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Eric Granato Seeing old friends, exes, family and all the rest having a blast.
GEORGE KIBILDIS Sparta, New Jersey
Fox News and QAnon unveiled this devious scheme, And as conspiracy experts they are supreme. Satire is fun to mock adversity, But is dangerous when taken seriously.
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Jerre Wroble The excellent social-media coverage for shut-ins like me who couldn’t attend.
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Birds Aren’t Real There is a conspiracy theory that “Birds aren’t real,” This is not “alt-facts” or “fake news” but the real deal. This “deep state” secret government surveillance plot, To spy on all U.S. citizens and demean our lot. The feds exterminated all real birds, Over a 10-year period using coded words. Covertly replacing each with a lookalike drone, A tiny feathered robot watching us, unknown! These evil “birds” sit on power lines to recharge, So government agencies their control enlarge.
THE BOX Karens’ Law I recently purchased a single item in a supermarket. The total was less than $9. I paid with a $20 bill, one of five 20s that I’d withdrawn from an ATM shortly before. The cashier gave back change for a $10 bill. When I pointed out his mistake, he refused to admit that he was wrong. I knew that I had not pos sessed a $10 bill that whole day. When denial failed, he got arrogant and tried to brush me off. When that failed, he attempted to intimidate me with threats and menacing postur ing. I have worked for more than 20 years in protective service jobs, in cluding two armored cash transport companies and three private security services. So, when threatening me failed, he tried to deflect my demand that his supervisor audit his till on theAtspot.thepoint where I was dialing the number of the nearest police depart ment, he gave up and handed over the rest of my change. So, I caught a thief red-handed and retrieved what he tried to steal. But the real story is that while this was playing out, I was having to ignore a bunch of “Karens,” meddlers—both customers and staff—who were not in any way involved in the problem but were seriously trying to get involved. All of them were trying to defend the would-be-thief and attack me for “making them uncomfortable.” What? It doesn’t make you un comfortable that this guy got caught stealing right in front of you? And now he’s trying to lie and threaten his way out? Would it make you more “comfortable” if he stole from you in stead? How did our society’s values get so hijacked and distorted beyond recognition?Theanswer is self-evident. Look no further than the current regime and its political puppets in the media and the schools. But if the Karens are per mitted to continue redefining what the rule of law means, by force of so cial bullying, this country is finished. But that won’t be the end of the Ka rens. They won’t stop their busybody ing and whining until they’ve ex tinguished the human race—unless someone draws a line in the sand and says “no more” to tyranny, by anyone. Not even white American middleclass women, who seem to think that they are the new ruling elite.
Scott Renshaw Sampling the Bewilder “Beer Phest” special brew, and get ting a mouthful of “phantasm” beer for the first time. I’ll be coming back for more.
Kelly Boyce No thunderstorms, and I only hit my shin on the U-Haul hitch one time!
DANIEL TAYLOR Salt Lake City
Paula Saltas Listening to the band Makisi when they sang “Happy Birth day” to Pete Saltas to wind up a fun weekend. Love having the Beer Fest at The Gateway. Very cozy and intimate.
Ben Wood I loved seeing all the happy puppers.
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Iread the news today, oh boy! Highland High School may be going away. Not like the going-away of Granite High, but like that of East High. Granite was replaced by a sun-washed library. East, bulldozed in 1995, was rebuilt on the same site. The news that the modernist, red-brick building known as Highland High might soon be razed has given me pause. Thinking about my days there has occupied me more than I would have predicted. However, under interrogation, my memory is unreliable, riddled with more holes than a rural highwayEarliersign.this month, then, I yielded to an impulse that drew me through the school’s unlocked door. I walked the length of an empty hallway, passing the library and the office. As I approached the auditorium—the space recently named Col lett Commons for teacher extraordinaire, Dean Collett—I tried to remember where the faculty smoking room was and who, besides Gary Johnston, spent their free time there. Like Paul Simon’s Graceland pilgrimage, “my traveling compan ions are ghosts” as I walked around, testing the spectrality of the locker-lined halls, conjuring memories from the brick andEveryonemortar. has had a slumbering memory awakened by a nudge from their senses. The Beatles’ cover of “Twist and Shout” transports me to a frigid night on skis. A whiff of shoe polish triggers a flashback to an Army barracks. Landscapes are often suffused with memories, as readers of obituaries will attest. Obituary writers tend to emphasize the deceased’s penchant for “making memories” at such places as Lake Powell, Alta, the San Rafael Swell, Hawaii— even Graceland.
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I don’t have one particular resonant place. And when I try to choose a destination for my cremains, Highland High’s grounds never makes the cut. Nevertheless, I calculate that roughly 8% of my life is asso ciated with Highland’s sprawling campus, bordered by 2100 South and 1700 East. That association predates the school’s 1956 opening. My brother and I sold lemonade from a red wagon that we dragged through the thick dust of the school’s construction site. On weekends, we explored the building as it took shape in the shadow of the hulking penitentiary (where labor organizer Joe Hill was executed in 1915).
In September 1957, I walked through the front door, a ner vous seventh grader, carrying a briefcase as was the fashion. I spent the next six years in Highland’s classrooms, graduat ing without distinction in 1963. I returned some years later, by then a veteran of the Vietnam-era Army, for a semester of student teaching. Since then, the building has been modified many times. The cafeteria has been moved and enlarged. The library is smaller. The smoking room is surely gone. So is the towering, red-brick chimney on which “EAST” was painted one night in an audacious and dangerous act of rivalry. Unchanged is the view of the south parking lot and the at tendant memory of the Presidential Youth Fitness Program of the early 1960s. Intended to address the Kennedy admin istration’s concern that “easy living is sapping the strength and vitality of our children,” it elbowed its way into High land’s gym classes years before fitness was fetishized. Our flabby muscles were summarily tested—not toned. The test had us grunting through sit-ups and push-ups before clumping hellbent around the parking lot in our Con verse high-tops. The results were factored into report card grades—unfairly, I still believe. It’s safe to assume that the new cafeteria serves the same social function as did its predecessor: With whom you shared a lunch table signaled your place in a social hierar chy. However, on this recent midsummer day, my memo ries arose from a rifle range under the old cafeteria where I learned marksmanship willy-nilly. In the fall of 1960, all sophomore boys were dragooned into the National Defense Cadet Corps. There was no advance warning of the militari zation of Highland High. I was surprised to find myself wear ing a brown Eisenhower jacket, wool pants and a garrison hat one day a week. Under the supervision of Master Sgt. Hal Hardcastle, we had to master close-order drill and the manual of arms with M-1 rifles. It was an otherworldly experience, all in all, and very few of us took it seriously. I did like shooting the .22 rifles, however. In the music room, memories swarmed me. They soon led me to the realization that as an institution, Highland High was remarkable, chiefly because of its dedicated faculty. They taught classes in five languages—Latin, Russian, Ger man, French and Spanish—along with journalism, debate, civics, drama and public speaking. We were schooled in literature, woodworking, accounting, mechanical drawing and expository writing. Paul Christensen and LaVar Krantz skillfully managed a band, two choirs and an orchestra. I recalled student body assemblies in which the orchestra performed classical mu sic by Rachmaninoff, Smetana and Beethoven. I was one of four violists. The lone bassoonist, Lee Richardson, sat just behind me. He was killed in Vietnam. Of the 600-plus gradu ates in the class of 1963, I believe 117 are dead. By the end of my solitary ramble, I had decided that the gestalt of a school is less dependent on the building than on the collective memory of its students. Not much is lost if the building is bulldozed. The once-prominent chimney makes the point. Though the chimney is long gone, those who painted “EAST” on the top of it will be celebrating the daring prank into their last days. If, on the other hand, Highland’s replacement building is re-named— prominent alumnus Pat Shea has long advo cated “Joe Hill High School”—Highland High School would be nothing more than a spectral dimension of the school spirit invoked by future generations. CW Private Eye is off this week. Send feedback comments@cityweekly.netto
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Speaking of the environment, how about those Republicans? They focus on how anything affects business and rich people’s taxes, so they were uniformly against the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill has much-needed provisions to clean the air and help the struggling environment. Paul Krugman of The New York Times points out that the en vironment has become a culture war. “Republican belief that environmental protection hurts the economy soared precisely during the period when revo lutionary technological progress in re newable energy was making emissions reductions cheaper than ever before,” he wrote. Sadly, for those who breathe, the act incentivizes carbon capture, al lowing the fossil-fuel industry to con tinue polluting. But let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good. Unless you’re the GOP.
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https://bit.ly/3QX6Q7q Poverty Summit It may seem like homelessness and hun ger are issues with no solutions. While it is difficult, it is not impossible. Crossroads Urban Center will host the 17th People’s Summit on Poverty to hear from state and local officials about plans to build hous ing and reduce homelessness in Salt Lake County. You can help brainstorm ideas about how to do this. In 2021, the number of unhoused Utahns went up by 14%, to 7,712 people. To help families struggling with inflation, you will hear from “Sen. Luz Es camilla, Rep. Joel Briscoe and Rep. Ashlee Matthews about proposals to eliminate fares for public transportation, increase access to child care assistance and expand support for food pantries to help meet in creased need.” Christ United Methodist Church, 2375 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Saturday, Aug. 27, 8:30 a.m., free.
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Who Cares About History?
In the world of weird ideas, Utah Lake is getting a reprieve. That’s the lake that’s been suffering from algae blooms and frightening lore. The state’s largest freshwater lake long endured trashy people dumping sewage and contami nating it with heavy metals. But much like climate change, the solution to the problem will take decades. That is, un less you decide to dredge it and build a city in the middle. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, speak ing to a legislative committee, says that is a really bad idea—if not unconstitu tional, Fox13 News reported. Polls show people don’t like the idea, even though that’s never stopped the Legislature. But the Attorney General’s Office, is suing an opinion that dredging isn’t legal, may just be able to. The Salt Lake Tribune wasn’t able to scare up a copy of the opinion, but the division feels confident in that advice. Let nature and environmental experts do their job.
Every year on Aug. 26, women in the United States have celebrated Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. That right and others are be ing chipped away by political forces de termined to weaken women’s rights and return America to a day when men—and perhaps white, property-owning men— were the only ones to make decisions. Be cause of the threats to these basic rights, the ERA Coalition and League of Women Voters have renamed the day Women’s Inequality Day. “In 2022, women have fewer rights than they’ve had in decades. This year, we’re acknowledging Wom en’s Inequality Day, uniting to demand that lawmakers restore and protect our rights.” The organizations want lawmak ers to pass voting rights legislation, to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and to restore women’s re productive rights. Learn how you can help.
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Utah’s population is booming as people flood into the state. In 40 years, it’s esti mated that our population will reach 5.5 million. The state is attractive for many reasons—comparatively low housing costs and cost of living, low crime rate, great skiing and beautiful landscape—but something has to give. The Utah Division of State History will offer a Community Listening Session to get public feedback on our local history community. Are you concerned about tourism, the state’s his tory, trails or even what is preserved for future generations? The division is offering an online survey but will host an in-person event, too. Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 5:30 p.m., free.
Ladies, beware. Someone may be sneaking into your medical records to determine if you’re really female. Next up, they’ll be taking off your panties just to check. In this “you-will-not-re place-us” world, transgender youth are the latest minority under attack. What would motivate this, you ask? Fear and disbelief. According to the Associated Press, the Utah High School Athletic Association poured over a child’s re cords because the athlete beat some other girls “by a wide margin” in a competition, and parents thought that meant testosterone was involved. Meanwhile, the Utah GOP resolved to ban gender-affirming drugs for trans youth. And not to be outdone, the Leg islature wants to take another look at that law banning so-called conversion “therapy.” As lawmakers struggle to find a good reason to allow this trau matizing treatment, some echo those “free speech” platitudes because any thing goes—unless it doesn’t. But there is a glimmer of good news, as a judge has granted a preliminary injunction on the trans athlete ban.
MISS: Gender Games
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The Rose Exposed
There’s a chance to build—and race—a customized car on the event’s race track, buy and trade mini-figures, or even risk the soles of your feet with the “LEGO fire walk” across 40 feet of bricks (parents, you know what I’m talking about).
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Brick Slopes takes place at the Mountain America Expo Center (9575 S. State, Sandy) on Aug. 26 (noon – 7 p.m.) and Aug. 27 (10 a.m. –6 p.m.). At publication time, general admission tickets are available only at the door for $15, with VIB (Very Important Builder) upgrades available. Visit blog.brickslopes.com for tickets and addi tional event information. (Scott Renshaw)
The Rose Exposed takes place one night only at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 South) on Saturday, Aug. 27 at 8 p.m., featuring ASL interpretation. Tickets are $15; well-fitting N95 or KN95 are required for all attendees, and will be provided for those who do not have them. Visit roseexposed.org for tickets and addi tional event information. (SR)
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In recent years, LEGO has become a mono lithic multimedia brand, including hit feature films, direct-to-market and streaming shows, spinoff products and retail outlets devoted exclusively to this one product. It’s hard to believe it all started with on Danish inventor nearly a century ago, whose gift for putting things together ultimately combined with the commercial availability of plastics to present the world’s kids—and kid-like grown-ups—with a product of limitless creative imagination. That spirit of creativity is at the center of Brick Slopes, a LEGO fan event that returns to Utah this week. The 24,000 feet of display space includes amazing custom creations rep resenting a wide range of familiar characters and properties, with builders offering presen tations about their work. Guest will have an opportunity to explore the “build and play” brick pit with more than one million bricks, and even create their own LEGO creations for a chance to display it or even win prizes.
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 25 years since the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center first opened its doors, providing downtown Salt Lake City with a much-needed multi-space venue that would host theater, dance, comedy, music, the Sundance Film Festival and even— during the 2002 Winter Olympics—tapings of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Currently, in addition to the a la carte offerings hosted by the Rose throughout the year, it’s home to six resi dent arts organizations—and every year, you can get a taste of all six of them in one performance. This year, The Rose Exposed takes the 25th anniversary as cue for its theme, “Birthday Suit(e),” that informs the offerings of each company. Plan-B Theatre Company presents the one-act play Push Back by MaryBeth Jarvis Clark; dance companies Repertory Dance Theatre (pictured) , RirieWoodbury Dance Company and SB Dance present choreography by Marilyn Barrett, Daniel Charon and Stephen Brown, respectively. Providing short interstitials between those four companies is a work written for Pygmalion Productions written by Barb Gandy. And for all performances, piano accompaniment will be provided by Koji Attwood, representing the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation.
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G. Brown: On Record @ Sound & Vision Vinyl When you’ve been covering popular music for more than 40 years, you get to know a few things. For 26 years, G. Brown covered the local music scene for the Denver Post. Most recently, he’s created an internet archive called the Colorado Music Experience dedicated to the history and ephemera of that scene. That sense of music history permeates Brown’s latest project, On Record, a three-volume set drawing from photos, personal insights and more than 2,500 artist interviews to describe three very distinct eras in American pop music. Volume 1, “1978,” explores the “clas sic rock” era that gave rise to artists ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Journey, but also the nascent punk and new wave scenes. Volume 2, “1984,” dives into the era that was defined by the rise of MTV and its popular acts like Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and “Weird Al” Yankovic, in addition to superstars like Prince and Van Halen. Volume 3, “1991,” includes the Seattle “grunge” scene, as “hair metal” gave way to Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and the mono culture of hit music began to shift with the rise of rap and hip-hop pioneers like Public Enemy. Brown’s archive of rare promo tional photos, and his access to the words and perspectives of the eras’ music-makers, provides an amazingly comprehensive portrait of the soundtrack that was part of three gen erations.Thisweek, Brown visits Sound & Vision Vinyl (3444 S. Main St.) on Saturday, Aug. 27 at 4 p.m. to discuss On Record. The in-store event is free and open to the public. Visit soun dandvisionvinyl.com for more information.
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It’s been a challenging year for the LGBTQIA+ community in America, with everything from transgender athletes to drag queen storytelling coming under fire by conservative organizations. But as this year’s hugely successful Utah Pride parade and festival showed, the local queer com munity isn’t going anywhere, and is still fighting. One of the most determined pugilists in that fight is Equality Utah, which has spent more than 20 years on the battle to secure a future of fairness and equality for LGBTQIA+ Utahns and theirThefamilies.annual Equality Utah Allies Gala remains one of the most crucial sources of fundraising for the organization, and the 2022 installment promises an evening of fabulousness under the thematic umbrella of “Gorgeous Planet,” with “cosmic vogue” attire recommended. In addition to a variety of local speakers, the program gets an amazing headliner in legendary actor/comedian Eddie Izzard, whose gender-bending, multilingual, thought-provoking performances have been delighting audiences for 35 years, includ ing the Emmy Award-winning breakout 2000 comedy special Dress to Kill. The genderfluid Izzard has taken on many personae over the years, but most recently has opted to describe herself as in “girl mode” going forward—and she continues to be as bracingly funny as ever.
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The Equality Utah Allies Gala takes place at the George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.) at 7 p.m., with check-in beginning at 6 p.m. Individual tickets are $295, with dinner and drinks included in the standard ticket price; there’s a $100 optional VIP add-on for access to the after-party. Visit equalityu tah.org for tickets and additional event infor mation. (SR)
BY SCOTT scottr@cityweekly.netRENSHAW@scottrenshaw If you’re inclined to see things from a perspective of fate, destiny or a divine hand, there’s something perfect about the six-year journey of creating Different: The Musical culminating in its premiere this week. The timing that required coor dinating available theater space and the impending relocation of the director also coincided with Rick Daynes dropping off his son and Different ’s co-creator Tyler at BYU for his freshman year of college— something that Rick might have consid ered impossible a decade ago, when Tyler was kicked out of his special program for children with autism as a first-grader. “He has had this amazing growth,” Rick says by phone from his home in San Diego. “When people find out he got into BYU— not in a special-needs program, just got in—they’re amazed.”
The project became quite a family affair, beyond the collaboration between Rick and Tyler. Rick’s niece Samantha Daynes, then a theater student at BYU but soon to move to Virginia, came on board to provide her expertise and to direct the show; Tyler’s older brother, Jefferson, wrote the songs.
“Done” is a relative term in this case, Rick acknowledges, because this first full production of Different—after a few read ings for an audience—is being viewed as an opportunity to learn even more about its strengths and areas for improvement. “I’ve never written a musical; [Samantha] was the only pro,” he says. “The venue is a small theater, and we’re really hoping to get au dience feedback from it. We’re not set on anything, and everything can change. We want something that’s going to sound out a message of inclusion and acceptance and love, and we’re going to do whatever we can to make that better.” That idea of providing a sense of hope is central to Different, something Rick has been pursuing in sharing his family’s story ever since he turned it into a book in 2016, Keep It Together Man . “Ever since we did that, there’s nothing too personal for us to share,” Rick says. “A lot of specialneeds families are private; they go home and don’t share their struggles with any one else. But we find that it’s empowering. I don’t think there’s anything too personal that we wouldn’t share it.”
And now, the family can also share the sense of pride that comes with putting Dif ferent out into the world, and sending Tyler out into the world, too. “It has been such a rewarding project to do with my son,” Rick says. “Confidence is everything for teenag ers, so I wanted to build confidence and in dependence for my kids, and this was just a really great project that did that.” W. 600 South, Provo Aug. 24 – 26, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 27, Aug.
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The development of Different has been a huge part of that growth, according to Rick. Inspired by Tyler’s own experiences, it’s the story of a high-school student with autism named Henry, who feels isolated by his neuro-difference until he’s befriended by another special-needs student, and finds a “tribe” of sorts called the “Best Buddies.”Whilethe Daynes family lives in Califor nia, the premiere of Different in Utah marks a full circle of sorts, since the concept was also born here. “We were at Brian Head, on a family ski vacation, six years ago,” Rick recalls. “We were on a ski lift, and [Taylor] said, ‘Dad, I know what I want to do: I want to write a musical.’ I said, ‘Sure, you go do that.’ I was sure it would be one of those fleeting ideas of his.”
A six-year collaboration culminates in Different ’s musi cal story of a special-needs youth.
The idea kept coming up over the course of the ensuing year, however, and Tyler men tioned it again on the next year’s Utah ski trip, when Tyler was then in 8th grade. “He still wanted to do it, so we started breaking down the ideas, the plot,” Rick says.
And not surprising for any endeavor when a bunch of family members work together on something, it was both a pleasure and a challenge.“Therewere definitely smooth-sailing times, when characters and ideas just flowed; we’d all laugh and have these great moments,” Rick says. “But there’s three writers, and one of them has autism. And some of his ideas are just out in space, and you’d have to say, ‘Maybe we change this or change that because it’s not going to appeal to people.’ It’s his story, so we’re trying to give as much validity to that as we possibly can, but sometimes we just had to reel him in. So there were knock-down drag-outs, there were tears, there was anger, but then we’d just come together and say, ‘Let’s do this for now, and come back to it.’”
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Rick describes the development process as on-and-off over those first few years, taking long enough that the protagonist who was initially conceived as a middleschooler was shifted to Tyler’s own expe rience as a high-school student. It wasn’t until the pandemic lockdown of 2020, when the family was taking isolation quite seriously due to a high-risk family member, that Rick says, “that forced us to buckle down and get it done.”
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Current and former Salt Lake Tribune employees have taken to social media to defend the newspaper against Paul Huntsman, chairman of the paper’s board.
“Over the past 14 months, I submitted 400 public records peti tions in four states for documents that confirmed what on the surface looked to be, at best, a lousy political operation to rescue reputations and companies or, at worst, a deliberate attempt to push a Chinese-originat ed [COVID] test,” Huntsman wrote in a March Op-Ed for The Tribune. The Tribune’s current editor and staff have pushed back against Huntsman’s categorizations of their news coverage. And critics also question the atypical way that Huntsman has pursued his investi gations against the state.
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In July, USA Today reported that the Trib staff was told how disap pointed Huntsman was in the news paper’s coverage of the startup, Nomi Health, and its subcontrac tors. According to a source quoted in the article, Huntsman felt the Trib was not “aggressively covering al leged cronyism, pay-to-play, abuse of power, conflicts of interest and no-bid contracts being awarded to friends of Republican politicians.”
Napier-Pearce left the Tribune in 2020 after she and Huntsman re portedly came to loggerheads over news coverage. It has never been clear what those disputes entailed, but Napier-Pearce leaving the Tri bune before joining the Cox admin istration may have been a bridge too far for Huntsman, connecting dots to his brother’s political rival. So while local media outlets con tinued to focus on the testing com panies and government contract ing, Huntsman began shining an unwelcome light on the internal in trigue at the Tribune
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The criticisms did not go over well with Napier-Pearce, the Tri bune’s former editor, who said she “consistently encouraged rigor ous reporting about the 2020 gu bernatorial campaigns, supported public records requests and publicly praised Tribune reporters who broke numerous stories about the state’s pandemic response.”
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Tribune reporting on the topic won local journalism awards for expos ing lax contracting standards, laps es in oversight and failures at both the government and private-sector levels. But perhaps most stunning were later assertions by Huntsman that he didn’t trust the Trib to “do journalism,” which arrived against the backdrop of Huntsman’s broth er—the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador, Jon Huntsman Jr.—failing to win the 2020 guber natorial race against Cox, NapierPearce’s new employer.
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Silicon Slopes executive direc tor Clint Betts joined the inaugural nonprofit Tribune board during
BY KATHARINE comments@cityweekly.netBIELE Paul Huntsman was not hap py—and he was ready to act. In the aftermath of the CO VID-19 outbreak, Huntsman, chair man of the now-nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune, has publicly disparaged the reporters he employed after he launched his own investigatory unit outside the Tribune newsroom. It reportedly was not going well. In defending his actions, Hunts man raised claims of a “compro mised” Tribune under former edi tor Jennifer Napier-Pearce—now spokeswoman for Gov. Spencer Cox—and suggested that editors and reporters there had failed to properly report on inappropriate private-sector contracting related to the state government’s COVID-19 response and the TestUtah program operated by NOMI Health. Utah wanted to handle COVID quickly, to be ahead of the curve re sponding to an admittedly confus ing—if not terrifying—time for the public. And Utah is a libertarianleaning state, where government intervention and mandates are considered anathema. In keeping with conservative values, the state turned to private-sector businesses for answers—in this case, to busi nesses lacking critical experience.
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“Paul Huntsman saved a newspa per,” read an April headline in The Washington Post, “then launched an investigation of his brother’s rival.”
More recently, USA Today ran an in-depth story investigating Nomi Health, the company at the center of the embattled TestUtah program that Huntsman has targeted.
the COVID crisis. He had something to offer—a knack for mobilizing. “We bring the tech and business community together to discuss what’s happening in the state,” he said of his work with Silicon Slopes. “It was not random that we’d be holding town halls on the big gest issue facing our state.”
Breaking Newsroom Tribune executive editor Lauren Gustus referred City Weekly to her comments in USA Today, saying that the newsroom “independently verified all documents from Jittai that were used for its COV ID-19 coverage.”
“I thought, ‘Oh, that’s cool, it sounds like testing is needed,’” Betts says. As a facilitator, he didn’t really think any one was going to make money from testing. Then he got texts from a lot of people who said he was wrong. Betts was perhaps emblematic of good intentions gone wrong. In April of 2020, none other than then-U.S. Vice President Mike Pence began touting the testing startup Betts had promoted.
Matt Canham, another former Trib reporter and editor now at The Seattle Times, weighed in, too: “Paul Hunts man is wrong and his recent statements about The Salt Lake Tribune are appall ing. To have the board chairman ques tion the commitment, talent and ethics of Tribune reporters and editors crosses the line. I’m proud of the Trib’s coverage of TestUtah and the 2020 governor’s race. The team stepped up, did their jobs and reported aggressively. [The Tri bune] deserves a chairman who believes in journalism and supports journalists. It deserves better than Paul Huntsman.”
Once Huntsman’s antipathy for his
Then came Trib editorial columnist and attorney Michelle Quist: “I’ll stand up for [Napier-Pearce] all day long.”
newsroom became public, Twitter lit up. Betts put out this tweet: “He says the paper was ‘compromised’ because [Na pier-Pearce] was the executive editor of the paper. So far, I haven’t seen a single [Tribune] reporter stand up for Jenni fer or the work they put out during this period. Why? Do Lauren and the staff agree? Was the paper compromised?”
“If the newsroom is compromised, why is anyone reading it?” Betts asked, rhetorically. “[The Tribune] won awards for their TestUtah stories. Does its chair believe those should be given back since the paper was compromised at the time? … How about the journalists who won those awards?” Betts said he stands by the Tribune’s newsroom and believes in its integrity. But like the public, the readers and— probably—the Tribune newsroom’s re porters, he wonders if Huntsman truly believes his staff wasn’t up to the job or if he was looking for payback after Cox wonQuestionselection. aside, the fact remains that the man who may have saved The Salt Lake Tribune doesn’t trust it. CW
Betts, who stayed with the inaugural Tribune board for only a year, said he still has deep respect for the Tribune. He also has questions. “I’m a lifelong Utahn,” says Betts, who wonders what the controversy means for the broader state of the news media in his home state. “One of our major papers is ‘compromised?’ What does Paul mean byBettsthat?”said the Tribune board never knew about Jittai, although the newsroom must have. And Gustus did say reporters were independently verifying Jittai’s findings before publication.
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As COVID proliferated, Betts rallied a group of state lawmakers, then-state ep idemiologist Angela Dunn and the editor of the Tribune to hash over the pandemic problems. And some joined in an effort to launch TestUtah after the state decided to outsource the work of testing.
“I didn’t know. I was there to pro mote the initiative and let people know this thing was happening and testing was expanding,” he said. “It seemed to me that TestUtah was doing well. … I shouldn’t have said that for a variety of reasons. I’m not part of these compa nies. I’m a nonprofit organization. We do events and media stuff around the techBeforecommunity.”long,Tribune reporting and that of other outlets had begun to poke holes in the stories of TestUtah’s suc cess. But things apparently weren’t moving fast enough for Huntsman, who in March 2021 created his own inves tigations firm, which for reasons un known was given the name “Jittai,” a Japanese word meaning “substance.” Through Jittai, Huntsman and partners spent at least $1 million to investigate NOMI, mostly through public records requests, according to USA Today.
City Weekly also attempted to contact Huntsman, who did not respond. “As I understand it, Paul is not planning to make any additional comments on the matter,” Gustus said in an email. Gustus was vocal in defending the Trib’s reporting in the face of dispar agement from its chairman and larg est donor. “Our independent reporting is unmatched in Utah, and our report ers will continue to seek out truth and break stories related to this and other issues important to our readers,” USA Today quoted her saying.
Next, former Tribune reporter Matthew LaPlante—who now teaches jour nalism at Utah State University—tweet ed: “I’ve long warned my students that, if they pursue this career, they will face a barrage of attacks on their ethics and integrity. I’ve never warned them those attacks might come from the people who employ them. I shouldn’t have to.”
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“I think we all want the same results—that is access for low-income families so they are able to save some money with inflation, on the cost of gas and with all these other issues,” YapiasUtahsaid.public transit has increas ingly taken on a mainstream role in recent years, particularly in the core Salt Lake City service area.
He suggested the new pilot pro gram could bolster those trends and lead to improved services by high lighting the ways that children and their families use the transit network as it’s made more accessible.
Free transit for Salt Lake City School District students and staff begins this fall.
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And while it is expected that the program will continue, the district and UTA have so far committed only to a one-year pilot, at a cost of roughly $379,000 paid in concert by the city council, the school district and the education foundation.
Overall transit ridership numbers are still below pre-COVID levels, ac cording to UTA spokesman Carl Arky. But he added that ridership is trend ing upward and increasingly shows a shift in the way Utahns are using transit, from a two-way commuter service for weekday workers to one that moves riders to a breadth of des tinations for any number of activities throughout the week.
With multiple children of her own, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said she understands the time, cost and effort involved in getting kids around town.
Hop on the Bus, Gus Under the program, students and staff will receive an individual, physi cal transit pass providing access to buses, TRAX light rail and UTA’s ondemand service (only available on the west side), comparable to the Hive Pass that for years has been available to city residents at a discounted rate.
“More than half of our students come from low-income families,” Ford said. “Every dollar saved makes a huge difference.”
She suggested there are both shortand long-term benefits to encourag ing Salt Lakers to get out of their cars and onto public transit, particularly for younger residents who are other wise limited in their ability to navi gate the city.
James Yapias, director of the Salt Lake Education Foundation, told City Weekly it will be up to local school ad ministrators to hand out the passes this fall. He said the foundation is working with the district to establish the process for assigning and distrib uting cards to individual students and staff, as well as for replacing those that are inevitably misplaced.
“It’s been wonderful how often Salt Lake City is coming together with UTA lately,” Mendenhall said. “We are doing a lot together.”
“This will give a lot of information,” Arky said. “A lot of data will come from this.”
But under a new pilot program be ginning this fall, students and em ployees of the Salt Lake City School District will have the option to ride public transit for free—not just to and from schools, but also for part-time jobs and internships, doctor’s ap pointments and errands, parks and museums or to virtually any other destination served by the Utah Tran sit Authority Mendenhall—speaking(UTA).
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“We are making an impact on our air quality now and also drawing in future, lifelong UTA riders,” Ford said.
“We’re not seeing the big spikes during peak hours, or rush hours— the early morning or the late after noon,” Arky said. “We’re seeing con sistent ridership throughout the day and on weekends.”
“I know that running to three dif ferent schools on a daily basis—that’s 30 drop-offs and pickups in a week,” she said. “It takes a community, it takes a village, to make sure your kids just get there safe.”
at a press event earlier this month—said city, school and transit leaders have been discussing the idea of free student fares for roughly a decade. The average city resident spends 20% of their income on transportation, she said, which leads too many families to say “no” to opportunities and activities as the cost of living rises.
In February, UTA eliminated fares systemwide for the entire month in partnership with the city and in response to Utah’s winter inversion, which sees car exhaust and other contaminants trapped under a lid of cold air. And in the past month, UTA has opened a new TRAX station in Salt Lake City and a new Frontrunner station in Vineyard, each the first of their kind in roughly a decade.
“I hate to predict,” Yapias said. “We’re going to just take it one day at a time and that would obviously be for district leaders to review that as we pilot this Similarly,program.”Arkysaid it’s difficult to predict how the student fare program in Salt Lake could ripple out and af fect transit services for Utah children and families, generally. He said other school districts in the county have expressed interest in pursuing their own versions of the pilot, and conversations are ongoing with city and state leaders around the potential for Free Fare February to be repeated, revised or expanded.
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Premium UTA services like Front runner and ski resort shuttles will not be included with the school passes, but will be available to passholders at a discounted, supplemental charge.
“If they lose them, we’ll deactivate that card and give them a new card,” Yapias said. “It does cost us printing them, getting it done, so it is going to be a process we have to go through.”
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Partnerships between Salt Lake City and the Utah Transit Authority have led to new service routes, a new Trax station and, now, free fares for students and teachers.
“Hopefully, it won’t take that long to get other school districts on board,” Arky said, “but it does take a financial commitment.”
“I think the school buses are all critical to have,” Yapias said. “There’s a lot of learning opportunities our students would miss if we didn’t have the yellow buses.”
But if the UTA pilot were to succeed and continue, it could lead to new ways of thinking about and utilizing school district vehicles.
“Getting to and from school is go ing to be easier and more convenient, saving parents time and gas money,” said Carlton Christensen, chairman of the UTA Board of Trustees. “It’s also a great opportunity to encourage our young students to become more familiar with transit.”
“It was such a big undertaking that it took the right moment, the right group of people and a financial commitment, beyond what we’ve done be fore, from your capital city,” Menden hall said. “This is a group that sees hiccups, figures them out and keeps going. The buses are literally rolling ahead, the trains are rolling, because we aren’t going to stop trying to fig ure out what should be happening”
Yapias, of the Salt Lake Education Foundation, emphasized that the in tention of the pilot is not to diminish or supplant the district’s tradition al bus fleet. In addition to running morning and afternoon routes, yellow school buses are regularly used by districts for field trips and extracur ricular activities.
While UTA offers several pass pro grams for frequent transit riders, the agency has also leaned into free-fare partnerships, with concert and event tickets as well as airport boarding passes regularly doubling as a per son’s transit fare. But with the new school district program, more than 20,000 people will now be eligible for ongoing free service—or roughly 10% of the city’s totalSchoolpopulation.board president Melissa Ford said the program has the poten tial to be “life-changing” for many families, easing the bottom line of budgets by reducing the need for private automobiles and gas purchases.
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Venezuelan sandwiches are plentiful at Lehi’s Zaperoco.
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I’ve yet to really dig into the excess and indulgence of Venezuelan street food, but my adoration for the no-holdsbarred approach to sandwiches already runs deep. I have yet to meet an arepa or cachapa I didn’t like, but I figure it’s time to check out the other sandwich and street food innovations that hail from Venezuela. To this end, I was pleased to see that a spot called Zaperoco (785 E. 200 South, Ste. 9, Lehi, 801-331-8695, zaperocofood.net) has been a bastion of Venezuelan food in Utah County since last year Zaperoco’s digs are right in the shop ping center across from the Lehi Roller Mills, which is quickly becoming quite a cool spot for local eats. It’s neighbors with the Hawaiian hot dog wizards at Porky’s Kauai, and it looks like the Jurassic Tacos food truck is planning on opening a brickand-mortar location in the same stretch of real estate. This bodes particularly well for Utah County foodies—or those simply in town to re-enact Kevin Bacon’s “angry dance” from Footloose on location at the Roller Mills. I think one of Zaperoco’s main strengths is its sandwich variety. All the tradition al arepas can be found within its menu, but the chief among them is the cabimera ($13). It exemplifies what I’ve found to be the signature move of Venezuelan cuisine, which is a strong desire to see how much stuff they can fit into an arepa . This one is piled high with shredded beef, shred ded chicken, ham, cheese and hard-boiled eggs. It’s slathered in the Zaperoco house sauce, which is a creamy, herbaceous con diment that really ties the dish together. If you happen to be craving a top-notch arepa and haven’t had breakfast, this monster is an absolute thrill to dive into. I’ll never discourage someone from trying to pick up such an overstuffed arepa and eat it with their hands, but you may want to snag a fork and knife for this one. Those after something ever-so-slightly smaller than an arepa will dig Zaperoco’s tapitas. There are shredded chicken ($5) and beef ($5) varieties, or you can get a mixed tapita ($5) that includes a bit of both, along with a slice of ham. The tapitas main tain the basic genetic makeup of the arepa , but their filling-to- arepa ratio is a bit more balanced. This one you can eat like a sand wich without all those meat juices running down your forearm—most of the time, any way.My primary objective at Zaperoco was to cross the patacon off my sandwich bucket list. For those who are hearing this term for the first time, a patacon takes the popular arepa fillings and smushes them between two plantains that have been flattened and fried to chewy perfection. The existence of plantains in Venezuelan food is one of the things that keeps me coming back; I love these starchy, slightly sweet fruits. Any culture canny enough to swap them in for bread in a sandwich is truly inspired, and so is the patacon at Zaperoco.
Open: Wed.-Sat., 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun., 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Best bet: Any of their arepas Can’t miss: The patacon mixto
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For the best example of Zaperoco’s pata con , you must check out the patacon mixto ($13), which comes with all the shredded meats at the restaurant’s disposal, along with a slice of grilled ham. If you’re feel ing brave, you can pick this sucker up and eat it with your hands, but it’s best to take the cabimera approach and tackle this with some utensils.
In addition to monstruous sandwiches that balance flavors and textures remark ably well, Zaperoco has plenty of smaller snacks on the menu. Various empanadas stuffed with shredded chicken, beef, or po tato are all available—and all under three bucks. Then you’ve got the cheesy stuffed tequeños ($1.50) that make an excellent com plement to any meal, especially when you dip them in some of that herby house sauce. Zaperoco is an excellent entry into Utah’s Venezuelan food scene, and its cur rent location is adding some much-needed culinary diversity to Lehi’s Main Street area. I’m willing to help spread the gospel of Venezuelan cuisine to the far corners of the Wasatch Front, so having a spot that serves up some of these classics a bit fur ther south will only aid in the cause. I’d also encourage anyone who fancies themselves a fan of sandwiches to hit this place up. The creativity, flavor combos and overall spec tacle that Zaperoco instills into its menu will make you rethink anything you’ve ever placed between sliced bread.
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Level Crossing - VII XXV XVII Whea twine Ale: We’ll start with the base wheat wine. This is the second vintage of this strong ale, the first being the 2021 version which debuted in late July. The current ver sion has an increased ABV, from 10.5 to 11.5 percent.Thecolor is a cross between apricot and straw. Right up front, there is a kick of alco hol-soaked fruit in the nose; white raisins and dates are most prominent. There is a soft wheat presence in the aroma that sits behind the fruit notes, offering up a nutty quality almost like brown rice. In general, the aroma is rich and fruity, with an inter esting aroma added from the wheat.
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Wheat Wine Time
This elusive style makes its return to Utah
This week, we get to have a little fun with two different versions of the same beer: wheat wines. The Amer ican-style wheat wine ale is not derived from grapes, as its name might suggest. This unique ale is made with at least 50 per cent wheat malt, resulting in a full-bodied beer characterized by bready and candy flavors, finishing with a great deal of malty sweetness. The “wine” part of the name simply indicates that its ABV has crept into the stronger wine territory. Since the in ception of Utah’s craft beer scene back in the mid-’80s, only three Utah breweries have created wheat wines ales: Wasatch, Epic and now Level Crossing. Level Crossing has enhanced their take on the style by offering this strong ale two different ways: a barrel-aged version, and their more traditional version. I got to sit down recently with Chris Detrick, Level Crossing’s Head Brewer, and was able to dissect these beers and discover how dif ferent they really are.
Thick, sweet fruit kicks things off up front as we take our first swigs. It’s apricot in character, with rich cremé brûlée sweet ness. Light fruity esters introduce a touch of bright strawberry; up to this point, the flavors remind me of a honey-forward bar ley wine. Almost suddenly, the wheat en ters the picture and throws some interest ing complexity into the mix. There is a soft spice note that reminds me of vanilla with some dried orange peel. It’s subtle, but adds a fantastic layer to the ale’s end. The finish is long, sweet and lingering—complex, easy to approach and a bit mysterious. The mouth feel is full and a touch syrupy in the finish. The carbonation is very soft, which helps re duce the heaviness of the body. Verdict : This is a big beer, but Level Crossing definitely takes it a step farther. Wheat wines are an interesting concept. The majority of this beer’s malt bill is wheat, which adds subtle spice and defi nitely softens out the beer’s character. If barley wines are tough for you, this may be more approachable.
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Level Crossing - Barrel-Aged VII XXV XVII Wheatwine Ale: This version fea tures the 2021 vintage that has been nap ping in Malbec and Grenache barrels that previously stored High West whiskey. It pours a clear copper color with some light mahogany highlights. The aroma on this one is pretty bold; soon after the pour, I am getting rich toffee and oak notes. The nose opens to a mix of white grapes and vanilla as the glass sits, with no hint of hops and only the hint of bourbon notes betraying the 10.5 ABV on this beer. The flavor is also very nice. I get rich caramel and toffee notes mixed with pears, white grapes and apricot. Some brown sugar and sweet sherry begin to take hold, but it’s constantly being influenced by the vanilla-forward oak barrels, interesting flavors that I think only enhance the beer. I don’t detect much in the way of hops, and I suspect they were mostly absent even in 2021 when the beer was fresh. Booze is well hidden, with no real heat or peppery notes.
Verdict : This ale is complex enough to share or to be enjoyed solitarily. I think you’ll have as much fun picking this apart as we did. Grab some extras for your cellar. These are only available at Level Cross ing once a year. Time is ticking. As always, cheers! CW
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A new Greek café called Jeeva’s recently joined the City Creek food court (28 S. State Street, 801-521-4633, jeevas greekcafe.com), and I’m liking what I’ve seen so far. They’ve got chicken and lamb gyros, falafel and kabobs along with individual chicken and beef souvlaki. Jeeva’s also offers tra ditional Greek dishes like spanakopita and dolmathes, along with some baklava for dessert. Jeeva’s will be joining an already diverse food court at City Creek, which is one of my favorite things about venturing into the shopping underbelly of downtown SLC. Fans of Greek food and shopping-to-thepoint-of-dropping will want to check out this new spot.
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In order to build anticipation for the upcoming FanX Convention—and potentially give a few passes away in the process—the event organizers have initiated brunch protocols. Yes, the FanX Cosplay Brunch is happening on Aug. 28 for any nerd-minded individual in search of a good mimosa. The event takes place at Christopher’s Prime Tavern and Grill (110 W. Broadway, 801-8906616, christophersut.com) from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cosplay is welcome, but not required, and Christopher’s will have pop culture-themed menu items and cocktails ready to get you psyched for Utah’s biggest geek gath ering. Attendees can also enter a contest to win passes for this year’s FanX, coming Sept. 22 – 24.
Ogden is officially home to Utah’s first kaiten-sushi res taurant—that is to say, sushi that gets delivered to tables via a tiny conveyer belt. The restaurant is called Sushi Pro (4337 Harrison Boulevard, 385-432-0834, sush iproutah.com), and it works a bit like a dim sum concept where diners snag what looks good from the conveyer belt, then the bill is tallied up by the quantity and color of plates at the table. Though this is a novelty in Utah, this concept has been popular in Japan for decades—and why wouldn’t it be? Any place that makes you play by its rules so you can surprise yourself is all good in my book.
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While the Djinn requires Alithea to make three wishes in order to release him from his bondage, Alithea knows enough about “wish stories” to be skeptical, forcing the Djinn to take Alithea into his confidence with stories of his long life. Conceptually, it’s a neat idea to build a conventional genie story around some one steeped in the “Monkey’s Paw”-type ironic comeuppances in these cautionary tales. Three Thousand Years of Longing never wants us to forget about the power of my thology and storytelling, including naming the airline Alithea flies on “Shaharazad,” or even nodding to modern super-hero stories (which doubles as Miller’s reference to his once-planned Justice League adaptation).
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There’s a very similar vibe that veteran filmmaker George Miller (the Mad Max se ries) is aiming for in Three Thousand Years of Longing, a centuries-spanning narrative of magic, desire and heartbreak, except that he can’t pull all of those pieces together.
All At Once never forced its audience to wrestle with, so effective was its exploration of the central mother-daughter relation ship. Mystical experiences can only take a viewer so far when what they really want is the same thing the characters want—a chance to make an emotional connection.
There are many things a filmmaker can control, but you can’t control the world into which your movie emerg es. Sometimes, sudden world events make the story you’re telling more or less palatable to an audience. Sometimes, a person associated with the film abruptly becomes toxic. But among the least predictable fac tors are those that involve other films—the possibility that, close enough to the release of your film, another story has emerged that takes away your intended audience, or can’t help but make yours seem worse by comparison.
Everything Everywhere ’s success on both a cosmic and human scale emphasizes how Three Thousand Years of Longing only nails it at one of the two. Adapting an A.S. Byatt short story, Miller and co-writer Augusta Gore tell the story of Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton), an aca demic “narratologist” single-mindedly devoted to her field of study at the expense of all personal relationships. While attend ing a conference in Istanbul, Alithea hap pens upon a bottle in a shop, and finds that it contains a powerful Djinn (Idris Elba).
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And the film also makes it clear how the act of sharing stories from your own expe rience becomes a crucial part of building intimacy, explaining oneself in the same way that great mythological stories once explained natural phenomena. Miller does so with plenty of visual imagination, starting off with the massive form the Djinn initially takes upon his re lease, and the electromagnetic energy that perpetually appears to be drifting off of his body. The period-piece settings of the Djinn’s tales—in Ottoman Empire palaces and ancient battlefields—allow for some striking scenes, and provide the frame work for giving the connection between our two main characters an epic scope. Or rather, make that the intended con nection between our two main charac ters, because that’s where Three Thousand Years of Longing falls short. It’s challenging enough that the supporting characters in the Djinn’s stories rarely develop person alities of their own, with Elba’s narration doing nearly all of the heavy lifting for the largely Turkish cast of actors. But the pivot point of this narrative is the coming to gether of these two characters experienc ing very different kinds of loneliness—the Djinn’s from his centuries stuck in a bottle, Alithea’s based on her personal choices. And that relationship just never clicks, re maining at the superficial level of a fairy tale rather than digging deeply into what they truly need and want from one another; Swinton in particular never seems to let down her academic reserve, making it hard to understand what she learns from this fantastical experience. That’s a problem Everything Everywhere
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Tickets are $49 presale for Friday, Aug. 26; $60 day-ofshow; $59 presale for Saturday, Aug. 27; $70 day-of-show; $79 presale for a week end pass; $90 at-the-gate; and $45 for a camping pass for both nights. Find tickets for the all-ages fest online at nesia.com/wasatch-boomerfest.seasonedam
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Superbloom Fest: The farthest out date, and the farthest away from Salt Lake City, Superbloom really seems to be cementing itself as summer’s closing act. Back for its second year, the Southern Utah-based fes tival brings a ton of regional and national heavy hitters in the indie pop and folk scenes to the beautiful backdrop of Zion National Park. Fest founders The National Parks will be joined by alternative folk rock outfit Ju dah & The Lion, Texas Americana rockers Jamestown Revival, and high-power pop from Smallpools. Chill out with the tradi tional string offerings from Mipso and the wholesome vibes of Birdtalker. Locals on the bill roam between pop, folk, indie rock and even some R&B, including The Strike, The Moss, Garon Brett, Lantern By Sea and Beeson. Head down to Sand Hollow Resort in Hurricane for some pre-fest camping on Friday, then stay all day for the last songs of summer on Saturday, Sept. 10. The all-ages event is $85 for general admission, $149 for VIP and tickets and info can be found at su perbloomfest.com.Thebestoftherest: Moab Music Festival (Aug. 22 – Sept. 16): Visit Utah’s most stunning park for a fusion of red-rock splendor and breath taking classical performances. moabmu sicfest.orgInternational Folk Festival (Aug. 24): Enjoy folk music from Korea, Ukraine, Mexico, Kingdom of Tonga, Slovakia and the Basque region, all at this free single day fest at Sandy Amphitheater. sandy amp.comAmericana Arts & Music Festival (Aug. 26 – 27): Where better to celebrate Ameri cana music than in American Fork? This family-friendly event goes all day both days.Kensingtonamericanforkarts.comStreetFest(Aug. 27): RoHa Brewing aren’t just bringing beer and music together, but information on their neighborhood’s pedestrian and bikerfriendly Kensington Avenue Neighborhood Byway plan. rohabrewing.com/streetfestival CW Arbour Season at Superbloom Festival2021 WILDLEXI
Wasatch Boomer Fest: If you haven’t got enough mountain air this summer and you like your sunsets serenaded by the humble pluckings of bluegrass, then do we have the fest for you. Located way up past Kamas, past Heber City, the Wasatch Boomer Fest brings country, folk, classic rock, Americana and bluegrass all up to the blip of a town that is Wallburg in Wasatch County.Angled towards the tastes of—you guessed it—Baby Boomers, besides the music on offer, the fest will take place at the Richard W. Erickson Foundation’s An tique Power Museum, which preserves the kinds of vintage objects and automobiles Boomers also may remember fondly from their youth. Between sets, visitors can en joy restored vintage cars and motorcycles, old tractors and even train cars that are rideable.Thetwo-day fest will feature regional and local acts like The Queen Bees out of Colorado, Utah’s own Slow Ride, and Sea soned Amnesia, the band Boomer Fest’s founder Dave Chappeuies claims as his own. All profit from the fest goes to The Ronald McDonald House.
Crucialfest: Fans of Salt Lake City’s heaviest tradition, don’t miss out on Cru cialfest 11 Aug. 25-28. The four-day fest scoops great local bands into the lineup of big national acts like Cult Leader (back to SLC for the first time in a few years), The Casket Lottery, Wayfarer, Mizmor and Marissa Nadler. Locals on the lineup also include popular locals like Sunsleeper, I Hear Sirens and Visigoth, plus up-andcomers like Mortigi Tempo, Threar, Dude Cougar, Despite Despair and more than 18 others. Whether you’re drawn to shoe gaze, post-rock, post-hardcore, plain old hardcore, metal (and all things metal-ad jacent), dark folk or anything else driven by gloomy, nasty guitars, don’t miss this an nualViewtradition.thefull lineup and dates, find more info and tickets for the 21+ fest on Insta gram at @crucialfest. Ticket prices vary: 4-Night passes are $35; 4-Night VIP passes are $99; Single night tickets are $10; VIP $49, all at Metro Music Hall.
The last month of summer heat is no sad thing to say goodbye to, but all the fun of hanging out under a late evening sunset and finding endless diver sions to attend? Those are the hard things to let go of in August. We wanted to give you one more chance to soak up the sun with music fests still on our summer docket.
Snowpine Western Days: Nothing goes together like fresh mountain air and clas sic western tunes. Take a day or two off, and head up to the Snowpine Lodge at Alta for non-stop Western vibes at their Snow pine Western Days, Monday, Aug. 29 or Tuesday, Aug. 30, to enjoy Alta without the weekend buzz, and take in the splendor of the peaks around you—or settle in front of the stage, wander around among the ven dors and graze on some food. The all-day fest runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, and features local familiar names like Steven Bosco, The Proper Way and Mountain Country Band with Jim Fish, plus cowboy poetry from Terry Nash, Colo radans like Valerie and Floyd Beard and Caitlyn Taussig, and many more. Tickets to the all-ages fest are $30 for single day tick ets; $50 for both days; $50 for one day plus food; and $90 for both days plus food. Find tickets and more info at snowpine.com.
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“We encourage self-expression, anti-censor ship, meeting people where they’re at, and maintaining a safe space for everybody,” they state on their website. “Each of our shows is full of acts inspired by taglines that approach concepts anywhere from our political climate to cathartic silliness.” The shows prioritize booking queer performers, performers with disabilities and people of color, inviting guests to leave transphobia, homophobia and just about any other phobia at the door. These shows at The Beehive are enjoyable and enter taining because they feature people of all shapes and sizes owning themselves, and just having a good time. The costumes are always sexy, creative and thoughtfully planned-out, and as a result, the show oozes comfort, fun and free-spiritedness at all times. It’s not a bad way to spend an evening. This 18+ show is on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 at havoqluscivia.com. (Emilee Atkinson)
Behind the Zion Curtain @ The Beehive
If you’re looking for a saucy, sexy evening while out on the town, Behind the Zion Curtain is the perfect show. It’s a cabaret act that allows anyone to come by, let loose and have fun. At the helm of Behind the Zion Curtain is Havoq Luscivia, a multidisciplinary performer based in Salt Lake City. Luscivia has a gymnastics upbringing and strip-club background, and their cabaret is best described as “aggres sively inclusive.” They value accessibility and acceptance, all while welcoming those who may not know much about cabaret shows.
Little Bird, The Rubies, Southernmost Gravy @ Kilby Court Little Bird is an indie group formed in South Carolina who focus on bringing listeners a psychedelic, genre-bending style. Their first project was released in 2018, but in the last year the group has been releasing a huge 23-track album entitled Proxima. It’s coming out in three waves as Eps: Alpha, Beta and Gamma. One of their most popu lar tracks—“Honey Leak,” from their first album Familiar—opens with lively keys, but as it progresses, transforms into a seduc tive tune with soft vocals and spicy guitar riffs. Little Bird is supported by The Rubies, an indie-pop group from Provo whose first EP, I’ve Been Thinking, was released in 2019. They’ve been steadily releasing singles since that time, building on their high-energy sound. Their recordings are crystal clear, and each instrument packs a punch, contrasting with the enchanting vocals. The Rubies have played well-attended shows at The Velour and Kilby Court in the past, so they’re not ones to miss live. Also Utah natives, fellow opener Southernmost Gravy were all roughly 14-years-old when they released their first single back in 2020, and still managed to place second at BYU’s Battle of the Bands in 2021. So don’t miss out on Little Bird with two of Utah’s own on Wednesday, Aug. 24. Tickets to the all-ages show are $15 at kilbycourt.com. (EA)
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The Deadly Nightshade @ Garage on Beck New England-based rock and country trio The Deadly Nightshade formed back in the late 1960s, and was one of the earliest all-female bands signed to a major label (Phantom, a subsidiary of RCA). They released two albums—The Deadly Nightshade and F&W, released in 1975 and 1976 respectively—that were only recently been made available for streaming in late 2021. The albums are worth a listen for many reasons, including the trio’s great chemistry, which is evident from the moment you press play on any of their tracks.
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(EA) Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin, Bush @ USANA Amphitheater Grunge and alternative rock fans, rejoice—this lineup at the USANA Amphitheater is going to be one of the best of the year for you. Formed in the mid-’80s, Alice in Chains has under standably changed and experienced lineup shifts over the years due to struggles with addiction and disbandment. But their music, like fan favorites “Man in the Box,” has main tained its popularity. The track is uber-heavy, opening with a crunchy and iconic guitar riff leading into intense vocalizations. The chorus is strong and powerful, remaining epochal 30 years after its release. For their part, tourmate Breaking Benjamin rose to popularity in the early 2000s. One of their most popular tracks, “Diary of Jane,” from their album Phobia was probably on most emo kids’ playlists back when it was released in 2006—it’s perfectly dramatic and angsty, and easy to sing along to. The third band on the lineup, Bush fits in with grunge groups in the ’90s, though they hail from London instead of grunge’s epicen ter in Washington state. One of their most popular songs, “Glycerine,” is a slower ballad that is strong and emotional. Opening for all of these acts is the rock group Thunderpussy. Their high-energy ’80s style hard-rock sound will contrast the headlining acts a bit, but who minds a bit of contrast? This all-ages show is on Monday, Aug. 29 at the USANA Amphitheater. Tickets range from $18.75 to $330. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and tickets can be found at livenation.com (EA)
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Bassist Pamela Brandt told From Wicked to Wedded, “What was considered to be inap propriate was for women to actually be the band, be the players. So that’s what the whole song originally started out as, you’re not a chick, you’re a free-flying woman.” Seeing this trio will be a treat for longtime fans on Friday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the 21+ show are $10 at the door.
“Nose Job” on their self-titled album starts out with dramatic keys followed by smooth guitar solos. The song tells a story about changing for a man, and that man still being distant—a story made more interesting when it’s interrupted in the middle of the track by a screeching guitar solo, a move not typically seen from female groups at the time, and it’s awesome. Another notable track on their selftitled album is “High Flying Woman.” It’s an anthem dedicated to women, and it was the group’s way of standing up to men who didn’t think they should be in the industry at the
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Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has been recording with bluegrass-country art ist Alison Krauss since 2007, and in that time, Plant’s gritty rock ‘n’ roll vocals have melded to acclaim with Krauss’s bluegrass twang. Now, after 14 years, the duo has a Alice in Chains Alison Krauss and Robert Plant new album to tour on, 2021’s Raise the Roof In an interview with The Washington Post in June , Plant and Krauss talk about their differ ences in style, but how they ultimately adapt to one another. “He never sings the same thing twice, so he’s very free, off the cuff, in the moment. Like a jazz musician who’s con stantly kind of channeling something,” said Krauss. Plant added, “She’s a master of her art and I’m a master of not doing the same thing twice. So it’s a collision. And we find it very funny. And even now, in rehearsals, I decide to go a different direction. She looks at me, raises her eyebrows, and starts giggling.”
Krauss and Plant are supported by singersongwriter JD McPherson, whose style hear kens back to mid-20th-century rock ‘n’ roll, specifically 1950s rockabilly. On his track, “North Side Gal,” McPherson sings loud and plays fast, making the rockabilly sound he’s going for more authentic. He has an amazing vocal tone, and can nail fast-paced rock riffs on his Telecaster. See these artists of many influences when they take the stage at Sandy Amphitheater on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The show is all-ages and doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $80 - $229 at sandyamp.com. (EA) CW
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with JD McPherson @ Sandy Amphitheater
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) I urge you to flee from stale and rigid certainty. Rebel against dogmatic attitudes and arrogant opinions. Be skeptical of unequivocal answers to nuanced questions. Instead, dear Aries, give your amused reverence to all that’s mysterious and enig matic. Bask in the glimmer of intriguing paradoxes. Draw inspi ration and healing from the fertile unknown. For inspiration, write out this Mary Oliver poem and carry it with you: “Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company with those who say ‘Look!’ and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A blogger named Chaconia writes, “I’ve cultivated a lifetime of being low maintenance and easy-going, and now I’ve decided I’m done with it. Demanding Me is born today.” I’m giving you temporary permission to make a similar declaration, Taurus. The astrological omens suggest that in the coming weeks, you have every right to be a charming, enchanting and generous ver sion of a demanding person. So I authorize you to be just that. Enjoy yourself as you ask for more of everything.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The witch Lisa Chamberlain writes about the magical proper ties of colors. About brown, she says it “represents endurance, solidity, grounding, and strength.” She adds that it’s used in magic to enhance “balance, concentration, material gain, home, and companion animals.” According to my reading of the astro logical omens, the upcoming weeks should be a deeply brown time for you Geminis. To move your imagination in a righteous direction, have fun wearing clothes in shades of brown. Grace your environment with things that have the hues of chestnut, umber, mahogany, sepia, and burnt sienna. Eat and drink cara mel, toffee, cinnamon, almonds, coffee, and chocolate.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Kabbalistic writer Simon Jacobson says, “Like a flame, the soul always reaches upward. The soul’s fire wants to defy the confines of life. It cannot tolerate the mediocrity and monotony of sheer materialism. Its passion knows no limits as it craves for the beyond.” Jacobson concludes, “Whether the soul’s fire will be a constructive or destructive force is dependent on the person’s motivation.” According to my astrological analysis, your deep motivations are likely to be extra noble and generous in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So I expect that your soul’s fire will be very constructive.
1. Create an altar filled with treasures that symbolize major turning points in your destiny; 2. Forgive yourself for what you imagine to be old errors and ignorance; 3. Summon memories of the persons you were at ages 7, 12, and 17, and write a kind, thoughtful message to each; 4. Literally kiss seven different photos of your face from earlier in your life; 5. Say “thank you” and “bless you” to the self you were when you succeeded at two challenging tests in the past.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Scorpio-style intelligence typically has a fine intuitive grasp of how today’s realities evolved out of the deep patterns and rhythms of the past. That doesn’t mean you perfectly under stand how karma works. In the coming weeks, I urge you to be eager to learn. Become even savvier about how the law of cause and effect impacts the destinies of you and your allies. Meditate on how the situations you are in now were influenced by actions you took once upon a time. Ruminate on what you could do in the near future to foster good karma and diminish weird karma.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Here’s a good way to build your vibrancy: Use your emotional intelligence to avoid swimming against strong currents for extended periods. Swimming against strong currents is fine for brief phases. Doing so boosts your stamina and fosters your trust in your resilience. But I recommend you swim in the same direction as the currents or swim where the water is calm. In the coming weeks, I suspect you can enjoy many freestyle excursions as you head in the same direction as vigorous currents.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You should never allow yourself to be tamed by others. That advice is always apropos for you Leos, and even more crucial to heed in the coming weeks. You need to cultivate maximum access to the raw, primal sources of your life energy. Your ability to thrive depends on how well you identify and express the beau tiful animal within you. Here’s my only caveat: If you imagine there may be value in being tamed a little, in harnessing your brilliant beast, do the taming yourself. And assign that task to the part of you that possesses the wildest wisdom.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) My Aquarian reader Georgie Lee wrote to tell me what it’s like being an Aquarius. I offer it to you because you are potentially at the peak of expressing the qualities she names. She says, “Accept that you don’t really have to understand yourself. Be at peace with how you constantly ramble, swerve and weave to become more of yourself. Appreciate how each electric shift leads to the next electric shift, always changing who you are forever. Within the churning, ever-yearning current, marvel at how you remain eternal, steady, and solid—yet always evolving, always on a higher ground before.”
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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cancerian poet Danusha Laméris discovered that earthworms have taste buds all over their bodies. Now she loves to imagine she’s giving them gifts when she drops bits of apples, beets, avocados, melons and carrots into the compost bin. “I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar.” But now that she understands “they bear a pleasure so sub lime,” she wants to help worms fulfill their destinies. I mention this, Cancerian, because I suspect you may have comparable turnarounds in the coming weeks. Long-held ideas may need adjustments. Incomplete understandings will be filled in when you learn the rest of the story. You will receive interesting new information that changes your mind, mostly in enjoyable ways.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Whenever you are contemplating a major decision, I hope you raise questions like these: 1. Which option shows the most self-respect? 2. Which path would be the best way to honor yourself? 3. Which choice is most likely to help you fulfill the purposes you came to earth to carry out? 4. Which course of action would enable you to express your best gifts? Are there questions you would add, Virgo? I expect the coming months will require you to generate key decisions at a higher rate than usual, so I hope you will make intensive use of my guiding inqui ries, as well as any others you formulate.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes, “I look back on past versions of myself with such love and tenderness. I want to embrace myself at different parts of my life.” I hope you’re inspired by her thoughts as you carry out the following actions:
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the Spanish language, there’s the idiom pensando en la inmor talidad del cangrejo. Its literal translation is “thinking about the immortality of the crab.” It applies to a person engaged in creative daydreaming—her imagination wandering freely in hopes of rousing innovative solutions to practical dilemmas. Other languages have similar idioms. In Finnish, istun ja mietin syntyjä syviä means “wondering about the world’s early ori gins.” Polish has marzyć o niebieskich migdałach, or “dreaming about blue almonds.” I encourage you to enjoy an abundance of such explorations in the coming days, Capricorn. You need to fantasize more than usual.
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One of the best day trips out of Salt Lake City is to head southeast to Nine Mile Canyon near Price. The canyon name is a misnomer—it is not 9 miles long. It’s actu ally about 43 miles long from the highway, through the mountains and up to Duchesne, before the road back to Park City/Salt Lake. Along the way, it’s worth a stop in Helper at the Balance Rock Eatery & Pub on Main Street for pancakes (all day!) bigger than the size of your head, burgers, sammies and dinner entrees. The little town has done a great job of changing from empty, boarded-up storefronts, saloons and hotels to a little vibrant art community of roughly 2,500Onceresidents.you’refull as a tick, it’s not far to the turnoff for Nine Mile Canyon. There, you’ll see thin layers of coal (it is Carbon County!) in the hills, smell fragrant cedar pines and sage brush, discover colors of the earth and, best of all, see the famous petro glyphs along the roadside. Large “newspaper rocks” of stories de picting humanoids, sheep, deer, snakes, giant owls and many dots in patterns that look like calendars. Sadly, a—holes of this century have scrawled their own graffiti alongside the precious Native art, includ ing adding vaginas and penises to some of the smaller human figures carved into the rock. It’s a felony and a bad federal rap to be caught damaging any of these sites. Scenic Utah is a nonprofit organization out to win my heart. They appreciate our history and our vistas. These volunteers are out to educate us, the Legislature and larger communities about protecting dark skies and scenic byways by banning elec tronic billboards to reduce light pollution. They help ensure local governments keep their rights to regulate billboards that are “intrusive eyesores that harm the visual environment, reduce property values and detract from community character.” They appreciate, as I do, our visual en virons. They’ve found that more than 75% of Utahns believe billboards are intrusive eyesores that harm the visual environ ments where they are located. Having previously served for eight years as a volunteer planning commissioner for Salt Lake City, I got a hard and fast educa tion on how powerful the billboard compa nies are and how difficult it is to get rid of a single sign. Go to scenicutah.org to find out more about their vision and purpose. Best of all, they’re having a photo con test (deadline Sept. 1) with categories like “scenic night skies,” “my rural roots,” city and town parks, “visual pollution we wish would go away” and “off-the-beaten path” (i.e., remote or hard-to-reach places in our beautiful state). Let’s all celebrate and preserve the vistas of this great state. n
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There Are Cameras Everywhere Dr. Yue “Emily” Yu, 45, of Mission Viejo, California, was taken into custody on Aug. 4 after her husband alerted police that she was trying to poison him by adding Drano to his hot lemonade, The Mercury News reported. Yu’s husband first started notic ing a chemical taste in his drink in March and suffered from “two stomach ulcers, gastritis and esophagitis,” according to his petition for divorce, filed on Aug. 5. He installed cameras in the kitchen and collected video evidence showing Yu reaching under the sink and pouring something from a Drano bottle into his drink. Yu’s attorney says she “vehemently and unequivocally denies ever attempting to poison her husband or anyone else.” She was released after posting bail.
At a funeral on Aug. 6 at Rolling Hills Memorial Park in Richmond, California, a family brawl broke out after the deceased’s son and daughter started arguing, SFGate reported. Police were called to the scene around 1:30 p.m., where up to 20 family members abandoned the service to fight with each other. The 36-year-old brother got into a vehicle and “attempted to drive toward his sister in an aggressive way, but instead he struck another female and sent her to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” said Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy of the Richmond Police Department. He also managed to knock over headstones and break a water main, causing the funeral plot to fill up with water. The coup de grace was knocking over the casket; fortunately, the deceased did not fall out. When the brother finally emerged from the car, someone hit him with a cane to subdue him. The brother was later charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism.
Oh, Crap! Drivers along I-94 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, were forced to navigate an alarming obstacle course around 4:45 a.m. on Aug. 9, WISN-TV reported. As a flatbed truck hauled port-a-potties, at least seven of them slid off the truck and landed upright in the road, causing panic for drivers following behind. “I was like, ‘Is that a port-a-potty?’” said driver Alex Hilario. “Where did it even come from? Did they set it there? Because it was standing but rolling.” Hilario’s car collided with one portable john, but he was not hurt. Driver Vern Hicks also hit one of the johns and may have to total his car. Most of the units were hit by cars; one Waukesha County Sheriff’s deputy was heard saying he was “responding to that crappy situation.”
Ooohhh-kaaaayyyy Angel Domingo of Toronto is a big fan of trading items on resell websites. So when he moved into a new home and found a single cheese stick in the refrigerator, it was a no-brainer for him: Buy a billboard in Yonge-Dundas Square and offer the Black Diamond Cheese String in a trade for the best offer. “This is probably the strangest thing that I’ve ever had to offer up,” Domingo told Global News. “I guess some people really want it.” He’s received several offers for the cheese, the most unusual so far being a trade of two Persian cats. He hasn’t made a deal yet, but he’s in no hurry: There are months left before the expiration date.
Customers had the option of buying reusable shopping bags or paying 5 cents for paper bags at checkout, but instead, as soon as the ban went into effect, they started lifting the baskets. Employees were asked to stop customers, but some shoppers just ignored the warning or slipped out unseen.
As of July 1 in Delaware, retail stores were no longer allowed to supply plastic shopping bags for their customers’ purchases. No problem, said shoppers at Acme in Christiana—we’ll just walk out with your plastic shopping baskets. Delaware Online reported that the store’s supply of baskets has been wiped out, and manager Kaitlyn DiFrancesco is not going to buy more.
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The mother of a 6-year-old Butler County, Ohio, boy was arrest ed on Aug. 9 and charged with endangering a child and contrib uting to the delinquency of a child, WLWT-TV reported. The incident started when Olivia Eversole, a worker at a Marathon gas station in Hanover Township, saw the boy emerge from a car holding a Smirnoff Ice. Eversole asked the boy, “Do you know that you’re drinking a beer?” He replied, “Yup, this is me and my mommy’s favorite beer. We drink it all the time.” Eversole called police, but when deputies arrived, the mother, Victoria Hampton, 26, told them it was an accident and left with the boy. But when officers followed her home, they found the boy riding a scooter, holding another Smirnoff Ice. “You’ve got to be on your toes because you never know what’s going to happen,” Eversole said of the incident.
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Wait, What? Victor Hugo Mica Alvarez, 30, started off this year’s Pachamama (Mother Earth) Festival with a bang, Metro News reported. After drinking heavily during the festival’s opening on Aug. 1, Alvarez said he wound up in Achacachi, Bolivia—50 miles from El Alto, where he’d passed out—trying to claw his way out of a buried casket. He alleges that he was a human sacrifice: “We went danc ing. And afterwards I don’t remember. The only thing I remember is that I thought I was in my bed, I wanted to get up to go urinate and I couldn’t move,” Alvarez said. He said he was able to break glass in the coffin, and dirt started pouring in. After crawling out, he asked a nearby person for help. Local police didn’t believe Alvarez, saying he was too drunk to know what had happened and that he should come back when he was sober.
Bright Idea Looking for new kicks that’ll mark you as a beer-loving fash ion icon? Of course you are. Heineken has partnered with sneaker designer and customizer Dominic Ciambone to create Heinekicks—signature green, white and red high-tops with a built-in bottle opener and the company’s newest brew, Heineken Silver, sloshing around in the soles. Oddity Central reported that the shoes provide a unique feeling. “I can’t say I’ve ever designed a sneaker that contains actual beer before,” Ciambone said. Probably not—and only a handful of people will ever get to wear them, with just 32 pairs scheduled to hit the market in the fourth quarter of 2022. Unclear on the Concept Miles Routledge, 23, of Birmingham, England, has stirred up controversy by traveling repeatedly to Afghanistan and cozying up to members of the Taliban, the Daily Star reported. Routledge posted on Twitter on Aug. 9, “I am officially Afghanistan’s larg est exporter to England. 150+ flags, patches and rugs,” with a photo of his loot. But what’s really got people up in arms is a rug he bought depicting the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Routledge believes the rug doesn’t glorify the attacks; instead, it was made “by Afghan women to tell a story of a historical event. Hundreds of American soldiers who signed up to the military because of 9/11 have this rug in their homes,” he claimed. Routledge called Taliban members “kind blokes” because he had tea with them after stumbling into their com pound during an April trip. your news items
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