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American Fascism
Is it fall now? I hadn’t noticed.
When the first acorn drops into our pool, I know it’s time for the season change.
It used to be football, back when I cared about it. Now it’s more like “I can sleep without the air conditioner running.”
“What we’re seeing now is either the be ginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Aug. 25. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that un derpins the—I’m going to say something— it’s like semi-fascism.”
His sole valid complaint about “MAGA philosophy” is that it re-introduces the “cult of personality” aspect of fascism’s Spanish and pre-World-War-II Italian, German, Japanese and Soviet variants.
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Joe Biden has been a cog in the Ameri can fascist machine, a willing partici pant in its depredations, for more than 50 years, promoting everything from mass incarceration to state control of enter prise through “industrial policy.”
To put it bluntly, the United States has been more than “semi-” fascist since long before Biden was born.
It used to be fewer 100-degree days, but who knows what fall looks like in the perpetual summer times we’re living.
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At the same time, what James Burn ham later described as the “managerial
Fascism rose from the social tumult following World War I as armed groups of military veterans clashed violently with the socialist left around the world.
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The real transition is when all the campaign signs start popping up.
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In Germany, they took the form of vari ous “freikorps.” In the United States, they flocked to a single organization: the Amer icanTheLegion.Legion brawled with leftists in the streets of American cities, conducted mili tary-style raids on labor union offices and, in the words of its national commander Alvin Owsley, stood “ready to protect our country’s institutions and ideals as the Fascisti dealt with the destructionists who menaced Italy. ... Do not forget that the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States.” The Legion even invited Mussolini—the first self-de clared fascist head of state in the world— to address its national convention.
A week later, in Philadelphia, Biden ex panded on his criticisms: “They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pur suit of justice, the rule of law, the very soul of this Bidencountry.”isnotwrong, but his emphasis on a single aspect—Donald Trump’s cult of personality—obscures the real nature of American “semi-fascism” and comes a century too late.
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Strong democratic norms blunted and limited the scope of American fascism (particularly quasi-worship of the leader), but victory in World War II allowed it to continue within that limited scope.
What makes it feel like summer is transitioning into fall?
Football and fewer small humans running around during the day to trip over.
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Getting darker earlier.
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American fascism’s key aspects—na tionalism, militarism, subordination of rights to “national security” claims, ob session with internal policing and, yes, increasingly rigged/constrained elections to preserve the rule of “approved” par ties—survive and thrive to this day.
He’s right about that, but he’s advocat ing for one form of fascism over another, not against fascism itself.
state”—which answers to Mussolini’s defi nition of fascism, “everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”—began to coalesce in various countries. In the U.S., that culminated in the New Deal and a cult of personality around Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected to an unprecedented four terms as president and would likely have continued as leader (the German word is “Fuhrer”) had he lived longer.
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The coming November midterms are a chance for patri otic Americans to toss out legislators who chose brownnosing Trump over their own oaths to the Constitution.
On Nov. 7, 2020, in a text to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, Lee committed his help to Trump: “We the un dersigned offer our unequivocal support for you to exhaust
So, it seems, Utahns need to use the same caution as the Aussies in the outback: Don’t get too close to the water’s edge. You simply can’t trust a croc. CW
every legal and constitutional remedy at your disposal to restore Americans faith in our elections.” He and his GOP co-signers were very careful to say the words, “legal and constitutional,” but Lee’s behavior was not that of a loyal American. He also told Meadows, “If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a path.”
There’s nothing legal or constitutional about “alterna tiveButelectors.”whenitwas clear that there would be no viable route by which Trump could remain in power, Lee simply cooled down, slowed his metabolism, peered into his mirror and neatly groomed his scales. He had no choice. Only then did he concede that Biden’s win was legitimate. His color changed; his temperature cooled. He fidgeted with his CTR ring and assumed the look of a re-baptized patriot.Ifyou’ve been watching local TV, you’ve noticed that Mike Lee is scared. He’s desperately trying to hold on to his Senate seat. Having previously seen himself as the obvi ous choice in the November elections, he’s now confronted with a looming threat to his incumbent security. Recent Deseret News polls have shown some ominous writing on the wall. He knows that it won’t be a slam-dunk. With only, perhaps, a 5-point difference between him and indepen dent challenger Evan McMullin, Lee’s body temperature is once again rising.
belief that it’s OK to undermine America’s election system. It certainly makes one wonder about his ultimate loyalties.
When it’s time to vote, remember that Mike Lee’s sense of decency and morality changes with the current climate. He has dishonored his vows, both as an attorney and as a senator. He’s shown the crocodile within.
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Lizard Lee
Lee has launched a flurry of expensive, misleading ads, all alleging that McMullin is “in it for himself” and attempt ing to damage the reputation of his challenger, while also doing Lee’s own, typical routine of self-aggrandizement— presenting himself as a noble patriot and an official inter preter of the Constitution, while betraying his apparent
Lee is familiar with the age-old wisdom: Birds of a feath er flock together. Simply put, if he chooses to place his loy alties with slime, his own skin is essentially a sausage cas ing, holding all that goo together.
Mammals are warm blooded, keeping their bodies with in the narrow temperature range that allows their tissues, systems and organs to continue functioning. Reptiles— like snakes, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons and Gila mon sters—are cooled and heated by the surrounding condi tions, allowing wide variations in their body temperatures.
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When I look at Utah Sen. Mike Lee, there’s no question into which classification he falls. He’s a reptile—prevail ing ambient temperatures seem to switch him back and forth from choir-boy patriot to a creature who is capable of doing grave damage to the most essential pillars of our American democracy.
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Utahns should note that their other Republican sena tor isn’t supporting Lee’s re-election. Despite 48 other GOP senators expressing their support or endorsements of Lee—Mitt Romney has, once again, shown some objectiv ity and backbone, rejecting partisan blindness and trying to find a graceful way out of the fray. While Romney has noted that both Lee and McMullin are his friends, his fail ure to endorse Lee should raise a red flag with Utahns.
There you go: You’re now practically an expert on the dif ference between endothermic and ectothermic creatures. Apparently, there’s a metaphor here.
As the Trump election-fraud lie heated up, and other dis loyal Americans believed that there really might be a way to overturn the 2020 election, Lee warmed to the idea that Biden’s election could be undone. That’s factual. Lee of fered Trump his (incredible) legal brain and made it clear that he was onboard as an adviser to advance Trump’s treasonous objective.
Can Lee really be that clueless? You can’t find anyone more egocentric, and Mike—no matter what he says—can’t erase the patent treason of his activities after Biden won the presidency. If he’d ever had any credibility before, Lee deep-sixed it when he spat on the Constitution and threw his support to the one, gigantic lie from the slimiest man who’d ever occupied the Oval Office.
ow does a reptile differ from a mammal? Besides the fact that mammals typically give birth to live young and have the ability to supply milk to their babies, there’s another defining characteristic.
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While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on his anti-“woke” ideology kick, adults and chil dren are being denied the light that books hold. The Tanner Talk With Author Azar Nafisi will show you the connection be tween reading and democracy, highlight ing the hard road to enlightenment. Nafisi “is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Mem oir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university profes sor and her students.” The U.S. is not yet a tyranny, and reading can be a transfor mative power against it. Nafisi will speak about the power of literature while relating her own traumatic experiences. Utah Mu seum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, SLC, Thursday, Sept. 22, 4 p.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3RxZiIP
Surely you have seen the dueling campaign ads from both Sen. Mike Lee and his challenger, independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin. Lee’s—thanks to funding from Club for Growth—shows a “dark and stormy” future if McMullin is elected, because he’s allegedly been grifting Utahns for money he owes from something. Mc Mullin’s says he ain’t gonna be no Lee and won’t suck up to Trump or Biden. Who knows which approach will land with which voters, but both must think striking out matters. Now, The Salt Lake Tribune offers voters another mindnumbing question: Who is really ahead in the race? “Lee, McMullin hype inter nal polling showing each of them ahead in Utah’s U.S. Senate race,” a headline blares. It also notes that you should be skeptical of both. There are lots of rea sons to publish these polls, not the least of which is to raise money. Probably both candidates hope the polling con vinces their voters to fill out their bal lots. But as 2016 showed us in a big way, voters shouldn’t depend on polling.
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IN A WEEK, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE@kathybieleBIELE
It’s no secret that the Salt Lake Valley is a polluted mess. It’s also not a big surprise that the Legislature has taken little con crete action to alleviate the effects of cli mate change. But while lawmakers twiddle their thumbs, the Great Salt Lake has been drying up and creating nothing less than an existential emergency. Environmental experts will be discussing the problem at All Dried Up: Can We Save the Great Salt Lake? “As the Great Salt Lake continues to hit record-low water levels, activists, re searchers and public servants are racing to avert an environmental catastrophe.” The lake has lost nearly half of its surface area from the historical average, exposing much of the lakebed and sending toxic dust into the air. What are we facing and are there any viable solutions before it’s too late? U of U Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, SLC/virtual, Wednesday, Sept. 21, noon, free. https://bit.ly/3RwAQYt
Sure, Utah voters have been gerryman dered to allow those in power to perpetu ally stay in power. But that doesn’t mean your vote matters any less. Just the op posite—your vote is more important now than ever. While some 55% of eligible vot ers are registered, 300,000 women in Utah are not. What if everyone who was eligible came out to vote in elections? How would that change things? Voter Regis tration Day is an opportunity to find out what kind of difference you can make. First observed in 2012, this nonpartisan civic holiday has been gaining momen tum ever since. In fact, 4.7 million voters have been registered up until now. With midterms approaching, you can register here in person (or online at vote411.org).
J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, SLC, Thursday, Sept. 22, 11 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3BrZUdk
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It’s hard to know if development is good for the economy, especially now that rents and housing costs have skyrock eted out of an average person’s reach. Still, Utahns are painfully aware that homelessness is inextricably linked to housing. Possibly forgotten is the issue of the elderly homeless, something that Switchpoint, a St. George nonprofit, hopes to highlight. They are asking the Salt Lake City Council to remove zon ing by the airport that prohibits resi dential uses, according to Building Salt Lake. The concern, of course, is that a positive ruling could encourage more development in an environmentally sensitive area. Meanwhile, The Salt Lake Tribune reports that $55 million could go to create “1,100 affordable and deeply affordable units” throughout the county. And just in case you forgot about them, the tiny home village is still plugging along as the Trib tries to answer questions about this mini-proj ect to address the unhoused.
MISS: Open Season
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Run for cover, hunting season is upon us. Maybe because the deer are getting smarter, illegal hunting is becoming more common. KPCW 91.7 FM reports that runners and hikers in Park City are facing guns and camouflage on public trails, on private property. Don’t get into a fight with them, officials warn, because guns often win. Wild turkeys are another matter, as many roam around Willard Bay and other areas of the state. The Utah Wildlife Board approved hunting changes for 2022, voting to reduce fall turkey permits to “only one either-sex permit per hunter and to remove public land, so the fall turkey hunts only occur on private lands.” Now that avian flu has been de tected, it’s important to know where you can hunt fowl and how to stay safe.
HIT: House Always Wins
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Centuries-old theatrical works—like Shakespeare, or the classics of Greek theater—aren’t still per formed in the present day just to be fancy and impressive. It’s because those works continue to speak to us, either as pure entertainments, or as still-relevant commentaries on the human condi tion. French farceur Jean-Baptiste Poquelin— better known to the world as Molière—may have done his creating in the 17th century, but they appeal enough to modern sensibilities that they offer opportunities for brand new translations andThat’sadaptations.whatPioneer
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Theatre Company is pre senting in Molière’s Scapin, kicking off the 20222023 season. British theatrical writer/director Stephen Wrentmore has shifted some of the key roles in his new version, including making the titular character—the scheming valet of a lovelorn young nobleman, using manipulative skill to achieve the ends of the lovers rather than those of their parents—a woman rather than a man. “Working on this script has been an absolute delight; Molière’s playfulness, masterful structure and commitment to the actor put the relationship between the performer and the audience as my primary focus,” says Wrentmore. “And it’s funny; the satire is sharp, intends to entertain, and translates wonderfully to the contemporary.”
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PTC’s Scapin runs Sept. 16 – Oct. 1 at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre (300 S. 1400 East), with performances 7 p.m. Monday – Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday, with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees. Tickets are $35 - $46 advance purchase, $5 more day of show. Visit pioneertheatre.org for tickets and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)
Pioneer Theatre Company: Scapin
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Champions of Magic
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We humans are hard-wired to believe in logic, order and the things we’re able to see, under stand and explain. So it’s little wonder that when we encounter phenomena that defy our tempo ral existence, we react with awe, disbelief and frenzied fascination. That’s the obvious attraction shared by Champions of Magic, a supergroup of sorts featuring five internationally renowned master magicians, extraordinary illusion ists and daring escape artists, all of whom are bound together for the sole purpose of dazzling crowds that are eager to be entertained.
Together they boast impressive credentials, including sold-out shows worldwide, major televi sion network appearances and over 50 million online views. Yet it’s their breath-taking, realitydefying, gasp-inducing live performances bolster their reputation and repute. Their shows allow for an interactive experience, one that finds them recreating Harry Houdini’s famous escape from an underwater locked box while wrapped in chains, the sharing of psychic predictions which prove to be prophetic, levitation demonstrations that defy both gravity and the laws of reason, and a singu larly spectacular finale that—as the old saying goes—literally has to be seen to be believed. They intimately involve the audience, spreading the show to all corners of the theater while effectively psyching out their skeptics. After all, who doesn’t need a relief from reality every now and then. The Champions of Magic perform at the George S. And Dolores Dore Eccles Theater (131 Main Street) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16. Tickets cost $25 - $75. Visit arttix.org for tick ets, or phone 801-355-2787. (Lee Zimmerman)
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Lucy by the Sea once again focuses on Lucy’s relationship with ex-husband William, but the circumstances are quite different. As Manhattan resident Lucy begins considering the realities of life in lockdown, William suggests departing for a small town in coastal Maine where they can wait out the pandemic storm. And of course, only positive things can happen when people are stuck together unmediated for several months—especially people with a tumultuous personal his tory—and are dealing with the struggles faced by distant loved ones without much of an ability to do anything about it.
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Elizabeth Strout discusses Lucy by the Sea in a live, ticketed Zoom event on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $39 and include access to the Zoom broadcast and a hardcover copy of Lucy by the Sea; for a limited time, book orders through The King’s English Bookshop include an autographed bookplate. Visit kingsenglish.com for the Eventbrite link, and for additional event information. (SR)
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There’s a reason why shows like Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance attract such a rabid following. Those of us who have trouble putting one foot in front of another are understand ably amazed—and, admit tedly, a bit jealous—of those who have the ability to control their bodies in such a way as to inspire rhythm and Consequently,romance.anevening
Versa-Style performs at Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) on Friday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 pm. Tickets cost $10 - $38. University of Utah students pay $5. Tickets for non-U students and youth 18 and under are $10. Go to utahpresents.org or phone 801-581-7100 for tickets and additional event information (LZ)
of dynamic dancing by Versa-Style Dance Company becomes a full-on sensory experience, one that’s based on the dynamics of hip-hop in all it modern forms, from circa-’90s styles of house, popping, locking, whacking and boogaloo, to Afro-Latin moves incorporating salsa, meren gue, cumbia and Afro-Cuban. Born from the cultural diversity of their native Los Angeles, the company earned the praises of the L.A. Weekly, which lauded them as the city’s “best dance troupe for hip-hop entertainment.” It’s also well in keeping with the multi-disciplinary philosophy and major mission of Utah Presents, the University of Utah’s arts presentation organization, which is about bringing “diverse artistic and cultural experiences to campus and the region, exploring and enriching the human experi ence through the lens of creativity and the arts.” In this case, simply prepare to be dazzled by the dance.
Olive Kitteridge) has spent much of the past decade on the chronicles of her heroine Lucy Barton, exploring the character’s attempts to make peace with her estranged mother (My Name is Lucy Barton), her siblings (Anything Is Possible) and her ex-husband (Oh, William!). But Strout’s latest Lucy Barton installment places her squarely in the present, dealing with the pandemic.
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the forefront in Utah, Kimball Art Center is launching a planned year-long series of ex hibitions addressing our interactions with the local landscape. The first such exhibi tion launches on Dec. 9.
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The Leonardo (209 E. 500 South, theleonardo.org): Plenty of fascinating exhibitions will be ongoing in 2022 at The Leonardo, including the “immersive art” experiences showcasing the Italian Re naissance, Van Gogh, and modernists from Monet to Kandinsky. Coming soon, howev er, is an experience celebrating the institu tion’sLaternamesake.inSeptember, “Leonardo’s Lab” of fers an exhibition developed by the Carne
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In January 2023, the UMOCA Main Gallery presents its next large group show, focused around the theme of “home.” The exhibition—funded in part by grants from the Warhol Foundation and the VIA Fund/ Wagner Foundation—offers a curated se lection of national, regional and local art ists, “particularly dealing with the kind of housing crisis we’re seeing around the country and in Salt Lake City,” according to Norman. The second half of 2023 then brings a “greater Utah” art show, with cu rators from throughout the state helping to identify the exceptional artists from their respective regions.
According to Kimball Art Center market ing director Meisha Ross, “The first install ment of this series will look at the powerful ways in which contemporary artists—from the local to the international—have har nessed the use of earthen materials. The second installment, transitioning to the impulse for landscape as mythmaker, will be a large group exhibition about the ways in which aspects of our natural world have influenced concepts of identity in the West and beyond. And the final installment, considering how our planet has been ir reversibly transformed after two centuries of human impact on natural systems, will look at the ways in which artists help us to conceptualize our place on the planet as well as our individual and communal re sponsibility for change.”
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Park City Kimball Art Center (1251 Kearns Blvd., Park City, kimballart center.org): The Wasatch Back has its own great offerings in addition to those on the Wasatch Front. In a year where climate and environmental issues have come to
gie Science Center planned to run through the end of the year. “It’s like you’re enter ing Leonardo’s mind and world,” says The Leonardo’s senior development and PR manager, Krista Numbers. “It has been a long time coming that we do a DaVincifocused exhibit. We had one about 10 years ago, and it was a hit. … We saw the oppor tunity [with this exhibition] and wanted to act on Thisit.exhibition—like virtually every thing The Leonardo does—is intended to serve one overriding purpose, Numbers says: “With any exhibit, we want to make sure it aligns with our mission of fus ing creativity with science, and that it’s a good fit for any age and stage. We’re not just a children’s museum, and not just an art gallery. As we’re planning out, quarter by quarter, year of year, we want to keep it interesting and keep adding to what we’ve done in the past.”
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month, with works including some that Obata did when his family was at the Topaz interment camp 80 years ago.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (20 S. West Temple, utahmoca.org): In addition to the year-round rotating exhibi tions and the Art Truck that brings art ex periences to thousands throughout Utah, UMOCA marketing & public programming director Zachary Norman draws attention to the upcoming opportunity on Oct. 21 to visit “open studios” of the gallery’s four current artists-in-residence—Matthew Sketch, Jesse Meredith, Ben Sang and An drea Jensen—to see works in progress.
Mark your calendars for these fascinating upcoming exhibitions
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (410 Cam pus Center Dr., umfa.utah.edu): Among the upcoming touring events coming to the University of Utah-based museum is Many Wests: Artists Shaping an American Idea (Feb. 5, 2023 – June 11, 2023). According to Associate Curator of Collections Luke Kelly, the show marks a collaboration be tween the Smithsonian American Museum and four regional art museums, including UMFA. “The premise of Many Wests was the idea that Western art was often romanti cized into Euro-American myths,” Kelly says. “The goal was to question racist cli chés and highlight multiple communities that also have a claim to the story of the American West.”
“What we’re doing right now, and will be doing going into 2023, is giving visitors who come to us a more expansive view of art history—artists of color, artists who identify as women,” Kelly says. “We as a museum want to make visual art relevant to everybody in our community.”
erforming arts companies often plan a full season with a specific start and end date—but things are a bit differ ent for other arts spaces. That doesn’t mean you can’t plan ahead for some of the unique things being offered by Utah’s major gal lery spaces. Here are just a few highlights to watch for in the coming months.
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UMFA also will begin a multi-hear proj ect highlighting works from JapaneseAmerican artist Chiura Obata, from whose estate UMFA received 38 works in 2021. The first such showcase begins later this
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Understanding that the river is bigger than you is the ultimate reward. And it’s a lesson Wimmer wishes the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) would heed.
dents is the possible pollution and broader impacts that result from further development that might—and likely would—blossom along the new bypass.
For the past two years, UDOT officials have been planning a highway bypass to relieve traffic congestion through Heber City. The agency has already conducted lengthy studies and narrowed down a list of five pos sible routes through the Heber Valley.
Wimmer doesn’t doubt that UDOT has good inten tions. But he says he has witnessed too many instances over the years when construction crews took shortcuts that meant harmful pollution to the river.
The following story was reported by The Utah Investiga tive Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly, Daily Herald , The Park Record, and KPCW.
In its formal response, UDOT committed to studying the “foreseeable” impacts of development. But in an inter view, Heber Valley Bypass project manager Craig Hancock acknowledged that “foreseeable” only means looking at what the current zoning allows for, and that UDOT has not closely examined plans of property owners in the valley.
“That kind of infrastructure supports more develop ment,” said Mills, deputy executive director of the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission.
In reviewing county land records since 2020, howev er, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project has identi fied more than 100 acres of parcels bought by a handful of developers across the valley that could turn a profit with help from the bypass—and potentially impact the river at the same time.
For Mills, the idea of a road jeopardizing the river is especially troubling given the twists and turns in the history of the river itself.
“When you give yourself up to the possibility that you’re not going to be able to control it, then it’s about letting go and letting it happen,” Wimmer said. At this level of enlightenment, you can bask in the serenity of standing still in a ceaseless and wild river. Maybe hook ing dinner, maybe not.
Examples of proposed highway routes (in red) that could cut through Heber Valley’s north fields. PETERSONERIC
How is it that apartments and parking lots can blossom and flourish along the edges of a highway like reeds on a riverbank?ForMichael
Mills, the building of a road often gives cities the opportunity to also install utility and sewer lines at a fraction of the cost, since another agency like UDOT would be footing the excavation bill.
Wendy Fisher is executive director of Utah Open Lands, an organization that works to preserve open space through conservation easements that pay land owners to voluntarily protect their lands from future development. She, too, warns that a highway can easily strangle open-space preservation.
PARADISE PAVING
Critics fear a highway bypass could trigger development in Heber Valley’s open spaces and threaten A critical water source.
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rian Wimmer, president of the Trout Unlimited chapter of Utah County, has been casting his flies into the Middle Provo River for years. He’s learned that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been tying and casting flies, you can’t control the river or when and where fish will bite—and that really is the whole point.
A bend in the Middle Provo River near Heber could be impacted by a proposed highway bypass and the development that’s likely to follow.
On paper, two of these routes appear as innocuous, straight, black lines connecting U.S. 40 at the northern entrance to the valley around Heber City to State Route 32 to the south. But for critics, these straightforward road lines—if built—would cut in half the valley’s iconic north fields, threaten the health of the pristine Provo River and possibly trigger the kind of development across the valley floor that would make the postcardlike vistas resemble any other paved-over suburban community in Utah that decided to trade its pastures and streams for Walmarts and condos.
Twists and Turns
Unfortunately,centers.it wasn’t well understood at the time how much life flourished in the river bends, so the fish died, and the animals that fed on them left. Wetlands
Currently, UDOT is working on the first draft of its En vironmental Impact Statement. The EIS is the official re port on how these different highway route options could impact the local environment. Not only does it help guide local leaders, it’s also required by federal law.
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“How many farm owners want to have their farms split in half by a fairly significant road, and then want to conserve it?” Fisher asked. She said having that land dissected by a highway might convince the landowner that it’s not worth preserving anymore and might as well be sold and developed in the future.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Central Utah Project brought water from the Colorado River into the heart of Utah. Dams and dikes were placed on the Provo River as part of that project. A feat like only Paul Bunyan could have accomplished, they tamed the wild river, straighten ing it to force a faster and more direct flow to the state’s population
Wimmer insists he’s not just an ornery angler, not ing the water isn’t just for the trout but also serves the culinary needs of most of Utah County and parts of Salt Lake County—with the Provo River watershed serving as source water for 65% of the state’s population.
“We refer back to the cities and their zoning laws,” Hancock said.
UDOT officials have already taken early public com ment and used the feedback to promise to address is sues of major concern. But one acute anxiety for resi
“It’s too easy to mess up, because we just do not play God very well,” Wimmer said.
But how long these wide open spaces can withstand the push of development is a big question. A 2017 report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah projected that Wasatch County would be the secondfastest-growing county in the state, seeing a population increase of 187% between 2015 and 2045.
were destroyed, and forest habitat was lost.
“I’m obviously biased, but it feels like a jewel for the He ber Valley,” Mills said. He’s frankly worried that, after such a victory, the state would now plan a highway to run paral lel to the river.
“It’s like somebody gets cut, the doctor stitches them up, and then someone else comes along and just cuts the stitches,” Mills said.
“At some point, we need to ask ourselves why we live here,” Frankel said. “I would argue it’s not because we might be able to make a trip three minutes shorter. It’s be cause of the landscape, it’s because of the quality of life.”
The bonds give landowners a chance to keep generation al farms intact or to have them converted into public trails or open spaces. Sometimes, it just means a promise to leave it green, even if there isn’t public access.
“There’s a lot of value even in just seeing the land open,” Henke said.
While UDOT has planned to estimate the impacts of devel opment from the road, they have limited that only to cur rent zoning and plans.
The Heber Valley Bypass process kicked off in 2020, with UDOT looking to help drivers better move across the valley and to support the city’s plan for revitalizing its historic townHancock,center.the project manager, says UDOT started with 23 alternative routes and recently narrowed the list down to five. Three of the routes avoid cutting through the larg est swathes of the scenic north fields by veering off High way 40 near the entrance of town.
For Zach Frankel of the Utah Rivers Council, the place where the rubber hits the road for polluters is literally the rubber hitting the road. A major concern is tire debris that collects on roadways and gets washed off during storms into surrounding areas.
Pure Speculation
Naomi Kisen, UDOT’s environmental program manager, said that means consulting with local planning authorities.
Another company, Timpview Investment Holdings, has acquired more than 50 acres near the proposed UDOT routes since 2019, when the bypass was only informally discussed. That company has already proposed that Heber City annex its land just north of Wasatch County Park for a future development that would include open spaces as well as multi-family affordable residential developments. The proposed developments would run close to Spring Creek, which feeds into the Provo River.
All such acquisitions are perfectly legal and may be quite strategically located if the routes are approved and local government in the future warms to the idea of development around the bypass.
Michael Henke, planning director for Midway City, wor ries that’s exactly what will happen.
In a search of county records, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project identified more than 148 acres of land purchased across the north fields area since 2020, when the UDOT process officially began. All of these parcels would be in close proximity to the north field routes and many would be adjacent to the Provo River.
Today,Reservoir.theriver is once again flush with trout and an glers, and the banks teem with birds and birdwatchers.
“Once there’s a road, once you’ve destroyed that idyllic setting, you can’t get it back,” she said. CW
“I remember 20 years ago, Heber was a sleepy little town,” Denos said, but now it feels like “a massive traffic jam” every time he’s there. He adds, though, that the river and the north fields are irreplaceable. “That’s a place every valley wishes they could preserve.”
Take, for example, 10 acres purchased near the Provo River and along 2400 North, where one of the UDOT routes would intersect. The parcel was acquired by a company called Big Water Ranch LLC. The owners of that company— Jeff Danley and Jason Danley—aren’t cowhands but execu tives at Peak Capital Partners, a Provo-based company that develops apartments and multifamily properties.
New residential developments under construction in the Heber Valley
Even with such well-thought-out plans, Wimmer, of the Provo Trout Unlimited chapter, is concerned about care less construction crews. He points to a dam rehabilitation in 2016 that released black sludge down American Fork River, killing thousands of fish. Or, more recently, the con crete slurry that washed through Mill Creek in 2021 from an Interstate 215 construction project overseen by UDOT.
Each of these road alternatives are measured not only against the need and purpose—easing vehicle congestion and supporting Heber’s downtown—but also against po tential negative impacts to the local environment.
“If [developers] submitted plans to the local government authority that approves those plans, then we take that into consideration,” Kisen said.
“This is the mentality of the construction world,” Wim mer said. “They are always going to come in over budget so they start cutting corners. Next thing you know, they start flushing stuff down the river, and if no one sees it, ‘no harm, no foul.’”
“The road could make it easier to develop those areas,” heMidwaysaid. actually bonded $5 million to help fund conser vation easements, including for north field areas, in 2018. That same year, Wasatch County also approved a $10 mil lion bond. Now, open-space advocates have to wait to see if those plans could be thwarted by a UDOT condemnation.
Hancock noted that no plans would directly impact the river.
While UDOT has been meeting with stakeholder groups for the past few years, those discussions have primarily included interested parties in the Heber Valley. End users, especially those downstream in Utah County, said they had not been involved in these early discussions.
Keith Denos, general manager of the Utah County-based Provo River Water Users Association, was only made aware of the project when asked by a reporter. He said he needed to study it and couldn’t comment for his organization, but personally understood the challenge UDOT was undertak ing on behalf of Heber City.
Forever Deeds
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For Fisher, with Utah Open Lands, conservation ease ments are valuable tools to create “forever deeds.” But those opportunities to preserve could also be thwarted forever by projects like the bypass.
“What we’re not doing is creating a dam with the road— there’s not something planned that’s going to block any of the water,” Hancock said.
For UDOT, however, they won’t factor into the environ mental or other development impact studies until plans are“Thefiled.bypass road doesn’t change the zoning in the val ley,” Kisen said.
The Heber Valley Corridor draft EIS is set to be released this winter or in spring 2023, and the public will have an oppor tunity to provide comments. Learn more about the proposed routes by visiting hebervalleyeis.udot.utah.gov
Another 16 acres was scooped up in February—at the spot where the new north field routes would turn off from U.S. 40—by an entity called KLJB LLC, the members of which are firm principals in a company called Mountain States Property Management, a real-estate development company out of Logan.
Instead, UDOT will focus its attention on Provo River feeder streams and creeks that will be affected. He says UDOT is planning on retention ponds and other filtra tion systems to protect the river as well as surrounding groundwater and wetlands.
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Wimmer said it’s often anglers, as the “boots on the wa ter,” who ultimately spot these kinds of spills that might otherwise go undetected.
Or does That’sit?the question on the minds of open-space advo cates. Which comes first, they ask: the road or the develop ment? If a road is built that cuts across open space, does it incentivize a move toward developing around the road?
Mills was part of the Provo River Restoration Proj ect, aimed at undoing this folly. Between 1999 and 2008, the $45 million project recreated the bends of the river and rebuilt the habitat through painstaking effort. After healthy vegetation was planted, the ecosystem required constant monitoring. In addition, the commission needed to acquire land for an 800- to 2,200-foot-wide corridor the length of the river between Jordanelle Dam and Deer Creek
Representatives of public works departments for both Provo and Orem also said they had not been included.
There’s so much at risk, it makes him question what’s to be gained with the proposed bypass construction.
Peak Capital’s website shows a portfolio of units across 25 states, noting its properties represent “strong longterm growth opportunities,” cultivated through “relent less due diligence.”
This, however, doesn’t account for purchases made by shrewd land speculators, especially those who have al ready bought land but won’t seek new zoning or permit ting until the conditions are right—like if their property is accessible via a new highway, for example.
“We maintain a broad sourcing network and productive relationships with brokers, property owners, developers and municipal leaders in each target market,” the Peak Capital website states.
‘Boots on the Water’
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In a nod to the speakeasies of the 1920s, Prohibition’s front-of-house is decked out like an antique store where the seating area is obscured from view. Once you provide your IDs, however, the hostess opens up a bookcase that leads you inside, where Pro hibition’s concept continues in full swing. Servers dressed like vintage bartenders or glittery flappers mosey from table to table, tables are offset with chic armchairs, and water is served in square whiskey bottles.
This piece of multifaceted local flavor was what initially put Prohibition (151 E. 6100 South, 801-281-4852, prohibitionu tah.com) on my radar. In addition to that fanboy desire to see the backdrop for one of Jen Shah’s classic meltdowns, I couldn’t help but notice the food they were all eating looked amazing. As our local chapter of the Real Housewives franchise enters its third season this month, it seemed like a good time to kick off my restaurant pilgrimage with a visit to this Murray establishment.
First things first, I respect a place whose signature burger bring spiciness to the table. The Beast Burger does not skimp in this area—the habanero aioli brings that kind of dangerous, slow burn that starts to extrapolate with every bite. The heat does not come at the expense of the rest of the burger, which is also a plus. The burger it self is enormous, and the meaty mixture is juicy and flavorful. It’s served up with Pro hibition’s signature Cajun fries, which are of the thickly cut steak fry variety and work
All in all, our visit was full of unexpected surprises, most prominently that the cen tral Murray sprawl near Fashion Place Mall is also home to this swanky little gastro pub. Fans of decadent food served along side a wide variety of cocktails and other spirits will definitely enjoy kicking their heels up at Prohibition.
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Something about the indulgent ambi ance that Prohibition creates made me want to check out something from the des sert menu, which includes beignets ($9), bourbon caramel bread pudding ($11) and a key lime pie called Ernest Indulgence ($10). My heart was set on the pecan pie ($11), which was caramelly, buttery and abso lutely delightful.
In addition to their creative take on pub food, Prohibition’s dinner menu goes heavy on the steakhouse vibes. Items like the rib eye ($59), the strip ($49), the venison ten
derloin ($36) and a ditty called The Lamb Before Time ($59) are all there to tanta lize any carnivores itching for a prime cut of meat. Despite its meat-centric dinner menu, Prohibition has plenty of vegetar ian and vegan options for those who want to get their shimmy on in more of a plantbased state of mind.
My visit was a bit too early for a mon strous steak, so I opted for the Beast Burger ($29) which also offers no shortage of meaty goodness. The patty itself is made from a turf-and-turf mixture of elk, bison, wild boar and wagyu beef, then gets topped with some smoked pork belly. So yeah—plenty of protein happening here. Any remain ing room on the burger is filled with melty smoked white cheddar, tomato, fried onions and a moderately spicy habanero aioli.
Revisit the Jazz Age at Prohibition, Murray’s swank iest speakeasy.
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ver since Salt Lake City got its own Real Housewives franchise, I’ve been quietly taking stock of the restaurants that ap pear on the show. A restaurant brawl has al ways been one of the highlights of the show, and one that occurs while the cast is wearing silly costumes is top tier entertainment.
The food menu consists of gastropub fare befitting of a fine establishment like Pro hibition, though the names of each menu item have been revamped to align with the restaurant’s jazzy, wiseguy aesthetic. We started with the Cat’s Meow Cauliflow er ($14), generous chunks of cauliflower dipped in a beer batter and fried up to a golden brown. They come served with slic es of grilled lemon and some buffalo sauce, making for a nice vegetarian alternative to buffalo wings or fried fish. Overall, these are a great way to start a meal, though ours were a bit light on seasoning—nothing a bit of salt and pepper couldn’t fix.
My wife went with a dish called Alfred O ($26), a pasta dish made with butter nut squash ravioli, gigantic shrimp and a parmesan alfredo sauce. I don’t have the greatest track record when it comes to pasta dishes at gastropubs, but this one is a winner. The parmesan alfredo is a bit more subtle than one would expect from an alfredo sauce, and the butternut squash filling of the ravioli added a nice smack of sweetness to each bite. The sauce also has a bit of a kick to it, giving this dish a nice balance of savory, sweet and spicy.
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As one would expect from an outfit that has adopted a speakeasy aesthetic, Prohi bition offers an extensive menu of cock tails, wines, spirits and draft beer. My wife and I dropped in at the height of this mas sive September heat wave, so a cool mint julep ($11) seemed more that appropriate.
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2 Row - Face Melter : On the other side of the IPA spectrum, we have a relatively low IBU IPA made with Motueka, Citra and Idaho 7 hops. The IBUs here range into the lowThisteens.beer
No matter which side of the IBU fence you fall on, you owe it to yourself to get acquainted with (or re-acquainted) with these hop-opposite IPAs … because, well science is fun! As always, cheers!
Verdict : I actually really enjoyed this brew. It has a wonderful hop blend that is citrusy but still dank with a fruity taste that isn’t overly bitter. Well done!
The taste leads with a flash of fruity hops, mostly papaya and mango, but it quickly devolves into a leafy green bitterness that comes as much from the alcohol as the hops. That boozy note continues through the finish, which is almost hot and spicy. Sweet malts suggest honey and syrup. The body is robust ,and the beer is moderately sticky on the palate. A soft, fine carbon ation is moderate in volume.
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The aroma of the brew is big of tropical fruits with lots of pineapple, papaya and mango with some orange and tangerine citrus smells mixed in as well. Along with these notes comes a bit of melon and bread, along with a touch of a pine smell.
pours a hazy golden-orange color with a one finger head of billowy white foam. The head has a good level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave a moderate sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
This is what I think of when I think of double IPAs: The aroma is a boozy, brash mixture of hop and malt. A warming, spicy alcohol note fills my nose at first, but once I adjust, I pick up suggestions of honied peaches, papaya, and a bit of grapefruit. This beer is quite sweet, too, with notes of honey and pancake syrup.
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ing here. This big-ass beer hits you with over 100 IBUs (International Bitter Units) of hop power. The average palate can’t de tect more than that, so you get an idea of the beer’s hop potency. It all seems to come together with malt and hops blocking each other’s punches.
The taste begins with a little of the tropi cal and citrus sweetness that was detected in the nose, all being balanced out by some cracker and bready flavors. There are some citrus hop tastes upfront, which match the fruit rather well, with these increasing a bit as the taste advances and is joined by some flavors of herb and grass. The bready taste almost completely fades toward the end, and the fruitiness seems to lose some potency in sugar, but not fruit taste (as odd as that sounds). With the lightening of the breadiness, and the sweetness dying out a bit, as well as with a little more hop of an earthy nature coming to the tongue, one is left with a somewhat crisp and moderately hopped taste to linger on the tongue.
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Creminelli Fine Meats (creminelli.com) and the International Rescue Committee (rescue.org) will be hosting the Discover Food Festival on Sept. 17. This inter national food fest will feature vendors from the IRC’s Spice Kitchen Incubator (spicekitchenincubator.org), a local restaurant incubator that supports refugees by helping them get their restaurants off the ground. It’s an excellent opportunity to sample some international cui sine while also helping Spice Kitchen do what it does best by giving back to our diverse community. If you’ve ever been curious about the service Spice Kitchen provides, this is a great event to check out. The festival will happen at Little City (349 W. 700 South) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The time is once again upon us for Seattle’s most pro lific purveyor of pierogis to bring its pop-up restaurant to Utah. Piroshky Piroshky (piroshkybakery.com) is currently accepting online orders for their trip to the Beehive State, and it’s an extremely easy process. Just head on over to their website, snag yourself some sea sonal Swedish meatball piroshky or a chocolate cream hazelnut roll, and then arrive to their pop-up site for pickup. This year, Piroshky Piroshky will be hosting pop-ups at the Elks Lodge in Provo (1000 S. University Avenue) from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 21, and at SaltFire Brewing (2199 S. West Temple) from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 22.
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Just in case you’re still hankering for some craft brews on the heels of the City Weekly Beer Festival, the Utah Brewers Guild (utahbrewersguild.org) is hosting a col laboration festival this weekend. So what exactly is a “collaboration festival?” Well, it’s a chance for members of the Utah Brewers Guild to showcase their skills by working with one another to create new draft beers, created especially for the event. The event takes place at McCarthy Plaza in the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main Street) on Sept. 17 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.—unless you get a VIP pass that lets you start things off at 2 p.m. Tickets are available via the Utah Brewers Guild website.
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All of that might have been enough to overwhelm a central performance that lacked the right vibe, but Hamm brings nothing but the right vibe. It’s not that he hasn’t shown comedic chops previously, going back to his supporting role in Brides maids; it just wasn’t obvious that he could carry a flat-out comedy, especially one where he was stepping into iconic shoes. And he’s a delight in everything he’s asked to do, finding a sensibility that feels like a natural continuation of Chase’s inter pretation. Hamm nails the witty banter in the script by director Greg Mottola and Zev Borow; he embraces the physical com edy when asked, from incredulous reac tion takes to flat-out pratfalls. The choice to include Hamm’s Mad Men castmate John Slattery as an old journalist buddy of Fletch’s could easily have turned into a stunt that pulls you out of Fletch-world and into another show, but it ends up working because Hamm never stops committing to the movie he’s in.
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as a director in movies that have a hangout sensibility—like Superbad and Adventure land—so in some ways he’s a perfect fit for a mystery where the whodunnit is far less im portant than the whosinit. While a narra tive built on discursive bits of business and funny stand-alone snippets will inevitably feature a few that don’t fully land, it’s amaz ing how many of them in Confess, Fletch ac tually do land. It’s kind of a shame that the title Fletch Lives was used up for the 1989 Chevy Chase sequel, because that’s how it feels with Hamm stepping into the role. If not for the references to the pandemic and the precarious state of the journalism busi ness, you might just get the sense that it’s the 1980s all over again.
t’s been more than 30 years since the last time Gregory McDonald’s wiseass inves tigative reporter-cum-amateur sleuth Irwin M. Fletcher—Fletch, to his friends— last appeared on a movie screen. And while there are any number of reasons that a movie project can end up in “development hell,” as several proposed Fletch reboots have during those years, I imagine that one of the challenges was finding the sweet spot between the joke-spouting, occasion ally bumbling character that Chevy Chase made famous and the book series’ pro tagonist who was a Vietnam War veteran closer in spirit to the anarchic surgeons of M*A*S*H. Because surely they wouldn’t at tempt to make a 1980s Chevy Chase movie, now that 1980s Chevy Chase was no longer available.Icanhonestly say that I wasn’t expecting the reboot that finally emerged— Confess, Fletch—to feel like a script that would have been written for a third Chevy Chase Fletch adventure, except with another actor. Even more improbably, Confess, Fletch works wonderfully not because Jon Hamm is at tempting some vague impression of Chase’s Fletch, right down to a Los Angeles Lakers cap, but because he just gets the kind of breezy comedic performance that anyone nostalgic for the original film is going to be delighted to see.
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Punch as a bubbleheaded influencer trying to explain the definition of “bespoke;” even Eugene Mirman in a smaller part as a coun try-club security guard weirdly obsessed with the J. Geils Band.
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home to Rome, where he’s looking into valuable paintings stolen from a wealthy count, and hooking up with the count’s lovely daughter, Angela (Lorenza Izzo). As he arrives in Boston, however, he finds that the rental house he has arranged is already occupied—with a dead body. And while Fletch would rather spend his time track ing down the paintings from potential con tacts like an art dealer named Horan (Kyle MacLachlan), he also has to deal with the fact that he has become a prime suspect in thatThatmurder.cat(s)-and-mouse game involves two local Boston homicide detectives, Mon roe (Roy Wood Jr.) and his new partner Griz (Ayden Mayeri), and a lot of Confess, Fletch ’s strongest comedic energy comes from interactions between the three of them, latching on to a kind of playful antagonism that feels reminiscent of the original Bev erly Hills Cop. It also helps that both Wood and Mayeri are terrific in their roles, part of a killer supporting cast that finds delightful performances everywhere you turn: Annie Mumolo as wacky, force-of-chaos neighbor of the murder scene; Marcia Gay Harden as Angela’s lusty stepmother, wrapping her lips around a Euro-mutt accent where our hero’s name becomes “Flessshhhhh;” Lucy
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haring your art with the world can be a scary, intimidating experience. You never know how the world is going to react to it, so you have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. Luckily, there’s a chance to build a community of like-mind ed people who appreciate what you’re put ting out there. For local singer-songwriter Rachael Jenkins, this happened pretty quickly. When she started releasing her music for the world to see, the world re sponded with love.
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The best way to keep up with Rachael Jenkins is via her Instagram page @rachi ichachii. You can also find her on TikTok under the same username. Catch her next show Thursday, Sept. 15 at The DLC (5 E. 400 South) in Salt Lake City; get tickets at quartersslc.com/the-dlc.
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By the time November of 2020 rolled around, her single “Untitled” started blow ing up on TikTok. The feedback from the app helped bring awareness to her music, getting the attention of Tinpot Records, where she ultimately signed. The new la bel, created in 2021, was built “with the artist firmly in mind,” according to their website.Withthe help of Tinpot and TikTok, “Un titled” skyrocketed in popularity. Current ly, the song boasts 1.9 million streams on Spotify. “I don’t think me or my label ex pected my first song to do as well as it did for a first single. I attribute that to TikTok,” saidWhileJenkins.Jenkins didn’t anticipate its pop ularity, one listen to the song reveals why so many love and connect with it. Jenkins blends a simple yet impactful guitar track with her enchanting and measured voice. She has an incredible tone and exceptional control over her voice, while the heart breaking subject matter of the song might leave you with goosebumps as you listen. Jenkins wrote it about her experience in the LDS Church, including ultimately leav ing it, and coming out as queer.
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Like many of us who became bored dur ing the pandemic, Jenkins joined TikTok at that time. She was interested in joining a supportive community that she could in teract with while building her confidence as a musician. She began posting short vid eos of herself singing, and after receiving positive response, she decided to get more serious about her music.
thing about her music: It’s so relatable. Her track “Allergy Season” re flects that. On the surface, anyone who suf fers physically from seasonal allergies will get it—they suck. But diving deeper into the song, listeners find a story about a tu
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not what I want. I also wasn’t sure if I want ed to perform,” she said. Jenkins put music on the backburner until college, when she enrolled in a songwriting course at Weber State University, where she was working on her degree. The class helped spark her creativity again, and helped her feel more open to writing music.
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form of singles, but eventually plans to re lease more and collect them into an EP. Her main goal with her music is to stay true to herself. “I just want to make very honest music. Which is hard because I find being honest hard sometimes,” she said. “Facing things is much more difficult. I want fans to know that I’m being as honest as pos sible and that the things I write and put out mean a lot to me, and that I’ll continue to do that.” She said that it’s validating to see the number of streams she’s gotten with her songs, but also expressed sympathy for listeners who have felt similar thoughts and feelings about the subject matter of herThat’smusic.the
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multuous relationship and the difficult re minders that come when emotional events take place during physically distressing times. “It’s about being taken aback by small things,” Jenkins said. “And not being able to control missing that person, even if it’s for the best.”
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“You’ve been wanting to do this forever and you were pretending like you didn’t, because you were too embarrassed to be on stage and to write songs,” Jenkins said to herself. “But it gave me confidence to write, and the community that came with it was warm and welcoming. Before, I associated it with anxiety, but it switched to fun and excitement.”Whileshe was growing up, performing was something Jenkins always dreamed of, but there was a lot of self-doubt for her, including negative feelings about her body image. “When I was younger, I wanted to be a pop star, but I slowly realized that’s
“It’s just a clusterfuck. Living in Utah, being a Mormon, leaving the church, com ing out as queer, trying to figure out what your beliefs are now, that’s a general idea for ‘Untitled.’ People take what they want from it though,” she said. The song is full of emotion, but one of the lines in her song is a gut-punch. Jenkins sings, “And I pray to a God that doesn’t care / At least not enough to be there.” Remember those aforemen tionedWhilegoosebumps?Jenkinshad some doubts about performing in the past, those feelings have mostly faded away. She absolutely beams when talking about performing live. “It’s so fun, I love it so much,” she said. “I love writing music and I love creating music, but I just got to play my first shows since high school with a band, and it’s so fun to get to create chemistry on stage.”
While Jenkins’ music could fit into a few genres, she doesn’t like to pin herself down to just one. “I don’t love labels, I know they’re important, but I’m so excited to explore what I want it to be,” she said. “Because there’s so much genre-bending to do and see that I’m excited to see what different things I enjoy making.”
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For Japanese trio Boris, creating music seems to be about constructing songs that come to them in the moment. They play a lot of heavier music, but their sound can vary, often mixing in poppy sounds to their hardcore vibe. Boris is another group that’s been around for decades, consist ing of members Takeshi, Wata, and Atsuo since 1996. The trio has kept busy over the last couple years, and has put out quite a bit of music dur ing the pandemic. The band was featured in a compilation of songs showcasing the diversity of the Japanese rock scene by Adult Swim. Entitled, Japan is Loud, the album features Boris’ track “X.” Supporting Boris is metal/alternative band Nothing. Their latest work, The Great Dismal, dives into the “existentialist themes of isola tion, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland,” as stated on their website. That’s something we can all relate to at this point. They were set to start recording the album in February 2020, but the world decided differently. Despite the chaos, Nothing decided to press on though, locking themselves away from family and friends to put the album together. The Great Dismal ended up being an emotional album, blending lyrical cynicism with unique sonic tones. The pandemic has made the world difficult in many ways, but it allowed focus for bands like Nothing to create intense art worth listening to. Boris and Nothing hit Metro Music Hall on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the 21+ show are $25 and can be found at metromusi chall.com (EA)
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If you’ve ever been a fan of Bowling For Soup, you may have contemplated the question, “Are they bowling to earn soup, or bowling on behalf of soup?” You might be able to get the answer when Bowling for Soup heads into town with tourmates Less Than Jake. This will be a good show for those who still love the pop-punk vibes of the early ‘90s and ‘00s. Bowling for Soup has a new album out entitled Pop Drunk Snot Bread, released earlier this year in April. The album fea tures fun tracks such as “I Wanna Be Brad Pitt,” showcasing the band’s staple humor they’ve been known for over their nearly three-decade long career. However, the group gets more sentimental over the course of the album with “The Best We Can,” a touching and heartfelt pop-punk ballad. Less Than Jake has also been around the block a few times. They have an extensive discography, and while they aren’t touring on brand new music, they have a few new singles, as well as an album from 2020 that can get some love at live shows. “That was definitely a weird time, not just for us but for every band that was trying to put out a record at that time,” band member Roger Lima told Worcester Magazine in June. “So much of that feeling of completion comes with getting out there and playing those new songs in front of people.” Bowling For Soup and Less Than Jake play at The Depot on Wednesday, Sept. 14, with doors at 6 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show are $32.50 at livenation.com. (Emilee Atkinson)
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Colorado-based neo-acoustic group Big Richard qualifies as a “super-group,” since each member comes from another well-established band. Big Richard came together in 2021, and quickly gained popularity for their charismatic stage performances. This description from their website perfectly encapsulates the group: “What began as an all-female fes tival collaboration quickly morphed into a serious passion project driven by sisterhood, harmony and humor–along with the shared desire to rage fiddle tunes and smash the patriarchy.” Watching this group play together is an abso lute treat. Their chemistry on the stage is infectiously unde niable, and they truly own each performance. Musically, they each bring a great talent, but there’s a lot to be said for the humor and joy they bring to the stage. In a live show back in April, cellist Joy Adams joked about a traditional song they perform called “Greasy Coat,” and how it’s an old-time song about condoms, according to GratefulWeb. They make the crowd laugh, and still offer tight performances, each member uber talented with the instrument they play. They have a video of this song on their YouTube channel, and even though it’s not a live show, you can still see the pure joy on their faces as they jam the fast-paced old-timey song on their string instruments. They fill the room with their energy, as well as their sound. Big Richard plays at The State Room on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the 21+ show are $25 at thestateroompresents.com. (EA) CW
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The Obsessed, Harvest of Ash, Hisingen @ Aces High Saloon 9/18
British indie rock band Porridge visits Salt Lake on their first U.S. tour. Known for their cathartic live performances, they’ve gone from small indie group to one of the U.K.’s most thrilling bands. Their latest work is entitled, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, and the name coincides with paintings that singer Dana Margolin was working on at the same time as the album. This new record is visceral and emotional, especially on the track “End of Last Year.” According to Margolin, it’s a love song for her bandmates and herself. “It’s about not trusting my intuition, not trust ing my body to heal itself, not trusting the people closest to me, but it is also an ode to all those people, and to difficult platonic love. It came out of a particularly painful period of communication breakdown and high pressure that hurt a lot, but ended in reconciliation and understand ing,” she states on the band’s website. Porridge Radio is joined by Blondshell, featuring L.A.-based singer/songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum. She’s a relatively new artist with no full album yet, but her singles pack a punch. Her somber track “Olympus” explores the heartbreak of being in love but knowing it’s not going to work out anyway. Blondshell’s singles so far are gritty and contemplative, and have seen hundreds of thousands of streams since releasing earlier this year, making her an artist to watch. Catch these two great bands at Kilby Court on Friday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets to the all-ages show are $15 and can be found at kilbycourt.com. (EA)
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Heavy metal outfit The Obsessed has been around since the late ‘70s, pioneering sounds in the doom metal genre. The lineup has gone through many changes over the years, but the constant has been guitar player and lead vocalist Scott “Wino” Weinrich. With a new lineup for 2022, The Obsessed is back on the road playing hits from their extensive discogra phy. Local metal band Harvest of Ash—a relatively new group that released their first EP in 2020—joins The Obsessed. They’ve since added a new song to their repertoire, and it’s sure to be heard while out at shows, as the group only has three songs out currently. That’s not to say there’s a shortage of performance material, though; their tracks range between 7-10 minutes each, so they take you on a journey with each one. The standout “Deadlights” from 2020 is an epic, heavy track that doesn’t get boring while listening through. The thought of a 10 minute song may sound daunting to some, but Harvest of Ash knows how to keep a song feeling fresh, and how to make listeners want more as they listen. Rounding out the show is another Utah native group, Hisingen. They describe themselves as a “blend of high stakes intergalactic space rock and post apocalyptic pseudo-socialist metal.” This group is pretty quiet online, but they have an album from 2016 to entertain crowds with, Hisingen I. Check out this metal show at Aces High Saloon on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the 21+ show are $15 advance, $20 day of show. Buy tickets at aceshighsaloon.com (EA)
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“Poetry is a life-cherishing force,” said Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, who published 33 volumes of poetry and read hundreds of other poets. Her statement isn’t true for everyone, of course. To reach the point where reading poetry provides our souls with nourishment, we may have to work hard to learn how to appreciate it. Some of us don’t have the leisure or temperament to do so. In any case, Cancerian, what are your life-cherishing forces? What influences inspire you to know and feel all that’s most precious about your time on earth? Now would be an excellent time to ruminate on those treasures—and take steps to nurture them with tender ingenuity.
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According to Libran poet T. S. Eliot, “What we call the begin ning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a begin ning. The end is where we start from.” Those are your guiding thoughts for the coming days, Libra. You’re almost ready to start fresh; you’re on the verge of being able to start planning your launch date or grand opening. Now all you have to do is cre ate a big crisp emptiness where the next phase will have plenty of room to germinate. The best way to do that is to finish the old process as completely as possible.
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Please promise me you will respect and revere your glorious star power in the coming weeks. I feel it’s important, both to you and those whose lives you touch, that you exalt and exult in your access to your magnificence. For everyone’s benefit, you should play freely with the art of being majestic and regal and sovereign. To do this right, you must refrain from indulging in trivial wishes, passing fancies and minor attractions. You must give yourself to what’s stellar. You must serve your holiest long ings, your riveting dreams and your thrilling hopes.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Your mind is sometimes a lush and beautiful maze that you get lost in. Is that a problem? Now and then, it is, yes. But just as often, it’s an entertaining blessing. As you wander around amid the lavish finery, not quite sure of where you are or where you’re going, you often make discoveries that rouse your half-dormant potentials. You luckily stumble into unforeseen insights you didn’t realize you needed to know. I believe the description I just articulated fits your current ramble through the amazing maze. My advice: Don’t be in a mad rush to escape. Allow this dizzying but dazzling expedition to offer you all its rich teachings.
Tips for the next six weeks: 1. Be the cautiously optimistic voice of reason—the methodical motivator who prods and inspires. Organize as you uplift. Encourage others as you build efficiency. 2. Don’t take other people’s apparent stupidity or rudeness as personal affronts. Try to understand how the suffering they endured may have led to their behavior. 3. Be your own father. Guide yourself as a wise and benevolent male elder would. 4. Seek new ways to experience euphoria and enchantment, with an emphasis on what pleasures will also make you healthier.
Aquarian author Richard Ford has advice for writers: “Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.” I will amend his counsel to apply to all of you non-writers, as well. The coming weeks will be prime time to be gleefully honest as you identify what causes commotions in your heart. Why should you do that? Because it will lead you to the good decisions you need to make in the coming months. As you attend to this holy homework, I suggest you direct the following invitation to the universe: “Beguile me, mystify me, delight me, fascinate me and rouse me to feel deep, delicious feelings.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
“Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked,” said Sagittarian author Elizabeth Berg. I suspect her theory will be true for you in the coming weeks. You have done an adroit job of formulating your intentions and collecting the information you need to carry out your intentions. What may be best now is to relax your focus as you make room for life to respond to your diligent preparations. “I’m a great believer in luck,” said my Uncle Ned. “I’ve found that the harder I work, the more luck I have.” He was correct, but it’s also true that luck sometimes surges your way when you’ve taken a break from your hard work.
My reader Monica Ballard has this advice for you Aries folks: “If you don’t vividly ask for and eagerly welcome the gifts the Universe has in store for you, you may have to settle for trinkets and baubles. So, never settle.” That’s always useful counsel for you Rams. And in the coming weeks, you will be wise to heed it with extra intensity. Here’s a good metaphor to spur you on: Don’t fill up on junk snacks or glitzy hors d’oeuvres. Instead, hold out for gourmet feasts featuring healthy, delec table entrées.
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It’s impossible to be perfect. It’s neither healthy nor produc tive to obsess on perfectionism. You know these things. You understand you can’t afford to get bogged down in overthinking and overreaching and overpolishing. And when you are at your best, you sublimate such manic urges. You transform them into the elegant intention to clarify and refine and refresh. With grace and care, you express useful beauty instead of aiming for hyper-immaculate precision. I believe that in the coming weeks, dear Virgo, you will be a master of these services—skilled at performing them for yourself and others.
Now and then, you slip into phases when you’re poised on the brink of either self-damage or self-discovery. You wobble and lurch on the borderline where self-undoing vies with selfcreation. Whenever this situation arises, here are key questions to ask yourself: Is there a strategy you can implement to ensure that you glide into self-discovery and self-creation? Is there a homing thought that will lure you away from the perverse temp tations of self-damage and self-undoing? The answers to these queries are always yes— if you regard love as your top priority and if you serve the cause of love over every other consideration.
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do,” observed Piscean author Anaïs Nin. “Some people fill the gaps, and others emphasize my loneliness.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, it’s your task right now to identify which people intensify your loneliness and which really do fill the gaps. And then devote yourself with extra care to cultivating your connections with the gap-fillers. Loneliness is sometimes a good thing—a state that helps you renew and deepen your communion with your deep self. But I don’t belief that’s your assignment these days. Instead, you’ll be wise to experience intimacy that enriches your sense of feeling at home in the world. You’ll thrive by consorting with allies who sweeten your love of life.
BY ROB BREZSNY
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
I will remind you about a potential superpower that is your birthright to develop: You can help people to act in service to the deepest truths and strongest love. You can even teach them how to do it. Have you been ripening this talent in 2022? Have you been bringing it more to the forefront of your relationships? I hope so. The coming months will stir you to go further than ever before in expressing this gift. For best results, take a vow to nurture the deepest truths and strongest love in all your thoughts and dealings with others.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
My buyers figured out which ones they needed to sell, and we found a great house where they still live today. If I recall, one card was a Mickey Mantle.
Other clients I worked with had a slightly different problem when they handed me a neatly wrapped piece of tissue paper to say they would use “emeralds” as their earnest money and down payment. When I opened the tiny packet, I saw 10 green pieces of what looked like Jujube candy. I had no idea if they were real gems or what their value might be, and neither did my broker.
My own brokerage is not set up to accept cryptocurrencies. Regardless, I would still have to prove a buyer’s earnest money of any kind (cash, check or wired funds) was valuable currency that could be transferred into an escrow account once the buyers’ of fer was accepted. n
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So, a day later, the lender came back and said my buyers could use the cards as a down payment but would have to: A. Sell the cards for the appropriate amount for the down payment and B. provide a receipt for the sale.
Another, mint-condition Mantle card sold last month for $12.6 million—the most paid for a sports memorabilia card and possibly the most for any kind of sports memorabilia to date. A Honus Wagner card recently sold for $7.25 million—the second highest amount for memorabilia in all of sports—soSomethingfar.tells me that the legends of the all-American game of baseball would not have minded that their faces were used to buy housing for first-time buyers.
In this case, the seller of the home want ed assurances the stones were real. My bro ker went to O.C. Tanner and had the gems appraised and found that they did have ap propriate value, which satisfied the seller.
I asked our favorite mortgage broker— Julie Brizzee with Intercap Lending—if a buyer could use cryptocurrency as a down payment. She replied, “It’s like selling a car for the down. I would have to provide docu mentation of value—an appraisal of value— then a bill of sale and receipt of funds.”
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We went to a creative lender I liked and presented the idea of buying a home with old printed pieces of cardboard, and the lender said “I think I can get you a loan, but let me talk to the underwriter.”
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n Amanda Kean of Providence, Rhode Island, headed out for work in the early hours of Aug. 22 with her ear pods in, listen ing to a true-crime podcast. On her 45-minute trip to Easton, Massachusetts, she stopped for gas. It wasn’t until she arrived at her workplace, Honey Dew Donuts, that she discovered a stow away in her back seat: “I hear moaning, like a moaning noise,” she told WJAR-TV. “I roll down my window because (I wanted to) check outside ... I realized it was not coming from outside my truck, it was coming from inside of my truck.” Tucked on the floor in the back seat was Jose Osorio, 21, of Providence. And he was mostly naked. Police said he was “extremely intoxicated” and admitted later that he had also consumed marijuana. He was charged with breaking and entering a vehicle. Kean was unhurt but “was so mad. If he had made noises or popped up while I was driving, I could’ve crashed.”
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n The Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand is prepared for animal escapes. How do we know this? On Aug. 23, the zoo staged an annual drill to teach zoo workers how to respond to an escape, CNN reported. For the drill, one employee dressed in an ostrich costume, complete with tail feathers and a long neck and head, while others chased him through the zoo’s Africa Zone. Some couldn’t help giggling as the “ostrich” bobbed his head and body up and down to imitate the bird’s gait. When they caught the faux ostrich, they put a hood over its head and led it back to its enclosure.
“He was only successful a few of the times out of the many times he tried at area banks,” Toner said. He faces 13 counts of burglary in the second degree.
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Duane Hansen, 60, has fulfilled a long-held dream of his: to paddle the Missouri River in a pumpkin, NBC News reported. On Aug. 27, Hansen set out in an 846-pound pumpkin for a 38-mile
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After a punishing two-year hiatus because of COVID, the World Gravy Wrestling Championships returned to Rossendale, Lancashire, England, on Aug. 29, the BBC reported. During the contest, entrants grapple in a pool of gravy for two minutes to raise money for East Lancashire Hospice. Carol Lowe, restaurant manager of the Rose ‘n’ Bowl Pub where the event took place, said people came from “far and wide” and the atmosphere was “absolutely bouncing.” Competitors are encouraged to don “fancy dress” and are also graded on entertainment value. “It’s very messy,” Lowe conceded.
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Over the Labor Day weekend, former boxer Mike Tyson (now a cannabis mogul, accord ing to NJ.com) was set to debut his “bittenear-shaped” edibles at three New Jersey dispensaries. Tyson, you may remember, bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear, then spit it out, 25 years ago this summer during a boxing match in Las Vegas. In an interview earlier this year, Tyson said the “bittenear” product is his way of controlling the narrative about the infamous moment. “They fined me $3 million for biting his ear,” he said. The edibles are a “way to flip it to the positive side.”
n On Aug. 20, New Hampshire Fish and Game officers were called to an Appalachian Mountain Club hut in Bethlehem to confront Brian Cheverier, 35, of Boylston, WMUR-TV reported. Around 6 p.m., Cheverier was found atop the hut, naked, where he had been threatening hikers; officers said he was “highly agitated.” Cheverier descended from the roof of the hut around 10 p.m. and was escorted to the Zealand Trailhead parking lot, where he was taken into custody.
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Sean Stewart, 27, of Snohomish County, Washington, has been doing a lot of fishing lately—but not for the aquatic specimens Washington is known for. Instead, KIRO-TV reported, Stewart has been using a rodent glue trap attached to a fishing line to take money out of night deposit boxes around the area. “This particu lar method is pretty unique, we haven’t seen that one before,” said Jason Toner, chief of the Stanwood Police Department. A Wells Fargo branch in Stanwood was able to capture video of Stewart, although he also hit more than a dozen other banks.
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float on the Big Muddy to celebrate his 60th birthday. “I’ve been dreaming about this,” he said. “This has been a five-year jour ney to get a pumpkin that’s big enough.” Hansen grew the pumpkin himself; his wife named it Berta.
n Deputy Casey Thrower, a 40-year veteran of the Madison County (Alabama) Sheriff’s office, was making rounds on Aug. 26 to deliver civil documents when two goats started exploring his patrol car, Fox13-TV reported. Thrower found one goat inside the car, chewing on paperwork, and another goat on top of the vehicle. Fortunately he thought to make a video as he scolded them for their antics, ordering one to get out of the car. “Don’t eat that!” Thrower can be heard yelling. He explained that he often leaves his door open so he can flee from attacking dogs after he delivers legal documents.
Tempe, Arizona, Mayor Jennifer Adams is expected to recover from her injuries after being thrown from her horse, Bucky, on Aug. 28, AZCentral reported. Adams was warming up Bucky for a trail ride when the horse started running and—well—bucking. When the reins broke, Adams was tossed to the floor of the arena, resulting in broken ribs, a punctured lung and a concus sion. She credits her helmet with saving her life: “If I didn’t have it on, I would be dead.” While recovering, she’ll cover her mayoral duties remotely.
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