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SOAP BOX “Music Therapy,” June 16 Cover Story

Whoever wrote this article needs to check their facts. Music therapy is a type of therapy. It is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program and addresses a variety of goals. Misrepresenting a profession this way is damaging to the music therapy profession. MARY JANE DIBBLE

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“Guns Blazin’,” June 16 Online

Gun laws in Utah are some of the best in the entire union. We should just stick with what works so far. BRADY TRACY

Via Facebook Utahns aren’t going to have an open mind. It’s a Trump cult now. SHARON PORTER MARTINEZ

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This is rich coming from Gov. Spencer Cox. Telling the shambling, death cult, flatEarth-reality-denying, bigoted hordes to “keep an open mind” on gun reform? Not ‘till a tragedy happens “to them.” TIM HUNTSMAN

Via Facebook OK, but giving teachers weapons is off the table. SHARON WENDT

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“Amend the Amendment,” June 9 Soap Box

Greg Preston is absolutely correct in his letter suggesting amendments to the 2nd Amendment. I would go one step further by repealing it outright and then restarting from there. How any Republican can, with a straight face, talk about not supporting any type of gun-control legislation

@SLCWEEKLY is beyond the pale. They think Critical Race Theory, transgender children and the LBGTQ community are the biggest threats in—and to—our public schools, but somehow, someone with an automatic weapon murdering third-, fourth and fifth-graders is OK because it’s somehow constitutionally protected. This really puts the Republican “ProLife” stance in perspective. If this mayhem is considered a constitutionally protected right, then it’s time to change the Constitution, and fast. JOHN THOMPSON

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for others is gone? Why does nobody ever want to talk about the dearth of mental health assistance? Or look at why someone could be so down that they’re willing to commit a mass murder? Because the real agenda is that the left wants guns gone, and they’re willing to stand on the graves of dead children to accomplish that goal. Then, when guns are gone, those on the left can truly act as they please. DWAYNE BORING

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Why does the left never talk about any other solution to gun violence other than regulating guns even more than they are already regulated? Why does nobody ever look for the root of the problem, that our society has been so polluted by the left and their pop culture that all respect

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If you had one day left on Earth, what would you do? Katharine Biele

Be with the people I love

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I would spend it with the ocean.

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Be with my loved ones!

Paula Saltas

Go skydiving again—it’s really exhilarating. Then hang out with the fam and make sure they know where all my money is hidden. I couldn’t ever find it.

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Try all the drugs out there while driving around to even the scores with my enemies in a rented Pontiac GTO and no additional insurance. All this while on my phone telling the ones I love what I’m doing— they would approve.

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I’d drop acid (if not on your last day on Earth, then when?) and eat all the pie and ice cream I could get my hands on.

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n my mind, it only exists in black and white, but I clearly remember watching the first stages of the Glen Canyon Dam being built. It’s in black and white because that’s how my dad preserved the memory with his trusty 8mm camera that recorded so many of our vacations, camping trips and family outings. I never did figure out how he could even afford it—to be honest—having no other trappings of a middle-class lifestyle in those years from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. But middle class we were, I suppose. Coulda’ fooled me. Years prior to our visit to Glen Canyon, back in the 1940s, my dad and other adventurers from Bingham Canyon somehow found their way to the bottom of nearby Marble Canyon, just below Glen Canyon, where they were among the first to explore Marble Cave. According to my dad, the cave held a trove of handwoven figurines that were left behind by the ancestral Puebloan people (sometimes called Anasazi) when that civilization departed the area a thousand years prior— likely thanks to a great drought that begat climate change in the region and which made life unsustainable for them. The figurines, then, were a sort of 8mm reckoning of that era, proof that people once lived there. The men left Marble Canyon the same way they arrived— via rope. My dad wasn’t a mountain climber, but in his trade at the Kennecott Copper Mine at Bingham Canyon, he worked in the powder department. That job meant that he and other expendable men doing the dangerous work—mostly Greeks and Mexicans—would shimmy down a rope at a mine level, drill or pound a hole into the rock face, fill it with explosive powder and TNT, light the fuse and then climb the rope back up to safety as fast as they could. It made for some very strong men and, be assured, my dad

was one of those. Only fools messed with him. I was a fool now and then, as I painfully discovered. Dad’s arm muscles came in pretty handy on one trip down to Marble Canyon when one of his crew became terribly blistered and could no longer stand. No problem. My dad just put him on his back and carried him up the rope where he could and hoisted him up where he couldn’t. Also hoisted and pulled along with him were the figurines from Marble Cave. Back then, it was not uncommon for such discoveries to be turned over to credible curators, which they did. Upon returning to Bingham Canyon, the figurines were delivered to Dr. Russell Frazier, the town physician and the person who directed them to Marble Canyon. Frazier was an explorer himself—including along the Colorado River environs with the Hatch and Swain river runners—and two decades prior had been the attending physician on the Admiral Byrd expedition to Antarctica. Dr. Frazier then transported the figurines to the Natural History Museum at the University of Utah and to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. An old Smithsonian book in our house thanked the men for their efforts. Now when we visit those museums, we learn that men and women lived and thrived along the Colorado River and throughout the entire Four Corners region. Around 1,200 AD, the ancestral Puebloans’ civilization simply disappeared. No one really knows for certain where the people went or if they partly remain among certain indigenous cultures today. But the civilization itself—exemplified in impressive structures like those at Mesa Verde, for example—and the many valves of society that kept it alive, from irrigation modes to travel paths, all ceased to function. Today’s scientists attribute all or part of that anthropological shift to a mega-drought that lasted many years and led to deforestation, erosion and the withering of the very life spring of the ancestral Puebloan existence—the waters that fed them. No water. No crops. No food. Time to flee. My black-and-white memories of those huge buckets of

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cement being transported hundreds of feet down to the bottom of Glen Canyon—I remember the mighty Colorado amazingly diverted right there—reflect the endpoint of what is likely to come. Looking south, to the right, was Marble Canyon, where parts of a once strong and stable desert civilization thrived but thusly disappeared. To the north was Glen Canyon, soon to be filled with a reservoir of water that vain men claimed would not only help avert a similar fate as the ancestral Puebloans but would allow for exponential “civilized” growth all over the American Southwest. By the looks of things, those vain men were wrong. Start with the fact that neither Phoenix nor Las Vegas contribute much of anything worthy to modern society—one area became a haven for conspiratorial numbnuts and the other for conspiratorial gamblers. Yet, we feed those desert towns our precious water resources. Neither give society or the U.S. a reasonable return on that water investment. Not only are the waters of Glen Canyon down to historic lows, the same is also true of Lake Mead downstream along the Arizona and Nevada border. People bemoan the fact that when the water runs dry, rationing may ensue. They don’t often talk about what will happen when the water levels drop so much that the dam’s power generators cannot produce electricity. It’s one thing to live in Vegas or Phoenix with rationed water. It’s another to live in either city without reliable air conditioning. But that may be what is coming. If you listen to right-wing media or watch the talking heads on Fox News, you may hear talk of a pending civil war in this culturally divided America. Well, it’s one thing to fight over whether Joe Biden can ride a bike or not, and entirely another to fight over a perishable, limited resource. When those wells run dry, dust is gonna fly. Whose side will you be on? Team Rocky Mountains or Team Dry Desert? Get your cameras out. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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MISS: Will They Ever Learn?

What if the Legislature was trying to pull a fast one on you? Like, they already know what they want and what the outcome will be, but they really, really want you to think they’ve thought this through. That’s what’s happening during interim hearings of the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee. Let’s start with a presentation by Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, who has led the state’s fight against public lands. Ivory would have you believe he is very concerned about Utah’s “grid reliability.” The committee heard all the horrors of “decarbonization” from an expert from Texas. Yes, the state whose intentionally isolated power grid failed in 2011 and again, catastrophically, last year. Many experts say it was due to equipment failures and a lack of preparation. But keep watching this committee as they march not only against the federal government’s attempt to save the environment, but also to keep the failing fossil fuel industry on perpetual life support.

MISS: Open and Empty

It’s good to hear Gov. Spencer Cox is “open” to gun control. But it’s obvious that no one’s thinking this through. Maybe you’re willing to depend on other people to flag a person as a threat, or maybe you’re willing to wait on the mental health community to identify a threat and then treat it over years or a lifetime. The Guns-R-Us advocates would have you believe we should arm teachers who never wanted to be near a gun, barricade schools like they’re prisons, or even teach kids to stop the bleeding of their injured classmates. Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, sponsored Utah’s no-permit-necessary concealed carry law and thinks it’s all too complicated, and that limiting gun access will have no effect on gun violence, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Social media or bullying, he says, are the real culprits. Utah and the nation need to get over their abusive love affair with assault weapons, which can indeed catch varmints in the wild, but can also clean out a classroom just as easily.

HIT: Goodbye, Grass

Let’s get everyone to get rid of their grass. Salt Lake County is moving in that direction, according to the Deseret News, which estimates the county saving 11 million gallons of water a year. It’s not the full solution, but it’s a good start. The county is switching its Murray playing fields to artificial turf and it will swap out grass with water wise plantings on 100 parking strips and islands. There are both upsides and downsides to the plan. Golf courses and other water-drains continue, and all we can do is “encourage” homeowners to get rid of their thirsty lawns. And then there’s the less-than-ideal environmental impact of artificial turf, which takes a toll on soil and can contribute to microplastics in waterways. There are lots of sites that talk about alternatives to grass and artificial turf. Now may be a time to check them out.

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Money and the Inland Port

There’s been plenty of controversy, a lot of noise and many big buildings going up, but what is really happening with the Utah inland port? The Port Authority is less than transparent, but apparently has the ears of the Legislature. “Four years since its founding, over $200 million in taxpayer dollars spent, and no shovel in the ground. Nothing to show for this, “Utah’s largest economic development project” in decades.” Join What’s Going On With The #*@* Inland Port?, a discussion about the port’s promises. Oh, and what about affordable housing? “No studies have been done, no data collected … so the Port Authority has not been held accountable for worsening our air, contaminating the Great Salt Lake, damaging the health of thousands of westside children, decimating the sanctuary for 10 million migratory birds and eroding our precarious water supply.” Panelists include architect David Scheer; Rep. Elizabeth Weight, D-West Valley; and Salt Lake City Councilwoman Victoria Petro-Eschler. First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 East, Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3xuNdeK

Evictions ‘R’ Not Us

Utah renters had some relief from evictions during COVID, but the CDC moratorium ended in August 2021. Now, renters are facing inflation, the lingering threat of pandemic and jobs that don’t pay a living wage. The Eviction Crisis Act (S.2182) is a bipartisan act introduced by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Rob Portman (R-OH). Along with New York Rep. Ritchie Torres’ Stable Families Act, the two would create a permanent emergency rental assistance program for low-income households facing an unexpected economic shock. If you’ve ever wanted Congress to act and actually do something positive, now is the time to tell them to Enact the Bipartisan “Eviction Crisis Act.” The Utah Housing Coalition is looking for organizations to join the fight. Online, by Friday, June 24, free. https://sforce.co/3zM0yCa

Juneteenth Mural Unveiling

It’s not enough to spend one day a year to highlight the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. All Americans need to understand their history—good and bad. Brooke Smart’s murals of four Black American women who lived and worked in Salt Lake’s Central City neighborhood stand as daily reminders. The Richmond Park Mural Unveiling is an event that includes food, “storytellers and displays honoring the women who have shaped the place we call home.” This Juneteenth celebration is led by the Project Success Coalition and inspired by the African American Heritage and Culture Foundation. Richmond Park Community Garden, 444 E. 600 South, Monday, June 27, 6 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3mVvMiv

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A lot of arts and entertainment events have been postponed or cancelled over the past two years, and most of them were related in one way or another to waves of COVID cases. Not so for comedian Ryan Hamilton, whose planned dates in January of this year were pushed back for a reason that sounds like the set-up for a joke, but is literally true: He was hit by a bus. Back in January, Hamilton was involved in an accident as a pedestrian that left him with a broken arm, several broken ribs and a collapsed lung. I think he’s forgiven that he couldn’t make the shows. That incident probably will become the setup for a joke, though, if Hamilton’s history of self-deprecating humor is any indication. When he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in 2019, he built a bit around experiencing an “adult fall.” “I fell on the streets of New York City,” Hamilton said. “Everyone asked, ‘Are you okay,’ but let me make this point: Not everyone meant it. Two 25-year

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If you’re an artist, and there’s a particular subject that keeps appearing in your work in exponentially increasing quantities, there’s a certain poetry to that subject being rabbits. Or, to be precise in the case of New York-based artist Hunt Slonem, “bunnies,” as Slonem is careful to specify, rather than “rabbits.” It’s important to the artist to capture that sense of child-like perspective evoked by the cutesy name of bunnies, since approaching his work with the wonder of first discovery is a huge part of what he does. This week, Park City’s Gallery MAR hosts a one-man exhibition of Slonem’s work, Catch Me If You Can. The prolific artist has always been inspired by new experiences and the idea of letting art convey that innocence, whether those simple images from the natural world— not just his trademark bunnies, but also butterflies and tropical birds, including those he keeps in a personal aviary—are on canvas, or in public art projects like those he created for Metairie and Kenner, Louisiana. For him, approaching the same subject over and over again takes on the quality of

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a spiritual practice; “I’m more interested in doing it in the sense of prayer, with repetition,” Slonem says. “It’s really a form of worship.” Catch Me If You Can opens at Gallery MAR (436 Main St., Park City) on Friday, June 24, with an opening reception 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.; closing date is as yet undetermined. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Visit gallerymar.com for additional information. (SR)

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performer and actor with roles including Inside Llewyn Davis and Parks & Recreation. The Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! stand-up tour hits the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) on Friday, Sept. 24, with a 7 p.m. showtime. Tickets range from $32.50 – $99.50; Live at the Eccles presentations continue to require proof of vaccination or proof of negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of performance time in order to attend. Visit live-atthe-eccles.com for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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English Bookshop (1511 S. 1500 East) for a reading and signing on Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, scheduled for the store’s patio; places in the signing line will be reserved for those who preorder the book. To get the book, or for other event information, visit kingsenglish.com. (SR)

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For more than 20 years, NPR’s weekly quiz show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! has turned a roundup of the week’s events into a funny and freewheeling piece of entertainment. The format has even taken the show on the road over the years, allowing audiences to witness a live recording of the standard program. Yet even those shows didn’t really showcase the full range of comedic skills possessed by the show’s panelists when let loose to do their thing. Four regular WW…DTM panelists are currently on the road together for a full evening of stand-up comedy fun. Your host is Alonzo Bodden, perhaps best know for winning Season 3 of Last Comic Standing before becoming a regular on late-night talk. Mo Rocca has had a career as a writer and entertainer for more than 25 years, including a stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show. Negin Farsad is a comedian and author of How to Make White People Laugh, and a filmmaker whose work includes 3rd Street Blackout. And Helen Hong is a veteran stand-up

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t’s been three years since the Utah Arts Festival has taken place over its traditional four days in late June. That might make it seem like a simple process of returning to normal—except that Utah Arts Festival executive director Aimée Dunsmore doesn’t really know what that word “normal” means anymore in terms of putting on the festival. “To some extent, since it’s been since 2019, it doesn’t feel normal at all,” Dunsmore says. “It’s like re-learning, in a way, since we did things a little bit differently [in 2021]. It’s going back to, ‘How did we do this back when we did four days, and we had the same site size, and the same number of headliners?’ So there’s a little bit of a learning curve that I don’t think any of us expected. We thought we’d go back to normal, and it would be easy.” Challenges of all kinds have been a fact of life for arts organizations of all kinds over the past two years, and Utah Arts Festival is no different. The 2021 incarnation of the event was moved to August, with a reduced size and scope, drawing around 30,000 total attendees compared to a typical pre-COVID year’s 65,000 to 70,000. While Dunsmore still believes that it was the right decision at the time, based on feedback from stakeholders and expectations surrounding COVID numbers dropping, it was clear that the one-time shift wouldn’t be repeated. “As it turned out, it was early in the Delta surge, plus we had the fires and the air quality was terrible. There were a number of factors that hit us last year,” Dunsmore says.

“[August is] not the easiest time of the year for us. School is back in session, and there are a number of events that are typically in that month earlier. I like June better; it’s where we belong, and I think where people want us.” Moving back to June, however, didn’t necessarily demand going back to business as usual. Dunsmore and her team viewed the flux and upheaval of the COVID era as an opportunity to be thoughtful and creative about what they wanted the next evolution of the Utah Arts Festival to look like. “Just because we did things one way in 2019 doesn’t mean we have to do things that way now in 2022,” she says. “This has kind of given us the opportunity to say, ‘Sure we did it that way, but is it the most efficient, are there more opportunities, is there something different we could be doing?’ … COVID kind of gave us permission to reassess and be open and flexible. “I feel like I used this term a lot in 2021, but I suppose we got this idea of, ‘if we’re going to fail, let’s fail forward.’ So let’s try something new. Let’s take a risk. Because we can’t be the same festival we’ve been for 46, 47 years.” One such innovation for 2022 is an Emerging Artists program, which is in part

an attempt to open up access to artists who might not have had an opportunity to be showcased in previous festivals. “With the community changing and all the things that have gone on in the last two years, so much has happened in our community— not just COVID, but social justice, equality, inclusivity and diversity,” Dunsmore says. “We can’t turn our heads away from that, because I think art has always been on the forefront of social change.” Inclusion efforts have taken on a variety of other forms this year, as well. The 2022 festival will include an increased presence of ASL interpreters, both at the Word Stage and even for some music performances. Dunsmore also mentions opening up the jurying process for applicants in all of the festivals areas, allowing more voices to be heard about what should be represented at the festival. “We’ve never done that before, but that’s where decisions are being made,” she says. “It helps us get more feedback on our process. … The goal with all of that is, I want to make sure people see themselves in our programming.” Making changes always requires a leap of faith, and it’s not the only leap of faith

that was required when it came to planning for the 2022 festival. Not surprisingly, the upheaval of the past two years has had an impact on UAF budgeting, since 60 percent of revenue comes from on-site ticket sales. While it would have been easy to hunker down and put on a more limited version of the festival, the UAF board instead to reach into its financial reserves so that the budget would permit a festival close to what things looked like pre-COVID. “That took out a little bit of what I wanted to do that was new, but focusing on our core programs and ramping that back up to essentially 2019 or higher levels, that was the goal,” Dunsmore says. “That draws the audience and sets up for next year to have people say, ‘I can’t believe I missed out on that.’” CW

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Tastes Mouthwatering musings on Salt Lake’s restaurant history By Wes Long

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of the Bavarian baker Daniel Greenig, Gallacher branched out into catering and later ran the Centennial Arcade Restaurant (127 S. Main, SLC) in the 1880s. Well regarded by associates and newspapers alike, Gallacher opened what would become his most beloved eating house in 1894, the Saddle Rock Café (133 S. Main, SLC), and operated it until his retirement in the 1910s.

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By the turn of the 20th century, restaurants, lunch counters, delicatessens, cafes and coffee shops had proliferated in Salt Lake. Railroad and mining operations, as well as missionary work abroad, all influenced a massive wave of immigration to Utah, and international food options subsequently grew in visibility. There were German offerings at the Heidelberg on 300 South, Abraham Mejia’s Mexican Chili Parlor on Commercial Street, the Chinese eateries of Plum Alley (behind what is now the Eccles Theater), and even a Yiddish dining room run by a Mrs. R. Lisser on 56 W. 200 South. In Salt Lake’s Greek Town (west of what is now The Gateway), there were coffeehouses like the Parthenon and the Open Heart. It was there that workers signed on to jobs, held dances and puppet shows, and discussed current issues reported in Greek-language newspapers. “The coffeehouse was the men’s true home,” noted historian Helen Z. Papanikolas in The Peoples of Utah, “In its gregariousness, they

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The restaurant scene in the earliest years of Salt Lake City typically amounted to foods served at hotels and saloons. For travelers passing through the territory or for soldiers at Camp Douglas, there were a few options available. The fare ranged from local fish and game meats to cold slaws, soups, breads, liquors, tea and coffee. Oysters, in particular, appear to have been a longtime favorite in Salt Lake eateries throughout the 19th and early-20th centuries. Some locations offered a fixed-price meal at a group table for specific times of the day, while others could prepare something for a guest in short order. One of the earliest known restaurants in Salt Lake City was David Candland’s Globe Saloon, just south of Temple Square on Main Street. Candland (1819-1902), an English convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opened the Globe in 1856 at the recommendation of church President Brigham Young. The Globe boasted a fruit stall, a shaving parlor, an omnibus shuttle to the nearby warm springs and a selection of wines and cigars. While it lasted only until 1860, its “choice viands” received positive marks from the Valley Tan newspaper in 1859: “We have tried it; ‘go thou and do likewise.’” Another notable figure of the era was John Gallacher (1850-1924). Born in Scotland, he converted to Mormonism at 18 and traveled to Utah shortly thereafter. Initially in the employ

So read the sign, it is said, of one “M. Boulanger,” an apocryphal early restaurateur of 18th-century France. While the man and the sign may not have even existed, Boulanger’s message still evokes the perennial invitation of many an eatery both great and small. Long before French bouillon shops transformed into the modern restaurant that we all recognize, humans had enjoyed gathering to eat in many configurations, from Greco-Roman cook shops and medieval inns to teahouses and taverns. Combining the needs for satisfying hunger and gathering with one’s fellows, the restaurant (which we will use here to broadly encompass venues of prepared food) is a fascinating and ever-changing social space. Much of Utah’s restaurant history has been lost to time and the available retrospectives form a complex kaleidoscope of factual record sprinkled with anecdotal recollections. Even when focusing on Salt Lake City’s restaurant landscape—as this article will—for all the places and people that are mentioned, countless others could just as easily be given some attention. Photographs and official records are often sparse. As former Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kathy Stephenson wrote in 2016, “even those restaurants that have stayed open for generations tend to evolve—moving to new locations, changing names, getting new owners and updating menus.” City Weekly explored this shifting maze through a mixture of historical research, social media inquiries and individual interviews to get our bearings. Let us sample as many flavors as we can in the face of such a vast banquet. Bon appetit!

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“You could go into the cafe and you could see anybody and everybody,” —Robin Doi

found security against nativist hostility.” African Americans likewise had limited options for security when it came to eateries they could frequent. Many worked in Salt Lake’s white-owned railyards, hotels and restaurants, but most of these very services were denied to them. As a result, African Americans operated their own hotels, clubs and restaurants around the rail depots of Salt Lake and Ogden. While precious little remains of these spaces today, there are still echoes of Salt Lake’s African American history if one looks closely at the built landscape. Located at 323 S. Main, SLC, the Rotisserie Inn was operated from 1915 to 1957 by Cesare Rinetti and Frank Capitalo. Specializing in French and Italian cuisine, it was one of three Salt Lake restaurants listed in the Green Book guide for African American travelers in need of a hospitable destination. Currently occupied by the Whiskey Street bar and restaurant, this structure is the only one of the Green Book trio that still stands.

Delightful Dishes

Every diner has their own tastes when it comes to what is delectable, and the list of beloved dishes at Salt Lake’s eateries of old is endless. Some residents of a certain age might still yearn for the pizza that “Mama” Mary Gallo made at Gallo’s Italian Restaurant in Rose Park, or for the cream of cheese soup at The Print Shop in Arrow Press Square. The clam chowder at Bratten’s Seafood Grotto (644 E. 400 South, SLC) and the curry dumplings at Koko Kitchen (702 S. 300 East, SLC) were favorites of those who were fortunate enough to try them. The marzipan cake at Scandia Kaffe House (1693 S. 900 East, SLC) and the rice pudding at the recently departed Lamb’s Grill (now Chettinad House, 169 S. Main, SLC) are still craved by admiring sweet tooths. Quality vegan options in Salt Lake have grown in number over the last 20 years, but two trailblazing locations still hold a warm place in the hearts of those who sampled their wares. The now-closed Evergreen House (1084 S. State, SLC) was a sanctuary of vegan Chinese dishes from the late 1990s and nourished many at a time when making the dietary switch was not as common as it is today.

Park Ivy Garden Café operated for a decade in the heart of the 9th & 9th neighborhood and was a trailblazer in animal-welfare efforts. The cooking turned some heads, too, as Curtis Harris of Roy experienced. “I hadn’t considered vegetarian food to be a good option until I went there,” he recalled. “The lemon orzo soup and wheat meat ‘chicken’ salad sandwich were amazing.”

Appealing Atmosphere

While food quality is the most prominent aspect of a restaurant’s appeal, atmosphere plays a significant role as well, either in the realm of aesthetics or—as was the case with the Rotisserie Inn—the atmosphere of acceptance. Salt Lake has had many kitchens that specialized in creating a memorable setting, such as La Caille’s French chalet (9565 Wasatch Blvd., Sandy), the simulated storms at Johnny Quong’s The Hawaiian (2920 Highland Drive, SLC), the dancers at The Athenian or the elegance of La Fleur de Lys and the original Roof restaurant atop the old Hotel Utah downtown. Others may remember the performers at Gepetto’s (1300 East near the university) or the countercultural haven that was Mama Eddie’s Right On Beanery (764 S. State, SLC), where the musician Taj Mahal might have even dropped in to play a set. “We make memories with our senses,” observed Salt Lake City resident Spencer Lawson. He still recalls the feel of The Training Table’s (2254 S. 1300 East) brown enamel tableside phones, which were used by customers to place food orders. As outdated as the surroundings may have been, he considers his family visits there to carry a lasting allure in his memory. “It’s the way you choose to eat and the people you eat it with,” Lawson said. The atmosphere of conviviality can be felt by those who work behind the scenes too. Joan Young provided support to her husband Glen when he operated Ristorante della Fontana (336 S. 400 East) in the closing years of its 31year run (1967-1998). Spending the kind of time that one does with the staff and solving problems as they arise, Young’s fondest memories were of the people with whom she worked and the longtime customers she served. “Peo-

ple get to know the waitresses or the person at the register,” she mused. “You get so that it’s like family.”

Say ‘Aloha’ to the Dois

A similar atmosphere prevailed in the eateries run by two significant figures of Salt Lake restaurant history, Mary and Wallace Doi. Mary (1923-2015) grew up in the Japanese micro-community of Salt Lake’s Japantown, while Wallace (1922-1967) hailed from Hawaii. Following the events at Pearl Harbor in 1941—and an initial rejection from army enlistment due to his Japanese heritage—Wallace served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He lost a leg in Italy and came to the Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City to recover. It was there that he and Mary met and they soon married. With support from Mary’s mother, the Dois opened the Aloha Fountain Café in the vicinity of 100 South and West Temple. The Aloha remained in operation there from 1947 until the mid-’60s, when Japantown was demolished to make way for the Salt Palace Convention Center. Robin Doi warmly remembers his parents and childhood in Japantown. “You could go into the café, and you could see anybody and everybody,” he recalled. While the Aloha had relocated farther south into the industrial section of town, Wallace passed away shortly thereafter. Mary decided to retire, but it was to be shortlived for someone so characteristically on the go. “That’s just the type of person she was,” Robin Doi said. Having started with just a coffee cart at the Aloha, Mary’s culinary talents found greater public expression as she went along. Improvising like the best of jazz musicians, she felt her way about her four-burner stove, never writing down her recipes and instead operating by taste. Her scrapbooks still bear notes of what regular customers liked, such as the notation on one patron’s business card: “Hot rice and okazu every morning at 7 a.m.” The Aloha largely served American-style lunch foods like hamburgers and hot dogs. It was when Mary started the Fuji Tea House a couple of years after her first retirement that her Japanese cuisine became more widely avail-

Educator and writer Al Church says SLC cuisine has “crossed a threshold.”

For Al Church, the experience of having Mexican food at La Morena Café (North Temple and 300 West) was memorable indeed. Coming to Salt Lake from the east as a VISTA volunteer in the late 1960s, he had his first taste of Mexican cuisine at that famous center of Utah’s Latino civil-rights

What is it about food and restaurants that excites us? Is it the flavors we enjoy, the spaces we discover or the people with whom we connect? The mélange of memory chronicled above suggests that it encompasses all such elements. So many restaurants no longer exist in Salt Lake, but they live on in our memories and our history. We no longer enjoy the earthy Mexican flavors of Cordova’s El Rancho (543 W. 400 North, SLC) or hear the jukebox in Bill and Nada’s (479 S. 600 East, SLC), but we do have so many delightful offerings with us still, such as Siegfried’s Delicatessen (20 W. 200 South, SLC), Ruth’s Diner (4160 E. Emigration Canyon Road, SLC ) and Curry Fried Chicken (660 S. State, SLC). Spicing up our dining scene are places like Chanon Thai (278 E 900 South, SLC), Sauce Boss Southern Kitchen (877 E 12300 South, Draper), Jang Soo Jang Restaurant (58 E. 3750 South, South Salt Lake) and numerous SLC-staple food trucks along the way. “I don’t want [them] to go out of business,” says resident Sara Dansie Jones, “but I’m sure they’ll eventually retire, and [they] will be gone.” Particularly with the ethnic restaurants of the Salt Lake Valley, Jones suggested that we would do well to seek these places out and savor them while they exist. Food is a universal experience and the places in which we gather to enjoy it are hubs of memory and life. It is there that we celebrate our cultures, friendships and palates. With any luck, this reappraisal of such public spaces might even train our taste for what Italy’s Slow Food Movement calls “the good, the wholesome and the right,” and away from the processed, the fast and the impersonal. “In other words,” as the Movement’s manifesto reads, “return the table to the taste, to the pleasure of the throat.” CW

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As could be seen with the Aloha and the Fuji, restaurants can benefit from how and when they arrive on the scene. Timing—that most elusive element for a small business to navigate—comes into play as a result of both choice and happenstance. Not only are a restaurant’s food quality and atmosphere vital, but the time when a restaurant first opens its doors and how it comes into a customer’s life are the most unpredictable and mysterious factors of all. For Molly Peters of Salt Lake, the Italian restaurant Cinegrill (300 East near 400 South location) played an “intricate role in my parents meeting and falling in love.” Perhaps with Ed Allem’s signature salad on hand and the sounds of Eugene Jelesnik’s violin in the air, Peters’ parents had the Cinegrill as their staple. How about those go-to locations that would remain open long after everything else closed for the night? Paige Willey said she always had Bayleaf Bar and Grub (159 S. Main, SLC) to depend on when she was out on the town. The restaurant, which shut down in 2013 as its building made way for the Eccles Theater, was known for its hearty breakfastall-day fare and 24-hour operation Friday through Sunday. “They were one of the few places that sold food late,” Willey said. “Every weekend, I went to a concert or two and hit up the Bayleaf afterward for a huge glass of water and a waffle.”

saver for numerous establishments. Takeout may not equal the dine-in experience, but it is a necessity for an alreadyfluid industry during an uncertain time. “Restaurants are always going to have people coming in,” he said, but with COVID, “that is not their ace-in-the-hole.”

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movement. “We could eat Mexican food the rest of our lives,” he said. “It was that good.” Church, a retired educator, previously wrote restaurant reviews for Utah Holiday Magazine, the Deseret News and PM Magazine Utah. He’s witnessed the change in the city’s restaurant landscape since his early visit to La Morena and is quite hopeful about Salt Lake’s culinary direction. Crediting the inflow of immigrants as well as changes to liquor laws that local leaders made in preparation for the 2002 Olympics, Church believes that Salt Lakers have “crossed a threshold” in wanting more diverse foods and trying new things. “I’m very positive about the dining scene in Salt Lake City and Park City,” he said. Historian Linda Thatcher added additional context to this process of transformation over the last 50 years in the book This Is the Plate. Immigrants escaping warfare and seeking a new life have dramatically expanded the palates of citizens, she says. “Utah is now home,” Thatcher wrote, “to an ever-growing and wide-ranging number of people from places like Thailand, India, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as refugees from Vietnam, Tibet, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Africa.” As positive as these developments have been on the whole, the dining industry’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated the terrain and thrown much about the restaurant business into a tentative state. Stephenson, formerly of the Tribune, observed that many local eateries were already moving in the direction of more casual, quick-serve and take-out approaches to their menus before 2020, and since that time, the speed of that trend has only accelerated. The rent charged by building landlords and the costs imposed by prolonged shortages of supplies during the pandemic have contributed to the closure of many Salt Lake restaurants in the last couple of years. “Restaurants don’t make a ton of money,” Stephenson said. “People do it for love, not to become millionaires.” City Weekly food writer Alex Springer has also observed that switching the menu to a takeout model has been a life-

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able. Initially located in the building now occupied by the Kyoto (1080 E. 1300 South, SLC), the Fuji later moved beside an apartment complex at 1810 S. Main, SLC, where Penny Ann’s Café now resides. Wherever she went, Mary Doi’s clientele followed. The Fuji forged a meaningful gathering place in the lives of its visitors until closing in the summer of 1993.

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here’s always a bit of predictability when you go to a restaurant—enter, sit, order, dine, repeat—but that sequence often delivers tasty little tidbits of the unexpected. I was reminded of this during a visit to the West Valley location of Fat Fish (1980 W. 3500 South, 801-8877272, fatfishslc.com), a Vietnamese pho and sushi restaurant that has solidified itself as a West Side favorite when it comes to fresh, flavorful sushi. Fat Fish is owned by the Sapa Investment Group, whose portfolio includes successful restaurants such as Purgatory, Bucket O’ Crawfish and Fillings & Emulsions. Fat Fish maintains the same standards of style and substance that is unique to all of the restaurants in Sapa’s portfolio. A beautiful mural featuring vibrant koi fish splashes across the wall behind the sushi bar, and the overall aesthetic evokes a sense of effortless cool. I flew solo during my last visit, so I grabbed a spot at the bar where I could ponder that gorgeous mural while watching the Fat Fish team slice their way through the day’s freshly assembled ingredients. Ramen and sushi make for one of my favorite combos, so I was looking forward to mixing things up with a bowl of pho with sliced steak and meatballs ($13). The

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salmon with some sliced avocado for good measure. This is a perfect roll for those who have a tough time deciding; it comes with plenty of variety, it’s excellent, and it’s huge. There are more extravagant rolls on the menu for sure, but the Rainbow Roll is a great way to take the pulse of Fat Fish. At the end of my meal, I was reasonably stuffed—but then the server asked if I wanted dessert. I thought, “Why the hell not?” and ordered a triple chocolate mousse cake ($10) expecting a nice, chocolatey punctuation mark on a great meal. When its perfectly round shape arrived topped with a white chocolate coin that bore the Fillings & Emulsions logo, my heart leapt. Though having Fillings and Emulsions as their bakery makes all kinds of sense—the two eateries are right next door to each other—I simply did not expect this. Nor did I expect the weak feeling I got in my knees when I took my first bite of this decadent dessert. I’m not one to follow sushi up with something sweet, but if this is what they’re packing at Fat Fish, dessert is a must. With its sterling reputation, I was sure that my meal at Fat Fish would be memorable. I did not expect it to be this memorable, however. Chatting up the sushi chef, enjoying a frosty bottle of beer, diving deep into the richness of a well-made pho broth, luxuriating in the gorgeous sushi on my plate and finishing things off with a smooth, chocolatey finish made for a wonderful night out. CW

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pho menu at Fat Fish is quite comprehensive—fans of the traditional preparation with tendons and tripe or those who prefer a meatless option will be happy with the selection. It’s excellent pho that sticks every landing: rich, flavorful broth, perfectly textured rice noodles and all the right condiments to customize your bowl as you like. At this point in my visit, the last rays of a summer sunset started to shine through the windows, and I could feel the heat of the pho start to combine with the heat of the sun—but that’s when my icy cold Sapporo arrived. It was a matter of timing, of course, but that frosty glass bottle of beer was the perfect transition between the simmering pho and the cooler sushi rolls that I had ordered. Sitting at the bar of a sushi joint not only provides an excellent show of skill and craft while you eat, but it gives you an opportunity to get the chef’s recommendations right from the source. During my visit, the chef suggested some fresh Thai snapper nigiri ($7). I also ordered a Rainbow Roll ($13), which features three cuts of fish selected by the chef. When you get the opportunity to have a sushi expert whip something up for you, you take it. Both rolls arrived in all their jewel-toned glory, garnished with precise dots of Sriracha and sesame seeds. I was eager to try the Thai snapper, whose rosy, pink color was all kinds of appealing. It came topped with some green onion and paper-thin slices of lemon, which culminated in two of the most perfect bites of sushi I have ever experienced. It was a true embodiment of sushi’s power—a subtle, simply prepared presentation that showcases the magic of fresh ingredients. If it’s ever on the special menu again, you won’t want to pass it up. The Rainbow Roll was also a solid entry—mine came with tuna, yellowtail and

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don’t have to tell you that everything in our lives is getting more expensive. From gas to pickled pigs’ feet, you’re getting less bang for your precious bucks. Even our local brewers are starting to feel the pinch. The price of beer will start to climb: that fact is certain. Happily, there are still some beers that go above and beyond, delivering powerful flavors at familiar prices. Offset Bier - Phone It In (Citra/Mosaic): This IPA packs a massive amount of hops into a gently-made 6.7 percent ale. Pale goldenrod in color and glossed with a pastel opaqueness, their Double Dry Hopped Mosaic and Citra version of this IPA builds a voluminous and heady froth that carries a host of citrus, berry, tea and tropical fruit across the nose. A delicate pastry sweetness greets the tongue, first with nuances of honey, cereal and sponge cake in a semi-rich malty display. But the stars of the show are the tandem of hops that blossom on the middle palate, leading off with tangerine, a bright citrusy taste of oranges and red grapefruit. Then a quick follow-up of lime quickly turns tropical with passionfruit, mango and papaya. Berries and kiwi flavors then turn peppery and moderately bitter on the late palate, as a brisk taste of black tea, verbena and sassafras arises. Medium full in body, the beer’s resinous bitterness and crisper malt profile aid with its refreshment, and prevents the ale from lingering unnecessarily sweet, creamy or weighted. A medium long aftertaste of fresh spruce, grass, hemp and hay signal the beer’s closure and a hoppy taste done well.

Overall: The dry hopping did its job, alright, creating a damn phenomenal dryhopped ale. So much grapefruit and passion fruit character perfectly complements the already interesting and complex base. This is highly recommended, and so far, one of my favorite new beers of 2022. 2 Row - Cryo Pop: Hot on the heels of technology in brewing, 2 Row’s owner/ head brewer Brian Coleman taps into lupulin powders from Yakima Chief Hops. Formerly known as trial blend TRI2304CR, Cryo Pop Original Blend delivers massive tropical, stone fruit and citrus aromas It pours a medium, relatively bright, orange color with a soft, but heavy white head. The nose is strong with sweet orange, citrus, tropical fruit including melon, berries and more tropical fruit. A candy and fruity malt sweetness lasts through the end. The flavor follows the nose with more juicy flavors, including big orange citrus and some grapefruit, followed by more tropical fruit, melon and some berry sweetness as well. Very juicy and sweet, but also has a respectable bitterness on the end, and a heavy but expected body with moderate to strong carbonation. The bitterness is cleaned off by the juicy sweetness, but still pleasant on the palate. Compared to 2 Row’s Feeling Hazy, it’s stronger and juicier in its aromas with more orange tropical flavors, and less dank and piney. A freakin’ winner. Overall: I usually don’t prefer Imperial IPAs, but was pleasantly surprised at this one. It has a strong and juicy orange flavor profile with tropical passionfruit and mango, plus a decent bitterness so it actually finishes somewhat balanced. It’s hard for me to like a 9.7 percent IPA, but this one might be the exception. I very much enjoyed drinking this. Offset’s small-ish Park City brewery just got some larger tanks, so beers like “Phone It In,” will hopefully become more readily available. In SLC. I have found their beers at The Bayou, Beehive and Scion Cider Bar on draft and in cans. Bottle of 2 Row can always be found at your favorite craft beer spots. Shake your pub/eatery manager’s tree if you’re not seeing them. As always, cheers! CW

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Park City is home to some of Utah’s finest restaurants, and Savor the Summit (parkcityrestaurants.com) is one of the best ways to experience them all at the same time. Join local foodies on Park City’s historic Main Street on Saturday, June 25 for an evening of expertly crafted food and cocktails provided by some of the city’s finest restaurants. Riverhorse on Main, The Eating Establishment, Shabu, Buona Vita and 710 Bodega are just a few of the Main Street restaurants that will be offering specials throughout the evening. High West Distillery will also be operating a spirit garden for those who want to simply grab a cocktail and soak in all those summery Park City vibes.

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sabotage Elvis’ dreams of a European tour by steering him for self-serving reasons into staying on in Vegas gets undercut when the character feels like a Mike Myers Austin Powers creation played deadly straight. It doesn’t help that the idea of framing this story from Parker’s point of view keeps vanishing whenever it’s inconvenient to Luhrmann’s desires at any given moment, like showing us scenes from the courtship between Elvis and Priscilla (Olivia DeJonge). That’s when Elvis starts to feel like exactly the kind of movie Walk Hard was mocking—almost too literally at some points, like the early scene where an Elvis live performance immediately turns the girls in the audience into uncontrollable nymphomaniacs. The attempts at character insight—and Butler’s gentle, inward-looking performance as Elvis—get swallowed up by Luhrmann ticking off a checklist of tidbits from the Elvis mythology, like “Elvis has left the building,” or shooting out television sets. This is an epic-length movie in which a lot happens, but not nearly enough of it feels pivotal. Then there’s the matter of Elvis as racially-conscious deliverer of Black culture to the masses, and frankly, I don’t feel re-

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motely qualified to speak to the historical authenticity of stuff like his friendship with B.B. King (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) or his deep respect for Black church music. I just know how it feels, and it feels … kind of icky. Luhrmann just keeps packing on material about Elvis reacting to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, or missing Mahalia Jackson’s funeral, that takes on a “methinks he doth protest too much” vibe. He wants us to feel things about Elvis— that he was a good man, that his artistic potential was hindered by Parker’s manipulations, and so on. He wants us to feel. Luhrmann always wants us to feel. And all I keep feeling is, “Come on, man, pull all of this stuff together.” CW

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in Las Vegas circa 1997, beginning to narrate to the audience about his life and history with Elvis (Austin Butler). The flashbacks then ensue, as Parker learns about the growing popularity of the young singer who is folding blues and gospel music into traditional country, but—as Parker says, with dollar signs practically visible in his eyes—“he’s white!” The entire arc of Presley’s musical career then unfolds, from his rapid rise to fame, the growing controversy surrounding his sexualized (and possibly miscegenationencouraging) stage presence, his lucrative but artistically unfulfilling movie career, and his third act as a living legend in Las Vegas while disintegrating into addiction. The material focusing on Col. Tom Parker certainly holds the most potential for discovery, and Elvis offers an interesting context of Parker as a savvy, carnival-trained con artist. It’s kind of hard to dig into that stuff, however, since Hanks’ performance is … let’s just say, not among his best. Buried under prosthetic makeup and a fat suit, while adopting a vaguely Dutch accent that may be true to Parker’s actual speech but doesn’t do the performance any favors, Hanks’ Parker reads cartoonish. The potential drama of watching Parker

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fter more than 20 years of writing about Baz Luhrmann—Moulin Rouge! was the first review I ever wrote for this publication—it remains clear that nearly everything that drives me nuts about his movies are things he would consider features, not bugs. He doesn’t particularly care about narrative detail, even if he’s working from established classics like Romeo & Juliet or The Great Gatsby. His cinematic canvases are all about big emotions and iconography. Elvis Presley seems like an ideal subject for someone with those particular artistic inclinations, and Luhrmann dives into Elvis with the enthusiasm of someone who believes he has something new and compelling to say about one of the most famous and well-chronicled humans of the 20th century. But after more than two and a half hours of Elvis, I still have no idea exactly what that something was supposed to be. Did he intend this primarily as a profile of Presley’s controversial manager, Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks)? Did he want to rehabilitate Presley’s history as an appropriator of Black American music by turning him into its champion? Did he just want to bring his particular style to a conventional “greatest hits” musical biopic? And would it surprise me at all if he thought he could somehow do all of those things at once? Lurhmann and his screenwriting team— including longtime collaborator Craig Pearce—begin with Parker on his deathbed

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Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Earley on returning to touring, helping the homeless and new musical inspirations. BY ALAN SCULLEY comments@cityweekly.net

sk Eric Earley, frontman of Blitzen Trapper, how his music will sound or translate to a live setting, or how his new touring band will compare with the classic Blitzen Trapper lineup that toured for nearly two decades together, and you won’t get an answer. Earley literally is only beginning to figure out those answers himself as he embarks on his first tour in three years. Yes, a few things have changed since fans last saw Earley and Blitzen Trapper. Some of his former bandmates are no longer working with Earley—or any other touring act, for that matter. While Earley always wrote the band’s songs and recorded most of the instruments himself on albums, the live lineup of Erik Menteer (guitar), Marty Marquis (guitar), Michael Van Pelt (bass) and Brian Adrian Koch (drums) had stayed intact from 2000 up to the band’s 2018 tour marking the 10th anniversary of the album Furr. Now, things are more fluid with the live band. “We’ll have a four-piece band for each tour, slightly different lineups, some familiar faces and some not,” Earley said.

Blitzen Trapper And Earley’s own life has changed quite a bit since 2019, when he recorded the latest Blitzen Trapper album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes. For much of that time, he has been spending his days, first as a case worker and more recently a housing specialist at a homeless shelter in his home town or Portland, Ore. His work with the homeless actually began before he made Holy Smokes. He had friends in a local organization that worked with the homeless and took a job at a winter shelter. “I wasn’t touring as much and I needed some more income, so I started doing night shifts at a winter shelter,” Earley said. “Then when the winter shelter shut down in the spring of that year (2019), then I made Holy Smokes and I did a European tour, I believe. That was the last tour that I’ve done. That was in the summer, and then in the fall I started working at a 24-7 homeless shelter. And then COVID hit, and I just stayed there. I just kind of fell into it in a certain way.” With three-plus years of experience in the field, Earley has found his work helping the homeless put their lives on track to be rewarding and even enjoyable. “I think that in ways, my personality is good for this kind of work,” Earley said. “I (can do) this kind of work just

because I’m able to detach and not get … I mean, the tendency in social work is that you get second-hand drama heavily. So to be able to deal with that or detach from it or however you can deal with it (is good). In three years, I don’t feel like I’m even close to burnout or anything, which is a very real reality in this work.” Now he’s taking a break from his work with the homeless to tour and reconnect with the sizable audience that has been drawn to Blitzen Trapper’s music, which has grown from the ramshackle mix of folk, psychedelic rock and pop of early albums like 2007’s Wild Mountain Nation into a more focused, but still distinctive blend of those styles. Holy Smokes Future Jokes is another appealing Blitzen Trapper album. This time around, Earley fashions a more relaxed sound by frequently employing finger-picked guitar and plenty of acoustic instrumentation. This sound accentuates the inviting vocal melodies of songs like “Don’t Let Me Run,” “Baptismal,” “Sons and Unwed Mothers” and the title song and immediately sounds like the work of Blitzen Trapper. What isn’t immediately apparent with Holy Smokes Future Jokes is the fairly weighty inspiration behind many of the lyrics. In the time leading up to

making the album, Earley had read the Tibetan Book of the Dead and become fascinated by the book’s discussion of bardos, the transitional states between life on earth, death and rebirth into an eternal state of nirvana. The connection to the Tibetan Book of the Dead isn’t that apparent in the lyrics themselves— which was the point, according to Earley. “I didn’t really want to tie in too heavily to that,” he said. “It was more just a lot of the feelings and ideas. I mean, I quote directly from it (the Tibetan Book of the Dead) in several songs, but yeah, I think that the lyrics are just really my more codified surrealistic kind of storytelling as opposed to sort of the direct approach. So yeah, for me it was not important what the focal point was when I was making the record. But then when I’m doing interviews, then I can talk about what the focal point was. It’s interesting. But you don’t necessarily need to know to listen to the record in any way.” Blitzen Trapper play the historic Egyptian Theatre (328 Main St, Park City) Wednesday, June 22-Friday, June 24, with nightly performances at 8 p.m. Visit parkcityshows.com for tickets and additional info. CW

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e’re back with another addition to Singles Club, featuring a couple of names that we’ve touched on before, as well as two acts new to this intermittent column featuring local… yes, singles. We’ll also allow our first act a chance to sneak in with a nice, four-song EP. Let’s get right to it. Buried Giant, “Swallow the Sun” (Bandcamp): Roughly a month back, yours truly turned the corner of Kensington and State Street, hearing the distinct sound of some quality, straight-forward blues/rock emanating from the courtyard of RoHa Brewing. As a pedestrian, it took a couple-dozen strides to lay eyes on the band, but the sound? The sound was there for the whole neighborhood to hear. Buried Giant, together for roughly a year, has released a pleasing four-song EP called Swallow the Sun, available for streaming and purchase on Bandcamp. The band’s Ryan Arnold says the EP is intended “to test the waters. Get our feet wet.” The guitarist/vocalist is joined in the lineup by David Bethke on drums, Preston Taylor, also on guitar, and bassist Gavin Thompson. The album was engineered and mixed by Mike Sasich at ManVsMusic and mastered by James Anderson at The Bit Farm. The group’s got a few events slotted all across the region for July, including a gig at the Park Silly Sunday Market (780 Main St, Park City) on July 3. On July 9, they’ll be the Notch Pub (2392 E. Mirror Lake Highway,

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Samak). They’ll also be playing the Shady Grove Music Camp in Pocatello on the 15th, wrapping up a busy month. All their relevant info’s at buried-giant.com. Suchii, “White Angel” (YouTube, Spotify, et al.): When we last caught up with Suchii, the nascent songwriter was discussing his move away from a corporate job and towards a career as a pop songwriter. His initial track, “Pit a Pat,” has scored tens of thousands of plays, very respectable for a young artist. His latest, “White Angel,” he says, is something of an extension of that work. The track, he suggests, “is a chill-pop track with a catchy chorus and distinct background effects. I feel like this is becoming my niche. It definitely has that retro vibe, but the vocals and harmonies make it sound fresh and current. I wrote the song in about an hour; it was never meant to be a stellar single like ‘Pit A Pat,’ but I wanted something that could be regarded as a strong B-side to my first single. I’d say ‘White Angel’ is a lot more DJ-friendly, and is an overall fun song. I believe there’s a time and place for artists to have fun songs and ‘White Angel’ is just that for me.” Suchii’s debut EP Summer on Venus is planned for a mid-August release, with production contributions from recording engineer Rowan Stigner at Audio Inn. A video for “White Angel” was released on the June 17. Quick Hits: One act that we featured a bit ago, Ali Rez, scored some local attention for his track called “Save the Great Salt Lake,” which was followed by another earnest cut, “You’re Trash if You Litter.” The socially-conscious artist’s latest is called “Live Above Pollution,” a song inspired by a trip to mountains above SLC. It’ll be released with a video (shot in Oregon) on July 1. More info at linktr.ee/yoalirez. A band with quite a following among other SLC indie rock artists, Musor, have released a single called “Ya no volvio,” which can be found at Spotify and other streaming platforms. That’s our tease; next week, we’ll have a full featurette on the band in this very slot. CW

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He’s famous within a certain, clued-in segment of the concert-going population, though many have heard the man’s songs performed by other country-inclined artists. Ray Wylie Hubbard remains a respected songwriter and performer, even though he hasn’t achieved the household-name status that his talent may suggest. In hyping an appearance at their fest, the smart folks at the Kerr Folk Festival note that “Ray Wylie Hubbard is the secret handshake amongst those who know. Earthy, real, funky, unabashed, his records have been swapped and played on the road by everyone from Blackberry Smoke and Georgia Satellites to Black Stone Cherry. ‘Snake Farm’ alone could be the red-blooded touring male’s reality-based point of connection.” For canny listeners of alternative country, Hubbard’s a gold standard, of sorts, and his name should help fill the room at this Soundwell (149 W. 200 South) show on Friday, June 24. Additional info on ticketing and support acts can be found at soundwellslc.com.

The Fixx @ Utah Arts Festival

If folks see the name of The Fixx and respond positively, they’ve likely lived on this planet long enough to remember the band’s big run of hits in the 1980s, when their cool new-wave sound scored a host of hits like “Saved by Zero,” “Stand or Fall,” “Red Skies,” “One Thing Leads to Another” and “Are We Ourselves?” The band has enjoyed success on the summer concert circuit by leading with this mini-armada of crowd-pleasing tracks, while

allowing themselves the opportunity to play some new cuts. A full 40 years after the release of their debut, Shuttered Room, the band released an album in 2022, Every Five Seconds, their third release of the 2000s. Though a few cuts from this time period will surely be played, expect the full assortment of original-era classics. The band’s one of the more unlikely music headliners at the Utah Arts Festival, with a Friday, June 24 appearance at the Amphitheater Stage (Library Square, 231 E. 400 South). Tickets for the event vary, from single day tix to four-day passes, with all the info available at uaf.org/tix.

Giovannie and The Hired Guns @ The Urban Lounge

Known for blending genres in a unique and stylish way, Giovannie and The Hired Guns roll into town with a reputation that’s being built in different ways, with praise coming from metalheads and Americana/songwriter-based media, alike. The group’s bio suggests as much, saying “Originally from Stephenville, TX and fronted by MexicanAmerican Giovannie Yanez, these guys are redefining what it means to be a Texas band with their high-octane collision of rock-and-roll and country. Their live shows are an electrifying spectacle that leaves audiences both sweat-drenched and ecstatic, inspiring just as much head banging as they do two-stepping.” The group’s latest single and video, “I Don’t Mind,” gives a perfectly good glimpse as to what the group’s about. Giovannie and The Hired Guns will appear at the Urban Lounge (241 S 5th

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The Whags @ The DLC / Quarters Arcade Bar

Seattle-born in 2017 and fully blossoming in 2019 with the release of a debut EP, Smile Maker, The Whags are finally making it to SLC after initial attempts were thwarted by COVID-19. But the interest was always there, so the five-piece group’s finally able to bring their sound to The DLC. That sound’s self-described as “groove-driven psychedelic funk, harmony-laden sunshine americana, and the swirly, soulful improvisation of another era.” Northwest Music Scene, meanwhile, writes of the band, “These guys are hard as hell to label but their sophisticated take on funk and pop results in an addictive sound that should help them to continue to reel in new fans.” A pair of singles released in 2022 (“Slice of Pie” and “Eugene”) give a good sense of what they’re all about. The Whags appear at The DLC at Quarters Arcade Bar (5 E. 400 South) on Friday, June 24. Appearing with The Whags are Casio Ghost and Over Under. Info on this $10, 21-up show can be found at quartersslc.com.

Sugar Britches @ Gracie’s and The Lighthouse Lounge

Traveling and booking throughout the upper midwest and west, the Colorado-based alt-country/ honky-tonk band Sugar Britches are in the region

for two shows—one in SCL, another in Ogden. The group’s out in support of its latest (and sophomore) album, No One Cares That It’s Your Birthday. Vocalist Brian Johanson says that “it’s a super fun album filled with heartache, humor, spiritual frustrations, John Prine odes and birthday threats.” For Cyndi Lauper fans, note that there’s a cover of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” contained within the 10 tracks. Of the nine originals, two (“Cryin’ in the Drive-Thru,” “Walking up Walls”) have been released as singles, and those can be found on the usual platforms. Sugar Britches will appear at Gracie’s (326 S. West Temple; graciesslc.com) on Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m., with no cover. On Saturday, June 25 at 9 p.m., the group will be found at The Lighthouse Lounge in Ogden with a $5 ticket (130 25th St.; lighthouseogden.com). Check those websites for further details.

Bright Eyes & Hurray for the Riff Raff @ The Union Event Center

Conor Oberst brings his longrunning band/performance moniker, Bright Eyes, to the Union Event Center (235 N. 500 West) on Tuesday, June 28. First recording at age 15 in 1995, the group, Oberst has a deep catalog of tracks to choose from, including songs from his 2020 album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. Joining will be a dynamic live act fresh off a local appearance, Hurray for the Riff Raff, recently seen/heard at the Urban Lounge. Tickets for this all-ages show, $42.50, can be found at eventbrite.com; doors at 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries actor Marilu Henner has an unusual condition: hyperthymesia. She can remember in detail voluminous amounts of past events. For instance, she vividly recalls being at the Superdome in New Orleans on September 15, 1978, where she and her actor friends watched a boxing match between Leon Spinks and Muhammad Ali. You probably don’t have hyperthymesia, Aries, but I invite you to approximate that state. Now is an excellent time to engage in a leisurely review of your life story, beginning with your earliest memories. Why? It will strengthen your foundation, nurture your roots and bolster your stability. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Poet Elizabeth Bishop noted that many of us are “addicted to the gigantic.” We live in a “mostly huge and roaring, glaring world.” As a counterbalance, she wished for “small works of art, short poems, short pieces of music, intimate, low-voiced and delicate things.” That’s the spirit I recommend to you in the coming weeks, Taurus. You will be best served by consorting with subtle, unostentatious, elegant influences. Enjoy graceful details and quiet wonders and understated truths.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Shouldn’t the distance between impossible and improbable be widened?” asks poet Luke Johnson. I agree that it should, and I nominate you to do the job. In my astrological view, you now have the power to make progress in accomplishing goals that some people may regard as unlikely, fantastical and absurdly challenging. (Don’t listen to them!) I’m not necessarily saying you will always succeed in wrangling the remote possibilities into practical realities. But you might. And even if you’re only partially victorious, you will learn key lessons that bolster your abilities to harness future amazements. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarian novelist George Eliot wrote, “It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings— much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.” I believe you will be exempt from this rule during the next seven weeks. You will be able to speak with lucid candor about your feelings—maybe more so than you’ve been able to in a long time. And that will serve you well as you take advantage of the opportunity that life is offering you: to deepen, clarify and refine your intimate relationships.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Author bell hooks expressed advice I recommend for you. She said, “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Author John Banville wrote what might serve as a manifesto When we can be alone, we can be with others without using for some of us Crabs: “To be concealed, protected, guarded: them as a means of escape.” As you enter a phase of potential that is all I have ever truly wanted. To burrow down into a place renewal for your close relationships, you’ll be wise to deepen of womby warmth and cower there, hidden from the sky’s indif- your commitment to self-sufficiency and self-care. You might ferent gaze and the harsh air’s damagings. The past is such a be amazed at how profoundly that enriches intimacy. Here are retreat for me. I go there eagerly, shaking off the cold present two more helpful gems from bell hooks: “You can never love and the colder future.” If you are a Crab who feels a kinship with anybody if you are unable to love yourself” and “Do not expect Banville’s approach, I ask you to refrain from indulging in it to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.” during the coming months. You’re in a phase of your long-term astrological cycle when your destiny is calling you to be bolder AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) and brighter than usual, more visible and influential, louder In April 2005, a 64-year-old Korean woman named Cha Sa-soon made her first attempt to get her driver’s license. She and stronger. failed. In fairness to her, the written test wasn’t easy. It required an understanding of car maintenance. After that initial flop, she LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “We wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than returned to take the test five days a week for three years—and a fire of conflagration,” writes author Clarissa Pinkola Estés. was always unsuccessful. She persevered, however. Five years That’s good advice for you right now. Your anger can serve you, later, she passed the test and received her license. It was her but only if you use it to gain clarity—not if you allow it to control 960th try. Let’s make her your role model for the foreseeable or immobilize you. So here’s my counsel: Regard your wrath as future. I doubt you’ll have to persist as long as she did, but you’ll a fertilizing fuel that helps deepen your understanding of what be wise to cultivate maximum doggedness and diligence. you’re angry about—and shows you how to engage in constructive actions that will liberate you from what is making you angry. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In the eighth century, Chinese poet Du Fu gave a batch of freshly written poems to his friend and colleague, the poet Li Bai. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo author Jeanette Winterson was asked, “Do you fall in “Thank you for letting me read your new poems,” Li Bai later love often?” She replied, “Yes, often. With a view, with a book, wrote to Du Fu. “It was like being alive twice.” I foresee you with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete enjoying a comparable grace period in the coming weeks, Pisces: strangers, with nothing at all.” Even if you’re not as prone to a time when your joie de vivre could be double its usual intensity. infatuation and enchantment as Winterson, you could have How should you respond to this gift from the Fates? Get twice as many experiences like hers in the coming months. Is that a state much work done? Start work on a future masterpiece? Become you would enjoy? I encourage you to welcome it. Your capacity to a beacon of inspiration to everyone you encounter? Sure, if be fascinated and captivated will be at a peak. Your inclination to that’s what you want to do. And you could also simply enjoy every detail of your daily rhythm with supreme, sublime delight. trust your attractions will be extra high. Sounds fun!

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the coming weeks, you will need even more human touch than usual. Your mental, physical, and spiritual health require you to have your skin in contact with people who care for you and are eager to feel their skin against yours. A Tumblr blogger named Friend-Suggestion sets the tone for the mood I hope you cultivate. They write, “I love! human contact! with! my friends! So put your leg over mine! Let our knees touch! Hold my hand! Make excuses to feel my arm by drawing pictures on my skin! Stand close to me! Lean into my space! Slow dance super close to me! Hold my face in your hands or kick my foot to get my attention! Put your arm around me when we’re standing or sitting around! Hug me from behind at random times!”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Libran lexicographer Daniel Webster (1758–1843) worked hard to create his dictionary. He spent over 26 years perfecting it. To make sure he could properly analyze the etymologies, he learned 28 languages. He wrote definitions for 70,000 words, including 12,000 that had never been included in a published dictionary. I trust you are well underway with your own Webster-like project, Libra. This entire year is an excellent time to devote yourself with exacting diligence to a monumental labor of love. If you haven’t started it yet, launch now. If it’s already in motion, kick it into a higher gear.

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The Litigious Society GEICO General Insurance Co. must pay a woman identified only as M.O. a $5.2 million settlement, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled on June 7, after she contracted the sexually transmitted disease HPV from an insured member during intimate relations in his automobile. The Kansas City Star reported that the Jackson County woman contacted GEICO in February 2021, and the company sent the case to arbitration. Four months later, the arbitrator found that the man was liable for not disclosing his infection status, and M.O. was awarded the large sum, to be paid by GEICO. The company appealed, but the three-judge panel upheld the decision. Adventures in Real Estate Danielle Cruz and her husband purchased and renovated a home in Chicago, but after listing it for sale, they found out someone was already living there. ABC7-TV reported that a contractor showed up to make a repair to the presumably vacant house and reported to Cruz that someone was inside the home. He also told her all the locks had been changed. “We honestly thought he was joking because we knew the house was vacant,” Cruz said. “So we show up with the cops, and there’s a young woman in there with all of her belongings.” The woman said she had signed a month-to-month lease with a “landlord,” and because she produced a lease, the police couldn’t ask her to vacate. Real estate attorney Mo Dadkhah said the case would probably be referred to the Cook County eviction courts—but they’re very backed up. “The process could take six, 12, 18 months,” he said. Cruz’s other option is “cash for key”—offering the renter money to leave. But so far, Cruz can’t get her to respond. Out of Commission A taxi in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, is out of service for the time being, NL Times reported on June 8, but not because it’s in need of repairs. In the Netherlands, seagulls are a protected species, and a pair of gulls has built a nest and laid an egg on the windshield of a parked taxi, right between the wipers. Before the egg was laid, employees tried to move the nest multiple times, but the pair kept returning and rebuilding it. Now, the taxi must stay put until the baby gull hatches and fledges. Hope that meter’s not running. News That Sounds Like a Joke In what seems like an extraordinarily bad idea in the age of COVID-19, a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, encourages patrons to enhance their food or drink by licking a dining room wall made of Himalayan rock salt, WLBT-TV reported on June 3. The head chef at The Mission restaurant brought in the rocks to improve the overall ambience and add a unique touch for customers enjoying tequila shots. For those who are squeamish about the germs, the rock salt reportedly has natural sanitary properties, but the restaurant staff also regularly wipe down the walls. I’ll have a beer, thanks. Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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Inexplicable Down at the Amarillo (Texas) Zoo, it isn’t the animal exhibits inside that are sparking excitement among the city’s residents. “In the dark and early morning hours” of May 21, the city reported in a June 8 news release, security cameras captured a mysterious creature outside the fence—part “person with a strange hat,” part “large coyote on its hind legs,” part “Chupacabra,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. “We just want to let the Amarillo community have some fun with this,” director of Parks and Recreation Michael Kashuba said, asking locals to weigh in with their ideas about what the Unidentified Amarillo Object— UAO—might be. “It is important to note that this entity was outside the Amarillo Zoo,” he added. “There were no signs of criminal activity or vandalism.” Special Delivery When Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to a crash on June 2, they found an SUV that had slammed into a FedEx truck, and it was quickly apparent what had caused the collision, WPLG-TV reported. Inside the SUV were a man and woman, both naked, and at the time of the crash, the woman was performing a sex act on the male driver, first responders reported. Two people in the FedEx truck sustained minor injuries; the male SUV driver had injuries to his “private area.” Don’t Bug Me! During court proceedings on June 7 at the Albany City Court in New York, a defendant who started filming an arraignment was asked to stop, NBC New York reported. During the altercation that followed, a 34-year-old woman in the audience allegedly released hundreds of cockroaches from plastic containers into the courtroom, resulting in the courthouse being closed for the rest of the day for fumigation. “What transpired is not advocacy or activism, it is criminal behavior with the intent to disrupt a proceeding and cause damage,” noted a statement from the Office of Court Administration. Gassed Reynold Gladu took over his gas station in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1973. But at least for now, he no longer sells fuel, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported on June 7. When his pumps ran dry this month, he didn’t refill them because he can’t abide the prices. “I don’t want to be a part of it anymore,” he said. “This is the biggest rip-off that ever has happened to people in my lifetime.” His station will continue to do oil changes and other service, but, he said, “Enough is enough.” A spokesperson for ExxonMobil said prices are out of her company’s control, being “influenced by the price of crude and wholesale price of products which fluctuate according to demand and supply factors.” But Gladu isn’t buying it—“It seems like the oil industry is in this together”—or selling it.

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