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There's still time to save the Great Salt Lake—if the Legislature steps up. BY JARED BLACKLEY

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WASTING AWAY There’s still time to save the Great Salt Lake—if the Legislature steps up. By Jared Blackley Cover photography by Sam Gaither

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SOAP BOX Heterosexual Heaven

For the nearly 200 years that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been in existence, it has held to a view that marriage between a man and woman is ordained of God and, therefore, is crucial to one’s happiness in this life and one’s final status in the afterlife. Inextricably linked to this heteronormative framework is a condemnation of homosexuality on the grounds that it confuses gender roles and fundamentally defies God’s plan. Rhetoric from LDS leaders around homosexuality became increasingly harsh and public during the 1950s and 1960s, in large part as a reaction to prominent lesbian and gay liberation groups gaining political momentum. They framed homosexuality as a viral contagion and serious threat to individual, familial and societal well-being, one that required urgent treatment and forceful eradication. This way of thinking paved the way for

the widespread practice of conversion therapy. Under the guise of “helping” homosexuals overcome their same-sex attractions, the LDS church justified decades of inhumane and sometimes torturous methodologies. As mental health professionals grew increasingly critical of the harmful emotional and psychological effects of conversion therapy (let alone its ineffectiveness), the church adopted a more ambiguous stance in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2016, the church was less ambivalent and began collaborating with suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ organizations, calling for an end to “any therapy that subjects an individual to abusive practices.” This contributed to the eventual passing of legislation in January 2020 banning licensed mental health therapists in Utah from practicing any form of conversion therapy on minors. But current rhetoric from LDS lead-

@SLCWEEKLY ers maintains the viewpoint that homosexuality is a pathology, an affliction and a potential sin (if “acted upon”). Within this framework, same-sex relationships are still deemed as less valid in God’s eyes than heterosexual relationships and unfit for the celestial kingdom (the highest degree of heaven in LDS theology). Thus, it is still assumed and sometimes said directly that people with same-sex desire will be “cured” or “fixed” by God in the next life. This belief explains why so many LDS members continue to speak of homosexuality as a temporary affliction, a trying temptation and an unfortunate condition that will one day be lifted from the individual who “struggles” with it. While the church may officially condemn conversion therapy on earth, many members and leaders continue to imply (and sometimes state explicitly) that it takes place in heaven. So why did the church officially distance itself from converstion therapy in

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recent years, while maintaining a theological framework that involves converting people from gay to straight in heaven? Perhaps it is more about public relations, as it would be nearly impossible in today’s culture for the church to maintain an explicitly affirming stance of conversion therapy. For the emotional, physical and spiritual well-being of sexual minority church members, LDS leaders must create an actual theological space for the existence and validation of lesbian and gay individuals, one in which heavenly glory does not hinge upon one’s sexual identity and romantic relationships. KEITH BURNS

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Tell us about your first car purchase. Eric Granato

The first car I bought was previously used in two bank robberies—same robber and bank three years apart. We called it “The Getaway.”

Mikey Saltas

2018 Subaru Forester, the perfect Utah car.

Ben Wood

I bought a used Subaru Outback from Nate Wade in 2014. We had seven great years together climbing mountains.

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“I put a dollar in and won a car. I put a dollar in and won a car.”

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I’ve never purchased a car on my own, but if you want to know how to buy a dog, I’m good at that.

Jerre Wroble

I bought a well-worn V W van for $300. Soon after, the engine fell out (luckily while parked), after which I hitchhiked til I could afford a new (used) vehicle.

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’m one you can count among the many who had high hopes for Gov. Spencer Cox after the reins of our state’s stewardship were handed to him by former Gov. Gary Herbert. It was an easy breakout for me, a lifelong Democrat who has occasionally sinned by voting for a Republican here and there. Don’t worry for my soul. I’ve also been to confession and been given absolution for those rare indiscretions of crossing party lines. I had high hopes for Spencer Cox. And why not? As our former lieutenant governor, he pissed absolutely no one off. Nobody could find fault with the guy. Compared to the hard-right perception of Gary Herbert, he offered a glimmer of hope to Democrats and independents for a kinder, moregentle Utah. He was also a bit of a Twitter sensation, posting pleasing homilies and pictures of his Fairview farm, opining on the Utah Jazz and college football and sharing his family with ours—essentially being as likeable as you or me. Utah produces an innumerable tally of talented, likeable boys like Spencer Cox. My own kids are talented and likeable, too. However, they could never be Utah’s governor. Alas, they’ve followed me into the hell depths of being a Utah Democrat—you know, the Utahns who still believe in science and fair elections. Nor are my kids of the dominant religion. No use belaboring that one, lest I piss off thousands of my Mormon relatives, but be reminded that in 126 years, Utah has only been led by three non-LDS governors. All three were Democrats as well. Simon Bamberger was the first, serving from 1917 to 1921. He was Jewish. It remains a mystery how that got by everyone. Next came George Dern, serving from 1925 to 1933. Dern had a fine political career, but he’s equally known as the

grandfather of actor Bruce Dern and the great-grandfather of the actress Laura Dern. The third was J. Bracken Lee, among Utah’s most colorful politicians ever. Like Cox, Lee came from rural Utah Mormon stock (as did nearly every other Utah Lee, from Sen. Mike Lee all the way back to John D. Lee, famed for taking the proverbial bullet for the Mountain Meadows Massacre), but “Brack” was not affiliated with the LDS Church. Lee’s final year as governor was 1957. People born that year are retiring now. I’m sure with some faith and gerrymandering, Utah can keep the exclusively inclusive streak alive until the next century. Your kids can’t amount to a hill of political beans in Utah, either. Get used to it. Well, perhaps your kids could serve on a local school board. They might even reach a slightly higher post if they live in a gay neighborhood, in an ethnic enclave or in an overwhelmingly Democratic district. It won’t matter much, because not only is that the end of their Utah political aspirations—outside of lobbying that is—even if they should do something good for their own constituents, the boys in the white shirts at the legislative and executive levels will crush their ambitions anyway. It’s what they do. Where do they learn to collectively band together to stifle whole swaths of hope and ideas that live in Utahns who are not LDS or Republican? I guess it’s the water in such places as Fairview, the birthplace and current residence of Gov. Spencer Cox. Fairview is not exactly a hotbed of political activism. Or drinking. The nearest liquor store is six miles away in Mount Pleasant. Settled by early Utah Mormon pioneers (such as my own great-great grandfather, who cast his lot for a spell in the Monroe area), Fairview is also home to a modest cluster of folks who work at points north along the Wasatch Front, plus those who keep second or recreational homes there. Cox

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himself made the daily two-hour commute to Salt Lake City to do the hard work of lieutenant governor—looking nice in photographs and standing at the ever-ready as then-Gov. Herbert signed another bill or took an important phone call. Truth is, lieutenant governors don’t do much, so we therefore didn’t really get to know Spencer Cox, did we? No, we didn’t. In just a few weeks, everyone’s loveable Twitter buddy has allowed our four gerrymandered congressional districts to section into even denser GOP/LDS strongholds. He became muted when COVID spread through all of Utah like a brush fire on the lower 40. He allowed for Salt Lake County and City mask mandates in schools and public places to be rescinded by the myopic and vindictive Utah Legislature (despite over 25% of all Utah COVID deaths occurring since last fall when mask quarreling began in earnest). He idly watches as press restrictions via new public records legislation head to vote (Take that, Tribune!). But most damningly, he’s engaged in the least rural manly man trait of all—whining. The governor and his family need to be protected. That’s OK. But allocating and spending $500,000 on security improvements for his Fairview home in the dark of night makes this governor out to be like all the rest—a rapscallion. When the story broke, he took to Twitter to validate his personal needs while also whining about simple errors in a newspaper headline. Hey, man, when the cow milk spills, you don’t cry, OK? Isn’t that a Fairview homily? Cox once offered a glimmer of hope to Utah’s outlier residents. But now? Like the rest of the team that he is now openly in full favor with, he expects everyone outside his power loop to either fall in line or fall into an unmarked grave— just like fall guy John D. Lee did, down the road a piece from Fairview—while he waits for it all to blow over. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Always Watching

You have to wonder if all these good parents actually know their kids. Certainly, they have no faith in them. Enter the micromanaging Utah Legislature, which is keeping us on our toes with its on-again/ off-again bill to enslave teachers and take away any discretion in the classroom. Never mind that teachers have studied their craft and have earned certificates and degrees to show that. Rep. Jordan Teuscher, R-South Jordan, an attorney, knows better because he’s so danged smart and was elected to make decisions for us. Yeah, yeah, the Legislature is supposed to “oversee” education. Teuscher says he’s just trying to “alleviate” one of the stresses teachers have by providing more transparency to parents. But parents need only go to the schools and talk to the teachers or—better yet—talk to their kids. Do we need Big Brother in the classroom?

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He’s alternately referred to himself on Twitter as “Unfortunate Division Creator,” “Vexatious Requestor,” “Marauding Journalist” and just plain “Bryan Schott.” It all depends on which public figure has decided to deflect from themselves and make the news about the messenger. Schott, now of The Salt Lake Tribune, has become the favorite whipping boy of anyone who’d rather not take questions. The latest happened when Congressman Burgess Owens snapped at him for working at “the racist Trib.” Owens hoped to spread a lie that he wasn’t “invited” to the Democratic caucus meeting that he spurned. Schott also took some heat for highlighting public documents about security measures at the governor’s Fairview home. Schott calls the strategy “shockingly opaque,” in that the governor tends to comment once something goes public and then only through social media. Why? Because politicians want to control the narrative. Instead, they give Schott a bigger platform—and highlight the importance of journalism.

MISS: Think Bigger

The Salt Lake Tribune let everyone know that housing is an issue—duh. One in four respondents to a recent poll think growth is a problem affecting affordability, access and health. The Trib even opined about it: “Smart urbanization, rather than ever-more-sprawling suburbanization, can fill in parts of our cities with multi-unit housing that is attractive to families—families who will repopulate Salt Lake City schools, spreading the load and making use of existing buildings.” It’s all good that the focus is on building more affordable housing and increasing access to public transit, but give us a break. The air is toxic and the water is scarce. Our state government needs to require green building, provide hospice to the dying fossil-fuel industry and preserve the threatened natural wonders that Utah is famous for. Maybe government should start with exercising its iron hand over the development of the Utah inland port.

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In Your Face

Well, this should be good. Community activists of color will join a panel to talk about their experiences—good and bad. What is it like to try to make a difference in a marginalized community? How bold do you have to be? What do you think Amanda Darrow of the Pride Center will say? She is the Pride Center’s director of Youth, Family and Education, and we know how that’s been going in the LGBTQ+ community—not well. Darlene McDonald has been an outspoken advocate for the downtrodden, and most recently has been weighing in on school boards and their penchant for banning books. Her website even says it: “I read, I write, I know things.” At 2022 MLK Experience: The Unknown Realities of a Community Activist, you’ll also hear from radio host Billy Palmer about his recent political campaign, Psarah Johnson on disabled rights, and Susi Feltch-Malohifo’ou on the challenges of public health among Pacific Islanders. Westminster College, Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1840 S. 1300 East, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3uoeRdF

Neighborhood Boost Grant

It’s time to put your thinking cap on if you live in the East Liberty Park community. “The ELPCO Neighborhood Boost Grant will enable East Liberty Park residents to reimagine and transform their neighborhood into a safer, more engaging and connected space. The goals of this grant are to encourage inclusion and equity, create a sense of place, bolster community cohesiveness, encourage walkability and active design and inspire positive change.” You could get up to $2,500 for a community-led project. Maybe you need some traffic calming or you’d like to beautify a neglected patch of land. The East Liberty area encompasses 800 South to 1700 South and 700 East to 1300 East. It contains alleyways and streets that could benefit from signage. Use your imagination. Applications open until Monday, Feb. 28. https://bit.ly/3g4IJDd

Relaunch Your Career

Are you a Utah woman who’d like to get back to the workforce? It’s hard for a lot of reasons, including the cultural bias against women. “Often, we feel that we are not prepared for professional work after being at home and outdated in terms of skills, competencies and professional networks,” says the Utah Women & Leadership Project. “Don’t lose hope because you are more prepared than you think!” organizers say. Maybe you’ve been raising kids or taking care of an elderly family member. A panel of experts in Relaunching Your Career: Tools & Strategies for Women Returning to Work will help you navigate the field and learn the difference between a job and a career. Virtual, Thursday, Feb. 10, 12 p.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/32IPOGG

Design the Future

Want to know how design education is reshaping the way we think about designers in our organizations? At Designing the Future, you can hear what leaders in the field are thinking and just how design affects you as an individual. Virtual, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. Free/register at: https://bit.ly/3r7CzbH

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ous, beautiful, talented and … humble,” but her goal is simple—to amuse and entertain. “When the audience laughs, I feel good about myself,” she replied when asked about her accomplishments. “I find success over and over again.” Indeed, her astute observations and real-life stories affirm the fact that this queen really does rule. Bob the Drag Queen performs at Wiseguys Gateway (194 S. 400 Street) Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. (sold out at press time) and 9:30 pm. Tickets cost $30. Visit wiseguyscomedy. com for more info. (Lee Zimmerman)

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you to feel safe. Live performances of Egress run through Feb. 20 at Salt Lake Acting Company (168 W. 500 North), with tickets $30. In-person attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, including booster shot, and masks will be required throughout the performance. A recorded version of the production will be available for streaming Feb. 21-March 6, with tickets $20 per household for a 48-hour viewing window. Visit saltlakeactingcompany.org for tickets and additional information. (Scott Renshaw)

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Salt Lake Acting Company: Egress The fallout from profound trauma continues to be prevalent in creative works—understandable, given that we’re living in an era that seems to deliver trauma on a societal level near constantly, let alone the experiences of individual lives. In the new psychological thriller Egress by Melissa Crespo and Sara Saltwick—originally presented to Salt Lake Acting Company audiences via their March 2021 virtual New Play Sounding Series Festival—a protagonist tries to escape from the place of her trauma, wondering what can shake it from her psyche. That protagonist in Egress is a professor of architecture, recently relocated to a small college town. In a unique act of asking the audience to identify with that protagonist, she is identified only as You—and You are struggling. While Your classes ask students to write about windows and doors as ways of identifying the security of physical spaces, no space feels secure to You, not even the bed You sleep in. It feels like some other person is always a nearby threat. And You wonder if buying a gun is the thing that will finally allow

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We’re not sure how many drag queens are named Bob—Really? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?—but regardless, Bob The Drag Queen is digging in her (high) heels and finding fame. As the Season 8 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bob clinched her crown by besting the competition in the iconic “Snatch Game,” portraying actress Uzo Aduba and the immortal Carol Channing. Well, hello dolly! Little wonder that Bob’s seductive style led to superstardom. The alter ego of non-binary comic/actor Caldwell Tidicue, Bob triumphed in HBO’s first unscripted hit series, We’re Here, which was not only named Outstanding Reality Program at the GLAAD Awards, but also nominated for both an Emmy and a Critics Choice Real TV Award. Bob’s also done well on her own, thanks to her comedy special Bob The Drag Queen: At Caroline’s New York and a popular podcast, Sibling Rivalry, which she cohosts with her best friend and another RuPaul AllStar Drag Race winner, Monet X Change. Bob describes herself as “hilari-

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In 1970, National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in New York City. At the time, she thought of it primarily as a place for Black and Brown Latinx youth to learn the dances of their own cultures, providing support and acknowledgement that their cultural history had artistic value. Providing a place for artists who couldn’t always find a creative home elsewhere allowed the company to flourish, becoming a vital enough force that it could expand its reach beyond community performances to bringing its dancers and its work all over the country. Now, more than 50 years since its inception, Ballet Hispánico brings its touring company to Utah, with two opportunities for local audiences to check a program re-imagining work from the entire

history of the company. On Friday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., Ballet Hispánico visits the Pardoe Theatre on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo; Saturday, Feb. 5 brings the dancers to the Val A. Browning Center at Weber State University in Ogden. Tickets for the Provo performance are $16 - $35, available at arts.byu.edu. This event requires proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the performance time, and masks will be required of all attendees over the age of 3 during the performance. Tickets for the Ogden show range from $10 - $25 at onstageogden.org. Masks are required inside the performance venue, and the venue will follow CDC guidelines regarding seating capacity. Visit ballethispanico.org for additional information about the performances. (SR)

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favorite books of the year. Ultimately though, it’s easy to understand. Educated is the inspiring story of how survival begat success. A tale of determination, it describes how Westover overcame dysfunction and disparity and made higher education her main mission instead. Westover will be joined on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 6:00 p.m. by Academy Awardwinning actress Natalie Portman for a one-nightonly virtual event on Zoom, presented by The King’s English bookstore to celebrate the release of Educated in paperback. Tickets cost $20 - $27 on Eventbrite.com and include a copy of the book. Visit kingsenglish.com for more info. (LZ)

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There are several things that are nothing less than remarkable about author Tara Westover. Her father opposed public education, and forbade her from attending public school. Forced to toil in her family’s junkyard, she experienced a distinctly disadvantaged childhood, one beset by a harrowing array of challenges, tragedies, mental illness and abuse. It’s absolutely amazing, then, that after first entering an actual classroom at age 17, she went on to graduate magna cum laude from Brigham Young University, win a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, earn a Ph.D. in history from Trinity College, and become a 2019 A.M. Rosenthal Writer in Residence at Harvard and a Senior Research Fellow the following spring. It’s especially impressive that her first book, Educated: A Memoir, reaped such overwhelming accolades, including kudos from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, O magazine, USA Today, the American Booksellers Association, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and even President Obama, who listed it among his

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In Memory of David Farland BY BRYAN YOUNG comments@cityweekly.net

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all great), and somehow I would be signing next to Dave. Already anxious about the fact that I would have to be signing a book, now I was going to have to do it next to a New York Times bestseller—one that I admired. Impostor syndrome kicked in, and I was convinced that I did not belong there. But when the time came, Dave wasn’t just gracious; he welcomed me into the club. It didn’t matter that my little book at a small press hadn’t sold a fraction of what he had. We were colleagues. I told Dave about my anxiety, and the story of him signing my book all those years ago, and he spent the rest of the signing assuring me that I was a professional who deserved to be there. I was worth it, and just because I didn’t have a book with a Star Wars logo and my name on it, that didn’t mean I wasn’t worthy to sign next to him. Before we left, he asked me for a signed copy of my book. It was the sort of thing

Author David Farland that I could have only dreamed of. Over the next decade after that, we came to know each other some at other conferences and conventions across the country, doing many panels together—not just about Star Wars, but about writing, too. Talking to others who knew him, it seems like that was genuinely Dave. He was a caring mentor who did his best to make sure that everyone saw the worth in themselves and the value in the written word. Dave died far too young. At 64, he still had a lot of mentoring to offer. In this day and age, the world needs more mentors like him, not less. So, think about the art you practice, and think about how you can pass that along like Dave did. The world will be a better place for it. And it was a better place for having had Dave in it. CW

him questions about Star Wars and writing (and writing Star Wars.) He was so gracious about it, and spent what felt like 10 minutes building me up and building up the possibility of a writing career. “For Bryan,” he wrote in the book that I still have in a place of honor on my shelf; “May the Force Be With You--Always -David Wolverton.” It was probably the same thing he’d inscribed on every book that day, but it meant a lot to me. It still does. I ran into Dave here and there through the late 2000s at conventions and conferences. Both of us having written Star Wars (or about it, in my case), we ended up on panels together at places like Dragon Con in Atlanta. He always kept encouraging me. But after that, the next time I ran into Dave was in 2011. I was in my 30s then, and I had indeed put out my first novel. I had been scheduled to sign at a local book store (I don’t remember which one, but they’re

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ew York Times bestselling author, teacher and local Utahn David Farland (whose real name was John David Wolverton) passed away last month at the age of 64. For most aspiring novelists here in Utah, he was known as a mentor to all. He taught Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time, Mistborn) and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), along with many more. I would count myself among the number of kids he mentored over the years. The first time I met Dave, it was 1994 and I was 13 years old. I wanted to be a writer, yeah, but more than anything, I loved Star Wars. I got a call from a friend letting me know there was a real, live Star Wars author signing books at the Media Play in Orem, and I had to get down there quick to talk to him. Naturally, after begging for enough money to buy a new book, I made that particular Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and I was greeted by none other David Farland (writing then as David Wolverton). His new book, The Courtship of Princess Leia, finally brought Han Solo and Princess Leia together, and I could not wait to read it. I couldn’t believe that no one was there to talk to this clearly world-famous author, so I spent as much time as I could, asking

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Wasting Away BY JARED BLACKLEY comments@cityweekly.net

The story of the lake’s decline is one that is sadly typical of saline lakes in the American West, and that story begins with its ecology. The Great Salt Lake is the largest terminal lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Terminal lakes have no outlet—meaning water leaves mainly through evaporation. Salt, of course, doesn’t evaporate, which is why the lake has salt levels that are much higher than the world’s oceans. According to the USGS, 66% of the lake’s water comes from three main rivers—the Bear, Weber and Provo, the latter of which flows into Utah Lake and then exits that lake via the Jordan River—and other smaller streams in the area. Of the remaining lake volume, roughly 30% comes from precipitation and 3% comes from groundwater. The lake is bounded by a series of large wetlands that, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) estimates, are used by more than 10 million birds. That figure includes approximately 330 different species, many of which use lake areas as a stopover—as a feeding and/or breeding ground—on their remarkable

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Sarah Null—an associate professor of watershed sciences at Utah State University—falls between 4,198 and 4,205 feet. Hitting that mark, she said, would be the “best to support economic, ecological, wildlife and recreation benefits of the lake.” Null and a number of other experts believe the lake is in crisis. And they warn that if lake levels continue to decline the way it has over the last three decades, one of the most unique and fragile ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere could eventually collapse, taking with it an estimated $1.5 billion dollars of annual economic value to the state and bringing with it various public health threats. But state Rep. Timothy D. Hawkes,

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The lake remains below 4,191.3 feet in elevation today, however, and experts say it is likely to decline further if nothing is done to reverse the trend. The Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) calculates the average surface water elevation of the Great Salt Lake to be 4,202.2 feet above sea level. And because the lake is naturally shallow—approximately 35 feet at its deepest point and shaped more like a saucer than a bowl—this 11-foot drop below the average has reduced the volume of the lake by approximately 44% and has left an exposed, dry lakebed of nearly 800 square miles that was previously underwater. An ideal water level, according to

R-Centerville, seems cautiously optimistic about the Great Salt Lake’s future. In 2019, he sponsored HR10, a nonbinding resolution urging the “expeditious and collaborative development of recommendations” to avert economic, social and environmental harm from the lake and its adjacent wetlands. “People should not be hopeless,” Hawkes said recently on a podcast produced by the Utah House. “All the best science and data and experience suggest that if we act now, it’s not too late to save the Great Salt Lake. We are not in a situation where we’ve lost a precious resource, and we are trying to clean up the pieces afterward.” If we act today, Hawkes said, residents’ children, grandchildren “and beyond” can continue to enjoy the lake and its benefits. “It’s our namesake right—the Great Salt Lake,” he said. “It’s an important resource. It touches us in ways we don’t realize. But here’s the thing—all of us, acting together, we can do things to protect it.”

n July of 2021—one day before Utahns celebrated the anniversary of the first Mormon pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake Valley—a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gauge at the Saltair boat harbor quietly recorded a water surface elevation level of 4,191.3 feet. That measurement, taken on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, was the lowest ever recorded since the USGS started measuring the lake’s water levels—in 1875. The record didn’t last long, as the lake continued to decline until mid-October, when irrigation water was turned off and a series of large storms caused a slight increase in the water level.

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migratory journeys, some of which extend as far north as the Arctic and as far south as South America. Despite its high levels of salinity, the lake is teeming with life. There are an estimated 17 trillion brine shrimp swimming in its waters. Not only are these brine shrimp a vital food source for many migratory birds, they play an important economic role. During reproduction— which according to the DWR, generally occurs between late October and January—these tiny crustaceans lay eggs (generally called cysts) that are harvested and shipped out across the world as food for aquaculture. Don Leonard, who chairs the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council (GSLAC) and is the CEO of the Great Brine Shrimp Cooperative in Ogden, said that approximately 40% of the world’s aquaculture brine shrimp come from the Great Salt Lake. Despite its importance ecologically and economically, water that flows into the Great Salt Lake has never legally been considered to be beneficial. Instead, Utah’s water rights laws are based on the doctrine of prior appropriation. Jonathan Clyde is an associate attorney at Clyde, Snow and Sessions—a firm that recently helped provide a legal analysis and review of 12 strategies GSLAC determined to be most feasible in protecting the lake. The prior appropriation doctrine, he explained, “is another way of saying ‘first in time, first in right.’ Whoever got the first diversion, and first put that water to beneficial use, has priority to that water and is entitled to 100% of their water before anyone else is.” (It should be noted that his law firm also serves as general counsel for the Central Utah Water Conservancy District— the largest in the state—and the firm’s main partner, Steve Clyde, serves as a lobbyist for that district.) The key term to Clyde’s comment is “beneficial use.” The prior appropriation doctrine was established to give priority to those who divert water for things considered to be beneficial, such as agriculture, mining and municipal purposes. When this doctrine was put into law in 1903, water flowing into the Great Salt Lake didn’t meet those criteria. It still doesn’t. The three rivers that contribute most of the water to the Great Salt Lake, Clyde said, are fully appropriated. “That is, every single drop of water is called for before it reaches the Great Salt Lake,” he said. “Strictly from a water rights perspective, any water that reaches the lake is wasted, as it doesn’t go to any beneficial use.” Shortly after becoming a state in 1850, California became the first Western state to put prior appropriation into law. This doctrine was used in 1913 to justify construction of the first of two aqueducts designed to divert water before it reached the shores of the salty Owens Lake and to usher it to the burgeoning population of Los Angeles—some 200 miles away. Within a dozen years, Owens Lake was just a dusty playa with a small brine pool. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared the area to be in violation of national ambient air quality standards in 1987, the dry lakebed of Owen Lake was the largest source of dust in North America and exposed its nearby communities with unhealthy levels of aerosol particulate matter less than 10 micrometers (PM10)— which is small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs—an average of 25 days per year. But no effort to mitigate the problem began until a court order in 2001 required it. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has since spent over $2.1 billion dollars in mitigation efforts. And though they have met with some success, the lake and its ecosystem will never be the same.

Warning Signs

There is concern that what happened with Owens Lake could, to some degree, happen with the Great Salt Lake, which currently has an exposed lakebed eight times larger than Owens Lake was when it was completely full. Kevin Perry is the chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah. By his own admission, he has likely spent more time on the dry areas of the exposed lakebed surrounding the Great Salt Lake than anyone else. During the course of over two years, he rode his fat bike with a small trailer towed behind it around the entire area of exposed lakebed. Every 500 meters, he set up a grid point, collected soil samples and examined the conditions of the surface crust. In the process, he put over 2,300 miles on his bike and brought 3 tons of soil back to his lab, which he then sifted into dust and tested for harmful heavy metals. He found a number of them, and every single measurement of arsenic he recorded exceeded EPA regional screening levels, which calculates risk by combining exposure-level assumptions with known toxicity levels. According to the National Institutes of Health, chronic exposure to arsenic has been associated with skin, lung and bladder cancers. Perry also noted that approximately 24% of the exposed lakebed currently has very little crust and can be easily picked up and moved by the wind. The longer the lakebed remains dry, the greater the likelihood that more thin crust will result and be swept into the air in greater abundance. Much of that dust is smaller than PM10. With the Great Salt Lake in close proximity to the state’s most populated areas, the potential for dust storms negatively affecting the health of the community is high.

—Utah State watershed sciences professor Sarah Null

But it is not just the dust smaller than PM10 that poses a potential issue. McKenzie Skiles, a snow hydrologist at the University of Utah, recently recalled watching a dust storm develop from her office on campus. “When the wind began to come from the west,” she said, “there was a wall of dust that came straight toward the university.” Because dust swept up from the exposed lakebed of the Great Salt Lake is in such close proximity to the Wasatch Range, Stiles explained, it often contains large particle sizes, which stay on the snow surface. And that dirt falling on the snow accelerates snowmelt. From this one event, she estimated that the melting of the snowpack near her test site in Alta was accelerated by one week. “We want to keep snow melting slowly in the spring, because that allows us to fill our reservoirs and to use the water efficiently,” Stiles said. “When we accelerate snowmelt, we lose more of it to evaporation. And it impacts the economy—nobody wants to ski on dirty snow, it’s not fun. We want to keep that snowpack clean, so people come back and enjoy skiing and bring with them money that goes into the local economy.” Starting with the creation of GSLAC in 2010, the state Legislature has taken up the issue of the lake’s decline several times. The resolutions that have passed recognize the significance of the Great Salt Lake and that, as it states in 2019’s HCR10, “there is a need for an overall policy that supports effective administration of water flow to Great Salt Lake to maintain or increase lake levels, while appropriately balancing economic, social, and environmental needs, including the need to sustain working agriculture land.” A lot of research has been done, legal reviews and analyses have been written and recommendations have been made. But so far, an overall policy has

“Strictly from a waterrights perspective, any water that reaches the lake is wasted, as it doesn’t go to any beneficial use.”

“It just goes back into the public.” The threat is there, however, and HB33—sponsored by Rep. Joel Ferry, R-Brigham City, who himself is a farmer—seeks to amend the 2020 in-stream flow legislation to offer financial incentives for farmers to put the water they don’t use back into the stream for nonconsumptive use. And by sending part of the water they have rights to downstream, farmers and ranchers don’t risk forfeiture of those rights. “That water will flow downstream and the farmer will receive [fair market] compensation from a conservation group or the state of Utah or the federal government, whichever is the participant in the program,” Ferry said.

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Conservation efforts can work. A 2016 study on impacts of water development on the Great Salt Lake shows that water conservation has reduced urban per-capita water consumption by 18%. Professor Null contributed to this study. She said it compared water consumption in the Great Salt Lake watershed between 1989-2000 and 2010-2014. Though overall use of water increased by approximately 5.6%, she considers the decline in per-capita use a big win for conservation, as the population in Utah between these time periods increased by a far greater percentage. Some of the biggest factors in this reduced consumption, Null said, are newer appliances, such as low-flow toilets, showerheads and washing machines. As a result, the Bear River Development Project—authorized in 1991 by Legislature to build additional reservoirs and other facilities that were estimated to be needed by 2015—is, according to the DNR, now projected to be pushed out until 2050. This project is calculated to cost taxpayers between $1.5 and $2.8 billion dollars and would further reduce the elevation of the Great Salt Lake by 8 to 14 inches. Even with our increased conservation efforts, Null warned, Utah still uses more water per-capita than almost any other state and “conservation should continue beyond Utah’s 25% conservation goal to be in line with other Western states.” The piecemeal and indirect approach the Legislature seems to be taking toward the crisis at the Great Salt Lake could eventually pay off (assuming the bills mentioned above are signed into law). But most of these approaches require long-term investment. The amendments to the in-stream flow legislation, for instance, do not create a water right for rivers or the Great Salt Lake. Instead, they pave the way for existing rights-holders to voluntarily place their unused water on the market, for non-consumptive use, without losing those rights. But who will the buyer be? Will the Legislature put up the money, year after year, to purchase that water? Will it reliably allocate money to incentivize waterefficient landscaping? What about meeting the total cost of implementing a secondary water metering program statewide? Putting money toward a project is easy when the state receives a federal windfall like ARPA. But without an overall state-led policy that deals directly with the decline of the Great Salt Lake, it remains to be seen if there will be ongoing funding for programs that protect the lake. And in the meantime, lake levels will likely continue to drop. CW

the cost to implement it statewide would be at least $300 million. A 2018 report on water data collection done by the Utah Division of Water Resources, however, states that unmetered secondary water use may be underestimated by as much as 34%. The state is in a unique position this year to allocate funds to this and other water-associated projects, as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) provides Utah with more than $1 billion in one-time funds. And the state has flexibility with how that money is spent. The plan that has been presented this session to the Legislative Water Development Commission, however, only calls for $50 million to be put towards installing secondary water meters—a far cry from the total estimated cost to implement the program statewide. The ARPA plan also calls for increasing funds to the Department of Agriculture and Food’s Water Optimization Program that is currently in its third year and saw a 300% increase in applications last year. This program is designed to assist ranchers and farmers in upgrading their consumptive water techniques and equipment to more efficiently and accurately use irrigation water. Agriculture is, by far, the biggest consumer of water in the state. Data from the DNR state that approximately 72% of total water used in Utah is diverted for agriculture. But as the law is currently written, there is little incentive for a farmer to conserve water or use it more efficiently. Utah is a “use it or lose it” state. If a farmer doesn’t use his or her annual water allotment at least once in a seven-year period, the farmer could potentially lose the right to at least part of it. Water-rights attorney Clyde said that forfeiture of water rights is rare, as it would require a judicial determination. “The person who brings that type of lawsuit doesn’t get access to the forfeited water,” he said.

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been lacking. Instead, the state Legislature seems to be taking a piecemeal approach to the issue. Though Utah’s Gov. Spencer Cox and Speaker of the House Brad Wilson have both recently made much fuss about implementing “actionable policies” to address the declining waters of the Great Salt Lake this legislative session, it’s mostly been bills dealing with general water conservation that are under consideration. HB95, for example, would make it illegal for HOAs and municipalities to require homeowners to have verdant, water-thirsty lawns but would still allow these entities to require well-maintained landscaping. HB121 would provide a financial incentive for homeowners to replace their lawns with landscaping that is more water efficient and would set restrictions on water used for landscaping at state government facilities. Secondary water metering is another important strategy to boost conservation among both commercial and residental water users. Secondary water is non-potable untreated, unfiltered water used to irrigate outdoor landscaping and gardening. Some water conservancy districts are now wholeselling secondary water to water providers. Tage Flint, the general manager of Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, recently stated that the district has “spent upward of $20 million already on connecting secondary water meters, and we intend to spend much more going forward.” This pilot project is, for now, limited to an area in Woods Cross, where meters are being installed. The program is set to begin in May, when secondary water is again turned on. Emails requesting information on how that money is being allocated and how much the program is estimated to cost annually received no response. Flint estimates that secondary water metering can reduce per-capita water usage by as much as 25%, but

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hen you spend a lot of time thinking about food, you start to unearth seemingly unanswerable questions. Is nacho cheese actually cheese? Are hot dogs sandwiches? Can ramen broth prevent a case of the Mondays? Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of fast Italian. It’s almost like pizza— hallowed be its name—has kind of stepped in and cornered the market for Italian takeout. While pondering this quandary, I came across Sergio’s Pizza (3537 W. 11400 South, Ste. A, 385-346-1986, sergiosnypizza.com)—and I think fast Italian fans may be in for a treat. Sergio’s opened about a year ago near the rapidly expanding The District commercial area in South Jordan. It represents the Westward expansion of a New York-based pizzeria that has been in business since the mid-’70s. While I am a staunch crusader for Utah’s pizza ecosystem, I do think there is plenty of room for floppy, foldable slices of New York-style pizza. Not only does Sergio’s offer plenty of variety and a pizza-bythe-slice format, they’ve also got a wide range of classic pasta dishes as well. If it’s cheesy, saucy and accompanied by a large amount of carbs, you can find it at Sergio’s. Though the individual items on the menu

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with marinara, homemade meatballs and buttery, melty provolone cheese. Such extravagance leaves the sub with a bit of a soggy bottom, but that’s always a hard balance to strike. The meatballs themselves were great—humongous, tender and filled with a harmonious blend of seasoning. This might be the dish that turns me into a frequent diner, as there are few problems a gigantic meatball sub cannot solve. As for the baked ziti—a generous pile of spaghetti noodles slathered in marinara and topped with a blanket of melted provolone—it’s good but not great. Maybe it’s because it was served with other mains that were able to present the same basic flavor profile a bit more effectively. My experience with the pasta warranted a deeper dive into Sergio’s pasta section, and it’s definitely hit and miss. The sweet sausage pasta ($13.99) is among the topshelf dishes at Sergio’s, as their sliced Italian sausage is a nice blend of savory, sweet and spicy flavors that brightens up the canvas of pasta, cheese and marinara. The alfredo ($13.99) is right in the middle—not the most flavorful of sauces, but it’s creamy and satisfying nonetheless. The lasagna ($13.99) was perhaps the most disappointing. It’s sauce, noodles and cheese, so yeah, it’s going to taste good, but I was let down by the tiny bits of ground sausage that were scattered throughout the dish—they imparted too much of a pizza vibe to the whole dish. As far as fast Italian goes, I think Sergio’s has some promise. Its pizza and sub game already make it worth a visit—it’s just a matter of time before I try the pasta dish that really defines the place as an Italian powerhouse. CW

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create plenty of room for experimentation, I appreciate the existence of Sergio’s dinner combos. For first-time diners, these are essentially curated collections of Sergio’s best dishes, so this is where I started. Depending on the occasion of your carb binge, you can get the Game Day Special ($28.99), which comes with a large cheese pizza and a dozen chicken wings. Or there’s the Super Special ($32.99) that adds a meatball sub, baked ziti and some garlic knots to the cheese pizza party. I’ll take a meatball sub over chicken wings any day of the week, so the latter was my preferred entry point. I was happy to get the cheese pizza, since it’s a New York-style staple. In Colin Atrophy Hagendorf’s pizza-obsessed memoir Slice Harvester, the author uses plain cheese pizza as the critical basis for his quest to try every single pizzeria in New York City. I wanted to apply this criterion to Sergio’s, so the Super Special seemed like the perfect way to try a little bit of everything while applying what will heretofore be known as the Hagendorf Method. Economically, this special offers up the best bang for your buck, since a large cheese pizza is around $16, and a plate of pasta is anywhere from $12 to $15, which may be my end up being my biggest gripe about Sergio’s. It’s a bit expensive compared to other pizza places around town. The Super Special offers plenty of food for a big group, and it’s also a great way to see how Sergio’s does with pizza, pasta and subs. The cheese pizza is a solid representation of the New York style—nice thin crust, good ratio of sauce and cheese, along with a piquant hit of garlicky flavor on the back end. I would be interested in seeing where Sergio’s in New York landed in Hagendorf’s estimation—for me, I’d say it’s hanging out in the mid-high range of my own pizza spectrum. I wasn’t expecting to like the meatball sub as much as I did, but it’s hard not to fall in love with a sub that is as absurdly stuffed

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2 Row Brewing 6856 S. 300 West, Midvale 2RowBrewing.com On Tap: Feelin’ Hazy

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Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Throwing Smoke Smoked Porter

Ogden River Brewing 358 Park Blvd, Ogden OgdenRiverBrewing.com On Tap: Injector Hazy IPA Policy Kings Brewery 223 N. 100 West, Cedar City PolicyKingsBrewery.com Proper Brewing 857 S. Main, SLC ProperBrewingCo.com On Tap: Veni Vidi BiBi- Italian Pilsner Red Rock Brewing Multiple Locations RedRockBrewing.com On Tap: Zwickle Mandarina RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC RoHaBrewing.com On Tap: Spudnik 7 Roosters Brewing Multiple Locations RoostersBrewingCo.com On Tap: Cosmic Autumn Rebellion SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake SaltFireBrewing.com On Tap: Mobius Trip Oak Aged Sour Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC SaltFlatsBeer.com On Tap: Barrel-Aged Winter Amber Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, South Salt Lake ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: Winter Warmer Amber Ale

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inta - Cold IPA: This is part of Uinta’s new Pro Line of beers. So what is a cold IPA? Well, this IPA subcategory provides the icy refreshment of a lager while boasting the hop-bomb qualities of an IPA. So what’s the difference between this and, say, an IPL (India Pale Lager)? Cold IPAs take on more of the fruity, juicy qualities from the new breeds of IPAs, rather than being a lager with American/southern hemisphere hop profiles. This beer is generously dry-hopped with 2021-harvested Cascade and Chinook and experimental hop HBC 1019. To keep it simple, we’ll refer to this as an IPA, though it’s technically an IPL. The body is a hazy bright golden color, with light bringing out the palest and brightest shades of yellow. Aroma is of dry citrus peel and pith, mixed with some overripe citrus and melon that’s starting to border on peach with other stone fruit, along with a light floral character. The flavor is lightly sweet citrus pith (particularly grapefruit) that borders on being somewhat fruit punch-like. As the flavors evolve, the middle palate is awakened with a relaxing malt taste and a growing sense of citronella. Orange, grapefruit and lime lift the palate, while a tropical zing of pineapple, passionfruit and papaya offer a more exotic tilt. The lager is medium-bodied, with carbonation of medium intensity, leading to a mostly foamy mouthfeel that’s fitting for the style. It closes dry,

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The Monster Beverage Corporation—creators of Monster Energy Drinks—recently announced the purchase of the Colorado-based craft brewing group known as CANarchy, which includes the Squatters and Wasatch Brewery brands along with several other microbrewery labels from around the country. The $330 million deal will see Monster take control of these brands, though it looks like the sale did not include the actual breweries and taprooms that Squatters and Wasatch employs—we’ll have to wait and see what happens to these local establishments. We’ll keep an eye on this development to see if there are any additional updates that will impact our local food and beverage scene. Check out our recent Beer Nerd column for more info.

Katrina’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina Opens

Locals are going crazy for birria tacos, and a new contender has recently entered the grand taco melee. Katrina’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina (3041 E. 3300 South, 801-8672770) recently opened its doors in the Millcreek area with a menu focused on tacos, different chili concoctions and four different kinds of mole. I’m always curious to check out new moles, since it’s one of the finest culinary inventions known to man, but I also like to see how they stack up to our local mole rock stars at Red Iguana. This seems like the type of Mexican spot that speaks directly to my soul—fajitas, chili verde and molcajete all make appearances on the menu.

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dertake such dangerous journeys as Nawabi’s, and makes an unspoken, effortless plea for compassion for their distress. Home is, Nawabi decides at an interview prompt from Rasmussen as the film opens, “where you know you can stay, and you don’t have to move on.” The simplicity of this becomes increasingly poignant as Nawabi relates the long, difficult tale of being forced to abandon a happy home in Kabul as the civil war of the 1980s came to an end with the withdrawal of Soviet troops backing the government, and a few years later the Taliban—an offshoot of the U.S.-backed Mujahideen rebels—descending upon the city. Life in Kabul was mostly happy, that is, for young Amin. His father had been arrested by the government years earlier, though Nawabi doesn’t seem to know exactly what that entailed. Uncertainty, then, appears to have been a constant companion of Amin’s life, and that only got worse as he, his two sisters, a brother and their mother fled to Moscow, entering on tourist visas and overstaying them while they attempted to get to Sweden, where an elder brother—who’d escaped years earlier to avoid getting drafted into the civil war—was living.

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f you know downtown Salt Lake City on a weekend, you know the textures of lively State Street, and you’ve probably walked past one particularly fluorescent-lit bar buzzing with rowdy patrons once or twice before. But those lights are gone from 342 S. State Street, and in its place is a darker window that beckons, with a new sign on the window: International. So what’s the scoop on this intriguing new bar buy-out, and what can we expect from the International Bar and Lounge? City Weekly slid into a booth on a lax Saturday night at the bar to find out. The first thing you notice about the bar when you enter is the sheer space of it—a long rectangle with high ceilings, stretching out long and only interrupted by the presence of a low stage on the north wall. While the new owner, Nate Silverstein Tree, has in the last month set to work on his vision for the bar, it was the stage that he didn’t know quite what to do with—but he had someone in mind who did. Silverstein Tree used to manage the Twilite Lounge, and it was there that he and local musician David Payne worked together to make a neighborhood dive bar into an unlikely home for off-thebeaten-path music. “I worked hard there for 10 years to build a community,” Silverstein Tree says, “and we worked with artists, musicians, bartenders and service industry folks to create a community for anyone who wants to enter and can hold their liquor.” And despite the fact that, for many that bar has become a goto space for quiet, weird and interesting music, neither Payne nor Silverstein Tree ever saw it as a real music bar, because they had to work around the “sensitive” environment of respecting the bar regulars while sneaking lounge-level music into the back part of the bar a few times a week. At the International, though, things will be different. “I just thought it was a great location, kind of the crossroads of Downtown Salt Lake, a great place to have a bar,” explains Silverstein Tree. “When I decided I was going to take it over, [I thought ], ‘How do I work with the stage?’ So I called the number one person in Salt Lake to call when you’re looking to talk about music—I called Dave.” Payne’s immediate recommendation? “Well, we can get a little louder.” And while they’re still easing Wasted Space regulars into the new music they’re playing at ex-Wasted Space, louder they’ve gotten. Payne also saw it as an opportunity to create more paid opportunities for bands, and to provide a “formalized setting” with a stage, nightly band reveal and an emcee—currently himself as DJ Daioujou and DJ Falchion B, who also play their own “cutting edge” music as The Demons. They’ve also got some of Payne’s selfbuilt and designed arcade games posted up in the bar. Still, even with a prospective curtain, they don’t want to be a venue—just a

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bar with music. For Payne, that’s the sweet spot. “One end of the spectrum is a bar that can’t have music, which is the Twilite Lounge—we do special music there—and then the other side is a concert hall and both of those are dead ends. There’s a synergistic spot in the middle where the bar and the music can benefit from each other. And it’s not rocket science, but it almost never happens in my experience,” he says. And he’s right. While some other live music bars like Aces High Saloon and The DLC have cropped up over the last two years or so, Payne notes that there’s been something like a 15-year dearth of regularly-paying downtown bars for artists to perform at. “There’s, you know, a huge benefit to the city and the music scene with all these venues or bars with music popping up and having a place for this to foster a scene—that’s only gonna make our scene better and bigger than it is,” Silverstein Tree says. But it won’t stop at local—touring acts are already getting booked. “You can only hope that when you put music and a bar together that you could somehow create that scene, that ends up on the epic proportions of bars and music venues that fostered a generation of musicians that changed music. We can set our sights up there, hoping to do it.” So far, the regular schedule consists of The Demons playing and hosting a guest band each Saturday, and Adam Michael Terry’s Quiet Pillage playing each Thursday. On Sunday, Feb. 6, the bar will host a screening of the LA-based dark wave duo Boy Harsher’s newly-released film The Runner, and on Friday, Feb. 11, a dark, danceable electronic set from the touring band Spike Hellis. “I get to work with my artist friends—painters, musicians, all across the board—and we get to create this place for ourselves,” Silverstein Tree says. “We start right now in this kind of a black void, in what was called the Wasted Space, and we get to create a place that is, in my mind, international: something that’s open for all, something that’s enjoyed by all.” Follow the International Bar and its International Artist Lounge at @internationalartistlounge on Instagram, and visit internationalbarslc.com for a forthcoming calendar. CW

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One could say the reputation of this band is as large as its name—Dinosaur Jr., after all, have influenced much of what we know as garage rock today, counting bands like Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Radiohead, Blur and many more as the influenced. The band—founded by the famous J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph—picked up what bands like The Replacements were setting down in the early ’80s, building on the hardcore that was popular in their circles and converting it into a kind of rock that could be melodic and jangly as often as it could be jammy and grungy. But their first two decades—fueled by increasingly successful albums like 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me, 1991’s Green Mind and 1994’s Without a Sound— came rocky years filled with lineup changes and a nasty split between Barlow and Mascis. Fast forward to the new millennium, though, and the band got back together with the original lineup in 2005, and since then they’ve enjoyed a longer “together” streak than ever before, while also continuing to put out successful indie rock albums, like their latest, the 2021-released Sweep It Into Space. Produced by one of their younger fans and a raved-about artist of his own time, Kurt Vile, the latest album is described by Pitchfork as being “the breeziest and most melodically generous of the trio’s reunion efforts.” See the legends with their new album in tow on Saturday, Feb. 5 at The Depot. Doors are at 7 p.m. for the 21+ show, and tickets are $28 at depotslc.com.

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Olivia Rodrigo quickly made a name for herself this past summer when she dropped her instant hit debut Sour, an album on which almost every single song became a radio hit, breaking records all over the place. She also gained a lot of fans, and those who’ve loved her since her Disney+ role on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series only became even more ardent fans. Even with only the one album under her belt, her rise to superpopstardom has had many likening Rodrigo to Taylor Swift, who also happens to be her musical idol—to the extent that she gave her a writing credit on the song “Deja Vu,” as a symbolic gesture to Swift’s influence. The two do certainly share in common a vengefulness towards wrong-doing exes, and an ability to turn that rage into catchy, pop perfect songs. Come see for yourself this Saturday, Feb. 5 when the two are played back-to-back at The Urban Lounge’s 22 & Good 4 U: Taylor Swift Vs. Olivia Rodrigo Night. While Swift’s discography is obviously much wider, if the DJ sticks to the mega hits there should be more than enough room for comparison—and singing along and dancing wildly, whether you vibe more with “Blank Space” or “brutal.” Doors to the 21+ show are at 7 p.m. and tickets are $15 at theurbanloungeslc.com.

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For a lift to your spirit, or to be transported to sunnier, more summery days, don’t miss this date with two bona fide rays of sunshine. The French DJ duo that is Polo & Pan have been curating the most fantastically warm music for the last decade, creating breezy club music that is both dreamily transporting and deeply cool. They made a name for themselves starting in the early 20-teens, on Euro-pop, discotheque-ready EPs like the minimalist and fun Rivolta from 2013, and later with Canopée, which takes the beachy vibes and runs to African jungles. In 2017, they released their first album Caravelle, which is a work filled with their typical samples, all which create a vintage vibe slicked over with modern chill and a lot of whimsy. They call to mind artist groups like BADBADNOTGOOD, not because they’re sonically similar but because they both mine for the most charming values in older music, creating mosaics of vivid impressions to spark a faux-nostalgia in their audiences, as well as movement. On their latest album, 2021’s Cyclorama, the slick, minimalist club beats take a more commanding position in the Polo & Pan landscape. As they told The New Yorker in 2018, that minimalism is part of what makes their music work—“pausing for a second brings joy back into the music.” So forget that it’s winter in SLC and go groove to whatever big, bright pauses Polo & Pan will bring to The Complex on Wednesday, Feb. 9. Doors for the all-ages show are at 7 p.m., and tickets are $29.50 at thecomplexslc.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries actor Bette Davis said that if you want to improve your work, you should “attempt the impossible.” That’s perfect advice for you right now. I hope to see you hone your skills as you stretch yourself into the unknown. I will celebrate your forays into the frontiers, since doing so will make you even smarter than you already are. I will cheer you on as you transcend your expectations and exceed your limits, thereby enhancing your flair for self-love. Here’s your mantra: “I now have the power to turn the impossible into the possible and boost my health and fortunes in the process.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else,” counseled poet and activist Maya Angelou. Author Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Author and activist Nikki Giovanni wrote, “Everybody who loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.” I hope the wisdom of these women will be among your guiding thoughts in the coming weeks. As your own power and freedom grow, you can supercharge them by using them to help others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote, “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” You’ll be wise to make that your motto during the next five months, Taurus. Life will conspire to bring you more and more benefits and invitations as you take full advantage of the benefits and invitations that life brings. The abundance gathering in your vicinity may even start to seem ridiculously extravagant. Envious people could accuse you of being greedy, when in fact, you’re simply harnessing a crucial rule in the game of life. To minimize envy and generate more benefits and invitations, be generous in sharing your plenitude.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself,” testified Miles Davis, one of the most unique and talented jazz trumpeters and composers who ever lived. Popular and successful author Anne Lamott expressed a similar sentiment: “I’m here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.” If those two geniuses found it a challenge to fully develop their special potentials, what chance do the rest of us have? I have good news, Scorpio. I believe 2022 will be a very favorable time to home in on your deepest, truest self—to ascertain and express more of your soul’s code. And you’re entering a phase when your instinct for making that happen will be at a peak.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “’Because there has been no one to stop me’ has been one of the principles of my life,” wrote Gemini author Joyce Carol Oates. “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere,” said Gemini actor Marilyn Monroe. “Play the game. Never let the game play you.” So advised Gemini rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. “Who I really am keeps surprising me,” declared Gemini author Nikki Giovanni. I propose that we make the previous four quotes your wisdom teachings during the next four weeks.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In the course of human history, 3 million ships have sunk to the bottom of the Earth’s seas. At one extreme have been huge vessels—like the Titanic and naval cruisers—while at the other extreme are small fishing boats. Many of these have carried money, gems, jewelry, gold and other precious items. Some people have made it their job to search for those treasures. I believe there could and should be a metaphorical resemblance between you and them in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Now is a favorable time for you to hunt for valuable resources, ideas, CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your animal symbol is usually the crab. But I propose we tem- memories and, yes, even treasures that may be tucked away in porarily change it to the tardigrade. It’s a tiny, eight-legged the depths, in hidden locations and in dark places. creature that’s among the most stalwart on planet Earth—able to live everywhere, from mountaintops to tropical rainforests CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) to the deepest parts of the sea. In extreme temperatures, it “It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires thrives, as well as under extreme pressures. Since it emerged for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods,” wrote author as a species half a billion years ago, it has survived all five mass Margaret Fuller. That’s the bad news. The good news is that extinctions. I believe you will be as hardy and adaptable and your capacity for exposing and resisting falsehoods is now at resolute as a tardigrade in the coming months, Cancerian. You a peak. Furthermore, you have a robust ability to ward off will specialize in grit and resilience and determination. PS: delusions, pretense, nonsense, inauthenticity and foolishTardigrades are regarded as a “pioneer species” because they ness. Don’t be shy about using your superpowers, Capricorn. take up residence in new and changed environments, paving Everyone you know will benefit as you zero in and focus on the way for the arrival of other species. They help create novel what’s true and genuine. And you will benefit the most. ecosystems. Metaphorically speaking, you could be like that. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “All things are inventions of holiness,” wrote poet Mary Oliver, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I regularly ask myself how I can become more open-minded. “some more rascally than others.” And I’ll add that in the comHave I stopped being receptive in any way? What new devel- ing weeks, holiness is likely to be especially rascally as it crafts opments and fresh ideas am I ignorant of? Have my strong its inventions in your vicinity. Here are shades of my meaning for opinions blinded me to possibilities that don’t fit my opinions? the word “rascally”: unruly, experimental, mischievous, amusIn accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to ing, mercurial, buoyant, whimsical and kaleidoscopic. But don’t adopt my attitude in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read forget that all of this will unfold under the guidance and influthese thoughts by philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin: “If things ence of holiness. I suspect you’ll encounter some of the most speak to us, it is because we are open to them, we perceive them, amusing and entertaining outbreaks of divine intervention ever. listen to them and give them meaning. If things keep quiet, if PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) they no longer speak to us, it is because we are closed.” The year 1905 is referred to as Albert Einstein’s “Year of Miracles.” The Piscean physicist, who was then 26 years old, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Like all the rest of us, Virgo, you have limitations. And it’s produced three scientific papers that transformed the nature important for you to identify them and take them into consid- of physics and the way we understand the universe. Among his eration. But I want to make sure you realize you also have fake revolutionary ideas were the theory of special relativity, the conlimitations; you wrongly believe in the truth of some supposed cept that light was composed of particles and the iconic equation limitations that are, in fact, mostly illusory or imaginary. Your E = mc2. With that information as a backdrop, I will make a bold job right now is to dismantle and dissolve those. For inspiration, prediction: that in 2022 you will experience your own personal here’s advice from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Learning too version of a Year of Miracles. The process is already underway. Now it’s time to accelerate it. soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

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e’ve had a few good storms this year, enough that the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has brought out its plows to scrape our streets in the northern cities of the state. With the plows comes a mix of salt and dirt—treated with magnesium and calcium—to spread on road surfaces to make them safer to drive on. And yet, each time the roads are coated, more salt gets swept into our drainage system and ends up in the Great Salt Lake, ponds, wells and streams. UDOT added a brine solution to its road treatments in 1997. The solution is carried in tankers and laid down before a big storm hits. When the snow flies, whatever water comes down mixes with the salt on the road to create a surface layer that helps break down ice. By doing this treatment, UDOT saves on salt costs. The Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies in New York found that salt use has tripled in the United States in the past 50 years and that more than 20 million metric tons of salt are poured on the country’s roads each year. The New York Department of Transportation also uses brine, and with some of the storms they’ve been pounded with this winter, they needed a lot of it. They found that brine treatment takes about four times less salt to prevent ice from building up on their roads, and that brine is more cost-effective than just salt, better for the environment and less damaging to the roads. UDOT purchases salt through various contracts. Their station managers try to predict how much will be needed for roads in their neck of the woods. Each fall, they must guess Mother Nature’s mood for the coming winter months. Salt is stored at more than 100 maintenance facilities and storage areas around the state where snow falls in sufficient quantity to require salting the roads. You may have driven by some of these sheds along our highways. The mined salt must be covered because wet salt will soon reform with a hard crust that’s difficult to break up. Most of the rock salt UDOT buys comes from an underground mine in central Utah, but we do get solar salt extracted from the Great Salt Lake. Each UDOT manager must figure out the best mix of ingredients for their roads to keep them safe for travel. Back at home, residents should know that throwing down salt on your sidewalks, driveways and front steps is bad for animals and vegetation. Plain old salt is deadly for dogs to ingest and can irritate their paws. Luckily, nowadays, there are alternatives to salt and chemical de-icers that are petfriendly, but they can be expensive. You can always use cheap kitty litter or sand to lay down on slick surfaces to stop falls. Read the label before you buy—make sure your product is pet-safe, salt and chloride free. If it’s labeled kid-friendly, then it’s also pet friendly. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Government at Work According to the arrest warrant, Caviasca’s ex-husband informed In the United Kingdom, as of Jan. 29, flouting a new highway police that she had left their two children, both under age 12, code rule will cost you up to 1,000 pounds, the Mirror reported. home alone for two days while she went on vacation to Florida The rule requires someone inside a car to open the door with the with her boyfriend. When the father checked one of the children’s hand farthest from the door, employing a technique known as the phones, he saw texts between the child and Caviasca, including “Dutch Reach.” In other words, if you’re driving (on the right side exchanges about what they should eat, to which she replied, “Just of the car), you would use your left hand to reach around and open eat candy.” She also instructed them to stay in the basement so the car door. (The technique is borrowed from the Netherlands, they wouldn’t be seen. The children told police they were alone in thus the name.) Rule 239 reads: “This will make you turn your the house, except for their dog. head to look over your shoulder. You are then more likely to avoid causing injury to cyclists or motorcyclists passing you on the Just Rewards road, or to people on the pavement.” If a person in a car injures Mayor Chen Qimai of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, has ordered a someone by opening with the wrong hand, a fine will be levied. clever punishment for people convicted of drunk driving in his Cycling UK estimates that more than 500 people are injured community. Oddity Central reported that offenders will have to clean funeral parlors to give them the experience of being close to every year by car doors. death. In January, 11 drunk drivers spent hours cleaning a mortu ary, refrigeration unit and crematorium. “I had never been close Wait, What? Cameron Newsom, 42, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was to death, and it felt disturbing,” one offender said. When they treated for stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma on her tongue in were finished, they reportedly expressed their deep remorse and 2013, the New York Post reported. Removing the tumor meant said they wouldn’t drive drunk again. also removing part of her tongue, which doctors replaced with skin and muscle taken from her thigh. Through all of her experi- Mistaken Identity ences in treating the cancer, she said, “The weirdest part ... was Police were called to investigate on Jan. 15 after a motorist on the when I felt a rough texture on the ‘thigh’ part of my tongue—and M11 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, spotted what they believed when I looked in the mirror, it had started growing leg hair!” were the sneakered feet of a dead person rolled up in a carpet in Newsom had to learn to speak again and still finds eating a chal- another car. A law enforcement spokesperson explained, howlenge, but she’s back to being a gymnastics coach, even with her ever, that the feet belonged to “a mannequin dressed as Prince Charming who was on his way to a themed birthday! Thankfully, fuzzy tongue. this was a false alarm.” Metro News reported that the driver was advised to “avoid such circumstances occurring again.” It’s a Living Xavier Long, 20, of Yerkwood, Alabama, has discovered a way to profit from human jealousy, the Daily Mail reported. Suspicious Undignified Death partners pay Long to flirt on social media with their loved ones as Newsweek reported that a man in Spain perished on Jan. 20 a loyalty test, and Long rakes in the proceeds: In one week alone, while he was working in an agricultural warehouse. The unnamed he made over $2,000. Long said he receives about 100 requests 34-year-old was buried when a large quantity of carrots fell on for help every day and charges a minimum of $10. If a woman he’s him, emergency services said. The man died at the scene. paid to flirt with gives him any of her personal contact information, he considers her a “fail.” “I’m helping people, so I feel like When in Doubt, Use the Pork it’s a good thing in a way,” Long said. “Doing these tests has A Jack Russell terrier named Millie, who slipped out of her leash and became stranded on mudflats near Hampshire, England, was allowed me to stop working a 9-to-5 job.” lured to safety with the most reliable of baits: a sausage. Officials began a rescue mission when it seemed Millie might be swept When Pigs Swim Veteran surfer Ingrid Seiple was catching a wave on Dec. 18 off out to sea, but their efforts failed for four days, the Guardian Oahu, Hawaii, when she saw something floating like a log in the reported on Jan. 20. But one of the rescuers thought of dangling water, KITV reported. She at first thought it was a Hawaiian a sausage from a drone and flying it over her. “It was a crazy monk seal, but, she said, “That’s when I realized it was a pig, idea,” said Chris Taylor, chair of the Denmead Drone Search and and it saw me. It started swimming toward me as fast as it could! Rescue team. “If we hadn’t got her away from that area the tide It was very close and getting closer. I pushed the board between would have come in and she would have been at risk of drowning. the pig and I and it bit my board.” Seiple thinks the wild boar was The sausages were the last resort.” Millie’s owner, Emma Oakes, chased into the ocean by hunting dogs. “It looked like it had an confirmed that Millie “really likes food and she’ll eat anything you injury on its face,” she said. Seiple escaped the boar without give her ... but she much prefers sausages.” harm, but no word on the pig’s condition. Nay-chur In the wee hours of Jan. 19, residents along Hastings Drive in Don’t See That Every Day Motorists on I-59 in Tennessee on Jan. 12 got a closeup look Belmont, California, were awakened by growling and roaring at the world’s largest cast-iron skillet as it made its way on a in their front yard, KTVU-TV reported. Two mountain lions flatbed truck to the future Lodge Cast Iron Museum in South were captured by doorbell camera as they fought to the death. Pittsburg, Tennessee. The big fry pan measures 18 feet from The prevailing lion then dragged the dead one across the street handle to handle and weighs more than 14,000 pounds, United to a neighbor’s front porch. “Just keep your head on a swivel,” Press International reported. It will be used outside the museum, suggested Kevin Stanford, who is part of the neighborhood’s watch team. Tiffany Yap, an expert at the Center for Biological which is set to open in late summer. Get your selfie stick ready! Diversity, said the attack was just “mountain lions being moun tain lions. It’s a common occurrence for mountain lions to kill each Family Values Teacher Kerry Lyn Caviasca, 36, of Watertown, Connecticut, other over territory.” Still, Belmont Police urged area residents was arrested on Jan. 15 and charged with two counts of risk of to be extra cautious, keeping pets and small children inside. injury to a child and second-degree reckless endangerment, WFSB-TV reported, stemming from an incident in November. Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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