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N W Why the in-limbo Equal Rights Amendment is now more important than ever. BY KATHARINE BIELE

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CWCONTENTS COVER STORY ERA IS A-OK

In a historic move, Utah could be the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. But will it? Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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Cover story A City Weekly contributor since 1992, Biele is the informed voice behind our Hits & Misses and Citizen Revolt columns. When not writing, you can catch her working to empower voters and defend democracy alongside the League of Women Voters.

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Cover story, Jan. 2, “Happy Brew Year”

“Under the guidance of head brewer Nils Imboden, Wasatch offers styles of lagers and ales that are as tasty as they are diverse. Imboden’s enthusiasm has been catching the eye of thirsty beer nerds!” Thanks, City Weekly! WASATCH BREWERY Via Twitter Thanks for the thoughtful mention Utah Beer Blog in this week’s issue of City Weekly. Twelve local breweries to watch in 2020. We are prepping our brewhouse and tanks right now to start brewing Monday. In the meantime come in for collaboration beers, great food and a mellow atmosphere. BEWILDER BREWING CO. Via Instagram

News, Jan. 2, “Van Life”

Is this person, and others doing this, actually hurting anyone? I don’t think so. If people don’t like it, maybe we should be working together to make housing more affordable, or pay livable wages, or make college more affordable. Or all of those things. Until then, people will do what they need to do to survive. CODY JOHNSON Via Facebook We were just talking about this (mostly joking, but not) for our daughter, and her plans as she heads out of state next year for an expensive education, including housing on top of that with an amazing scholarship. RAKEL MARIE Via Facebook Isn’t this just called being “homeless”? CORBAN ANDERSON Via Facebook Depends on what you qualify as a home. If you mean you have to have a stationary brick and mortar, then

yes. However, would you consider a retired couple living out of an RV and traveling homeless? Likely not. There is a growing number of people who want the freedom from rent or mortgage and set up their van as a tiny home. I live downtown, and there’s a ton of these with solar panels, tiny kitchen and some with full bathrooms parked on the streets. JENNIFER GUEST BILLINGSLEY Via Facebook Nomadic is when you travel around to many places. This student don’t [sic] have my sympathy for squatting in our forests. MANNIE LUGO Via Facebook Apartments are $900 a month plus deposits. Some want last month’s rent plus utilities and internet … living in a van with no place to park it because that can cost money is not the solution to the housing crisis … renting a room is up to $550 plus deposit … employers complete background checks and if you are living in a van without an address, you cannot have a job. CHRISTINE COHEN Via Facebook

Online news post, Jan. 6, “A New Path: Mayor Erin Mendenhall calls for unity in her swearing-in”

I think you mean, make way for the inland port! ERIN BAIN Via Facebook

Thank God. Anyone is better than Biskupski. JAMES DEE Via Facebook

Online news post, Jan. 4, “Cox Rocks: Lt. Gov. (and his band) kick off signature-gathering initiative”

Rock out with his Cox out. VIRGIL GLASS Via Twitter “If you donate a lot of money, we’ll stop playing”

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My Body, My Choice

I am writing regarding Sen. Mike Lee’s signature on the brief asking the Supreme Court to once again review Roe v. Wade. His decision to do so is extremely disappointing, as it takes fundamental health care out of the hands of women who need it. It is my body, to do with as I see fit; I am not a human incubator. I am a flesh and blood woman with a full, complex life (as opposed to the potential for life which you and your colleagues so ravenously fight for). His religious beliefs and values do not trump my bodily autonomy. He is giving more rights to corpses (who cannot have vital organs taken from their body without prior consent) than he is to women. It is shameful. CARLY GUSTAVESON, Salt Lake City

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Seeing Red

Around the country and the world, people are mobilizing for menstrual equity. Central to the policy agenda: accessible and affordable period products for everyone who needs them. As legislative interventions gain traction, advocates are also readying legal arguments to challenge unfair policies. Constitutional law scholar and dean of University of California-Berkeley Law Erwin Chemerinsky recently coauthored a Los Angeles Times op-ed proposing that the failure of states to exempt menstrual products from sales tax—the tampon tax—amounts to denial of equal protection under the Constitution. In forging these claims, a question emerges: How can we recognize that barriers to menstrual access are a form of sex discrimination without erasing the lived experiences of trans men and non-binary people who menstruate, as well as women who don’t? Some arguments that challenge discriminatory laws based on sex-linked characteristics have made the point that “only women” menstruate, get pregnant, or breastfeed. But that is not a full or accurate portrayal—and menstrual stigma and period poverty can hit trans and non-binary people particularly hard: Trans people are three times as likely to be unemployed and more than twice as likely to be living in poverty as the general population. Those who are disabled, people of color, or undocumented immigrants are especially likely to be unemployed and living in poverty. While free menstrual products are not uniformly provided in women’s restrooms, they are almost never available in men’s restrooms, even for pay. Men’s restrooms are also less likely to have a place to dispose of these products conveniently, privately and hygienically.

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF AND GABRIEL ARKLES Similarly, women’s homeless shelters sometimes provide menstrual products, but men’s typically don’t. Some domestic violence shelters exclude trans and non-binary people—even though more than half have experienced intimate partner violence. Those shelters often provide a variety of types of support, including access to menstrual products for those who need them. While access to menstrual products in women’s prisons is often inadequate, it is far worse in men’s prisons. Trans and non-binary people might be incarcerated in either. Menstruation is not the only reason trans and non-binary people might need menstrual products. Trans women and non-binary people might also need pads and liners for months after vaginoplasty, and occasionally at other times. Some who take estrogen also experience period symptoms such as pain and nausea and might need medication to manage these symptoms. Those who experience endometriosis or adenomyosis, conditions that can cause continuous heavy bleeding, often face barriers to treatment, as well as an ongoing and often unmet need for pads and tampons. Simply stated: because limited access to and the cost of menstrual products can hit trans and non-binary communities especially hard, as a matter of policy, a holistic agenda for menstrual equity and access must include trans people. (We have a Menstrual Equity Toolkit for those interested in how to create one.) But what about in the court of law? The constitutional argument is straightforward. Any law that targets one sex—or one race, or one religion—is inherently discriminatory. In the context of the tampon tax, for example, Chemerinsky harkened to a famous remark by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that a tax on yarmulkes is a tax on Jews. By analogy, a tax on menstrual products is a tax on women—even though not all women menstruate, and some men and non-binary people do.

Legally, the focus is on the intention behind the action. Targeting something associated with one group can show intent. This doesn’t require that all or only people from the targeted group do the activity. Take yarmulkes again. Not all Jewish people wear yarmulkes, and some people who aren’t Jewish do wear yarmulkes (for example, if attending a Jewish religious service). Still, if a legislature decided to tax people for wearing yarmulkes, or to impose sales tax on yarmulkes but not similar items, that would be anti-Semitism, and it would violate the constitution. Similarly, imposing a sales tax on menstrual products but not similar items is sexist, and violates the constitution. Discrimination is illegal even when it affects members of multiple groups. Feminist scholars have long pointed out that sexism can harm people other than women. For example, Paula England has pointed out the tendency to devalue labor traditionally done by women, even when it is done by men. Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously challenged a rule that denied widowed fathers benefits that widowed mothers received. The rule discriminated against women workers, who couldn’t earn the same benefits for their families that men did, and against men who wanted the opportunity to care for their children. We don’t need to erase trans or non-binary people to show that barriers to menstrual equity, such as the tax on menstrual products, are unconstitutional sex discrimination. This tax targets a bodily function associated with women for less favorable treatment. It relies on sexist ideas that women’s needs are frivolous and unnecessary. It is irrational, and it directly affects cis and trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people. It’s unfair, unconstitutional and illegal. n

Gabriel Arkles is the senior staff attorney for the ACLU. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is the co-founder of Period Equity, the nation’s first law and policy organization fighting for menstrual equity.

HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

A Show of ‘Emotion’

Here’s a message loud and clear for the Legislature. Your constituents don’t like what you’re doing. Let’s look at the ballot initiative and referendum process and how much people hate the new tax reform law. Referendums are alive and well despite the Legislature doing everything possible to make it almost impossible for the public to speak its mind. Gathering some 117,000 signatures in at least 15 of the state’s 29 counties is no small task. When Harmons Grocery offered its locations for signature gathering, Gov. Gary Herbert called them out, saying their objection was based on emotion, not facts, a Salt Lake Tribune article said. Other grocers then lined up in a show of “emotion.” And the PTA has since joined in with polls showing two-thirds of Utahns want it repealed. Two provisions are at issue—raising the sales tax on food and changing how education is funded.

He Said What?

It happens every year, mostly during the interminable inversions—and the Legislature seemingly drags its feet. Make Utah Breathable! Storm the Capitol is this year’s attempt to get their attention. Clean air advocates, indigenous leaders, and local food advocates will rally for a healthier environment. Groups will speak on their legislative efforts in the upcoming session. It’s crucial that the state take action considering President Trump’s ill-advised rollbacks of environmental laws. State Capitol, 350 N. State, Friday, Jan. 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/2sUnFKX

MLK WEEK RALLY & MARCH

Fear. It’s a great motivator and a source of paralysis. “In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others who chose to vacate their comfort zones and stand for a cause, this year’s MLK Week challenges us to redefine the definition of fear and its role in the fight for freedom and equality,” the website for MLK Week Rally & March says. “This year’s theme will challenge you to redefine, persevere and overcome the urge to fear everything and run, but rather face everything and rise.” The rally and march are a means of commemorating King’s legacy as well as the work of countless Civil Rights-era activists. East High School, 840 S. 1300 East, Monday, Jan. 20, rally/2:30 p.m., March to Kingsbury Hall/3 p.m., free, bit.ly/2FxIGh0

ROOTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM

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White nationalists and neo-Nazis: They didn’t just appear after 2016. There is a long and painful history of anti-Semitism in the world and in the U.S. All the president has done is create division by attempting to “solve” the situation in public colleges and conflate being Jewish with being Israeli. At Anti-Semitism, Past and Present, you hear Rabbi Sam Spector from Congregation Kol Ami explain the history and origins of different types of anti-Semitism. You will see anti-Semitism in a modern context and better understand what’s happening now. Jewish Community Center, 2 N. Medical Drive, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 6:30-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2tIA9Fm

For those who fanaticized that Sen. Mike Lee had seen the messiah’s halo fade around the head of President Donald Trump, sorry. Lee is a politician of a different cloth, a wily, libertarian-leaning attorney who knows how to play the odds. Yes, he railed on national TV about how bad the “briefing” on Iran was, but let’s just stop there. Business Insider noted how Lee backtracked within hours to say how perfect the president is. That, of course, is Trump’s word, but Lee “quite likes him.” If we want to get into how progressive Lee is, just look at his latest legislation saying abortion is not health care. Pregnant women should be ignored, or at least forced to surrender their wombs because “Americans—especially those in the womb—deserve better,” he said.

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Lee’s ‘Perfect’ Prez

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Slavery? Infanticide? Really? That’s what we heard out of two gubernatorial candidate forums for Republicans, one by the Utah Eagle Forum and the other by the St. George Area Economic Development. While everyone knows that Democrats have no chance in hell of being elected statewide, two Trib stories just underlined that fact. Oh, and they also highlighted the extraordinary and curious influence of those Eagle women, not to mention rural Utah, which enjoys outsized power due to gerrymandering. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was happy to say that abortion would one day be viewed how slavery is now. And former House Speaker Greg Hughes said it’s important to push back against liberal efforts to advance “infanticide.” We get that this is an emotional issue, but it should also be based on facts. Hyperbole, apparently, wins the day.

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Two newly elected councilmembers share their hopes for SLC’s future. BY RAY HOWZE rhowze@cityweekly.net @rayhowze1

ast week, the city not only welcomed newly elected Mayor Erin Mendenhall into office, but two new councilmembers—District 4’s Ana Valdemoros and District 6’s Dan Dugan. Valdemoros was first selected to fill the vacancy left by Sen. Derek Kitchen when he jetted off to the Legislature. She’s been serving on the council since last summer, but still had to run in the November election. Dugan, meanwhile, is new to the council and narrowly defeated incumbent Charlie Luke in the District 6 race. As for District 5—the seat vacated by Mendenhall—the city has taken applications and will soon interview candidates. City Weekly had a chance to speak with the council’s newcomers recently and ask them about their hopes with Salt Lake City’s new regime.

ANA VALDEMOROS

CW: You already spent some time on the council, what from that short time will help you now that your term officially begins? AV: I feel slightly more ready and it’s starting to come together. Having this year under my belt has taught me more about politics and a little about negotiation and the incredible amount of work that goes behind every policy, every role and every budget. I probably wasn’t aware of it before. It’s a difficult thing. What are some issues you’ve been trying to help solve that you might not have been paying attention to before joining the council? I was interested in what was going to happen around the new [homeless] resource centers, especially in my district. I had been to community councils and there were legitimate concerns because we didn’t know what was happening. I’m an optimist and thought things will be fine. But I wanted to help the host neighborhoods that have the resource centers in them, especially the neighbors around them. They didn’t know what was going to happen, if there were going to be activities going on that were undesirable. So the council and I worked on additional grant funding for programs to help the houses surrounding the resource centers. Some of them are older homes. They could do improvements, install energy efficient windows … As a sign that we

CIT Y GOVERNMENT care and we’re trying to improve a neighborhood, I thought the addition of an HRC [homeless resource center] would be great, so why not help the neighborhood that is worried about it? You’re from Argentina, did you ever envision yourself sitting on a metro city council while moving here? No, not at all. I was interested in politics in general. My family in Argentina breathes politics all day long every day. The news is all about politics, in the morning on the radio, lunchtime and at night on TV. That’s how I grew up. I would always read the newspapers and listen to the radio to see what’s going on nationally and internationally. But I never really aspired to be a politician. When the opportunity presented itself, I thought if I could help another person in tweaking some policies at the city level, why not? What was the significance to you of giving your post-swearing-in speech in Spanish first? I want to stress to those minority communities that haven’t been engaged before, that somebody now that looks like them and speaks their language is up in a leadership position and they can do it, too. And they can get involved, even if they don’t want to be in politics, they can be more civically engaged than before. Here we are talking the same language and we can talk about the concerns in the neighborhood … Now here I am to say, ‘We can be involved, productive and collaborative and add to our community.’ I think it was important for people to know, ‘Oh, someone speaks Spanish at city hall?’ How do you think working with the new mayor and her staff will go? Just the fact that we had her informally promise that she will show up to work sessions [laughs]. We said your attendance doesn’t have to be 100% but make it at least 50%. We want to understand her stuff for certain proposals on budget issues, right? So stuff will come up and we want to hear her perspective and want to hear why that is a good idea or if we have different ideas, we want to share that with her, instead of putting staff in a tough position. I think we’re turning a new leaf and I think there’s momentum and I think staff in general is feeling optimistic. What’s your hope for what happens with the groups that don’t agree with steps the council takes regarding housing and homelessness? We literally care as much for our city as anybody else out there. We’re very passionate, and I think both sides, we’re kind of fighting for the same thing but looking at it from a different perspective. I would love to continue the conversation and gear all that passion the opposition has in an effective way on how to change policy. We can have some roundtables where we can bounce ideas off of each other instead of imposing ideas on each other. We all ought

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NEWS The New Regime

District 4 Councilwoman Ana Valdemoros, pictured, and District 6 Councilman Dan Dugan officially started their terms on the city council earlier this month. to understand that none of us will get everything that we want exactly how we envision things. But it’s important to recognize the efforts and the passion and work that go behind these decisions from both sides.

DAN DUGAN

CW: You’ve mentioned the climate and air quality a lot in your campaign and swearing-in ceremony, what is it about those that make it so important to you? DD: I’ve been in SLC now for over 15 years. I came here for the mountains and outdoors—it’s a big deal. I’ve also played lacrosse and spent a lot of time outside and it’s depressing in the wintertime when you go up to Alta and see the smog. This isn’t good and we need to do something about it. [Clean air is] a necessity for a good quality of life and has always been a passion of mine … As I said when I was knocking on doors, I never would have dreamed I would be doing that last April or early May. The inland port and how that evolves kind of made me decide to step in and say we need to fight a little bit harder for our quality of air and quality of life. What else do you want to help solve with the city during your term? As far as District 6 is concerned, Foothill Boulevard traffic. I think between 80 and 100,000 cars use that road a day. It’s a state road so that makes it a little more of a challenge. That really is important to me and my district because it goes right to the district and we have to fight that every day. Of course, there’s always safety, maintenance of the water system and roads is always high on everybody’s list. What are some challenges you think you and the council will have this year? My first challenge is just understanding the whole system and how things progress. Getting in the system, compromising, ne-

gotiating, realizing that governments and entities do move slower because we have so many constituents and people to work with. I’m very excited about working with the council because they’re a great group of people. I think that’s going to be a great relationship. I think both sides are wonderful and I think we have a good opportunity to create a good future.

How has it been working with the new mayor and her staff ? It’s got off to a great start. Having the mayor as a former councilmember, I think the council understands her very well. Before the inauguration, we sat down one-on-one just getting to know each other.

There have been disruptions at council meetings regarding housing and homelessness, how ready do you think the city council is now to handle those? I applaud the mayor working with the state and the county on trying to rectify the issues. They’re not easy issues to solve and I will do my part as much as I can to help out there. I’m looking at the mayor and she’s got her eye on this target and focused on solving these problems. She wants to have a good approach working alongside the county and the state. It’s not only a citywide problem, but a nationwide problem.

What kind of reception and topics have you heard from residents so far? It’s been a positive response. I went to my first community council meeting as an elected official the other night, and I think we spent a whole hour talking about traffic. It was a passion of mine. I have some future meetings with staff to see how we can rectify the problem and see how we can come up with some solutions. CW Editor’s note: Interviews were edited for clarity and length.

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Why the in-limbo Equal Rights Amendment is now more important than ever. BY KATHARINE BIELE comments@cityweekly.net @kathybiele

Because of that, former Utah Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, thinks it’s dead in the water. Take his nondiscrimination bill from 2013 and 2014. “There were representatives and senators who would have taken a bullet before they voted for that because of what their God wanted,” Urquhart, a nonpracticing Mormon who is a fierce critic of church political interference, says. “Then in 2015, their leadership told them to vote for it and they were elbowing each other out of the way—you saw the numbers.” Indeed, it passed 65-10. His bill covered fair practices in housing and employment based on gender identity and sexual orientation, and it was widely heralded nationwide as a “breakthrough in balancing rights and religious freedom,” according to The New York Times. But the ERA? That’s another thing altogether.

Oh, Gayle No!

Enter Gayle Ruzicka, let’s call her Karen Shepherd’s polar opposite. Ruzicka, as head of the Utah Eagle Forum, is a major force at the Legislature and probably the single greatest influencer of conservative morality behind the LDS church. “Nothing has changed in terms of the ERA 40 years ago and today, and I don’t want either of them,” she tells City Weekly. Back then, people were looking at the ERA, asking about it and waiting to hear from the LDS church. It was at church where Ruzicka first heard the name Phyllis Schlafly. She was instantly inspired, looked her up and determined to follow in her footsteps. In Utah, Ruzicka might have surpassed Schlafly in reputation and influence, and lawmakers are loath to defy her. “The church speaks out on a lot of things— marijuana, conversion therapy, anti-dis-

crimination,” Ruzicka says. “But the ERA is not good for women absolutely and not good for unborn babies.” Last December, Utah ERA advocates rallied at the Capitol to announce Kwan’s resolution. On the east steps behind them stood Ruzicka’s minions in bright yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Unborn Babies.” “We have just been notified that there will be a pro-ERA rally at the Capitol,” they wrote in four-page list of talking points. “The U.S. House of Rep. has already passed a bill through the judiciary committee to repeal the ERA sunset … This would be a huge threat to the roles of motherhood and the family.” So, here are the reasons they violently oppose the ERA, starting with, “This would lead to gender erasure”: n Harm to unborn children n Harm to women “It says men and women are exactly the same and we’re not,” Ruzicka says. “Men can’t have babies. What about children in the home? One parent or another stays home with the children. I still get to share in my husband’s Social Security. If I couldn’t, then all my years staying at home with the children, I’d end up with nothing. “What about the draft? If we go to war, if they can draft women, it’s putting them on the front lines … How would it be to have women on the front lines? It’s the nature of men to be protective of women. “Motherhood needs some protection. Children need some protection.” Of course, abortion is the overriding issue here—that, and a future of mandated samesex bathrooms. Workplace accommodations for pregnant and nursing women would be overturned as would state labor laws that protect women who do heavy, manual work, the Eagle Forum says.

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othing has changed. “While the enactment or rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment must be accomplished by recognized political processes, we are convinced that because of its predictable results, the matter is basically a moral rather than a political issue; and because of our serious concern over these moral implications, we have spoken against ratification, and without equivocation do so again.” And they did. That quote was from Spencer W. Kimball, the 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—in 1980. Today? “The church’s position on this issue has been consistent for more than 40 years,” church spokesman Doug Andersen told The Salt Lake Tribune last month. Former U.S. Rep. Karen Shepherd, DUtah, the state’s quintessential feminist, agrees. Nothing has changed. But that nothing is different. “Here, we have a significant wage gap [in Utah, it is the same as it was 30 years ago] and women are grossly underrepresented in Congress and in all the legislatures in the nation,” Shepherd says. “And our children are often simply uncared for because their parents work, child care is too expensive, and they have to fend for themselves.” Utah is in the unique position of becoming the 38th state to ratify the ERA, embedding this simple statement in the U.S. Constitution: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring House Joint Resolution 7, which would ratify the ERA, in this year’s Legislature, and hoping against hope for a Senate Republican co-sponsor. What are the odds? That depends, maybe on church influence. Utah Policy came out with a Y2 Analytics poll earlier this month that shows nearly three-quarters of Utahns favor passing the ER A. And 48% of them strongly favor ratification. That gives some cover to Mormon legislators, although there’s that other factor—LDS influence.

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There are lots of other things that would happen if the ERA passes, she says, because it “says men and women are exactly the same. There’s nothing in federal law that says men and women are exactly the same.” But that’s not really what it’s about. Equality is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.” The question is whether equal rights would force someone to do exactly what someone else is doing. “Most things Gayle says are incorrect,” Urquhart tells City Weekly. “If her side loses, then the earth will tilt on its axis, careen into the sun and everything will die. Her histrionics on this are expected and also to be dismissed. It’s all nonsense. … It’s amazing how quickly she can move any issues to bathrooms and how we will corrupt the youth.” Urquhart became a believer when his daughter joined a high school gay-straight alliance, but it was more than that. It was by virtue of his three daughters, his wife and “how society treats them.” Men tend to be dismissive of women, he says. “My wife is easily twice as competent as I am and that’s not just false humility. I’m a man. I’m loud and forceful. To women, all these men say, well that’s cute. “I told my son, men, we’ve had a great run, just a phenomenal run for millennia. It’s time for the women to take over. I don’t’ need to mansplain this to you.”

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Sara Vranes came to feminism at 10 years old via a tree house. “I have been someone who stood up for underdogs in elementary school. It didn’t make sense to me that my brothers wouldn’t let me play in the tree house. I helped build it,” she says. That was when she realized she

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In its first year, the ERA garnered 22 of the necessary 38 state ratifications, but then things slowed down. By 1976, there were none and in 1980, the Republican Party stripped support of the ERA from its platform. You could call the ERA the Little Engine That Could. It was reintroduced in Congress in 1982 and has been reintroduced before every session since then. Same for the Utah Legislature, though it consistently fails to get out of the Rules Committee. The Congressional Research Service summed up the opposition as rejecting the example of the 27th Amendment. That amendment, dealing with pay raises for Congress, took 203 years to get ratified, but it

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never had a time limit set like the ERA. The legal arguments persist as opponents point to states that rescinded their approval. But the U.S. Supreme Court has never weighed in on the legality of rescissions. Of course, the Trump administration has. The Justice Department, in a memo from Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, says the ERA is toast. Amy Rich, co-founder of Fair Utah, heard about it in a nose-thumbing text from an LDS church lobbyist. So there, you uppity women! Not so fast. Rich was like many Utah women and many women across the nation, who thought the ERA had already passed—long ago. She had been working with a friend in another organization, trying to help women in crisis when she learned that the ERA was still hanging out there. “My business partner is about 20 years older than I and she fought against [the ERA],” Rich says. “She was told it would destroy the family, so she was convinced and worried. … It was women against women and then they felt they had to bury that history to cope with it. It was kind of a dark period of their lives.” While that business partner now supports the ERA, many women are still confused. Part of the confusion in Utah comes from the state Constitution. Kwan, in fact, passed the “Joint Resolution Reaffirming the Value of Women” last year. Probably in anticipation of her ERA resolution, the bill noted that the “Utah Constitution, adopted in 1895, states: ‘The rights of citizens of the State of Utah to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this state shall enjoy equally all civil, political and religious rights and privileges,’” and how when Utah joined the nation in 1896, it was the third state to include women’s voting rights in its constitution.

was very blatant; some of it was very quiet … but it was there. “It isn’t about bathrooms, it isn’t about women in the military, it’s about rights—about human rights for women,” Fisher continues. What about unintended consequences? The ERA opposition worries about that, and of course, the definition of “sex.” Language apparently matters most when you try to define that. “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has never declared that sex was a suspect classification,” former Utah Chief Justice Christine said at a recent meeting of the Democratic Women’s Club. “To this day, sex has a different standard for reviewing discrimination on the basis of sex than does race.” Durham debated the ERA against Rex Lee, BYU’s 10th president, at that Salt Palace conference, and it was not pretty. “I don’t think I’ve ever been booed by 6,000 people,” she said at the time. It was all so simple. The ERA was marching toward passage—until it wasn’t.

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was the underdog. “I have the nicest brothers, but it was my first touch with injustice.” Vranes is a lifelong member of the LDS church and is one of the national organizers of resurrected Mormons for the ERA. The nonprofit group was started in 1978 under the leadership of its first president, Sonia Johnson, who was famously excommunicated from the church after publicly clashing with then-Sen. Orrin Hatch over the amendment and the church’s opposition to it. Despite a congressional extension to the ERA ratification deadline, Mormons for the ERA began to lose energy and funds, all but dissolving by 1987. Church muscle had everything to do with it. Utah Public Radio recalled those times: “When the International Women’s Year convention came to Utah in 1977, the church mobilized more than 10,000 Mormon women to crash the event and vote against the resolution for the ERA. By 1982, when time was up to pass the ERA, 15 states had voted it down, including Utah. It was three states short of passing.” Irene Fisher, founding director of the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center at the University of Utah, remembers seeing them stream into the Salt Palace behind their bishops. It was a stunning show of theologicalpolitical force. “My own legislator said, ‘I don’t want to take the pedestal out from below my wife; I worship her,’ and then voted against the Equal Rights Amendment,” Fisher, who worked tirelessly on the ERA during the years that the Equal Rights Coalition existed, says. “The biggest thing for me that came out of the equal rights era was understanding discrimination. [When] we started on the Equal Rights Amendment, I really didn’t think I’d ever been discriminated against. Some of it

“If we keep on this way, they will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Convention without being much further advanced in equal rights than we are … If we had not concentrated on the federal amendment, we should be working today for suffrage … We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government.”

Durham says that the Utah constitutional provision has only been used once, regarding a poll tax that favored women over men for the use of certain roads, and the Utah Supreme Court upheld the “discrimination against men.” So, it’s all good, right? For one, Shepherd no longer has the energy to continue that fight. She sees taking up other women’s issues as perhaps a better path forward. “I spent several years of my young life trying to get the ERA passed and I have a very clear understanding of how important it is to women that they be regarded as equal under the law,” she says. “Over the years, I have looked back on the battle and wondered whether we could have fought for our rights differently. Norway and Finland, to a lesser degree, Sweden, never had an ERA. Instead, they assured every family quality, affordable child care and paid paternal and maternal leave for childbirth and ailing parents. “Fast forward to today, and there is almost no wage gap in those countries and their national legislative bodies are almost evenly balanced with men and women. … Naturally, all kind of societal problems from gangs to drugs to mental health trauma result from the absence of reliable, quality child care. The case for this connection between the lack of good child care and child wellbeing has not ever been successfully made to the Congress, but I believe it could be. A battle for another day.” Still, many in the country have held hope that Virginia will be the 38th state to ratify the ERA, and Shepherd says that if she were still a Utah state senator, she would vote to ratify in Utah. Urquhart highly doubts that the Legislature will pass the ERA resolution. The church, he says, manipulates the Legislature behind the scenes. “It’s dishonest interference with the Legislature. The church has a right to participate like any religion and it speaks for a lot of people in the state. But it should participate in the light.” Will the ERA fail? “I don’t even need to explain it,” he says. “The answer is yes.” But a new generation has taken up the cause with a renewed understanding of what women lack. Vranes and Rich are emblematic of the phoenix which is the ERA movement. Looking back and studying the past, they are both stunned by the realization that women’s rights are still not embedded in the country’s Constitution. As the nation heads toward the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Utah and Virginia have the unique opportunity of becoming the 38th state to ratify the ERA. Utah has a long history of promoting women’s rights, and even has a license plate that proclaims, “1870: First to Vote—Utah Women.” The state is home to many other firsts, including electing Martha Hughes Cannon to the state senate in 1896. Utah could again make history by pushing the ERA over the finish line. But will it? “We are moving forward,” Rich says. “If we have to start again, we will.” And so, everything has changed. CW

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Good Company Theatre: Sphere: In Between Since 2012, Ogden’s Good Company Theatre has been serving up provocative, entertaining plays that make it clear you can never be certain what to expect from them. As of their first production of the new year, you can’t even necessarily expect a play. Fulfilling a long-standing desire of Good Company co-founders Alicia and Camille Washington—“Contemporary dance may be new to Good Company Theatre but we have been discussing it internally for years,” Alicia says in a news release—the theater this week hosts the dance presentation Sphere: In Between. The show marks the second Sphere collaboration between Natosha Washington’s The Penguin Lady Dance Collective, Jo Blake’s joBdance and Laja Field & Martin Durov’s LajaMartin, following a show at the Rose Wagner Center in December. In Between features existing choreography from the three participants, re-imagined for the intimate Good Company space in a way that makes it particularly suited for the venue’s up-close-and-personal audience experience. According to Camille Washington, the pieces are thematically linked in the sense that they “aim to explore the rawness and emotionality of the human experience through dance in their own ways.” She also believes that while dance is a new direction for Good Company, this performance keeps with the company’s mission. “The Sphere collaboration is ideal because each of these choreographers/collaboratives is interested in site-specific performance that renegotiates the connection between performers and audiences,” she says. “Good Company Theatre has been doing this since the beginning and we hope to continue working with actors, dancers and performers across disciplines who share the same interests.” (Scott Renshaw) Sphere: In Between @ Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-9174969, Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m., $20, goodcotheatre.com

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It’s hard to wage a war when you see the enemy as human. This is the core message of Utah Opera’s upcoming production of Silent Night, a fictionalized retelling of the real-life 1914 “Christmas Truce.” In the midst of World War I, men along the Western Front put down their weapons for a few days around Christmastime, shook hands, sang carols, played soccer with one another and buried the dead. The opera follows the lives of soldiers of various nationalities navigating the strange truce and their struggle to resume the war afterward. Tomer Zvulun, director, says the show sends a powerful message about camaraderie and friendship. “I find that message to be extremely positive and important to remember,” Zvulun says. “Especially in the background of what we see around us in the world today. Tribalism and conflict is everywhere, and we need that message more than ever.” The opera reflects the international nature of the history of the truce, by being sung in English, German, French, Italian and Latin with English supertitles. “What isn’t common for all of us [is] the language we speak or the nationality, but it’s our humanity and the fact that we want to celebrate what unites us and not focus on what divides us,” Zvulun says. This is Zvulun’s sixth time directing Silent Night. He cites his background as an Israeli combat medic as what keeps drawing him back to this story about soldiers holding on to their sense of self in senseless conflicts. (Kylee Ehmann) Utah Opera: Silent Night @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-533-6683, Jan. 18 & 24, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 20 & 22, 7 p.m.; Jan. 26, 2 p.m., $14.50-$106, utahopera.org

As most political pundits will attest, it’s far too early to predict who will be the ultimate contenders in the upcoming presidential showdown. Naturally, no one’s ready to discount President Trump’s chances, but with the impeachment proceedings hanging over his head, there’s always the possibility—however slight—that he’ll be ousted from office. On the Democratic side, the slate of candidates has yet to be narrowed down to any clear frontrunner. That leaves the possibility that it could in fact come down to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, two of the most unusual and outspoken individuals ever to face off, in the most critical campaign anyone might have ever imagined. Indeed, no two people could be any more different politically, though they share a similar off-the-cuff attitude and eccentricity. That’s what makes Trump vs. Bernie a natural collision of comedy and calamity, something akin to what would happen if Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy attempted to emulate the Kennedy-Nixon debates by emphasizing the laugh lines. Consequently, credit the show’s two stars, Anthony Atamanuik (Trump) and James Adomian (Sanders), with infusing this surreal setup with the twisted take on reality we’ve become all too accustomed to lately. It might in fact be a preview of what’s to come if the two actually agreed to take their show on the road and go head-to-head in a series of town hall debates or debacles. When Atamanuik and Adomian previewed the possibilities with a comedy album and a feature on Fusion TV, they predicted how reality and absurdity might be morphed in sync. (Lee Zimmerman) Trump vs. Bernie @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., $25, wiseguyscomedy.com

Though Millennials such as myself might be inclined to prepare to write about Fiddler on the Roof by listening to Gwen Stefani’s 2009 variation-on-“If I Were a Rich Man” “Rich Girl,” that’s just evidence of the enduring legacy the show has created since its 1964 Broadway premiere. Broadway at the Eccles brings a new touring production to town this week. Yehezkel Lazarov—who stars as Tevye, the patriarch living in the show’s turn-of-the-20thcentury Russian Jewish village of Anatevka— believes that this classic can still bring inspiration to audiences in 2020. “I would love if they will come out from the show and think again about their family, about their community, about the situation outside in the world in terms of refugees and people who need to leave their homes in order to look for freedom,” Lazarov says via email. Since the notion of tradition is so central to the musical—and gives us the title of one of its most enduring songs—Lazarov hopes that the show inspires people to consider their own traditions, and “whether the traditions that they are keeping are hurting someone. … And, of course, I would love them to come out from the show and to see the happiness, the beliefs, the prayers, the humor, the joy, the dance ... and how all those things are keeping us alive.” When asked what an audience can expect from the current production, Lazarov adds, “After 400 shows, I think I know exactly what they can expect ... Their hearts will be wide open for three hours. Laughs, tears, sunrise and sunset. Love.” (Kara Rhodes) Fiddler on the Roof @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Jan. 21-26, times and dates vary, $55-$135, broadway-at-the-eccles.com

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Thur. 16th - Sat. 18th: Wasatch Improv Festival Midvale Performing Arts Center 695 W Center St Midvale more information at: wasatchimprov.com

Fri. 17th - Sat. 18th: Intermountain Psychedelics Symposium Friday: Keynote Lecture with James Fadiman | SLC Public Library 210 E 400 S | Salt Lake City | 7:00 pm Saturday: All Day Symposium Downtown Sheraton Hotel 150 W 500 S | Salt Lake City | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Saturday Night: Afterparty | Salt Lake Events Hall 175 W 200 S | Salt Lake City | 7:00 - 11:00 pm more information and tickets at: eventbrite.com

Sat. 25th: Five Wives Promo at the Westerner The Westerner 3360 S Redwood Road Salt Lake City 9:00 pm - midnight

Black Violin serves up a unique fusion of classical and hip-hop.

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through anything so our music could be heard around the world. Where do you see the musical and historical threads of hip-hop and orchestral styles intertwine? Are there areas where the similarities outweigh the differences? Music is universal. Since classical music is the oldest form of tonal music, everything we consume now from pop, jazz, country, gospel, and even hip-hop stems from classical progressions and ideology. The similarities can be found in the chord progressions. The biggest difference between the genres is the creative freedom. Classical can be very rigid, where the best hip-hop artists are lauded for them being extremely creative and doing things that others haven’t been able to accomplish. What era of each most informs your own style and musicianship? Classically speaking, we approach the violin from the Baroque era. Very clean and concise playing without sliding to notes. We relate more to the Golden Era of hiphop (’95-’99) because we grew up during that time. The hip-hop back then was more likely sampled from old jazz and rock tunes and had more tonality during that genre. These two styles strongly influence our sound and approach to music. CW

A version of this interview appeared in Little Village magazine.

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ev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester) and Wil B (Wilner Baptiste) were just kids when they met in the orchestra room at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (the majority-black magnet school also counts Nonpoint’s Elias Soriano and Cats’ Rum Tum Tugger Jason Derulo among its alumni). But what began as a teenage friendship has now resulted in a Showtime at the Apollo legend title, performances with the likes of Wu-Tang Clan and Alicia Keys, two mix tapes and what became four studio albums with the release of Take the Stairs in November. Black Violin—a moniker the pair told Strings Magazine they took from the title of jazz violinist Stuff Smith’s 1972 solo album—blossomed when Kev Marcus, a violinist, and Wil B, who plays viola, moved in together after college (they attended different schools, both on full music scholarships). Their innovative fusion of classical and hip-hop music was the natural extension of their backgrounds and interests, but also an intentional effort to keep audiences on their toes—to force them to engage in a sonic conversation between two very different worlds. “What other occupation is there that you can change the way people think when you’re finished with their time?” Kev Marcus

noted in a 2016 UpRoxx video interview. In addition to their own creative work as Black Violin, each member has done production and writing work for Tom Petty, Kanye West, Aerosmith and more. And they are extremely active in arts advocacy in schools, often inviting youth orchestras to perform with them and doing free school performances, prioritizing low-income and Title 1 schools. They’ve “adopted” Bethune Elementary School in Hollywood, Fla., through Michelle Obama’s Turnaround Arts mentorship program. Trainor: What about your high school orchestra class made you want to pursue music as a career? Sylvester: Our high school orchestra class was so much fun. We got the chance to play challenging music with our good friends and push our creative boundaries. It gave us a taste of what it would be like to make music for a living and we loved it. You collaborate frequently with schools—what’s your primary message to music educators trying to play both sides, connecting with students while also navigating administrators in a field with dwindling resources? That’s a really great question. Ultimately, the best way to reach kids is to communicate with them on their level and allow them to reach their creative potential with the hopes that administrators will see the value in their art. Let’s show the world the value in art and music classes. How did you come to the decision to mash up these two musical styles? That is, what gave you the confidence to make that aesthetic leap? It has always been in us. We’ve been listening to hip-hop since we were little boys and we also happened to study classic music at a high level, so it was very natural for us to put the two worlds together. The confidence came by facing our fears and performing for anyone that would listen. After our performances, people were often floored and it gave us the strength to push

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W. 300 South, Jan. 17-18, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Russian National Ballet Val A. Browning Center, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m., weber.edu Sphere: In Between Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m., goodcotheatre.com (see p. 14)

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Winter Farmers Market Rio Grande Depot, 270 S. Rio Grande St., Saturdays through April 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

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Works by resident artist Mary Pusey—who says of her work, “What I paint is a representation of what I see and feel, not necessarily what is actually there”—are featured in Figuratively Speaking at the Art at the Main gallery (210 E. 400 South, artatthemain.com) through Feb. 8.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Bright Star Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, Jan. 20-May 2, dates and times vary, hct.org Fiddler On The Roof, Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Jan. 21-26, times and dates vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 14) Mary Stuart Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, through Jan. 25, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org New World Shakespeare: Coriolanus The Box, 124 S. 400 West, through Jan. 18, dates and times vary, newworldshakespeare.com Pinnacle Acting Co.: Mauritius Jewett Center for the Arts, 1250 E. 1700 South, through Jan. 18, dates and times vary, pinnacleactingcompany.org Seussical Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Jan. 18, dates and times vary, hct.org She Kills Monsters Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Jan. 16-17, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 18-19, 2 & 7:30 p.m., utahpresents.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Black Violin Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Jan. 21, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 16) Gina Bachauer Junior and Young Artists Piano Competitions Preliminary Rounds Rose Wagner Center, Jan. 16-18, 12:30 p.m., bachauer.com

Utah Opera: Silent Night Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Jan. 18-26, dates and times vary, utahopera.org (see p. 14)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Andrew Sleighter Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Jared Freid Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 17-18, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Mick Foley Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Jan. 16, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Mick Foley Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Paula Poundstone Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., grandtheatrecompany.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Sam D’Antuono’s Soliloquy Showcase Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 16, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Trump vs. Bernie Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 14) The Valleyfolk Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 21, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

DANCE

Body Logic Dance Company 10th Anniversary Concert Rose Wagner Center, 138

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 Morgenstern: The Starless Sea The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Jan. 16, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Guest Writers Series: Kimiko Hahn & Lindsay Lusby Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, Jan. 16, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kiersten White: Chosen The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Jan. 17, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Charlie Holmberg: The Will and the Wilds American Fork Library, 64 S. 100 East, American Fork, Jan. 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com S. P. Grogan: Lafayette: Courtier to Crown Fugitive, 1757-1777 The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Jan. 22, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Art: A Love Affair Pioneer Memorial Theatre Loge Gallery, 300 S. 1400 East, through Jan. 25, pioneertheatre.org Comforting Discomfort: Works by Dalila Sanabria and Fiona Barney Rio Gallery, 300 S.

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zars became a fixture in their small Millcreek neighborhood. Ida and Albert continue to run the show to this day, and are always quick to chat with new visitors and the regulars who have been visiting their establishment since the get-go.

Salazar’s opened in 1982 as the brainchild of Ida and Albert Salazar, two California natives looking for a change. With an arsenal of traditional Mexican recipes bold enough to keep people coming back for the next 30-plus years, it wasn’t long before the Sala-

the Railroad Bill is a great foundation for a visit to Salazar’s, the à la carte menu is hard to resist. If I’m extremely hungry, I like to add a smothered pork tamal ($3.50) or a chile relleno ($4.50) to the mix. The chorizo burrito ($9.99) isn’t a bad way to branch out. It’s stuffed with the Salazar’s unique chorizo recipe, which is just right for dinner when it’s cold and gray outside. Although restaurants like Salazar’s come and go all the time, a few visits to this neighborhood favorite are enough to see why the place continues to thrive. On the surface, Salazar’s is a cozy, family-run establishment where you can get a soulful plate of solid Mexican comfort food, but that’s not all that keeps the place running. Its steady stream of neighborhood locals and the Salazars’ knack for embracing members of the community who are especially marginalized or overlooked are what truly keep the lights on and the oven fires lit. CW

hroughout my tenure as a local food writer, the temptation to focus solely on what’s new and hip in our restaurant scene is hard to resist. As much as I love seeing what the local talent is up to—and believe me, they’re doing some amazing things that I’m dying to check out—I can’t help but be drawn to those wayward local places that were part of our food culture before we even really had a food culture. These are places like Salazar’s Café (3325 S. 900 East, 801-485-0172, facebook.com/salazars-cafe), tucked away in strip malls and nestled among aging office parks, and they’ve survived on a combination of determined grit, stalwart recipes and the regulars who are just as much a part of the establishment as the menu itself.

the best way to experience the kind of food Salazar’s is throwing down. The more time I spend in small, family-owned Mexican restaurants, the more I realize that the flavor of their sauces is what truly tells their story. The Railroad Bill introduces diners to the Salazar family’s vibrant crimson enchilada sauce and their smoky pork chile verde, both of which are excellent. When I’m halfway through, Albert tells me they haven’t changed a thing about this recipe through the decades. It’s a bold secret to share, but his smile reveals a deep pride in the menu that he and his wife have created. The Railroad Bill is a dish one can get at most any Mexican restaurant. The basic components of the burrito and enchilada are universal—gooey cheese oozes lazily onto the plate after slicing through the corn tortilla with a fork and it’s accompanied by a comforting mix of rice and soupy refried beans topped with grated cheddar. The sauces, however, pack a bit more nuance. If you’ve had chile verde before, you recognize a few of the major notes very quickly. The more you eat, the more you start to taste the Salazar family’s legacy—this verde thrums with the slow burn of smoked chiles. While

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Those used to frequenting our current generation of restaurants will notice some stark differences when visiting Salazar’s. For starters, the place feels less like a restaurant and more like the dining room of a wizened aunt and uncle. It’s a space that definitely has some mileage under its belt, but that only adds to its charm. This is a restaurant that makes no judgments and welcomes everyone with a hot plate of food. During a recent visit, I shared the space with a customer who had been dining with the Salazars since the restaurant opened. Ida and Albert welcomed him by name and the three caught up on all the small but devastating tragedies of life and comforted each other with genuine conversation—and burritos smothered in housemade chile verde. I had ordered the Railroad Bill ($10.99, pictured), previously known as the Salazar Special. According to Albert, they renamed the dish after a longtime customer died a few years ago. This is Salazar’s—small honors and trinkets dedicated to regulars largely forgotten by the world are everywhere. The Railroad Bill is a house specialty that consists of a cheese enchilada and a chile verde burrito with a side of rice and beans, and it’s

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It seems like every week The Gateway (400 W. 100 South) adds new and interesting eateries to its ranks. Most recently, the downtown shopping center welcomed HallPass (153 S. Rio Grande St., hallpassslc.com). Billed as Utah’s first food hall, HallPass is a space dedicated to eating and drinking—as of its opening, HallPass included eight restaurants and two bars. Among those establishments, diners can get everything from liege waffles from Waffadopolis to lobster rolls from CodSpeed and Nashville hot chicken from Blaze of Thunder. In true food hall fashion, HallPass offers a group tab system so diners can make the rounds, get what they want and divvy up the tab later.

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Just a bit south of The Gateway, Central Ninth has welcomed a Japanese-inspired gastropub called Nohm (165 W. 900 South). Nohm recently opened its doors in the space that once belonged to Meditrina, and it’s a concept that is shaping up to work well with nearby Water Witch. Currently, Nohm’s Instagram feed is packed with tantalizing photos of fish cakes and cooked daikon called oden, and skewers of grilled meat and veggies called kushiyaki. They have also emphasized an ever-changing menu of items that will be built around Nohm’s selection of alcoholic beverages similar to the tradition of Japanese and Korean gastropubs. Nohm is currently open for dinner service.

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A good German chocolate cake should be in any baker’s arsenal, and Provo’s The Mighty Baker (themightybaker.com) wants to help interested amateur bakers get started. Hosted by the bakery’s recently opened Cake Creation Studio in Provo’s Shops at Riverwoods (4801 N. University Ave., Ste. 450), Pete Tidwell—the Mighty Baker himself—walks attendees through the process of making a perfect German chocolate cake. The recipe includes cake, frosting and German chocolate filling that won Tidwell accolades on Food Network’s Cake Wars and Halloween Baking Championship. The workshop takes place on Thursday, Jan. 16, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and tickets are available via Eventbrite. Quote of the Week: “Cake for later, cake as a way of life.” —Laini Taylor Back Burner tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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With his carrot-top hair and bespeckled visage, Brett Dennen resembles someone who’s always been prone to pick up a guitar and use it to earn the status of being one of the cooler kids in class. Not surprisingly, he first learned to play at a summer camp, where his counselors force-fed him a steady diet of Neil Young, John Denver, Joni Mitchell and other soft-core artists that typify the sounds most budding singer-songwriters are weaned on. He later became a counselor at that same camp, and nowadays, he continues to support the charitable organization that sponsors it. Nevertheless, Dennen set his sights higher early on, embarking on a career that’s yielded six albums and five EPs over the past 15 years. He still looks to the masters for inspiration, citing Paul Simon, Van Morrison and Cat Stevens as his iconic ideals for his own melodic approach. Even at the outset, he was touted as an artist on his way up, and his various contributions to film and TV scores and soundtracks affirmed the fact he was able to connect with the masses. At age 40, he still manages to maintain that peppy, all-American image and a voice that’s effortlessly alluring, but any hint of lingering innocence finds common ground with songs that are thoughtful and often humorous as well. In Dennen’s case, truth and charm have always gone hand in hand. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $40, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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Ever since Hank Williams Jr. hit the Nashville scene in the mid-’60s, the children of musical legends have attempted to find success with songs of their own. Such music can be incredibly difficult to judge without bias; do we give them a free pass because of their lineage, or do we hold them to an impossibly high standard because we love their parents’ records so much? So it’s perhaps to Shooter Jennings’ credit how easy such questions are put to rest when listening to his recorded output. The son of outlaw country legend Waylon Jennings has been forging his own path in country music and beyond since the turn of the century, standing out from his alt-country contemporaries by incorporating classic rock flourishes that feel surprisingly credible. Jennings insn’t afraid to stray from his genre of origin, either, pivoting toward alternative and industrial rock with only the barest hint of a southern twang on 2010’s Steven Kingassisted Black Ribbons, a concept album that plays out like ’70s Pink Floyd by way of ’80s ZZ Top and ’90s Nine Inch Nails and features its own video game spinoff. Shooter Jennings is currently touring in support of his 2018 album Shooter. Joining him in SLC is Texan Americana outfit Mike & The Moonpies. (Nic Renshaw) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. 2100 South, 9 p.m., $27, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a perfectly curated local showcase. This collection of different rock-rooted outfits, City Ghost, Milk Money and Pick Pocket, all bring something unique to the table, yet maintain a cohesive and well-arranged lineup. While both City Ghost and opener Pick Pocket lean more toward the indie rock side of things, they explore the genre via different paths. They avoid the folky-tinged soundscape the genre has adopted throughout the last few years, and they each carry their own arsenal of personality. Where City Ghost features gorgeous, raspy vocals and a Manchester Orchestra-reminiscent structure to their songs, Pick Pocket provides an easy listening experience, with bouncy and energetic aesthetics. Milk Money adopts a heavier tone, reflective of the members’ roots in punk and hardcore. Their sound is built on the foundation of grunge and rock of the 1990s, evident not only in their music sonically, but in the structure of their lyrics as well. Their sound is laced with the nostalgia of what alternative rock once was, and Milk Money breathes some much-needed new life into the genre. This trio of indie-rock revivalists take over The Urban Lounge for a laidback evening that’s sure to be full of head-bopping. (ZA) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., free, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Aaron Watson isn’t an easy artist to classify. An insurgent of sorts who speaks his mind and always gets to the point— whether ruminating from a personal perspective, or sharing his revelations about the things that cause relationships to become tangled and turbulent—he’s maintained a 20-year career that includes 15 albums and critical kudos from those in the know. Unfortunately, Watson’s recognition is mostly limited to his home state of Texas, but like most singer-songwriters bred in those prodigious environs—Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, etc.—he has a knack for conveying insight and illumination through a combination of dust-blown ballads and anthemic outreach, all fleshed out with hooks aplenty and melodies that take hold even from first encounter. While he maintains the standard down-home regalia of cowboy hat, boots and an insistent attitude, he doesn’t succumb to the typical radio-ready fare that defines so much contemporary country music. Rather than serve up today’s typical frat pap, he sings songs that are deeper than the feel-good sounds propagated by Music Row. That’s not to say he hasn’t made an impression on the charts, because he has. Indeed, his songs offer hints of honkytonk, the celebratory sounds of Saturday night and a bit of barroom bravado, plus plenty of sincerity and sentiment stirred in that stew as well. Watson rocks in a most compelling way. (Lee Zimmerman) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 8 p.m., $20, 21+, depotslc.com

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As someone who doesn’t drink very often, I find myself hanging out at bars more than I usually expect. While friends have introduced me to some interesting places, one of my all-time favorites is Midvale’s A Bar Named Sue on State Street. It’s a Johnny Cash-themed spot with a one-size-fits-all atmosphere, and it’s exactly the kind of place I love going to. There aren’t any expectations, and the crowd here is always eclectic. Tonight just so happens to be a busy Friday night at Sue’s, and lucky for me, a ska band is performing. That’s a perfect situation. We’re sitting all the way in the back by the three pool tables, just west of the stage area, and everyone around me is either laughing, dancing or sharing drinks with their friends. While I would usually indulge in one of my favorite Sue cocktails, the blood-orange cosmo, tonight I’m sipping on a pint of Kiitos Coffee Cream Ale, a fixture in the beers I rotate through. I decided to throw caution to the wind and order up their fried cheese sticks and garlic cheese fries, both of which are insanely delicious. At the end of the day, A Bar Named Sue is a perfect, laid back bar for an easy hangout. (Zaina Abujebarah) A Bar Named Sue on State, 8136 S. State, Midvale, 801-566-3222, abarnamedsue.net

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born painter Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) didn’t align himself with any artistic movement. Early on, his work was an odd blend of French Post-Impressionism and 14th-century Italian painting. I appreciate his stylistic independence, and suggest you draw inspiration from it in 2020. Another unique aspect of Spencer’s art was its mix of eroticism and religiosity. I think you’ll enjoy exploring that blend yourself in the coming months. Your spiritual and sexual longings could be quite synergistic. There’s one part of Spencer’s quirky nature I don’t recommend you imitate, however. He often wore pajamas beneath his clothes, even to formal occasions. Doing that wouldn’t serve your interests. (But it will be healthy for you to be somewhat indifferent to people’s opinions.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1440s. In subsequent decades, millions of mass-produced books became available for the first time, making their contents available to a far wider audience than ever before. The printing press caused other changes, too—some not as positive. For instance, people who worked as scribes found it harder to get work. In our era, big culture-wide shifts are impacting our personal lives. Climate change, the internet, smart phones, automation and human-like robots are just a few examples. What are you doing PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “How do you get your main pleasure in life?” That question to adjust to the many innovations? And what will you do in the was posed to Scorpio author Evelyn Waugh and Piscean social future? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these issues. reformer William Beveridge. Waugh said, “I get mine spreading alarm and despondency.” Beveridge said, “I get mine trying VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): to leave the world a better place than I found it.” I hope you will You’re skilled at the art of self-editing. When bright new ideas well favor Beveridge’s approach over Waugh’s in 2020, Pisces—for up in you, you understand they are not yet ready for prime time, but two reasons. First, the world already has plenty of alarm and will need to be honed and finessed. When your creativity overflows, despondency; it doesn’t need even a tiny bit more. Second, tantalizing you with fresh perspectives and novel approaches, you aspiring to be like Beveridge will be the best possible strategy know that you’ll have to harness the raw surge. However, it’s also true that sometimes you go too far in your efforts to refine your for fostering your mental and physical health. imagination’s breakthroughs; you over-think and over-polish. But I have a good feeling about the coming weeks, Virgo. I suspect you’ll ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John Cleese has an insight I hope you’ll consider. He find the sweet spot, self-editing with just the right touch. says, “It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent. It’s also easier to do little LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re Thomas Love Peacock was a Libran author whose specialty not so sure about.” I hope you’ll make this advice a priority in the was writing satirical novels that featured people sitting around coming weeks. You’ll be wise to prioritize important tasks, even tables arguing about opinions and ideas. He was not renowned those that aren’t urgent, as you de-emphasize trivial matters that for cheerful optimism. And yet he did appreciate sheer beautempt you to think they’re crucial. Focus on big things that are ty. “There is nothing perfect in this world,” he said, “except Mozart.” So much did Peacock love Mozart’s music that during challenging, rather than on little things that are a snap. one several-month stretch he attended six performances of the genius’ opera Don Giovanni. In this spirit, Libra, and in accorTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Honoré Balzac (1799–1850) was born with sun and dance with astrological indicators, I encourage you to make a list Mercury in Taurus and in the 10th house. Astrologers might of your own perfect things—and spend extra time communing hypothesize from these placements that he was ambitious, pro- with them in the coming weeks. ductive, tenacious, diligent, realistic and willful. The evidence supporting this theory is strong. Balzac wrote over 80 novels that SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): displayed a profound and nuanced understanding of the human Jean-Michel Basquiat started his career as a graffiti artist. comedy. I predict that 2020 will be a year when you could make When he evolved into being a full-time painter, he incorporated dramatic progress in cultivating a Balzac-like approach in your words amid his images. On many occasions, he’d draw lines own sphere. But here’s a caveat: Balzac didn’t take good care of through the words. Why? “I cross out words so you will see his body. He drank far too much coffee and had a careless approach them more,” he said. “The fact that they are obscured makes to eating and sleeping. My hope is that as you hone your drive for you want to read them.” In the coming weeks, you might benefit from discreetly using this strategy in your own life. In other success, you’ll be impeccable in tending to your health. words, draw attention to the things you want to emphasize by downplaying them or being mysterious about them or suggestGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before he was 21 years old, William Shakespeare and his wife ing they are secret. Reverse psychology can be an asset for you. had birthed three kids. When he was 25, while the brood was still young, he started churning out literary masterpieces. By the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): time Will became a grandfather at age 43, he had written many Because of the onslaught of the internet and social media, lots of of the works that ultimately made him one of history’s most people no longer read books. But in 2020, I highly recommend that illustrious authors. From this evidence, we might speculate that you not be one of that crowd. In my astrological opinion, you need being a parent and husband heightened his creative flow. I bring more of the slow, deep wisdom that comes from reading books. this to your attention because I want to ask you: What role will You will also benefit from other acts of rebellion against the Short commitment and duty and devotion play in your life during the Attention Span Era. Crucial blessings will flow in your direction as you honor the gradual, incremental approach to everything. coming months? (I suspect it’ll be a good one.)

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n Women want autonomy in the world— not only to act with their own agency, but to be seen to be acting as their own agents. It’s pretty obvious stuff, or so you’d think. Yet our culture—in particular our pop culture—still too often casts women as nothing but adjuncts to men, unhappy unless romantically partnered with men. So it’s beyond refreshing to see Little Women directly confronting the predicaments of the March sisters—most centrally, Saoirse Ronan’s writer, Jo, and Florence Pugh’s glamorpuss, Amy—as they try to make their ways in a world in which marriage is, for genteelly poor girls such as them, primarily a financial arrangement. They have few other options open to them to live comfortably, and blaze their own paths through such a world. It’s beyond refreshing to see the sex workers of Hustlers—most centrally, Constance Wu’s newbie, Destiny, and Jennifer Lopez’s veteran, Ramona—turning the tables on men who would take advantage of them, and who so utterly fail to recognize those women’s agency that they cannot even see when they’re being played. There’s another thread of shared backbone that runs through Hustlers and Little Women that might be of particular appeal to women who long to see their stories told,

and who understand that women’s perspectives on women’s stories are absolutely vital: Women want control over their own stories, and they do not want to be told how to tell them. It’s nice that male filmmakers want to tell women’s stories, but those men often have their own blind spots, failing to understand what it is about a woman’s story that makes it worth telling. We see women controlling their own stories in Little Women, which plays a meta game with Jo’s tale, suggesting that the happy ending (i.e., marriage) that her male publisher demands of the novel’s female protagonist might not be the same happy ending (i.e., maybe not married?) of Jo’s own life. We see Destiny controlling the telling of her own story in Hustlers, when she cuts off the interrogation of Julia Stiles’ journalist; the dialogue soundtrack goes shockingly silent then. The journalist might be a woman, but she’s much more privileged than Destiny is—and so, you know, women of color need to be telling their own stories, and get heard, far more often than their culture allows. Yes, Little Women and Hustlers are the same movie—and I predict we will get many more like them until all women are authentically heard far more often than we are now. CW

and directed by women (Lorene Scafaria for Hustlers, Greta Gerwig for Little Women), both based on source material also written by women, and both profoundly about women—got such big releases within a few months of each other, and have been big hits. It’s no surprise that both films have resonated with audiences, because they plainly and overtly speak to women’s lived lives that we hardly ever see play out in movies. Women like it when our realities are reflected in our entertainment. Men should like it, too, especially if they find themselves echoing Freud’s needlessly clueless pondering. Of course, there are as many answers to Freud’s “dilemma” as there are women in the world, but there are some basic ground truths—and these truths form the not-soimprobably similar backbones of Little Women and Hustlers: n Women want to be respected for their brains and talents, not just for their bodies, and get far more satisfaction from the former. n Women want financial independence, and particularly do not want to be financially reliant on men. n Women want (and need, and cherish) the support of other women as they struggle to get by in a world that isn’t kind to them.

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am going to drop a truth bomb, and you are probably not ready for it: Little Women and Hustlers are the same movie. “Wait a minute,” you’re saying. “That crime-caper black comedy about Great Recession strippers who con their clients is the same movie as the sweet, earnest one about 19th-century sisters figuring out who gets to marry Timothée Chalamet?” First of all, that’s not what Little Women is about—and that anyone might think so is part of the problem here. Second, yes, these two movies are so much the same that it hurts me in all sorts of ways. Some good, some bad. Sigmund Freud stroked his beard pensively when he wondered what women want, imagining that he was posing a conundrum for the ages. He had only to ask some women and really listen to what they said in response—but he doesn’t seem to have ever considered that this was an option. If Freud didn’t actually invent our culture’s unwillingness to listen to and to understand women, he at least codified it. We see that willful blindness at work on the big screen, even today, where movies by and about women are infinitely less likely to get produced than movies by and about men. If such movies do manage to overcome the hurdle blocking their very existence, they are infinitely less likely to get wide releases. (I’ve studied this phenomenon on a week-by-week, here-are-the-new-releases basis. It’s real, and it’s infuriating.) It’s very much an anomaly, then, that Hustlers and Little Women—both written

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Least Competent Criminal In Jefferson County, Colo., would-be car thief Todd Sheldon, 36, has finally admitted it’s just not the vocation for him, according to police. Fox News reported Sheldon had tried over recent weeks to steal multiple vehicles, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, but each time he was caught in the act— first by a homeowner, then by sheriff’s deputies minutes later “just down the street,” shocking the deputies by telling them, “I’m trying to steal this truck.” He was taken into custody and bonded out, but a week later, deputies responding to a report of someone trying to break into a car again found Sheldon. “I really suck at this,” Sheldon allegedly told an officer. Sheldon remains in jail as of Dec. 27.

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