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Amid inaction from world leaders, a new generation of climate activists arises. By Mark Hertsgaard, Peter Holslin, Ray Howze and Oliver Milman

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY RING THE ALARM!

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Climate protectors from around the globe—and across the Wasatch Front—call for immediate action on global warming.

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PAM RADTKE RUSSELL This week, we are aided by journalists from The Guardian and The Nation to explore the new face of climate activism. New Orleans-based Russell, alongside our Peter Holslin, produced a web-only exclusive revolving around weathercasters’ role in this brave new world. Read it now at cityweekly.net

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It seems like it is getting much worse lately. It is tiring to pick up used needles frequently in and around Jefferson Park, watch groups of people openly smoke meth/crack/heroin/etc. in their glass pipes on city property used for Bees ballpark parking … JOE SCHMIDT Via Facebook All efforts just spread the problem out over the county. Many of us said this would happen. And now it appears to be harder for organizations to help also. BRETT COFFIN Via Facebook Insightful. Thank you. SHANE JOHNSON Via cityweekly.net The current shelter, the one being shut down, held 1,100. On most nights last winter, it was over capacity. I know, I was there. The three new shelters put together hold only 700, and that figure is a hard figure,

as the contracts for all of the new centers stipulate that they not exceed capacity. Does anybody else see the obvious math problem here? Not only that, but there hasn’t been any new supportive housing like Palmer Court opened since 2010. The majority of the homeless will be gone from downtown, maybe, so there are a few happy developers who will soon be much wealthier. Inevitably, however, parks and public places will have to play host to the growing surplus that cannot be housed. So three new centers were designed and built to house less people. Are rents going down? No. Are there new facilities somewhere to house and treat the mentally ill? No.

Have more inpatient addiction recovery programs opened up to ease the months-long waiting lists? No. Will people who can’t get a job or an apartment because of past felonies somehow be able to get expungements to overcome that massive hurdle? No. Is the homeless population likely to decrease then, especially considering the fact that Utah is growing by around 58,000 people a year? Unlikely. This is simply a shelter shell game. K. MARLO YOST Via cityweekly.net

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The Kinder Approach to Food: Birth of a SuperVegan

My little sister Sylvia, bless her heart, tossed religion at a pretty early age and embarked on a different passion: food. Not just any food, but the kind that just sits there growing, gawking at the sky and never taking a vacation—even venturing around the block. At first it was only vegetarianism, a less extreme faith that prohibits consumption of anything with limbs and a beating heart, but allows animal-related foods like milk, eggs and cheese. Because I possessed an undying love for dead cows, pigs, lambs and poultry, I found myself unable to take Sylvia’s strict food rules seriously. There were times when she expounded on exactly why she had forsaken meat, and though I never tired of eating burgers, I certainly appreciated the legitimate humanitarian considerations for abandoning carnivorous eating. There was no question: Edible animals are not born into happy lives. For years, I was accosted by Sylvia’s younger daughter at family parties. Even at age 5, Olga was already standing dutifully at the buffet table offering culinary guidance. “Bad

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. food!” she would say as I hoisted another drumstick onto my plate, and there were times I even felt a vague pang of guilt running through me. Still, I and the rest of my extended family rejected the vegetarian way, literally porking-out on the creatures that had formerly been among the living. My take was always the same: That moderation should be the best advice for living—and eating. Eventually, Sylvia’s new religion was tossed for an even stricter one, and she became a dyed-in-the-wool (excuse the expression) Latter-day vegan—yes, all animal sourced foods are strictly taboo, and she survives on rice, seaweed and a variety of imitation meats, eggs and cheese made primarily from soy. Her weight has dropped precipitously over these years, and I have to wonder how anyone can survive on so little. (Actually, eating one’s weight, each day, in vegan food, provides a surprising amount of nutrition.) Not to be overlooked is Sylvia’s general good health. At age 74, she is doing pretty well. Occasionally, she has my brother and me over for lunch, and she often queries us about the meat substitutes, “Doesn’t that taste just like real chicken?” Bro and I just roll our eyes. Well, my wife, Carol, made one of my favorite soups today. Mulligatawny. Needless to say, like all her creations it was absolutely divine. While I have never personally seen them, I’m pretty sure she has more than one Michelin Star. Although vegans would surely have never endorsed it, the Mulligatawny soup contained only a smattering of chicken—all humanely killed, which, Carol assured me, had been raised in a commodious five-star hotel, not those terribly crowded mega-coops where so many cluckers reside. While I rarely get concerned about the animal ingredients of what I eat, I certainly have empathy for people who refuse the vast array of nutritionally rich animals on the basis

of moral conscience. Like they, I abhor even the notion that any creature had to suffer because of my appetite. That vein of thought forced me to review the Mulligatawny soup. I am now convinced that the vegans are, indeed, morally superior. What I found was shocking. It takes more than 200 of the tiny Mulligatawns to make one quart of the soup, and each of them must be clubbed into submission to “voluntarily” become an ingredient. If one listens carefully through a greatly amplified shotgun microphone, these little guys are screaming as the pot is brought to a boil. I cannot believe it; I have been a complicit party to their suffering, and I will never eat this savory dish again. Unfortunately, this revelation will make it difficult for me to ever consume another meal—anything. Although Carol prints the required disclosure on every one of her serving dishes—“No creature was harmed in the preparation of this dish”—she is unaware of just how much pain she has caused. I now realize that even the string beans often suffer violent deaths. Just being a mere vegan simply wouldn’t solve the problem, for I now fully appreciate that all creatures—plant and animal—endure excruciating pain during their last moments. And so, I am making the ultimate commitment: Adopting the highest moral ground, I will longer be able to eat anything that is organic. No meat, poultry, fish, vegetables or Mulligatawns. I will also no longer have to consider how I’ll spend my old age; that’s the price of trying to do the right thing; it’s bon voyage for me. CW

The author is a former Vietnam-era Army assistant public information officer. He resides in Riverton with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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The air, the water, the places you’ll live—how you think about these things depends on what you value. Utah State University Research Landscapes is taking up the challenge with an event that emphasizes “the importance of managing the nation’s fourth-fastest growing economy against a backdrop of safeguarding natural and recreational amenities such as national parks and ski areas,” according to the Deseret News. Maybe growth isn’t just about growth, but about how your environment affects your well-being. Meanwhile, the EPA is playing tricks with its pollution monitoring, eliminating wildfires and fireworks from calculations— as though people don’t breathe all the time, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. What USU comes up with might speak to that lie and put Utah on the right track.

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Pinky swear—the Trump administration minions really, really won’t act on their personal interests. Take, for instance, William Perry Pendley, acting director of the Bureau of Land Management in July, who was president of a legal firm that sued the feds on behalf of the Northwest Mining Association. They were challenging an Obama-era uranium mining ban on a million acres of public land next to the Grand Canyon, according to KUER 90.1 FM. It looks like uranium mining is back on the table. Bloomberg News did a report on how the president has “drained the swamp.” Fun fact: he’s made it swampier. “He has surrounded himself with family members, appointees and advisers who’ve been accused of conflicts of interest, misuse of public fund, influence peddling, selfenrichment, working for foreign governments, failure to disclose information and violating ethics rules,” Bloomberg wrote.

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Come and bear your testimony about how being a working woman in Utah affects your bottom line. The Utah Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is Examining the Gender Wage Gap in Utah and the implications of pay inequity or downright discrimination in the workplace. They are looking at the causes of the wage gap, based on sex and race, and whether federal enforcement has an impact. “This is an opportunity to bring different perspectives together to better understand the scope and potential causes of the problem here in Utah,” committee chair Chyleen Richey says in a news release. Written comments can also be submitted through Oct. 31 to afortes@usccr.gov. University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Rooms 6613 and 6619, 383 S. University St., Thursday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (open comment sessions at 11:30 a.m. and 4:10 p.m.), free, bit.ly/2niQayp.

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You might not have heard of Decarcerate Utah, but they’re here to make some waves in the prison debate. Their focus is as “an abolitionist teaching and learning group focused on education about the prison-industrial complex by elevating the voices and thought processes behind the abolitionist movement in the U.S. and worldwide.” At The Prison Relocation and Utah’s Inland Port, they try to connect environmental concerns with racial and community justice in relation to the Utah State Prison relocation and the proposed inland port— both in the fragile wetlands near the Great Salt Lake. Mestizo Coffee House, 631 W. North Temple, Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2mlUwVr.

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Well, here’s a twist to the gun buy-back proposals that go nowhere. How about turning your weapons of personal destruction into tools for growth and nourishment? That’s what you’ll be doing at Swords to Ploughshares—Transforming Guns into Garden Tools. Watch how Rawtools Inc. transforms a donated gun into a garden tool, and join a movement that can springboard into a statewide discussion about reducing gun violence in Utah. This family-friendly event also showcases authentic blacksmithing to “turn a weapon of war into an instrument of peace,” according to the event’s Facebook page. All Saints Episcopal Church, 1710 S. Foothill Drive, Saturday, Oct. 5, 12:30-2:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2nTb1sN.

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Movin’ on Out A tricky land dispute unfolds in Salt Lake County’s dwindling countryside. BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

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“It doesn’t make economic sense to raise cattle and hay in Salt Lake City anymore. There’s no tractor dealer. There’s no fertilizer salesman. Nothing’s close,” rancher Dalon Hinckley says. “We just had to get creative.”

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guys,” she said. “But you are the leaders. We need you to be the crossing guards over the troubled bridge, not the guys in the back of the parade cleaning up all the crap. And that’s what we’re afraid is going to happen.” The county council ended up blocking the property owners’ attempt to join forces with North Salt Lake, casting a 6-3 vote against annexation. Speaking with City Weekly after the vote, councilmember Shireen Ghorbani was sympathetic to the property owners, acknowledging the need for more housing in the county, improved infrastructure in the area and their right to sell their land. She said the proposed annexation didn’t address questions about where students who live in new residential developments in the area would go to school and how it would impact other communities. “There’s no way to know, because we haven’t had a deep public process where the developers engaged in conversations with the communities, including Westpointe and Jordan Meadows,” Ghorbani added. The council vote was strictly on the question of annexing land across county lines, she said. They could also apply for rezoning in the county, or petition to have their land annexed by Salt Lake City. Back on the ranch, Hinckley seemed indifferent about the vote, saying their festivals will keep going regardless. Still, he thinks it’s only a matter of time before the bulldozers come for this last bit of farmland in Salt Lake County—an outcome he’s willing to accept. “Do I want houses right here? No, I think it’s beautiful. But I also, as a farmer, fully understand how much work and expense and effort it takes every day to keep something looking nice,” he says. “However you want to slice it and dice it, someone’s going to build there. It’s just a matter of when, and who gets the money from it.” CW

or warehouses; redrawing the border lines would also give the city leverage over zoning for future developments. However, handing over territory from one county to another requires the involvement of a dizzying list of government bodies—including Salt Lake City, the airport authority and a school district. Area property owners and residents in neighboring communities have also raised concerns about the Misty River project, which they worry will negatively impact traffic, air quality and the Great Salt Lake ecosystem. The Byzantine nature of the proposed annexation became clear when an array of stakeholders packed into a conference room for a meeting of the Salt Lake County Council in late September. In an hourlong public comment session, Tolman said Misty River would provide much-needed affordable housing close to jobs in downtown Salt Lake. “We’re between 10 and 20 minutes from the major employment centers. It’s exactly what we’ve been asking for for years,” he said. But Patti Jensen, who has lived on property next to Cross E Ranch for decades, expressed horror at the idea of bringing all those apartments, townhomes and houses into her area. “Nine units per acre—think about that,” she said. “Who wants that in their community? It’s all about money.” Dorothy Owen, chair of the Westpointe Community Council—a community group that oversees issues in the northwest Salt Lake neighborhood nearby—called for county officials to play a more active role in brokering proposed developments, so nothing gets rushed through in a part of the county already facing encroachment from the airport and the inland port. “We’re not saying there’s not going to be development. We’re just saying that we need thoughtful, deliberate process, and we as citizens are willing to work with you

to Utah’s sugar factories. Thousands of cattle were raised in the county, reaching a peak in the 1960s. But most farmers have moved away in recent years, and Cross E Ranch was running at a steep loss until Hinckley and Limon found a new revenue stream by staging their annual spring and fall festivals. “It doesn’t make economic sense to raise cattle and hay in Salt Lake City anymore. There’s no tractor dealer. There’s no fertilizer salesman. Nothing’s close,” Hinckley says. “We just had to get creative.” Evolving as a business has prompted them to revisit longstanding frustrations with the area’s infrastructure. Much of the land is currently zoned for agricultural use, and Salt Lake County doesn’t provide sewage or water systems. The sewage canal has doubled in size, and municipal maps show zig-zagging boundaries between unincorporated county, Salt Lake City and North Salt Lake. When they’ve had to call 911, Hinckley says police and fire departments get mired in confusion about jurisdiction, creating devastating delays in response times. To make things easier, the ranchers recently petitioned to have their land annexed by North Salt Lake. The city is just across the Jordan River in Davis County, providing affordable access to sewage and water lines. Hinckley also thinks North Salt Lake would be amenable to more flexible zoning regulations compared to the muchlarger Salt Lake City, making it easier for Cross E to adapt its business operations. Other North Pointe property owners joined the petition. A Bountiful-based real estate developer, Dave Tolman, has offered to buy their land to use as the site for a 1,100-unit residential tract dubbed Misty River, similar to North Salt Lake’s Foxboro development. North Salt Lake Mayor Len Arave tells City Weekly that he’d prefer residential development over industrial parks

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ross E Ranch sits on a buggy patch of unincorporated territory at the edge of Salt Lake County. Just north of the international airport and west of Interstate 215, it’s part of the last-remaining stretch of farmland within county lines—where runways for commercial jets give way to basin prairie, gravel roads and a handful of hay fields. Dalon Hinckley and his sister, Heather Limon, have been tilling the soil and raising cattle on this land their entire lives. Their dad, David Hinckley, took over Cross E Ranch from the previous owner in 1968. After he passed away in 2014, the two siblings converted some of the property into a kid-friendly interactive farm to host festivals and events. Although there isn’t much of an agriculture industry left in these parts, they still want to teach youngsters the ways of rural life. “When you come across the river, you drive into the country, and it’s totally a different perspective,” Hinckley says on a recent afternoon, as dozens of children laugh and scream while playing on the ranch’s slides and zip-lines. The Jordan River flows a short walk away, marked by a tree line at the end of a vast corn maze and 12-acre pumpkin patch. As Hinckley has worked to preserve the property, he can’t help but notice that— just as Bob Dylan once said—times are achangin’. In recent weeks, the quiet stretch of desert flatlands encompassing the ranch has been the focus of a complex annexation dispute. A real estate developer has his eye on the area, some property owners want to sell, and a petition to redraw local boundaries so they fall under the jurisdiction of North Salt Lake has awakened anxieties about urban expansion and rapid development along the Wasatch Front. Cross E Ranch is an oasis of country charm on fast-changing territory. Planes can be seen taking off in the distance, yet here there’s a stable where hogs, donkeys and goats lounge about. Vendors fry donuts and sell them fresh out of a small red barnhouse. A sewage canal snakes along by the road, looking unaccountably picturesque; when Hinckley and Limon’s dad was a little kid, he and his friends would visit it to shoot turds with their BB guns. The surrounding area, known as North Pointe, was once home to a robust agriculture industry—going as far back as the early 1900s, when beet farmers were contributing

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them to have a better life than me. I don’t want that to be taken away by climate change.” Students in Boston were also excused from school. “We are excited to disrupt business as usual, to demand a Green New Deal,” Audrey Maurine Xin Lin, an 18-year-old organizer in Boston, said in reference to the resolution endorsed by progressive Democrats to enact a World War II-style economic mobilization to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. The strikes were backed by officials in several cities. “When your house is on fire, somebody needs to sound the alarm,” read a joint statement by the mayors of New York, Paris and Los Angeles. “Young people in our cities, displaying incredible maturity and dignity, are doing just that.” The sprawling strikes represent a remarkable escalation of Thunberg’s decision last year to start skipping school on Fridays to protest against inaction by the Swedish government over the climate crisis. A global movement has since grown from her stand, with young people expressing outrage that their generation is being left a world with increasingly punishing heat waves, storms, flooding and societal unrest. Thunberg, who abjures plane travel, arrived in New York on a solar-powered racing yacht in late August and has since become a focal point for the climate movement, appearing on talk shows and in Congress to excoriate its members, as well as meeting Barack Obama, who called her “one of our planet’s greatest advocates.” Her stateside sojourn culminated with a U.N. climate summit. Addressing world leaders who assembled to help revive the flagging efforts to avoid disastrous global warming, her comments resounded on an international scale. The U.S. and Brazil, lead by nationalist leaders disdainful of climate science, have slowed momentum, with a U.N. report released last month warning that the required ambition is lacking among most countries. “The audacity of kids simply asking leaders to lead is extraordinary. We are indebted to them,” said Rachel Kyte, special representative for the U.N. secretary general for sustainable energy. “They are rightly impatient. “Not every country is aligned to the need for fast action. The hope is that the U.S. will join in at the point where public opinion is able to influence the national voice more than it does today.” CW

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A version of this story originally appeared in The Nation. It is republished here as part of City Weekly’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen climate coverage.

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‘This is going to be the largest mobilization for climate action in history.’

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limate change strikes took center stage in more than 1,000 U.S. cities on Sept. 20, with major rallies in New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. Globally, more than 4,500 strikes were planned in 150 countries. Declaring a “global emergency,” a handful of local protesters blocked off north State leading up to the Utah Capitol (se p. 12). Some 2,000 miles away, the young strikers’ totemic figure, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, took part in the New York walkout to speak to protesters in Manhattan. Leading up to her appearance, New York authorities announced its population of 1.1 million students could skip school to attend the strikes. In March, more than a million students took part in a global climate strike. But this iteration was swelled further by adults who walked out of their workplaces in support of the young protesters who demanded a halt to fossil fuel projects and a complete shift to renewable energy. Dozens of companies, including Patagonia and Ben and Jerry’s, announced they planned on supporting striking staff, with major unions also backing the walkouts. Thousands of websites, such as Tumblr and Kickstarter, went “dark.” “This is going to be the largest mobilization for climate action in history,” Alexandria Villaseñor, a 14-year-old who has been protesting outside U.N. headquarters every Friday since December, said before the momentous occasion. “World leaders can either listen now or listen later because our voice is only going to get louder as the climate crisis gets more urgent. Adults need to step up and support us. Civil disobedience breaks the system, and once it’s broken, it’s an amazing opportunity to make things better.” Dulce Belen Ceballos Arias, an 18-year-old from San Francisco, said she participated because, “I want children of my own and I want

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“We will not let you get away with this,” the 16-year-old climate strike leader told the U.N.

fter rallying 4 million people into the streets in the biggest global climate strike yet, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg brought her message inside United Nations headquarters the following Monday with a furious speech that repeatedly demanded of world leaders, “How dare you?” Seated alongside U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and two other young climate activists, Thunberg opened the U.N. Climate Action Summit by blasting the assembled heads of government with a speech that was equal parts “J’accuse” and hardball politics. “My message [to world leaders] is that we’ll be watching you,” Thunberg began. Then, as tears of rage and grief overtook her, the founder of the global climate strike movement all but shouted, “I shouldn’t be here. I should be back home, at school…. You come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my childhood and my dreams. And I am one of the lucky ones. People all over the world are suffering and dying. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” “For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear,” Thunberg continued. “How dare you look away and say that you are doing enough!” Noting that the world’s carbon budget for a 1.5 degree Celsius future will be exhausted within 8.5 years under business-as-usual according to the scientists of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, she repeated, “How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business as usual?” Predicting that none of their speeches would wrestle with those imposing numbers, Thunberg declared that world leaders are “still not mature enough to tell it like it is.” The fury returning to her face, she warned, “You are betraying us. ... If you choose to fail us, then I say, ‘We will never forgive you.’“ As Thunberg’s speech appeared live on one internal U.N. video feed, a second feed showed President Donald Trump arriving at the U.N.—but not for the Climate Action Summit. In a clear snub, the White House instead reserved a conference room where Trump would attend a meeting on religious freedom along with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who now serves as a U.N. special envoy on climate action, called out the U.S. president by name in a separate speech, to the Climate Action Summit, declaring in a perfect deadpan that he thanked Trump for coming to the U.N. and hoped that suggestions “will be helpful as he formulates a climate policy” for the U.S. Thunberg, for her part, made it clear that she and other young activists will take no prisoners as they demand emergency action against climate breakdown. In a challenge to Trump and all leaders who are not stepping up, Thunberg warned, her eyes flashing, “We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.” CW This story originally appeared in The Nation. It is republished here as part of City Weekly’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen climate coverage.

alking up the hill on State Street toward the Utah Capitol, protesters brought out the banners. “DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY.” “GENOCIDE-ECOCIDE.” “ACT NOW.” Usually when activists stage a protest at the Capitol, they’ll gather on the south steps. This time, environmentalists mounted their event in front of the Capitol. In the middle of the street. Blocking rush-hour traffic. Cars honked and motorists screamed just after 4:30 p.m., Sept. 19, as members of the local grassroots groups Civil Riot and Elders Rising—along with a new group, the local chapter of U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion—manned their posts. Dozens of cars were backed up all the way down State, and members traversed the sidewalk, explaining to drivers why they were there. Another member of the group chanted and sang songs. “When the people rise up, then the powers come down,” they sang as cars and SUVs pulled U-turns and drivers screamed insults amid the snarl of stalled traffic stretching down the hill. I was the only reporter who showed up to cover the protest. Interestingly, I probably wouldn’t have been able to even attend if I hadn’t walked to the Capitol—if I’d taken a car or a bus to get there, I would’ve been stuck in traffic and missed the whole thing. “We’re all so concerned about what’s happening and we want the governor and all the leaders to declare a climate emergency and start doing what needs to be done,” Jill Merritt, a 72-yearold member of Elders Rising, told me. “In 1992, at the Eco Summit in Rio, we allowed the issue to be framed as an environmental issue instead of a human rights issue. What the children are telling us is this has been a human rights issue all along. They have a right to air they can breathe and water they can drink, and they have a right to a livable planet.” “If you’re under 30—I bet you are—you have a good chance of witnessing radical destabilization

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of life on Earth,” she added. Merritt explained that the activists were blocking the streets as a warm-up for the week’s Global Climate Strike, a worldwide protest timed to coincide with the 2019 Climate Action Summit held by the United Nations in New York the following Monday. Hundreds of young Utahns ditched school to join in a march from the City and County Building up State Street to the Capitol, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. It was only a matter of time before the cops showed up. The activists’ brazen approach made me wonder if this protest would take an ugly turn, but after a summer that saw an increasingly confrontational relationship between the authorities and grassroots activists, this time around, there were no aggressive actions and no arrests. Two Utah Highway Patrol troopers consulted with protesters and then stepped in to redirect traffic. They also worked to defuse the situation when one woman jumped out of her car and started screaming at the protesters. A few SLC police officers showed up and helped clear out the street while making no effort to prevent the activists from holding up their banners. After about 40 minutes, the activists packed up and seemed to call it a day. But as soon as they got to the bottom of State, they pulled out the banners once again to stage an impromptu, definitely unpermitted march down the middle of south State all the way to the City and County Building. They ended up blocking off yet more traffic while a motorcade of at least 10 police vehicles with flashing red lights—including squad cars, motorcycles and black police vans— followed behind. “We insist that our leaders act now. If nonviolent direct action is the only way to get them to listen to the people, so be it,” Extinction Rebellion local coordinator Adair Kovac stated in an emailed statement to media later that evening. “We must keep raising the alarm, and we will. The alternative is social and environmental collapse.” CW

Climate Action Along the Wasatch Front A conversation on how to improve action on local climate change. @rayhowze1

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CW: What does it mean to you to be a good steward of the environment?

Do you think Utah has done enough in recent years to address climate change locally? If not, why?

Steps local governments can take in order to reduce their carbon footprint would include adopting a resolution no later than Dec. 31, 2019, stating the clear goal of achieving net-100% renewable energy by 2030. Other steps local governments can review, look at it from a greenhouse-gas footprint perspective. The biggest contributions of our greenhouse gas footprint comes down to buildings and transportation, as well as agriculture. Looking at those different sectors, depending on their resources, they can look for the low-hanging fruit, which is absolutely energy efficiency. It certainly is not as sexy as renewable energy, but energy efficiency is some of the most no-cost or lowcost solutions that save people money … when you look at air quality, I believe it’s up to 50% of our poor air quality emissions come from transportation. Begin to visualize how we want our communities to look like in the future so we can infuse equity within this approach. How do we work together instead of working in silos and address the growing population?

I envision there to be pathways moving forward for communities to address our serious air-quality situation. Topics like the inland port, an expanding population, don’t do us any favors. Not to mention, there are some

I’m hoping that conversations around our climate crisis are elevated. There are statistics out there that prove it’s a topic all of us recognize and is a legitimate crisis and we need to do something about it. However, these aren’t conversations we’re having around the dinner table or with friends. It’s a complicated issue. The reason we haven’t been able to move the needle as much as we should is because it’s a cultural challenge. There needs to be cultural will, not just political will, to address our climate crisis. We want to have new partners and new faces and more members of the general public engaging on this issue. The whole purpose is to celebrate some of the successes we’ve been able to advance on a community and state level, but also look for opportunities to work together to move the needle on climate action. We want to put on the forefront of people’s minds that we as a community need to come together on this issue. CW Editor’s note: Interview was edited for clarity and length. For an extended version of this conversation, visit cityweekly.net

Mayor’s Townhall: Stewardship of the Air and Climate Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30-8 p.m. Albion Middle School, 2755 Newcastle Drive, Sandy The Citizen’s Climate Lobby hosts a panel with Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini, Cottonwood Heights Mayor Michael Peterson, Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn, University of Utah atmospheric scientist Logan Mitchell, BYU professor of law Brigham Daniels and Climate Advocate and University of Utah student Piper Christian.

Community Climate Connections: 2019 Climate and Health Symposium Friday, Oct. 4, and Saturday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West Several community leaders, researchers and practitioners will share impacts, solutions and information related to climate change and public health during Salt Lake County and Clark Planetarium’s fourth annual climate symposium. Attendees are encouraged to register on Eventbrite for Saturday’s evening panel to be held at the planetarium’s IMAX theater.

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Do you ever see a time where the Wasatch Front might be inversion free?

What do you hope people get out of Utah Climate Week?

To be frank, I don’t think anybody has done enough on climate action. Of course, there’s been some intriguing developments recently—something I think that certainly should be highlighted is the Community Renewable Energy Act. It was passed in the state of Utah and it’s quite unprecedented because it gives constituents and communities served by Rocky Mountain Power a choice of how they want their electricity to be produced. That was passed this year. It authorizes a pathway for communities to achieve net-zero 100% renewable energy by 2030. The reason this happened is because there was a willing supplier—Rocky Mountain Power—as well as multiple communities, including Salt Lake City, Park City, Summit County, Moab and Cottonwood Heights wanting to explore alternative options of how they can pursue clean

What are some steps you think people or local governments can take today to help our local climate?

things out of our hands as far as the interstate system that we have. But we’re seeing more and more communities, for example, Park City is playing a big leadership role in bringing together mountain towns throughout the entire Intermountain West to talk about how they can combine resources and share experience and knowledge in order to move the needle in reducing poor air quality. In short, I think there’s a lot of work that needs to be done and in order for that to happen, we’re going to have to prioritize community over economic development. We are not antieconomic growth, but we should not look at economic growth as the only metric to have a safe, healthy and sustainable community.

JB: It’s someone that provides empathy and compassion and is aware that our current systems are not completely isolated from the natural environment. Having an understanding that having a sustainable future requires us to think ahead and to evaluate what we’re doing in our daily lives. And determine if that’s going to be detrimental to future generations.

electricity and clean, renewable energy. In short, no, we haven’t done enough. However, the state of Utah is the only state in the entire nation with the exception of New York City that actually has an official Climate Week.

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eff Bousson is a program manager for the local nonprofit Utah Clean Energy, which is helping to put on Utah Climate Week. Bousson (pictured, center) spoke with City Weekly about where the Wasatch Front stands on climate action and topics the public should be thinking about when it comes to climate change.

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ENTERTAINMENT PICKS, OCT. 3-9, 2019

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Consider Curtains a play within a play. Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb (of Chicago and Cabaret) and Rupert Holmes (who claims “The Piña Colada Song” among his many credits), it’s a madcap musical and whodunit rolled into one. Set in 1959, it takes place on the opening night of a new musical titled Robbin’ Hood of the Old West, which is being staged at Boston’s fictitious Colonial Theatre. When the lead actress, the dubiously talented Jessica Crawford, is murdered during her curtain call, it’s left to a theater-loving detective to solve the mystery, save the show and, in the process, prevent his own demise. Granted, it’s an unlikely premise, but according to Seth Miller, artistic and executive director of the Grand Theatre Co., it’s a winning one as well. “Curtains is a hilarious show that is brilliantly written,” Miller says via email. “With so many funny characters, our cast is having a blast playing all the different stereotypical, over-thetop theater personalities in the show. It’s also full of huge dance numbers that the Grand’s audience loves.” Then again, a comedy caper with music and merriment is typically a crowd-pleasing combination. In Curtains’ case, it provided the impetus to bring it to Broadway, enjoy critical kudos and eventually take it to audiences worldwide. “October is a great time of year for a murder mystery,” Miller says. “And it’s even better when the show is also a musical comedy.” Curtains might be kooky, but it’s also a real killer in its own way. (Lee Zimmerman) Curtains @ Grand Theatre Main Stage, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Oct. 3-26, Wednesday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m., $10-$26, grandtheatrecompany.com

Kicking off their 54th season of art in motion with Inside Outside, Salt Lake’s Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) leaves no questions why the company is still the nation’s oldest and most successful repertory dance company. Building on last year’s theme of diversity, RDT is celebrating a “vibrant human spirit” this season by taking viewers through a dynamic journey of Utah’s heritage, geography and people. With highly technical choreography, quirky invention and rhythmic humor, the four pieces fuse many styles of dance into unexpected interpretations. Anchored with an ode to one of the founders of modern dance, Doris Humphrey, the evening begins with “Invention”—a classic first choreographed in 1949 that explores the interconnected energy between a man and two women. Creating fresh concepts of movement from formal to contemporary styles, the show also includes pieces by Lar Lubovitch, Noa Zuk, Ohad Fishof, and Andy Noble (his Filament is pictured). “I have watched a few rehearsals, and honestly, it’s really difficult to pick a favorite,” RDT marketing director Stephanie Perkins says. RDT’s executive and artistic director Linda C. Smith, and her two artistic associates, Nicholas Cendese and Lynne Larson collect choreography from a wide range of artists to craft performances and determine the season’s artistic theme. The dancers rehearse five days a week throughout the year to prepare for the opening. “The combination of all four works is stunning and it’s fascinating to see the contrast of work created in 1949 next to work created last year,” Perkins adds. “The entire evening is really something you don’t want to miss.” (Colette A. Finney) RDT: Inside Outside @ Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-5343322, Oct. 3-5, 7:30 p.m., $15-$30, rdtutah.org

If Jerry Seinfeld wanted, he could simply retire from public life, confident in being carved on comedy’s Mount Rushmore and with enough money that his grandchildren’s grandchildren won’t have to work a day of their lives. If he were bored or greedy, he could simply have some streaming service back a Brinks truck up into his driveway, requiring only that he mail in a mediocre movie performance every so often. Yet Seinfeld continues to take his comed out on the road, doing one night stand-up performances. Why does he do it? Turns out the guy whose show put the term “master of my domain” into the lexicon, courtesy of his selftitled 1990s TV show is a master of his craft, who tinkers with a joke for up to two years until he gets it just the way he wants it. “If I don’t do a set in two weeks, I feel it,” he told The New York Times Magazine in 2012. “I read an article a few years ago that said when you practice a sport a lot, you literally become a broadband: the nerve pathway in your brain contains a lot more information. As soon as you stop practicing, the pathway begins shrinking. Reading that changed my life. I used to wonder, ‘Why am I doing these sets? … Don’t I know how to do this already?’ The answer is no. You must keep doing it. The broadband starts to narrow the moment you stop.” Seinfeld once said on his seminal sitcom, “People don’t turn down money! It’s what separates us from the animals.” But it’s clear he’s doing one-night stand-up sets for more than just the cash. (Geoff Griffin) Jerry Seinfeld @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., sold out at press time, artsaltlake.com

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Sean Riley & Farshad Zadeh: A 3D-Printed 6-String Violin Experience

As technology continues to touch virtually every aspect of our lives, it’s sometimes easy to forget that it opens up new opportunities for artistic creativity. Such was the case for University of Texas-Austin graduate student Sean Riley, who had become fascinated with a piece of music— composer John Adams’ The Dharma at Big Sur—intended for six-string electric violin. There was just one problem: Traditional violins don’t have six strings, and the rare six-string electric violins typically cost thousands of dollars. So, in conjunction with engineer Daniel Goodwin and sculptor Rebecca Milton, he chose to create one employing 3D printing technology. “It’s hard to describe how amazing it feels to hold the violin in my hands,” Riley told UT News in 2018. “I can feel that it has been made. I can feel Daniel’s hard work. I can feel Rebecca’s hard work. I feel like I’m not even playing a violin any more. It’s something different.” Riley visits Utah for two days of activities showcasing his innovative instrument, sponsored by Utah’s Mundi Project, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to music. On Friday, Riley leads a free workshop “for curious minds” about his instrument at Bountiful Davis Art Center, followed by a free masterclass Saturday morning for the University of Utah’s School of Music Preparatory Division. The climax comes with a concert pairing Riley with concert pianist Farshad Zadeh featuring pieces commissioned or arranged for six-string violin. (Scott Renshaw) Sean Riley & Farshad Zadeh: A 3D-Printed 6-String Violin Experience @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Oct. 5, 3 p.m., $10-$15; workshop at Bountiful Davis Art Center, Oct. 4, 3 p.m., mundiproject.org

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Michelle Standley’s 4.5 Hours explores the repetitive solitude of domestic labor. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

ichelle Standley knows that her performance art concept for 4.5 Hours is likely to provoke people. In fact, she knew it before she ever performed it. During the piece—inspired by a study conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development about daily unpaid domestic labor done by women, and which Standley performs at Temple Square this week—Standley sweeps a pile of dirt up on a rug, gathers it into a dustpan, dumps it into a bucket, then empties it onto the rug to start all over again. Repeatedly. For 4-1/2 hours. Standley recalls one of the first times she mentioned the concept for 4.5 Hours to anyone, at a dinner gathering, and a close friend had an unexpected response. “She started laughing at the very idea of the piece,” she says. “And made fun of me, in fact, in front of everybody.” That’s the kind of reaction you have to expect when you’re challenging orthodoxies, but that’s something Standley has plenty of experience with. A scholar of modern European history, Standley was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southern California, and attended Brigham Young University-Hawaii and the BYU campus in Provo. Over the course of her academic studies, however, she began to realize that her study of history was making her question her beliefs. “I realized how ideas change,” she says, “and things you think are solid are tied to a specific mo-

ment or culture. … When I was finishing at Brigham Young, in my final course, there was a question, ‘How did your study of history influence your thinking?’ I wrote an essay on how it walked me right out of the church.” It also took her a while to find her way back to artistic expression as an adult, after being very artistic as a young child. Standley recalls that around puberty— and shortly after, when her mother passed away—“I lost my way. … I think a part of me was buried in a way. Self-expression takes guts. For me now, pursuing the path of the Ph.D., then finishing it, kind of liberated me to be brave enough to say, ‘These things don’t have to be separate.’ In fact, as a curious, creative person, it’s really about embracing the world and finding different ways to communicate that excitement.” Most of that artistic expression for Standley has involved visual arts or video projects; 4.5 Hours is unique for her in being a piece of live performance art. Taking that risk involved baby steps, from the six years between her first inklings of the concept to performing it for the first time all alone, in an open field, in 2017. “I taught for 15 years as an adjunct professor, so I’d been ‘on stage,’” she says. “But I don’t particularly like it. I kind of can’t wait to get off. So for me, this was kind of a bold move. … Everyone responds to life and aging in different ways, but I think it’s liberated me to take risks.” The second performance came last year at a colloquium, where she was invited to present a paper but offered instead to perform 4.5 Hours—which meant being in a place slightly more populated than an empty field. “I thought I was going to throw up,” she says with a laugh. “But I feel quite strongly about it, and maybe this is something that comes from being raised Mormon, but I’m deeply sincere. When I believe in something, I really stand by it. And I believe in this thing I’m doing.” The Salt Lake City presentation of 4.5 Hours marks only the third-ever public performance, which Standley timed to coordinate with the LDS church General Conference weekend, before the planned four-year renovation of Temple Square. In her news release, Standley observes that

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she’s aware of “the very gendered nature of the division of labor that characterizes most Mormon homes,” and that the Sunday performance is a way of recognizing that the “day of rest” doesn’t apply equally to everyone. Yet she’s also careful to recognize the importance and value of labor, and that her solo performance is just one representation of the way it manifests itself—and perhaps also a recognition of the way she wishes most domestic labor didn’t manifest itself. “I wish there were more social solutions to these seemingly private problems,” Standley says. “When I do this [performance], I’m alone. Tonight, I was in the kitchen with my son, doing the dishes and playing music, thinking about childhood

Michelle Standley performing 4.5 Hours growing up Mormon, and one of the great things that taught me was the joy of communal labor. Somebody has to do [domestic labor], it can’t not be done, but wouldn’t it be great if the labor was distributed more fairly, and if it was done together.” CW

MICHELLE STANDLEY: 4.5 HOURS

South sidewalk outside Temple Square Sunday, Oct. 6 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free michellestandley.com

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Sculptor Jim Jacobs presents works composed partly of natural tree limbs and trunks, partly of processed lumber, to capture the transition of the natural world into objects for human use (“American Cherry” is pictured) in The Imperfections That Render Us Visible at Kimball Art Center (1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, kimballartcenter.org), through Nov. 3.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

The Adams Family Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 16, showtimes vary, hct.org Cagney Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, through Oct. 5, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org Curtains Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, Oct. 3-26, dates and times vary, grandtheatrecompany.com (see p. 14) Death of a Driver Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Oct. 20, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Fantod: New Spine-Tingling Short Works Wasatch Theatre Co. Black Box, 124 S. 400 West, Oct. 3-5, 7:30 p.m., anthemtheatreco.eventbrite.com Phantom Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 9, dates and times vary, Ripped Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, through Oct. 6, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., goodcotheatre.com

DANCE

University of Utah Performing Dance Co. Hayes Christensen Theatre, 330 S. 1500 East, Oct.3-5 & Oct. 17-19, times vary, dance.utah.edu Repertory Dance Theatre: Inside Outside Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 3-5, 7:30 p.m., rdtutah.org (see p. 14) Odyssey Dance: Thriller Egyptian Theater, 328 Main, Park City, through Oct. 5, dates and times vary, odysseydance.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Mundi Project: 3D Printed 6-string Violin Experience Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Oct. 5, 3 p.m., mundiproject.org (see p. 14)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Andrew Hobbs Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Oct. 4-5, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Deon Cole Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 4-5, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Drew Lynch Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Oct. 3, 7 p.m.; Wiseguys West Jordan,

3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Oct. 4-5, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Jerry Seinfeld Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Oct. 5, 7 p.m. artsaltlake.com (see p. 14) Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 20, snowbird.com

LGBTQ

1 to 5 Club: Game Night Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, first Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m., encircletogether.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Erin Stewart: Scars Like Wings The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Scott Graham & C. Joseph Greaves: Arches Enemy and Church of the Graveyard Saints The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 4, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Naomi Watkins & Katherine Kitterman with Illustrator Brooke Smart: Champions of Change The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

TALKS & LECTURES

The Air We Breathe: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Air Quality Child Hall, Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, 1655 Campus Center Drive, Oct. 3, 8 a.m., cleanair.utah.edu

Carbon Pricing, Bipartisanship, & Democracy with Mark Reynolds Gore School of Business Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., utahdiplomacy.org

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4.5 Hours South sidewalk outside Temple Square, Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., free, michellestandly.com (see p. 16) Abstraction Is Just a Word, But I Use It UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 4, utahmoca.org Amidst: Kathy Puzey, Amanda Lee and Holland Larsen Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 1, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Anne Fudyma: Synchronistic Space UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Oct. 12, utahmoca.org Concerning Craft & The Power of Print Downtown Artist Collective, 258 E. 100 South, through Oct. 11, downtownartistcollective.org DesignArts Utah ’19 Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 18, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Emily Robison: Collections A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., agalleryonline.com Gerald Purdy & Hadley Rampton Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through Oct. 11, phillips-gallery.com Get Forty-fied! Utah Calligraphic Artists Exhibition Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Oct. 22, culturalcelebration.org The Implications That Render Us Visible Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City,

kimballartcentter.org (see p. 18) In Good Company: Works by Saltgrass Printmakers’ Member Artists Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through Oct. 5, pioneertheatre.org Jim Jacobs: The Imperfections That Render Us Visible Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 3, kimballartcenter.org (see p. 18) League of Reluctant Bicyclists UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Myth Modern West Galley, 412 S. 700 West, through Oct. 31, modernwestfineart.com Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 13, utahmoca.org Palate Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 11, accessart.org Poiesis Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 11, accessart.org Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu Ryan Lauderdale: Glazed Atrium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Susan Cramer Stein: Cowboys and Horses: A Western Romance Local Colors of Utah Fine Art Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Oct. 15, localcolorsart.com Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Ummah Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 15, umma.utah.edu Van Chu: Photographic Brushstroke Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 3, kimballartcenter.org

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Come All Ye Santos It’s high time for a pilgrimage to Rose Park’s Santo Taco BY ALEX SPRINGER comments@cityweekly.net @captainspringer

t’s not uncommon to see a few faded buildings that once housed the taquerías of Rose Park’s past as you’re making your way to Santo Taco (910 N. 900 West, santotacos.com). Indeed, Santo Taco’s semi-cloistered location at the northernmost edge of the neighborhood feels like it was earned after decades of hard-won battles. Such is the conquest that owners Claudia and Alfonso Brito launched to get where they are today. Both worked their way up in other people’s kitchens throughout the Salt Lake area until they could open their own establishment. In many ways, Santo is a testament to a combined lifetime of lessons learned while the Britos were shaping someone else’s dream. Its fast-casual setup is perfect for ordering a duet, trio or quartet of freshly made tacos, and its vibrant Mexico City-inspired interior is warm and inviting.

After taking your first steps inside, it’s hard to miss the gigantic cone of marinated pork for Santo’s tacos al pastor ($2 each, pictured) which shines like the taquería’s own personal veladora. Yes, the menu at Santo features everything from chicken to cactus, but the al pastor tacos here should be consumed frequently and in large quantities. Once those slices of pork get the slowcooked treatment on that ver-

tical rotisserie, nothing short of taco magic happens. Since these tasty little hombres are served up streetstyle, there’s nothing stopping you from getting five or six. Take it from me—if you let that flavor combo of marinated pork and sliced pineapple hit your tongue just once without a chaser taco, you’ll seriously regret it. Once you’ve paid due respect to Santo’s al pastor, you have my permission to venture forth into the other areas of the menu. The carne asada ($2) and pollo asado ($2) are perfectly serviceable, though I’ve had a few end up slightly on the dry side. The carnitas ($2) are a great counterpoint to the marinated al pastor since you’re swapping sweet and slightly acidic with a salty hit of roast pork. During the summer months, the Santo fish tacos ($2.50) are fried, crispy wonders that shine with some lime and pickled onions. Vegetarians can check out the calabicitas ($2), a duo of grilled zucchini and corn, or the nopal ($2) which is an earthy, slightly sweet grilled cactus. If you’re feeling a bit adventurous— and carnivorous—Santo offers beef tongue ($2.50) and beef head tacos ($2), which are staples of traditional taco carts the world over. Both meats are cooked with the exact amount of

love for each ingredient—the beef head practically melts in your mouth, though it does need some liberal doses of salsa for added flavor. Building upon that solid foundation, diners can also get quesadillas ($6) and their meat-stuffed cousins known as mulitas ($3.50), along with nachos ($8) and burritos ($8) with your meat of choice. I like to think of this area of the menu as a marriage of sorts—once you’ve decided which taco is most worthy of your love, make it into a burrito for a few bucks more and ride off into the sunset. My non-taco of choice is Santo’s carne asada fries ($8), which evoke both the late-night jaunts to local Mexican joints that characterized my college years and the nostalgic childhood goo of nacho cheese sauce. I was admittedly hesitant when I opened my container and saw that Santo makes their fries with the aforementioned goo instead of melty shredded cheese, but it only took a few bites to make me see the golden light. The DayGlo sauce mixes with sour cream and whatever salsas you want to add for a pure, unapologetic amalgamation of all the flavors that make taco joints holy places. You’ve got the warm, mouth-coating cheesiness cooled off by some light sour

cream, all of which cling ardently to the other ingredients. The carne asada is cooked and cubed to perfection and the guacamole and pico de gallo add another layer of richness and flavor. All of this hot, sexy action gets piled high on a bed of golden, highcaliber fries which are good enough to stand on their own. Perhaps my favorite aspect of this meal was the slices of pickled jalapeño that gave this just the right touch of baseball game charm. While I will always be a proponent of traditional taco carts wherever they might be found, I can understand that they’re not on-brand for everyone. If a brick-and-mortar establishment will help get you closer to some hot, made-from-scratch tacos al pastor or experience tongue or head meats for the first time, Santo Taco is waiting for you with open arms. CW

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Two breweries take a swing at Old World beer styles. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

amn near every beer style in the world originated from outside of North America. Most of the ales and lagers made on our shores are faithful and sometimes irreverent takes on those European O.G. styles. This week’s beers take a deep dive, mimicking beloved brews from the Old World. Hoppers Grill & Brewing Co. La Nymphe Biére D’été: Yeah, that name is a mouthful; luckily, this beer can do it justice. This ale is based on the French-style blonde ale, and is a brilliant representation that captures the spirit of its Gallic roots. It has a slightly hazy, bright honey-yellow body, with a modest amount of lively carbonation. Lemony citrus and a soft, floral, perfume-like character primarily lead the light and delicate, yeast-driven

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nose. Semi-sweet, crisp, grainy malts are noticeable underneath, while traces of pepper and faintly grassy hay-like hop profiles become perceptible toward the back end. Taste-wise, it hits similar beats, leading with a subtle mixture of semi-sweet candied lemon peel, fragrant lemongrass and citrus preserves. Touches of vinous and stone fruits follow, with suggestions of unripe peaches, pears and white grape, vaguely found above a mildly sweet, but dry and crisp, toasted backbone. Mid-palate, touches of hop bitterness and gentle spice begin to build. Pepper and barely perceivable phenols combine with greater grassy, earthy and hay-like hop bitterness. Toward the end, delicate spices linger momentarily, before bitter grassy hop profiles add a quick and clean bite of balance. The finishing hints of lemony citrus and traces of residual malt manage to bring the flavor profile full circle, keeping closer to the drier end of the palate. Overall: This is a fantastic beer. Subtle, delicate and incredibly well crafted, it expertly delivers huge complexity and depth while remaining light, crisp and extremely refreshing for an 8.1% ale. Hop bitterness toward the back-end is perhaps a little more pronounced than expected, but rather than detract from taste, the light astringency it brings only serves to increase drinkability even further. Highly recommended. 2 Row Brewing All About Apricot: This special ale from Midvale took almost two

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years to create, and it was originally released in May 2019. This beer pours a hazy, medium golden-yellow color, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy and creamy head. The aroma is full of rather tart stone fruit and sour yeast-bacterial inoculations. If you can get past these more balsamic characteristics, Malt-O-Meal cereal, underripe lemon rind and a small earthy and oaky woodiness begin to take hold. The taste is sharply acidic—lemon, lime and the sour apricot the name would suggest. The yeast adds a bit of musty and white cheesy funkiness, along with balsamic vinegar and bready malts. Solid white wine notes and light barrel qualities come next, and kick in a pleasant woody character. It straddles the line of sweet and dry quite nicely. Super mellow and balanced.

Overall: The chardonnay barrel aging and the apricot addition is very complementary to the saison base, making for a beer that’s very enjoyable and easy drinking. The 11.2% alcohol is well hidden and the flavors are complex. Hoppers has had quite a vibrant bottle program in the past, and it appears to be in the midst of a resurrection. Hopefully, we’ll start to see more special releases in the coming months. Look for La Nymphe at Hoppers Brew Pub (890 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale). All About Apricot is still lurking around select spots around the Wasatch Front; I spied it at Beer Bar and at Craft by Proper. If you gravitate toward wild and sour beers, definitely put this one in your cue. You’ll spend a few more quatloos, but it’ll be worth it. As always, cheers! CW

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You might think you wandered into a restaurant in Greenwich Village, Portland or anywhere other than Salt Lake City when you walk into Pallet. This restaurant feels like an escape from the city even though it’s right in the middle of it. If you like a bustling dining atmosphere, you’ll enjoy the communal tables. The food is eclectic and creative, and must-try dishes include housemade gnocchi with sage, Parmesan and sweet hints of Amaretto; truffles fries (with actual truffles); blackened salmon on a bed of spinach with pomegranate dressing; and pepper-crusted New York steak. To round out your meal, there’s an interesting list of cocktails, wines and beer. 237 S. 400 West, 801-935-4431, eatpallet.com

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While the jury is still out on whether the Beastro claims your eternal soul in exchange for plant-based chicken and waffles, it’s a risk that fans of comfort food and vegan food alike will want to take. Flavor-wise, I’d stack this plate of “chicken” and waffles ($13.50) up against its meat-based cousins any day. Seitan is breaded and deep fried to perfection before gracing the top of a golden brown waffle. A bit of maple syrup drives home the sweet-meets-salty combo that made this dish a classic in the first place, and the soft, chewy seitan complements the deep fried crunch of the outer layer. Food pile enthusiasts will enjoy the garbage hash ($11), a flavorful heap of tofu scramble, hash browns, peppers, onions, mushrooms and seitan sausage. But I prefer their breakfast burrito ($9), which takes all that goodness, adds some very convincing vegan cheese and wraps it all up in a warm tortilla. Whether your culinary scripture consists of verses of veganism or comfort food parables, Mark of the Beastro is full of tantalizing tricks that taste like a Faustian bargain you’ll be willing to make. Reviewed Aug. 1. 666 S. State, 385-202-7386, facebook.com/markofthebeastro

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This ambitious and action-packed little festival is back for its second go-round this year, and it promises just about everything anyone could want out of the Halloween season over two days on Oct. 25 and 26—and I mean everything! Taking place in historic (and spooky) downtown Provo, the music-centric event is chock full of local artists and street performers, alongside all the fixins of a Halloween fair by way of mask-making booths, scary storytelling circles and costume contests. Friday goths will be in love when the festival kicks off with its very own Goth Prom, where goth-goers can groove to the music of Gossip Ghoul and the tunes of DJ Kid Machine, all while being considered for the prestigious positions of Goth King and Queen. Saturday is jam-packed, starting at 4 p.m. and spanning 10 venues in the four-block radius of the downtown area. These venues will burst with upward of 60 artists and performers (the lineup is still under wraps at press time) who will also play secret shows that you’ll have to snoop out for yourself. Acts from last year’s event include such notable local acts as The Backseat Lovers, Baby Ghosts and Robert Loud of The Killers (yeah, those ones) and Fictionist. Tickets for this actionpacked weekend are available at any Velour show, from any of the bands playing (another reason to keep an eye out for that lineup announcement) and at the event itself. Goth Prom Kick-off @ The Boxcar, 156 W. 500 South, Provo, Friday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m., all ages; Buzzards & Bees Downtown Provo Music Festival @ downtown Provo, Saturday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m., all ages, $15 presale for both days; $20 day of show, children under 7 get in free, buzzardsandbees.com CW

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If you’ve never seen the 1977 avant-garde horror classic Suspiria, add it to the top of your list of scary movies to watch in the month of October. Do this especially if you’re a music lover. Besides being a dazzling, thrilling horror film that pushed the aesthetic boundaries of the genre, its shiver-inducing soundtrack is iconic on its own. The inimitable Italian experimental rockers Goblin are responsible for it after coming to the rescue of the ailing soundtrack for horror extraordinaire, Dario Argento’s film Profondo Rosso. Film geeks and fans of bands Can and Neu! find the Suspiria soundtrack that followed that first success to be just as recognizable and chilling as John Carpenter’s Halloween theme. Tinkling, almost-Christmas-y bells give way to low, ominous, throaty bass poings, and truly unsettling goblin-like whispers that build alongside the plucking of guitars and a mandolin-like instrument called a bouzouki. After Suspiria’s success, Goblin went on to work on many other soundtracks, including one for Dawn of the Dead, as well as spooky, trippy and psychedelic albums of their own. Over the years, they’ve gone by many different iterations of the name “Goblin,” and members have cycled in and out. They’re currently touring as Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Simonetti being their longtime keyboardist. This fall tour finds them playing the soundtrack of Profondo Rosso, alongside a screening of the film, followed by a set of songs from their other works. Whether or not you’re a fan already, this is likely going to be one of the most actually freaky things you can get up to this October, so please, go. Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin @ Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Sunday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., $28 presale; $30 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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Translating the precision of classical instrumentation to a pop landscape isn’t easy. But Japanese-American violinist and composer Kishi Bashi has been performing his own brand of symphonic magic for nearly a decade. After a stint at Cornell’s School of Engineering ended poorly, Bashi enrolled at Berklee College of Music, perfecting his passionate brand of violin performance while sitting in with countless chamber pop and indie rock musicians. After time spent touring and playing with everyone from pianist Regina Spektor to glam-rock collective Of Montreal, Bashi broke out on his own in 2012, releasing solo debut 151a on experimental label Joyful Noise Recordings. Since then, Bashi’s oeuvre has expanded endlessly outward, encompassing everything from modern electronica to avant-garde classicism on 2014’s Lighght and 2016’s Sonderlust. The swirling, often intoxicating 2019 album Omoiyari deals with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, examining the frightening parallels between the paranoia of 1940s United States and the current administration’s obsession with building walls to divide different races and ethnicities. “F Delano” reassesses the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who signed the fated Executive Order 9066 only 11 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, while “Theme from Jerome (Forgotten Words)” analyzes the psychic pain of a population being forced to suppress its own culture. “History is really complicated,” Bashi told NPR’s All Things Considered in May. “You can have heroes

and villains, and that’s easy for children to understand, but for adults, we have to look at the complexities of the situation.” (Nick McGregor) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $18 presale; $20 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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If there’s one thing I know to be true, it’s that nowhere will a good gimmick get you further than in the world of metal—and at the risk of hyperbolizing, Amon Amarth might just have one of the best. The Swedish quintet is one of the first—and one of the most well-known—bands to center their entire presentation on Norse mythology and Viking lore, giving their songs names like “Mjolner, Hammer of Thor” and “Valhall Awaits Me,” while decking their stage show out with carved dragon heads and imitation Viking ships. Since their formation in 1992, Amon Amarth’s signature brand of anthemic, melodic death metal themed to Scandanavian folklore has proven to be two great tastes that taste great together, and scores of like-minded “Viking metal” bands have sprung up in their wake over the past two decades. This week, they headline a truly stacked bill at The Complex’s Rockwell stage, alongside fellow Swedish death metal pioneers Arch Enemy and At The Gates, two groups whose output in the mid-to-late ’90s played an instrumental role in shaping the sound of heavy music in the 21st century. Stockholm “doom blues” outfit Grand Magus opens. (Nic Rensaw) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $37.50, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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After a scorching summer, the weather is getting brisk all too soon. Sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin—core members of Bleached— hail from a warmer and sunnier state, and you can tell by their music. Bleached spent the last decade trying on various styles of surf rock, post-punk and three-chord garage rock, championing the sounds of their native California but never pausing on one sound for too long. Their latest release, Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? (Dead Oceans), finds the Clavin sisters keeping their sunny disposition, but they’ve traded power chords for disco beats and sun-kissed guitar licks. On lead single “Hard to Kill,” they’re no longer raging through the heartbreak and apathy of modern romance; they’re dancing through it. “Place the gun to my heart,” lead vocalist Jennifer intones over a promenading baseline. Their latest sets heavily favor new material, which might bring dancing to The State Room’s hallowed pews. Their standard opener, “Shitty Ballet,” which closes the new album, offers the false promise of acoustic quiet before exploding into a rager. “Yeah, once I start, I don’t know how to stop,” Jennifer belts. For the next hour, the room shimmies and sidesteps down the Pacific Coast Highway with warm weather and clear skies overhead. Openers Dude York, facetiously self-proclaimed as “America’s Band,” bring some earth-bursting guitar riffs of their own. (Robby Poffenberger) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $20, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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It’s rare to find a group of native tribesmen from West Africa vying for pop stardom on the world stage, but credit Tinariwen with doing just that. Hailing from the Sahara region of northern Mali, they purvey an ancient sound that’s found an unlikely fit with modern sensibilities. They were born from tragedy and turmoil; founder Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, a member of the nomadic Tuareg tribe, was only 4 when he witnessed his father’s execution, after which he spent his early life in exile. Inspired by a Western movie about a singing cowboy, he fashioned his first guitar from a plastic water can, a stick and fishing wire. While conscripted for military service, he met other like-minded musicians, and following a revolution that restored his people’s rights, he devoted himself to making music full time. His band eventually attracted international interest, and has since played festivals and major concert venues worldwide. Currently consisting of a nine-piece touring ensemble, the group dresses in garb native to the region and plays music that makes few concessions to Western expectations. Nevertheless, as their new album Amadjar makes clear, they find a clear connection via a sound that leans on psychedelic suggestion, mystery and mystique. An insurgent record label, Anti/Epitaph, and several enthusiastic musicians—Warren Ellis, Michah Nelson, Cass McCombs and Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O)))—help bridge the barriers, but the compelling melodies and seductive tones succeed on their own. At the end of the day, the music’s sensuality mesmerizes the masses. (Lee Zimmerman) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $18 presale, $20 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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SUNDAY 10/6

Boy Harsher, Fossil Arms, Spellling

It’s hard to stand out in the realm of dark, electronic dance music. Boy Harsher, comprised of Augustus Muller doing beats and Jae Matthews on vocals, manages to be noteworthy in its particular composition of its “darkness”—airy synths and progressive trance beats combine with Matthews’ range of whisper-to-scream vocals to create tracks that can be danceable and soothing, depending on your mood. The group began as Teen Dreamz, in which Muller scored short stories written and read by Matthews. As the music side of the project developed and the sound became more danceable and instrumentheavy, Muller and Matthews reformed into Boy Harsher in 2014, leading to the Yr Body release in 2016. You can quickly pick up on the group’s shift to a dance floor focus, but Boy Harsher’s 2019 releases, Careful and Country Girl Uncut, show just how much the group has developed its range of electronic music, managing to retain the core trance sound with more complex synth beats. If you’ve ever had an interest in French pop or electronic music, Boy Harsher is probably for you. They are joined by local band Fossil Arms, who are also electronic in the vein of New Order—more reliant on twee, ’80s-style energy, but still with a pinch of dark. Lastly, Spellling—who made Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of 2017” list with Pantheon Of Me—comes through with her own brand of lush electronica. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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AJR + Tessa Violet (Maverik Center) Amon Amarth + Arch Enemy + At The Gates + Grand Magus (The Complex) see p. 26 Brother Chunky (Hog Wallow Pub) Carling + Drive!Drive! (Velour) Horse Feathers (Rye) Jonas Brothers + Bebe Rexha + Jordan McGraw (Vivint Smart Home Arena) Kishi Bashi + Takenobu (Metro Music Hall) see p. 26 Legnd + Terrance + Binskey + NB$ + Ese Maniak + $LIING (Kilby Court) Oxx + Social Stigma + PTTGDBD (The Underground) Stillhouse Junkies (Gracie’s)

DJ, OPEN MIC, SESSION, PIANO LOUNGE Dueling Pianos: Jordan & South (Tavernacle) Dueling Pianos (The Spur) Dusty Grooves All Vinyl DJ Twist Hot Noise + Guest DJ (The Red Door) Jazz Jam Session (Sugar House Coffee) Jazz Joint Thursday (Garage on Beck) Synthpop + Darkwave + Industrial + Goth w/ DJ Camille (Area 51) Therapy Thursdays feat. Chris Lake (Sky) Tropicana Thursdays feat. Rumba Libre (Liquid Joe’s)

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Bleached + Dude York (The State Room) see p. 26 David Rhythm + Tess So Original + Cutty Banks (The Complex) Donner Pass (The Spur) Dubwise + Frank Royal + Provoke + illoom (Urban Lounge) The Early November + Have Mercy + Owel (Kilby Court) Farmboy (The Westerner) Korene Greenwood (Harp and Hound) L.O.L (Club 90) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music (Lake Effect) Marc Rebillet + David Moon (Metro Music Hall) Railtown (Outlaw Saloon) Rick Gerber & the Nightcaps (Hog Wallow Pub) S2-Cool + Day Sounds + Goldmyth (Velour) Wimpy and Fritz + DJ Fell Swoop (The Yes Hell)

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At first glance, Dropkick Murphys and Clutch might seem an odd pairing for a co-headlining national tour. Dropkick Murphys are best known for marrying the bagpipes and mandolins of traditional Celtic folk with scrappy, sing-along oi!, and for ushering in a slew of folk-punk acts in the early years of the new millennium. Meanwhile, Clutch is known for seasoning their monstrously hooky choruses and bluesy swagger with enough balls-to-the-wall stoner metal riffs to regularly land on festival bills alongside the likes of Behemoth and Slipknot. However, despite the sonic disparity between the two bands, they do share one important feature: an abiding enthusiasm for boozy, raucous guitar music underpinned by a no-nonsense, blue-collar sensibility. They might approach their craft from entirely different angles, but odds are the Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” and Clutch’s “The Mob Goes Wild” sound right at home next to each other in the middle of a sweaty, cheering crowd when the band comes to Salt Lake’s Union Event Center. Connecticut metalcore stalwarts Hatebreed and Florida “murderfolk” up-and-comers Amigo the Devil open. (Nic Renshaw) Union Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, 6:15 p.m. $45.95, all ages, theunioneventcenter.com

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SUNDAY 10/6 LIVE MUSIC

Boy Harsher + Spellling + Fossil Arms (Urban Lounge) see p. 28 Clairo + Beabadoobee (The Depot) Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Metro Music Hall) see p. 25 Dropkick Murphys and Clutch + Hatebreed + Amigo The Devil (Union Event Center) see above Live Bluegrass (Club 90) Patrick Ryan (The Spur) The Parlor Mob + Dan Luke & The Raid (Kilby Court) Vampire Weekend + Soccer Mommy (The Complex)

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your No. 1 therapy in the coming weeks? Watching animals. It would be the healthiest thing you could undertake: relax into a generously receptive mode as you simply observe creatures doing what they do. The best option would be to surrender to the pleasures of communing with domesticated and wild critters. If you need a logical reason to engage in this curative and rejuvenating activity, I’ll give you one: It will soothe and strengthen your own animal intelligence, which would be a tonic gift for you to give yourself.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pisces-born Dorothy Steel didn’t begin her career as a film actress until she was 91 years old. She had appeared in a couple of TV shows when she was 89, then got a small role in an obscure movie. At age 92, she became a celebrity when she played the role of a tribal elder in Black Panther, one of the highest-grossing films of all time. I propose that we make her one of your inspirational role models for the coming weeks and the next 12 months. Why? Because I suspect you will be ripening fully into a role and a mission you were born to embody and express.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Actor and dancer Fred Astaire was a pioneer in bringing dance into films as a serious art form. He made 31 musical films during the 76 years he worked, and was celebrated for his charisma, impeccable technique and innovative moves. At the height of his career, from 1933 to 1949, he teamed up with dancer Ginger Rogers in the creation of 10 popular movies. In those old-fashioned days, virtually all partner dancing featured a male doing the lead part as the female followed. One witty critic noted that although Astaire was a bigger star than Rogers, she “did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and while wearing high heels.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you might soon be called on to carry out tasks that are metaphorically comparable to those performed by Rogers.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Modern literary critic William Boyd declared that Aquarian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was “the best short-story writer ever,” and “the first truly modern writer of fiction: secular, refusing to pass judgment, cognizant of the absurdities of our muddled, bizarre lives and the complex tragi-comedy that is the human condition.” Another contemporary critic, Harold Bloom, praised Chekhov’s plays, saying that he was “one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.” We might imagine, then, that in the course of his career, Chekhov was showered with accolades. We’d be wrong about that, though. “If I had listened to the critics,” he testified, “I’d have died drunk in the gutter.” I hope that what I just said will serve as a pep talk for you as you explore and develop your own original notions in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born YouTube blogger Hey Fran Hey has some good advice for her fellow Bulls, and I think it’ll be especially fresh and potent in the coming weeks. She says, “Replacing ‘Why SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Depression is when you think there’s nothing to be done,” writes is this happening to me?’ with ‘What is this trying to tell me?’ author Siri Hustvedt. “Fortunately I always think there’s some- has been a game changer for me. The former creates a hamthing to be done.” I offer this hopeful attitude to you, Scorpio, ster wheel, where you’ll replay the story over and over again. trusting that it will cheer you up. I suspect that the riddles and Victimized. Stuck. The latter holds space for a resolution to mysteries you’re embedded in right now are so puzzling and com- appear.” plicated that you’re tempted to think that there’s nothing you can do to solve them or escape them. But I’m here to inform you that if GEMINI (May 21-June 20): that’s how you feel, it’s only temporary. Even more importantly, “The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by I’m here to inform you that there is indeed something you can do, them.” So declared French author Victor Hugo. I don’t share and you are going to find out what that is sooner rather than later. his view. In fact, I regard it as an insulting misapprehension. The truth is that the soul achieves flight through vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and nonSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “How inconvenient to be made of desire,” writes Sagittarian rational hypotheses and wild hopes—and maybe also by a few author Larissa Pham. “Even now, want rises up in me like a hot oil. illusions. I bring this to your attention because now is an excelI want so much that it scares me.” I understand what she means, lent time to nurture your soul with vivid fantasies and efferand I’m sure you do, too. There are indeed times when the inner vescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational fire that fuels you feels excessive and unwieldy and inopportune. hypotheses and wild hopes. But I’m happy to report that your mood in the coming weeks is unlikely to fit that description. I’m guessing that the radiant pulse CANCER (June 21-July 22): of your yearning will excite you and empower you. It’ll be brilliant I know people of all genders who periodically unleash macho brags about how little sleep they need. If you’re normally like and warm, not seething and distracting. that, I urge you to rebel. The dilemmas and riddles you face right now are very solvable if and only if you get sufficient amounts CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I envision the next 12 months as a time when you could initi- of sleep and dreams. Do you need some nudges to do right by ate fundamental improvements in the way you live. Your daily yourself? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker says that some of the rhythm 12 months from now could be as much as 20% more greatest athletes understand that “sleep is the greatest legal gratifying and meaningful. It’s conceivable you will discover or enhancing performance drug.” Top tennis player Roger Federer generate innovations that permanently raise your long-term sleeps 12 hours a day. During his heyday, world-class sprinter goals to a higher octave. At the risk of sounding grandiose, I Usain Bolt slept 10 hours a night and napped during the day. predict you’ll welcome a certain novelty that resembles the Champion basketball player LeBron James devotes 12 hours a day to the rejuvenating sanctuary of sleep. invention of the wheel or the compass or the calendar.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1956, the federal government launched a program to build 40,000 miles of high-speed roads to connect all major American cities. It was completed 36 years later at a cost of $521 billion. In the coming months, I’d love to see you draw inspiration from that visionary scheme. According to my analysis, you will generate good fortune for yourself as you initiate a long-term plan to expand your world, create a more robust network, and enhance your ability to fulfill your life’s big goals.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every time my birthday season comes around, I set aside an entire day to engage in a life review. It lasts for many hours. I begin by visualizing the recent events I’ve experienced, then luxuriously scroll in reverse through my entire past, as if watching a movie starring me. It’s not possible to remember every single scene and feeling, of course, so I allow my deep self to highlight the moments it regards as significant. Here’s another fun aspect of this ritual: I bestow a blessing on every memory that comes up, honoring it for what it taught me and how it helped me to become the person I am today. Dear Libra, now is an excellent time for you to experiment with a similar celebration.

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n an unnamed Latin American country, 18 teen soldiers (the “Monos” of the title, which translates to “monkeys”), members of a rebel group known as The Organization, keep watch over American hostage Doctora Sara Watson (Julianne Nicholson, looking appropriately disheveled except for her eye makeup). In their down time, the kids—called Bigfoot, Wolf, Rambo, Dog, Smurf, Swede, Boom Boom and Lady—play soccer blindfolded, pair off in so-called partnerships and whack Rambo with a whip 15 times in a birthday celebration. (They make an aghast Doctora take part, using her revulsion as fuel to egg her on.) Everything is going as well as it can on the freezing mountaintop they call home. When The Messenger (Wilson Salazar), the kids’ contact with The Organization, delivers a milk cow named Shakira and dictates that the kids protect Shakira and milk her at the appropriate times, things change. These are child soldiers with big guns, after all, and in a moment of sheer youthful stupidity, Dog (Paul Cubides) indiscriminately fires his weapon into the distance and kills the cow. Despondent and fearful of reprisal from The Messenger, the Monos’ group leader commits harikari. The Messenger makes Bigfoot (Moises Arias, a million miles from his role on Hannah Montana) group leader, and he begins running things with wanton ruthlessness. It’s not like the Monos’ lives were all sunshine and peanut butter with their previous leader, but Bigfoot has precisely zero

compassion. After a battle with the government forces the Monos into the jungle, Bigfoot uses the script’s machinations to solidify power, turning members of the group against each other, and he makes cruel demands of each of the characters. It’s here that Monos takes a turn into Lord of the Flies territory and becomes more tedious. We’ve seen the young, hopeless and impressionable fall into darkness before, and we’ve been asked whether killers are born or made. It would be more satisfying if co-writer/director Alejandro Landes had sharper points to make. But if we’re watching a Lord of the Flies retread—complete with pig-head-on-a-stick at one point— then it’s time to nap. If we’re ruminating on the questions of what makes someone become a child soldier in the first place— dead family, abusive family, hatred of the government, rebels-killed-my-family-andkidnapped-me or one of a million other reasons—great. But Monos doesn’t concern itself with larger questions. One could make the argument Landes and co-writer Alexis Dos Santos leave the roots of the Monos’ participation in this civil war arcane so the audience may draw

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Levi’s score. Her music for Jonathan Glazer’s eerie Under the Skin feels positively gleeful by comparison to the synthesizers here that grind out atonal dirges and jungle-like whistles, complete with an underlying and ominous bed of timpani. But in the end, when the Monos splinter into sub-factions, Monos the movie feels like it deserves a big shrug. It isn’t bad—in fact, much of it’s good—but there’s a lot of déjà vu in the script’s well-tread meditations. All the excellent acting, music and camera work isn’t going to fix that. Save yourself the time and trouble and re-watch the 1963 Lord of the Flies or even Apocalypse Now instead. CW

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AD ASTRA BBB Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is recruited into a classified mission to end dangerous energy “surges” coming from a space research station where his father (Tommy Lee Jones) was presumed lost years earlier. There’s a definite Heart of Darkness vibe, complete with voice-over internal monologue, and Pitt’s restrained performance captures a man cut off from his feelings. Yet director/co-writer James Gray also peppers his meditations on isolation with showy set pieces involving attacks by moon pirates and … other unexpected things. As Roy draws closer to a possible family reunion, Gray hones in on the notion that the ideas and philosophies people dedicate themselves to can ultimately distance them from other human beings. Yet Ad Astra struggles to give that thesis the emotional punch Gray clearly wants to deliver. It’s gorgeous, ethereal, occasionally wise, sometimes overly literal, sometimes flat-out silly. (PG-13)—SR AQUARELA BB.5 Director Victor Kossakovsky’s impressionistic, un-narrated documentary doesn’t come up with enough variations on his theme to keep things interesting. The through-line, to the extent that there is one, is the power of water, ranging from the precarious frozen surface of Siberia’s Lake Baikal to a hurricane pummeling

city streets. It’s not as though Kossakovsky doesn’t capture some powerful images, including a darkened ocean surface resembling volcanic rock. He simply sticks with one thing for too long, yielding quickly diminishing returns. The progression of sequences suggests a causal relationship, with rivers rushing through glacial ice giving way to powerful storms, which is a different way of telling the story of climate change. But, there are only so many scenes you can watch of a shrinking glacier, or a tiny boat trying to stay upright, before it’s time to move along. (PG)—SR THE DAY SHALL COME BB.5 Christopher Morris’ aims for the same audacious comedy as his 2010 feature about would-be terrorists Four Lions, but can’t quite find his target. In Miami, self-styled prophet Moses (Marchánt Davis) promotes a patient, non-violent form of black nationalism; a local FBI agent (Anna Kendrick), not yet entirely clear about the threat he doesn’t pose, proposes a sting operation to catch him buying weapons. Morris and co-writer Jesse Armstrong are at their best when capturing law enforcement bureaucracy at its ass-covering, fiefdom-protecting, double-talking worst. But it’s hard to find Moses an object of comedy when it’s clear that he’s an unmedicated schizophrenic, nor is the skewering of trigger-happy cops as potent when they’re dealing with someone who is clearly disturbed. While some punch lines pack a punch, others flop awkwardly at the edge of satire. (NR)—SR DOWNTON ABBEY BB.5 The TV phenomenon comes to the big screen, unlikely to please anyone who isn’t already enamored of the fictional English country manor. The estate, ruled over by the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), is a hotbed of ... niceness. The dowager countess (Maggie Smith) deploys an entertainingly wicked tongue, but the happy servants Know Their Place, positively reveling in servitude. This is fantasy, sure, but do devotees imagine themselves as the clever, resourceful maid (Joanne Froggatt) or dedicated butler (Jim Carter)? No, the fantasy here is reactionary, a hankering for

a world where wealth and privilege are deserved and proper. The plot revolves around a visit from the King (Simon Jones) and Queen (Geraldine James), and the ensuing mild uproar in the household. Even minor bits of intrigue resolve themselves in ways that could not be more contentedly uncomplaining. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson HUSTLERS BBBB This based-on-fact drama—about New York City strippers who conned their clients out of lots of dough—is full of the seductiveness of easy money and the giddiness of getting away with a perfect crime. Screenwriter-director Lorene Scafaria effortlessly wraps us up in charmed complicity with the felonious wrongdoing of veteran stripper Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) and her protégé, Destiny (Constance Wu)—until arrogance, rashness and greed eventually lead to the inevitable downfall. Scafaria weaves sympathy, sensitivity and big-hearted humor into a story that, in the hands of a male filmmaker could have quickly descended into crass exploitation. But Hustlers is never salacious, never sensational. It never reduces these women to nothing more than their bodies, and it knows that what they do is work. It’s the best-ever corrective to the embarrassing cliché about sex workers with hearts of gold. (R)—MAJ JUDY BB.5 Considering how good America is at producing icons worthy of biopic treatment, it’s ironic how bad we are at making biopics. Renée Zellweger stars as Judy Garland during the last year of her life, and the disparity between the quality of her performance and the quality of the movie is particularly stark. The story deals with Judy at a time when she’s still a legend, but a broke one, addicted to pills and alcohol. Nothing in the screenplay is bad per se; there’s just no oomph to it. The plot follows Judy’s ups and downs, victories and setbacks, but the recounting of them is rote. Apart from Zellweger’s work, nothing about the film is noteworthy. As is so often the case, we’re left with a terrific, endearing, pitch-perfect performance trapped in a movie that isn’t nearly worthy of it. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

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