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BRIDGING THE RAINBOW DIVIDE A little-known law places a chilling effect on students and teachers attempting to form extracurricular Gay-Straight Alliances. By Isaiah Poritz

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COVER STORY A CHILLING EFFECT

Inside the archaic law in the way of extracurricular Gay-Straight Alliances.

Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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From covering the inland port’s showiest of protests to profiling a group of men strongly opposed to circumcision, Poritz left his mark in our newsroom during his stint as an editorial intern. “Seeking the truth and holding power to account is a lot more fun with a pinch of alt-weekly flare,” the now news editor of the The Emory Wheel says.

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Tilting at Windmills, Pt. 2

I’m always fascinated by the strange illusory world inhabited by people like [last week’s letter-writer] Michael W. Jarvis. A world with left-wing extremism but no right-wing extremism. A world of heavy social subsidies on the federal, state and local levels addressing numerous issues of a relatively select few, yet a world abjuring the “socialism” of places like Sweden and Switzerland. You know, places with large socialist entities like H&M, Ikea, Electrolux, Husqvarna, huge drug companies and any number of companies producing luxury products. You know, those impoverished countries in Western Europe where all the rich people have inexplicably disappeared of late? A world of debt incurred by one particular party and economic crises created under the

watchful eye of the same, usually handed over to another routinely self-righteously scapegoated party to deal with. A world of selfsufficient people rescued continually throughout history by projects like the Transcontinental Railroad and the policies of the New Deal. A world rightly concerned about families but effectively creating a future which will cause many families on every level hardship. A world where treachery is considered a legitimate political tool. One should not only allude to Cervantes, but actually read him and learn from him about the world of illusion. STEVE IFSHIN, Salt Lake City

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Representation Matters

ADULTS TALKING ABOUT SEX

The Navajo Nation should thank Google—or at least its techs—for coming up with more precise addresses in San Juan County. That’s crucial for voting, not to mention emergency services. Now the county has Plus Codes—addresses for places that previously didn’t have them— because of a partnership with the Rural Utah Project, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. It’s been difficult at best for Native Americans, who had to sue for representation. A federal judge required voting districts to be redrawn because of racial gerrymandering, but there are ongoing lawsuits as the white majority balks. Things have not gone as well for partisan gerrymandering, which the U.S. Supreme Court can’t seem to understand. Still, the voters do, and they continue to fight for fair representation—whether in San Juan County or throughout Utah. Proposition 4 specifies an independent advisory commission to draw districts. We’ll see how the Legislature deals with that.

If you think kids need educating about sexual topics, take a hard look at the adults. Whether they are simply uncomfortable or legitimately fearful of political backlash, adults need to learn how to approach this subject in a positive and realistic way. Askable Adults Matter Training does just that. Targeting adults who work with youth, “participants will learn the realities many youth face today about their sexual health, learn how to handle difficult questions youth have and refer them to trusted sexual health services,” Planned Parenthood’s website says. Don’t go hide in a corner. Planned Parenthood, 345 W. Bearcat Drive, South Salt Lake, 385-232-3895, Friday, Nov. 1, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., $25, bit.ly/2PhM4mh

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We’re not economists, but how exactly does giving poor and middle-income people vouchers solve the affordable housing problem? Isn’t this like shoring up the already high costs? The Trib reported on a legislative plan to help low- and moderate-income residents with their rent in response to a chronic lack of affordable housing and a population boom. A recent op-ed noted that many governments require a maximum ceiling on rent for middle income earners or even rent control. Conservative Utah doesn’t like fiscal mandates, so for at least a little while, we would give some people some money to offset high rents that won’t be coming down any time soon. But how exactly will that bring rents down?

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Maybe you just heard the governor talk about hyper-partisanship and the “bad people on both sides” of the aisle. While this might be a tired trope used by politicians to provide cover for bad actors, there’s some truth to it. Too often, people have stopped listening, and that’s no way to change minds and sway policy. Civil Talk: Messaging to Sway Minds and Votes “teaches community members how to improve their communications to make a difference on issues they care about—including how to disagree and have civil political conversations; how words, messengers and advocacy style matter; and how to communicate with elected officials,” the event’s website says. No matter where—in your community, workplace or family—messaging matters. Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Ste. 2018, Monday, Nov. 4, noon-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/365BJQg

Utah’s Loud Minority

Let this sink in: 90.58% of all Utah residents live in urban areas. So it’s depressing to read a scathing letter from Utah’s rural uber-lords calling on the congressional delegation to resist the impeachment inquiry—and, of course, condemning Democrats. Yes, they actually called President Trump a “true friend” of Utah. Maybe if you consider that he wants off-road vehicles on public lands, which he says ought to be privatized, then it’s all good. The National Park Service did, in fact, rescind the rule allowing ATVs to romp through the wilderness. The rural letter-writers were just giddy that the administration talks to them, particularly about public lands management. “We have an administration that is finally listening to rural America,” Piute County Commissioner Darin Bushman told the Deseret News. Not so much the urban majority.

Join the pros as they discuss what exactly constitutes a “fact.” Is That a Fact? features Fox 13 News’ Ben Winslow, KUER 90.1 FM’s Andrew Becker and The Salt Lake Tribune’s Bethany Rodgers as they discuss what constitutes facts in the news today and how it informs their work. In this information swamp of social media, it’s more important than ever to discern fact from fiction, and learn why news outlets don’t always parrot your personal views. The roundtable takes off right after a matinee of Pioneer Theater Co.’s The Lifespan of a Fact. Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Saturday, Nov. 2, 3:30-4:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/32RtZQ8

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OPINION

Student Loans

One of the big issues in politics right now is the cost of college and student debt. Among the Democrats running for president, some are calling for free college and others are looking to pay off student loans. There is some history on this subject, but there is also some personal history. Loans are something I know too well. When American soldiers came home from World War I, they had a difficult time rejoining their old lives. With so many men returning at once, it was difficult finding a job because factories were cutting production after the war. Many others found their jobs filled by black Americans who moved north during the Great Migration from the South. To help relieve some of the suffering, Congress passed the Bonus Act of 1924, giving soldiers a $1.25 bonus for every day they served. The problem was the payment was deferred to 1945. In the midst of the Great Depression, 15,000 veterans—the so-called “Bonus Army”—marched on Washington, demanding their bonuses. When Congress denied their appeal, most of the “Army” returned home, but those who remained were driven out. President Hoover claimed they had been infiltrated by communists and anarchists. With World War II, Roosevelt wanted to do better for the current soldiers at war and the G.I. Bill was born. Among other things, the G.I. Bill paid for college for returning veterans. For the first time in our nation’s history, working class Americans could afford to attend college. By the mid-1950s into the 1960s, almost half of college students were using the G.I. Bill. In the 1960s came the space race, and the federal government decided we were lagging behind the Russians in school and made education a priority. The National Science Foundation alone gave $500 million to pay for education, especially in STEM fields. Today, higher education is still as important, but also incredibly expensive. It seems as if universities are raising costs each year. There are many reasons for this that

BY JAMES FINCK I do not have time to explore. Some are positive; some are not. Uncle Sam can still foot the bill with the G.I. paying for college if you are willing to serve in the military. But for many low-and middle-class citizens, the cost of college is just not worth the return. One of the problems I see today is the need to attend large state universities. I understand the appeal. I earned my master’s and Ph.D. from such schools and I loved their atmosphere, especially during football season. Yet when I hear complaints about the cost of schools, I question why students are not looking at other options. This is going to seem like an advertisement for my school, but it just happens to be a good example. I know not having a football team in Oklahoma seems like heresy, but I teach at a small public liberal arts university that is much cheaper and has a smaller student body and class sizes. Also, all our classes are taught by professors, not grad students, and we focus on undergraduate research. Yet the large universities are full and turning away students while we have room for more. When it comes to government interference with college, I am of two minds. Free college does not seem fiscally possible for the government. As for loans, when the borrowers took them, they knew they had to pay them back, just like any other transaction. Yet now that I have a senior in high school, I am starting to see the college experience in a different light from my almost 20 years of being a professor. A little personal history: I have a son starting his senior year and, like many of you, is starting the process of applying to colleges. What a pain! My son has autism. He is intelligent and high functioning, but his special needs limit our college options. We need a college near family that also has the program he wants. Although he has three sets of grandparents who each live by small colleges that would work, only the one in Southern Utah has the program. I have three children. I work at an amazing but small university while my wife is a public-school teacher, so basically, I have always told my children they needed to earn scholarships to pay for college. I am lucky to have great kids who take

their schooling seriously. My senior has done everything that could be expected of him, even with difficulties. He has a 4.2 GPA, is a standout on the academic team, takes AP and college classes, and is even an Eagle Scout. I felt we were covered for a smaller regional school like the one in Utah. Yet what I found out is that scholarships are rewarded based solely on his GPA (they only accept up to 4.0) and the dreaded ACT. Again, my son put in due diligence on this test. He took a prep class, had some private tutoring, and did all the online practicing, yet all three times he took the test he did not score high enough. His individual subject scores went up and down, but when he went up in one area, he went down in another. If they took the top scores from each subject (which they don’t), he would receive a full scholarship, but as it stands right now he only qualifies for in-state tuition. He has done everything in his power, everything that can be expected of him. But because of one test, academic scholarships are off the table. This is not meant to be a sob story; my life is no different than most out there who work hard and try to do what’s best for our kids. What it does tell me is that some change is needed. Not sure what those are, but we have to stop weighing down our kids with a financial burden of debt just as they are preparing to start their lives. I am not saying government should take care of everything. There is something to the idea of college students earning their own way and taking matters more seriously if they have a stake. Yet I have also experienced too many good students fall behind or drop out because they were simply working so hard to pay for school that they could not keep up with their academic load. Historically speaking, there are times the government has stepped in to assist or regulate. Maybe now is another time, like the 1940s and 1960s, we can reemphasize the need for education and make some changes. n

James Finck is an associate professor of history at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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Through the Looking Glass

Local witches discuss an occult practice related to Latter-day Saint history.

n a brisk autumn afternoon, sitting under a birch tree on the wooden patio of his magic shop in Taylorsville, Michael Ingleby holds communion with his unconscious mind. Peering through violet-colored contact lenses into the depths of a humongous crystal ball, he makes out a handful of images. There’s a dog. A tower. And a leaf of some sort—not a birch leaf (as you might guess from the scrawny tree behind him), but different, more in the shape of a maple leaf. “I don’t know what the association behind that might be for you, but it’s something else that shows up here,” Ingleby, co-owner of Cat & Cauldron, a metaphysical supply store, tells me. This is just a quick demonstration of Ingleby’s skills as a “scryer”—a practitioner of the occult arts who is able to interpret images and seek meaning through mediums like crystal balls, pools of water, flickering flames and tea leaves. Scrying (the word comes from the Middle English word “descry,” meaning to “catch sight of” or “spy from a distance”) has roots in ancient traditions. But in America, it’s most commonly associated with witchcraft and fortune-telling. Here in Salt Lake, multiple practicing witches offer their services as scryers, peering into crystal balls to offer spiritual guidance by interpreting the images they see. Joseph Smith, prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was also a well-known scryer, using a “seer stone” to translate the Book of Mormon. On another cold evening during the week before Halloween, I step into Crone’s Hollow—a “magical emporium” in South Salt Lake—to see if I can learn a bit more about this mysterious trade. When I inquire about scrying, an employee steps into a back room and summons one of the owners, TaMara Gold, who promptly welcomes me into her office for an interview. Gold has been reading crystal balls

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Michael Ingleby, the “friendly neighborhood witch” of magic shop Cat & Cauldron, tells City Weekly’s fortune on his trademark crystal ball. for 20 years. Every scryer has their own preferred mediums and methods, and she specializes in using a large crystal ball, along with 13 smaller balls (or the “13 sisters,” as she calls them) and a flaming cauldron. “What you have to believe is that the universe offers up to you whatever information you need to know at that time. So, the reader is the conduit for that information,” Gold says in between sips of pumpkin-spice coffee. A witch’s broom rests in the back corner behind her desk. A box of Tarot cards sits on a silver tray, and before her is arranged a pile of tiny animal bones, used in other types of fortune-telling sessions. According to Gold, a good scryer relies on natural clairvoyance and well-practiced interpretation. The craft works similarly to the way someone might study a Rorschach inkblot or “Magic Eye” puzzle, slipping slightly beyond their everyday faculties to channel a deeper awareness. “What you actually see in the ball is reflections and what’s around you. And isn’t that the way with life? Everything we see, everything we perceive, is all about what’s around us and how we view it based on our own filters,” Gold says. “I will ‘see’ things in the ball, and maybe it’s a reflection of this cup, or of that refrigerator. But as I look at it and I unfocus my eyes … something will come out.” As it happens, many pagans, witches, academics and researchers have pointed out that this practice bears more than a faint resemblance to the work of young Joseph Smith. Growing up in the “burned-over district” of western New York—so named for the revivialist religious fervor taking hold in the area at the time—Smith was reputed to be able to discern the location of hidden treasure using

“peep stones” or “seer stones,” which he would read by putting his face into a hat with the stone dropped at the bottom. His scrying efforts got him into legal trouble in 1826. But a couple years later, Smith was said to have used a now-iconic “seer stone” to translate the golden plates given to him by the angel Moroni. LDS historians acknowledge that this is how Smith presented his flock with the Book of Mormon. A photograph of the opaque, layered, browncolored “seer stone” he used is on display at the Church History Museum, across the street from Temple Square. For any doubters, there’s a video on the church’s website featuring two buttoned-up academics seeking to clear up questions about this quirky-sounding practice. “He’s just trying to block out light. That’s the point,” Mark Ashurst-McGee, an official historian for the LDS church, explains in the video—likening Smith’s stone-in-hat translation methods to the way someone would put their hand over their smartphone screen to read a text message on a sunny day. “We believe in a God that can work through small and simple things, and God can speak to Joseph Smith however he wants to,” Ashurst-McGee adds, describing Smith’s use of the seer stone as one of God’s “modern miracles.” Other historians see Smith’s scrying a bit differently. D. Michael Quinn, a renowned scholar of Latter-day Saint history and former BYU professor who was excommunicated from the LDS church in 1993, explores in his exhaustively researched book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View how the Smith family embraced treasure-hunting and occult magic, practices that were popular in America during the 17th and 18th cen-

tury and that informed the church’s early years. The book wasn’t written to discredit Smith or the church. Quinn stresses in the book’s introduction that it’s important to situate the early years of the church in the context of its own time and place. He also makes an effort to untangle the overlap between magic and religion in general—both of which, Quinn writes, “involve supernatural supplication, supernatural coercion, intricate rituals and efforts to understand the otherworldly and ineffable.” Gold, from her professional standpoint, believes some genuine forms of magic did play a role in Smith’s use of seer stones. “I believe that he had some kind of sight,” she says, adding that she considers Smith a “witch” and a “charlatan.” “When he took those stones and put them down into the hat, and put his face down in there, what he was doing was he was shutting out everything else and he was making a connection with those stones. Do I believe he had the sight? Yeah. I mean, I think there was charlatanism mixed in with that. But he had the ability to see things.” At Cat & Cauldron, orange leaves fall into great piles on the patio as Ingleby continues gazing into his crystal ball. He says there isn’t much overlap between his pagan-oriented practices and the LDS church today. However, many of his clients are themselves Latter-day Saints, attending fortune-telling sessions at the shop but also getting up early for church every Sunday. Whatever their spiritual affiliations, Ingleby suspects that humans are often looking for the same answers. “We are all curious—what else is out there?” he says. CW

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ur formidable teenage years are a time when awkwardness and self-discovery collide. Tack on a round-the-clock popularity meter in the shape of social media likes and ever-competitive college acceptance rates, and the modern high school experience just veered from John Hughes to Wes Craven territory. Add to that a sexual identity variable, and the task of Utah teens successfully walking the daunting social tightrope of middle and high school just got considerably harder. Enter the Gay-Straight Alliance (or the less binary Gender–Sexuality Alliance)— safe-space groups by design, wherein students can share experiences and offer each other resources and support. “Research and data are conclusively supporting the importance of having a Gender and Sexuality Alliance or Gay-Straight Alliance (GSAs) in school spaces,” Utah Pride Center Executive Director Rob Moolman said in a summer news release. “These are vital programs in our fight against LGBTQ youth suicide and to the visible mental health support initiatives that schools can provide for their students and queer staff members.” Wanting to create a “safer and kinder Utah school system for our LGBTQ youth and families,” the

Center hosted its first GSA & Educators’ Conference in September. Featuring workshops and panels offered by community members and education professionals, the day-long event sought to create supportive and open school environments for LGBTQ students. Data backs up the Center’s efforts. In its Suicide Prevention Plan for Utah, the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center lists “research-supported initiatives” like GSAs as a protective factor in preventing LGBTQ suicide. But a 12-year-old law is creating a chilling effect on students, teachers and administrators trying to form extracurricular GSAs, according to legal experts, educators and LGBTQ community advocates. Passed by the Legislature

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in 2007, the Student Clubs Act (SCA) imposes an intricate web of regulations on extracurricular clubs in public schools. The 17-page law governs how clubs—everything from Model U.N. to the Frisbee team—are formed, categorized and maintained. Sarah Jones, an English teacher at Centerville Junior High School, is the faculty advisor for the school’s GSA. The group was formed two years ago when a student sought support after coming out as transgender. Since then, Jones has seen the group’s importance swell among some of its at-risk members. “Our principal and vice principal … deal with suicidal ideation all the time,” she says. “We have suicidal kids all the time—we have kids attempt suicide, it’s not a joke. This isn’t something we’re doing to promote for people to be gay, we’re doing this so that kids don’t want to kill themselves.” The daunting sentiment is echoed by Jacob Dunford, chief operating officer at Encircle, a statewide resource center for LGBTQ kids and families. “When you talk to our therapists … suicide isn’t a question. It’s almost like a ‘when,’ not an ‘if,’” he says. Throw in Utah’s historically oppressive views around sexuality and gender-identity, and it’s clear to see why. Although there are no formal statistics, a 2016 paper by Benjamin Knoll, associate professor of politics at Centre College, a liberal arts school in Kentucky, says there’s a link between Latter-day Saints culture and elevated suicide rates among LGBTQ youth. Between 2011 and 2016, the teen suicide rate in Utah doubled—becoming the leading cause of death for that age group. The national rate did not show a similar increase. However, Knoll also compiled evidence suggesting that suicide attempts are drastically reduced when LGBTQ youth live in welcoming environments compared to those who do not.

Acting Up

After-school GSAs are a place where teenagers can discuss their identities, spread awareness and push back against homophobic bullying and intolerance.

One particular clause in the SCA requires that students looking to join an after-school club first notify and receive consent from their parents, meaning that a parent could single handedly prevent their child from joining a club of their choice by refusing to sign a form. According to the law, parents must be aware of the club’s “purpose, goals and activities” in order to give proper consent. And with the LDS faith being omnipresent in a vast majority of Utah households, some LGBTQ students are prohibited from accessing GSA resources for fear of revealing their identity to unaccepting parents. Knoll’s paper finds that family rejection of an LGBTQ teen’s identity leads to an eight-fold risk of a suicide attempt. Megan Marchant was a junior at Viewmont High School in 2018 when she came out to her family and friends. Recognizing that her parents’ acceptance was rare in the highly religious community of Bountiful, Marchant believed it was her responsibility to foster a welcoming community for other gay students who didn’t receive the same support at home. After receiving support from a faculty advisor, Marchant decided in March to form a GSA at Viewmont, the first in the school’s history. Although the deadline to form a new club had already passed, Marchant says her advisor, Jill Jones, emailed the school’s principal indicating student support for the formation of a GSA in the fall. Principal Jason Smith responded the next day explaining that Viewmont only hosts “curricular” after-school clubs—and he’d be unable to approve a GSA. According to the Student Clubs Act, a school has the right to create a “closed forum” for students by allowing curricular clubs only. A curricular club, as defined by the law, is one whose focus is directly related to a subject taught in class. “We already have non-curricular clubs—we have gaming clubs, we have card-game clubs—so I kind of knew it was an excuse,” Marchant says. “So I got my mom involved and we set up an appointment with the principal and he kind of talked himself into a corner … by the end he had given us a club form.”

“I got a message from a girl who had signed up for the club and said, ‘I would really love to come by but if my parents found out I was here, they would kick me out of the house.’” —Viewmont High School GSA founder Megan Marchant

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Congress passed the federal Equal Access Act in 1984 in response to two court rulings that upheld bans on the formation of religious clubs at public schools. The act says that if a public school permits at least one non-curricular club, it cannot deny the formation of any other on the basis of “religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meetings.” While the drafters originally intended for the law to protect Christian groups, it has, ironically, also been used to protect GSAs. In the 1999 federal case, East High Gay/ Straight Alliance v. Board of Education, students attempted to form a GSA, but East High School administrators refused to let the group meet. In order to comply with EA A regulations, the Salt Lake City School District decided to implement an unprecedented ban on all non-curricular high school clubs. However, the plaintiffs argued that the district was still allowing some non-curricular clubs while

Assistant vice principal at Northwest Middle School, Allison Martin, who wrote her master’s thesis about the SCA, says the parental consent forms pose an administrative burden for schools. “On the practical level, it’s just really hard to enforce,” she says. “If I’m the principal of a high school with 3,000 kids, how am I keeping track of who attends what meeting and whether they have permission?” In addition to the parental consent requirement, the law also forbids any club whose subject matter “involves human sexuality,” a description that Martin argues is ambiguous. “That’s one of those really vague sentences that has a chilling effect on adults because we’re so scared of getting in trouble,” she says. “[Club advisors] read that law, they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, we can’t talk about anything related to sexuality,’ and they might shut down conversations that are probably really legal under the most strict interpretation.” However, Kris Glad, the school programs coordinator at the Utah Pride Center, says the SCA’s “human sexuality” clause has never been a burden for Utah students attempt-

explicitly banning the GSAs. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled in favor of the student group, arguing the district violated the EA A by not equally applying the same terms and conditions for all clubs. In a full circle moment, East High played host to September’s GSA & Educators’ Conference. Despite the legal win for GSAs, the practical effects of the parental consent requirements under the 2007 SCA has many legal experts questioning whether the Utah law still violates the EA A and the First Amendment right to freedom of association. In a 2009 law review in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, attorney Keola Whittaker cites legal precedent and case law to argue the SCA, along with a similar law in Georgia, violates the First Amendment based on its “restriction on the freedom to associate.” Chris Buttars, the late Republican state senator from West Jordan who was the Senate sponsor of the SCA, told Deseret News in 2005 his goal was to “ban gay student associations from meeting on public school property.” Buttars died in 2018. Drawing a parallel, Whittaker examines the 1958 Supreme Court case NA ACP v. Alabama, wherein the state of Alabama, seeking to shut down action by the NA ACP, forced the organization to publicly disclose its membership list. This move had the practical effect of discouraging members from continuing to associate with the organization, as many black members feared backlash. The court established a “strict scrutiny” test, wherein the state must provide a “compelling interest” in order to force organizations to disclose membership lists, which they did not. Citing other case law about free speech questions in schools, Whittaker argues that the strict scrutiny test should also be applied to parental consent laws, which are functionally the same as the compelled membership disclosure law in NA ACP v. Alabama. He concludes that Utah lawmakers provided no compelling state interest in justifying the parent consent requirement other than “overt animus towards gay-friendly student groups.” Whittaker concludes his article with a hint of optimism: “Indirect restrictions, such as those now in force in Utah and Georgia, will soon face similar legal challenges.” Still, in the 10 years since Whittaker wrote those words, it seems little has been done to fulfill his prophecy. Leah Farrell, senior staff attorney at ACLU of Utah, predicts a tide of change. She sees parental consent requirements as a sword that cuts both ways. “Maybe a kid wants to join the Young Republicans and they have parents that really don’t like that … they could forbid that student from joining that club,” Farrell says. “This law doesn’t seem to match the goal of why student clubs are around—to create learning and support.” CW

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ing to form a GSA. According to Glad, students have always successfully argued that discussions that occur in GSAs are never explicitly about “engaging in sexual activity,” which is the law’s standard. Martin also notes that the SCA prevents the formation of GSAs in middle schools because it only allows curricular clubs for students who have not yet entered high school. This part of the law isn’t always enforced. Jones, the faculty advisor for the GSA at Centerville Junior High, says the clause preventing non-curricular clubs in middle school has never been enforced there, and wasn’t a barrier to forming the club. Centerville Junior High had many other extracurriculars which did not relate to school courses, such as the manga club or Dungeons & Dragons club. Jones says there was significant pushback from parents and students, but the administration was highly supportive and helped field angry phone calls. Some posters advertising the GSA were even torn down, according to Jones. Juliet Reynolds is the mother of an LGBTQ student at Hillcrest Junior High School who created a club similar to a GSA which met during school hours. Despite a lack of administrative clarity over whether the school could support the non-curricular club, Reynolds’ son argued the school’s chess club was not curricular either. Reynolds says she met with the principal and received support, but felt he wasn’t fully versed on GSAs. “I could tell that the principal … felt awkward, he just didn’t feel comfortable knowing what to say or what to do, but he really supported having diversity,” Reynolds says. “He was for it but I think he was really nervous because of the history that Utah has had with GSAs and being a middle school where I know there are specific restrictions.”

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Smith did not respond to City Weekly’s request for comment. But it didn’t stop there. According to the ACLU of Utah, Viewmont students also sought advice from the organization as well as the Federation of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). In fall 2018, 73 Viewmont students signed up for the newly approved GSA during the school’s club rush event. Weekly attendance dropped to around 15 to 20 students per week, but Marchant was excited about even having a space at school. “Most of the time, we were just hanging out. We had discussions about things in the news, we talked about Pride, we talked about how to come out to your parents, [and] when you should come out,” Marchant says. However, the parental consent requirement under the SCA dissuaded many students from attending GSA meetings. While the principal required the alliance to hand out permission slips for a parent’s signature, the club had difficulty keeping track of them, Marchant admits. The same oversight was common among all other extracurricular clubs at the school, she says. Nonetheless, the permission-slip requirement still made many LGBTQ students uncomfortable. “I think that did make quite a few people nervous … some of them stopped coming and some didn’t come at all,” Marchant says. “I got a message from a girl who had signed up for the club and said, ‘I would really love to come by but if my parents found out I was here, they would kick me out of the house. I don’t graduate for another two years, so I can’t do that yet.’”

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In a time when the phrase “fake news” has become a weapon wielded against journalism, it’s tempting to focus on that idea when considering a play about the facts of a story colliding with the truth of a story. But for cast members of Pioneer Theatre Co.’s production of The Lifespan of a Fact, the issues involved are more complicated than determining what really happened. Adapted from the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact explores events surrounding the publication of writer D’Agata’s essay “What Happens There”—about the culture of suicide in Las Vegas—by The Believer magazine in 2010. Fact-checker Fingal discovered that descriptions in D’Agata’s literary approach to the story didn’t hold up to scrutiny, leading to conflict over whether the work was journalism, or a work of fiction meant to deliver an emotional truth. According to actor John Kroft, who plays Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact is “about the relationship between two ideas of the ‘truth’: what’s accurate and what’s profound. And how do we reconcile these ideas? … D’Agata makes really interesting arguments in interviews he’s given about how essays are an undervalued form, how misleading the genres we currently use are, and how immature the public is still in terms of how they see the relationship between the author and their work.” Ben Cherry, who plays D’Agata, adds, “Essayists are not journalistic reporters of facts, but instead are artists who hold up the mirror to humanity and highlight greater truths .... In journalism, facts are central; in essays, the writer is central.” (Scott Renshaw) The Lifespan of a Fact @ Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Nov. 1-16, dates and times vary, $33-$47, pioneertheatre.org

Modern theater often shares certain truths and insights about our current culture and the tangled trappings of its internal intrigue. John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable is one such work, and An Other Theater Co. deserves credit for recognizing its timeliness and importance. It finds Sister Aloysius voicing her suspicion that the local priest, Father Flynn, might be acting inappropriately with one of his students, and she makes it her mission to uncover the truth. However, when reverence and religion enter the fray, essential facts are difficult to discern. “We live in a world in which the system often tries to shield people from the truth, whatever that may be, and this is exactly the situation Sister Aloysius is working with in the play,” producer and director Taylor Jack Nelson says via email. “We should always believe victims, but how do we function in a world where victims are often discouraged from coming forward?” Fortunately these days, sexual bullying is being called out and its perpetrators held accountable. Doubt: A Parable reflects that determination, and offers an example of its own. People responded by awarding the play the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama, eight Tony award nominations and four Tony wins, including Best Play. Likewise, when the work was adapted for film, it garnered five Academy Award nominations. “Now is the perfect time for Doubt,” Nelson suggests. “How do we reach the truth and protect the vulnerable when we are directly shielded from concrete evidence?” (Lee Zimmerman) Doubt: A Parable @ An Other Theater Co., 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, Nov. 1-23, Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m., $12-$15 presale, $14-$17 day of show, anothertheater.org

There’s a pragmatic goal at the heart of the recent trend by symphony orchestras around the country to perform live accompanying beloved classic films: For some folks, it might be the only time they’d be interested in visiting a symphony hall. If the goal is to introduce a different audience to the majesty of live symphonic music, it’s also worthwhile to make that movie experience family-friendly. And it’s better yet if the movie itself is built on the emotional power of music to connect people. Disney/Pixar’s 2017 feature Coco won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and for Best Original Song (“Remember Me”), and made more than $200 million at the domestic box office. It tells the story of Miguel, a 12-year-old Mexican boy who finds himself on a Día de los Muertos visit to the Land of the Dead. Accompanied by a comical spirit named Hector, Miguel undertakes a journey to understand buried parts of his family history, and perhaps re-connect his family with the music that they have shunned. The timing of Utah Symphony’s performances is no coincidence, of course. This weekend marks part of the multi-day Día de los Muertos celebrated by many Latin American cultures, and provides a perfect cap for the Halloween season. Whether for a chance to see the stunning and colorful Coco on the big screen once again, to appropriately commemorate Día de los Muertos or to experience Michael Giacchino’s glorious score performed by the talented musicians of the Utah Symphony, this is an experience that shouldn’t be missed. (SR) Utah Symphony: Disney/Pixar’s Coco in Concert @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Nov. 1-2, 7 p.m., $20$80, utahsymphony.org

After a full month of Halloween horror happenings, escape into the time warp again for three final showings of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, hosted by the Salt Lake Film Society at the Tower Theatre. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been part of our programming each year for about 19 years now,” says Barb Guy, director of public relations, marketing and communications for SLFS. Follow the adventures of Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon), who are lost in a rainstorm and have to seek shelter in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a bizarre scientist from the planet Transsexual. Through elaborate dancing and singing, the doctor unveils his latest creation, as the newlyweds lose their innocence in a houseful of wild characters. Paired with the screening will be live “shadowcasting” by the Latter-day Transvestites from Out of the Shadows theater group. All ticket prices include a Tranny Pack filled with props, and audience participation is encouraged. Doors open 30 minutes prior for the pre-show. In addition to Halloween, SLFS hosts a special screening with co-star Barry Bostwick on Saturday, Nov. 2. “I can’t tell you the number of people who come up to me and say it was one of the most meaningful—if not the most meaningful—moments in their lives when they first saw that movie and were part of the audience,” Bostwick said to the Press of Atlantic City in 2015. (Colette A. Finney) The Rocky Horror Picture Show @ Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, 801-321-0310, general seating, Oct. 31 @ 8 p.m. and midnight, $20; special showing with Barry Bostwick, Nov. 2, 6:30, $35-$100, 18+, saltlakefilmsociety.org

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What Is a Masterpiece? Artworks on loan to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts allow visitors to consider what earns such a title. BY COLETTE A. FINNEY comments@cityweekly.net @ cooliedance13

ven illustrious museums such as the Louvre in Paris have a tough time defining a “masterpiece,” yet the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) offers visitors a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with exclusive loans from national collections and decide for themselves what deserves the designation. “Conventional thinking tells us that masterpieces are works of art that have received great critical praise,” says Whitney Tassie, UMFA senior curator and curator of modern and contemporary art. “But we must ask whose perspectives, opinions and criteria have been historically valued, and whose voices have not been heard? … Wellknown works of art, or art made by wellknown artists, tend to come with existing reputations. The challenge is to think beyond those hero legends and publicized auction results.” Made possible by two collection-sharing programs, four paintings make a rare appearance this fall at the museum for The Lay of the Land: Landscape Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The collection celebrates the work of notable American artists Thomas Moran (“Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah”), Georgia O’Keeffe (“Manhattan”) and Alma Thomas (“Red Sunset, Old Pond Concerto”). The fourth painting, Diego Rivera’s “La ofrenda,” on loan from Art Bridges, showcases the artist’s skillful depiction of the indigenous traditions of his home region in Mexico in a modernist idiom. Landing loans of this kind can be as much of an achievement as the paintings themselves. According to director of marketing and communications Mindy Wilson, UMFA is one of only five institutions selected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for a five-year partnership. Made possible by a nearly $2-million grant from Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the four cohorts in the partnership are collectively known as the American West Consortium, and includes a two-part exhibition program and professional exchange sessions. However, hanging the valuable masterpieces is even more of a challenge. Besides meeting specific security and environmental conditions, the staff at UMFA typically

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makes digital scale models of the galleries with all the art on view. “The paintings on loan from the Smithsonian require that we unpack and install them with a qualified person from the Smithsonian, who will fly out here to oversee and document our handling of their artworks,” Tassie says. “And this time, we will completely install the galleries with full scale mock-ups of the canvases prior to their arrival. This assures that all the other works and gallery signage are in the right place, so we won’t have to shift anything and the installation of the Smithsonian paintings can be smooth and straightforward.” Still, once those works are installed, there remains the question of how to approach the “masterpiece” designation. Generally, the term is attributed to works given high critical praise—such as those considered the greatest of a person’s career or ones of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship. But with the emergence of new artistic methods, should qualifications for the esteemed title change? Where would the trailblazers of modern art be if they were intimidated by another’s “masterpiece?” For many laypeople, the term “art” itself can evoke images of revered pieces, mostly by long-dead people, chosen by strangers and placed in imposing museums halls. Nevertheless, UMFA’s exhibit is designed to allow visitors to contemplate their own definition of a masterpiece. Considering the significance of great artwork in all forms, you don’t have to be an art major or collector to appreciate it for its form, expression,

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content and meaning. “We are excited to pose this question to our visitors, to get them thinking and talking about what they consider ‘masterpieces’—not only among these special loans and the many treasures in the museum’s own collection, but also among their favorite creations of any kind,” Wilson says. “We’re also inviting folks to share opinions and ideas through the hashtag #umfa_ masterpiece.” Visitors can also check out the UMFA website throughout the run of the exhibition for a variety of related art talks, lectures and art-making experiences “The O’Keeffe is really incredible. It’s towering and dizzying like the city it represents. I think it’s incredibly successful,” Tassie adds. “The Thomas is really special, too. The abstract connection between landscape and music is unique and wonderful.” “The interpretation of ‘masterpiece’ lies in the eye of the beholder,” local artist and instructor Alane Sleight says. “When I get to observe a work that captures my attention and stops me in my tracks, it may not be a work of great prize or merit, but when it speaks to my being, it is a masterpiece.” CW

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Park City-based artist Toni Doilney combines primitivism and expressionism for unique interpretations of scenes ranging from landscapes to domestic interiors (“Yellow House,” 2019, is pictured) in A Sense of Place at “A” Gallery (1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, agalleryonline.com), through Nov. 14.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

The Adams Family Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 16, showtimes vary, hct.org Doubt: A Parable An Other Theater Co., 1200 Town Centre Blvd., Provo, Nov. 1-23, dates and times vary, anothertheatercompany.com (see p. 14) Form of a Girl Unknown Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Nov. 17, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Junie B. Jones: The Musical Scera, 745 S. State, Orem, through Nov. 1, dates and times vary, scera.org The Lifespan of a Fact Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Nov. 1-16, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org (see p. 14) Phantom Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 9, dates and times vary, hct.org Peppa Pig Live! Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Nov. 6, 6 p.m., liveattheeccles.com

DANCE

Ballet West: Ballets Russes Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, through Nov. 2, dates and times vary, balletwest.org Salt Contemporary Dance: When I Am Lost, We Speak in Flowers Regent Street Black Box Theater, 131 S. Main, through Nov. 9, dates vary, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony: Disney/Pixar’s Coco in Concert Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Nov. 1-2, 7 p.m., utahsymphony.org (see p. 14)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Andy Gold Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Nov. 1-2, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Comedy Church with Greg Kyte Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Nov. 3, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Esther Povitsky Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Nov. 1-2, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

Jonnie W Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Nov. 1, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Mike Goodwin Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Nov. 2, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

SPECIAL EVENTS SEASONAL EVENTS

Halloween Storytime! The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 31, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Pumpkin Nights Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, through Nov. 2, 5:30-10:30 p.m., pumpkinnights.com The Rocky Horror Picture Show Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Oct. 31, 8 p.m. and midnight, Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m., saltlakefilmsociety.org (see p. 14)

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Anastasia Bolinder: Skyjump: Book 1 The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 6, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Robin Becker and Natasha Saje Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Nov. 6, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Dick Butler: P-38 Odyssey The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 1, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Tali Nay: Newbie The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 2, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

The Lay of the Land: Landscape Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Oct. 4, umfa.utah.edu (see p. 16) Toni Doilney: A Sense of Place “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Nov. 15, agalleryonline.com (see above)

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cherry pies ($7 each) and … just … whoa. The peach pie, baked with cinnamon and ginger that emphasizes the natural flavors of the peaches within, is a delightful way to end a meal, but that spiced cherry is something else entirely. Where most cherry pies I have known veer into saccharine sweetness, the spiced cherry pie here cranks up the tartness with lemon zest and a few dashes of cayenne and black pepper. It’s tough to make a memorable cherry pie, which is exactly what Tradition has achieved. Tradition’s mission has always been to recreate the kind of food that anyone with a working set of taste buds can relate to, and in that they have succeeded. Their dedication to bygone methods of food preparation and their collaboration with other local vendors makes them well worth a visit. CW

The fried chicken ($22) is one of Tradition’s claims to fame, but I think it overreaches just a tad. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine plate of fried chicken, and its entourage of grits and collard greens provide a nice balance of creamy richness and sharp acidity. The chicken itself is moist, and the crispy exterior is a lovely mix of brown sugar sweetness and cayenne kick, but there was a certain overabundance of flavors that made me think some editing was needed when concocting the batter. There’s a lot of variety on Tradition’s small plates menu, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making it the focal point of your visit. I started with funeral potatoes ($8) because when someone offers you that particular dish in Utah, you accept. All the usual suspects are here—shredded potatoes slathered in melted cheddar cheese and crenulated with corn flakes—but Tradition tops it all with a dollop of bacon jam for good measure. I also tried the pigs in a blanket ($7) made from Beltex sausage and housemade pastry, which I preferred to the potatoes. That sausage pops with smoky flavor, and the dipping mustard was the perfect complement. Wherever your dinner order takes you, make damn sure you save room for some of Tradition’s housemade pie. On my most recent visit, I tried slices of their peach and spiced

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ishes like fried chicken, pigs in a blanket and meatloaf have become darlings of today’s restaurateur, despite the fact that they were conceived under the most humble of circumstances. Tradition (501 E. 900 South, 385-202-7167, traditionslc.com) is one such local establishment that boasts spectacular fried chicken, along with elevated takes on other comfort food classics like cheesy grits and funeral potatoes. It’s a lovely space that combines a hip aesthetic with welcoming service, but is it serving up comfort food that’s worth the extra coinage? That’s the question I always ask myself when I visit places like Tradition. It’s a solid menu, but it also happens to list several dishes that are so ubiquitous within American cuisine that it’s not too difficult to find low-profile joints cooking the same stuff for less dough. What those low-profile joints don’t have—and what is ultimately Tradition’s secret weapon—is a partnership with nearby Beltex Meats (beltexmeats.com). I’ve visited with Beltex owner Dave Grubisa a few times and witnessed his artisan meat-cutting operation and let me tell you, it’s the real deal. Just ask Slow Food Utah, which recently presented Grubisa with a Snail Award for his efforts. Nothing quite shows that a comfort food spot means business more than opening up right next to an acclaimed butcher shop. Tradition’s particular game plan sources local ingredients and uses practices that hearken back to an agricultural system predating fast food and factory farms. Ironically, farming practices that were cheap and commonplace a few hundred years ago are more expensive to sustain today. All of this means that places like Tradition find themselves treading a fine line—the food they want to cook is “simple”, but simple costs a little extra nowadays. To Tradition’s credit, the place offers a lot of bang for your buck. The gnocchi ($18) is a hands-down menu all-star, and a perfect snapshot of the food offered here. Housemade gnocchi is a feat in and of itself, and the bite-sized dumpling pasta is primo. The chewy texture is right where it needs to be, and you can taste the love that went into its creation. The dish could stop right there and be memorable, but the addition of sautéed mushrooms, roasted cauliflower, acorn squash puree and fried fennel is an autumnal wonderland. The gnocchi canvas makes all those harvest veggies sing, and I don’t want to eat anything but this for the rest of the season.

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I’ve resisted the urge to visit Evermore Park (382 S. Evermore Lane, Pleasant Grove, 385-323-5135, evermore.com) for a long time, but a pirate-themed soirée for guests 21-and-over just might have me on the hook. According to the seasonal storyline, the portal to the goth-lite world of Lore disappears on Saturday, Nov. 2, and the pirates that have infiltrated the daily lives of Evermore leave our plane of existence. To celebrate their departure, attendees can participate in the park’s regularly scheduled events along with a catered dinner and a cash bar. It’s as close as we’ll ever get to drinking with pirates, so I guess I’ll be seeing you there. The event takes place from 6 to 11 p.m. and advance tickets can be purchased via Evermore’s website.

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It’s a good day when we can welcome another Venezuelan restaurant to town. Arempa’s (350 S. State, 385-3018905, arempas.com) recently opened in downtown Salt Lake, and I had the opportunity to try out a bit of their menu at Devour Utah’s “Devour the World” event. I’ve extolled my love for Venezuelan arepas and empanadas many times, but having a supply of these Central American delicacies in the downtown area means I can enjoy them much more often. In addition to having all the Venezuelan food that I’ve come to adore, they’re packing something called a patacón—a sandwich that uses fried plantains as the bun. I’m here for that.

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Sunday, Nov. 3, is National Sandwich Day, and Sandy’s Dog Haus (10261 S. State, 801-987-3202, sandy.doghaus.com) is celebrating with the declaration that hot dogs are indeed sandwiches. Dog Haus will donate $1 of every Haus Dog to No Kid Hungry to celebrate its place in the sandwich pantheon on National Sandwich Day. Eating one of their signature hot dogs on Nov. 3 raises a bit of cash for a good cause, and nets you a pretty damn good meal in the process. Quote of the Week: “Heaven? Did you ever hear of any pirates going thither? Give me hell. It’s a merrier place.” —Thomas Sutton Back Burner tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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owe it to these small business owners that have taken care of us to ensure that some conglomerate’s quarterly quotas don’t shutter local mom and pop breweries. Third: Please don’t become a 5.0% alcohol dick. Believe it or not, there are beers out there that are 100% to style at 4.0% and below, and these beers will continue to be made as part of a brewery’s seasonal or primary portfolio. Some social media platforms say a few beer enthusiasts are already pulling out their pitchforks and torches as they set out to crucify any brewery that still has the audaci-

ty to make a “3.2 beer.” Gose biers, Berliners, Lambics, American Lagers and many other beer styles fall within the old line, and some will still be there waiting for you on Nov. 1. Although the landscape is changing, we as beer consumers have the opportunity to drive Utah’s beer drinking culture in the direction that we collectively choose. Will it be a market full of macro and outof-state brands, or will we continue to embrace Utah beer and own it like we would any sports franchise or drum-banging anthem? As always, cheers! CW

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ere we are on the eve of the big switch, when our beloved Utah suds make the move from 4% alcohol by volume (3.2% alcohol by weight) to 5% ABV. A lot of emotion and heartache went into this meager 1% jump in the potency of your beer; many of you have expressed to me that you are fully on board, and that this change is long overdue. I absolutely agree. Eighty-six damn years is a long time to be stuck in that restrictive 3.2 pit, and I know that many of you are eager to crawl up into the sun. As we move into the new era of 5%, I urge you to keep a few things in mind as you head out to vote with your hard-earned dollars. First: We’re about to be inundated with a shitload of new brands and styles, from

breweries with great and not-so-great track records. According to the Brewers Association, more than 6,300 breweries were operating in the United States at the end of 2017. Granted, the majority will not be looking to Utah to sell their suds. However, if even 1% look to add their names to the state’s already growing roster of new domestic and international brands, it would change the local beer-drinking landscape like we’ve never seen. It will be up to you and me to weed out the weak players—to ensure there’s a quality selection on our draft handles and store shelves. Second: Our local breweries will likely take a hit as this beer invasion commences. Since the mid-1980s, Utah’s craft breweries have been providing fresh and unique beer style at a time when other beer producers wanted no part of our state’s weird and peculiar adult beverage practices. Utah currently has 39 individual brew houses (with more due in 2019) that are covering your sudsy needs from every quadrant of the state. You don’t always have to choose our local beers over those from outside our Utah-shaped box, but it’s important to consider the economic impact that breweries contribute to local commerce. Most breweries find their way into various low-rent areas due to land costs and zoning issues. These beer-based businesses have a strong record of reviving long-depressed areas, and often anchor new developments. We

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urt’s Tiki Lounge is the first venue I was ever pissed about not being able to go to when I was underage, and I jonesed to follow my older friends to the last dregs of shows there in summer 2014. By that autumn, it would be closed. My friend Skyler Bush, who’s been in local bands for years, rolls their eyes at the laments I still express over my eternal FOMO for the deceased place at 726 S. State. “It was the most divey bar ever,” they say. The bar, which stank of sewage because of underground pipes, and piss in the maybe-never-cleaned bathrooms, just happened to function as a venue. “It was cozy in a quaint shithole kind of way … Pretty cool for a place that looked like it could all fall apart at any moment,” Bush reminisces. The five-year anniversary of Burt’s closing got me thinking about all the other spots that have fallen apart, too, buckling the way things often do in a precariously small music scene. When Burt’s was alive, despite the shithole factor, the sound at shows was still pretty good, a fact owed to long-time local musicmaker, David Payne, who set up most of the shows. Despite his own self-described dim memory, Payne recalls many details about the once-thriving place, including shows that first occurred on a small downstairs stage under a low ceiling drooping with palm fronds. “I don’t know the reason why it faded … I think rock ’n’ roll died over 10 years or so ago,” Payne remarks, sailing right past the bold statement to go on describing the last days of the place. “In the last two years, it was just about empty, a lot of open nights. I was friends with Greg Hogan and Scott Kerbein, who worked there and booked it. I talked them into letting me have empty nights, to practice Jazz Jagz and Red Bennies—which was taboo, to exploit an empty night like that.” Anyone who’s been to Twilite Lounge knows that the Jazz Jags lives on there—with Payne as the central, original figure—as does the drink imbibed at Burt’s, the “cerebral assassin,” a potion made with Old Crow, a flavor shot of Jagermeister and Red Lion Energy Drink. At Twilite, it’s just well whiskey, Jager and Red Bull. Payne was also around during the days of DV8, a three-story music venue across from the Salt Palace at 60 E. South Temple that opened in 1989. It was shut down in 2004 for fire code violations and in 2008, sadly but ever-so-fittingly, burned to the ground in a massive four-alarm fire. Before its demise, the venue functioned savvily as an all-ages space, with a mezzanine for 21-plus folks to drink alcohol. It’s a setup that Payne describes as looking similar to The Depot, but “smaller and mangier.” It hosted every big name ’90s rocker you can think of: P.J. Harvey, Green Day, Pearl Jam, etc. But Payne most often found himself in the “Dracula’s castle”esque basement where the local shows took place, among spiders and spare concrete. Meanwhile, upstairs, other locals like Greg Wilson were living out the stuff of teen dreams. Wilson accidentally arrived to a su-

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Burt’s Tiki Lounge per-secret AFI concert too late, which resulted in him and some friends bumping into (and palling up with) the band themselves in a deserted café next door, while fans rampaged DV8’s door outside. The band’s drummer, Adam Carson, got the teenagers on the list for the show, which is still one of the best Wilson recalls ever having seen. Youthful enthusiasm, whether actually embodied by a young person or not, is what made venues ranging in size from DV8 and The Zephyr (301 S. West Temple) to smaller spots like Burt’s and other like-minded DIY spots, thrive. The Morroccan, which was a practice space behind Cedars of Lebanon downtown, functioned as a venue for two or three years. It could pack 50 in tight to see local bands like Ether—who practiced there—play with movies projected behind them onto gauze draped from above. This venue—along with other scrappy places—was broken up by cops concerned about the lawlessness of an unofficial all-ages venue. Payne lists off many other such there-and-gone spots: a Provo venue and crashpad called The Warehouse; a punk spot out west called Hate House. Joey Mayes, of local band The Nods, used to run a venue out of a music store in Provo called The Compound, which hosted the likes of Thee Oh Sees and Tacocat, among others. Friends old and young mentioned somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 music venues when I started asking around about these ghosts of SLC past, from established spots like the goth favorite Confetti Club, to the quite-literally-underground punk shows in the basement of Red Light Books, and from the easy-going class of Monk’s House of Jazz to the illicit all-ages romp that was the Speedway Cafe. The dizzying list spans decades, but collectively, it looks like a big loss. The fact that the Jazz Jags brought the “cerebral assassin” to Twilite from Burt’s along with their music is heartening, though. Venues die, and will always die, but music lovers will always find new houses, record stores, bars and whole new venues to move their sets to. That seems to be something we can always rely on. CW

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Ogden has been on the rise for a while, with its creative community overflowing with fresh content, and more places for it to be played. Ahead of the grand opening of new Ogden venue The Monarch on Nov. 1, none other than ’90s and early 2000s staple rapper Biz Markie rolls through on his “He’s Just a Friend Tour,” delivering such hits as the classic, heart-ache-bearing “Just a Friend”—among other picks from his wide oeuvre—to blast Halloween partiers to the past. On this exciting evening of pre-officialopening happenings, Biz Markie is joined by a solid group of Ogden players who are keeping the scene fresh and exciting. Cotes, who only started releasing music in 2018, has dropped multiple releases, mostly oneor two-track singles, plus an EP titled 9711 and his first full-length album, 2019’s Eden. Cotes delivers a clean, easy on the ears hiphop sound with sharp lyrics and dynamic soundscapes, with another album due out on Nov. 11. Fellow opener Earthworm also brings a unique spin on the hip-hop genre that keeps things interesting and versatile. With a lineup featuring these up-and-coming Ogdenites, there will certainly be a taste of the modern underground hip-hop scene. Accompanied by a headliner like Biz Markie, this show is a can’t miss opportunity to see how local hip-hop mixes with the essentials. (Zaina Abujebarah) The Monarch, 455 25th St., Ogden, 8 p.m., $20-$50, all ages, 24tix.com

SATURDAY 11/2 Belinda Carlisle

When you’ve been part of a beloved classic band, it can be challenging trying to break out on your own and attain an equally successful solo career. So, credit Belinda Carlisle for doing exactly that. As lead singer of The Go-Gos—one of the most successful all-

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woman rock groups in history—she was so well-known that any individual effort might have paled by comparison. After all, here was a band that scored multiple hits, sold millions of records and became among the most prominent faces of American New Wave. Consequently, when Carlisle had early solo hits—such as “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Summer Rain”—it was a significant accomplishment. Indeed, while The Go-Gos have reunited on multiple occasions over the past 30 years, she’s never allowed those reunions to diminish her individual efforts. She’s always been something of an insurgent; her first professional gig was playing drums with the punk band Germs under the alias “Dottie Danger.” But these days she uses her energy to advocate for causes that give her passion and purpose— LGBTQ rights, animal rights, vegetarianism and an organization she co-founded called Animal People Alliance, a Calcutta-based nonprofit that trains and employs impoverished women to care for street animals. A past Grammy, Brit and American Music Award nominee, she’s also an acclaimed author thanks to her New York Times bestselling autobiography, Lips Unsealed. Clearly, Belinda’s still got the beat. (Lee Zimmerman) DeJoria Center, 970 N. State Road 32, Kamas, 8 p.m., $70–$125, all ages, dejoriacenter.com

Biz Markie mean guitar to boot. Sweany, who initially gained fame working the festival circuit in the late ’90s, attracted immediate attention from peers like Dan Auerbach, Jimbo Mathus and noted Nashville guitarist Joe V. McMahon. His reputation only accelerated from there, thanks to a musical palette that integrates a variety of sounds with his blues muse. Sweany separates himself from the competition by adding distinct melodies to a decidedly tattered folk-infused sound, allowing the songs to stand out as more than mere fodder infused into any specific style. At times, his vocals are uncommonly reminiscent of Leon Russell, Dr. John or Leon Redbone, artists who honed a downhome delivery hewed in the heartland. Even so, Sweany’s the real deal; there’s no pretense or posturing in his approach. As the rest of the aforementioned lyric suggests, “You don’t have to shout or leap about, you can even play them easy.” Ringo was right, and Sweany is the proof. (LZ) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $17, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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There’s a certain lyric that accompanied a song called “It Don’t Come Easy,” one of the first hits Ringo Starr scored early in his solo career: “Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues, but you know it don’t come easy.” It might seem strange quoting Ringo when talking about a homespun musician like Patrick Sweany, but the fact is, Sweany did pay his dues and he does sing the blues— and he writes terrific songs and plays one

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Yung Bae has been working toward Bae 5 since 2014’s Bae, that fully embraced the mid-decade obsession with vaporwave and anime aesthetic Soundcloud tracks. Instead, Bae 5 moves away from the look of that time to center Yung Bae and brand himself with his music. Gone are the various familiar ’80s anime album art covers in favor of the artist himself, sitting criss-cross-applesauce, smiling at a yellow bird perched happily on his head. The shift seems to be in cosmetic alone: Yung Bae still bops his iconic future funk in a refined package that incorporates the slower tenor of Japanese disco while keeping the BPM high. It’s easily reminiscent of Mariya Takeuchi’s breezy 1984 Variety, but as Bae’s single “Bad Boy,” released earlier this year, demonstrates, the funk ambitions aim for somewhere between American ’70s disco and ’80s Japanese city pop. The resulting combination of strings and synths demands that you dance. And how can you not? Almost every track feels like the song that’ll drag you away from the bar and onto the dance floor. Really, the most challenging part of discussing Yung Bae is resisting the impulse to instead shut up and groove. Opening for Bae is Birocratic, whose own sound also plays in the bloated chill wave space, but stands out for experimenting with more than just bumps, beats and soul samples. With this kind of energy, these artists aren’t anything to chill and study to. (Parker S. Mortensen) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 8 p.m., $15 presale; $17 day of show, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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If you’ve ever wondered “Why are cassette tapes coming back?” you might not be familiar yet with the indie recording label and bedroom-pop community of Orchid Tapes. In the vein of sonic explorers like Brian Eno and Deerhunter, the Orchid Tapes roster is full of artists who make the type of warm, flexible music that complements the pops, hiss and warping sounds common to plastic cassettes. That label was the perfect artistic home for the 2014 debut of (Sandy) Alex G—who back then went simply by Alex G—an artist who has all the appearances and instincts of a bedroom pop slack-rocker but the ambitions of a musical astronaut. While the bedrock of his music is usually nonchalant acoustic strumming, his tracks frequently launch into choirlike arrangements of low-tone fuzz, fiddle and modulators played with a wiggly confidence aimed straight for heaven. One of his most affecting sonic tricks is a granulated vocal effect that first has the dissonant impact of a hyper-pixelated image, but settles like pollen shaking free from a heavy branch. That ear for vulnerable, singular arrangements has led to (Sandy) Alex G collaborating with artists like Frank Ocean and experimental ambient project Oneohtrix Point Never. And three albums after his debut—now on the independent label Domino—(Sandy) Alex G has created House of Sugar, which uses touches of country, noise and cosmic jazz to flavor his most consistent set of dream-pop hymns yet. It’s songwriting that could even sound good on a cassette. He’ll be joined by like-minded, emotive indie acts Tomberlin and Slow Pulp. (Alex Murphy) The Greek Station, 577 W. 200 South, 7 p.m., $17 presale; $20 day of show, all ages, sartainandsaunders.com

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No artist embodies the chasm between the age groups in rap music like Jeffery Lamar Williams, commonly known as Young Thug. As a new artist, he shocked the hip-hop community with things like wearing a dress, trolling other rappers with his album titles, calling his masculine friends pet names and developing a style of music that pushed the barriers of lyricism and voice modulation. Coming up under other barrier-breakers like Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane, Williams placed himself in a unique position to influence the culture after the “bling bling” era became a bit rinsed. Being “young” doesn’t last forever, though, and since rap artists age in dog years, many icons have used the tactic of integrating even younger contributors to keep their music fresh and the fans anticipating more material. Thugger has accomplished this by bringing in Gunna, a hungry new artist who is establishing a name for himself with a smooth style that’s similar to Thugger’s, albeit less edgy. The pair performed the new single “Hot” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 20 amid a cloud of smoke and a marching band, proving that even after seven studio albums, he’s still able to drum up interest from his fanbase. Sadly, Gunna will not be joining Young Thug on his Utah adventure, but openers Machine Gun Kelly, Polo G and Strick fill the void admirably. If you enjoy new music and youthful energy, this show will be “So Much Fun!” (Keith L. McDonald) The Great Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Drive, 7:30 p.m. $45–$50, all ages, thesaltair.com

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the outset, there’s little sense of a genuine darkness that needs to be eradicated through his friendship with Elsa. And Elsa herself, while she gets a bit of an edge that prevents her from simply being the Jewish equivalent of the “magical Negro” trope, hasn’t got much of a purpose beyond helping Jojo grow. Waititi softens homicidal xenophobia into something easier to swallow, in a way that doesn’t allow the scenario’s true horrors to come home to roost. There’s a spark of brilliance behind beginning from the premise that bigotry is rooted in immaturity, but by erasing the grim from this fairy tale, Waititi leaves us with a movie that still has a lot of growing up to do. CW

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already sees Germany losing the war as a foregone conclusion. Weird visual jokes appear at random intervals, including a hat-tip to The Boys from Brazil, alternating with clunky routines like a roomful of people spending an inordinate amount of time exchanging “Heil Hitlers” and a misunderstanding about German shepherds. When it comes to the central relationship between Jojo and Elsa, however, Waititi is pretty earnest. As a director, he has a nice touch with young actors, and he develops a solid chemistry between the talented McKenzie (from Leave No Trace) and first-time screen actor Davis. It’s here that Waititi leans into that fairy-tale allegory, as Jojo attempts to put together a book about Jews based on a combination of his own learned prejudices and deliberate falsehoods manufactured by Elsa just to mock him (e.g., Jews sleep hanging upside-down from ceilings, like bats). Again, in theory, it’s a worthy notion, underlining the preposterousness of the things people believe about The Other in the name of dehumanizing them, even as an actual adult Gestapo agent (Stephen Merchant) chuckles at the young boy’s absurd ideas while observing “it’s funny because it’s true.” Ultimately, though, this is a cocktail of goofy and deadly serious, and Jojo Rabbit just can’t get the balance of ingredients right. Since Jojo himself is such a gentle soul from

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hen you think about it, approaching the learning and un-learning of hate as a kind of fairy tale—the way Taika Waititi does in Jojo Rabbit—isn’t a crazy notion, and might actually be inspired. Because what is bigotry but a form of myth-making, fashioning stereotypes into archetypes for the purpose of attempting to simplify the complexities of life? Of course, it’s a risky business in 2019 telling a story about Nazis that treats them as ridiculous—in the real world, they’re still far too present and dangerous to be dismissed—but that doesn’t mean there’s no way to make it work. Maybe you can craft a “once upon a time” narrative into something that eviscerates the childish ignorance behind racism and anti-Semitism, and makes swastika-clad goons into subjects of muchdeserved scorn. Maybe. But there’s a concept, and then there’s the execution. And Jojo Rabbit cruises along on its tone of blithe silliness for far too long to earn any points for dropping theoretical truth-bombs like “what if you thought you hated someone because of their identity, but then you became friends?” Set in Berlin during the waning weeks of World War II, it follows 10-year-old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis), a would-be Hitler Youth so fired up about the Reich that he sees Adolf himself (played by Waititi) as an imaginary friend. At his initial training camp, however, he’s first mocked for his unwillingness to kill a rabbit—leading to being given the mocking nickname—then wounded and scarred during a drill with grenades. Then, while recovering back at home, he discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a 17-year-old Jewish girl named Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) in a secret room. Will being up-close-and-personal with an actual Jew change Jojo’s mind-set? Before we get to the answer (hint and spoiler alert: yes), there’s plenty of material showcasing the oddball sense of humor Waititi has shown off in features like What We Do in the Shadows and The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and not just in his own bizarre portrayal of Jojo’s faux Führer. Sam Rockwell is on hand as the reluctant commanding officer of the Hitler Youth camp, trying to make the most of his posting when he

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an ugly monster—but only temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede— and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty. Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan describes the magic moment when her muse appears and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.” Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power. Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you. But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authorized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the 11 days and 11 hours before that magic hour, the 11th sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as for the 11 days and 11 hours afterward, the 11th sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween costume suggestion: 11. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the coming months. I think you have the potential to be a flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So let me ask you: what would be your dreamcome-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator or general.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power? If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, right? Each language has a specific structure and a finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider who invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of the only painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What was the secret to his success? “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years. She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, philosophy and mathematics. I propose we make the real Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about you—and show people who you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: your actual authentic self.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh water. They support large, diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, they tend to float. So they carry 90 pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

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Sweet Revenge During the summer of 2018, someone robbed 61-year-old Akio Hatori of Tokyo, Japan, of his bicycle saddle. He was so angered by the theft, he told police, that he decided to become a serial thief himself—until he was caught on surveillance video on Aug. 29 and later arrested. Police searching his home said they found 159 bicycle seats. “I started stealing out of revenge,” Hatori told police, according to Kyoto News. “I wanted others to know the feeling.” Ewwwww! Halloween came a little early to Nick Lestina’s home in Bagley, Iowa. The Lestinas have lived next door to Dahl’s Custom Meat Locker for 10 years without incident, but early in October, they discovered almost five inches of animal blood, fat and bones had flooded their basement. Lestina said it would have risen higher if not for his sump pump. He approached the meat locker next door for help, but, he told WHO TV, “They say it’s not their fault and told me ‘good luck.’” Lestina reached out to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which investigated and found that the business had slaughtered hogs and cattle on Oct. 3 and flushed fluids down the floor drain, which is probably connected with the Lestinas’ drain. The family of seven has had to move out of the home while trying to resolve the cleanup issue. “No one wants to see that, smell that,” Lestina said. “I would’t want that for anybody.”

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Awesome! It was W.C. Fields who said, “Never work with animals or children.” Russian President Vladimir Putin was reminded of that warning on Oct. 14 as he visited King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. The Daily Mail reported that Putin brought along a gyrfalcon named Alpha for the king, and as everyone admired the bird during the ceremonial exchange of gifts, it chose that moment to take aim on the plush royal carpet and, shall we say, leave its mark. Hunting with birds of prey is one of the favorite pastimes of Saudi royalty, and the birds are highly prized.

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Ironies While patrolling a Bath and Body Works store in Waukesha, Wis., an unnamed security guard let the boredom get to him. Around 2 a.m. on Oct. 11, he slipped his handcuffs on—then realized he’d left the keys at home. Forced to call police, who responded and freed him from his restraints, the bored guard then hid the cuffs from himself so he wouldn’t be tempted to put them on again. According to WDJT, he told police it wasn’t the first time he had handcuffed himself without having the keys.

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I’d Walk a Mile ... or 350 Tommy Lee Jenkins, 32, recently moved away from Oshkosh, Wis., to Whitestown, Ind., but on Oct. 1, he struck up an online relationship with “Kylee,” a supposed 14-year-old girl in Neenah, Wis., according to the Justice Department. As their correspondence progressed, he requested sexually explicit photos of Kylee and made plans to engage in sexual behavior, court documents said, but when Kylee refused to come to Indiana, Jenkins set out toward Neenah—on foot. The Oshkosh Northwestern reported that waiting for him at the end of his 371-mile trek were Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies (one of whom was “Kylee”) and FBI agents, who arrested him for using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Jenkins faced other child sexual assault charges in 2011 and 2012 and had been sentenced to probation.

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