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China Girl A DNA test connected a Utah teenager to her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and to a story that was almost too tragic to bear. By Savannah Pace and N aomi Ward

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Tracking one teen’s adoption story from the Middle Kingdom to the Wasatch Front. Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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Sadly, this marks our dynamo editorial assitant’s last issue. Whether it was covering political rallies or homelessness, Howze left his mark in our newsroom. Up next? Continued work for nonprofit Amigos de las Américas and a possible extended stay in Panama. Given his expertise, we wouldn’t be surprised if Panama City Weekly were to eventually pop up.

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It was awesome! The audience participation made it so much fun. MINDY O’CONNOR Via Instagram I know you are but what am I? DEREK DIAMANTI Via Instagram

News, Feb. 20, “Voting App Blues” Paper ballots are best. @HDABBE Via Twitter

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Utah legislators can be so incredibly foolish, lol. BEN WORDELMAN Via Twitter

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way to go. CLINTON HARTLEY Via Facebook They’re calling it Liberal’s or Socialist party. I prefer Anarchy. [Do] Americans really need big government? It’s expensive. CHRISTINE COHEN Via Facebook Did the reporter clap back with “OK Bloomer?” AARON MITCHELL Via Facebook

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Oh! What could be! The Utah-based church with the long name sits on over $100 billion. This amount increases hourly because of interest.

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Many Utah families of this same belief system sit on mega millions of dollars. These families avoid huge income tax bills by contributing generously to the church mentioned above. In fairness, many of these families are quite generous in supporting cancer research, keeping the Tribune alive and a myriad of other good causes. But I fantasize about what Utah could be if even a fraction of all this wealth could be released. No public teacher in Utah would have to work outside the classroom to support a family. No classroom would have more than 20 students. Counselors and school nurses would not be spread among thousands of students. Homelessness would be a thing of the past. Utah air would be the cleanest in the nation. New parks would be springing up; especially so that children in all the new condensed housing would have a place to play. Suicide and homicide rates would plummet because of increased mental health programs. While I’m off here in Fantasyland, elected officials would promote all the above rather than focusing on alcohol content in beer, porn and vaginas. Sadly, I’m just dreaming because the control of the earlier

mentioned church will not go away any time soon. And sadly, many struggling young families of this belief system pay into this church for fear of losing status now and in the afterlife. TED OTTINGER, Taylorsville

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PRIVATE EY Do Tell

More than 35 years ago, this newspaper began as an outgrowth of stupid, zany, unproductive—and even constitutionally illegal—Utah liquor laws. Back in those days, we called ourselves The Private Eye Newspaper, hence the name of this column, and much of our content was dedicated to Utah private clubs. It’s a long story, and most of the people reading this under the age of 35 don’t know what private clubs were. Put simply, private clubs began as dark drinking dungeons that sold annual memberships, much like a fitness spa does. Without a membership you couldn’t get in and buying a membership put you into a database, but they weren’t called that back then. Most people limited themselves to their favorite watering holes, maybe joining three or four private clubs that stretched across the valley. Only bartenders, waitresses (because they are special) and big spenders got a break from having to join a club. Well, attractive women did, too. But as a fat, unattractive male, I always resented that, even though I understood why they got a break. If a club were caught serving a non-member, they were cited and faced fines or closure from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. During the time of private clubs, I never once heard of one being cited for serving a non-member who was not an undercover (and usually underage) police officer or a state agent (who always employed every manner of deception to get past a door person). It was implicit that Utah imposed a stranglehold on private clubs to keep them operating in fear. Imagine going out in downtown Salt Lake City today, and having to shell out individual memberships to enter Cheers to You, London Belle, Whiskey Street, White Horse, The Rest,

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Maxwell’s and the Alibi—all located on the same Main Street block. That would set you back well over $150 right there, before you had your first drink. And geez, what if you wanted to hop over to Gracie’s, Bourbon House, Green Pig, Twist, Good Grammar, Johnny’s on Second, Bar X, Urban Lounge, Lake Effect, the Depot, Murphy’s, Patrick’s Pub or Poplar? Those are all “public” operations today; no membership is required. However, Utah lawmakers are nothing if not creative. So instead of presenting a membership at any of those emporiums, I have to show a legal ID to enter—not to prove my age, but for which I present to a scanner for purposes unknown. Without an ID, I can’t get in to be served a drink. Nothing has changed except the scenery. Private clubs are just no longer called private clubs and the state can’t ever get over its drinker voyeurism. The state has its eyes on me (and you) at all times. Ominously, the database is more sophisticated. You’d think that would be enough for Utah, to know that with a flash of a badge or the flick or a warrant, a state agency could track your movements through a Saturday night of imbibing. Couple that with geolocation tags on your mobile phone, credit card spending reports, point of sale (POS) systems that itemize down to the ice cube, and a pretty picture can be painted of just about anyone these days—their whereabouts, their activities, and yes, even, how much and how fast they purchased their Saturday night alcoholic beverages. All that’s left for the coppers to do, is pull out a scale and take your weight. But why bother? You’ve probably already pasted that into your fitness app. I’d like to report that after most of a lifetime watching, spouting off and occasionally reporting about Utah and booze, that there has been an equivalence of good come out of it. But I can’t. For every piece of good, there are 10 measures of bad. No matter how far the Utah Legislature

pushes consumers and club owners, it is never enough. A bill before this year’s legislature would require that an officer who arrests a suspected DUI offender ask where the alcohol they consumed was obtained, and to record such information in an incident report. Sorta like, “Ma’am, I see you have an abundance of diapers in your vehicle. I need to know where you bought them.” To lawmakers like Rep. Timothy Hawkes, R-Centerville, sponsor of this silly bill, adults who drink are children. Get real, Tim. If you don’t want alcohol consumed, ban alcohol, but don’t require people to not only answer a silly question (that can readily be answered at a trial), but also one that just begs to create more problems. Like lying. What number of people who are asked that question are going to tell the truth? Would any of you? You’re not going to get a reduced sentence for telling the truth, you know. Any driver could indict any club or restaurant, even ones they didn’t visit, maybe to settle a grudge or to keep a secret. That would only set off another empty goose chase and do nothing to prevent drunk driving or even discover—as is dubiously claimed—what clubs produce the most drunks. Read above, Tim: You’re already able to track drinkers through courts and electronic methods none of us really signed up for. But let’s not change that, because we kind of like knowing there are ways to track smarmy legislators who cheat on their wives, drink in Vegas, finagle a bribe or somehow mistake a gay bar for an election fundraiser. The secret about secrets, Tim, is that, if I’ve learned anything in 35 years of reporting on the state Legislature, someone up there—one of your cohorts—is hiding a grand secret. Here’s my email: john@cityweekly.net. Do tell. CW

HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Vaccine Refugees

It’s hard to know exactly where the Deseret News stands on viruses. “In Our Opinion Viruses Are Bad” could be the headline for one of their editorials. But with the Coronavirus on the move, the D-News seems to be taking a cautious approach, lest it rile up Trump’s base, hurt Utah’s economy, or offend the growing numbers of antivaxxers. First, the front-page story about “vaccine refugees” coming to Utah or Idaho where everyone is so damned healthy because they don’t vaccinate. They just don’t want to, you know, because of autism. This despite the evidence that rare side-effects (one or two out of one million) involve severe allergic reactions—not autism. And the anti-vaxxers are organizing to come to Utah. Then you have an editorial saying the president “went a long way to calming nerves.” Forget the politics and the economy. Focus on the science.

Abortion Blues

A recent state audit targeted poor practices in jails by the Department of Corrections, but did not address complaints from the Utah Prisoner Advocate Network. In October 2019, UPAN offered a document complaining about loss of personal property, lack of educational and recreational opportunities, and inconsistent awarding of privileges. How the system treats prisoners presents a mirror to how we’ll treat them upon release, and how successful they might integrate back into society. Join UPAN to Protest the Utah Dept. of Corrections for Human “Dog Fights!” Families will be on the streets leading to the prison, holding signs to draw attention to prisoner abuse. 14598 S. Pony Express Road, Draper, Saturday, March 7, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., free, bit.ly/2vePWwZ

GIRLS WHO CODE

What does a computer programmer look like? It’s probably not that perfect little girl who has grown up in a world of brave boys. “When we teach girls to be imperfect and we help them leverage it, we will build a movement of young women who are brave and who will build a better world for themselves and for each and every one of us,” says Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code. She will be speaking at the World Leaders Lecture Forum, where she’ll address the persistent gender gap in technology and move the worldwide movement into a new realm. Saujani is an author and hosts an award-winning podcast in an effort to bring light to the issue of inequality. Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Friday, March 6, 11 a.m.-12, free (ticket required), bit.ly/2wMb8dR

CLEAN AIR FAIR

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It’s frustrating to look at the world and think you can do nothing to clean our dirty air. The Clean Air Solutions Fair 2020 will bring fresh ideas to the table with more than 40 exhibitors dedicated to providing resources “for healthy lungs, clean air and a healthier Wasatch Front,” organizers say. The Wasatch Front, despite its majestic mountains, spikes high levels of particulate pollution in winter and ozone in the summer. And Salt Lake City’s air quality is the nation’s seventh worst among large metro areas, a recent analysis by Quote 360 notes. Where government fails, individuals can make changes that matter. You will also hear from nonprofits that are lobbying governments to make vital changes affecting air quality. The Gateway, 12 S. 400 West, Saturday, March 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., free, bit.ly/2whshf7

Why do we need a task force on federalism? Don’t we have a Constitution and a Congress? A Salt Lake Tribune story said some Democrats opposed the so-called bipartisan resolution, mainly because it mentions the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that creates boilerplate bills for legislatures—mostly ultra conservative. Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, whined saying everyone knows the federal government is dysfunctional—and the Legislature isn’t? Despite the few brave Dems opposing, the resolution passed anyway. Are they still confused? CliffsNotes might help: “Federalism is a type of government in which the power is divided between the national government and other governmental unit ...”

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Sen. Luz Escamilla was wrong. Masturbation is not the same as abortion. One is selfpleasuring; the other, a deeply personal, hurtful and difficult procedure. Still, it’s interesting that men are so invested in snuffing out a woman’s right to choose. Those damned stupid women who see abortion as the contraceptive of choice, who don’t have a clue about how to dispose of fetal remains properly, who don’t understand that babies must be born because that’s their duty as women. And, of course, women should have to view their ultrasounds before abortion while men simply park their little genitals outside—along with any financial responsibility. And yet erectile dysfunction is a major national health issue. The Park Record had a story with photos of the two state senators who voted to ban almost all abortions—they are men. One, smiling, Sen. Allen Christensen, R-Ogden, wore a “Tourism Works pin.” It had better. Women seeking abortions might have to take a tour somewhere else. Or use a coat hanger.

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Coronavirus Panic Hits SLC

Elected officials and members of the local Chinese community reflect on the spread of misinformation regarding the illness.

he annual Utah Chinese New Year Celebration is normally a time for celebration among Salt Lake City’s Chinese American community. But this year’s event, held at Skyline High School’s auditorium on Jan. 25, was shrouded in an aura of uncertainty—at least among organizers. “We almost considered canceling the event,” Xiaoming Dong tells City Weekly. “We had just heard the news from China about this brand new virus, so there was a little bit of panic about what to do.” Coronavirus panic would come weeks after. At the time, Dong and a few of the other organizers, contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as the Utah Department of Health for guidance, and ultimately decided to move forward. “They told us to let people know that there’s a potential risk, and that any new travelers from China should stay at home,” he says. “We put up a big sign outside the performance hall, but most people didn’t even know about coronavirus yet. We purchased six boxes of [respiratory] masks and provided them for free, but I believe I only saw two people wearing them. Maybe we were too early.” The evening of the festival, which featured performances by dancers and a choir, there hadn’t been any confirmed cases of coronavirus, also known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), in Utah. In fact, it wasn’t until a few days earlier that the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the disease’s official name, confirming Dong’s suspicion that perhaps some festival attendees were still unaware of it and its rapid spread around the globe. Still, he did see a slight downturn in attendance compared to previous years. “We did see a drop-off in attendance,” Dong says. “Probably about 20% less Chinese people attended this year.” The CDC defines the coronavirus as a respiratory illness that spreads from one person to the next, particularly while they’re

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Accompanied by executive director of the Department of Health Joseph Miner, state epidemiologist Angela Dunn and Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox, Gov. Gary Herbert announced the creation of a statewide coronavirus task force on Monday, March 2. within close proximity to one another. The first identified case took place last December in Wuhan, in east-central China. The following month, Chinese authorities had placed the city’s 11 million residents under quarantine in an attempt to slow the illness from spreading. Common symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath, according to the CDC. In some cases, patients have developed pneumonia in both of their lungs. Cut to March, and as of press time, there have been 92,881 global cases confirmed (118 of those in the U.S.) and 3,168 reported deaths. The rapid spread of the disease—and misinformation around it—prompted Gov. Gary Herbert to call a meeting with fellow lawmakers and prominent members of the business community on Monday, March 2. Held at the Capitol’s Emergency Operations Center, “stakeholders [from] around the state” huddled around small tables, each topped with a Purell hand sanitizer dispenser. “We are hopeful,” Herbert said, adding that he’d just had a conversation with Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading national coronavirus containment efforts. “The risk of America right now is low, but that’s the current situation. The concern we have is what the future is going to be with the spread of this virus.” Herbert encouraged Utahns to put together a family plan should the need to “self-quarantine” arise and joked that his wife, Jeanette, was among those who’d visited big-box stores over the weekend to purchase bulk supplies, like bottled water. “We don’t believe there’s a reason to stock up on water, for example. The water supply is going to be OK, just turn on the faucet,” the governor assured. “That’s the kind of over-reaction that we’re talking about we don’t need to have.”

Previous to the press event, the Utah Department of Health said it was “actively monitoring” any indication of a coronavirus outbreak occurring here, and that “no cases have been confirmed in Utah.” (It only counts cases diagnosed in Utah as Utah cases.) But while Salt Lake City and the state remain free of the disease, the threat has rattled many residents. And there’s a growing stigma associated with the local Chinese community. “We are hoping for the very best outcome but we’re preparing for the worst …” Herbert continued. “There is no state better prepared than Utah. We have a culture of preparedness, we have a culture of caring about your neighbors, our spirit of volunteerism is legendary … and the fact that we have a very fiscally prudent Legislature allows us to have reserves and money and resources available that many states will not have.” This reassurance still hasn’t eased concerns among many in the Chinese community. “I have seen some of the effects it has had,” says Taylorsville Municipal Judge Michael Kwan, chairman of the board of the Asian Association of Utah. “We recently had a tour group of 40 people from China that got turned away from dinner [at a local restaurant],” he continues. “It wasn’t because they were symptomatic, it’s just that people … had heard that they came from China. The group actually had been here for a while—they were driving through Salt Lake City to get to one of the national parks—and were told, ‘Nope, we can’t serve you.’ There was some fear and really a lack of information and awareness of what the real risks [of coronavirus] are.” Such stories are becoming more common across the country, especially in larger cities. For example, in New York City’s

Chinatown, The New York Times reports that many restaurant owners have come face to face with near-empty dining rooms as locals and tourists alike have chosen to avoid them. On the other side of the country in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the city’s famous Chinatown has witnessed a huge economic blow with many locals and tourists avoiding this iconic part of the city entirely. Andrew So, owner of Chinatown Supermarket in South Salt Lake, says he’s noticed a dip in customer traffic during the first few weeks of the coronavirus announcement. However, he says that as people are learning more about the illness, business has picked up. During a recent trip to the sprawling supermarket on a weekday afternoon, it was clear that locals still had a need for frozen dumplings, dried shredded squid and bamboo shoots. The two open checkout lines were several customers deep, and nearly all parking lot spaces were occupied. “In terms of my business, we did see a slowdown at the beginning about two weeks ago” So says. “Based on the news of this outbreak at that time, I understand that it’s human nature for people to be worried about a new, unknown virus, and people would like to protect themselves, their families, and their friends.” Calls to interview owners of three other Asian supermarkets went unanswered. “Right now, we know that there are no known [coronavirus] cases in Utah, and people are starting to learn more about the virus,” So says. “I think that Utah is very well contained, and there’s a very small chance that people will be exposed to it here. We are optimistic that business will remain normal.” CW With information from Enrique Limón

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just messaged me. I gotta go.” Tripping over a backpack, she stumbled from the table and raced to the hall to call her mom. Donna Dewey could hear the distress in her daughter’s voice. “Do you want to come home?” she asked. Maeson said no. She believed she could keep it together and wait until school was over. But after lunch, as she sat down with the other five students in her small U.S. government class, she began sobbing, and called her dad to come pick her up. At that moment, it could be said that her life was changing in the sorts of ways that have become quite common for people in a world in which genetic testing frequently connects adoptees and birth families— sometimes when everyone is ready, and sometimes when they are not. It wasn’t until everyone in Maeson’s family got home, later that evening, that the details started to emerge. And that’s when a tragic story began to unfold.

In 2002, Donna and Jon Dewey flew across the world with their 8-year-old daughter, Megan, to China with six other families. They were all going for the same reason. They were part of a larger phenomenon that began in 1992, when the country implemented a law allowing parents from other countries to adopt Chinese children. A couple hundred Chinese children were adopted into the United States that year. By the time the Deweys brought Maeson home, that number had exploded to 6,000. Still, it had taken 18 months to arrange the adoption, and the Deweys were eager to bring their new daughter home. Their decision to adopt came after experiencing secondary infertility. Donna and Jon had one biological daughter before struggling to conceive a second time, but they desperately wanted another child. The decision to adopt specifically from China was two-fold. In part, it was because Donna is second-generation Chinese. Secondly, it was because they didn’t want to complicate the adoption process by dealing with birth parents. Adopting from China meant the chances of birth parents being involved in

Maeson’s life were slim. “We just didn’t want to share,” Donna thought at the time. Officials told them Maeson’s background information was scarce. Indeed, it was limited to her measurements, what she liked to eat, and how she was found—abandoned at an orphanage, like so many children before her. They never doubted those details. And so, as Donna stood in the lobby of the Lakeside Hotel in Fuzhou, Fujian, holding her new daughter for the first time, “the experience was exactly the same as if I had just given birth to her,” she recalls. “It seems like the minute she was in our arms was the minute she became a part of our family,” Donna says, “and there was never any thought of the fact that she wasn’t biologically ours.” Maeson’s childhood was largely similar to many Utah children. She learned to roll over, talk and walk just like normal, although her style of walking was more of a Frankenstein gait, Donna jokes. She hated it when her big sister tickled her feet and she loved to hang out with friends. She recounts memories of her dad quizzing her on her math with flash cards, and of her taking the cards and throwing them across the room in frustration.

Growing up in Salt Lake City meant Maeson could count the Asians she saw each day on one hand. But while she might not have looked like most of the members of her community, she felt fortunate to have been raised in Salt Lake City by parents who loved her more than anything in the world—especially given the small bits of information she’d been given about her birth, and the assumptions that filled in the gaps. She’d come to terms with the idea that her birth family either couldn’t have taken care of her or, due to China’s restrictive family planning policies, did not have a choice. And so, when Maeson would receive the 23andMe notifications that would frequently announce genetic matches to distant relatives, she simply didn’t care much. But this time was different. It was 11:24 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2018, when it happened. For a moment, she stared in disbelief at her phone while the voices of hundreds of teenagers around her continued to fill the cafeteria. “Holy shit, guys!” she said. “My birth mom

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aeson Dewey was talking with a group of friends in her crowded high school cafeteria when a message popped onto her phone that would change her world. The 17-year-old adoptee had signed up with the DNA testing company 23andMe a year earlier, hoping to better understand her health history. That was her only goal. She had been adopted from China at 10 months old and, sure, she sometimes wondered about her birth family—but not enough to go on a search for them. Her curiosity was limited to a desire to understand her genetic roadmap.

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A DNA test connected a Utah teenager to her mother—and to a story that was almost too tragic to bear.

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There were a few other Chinese adoptees in her elementary school. Their parents arranged groups in which they could get together to celebrate Chinese New Year and practice Chinese crafts. Still, Jon says, Maeson’s upbringing was decidedly western. “Although Donna is Chinese, she was raised in America, so we are pretty American,” he says. “We’ve tried to implement some Chinese traditions in our family but that is not [our] culture.” Those with experience and expertise in international adoptions say a thirst for their birth culture sometimes drives adoptees to search for their birth families. That’s how things went for Linde Welberg, who was born in the same province as Maeson and was adopted from the same orphanage by a family from the Netherlands. At 17-years-old, Linde had walked into her parents’ bathroom while they were brushing their teeth one evening and demanded they search for her birth parents. Although she was grateful to her adopted family, she couldn’t help feeling she was missing something, or a little bit of many things. She wanted to know her birth culture, her heritage, her story. Mieke Welberg felt a deep obligation to help her daughter make those connections, and set to work tracking down as much information as she could. She quickly became famous in Gutian County, where both Linde and Maeson were born. That’s bound to happen when a foreigner arrives, asking a lot of questions and leaving flyers everywhere.

felt so sorry for her,” Welberg says. “I promised her that I would help her. I hoped, of course, that she was my daughter’s mother.” Soon after, however, Welberg found Linde’s birth parents, and her fears were confirmed. Like so many others, they hadn’t wanted to lose their daughter—she’d been stolen. And while there was no way to rectify the crime, it solidified in Welberg a desire to help other Chinese parents find their stolen children. 23andMe is not available in China, but on a trip to meet Linde’s birth parents, Welberg brought one of the company’s test kits and gave it to Qiao Ping. The tube of Qiao Ping’s saliva then traveled with the Welbergs around China, over to Hong Kong and then back to the Netherlands before being sent to America for processing. Welberg managed Qiao Ping’s 23andMe account as proxy and checked every day to see if there was a match. For weeks, there was nothing. In the evening of Oct. 3, 2018, Welberg sat down with a cup of coffee and opened her email. Qiao Ping’s DNA account had matched. Her daughter was Maeson Dewey. It was just after 7 p.m. in the Netherlands when Welberg frantically called her husband at work. “I think we found the mushroom lady’s daughter,” Welberg told him. “I got goosebumps and couldn’t believe my eyes,” Welberg says. “We had found her.”

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As Welberg spent time getting to know the people of Gutian County, both during her visits and long correspondences over WeChat, she began hearing a troubling story. She heard it again and again. Parents told her about their children being taken from them—sold, it was presumed, to orphanages that would adopt them out to western parents who were able to pay thousands of dollars in fees. Even after it was clear that these parents were not related to her daughter, Welberg kept listening. On her visits to China, she began to split her time between trying to find her own daughter’s parents and trying to help the disturbingly large number of people she met who wanted their families to be whole again. Among the distraught parents she met in May of 2017, was Ye Qiao Ping, a mushroom seller from Gutian who had spent years building her business in order to search for— and, she hoped, later provide for—her lost daughter. Her search had taken her across China. “She was desperately searching for her daughter and I

It might be impossible to know how many of the children who have been adopted from China in the past 30 years were in fact part of the booming trade in kidnapped babies—a widespread scandal in which babies were sold to orphanages, often for hundreds of dollars, then adopted out to families willing to pay hefty adoption fees, which would sometimes be in the tens of thousands of dollars. What is clear, is that the prevailing narrative surrounding Chinese adoptions by western families helped set the stage for these crimes. That narrative includes an often inaccurate understanding about China’s so-called “onechild policy,” which began in 1979 as part of an effort to stem the growth of the world’s most populous nation. The policy was modified several times, beginning in mid1980s, for rural Chinese and some ethnic minority groups, but one of the key things many westerners came to believe was that it contributed to a wave of abandoned infant girls, since boys are seen as more valuable in Chinese families. That perception made it easier to convince foreign parents that the girls they were adopting were given up by

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their families. And, indeed, that’s what officials at the orphanage told Jon and Donna Dewey. Maeson, they said, was found on the orphanage doorstep. Maeson grew up with this story. In fact, it gave her comfort. If abandonment was her birth family’s only option, and if her adoptive parents so badly wanted another daughter, hadn’t it worked out for everyone involved? But a few hours after Maeson learned her birth mother was searching for her, that story would begin to unravel. Maeson’s parents and sister stood around her, all too nervous to talk, as Maeson took a deep breath and began to type out a message to her birth mother. “I think I am your daughter.” Send. “I kind of started tearing up. My mom was so stoic but my dad started crying too,” Maeson recalls. “We were all just basically like a hot mess.” From the other side of the world came a response—a long paragraph of Chinese characters neither Maeson nor any of her family members could completely decipher, even with the app’s translation feature. They did understand the gist, however. Qiao Ping was telling the story of what had happened to Maeson 17 years ago. And no, she had not given up her daughter. In fact, Maeson’s birth was not only planned but joyfully anticipated. In the days that followed, the details acquired greater clarity. Qiao Ping’s family had arranged for a midwife to supervise the birth, but complications during labor resulted in a significant amount of blood loss, and Qiao Ping slipped into a coma. Maeson’s father, overwhelmed with caring for an 8-yearold and newborn, reached out to his family and passed her on to relatives who agreed to care for her. Those relatives then passed Maeson off to their neighbors. That’s when the trail goes cold. When Qiao Ping woke up a month later, her new baby girl was not by her side. Qiao Ping named her daughter Ye Lin Yan. And she never stopped looking for her. It was hard for Jon and Donna Dewey to process what happened. “We had first come from a selfish perspective, hoping that we wouldn’t have to share,” Donna says. But having realized what had happened—their unintended complicity in the theft of a child whose family wanted her—how could they stand in the way? They sought advice from Brian Stuy, who is the adopted father of three Chinese children and the founder of Research China, an organization he created to help Chinese adoptees learn about their families and history.

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Sometimes, when Maeson looks at pictures of her birth sister, she wonders how her own life might have been different if she’d never been taken out of China. Although the circumstances of her adoption are unusual, that feeling is not. Jae Ran Kim, a University of Washington professor who researches race and adoption, says international adoptees often endure a “transracial adoption paradox,” in which they must negotiate and navigate two realities: their birth

family and culture alongside their adoptive family and culture. This process of forming an identity that holds space for both is no simple task. “Everyone thinks of adoption as this wonderful thing that solves everyone’s problems, but it’s more complicated and nuanced than that,” Kim says. “There’s a lot of loss associated with it, lots which goes unaddressed.” In an effort to reconcile these two parts, Maeson took Chinese classes in high school, and part of the reason she chose to go to the University of Washington in Seattle was because of the large Chinese population. “I used to count all the Asians I saw in a day,” she says. “I don’t do that anymore.” And Maeson, of course, isn’t just reconciling a transcultural identity—but the very circumstances that made her an adoptee in the first place. Sitting in the busy cafeteria of U of W’s Husky Union Building, she pulls up pictures in her camera roll of her birth mom and sister. Her sister was married last January and, in October, gave birth to Maeson’s nephew. Qiao Ping wants Maeson to come back and visit so she can meet him. Maeson plans to return someday, but she doesn’t know when. She says Qiao Ping has urged her to learn Chinese so she can talk to her family when she returns, but she doesn’t feel confident she can be fluent in Mandarin anytime soon. On top of the life-altering change that came with discovering her birth family, Maeson is navigating her first year in college and her first year living on her own. There’s a lot to do and think about outside of her family; she has homework, roommates and clubs. She chose to keep the story of how she reconnected with her birth family private at first. “I didn’t want people throwing their expectations on them,” she says. “And I didn’t want people to romanticize it, like, ‘Oh, you’re going to have a great relationship with them. It’s going to be so beautiful.’ Because there’s so much at stake when there are too many expectations.” While it’s unclear when exactly she’ll visit China again, Maeson is now preparing to see her birth mom again. She joined the Chinese Student Association and signed up to take more Chinese classes next semester. In the meantime, Maeson gets notifications on her phone from WeChat almost daily. The translations are imperfect, so sometimes, to skip the hassle, just photos are exchanged. On one recent day, Qiao Ping sent a picture of her and her friends at a theme park. Maeson replied with a picture of her eating out with friends. “I wish I could be there,” Qiao Ping replied. “If you weren’t so far away, I’d be cooking you food.” CW

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Although she was 17 when she was first contacted by Qiao Ping, Maeson would wait until she was an adult before traveling to China to meet her birth family. That’s not of small consequence. Had she been younger when her birth mom found her, things might have been different. “Timing is everything, and if this had occurred at any other point in her life, I don’t think the outcome would have been as good,” Donna says. Although Maeson’s age precludes an international custody conundrum, it doesn’t change the emotional implications. “I think at times it can be very overwhelming for her,” Donna says of her daughter, “but she’s able to keep it contained so that it doesn’t spiral and she can keep hold of it and what it means.” The trip was hard on everyone. Maeson says extensive planning began months before, including not just packing and booking flights and hotels, but mental preparation. The Deweys sought mentorship from Stuy, who advised them to manage expectations. “I don’t want to say it’s like a Christmas present, because that denotes a positive reaction and sometimes it’s not,” Stuy says. “It is a shock. However, it is almost always a net-positive. Yes, things will grow slightly more complicated, but that is still in the control of the adoptee.” Stuy told Maeson that it was fine not to feel ready to meet her birth family. When Maeson’s family asked how long they should plan on staying in China, he suggested no more than a couple of days, to minimize the emotional impacts of taking on too much, too fast. They left for China in July. After landing, Maeson and her adoptive family planned to meet her birth family in the lobby of the Lakeside Hotel—the same place her parents had picked her up when she was first adopted. If this was a movie, Qiao Ping might have stepped through the doors and she and Maeson might have burst into tears, running into an emotional embrace. But Maeson says it wasn’t like that at all. If anything, it was emotionally awkward. “She didn’t cry at all,” Maeson says. “And if she would have cried, I probably would have cried—but I didn’t cry either. There was kind of like an awkward side hug. And then a lot of it was, like, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether to go up to her and put my arm around her or sometimes I’d grab her hands, but it wasn’t natural. Like, does she want this right now? What do we do? How do we act around each other?” Jon and Donna stood by, equally unsure of what they should do or how they should act. They were also trying to figure out what to do with the 20 pounds of white peaches that had been offered to them as a welcome gift. Maeson says she noticed almost immediately how similar she and her birth mother looked. “It was trippy,” she points out. “We had similar eyebrows and noses. Our toes were the same.” Qiao Ping and Maeson’s birth father have been split up for years, but Maeson notices her resemblance to him in photos.

The cultural differences, however, were glaring. “The banquets that were held were unbelievable,” Jon says. Some of them had over 70 people. Everyone was celebrating the return of Qiao Ping’s daughter.” The Deweys were showered with gifts, “to the point where we had no room in our suitcases to bring them back,” Jon says. “The generosity and graciousness was so far beyond what we expected. We had brought gifts as well, but they were just tokens in comparison.” Jon says he knew the trip would change many things for their family, but he wasn’t prepared for how much. “When I was younger, I thought that nature and nurture were about 50/50 and your kid is born who they are and you can guide them the other half,” he says. “I don’t believe that anymore. I believe that you are born who you are, nurture can help or hinder, but I believe Maeson was born to handle this. Of course we helped, supported and accepted her, but she was born with a strong foundation.” While initially nervous about how things might change, Donna says she has embraced the new situation. “Now that we have had over a year to process what this means, we have open arms to the situation,” she says. “Her birth family is now part of our extended family because any family of Maeson’s is part of ours.” Whenever she talked with her birth family, they always needed a translator, which Maeson says was frustrating, especially for Qiao Ping. Because they only had two days together, they stayed up late into the night talking until Maeson was half-asleep, but hesitant to tell her mom she wanted to go to bed. “You know, she was just trying to take advantage of the two nights she had with me,” Maeson says. Those nights went by fast, but the Deweys were glad they took Stuy’s advice; Maeson was exhausted. To that point, Maeson had not seen her birth mother show any emotion, but that changed on the day they parted ways. “When I left, she started crying,” Maeson says. “Everyone started crying.”

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“When I adopted my oldest I thought, ‘Wow this is something that needs to happen, these kids need homes,’ and so I got on that train,” Stuy says. “As we dug deeper and deeper, we realized that things were not as ethical as we had all thought. Things changed.” They adopted their youngest daughter in 2004. “We were already pretty aware of the issues in China so we did everything we could to avoid falling into that trap,” Stuy says. “We interviewed the director, got all the information. There was no way this kid would get adopted domestically, and no way this kid got to this orphanage unethically. We were safe. We adopted her and then found out later that it was one of the most egregious, ethics-violating orphanages in China.” Stuy notes that he has dedicated years of research to Chinese adoptions. “Oh my God,” he says, “if we can’t avoid this, nobody can avoid this.”

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Want to begin this weekend with sparkle, drama, music and pazazz? Catch Willam this week at The Complex for a night of drag, dancing and extreme fun. Willam Belli—who prefers male pronouns, and has even courted controversy with comments about transgender pronoun use—has been seen acting and dancing, as well as singing, on RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 4), Nip/Tuck and A Star is Born. He is known to be a jack-of-all trades performer, with work that extends into recording music covers. In addition to the clear love for being on stage, the legendary queen also has some hidden talents—there’s a writer under all that makeup and glitter. In 2016, the performer published his first book, Suck Less: Where There’s a Willam, There’s a Way. The book highlights all of Willam’s wellhoned strategies to “suck less,” both in and out of the drag world. And Willam’s fingers extended into the business world, where he created a perfume called “Scented”—one that reportedly smells like “sandalwood and sex”—as well as a popular vlog on YouTube with almost a 1 million subscribers. Among all of these projects, there’s also his gig co-hosting a podcast along with Alaska Tunderfuck, where the two queens bash on each episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race (go figure). Willam will appear alongside many other incredible drag performers and artists, including Ellissdee, Izzy Lovely, Anna L’Beads, Flora the Kween, Marrlo Suzzanne, Sarah Prollem and Jag. This event is hosted by Gia Bianca Stephens, with beats by DJ Justin Hollister. Doors open at 9 p.m. (Kara Rhodes) Willam @ The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 801-528-9197, March 6, 10:30 p.m., $20, 21+, thecomplexslc.com

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that kidfriendly filmmaking is the exclusive territory of Disney and whatever CGI animation studios make headway into the multiplex marketplace. There’s an entire world of filmed entertainment for children and youth that isn’t part of the Hollywood marketing machine—and if a film festival is about anything, it’s about expanding that notion of the wide world of cinema beyond releases that have fast-food promotional tie-ins. The Utah Film Center’s annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival takes that notion even farther in 2020 by expanding its programming over two weekends. More than a dozen feature films represent documentary, animation and live-action drama, coming from countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Germany and The Netherlands, including the 2020 Sundance Film Festival entry Binti. The festival even reaches out to larger potential audiences by presenting films like the Norwegian stop-motion animated Louis and Luca – Mission to the Moon (pictured) once with English-language dubbing, and once with Spanish-language dubbing. Beyond the films themselves, Tumbleweeds continues to offer young people hands-on experience in how movies are made. Paid, reservationrequired workshops introduce topics like makeup, sound effects and writing a music score; the free drop-in clubhouse includes virtual reality experiences, storyboarding and other artistic projects and installations. For any parent or caretaker wanting to give kids an early lesson in the great big world of movies, there’s no better place. (Scott Renshaw) Tumbleweeds Film Festival @ Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801746-7000, March 6-8 & March 13-15, times vary, $7 per screening; festival passes $35$60; workshops $14; clubhouse activities free, utahfilmcenter.org

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Through 10 years of performing as a comedian and magician, Grant Freeman has created his very own repertoire of debauchery for An R-Rated Magic Show. The self-proclaimed king of comedy magic, Freeman promises a fresh variation on the classical magician stereotype, putting a spin on skills he started acquiring in seventh grade. This is not your average kid-friendly magic show that involves stuffing rabbits into hats and pulling colored handkerchiefs out of wooden boxes. As stated on the event’s official website, this will be the show that will have you asking two questions: “How the fuck?” and “What the fuck?” “The days of magicians wearing top hats and coattails are long gone, but some of the old tricks are still worth doing,” Freeman said to the Beaumont Enterprise in 2018. “In my show, I perform some tricks that are everything from 2,000 years old to completely new. But I make sure that each one is fresh, funny and amazing.” Through An R-Rated Magic Show, Freeman has the freedom and the platform to use raunchy tricks, wisecracks and buffoonery to turn a simple childhood dream into an adult reality. Once you sit down, you’ll know that this is not your grandpa’s magic show. “I tried to create a show that I would want to see,” Freeman said. “I love watching good magic tricks, so I put together the best tricks I could find. I love watching comedy, so I packed the show with as much of it as I could.” (Ashley Stenger) Grant Freeman: An R-Rated Magic Show @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, March 6, 8 p.m., $28-$44, anrratedmagicshow.com

The combo of dinner and dancing has always been compelling, ever since the first caveman put on his finest loincloth, grabbed his missus, grilled up a mammoth-burger and celebrated with a prehistoric cha-cha. Nowadays, it’s about more than cavorting in a cave, as evidenced by Regalia, Repertory Dance Theatre’s annual fundraising extravaganza. The night begins with adult beverages, tasty hors d’oeuvres and an array of auction items, followed by the formal entertainment: performance pieces from five renowned choreographers competing for the chance to create a new work for RDT’s upcoming season. Attendees cast votes using bidding paddles, with funds going toward subsidizing the new commission as well as RDT’s school outreach program, which impacts 50,000 students and teachers throughout the state. “Regalia helps us raise awareness and money for the outstanding Arts-In-Education programs that are at the heart of RDT’s mission,” artistic associate Nicholas Cendese says via email. “It’s an opportunity to show our patrons the amazing work we do every day in the Utah schools. It’s also a way for us to connect and invest in new and upcoming choreographers, while also engaging our patrons and audience in helping select work they want to see on stage.” Dessert and dancing to the music of the Joe Muscolino Band follows. Roaring ’20s garb is suggested, but not required. “Regalia is a showcase of what makes RDT so great,” Cendese adds. “Our mission is to create new work, educate our audience about dance as an art form and build community.” (Lee Zimmerman) Repertory Dance Theatre: Regalia @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-5341000, March 7, 7 p.m., $75, artsaltlake.org

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Space: The Fatalistic Frontier

The optimistic humanism of Star Trek has taken a bleaker 21st-century turn. BY BRYAN YOUNG comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

ou know what future I want to see? The socialist paradise of Star Trek. A world where basic necessities are conjured from thin air, and money is a thing of the past. This is a common refrain when Star Trek fans talk politics. At least that’s the case when I do, and I feel at least mildly representative. From the original series of Star Trek through to Star Trek: The Next Generation, creator Gene Roddenberry shows fans a vision of the bright and shining future we could have as a species. That doesn’t mean a future free from conflict; there is conflict everywhere. But humanity has, by and large, put its own differences in the rearview mirror of history thanks to the power of science and the promise of exploration. Regardless of national origin, race, sex or religious creed, all members of Starfleet worked together for the betterment of

humanity. A Russian (at the height of the Cold War!) shares the bridge with a black woman (in an era of racism and struggles for civil rights!) and others without any undue attention being drawn to it. The shock of seeing a Klingon on the bridge of the Enterprise-C in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds us once again that we can make peace with our enemies. Since the death of Roddenberry in 1991, that optimism slowly eroded, and Starfleet decayed from within. With J.J. Abrams’ alternate timeline of Star Trek on the big screen (known as the Kelvin Timeline), Starfleet becomes even more warlike and destructive. It was only the individuals inside the organization that make small pockets of it great. With the newer series Star Trek Discovery and Picard, the future once again looks as though it’s heading toward the desolate post-apocalypse of Mad Max. I’ve spent a lot of time wondering why, and I don’t think it’s just because of Roddenberry’s passing. I wonder if our present political circumstances have anything to do with that bleak view. When you look at the current tension between the United States and Russia—a war of information and of disinformation—uniting the world feels impossible. It makes sense that such discord might extend far into the future. Over its first two seasons, Star Trek Discovery has given us a look at a Starfleet infiltrated by agents from an alternate universe, bent on domination and sowing discord. The sanctity of Starfleet as an organization we can trust has decayed significantly. In the just-launched Picard, Starfleet is still actively undermining the ideals that it stood for. Jean-Luc Picard, with Patrick Stewart brilliantly reprising his Next Generation role, has left the organization he

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believed in so much, because it left him behind. Although it’s bleak, this version of Star Trek still poses an ethical dilemma. As we learned in the J.J. Abrams films, Romulus was on the brink of explosion. Heroes like Spock and Picard work to save the Romulan people, even though they had been the sworn enemies of the Federation for a generation. But Starfleet withdrew their support in order to maintain their fragile coalition of planets rather than do the right thing. Spock ends up in an alternate timeline for his efforts. Picard was left to do what he could on his own, and subsequently leaves Starfleet in disgrace. While Roddenberry was alive, I could very much see the story going something like this: Starfleet sticks to its morals and saves the Romulans despite the politics, because it’s the right thing to do. They would suffer the consequences, but would do the right thing anyway. In this day and age, however, how can we assume any organization will stick to its ideals? Watching the recent impeachment trial and President Donald Trump’s contempt for the law, it’s hard to imagine humans transcending such bickering and doing the right thing. I’m greatly enjoying these current iterations of Star Trek, don’t get me wrong. The writing is wonderful, the acting is superb and the stories are thrilling. But is it really Star Trek if it’s not showing humanity the best that it can be? Star Trek used to give me hope for the future. Now, it feeds my anxiety about the status quo—and I’m not sure that’s what we need. After all, like another major space franchise reminded us, “Rebellions are built on hope.” CW

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egyptiantheaterogden.com Utah Philharmonia: Exotic Tales with Viktor Valkov, Piano Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, March 5, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Wasatch Symphony: An Evening In France Hillside Middle School, 1825 Nevada St., March 8, 7:30 p.m., wasatchsymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Artist Xi Zhang presents paintings exploring human relationships and struggle through protagonists placed in dream-like landscapes, in Dream Dust Milkshake, on display now through April 12 at Kimball Art Center Main Gallery (1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, kimballartcenter.org)

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom: The Musical Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through April 11, dates and times vary, hct.org Bright Star Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through May 2, dates and times vary, hct.org Dear Evan Hansen Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, through March 14, times vary, saltlakecountyarts.org A Doll’s House, Part 2 Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through March 8, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Grant Freeman: An R-Rated Magic Show Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, March 6, 8 p.m., saltlakecountyarts.org (see p. 14) Gonzo Rising Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., March 8, 7:30 p.m., facebook.com/gonzorisingweirdos The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through March 7, dates and times vary, grandtheatercompany.com Newsies The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., dates and times vary, through March 14, theziegfeldtheater.com Once On This Island Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, through March 7, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org Pinnacle Acting Co.: At the Bottom The Gateway, 31 S. Rio Grande St., March 5-7, 7:30 p.m., pinnacleactingcompany.org Xanadu The Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, times vary, through March 28, empresstheatre.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

BYU Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Night De Jong Concert Hall, 1 University Hill, Provo, March 5, 7:30 p.m., calendar.byu.edu Sketches of Spain Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, March 6-7, 7:30 p.m., saltlakecountyarts.org Sphinx Virtuosi Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, March 11, 7 p.m.,

Big Jay Oakerson Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, March 6-7, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Doughboys Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, March 10, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Mike Quu Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, March 10, 7 p.m.; Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., March 11, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Nick Hoff Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., March 6-7, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Pump & Dump Show Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, March 6-7, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Tom Segura Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, March 5, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

DANCE

Repertory Dance Theatre: Regalia Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, March 7, 7 p.m., saltlakecountyarts.org (see p. 14) University of Utah School of Dance: Gala Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, March 5-21, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu

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

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

International Women’s Day Celebration The Gateway, 90 S. 400 West, March 7, 2-10 p.m., shopthegateway.com Tumbleweeds Film Festival Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, March 6-8, times vary, utahfilmcenter.org (see p. 14)

LGBTQ

1 to 5 Club: Coffee Night Jitterbug Coffee Hop, 855 S. 700 East, second Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m., encircletogether.org Drag Show and Club Night Bottoms Up, 579 W. 200 South, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m., bottomsupslc.com TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Willam The Complex, 534 W. 100 South, March 6, 10:30 p.m., thecomplexslc.com (see p. 14)

TALKS & LECTURES

The Alliance Working in Utah: The Impact and Importance of U.S.-Japan Relations World Trade Center Utah, 60 E. South Temple, Ste. 300, March 10, 11:30 a.m., us-japan-allianceinutah.eventbrite.com Guerrilla Girls Artist Lecture Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, March 9, 7:30 p.m., saltlakecountyarts.org UVU Presidential Lecture Series: Greg Miller Utah Valley University, 800 W. University

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LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Ginger Gaffney: Half Broke: a Memoir The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, March 10, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kathy Kirkpatrick: American Prisoner of War Camps in Montana and Wyoming Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, March 6, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Adrian Stimson: Buffalo Boy Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through May 16, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org Art for Justice Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, dates and times vary, through March 7, modernwestfineart.com As I Figure It... Downtown Artist Collective, 258 E. 100 South, dates and times vary, through March 14, downtownartistcollective.org Beyond the Divide: Merchant, Artist, Samurai in Edo Japan Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through July 5, umfa.utah.edu Comforting Discomfort: Works by Dalila Sanabria and Fiona Barney Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through March 6, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Guerilla Girls Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through June 6, utahmoca.org Hidden Voices: Aesthetics of Change Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, through March 7, uvu.edu Jerrin Wagstaff: Miscellaneous Debris Nox Contemporary Gallery, 440 S. 400 West, Ste. H, through April 3, noxcontemporary.com Many Varied Faces The Loge Gallery at Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, dates and times vary, through March 7, pioneertheatre.org Matt Choberka and Brian Christensen “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, March 10, 10 a.m.6 p.m., through April 11, agalleryonline.com Pompeii: The Exhibition The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, through May 3, dates and times vary, theleonardo.org Salt Lake City Through Teens Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through March 6, slcpl.org Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through April 26, umfa.utah.edu Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, through March 28, moa.byu.edu Trishelle Jeffery: Best Breasts In The West Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through March 21, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org Xi Zhang: Dream Dust Milkshake Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through April 12, kimballartcenter.org (see above) Ya’el Pedroza: Humanocene Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through March 21, dates and times vary, utahmoca.org

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night owls visiting Arempa’s will want to take them up on the “Fuck It” ($14.99). It’s on their secret late-night menu as a dish they created based on their experience serving up hot arepas to spent partygoers. They ask what you want, you say fuck it, so they jam two of their signature proteins into a grilled and sliced cornmeal cake with anything else

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Though I have primarily enjoyed the Venezuelan wondersandwich known as the arepa at a reasonable hour, I can definitely understand its latenight appeal. Nothing quite clears out the mental haze of booze and thrumming dance music like a kettlebell-sized arepa overstuffed with everything that is pure in this unforgiving world, which is why

etting shitfaced on a Friday night often concludes among the tables and counters of late-night pizza joints and 24hour diners. Our bodies tend to crave sustenance that is greasy, melty or otherwise ridiculously carb-heavy in situations like these, and I’d bet those of us who’ve been in that situation downtown have a favorite post-debauchery food haunt. I’m also willing to bet that, beloved as these haunts are to their regulars, there are precious few that will know exactly what to make you when you stumble in at 2 a.m. and yell fuck it! when they ask for your order. That’s where Arempa’s (350 S. State, 385-301-8905, arempas.com) is starting to shine.

experiencing this unconventional interpretation of a sandwich. You’ve also got the cachapa ($10), a kind of cornmeal pancake that gets folded over melted cheese and shredded meat and a variety of empanadas ($3.50-$5) that feature your choice of protein or a daily vegan option. Any fan of Central America’s all-in approach to sandwiches and other meat-stuffed carbs will find something to love at Arempa’s, but the restaurant’s presence here is much more than a place to get a wellmade arepa. This is a place that has brought a little bit of Venezuela’s culinary nightlife to our downtown burg, diversifying our ability to satisfy late-night cravings of all stripes. I will always have a deep love and admiration for midnight pizza runs and 4 a.m. garbage hash cravings, but there’s something equally satisfying about seeing a basket bulging with an obscenely stuffed arepa coming your way in the wee hours of the morning. CW

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kick. I’m a sucker for plantains, so I often seek out the pabellón’s mix of black beans, shredded beef, plantains and cheese. It offers a good blend of complexity for a lunchtime visit, and both arepas pair particularly well with a cold can of Frescolita, a popular Venezuelan strawberry soda that Arempa’s always has on hand. Plantains also feature prominently on the vegan arepa ($8.50) which is a great option for plant-based eaters—they pull no punches with the flavors and textures here. The wildcard of Arempa’s menu is the reina pepiada ($9.50), which is stuffed with a cool avocado chicken salad. It’s heavy on the avocado and mayo, making it ideal for lunch when the weather is sweltering. With the chicken salad becoming a creamy blend of softer textures and flavors, the reina pepiada is a bit of a blank canvas—I recommend hitting it with some hot sauce or adding a bit more salt to ramp up its profile. There’s no shame in only getting arepas when you visit Arempa’s, but it can be fun to venture into other areas of the menu. The patacón ($10.50), for example, is a Venezuelan sandwich made from meat and fresh veggies stuffed between two flattened plantains. There’s no way to attempt this endeavor without making a huge mess of yourself, but that should by no means deter you from

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they think will delay your hangover. When I ordered this secret menu item, the chefs combined grilled chicken and carne asada with the works—slices of creamy avocado and fried plantains layered with shredded lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and melted cheese. It is a ridiculous mockery of sandwich engineering, but it keeps the arepa’s secret weapon of balance prepped and ready to fire. With any arepa, you get a golden ratio of texture and flavor, but I was surprised that such balance remained within the confines of such a gargantuan serving of food. The saltiness of the protein hits first, but before it can completely overwhelm the palate, the avocado, mayo and plantain even things out with creaminess. There’s a different level of crunch in every bite as the crispy edges of the cornmeal cake blend with the cool shredded lettuce and sliced tomato. Altogether, it’s eye-opening enough to send you back into the night in search of the after party. Just because Arempa’s caters to the dark side of city dining doesn’t mean it’s not a completely respectable place to do lunch or dinner. The carne asada ($10.50) and pabellón ($10.50) arepas are my current favorites. The carne asada is a textbook example of simplicity done expertly—the meat is cooked perfectly and the cheese hits it just in time to melt into a gooey side-

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Locals know that Utah chefs can go toe-to-toe with their national contemporaries—but the James Beard Foundation has also started to take notice. The culinary foundation has recognized chefs from five Utah restaurants—a record-setting number—as regional semifinalists in their 2020 awards competition. The list includes Jen Castle and Blake Spalding of Hell’s Backbone Grill, Nick Fahs, David Barboza and Mike Blocher of Table X, Briar Handly of Handle and HSL, Moudi Sbeity and Derek Kitchen of Laziz Kitchen and Peggi Ince-Whiting of Kyoto. The James Beard Foundation will announce finalists on March 25, followed by an awards ceremony in May.

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Ever since the team behind Watchtower Café (1588 S. Main, watchtower-cafe.com) helmed a successful crowdfunding campaign to relocate their digs, the local geek community has anticipated their reopening. The team recently announced that they have cut through the last of the red tape, and are open for business. For those new to the community, Watchtower has made a name for itself as downtown Salt Lake’s most welcoming nerd hangout where indoor kids of all stripes can browse new comic books and enjoy some fresh-brewed coffee and mixed nonalcoholic drinks while playing a board game or two. We’re looking forward to seeing what Watchtower 2.0 has to offer.

Bar George Becomes Event Space

The folks at Bar George (327 W. 200 South, 801441-2168, bargeorgeslc.com) recently announced that they will no longer be a walk-in gastropub. Instead, they plan on relaunching the space as an event venue in which groups can book their expert culinary services for private gatherings. As part of the Pago Restaurant Group, the decision to turn Bar George into an event space would allow them to diversify their downtown offerings. If you’ve ever been inside Bar George and seen the amount of effort and nuance they’ve put into the décor, the decision will make sense to you. It’s full of chic aesthetic that pays homage to Utah’s heritage while remaining hip and modern.

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Two brews that aren’t what they first seem to be. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

ords can occasionally have more than one meaning. For example, “bark” can be a tree’s outer layer, or the sound a dog makes. Beer can sometimes fit into this mold as well. Stylistically, you might know your lager or ale in one way, but when you order something called a “lager” or “ale,” you might get something else entirely. This week’s beers are classified as one thing, but turn out to be surprising in what they actually are. SaltFire Brewing Co. Saison De Trahision (black currant, black cherry): This is easily the most vibrant and genuine use of this fruit I have ever seen in a saison.

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The color is quite vibrant—beet purple in hue, maybe just a shade lighter toward pink, with a head that’s lively and it holds its foam really well. It smells like tart fruit and candy, without much saison yeast. The fruit is amazing, like a handful of almost ripe black currants. It’s both sweet and tart, and has some good acidity. The cherry makes itself known with that classic stone fruit nuttiness, and while it takes a bit of a backseat to the currants, it’s nonetheless noticeable. At this point, the saison yeast becomes more prominent, yet still fairly subtle, with mild spicy clove and some additional pepperiness. The whole package ends up coming off more tart than sweet, while capturing the essence of the fruits very well. The finish is somewhat dry, allowing the mostly fermented-out fruit to carry a wine-like dryness. Overall: This is a rather nice take on a fruity saison. The tangy and earthy saison profile is almost coated by its sweet, fruity qualities, which don’t kill the dryness but remain lingering in the background. It works well whether or not you’re a fan of saisons. Fisher Brewing Co. Old Growth: This rye pale ale is unfiltered, which gives a hazy appearance (not murky or turbid) to its peachy-tawny hue with gold highlights. After some delay, I got around to smelling this beer, and got whiffs of citrus and pine aromas. It’s lovely, but not potent; the rye is noticeable as well, along with hints

of grain, followed by some fruitiness like peaches and oranges. It’s not a talkative nose, but I understand what it is saying. The palate is charming, but I am a sucker for rye and West Coast hops, which make for a phenomenal mix. The rye influence is not huge, but it’s easily noticeable and quite tasty. I really like the spice it adds. The hopping is solid as well; there is a good amount of citrusy flavor and a trace of spruce. This is the focal point of the beer, and it lasts until the end. At the finish, the malt came forward, imparting caramel sweetness. The aftertaste is heavy on the rye and hops, pleasantly dry and bitter. As I got to the end of the beer, I notice that it tasted much sweeter at room tempera-

ture—almost like a peach nectar. I kind of like this new characteristic. Overall: This isn’t an over the top rye beer. It’s fairly subtle, yet undeniably ryeforward, which makes it a winner in my book. If you’re expecting a hop bomb with an intense rye hit, this one isn’t it. It’s subtler, more nuanced and incredibly delicious. One of the nice things about SaltFire is that even though they are transitioning to 16-ounce cans from 16-ounce bottles, they still provide smaller beer pours, and don’t require you to buy the whole can upon your stay at the brewery’s pub. One of the nice things about Fisher Brewing is you always know where their beer can be found: only at the brewery. As always, cheers! CW

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As much as I love seeing what’s new in the local dining scene, I can’t help but be drawn to places that were part of our food culture before we even really had a food culture. The Railroad Bill ($10.99, pictured)—previously the Salazar Special—consists of a cheese enchilada and a chile verde burrito with a side of rice and beans, and it’s the best way to experience what Salazar’s is throwing down. It introduces diners to the Salazar family’s vibrant crimson enchilada sauce and their smoky pork chile verde, both of which are excellent. The basic components of the burrito and enchilada are universal, but the sauces here pack a bit more nuance. 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, 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. Reviewed Jan. 16. 3325 S. 900 East, 801-485-0172

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ing a licensing arrangement for a particular aspect of the bridge that had already been patented—by, of all people, Nokie Edwards of pioneering 1950s rock band The Ventures—The KSM Foundation Bass Bridge was finally born. While discussing the bridge’s construction, Moore’s enthusiasm for the end result is as clear as his understanding of his customers’ needs. “If you came up with the ultimate guitar bridge, it would be something that was solid, and did not move or have any soft components that vibrated,” he explains. “But, unfortunately, a solid piece of metal can’t be adjusted. … Since you have lots of different string gauges on the market, and people have their own preferences for how high or low they want their strings, you have to have adjustability. So [with] this bridge, you loosen it up from its solid state to adjust it, then you tighten it back down into one solid piece after it’s all adjusted. … With the material and the construction, we’ve really achieved the best of everything.” Looking ahead to the future of the business, Moore has high hopes for the store and his bass bridges. “For the bridge, my hopes and dreams are to one day have a little office somewhere and people on the phone all the time taking orders for it,” he says, “As far as the store goes, I just hope we’re able to continue to be the No. 1 music store in Cache Valley.” Hampton agrees on both fronts, saying, “I think it’d be great to have that bridge as a consistent thing in the background, to keep having orders coming and hopefully a national audience that we’re attracting while we’re doing our business here. Of course, we’d like to grow and expand, have more and more people in here, and have a more diverse selection of instruments, or just expand on the lines we currently carry.” But at the end of the day, Hampton makes clear one thing: “Overall, we want more and more people thinking we’re the best shop in town.” If KSM keeps up its efforts to nourish the music scene around them, they should have no trouble getting there. CW

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n a small-town music scene, every little bit counts. Places like Salt Lake City and even Provo can rely on their largeish populations to produce a diverse crop of local talent and a dependable audience to turn up to shows. But in a town like Logan, the local music community depends wholly on all hands being on deck, whether you’re a fan, a performer, a venue owner … or even a guitar shop. Cache Valley’s best (and only) full-service music store, KSM Music (50 W. 400 North, Logan, 435-7536813, ksmmusic.com), has had its hands on deck for nearly 2 1/2 decades, both promoting music and making it stronger with products of its own invention. General manager Chris Hampton emphasizes that KSM’s obligations to local musicians go beyond simply supplying them with instruments, amps and the occasional tune-up: “We try to sponsor the artists— not only the local events, but also just anything they’re putting on, to try and make sure the band thrives.” He adds that it’s their goal to help “get people to show up, or anything else that helps [a band] to continue to be a band.” That above-and-beyond attitude manifests in many ways: a community bulletin that allows musicians to connect and find people to perform or play with; lessons that encourage younger players to hone their skills; an annual songwriting competition that brings together talent from all over the area for two days each year to share and compare their art. “A lot of it is just being here and helping to inspire people, whatever we can do to do that,” owner Kevin Moore says. He relates a recent interaction where a customer thanked employee John Starn for the store’s efforts, after her daughter’s involvement in their songwriting contest encouraged her to continue playing and writing music. “I’ve seen a lot of these kids continue to do the competition year after year, and get into bands and pursue their musical careers just because of a competition that we hold,” Hampton says. “Small things like that can really make a difference.” KSM staff puts a lot of effort into building bridges within the Logan music community, but they’re also bridge-builders in a much more literal sense. Moore—who founded the store to market guitars he built as a hobbyist luthier—developed as a sort of passion project his own patented design for a bass guitar bridge, the metal part at the bottom of the instrument connecting the strings to the body. “I had seen a lot of guitars and basses come across my repair bench that had bad bridges … In fact, every instrument had a bad bridge, because they don’t make good bridges!” he says. “I had complaints all the time about it going out of adjustment, the strings not sounding good, all the complaints that come along with bridges, and I started thinking, ‘Well, why hasn’t anyone developed a bridge that fixes all these problems?’” After years of trial-and-error, failed prototypes and negotiat-

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S2_Cool, Le Dad, Teilani

Stuart Maxfield is the man behind the experimental electro-pop act S2_Cool, one of Provo’s … well, coolest acts right now. Laced in equal parts with winking synths and funked-out slap bass, he effortlessly synthesizes grooviness with indie-pop aesthetics.

These qualities are immediately apparent on tracks like “Girl No Pressure,” which opens up his chill 2019 release Flavor—a hidden local gem that hopefully everyone in Provo is listening to, and everyone in SLC should listen to if they’re not already. His work, more than anything. recalls the dreaminess of synthpop expert Toro Y Moi minus the sad boy vibes, and includes a little extra weirdness á la the changeable, experimental guru Young Guv for good measure. Before that release, he’d collaborated with Laura Lamn on clubby tracks like “Boyfriend” and “Move Like You Mean It” in 2017, and remixed the incredibly boppy track “Fun” by Kaskade the following year. After all that, Maxfield has another fulllength release, Shun the Yuck, due out Friday, March 6. It features a slew of collaborators contributing percussion, vocals, horns and piano, among other things, and indicates what must be a real dynamic piece of work for the electronic beat-slinger. The album release show will feature fellow locals Le Dad—whose boy-band vocals throw standard moody-boy internet electronica for a loop—and neo-souldriven, soft pop artist Teilani. If you want a night of truly hip and compelling tunes, don’t miss this show. (Erin Moore) Velour, 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 7:30 p.m., $10, all ages, velourlive.com

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American rock duo Best Coast is on the road in support of their newly released album Always Tomorrow. Described as a “story of a second chance,” this record is a self-reflection of songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Bethany Cosentino’s 10-year career, and her journey from a life of partying to sobriety. In 2009, Cosentino was a college-dropout who had started sending songs to childhood friend and future guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. This collaboration rapidly turned into the band the indie world now knows and loves. Now on their fifth record, they’ve

S2_Cool created an album that is a kind of successful trust fall from the platform that was created by their critically-lauded 2015 album California Nights. The new album creeps into an early aughts alternative sound with a proto punk attitude, providing its individual edginess. “Fine Without You” is one of the album’s hard-hitting tunes, completed by romantic lyrics that contain a slant of independence and themes of the empowerment of going it alone. The first single from Always Tomorrow, “Different Light,” is a strong alt-rock-styled song with rolling rhythm, shrilling solos and heavily driven drums. The lyrics involve seeing life through a sober lens and give a hopeful perspective, while still pushing the high energy with distortion cutting through the upbeat vocal melodies’ production. Joining Best Coast on tour is the rigid indie band Mannequin Pussy. Their lingering tension between sounds of sweetness that lead to explosiveness swallows the audience without a chance to escape, making them an ultimate touring opener. This kind of sonic combination in one night creates the perfect space to explore and accept your inner angst. (Kenzie Waldon) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $20, 21+, metromusichall.com

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Soul Asylum haven’t been the most consistent bunch over the course of their 30-plus year career, but there’s ample reason for the band’s on-again, off-again trajectory. Leader and founder Dave Pirner has, at times, a tendency to wander off on his own, while the untimely death of bassist Karl Mueller from cancer in 2005 naturally short-circuited the band’s progress as well. Still, given their early post-punk credentials—a status they shared with such like-minded ensembles as Green Day and, to a lesser extent, Nirvana and other members of the grunge crowd—they deserve credit for having transitioned from an initial template built on anarchy and excess to a status that brought them proximity to mainstream success. That result was due in large part to major label affiliation, and a subsequent series of albums that spawned their big breakthrough. While the eight-year gap between 1998’s Candy from a Stranger and 2006’s The Silver Lining, caused in part by Mueller’s illness and death, impacted that trajectory, a spate of new albums released over the past decade— the aptly dubbed Delayed Reaction and Change of Fortune and now, an upcoming offering (also tellingly-titled), Hurry Up and Wait—indicates that Soul Asylum are recommitted. Also stay tuned for Pirner’s upcoming memoir, Loud, Fast, Words, a collection of lyrics and stories about the songs. Now, with able support from similarly resilient rockers Local H, it’s an excellent opportunity to experience them first-hand. (Lee Zimmerman) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8:30 p.m., $28 presale; $30 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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When everyone’s internal clock strikes 5 p.m., a collective rumbling begins, making people want to escape to their own personal oasis—perhaps a sunny beach somewhere with endless margaritas and good tunes to relax to and have a good time. If that vision sounds appealing, local indie-pop band Midnight Palm is the one to create the atmosphere of this beach-hut haven. Their dreamy psych style has made them regulars at local venues the last two months. Their current hustle in the SLC music scene has been accompanied by their first foray into recording their own music, an experiment that seems promising so far. One original song, “I Don’t Die,” features a surf rock beat, with guitarist and lead vocalist Gwynnejamen Franklin keeping the electric rhythm alive with heavy distortion and highly energetic vocals. Their cover of John Grant’s song “Outer Space” is a slow and solemn rendition featuring soothing harmonies that are comfortably intimate. Their live presence is distinctive, too—the frontwomen wearing matching attire like cheetah print jumpers and pink bob wigs, gives a happy hour vibe and establishes a space of carefree inclusivity. Kickstarting the night will be the garage indie beats of Beach Death, the alternative blues of Downtown Lovenote Massacre and Mark & Grey of the local rock band Heavy Rollers, all boiling up to the blistering summertime feel of Midnight Palm. It will be a Sunday well spent to salute the weekend away. (KW) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 7 p.m., free, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Up-and-comers Moodlite have been busy. The four-piece are a little over a year old, and have been making slow-but-steady pace with song releases and shows around the valley. The group has a rather romantic history. The three original members—friends Tor Carlson, Evan Fleming and Katya Schweiner—continued their college interest in music production into a long-distance jam-when-we’re-together relationship that resulted in Schweiner leaving her career track in California to return to Utah to work on music full time (see more in our Jan. 30 feature). With the addition of bassist Sean Eckel, they’ve been able to round out their electro-soul sound and push forward with singles like the newly released “Jaded,” which moves a little past their signature smoldering aesthetic towards a more pulse-racing pace. The expertly-produced music easily translates to a live experience, which makes them a great pair with fellow local hustlers Brother. The Provo-based group have been active for quite a while, and have undergone some real changes in the time since they started out. Their 2016 album Volume I featured folky harmonies and spare instrumentals, an acoustic guitar at the forefront, falling in line with a lot of what was happening in Provo at that time—but it holds up as pretty, ear-catching stuff. They began switching gears in 2018 with altogether rockier, moodier singles (think Band of Horses with some grit) that led up to the 2018 EP Volume II and their jam-meets-chill 2019 single “Don’t Worry.” Stephanie Mabey, another long-time working artist, opens and could present either side of her musical personality— dramatic, wistful songstress, or experimental, whimsical protagonist of her own wildly-spun stories. Be sure to catch these three distinctive and special locals live together at Soundwell’s equally special new concert series, Hive Live. (EM) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 8 p.m., $5, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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I got the idea to get some wine when I was at a friend’s house. I sat across from my friend Michael and watched him sip a fragrant, likely-cheap boxed wine. I could have asked for some, but something held me back—and so, upon leaving, I decided to visit BTG Wine Bar for the first time. Once settled in the elegant street-level demibasement below Caffé Molise, I decided I’d better order a flight … and some food. I asked the waitress what flight I should get, and she pointed out the Italian Gems. I also ordered some focaccia and burrata, because all I’d eaten in the last few hours were some olives from Caputo’s and some fancy new brand of Spanish potato chips that are all but soaked in olive oil. So, why not continue the fanciness? The flight came first, and the first thing I noticed upon sniffing the rim was, “Wow, this smells like grapes!” Then I thought, “Duh, it smells like grapes.” It was sweet and easy to start, and the bread when it arrived was warm and salty. I eventually made it to my second glass, the Poliziano Merlot, which made me raise my brows; it was dry, almost bitter, and I felt it in my chest, which was good since the bread was soaking up my buzz. Nearby, a woman much older than me was working on a flight of white wines and also eating from a small plate—a vision of my future self. I left BTG with the taste of the last wine—a musty, funky classic red—on the back of my tongue still, and I felt gratitude for a place that’s allowed to set three glasses of wine in front of you. Those six whole ounces were much better than my friend’s box wine, I’m sure. (Erin Moore) 404 S. West Temple, 801-359-2814, btgwinebar.com

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or virtually the entire 25 year history of Pixar’s feature films, there’s been a running joke about the formula for its world-building. As wonderfully crafted and emotionally affecting as those films have been, they all seemed to start from a very similar place: What if toys had feelings? What if insects had feelings? What if monsters had feelings? What if cars had feelings? What if feelings had feelings? The sameness was forgivable because the films themselves were so good, because the anthropomorphized settings they imagined were so richly conceived and because the setting felt intrinsic to the story being told. Pixar movies worked because the gimmick never felt like just a gimmick. Onward introduces itself in a way that feels comfortably familiar—What if fantasy creatures had feelings?—and ultimately builds to an attempt at real emotional resonance. Yet there’s something profoundly disappointing about Onward, in a way distinct even from its least successful previous films like Cars 2 and The Good Dinosaur. It’s a narrative that treats its universe almost with a shrug, never offering a compelling reason why this story needed to be told in this setting. That setting is a city called New Mushroomton, populated entirely by the kind of creatures you’d find strolling through a Dungeons & Dragons campaign: elves, trolls, dragons, centaurs and so forth. The focus is on a pair of elf brothers—timid teenager Ian

(Tom Holland) and boisterous “gap year” young adult Barley (Chris Pratt)—whose personalities have evolved quite differently in the wake of their father’s death before Ian was born. But they get an unexpected opportunity when the discovery of a wizard staff leads to a half-successful attempt to bring Dad back to life for a single day—he manifests as a pair of animate pants topped by a mystical sparkle—and launches a road trip for the magical object that will allow a fully-formed Dad to appear. What follows is vintage mismatchedbuddy-comedy stuff, built mostly around the clash between Ian’s instinct to play things safe and Barley’s enthusiasm about undertaking a real-life quest along the lines of the role-playing games he adores. Neither role is a stretch for the respective voice actors—Holland the squeaky adolescent, Pratt the good-natured doofus—but they have a satisfying enough chemistry that their scenes together carry Onward a fairly long way. They have to, because it’s not easy to connect to everything else that’s going on here.

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But I’m here to tell you that scale. Acknowledge that some of the people and ideas and art and situations you can’t appreciate are not necessarily faulty it’s crucial to your next ascent. Let it work its subtle magic. or wrong or inadequate. Their value may simply be impossible for you to recognize. It’s a perfect time for you to undertake this TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are most likely to be in sweet alignment with cosmic humble work. I suspect it will be liberating. rhythms if you regard the next three weeks as a time of graduation. I encourage you to take inventory of the lessons you’ve been SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): studying since your birthday in 2019. How have you done in your Scorpio-born Ralph Bakshi has made animated films and TV efforts to foster interesting, synergistic intimacy? Are you more shows for over 60 years. His work has been influential. “I’m the passionately devoted to what you love? Have you responded biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world,” he says. brightly as life has pushed you to upgrade the vigor and rigor Milder versions of his experience are not uncommon for many of your commitments? Just for fun, give yourself a grade for Scorpios. People are prone to copying you and borrowing from you those “classes,” as well as any others that have been important. and even stealing from you. They don’t always consciously know Then—again, just for fun—draw up a homemade diploma for they’re doing it, and they may not offer you proper appreciation. I’m guessing that something like this phenomenon may be happening yourself to commemorate and honor your work. for you right now. My advice? First, be pleased about how much clout you’re wielding. Second, if anyone is borrowing from you GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you ready to seize a more proactive role in shaping what without making the proper acknowledgment, speak up about it. happens in the environments you share with cohorts? Do you have any interest in exerting leadership to enhance the well- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): being of the groups that are important to you? Now is an excel- “Vainly I sought nourishment in shadows and errors,” wrote lent time to take brave actions that will raise the spirits and author Jorge Luis Borges. We have all been guilty of miscalculaboost the fortunes of allies whose fates are intermingled with tions like those. Each of us has sometimes put our faith in people yours. I hope you’ll be a role model for the art of pleasing oneself and ideas that weren’t worthy of us. None of us is so wise that we always choose influences that provide the healthiest fuel. That’s the while being of service others. bad news, Sagittarius. The good news is that you now have excellent instincts about where to find the best long-term nourishment. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was an influential intellectual and literary critic. One of his heroes was another CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): influential intellectual and literary critic, Edmund Wilson. On one Poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “When a woman tells the truth she is occasion, Trilling was using a urinal in a men’s room at the New creating the possibility for more truth around her.” I believe this School for Social Research in New York. Imagine how excited he same assertion is true about people of all genders. I also suspect was when Wilson, whom he had never met, arrived to use the that right now you are in a particularly pivotal position to be a urinal right next to his. Now imagine his further buoyancy when candid revealer: to enhance and refine everyone’s truth-telling by Wilson not only spoke to Trilling but also expressed familiarity being a paragon of honesty yourself. To achieve the best results, I with his work. I foresee similar luck or serendipity coming your way encourage you to think creatively about what exactly it means for soon: seemingly unlikely encounters with interesting resources you to tell the deep and entire truth. and happy accidents that inspire your self-confidence. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Through some odd Aquarian-like quirk, astrologers have come LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Poet Conee Berdera delivered a poignant message to her most to harbor the apparently paradoxical view that your sign is ruled valuable possession: the flesh and blood vehicle that serves as by both Saturn and Uranus. At first glance, that’s crazy! Saturn sanctuary for all her yearnings, powers and actions. “My beloved is the planet of discipline, responsibility, conservatism, diligence body,” she writes, “I am so sorry I did not love you enough.” Near and order. Uranus is the planet of awakening, surprise, rebelthe poem’s end she vows “to love and cherish” her body. I wish lion, barrier-breaking and liberation. How can you Aquarians she would have been even more forceful, saying something like, incorporate the energies of both? Well, that would require a “From now on, dear body, I promise to always know exactly what lengthy explanation beyond the scope of this horoscope. But I you need and give it to you with all my ingenuity and panache.” will tell you this: During the rest of the year 2020, you will have Would you consider making such a vow to your own most valuable more potential to successfully coordinate your inner Saturn and your inner Uranus than you have had in years. Homework: possession, Leo? 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Extreme Measures Tensions are running high in China, where the coronavirus has affected thousands of people and sparked instances of panicbuying. AFP reports that supermarkets have experienced runs on staples such as rice and pasta, but in Hong Kong, a gang of men wielding knives attacked a delivery driver in Mong Kok on Feb. 17, making off with hundreds of rolls of toilet paper worth about $130. Police said the missing rolls were recovered, and two suspects were arrested. Locals seemed baffled, with one woman telling a TV station, “I’d steal face masks, but not toilet roll.”

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