understanding is they

Principal of soon-to-be West Lake STEM school Tyler Howe says STEM helps kids“learn to be more critical thinkers.” were part of that discussion.”

If that were so, the change was certainly news to the parents in November 2015. And Principal Spencer didn’t have an answer for them as to why there had been no consultation. This was in marked contrast to the two prior significant changes the school had undergone, namely extending the length of some classes and the departure of the ninth grade to nearby Granger High two years ago. Both issues were discussed and voted on by the school’s community council, after input from staff, students and parents. “It was a different format this time,” Spencer said dryly. “I hate to be thinking the reason this happened over here is they think people don’t have a voice.”

But along with the shift to STEM, West Lake was also earmarked, in tandem with nine other low-performing GSD schools, for “turnaround.” The state designation of West Lake as a “turnaround” school means that a consulting firm will be paid by the state to advise the school on how to improve its performance in the very areas that STEM focuses on, namely science and maths.

Spencer told the perplexed parents that children who come to West Lake typically have reading comprehension levels of between second- and fifth-grade level.” From what I know of STEM, that curriculum comes with the understanding that you have to have at least junior high school abilities,” Spencer says.

Turnaround also makes West Lake eligible to apply for a school improvement grant, money that Granite spokesman Ben Horsley says the district would be negligent if it did not pursue. While the school has not yet been approved for the grant, to make it eligible, Spencer and his assistant principal have to be replaced, along with at least 50 percent of the staff. All West Lake’s faculty have to re-apply for their current positions, a situation that Spencer says, “has put morale at an all time low.” If they leave West Lake, they are guaranteed work elsewhere in the school district, though not necessarily what they were teaching at West Lake.

Spencer was the focus of a City Weekly cover story (April 3, 2013), titled “A Lesson in Change.” The story charted Spencer’s struggles with some of his faculty over introducing approaches to teaching that reflected the challenges and diversity of the student population.

But staff fear that West Lake’s culture and its at-risk students will become a casualty of Utah’s ongoing commitment to making the state more competitive through promoting science and math curricula. In 2013, the Legislature approved a $10 million appropriation for the STEM Action Center, which focuses on improving science, technology, engineering and math education statewide. “It feels like they are trying to erase West Lake and replace it with Neil Armstrong Junior High,” one staff member says.

A City Weekly reporter spoke to six

teachers and staff at West Lake about the impending changes. Teachers complained of “lack of due process,” and increasing distrust among both their ranks and parents of the district’s motives. None of the faculty would go on the record, expressing concern over possible retaliation.

GSD’s spokesperson Horsley says the decision to bring STEM to West Lake, which celebrated its 50th anniversary two years ago, came about because parents at Neil Armstrong were “freaking out, not to put it lightly,” that their children did not have a STEM junior high to go to. While land had been purchased adjacent to Neil Armstrong Academy (NA A) for a junior high, the GSD board decided, “let’s renovate one of our existing schools,” Horsley recalls. “We could spend less and still get the same bang for our bucks.” That said, he adds, the NA A parents “didn’t want us to put lipstick on a pig. They didn’t want us to go in and just put minor renovations.”

Horsley dismisses concerns over a lack of dialogue with West Lake. The change to STEM, he says, was “an administrative decision. Frankly, we’re responding to constituents’ concerns.”

For all the trepidation and concern over the future of the school, its staff and students, some teachers view the changes as positive. One teacher says she is excited. “If STEM can make them successful, get a higher graduation rate, get them out of gangs, why shouldn’t these underprivileged kids get an advantage?”

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Howe graduated from eastside Skyline High when Spencer was assistant principal there in 1998. While Spencer grew up in East Compton in Los Angeles, Howe was born and raised in Utah. He comes from a family of educators—his sister teaches at Skyline; his mother, Gail Howe, is currently director of elementary schools for Granite—and at 36 years old, he already has five senior administrative positions under his belt prior to West Lake.

One factor that Howe will have to address is technology. Teachers complain

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the outdated technology breaks down on a regular basis. Another concern is that very few students have access to computers at home. Howe acknowledges that such “logistical challenges,” are important and points to students’ access to cell phones as something he and the school will capitalize on, so that “technology is opening doors and not closing them.”

Several teachers are unconvinced, saying that students are too busy with supporting their impoverished families after school to have time for homework. One teacher suggests that rather than spending funds acquired through turnaround on giving the school a face-lift, as has been proposed by the district, “why not get free and reduced Internet into [students’] homes?”

Granite School District’s director of resource development Mitch Nerdin is excited about both “turnaround” and STEM, which he says will work in tandem to improve the school’s grades. Howe will start with a faculty that he has hand-picked for the job and who therefore buy in to his vision. Such an approach is “a monumentally fast and effective way to get change to happen,” Nerdin says.

Nerdin expects that the school make-over will include employing education strategies “that have the potential to overcome the lack of home support common in highpoverty areas. I don’t expect West Lake to go from a D to a C. I want it to be a B or A school.

We’re looking for massive improvement.”

While some teachers and parents may “feel they are being trodden over,” Horsley says GSD’s leadership certainly doesn’t feel that way. “We are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to West Lake,” he says.

“We need to make significant gains here.”

One veteran West Lake teacher offers a warning to teachers coming to West Lake STEM. “I feel a little bad for some of the teachers who will be hired into the school thinking, ‘Hey, I’m going into a STEM school,’” only to encounter what she calls “tough kids” who don’t speak English, or won’t meet their gaze. “It’s going to take some pretty awesome teachers to make this STEM school successful. I hope with all my heart it works, for the students’ sake.” CW

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Spencer is being replaced by NA A’s principal Howe, who was appointed to the already renamed West Lake STEM in early December 2015. Howe began interviewing West Lake teachers in mid-January to see who stays and who goes. “If teachers aren’t very comfortable with teaching in a way that allows kids to be a little more in the driving seat in inquiry,” he says, “they may not be interested in applying.”

Utah State Office of Education data for 2015 reveals disparities between West Lake 922-strong student body and Armstrong’s 813-student population. While West Lake has 80.5 percent ethnic minorities and 87.6 percent of its children come from low-income families, Armstrong’s ethnic minority and low income population is roughly half, at 41.2 percent and 41 percent respectively. The district, however, has ignored such differences, teachers say, highlighting instead that half the children at Neil Armstrong come from within the West Lake school boundaries. “They want to lean on the fact that since the school is in the same boundary, it is the same kids,” one staff member says.

Howe argues that the inquiry-driven process of learning at the heart of STEM “is the kind of approach that is best for a large diversity of abilities. In many ways, it levels the playing field. There is no longer one right way to think about things.” That includes children who are English language learners (West Lake, 20 percent; NA A, 10 percent), who, he says, “can draw on the chatter and activity around them,” to understand what’s going on in a STEM class.

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Nine more political ice creams we’d like to see Ben & Jerry’s creative co-founder concoct:

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Party-flavored with hunks of bandied about pro-life arguments.

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persistent vanilla, with lil’ hollowpoint chocolate bits and wolf hair.

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poisonous, but you’d still vote for it, right?

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Bright blue with chewy pink bubble gum, but nothing you’d ever buy.

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If you’re worried about medical marijuana legislation or Planned Parenthood funding, you may want to peek in at the Utah Legislature, which opened for the public’s business on Monday (see p. 16). On Thursday, for instance, you might be interested in the Public Education Appropriations Committee, starting at 8 a.m.

You can stop in at a committee meeting or sit in either the House or Senate gallery to keep an eye on those wily legislators.

You—yes, you—can even call them out to talk to you about an issue of interest. You don’t have to be a lobbyist. You just have to care. Utah Capitol, 350 N. State, Senate, 801-538-1035,HouseofRepresentatives, 801-538-1029, Jan. 25-March 10, Le.Utah.gov

WORLD AFFAIRS

Brazil has been having problems, from the Zika virus to its volatile financial markets as Latin America’s largest economy. Indeed, Brazil lost 1.5 million payroll jobs last year. Yikes. Learn about this country at the Hnckley Institute of Politics “Pizza & Politics—Brazillian Politics on the World Stage.” Paulo Sotero, director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, will speak. Hinckley Caucus Room, Room 222, Orson Spencer Hall, 260 Central Campus Drive, 801-5818501, Thursday, Jan. 28, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Hinckley.Utah.edu

DONATION DRIVE

More than 40 million women in the United States are living in poverty or near it. In Utah, that means 100,000 women who are often forgotten as people donate to the needy. The Salt Lake City Mission will be collecting feminine hygiene items as part of a nationwide initiative named Mardi Bra which is put on by the anti-poverty think tank “Rock and Wrap It Up!” Financial donations are welcome, too. New and unused women’s hygiene items and fullsized toiletries can be dropped off at the Mission. 1151 S. Redwood Road, Ste. 106, 801-355-6310, through March, SaltLakeCityMission.org

TRANSPORTATION TALK

There might be a sustainable future for transportation, but it doesn’t come without challenges. “Electrification: Towards a Sustainable Transportation System” will discuss the technical challenges limiting market adoption of electric vehicles, particularly those related to range anxiety, and overview new technologies in development at Utah State University aimed at overcoming these challenges and transforming the future of transportation. Little America Hotel, 500 S. Main, Friday, Jan. 29, 7:30 a.m., RSVP: Sunrise.usu.edu/Sunrise

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Streaming News The “public art” statues unveiled in January by Fort Myers, Fla., Mayor Randy Henderson included a metal structure by sculptor Eduardo Carmona of a man walking a dog, with the dog “lifting his leg” beside a pole. Only after inspecting the piece more closely did many observers realize that the man, too, was relieving himself against the pole. Carmona described the work as commentary on man and dog “marking their territory.”

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n A recent anonymously authored “confidential” book by a National Football League player reported that “linemen, especially,” have taken to relieving themselves inside their uniforms during games, “a sign that you’re so into the game” that you “won’t pause (even) to use the toilet.”

Can’t Possibly Be True The popular Nell’s Country Kitchen in Winter Haven, Fla., was shut down again (for “remodeling,” the owner said) in December after a health inspector found that it had been operating for two weeks without its own running water—with only a garden hose connection, across its parking lot, to a neighbor’s spigot. It had also closed for a day earlier in 2015 because of mold, roach activity and rodent droppings (although management insisted that business had immediately picked up the day they reopened).

n In December, animal protection officers in Halland County, Sweden, confiscated two cats that the officers found being “mistreated” in a home—coddled (by two women) as babies in “pushchairs” and spoon-fed while strapped in high chairs. Both cats had been encouraged to suck on pacifiers, and one woman reportedly allowed the cats to suckle her breast. The public broadcaster SVT reported that the cats were removed from the home because they were not being allowed to develop “natural animal behavior.”

Undignified Deaths A 40-year-old man driving a stolen truck was killed after a brief high-speed police chase on Jan. 14 in Alameda County, California. Police noted that the man had pulled to the side of Highway 238 to flee on foot, but fell to his death off a cliff— landing on the grounds of the San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery.

2. A coroner’s hearing in Folkestone, England, in January determined that a 16-year-old boy had died of accidental asphyxiation from spray deodorant. According to the boy’s mother, he preferred massive application of the spray instead of bathing, and police recovered several dozen empty spray cans in his room.

Update Marie Holmes, that 2014 Powerball winner in North Carolina whom News of the Weird had reported in September rapidly running through her winnings by bailing her boyfriend out of jail (alleged drug dealer Lamarr “Hot Sauce” McDow), had already tied up $9 million on two arrests. In January, Hot Sauce was arrested again (only for “street racing,” but that violated his bail conditions), and Holmes was forced to fork over another $12 million (as bond basically doubles with each violation, but Holmes would get about 90 percent back—if Hot Sauce shows up for court). (Holmes earlier addressed her critics on Facebook: “What y’all need to be worried about is y’all money.”)

A News of the Weird Classic (October 2011) Refreshing the Witness: A convenience store clerk, Falguni Patel, was giving testimony in the witness box in the September (2011) trial of a man charged with robbing her in Hudson, Fla., two years earlier when she began shaking and then passed out.

A relative of Patel’s approached, removed her sneaker and held it to Patel’s face, without success. The relative explained that Patel was subject to such blackouts and that sniffing the sneaker often revived her. (After paramedics attended to her, Patel took the rest of the day off and went back to court the next morning.)

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n Public relations spokesman Phil Frame, 61, was arrested in Shelby Township, Mich., after a Jan. 1 Sheriff’s Office search of his computer and paper files turned up child pornography. The Detroit News reported that Frame had already been questioned about child pornography, in September, by the U.S. Department

Wait, What?

Fort Worth, Texas, firefighters, responding to a suspected blaze in January at a grain elevator, encountered smoke on the structure’s eighth floor—along with a man “juggling flaming batons.” No explanation was reported (except that the man “did not belong there”). A department spokesman said his firefighters “put (the man’s) torches out.”

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Unclear on the Concept Jamie, 29, and Abbie Hort, 21, an unemployed couple drawing housing and other government benefits, won a United Kingdom lottery prize in December 2014 worth about $72,000, promptly spent it all (including “some” on “silly” stuff, Abbie admitted), and according to a January press report, are angry now that the government will not immediately re-institute their benefits. Abbie said, as lottery winners, she and Jamie “deserved to buy some nice stuff” and go on holiday, but that now, except for the large-screen TV and Jamie’s Ralph Lauren clothes, the winnings are gone. Said Jamie, this past Christmas was just “the worst ever.”

n At a ski resort in Western Vorarlberg, Austria, recently, as the ski lift was temporarily stopped (to address a problem elsewhere on the lift), one occupied lift basket came to rest directly in front of the industrial-strength artificial-snowmaking machine, drenching the two passengers in a several-minutes-long blizzard (of which, yes, Internet video exists).

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Great Art! Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, finally brought his dream to life for 2016—a calendar of photographs of “artistic” designs made by shaving images into his back hair. He said it took him about four months each for enough hair to grow back to give his designerfriend Tyler Harding enough to work with. (January, for instance, features “New Year” in lettering, with two champagne glasses; July’s is a flag-like waving stripes with a single star in the upper left.) “Calend-hairs” cost $20 each (with proceeds, Wolfe said, going to an orphanage connected to his church).

Wrong Place, Wrong Time Neighbors in Inola, Okla., complained in December and January about a Union Pacific train that had been parked “for weeks” while tracks up ahead were under repair. Not only does the train block a traffic intersection, it triggers the ringing of the crossing signal. “It’s annoying, yeah,” said one resident, apparently a master of understatement.

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Oklahoma Justice In 2004, abusive boyfriend Robert Braxton Jr. was charged with badly beating up the three children of girlfriend Tondalo Hall, 20, with injuries ranging from bruises to fractured legs, ribs and a toe. Braxton got a deal from Oklahoma City prosecutors, pleaded guilty, served two years in prison and was released in 2006. Hall’s plea “bargain” resulted in a 30-year sentence for having failed to protect her kids from Braxton, and she’s still in prison—and in September 2015 (following a rejected appeal and a rejected sentence modification), the Pardon and Parole Board refused, 5-0, even to commute her sentence to a time-served 10 years.

of Homeland Security, and for some reason apparently was not intimidated enough (or was too lazy) to clear out his files. (The Homeland Security investigation is still ongoing.)

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Weird News One Can Actually Use In November, a perhaps-exasperated Centers for Disease Control attempted once again to tout a startlingly effective anti-HIV drug—after a recent survey revealed that a third of primary-care doctors said they had never heard of it. So, FYI: Truvada, taken once a day, said the CDC, gives “better than 90 percent” protection from sex and better than 70 percent protection from HIV acquired from the sharing of needles. Truvada is the only FDAapproved retroviral drug for retarding HIV (but its maker, Gilead Sciences, has declined to advertise it for that purpose).

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Legislature!

FORTY-FIVE DAYS. MORE THAN 1,200 PROPOSED BILLS. TONS O’ FUN. - By Colby Frazier & Eric Ethington orty-five days of politics, government, lawmaking and legislating kicked off in Salt Lake City on Jan. 25, when 104 elected members of the Utah Legislature convened on Capitol Hill.

For most people, this announcement—and the Legislature itself—are the stuff of big, fat yawns.

Apathy, boredom, frustration and plain ol’ whogives-a-damn are four counter-thoughts that could easily accompany the first sentence.

But without trying to sound too preachy, every single Utahn should pay some attention to this annual gathering of the powerful. These 104 politicians—88 men, 16 women; 17 Democrats and 87 Republicans—are, each and every one, hell bent on passing a flock of new laws that will have certain impact on daily life in the Beehive State.

Sure, many legislators will advocate for new laws that will benefit their campaign donors. Many will advocate for what will benefit them, their companies and their friends’ companies. Some will be guided by the push and power of

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high-paid lobbyists. But these men and women are supposed to be working for all of us—and it’s up to voters to let them know that.

The entire spectacle is a lot like a 45-day film that unravels one minute at a time, and some of what occurs happens in the open, in votes in gilded rooms that are open to the general public.

Still yawning? I don’t blame you. But consider that a second effort at legalizing medical marijuana could take center stage this year. Consider that for more than two years, big, brave politicians—many who enjoy government healthcare plans—have been promising health-care reform while roughly 60,000 Utahns remain uninsured, and, in some cases, die because of lawmakers’ inaction. Consider that more than 30 million acres of largely pristine public land that belongs equally to every citizen of this nation—the places you camp and hike with your family, deer hunt with your father and go ATV riding with your cousins—is being squabbled over by these power players, many of whom want to priva-

LEGALIZING MEDICAL MARIJUANA Some background: Marijuana and Sen. Mark Madsen, RSaratoga Springs, would seem to go together about as well as refrigerated beer and a Utah State liquor store: never, not ever.

But Madsen, a libertarian-leaning conservative whose Mormon credentials are written in stone with the stature of his great grandfather, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prophet Ezra Taft Benson, might know more about marijuana and how it pertains to this Promised Land than any living human.

In 2015, Madsen broke unchartered waters when he introduced a bill that aimed to legalize medical cannabis in Utah. It caught more traction than many believed it could, passing its Senate committee but failing by a single vote to advance from the Senate floor.

This year finds Madsen returning to the Capitol with a revamped marijuana bill, based upon about 365 days of intense research that took him to many of the 24 states that offer marijuana as medication to those suffering from pain. This year’s bill, Senate Bill 73, clocks in at around 1,100 more lines of text that its predecessor, and covers in detail the ways in which marijuana will be cultivated, processed and dispensed to the estimated 80,000 people, or roughly 2 percent of the state’s population, who need it.

“We’ve gone through and tried to learn from the other states,” Madsen says, explaining that he visited farms in Arizona and Connecticut where medicinal marijuana is legal. “Even though [the bill is

tize, mine, drill, log and blemish wide swathes of it. Consider that $14 million in taxpayer money could be given to attorneys to sue the federal government in your name to take state control of this land.

You could sit down and consider all of these things for days, weeks and months. What we all need to do, though, is start paying close attention to what lawmakers are doing on our behalf. And if you don’t like the smell of what’s emanating from within that granite fortress at the tippy-top of State Street, you owe it to your family, your neighbors, to Utah and to yourself to do something about it.

With that, here is City Weekly’s annual issue dedicated to all things Legislature, wherein we present a slice of proposed legislation that we think should be on your radar. If we managed to pique your interest, visit CityWeekly.net during the session for regular updates on bills and other happenings.

You can also visit the Legislature’s website, Le.Utah.Gov, which features an easy-to-use calendar of all of the hearings.

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more restrictive], it’s clear and it’s common sense and the feedback we get from the industry is very positive.”

Madsen’s bill outlines the manner in which dispensaries will be able to sell marijuana (nothing smokeable), how much those carrying a prescription can purchase, and where they can sell it. He says dispensaries, which would be privately operated—unlike the state’s liquor stores—would be allocated based on population densities of 200,000 souls.

This means that any county with 200,000 people would get at least one dispensary, while Salt Lake County could end up with a handful.

These nuts and bolts, regardless of how well put together, will most likely get scrambled as the bill climbs the steep slope to approval. During the past year, Madsen has wrangled an array of support from a diverse cross section of the population who prefer pot to opiates to treat pain.

Many other advocates say cannabis is the most effective treatment for their epilepsy, cancer and other ailments.

Stories of Utahns who have become sick and found that cannabis helpful are too numerous to tell. Indeed, this is also Madsen’s story. After years of fighting his back pain with opiates—and a brush with death as a result of an accidental overdose—Madsen says his experience with cannabis has been 100 percent positive. No longer does he suffer from weeks of opiate withdrawal, nasty intestinal side effects or the numbing haze of a heroin-like high.

Madsen, and many of the advocates for legalized medicinal marijuana, also don’t want to be criminals—a reality that Madsen has become acutely aware of as opposition to his bill from the law-enforcement community has mounted and helped to galvanize a separate pot bill that will also be heard during the session.

“For my case, it’s a terrible situation to be in, where, yeah, I can keep getting opiates, and I can keep taking them and dealing with the side effects,” Madsen says. “Or I can go with this more healthy alternative and risk everything. They would love to ‘perp-walk’ me—discredit me. I have to be very careful about what I do in state and what I talk about.” (CF)

to find a compromise with Count My Vote.

Republican Party Chairman James Evans: You can’t make us accept petitions.

SENATE BILL 54

Rep. Jacob Anderegg, R-Lehi wants to replace SB54.

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Senator Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, the author of original compromise bill.

REDUCE THE BURDEN OF GRAMA

REPEALING THE 17TH AMENDMENT

A bill from Rep. Brian King, DSalt Lake City, aims to place a cap on state campaign contributions. Right now, anyone holding a million in change could just go right ahead and give it all to their favorite state politician [some cities, like Salt Lake City, have placed their own limits on contributions], no questions asked.

King’s bill, which he has run in past sessions, would limit contributions to legislative offices at $10,000 and statewide offices to $20,000—numbers that King says are “absurdly high limits, but at least they’re limits.” Campaign contribution limits would bring Utah to parity with its peers as, at last count, King says only four states allow unlimited contributions. King also hopes to rope in provisions that would help regulate the vast sums of cash that flow into “super PACs.” (CF)

As of this writing, 24 bill files have been opened that would change some aspect of how we cast our votes. Here are just a few: Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, is seeking to make changes to the way candidates appear on the ballot; Rep. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, wants to move the filing deadline for school-board candidates; Rep. Craig Hall, R-West Valley City, wants to change the way municipal candidates file financial disclosures; Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek, wants to eliminate straight-ticket voting. But perhaps the most interesting bill thus far comes from Rep. Steve Eliason, RSandy, that would change the way we get election results. During the 2015 Salt Lake City mayoral race, voters had to wait weeks between Election Day and the final tally when absentee and provisional ballots were counted.

Eliason’s bill would require election officers to provide daily updates, rather than wait to release the tallies all at once. (EE)

A trio of bills are underway that target Utah’s laws on lobbying, though details at press time remain scant. One bill, which is not yet numbered, put forth by Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, would tweak the rules of lobbying for top-level government officials.

Though Dabakis says his bill isn’t directed at anyone in particular, he pointed to the state’s former director of the Department of Environmental Quality, Amanda Smith, who, one day, was the state’s top environmental regulator, and the next, went to work for a law firm that Dabakis says represents some of the state’s largest polluters. “For major level cabinet kind of officers, they ought not one week to be making the regulations and then the next week make fat retainers from the people that they have been regulating,” Dabakis says. (CF)

For all of its pluses, Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) has a few minuses. One is the propensity of government agencies to charge large fees for records even when a good case can be made that releasing the documents is in the public interest. Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, has resurrected a bill that in 2015 breezed through the House before stalling in the Senate that would give the state records committee more leeway to waive fees. Presently, in order to overturn a fee, King says the committee must find that a government agency abused its discretion—a high bar. Under his bill, the committee will be able to overturn fees if it decides that the records are of public interest—a provision already granted to the agencies holding the documents, but one that King says is often ignored. (CF)

Until 1913, U.S. citizens didn’t actually elect their own Senators to Congress.

While average voters got to pick their representatives in the House, it was state legislatures that decided who to put in the Senate. The 17th Amendment gave that electoral power to the people, after the Senate became widely panned as a place of corruption, bent on fulfilling the whims of state lawmakers rather than doing the work of the people. In the years preceding the 17th Amendment, some Senators’ elections were actually voided over corruption allegations. Sen. Alvin Jackson, R-Highland, has introduced a resolution that asks Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment. Jackson argues that it unconstitutionally stripped state legislatures of power, so Senate elections should be taken back from citizens. Even if passed, the bill cannot force Congress to repeal the 17th, but it’s interesting to note that in 1913, Utah was the only state in the nation that rejected the 17th Amendment (it passed anyway). (EE)

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win at least 40 percent of the delegates’ votes at the Republican Party’s convention.

Mark Thomas, chief deputy to Utah’s lieutenant governor and director of elections in Utah, told City Weekly in December that if the Utah GOP disqualifies a candidate who collected enough signatures, it could trigger a downgrade of the entire party’s status to what’s known as a Registered Political Party [RPP]. And if such a downgrade were to occur, every Republican candidate in the state who didn’t collect signatures could find themselves removed from the ballot, because an RPP can accept only signature-gathering—not convention nominations.

Per the Utah elections website as of Jan. 25, 38 of the incumbent Republican representatives and senators who are up for reelection this year have registered to collect petition signatures. So has Sen. Mike Lee and Gov. Gary Herbert.

Rep. Jacob Anderegg, R-Lehi, has filed a bill that would essentially repeal SB54, returning Utah to the previous system where only a few thousand Republican delegates get to pick which candidate will appear in GOP primary elections. He could face an uphill battle with his bill, however, as the more-senior Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, who was the author of SB54 in 2014, will likely oppose any such attempt.

Count My Vote, the initiative that sought to do away with delegate nominations, has argued that the convention system shuts the average voter out of the process, in part because Utah leans so heavily Republican that the primary election is frequently the only election that matters, and letting delegates alone make that choice is unfair.

Several other bills could potentially alter or modify SB54, but as of press time they only exist as bill titles, and the content is not yet publicly available.

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The gist: The Utah Republican Party could find itself in trouble come Election Day if party leaders disqualify candidates who take the Senate Bill 54-prescribed petition route, unless the Legislature makes changes to the 2014 compromise law.

Lawmakers intended 2014’s SB54 as a compromise between the Republican Party’s desire to stick with the caucus-convention system and the Count My Vote (CMV) initiative that would have created a direct primary (allowing Utah’s 650,000 unaffiliated voters to participate in the primary election of their choice). In late 2014, the Utah Republican Party sued the governor, arguing the state shouldn’t have a say in how political parties choose their candidates.

In Nov. 2015, U.S. District Judge David Nuffer ruled that the Republican Party cannot be forced to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in their elections. However, candidates can still appear on the primary ballot through the signature-gathering process—collecting signatures in their districts who will support their candidacies—if those signatures are from registered Republican voters in that district.

That ruling has set off a new firestorm, as Republican Party Chairman James Evans signaled that the party may disqualify candidates from appearing as Republicans on the primary ballot, even if they’ve collected enough signatures, if they don’t also successfully

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Why now? With armed vigilantes occupying the 187,767-acre Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, the U.S. Department of the Interior halting new coal mining leases on federal lands and Utah Rep. Rob Bishop at last releasing his “grand bargain” on the state’s public lands, 2016 would appear to have all the makings for a vitriolic public lands brawl at the Utah Legislature.

But as of this writing, a single bill, HB135 from Rep. Lynn Hemingway, D-Millcreek—which would grant free admission to state parks for certain disabled veterans—is on the docket beneath the public-lands category.

What this lull in the action means is up for debate, but it could be little more than a minor calm interlude before the Utah Attorney General’s Office initiates what is expected to be a $14-million lawsuit against the federal government, demanding that it hand over its 31 million acres of federally managed public land in Utah.

In early December, the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands, acting on the advice from a New Orleans-based law firm that was paid $500,000 to analyze Utah’s case, voted to initiate the lawsuit. But the final word still rests with the AG’s Office, which has not yet publicly said whether or not it intends to act.

In the meantime, on Jan. 20, Congressman Bishop released his long-awaited Utah Public Lands Initiative. The initiative, which he says will be introduced to Congress in the near future, is the result of more than 1,000 public meetings.

Proponents say it is a valuable compromise that will protect beloved patches of the state, such as the San Rafael Swell and Cedar Mesa, while expediting drilling and development in other areas.

But wilderness advocates blasted the bill as being too friendly to development interests. While the draft bill touted myriad statistics on the acreage that would be protected, the section titled “Long-term energy development certainty” is vague about how it would “promote domestic energy production and job creation in eastern Utah…”

While acreage isn’t specified in this section, and no map was present with the bill to paint a clear picture, the bill says that lands promoted for energy production would include wide swathes of BLM land across six counties.

Bishop’s bill, and the possibility of the State of Utah suing the federal government for the land that belongs to every citizen of the United States in equal measure, will be more than enough to keep the sound bites flowing from the Legislature’s Natural Resource, Agriculture and Environment committee.

Even with a lack of flamboyant bills aimed at federal land managers, Utah lawmakers like Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, and Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, will be able to kick back and view Bishop’s shot at public lands in Washington, and the increasingly dangerous situation in Oregon, from a safe distance, knowing that they’ve tossed as much fuel on these fires as anyone. (CF)

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His land bill will keep lawmakers talking: U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah.

TEACH GUN SAFETY Some context: In 2011, Utah became the first state in the Union to designate its own official firearm: the Browning M1911 semiautomatic pistol.

This fact is useful to Utahns in 2016 because President Barack Obama, whom many gun-loving Americans believe could still somehow revoke their constitutional right to bear arms, continues to occupy the White House, where his twoterm tenure has been a massive boon to arms manufacturers.

In the wake of massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., Obama announced that he would do everything he could before his time in office expires to achieve stricter background checks for firearms sales.

In Utah, some legislators have also decided to do something in response to the cascade of mass shootings and killing sprees that have become about as American as the Super Bowl.

Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, has introduced Senate Bill 43, which would create a pilot program in some Utah public schools where eighth graders would be taught about firearm safety and violence prevention.

The courses, Weiler says, would be voluntary and no firearms would be present as part of the instruction.

Weiler says the instruction is not in response to fears of heightened federal regulation, but rather a needed piece of the education puzzle that he hopes would help cut down on the number of accidental gun deaths.

And, like sex education and other sensitive topics that surface in the context of educating students, Weiler says it would be nice to believe that all parents who own firearms ensure that their children are educated on what they should do if they encounter a gun—but he doubts that this is the case.

The course would also prep students on how to handle an active-shooter scenario—knowledge that Weiler says couldn’t do any harm if such a situation were to occur in a Utah school.

“I think some students would have the right instincts and some would have the wrong instincts,” Weiler says. “It’s always helpful if you could go through what you would do if you faced a scenario before it happened.”

Weiler says he’s fielded some criticism for the bill, but not what one might expect. He says many have told him this training should start at younger grade levels.

Motivation for the bill, he says, was spurred by the accidental shooting death in 2014 of a 12-year-old Kaysville girl. The girl was shot by her 10-year-old sister, who found a 9mm pistol at their home.

In a world with state-designated handguns, guns flying off the shelves like candy bars and gun violence prevalent in entertainment, Weiler says his bill is a far cry from a fearful reaction to gun violence. “I wish that little kids were a little more afraid of guns than they seem to be,” Weiler says. “The gist of this [is] education: If you come across a gun, don’t pick it up; don’t touch it, just call for help.” (CF)

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Introducing a Gun Safety Bill: Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross.

FUNDING FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION

UPPING THE SMOKING AGE

It may feel like a breath of fresh air to see legislation designed to actually promote and capitalize on Utah’s many beautiful landscapes. Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek, and Sen. Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe, have teamed up to give some funding to the governor’s director of outdoor recreation and Office of Economic Development to recruit more outdoor-recreation businesses to Utah, improve some existing recreational areas and help improve access to Utah’s lands for low-income Utahns. In a state that brings in more than $1 billion a year from tourism, anything that can increase access to outdoor recreation opportunities and simultaneously create more jobs should have betterthan-average chances of approval at the Legislature. (EE)

In recent years, the Legislature has taken aim at regulating the robust and relatively new industry of electronic cigarettes. So far in 2016, no bills have surfaced that have sights set on the vape scene. But one bill, House Bill 157 from Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, is seeking to raise the legal smoking age from 19 to 21. The bill would also prevent those under the age of 21 from purchasing any smoking-related paraphernalia or e-cigarettes. The statute that would have to be amended includes a classic line in Utah law that gives municipalities the authority to “prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dogfights, cockfights, prize fights, bullfights and all disorderly conduct.” (CF)

OIL & GAS SEVERANCE TAX RELIEF As state lawmakers continue to insist that federal ownership of public lands is crippling the Legislature’s ability to adequately fund public education, Sen. Kevin Van Tassel, R-Vernal, appears to be reintroducing a bill that failed in 2015 that would chop the severance tax that oil well owners must pay to the state. The bill in 2015 was called “incentives for oil production,” while the 2016 iteration, Senate Bill 17, is called “revenue & taxation amendments.”

Because the fiscal note is not yet attached to the bill, the verdict is out on its consequences. But 2015’s bill would have cost the general fund, and public education, $14.4 million this fiscal year by giving 110 well owners a more than $30,000-per-quarter kickback. (CF)

AIR *GASP* QUALITY Support for outdoor rec:

Sen. Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe:

Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek.

Invest in outdoor business.

WATER RATES MAY GO UP

REEFER MADNESS! Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City: Utahns should pay for their water.

Rep. Rebecca Edwards, R-North Salt Lake, gave the DAQ some additional clout last year.

STAY AWAY, DRONES

Wildfires and drones don’t mix:

It’s all about the oil, not the herb:

Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City.

Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City.

Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, wants to see the statute of limitations for those who violate state environmental laws to be stretched from one to five years. Hand-inhand with this effort is another bill by Escamilla, Senate Bill 66 that would hike the fines assessed to polluters for an array of offenses. For instance, if a person knowingly violates state law in dealing with asbestos, they will be charged $25,000 per day while in violation of state codes. Under the proposed bill, this fee would rise to $65,000 per day. (CF)

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Utah was spared from significant wildfires over the past summer, but in other parts of the country, authorities say a hazard wholly independent of the raging flames came into focus: unmanned aircraft hovering over the blazes.

When wildfires return to scorch Utah, Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, hopes the state will have long adopted his House Bill 126, which forbids the use of unmanned aircraft within three miles of a wildfire. An exception is made in the bill for government or public operators of drones, who will still be able to capture sick footage to post to YouTube.

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It is well documented that Utahns use (and/or waste), more water than any other state. This phenomenon is because in Utah, water districts are subsidized by property taxes. As a result, water rates have remained low and many Utah communities have badly lagged behind other parts of the country in instituting tiered rate structures that charge wasteful water users more money, thereby encouraging conservation. Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, has put forth Senate Bill 28, which would require retail water providers to “establish an increasing rate structure for culinary water and provide information to customers.” (CF)

While Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, wages his epic battle to get Utah on the medical marijuana train, a bill that he believes has been manufactured by law enforcement interests for the specific intent of derailing his bill will also see daylight.

The bill, put forth by Sen. Evan Vickers, RCedar City, would allow around 2,000 to 5,000 patients access to cannabidiol (CBD), which has no mind-altering qualities. Madsen’s bill, which aims to embrace the medicinal qualities of the entire marijuana plant, would aid around 80,000 Utahns, some of whom, like Madsen himself, have become reliant on opiate-filled pills to ease their pain. (CF)

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Utah’s largest utility company, Rocky Mountain Power, announced in December that it thinks Utah is using too much renewable energy—especially solar and wind—and that the state needs to shift back to more “traditional” energy sources like coal and oil. It has asked lawmakers and regulators to decrease the required length of contracts it has with renewable-energy companies from 20 years down to just three. Renewable-energy companies have balked at the announcement, pointing out that the reason why they are able to get funding for bigger and better renewable-energy technologies is precisely because investors see the guaranteed long-term contracts. There isn’t anything definitive yet on whether or not the Legislature will back or oppose RMP, but it’s unlikely lawmakers will sit this one out. (EE)

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The irony is not wasted on Utah environmentalists when the soupy inversions that envelop the Wasatch Front every January typically dissipate by the time the legislative session starts. If it just stuck around for a few more weeks, when lawmakers were actually sitting at the Capitol, maybe something meaningful could get done. That’s not to say Utah lawmakers haven’t accomplished anything on reducing air pollution.

During the 2015 legislative session, Rep. Rebecca Edwards, R-North Salt Lake, and Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, teamed up to give more regulatory authority to the Utah Division of Air Quality. So far, the only air-quality bill filed is from Rep. Edward Redd, R-Logan, who is also a physician. However, the language of the bill is not yet publicly available. Perhaps someday, Utahns won’t have to worry about late-summer and early-January air killing us. (EE)

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UTA DODGED A BULLET

CIVIL-ASSET FORFEITURE

Ride-sharing companies got off to a rocky start in Utah, having to battle with the Salt Lake City Council before finally being allowed to start taking customers. The services are extremely popular thanks to low prices and convenience but are not without their fair share of controversy.

Concerns include a lack of workplace protections due to drivers’ classification as independent contractors, underinsured vehicles and in some cities, concerns for passenger safety (particularly women), due to under-screened drivers. Both Uber and Lyft have tried to address some of the concerns recently, but Sen. Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, is running a bill that would effectively ban the companies by requiring drivers to have either an official taxi license or a commercial driver license. Fans of the service likely don’t have much to worry about, though—the bill has little chance of passage. (EE)

Despite the recent headline-grabbing trips to Europe taken by board members of the Utah Transit Authority, there wasn’t sufficient outrage to warrant action by the Legislature. In late 2015, word broke about how UTA board members, lawmakers and a few lobbyists had taken trips to Switzerland, ostensibly to study how Swiss trains work. There was a public outcry over the money that was spent on the trip, especially since some of the participants’ spouses went along. But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised there’s no proposed legislation to prevent it from happening again: One of those who went on the trip was former UTA Board Chairman and current Speaker of the House Greg Hughes, R-Draper. The only public transit-related bills filed as of this writing involve sales-and-use taxes in counties that go to highway repair and public transportation. (EE)

So, you get busted for selling your pal a nugget of dope, but the charges against you evaporate because of an illegal search and seizure. The cops, however, still end up holding the title to your brother-in-law’s 1997 Honda Accord, which he lent you. Now you can’t get to work or take the kids to school. This is an imaginary scenario, but one that occasionally plays out in Utah’s civil courts, where law enforcement agencies handle the lion’s share of their asset forfeiture. Rep. Brian Greene, R-Pleasant Grove, says the asset forfeiture game, created to help law enforcement punish drug kingpins and cartels, is most effective at seizing assets valued at less than $5,000—petty cash and beater vehicles. Greene’s House Bill 22 proposes greater protections and due process for innocent victims in these cases. The bill would also force any revenue generated from civil asset-forfeiture to be diverted from the pockets of law enforcement to the state’s education fund. (CF)

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Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights: a leading voice in expanding health-care.

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In a nutshell: Lawmakers have spent years making Medicaidexpansion proposals and then shooting them down. Could the Legislature finally pass something this year to cover the thousands of Utahns who have coverage? Yes. But don’t count on it.

It’s been years since Utah lawmakers, having rejected the full Medicaid-expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act, were first tasked with coming up with an alternate solution to provide health care for the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people who cannot afford or otherwise cannot get private health insurance. Many of these people are from working families, who earn a paycheck but are making too little to afford the often-expensive private coverage, but make too much to receive tax credits through Obamacare.

In the past few years, numerous proposals have been made by the govorner, as well as various lawmakers or coalitions of lawmakers, including Gov. Gary Herbert’s Healthy Utah plan; the Utah Cares plan; Frail Utah; and, most recently, the highly anticipated Utah Access Plus plan which was crafted by the governor and legislative leadership in both the House and Senate. Each of those plans was eventually voted down and failed to become law. In one instance, with the Utah Access Plus plan, that vote was

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taken by the House Republican Caucus—which holds a supermajority—in a closed-caucus meeting with no public or media present, so we’ll never know who was in favor, who was opposed or what horse trades were made.

One of Medicaid expansion’s leading champions has been Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights, who is also an emergency-room physician. A big supporter of Gov. Herbert’s Healthy Utah Plan in 2015, who helped get that proposal passed by the Senate before it died in the House, Shiozawa was part of the team who proposed Utah Access Plus. Likewise, Rep. Edward Redd, R-Logan, who is a primary care physician, told City Weekly in October 2015 that the system’s inability to adequately provide coverage for people who need it is disturbing and that “it gets quite frustrating knowing that many of these people could have survived if they’d had adequate health care.”

There are several open-bill files for the 2016 legislative session regarding Medicaid, although as of deadline, the bills only have titles and are listed as “in process,” meaning their language is still being crafted.

Interestingly, one of the bills in the works is being proposed by Senate Minority Leader Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City. If he were to actually bring the bill forward, it would mark the first time the few Democratic lawmakers in either the Senate or the House will have proposed a Medicaid expansion plan of their own.

Other players to watch: Keep an eye on Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP), which advocates for a strong Medicaid Expansion law and that has been instrumental in shaping the debate thus far. On the other side, watch for Americans for Prosperity (AFP Utah), the Koch Brothers-affiliated group that has been sending attack mailers to the districts of Republican lawmakers who support expanding health-care access for Utahns. (EE)

We hear the same arguments every year. Democrats cry foul at Utah being ranked dead last in the nation for perpupil education funding, while Republicans retort that the number is meaningless and that Utah teachers are known for doing more with less. And nothing ever seems to change.

Each year, lawmakers slightly increase the education budget to keep the same ratio of money with incoming students.

There aren’t any groundbreaking bills that have been filed for this legislative session that could break the cycle, and it’s unlikely that it will ever happen until voters start making it a priority at the ballot box. Expect to hear the same rants on the floor of the Legislature from Democrats, and the same counterpoints from Republicans either dismissing it as a non-issue or blaming the federal government. (EE)

Two lawmakers are looking to expand the rights of working mothers, an important issue in Utah given the state’s proclivity for large families. Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, is seeking to add breast-feeding to Utah’s public accommodation laws—meaning that women cannot be discriminated against for breast-feeding in a public or private space used by the general public (like a park or school). Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, meanwhile, has a bill that would expand on the rights of mothers in the workplace, requiring both private and public employers to provide reasonable accommodations for women who need to pump milk during her shift. That could mean possibly providing extra breaks during long shifts, or perhaps providing a private place for women to breast-feed or pump.

The proposals are being backed by the Utah Women’s Coalition, a joint group of Utah nonprofits who support the rights of women. (EE)

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EDUCATION: ALWAYS THE LAST

After an anti-abortion group released a highly-edited set of videos alleging misconduct by Planned Parenthood in July 2015, multiple congressional and state-level investigations were launched—although none found any wrongdoing. In Utah, on the eve of the 2015 Utah Republican Party convention, Gov. Gary Herbert announced he was cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood that is used for STD testing and educational programs. PP Utah sued, and the 10th Circuit Court has put a hold on Herbert’s order. While the Legislature typically runs at least one or two anti-abortion bills every session, it’s unlikely that they will this year. Just like in 2014, when all LGBT-related bills were shut down so as not to make the Legislature appear antagonistic while the same-sex marriage case went through court, it’s likely lawmakers will take the same tactic this year to try to appear unbiased on the issue. (EE)

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History professor Bill Dudley (Mark Zimmerman) has a special $2 bill he uses as a bookmark—something his father suspected might become worth a lot of money, but is really just a piece of paper that only has as much value as we collectively agree it has. And that becomes a potent metaphor in T.J. Brady’s world-premiere play, because Dudley has a secret: He never completed his undergraduate degree.

The fallout from that secret coming to light drives the action, and Dudley’s interactions with the play’s three other principal characters: his wife, Jessica (Lesley Fera), who is also the university’s dean of faculty; Ron (Corey Allen), Dudley’s West Point-educated graduate teaching assistant, and Megan (Ephie Aardema), a highachieving undergraduate. Brady’s text becomes a fascinating exploration into what it is we claim to value when we talk about education, as well as how we integrate personal integrity with the things we claim as achievements.

Matt August’s crisp direction keeps the action focused on the performances—Fera and Allen are particularly strong—while framing the stage in flags and using military trumpets as a recurring motif. That subtext makes Two Dollar Bill even richer, as Dudley’s academic emphasis on military history and Ron’s own experience as a decorated soldier collide in the play’s ongoing examination of how anyone claims the necessary experience to speak as an authority. The result is something as satisfying as it is provocative; it makes you think about what it means to be a thinker.

(Scott Renshaw) Two Dollar Bill @ Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through Jan. 30, Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m., $25-$44. PioneerTheatre.org

In his New York Times obituary, artist Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) was remembered as a “pioneer of modern dance.” During his lifetime he was called, more colorfully, the “P.T. Barnum” or “Yellow Submarine” of dance. But the man preferred to call himself an “artistic polygamist.” Though his foundational medium was dance, and he studied under modern greats like Martha Graham, Nikolais touched every aspect of performance when developing his works—from the movement to props, sets, sound, color and lighting. This week, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. presents Illusions, an evening of work by Nikolais.

The Ririe-Woodbury/Nikolais connection is strong, and those familiar with the company’s past performances will certainly recognize the choreographer’s name. That’s because in 1999, Ririe-Woodbury had the good fortune—after the dissolution of the choreographer’s own two New York companies—of becoming the “keeper of the flame” for the Nikolais’ repertoire. Since then, Ririe-Woodbury has produced Nikolais’ pieces locally, nationally and internationally, but this will be a rare evening fully devoted to some of the choreographer’s greatest works, including Tensile Involvement (1987), Mechanical Organ (1981), Gallery (1978) and Crucible (1985). There will also be a shortened, family-friendly matinee performance.

“Alwin Nikolais was the first choreographer to fuse dance with a variety of innovative, visually stunning multi-media elements that created a unique theatrical experience about contemporary life,” explains Daniel Charon, Ririe-Woodbury’s artistic director. Today, Nikolais’ creations remain cuttingedge, and continue to inspire the most modern and innovative performance pieces from groups like Pilobolus, Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group.

(Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Illusions @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 29-30, 7:30 p.m., $15-40; Jan. 30, 2 p.m. matinee, $10. ArtSaltLake.org

Mel Brooks is one of those creative talents who pushes the boundaries of art. For more than 60 years, he has shown a willingness to step up to the edge of offensiveness—from Young Frankenstein to Blazing Saddles—and make people laugh while doing it. From the big screen to the stage, his Tony-award-winning musical The Producers is making a stop at Capitol Theatre this week.

In keeping with classic Brooks productions centered largely on sarcasm and ridiculousness, The Producers is based on Brooks’ 1967 film of the same name, for which Brooks won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Brooks wrote the music and lyrics, and Tony-Award winner Susan Stroman choreographed the musical.

The hilarious story follows has-been Broadway producer Max Bialystock (played in this touring production by David Johnson) and his reserved, anxious accountant, Leo Bloom (Richard Lafleur), as they set out to create the worst musical in history in an effort to get rich quick. The duo receives a script from an ex-Nazi about the rise of Hitler’s power, as told through song and dance.

Scenes like “Springtime for Hitler” and “Keep It Gay” will have you laughing out loud, and maybe even singing along, as the musical numbers are infectious. The dance numbers are fantastically choreographed, and they use props ranging from small tanks to bratwurst.

It’s impossible to keep a straight face during The Producers, and the off-color humor is sure to offend all types of folks. (Aimee O’Brien) The Producers @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 2-7, weekdays, 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m., $40-$65, SaltLakeCity.Broadway.com

NPR’s Melissa Block is one of the longestrunning journalists for the nonprofit media organization, spanning three decades, and she’s coming to Salt Lake City for a live appearance to share her insights and observations.

Starting at NPR in 1985 as an editorial assistant on the flagship news program, All Things Considered, she eventually was promoted to senior producer. Reporting from the Kosovo conflict in 1999, she was lauded with an Overseas Press Club Award. While she was a correspondent in New York City, she reported on the days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Her coverage of the event helped NPR garner a Peabody Award. In 2008, Block was on assignment in Chengdu, China, when a major earthquake struck, and her work there earned several awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. She co-hosted ATC from 2003 through August 2015, after which she became a special correspondent for NPR. Her appearance here should be an extraordinary experience for NPR listeners, or anyone who’s a fan of good journalism.

Block has been on the scene for a number of momentous historical events, and she has added a unique, in-depth perspective to NPR’s coverage, pursuing long-form reporting that’s becoming rare in these days of budget cuts to news organizations.

Hosted by KUER 90.1 FM’s Doug Fabrizio, the 90-minute program will include a question-andanswer session with the audience. (Brian Staker) An Evening With Melissa Block @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 3, 7 p.m., $25.

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here’s a conversation I seem to have with other geeks. It goes like this, though there are plenty of variations: Them: “You know how I can watch Game of Thrones?”

Me: “HBO has it. You can get their HBO Go subscription. It’s pretty cheap.”

Them: “No. I mean … like … where can I get it?”

At this point they begin winking and nudging to the point it practically turns into a Monty Python sketch. Unfortunately I’m not a, uh, Go-er. Ah? Know what I mean?

This is the moment in the conversation where I will explain that I don’t know where to illegally obtain movies or television shows or comic books or any other consumable geek media, because I want to support the artists and companies who make the expensive, mass-media art I want to consume. I want to do the same thing with the small-scale indie stuff, too.

Why should there be a line between those

artists?

These conversations goes off the rails because many of the next generation of geeks (and some of this generation) feel entitled to obtain much of their entertainment for free.

But why?

When you like art, what reason could you give for not supporting it? Don’t you want to see more of it?

Take your favorite television show, for example. Aside from the fact that they’re expensive to produce, even if you want to watch for free, there is more often than not a totally legal option that will allow you to view the content you want without paying, and still allow the person who made the art to benefit. The ticket we pay for admission is called commercials. And I get it. I hate commercials, too. It’s why I can’t listen to the radio save for NPR anymore. But when there’s no other option—or at least no other morally defensible one—there’s no other option.

In soliciting comment for this piece, one of the most common refrains I heard was, “If they wanted me to watch it and pay them for it without piracy, they’d make it more convenient for me.” This was in reference to Game of Thrones not being available on DVD for a year after broadcast, and only available to HBO subscribers in the meantime.

But it’s not the job of a media producer to make its content as cheap and convenient as possible; its job is to make great content people want to pay for so that they can afford to make more. If you can’t afford to pay for it the way they want you to in order to see it right now, then maybe you can just

wait. That’s a thing that people can do. We should not—must not—feel entitled to the labor of an artist without compensating them for it, even if that artist is part of a massive corporate machine.

As someone who writes books and movies, I’ve been on the other side of the equation. Every sale helps, even if it might not seem like it. Amazon will re-rank your stuff with each individual sale. Netflix will keep your movie up longer and sneak it into recommendations the more people watch it. Comic books are rated based on sales every month, and the losers at the bottom aren’t long for production. I can’t imagine that other systems work much differently, whether that’s Hulu or Barnes & Noble: If you’re not selling copies or getting views or legal downloads, no one is going to invest in the next thing you want to make.

That’s why it’s so important to treat dollars spent on entertainment as an investment—not just for your own wellbeing, because art at its best is designed to make us learn something about ourselves and the world around us, but as an investment in the next thing that artist wants to do. Paying for art is virtually always the right thing to do.

Sure, there’s a case that could be made that piracy is the only way to see things like the Star Wars: Holiday Special. At the moment, there’s no way to hand over money for this important cultural artifact.

Very few things any more fall into that category, though, so my advice to you is be more judicious and patient in your consumption.

We could all use a more refined entertainment palate, anyway. CW

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“The Big Tiny”: A Drawing by Tony Smith Local artist and University of Utah faculty member Tony Smith—not to be confused with the late internationally renowned sculptor—has produced “The Big Tiny,” a pen-and-markers drawing that took an entire year to create. But in addition to including the work itself, the exhibit of the poster-size drawing at the Gallery at Library Square includes documentation on its own genesis. In addition to notes on the work, questions are raised, like, “Is it art?” or “How much is it worth?” (spelled out in oddly assembled found objects). You can even vote on your assessment of the work, on a ballot ranging from “achingly poignant” to “NOT IN MY HOUSE” to “hard to read, confusing mess.”

“The Big Tiny” is an artwork simultaneously about its own creation and the entire world; the title certainly fits. The obsessively detailed accumulation of people and objects teeming under the artist’s eye is like a madcap art professor’s answer to Where’s Waldo? (Brian Staker) “The Big Tiny”: A Drawing by Tony Smith @ Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake City Main Library, fourth floor, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through March 4. SLCPL.org

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-3477373, through Jan. 30, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., check website for special performances, EmpressTheatre.com The Sound of Music Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-2981, Jan. 28-30, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 30, 2 p.m., Arts.BYU.edu Star Ward The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through Feb. 20, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; no performances Feb. 8-13; Saturday matinee, Feb. 6, 2 p.m., TheOBT.org Twelfth Night Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, 801-422-298, Feb. 3-5, 7 p.m.; Feb. 6 & 13, 2 & 4 p.m.; Arts.BYU.edu Two Dollar Bill Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through Jan. 30, MondayThursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org (see p. 22) Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike Wasatch Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through Jan. 30, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; matinee Saturday, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., WasatchTheatre.org You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Washington Terrace, 801-393-0070, through Feb. 6, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com

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BYU Winterfest 2016 Conference Center, 60 N. Temple, 801-570-0080, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m.; BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble, Feb. 6, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; BYU Living Legends, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m.; LDS.org/ Church/Events/Temple-Square-Events Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Illusions Capitol Theater, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan 29-30, 7:30 p.m., $15-40, 2 p.m. matinee Jan. 30, $10, ArtSaltLake.org (see p. 22)

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

NOVA Chamber Music: A Sense of Place Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801581-7100, Jan. 31, 3 p.m., Tickets.Utah.edu Pahud Plays Carmen Fantasy, Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533-6683, Jan. 29-30, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org Pahud Plays Carmen Utah Symphony, Weber State University Browning Center, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m., SymphonyBallet.org Tian Jianan Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., UtahPresents.org University Campus Symphony Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., tickets at door Winners of SummerArts w/American West Symphony Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m., tickets at door

COMEDY

Comedy Month The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, Fridays, through Jan. 29, 8 p.m., TheZiegfeldTheater.com Don Barnhardt Comedy Hypnosis Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, Jan. 29-30, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com Lachlan Patterson Wiseguys Salt Lake City, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 28; 7:30 p.m., Jan. 29-30; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., WiseGuysComedy.com Marcus Wiseguys Ogden, 269 Historic 25th St., 801-622-5588, Jan. 29-30, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

LITERATURE TALKS/AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Amy Goodman: The Silenced Majority Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main, Park City, 435-649-8062, Jan. 29, 1-2 p.m., DollysBookstore.com Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Feb. 1, 8 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com An Evening With Melissa Block Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 3, 7 p.m., $25, ArtSaltLake.org (see p. 22) G. Egore Pitir: Face Of Our Father Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Harris Tulchin: The Independent Film Producer’s Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main, Park City, 435-649-8062, Jan. 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m., DollysBookstore.com Jessica Day George, Bree Despain, Jennifer Jenkins, Sara Larson, Valynne Maetani and Eric James Stone Barnes & Noble, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, 801-229-1611, Jan. 28, 7 p.m.,

BarnesAndNoble.com Mette Ivie Harrison: His Right Hand The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, Jan. 28, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Nathan Hale: Comics Squad: Lunch! The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Jan. 30, 2-3:30 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Marissa Meyer: Stars Above The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Feb. 3, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS WINTER MARKETS

Downtown Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, alternate Saturdays through April 23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Salt Lake City Film Festival Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West, 801-322-3891, first Wednesday monthly, 8:30 p.m., Brewvies.com SoulWorks Fair, Dancing Cranes imports 673 E. Simpson Ave., 801-815-0588, Jan. 30, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., BettyPNamaste.Wix.com/SoulWorks Sundance Film Festival Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sundance Resort, through Jan. 31, Sundance.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

24 Hours in China: Photography from the China Overseas Exchange Association, Part Two Main Library, Lower Urban Room Gallery, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 21, SLCPL.org American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell BYU Museum of Art, North Campus

Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, through Feb. 13, MOA.BYU.edu Blackened White: Works by John Sproul Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801-594-8951, through Feb. 20, SLCPL.org Brian Christensen: RECONFIGURE CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Feb. 7; CUArtCenter.org Carina Barajas: Objects and Self Mestizo Gallery, 631 W. North Temple, 801-361-5662, through Feb. 12, MestizoArts.org The Color of Being Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West Ste. 125, 801-328-0703, through Feb. 12, AccessArt.org Cultivate Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through March 4, VisualArts.Utah.gov David Brothers: Rolithica Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through April 30, UtahMoca.org Grant Fuhst: The Yearning Curve Art Barn/ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 26, SaltLakeArts.org Larry Revoir: July 16, 1945: Enter the Anthropocene Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 26, SaltLakeArts.org Lindey Carter & Rebecca Klundt Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8293, through Feb. 12, Phillips-Gallery.com Nuns and Other Spiritual Grrls: Paintings by Carol Berrey Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Feb. 25, SLCPL. org Portraitures of Life: Works by Bea Hurd Main Library Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5248200, through Feb. 7, SLCPL.org Raw and Cooked Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7270, Jan. 15 - March 11, Heritage.

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would be ideal for making pancakes and crêpes. At Sitara, the tawa is used to cook up a generous batch of tilapia fillets which are marinated first in a mélange of Indian spices, then flash-fried with onions and yellow peppers, served sizzling hot on the tawa, garnished with minced cilantro.

I could tell by the nearly neon-red color of my lamb vindaloo ($9.50) that it was going to be fiery. After all, that’s the way I’d ordered it. Curry dishes at Sitara can be ordered in mild, medium or hot versions, but vindaloo is almost always hot and spicy right off the bat. Still, I ordered the hot version; what can I say, I’m a chili-head. Originating in the Indian region of Goa, vindaloo is a type of curry that incorporates vinegar (usually palm vinegar) with red Kashmiri chili peppers as main components. Peeled chunks of potato are also usually part of any vindaloo preparation. Sitara’s lamb vindaloo is outstanding: tender, boneless bite-size pieces of lamb is cooked in the house vindaloo sauce with cumin seeds, red chili peppers, cinnamon and cloves, served in the sauce with pieces of potato.

The other dish I enjoyed almost as much as the vindaloo was the chicken korma ($8.99), soft, boneless pieces of chicken in a mild, but memorable, sauce of cashew nuts, onion paste and cream.

If you’re on the hunt for authentic Indian flavors in Weber County, Sitara certainly satisfies. CW

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dried fruits and nuts, all bathed in a rich, creamy coconut milk curry that is irresistible. It’s also available on the regular menu for $8.25, including basmati rice or naan.

I can’t say that Ogden’s Sitara India has much eye appeal. However, the service is super-friendly at this hole-in-the-wall eatery, if a bit slow when things get busy. The place is often mobbed at lunchtime on weekdays for the all-you-can-eat buffet. I’m sometimes encouraged, however, when dishes emerge slowly from the kitchen during regular service, because it tells me the food is being made-to-order, from scratch, not just sitting in heating units à la the buffet.

I like to begin a Sitara meal with an order of papadam ($1.25), a pair of crispy, thin wafers made from lentil flour, beautifully charred in the tandoori oven and spiked with cumin seeds, served with tamarind and mint chutneys alongside. Another great bread item—one that could serve as a shared appetizer or as a filling main dish— is puri and chana masala ($7.99), a very popular dish in Southern India. The puri is two pieces of puffy, deep-fried unleavened Indian bread, served with a generous portion of chana masala: tender chickpeas in a thick yellow-orange curry with hints of onion, tomato, cardamom, coriander, cumin, fennel, cinnamon, grated coconut and more. If you have leftovers, the chana masala is also delicious when reheated.

Two dishes from the menu’s “Seafood Specialties” were both excellent. First, tender shrimp and fresh spinach cooked in a tangy tomato and onion gravy (shrimp saag) was delightful, and nicely priced at a mere $9.50. A seafood house specialty is a generous serving of tawa fried fish ($10.99).

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or a long time, my go-to Indian restaurant was Taste of India, in Layton. However, the original owners sold the business and moved to Texas a while back, and I’m sorry to report that the cook must have left with them. However, I recently made a new Northern Indian restaurant discovery (“Northern” meaning north of Salt Lake City, not necessarily cuisine representing the North of India): Sitara India restaurant in Ogden. Up until mid-January, there was another Sitara location—in Layton. Unfortunately, that eatery—which had more ambiance appeal than the Ogden one—has closed temporarily while the owners look for new digs. The owners promise to “be back very soon.”

A quick Google search informs me that sitara is a Sanskrit word meaning “the morning star.” The “morning” part notwithstanding, there isn’t any breakfast to be had at Sitara. However, Sitara offers an inexpensive, all-you-can-eat lunch buffet ($7.99) that is of better overall quality and selection than most Indian lunch buffets I’ve previously encountered. The choices change frequently, and I noticed is that at least half of their lunch buffet dishes were vegetarian—a nice option for non-meat eaters.

Although I can’t say I’m a big fan of buffets in general, I do think they serve an important purpose, especially at Indian restaurants. They provide customers who might not be too familiar with Indian/ Pakistani cuisines a number of different dishes, with little economic downside.

At Sitara, you can always count on some staples such as basmati rice and naan— leavened white flour bread similar to pita, baked in a tandoori oven—as well as raita and gulab jamun to appear at the lunch buffet. Raita is a popular side dish in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh: yogurt mixed with tomato, onion, carrot and spices such as cumin and black mustard. It’s a cooling condiment/side dish that can help tone down the incendiary after-burn of a spicy dish like Sitara’s lunchtime beef curry. As for gulab jamun, it is a common dessert in Indian restaurants in which milk solids are kneaded with wheat flour into small balls, deep-fried and served in a light sugar syrup, usually flavored with cardamom and rose water.

One of the more complex dishes I enjoyed at Sitara’s buffet lunch was navratan korma.

The translation of the dish into English is “nine gem curry.” And indeed, it’s composed of nine different types of vegetables,

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On Monday, Feb. 1, Franck’s will host a Classic French Wine Dinner featuring Champagne and Grand Cru Burgundies paired with classic French cuisine. The menu looks extremely enticing, featuring four courses starting with toasted brioche, foie gras mousse, country pâté and a grapeherb salad paired with Ayala Brut Majeur Champagne. It’s followed by a 2013 Oliver Leflaive Les Setilles Burgundy with a sous vide diver scallop, grain mustard beurre blanc and fried smelt nicoise. Courses three and four feature cassoulet with duck confit, lamb belly and linguiça paired with 2006 Nicholas Potel Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Burgundy; and beef cheek bourguignon with 2009 Domaine Faiveley Clos Des Cortons Grand Cru Monopole Burgundy.

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Following a national search, the new downtown George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater—slated for a grand opening this September—has chosen Salt Lake Citybased Cuisine Unlimited (CuisineUnlimited.com) to provide exclusive food and beverage services for the venue, including innovative theater concessions, event catering and the management of a new restaurant: Encore Bistro at Eccles Theater.

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Although they’re starting to get the respect they deserve, Rhône wines were long considered to be the poor stepchild of France’s more aristocratic and opulent wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy. Fun fact: For hundreds of years, the red wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux were given hefty doses of Rhône juice to deepen their flavors. Today, Rhône wines are more likely thought of as France’s wild child of wines:

untamed, irreverent, spicy, earthy, brooding, dark and lively. They are Lady Gaga to the more Taylor Swiftian wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy—not always appropriate, but certainly exciting.

A great place to begin your discovery of Rhône wines is with E. Guigal, since they make everything from white wines such as Marsanne-based Saint-Joseph Blanc and elegant Condrieu, to Côtes du Rhône, Tavel Rosé, Gigondas, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Hermitage and gorgeous Côte-Rôtie.

If you’re fairly unfamiliar with Rhône Valley wines, I suggest starting with the simplest and most straightforward: Côtes du Rhône. E. Guigal makes red, white and Rosé versions. A remarkable value at $17.75, E. Guigal Côtes du Rhône Rouge is unique insofar as it takes a wine that is normally Grenache-based (the Southern Rhône style) and instead uses Syrah as the main varietal in Northern Rhône style, brimming with elegance and finesse. E. Guigal Côtes du Rhône Blanc ($17.75) is a luscious blend of 65 percent Viognier, 15 percent Roussanne, and splashes of Marsanne, Clairette and Bourboulenc. It has Viognier’s trademark apricot-and-white peach aromas, and is rich and round on the palate. It pairs very nicely with sushi and a range of Asian dishes. Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah go into the making of E. Guigal Côtes du Rhône Rosé ($17), and this

DRINK is a terrific springtime wine with strawberry, red currant and raspberry notes.

If you’re in the market for a rustic, earthy, spicy and intense red wine, look no farther than E. Guigal Crozes-Hermitage Rouge ($29).

This wine is Syrah through and through, an affordable luxury with well-structured, refined tannins and dark black currant flavors plus vanilla notes from long aging in small oak barrels.

Just a small step up in price is another pair of excellent E. Guigal reds: Saint-Joseph Rouge ($34.97) and Gigondas ($34.49).

Like Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph Rouge is 100 percent Syrah, with a powerful red berry nose and delicate oak aromas.

Its bright acidity makes it a good candidate for mealtime. Meanwhile,

dark fruits and classic Guigal tannins dominate full-bodied E. Guigal Gigondas, a blend of 60 percent Grenache, and 20 percent each of Syrah and Mourvèdre. The nose is intense, and the wine is racy and assertive on the palate, albeit with soft tannins. Enjoy it alongside red meat, roasts, game and aggressive cheeses.

E. Guigal Châteauneufdu-Pape ($55.99) is the iconic southern Rhône wine, with lovely texture, harmony and concentration. If you’re looking for a bit of a white wine splurge that is well worth the investment, enjoy a bottle of E. Guigal Condrieu ($68.75).

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This is just a guess, but the real-life rescue of the men trapped aboard the SS Pendleton, an oil tanker that was ripped in half during a terrible storm in 1952, was probably much, much more difficult than it seems in director Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hours. Disney has made a familyfriendly movie that treats its characters with respect, but anything in the script resembling grit or rough edges has been sanded away by the Disney Machine.

You know the Disney Machine, right? It’s that thing that takes an intriguing premise—say, the rescue of 34 men trapped on a sinking oil tanker in rough, storm-tossed seas off Chatham, Mass., in the middle of a hard winter—and removes most traces of human emotion so that each character is whittled down to his barest and most inoffensive essentials.

In this case, there’s Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Bernie Webber (Pine), the stoic rule-follower who decides not to follow the rules. He will rescue those guys!

There’s Seaman Richie Livesey (Ben Foster, who deserves better), the stoic contrarian who decides to help Bernie with the rescue. They will get it done!

There’s Ray Sibert (Casey Affleck, who

does more than the part deserves), the Pendleton’s engineer who reluctantly assumes control of the tanker. He’s not going to let his shipmates die!

You get the idea. These aren’t characters.

They’re archetypes, and the screenplay doesn’t let them develop beyond archetypes. That’s a pity, because Gillespie doesn’t inject any sense of struggle or daring or danger into what, in real life, must have been a huge struggle, impossibly daring, and unfathomably dangerous.

For example, the first impossible task Bernie and Richie encounter is getting their lifeboat across Chatham’s bar in a horrendous nor’easter—the kind of weather system that rains and snows and blows with such ferocity that most of the rest of the country calls these storms blizzards. Every character—and I mean every character—says, “You can’t get across that bar.” (Except this is Massachusetts, so they say “bah.”) Even inexperienced engineer Andy Fitzgerald (Kyle Gallner) and Ervin Make (John Magaro), also aboard the lifeboat, agree.

But then they get across the bar, and seemingly easily. Sure, waves crash down on the boat and submerge it, and Carter Burwell’s score swells appropriately, but then the boat surfaces, Pine’s hair looks pretty good, and along they go.

There’s next to no talk of hypothermia, illness, drowning or seasickness in a place where that is almost certainly a serious concern. Even the one on-screen death in The Finest Hours is surprisingly peacefullooking.

It’s unreasonable to assume that a movie with the Disney logo displayed so prominently on the poster would be tough-minded or relentless or give its characters flaws.

Disney used to make movies with teeth (Something Wicked This Way Comes; The

Casey Affleck, front, in The Finest Hours

Black Cauldron). Now they don’t. That isn’t a problem when the result is something like Miracle. Unfortunately, most Disney movies now resemble Million Dollar Arm (also directed by Gillespie), Tomorrowland or Cinderella: Tasteful, unironic, dull.

Amid the humdrum masquerading as high drama are a couple nifty touches. For once on film, the Massachusetts accents are downplayed. Pine’s is good, as is Foster’s (he’s from Boston originally). Affleck leaves his elsewhere and sticks with his trademark mumble (it works).

There’s also a solid role for Holliday Grainger as Miriam, Bernie’s fiancée. In most movies like this, the women have little to do but sit around and look concerned. Miriam is tough, self-possessed and resilient.

She asks Bernie to marry her (unheard of in 1952). When she learns that Bernie’s commander (Eric Bana) is sending him out in the terrible storm, she demands, calmly, that he call off the rescue. “Please bring them back,” she says, over and over, with increasing urgency, her eyes welling with tears.

It’s a human moment in a movie that’s trying very hard to humanize characters that don’t register as human. They’re human-like, but in the end, the screenplay goes where it goes and the people are incidental. CW

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TRY THESE The Abyss (1989) Ed Harris Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Michael Biehn Rated PG-13

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loguing technical achievements, including a sweetly awkward sex scene that’s more genuine than almost anything movies have shown between flesh-and-blood people. But Anomalisa also explores how Michael’s unhappiness is of his own making, while still showing compassion for him. The dense script doesn’t open itself up all at once, and almost certainly requires multiple viewings, but Kaufman shows that you have to be willing to see individuality in human lives—even if you’re not looking at a human when you see it. (R)—SR THE BOY B.5 A desperate Montana nanny (The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan) makes the trek to an Old Dark House in England, only to find that the job involves caring for a life-size porcelain child with a strict meal plan. It takes a special kind of talent to make a movie where a smiling doll isn’t creepy at all, but director William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) proves to be up/ down to the challenge, never missing a chance to botch a jump scare or gracelessly float another lead balloon of exposition. Cohan deserves some respect for trying hard to inject some actual emotion into this

thing, but what surrounds her feels like less an actual horror movie, and more an opportunity to watch Mystery Science Theater’s fabled tension extraction machine at work. (PG-13) —Andrew Wright DIRTY GRANDPA BB In which a horndog widower (Robert De Niro) ropes his frequently mortified/constantly shirtless grandson (Zac Efron) into road tripping to Daytona, leaving a trail of TMZ keywords in their wake. Danny Glover makes an appearance as a man named Stinky. Give the otherwise awful title points for honesty, at least, as the story never misses an opportunity for the disturbingly game De Niro to find new ways to debauch himself.

Unfortunately, director Dan Mazer (a Sacha Baron Cohen cohort) has a nasty habit of walking back his film’s various offenses, usually by having a secondary character pipe up immediately after a punchline to point out just exactly how outrageous it is. Not a complete waste--the scenes with prospective love interest Aubrey Plaza have a genuine wobbly improv charge--but the constant apologizing keeps disrupting the promised downward spiral. No points for flinching. (R)—AW

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Series Debut: Misleading title alert! There are no undead walkers here; a “zombie house” is an abandoned and/or foreclosed dump that Florida flipper Justin Stamper and his renovation team attempt to rehab and resell—just like every other series on HGTV, DIY, TLC, Bravo, Spike, A&E and now FYI. As ubiquitous and repetitive as these shows are (“That was a load-bearing wall!” “We’re gonna have to wait a whole week for the granite tops to be delivered!”

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Midseason Premiere: It’s the final half of Season 5, the last for Canadian import Lost Girl (it’s already concluded up in the Great White North, so beware of spoilers out there, eh?). Ironically, the sexy supernatural soap about Sapphic succubus Bo (Anna Silk), her quippy sidekick Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and their myriad messy relationships/ eternal battles fits in with Syfy’s new refocus on sci-fi more than ever, just as it’s been canceled by its Canuck production company. But, on the upside, Lost Girl now has an endpoint, and jumping into the twisty series—a viable successor to both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The L Word if there ever was one—won’t seem as daunting. Do it.

American Crime Story Tuesday, Feb. 2 (FX)

Series Debut: Whether you loved, loathed or merely tolerated the recently concluded American Horror Story: Hotel (the only clear winner was goth rock, but let’s not get into that right now), we can all agree on this: Ryan Murphy knows how to make a splashy grab for attention. His American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson takes on one of the most sensational, divisive cultural events in this country’s history, and packs in more star-power than all five seasons of American Horror Story combined. Get this: Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson, John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, Sarah

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heavily involved in local music and, as such, were even nominated in certain categories. However, we were careful they did not weigh in on any division where there could be a conflict of interest. Lending their expertise to City Weekly as members of the nominating comittee were Adam Tye and Alana Boscan of Diabolical Records, Jeremy Cardenas of Thunderfist, Ransom Wydner of King Niko and BassMint Pros, Jarom Bischoff of Crucial Fest and Exigent Records, Steve Williams of KCPW, Excellence in the Community’s Jeff Whiteley, Corey Fox of Velour, producer and musician Mike Sasich, Court Mann of the Daily Herald, KRCL’s Bad Brad Wheeler, Flash and Flare, Brian Kelm of the Utah Blues Society, Al Cardenas of NightFreq and past winners Max Pain & the Groovies, DJ Matty Mo and Chase One Two. We thank them for their input.

Let’s address the elephant (not) on the stage: The lack of a battle-of-the-bands competition. In previous years, 10 artists from each of the three categories performed on six different downtown stages. While that was a great way to kick off voting, expanding our focus meant more nominees—roughly double the 2015 batch, which meant an event like this would be a massive and tricky undertaking. It seems like a worthwhile exchange, though, if it enables us to recognize more local musicians.

Another bright side is that no showdown means we can put more into the customary “winners show” held after the results issue hits the streets. We’re still knockin’ out the details, but the Best of Utah Music shindig will be big. Expect this much: Great music. Great food and drink. And you’ll get to see the winners do what they do best. (Note to promotions dept.: Can I mention the petting zoo?

Note to Managing Editor Enrique: We’re totally stealing the goat as an office pet. Note to edtiors: Be sure to delete this after promo replies. And watch for tpyos.)

Finally—and a big reason for bands to get out the vote—three winners will be selected to open a show at the Twilight Concert Series next summer. Getting votes will be crucial to a band’s eligibility for the prize. So mobilize your bass—er, base!

Voting is live as of Wednesday, Jan. 27, and will run through Monday, Feb. 15. Results will be published in the March 3 issue.

Best of luck to the nominees! CW

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ith City Weekly’s 2016 Best of Utah Music, our goal is to recognize more of the great local music being made right in our backyard. To that end, instead of holding a multi-venue showdown as we have in the past, this year, all of the voting will take place online, giving you, our readers, the opportunity to decide what truly represents the best of Utah music.

As you can tell from the ballot, Best of Music gives you more to vote on. In past years, we’ve had only three categories: best band, best rap group and best DJ. You’re out there in the music scene. You know it’s not that simple; there’s a whole lot more happening. Best of Music casts a wider musical net with a whopping 22 categories covering rock, metal, punk, blues, roots/Americana, country, folk, Electronic, DJ (open format), pop and jazz. In addition, readers will decide who among our musical microcosm deserves such prestigious titles as Artist of the Year, Best Live Act, Album of the Year, Best Producer, Best Venue and Best Album Cover/Poster Artist.

Best of Music also resurrects the Best Friend of Local Music award, honoring podcasters, radio personalities, fans, promoters and venues—all the people who work hard to give local musicians a boost.

First up: Local Band That Should Reunite. Now, more than ever, the Salt Lake City music scene bubbles over with goodness. Not that we’ve ever experienced a dearth of good local tunes. Think back five years: Which local bands drew you out of the house on a Friday or Saturday night? Who would you risk a workday hangover to see at the Urban Lounge on a weeknight? Same question, but go back 10, 15, even 20 years. Many truly great local bands have rocked this town, and soundtracked scenes from your lives. So, who do you wanna see one more time? We’ve come up with a sweet shortlist that includes legendary math rockers Form of Rocket, semi-nebulous art-rock collective big band Vile Blue Shades, beloved indie rockers The New Transit Direction, alt-country darlings Band of Annuals and avant-garde wall-of-sound merchants Ether. Will the winner answer the call?

The other new Best of Music category is self-explanatory: “Readers’ Choice: What Did We Forget?” Allow us to explain. There’s always that nagging feeling that we’re forgetting something, and those nagging emails that say, “Hey, fools—how could you forget satanic ambient and post-silent derpstep?!” Here’s your chance, readers: Review the ballot and point out the blips our radar didn’t pick up. Except post-silent derpstep, which is lame.

Who, exactly, is “we?” Well, it’s not just the hipster tastemakers here at City Weekly—although we’ll have our say with a separate batch of staff picks in the Best of Utah Music 2016 issue published on March 3.

But for the readers’ ballot, City Weekly formed a nomination committee composed of local musicians, promoters, venue owners and even record-store proprietors to help select nominees worthy of recognition. Some on the committee are themselves

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Alchemical Release

Utah County synthpop duo Hive Riot comes together to let go.

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H

ive Riot founders, and loving “seesters” Mindy and Dustin Gledhill, describe their synthpop project as “electronic alchemy.” It’s difficult to wrap one’s head around how that actually looks and sounds, but spending the afternoon with the duo themselves makes it perfectly clear. Electronic alchemy comes when an established indie singer-songwriter like Gledhill stumbles upon a dormant love for electronic music while recording songs with EDM stalwart Kaskade. Electronic alchemy comes when she enlists the vastly talented Dustin Gledhill, a classically trained concert pianist, as a collaborator.

Electronic alchemy is the glittering, effervescent pop duo that Hive Riot has become.

While Hive Riot didn’t officially form until December 2014, Mindy and Dustin have been friends since adolescence. Mindy grew up in Northern California and, after a brief sojourn in Madrid, her family moved to Provo—right down the street from the Gledhill family. She met Dustin through a shared appreciation of ’80s pop staples like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, and she eventually married his brother Ryan. Dustin’s talent as a prodigious classical pianist brought him to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and he eventually relocated to New York.

Despite the distance, Mindy and Dustin kept in touch. When Mindy set her sights on tackling the electronic genre, she immediately thought of her longtime friend.

“He has this refined side of him because he studied at the Royal Academy and is classically trained,” she says, “but he also has this really crazy side that I felt like he would have fun exploring.”

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Dustin initially didn’t take Mindy seriously. “I thought she was joking,” he says. However, when he heard a rough cut of “Wonderwild,” the first song on their new album, something clicked. “As soon as I heard it, I was super excited. I wanted to jump on it because it did release that crazy in me.”

Now, only a year after their official formation as Hive Riot, the pair have cut their first album together. Last year, they successfully crowdfunded the self-released, eponymous platter, which they released Jan. 22 via iTunes and HiveRiot.com. Their Pledge Music project was so successful that they were able to donate a portion of the proceeds to the True Colors Fund, an organization that provides aid to homeless LGBT youth.

Hive Riot tracked the album in two Provo studios: Eric Robertson’s Pleasant Pictures and at Mindy’s own, recently opened Forge Collective, a multi-studio space that used to be a turn-of-the-century blacksmith shop. Upon completion, the duo sent the album to be mixed by Justin Gerrish (Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Weezer) and mastered by Joe LaPorta (Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, Bleachers) in New York.

On the Hive Riot Soundcloud page, Mindy describes the album as “the sound of letting go.” Tracks like the pop-fizz “Sherlock” and the club-hopping “Catch That Train,” feel like surrendering to the controlled chaos of Dustin’s thoughtfully constructed, patternoriented keyboard skills and Mindy’s cotton candy vocals. But then there are moodier, more atmospheric tracks like “Undercover” and “Her Elegy” where letting go means breaking ties with a loved one or finding closure from a past trauma.

“For me,” Dustin says, “the process of creating the album was an exercise in letting go, and also [addressing] some more obvious things from my background. My experience with coming out, and my father being a bishop, and then going through that whole process only to have my life do a 180, where my dad actually married me and my husband.

Track six, ‘Porquoi,’ is that story in a nutshell.”

To promote their new album, Hive Riot has a few single shows planned throughout the course of the year, and fans can check out their release party/concert on Feb. 20 at Provo’s Club Velour. Tickets are available at 24tix.com. CW

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Far from the grisly notion of yet another hipster folk band, Grizfolk is a Swedishbased indie rock band formed in Los Angeles. If that sounds a little convoluted, their hyperkinetic touring schedule since 2013, barely a year after forming, is the stuff of which they used to call paying your dues. But then, how many bands sign to a major label (Virgin) for their debut release? That EP, From the Spark, featured trademark polished harmonies, hummable melodies and jangling guitars in service of bouncing rhythms, a sound likeable enough if not earth-shatteringly novel or through-breaking. Their latest, Waking Up the Giants, was released to the fanfare of singles remixed by Saint Pepsi, Tyde and Dawn Golden. With Max Frost, Austin, Texas, producer/songwriter, whose hip-hop influenced compositions, he says, reflect on life’s “highs and lows.” (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 1.29-31 Andy Frasco & the U.N.

Another case from the YouTube rabbit hole files: this mad hatter, leading a group of equally goofy but talented friends. The first clip that comes up is “Smokin’ Dope and Rock ‘n’ Roll” and it shows what a freewheeling bunch the band is, with the Afroed Frasco, who’s been called “Mr. Human Cocaine,” puffing a doob while doing yoga.

It also shows how much fun the band is live.

And, although the song—and some online info—would have you believe they’re just another blues rock band, their upcoming album Happy Bastards (Fun Machine) has brooding and breezy pop rock, phat funky

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soul, disco and, yeah, stomping blues rock on “Mature As Fuck,” a song where this group of man-children assert their right to be themselves, because they’re grown-up where it counts. You know, on the inside. (RH) Friday: The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $17, TheStateRoomSLC. com; Saturday: O.P. Rockwell, 628 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $16-25, OPRockwell. com; Sunday: Snowbasin Resort, 3925 Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, 3:30 p.m., free, Snowbasin.com

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Tonight, in the sublime confines of The State Room—one of Salt Lake City’s best places to see cozy sets from singer-songwriters—four locals will show our city has the talent to suit the setting. Organized

by Morgan Young of the band Triggers & Slips, the bill features himself along with Daniel Young (The Hollering Pines, The Trappers), Ryan Tanner (The Lower Lights) and Paul Jacobsen (The Madison Arm, The Lower Lights). Accompanying the songsmiths’ sets are T&S member

Grizfolk John Davis, THP’s Kiki Jane Sieger and Dylan Schorer The Hollering Pines), and mandolin player Mark Horton Smith.

Young promises the full, intimate experience: “It will be a sit-down show.” (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $10, TheStateRoomSLC.com

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SoCal group Stick Figure puts something of a new spin on reggae music. They keep the traditional rhythms and vibes but add soundscapes, echoed vocals and sweeping guitar melodies that lend a psychedelic feeling to the music. Their music videos fit the experience just as well; imagery of beaches, sunsets, the band’s placid faces, the calming drug trip they want their music to feel like to the listener. Since their first selfreleased album, The Sound of My Addiction (self-released) they’ve built up more and more of a following, up to their most recent release Set In Stone which received acclaim

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Together, Ben “B-Rocc” Ruttner and James “Mr. JPatt” Patterson form the EDM duo The Knocks, coming from the birthing place of so many musical forms, New York City. The duo are out creating songs that mesh Daft Punk-esque disco dance funk with the alternative pop that dominates radio stations today, and the result is a new hybrid that works surprisingly well. The fact that their sound seems like an homage to Daft Punk is coincidental, considering that the two were accused of unmasking Daft Punk in an unauthorized photo. That’s all water under the bridge, though, and The Knocks have been on a rise through producing and their own original productions; their biggest single to date, “Classic (feat.

POWERS)” peaked at No. 24 on Billboard.

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Cardinox and Devereaux open. (DB) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

WEDNESDAY 2.3 Dawes

Originally called Simon Dawes, the group changed its name when it lost a core member, then moved from their trendy ’80s post-punk sound to folk-rock more firmly rooted in the earthy ’70s Laurel Canyon scene. Their debut, North Hills, was occasioned by a jam session including such notables as Conor Oberst, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, and Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench. Their latest, All Your Favorite Bands (HUB, 2015) is a wistful nod to the time of classic mellow rock, when gentle if sometimes lumbering and somniloquent LC “dinosaurs” (as they were termed by the punkers who soon followed) wandered the earth. Today, Dawes takes a retro musical style and uses it to craft something that feels fresh. (BS) Opening ceremonies, 2016 FIS World International Freestyle Skiing Competition. Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive S., Park City, Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m., free, DeerValley.com

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Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum debuted together in the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, a solo project by the one-time Kiss guitarist.

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READERS

BALLOT RECOGNIZING THE FINEST IN UTAH’S MUSIC SCENE.

You’ll notice a few changes to Best of Utah Music 2016 competition. This year, the voting will be done entirely online (with no showcases as we have done in the past).Winners’ names will be published in the March 3 City Weekly, after which, City Weekly will host a grand winners’ party. Also, three of the winners will be invited to open a show at the Twilight Concert Series next summer. So, if you love local music, go online now, research the nominees, and vote for your favorites.

BEST ROCK ARTIST

The Lovestrange Candy’s River House Top Dead Celebrity The Weekenders Foster Body

BEST METAL ARTIST

Visigoth The Ditch and the Delta Die Off Baby Gurl Hard Men

Crook & the Bluff Tavaputs Isaac Russell Mad Max & the Wild Ones

Colt .46 Gina Jones J.J. Jennings

BEST FOLK ARTIST

Canyons Wing & Claw Folk Hogan St. Boheme

BEST HIP-HOP/ RAP ARTIST

Apt Burnell Washburn Scenic Byway Rhyme Time (formerly Atheist) Grits Green

BEST POP ARTIST

The Strike RKDN Diatom The Blue Aces

BAND/ACT OF THE YEAR

Visigoth The Ditch & the Delta Candy’s River House The National Parks

BEST LIVE ACT

The Nods Baby Gurl Thunderfist Foster Body Visigoth

BEST JAZZ ARTIST

The Joe McQueen Quartet Corey Christiansen Organ Trio Tad Calcara & New Deal Swing Orchestra Alan Michael Band

BEST ALBUM COVER/ BEST ELECTRONIC ARTIST POSTER ARTIST

DJ Robot Dream Muscle Hawk Nate Lowpass Siak

BEST REGGAE ARTIST

Afro Omega Natural Roots The Tribe of I Hemptations

Sri Whipple Korey Daniel Martin Martin Bradshaw Chris Bodily

BEST VENUE

Diabolical Records The Urban Lounge Metro Kilby Court The State Room

BEST LOCAL PRODUCER

Andy Patterson Mike Sasich Terrance DH Mike Fuchs Nate Pyfer

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Candy’s River House: Another Night BassMint Pros: The BMP Pirate Radio Takeover Show The Lovestrange: I Liked It, No I Didn’t New Shack: Shadow Girl L’anarchiste: Giant

WHICH LOCAL BAND SHOULD GET BACK TOGETHER?

Vile Blue Shades Form of Rocket The New Transit Direction Band of Annuals

READER’S OPEN PICK/ WHAT DID WE FORGET? THE FINE PRINT RULE NO. 1:

You must vote in at least 2 categories for your ballot to be counted.

RULE NO. 2:

BEST FRIEND OF LOCAL MUSIC

Clark Stewart Radford Circus Brown Discoid Sam S&S Presents (Will Sartain and Lance Saunders)

Jarom Bischoff Cory O’Brien Chris Holifield

One ballot per person.

If you enter more than once, all the ballots you submitted will be eliminated!

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Online voting only. No paper ballots.

Vote for your favorites now and help support our local music community.

Nominees in selected categories were chosen by City Weekly music staff and a judging committee of community members involved in local music. To be on the ballot, the nominees must have been based in Utah in 2015. Performers must have performed in at least five shows locally during 2015. In the "Best Album" category, the music must have come out during 2015.

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Handicapitalist Discoid A Big Baby Donner Partyhouse Scary Uncle Steve

BEST BLUES ARTIST

Candy’s River House George T. Gregory Band Tony Holiday and the Velvetones Blues on First Harry Lee & the Back Alley Blues Band

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I’m your world, you my universe Without each other, we wouldn’t be You, the stars that caress the black sky With its blanket of security I the sun, kissing your cheek with warmth and love We are night and day, you’re my yin to my yang Watch us rise and fall as we delve deeper Into madness. We always, somehow see the light.

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White then told the volunteers, “The program that you guys are doing today is just invaluable.”

So, exactly who are the “you guys” that White was talking to? On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, they were retirees, students and employees from area businesses such as State Farm Insurance, FedEx and Rock y Mountain Power, who came forward to learn about home fire safety and how to teach it to others. In homes that didn’t have smoke alarms, or where alarms were more than 10 years old, volunteers installed free new ones.

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When most of us think of Red Cross volunteers responding to disasters, we conjure images of large communities uprooted by earthquakes, f lash f loods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis. That’s not an unreasonable assumption. In just the first month of 2016, there were already 19 major-disaster responses underway throughout almost a third of the United States.

What most don’t realize, however, is that local home fires are the biggest disaster threats. The American Red Cross website says that it responds to disasters every eight minutes and that nearly all of them are home fires.

During the period 2009-2013, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 357,000 home fires per year, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

These blazes resulted in an average of 2,470 civilian deaths, 12,890 civilian injuries and $6.9 billion in property damage.

In fact, Red Cross volunteers spend more time and resources providing food, clothing, emotional and other humanitarian assistance to families displaced by home fire damage than anything else.

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Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) being, look up to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble According to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you ideals, big visions, divine inspiration and high-minded people. may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of CANCER (June 21-July 22) We all go through phases when we are at odds with people we love. what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t compre- self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you hend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The com- the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield ing weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself with extra devotion—not just for the sake of the people you care for later. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do about, but also for your own physical, mental and spiritual health. whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinkoptimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” ing about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you it really is likely to last a long time. can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thorVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about oughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project. whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your season of correction and adjust- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get “Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character smarter about evaluating your allies—and maybe even one of in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having your incomplete understandings. acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian It’s time to gorge.

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alking tours have been popular for decades, maybe centuries. We are curious creatures and many of us love to learn about or revisit the past. The Utah Heritage Foundation offers guided tours of historic buildings and neighborhoods, Temple Square has a famous walking tour with volunteers ready to point out the highlights, and Visit Salt Lake created a Pioneer History Walking Tour that last three to six hours.

I recently took an unexpected tour of Draper. I rode Trax from downtown to the end of the line at 12400 South by Draper Park, got off, crossed the street and ran almost smackdab into a triad of really old structures: the Perry & Agnes Wadsworth Fitzgerald House, the Perry Fitzgerald Cabin and the Day Barn.

Pardon me for not paying attention, Draper City, but good for you for working with national and local preservation entities to save these old buildings and for putting together a tour.

As it was dark and rainy, I didn’t notice that I could have started my visit at the Intermountain Farmers Association Building—an old multi-story feed plant that’s still in use selling farm equipment and supplies.

Draper gained national prominence when eggs from the town were marketed around the country 100 years ago, and chicken farmers there furnished eggs for troops in the South Pacific during World War II. The Fitzgerald house was built after the original cabin (standing next door) was flooded in the 1860s. The Day Barn, named after homesteader Henry Day, was part of a large dairy farm that was moved from its original location in 2010 by the Draper Historic Preservation Commission.

There are 12 historic structures on the Draper walking tour within a 10-block walk or bike ride. For folks who grew up in the area, the buildings represent 150-ish years of settlers and famous families of Draper. I certainly know my share of Days, Harmons, Smiths and Terrys here, and I’m guessing their roots run deep to Draper.

The Draper Smith family has a house on the tour that belonged to Lauritz and Mary Smith from Denmark. Lauritz was a blacksmith and was called by Brigham Young himself to move to Draper. He “converted gun barrels and pistols into plowshares and ox shoes” says tour literature. Both houses have been preserved and the larger home has a stone granary and a small pond where baptisms for the Draper LDS Ward were held until 1903.

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