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SOAP BOX Come Together on Carbon

More and more Republican politicians are on board with legislation to limit climate damage by reducing carbon emissions. Do our conservative and liberal leaders need to agree on all issues related to a warming climate? No. They have diverse, yet complimentary ideas about how to preserve our common home and its warming climate. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina suggests carbon pricing in the form of a “border adjusted carbon tax” on imports. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota brought up taxing carbon from China and Russia as a way of strengthening America’s foreign policy. And Utah’s Rep. John Curtis started the Conservative Climate Caucus to educate House Republicans on climate policies and legislation consistent with conservative values. Finally, Sen. Mitt Romney openly said that

“if you are serious about (a healthy) climate, put a price on carbon.” All of these ideas can be part of a welldesigned price on carbon. First, imposing a steadily increasing carbon price would speed the transition to cleaner energy throughout the entire economy, from the biggest industries to individual consumer choices. Second, the revenue from the carbon price could be allocated to Americans as a dividend or “carbon cashback,” protecting Americans from higher costs. Third, placing a surcharge on carbonintensive products from other countries would impose international pressure to transition to cleaner energy. Canada already has a carbon-pricing system that has been shown to reduce emissions. Do our members of Congress need the majority of Americans who want something done about our warming climate to speak up? Yes. Maybe it is your concern

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about the air you breathe—especially during the fire season—or the diminishing snowpack threatening our water supply or the drying lakebed of the Great Salt Lake causing toxic dust storms and disrupting the migratory home of many birds. We should not let disagreements on climate issues stand in the way of problem-solving legislation. It is time for our elected officials to come on board with a renewed commitment to climate policy discussions. We should not wait any longer, we need to transition to clean energy. And we have broad agreement on policies that can get us there. Let’s ask Senators Romney and Lee and Representatives Curtis, Moore, Owens and Stewart to act swiftly on federal legislation that preserves the climate of our communities. DANIEL OLSSEN

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Shame on Mike Lee

In Utah—and particularly outside of Salt Lake County—one only has to be white, male and LDS to be elected. Sometimes, this results in a decent candidate and an honorable officeholder, such as Sen. Mitt Romney. However, this system also puts people like Sen. Mike Lee in office. His actions—like his shameful, racist and sexist treatment of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Katanji Brown Jackson—reflect poorly on Utah and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as Brigham Young University, as Lee is a representative of all of these. The senator lacks even common decency and does not deserve to continue to represent Utah. TED OTTINGER

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What do you do for fun? Thomas Crone

I’m attempting—with a pretty good success rate—to have a pint at every brewpub between Ogden and Provo.

Katharine Biele

Fun? What’s that? I used to travel for fun. COVID seems to have grounded me, and then there’s that climate change thing that’s canceling all the flights.

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Build scale RC vehicles, play with my cats, hang out with my little girl and visit family.

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Cycling, music and movies— and, lately, I’ve been getting into puzzles.

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Sedecordle. Wordle. Quordle. Octordle. My competitive family texts each other their scores every morning with a commentary on what BS moves they made. I need new hobbies.

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My idea of real fun is sitting down in a quiet house and reading a book straight through.

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PRIVATE EY Stay Away, Mike Lee

was at the home of Pratt and Brenda Cole this past week, planning the Bingham High School class of 1972’s 50year reunion. That’s so long ago, I barely remember that when I met everyone assembled back in junior high, we were all virgins. I’d also forgotten that Pratt and Brenda wed while in high school, meaning that this reunion is also an anniversary of sorts for the Coles. To be sure, I couldn’t be happier for them. They’ve enjoyed a wonderful and successful marriage plus equally successful careers—evidence of what a real partnership can produce in life. Also at the table were classmates Dee Oviatt, RaNae Gourley and Mike Haslam, each eating perfectly grilled burgers. As I’m currently on what the Greek Orthodox call a “strict fast” during this Easter Lenten period, I had pickles, sauerkraut and onions on a bun, juiced with mustard and ketchup. I doubt that a fast-food concept featuring pickle burgers could succeed, but that was it for me. I didn’t mind since Brenda generously kept the rum and Cokes flowing. Pratt served me up a nice scotch and soda for dessert. A couple of years ago, the Coles joined us on the annual City Weekly Greece Trip. That trip will take place again this year in September and October (we have two trips that overlap in Athens running in 2021—one on the mainland, one to Mykonos and Crete). If you’re interested in joining us, come aboard. Just email me. We traveled to the islands of Kos and Rhodes that year, and I distinctly remember Brenda ordering Mexican food on our first night out on Kos. I didn’t even know one could find Mexican food in Greece. I also remember her being impressed after a visit she took to the ruins at the ancient Asklepieion, the medical school on Kos founded by Hippocrates around

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400 B.C. Greeks love their sciences, you know. There were a fair number of Greeks at Bingham High School in the early 1970s, thanks to so many of our parents and grandparents migrating to Utah and the men working in the Kennecott Copper Mine in Bingham Canyon. Our Bingham was a sea of ethnic cultures. The valley kids who attended Bingham weren’t even close to such diversity. No need to go into details, but there were issues. It made for some very interesting first dates, that’s for sure. It bears noting that some of us who will attend the 50th reunion, who were once merely separated religiously, are now separated politically, too. Some of our sweet soul classmates have become MAGA Trumpers, while some mean buggers march with the Never Trumpers. Time has a way of working its mystery magic. At one point in our planning chat, we talked about labor unions and how they formed in Utah. Most of my former classmates have no notion at all of what early immigrants went through in the mining camps—why they united to form working unions or even that immigrants were harassed by KKK branches in Bingham Canyon and in Carbon County. If we immigrant grandchildren did not hear the sad tales ourselves, or if some histories were not captured by the Utah Historical Society, those stories of bigotry and discrimination would be lost. It’s not taught in our schools. The result is that many Utahns grow up with a cultural blind spot that prevents them from understanding how bias works or what discrimination looks like. They just don’t know how to care about something that they have no awareness of, and sadly don’t even try to understand. In their world, everything is hunky-dory. But it isn’t. Case in point is Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a racist whether he knows it or not. Matters so recent as discrimination against ethnic Utahns are not even part of Utah’s school curriculum—let alone subjects with deeper racial

overtones. Did your school teach about the Mountain Meadows Massacre? Mine didn’t. If you were Mike Lee, you might not want people to know that your kin were neck deep in the Utah chapter of ethnic cleansing. Ignoring it didn’t make it go away, though. It matters not to me if Lee hires women or has black friends. He might even like souvlaki. But, his actions belie his core. One could generously say, “Ah, but he was never taught about other cultures. He never walked in a foreign pair of sandals. He will come around.” That’s the thing. Most people come around. Not Mike Lee. But let him speak for himself. This week he sanctimoniously said—with cameras rollin’—of U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: “She comes with impressive qualifications, academically and professionally. She’s been called to serve at all three levels of the federal judiciary.” People on the receiving end of discrimination know the taste of such butter. They also know that soon comes the slice: “I will vote no,” said Lee of Jackson, and then quickly turned his “no” vote into what he does best as a Utah senator—an email fundraising campaign that slapped Jackson to the ground. Is this a good time to mention that many racists often make very good cowards? Lee’s vote flies in the face of everything ever said that is critical of “reverse discrimination,” or that we should always hire the best person for the job. You know those folks never meant that, right? It’s all been said before. You’re a nice young man—stay away from my daughter. You’re really sweet—but my son will not marry a Mexican. You have all the skills to succeed—the auto shop is down the hall. You scored 95 on the exam—how did you cheat? We get it, Mike. You’re a nice young man—now, stay away. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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MISS: Alternate Facts

Sen. Mike Lee is worried about the future of journalism. Wait, what? You heard it right, except for the part about “journalism.” Mike Lee is worried about the future of the far-right One American News Network (OAN) and how easily people can hear the misinformation it spews. For instance, OAN “reported” in 2020 that the mainstream media pretended a deadly surge of COVID had occurred and—for some reason—that was because Wisconsinites voted, according to a “Pants on Fire” fact-check from Politifact. What Lee and, yes, Texas GOP Sen. Ted “Cancun” Cruz miss, is that real journalism relies on truth, accuracy and objectivity. Now, Lee is trying to get AT&T to rethink kicking OAN off its service, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Even if he were right that AT&T is partisan, how does that matter to a Republican who professes to support business autonomy? But more surprisingly, it was AT&T that helped make OAN a thing. Surely, they can un-make it, too.

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Does Utah’s attorney general do anything beyond tag-teaming with other AGs? He claimed to work hard to stem human trafficking, but that was then, and this is now. Since being appointed AG in 2013, Sean Reyes has aligned himself with the Trump Republicans, marching to their drums on climate change, D.C. statehood and, of course, mask mandates. And now, even while he’s being investigated on allegations he worked to overturn the 2020 election, Reyes has jumped at the chance to join Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vendetta against the federal government and its mask mandates on public transport like airlines. DeSantis’ website says the mandate “interferes with state laws banning forced masking.” And the effort to ensure total freedom at the expense of public health continues.

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Well, Congress finally did something. Hold your breath, it may not last long. The Senate still needs to agree to cap insulin prices at $35, and that means they need 10 Republicans to join the Democrats, The New York Times reports. In the House, 12 Republicans made the price cap a bipartisan effort, voting to help save the lives of 30 million Americans with diabetes, many of whom have been rationing their very-expensive meds. Don’t get too giddy. Not one of Utah’s congressmen voted in favor. And stunningly, no Utah media have asked why. Vanity Fair knows. “Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, seemed to suggest that regulating the price of this drug that keeps people with diabetes alive would be a slippery slope to the end of capitalism as we know it.” The GOP has a way of making a simple bill seem very, very complicated and dangerous. And that is what makes unaffordable drugs a thing.

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Ending the Food Tax

Despite widespread support for ending the state sales tax on food, guess what the Legislature did? Nothing. Oh, but the antispending majority did spend a lot on other things. They’ll be spending on education, infrastructure, housing and homelessness. Oh yeah, and $38 million for “outdoor infrastructure.” Meanwhile, they promise tax cuts, when that’s the last thing middle- and lower-income people need. Taking the sales tax off food would go a long way to helping those in need. The fight’s not over. At this webinar—Options for Eliminating the Sales Tax on Food in Utah in 2023—you’ll hear about the plans for the next legislative session and what you can do to make this happen. Virtual, Wednesday, April 13, 1 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3x1WU5A

Carbon-Neutral Cities

Given the undying loyalty to the toxic fossilfuel industry, you might wonder if future populations will be able to breathe the air. Join the architects who could help at Urban Design Utah/AIA Utah, a two-day virtual symposium “inspiring innovative design solutions for a carbon-neutral future.” On the second day, speakers will be followed by an on-site tour of Arch Nexus, an “office remodel project that is slated for certification as the first Living Building Challenge commercial facility in Utah.” These are exciting if desperate times as construction peaks with high demand. Virtual, TuesdayWednesday, April 12-13, 8:30 a.m., $10/ register. https://bit.ly/3u8auCZ

Racism—It’s No Joke

Don’t focus on the stupid memes about Critical Race Theory and instead pay attention to what’s really hurting America— the white supremacy construct. Fireside Chat: Unsubscribing From White Supremacy will discuss how supremacy has been programmed into our daily lives, as racist attacks, comments and harassment are commonplace. Many people just laugh it off in an effort to avoid confrontation. “This fireside chat will discuss different ways we aligned with white supremacist delusion and our process to unsubscribe.” Virtual, Tuesday, April 12, 4 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3LwIlev

How Ukraine Came to War

As America witnesses the terror in Ukraine, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Insights From the Recent Past, 1991-Present will help you understand the war as well as Ukrainian culture and history. “This talk will examine some key moments in recent Russian and Ukrainian history, with particular attention to the breakup of the Soviet Union, Putin’s rise to power in Russia and the 2014 Revolution in Ukraine.” Virtual, Wednesday, April 13, 9 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3wTvaAg

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Performance Art Festival takes place virtually, with performance blocs on Friday, April 8, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m. – noon and 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. All performances are free, accessible via Vimeo link from the Salt Lake City Public Library site. Visit slcpl.org/paf for the full schedule and additional information for each piece. (Scott Renshaw)

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Due to the omicron surge this past winter, organizers of the 2022 Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival had to plan for another virtual festival. According to festival curator and participant Kristina Lenzi, it’s not an ideal setting for performers, who prefer the feedback that comes with a live audience. But given the choice between holding the festival virtually and not holding it at all, she says, “we want to have the festival, so this is our best alternative.” Still, the festival will bring an in-the-moment component, as all of the performers will be working live and unrecorded, so that the experience is as much like a live performance as it can be. And it once again offers the opportunity for performers to offer their work from wherever they happen to be, like Iowabased Jeff Rufas Byrd with his piece Sensory Monotony exploring the mediated reality of video chats, or Salt Lake City’s own Sam Forlenza as he presents The Palermian from Palermo, Sicily. They join Lenzi and seven other artists, from Salt Lake City and elsewhere, for a diverse range of works that showcase theater, visual art and technology. The 2022 Salt Lake City

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figure respected for strength and wisdom. New Works by Shonto Begay are offered in an exclusive online exhibition through Modern West Fine Art’s platform, through May 31. Visit modernestfineart.com for the exhibition and additional information; you can visit the gallery in person to see works by other represented artists at 412 S. 700 West. (SR)

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For nearly 40 years as a professional artist, Arizona native Shonto Begay has used his work to explore the influence of his experience as a Diné (Navajo) in the American Southwest, including attending the cruel U.S. government boarding schools typical of the first half of the 20th century. “My paintings are expressions of the purity of the Shonto Plateau I still call home,” Begay writes on his website. “Beauty in the truth, beauty in the sacred, and the mysteries. I paint to share colors as an expression of having been.” Begay brings his distinctive style—small brush strokes, his biography notes, “that repeat like the words of a traditional Navajo blessing prayer—to a series of new works on a smaller scale. At times he investigates the relationship between human figures and the landscape, as he does in “Cleaning the Morning Earth,” which shows a woman tending to the path connecting her hogan to a sheep corral. Or he might present a landscape devoid of obvious human figures, but which evokes the history of his people; “Centering of a Presence” (pictured) focuses on an image of a juniper tree, which in the Diné tradition represents a grandfather

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belong to a religion where you are taught that creating an eternal family is important, it is impossible to get by without the topic of marriage being brought up.” Plan-B Theatre Company presents Aftershock at the Rose Wagner Center Studio Theatre (138 W. 300 South) April 7-17. Tickets are limited for live performances (proof of vaccination and masking required) at press time, but a streaming version of the production will be available April 13-17. Visit planbtheatre.org for tickets and additional information. (SR)

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includes Emmy Awards for his time on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live and for his 2018 solo stand-up show Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. Mulaney visits Salt Lake City for a one-night stand at Vivint Arena (301 W. South Temple) on Saturday, April 9. Tickets are $71 - $176, with VIP packages available for $295; phones will be secured and cannot be used during the performance. Visit ticketmaster.com for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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John Mulaney John Mulaney has always drawn from his life for his stand-up comedy, but that doesn’t mean he was about to change his approach when that life got tangled up in high-profile personal tribulations. As he noted with more than a touch of understatement in the opening monologue for his hosting appearance on Saturday Night Live in March, “Since I last hosted, different things have happened.” Those “different things” included an intervention by friend over his drug use, a stint in rehab, and a new baby. Some of those things might seem easier to turn into comedy than others. Mulaney doesn’t shy away from any of them—even if that means turning the unique circumstances of “breaking up” with his drug dealer into a bit. His current From Scratch tour has a title that suggests not just all-new material, but really a life that kind of had to start all over again. He is starting from a pretty solid professional foundation, of course, with a career in comedy that stretches back nearly 20 years—improbable though it may seem for the still-baby-faced Mulaney—and

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While the entire world dealt with the disruption of the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, Utahns faced the unique one-two punch of the “lockdown” and an earthquake that hit just a few days later. That unique setting inspired Iris Salazar’s Aftershock, but she believes that you didn’t “have to be there” for the play to resonate. “While some people are now trying to live their ‘normal life,’ Salazar says, “others struggled, and are still maybe struggling, to get back to a place of comfort.” There’s also specificity in the experience of Salazar’s main character: Teah, a middle-aged Mexican-American woman, a faithful member of the LDS church and still unmarried. Aftershock explores how those identities inform one another, in issues ranging from experiencing harassment to dealing with familial expectations after 20-plus years in a “singles ward.” “My mother raised my sister and me in a very strict manner, particularly when it came to dating, but at the same time we were taught to be very independent women,” Salazar says. “When you

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Director Todd Underwood connects with the creative and personal journey in Passing Strange. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

he Tony Award-winning 2008 musical Passing Strange by musician/ songwriter Stew chronicles the journey of a young Black man trying to figure out who he is as an artist. It’s a journey that Todd Underwood—who directs Salt Lake Acting Company’s local premiere of the show—identifies with in a profound way. “The thing that really brought it home for me is, as a creative, you’re always trying to find your voice,” Underwood says. “You’re always cycling through different voices. It probably took six years for me to find the thing that makes me excited about theater, and makes me want to show up for it in the world.” That long path tracks with the arc of Passing Strange’s protagonist, identified simply as “Youth,” who leaves his Southern California home as a young man and heads to Europe, hoping to find something he keeps referring to as “the real.” Underwood himself undertook a similar journey as a young actor in the mid-1990s, traveling to Germany with a touring show and trying to overcome his anxieties and insecurities. “I stayed in my hotel [in Bremen] for the first week and a half, because I was terri-

fied,” he says. “The only thing I knew about Germany was Nazism, and that they hated Black people. One day got up my gusto, got my German dictionary and ventured out. I went into this shop and tried to talk to someone. This shopkeeper just smiled at me and said, ‘I speak English, how can I help you?’ We had this wonderful conversation, and it broke down all these biases I had. And it opened up a new world for me: This isn’t what I thought it was going to be. This could be an amazing journey.” Passing Strange links that journey to a longer history of Black American artists like James Baldwin and Josephine Baker taking their careers to Europe, because it was a place they could be more accepted. Underwood recalls working with the veteran actor/singer Eartha Kitt, and listening to her describe similar experiences. “She’d tell me all of these stories about not feeling she could be herself,” he recalls. “There was Eartha Kitt the persona, then Eartha Mae, who she was. And switching back and forth, because she didn’t feel she could put the two together. In Europe, she was celebrated as an artist, and in Europe that’s something there’s no boundaries on.” Relating to that part of the Youth’s story was only one part of what attracted Underwood to Passing Strange. While he never saw the original Broadway production, he says, “I did see the Tony Awards that year, and the performance that they gave. And I though, ‘Wow, I’m sorry I missed this.’ Even from that two or three minutes, it shocked me, it struck me, it shook me. I picked up the cast recording, and loved what it had to say just on the basis of the music. I thought, ‘This must have been an amazing experience.’” It was only last year, when Salt Lake Acting Company’s Cynthia Fleming reached out to Underwood about directing the show, that Underwood caught up with an available visual record of that Broadway run: director Spike Lee’s 2009 documentary of the final Passing Strange Broadway perfor-

mance, which debuted at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. “I was blown away by the storytelling,” Underwood says, “and just how non-musical-theater it was.” As impressed as Underwood was with what he saw in that original production, he also had his own vision for Passing Strange, one he freely credits to his terrific technical collaborators. “You hopefully assemble a great creative team [when you’re directing]: set designer, lightRehearsal shot of the cast of Salt Lake Acting Company’s ing designer, cosPassing Strange tume designer. And share your feelings explores colliding components of identity. about the show, and let them go away and As a Black man in Europe, the Youth plays a have their own thoughts about it,” Underkind of role expected by the other artists he wood says. encounters, one that doesn’t actually correOne of those thought involved the cosspond to the Youth’s experience growing up tumes, which in the Broadway incarnation in a middle-class neighborhood and home. were generally limited to black outfits. “I “We sometimes, because of self-preservathought, ‘We’re missing color, we’re misstion, allow people to put things on us, … so ing a particular kind of energy,’” Underthat the other person is comfortable, and wood recalls. “The costume designer’s first not intimidated. But I think what the show [inspiration documents] were so not what really tries to do is, ‘the real’ is about being the Broadway show did, which then creauthentic to oneself. ‘The real’ is accepting ated this whole world we could play in. … oneself, for all of the good, bad, ugly.” CW The 1980s in L.A. were a very specific look, but we’re trying to exaggerate it as well; our PASSING STRANGE memory can sometimes stretch and change Salt Lake Acting Company and tell some lies. So we wanted to play in 168 W. 500 North that world: This is one person’s remembrance of it, and how it can be skewed.” April 6 – May 15 Memory becomes a significant thematic $29 - $46 component of Passing Strange, but it also

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back that flows into our city and county branches every day. “The library has changed my life,” one patron wrote in an email to library workers. “I used to hate reading, but now I love to read.” Another comment remarked on what a boon the library’s community services had been for a mother and her children. “These programs help me be a better mom,” the woman wrote, “I’m able to supplement my children’s learning with a variety of online programming, live classes, art, activities, music, books and more, thanks to the amazing library staff.” This didn’t happen in a vacuum. Libraries operated as private clubs and fee-based companies in colonial times. And it wasn’t until the 19th century that the public library as we recognize it today began to take shape, most notably with the Boston Public Library’s opening in the early 1850s. While the public library movement gained national traction during this period, another more unique journey was playing out here in the Beehive State.

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hey stand as fixtures in your neighborhood and may even be a recurring destination for your family. Whether sleek and large or historic and unassuming, public libraries have undergone many transformations, inside and out, over their extended history. But their essential role as a community center has been consistent and remains vibrantly alive. The story of public libraries in Utah is one of clashing interests, creeds and classes slowly finding place for one another in a project of public service. That effort extends far beyond the accumulation of books and other resources for knowledge. As teacher and scholar R. David Lankes articulated in a 2012 keynote address to librarians in Syracuse, New York: “Bad libraries build collections; good libraries build services; great libraries build communities.” What of the libraries here in Salt Lake and the communities they help to build? Answers suggest themselves in the user feed-

Clockwise from top right: The Salt Lake City Public Library in what is now The Leonardo; a vintage card catalog at the Chapman Branch; The Salt Lake Tribune announces the hiring of Mary Downey; patrons visit the former library location; early book editions inherited from now-defunct collections; a plaque honoring Annie Elizabeth Chapman. Photos by Wes Long and courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society and Salt Lake City Public Library.

From the arrival of the Mormon pioneers until the time of formal statehood, many Utah library ventures came and went. For The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ stake units and individual Mormon homes, then-president Brigham Young and his colleagues recommended in an 1847 epistle to build up libraries containing “every valuable treatise on education—every book, map, chart or diagram that may contain interesting, useful and attractive matter to gain the attention of the children and cause them to learn how to read.” Also present at that time was the Seventies Library, an import from the Mormon settlement in Illinois that was primarily used for missionary work. A Territorial Library for the Legislature was established by a federal government grant in the early 1850s and operated as a public library out of session. And after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the growing population of non-Mormon residents worked to build up their own libraries, from the reading room organized by the Ladies Library Association at the First National Bank Building to unsuccessful efforts to establish a secular public library in Ogden. But none of the aforementioned libraries survived very long, due to either their limited use or lack of funding. An obstacle at that time was the tension between Latter-day Saints and non-LDS residents, particularly when it came to the LDS practice of polygamy. No public library had a chance of taking root in a society so at odds with itself. “Each segment of the community feared that the other would control the public institution,” explained library historian Suzanne M. Stauffer in an unpublished 2004 dissertation. As a result, literary and cultural pursuits were advocated separately by individual women’s organizations, such as the Mormon Relief Society and the non-Mormon Blue Tea Society. The latter organization eventually went defunct, but it spawned the Salt Lake City Ladies’ Literary Club, which set about reaching greater numbers of people by assembling traveling libraries. This organization would be critical in the development of what would become the Salt Lake City Public Library. As the only early library to survive into Utah’s statehood, Salt Lake City’s library system originated from a small collection of books gathered by the Ladies Library Association in the early 1870s. These books were later acquired by the Grand Masonic Lodge of Utah and made available to readers as the Pioneer Library in 1877. Funding was always a struggle, but the Pioneer Library received decades of support from the Ladies’ Literary Club. In addition, the Literary Club successfully collected signatures to levy a tax for Utah’s first publicly funded library during the state’s first legislative session in 1896. A library board was assembled the following year and by 1898, the library had been fully transferred to Salt Lake City, occupying the top floor of the City and County Building. By 1905, it had found a more permanent

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“It’s pretty incredible when you think about it, how many roles the library plays. When they find out [all of] what we do, I’ve yet to have a conversation with a patron when they aren’t blown away by our offerings and the treatment by our staff.”

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The city library occupied what is now the O.C. Tanner Jewelers building for roughly 60 years.

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location at 15 S. State Street—now O.C. Tanner Jewelers—through the support of Tintic mining magnate John Q. Packard (at the urging of the Ladies’ Literary Club). This building housed the city library until 1964, when it relocated to what is now the Leonardo Museum at 209 E. 500 S. It was in the years following 1890—upon the first announcement by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that their practice of polygamy would cease—that LDS and non-LDS communities in Utah began to integrate to a greater degree. Utahns, and particularly Utah’s women, were finding spaces to work together in civic and political causes, and libraries proved to be a broadly shared community interest. The leadership skewed in favor of non-Mormons, but the work of establishing public libraries in Utah was nevertheless a vehicle for diverse groups to work together in a non-sectarian cause, as Stauffer explained in a 2005 article for Library Quarterly. “Women’s united, organized activities were vital to the success of these efforts,” she wrote, “Working together regardless of religious affiliation, women’s clubs initiated the library movement in their communities, raised funds through bazaars and other means, solicited donations of materials, served on boards of trustees and other committees, staffed the libraries and campaigned for support of legislative resolutions.” With the absence of philanthropic or governmental support, this activity on the part of women’s organizations was filling a gap that other Western states were also facing when it came to the library movement. Such conditions began to shift in Utah during the first two decades of the 20th century as librarianship became more professionalized and libraries came to be more closely associated with schools. Some towns developed libraries through the Library-Gymna-

sium Act of 1907, which incentivized the building of combination centers to serve the educational and recreational pursuits of the young. Others applied to the Carnegie Corporation in New York, which provided grants for the construction of thousands of library buildings around the world during this period and which ultimately built 23 in Utah between 1901 and 1919. In both cases, the influence and decision-making were filtering over into the exclusive domain of elected officials and local men’s clubs. Since the public library was supplementing the needs and aims of schools, Utah leaders increasingly decided that it would operate best when administered under a special authority of the state. Thus, in 1911, the oversight of the library was designated within the purview of the State Board of Education. A tax-supported public library was becoming a nearly ubiquitous feature in city planning projects, but there remained smaller and more isolated communities in the Beehive State whose needs were going unmet. Addressing those needs was a major goal of Mary E. Downey, who came to Utah to serve as the state’s Library Organizer from 1914 to 1921. “It is the birthright of every child,” she declared in the Chautauquan Daily, “to have access to a good collection of books, just as it is [their] birthright to have a free education.” Working with local library boards, city officials and women’s groups, Downey advocated for the creation of a county library system and the absorption of smaller mobile collections into permanent libraries that were built up all around the state. Her joint work with countless individuals and organizations led to the enactment of the County Library Act of 1919, which opened the way for library services to become available within every county of Utah. With the relative permanence of the public library established in the early 1900s, the ensuing century leading up to today shifted to a period of adaptation, innovation and experimentation.

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Quinn Smith is the Salt Lake City Public Library’s assistant director of marketing and communications. Libraries hold a special place in her heart, she said, as her mother worked in a library, and she cherishes memories of performing in stage productions at the Leonardo building back when the city library still resided there. “It’s pretty incredible when you think about it, how many roles the library plays,” Smith said. “When they find out [all of] what we do, I’ve yet to have a conversation with a patron when they aren’t blown away by our offerings and the treatment by our staff.” Whether one needs assistance with email or resume preparation, meal recommendations or learning a language, the library can connect a patron with what they need. For caregivers of loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s, there are memory kits that help to stimulate conversation and practice memory retention. For children, there are digital-first programs such as virtual Story Times (averaging 700 views per month) and a regularlyupdated recorded service called “Phone-a-Story.” And with more than 800 participants during its January run, “Adopt a Mini Pet”— which provides children with a stuffed animal in a carrier to prepare them for pet ownership or to serve as a substitute—was such a success that there are plans to make it an annual program. For teen patrons, the city library system offers arts and crafts activities, online tutoring, volunteering programs, curated book recommendations in its “Lit Loot” kits, a Teens Talk panel series to lead discussions on subjects of personal interest and clubs like Alphabet Soup for LGBTQ+ youth and allies. For older patrons, the library offers lecture series, a gardening seed library and book clubs, as well as a massive collection of digital reading materials and audiobooks for those who prefer the

comfort of their own homes. In total, Smith reports that roughly 785,000 e-media materials and 2.32 million physical items were circulated last year at the Main Library—a facility that is known for its architectural beauty—and its sister branches. Smith is proud of the fact that, starting last September, the library worked with Salt Lake City to expand free parking at the Main branch’s downtown lot from a half-hour to two hours. And for any and all who come to them, she stated, the library doors are open and you can stay all day if you wish. This was a point also made by librarians Katie Weeks and Christine Koldewyn at Poplar Grove’s Chapman library branch, located at 577 S. 900 West. There are few remaining places in the world besides the public library where visitors can linger, access a computer, read and/or use a restroom, without any expectation of making a purchase. “We strive to meet people where they are,” Weeks said. Koldewyn agreed, stating that she particularly enjoys her contact with their regular patrons and with teens. Operating within the smaller parameters of the 1918-built Chapman building—a Carnegie-funded library that is said to be haunted—they strive to offer unique experiences for their patrons, including a ghost hunt during the Halloween season. If the Salt Lake City Public Library teems with resources for its patrons, the county’s library system similarly has no shortage of offerings in what they do as a partner organization to the city and university systems. Trish Hull, manager for the county’s Kearns library branch, works with the University of Utah to feature a sixclass Journey to Health course on healthy cooking and shopping, which utilizes the kitchen space in the Kearns library building to create meals. Each course is capped at eight participants, with multiple course rotations each year. “We also do other healthy eating and cooking

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classes with various partners,” Hull added. With the assistance of the Utah Food Bank, the Kearns branch is currently among six county library locations (along with four city library branches) that offer Kid’s Café, a service that provides sacked snacks for kids up to age 18. Hull said the Kearns location alone serves between 45 and 90 children each day. “We have a hunger problem in our community,” Hull said. Along with its partnerships, the county library system offers a vast assortment of services for the public. Select branches have “Create Spaces” that provide tools like sound-recording studios, vinyl cutters and laminators, sewing machines and 3D printers. Kearns’ Create Space opened last May and, by the end of December, it had served 1,773 people, Hull said. Those patrons ranged from music teachers to people of every age recording podcasts and at least one retiree who used the space to produce curtains for their trailer. “It is the most diverse group of users you can imagine,” Hull said. The county’s “Library of Things” allows patrons to check out such items as telescopes (1,241 users last year), Chromebooks (1,178 users), Wi-Fi hotspots (3,252 users), “Storytime-to-Go” kits (11,618 users) and even “Preserve the Memory” digitizing equipment for old videos. Teens can find assistance applying for a food handler’s permit, a driver’s license or taking a college admissions test, resources for creative endeavors and for book recommendations. There are popular children’s programs like Story Time, which hosted 5,600 children in person and 11,484 online last year, and O.W.L. (Outstanding Wizarding Levels) Camp, which has a maximum capacity of 825 registered kids. Adults can access varied resources in auto maintenance, family history and business/nonprofit startup. They also have access to countless academic journals. According to Matt McLain, the country library’s associate director of community engagement, patrons collectively checked out more than 11 million items last year. “We love the fact that we have really broad collections that people can use,” he said. Coupled with the interaction that librarians provide on a day-to-day basis, the influence of the public library as a community center remains strong. “I think public libraries can make a good case for being the heart and soul of our society,” said longtime Utah resident Joseph Peterson. Library roots run deep and extend in many directions but draw their greatest strength from the people who use them. And their role as a gathering place is more apparent today than in the days of the Ladies Literary Club or Andrew Carnegie, as evidenced in the buildings themselves, which have expanded in size and now offer space to the variety of activities housed within. With National Library Week under way (April 3-9), Americans can take time to celebrate libraries and the contributions of library workers. As long as there exists minds that hunger for knowledge and residents willing to work together, these community hubs will always have an ongoing purpose. CW

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hough I never had anything against the Garden Café when it was operating within The Grand America Hotel (555 S. Main Street), it really wasn’t much of a nightspot. A hotel like The Grand America really needed something that could offer a unique experience for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner—something that would appeal to both the hip nighttime diners and the more conservative daytime crowd. When The Garden Café closed after 20 years to make way for something new, we were all a little curious. The something new in the equation is Laurel Brasserie & Bar (801-258-6708, laurelslc.com), which officially opened in December 2021. It’s a tall order to reinvigorate the dining experience at one of downtown Salt Lake City’s most prestigious hotels, but Laurel is off to a great start. The space has been tailored to Laurel’s European concept. It’s an expansive, welcoming space that takes full advantage of floor-to-ceiling windows, immaculate white tilework and a vibrant color scheme of pinks, teals and greens. Or, as my wife put it, “It looks like the Nancy Meyers kitchen of my dreams.” I’ve also heard that Laurel has plans to convert some of the outside space into a patio which will fit nicely

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lognese was something else. It’s a devastatingly rich combo of ground beef, pork and veal that has been simmered to tender perfection. These are deep, dreamy flavors that evolve with each bite. The steak frites consists of a skirt steak grilled with some béarnaise butter and served with a stack of crisp, salty fries— and it’s incredible. It’s prepared simply and carefully, which truly showcases the ingredients themselves. Laurel’s menu offers a few side dishes to complement each entrée, and I’d suggest adding something like the jumbo asparagus in hollandaise sauce ($9) here if you’re feeling a bit indulgent. After navigating through some delightful appetizers and entrees, we were set on calling it quits before the dessert menu hit the table. But then our server gushed about the croissant bread pudding ($9)—so we had one to split. Despite how full we were, there were no regrets to be had as we dove into this buttery, caramelly and altogether luxurious dessert. It’s the aged rum sauce that really clinches this dessert; it’s got the flavor of a nice, toasted crème brulee that really sings once you combine it with the custardlike croissant pudding. Am I ashamed to say we finished the whole thing? Not at all. I have a lot of good to say about Laurel— the space is gorgeous, the food is top-notch and the service is gracious—but the thing that I appreciated most was the prices. I figured dinner at a swank new restaurant inside a swank downtown hotel would carry a much heftier price tag. None of the entrees at Laurel will cost you more than $30, which is pretty reasonable considering the restaurant’s prolific swank-itude. If you’re looking for a spot to dine in style without completely wrecking your wallet, Laurel is open for business. CW

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with the restaurant’s European aesthetic. So yeah, it’s a safe bet that Laurel won me over with its interior design—it’s a beautiful addition that complements the Grand America’s old-school extravagance. After considering all that lush production design, I was both excited and nervous to try the food. I’ve visited many a spot that tries to win diners over with a beautiful space, only to deliver entrees braised with mediocrity. But sometimes the food becomes a proper accompaniment to the lovely space, which is what I experienced at Laurel. My wife and I started off with the pumpkin arancini ($11) and the wild mushroom tartlet ($10), hoping for a proper introduction to the Italian and French influences being liberally applied to Laurel’s menu. Though both appetizers were tasty, the pumpkin arancini were the favorite at the table. Plump, golden-brown spheres of rice and melted cheese served with some slightly spicy aioli for dipping are always going to be a winner. The pumpkin comes through very subtly, buffeted nicely by the mild flavors of the rice and fresh mozzarella cheese. The aioli offers just enough kick to keep things too subtle, however. The concept of the tartlet worked for us—a round of buttery puff pastry crust topped with savory seasonal mushrooms, creamy labneh and curly sprigs of herbaceous frisée. The mushrooms, labneh and frisée were excellent together, though the crust was a bit on the crumbly side. All in all, the appetizer round had us on board and excited for entrees. We liked the French/Italian combo of appetizers, so we went with the rigatoni Bolognese ($20) and the steak frites ($26). I think it’s risky to get pasta at a more upscale place like Laurel, since the margin between excellent and just fine is razor thin, but I have to say that the rigatoni here was a definite win. Pasta dishes live and die by the quality of their sauce, and this Bo-

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malts in this push things into a slightly more complex direction, and the dry-hop is appreciable, though not too heavy-handed. It’s more apparent when the beer is chilled, so keep that in mind when approaching this one. It’s very enjoyable, but you have to be a fan of hops to get the most out of it. Wasatch - Top of Main Series (Raspberry Ale): This isn’t Wasatch’s first raspberry ale. Hell, my first experience with a raspberry beer from Wasatch was back in the mid-’90s with Raspberry Wheat Ale. This is not that beer; it comes from the flagship brewery in Park City, and seems quite different. The color is beautiful: a deep brownishred with a light haze when held up to the sun. The head was also just as lovely, ushered on by a nice amount of carbonation; it was actually a very light pink, and just over an inch thick. Right off the bat, the scent of raspberries is almost overpowering, surprisingly like they used real raspberries. There are also faint undertones of blackberry and malt, lacking any bitterness. I’m not saying it doesn’t smell good, because it does. I think the fruitiness just threw off my game. First swig didn’t blow me away, but when I tried my second, it definitely made more of an impact. I was all ready to write about how fruit beers were wearing on me—considering I love fruity drinks under most other circumstances—but my second taste really turned that around. Right now, as I’m finishing off the draft, it almost resembles a bubbly, fermented malt-fruit soda poured into a glass previously used for beer. Right? Right. Overall: Raspberry Ale has a light feel to it, and at the end of the drink, it manages to leave a slightly dry feeling in my mouth and a slight sour taste on my tongue, but nothing terribly unpleasant. The raspberry continues to drift throughout my mouth after swallowing, and the carbonation bubbles lightly in my stomach. It may be the warmer weather, but this fruit beer really spoke to me, increasing my enthusiasm for spring and summer. You’ll find Top of Main Raspberry Ale in cans and on draft at Wasatch’s locations. Victory; For Peace is on-draft only, exclusively at Hopkins Brewing, which just happens to be doors away from Wasatch’s Sugar House Pub. As always, cheers! CW

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hough not full-time venues by any means, some spaces around town that might not attract regular attention from area music fans are due for a reconsideration—especially as both will be presenting some diverse musical programming in coming weeks. Intriguingly, one new series will take place in an alley. Or, more accurately, in four different alleys over the course of four months, as first reported by the Salt Lake Tribune. The upcoming Alleyways Amplified series was birthed from an idea by university student Vishwa Srinivasan, and his first concert promotion will take place on Saturday, May 21, near 257 E. Edison, a half-block east of State Street between 200 South and 300 South (near Diabolical Records’ 238 S. Edison location. Fully-supported by Salt Lake’s City government and given the personal blessing of Mayor Erin Mendenhall, the first concert will feature local artists in Peech, Snicks and Gavanni. Asked how this initial lineup came together, what with its hip-hop and R&B bent, Srinivsasan says, “It’s just the music I listen to. People always ask me that question, and it’s the honest answer. I’ve lived in Salt Lake my whole life, and I want to see this music hit the mainstream. As a musician playing R&B or rap, you wind up playing warehouse shows, but you don’t get a stab at larger venues.” In effect, the prevalence of indie rock at those venues is something he wanted to address with a different musical bent at his showcases this spring and summer. With a host of meetings happening within the city proper, and with pieces now appear-

ing in local media, he says that the idea has moved well beyond the initial phase of enthusiasm and into a more of the get-itgoing phase. “Anytime something is in the idea phase, you fall in love with the idea,” he says. “Now, I’m excited to see it play out in reality.” Tickets for the first event are $10 and available at 24tix.com. Information on this and future events can be found at the series’ Instagram page, @alleywaysamplified. A spot that’s now played host to one event from the Mundi Project is the Alliance Theater, found in the Trolley Square mall (602 E. 500 South, Suite E101). Mundi’s playing host to a second “Something New” concert for spring on Friday, April 15 at 6 p.m. This concert showcases the work of Devin Maxwell, Director of Music Technology and Composition for Westminster College, who’s also a composer and performer of primarily experimental music. This free-admission performance, Maxwell says, “features me as both a performer and composer, and we will be presenting five pieces. Three will be solos that I perform for snare drum alone and the other two will be my original compositions. One will feature Katie Porter on clarinet and the other will feature Noriko Kishi on cello. I will be performing electronics on those pieces.” “Something New” is intended as an opportunity for SLC audiences to catch musical works that wouldn’t ordinarily be booked into clubs. Thus, Maxwell adds, “I’m excited and glad that Mundi asked me to perform on their series which will bring experimental music to a broader audience.” Ordinarily, parking instructions wouldn’t be necessary, but the Alliance Theater’s freestanding location is a bit tricky. Those attending are best off parking in the rear of the Trolley Square complex, rather than the primary entryways of the mall on 700 East. The venue doesn’t offer food or drink service, though plenty of such options are available for pre- or post-show enjoyment through the various operators of Trolley Square. Information about future shows can be found at mundiproject.org. CW

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Dar Williams has been an active touring musician over the past three decades, as her official bio describes how she “rose out of the vibrant mid-’90s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets, and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert, and Jonatha Brooke.” Over the course of a dozen-plus albums, Williams has found an audience drawn to thoughtful lyricism and a musical approach that straddles folk and alt country, though plenty of other elements peek in, as well. Though she has a deep catalog to choose from, it’s doubtless that her sets at this three-night stand in Park City will include tracks from her 2021 album I’ll Meet You Here. Each of Dar Williams’ three shows April 7-9 at the Egyptian Theatre (328 Main Street, Park City) start at 8 p.m, with a 7:30 door. Tickets are available at tickets. egyptiantheatrecompany.org and run from $23-29.

Gene Loves Jezebel @ Liquid Joe’s

Formed way back in 1980 by the twin brothers Michael and Jay Aston, Gene Loves Jezebel was a band perfectly built for success in the video-centric ’80s, with a sound that melded glam, post-punk and goth alongside some dancier elements. Like many of their era, record sales and radio play were harder things to find once grunge exploded onto the scene in 1991. Unlike most bands formed by twins (a select group, at that) this college-rock sensation splintered into

two similarly-named groups, with years of legal proceedings involved in what has to be one of the more-unusual legal entanglements in rock’n’roll history. Both brothers tour on a regular basis, and this Gene Loves Jezebel version is helmed by Michael Aston, with a group that concentrates on American gigging; meanwhile Jay’s concentrates on the U.K. and Europe. If you’re of the era that saw MTV’s birth, you will find the group offering up all of their expected hits and near-hits of that era. And if you’re just curious about a legal case that’s plenty fascinating, you can find information about that online, as well. This Friday’s (April 8) show has a 7 p.m. scheduled door, with tickets available from Liquid Joe’s (1249 E. 3300 S.) at: liquidjoes.ticketsauce.com.

Benefit for Heavy Metal Shop Benefit @ The Commonwealth Room

As fans of the store are doubtless aware, the longrunning Heavy Metal Shop lost a key member of its operation with the recent passing of Angie Kirk, the wife of founding metalhead Kevin Kirk. Various fundraising efforts have been undertaken to help alleviate the family’s significant financial burden brought on by the costs associated with her medical treatment. A very public outpouring of support will take place at The Commonwealth Room (195 W. 2100 South) on Sunday, April 10, as Triggers & Slips, Thunderfist and Sammy Brue will play music in the mom’n’pop music shop’s honor, with all ticket funds going to the Kirk fam-

John Pizzarelli ily. Additional fundraising will take place onsite, as well. Doors are at 7 p.m., with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and information about purchasing (and the club’s Covid policies) can be found at: thestateroompresents.com.

John Pizzarelli @ Capitol Theatre

A recording artist for just shy of four decades, lifelong jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli doesn’t need to tie his tours into any special album obligation these days. With years of live gigs behind him, fans have come to expect some classic tracks from pop stars of the past, alongside those of certified jazz greats with originals compositions taking up the balance. Pizzarelli’s latest release is 2021’s Better Days Ahead: Solo Guitar Takes on Pat Metheny, one of a series of his albums that’ve tackled the music of a single performer or theme— so some Metheny may be spotted into this setlist. No matter the material presented, his audience is already onboard, so there’s little reason to believe that this won’t be a true crowd-pleaser. Tickets at various price points for this show on Monday, April 11 at the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South), are available at my.arttix.com.

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Metro Music Hall

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tours that borrow from the past. Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees is the band’s newest album—or next, perhaps, as it’s due in June. Never one to shy away from overarching narrative trips on his album, songwriter Anton Newcombe’s zeitgeist-sailing on this one, with various songs themed to today’s technology-riddled culture: “A lot of the album is about affirmation by just living,” he says via press release. “Existentially, this time period has felt pretty dark, so it’s about fighting the good fight. I’m singing to empower other people. First of all, I’m getting whatever I need out of it, but I can see it as something other people can identify with.” The album, it further states, grew from humble beginnings inside of Newcombe’s Berlin studio: “I could sit at the piano, the organ, any instrument, and get an idea all of a sudden. I would play for one second with the band to get a grasp of the idea, and then we would unplug the amps and put on the headphones, plug in and track it. Then I would go, ‘guys leave the room,’ sing the words in my head and then record them. Everything’s off the top of my head, just like one-take Jake. I surprised myself.” Rare, in this case, is the fact that the headliner’s matched by a contemporary with major chops, a lengthy catalog of its own and a history that merits more than a passing mention. Shoegaze legends Mercury Rev have been releasing albums just a touch longer than BJM, having debuted in 1991. What a bill! This Wednesday, April 13 concert at Metro Music Hall (615 W. 100 South) has a 7 p.m. door, with $25 tickets available at 24tix.com. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) To provide the right horoscope, I must introduce you to three new words. The first is “orphic,” defined as “having an importance or meaning not apparent to the senses nor comprehensible to the intellect; beyond ordinary understanding.” Here’s the second word: “ludic,” which means “playful; full of fun and high spirits.” The third word is “kalon,” which refers to “profound, thorough beauty.” Now I will coordinate those terms to create a prophecy in accordance with your astrological aspects. Ready? I predict you will generate useful inspirations and energizing transformations for yourself by adopting a ludic attitude as you seek kalon in orphic experiments and adventures.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini-born basketball coach Pat Summitt won Olympic medals, college championships and presidential awards. She had a simple strategy: “Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.” I recommend that you apply her approach to everything you do for the rest of 2022. According to my analysis, you’re on course for a series of satisfying victories. All you have to do is nurture your stamina as you work with unwavering focus and resilient intelligence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I’m glad you’ve been exploring your past and reconfiguring your remembrances of the old days and old ways. I’m happy you’ve been transforming the story of your life. I love how you’ve given yourself a healing gift by reimagining your history. It’s fine with me if you keep doing this fun stuff a while longer. But please make sure you don’t get so immersed in bygone events that you’re weighed down by them. The point of the good work you’ve been doing is to open up future possibilities. For inspiration, read this advice from author Milan Kundera: “We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian historian Mary Frances Berry offered counsel that I think all Aquarians should keep at the heart of their philosophy during the coming weeks. She wrote, “The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done.” I hope you trust yourself enough to make that your battle cry. I hope you will keep summoning all the courage you will regularly need to implement its mandate.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) What’s the leading cause of deforestation in Latin America? Logging for wood products? Agricultural expansion? New housing developments? Nope. It’s raising cattle so people everywhere can eat beef and cheese and milk. This industry also plays a major role in the rest of the world’s ongoing deforestation tragedy. Soaring greenhouse gas emissions aren’t entirely caused by our craving for burgers and milk and cheese, of course, but our climate emergency would be significantly less dramatic if we cut back our consumption. That’s the kind of action I invite you to take in the coming months, Pisces. My analysis of astrological omens suggests that you now have even more power than usual to serve the collective good of humanity in whatever LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You know who Jimi Hendrix was, right? He was a brilliant and specific ways you can. (PS: Livestock generates 14.5 percent influential rock guitarist. As for Miles Davis, he was a Hall of of our greenhouse gasses, equal to the emissions from all cars, Fame-level trumpeter and composer. You may be less familiar trucks, airplanes and ships combined.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain,” wrote mythologist Joseph Campbell. I don’t think his cure is foolproof. The lingering effects of some old traumas aren’t so simple and easy to dissolve. But I suspect Campbell’s strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when extra healing powers are available. Some are obvious, and some are still partially hidden. It will be your sacred duty to track down every possible method that could help you banish at least some of your suffering and restore at least some of your joie de vivre.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarian author Martha Beck articulated the precise message you need to hear right now. She wrote, “Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.” I hope you adopt her law in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You should avoid responses and influences that don’t feel liberating. I realize that’s an extreme position to take, but I think it’s the right one for now. Where does your greatest freedom lie? How can you claim it? What shifts might you need to initiate?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) In Britain, 70% of the land is owned by 1% of the population. Globally, 1% of the population owns 43% of the wealth. I hope there’s a much better distribution of resources within your own life. I hope that the poorer, less robust parts of your psyche aren’t being starved at the expense of the privileged and highly functioning aspects. I hope that the allies and animals you tend to take for granted are receiving as much of your love and care as the people you’re trying to impress or win over. If any adjustments are necessary, now is a favorable time to make them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Poet Anne Carson claims that “a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.” I agree. If there are tea stains, it probably means that the poem has been studied and enjoyed. Someone has lingered over it, allowing it to thoroughly permeate their consciousness. I propose we make the tea-stained poem your power metaphor for the coming weeks, Scorpio. In other words, shun the pristine, the spotless, the untouched. Commune with messy, even chaotic things that have been loved and used.

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I love local history and this time of year, history is in bloom. Mulberry trees—which are scattered all over the Salt Lake Valley and down as far south as St. George—are getting ready to produce fruit this summer that can be used for jam or wine. These historic trees were planted by the first and second wave of white pioneers to the state, who were determined to create a silk economy within the confines of our borders. Dr. Sasha Coles is writing a book—Nation’s Wealth Surrounds a Worm: Mulberry Trees, Silk Cocoons and Women Workers in Mormon Country, 1850s-1910s—and I had the opportunity to hear her give remarks about this web of our past and her research. During the 19th century, Utahns were looking at many different ways to create moneymaking industries for their families and their church. Raising silkworms didn’t take a lot of capital investment—you could trade or purchase the worms for very little. Male-run households in myriad cultures around the world found that women, children, the elderly and native and enslaved peoples who were too old or too weak could generate capital with this home business. Basically, anyone could be employed doing this business. Silk manufacturing kept them at home in modest home-factory operations. Plus, it was a self-sufficient industry, not like farming sugar beets, raising sheep for wool, planting cotton or mining silver, gold and iron. This homebased industry didn’t rely on imported goods, and Latter-day Saints created an economy by and for its members based on the fibers created by the insect. Silk industry workers (i.e., women and children) planted trees, produced cocoons and invested in an economy “worthy of Christ’s Second Coming.” And the Saints synthesized cooperation and centralized planning with the incentives and infrastructure that fueled 19th century capitalism. Leaves of the white mulberry are silkworms’ food of choice. Latter-day Saints brought seeds with them across the plains. One home farmer, Pricilla Jacobs, tried to time the silkworm hatching to trees getting their leaves, but complained that once they started eating the leaves it sounded like “rain on the trees” as they kept their creatures in the attic munching on the freshly harvested mulberry leaves. Relief Societies across the state offered advice on how to keep the trees and worms alive. The trees were susceptible to heat. Worms were kept cool so they wouldn’t hatch. One woman put them against her chest to heat up and left services to run home and get them to their food source. The industry was touted as an automatic money maker for investors, but it really wasn’t easy to get the final product. The railroad came to Utah in the late 1800s, and that helped get resources and products in and out of the state. The 1983 Chicago World’s Fair had a “Utah Building” that featured silk scarves, thread, upholstered items, drapes and clothing, touting, “See real live Mormon girls making silk!” The industry died off in the early 1900s, despite a 25 cent cocoon bounty authorized by the Legislature to encourage production. But the Saints couldn’t compete with Japan’s and China’s infrastructure and silk mills. Many of the trees died off but some do live on. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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I’ll Have the Porridge Someone in Royton, Oldham, England, woke up on March 20 and felt like something was missing from their life. And maybe breakfast was particularly difficult that morning. The Manchester Evening News reported that at the Barclay Pizza & Prosecco restaurant, as workers cleaned up after Saturday night’s festivities, they found a full set of dentures on the floor in the bar. Barclay owner Emma Whelan posted a photo of a plastic bag containing the false teeth on Facebook, hoping to locate the owner. “We get a lot of things left behind after a night in the Barclay ... but this is a new one,” Whelan said. “It must have been a cracking night.” Oops The Roller-McNutt Funeral Home in Little Rock, Arkansas, is facing a lawsuit on behalf of the family of Harold D. Lee of Pauline, South Carolina, who was hoping to be buried next to his parents at a Quitman, Arkansas, cemetery after his death on Thanksgiving Day 2019. Lee’s body was transferred to the Roller-McNutt facility and arrangements were made for the casket and funeral, KNOE-TV reported, but according to the lawsuit, the funeral home alerted the family on Dec. 10, 2019, that they had “accidentally cremated the body.” Lee was extremely religious and “stickily (sic) desired not to be cremated, as he believed his body would be raptured following the Second Coming,” the lawsuit stated. His wife, Eunice, was violently shaking in shock when she got the news. The funeral home waived the cost of the funeral and returned $5,000 after the mistake was made, the lawsuit noted. Out of the Mouths of Babes Kristin Wiley, 49, was pulled over by Indian River County (Florida) Sheriff’s officers after she barely missed hitting their stopped vehicle on March 20, The Smoking Gun reported. When they approached the car, they saw her 9-year-old son in the back seat, crying. The officer noted that Wiley’s eyes were “watery and red in color,” and he smelled alcohol on her breath, so he asked if she’d been drinking. She replied, “No,” but her son piped up from the back seat, “Mom, you can’t lie to the police. You did drink.” He told the officer that his mom had been drinking at a party and said he was “very scared while Kristin was operating the vehicle,” the officer reported. A breath test recorded her alcohol content at nearly three times the legal limit. Along with DUI, she was charged with child abuse. Awesome! When Steve Nichols and John Winn of Indian Trail, North Carolina, saw a TV news story about a dog whose owners abandoned him because they thought he was “gay,” they knew they had to do something. The couple of 33 years told The Charlotte Observer that they drove to Albemarle on March 23 to adopt the dog, whom they named Oscar, after the Irish poet Oscar Wilde. Oscar’s previous owners had surrendered him for humping another male dog, which, Nichols said, “was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. That’s just pack behavior.” Nichols noted that the dog hadn’t been neutered and was suffering from heartworm, which led him to believe that “the owner apparently didn’t do anything to take care of this dog.” Oscar is getting the care he needs and will join the couple’s other dog, Harry, at their home. Great Art In the London neighborhood of Richmond, an unusual property that’s been dubbed the “Invisible House” is attracting attention of passersby, MyLondon reported. The front of the home sits on a busy thoroughfare and is almost completely covered with oneway mirrored glass, which reflects a roundabout across the road and the busy sidewalk in front. The family, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the architect wanted the mirror to “make the

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