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My first beer was a Shock Top while I was camping around Goblin Valley. I’m glad I started with something highly drinkable— as most beer is, in my humble opinion, dis gusting. (Three cheers for hard cider!)
The first craft beer I tried (Full Suspen sion Ale) was so bitter that I let someone else drink it.
Bryan Bale I was holding my dad’s beer while he built a cinder block wall in our backyard. I might have been 12 or 13 years old at the time. I had forgotten what was in my hand. Thinking I had a can of soda, I took a sip; I was very unpleasantly surprised. I’ve never had any desire to try it again.
The latest report I can find online is the Utah State Water Plan for 2013, which includes this truly amazing statement: “Fixing water leaks has not tradition ally been part of future water planning.” (Internationally—meaning everywhere except Utah—it is widely recognized that reducing unaccounted-for water, while unglamorous and rarely providing opportunities for politicians to grand stand, is almost always the cheapest way to augment available supply).
For comparison, Singapore—which is vulnerable because it’s largely depen dent on water from Malaya (and was forced to surrender to the Japanese in World War II because they had seized control of this water supply)—reports losses around 5%. I suggest that public utilities make us all aware of what it is doing and what it hopes to achieve, perhaps by adding a quarterly bulletin in its monthly billings.
Benjamin Wood
To its credit, Salt Lake City took action, and its water conservation plan in 2020 reported losses for 2016-2018 as averag ing around 11% of production. However, those numbers still were not up-to-date, and significantly above the average re ported in the State Water Plan (8.4%).
And, if we are serious about protecting Utah’s agricultural sector in a time of in creasing scarcity, what about bringing in an expert from—say—Israel, which has ample experience in growing highvalue crops in a desert environment? Perhaps then we could stop exporting alfalfa (and by extension, the water used to grow it) to China.
Jerre Wroble
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Kara Rhodes I thought of two phrases: “No, thank you” and “Why do people drink this?”
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The report provided Salt Lake City data for 2003 (so already 10 years out of date then) as showing leakage of 4.3 million gallons per day, “a very creditable per formance for a utility that does not have [an] active leakage control programme.”
Do you remember the first time you drank a beer?
KEITH ALLEMAN Salt Lake City “Low Liquidity,” Aug. 4 Hits & Misses Katharine Biele’s column commends respondents to a Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll for being willing to consider a wide range of options for solving Utah’s water scarcity. That’s en couraging, but reducing domestic use— other than perhaps lawn watering—is essentially irrelevant, aside from show ing that we’re all suffering and sharing theResidentialburden. uses make up a very small proportion of total water use, and any se rious strategy has to resolve the complex issues surrounding agricultural use and legacy water rights. But one area where municipal use probably could—and should—be reduced is in eliminating leakage from municipal systems. That’s just pure waste.
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It was a couple of “pony” cans of Coors that my sister and I found in a cooler after a family camping trip. We drank them, but, at our tender age, could not see the appeal save for the warm buzz we soon felt.
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Citizen Proofreader Arggh! In the Aug. 11 Hits & Misses, the third item (“Read No Evil”) has this last sentence: “Yup, the new law tries yet again to define por nography.” Nowhere in the item is there any mention of any sort of “new law.” The rest is about a school district pulling books. How is a reader supposed to know what is being talked about? This supposed “new law” isn’t explained in the following sentences ei ther, since there aren’t any. I know deadlines must be tight, but please try to proofread better. The second H & M item last week, “Sour Streets,” also had a prob lem. It claimed there are conflicting views on whether SLC is a good bicycling city. It cites reasonable evidence in favor, but for “against,” it just splats out numbers that don’t tell the reader anything because they’re A. for the state, not the city and B. aren’t compared to what would be good or bad. So 1% of resi dents commute by bike. What percent would make a city a bicycling city? 0.9%? 1.5%? 10%?
Scott Renshaw Like most newbie beer drinkers, I sus pect, mine was some kind of foul Ameri can megabrewery garbage served in a red Solo cup. Do I remember the first time I drank a beer that I actually enjoyed? That was probably four or five years later.
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Really, Captain Stewart? Really? American citizens trained and paid you to defend our flag and nation, not rip it apart. If an alarm sounded today, I’m not sure Stewart would aim his missiles at an adversary or at Washington, D.C. He’s far from the clean young man who swore on a bible to protect our nation. He’s become the lifelong smoker who can’t smell the tobac co on his own flannel jacket. He has anosmia. He thinks he’s clean. Nope. And he’ll never wash the stink off, either. CW
In April, a woman in Olympia National Park fell eight feet into an outhouse pit trying to retrieve her mobile phone. For sure, Hunter Biden wouldn’t have done that. She was rescued and washed down sometime later, fully disgusted with herself, but not fully removed of the stink that comes with spending a time with other peoples’ business.
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Amazing to me is that my old homestead of Lead Mine, just up the road from Copperton, is not yet dug up and bur ied. The homes are all gone—the gardens, the yards, the bar, the café, everything. But up on a hillside, I can still see a small divot where the outhouse once stood behind one of the old shanty shacks that comprised Lead Mine.
hen I was young growing up in Bingham Canyon, there were still a couple of functioning outhouses. Bingham Canyon is no longer there, you know, as the gigantic minerals mine up in the Oquirrh Mountains has eaten nearly every last bit of it, save for the very bottom of what was once the canyon around the area of Copperton.
For a short time, I collected antique bottles with my friend Max Davis. A favorite dig was at a former town dump right along the sepia-hued Bingham creek—sepia-hued because it also served as the town sewer. All things imag inable would float by. You don’t want to know. The dump site was a rich trove and we’d sell some of our finds to the local antique dealer. It was also known that digging for goodies at former outhouse locations could yield treasure, too. People using outhouses accidentally dropped coins into their pits, or used them to hide things like the whiskey bottles they weren’t supposed to be drinking from. If a fellow dropped something from his drawers, or if a lady spilled her purse, whatever was fallen into the pit was left behind, not worth the burden nor stench to go digging for. Today, however, such items as mobile phones are fall ing into outhouses—at campsites for instance—and really nutty folks have taken to diving in after them.
And this past week, it was reported via photograph on Reddit (100% true therefore!) that a fellow fell into an out house “vault” after removing his clothes and diving in after his dropped cell phone. He became wedged and was only gotten out when passersby heard his shouts three hours later—but not before one of them took his picture. He too was a mess and he too stunk to high heaven. The above are the modern versions of the old adage to never play with pigs because you both get dirty—but the pig likes it. Politicians use that phrase often. Not only do politicians not care if you wrestle with them and get dirty, some rather enjoy it. One in particular, our former President Donald Trump, was expert at pig wrestling. He took on all comers and beat them all, such is he expert at winning at all costs. Everyone who ever wrestled Donald Trump became dirty.
After Trump won, both men became supplicants: Lee famously comparing Trump to the Book of Mormon’s Cap tain Moroni; and Stewart trading his military integrity to became a reliable pro-Trump cable TV talking head. There may be a short term reward, but no matter what, the stink of playing with pigs is tough to remove. Both those men stink to high heaven these days—worse than they did just months ago, if you thought that impossible. Lee has gone nearly full radio silent since it was report ed that military nuclear secrets may have been among the documents removed from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. To Lee, dooming a democracy and overthrowing a govern ment wasn’t a high bar. But fearing for his radioactive soul is,Sameapparently.forStewart. He was known to mildly disavow a Trump action here and there, like saying that it’s “inap propriate” to call for violence, for instance (Owey, Chris. Ouch!). But he’s been just as rabid in defending Trump since, after all, the dual devils of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are worse. Chris, then, is just a whiner who hasn’t done a damn thing for his district other than to whine.
Last week, he stood arm-in-arm with what is now the low bar of GOP intelligentsia: some of his fellow Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee (or as Trump calls it, the House Un-Intellegence committee and now we know why). There he was with fellow flunkies like Elise Ste fanik, Paul Gosar, and Mike Turner as he said—in all seri ousness when speaking about the contents of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and how they came to be there in the first place—“Was it nuclear? Heck, maybe it was aliens.”
You remember the year 2016, of course, when nearly everyone in the Republican Party was fast distancing themselves from Trump. Utah Republican politicians like Senator Mike Lee and Representative Chris Stewart were not even close to the Trump wagon back then, with Cur tis proclaiming that Trump “did not represent Republican ideals … he is our Mussolini,” and Lee, who did not vote for Trump in 2016 and asked that Trump leave the race be cause he was “weighing down the American people.”
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Experts say evidence-based education works, but the nation seems to spurn evidence these days. DABS will be look ing for better metrics, but apparently, that’s not enough to save the viewing public from this sad little family whose son thought “no drinking” meant no water. Hardee har.
A recent letter to the editor was pain fully right on. “No male has ever been pregnant,” noted a The Salt Lake Tribune reader, in an attempt to demonstrate the inherent unfairness of laws made by men. You know—abortion laws. Case in point: a recent Tribune story about Salt Lake County Council man Dave Al vord proclaiming that fetuses are not part of women’s bodies. “The umbilical cord and placenta do not directly con nect to the woman,” the councilman tweeted. Besides being an incredibly embarrassing statement, Alvord re ferred to an Insider story as evidence. Maybe he didn’t read it: “Twenty per cent of our blood is traveling through the placenta, keeping our future child or children nourished.” Meanwhile, more than 1,000 Utah health-care pro viders ran a full-page ad opposing gov ernment interference in health care. That—along with another op-ed signed by countless physicians—makes the case that lawmakers should pull out of women’s vaginas … and perhaps take a biology course.
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HIT: Mansplaining Mayhem
The Gateway Plaza, 18 N. Rio Grande St., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2 p.m, free.
Many people use their DVRs to skip through the endless commercials on TV. But some are hard to miss, and equally hard to take seriously—like those Parents Empowered ads. They depict “Utah’s favorite sitcom family,” and while some people may like the throwback feel of these low-budget, laugh-track videos, the jury is out on their effectiveness. State Auditor John Dougall threw a wrench in their $2.5 million budget in a review of the De partment of Alcoholic Beverage Servic es (DABS). He found the impact on un derage drinking to be “indeterminate.”
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HIT: Airspace Ad Space Billboard companies in Utah have a long history of sucking up to legisla tors—with money, of course. And they tend to get what they want, including protected status in areas that might not want them. Along our scenic byways, billboards block the view and draw drivers’ attention from the road. Now Scenic Utah, a nonprofit dedicated to saving Utah’s natural beauty, is spon soring a photo contest to fight visual pollution, the St. George News reports. One of the categories is: “Visual Pollu tion We Wish Would Go Away.” It is “for that billboard that makes your blood boil; the junk pile or deteriorating billboard in your neighborhood; those overhead power lines blocking an oth erwise amazing view of the skyline … in other words, scenes you wish were different.” No doubt the contest, which ends on Sept. 1, will make the billboard companies boil, even as they digitize and desecrate Utah roads. KATHARINE IN WEEK, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD Let’s Clean the Air How bad is it, really? If you don’t have COPD or asthma, what’s the problem? Well, Utah has had the worst air quality in the coun try, and we’re ranked No. 18 in the world. The No. 1 spot is not something to aspire to. Sometimes, it seems impossible to deal with, what with the Utah Legislature’s ado ration of fossil-fuel industries. But hold on. There is something you can do to change the trajectory. Join Clean the Darn Air’s Presentation on Northern Utah Dis tricts as environmental warriors kick off another attempt to qualify for the Novem ber 2024 ballot. This is a reboot of the 2020 effort “to provide $100 million a year for air quality programs, $50 million a year for rural economic development and longneeded tax reforms like eliminating the state sales tax on grocery store food, all of it paid for with a modest carbon tax on the fossil fuels that are the main source of both local air quality problems and global cli mate change.” Virtual, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3bZmdgI Have a Care About Medicare Maybe you’re not 65 yet, but trust us, you will be someday, and we hope Medicare will still be there for you. After all, you earned it, no matter how they try to tell you it’s an “entitlement.” But there’s more to Medicare than just getting your money back. The Centers for Medicare & Medic aid Services has begun soliciting public comment on the Medicare Advantage pro gram. “We know that the best way to serve Medicare Advantage enrollees would be to free them from the financial burdens and administrative hassles imposed by the commercial insurance companies that ad minister their benefits. Policymakers need to know that the public is paying atten tion, and that we are demanding nothing less than single-payer Medicare for All.”
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https://bit.ly/3BVVNXT Who Gets Cancer? We likely all will get cancer if we live long enough. But that doesn’t mean it affects everyone equally. “Research confirms that the LGBTQ+ community carries a disproportionate burden of cancer, has distinc tive risk factors and faces additional bar riers to accessing health care.” Colors of Cancer aims to equal the playing field. There will be discussions about how to change those barriers while interacting in a festive atmosphere. “Just like the colors of the rainbow each have a meaning for the LGBTQ+ community, these colors also correspond with a specific cancer ribbon.”
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Submit a formal comment to the Request for Information on Medicare at the Fed eral Register. Let’s talk about expanded access and health equity. Online or by mail, before Wednesday, Aug. 31, free.
MISS: Sober Reminders
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Fighter runs Aug. 18-20 at the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South), with performanc es 7 p.m. nightly, and an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Aug. 20. Tickets are $35-$55; visit arttix.org to purchase tickets and for up-tothe-moment information on health and safety guidelines. (Scott Renshaw)
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90&9: Fighter On the website for their nonprofit organization 90&9, Nik and Darla Day describe its goal as its goal to “promote healthy living through media and the performing arts ... [and] help youth see the beauties of life and have an increased desire to thrive and help others.” Those themes are at the center of the multimedia presentation Fighter, which finds spectacle in the inspira tional notion of lifting yourself up through the process of lifting others up. Salt Lake City’s own Nik Day—a successful local songwriter of Christian-themed work— provided the original music for this produc tion, which incorporates spoken word, dance, aerial arts and circus acrobatics. The premise revolves around a phoenix who becomes over whelmed by the inner darkness of her own doubts and fears, and falls to ashes on the earth. But instead of immediately being reborn as a phoenix, she begins to experience life among high-school age humans—represent ing types like the Cheerleader, the Football Captain, and the Valedictorian—all of whom face their own struggles that are hidden from others who assume they have it all. It’s only through providing support and guidance to these adolescents that the phoenix is able to shake off her own ashes and return to the sky (in a dazzling airborne dance with aerial silks).
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Artistic explorations often feel much more interested in aesthetics than in pure func tionality. That’s why it makes for a unique theme for a paired exhibition when two artists are both investigating ideas of functionality, whether that encompasses our physical envi ronment or our own bodies. In Salt Lake City artist marc t. wise’s show Normal Operations, he uses as his raw materials things that have been discarded as waste from industrial operations. By repurposing those mate rials in his sculptures—like “The Missing Hand,” created in part from a piece of cut plywood, or “Carcass,” with its bold blue remnants of objects punched out of a frame—wise questions how it is that something is determined to no longer be of value, and how a raw material can make a transi tion from object with a purpose, to trash, to art.
David Raleigh’s Push and Pull applies a dif ferent sensibility to the notion of how things function, taking a look at how the human body seeks equilibrium, with that equilibrium is physical, mental or emotional. In his oil paint ings like “Big Head” (pictured), Raleigh—a BYU graduate entering the MFA pro gram at the University of Wisconsin, Madison— dives into the struggle to find that balance, using his figures in an often light-hearted way to address the more complicated, occasion ally dysfunctional ways that we try to achieve wholeness in our bodies and minds.
Normal Operations and Push and Pull both run at Salt Lake Art Council’s Finch Lane Gallery (54 Finch Lane) now through Sept. 23. Visit saltlakearts.org for gallery hours and additional information. (SR) Utah’s
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The Geek Show Podcast regular hits both Utah County and Salt Lake City during his weekend visit, and both locations have significance for the advancement of his comedy career. The Dry Bar Comedy stage in Provo was the location for taping a half-hour spe cial that launched him on a nation wide tour, and the downtown SLC show will find Whittaker recording a planned comedy album. “I feel like it’s only right that I do my best material in front of the crowd that gave me love, the place where I started,” Whittaker says. “I’m born and raised in L.A., but Utah is a huge part of me.”
Whittaker returns to Utah this week end for two dates: Saturday, Aug. 20 at Dry Bar Comedy in Provo (295 W. Center St.) at 9 p.m., with $25 tickets at store.drybar comedy.com; and Sunday, Aug. 21 at Wiseguys Gateway (194 S. 400 West) at 7 p.m., with $20 tickets at wiseguyscomedy.com. If you can’t make it this weekend, plan ahead for FanX weekend Sept. 23-24, when Whittaker will play Wiseguys Ogden (269 25th St.) (SR)
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It’s been nearly three years since comedian Jay Whittaker, as he phrases it, “kind of quietly left” Utah to relocate to the Boston area. And while he’s returned a few times since then for corporate and non-profit gigs, this week marks the first time Whittaker will be back in front of local comedy club audiences since 2019. “I’ve got a lot of love for Utah, and it’s going to be exciting for me to come back,” he says.
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BY BRYAN comments@cityweekly.netYOUNG@swankmotron
If you had told me 20 years ago that the big gest shows in the world would be stream ing right to my house via the internet, I would have likely had some very choice and very skeptical words for you. If you had gone on further to say that there would be half a dozen streaming platforms, and they would be anchoring all of them with the geek fare of my dreams, I’d accuse you of teasing me. Maybe I’d do some light pouting, too. But here we are today, with Disney+ propped up on the back of Star Wars and Marvel (in addition to its own impres sive catalogue). Paramount+ played a new episode of Star Trek every week for a year. Amazon Prime produced the animated adaptation of the comic Invincible, and is staking its claim on the Lord of the Rings spin-off Rings of Power. Netflix capitalizes on the nerd nostalgia of Stranger Things and comic powerhouses like The Umbrella Academy. HBO Max is home to the entire DC Comics film oeuvre, old and new. Are there downsides to this? As a con sumer of all of this stuff who finds it to be catnip, I might be biased. I want all of this stuff. I want more Star Wars and Star Trek television shows. I want the experimental comics being made into streaming epics like Neil Gaiman’s Sandman . I want these billionaire oligarchs to produce some of the richest filmed nerd art the world has ever seen. But is the monetization of geek enthusiasm something that’s going to be worth it in the long term? The larger geek culture grows, the more toxic elements infect it. Groups like “The Fandom Menace” and the harassing hordes calling for the initial release of the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League will get loud and an gry, make YouTube videos to manufacture dissent, and monetize the minimal out rage. They’ll decry anything as being too “woke” if it will drive Itengagement.cameasno surprise to find that these same people will pounce on products that haven’t even been released, too. It came as a shock when Warner Bros. announced the cancellation of Batgirl , a planned HBO Max release that heralded the return of Michael Keaton as Batman and had costs of almost $100 million already. In an era of streaming, why not just release it there? I expect it will happen sooner or later; they won’t just waste the movie. There’s as much likelihood that WB wanted to put a loss on its balance sheet in 2022 for tax purposes as there is to the notion that the film is actually bad. Unfortunately, the grifters are already taking a victory lap. They’ve produced vid eos with thousands of views already say ing that this is a sign of things to come, and that Batgirl was canceled for being too “woke” (translation: with a Batgirl who isn’t white). None of that is demonstrably true, but they’re going to say it anyway, be cause it drives clicks. If you ask me, the biggest problem with the current “geeks have inherited the Earth” streaming eco-system isn’t that we’re getting bad content. It’s that these toxic con artists in the nerd community have more and more fuel to burn the whole place down with it. There’s nothing inherently wrong with geek-friendly brands serving up a major pillar of streaming content that drives sub scriptions. For the most part, we gratefully consume the content, good or bad, and help propel it into the social consciousness. The problem is that any fandom of sufficient size will necessarily attract a small per centage of toxicity and folks decrying a more progressive societal view and nonlily-white casting decisions as though it’s somehow a bad thing. With the ubiquity of streaming services, plenty of folks are going to be watching the flagship shows on each service. With nerd culture fronting it, it’s a foregone conclu sion that there will be a larger percentage of jerks watching those shows. As long as we can accept the fact that these grifters are going to glom onto our entertainment and make the internet discourse surrounding them a potential mine field—seriously, we’re still at a point where any mention of how great The Last Jedi is has some of bad actors go to war, trust me— then we should enjoy what we have and ac cept the negative side effects. Because if it wasn’t nerd culture leading the streaming wars, it would be something else that could be every bit as unbearable in this regard. Those folks exist regardless of what’s on TV. Let’s just do our best to ignore them and enjoy our “woke” geek renaissance.
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Weekend forecast: 100% chance of brews at the Utah Beer Festival. Utahns are living through the hottest, driest summer on record. We’ve choked on toxic dust from our exposed lake bed. We’ve watched our lawns and gardens wither away and die. We’ve cowered for scraps of shade between boiling, exposed swaths of concrete and asphalt.
Now, July is over, temperatures are finally dropping, and we all deserve a drink. Just in time to wet the parched gullets of thirsty souls across the Beehive State, the 12th annual Utah Beer Festival is upon us. Over two days at The Gateway, guests can sample from among 250 beers offered by more than 70 beer vendors, along with food and music and more (including booths for the American Can cer Society’s “Colors of Cancer,” technology app Econus, discount medical cards from Utah Canna, educational materials from WholesomeCo Cannabis as well as non-alcoholic beers and cocktails)—and all in the heart of our beautiful capital city.
To help readers prepare for the dozenth iteration of Utah’s booziest party, City Weekly is proud to offer the 2022 Beer Issue. Inside these pages, readers will find an A-to-Z guide to the state’s brewing scene and a roundup of the year’s brew news from Mike Riedel, the authority for all things beer in the Bee hive. Writer Aimee L. Cook checks in on a handful of the brewer ies—and a new cidery!—pouring rounds around town. And arts and entertainment editor Scott Renshaw has the details on how to get the most out of your festival experience.
So, in honor of the scorcher season we just survived, let’s raise a glass, kick up our feet and enjoy the remaining—and slightly more hospitable to human life—weeks of summer as we wind our way down to fall. Much like our temperatures, Utah’s beer community has never been hotter, and if there’s one thing desert living teaches us, it’s the im portance of staying hydrated. Cheers! —Benjamin Wood Chief Beverage Officer
Beer, There and Everywhere
Mild Child (Fisher, fisherbeer.com): The Fish er Beer portfolio that existed in the early 1900s was, for the most part, fairly small. Beer was more about hydration and nutrition back then—unlike today, where beer has become more of a luxury beverage. We don’t know for a fact that Albert Fisher made a light toasty ale, but odds are good that something similar was around. This century’s incarnation of Fisher Brewing Co. has made a period beer that would have fit in 100 years ago as well as today.
Dos Hazy Boi (Bewilder, bewilderbrewing.com): This 8.0 percent double IPA features a salad of fruity hops that produce aromas of orange, grapefruit pith, passionfruit flowers, honey and pine. A creamy orange, tangy, sweet and salty rounded malt hits first, followed by a dry hoppy center. Tingly grapefruit, honey, floral and honey ride along, adding a tang to the sides and tip of the tongue. Hops are more citrus pith, and the malt holds it together for a well-balanced beer. English Mild (Desert Edge, desertedgebrewery.com): In the “low point” days, beers like this were made in keep ing with Utah’s ABV standards. There’s some nice flavor in this beer; the toasty notes with light chocolate and a touch of toffee are in sync with a slight residual sweetness. Ulti mately, it does what it should: dry out the mouth to prepare it for the next sip. The role of hops in here is strictly bitterness, it seems, succeeding to tame perceptions of sweetness. Fest Devious (Epic, epicbrewing.com): This one is brewed for Oktoberfest season, and it’s one of my favorite la gers from Epic. It smells of biscuits and grainy caramel malt with not quite toffee levels of sweetness, more like toasted cereal. Very subtle yeasty notes emerge, and some sassy leafy, grassy and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, the re mains of a cigar aficionado’s day and more well-tamed leafy, weedy and herbal noble hoppiness. Golden Boy (Heber Valley, hebervalleybrewing.com): This wonderful amber lager from our pals in Heber Valley has a malt-dominant nose, with an earthy, toasted nuttiness as the focal point. The flavor profile follows the nose step-forstep. It’s undermalted, even for the style, with that same nuttiness that reminds me of a helles. There isn’t enough barley on board for more than a token amount of sweetness, which leaves more hoppy bit terness than beer of this style usually displays. Honey Cream Ale (Grid City, gridcitybeer works.com): Locally made beers with locally sourced ingredients are always enticing when searching out craft brews. This ale is loaded with lo cal honey, and you can taste it. Hops are floral and light, and the beer finishes dry. If you’re a fan of hon ey ales, this one may go to the top of your list. Try it on nitro or from the cask; it enhances the honey. Irish Coffee Stout (Hopkins, hopkinsbrew ingcompany.com): This take on a classic cocktail is brewed with Irish whiskey and coffee beans. Coffee and stouts go hand in hand. They’re naturally close in their flavor profiles, so it’s a no-brainer that Hop kins would brew one up. Full of the roast character istics you’d expect from an Irish stout, complemented with heavy coffee notes and a touch of whiskey.
Jalepeño Blonde (Kiitos, kiitosbrewing.com): You’ll never come across a beer style more divisive than this one. When it comes to chile beers, you’re either going to love them or hate them. The key to a good chile beer is, of course, the heat component. The amount of fuego present can take it from an enjoy able sushi companion to a flamethrower fuel. Luckily, Kiitos’ crew managed to keep this one in check with nice pepper essence and mildly scratchy heat.
The A to Z of Utah Beer BY MIKE comments@cityweekly.netRIEDEL@utahbeer
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K ölsch (Moab, themoabbrewery.com): When your brewery is located in one of the most beautiful desert regions in the world, you need beers that re flect the area’s sensibilities and, of course, have that quenching factor. Though this style hails from Köln, Germany, this North Rhine-Westphalian ale is per fectly designed for the arid Moab climate. It’s full of light grains, floral hops and a fruity yeast that, when combined with lighter alcohol and a refreshing snap, ensure enjoyment for hours of arch-gazing. L emon Basil Gose (Ogden River, ogdenriver brewing.com): An American take on another Ger man ale takes our “L” beer in directions you may have never imagined. Traditional Leipzig-style Goses are tart with light but noticeable saltiness—and a bit of coriander added. The crew at Ogden River opted for something less traditional that adds a nice zing that’s unmistakably basil to this sour beer. Pairs well with creamy pasta and roast-beef sandwiches.
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tah’s prolific brewing scene has become so dense, it begins to read like the alphabet. So we thought, let’s scour this Utah-shaped hole in the map and see if we could put our theory to the test. Could we cover the Utah craft beer scene from A to Z? The delicious answer follows. A ltbier (Bohemian, bohemianbrewery.com): Altbiers, or “oldbeers,” are kind of a hybrid style. They’re made with ale yeast, but fermented cooler for longer periods of time, similar to lagers. This “Alt” from Bohemian pours a clear reddish brown. The nose has strong toast with some medium caramel sweetness and a hint of pine. The taste has strong malt up front with toasty crackers and cocoa. Grassy and herbal hops pop in next, with a hint of earthy cherry and bis cuit in the finish. A Utah staple since 2014.
Black Rock Wit (Bonneville, bonnevillebrewery.com): Different from saisons, witbiers are wheat-based, with an emphasis on coriander and orange peel. Bonneville’s has a dull, cloudy yellow color with an aroma that’s sweet and fruity, redolent of banana, pear and sweet melon. The taste starts with sweet spices, banana, melon and some coriander; bready wheat follows, but the fruit flavors dominate. The fin ish was very mild with light, floral hops and the mouthfeel is light with moderate carbonation. Chasing Haze (2 Row, 2rowbrewing.com): One of Utah’s most prolific IPA makers has created an ale that is a master class in the kind of fruit flavors that can be coaxed from malt and hops. It looks like orange juice, and the nose is super aromatic and fresh with citrus, mango, papaya and melon. The taste opens with clementine, mango and overripe cantaloupe. It’s super juicy, but not overly sweet, and finish es dry with a subtle orange and grapefruit peel bitterness. Probably one of 2 Row’s most well-rounded hazy IPAs.
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Nectaron (Offset, offsetbier.com): This is not the name of a lame Transformer that turns into a navel orange. This beer is named for a New Zealand hop that has been in development for the past 17 years. It has intense tropical pineapple, passion fruit and stone fruit characters. Nec taron displays high levels of tropical fruit characteristics, as well as stone fruit (peach) and citrus (grapefruit). Offset Bier loves to experiment with cutting edge stuff like this, and we all benefit from it.
Yellow Snow (Prodigy, prodigy-brewing.com): This Steam Beer or California Common style beer comes from Prodigy, Utah’s newest craft brewery lo cated in Logan. The beer is akin to the world famous Anchor Steam, the originator of its style. Due to lack of refrigeration, these beers were originally thought of as a “cheap beer” because they were fermented with lager yeast at near-ale temperatures. But this ain’t cheap beer. Prodigy’s offering picks up on this tradition with a brilliant, copper-colored beer boast ing smooth caramel malt notes, but with noticeable hop bitterness and finish is remarkable.
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Powder Buoy (Park City, parkcitybrewing.com): This beer’s name comes from the story of a weather buoy out in the seas near Hawaii and refers to its predictive nature for forecasting “powder days” in Utah. It’s not super scientific, but the damned thing seems to work pretty well—just like this beer. It’s not technically super scientific, either, but its reliability in the flavor department keeps us chasing that crispy cold thing we crave: the beer—not the snow.
VBC Stout (Vernal, vernalbrewing.com): Ver nal Brewing Co., in eastern Utah, may not get the same play as those breweries that are down the street from you. But don’t dismiss them—there are some cunning brews coming from dinosaur land. Vernal’s stout is one of those sleepers, showcasing an earthy, roasty nose with the sweet scent of oats and cocoa. The taste is toasty, bitter and lightly creamy, with cool, firm bitterness from hops. Their spice mingles with the sweetness of the oats as cereal grain and bitter coffee round it out. Go east, young man.
OPP IPA (Policy Kings, policykingsbrewery.com): Utah’s only Black-owned brewery can always be relied on to keep things interesting from their home base in Cedar City. The family-owned pub keeps the suds flowing with beers that are full of hop flavor and aroma, and tastes fea turing clean malt, citrus and floral hops with a ton of tropical fruit. OPP is very clean and polished overall, juicy but with a dry finish. It definitely leaves us wanting more.
Quadrupel Ale (Shades, shadesbrewing.beer): In spired by the Trappist breweries of Belgium, a Quadrupel is a Belgian-style ale of great strength with even bolder flavor compared to its sister styles Dubbel and Tripel. Typically a dark creation that plays within the rich, malty palate and spicy phenols that are usually kept to a moderate level, Shades’ interpretation is sweet on the palate with a low bitterness yet clearly perceived alcohol. The next time you come across one these, age it for a couple (or a few) years. R auchbier (TF, tfbrewing.com): This is another one of those beer styles people will either love or hate. Centuries ago, all beers were basically rauchbier (smoke beers), made over open fires, where the smoke would very often make its way into the beer, flavoring it with whatever wood was used. Closed-kettle brewing eventually eliminated that component, but that didn’t keep dedicated brewers from adding the smoke back whenever they craved it. The bril liant beer from TF is an excellent example of smoke and malt working together once again. Snap Down IPL (Squatters, squatters.com): When IPLs (India pale lagers) were introduced, they were seen as a way to capitalize on the IPA craze and help spread the hop love into the lager-lovers market. For the most part, that is true, but IPLs are more than that. They keep the fun hop profiles while losing the fruity flavors from the yeast, creat ing a cleaner, more refreshing bitter beer. Snap Down is a brilliant example of this style that works perfectly on CO2 or the nitrogen tap handles.
Trader IPA (Uinta, uintabrewing.com): In the land of session beer, no one should be surprised that Utah’s own Uinta Brewing would be one of the trailblazers into this in famous beer subcategory. Back in the early 1990s, this beer was simply known as India and was considered to be an English-style Session IPA. Over the decades, it’s undergone a few recipe and name changes to keep up with beer nerds’ tastes and drinking habits, but it’s always remained light and sessionable, full of hops from the past and present. An excellent companion over these many years. Udder Chaos (Talisman, talismanbrewingco.com): With a name like Udder Chaos, you’d think that this would have to be beer that utilizes milk sugars in some way. You’d be right. For me, there’s no better use for locatose (milk sugars) than sticking it into light and oatmeal stouts. It’s the combination of the roastiness and sweetness that al ways seems to work for me. This fine example provides the heavy roast and cocoa you’d expect along with that unmis takable dairy sweetness.
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Wonderful Winter Ale (Wasatch, wasatchbeers.com): Beer nerds of a certain age may remem ber the pine crates in grocery stores that appeared over the holidays every year filled with Wasatch’s Christmas Ale. Then came a brilliant, amped-up ver sion called Winterfest. Wonderful Winter Ale con tinues the holiday tradition with this malty, lightlyspiced and hopped ale that has become a necessary part of the holidays in Utah. X IV Anniversary Barleywine (Uinta): The first barleywine ever made in Utah. For years, the brew ers at Uinta would make this grand, malty beer—and hop it generously. The nose is malty and boozy with pine and citrus. The taste starts with raisin, pum pernickel and sherry notes. Resiny hops come next, revealing a touch of whiskey. The finish is sharp with alcohol and bitterness lingering on the tongue. Ru mors abound that this brew may soon return.
Zólupez Pale Ale (Cerveza Zólupez, zolupez. com): When Javier Chavez set out to create Cerve za Zólupez in late 2018, Utah had no idea what they were in store for. Creating a line of unique Mexi can-themed beers—based on old European styles— sounds like a risky gamble, but Chavez’s dream and recipes paid off. This Mexican-inspired ale is brewed with barley, pineapple, hops, brown sugar and spearmint. There are some stellar flavor additions here, in cluding just a little bit of bitterness and a bit of minty hop flavor. The brown sugar is super nice, toasty, slightly sweet—and at the perfect intensity level. It’s also a great pineapple feel here, as it’s sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. There’s so much more to uncover. This is just a taste of what’s out there, waiting for you to discover. You can always find the letter that’s right for you. CW W U
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BY MIKE RIEDEL | comments@cityweekly.net | @utahbeer The past year has seen a few ups and downs in Utah’s craft beer scene. However, the state of our craft beer culture remains strong. Here are some of the highlights (and low lights) of the past 365-ish days. Toasted Barrel closes: Billed as the state’s dedicated sour house, Toasted Barrel Brewing set up shop in Salt Lake City’s Marmalade neighborhood in the summer of 2018. Co-owners Lynn Li tchfield and Sage Dawson envisioned a place where locally made lambics, wild ales and IPAs would mingle seamlessly in one space for years to come. Sadly, COVID-19 on top of money woes forced the intimate and educational space to close earlier this year, though some of their wild and sour beers can still be found in some of the state’s finer craft beer pubs.
How to Beer Fest The when, the where, and the who cares? BY SCOTT RENSHAW | scottr@cityweekly.net | @scottrenshaw Beer-lovers, rejoice: It’s time for the 12th annual City Weekly Beer Festival. Those who joined in the fun last year will find many of the de tails and logistics the same. If you’re a newcomer—or getting back into Beer Fest-ing after a hiatus—here’s every thing you need to know about how to get the most out of your experience.
The Utah Beer Festival returns to The Gateway for a two-day event. A first for Utah: Beer fridges at staterun liquor stores.
Once onsite, you’ll need to get your valid ID checked—same ID rules ap ply as at any Utah bar—and keep a wristband on at all stations as proof of legal drinking age. You’ll also need to exchange digital/paper advance tick ets for the physical passports. More than 200 beers, ciders, hard seltzers and more will be available, at a charge of 2-6 punches for a 5-ounce sample, or 3-6 punches for a 12-ounce pour, depending on the brewer and the beverage type. If you use up your punches, you can buy more onsite (cards and cash only), but it will be at the $40 day-of-event price, so it’s best to plan ahead and get as many as you think you’re likely to need. VIP access is only available through advance purchase, not on the dates of the event. Breweries to look for: More than 70 individual vendors are provid ing their delicious offerings, rang ing from all of your Utah favorites to other regional microbreweries and national brands. For a full list of participating brewers/vendors, visit utahbeerfestival.com/breweries. Dining and entertainment: Local food trucks will be on hand to provide tasty eats that pair with all of your great beverages, in addition to all of the dining establishments found at TheLiveGateway.entertainment begins on the plaza stage (at the north end of The Gateway near the Olympic fountain) at 4 p.m. daily, with local music head liners including Hoodoo Child on Sat urday, and Makisi on Sunday. Behavior policy: Nobody needs drama. Drink responsibly. No under age drinking is permitted. Vendors may choose not to serve to anyone who is vis ibly intoxicated. Have fun, be respect ful, and let everyone else have fun, too. Anything else? Visit utahbeerfesti val.com online, or contact pete@city weekly.net . CW
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Dates and times: The Utah Beer Festival takes place Saturday, Aug. 20 and Sunday, Aug. 21, 2 p.m.-8 p.m. each day. Sales of passports (see be low) end at 7:30 p.m. each day, with “last pour” at 7:45 p.m. Venue: The Beer Fest once again takes over the lower level of The Gateway (200 S. 400 East, SLC). Because it’s a public thoroughfare, there’s no single point of entry nor is any ad mission fee required for anyone who doesn’t plan on drinking. Designated drivers and other tee totaling guests are welcome to enjoy the vibe, the food trucks and the en tertainment (more on that below) free of charge. Well-behaved, leashed dogs are also welcome, and you can bring in chairs or blankets for making a comfy spot by the performance stage. No outside food or beverage (includ ing coolers), please.
Brew news from around the Beehive State.
Hoppers reorganizes: Founded in 1996, Hoppers brewpub was a craft beer staple for the beer nerds who lived far ther south in Salt Lake County. Their Midvale location was unceremoniously sold out from under them to a national chain in late 2021, and they were forced to abandon their corner on Fort Union Boulevard. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Hoppers’ has used this setback to their advantage, and is reor ganizing the business from brewpub to production brewery. Look for Hoppers to reopen in SLC’s Central 9th neighbor hood in early 2023. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services installs beer coolers: Beer is many things; eternal is not one of them. Beer is an active, living beverage that requires a moderate amount of climate control to remain viable. The larger breweries can pasteurize, increasing shelf life, but for the most part, normal beers are quite fragile. That’s why I was happy to find that DABS (formerly DABC) has been installing multiple beer cool ers in some of its newer stores, and in all of their stores that are currently being built. It’s not a perfect fix to DABS han dling of beer, but it’s a welcomed start. Park City Brewing reborn: In early 2015, three Kentucky guys with the last name of Ray opened Park City Brewery in Kimball Junction. The brewery did well and thrived for a few years, but as often happens in the high-rent area of Summit County, the brewery sought cheaper rent in Salt Lake City. Eventually, the brewery was sold to a team of investors who quickly began the task of transforming Park City Brew ery into Park City Brewing Co. The new PCBC is also in Kimball Junction (differ ent location), and it brews beer in-house on a small brew system with plans to build a production brewery in Salt Lake. For now, they contract-brew their five canned beers locally. Offset Bier opens: On the heels of Park City Brewing’s rebirth, Offset Bier opened up within the city limits of Park City. Offset is helmed by Patrick Bourque and Conor Brown; Bourque’s name may be familiar to you from his time at Epic, Uinta, Saltfire and Ogden River Brewing. Bourque always found a way to ex press his creativity, but never on his own terms. Now, with the launch of Off set Bier Co., he and Brown have finally found a permanent home and a place to focus their simple vision on making beer that tastes like beer. Prodigy Brewing opens: The long craft-beer drought in Cache Valley is over, with Prodigy Brewing opening its doors last July. Many are under the im pression that this is the first brewery to operate in Logan, but there were actu ally quite a few back in the day. In 1888, Jacob Theurer started Cache Valley Brewing, which served the people of Cache County until it closed up shop in 1912. Prodigy, located at 25 W. Center St. in Logan, offers a wide range of ales and lagers, with a menu that’s consid ered upscale pub fare. I recommend trying the Yellow Snow steam beer, along with What the Helles lager. Welcome to the family. CW
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Transportation and parking: Garage parking is available at The Gateway, but the Beer Fest will not be validating parking. Attendees are en couraged to ride transit, particularly the Trax Blue Line—as the Planetar ium Station will be the easiest way to access the festival area. Free valet bike parking will also be available for those who want to pedal their way to and from the event. Sampling beers: Those who plan to imbibe will need to purchase a passport with 10 punches for $35 in advance (at utahbeerfestival.com, or at the City Weekly offices 175 W. 200 South, Ste. 100, Salt Lake City, with no service charges) or for $40 onsite.
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Bar: If you’ve ever asked, “Where can I get some cider?” you now have a new cider bar to check out. Whether you are new to hard cider or you are simply looking for variety, the Scion Cider Bar has a selection that will make your mouth wa ter with delight. An idea born out of frustration over the lack of ciders in Utah led to the opening of the Scion Cider Bar by co-owner Elisa beth Osmeloski and her partners. And it’s proven to be a hit among local cider en thusiasts. So far, their primary focus has been to import more than 200 ciders from all over the world to offer at the bar in a ro tating menu that includes both traditional and modern ciders. Flights of three tasters and 5-ounce pours are a great way to try something new each time you go. There’s also a variety of draft ciders, draft beers, wine and spirits available at the bar. In addition, Rio Connelly—their cidermaker extraordinaire—is producing small batches of in-house cider a couple hundred gallons at a time. Connelly has come to cider after working many years as a beer brewer and co-founding Proper Brewing. Scion sources its apples from local fam ily orchards around Utah. They hope to get more of their own product on tap over time. “A fun fact is that we can serve our cider at full strength on tap,” said Osmeloski (not ing that it’s not the case with beer). “Our ciders on tap range from 5% to 9% ABV.” There are currently 22 ciders on tap at Scion. And with the range of ciders offered, you’re sure to find a new favorite. Foods to pair with cider selections include cheeses, charcuterie and artisan tinned seafoods. And every Thursday night, they offer a free education class at 7 p.m. to help ci der lovers better understand the world of ciders. 916 W. Jefferson St., SLC, scionciderbar.comOgdenRiverBrewing: Bryan Wrigley and Pat Winslow founded Ogden River Brewing in 2019 after launching a Kick starter to make the dream of owning a brewery a Winslow,reality.aretired railroad conductor, began homebrewing more than 20 years ago and fell in love with the craft. As a nod to the area and beer makers that came be fore, Ogden River created a new recipe as a tribute to Becker’s Beer—which was man ufactured in Ogden from 1890 to 1964—for their flagship beer: Becker’s Best American Pilsner.With 10 beers on tap, there’s a beer that will pair nicely with any food offering. In addition, you can get a nice glass of Daily Rise nitro coffee on tap. Pub favorites are on the food menu along with elevated dishes such as blackened
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Utah’s brewing scene is an abun dance of riches, growing every year with new businesses, recipes and reasons to get together over a round of cold beverages and hot bites. Ahead of this year’s Utah Beer Festival, City Weekly caught up with the teams be hind six local breweries to chat about their tried-and-true offerings as well as what’s new on tap. Bewilder Brewing: After seeing so many of their customers succeed in the craft beer market, Ross Metzger and Cody McKendrick—of Salt City Brew Supply— decided to jump on the bandwagon and launch Bewilder Brewing in 2019. Three years later, Bewilder boasts 16 brews on tap and several high-point offerings in cans, ready to McKendrickgo.now shares the title of brewmaster with Steven Engle, who worked in an award-winning Idaho brew ery before coming to work at Bewilder. The business recently opened for lunch, seven days a week, with a food menu perfect for pairing with their in-house brews. Chef Justin Field’s menu includes delicious pas trami and smoked turkey offerings, as well as signature sausages made in-house. “We try to brew to style, we use region ally specific malt and water profiles for each beer,” said Metzger. “We want our beers to be as authentic as possible.” 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 385-528-3840, bewil derbrewing.comHopkinsBrewing Co.: Founder Chad Hopkins—a restaurateur around Salt Lake for 20 years and homebrewer for more than a decade—successfully won several med als in beer competitions before employ ing his talent to open his own brewery in 2018, taking over the space that was Epic Annex. Hopkins Brewing is a relatively small brewery with big flavor, having eight taps with rotating recipes. There’s always something fresh to try. Head brewer Matt Yeager creates addi tional new and exciting beers to share on “Small Batch Friday.” And if you’re looking for something that’s not part of their reg ular lineup, you can find ciders or handcrafted cocktails using locally sourced spirits. Hopkins strives to use local ingre dients whenever possible, including local ly grown and malted grains from Solstice Malt in Salt Lake City.
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BrewsTrue A taste of local Utah breweries serving up beer, cider, food and good times.
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Beer world is all abuzz over phan tasm, a new, fruit-forward beer ingredient that is increasingly beoming the rage in home- and craft brewing circles. Made from freeze-dried Sauvignon Blanc grapes, phantasm powder de livers a blast of thiols, which in turn boosts the tropical notes and aromas of a brew, creating the haziest of haz ies, and the juiciest of juicies Utahns can get their own taste of phantasm with the launch of Beer Phest, an IPA created in partnership by Bewilder Brewing and City Weekly. “If I want to get super techni cal, I may be more inclined to call it a ‘Strong Pale Ale’ than an IPA,” said Bewilder co-brewmaster Cody McKendrick, “just due to the bitter ness not being really in IPA territory.” McKendrick described Beer Phest as having a passion fruit-forward fla vor. The beer commemorates the Utah Beer Festival, which will hold its 12th annual event on Aug. 20-21 at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City. “I think this beer is tasting great,” McKendrick said. Beer Phest joins previous specialty beers launched in partnership with City Weekly, including Private Eye Pale Ale from Fisher Brewing and a collab oration with Squatters Brewing for the paper’s 25th anniversary in 2009. “City Weekly is excited to partner with one of our good friends in the brewery world, Bewilder, in producing a specialty beer for our 12th annual Utah Beer Festival,” said City Weekly publisher Pete Saltas. “We’re looking forward to the feedback from our at tendees on one of the hottest new fla vors hitting the craft beer market in Phantasm. Cheers!” CW
The food menu at Hopkins Brewing Co. will make you forget all about your diet. Whether it’s loaded totchos ($15), fried pickle chips ($8) or a generous burger made from local grass-fed beef on a local pretzel bun ($16), this brewpub has what every palette craves. “We are one of the smallest breweries, so our beer is always fresh. We are not try ing to be like any other restaurant or brew ery—we brew what we like to drink,” said Hopkins.“Weare community focused and donate to local charities,” he said. “To us, craft beer is more than just beer—it’s communi ty. We don’t distribute, so you have to come to us to get our beer.” 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC, 385-528-3275, hopkinsbrewingcompany.comScionCider
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salmon ($16) and New York crusted steak“We($27).tryto keep a rotation of different things happening and new things com ing on [tap], like our peach cream ale,” said Winslow. “Our motto from the be ginning has been ‘From the neighbor hood, for the neighborhood.”’ Ogden River will be hosting their annual “Pints for Pups” on Sept. 17, an adoption and fundraising event for the Weber County Animal Services. One dollar per pint of “Golden Mutt” will be donated to the fundraising effort. 358 Park Blvd., Ogden, ogdenriverbrewing.com801-884-6936,LevelCrossingBrewingCo.:
Level BrewingCrossingfounderMarkMedura Level Crossing will soon expand to a second location in the Post District, near 600 South and 300 West. 2496 S. West Temple, SLC, levelcrossingbrewing.com385-270-5752,GridCityBeerWorks: Open ing during a pandemic presented its own set of challenges, but the gang (Justin Belliveau, Drew Reynolds and head brewer Jeremy Gross) at Grid City Beer Works persevered, tweaked their business model and ultimately thrived.GridCity is a working brewery with three beers on tap that can be served three different ways—with traditional Co2, nitrogenated and cask, all of which makes them taste like totally different beers depending on how they areThey’veserved. also recently introduced three high-point seltzers, with a fourth on the way. A special nitro gen beer is served monthly with fun names like Tanzania Mbeya Iyenga Coffee Vanilla Nitro Honey Cream Ale, and a seasonal beer is always avail able as well. “I’m excited about three things coming for Grid City this year,” said co-owner Belliveau. “More interesting high-point seltzer creations from Jer emy, the constant flow of specials from Chandler’s kitchen and seeing the Grid City family grow with Jennifer (the GM) and Drew’s daughter on the way!”
To cultivate a sense of community, Reynolds has recently launched the Grid City Music Fest. The dog-friend ly roof deck is open Monday through Thursday, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., noon to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday. “The way we serve our food sets us apart,” said Reynolds. “When you come in, you know what you are going to get, as far as beer. And what we are doing with our seltzers—making them almost like a ready-to-drink cocktail in a can—people enjoy them.”
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Opened in 2019, the name Level Cross ing—and its red feather logo—are sym bolic of memories from the childhood of owner Mark Medura. Medura grew up near a railroad crossing in Pennsylvania, and the red feather represents a family tradition of leaving an empty place at the dinner table for any extras. That mantra has carried over into the brewery: There’s always a place for you. With 10 beers on tap and six to eight high-point beers in cans, the crafty concoctions include the aptly named Suss It Out—a rye IPA—and Dallas Al ice, a Belgian style blonde ale from the creative mind of Medura. In addition, each month The Red Feather Series is a special limited re lease that patrons can enjoy until that brew runs Wood-firedout. pizzas ($15), gourmet sand wiches ($12) and pub style snacks ($8-$19) are available to accompany your“Webeverage.liketo have fun with our labels and in the names,” said Medura. “We really put a lot of creativity and fun into our beers, and we’ve won a couple dozen medals over the years. We are su per proud of that.”
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The food at Grid City is definitely el evated pub fare, created by chef Chan dler Bailey. Try the Bangkok Bowl ($15) or the fried green tomatoes ($12) for something different, or stick to the smash burger ($16) which can be made with beef or the house vegan blend.
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abound: Did no one think to do a DNA test? Wouldn’t there be an alarm from the institution she escaped from, like: Be on the lookout for this grownup who looks like a kid, and here’s a photo? How does almost everyone just look right past all the red flags that even they acknowledge Esther raises? There’s no suspense here at all—until Esther realizes that she has a more complicated family situation on her hands than she bargained for. What is going on with the Albrights ret rospectively accounts for some of the seem ing plot holes in a way that is clever, yet also way too much out of the blue—a hint that something more has been going on is need ed, so that it doesn’t feel like a cheat. Per haps worse than that, though, is that there is ultimately no one here to root for, or at least be riveted by in that same disturbing way that, say, Hannibal Lecter is. First Kill ’s best trick is, sadly, that we just don’t care about anyone or anything that happens to them.
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|202218,AUGUST 33 |NEWS|A&E|DINING||MUSIC|||CITYWEEKLY.NETCINEMA ||CITYWEEKLY I’m a Big Kid Now Orphan: First Kill improves a bit on the original, but with a problem in its central character. BY MARYANN comments@cityweekly.netJOHANSON Well, I was not expecting this: Or phan: First Kill , a prequel to 2009’s horror mystery Orphan , is better than its progenitor. No, scratch that: First Kill is, rather, not quite as bad as the previ ousThemovie.thing about the original 2009 mov ie is that it played like a parody of horror movies, and, alas, not a knowing one. It had little beyond overbaked tropes of the genre: the “scary” music, the “menacing” camera angles, the telegraphing of every boo. Its big twist—look away if you don’t want a 13-year-old movie spoiled—is that its cen tral “sinister child,” the orphan of the title, is not, in fact, 9 years old, but actually an adult with a pituitary disorder that leaves her perpetually childlike in body. Though not childlike in mind: She’s cunning and devious, a violent, psychopathic con artist. Anyway, the secret of the first movie is the entire point in First Kill , which rewinds to explain just how Leena, a murderous 30-year-old criminal incarcerated in Esto nia, ends up playacting an American waif called Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman). Now, the 2009 movie was—at best—a modest hit, and I’m not sure that anyone after viewing it was clamoring for Esther’s backstory. But at least Orphan’s writers, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Alex Mace, came up with a tale for screenwrit er David Coggeshall that is more aware of genre clichés this time around, and takes advantage of them in ways that offer some mild surprises. First Kill does take an unreasonably long time to get around to those surprises, however. If I were the bailing-on-a-moviehalfway-through type, I’d have given up before the stuff that makes this minimally intriguing showed up. And there are some near-insurmountable problems from the get-go. For one big thing, Fuhrman made a memorable child-actor splash in 2009 as Esther when she was only 10 years old. But she’s back as Esther, and was 23 years old when this was filmed—and her character is meant to be even younger than in the origi nalDirectorversion!William Brent Bell engages in a lot of camera trickery to pretend that this normal-sized adult can pass as a prepubes cent girl—such as using a child stand-in for long shots, and then only showing her from behind—and many of them are laughably unconvincing. But nothing can hide the fact that Fuhrman’s face is now that of a grown woman, which is probably why Esther has her back to us on the movie’s poster. If the very young Fuhrman was compelling as a creepily precocious kiddie, adult Fuhrman is just ... very obviously a grownup with a bit of a pixie face. Is there at least any sly commentary on infantilization of women in our culture? Ha. That doesn’t even seem to have crossed the mind of anyone involved in making it. This is one of those horror movies in which people have to behave very stupidly in order for anything to happen. Security is absurdly lax in the Estonian facility that Esther escapes from, even though they know how wily and dangerous she is. It is ridiculously easy for her to pass herself off as the missing daughter of a wealthy Amer ican couple, the Albrights (Julia Stiles and Rossif Sutherland), with a story about how she was kidnapped and trafficked to East ern Europe. (She Googled to find missingkidQuestionsalerts.)
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For my main squeeze, I went with the ginger steamed fish ($17), which captures The Pearl’s culinary concept in one exceed ingly thoughtful dish. The fish in ques tion is a delicate, flaky branzino that gets doused in a lovely brown ginger-and-soy glaze, and topped with some glass noodles, steamed bok choy and a thinly sliced Thai chili pepper. The plate itself is piping hot, since the whole dish gets steamed to per fection together, and the whole dish works so very well as a concept. The branzino it self is as succulent a protein as you can get, and snagging pieces of the filet with a tangle of soy and ginger-drenched glass noodles is a masterclass in blending subtle flavors. Once you get a pop of Thai chili on your tongue, however, the subtleties yield to a citrusy spice that really brings the whole dish together. This I could eat all day. I’m always a little nervous to check out gastropubs, since you never quite know how much effort they’re putting into their kitchen. But I’m happy to say that The Pearl delivers on both their cocktail and kitchen menus. This is a place that fits right into its native envi ronment of Central Ninth, and the staff does a great job of welcoming their regulars and newcomers alike. I know that the surround ing area looks like a warzone, but that’s even more reason to brave the madness and support this local establishment.
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Idon’t know if you’ve spent much time in Central Ninth during the past few months, but it’s like the wild west out there. Sidewalks suddenly crumble into dirt paths, ditches crisscross the thor oughfares and heavy machinery occupies every feasible parking spot. Despite the treacherous construction that is chopping its way through the neigh borhood, there are some eateries here that are worth patronizing even if you might have to book it a few blocks through no man’s land to get to them. My most recent visit to Central Ninth brought me to The Pearl (917 S. 200 West), a cozy little night spot with a Vietnamese-inspired kitchen. A co-venture from Chef Tommy Nguyen, Jacob Sloan Hall, Chase Worthen, Oliver Shea Lewis and Michael Askerlund, The Pearl occupies a special spot in the Cen tral Ninth ecosystem. It’s in the same vein as its neighbors Nohm and Water Witch, in that The Pearl is a great place to pop in for a cocktail or two, and it has cultivated a welcoming and casual vibe that has built a strong local following. While The Pearl doesn’t occupy an enor mous space in the area, the space it’s work ing with works exceedingly well—their indoor dining area and bar is warm and welcoming. On the outside, a perfectly ser viceable patio is there for those that like a bit of fresh air with their meal and, once all this damn construction is finished, will be an excellent place to kick back with a drink and soak in some Central Ninth vibes. During my last visit, I hung out at the bar while Utah State House candidate Davina Smith’s team set up an event for the District 69 hopeful. Based on the ease with which her crew set things up, I’d say The Pearl would make for a nice spot for any public event—which is something they are more than happy to accommodate. I kicked off my own party of one with a cocktail known as the Plum Job, which is a mix of Suntory Toki Whiskey and sour plum ale from Shades Brewing along with a bit of lemon and hon ey. It’s a light, refreshing little drink that was perfect for our toasty summer nights. The menu at The Pearl is spearheaded by Nguyen, who credits many of his recipes back to his family. Kim’s Egg Rolls ($8), for example, are a testament to the deep-fried appetizers he grew up with. At The Pearl, these bad boys are filled with a mixture of pork and wood ear mushrooms, and get served with cucumber slices, leaves of ro maine lettuce stuffed with some Thai basil along with some shredded carrot and jica ma. The bartender—whose nametag bore the sobriquet of Stranger Things ’ Eddie Munson—recommended wrapping the egg rolls in the romaine for a cool and crunchy nod to lettuce wraps. I did so, and recom mend that anyone else who tries these do the same. Wrapping all that goodness up for a dip in the kitchen’s fish sauce is a great way to get things started at The Pearl. I also ordered up a set of fish sauce wings ($12), which pair the traditional bar snack of chicken wings with a fish sauce and chili glaze that represents an inspired EastWest connection. The fish sauce manages to capture the vinegary aspect of buffalo wings, while the chili flakes handle the sweet heat. The wings themselves are also high quality fried chicken; it’s all too com mon to find chicken wings that try to hide mediocre chicken behind hulking dollops of sauce, which isn’t the case at The Pearl.
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We must have done something to please the Southern food gods, because another mobile outfit called Row Ohh’s Chicken and Waffles has opened a storefront (73 W. 7200 South, 801-792-8972) in Sandy as well. Row Ohh’s specializes in the chicken and waffles discipline, with several different combo plates at the ready. Bone-in chicken wings, drumsticks and bone less chicken tenders are here to party, all of which are served with some gigantic golden brown waffles. The item that’s caught my eye is called the Foghorn Leghorn Chicken, which sounds like a fried-chicken sandwich served between two waffles with some slaw and honey. It’s a good time for soul-food lovers to be in Utah. Quote of the Week: “If you read my blog, you know that I’m a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.”
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Utah Beer Festival Nothing quite signals the joyous decline of summer heat like City Weekly’s annual beer festival. This year’s festival features over 200 varieties of beer, ale and cider prepared by local, regional and international brewers. Among these varieties will be a few high-point ABV options, so remember to make use of the nearby UTA TRAX station if you don’t pace yourself accordingly.
The event takes place on Aug. 20 - 21 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Gateway (18 N. Rio Grande Street, atthe gateway.com). See the cover feature for more details. Mama Coco Kitchen Opens A local food truck and catering operation known as Mama Coco Kitchen recently expanded into a brickand-mortar operation (3357 S. Main Street, 725247-2046). The Southern-inspired menu includes dif ferent po’boy varieties—the three-meat po’boy sounds particularly daunting—along with fried fish, chicken and shrimp plates. Mama Coco Kitchen will also serve homemade waffles that can be ordered up with your fried protein of choice; I’m curious about fried fish and waffles, to be honest. Mama Coco will also be serving a rotating menu of sides like oxtails, beef stew and gumbo depending on the day. Follow them on Instagram at @ mamacocokitchen for updates. Row Ohh’s Chicken and Waffles Opens
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The stalwart SLC music venue reaches a milestone birthday BY ERIN music@cityweekly.netMOORE@errrands_
While that story may be the wildest, if apocryphal, a few other bands playing the upcoming birthday party have their own memories. The Mellons recall “seeing Deerhunt er in 2017 when Bradford Cox went off on a tangent and started throwing cash at the audience.” Wasted on coolguy indie rock power, perhaps? The band Say Hey has a more personal tale. Vocalist Drew Mulvey explains, “The setting is an Urban Lounge backyard show circa spring 2021. Killer lineup, great turn out with a crowd itching to get rowdy as covid restrictions start to ease. About three-fourths of the way through our set, Chris (guitarist) throws an entire bottle of tequila across the stage to me. I catch it one handed and, not want ing to waste such an epic moment proceed to take a swig … then immediately coughed it up all over the stage like a bitch.” He adds, unabashed, “Happy birthday Urban Lounge, you beautiful shining pinnacle of the SLC music scene.”Besides Say Hey, The Mellons and Cathy Foy and her band The Mellows, the indoor and outdoor mini-fest and birthday bash will include music from Savage Daughters, Kipper Snack, Herring, Jacob Skeen and Angel Magic. The 21+ shindig starts early at 6 p.m. and tickets are $10 at theurbanloungeslc.com. CW Cobra Man at The Urban Lounge
Before becoming the big venue party spot it often is to day, it was pure local stomping ground. She continues, “Every Friday and Saturday night there were like six local bands that played. I feel like that is where most of my peers cut their teeth, and there was a super-close local music scene that really supported one another. It has completely evolved into something much bigger now, and I think it re ally serves people being able to see touring acts, but back in the day, it was a Salt Lake rock bar, and that time really holds a place in my heart.” Foy is one of a stacked list of art ists who will be appearing at the birthday show. The “bigger” days Foy mentions are where we’re at to day, and while Urban does still often have free and af fordable locals-focused shows, it’s when the small-slashmid-size venue sells out huge touring acts that it feels like an exciting night to go all in on plastic cups of booze and beers to repeatedly quench yourself with during sets, as well as between them. To kick off the embarrassing stories, one time yours truly was getting too into the TOPS show sometime in 2016-ish, and during a bathroom break with a friend, we both reached for the door to head back out to the dancefloor—slamming it into my glasses and cutting my eyebrow. I spent the rest of the night dancing and not noticing the pain of the wound while other drunk people fussed over me. Another embarrassing one is donated by a local named Matt, who explains, “My dad was Lissie’s business man ager for a while. I went to two of her shows. First one I got wasted, went backstage, and she walked in while I was eat ing her Anotherbread.”local, Annie, remembers a rather more chaotic moment last summer: “Last July at the indie dance party, we were on acid, wrecking our bodies to MGMT when the venue literally overheated and the venue lost power. From flashing lights and drowning in bass to pitch black/drunk complaints in an instant. Fun while it lasted!” Another one involving mid-aughts indie favs? An unverified but fasci nating rumor that at a STRFKR show in 2018-ish, the crowd was dancing so hard that everyone started … putting the F in STRFKR. An anonymous source says “When they were done [playing], everybody just resumed being bored hip sters at a show again. I have no idea where this story came from, I heard it from multiple people—of course none of them were there.”
t’s not every day that we have occasion to celebrate the 21st birthday of a be loved local venue—and it’s especially fun when it’s a 21+ venue. The potential jokes are many: “Urban Lounge is finally old enough to get into itself.” “Urban Lounge doesn’t need those bins and bins of fake IDs they’ve collected from patrons over the years any more!”Butone of the funniest things to consider when a ven ue like Urban Lounge—which hosts shows nearly every night of the week all year long—turns 21 is that among some SLC circles, there’s something called getting “Urban Lounge wasted.” To ring in its 21st, we’re diving into some of the drunken escapades of Urban Lounge wasted-nights past, and what makes the venue such a special place to lose yourself to the music—in more ways than one. With these inspirations in hand, you should go celebrate with a stacked lineup of bands for a big birthday bash, this Sat urday, Aug. 20. If you haven’t been to Urban often, you may not know its history. Before re-doing their bar and bathrooms a few years ago, and zhuzing up the joint with some freaky wall paper (hello white cats), local musical stalwarts like Cathy Foy remember that it was really just a watering hole. “The most memorable time for Urban Lounge in my ca reer playing there was between 2004 to 2007,” Foy says. “It was just a dive bar that catered to local bands.”
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For a band that just popped up in 2020, Homephone has developed a full and lus cious sound, churning out rich tapestries of dream pop at a wild pace over the last two years. Singles like “Pistacho” move with a relentless but gentle energy, taking your hand and stomping with you through a field of cosmic flowers where maybe you’ll have a little picnic. The opener of their May 2022-released album, Melon Collie, does actually reference such a cosmic field— “Meadow Drive,” opens sleepily, and after it tumbles an album that glitters with the same vibe as all the good indie pop that colored the 20-teens, like Local Natives. The album also brings to mind emo-tinged works like From Indian Lakes’ Dimly Lit from 2019. And while Homephone definitely taps the easygoing dreamy guitar rock sound that’s been so popular in local indie the last few years, they buck boring with songs that can be lightly lulling as much as they can vibrate with glowing warmth, plus emotive, magnetic vocals from Ysa Stepp, endlessly groovy drumlines, and even fun little horn additions (like on “Dandelion Fields”). And they don’t seem to be resting—just last week they dropped a new single, “Hot Tea,” which slowly builds and churns, a reflective pool of moodiness to get lost in. They’ll find support in fellow locals Body of Leaves, Gontiks and Angel Magic this Friday, Aug. 19 at International Bar. The 21+ show starts at 10 p.m. and is remarkably, free—your drinks pay their way. Find more info at internation albarslc.com. (Erin Moore) Sum 41
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Sum 41, Simple Plan, Magnolia Park @ The Complex Nostalgic 21st-century Canadian pop punk is alive and well, and it’s touring the U.S. now. Sum 41 and Simple Plan announced their first tour together in February and their “Blame Canada” U.S. Tour celebrates 21 years of Sum 41’s debut album All Killer No Filler, and the 2022 release of Simple Plan’s record Harder Than It Looks. Simple Plan is known for their relatable lyrics and upbeat tunes that provide humor and a sense of escape to their audience. Going along with that tradition, their latest album proves that you can find three to four minutes of relief in a song, even while the song spells out those challenges—all over the top of catchy pop punk beats and simple, yet enthralling guitar riffs. Doing so is “harder than it looks” even after doing so for 23 years, but they still successfully keep their listeners in the right headspace for each song. Over two decades laters, both bands rock on, revisiting the iconic pieces they are known for. This is your chance to see some well recognized tracks by Sum 41, like “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep”— both went straight to platinum sales and were defining songs for early 2000s punk. For the latter half of the tour, including the SLC stop, Florida emo band Magnolia Park will bring hip hop and punk elements to the stage. Audience members get ready to jump up and down Wednesday, Aug. 17 at The Complex . Doors to the all-ages show open at 6 p.m., show begins at 7. While at press time the show is sold out, find resell tickets for not-too-shabby prices at vividseats.com. (Brooke Williams) Homephone, Body of Leaves, Gontiks, Angel Magic @ International Bar
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Boy George & Culture Club @ Red Butte Gardens We all know Culture Club, even if you didn’t grow up in the era of their “karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon” and the shaking up of, indeed, the culture, thanks to Boy George’s representation of a move ment of “gender-bending” in the fashionable early-’80s New Romantic pop scene. They certainly have “come and go,” with many reunions and different versions of the band playing together between their peak ’80s years and now. That’s all due to a rocky past of post-romance tensions between founding members Jon Moss and George, which has only recently resulted in Moss permanently leaving the band in 2021. But they’ve played in so many iterations over the years that fans will be delighted to hear that George will be joined by other founding members Mikey Craig and Roy Hay. The trio have new work to offer, too, most recently by way of their album Life, from 2018. Reviewing a live set with songs from the album, The Guardian noted that tracks from Life “don’t stray far from the soul-pop template, but are fresh enough to keep Culture Club out of RASICBRIAN the nostalgia category.” It seems an accom plishment that the band can keep finding themselves together this way, beyond just their hits, and beyond (or bouncing off of) the experiments of George, who went as far as to dabble in solo projects including acid house in the early ’90s. You can take in the miracle yourself on Monday, Aug. 22 at the Red Butte Outdoor Concert Series. The show is all-ages, $78 for general admission; $73 for Garden members. Doors are at 6:30, and tickets can be found at redbuttegarden.org/ concerts. (EM) Maddie Poppe and Fritz Hager @ Soundwell Folk singer Maddie Poppe is heading out on tour, and she’s trying to find a new voice. Utilizing strong vocals, plus playing guitar, piano and ukulele, Poppe won season 16 of American Idol back in 2018. Her postIdol album Whirlwind has millions of streams online, and it leans into the folk sound she is known for. The songs on the album are full of longing, but they’re whimsical, and include deep lyrics about home roots and love lost. Her newest single, “One That Got Away,”
leans more into pop, but still features lyrics of substance as well as a showcase of Poppe’s excellent vocal range and power. It’s a catchy tune that easily sticks with listeners. “I want ed to get the same feelings from the music I put out that I would get listening to some of my favorite artists,” Poppe told People in May. “But it took some time to get there. There were times that I was really frustrated. I didn’t even know who I wanted to be and what I wanted my sound to be. But then we landed on this song, and I knew this was it,” she said. Poppe is joined by fellow American Idol alum Fritz Hager, who made it to the top five of the show earlier this year. See both at Soundwell on Monday, Aug. 22. Tickets to the all-ages show are $15 - 20, and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets can be found at soundwellslc.com. (Emilee Atkinson)
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GZA @ Urban Lounge A founding member of New York City hiphop supergroup Wu-Tang Clan and master wordsmith, The Genius a.k.a. GZA is coming to the Urban Lounge this week to perform Liquid Swords in its entirety. Released in 1995 and featuring appearances from all nine of Boy George GZA the other WTC members, Liquid Swords is the one Wu-Tang solo LP that comes close to replicating the quality of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Few albums have aged better than this timeless classic, with not a single dud in the tracklist. The best moments on it are pretty unmatched; it’s one of those records where any of the RZA’s razor-sharp produced songs could be a favorite on any given day. Live and direct with his band, Phunky Nomads, GZA promises rugged and raw verses and ridiculously precise rhymes that do not waste a syllable or over-explain an idea. Ahead of the show, fans have the opportunity for a very unique meet and greet where you (yes, YOU!) can go one-on-one against the GZA in a game of chess. Supporting acts Wu-Tang affiliate Bronze Nazareth and Salt Lake City hip-hop veteran Zac Ivie should have every head nod ding in the venue, while DJ Juggy will bring that old school vibe with boom bap cuts and street level selections. This event is not to be missed. Catch it on Tuesday, Aug. 23 at the Urban Lounge. Doors for the 21+ show are at 7 p.m. There are booth reservations for $150 as well as VIP-Chess Viewer for $100 and VIP-Chess Match for $200. Find tickets at theurbanloungeslc.com. (Mark Dago) By Erin Moore
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “All my life, I’ve been going around waiting for something—as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I’ve always felt as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but a long wait for it—a long wait for something real.” If I could speak with Tarkovsky right now, I would cheerfully tell him that his wait will soon be over. I’d say that in the coming months, Aries people who have been postponing and postponing, who have been standing by and holding on and biding time, will have an excellent chance to begin inhabiting their full, rich destiny. I invite you to imagine what that will feel like.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be extra expressive with the people and animals you care about. Be even more amusing and generous than usual. Dare to be entertaining and engaging and empathetic. Make it your goal to draw out your allies’ potentials and inspire them to love themselves even more than they already do. I’ll tell you about the terms that author Vladimir Nabokov called his wife. Consider using them: “My sun, my soul, my song, my bird, my pink sky, my sunny rainbow, my little music, my inexpressible delight, my tenderness, my lightness, my dear life, my dear eyes, kittykin, poochums, goosikins, sparrowling, bird of paradise.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus poet Sherko Bekas wrote: “Each joy I wear, its sleeves are either too short or too long, too loose or too tight on me. And each sorrow I wear fits as if it were made for me wherever I am.” With this as our starting point, Taurus, I’m pleased to report some good news. In the next three weeks, you will have zero sorrows to try on and wear like a garment. And there will be at least three joys that fit just right. The sleeves will be the correct length, and the form will be neither too loose nor too tight.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Of all the signs, you Scorpios are most likely to regard that old pop tune by the Animals as your theme song. “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,” croons lead singer Eric Burdon, “Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” But you may have less motivation to express that sentiment in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. I suspect you will experience record-breaking levels of being seen and appreciated for who you are. For best results, do this: 1. Inform your deep psyche that you have no attachment to being misunderstood; 2. Tell your deep psyche that you would very much like to be well understood.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive,” wrote Sagittarian author Madeleine L’Engle. She was referring to everyone, not just people in the arts. She believed that to be soulful humans, we must make new things, generate fresh possibilities and explore novel approaches. The restless urge to transform what already exists can be expressed in how we do our jobs, our parenting, our intimate relationships and every other activity. You are entering a phase, Sagittarius, when this initiatory energy will be especially available, needed and valuable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Sometimes, you may feel you’re under the influence of a debilitating spell or hindered by a curse. Pisceans are prone to such worries. But here’s a secret. More than any other zodiac sign, you have the power to escape spells. Even if you have never studied the occult or read a witch’s grimoire, you possess a natural facility for natural magic. From the depths of your psyche, you can summon the force necessary to free yourself. Now is a perfect time to prove to yourself that what I’ve said here is true.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Tips on how to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Create a big, spacious realization by weaving together several small hunches; 2. Keep a little angel on your right shoulder and a little devil on your left shoulder. Enjoy listening to them argue and don’t get attached to anything they say; 3. Do the unexpected until it becomes expected. Then abandon it and try a new, unexpected experiment; 4. Meditate expansively on the question, “How many careers can I have in one lifetime?”; 5. Enhance your home so it feels even more comfortable.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “I’ve swung from ancient vines in the caves of Jamaica,” exults Hoodoo priest ess Luisah Teish. “I’ve danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori warriors. I’ve joked with the pale fox in the crossroads, then wrestled with the jaguar and won. I have embraced great trees between my thighs and spoken words of love to thunder while riding lightning bolts.” I offer Teish’s celebratory brag to inspire you as you formulate plans for the coming weeks and months. What exhilarating adventures will you give yourself? What expansive encounters will you learn from? What travels outside of your comfort zone will you dare? The time is right for upsurges and upturns and upgrades.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem “Valentine,” Capricorn poet Carol Ann Duffy tells a lover she won’t give her a “red rose or a satin heart.” Instead, her token of affection is an onion, a symbol of multi-layered complexity. “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,” Duffy writes, “possessive and faithful as we are, for as long as we are.” She adds that the onion will “blind you with tears like a lover.” OK. I understand the tough atti tude expressed by Duffy. Romance isn’t a relentlessly sweet, sentimental romp through paradise. But I don’t recommend that you imitate her approach to your love life in the coming weeks and months. Appreciate the sometimes shadowy and labyrinthine convolutions, yes, but don’t make them more important than beauty and joy and love. How about invoking the symbol of a pomegranate? It represents fertility and rebirth out of the darkness.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be fluid and flexible while still being rooted and sturdy. Be soft and sensitive even as you are also firm and resolute. Be mostly modest and adaptable, but become assertive and outspoken as necessary. Be cautious about inviting and seeking out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arrives. Be your naturally generous self most of the time, but avoid giving too much. Got all that, Cancerian? Carrying out the multifaceted assignments I just described might be nearly impossible for most of the other signs of the zodiac, but they are in your wheelhouse. You are a specialist in fertile complexity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In his poem “The Pupil,” Donald Justice speaks of how he spent “a whole week practicing for that moment on the threshold.” I advise you to do the same, Virgo. The goal is to be as prepared as you can be for the upcoming rite of transition—without, of course, being neurotically over-prepared. It’s fine and natural to honor the tension of anticipation, using it as motivation to do your best. One other thing: As you get ready, please have as much fun as possible. Visualize the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel when you’ve reached the other side of the test.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. I encourage you to rebel against that theory, Libra. For now, find a way to not feel at home in your past. Question it, be curious about it, re-evaluate it. My hope is that you will then be motivated to change how your history lives in you. Now is an excellent time to reconfigure your life story, to develop a revised relationship with its plot twists and evolution. Revisit and update some of your memories. Re-evaluate the meanings of key events. Enchanting healings will materialize if you do.
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The construction aims to be environmentally minded, based on current standards, and will— of course—be all-electric. After the new opera tional buildings are completed, the company hopes to change more of its acreage into hous ing and retail businesses to create a “vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood.” What’s crazy to think about is that this huge tract of land is about the size of downtown’s en tire Central Business District, or slightly larger than the Sugar House Business District. So the possibilities for creative development are tre mendous. The power plant that’s on the site is scheduled to be phased out by 2032. Been to Arches lately? If you recall, our state and national parks were overrun with visitors during the pandemic when flying to many areas around the world was either banned or just a pain in the butt. The park had already reported a 66% increase in visitors from 2009 to 2019, and then was deluged with visitors when CO VID-19 hit. In 2022, Arches went to an entry reservation system from April to October. Prior to the reser vation system , people wanting to see the big red arches had to line up at 4 a.m., and those who came later in the day weren’t able to get into the park, as it was full. Utah’s five national parks reported a record 11.3 million visits in 2021, compared with 10.7 visits the previous years. But Arches reports that with the new reservation system, visits have dropped this year, possibly due to the fact more people are stepping on planes to destina tions beyond Utah. Friends report that having a timed entry to the park was convenient and really cut down on chaos around some of the most-visited attractions. And finally, Millcreek Canyon is undergo ing major road construction that’s narrowing the road to one lane during weekdays this fall. They have to resurface the road and work on the drainage system in the canyon. For those who love bike riding up Millcreek Canyon, you’ll need to find a new route/adven ture, as the road will be closed to cyclists all summer long. But you can still drive up, pay the modest entry fee, and haul your mountain bike into the canyon to get to a trailhead. If you plan on eating at the Log Haven or Mill creek Inn, they will be open, but expect delays to get there. n
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Career Opp Folks in China tackle the problem of cheating husbands headon, with two professional paths related to the issue: “mis tress killers” and “mistress persuading teachers,” who talk the “other women” into giving up their paramours. Among the latter, Oddity Central reported, Wang Zhenxi is a standout: She reportedly was able to persuade 800 women in a year to back off. Wang starts her process by shadowing and befriending her target, and sometimes resorts to revealing the affair to the mistress’s family and friends. “In addition to earning money, I can help more people return to happy families,” she said. “That is the most fulfilling part of this job.” (In related news, the South China Morning Post reported on July 30 that a Chinese court ordered the girlfriend of a married man to return to his legal wife the $569,000 he had given her over 14 years.)
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On July 25, a man in the Saitama Prefecture in Japan met another man in a convenience store parking lot with the hope of selling his 18-karat gold Rolex watch, SoraNews24 reported. The potential buyer handled the watch, priced at $47,000, for a few minutes, then suggested the seller pop into the store for a tea. Bet you can’t guess what happened. Two minutes later, tea in hand, the seller emerged from the store to find the buyer, and his watch, gone. He texted the buyer, who replied, “I left it in your car” and “I don’t have your watch.” The victim said he “was too stupid and honest.”
Inexplicable n As a pilot tried to make an emergency landing at RaleighDurham International Airport in North Carolina on July 29, his co-pilot, Charles Hew Crooks, 23, bailed out of the aircraft without a parachute, WRAL-TV reported. An FAA employee said the pilot told the tower, “My pilot just jumped out.” Crooks’ body was found in a backyard in Fuquay-Varina hours later after a neighbor who had heard a noise flagged down officers. “This is the craziest thing ever,” the FAA employee said. The National Transportation and Safety Board is taking over the investigation into Crooks’ death. n A backyard party in Everett, Washington, went horribly wrong on July 31 when one of the attendees started racing his SUV around the backyard “in good fun.” The 59-year-old man then aimed his car at other partygoers, KIRO-TV reported, and drove over furniture in the yard, eventually pinning another man against a garage wall. The driver is still being sought by sheriff’s deputies; the victim refused a trip to the hospital. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play? What’s in a Name? Allan Grainger, 61, of Derby, England, has two tattoos that include his first name, spelled with two Ls. His wedding certifi cate and his driver’s license both spell it the same way. But on July 30, when his family came across his birth certificate, they were all shocked to learn that his name is really Alan, with one L, the Daily Mail reported. The factory worker said he and his parents always spelled his name “Allan”: “I couldn’t believe it. I think it was a mistake on the birth certificate because my mum wouldn’t let me go through school spelling my name like that,” he said. Grainger has no plans to change his official name: “I don’t see what differ ence it would make.”
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Don’t Try This at Home The Daily Star reported that an unnamed man in the Campo Lindo region of Sao Paulo, Brazil, attempted a home rhinoplas ty—a nose job—using online video tutorials. He was admitted to the emergency room on July 21 after the botched surgery, in which he used 70% alcohol to clean the cuts and didn’t wear gloves. Commenting on the DIY procedure, a plastic surgeon said risks include infection and nasal obstructions, and the efforts “will only worsen the appearance because they are not effective. You cannot do this without knowing the nasal anatomy, which is very complex.”
Bright Idea Inmate Jazmyne Levesque, 23, was “bored” in the Pinellas County (Florida) jail on July 28, The Smoking Gun reported. So as she was being escorted by a female corrections officer, she punched the officer in the face. Levesque said she “had nothing else to do and was already in a couple of fights earlier in the day.” She was in jail for punching a municipal bus driver earlier in July; at the time of that arrest, Levesque was free on bond in a felony grand theft case. Added to her rap sheet: one felony count of battery on a law enforcement officer. Backlash If you order the plant-based sausage with your breakfast at Cracker Barrel, better do it sotto voce: The company’s addi tion of the Impossible Foods product to its menu is causing an uproar among loyal restaurant fans, CNN Business reported. “I just lost respect for a once great Tennessee company,” one person opined, among others who called the decision “woke.” Cracker Barrel responded with an Aug. 4 Instagram post of the new offering, captioned, “Where pork-based and plant-based sausage lovers can breakfast all day in harmony.” Can’t we all just get along? Mystery If you don’t like the book, just leave a negative review. On Aug. 3, Kalispell, Montana, library director Ashley Cummins got a call from staff at one of the library’s branches: Five hardcover books had been left in the overnight book drop, “riddled with bullet holes.” Cummins moved to shut down all branches for the day until more could be learned. “We don’t know if this was someone just messing around or if it was meant as intimidation,” Cummins told the Flathead Beacon. The library system is putting in place procedures to increase security, including surveillance cameras. “I just regret that so many people had to miss out on library services because of this act,” she said. Bring the Gravy! Central Florida’s Interstate 4 was shut down on Aug. 4 after a semi-trailer hauling 10,000 frozen turkeys caught fire, ClickOrlando reported. The Seminole County Fire Department did not know what had caused the blaze, which started as the driver pulled onto the shoulder. No one was injured. Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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