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SOAP BOX Protect the Badge and the Truth

Every day, police officers have to focus on the routine but meaningful work that comes with the badge. But hanging over every mundane moment is the dreadful specter that everything could go wrong in the blink of an eye. If it does, the officer is forced to decide in that moment if they should pull a trigger. An entire career could be spent with care, diligence and honor, and it could all be called into question by a few seconds of decision making. As journalists, we don’t pretend to know what that kind of responsibility is like, nor do we mean to diminish it. We understand the gravity of that work and understand why it’s easy for officers to chafe at the scrutiny that comes with a critical examination of police shootings. For journalists, however, the eye is always to understanding the truth of a situ-

ation—we know that the truth leads to better outcomes for everyone. Right now Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden, is readying well-intended legislation that unfortunately will lead to bad results. Right now, there is a kind of document known as a “Garrity statement.” The name refers to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives law enforcement officers the same constitutional protections against self-incrimination as all Americans. It also gives police departments the ability to legally compel their officers to make a statement and cooperate with internal investigations with the assurance that these internal statements cannot be used against them in a criminal proceeding. These internal Garrity statements help a department know if the officer followed policy or strayed from it at the critical moment that force is used. But Rep. Wilcox wants to hide Garrity statements from

@SLCWEEKLY view, removing the public’s ability to hold departments accountable for when officers aren’t going “by the book.” Critics will argue that if made public, these statements could harm the work of law enforcement. As journalists, we couldn’t disagree more. Keep in mind, these records can’t be used against an officer in court. A Garrity statement could be embarrassing to an officer—but it would not put them behind bars for a bad mistake. A Garrity statement is also the ultimate proof of a department that is run right and trained well. It provides definitive evidence of a policy followed and executed properly. More than half of all U.S. states consider these documents public records, including Florida, Arizona and Texas. Police face a daunting and difficult job, perhaps more challenging than it has been in a generation. They need all the help they

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THE BOX

What was the worst advice anyone ever gave you? Carolyn Campbell

Don’t worry how much it will cost

Scott Renshaw

From my freshman college adviser, when I told her I was interested in journalism. “Oh, you don’t want to go into journalism,” she said, which sent me on a circuitous path that took me more than 10 years to recover from.

Benjamin Wood

Two-way tie between “First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith” and the old journalism chestnut, “If everyone’s mad at you, you probably did something right.”

Katharine Biele

Learn shorthand. Enough said.

Mikey Saltas

Don’t buy Bitcoin—it will never get to $1,000.

Jerre Wroble

Do what you love. The money will follow.

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OPINION

Words of the Year “W

ords, words, words.” So replied Hamlet when his girlfriend’s conniving father asked what he was reading. Some people would argue he is dissembling. But because I pay attention to words, I take his opaque answer more as a rallying cry for close readers. In other words—words matter. The English lexicon comprises about 170,000 words. Neologisms—newly minted words—are added at the rate of 900 a year. Some of them gain traction; many don’t. Thousands of words, perhaps as many as 45,000, are now missing in action. The list includes “lunting,” which means to take a walk and smoke a pipe. In my salad days, in an age when smoking Marlboros was cool, I considered buying Gauloises, the cheap French cigarettes popularized by hip beatnik writers. I couldn’t find them in Salt Lake City, so I bought a meerschaum pipe instead and lunted occasionally. I didn’t know I was lunting at the time, and I soon gave it up to pursue hipster status in a rumpled tweed sport coat, corduroy pants and desert boots. These days, Hamlet-inspired word mavens like me look forward to December each year. Not long after City Weekly publishes its annual Best of Utah edition, the American Dialect Society announces the word of the year—known by the acronym WOTY in bookish precincts. Four dictionary companies do the same. The selections are based on usage and the number of lookups on company websites. Some words are recent coinages. Some, which have been long neglected, are thrust into the limelight by such events as the attack on the government by Trumpist thugs. Hence, the choice of “insurrection” as the 2021 WOTY. A press release provided the rationale: “At the time, words like ‘coup,’ ‘sedition,’ and ‘riot’ were used to describe the disturbing events at the Capitol, but ‘insurrection’—a term

BY JOHN RASMUSON for a violent attempt to take control of the government—is the one that many felt best encapsulates the threat to democracy experienced that day.” Another of the year’s salient events was the Omicron surge. No surprise that “vax” was the Oxford Dictionary’s WOTY. The dictionary company reported that usage increased 70fold as compared to 2020. The word has also spawned as many variants as COVID-19 itself. There are “vax cards” for the “fully vaxed” and “Fauci ouchies” administered at drivethru “vax sites.” “Double vaxxed” made the Collins Dictionary’s list of WOTY runners-up. “Vaccine” was Merriam-Webster’s WOTY. The noun, whose lexical roots reach back to the mid-1800s, was also shortlisted by Dictionary.com. According to Merriam-Webster, the word “really represents two different stories. One is the science story, which is the remarkable speed with which the vaccines were developed. But there’s also the debates regarding policy, politics and political affiliation.” At Dictionary.com, “allyship” got the nod for WOTY 2021. Engaging in allyship is defined as supporting a marginalized group of which you are not a member. The noun has social justice overtones. The response of some men to the #MeToo movement and the white supporters of Black Lives Matter are two examples, but it is also true that Utah’s longsuffering Democrats could use some allyship from their Republican overlords. Finally, from Collins Dictionary, comes “non-fungible token” (NFT) as its surprise WOTY. NFT is as arcane as the blockchain technology that enables it. An NFT establishes ownership of digital artwork, or, in Melania Trump’s case, a share of the First Lady memorabilia she is now peddling. I’m at a loss to explain the how or the why of NFTs. They remind me of the credit default swaps—understood by neither buyer nor seller—that played a role in the financial crisis of 2008. Those are the five 2021 winners, then—insurrection, vax, vaccine, allyship and NFT. Taken in the aggregate, these words provide a cultural marker, a snapshot of that which is uppermost on the public’s mind. In the shadows beyond the

limelight, however, the short-listed words bide their time like understudies waiting for a summons. The 2021 runnersup included work-at-home “Zoomers,” opting for elastic at the waist instead of “hard pants,” plus “Critical Race Theory,” “woke,” “cisgender,” “doomscrolling” and “infrastructure.” There is also a handful of words that surface in punditry. The current crop includes “top-of-mind,” “double-down,” “gaslight” and “one-off.” Verbing nouns is one source of these fad words. As in: “Fearing being primaried in the primary, Republican officeholders kowtow to Trump.” And as with any fad, most will soon fall by the wayside as did the once-popular “hair on fire” and “throw under the bus” (as Trump did to Jeff Sessions, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus, Mike Pence and other loyalists). It is also possible Hamlet’s words were intended to obfuscate. That’s what Utah congressmen Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens have done at every turn, especially in defense of their deplorable “no” votes on the 2020 election results. Obfuscation was also deployed to explain how Never-Trumper Sen. Mike Lee drank the MAGA Kool-Aid. Utah’s pols evidently believe that if you use the same words over and over, they take on the golden veneer of truth—but it’s fool’s gold. I suppose it is also possible that Hamlet’s “words, words, words” are the equivalent of “blah, blah, blah.” Owens disparages left-leaning guys like me as “whiners, weenies and wimps.” To which I say: Blah, blah, blah. A Republican congressman from Georgia insists the Jan. 6 insurrection was “a normal tourist visit.” I say: Blah, blah, blah. When Utah’s likeable governor lapses into “golly-gosh, pretty-please” mode, I say: Blah, blah, blah. When a child is killed by an AR15 and the grieving parents get politicians’ “thoughts and prayers,” I say: Blah, blah, blah. The blather and obfuscation are exhausting. Like Hamlet, we have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for too long. We need fewer words and more action. CW Send comments to editor@cityweekly.net.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: More Fees for Records

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Ours is a here-we-go-again Legislature, because no issue is ever laid to rest. Enter the public records debate—emphasis on the public part. “Public” officials really, really don’t like people getting into their business and requesting documents that might clarify questions they have. The news media is painfully aware as governments continue to charge for “searches” that might easily be done virtually. Still, media organizations relented that some poor soul might have to spend a few minutes to find something, and so they’re willing to pay for any excessive time. Now Rep. Dan Johnson, R-Logan, wants to change the Government Records and Management Act to allow charges for the first 15 minutes of a search. The big surprise in this debate came from Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding. “When you put in a new fee like this, it sends a strong message that, you know, the government is in charge of this and they’re not going to be controlled by the people,” KSL News reported. “And I think the people want to send a strong message to the government that the people are in charge of it, they’re not going to be controlled by the government.” It passed out of committee anyway.

MISS: Paying for Private Ed

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Just when there’s talk about closing schools, the Legislature pivots back to its tired argument for school vouchers— like the ones the public soundly rejected in 2007, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Robert Gehrke reminds. But never mind, Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Sandy, wants to divert $36 million in taxpayer funding to private education. Yeah, a Dan Jones poll now finds that lots of people want that money to go to private ed. Cullimore says the thinking has changed, and he’s right. Parents now want to sue individual teachers if they’re teaching something parents don’t like. “A chief reason for public education cited by Jefferson and other early leaders was the need to produce citizens who would understand political and social issues, participate in civic life, vote wisely, protect their rights and freedoms and keep the nation secure from inside and outside threats,” according to the Center on Education Policy. In other words, it’s about democracy, which is not something Republicans like.

HIT: Lakebed Property

It’s no Great Salt Lake, but Utah Lake is having its moment. If the public listens, that moment could be good. George Handley, a member of the Provo City Council, wrote in the Deseret News about “the myth of the irreparable lake.” Because this is red Utah, his and others’ voices have been muted by the din of developers. “… Citizens, scientists and state and federal agencies long ago began the quest to restore the lake’s health,” he wrote. And it wasn’t to dredge and build artificial islands in the lake. Meanwhile, the developers are suing a couple of BYU professors over their opposition. While the Army Corps of Engineers is looking at the project, so are protesters gathering at the Capitol.

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What’s Making Us Sick?

No, we don’t have universal health care, so it’s all up to you. Or is it? At Social Determinants of Health, you will learn about disease prevention and how we might reduce poverty and health care spending in a freewheeling society that often looks like it just doesn’t care. “We will talk about housing, food access and preventative health care access and the investments that some hospital systems and state systems are starting to make here and what we expect the overall impact to be, both fiscal and social,” says organizers of this timely panel discussion. It’s hard to change policies and systems when there’s no central authority. Minority families often identify poverty and racism as factors affecting their health, and yet the U.S. spends more on health care than on the root cause of harm. Hybrid, Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, Wednesday, Feb. 16, noon. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3orGiPE

Deliver Food to Those in Need

It doesn’t take much to be a positive force in a suffering community. Join the nonprofit Utah Crisis Food Response to deliver food to lower income families, immigrants, those who lack transportation and those who are homebound due to COVID-19. “The commitment typically takes one hour and blesses so many people’s lives. … Due to the recent Omicron variant, demand has shot up, and volunteers are greatly needed,” organizers say. You will simply arrive at the pantry, pick up one or several boxes of food and deliver to families in the area. Earth Community Gardens Food Pantry, 1102 W. 400 North, Wednesdays, noon. Free/sign up at https://bit.ly/3GrC0y3

Diverse Roles Lacking for Black Males

How often do you see a Black male depicted as a heroic figure in the media? If you believe in the power of the media—and you should, what with the Fox News phenomenon—then you should be concerned about the lack of diverse stories. OK, Black Panther is almost the only standout among media portrayals of Black males as “overwhelmingly poor, reliant on welfare, absentee fathers and criminals, despite what government data show,” according to a University of Illinois study. It was one of many. A National Research Group study #RepresentationMatters found that 67% of Americans felt there was a need for more diverse on-screen portrayals. Black Male Representation in Media, a panel discussion hosted by University of Utah’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion department, will explore how the lives of Black males have been affected by this media myopia. Virtual, Tuesday, Feb. 15, noon. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3LcIVig

Do You Believe In History?

Not to be too political, but if you believe in the worth of history, why not help judge some history contests around the state for Utah National History Day? You’ll spend about 30 minutes per project during the prejudging period to view projects and write up your comments in advance, attend the contest to interview the students, view physical projects, then complete your judging forms and rankings. And you’ll need a computer. Virtual, sign up now for March, free. https://bit.ly/34mDA7c

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WHEN YOU WAKE UP FROM THOSE POW DREAMS, AND YOU GOTTA GET THAT SHRED FIX! Music,” “Edelweiss,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Shall We Dance” and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.” It’s a chance to experience some of the greatest tunes in the musical theater canon, in the acoustic miracle that is Abravanel Hall. This Bravo Broadway! presentation at Abravanel Hall (123 W. South Temple) includes two performances, March 11-12, both at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $17.50 - $72; face masks are required for all attendees, and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test are required for all attendees over the age of 12. Visit utahsymphony.org for tickets and additional information. (Scott Renshaw)

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ting once again with the Ballet West orchestra, it’s as lushly romantic as any version of the story you’ve known before. Ballet West’s Romeo & Juliet plays the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South) Feb. 11 – 19, with tickets $20 - $119. Due to popular demand, an additional performance is scheduled for Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. at the Eccles Center in Park City (1750 Kearns Blvd.), with tickets $20 - $200. Individual venues’ policies may vary, but Ballet West requires face coverings for all audience members, regardless of vaccination status. Visit balletwest.org for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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Ballet West: Romeo & Juliet William Shakespeare’s works have inspired artists in multiple creative forms across five centuries, yet that inspiration has also manifested itself in multiple layers. In 1935, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote the score for a ballet version of Romeo & Juliet, which eventually premiered in 1940. That beloved composition, however, has itself subsequently been the foundation for other choreographic interpretations, including a version by Michael Smuin that debuted in 1976 at the San Francisco Ballet. That version became popular enough that it first made its way to our own Ballet West in 1988—but it’s been 25 years since it has graced a local stage. We can now welcome back Smuin’s Romeo & Juliet, as the iconic tale of young lovers divided by their families’ quarrels manifests itself through beautiful dance and that stirring Prokofiev score. Soloists Beckanne Sisk, Jenna Rae Herrera and Katlyn Addison alternate performances as Juliet, with Chase O’Connell, Jordan Veit and Hadriel Diniz as their respective Romeos. In a live set-

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The recent passing of Stephen Sondheim found many people reflecting on the rich history of the American musical theater, and its most celebrated practitioners. Few creative teams in that form boast a résumé like that of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, whose works as a team from 1943 - 1959 are among the most beloved ever to grace a stage (and occasionally a TV studio): The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I, South Pacific, State Fair and Carousel. And that’s not even including shows like Babes in Arms and Showboat that the two men worked on with other collaborators. All of those great musicals and more will be represented when the Utah Symphony brings us A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration, conducted by Jerry Steichen. Accompanied by vocalists William Michals, Hugh Panaro and Scarlett Strallen, the Symphony will offer lush orchestrations of such classic songs as “Where or When,” “The Sound of

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In 2004, Twin Cities-based dancer and University of Minnesota dance professor Ananya Chatterjea set out to bring BIPOC women together for a project that would allow them to take charge of telling their own stories through dance, when they often felt marginalized in the larger concert dance community. The result was a feminist dance company rooted in the Odissi classical dance form of Chatterjea’s native Kolkata, India, and informed also by Indian martial arts and yoga. And the choreographic philosophy was designed around a commitment to social justice. More than 15 years later, Ananya Dance Theatre has become a nationally-recognized force, touring with distinctive works. Their latest creation, Chatterjea’s 75-minute

production Dastak: I Wish You Me, premiered in October 2021, described by the company as “a meditation on borders, loss, belonging, home and liberation.” The title comes from a Farsi word for “knockings,” referring to an inner sense of being moved to action by awareness of injustice, while the subtitle by writer Sharon Bridgeforth evokes a desire for the wellness of others as much as for yourself. Structured through the four ancient elements of earth, fire, air and water, Dastak uses movement to call viewers to a greater sense of connection across perceived boundaries. Ananya Dance Theatre brings Dastak: I Wish You Me to Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) on Friday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., with tickets $10 - $30. The venue requests the wearing of masks indoors at all times, and refunds are available due to illness. Visit kingsburyhall.org for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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Disney discovered a gold mine when it figured out a way to wring more creative life out of its animated feature films by turning them into stage musicals like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. Not surprisingly, other studios wanted to follow suit, but the transition can be a little more challenging when the original source movie itself was not a musical. Shrek managed that trick with its stage adaptation, and so did Anastasia, the 1997 animated feature from director Don Bluth, which premiered in its musical stage version in 2016. The subject matter is a bit unusual for a story initially aimed at family audiences: the legend of a girl who might be the sole surviving member of the Russian Romanov

dynasty, which was mostly killed during the Bolshevik Revolution. In this version of the tale, a pair of con artists come up with a scheme to groom a young girl to pretend to be the surviving granddaughter of the Dowager Empress, in an attempt to extract money. The girl they find, however—an amnesiac street sweeper named Anya—might not be a fake after all. With original songs by the celebrated team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Seussical, Ragtime) and a book by Tony Award-winning writer Terrence McNally, it offers a sophistication beyond its kid-pic origins. This touring production of Anastasia plays the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) Tuesday, Feb. 15 through Sunday, Feb. 20, with tickets $79 - $119. Face coverings are required for all attendees; visit broadway-at-the-eccles.com for tickets and additional information. (SR)

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The Real Thing

Actor Tamara Johnson Howell on the unique challenge of playing a real person in Bella Bella. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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zug has been an inspiring experience, especially in a time where it feels like many of the same feminist battles are being fought all over again. “I’ve become such a huge fan of this woman,” Howell says. “She was so cool, and did so much. She just bucked the system and fought her way through the patriarchy, and as women, we owe so much to her.” CW

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Tamara Johnson Howell as Bella Abzug in Bella Bella

in the case of actor Margo Martindale playing Bella Abzug in the 2020 miniseries Mrs. America, about the push in the 1970s for the Equal Rights Amendment. While Howell acknowledges that she watched Mrs. America, she had to do the same thing actors always do when a role is one they aren’t originating: “I’ve tried to throw it out the window, because that’s another actor’s interpretation.” In case all of those components weren’t enough, Bella Bella throws Howell the unique logistics of being a oneperson show. She says that the structure of the show—with Abzug speaking directly to the audience as though sharing stories with them casually—gives it a different vibe than something where the character is speaking, in her words, “a woo-woo, outthere internal monologue.” But there is a certain pressure involved in carrying the whole show, especially since Howell is a schoolteacher and the reality of COVID makes staying healthy a necessity to make sure the show can go on. “I brought this huge air purifier that I keep by my desk,” she says with a laugh. “I feel like I’m COVID-testing every other minute: ‘My foot fell asleep, is that COVID?’” Even with all these challenges, Howell says that learning about Bella Ab-

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or an actor, creating a character is always a challenge. When that character is a real-life person, you get a brand-new set of challenges. Local actor Tamara Johnson Howell gets that challenge in Bella Bella, based on the life of pioneering feminist activist and U.S. Representative from New York Bella Abzug, first staged in 2019 by playwright Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy). Set on the primary election night of her campaign to be New York’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1976, it draws from many of Abzug’s speeches and published writing, providing a firm foundation in the real-life Bella Abzug. That kind of connection can be a doubleedged sword for someone playing such a character, however. Howell acknowledges that before beginning work on Bella Bella, “I knew very little [about Bella Abzug]. I’d heard of her, but I was 9 years old when this play is set, so she was kind of before my time. So I’ve done a lot of research, which has been very cool. I’ve played a couple of real people before—Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton—but with Bella Abzug, there’s footage of her speeches and interviews.”

And while having all of that material available could be seen as a benefit in helping to build a character, it also requires an actor to avoid a trap that’s common in performances based on an actual person: reducing the performance to an impression of that person. “This character, I don’t think I could do an impression of her, and I wouldn’t attempt one,” Howell says. “I am adopting her Bronx accent, for sure, a few Yiddish words and phrases she used are in the script, and I’m trying to use some of those inflections and cadences. But I think doing an impression would be a mistake. For some folks, Bella Abzug is sort of sacred, and I wouldn’t want it to come off as flippant, or disrespectful to who she was. … Her persona was larger than life, so it would be a mistake to go from character to caricature.” That challenge is certainly different for a script based on a real-life person who lived more prominently in the age of film, video and audio, unlike the aforementioned examples of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, where a specific image of the person might not be as readily fixed in the popular consciousness. In such latter cases, Howell notes, there’s a more fictionalized and speculative form of writing involved, rather than something like Bella Bella with a script taken from the subject’s own words. Yet even then, it’s not as simple a matter as learning Bella Abzug’s speeches, and using the right accent to say them. “When you do something that’s a real person, the challenge is to make it yours and make it theirs [the real-life subject’s] at the same time,” Howell says. “You have to bring a little bit of yourself, a little bit of the writer, a little bit of the real person.” What you’re trying not to bring, she adds, are previous interpretations of the same person. Just as an actor knows that there have been innumerable earlier performances of, for example, a Shakespeare character, there can be other takes on this character out in the world—as there was most recently

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Black has been on both sides of the breakup equation. Along with breaking up with her fiance’, she’s also had another man break up with her. “Searching for your life partner—the one who will be best for you—is part of the circle of dating,” she said. “Breaking up leaves you with questions, especially if you don’t get a lot of clarity from the other person. You question your worth and ask yourself, ‘Wasn’t I good enough?’” Black says it took years of hard work and therapy to come to terms with her breakup. The trauma she experienced helped lead her to co-found the Difficult Breakup Support Group with family therapist Kylie Marshall. “There were women of varying ages—from freshmen in college to ladies

in their 50s and 60s,” Black said. The group discussed common breakup struggles, whether from a first-time split or a divorce after 30 years. “A lot of our work centered on the idea of complicated grief because this person might still be alive, but you are no longer with them,” Marshall said. Black added, “It feels like a death, because you’ve lost someone, but lots of times you still have to see them and interact with them. You see what they are doing with their lives.” Especially in Utah, the loss of “what might have been” can feel like a failure, Marshall said. Utahns often marry—and divorce—while still young. Until the split happened, younger members of the support group might think they had arrived by getting married and being on track to start a family. “It becomes dangerous when you attach your whole sense of self to your relationship status,” Marshall said. “Shame can enter that feeling of being a failure when it’s often not that simple and probably not the case.” Late one night, Kyle Ashworth’s wife took his phone to play Candy Crush. Before that moment, she didn’t know that she was in a mixed-orientation marriage. Keeping his homosexual feelings to himself, Ashworth had followed what he felt was the LDS prescription to avoid being gay. “The idea was that a mission, marriage and children will fix you,” he said. His marriage had lasted 10 years, he said “without mentioning the unmentionable.” Ashworth kept his secret, but reached out to people he felt might be like him. He wrote to North Star, an organization for practicing Latter-Day Saints who are LGBTQ. That night, when she used his phone, Ashworth’s wife found his North Star chats. Waking him, she said, “Apparently, we have something to talk about,” Ashworth recalls. “She knew there was a disconnect,” he said. “She thought she wasn’t a good enough wife or possibly not a good enough mother.” But their relationship wasn’t the issue. “[The conflict] was my sexuality— and had nothing to do with her.”

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aura Black thought she was about to get married. She reserved her venue, chose a caterer and bought her dress. She wore her engagement ring in photos with her fiancé. They ordered wedding invitations. And yet, Black felt increasing doubt. She suspected her future spouse wasn’t the man she first thought he was. “There was dishonesty on his part and manipulations that I later saw,” she said. Not wanting to hurt his feelings, Black broke off the engagement by saying, “Maybe we can get back together in the future.” But she later realized their breakup needed to be a two- or threepart discussion. “His family was distraught,” she said. “I also had to break up with them.” Maren King’s gut-wrenching breakup happened with Danny, whom she met in college. “He liked me then, but I wasn’t interested in him,” she recalls. They reconnected on Facebook after they each divorced. “I was in-between being LDS and not, and he was very not,” she said. “He’s a fun guy. We started dating. I liked that he was into me while I was a lso seeing other people at the same time.” After they dated only a few months, Maren became pregnant. “Being 28 years old, you should know better and be smarter, but we weren’t,” she said. Danny was the one who broke up with her, and she gave up their baby for adoption. “He was the deciding person while I was feeling all of the major life and body changes,” she said. A breakup can be as significant as a divorce, especially in Utah, which places high value on happy families and relationships that work out, says Loni Harmon, who is known as The Dating Counselor. A Utah-based mental-health counselor for 13 years, Harmon works exclusively with singles. She’s seen her clients change their circle of friends and even avoid a particular grocery store to keep from seeing their former significant other. “Even if you see a breakup coming, you still miss the person afterward,” she says. “It’s called ‘the loss of the ideal.’ You hoped and prayed and wished that this [relationship] would come together, and now you’re grieving the fact that it didn’t. Maybe you can’t move on from this loss even though you want to.”

Erin Schurtz, Latter Day Matchmaker dating coach

While some people experience several breakups, others never endure one because they hesitate to date or marry. Harmon (“The Dating Counselor”) says that many single Utahns struggle to navigate the stages of nontraditional dating. “People want to find the love of their life but want results quickly—with that first swipe or first date,” she said, adding that operating quickly when building a relationship is counterintuitive. Harmon said she sees a lot of “hybrid dating,” where one partner demonstrates interest in another but doesn’t ask that person on a date. “They show interest whenever it is convenient for them,” she said, “or when they want some validation and attention.” Harmon added, “It looks like they’re dating, but he hasn’t asked her out. It’s like they want to find out if this relationship could work before they even go on a date.” Harmon says this behavior is common in the LDS faith, where young men are heavily encouraged to date. “If they don’t want to get married yet, hybrid dating at least makes it look like they are making moves in that direction,” Harmon said. But on the other hand, she said, many women still want the validation of an actual date. “They think, ‘I must not be good, pretty or smart enough’ to be pursued traditionally,” Harmon said. Salt Lake dating and relationship strategist Alisa Snell founded the Lasting Love Academy. She said her consulting work has led to hundreds of marriages, including seven just this past summer. She noted that her 28 years of experience with relationships and dating have led her to believe that, lately, there is more skepticism and indifference toward the idea of getting married. “In these times, we have a very different society in terms of confidence in marriage,” Snell said. She cited Pew statistics indicating that in 1960, 72% of all adults were married, with 28% being divorced, widowed or never married. Seven years ago, in 2015, only 51% of all adults were married. Snell claimed there is a high rate of people not committing to marriage because of an “avoidant-attachment” style of behavior. Although avoidant partners want to be close to others, they are uncomfortable with too much closeness and keep partners at arm’s length. “Instead of progressing toward marriage, they tend to walk away,” Snell said, adding that many of her clients exhibit this behavior. “They have a great relationship, but they just can’t commit.” She’s seen couples who’ve dated for two, four, seven and—in one case—11 years without the relationship leading to marriage. In one of Snell’s cases, a couple dated for three years, and the man had purchased an engagement ring a year and a half into the relationship. Carrying it around in his pocket, he kept telling himself he planned to propose. “She would break up with him, but he couldn’t go ahead without her—and he also couldn’t propose to her,” Snell said. She says her job is to help such couples sort out their feelings, weigh the pros and cons and acquire skills to move forward. She said that men and women in equal numbers are avoiding what they should be feeling.

Cross-country search for love: Heber Tuft and Julie Walker

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“I didn’t think this existed,” Maren King with husband, Joey.

Family therapist Kylie Marshall

Even in these times of breakups and reluctance to enter relationships, the idea of romantic longing for a special someone still exists. And statistics show that the pandemic could be enhancing this hope for connection. Nationally, around one in five people reached out to an ex while in quarantine, according to new Kinsey Institute research. Nearly half reached out to multiple exes. While most said they just wanted to check on their former partners, a smaller number admitted to testing the waters for a potential hookup or checking to see if their ex was dating someone new, according to Justin Lehmiller, the study’s lead author. For 10 years after her divorce, Julie Walker was a single mom. While concentrating on raising her children, she went on dates with 200 different men, she said. She also helped her friend, Erin Schurtz—a matchmaker and dating coach with Latter Day Matchmaker— host events where LDS singles could interact. Walker aged out of the LDS Church’s Young Single Adult (YSA) wards, so she began hosting her own events for LDS singles over the age of 31. “I helped plenty of couples meet, even though I hadn’t met my ‘The One’,” Walker said. But then one day, Schurtz told Walker, “I have this guy for you.” In her work, Schurtz continually sees people seeking romance. She agreed that the pandemic likely increased the urgency of such searches. “Before COVID, people approached relationship-finding more casually—[it seemed like] they always had someone to hang out with or go on dates with. They weren’t pressed to find a committed relationship,” Schurtz said. Walker’s first date with Heber Tuft—the man Schurtz suggested for her—consisted of dessert at Gourmandise. “Even though it was short and sweet, there were sparks and the feeling that we were each impressed by the other person,” she said. Walker learned that Schurtz had arranged the date through her employer, Latter Day Matchmaker. Tuft signed up with the service partly because he is LDS and lives in Louisiana, Walker said. “He’d fly out to Utah on the weekends and take a few girls out,” she said. While she was divorced 10 years and had dated 200 men, he had been divorced for a couple years and dated 50 or 60 women. “The matchmaker made it a little faster,” Walker said. Latter Day Matchmaker schedules an initial meeting with potential clients to get to know them and what they are searching for. “The timing and where they see themselves can determine whether or not we can help them,” Schurtz said. Most of her company’s clients are over 30 years old, she noted. Some are even in their 60s and 70s. They typically work with more men than women, she said, and about half of their clients have never been married, while the other half are divorced or widowed. Schurtz said she asks clients about their preferences in a partner, such as physical appearance, personality and hobbies. And because Latter Day Matchmaker is an overtly LDS-focused agency, most clients are affiliated with the faith. “Almost everyone has a preference about whether their match is active LDS or not,” she said, “or temple-worthy or not.” Along with self-matchmaking via the company database, Latter Day Matchmaker clients are encouraged to participate in relationship coaching, Schurtz said. “Everyone can

Jay Martin, left, and Kyle Ashworth, host of Latter-Gay Stories podcast

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“I was able to be open with him.” — Laura Black, speaking of her husband, Austin

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After Ashworth and his wife filed for divorce, she started dating before he did. Texting him, she wrote, “Last night, I got kissed by a straight guy, and it was amazing. You deserve that, too.” Ashworth said, “After much trepidation, worry and sadness around divorcing, she now realized why I wasn’t connecting.” While Ashworth describes being gay and trying to love a woman as a monumental task, he has no regrets about the marriage. His four children are the lights of his life, he said. A critical care flight nurse in Minnesota, Jay Martin, saw an article about Ashworth vacationing in New York with his kids. He also noticed that Ashworth hosts the LatterGay Stories podcast. “He stalked me on Facebook and Instagram,” Ashworth said. Martin wrote to him, “Any chance you are a gay father?” Martin flew to Utah in October 2019. “He asked me out to dinner,” says Ashworth. And following a date at a 2019 New Year’s Eve drag show, Martin said to Ashworth, “I think we need to be a couple.” Ashworth proposed marriage to Martin at the same drag show two years later in 2021 on New Year’s Eve. And his former wife married in May 2020. “The two of them, her husband’s four children and our four children are now a party of 10,” Ashworth said. Today, the two families ski together, attend family functions, co-parent their children “and still have our separate lives,” says Ashworth. “While divorce sucks, and I never met anyone who married intending to divorce, in our experience, it provided us not only closure but allowed us to move on with a better relationship divorced than we had while we were married. “ As Walker and Tuft pursued their long-distance relationship between Louisiana and Utah, Walker felt that Tuft was the man she had waited for all of her life. “He was sweet, happy, kind, and handsome,” she said. Truly tipping the scales was her appreciation of what a good dad he was. “When you have kids,” she said, “you want to meet someone who understands the ‘kids’ thing.” Tuft and Walker incorporated their children into a dream wedding. They gave each family member a different colored ribbon. “Each child came up, and they all helped us tie the knot with their portion of the ribbon.” Walker says her former and current husbands have formed a friendship through a lot of

co-parenting and vacations. “We involve him as another family member,” she said. “Just because things didn’t work out with us doesn’t mean we can’t help each other stay involved in our children’s lives.” There were challenging moments after Black’s broken engagement in 2015. She met with a therapist certified in trauma therapy. “Before I could move forward, there was a lot of learning about how to trust myself and my decisions along with becoming able to trust someone else,” she said. Now a mental health professional herself, Black met her current husband, Austin Black, in seventh grade. They were good friends who became reacquainted between 2017 and 2019. “He started dating another girl at the end of 2018. It was looking pretty serious,” she said. “That’s when I realized I had feelings for him. It made me wish I could have taken my chance earlier.” After Austin became single again, they dated, became engaged and married in July 2019. “Austin has been the perfect partner, especially at the beginning when I had hurdles to overcome,” says Black. “I was able to be open with him. While we don’t always share the same perspective, we can agree to disagree. He respects my opinions.” As for Maren King, after her break up with Danny, she consulted with Harmon and placed her baby for adoption. “Danny didn’t have what I wanted in a long-term relationship,” she said. “He wanted to be single forever, and I wanted a family.” During her divorced years, she said she dated some dirtbags, “but it got better and better.” A year after the adoption placement, she caught sight of a man at work named Joey. “He’s really cute,” she told a friend. As they became acquainted, she couldn’t believe how much they had in common. Joey liked the outdoors, hunting and country music. “I didn’t think this existed,” she remembers thinking. She continued in therapy with Harmon during their relationship. “She said I am a typical woman with emotions as deep as the ocean,” King said. “His emotions are like a little puddle on the street, but our relationship has worked out.” The couple married and had a daughter. Today, as a birth mom, King interacts with her adopted son about every three months. She says Joey fits in well with all of her family. “He’s a good man who doesn’t need religion to guide him. He is kind and caring,” she said. Love, King said, is better the second time around. Although it’s possible to break up with someone and start swiping an app again that same night, Harmon says it’s appropriate to give it some time to settle. “You are worthy of love and belonging,” she said, “precisely as you are today.” Still, Harmon said, “It’s crucial to develop insights about why being you is more challenging than it needs to be. Consider what you contributed—if anything—to the divorce or breakup.” To some degree, Harmon said, both partners contribute to the failure of any relationship. “My philosophy is that dating isn’t a game, but a strategy that we need to learn,” she said. “Ask yourself who you would be suitable for and who would be good for you. There is a lot of information and resources to learn from—both self-help and therapy—so that you can rebound and be healthy again.” CW

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use some improvement,” she said. “There could be reasons that are holding them back in committing to a relationship.” One aspect of coaching, called “styling,” relates to physical appearance. “We help many men with their appearance and clothes styling,” Schurtz said. “Many men don’t know how to dress to impress, so they will come across looking their best in a photo.” Walker says that Tuft was one male client who received styling insight—he was advised about his haircut. On their second date, “he said he wanted to focus just on me, for me to be his girlfriend,” Walker recalls. Once they told Latter Day Matchmaker that they were dating exclusively, the coaching transitioned to couples’ services and advising around how to prepare for combining their families—Walker had two children, and Tuft had four.

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he cool thing about barbecue is that no matter how much you eat, you can still learn something new. Like any truly great artistic medium, there is no shortage of history, conflict and technique to—ahem—chew on. I’m always happy to venture deeper into any culinary rabbit hole, so when I spotted Charlotte Rose’s Carolina BBQ (792 E. 3300 South, 801-834-3066, crcbbqut.com) I had to check it out. I know enough about barbecue to recognize the four primary disciplines, but since I personally had yet to try Carolina barbecue, learning about Charlotte Rose’s made me all kinds of excited. While the primary objective of my visit was to get a generous helping of quality barbecue, I wanted to dig a little deeper into the origins and nuance of Carolina barbecue in the process. Anyone else who wants to venture down a similar path will be pleased to know that Trae Eller, the Charlotte Rose proprietor, is usually on hand, and more than happy to offer a crash course. Eller, a South Carolina native, has been

Brushing up on my barbecue repertoire at Charlotte Rose’s Carolina BBQ.

pork, however, that I truly noticed the power of that vinegar sauce. There’s always a natural sweetness to pulled pork, so when you hit it with a sweet sauce, it can throw the whole thing off balance. The vinegar, in contrast, lets that natural sweetness ring like a bell. I was honestly taken aback by the experience—it’s like the first time you encounter a legendary flavor combo like horseradish and prime rib, or chocolate and peanut butter. I noticed the same complementary flavors when I took a bite of those tender, smokedto-perfection ribs. I can understand a bit of apprehension when it comes to trying this out for the first time, but I’m here to tell you that fans of barbecue need to take note. I finished things off with a thick slice of chocolate corn bread ($2.89), an understated dessert that Eller calls one of his “happy accidents.” While trying to bake brownies that would rise to a fluffy consistency, he devised a mixture of cocoa, corn bread batter and Ghirardelli chocolate. It’s a great way to wrap up a meal at Charlotte Rose’s—after your tongue has been tickled by the main course, a fluffy slab of dark chocolate corn bread is a perfect denouement. As I’m not sure you can find chocolate corn bread anywhere else, I have to recommend it. However, fans of more traditional Southern deserts will be happy to see favorites like peach cobbler ($4.50) and banana pudding ($3.99) on the menu. Overall, my visit to Charlotte Rose’s was everything I was hoping for in a local barbecue joint, plus a bit more for Eller’s fascinating history lesson. Those who are looking to expand their appreciation of barbecue or those simply after a hearty, flavorful meal at a neighborhood restaurant will want to check this place out. CW

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part of Utah’s barbecue scene for years. We talked about the how the history of Carolina barbecue is really the history of barbecue itself. English immigrants looking to add a bit of flavor to their meat threw together sauces made from vinegar and peppers, and the technique continued to evolve based on regional ingredients and flavor profiles. The majority of my barbecue experience has revolved around the sweet and smoky sauces inherent to the Texas and Kansas City style—no complaints here—but I was intrigued to see that Caroline barbecue keeps things acidic. The foundation of Charlotte Rose’s sauces, which are made and bottled by Eller himself, are thin and vinegary or rich and mustard-based. While I do enjoy those sweet bourbon-and-molasses-flavored sauces—also available at Charlotte Rose’s—that crisp, sharp swipe of acid spiked with Carolina chili peppers really lets the meat shine. Charlotte Rose’s serves up all the barbecue staples: pulled pork, brisket, chicken and ribs. I was also happy to see that they offer smoked sausage, since I have never been able to lend my full support to a barbecue place that doesn’t offer sausage. Their protein lineup is available in combo plates, on sandwiches or via their signature Redneck Tacos. I decided to get a three-meat plate ($17.99) with sausage, pulled pork and ribs, since I wanted that barbecue to smack me right in the face with what it had to offer. All their combos come with a side and a slice of cornbread, which is a nice touch; the mac and cheese is a nice safe bet. I doused the combo of freshly smoked meats with my cups of vinegar sauce and dug in. The sausage was great—just the right amount of black pepper spice on the interior, though I do like just a bit more snap on the outside. I appreciate a place that pays its due diligence to this, my most hallowed piece of the barbecue pantheon. It wasn’t until I moved on to the pulled

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action that occurs, as this is the ale’s only signal for closure. Its malty-sweet aftertaste satisfies the palate like a fine dessert. Overall: At 9.0 percent ABV, this won’t completely obliterate your cool. However, the rum booziness does rear its head as it warms, so be aware of that while enjoying this chocolate-covered raisin beast. Squatters - 147 West IPA (Broadway Cold Hazy): Are “cold IPAs” a thing? Apparently so; we had one hit last week, and another has popped-up as part of Squatters’ 147 West Series. This is a combo of two IPA sub-categories—a hazy and cold IPA which is basically a lager. It pours nearly two fingers of white head, which leaves a nice film on top of the body as well. Initial lacing looks quite nice. Body is a very standard yellow, surprisingly a little cloudy, with a few bubbles coming up—looks very good so far. The nose is citrus rind, lemongrass and tropical fruits like mango and papaya. A touch of dankness creeps in, but generally it’s a very lovely nose—pretty juicy, but not over the top, and balanced nicely by some of the more savory aromas. Definitely not a pushover IPA, this one includes some noticeable bitterness right off the bat. Citrus is present in the beginning as well, and it adds to the medium/ light mouthfeel. Not a lot in the way of those tropical flavors appears, just some briefly in the finish. A little dank, perhaps some pine as well; carbonation is medium. The body is a little light, but has some weight to it. It’s not really sweet nor dry, simply pretty neutral and balanced. Though the bitterness is elevated, once the palate adapts to it, this is quite nice. Overall: At the very least, this is a refreshing change, in a world of fruit-cup ales. This 5.0 percent IPA will not put hair on your chest, but it’s tasty and it has character either way. A nice brew. As of this writing, the 147 West IPA was only available in 12-packs. I imagine by now, you can pick up singles at the UBC’s Beer Store and at all Squatters and Wasatch locations. Capt’n Ron is in 16-ounce cans, and is available at Epic to enjoy there or take home. As always, cheers! CW

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any theatrical features have experienced release delays as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s hard to imagine anything that will end up feeling as much like a relic from another time due to such delays as Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile. In the two years since its first scheduled release date, at least three major cast members have been party to well-publicized off-screen behavior ranging from embarrassing to controversial to likely criminal-slash-truly gross; Branagh himself has had two other films he has directed come out during the interim. It’s not easy for a period piece to feel so immediately dated—especially when it’s only been five years now between this and Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express—yet here we are. The irony, of course, is that Branagh’s interpretation of Agatha Christie’s supersleuth Hercule Poirot continues to try so hard to make its protagonist modern and relatable, rather than a nearly-century-old fossil. While Death on the Nile manages to be less actively irritating in its stylized sensibilities than Murder on the Orient Express, it still suffers from the misunderstanding that the only way to make a vintage character “relevant” for the 21st century is to render that character completely unrecognizable. The bulk of the story takes place in 1937 Egypt, where Branagh’s Poirot is vacationing among the pyramids. There he encounters an old friend, Bouc (Tom Bateman), and

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ith Valentine’s Day soon upon us, there’s no better way really to frame the end of my time at City Weekly. It’s been almost three years since I started writing and curating the music section at the paper, and it’s been a lot of fun—but also very hard to see the scene and musicians I love struggling through the pandemic that has eaten up more than half of my time at City Weekly. So, speaking of love, why not share my whole SLC music love affair with you? It is, after all, the season of love, even if there’s heartbreak, too. First Love. Like a 90-year-old telling her life story, I must wonder, where do I start? I think the first time I saw the local band Fossil Arms—who are still active—was when I realized that ’80s-style synth pop was still alive and well in a thing called “the subculture.” It was one of the first local shows I ever saw in Salt Lake, and after that, I became a show fiend—sneaking into small local shows I was not legally allowed to be at, acquainting myself with both locals and an interest in wider indie, DIY and punk music at the same time. Favorite shows of this period—when I was also learning to write about this stuff—included sweaty, throbbing Foster Body shows (they don’t exist anymore), spare and bristly postpunk crammed into Diabolical Records’ small space, and Punk Rock Halloween, where every cool musician in town covered some legend or another—like Nirvana, one time, by also extinct locals Chalk. More than any one experience, though, I worshiped the show— the feeling of a bass guitar hitting your chest, the sweat of a drummer humidifying the air, the wonderful immediacy of seeing brilliant and passionate musicians close up at any number of SLC’s excellent, intimate venues. Many of the local bands I loved first aren’t around anymore, and I try to open myself up to enthusiasm for their young new replacements, but you can’t ever replicate the magic of first love. Heartbreak. I’ve had a few, including a silly stint moving away from my beloved SLC to Minnesota to moon about doing nothing, and not seeing music. But the worst heartbreak, for certain, has been this damn pandemic. Imagine the horror of being a music

The Most Rock ‘n’ Roll Show I Ever Saw, daikaiju lighting their instruments on fire on Edison Street in early 2020 writer who makes money writing about upcoming shows, only to have pretty much all of them suspended for the better part of two years? I can say it now that I’m leaving the music-writing game, but writing about live stream shows as a replacement was incredibly hard, and I never actually could bring myself to watch any during those first long months of the pandemic in 2020. What a confession—sorry for feigning enthusiasm in the countless picks I wrote about those virtual shows. I had to write about something, you see. I do, however, still think they’re a powerful tool for accessibility, and I hope that there continue to be some on offer even after the pandemic. More than my own sadness, though, it was so hard to see friends cancel tours, putting out albums with no release shows, unable to enjoy their music in a live setting at all. The closest I got to seeing live music in summer 2020 was watching from the lawn while my friend Dave and his musician friends played behind a weeping willow (ha!) on top of the roof of his house every week. I’m honestly still heartbroken, because this stuff is still going on in stops and starts. New Love. As the music editor at City Weekly, it’s been very important to me to serve all the different scenes and genres and fans in the city, so as I’ve attempted to cover all the bases, I’ve also made some great discoveries I wouldn’t have made otherwise. Some of my favorite local artists I’ve discovered over the last three years have included Sophie Blair, Rachel Jenkins, Vincent Draper and the Culls, Cop Kid and World’s Worst, to name just a few. I’ve also made a lot of great connections with wonderful people who care about music just as much as I do, and do important things for it all the time in the scene. Consider this the confession of a secret admirer—you know who you are! You’re celebrating new music and old, continuing traditions, starting new labels, booking incredible shows and changing what music looks like in this city. True Love. It’s a very strange thing to say goodbye to an old relationship, but that’s what I’m doing here in leaving City Weekly. What was once a dream job has become very ordinary, just like can happen with a relationship that’s gotten a little too comfortable, a little too familiar. I’ll always love music, and especially local music—but when it’s your job, you can’t always appreciate it on your own terms. It’s incredibly surreal to leave behind a job as cool as this one, but I take comfort in knowing the scene is still there, and I’m still here to be part of it, any way I choose. You can reach out to music@cityweekly.net to get acquainted with the new editor, and find me online if you know me, or catch me out at my favorite venues. Thanks for reading! CW

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There might be something to not doing so great the first time ’round in your career; some people find their stride later on. The Wombats, for example, were part of a big indie-pop wave that followed the hits of The Strokes, Interpol and all their friendly post-punk inspired, modern rock ilk. If you liked The Wombats at their early millennium debut, you’re probably also familiar with bands like The Fratellis, The Kooks and Kaiser Chiefs. They were all lively members of the time’s “dance punk” genre of the day—which is maybe best embodied by none other than The Wombats’ punchy, poppy, giddy 2007 track “Let’s Dance to Joy Division,” a precursor to Two Door Cinema Clubstyle indie dance pop that would take over the 20-teens. The song and the band don’t sound in the least like Joy Division, but it was part of a signature upbeat sound of the time—it was meant to be sung by crowds, and meant to be danced to. Fast forward, though, and The Wombats are now well-past their early 2000s debut, as they’ve just released their fifth album, Fix Yourself, Not the World. And it’s a damn triumph of an album, too. They’re nowhere near their dance-punk beginnings, but have instead leaned into polished pop-rock that stays interesting and expert enough (probably due to all their experience) not to fall into lazy mall music territory. Standouts on the new album include “Everything I Love Is Going to Die,” the Death Cab For Cutieish “People Don’t Change People, Time Does” and the upbeat opening track “Flip Me Upside Down.” See them and opener Clubhouse as they support the album on The Union Event Center on Tuesday, Feb. 15. The all-ages show opens at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $25 at theunioneventcenter.com.

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Rounding out a rap-heavy group of music picks this week is an exciting appearance at Kilby Court from Aries, a bedroom pop artist who went from producing his own work under his own label to getting signed by Columbia Records. His 2019 album WELCOME HOME was a smash in its own right, utilizing the fusion of acoustic samples, gritty beats and emotional delivery that’s become so popular in DIY music and beyond in recent years, thanks to the influence of certain lo-fi Soundcloud stars. That first album is also a pretty moody one in general, and that’s where things change a bit when it comes to his new label-supported release. On 2021’s BELIEVE IN ME, WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, we get a tropical, bright acoustic vibe on the seductive “Riding,” and the borderline party builder “One Punch.” The rest of the album bleeds the same kind of confidence—there are still gloomy aesthetics, like those acoustic samples, but altogether, this is the work of a more mature artist. Aries will find support from the trippy indie pop act Brakence, who on his 2020 album punk2 balances delicate, minimal production with earnest emotion and occasional beats that are just as raw. See both when they stop in to Kilby Court on Monday, Feb. 14. The all-ages show is $29.50 at kilbycourt.com, and doors are at 7 p.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Real love is a pilgrimage,” declared author Anita Brookner. “It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that you have more potential than ever before to free your love of strategic maneuvering and manipulation. For the foreseeable future, I invite you to drop all romantic agendas and simply make yourself extra receptive to love’s teachings. Are you ready to learn what you don’t even realize you need to know? TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the near future, I’ll be pleased if you dole out lavish praise to allies who enchant you. I will celebrate if you deliver loving inspirations and lush invitations to those who help you fulfill your reasons for being here on the planet. To get you in the mood, here are some suggested provocations. 1. “Your body makes mine into a shrine; holy, divine, godtouched.”—Ramona Meisel 2. “Your luster opens glories on my glowing face.”—Federico García Lorca 3. “All night long if you want. We’ll tell our secrets to the dark.”—Gayle Forman 4. “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”—Bob Dylan 5. “We are each other’s harvest. We are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”—Gwendolyn Brooks

“Love is like falconry. Don’t you think that’s true?” Cleveland replies, “Never say love is like anything. It isn’t.” I propose we make that your meditation during this Valentine season, Libra. In accordance with astrological omens, you will be wise to purge all your preconceptions about love. Use your ingenuity to revive your innocence about the subject. Cultivate a sense of wonder as you let your imagination run wild and free in its fantasies about love and sex and intimacy. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I’ll love it if sometime soon you create a situation in which you tell an ally words similar to what author Jamaica Kincaid spoke to her lover: “To behold the startling truths of your naked body frees me to remember the song I was born from.” Do you think you can make that happen, Scorpio? The astrological indicators at play in your life suggest that it would be right and sacred for you to do so. And if there is no such ally, then I hope you will deliver the same message to your naked self. And by the way, what is the song you were born from? (PS: There has never been a better time than now to learn treasured truths about yourself through your connections with others.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I’m afraid I must be downright practical and mundane in my oracle for you. Don’t hate me! I’m only reporting what the planGEMINI (May 21-June 20) In Gemini author Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow, the main character etary omens are telling me. They say that now is a favorable time Ka asks a woman named Ipek, “What is the thing you want most for you to practice, practice and practice some more of the fine from me? What can I do to make you love me?” Ipek’s answer: arts hinted at by author Ivan Goncharov: “A close, daily intimacy “Be yourself.” In the coming days, Gemini, I would love you to between two people has to be paid for: It requires a great deal engage in similar exchanges with those you care for. According to of experience of life, logic and warmth of heart on both sides my understanding of the astrological omens, now is a favorable to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by time for you and your best allies to shed all fakery and pretense each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.” so that you may be soulfully authentic with one another—and Be diligently positive, Sagittarius, as you work through the demanding daily trials of togetherness. encourage each other to express what’s most raw and genuine.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Actor Leelee Sobieski was mourning her romantic adventures—or rather the lack of romantic adventures. She said, “If only I could find a guy who wasn’t in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I’d be madly in love.” The good news is that Sobieski knows precisely what she wants, and it’s not all that complicated. The bad news is that there are few men near her own age (38) who enjoy discussing the fine points of the endangered bird species known as the white crane. I bring her predicament to your attention, Aquarius, in the hope that you’ll be inspired to be as exact and lucid as she is in identifying what you want—even as you cheat just a bit in the direction of wantVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Author Eve Ensler tells us, “You have to give to the world the ing what is actually available. thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.” This is perfect counsel for you to carry out in the com- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ing weeks, Virgo. Life will conspire to help you heal yourself, in I’ve never offered you the wisdom of actor Natalie Portman, but dramatic and semi-miraculous ways, as you offer the people and her idealistic attitude about relationships is exactly what I think animals you care for the same blessings that you crave to receive. you should aspire to in the coming months. She said, “I always I foresee an influx of restorative karma flowing in your direction. I ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn’t comfortable for them to do just to please me? And the answer predict the fixing of at least some of your broken parts. is no.” What do you think, Pisces? Do you suspect it might be interesting to apply that principle to your closest alliances? I LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In Michael Chabon’s novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the char- hope so. If you do, the planetary energies will conspire to deepen acter named Arthur says to the character named Cleveland, your intimate bonds.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I’ve created a list of splashy titles for stories or poems or songs or artworks or dances that you could compose for beloved allies or people you want to be beloved allies. I hope my list inspires you to get gushy and lyrical. I hope you’ll be creative and marvelous as you express your passionate appreciation. Here are the titles: 1. Glistening Passion. 2. Incandescent Rapture. 3. Succulent Dazzle. 4. Molten Luminosity. 5. Splashy Fire Bliss. 6. Shimmering Joy Beams. 7. Opulent Delirium. 8. Wild Soul Synergy. 9. Sublime Friction. 10. Fluidic Gleam Blessings. 11. Throbbing Reverence. 12. Sacred Heart Salvation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I’ll offer you a radical idea about love from author Hélène Cixous. Although it’s not always true for everyone, it will have special meaning for you in the coming months. She wrote, “It is easy to love and sing one’s love. That is something I am extremely good at doing. But to be loved, that is true greatness. Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you’s, that is love’s real work.” How about it, Capricorn? Are you up for the challenge? Are you willing to expand your capacity to welcome the care and benevolence and inspiration coming your way from others?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Are you in the mood to make extravagant gestures on behalf of love? Are you feeling an urge to move beyond your habitual approaches to intimate togetherness as you dare to engage in fun experiments? Now is a good time for such behavior with allies you trust. To spur your imagination, immerse yourself in the spirit of this poem by Nizar Qabbani: “I abandon my dictionaries to the flames, / And ordain you my language. / I fling my passport beneath the waves, / And christen you my country.” Your homework: Dream up and carry out a playful and audacious venture that will energize one of your close relationships.

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49. Like many beaches 50. Iowa college town 53. Cocksure 54. Garr of “Tootsie” 55. Tennis score after deuce 56. “Hold ____ your hat!” 58. Prego competitor 59. Some homages 60. Pair of British puzzles? 62. Yoga surface 63. The Renaissance, for one 64. “The A-Team” actor

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any homes and older commercial buildings in Utah have sandstone foundations. Depending on the home inspector, you could be told either: 1. “It’s a great foundation stone, as it’s porous!”; or 2. “It’s a terrible stone because it’s porous!” I’ve sold hundreds of homes and buildings over the years with a red rock foundation, and they are still standing strong. I’m often asked during the sale process where this stone comes from, which then activates my trivia storage brain to share what I know. Most of these old foundations in northern Utah are made of “Nugget sandstone,” which was mined in Red Butte and Emigration canyons. Southern Utah builders were more likely to use Navajo sandstone indigenous to the area. The red sandstone of the First Presbyterian Church at C Street and South Temple came from Red Butte Canyon, as did the sandstone for the groovy and historic Dayne’s Jewelry building at 128 S. Main. The Salt Lake City and County Building’s sandstone was quarried at Kyune, Utah, near the top of Price Canyon. Being located near mountains makes stone a fairly accessible material to quarry. The LDS Salt Lake Temple is made of quartz monzonite (aka “Utah granite”) mined from the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Workmen cut the stone from boulders and hauled it to the temple site using ox teams in a journey that took several days—until a railway was built and a branch hooked into the quarry site to bring the rock downtown. The same rock is what the exterior of the Utah State Capitol is made from. Stone is mined from quarries for various reasons. The Bingham Canyon Mine (aka Kennecott Copper Mine) is Utah’s largest quarry where copper ore and other minerals are dug; it’s also the deepest open-pit mine in the world. The Geneva Rock Gravel Pit at Point of the Mountain is a large quarry for sand, rock and gravel, as is the Dixon Rock and Gravel Quarry in Lehi. There’s the quarry for decorative “Wonderstone” in Vernon, the Keigley Quarry in Genola for rock and gravel and the Topaz Dome Quarry in Juab County for amateur rock hounders who want to payto-dig for topaz crystals. You may be hearing rumblings about a 643acre, open-pit limestone quarry planned by a private developer around the Mount Aire Canyon and Grandeur Peak area above Parleys Canyon. Tree Farm LLC has filed applications to all the public entities that oversee such things (i.e., the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, etc.) to extract limestone, sand, gravel and precious metals over the next 100 years. Residents of the area are incensed that such a huge project will damage the watershed, create fire hazards from machinery causing sparks, disrupt wildlife migrations and exacerbate air pollution—and there has been no public hearings about it (yet). Supposedly, the mining area will not be seen from the road through Parleys Canyon. But residents fear there will be massive dust and traffic from large trucks going to and from, up and down the canyon. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Inappropriate Tourists and locals in Venice, Italy, got all judgy on Jan. 21 when a 30-year-old Czech woman stripped off her top and went for a swim near the Monument to the Partisan Woman, a bronze sculpture of a reclining woman that rests partly in and partly out of the water. After her dip, the unnamed woman climbed onto the monument and posed for pictures, CNN reported. “It’s like going to Rome, leaping in the Trevi Fountain and then saying, ‘What do you mean, you can’t do this?’” said Mario Nason, who was walking by with his son at the time. “Why do people do these things in Venice that they wouldn’t do elsewhere? They probably didn’t know that the statue of the woman lying there was a dead partisan. But it’s treating Venice like a beach.” Police banned the woman from Venice for 48 hours and fined her $513.

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Oops Diners eating on the deck at Flip Flops Dockside Eatery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were plunged into the Intracoastal Waterway when the deck partially collapsed on Jan. 21. NBC6 South Florida reported that three people swam to a nearby boat, where they were pulled out of the water, and two of them went to the hospital with minor injuries. Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan said the dock had apparent signs of decay and areas that had visibly been recently repaired. New World Order In an elementary school classroom in Berlin, one student is a little ... different from the others. Joshua Martinangeli, 7, is too ill to attend school in person, so a robot avatar sits at his desk and relays lessons to him at home. “The children talk to him, laugh with him and sometimes even chitchat with him during the lesson,” the school’s headmistress, Ute Winterberg, told Reuters. The avatar displays a blinking signal when Joshua wants to say something. The school district bought four of the avatars for use in the classrooms during COVID-19, but officials believe they’ll be used beyond the pandemic. When asked whether he’ll be happy for Joshua to return to school, his classmate Noah Kuessner said he likes it “either way because I like the avatar.” Least Competent Criminal Augie’s Grocery Deli in Jersey City, New Jersey, was the target of three robberies by the same crook over six days, Oddee.com reported. Not only did the masked perp take cash and merchandise, but he assaulted Augie Lopez, 77, and his wife, Nilda Moldonado, even though Lopez is disabled. The robberies took place on Jan. 10, 15 and 16. But when he came back on Jan. 21, Officer Maurice Johnson was lying in wait for him. “He (Johnson) was going to stand outside the store, but I told him to come inside and sit down, but don’t let yourself be seen,” Lopez said. When the robber saw Johnson, he ran out the front door and into the arms of Lopez’s son, Officer Agustin Lopez Jr. Travis Nealy, 34, was arrested and charged with several crimes. “I feel much, much safer now,” Lopez said. Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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Sounds Like a Song Danville, Pennsylvania, residents were warned to look out for three small monkeys run amok after a crash between two trucks on Jan. 21, The Daily Item reported. State Trooper Andrea Pelachick said a truck with 100 African monkeys on board was on its way to a laboratory when it collided with a dump truck. She tweeted that “a small number of monkeys may have fled the scene” after escaping from their carriers. The three escapees were later located and humanely euthanized.

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n The Irish Times reported that on Jan. 21, two men carried Peader Doyle, 66, into a post office in Carlow, Ireland, and inquired about collecting his pension. Staff and other customers became concerned about Doyle, as he seemed unresponsive, and made efforts to resuscitate him—but the man was already deceased. While an investigation showed that there was no foul play in Doyle’s death, the two men who carried him into the post office were detained by police on Jan. 26. One of the men had gone to the post office earlier that day to try to collect Doyle’s pension, but he was told the person had to be there. Both insisted that Doyle was alive but unwell when they left his home and that they helped him as he walked to the post office. They believe he died there.

The Way the World Works With a snowstorm bearing down on New England, residents of five homes on Hampshire Street in Metheun, Massachusetts, have a real problem: The city will no longer remove snow from their street. Mayor Neil Perry sent a letter to homeowners alerting them to the change, which he attributed to the street being private property. He told NBC10 Boston that he received an anonymous tip about the property ownership. But neighbors are not having it: “There is a storm coming this weekend. Like, God forbid 911 needs to be called in,” said Collette Maksou. Cornelia Illmann hoped the city would reconsider: “We pay taxes, just as any other resident of Methuen does.” However, the assistant city solicitor is holding their ground.

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Bright Ideas Zachary Taylor Blood, 33, of Galveston, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 25 to trying to smuggle two men into the United States in a flag-draped coffin, The New York Times reported. Blood showed up at a border patrol checkpoint near Encino, Texas, on Oct. 26, where he told the agent he was hauling a “Dead guy, Navy guy” when asked about his cargo. But the agent, who was a military veteran, noticed the “rusty and dented coffin” and saw that the flag had been “crudely taped” to it. Agents explored further and found two live men—cousins—inside the coffin. One man told agents that it had been hot and hard to breathe in the box, and he had agreed to pay $6,000 to be smuggled to San Antonio. Blood will be sentenced on May 11 and could receive up to five years in federal prison.

Teacher of the Year Robin Hughes teaches special education students at SouthShore Academy in Tampa, Florida, where most of her kindergarten kids had never seen snow, United Press International reported. So Hughes got in touch with her sister, Amber Estes, who lives in Danville, Kentucky. “I said I want you to make me a snowman, and I want you to overnight him to me and see if he can make it to the school,” Hughes said. “I want these children in Florida to see snow.” Estes said she wrapped Lucky the snowman in foil and packed him with ice in Styrofoam, and “off he went to the local UPS Store.” Hughes said her students had looks of “pure joy” on their faces when Lucky was unwrapped on Jan. 20.

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