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Cover Story, p. 14 New York-based film critic Danny Bowes, sometimes an actor and filmmaker, also writes novels and screenplays; he’s currently working on “a book of film criticism and aesthetic philosophy” under the working title How to Watch Movies. For smart laughs delivered in 140 characters or less, follow him on Twitter: @bybowes.

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Letters Enough About Gay Marriage Already

“Geez,” I muttered, as I removed a copy of this week’s City Weekly from the rack, “another article about same-sex marriage?” [“A Match Made in Heaven,” Jan. 15].   Listen, my friends, it is getting to be a bit much. It seems that every week, or every other week (it’s not like I keep a tally—this is my impression), there is yet another cover story or article discussing the sundry travails of the LGBT community. Believe me, by now, I get it, and, if I may daresay, we get it. I am as liberal as they come and absolutely support anyone’s right to live their life as they desire. Those samesex marriages have my best wishes; I hope that they have better luck than I have had in my dismal attempts at heterosexual marriage! The LGBT are a small minority—a very small minority—of the population at large. And I’d wager that most of these LGBT issues are of interest primarily to the LGBT community rather than your readership at large. And, if I am not mistaken, there is at least one (perhaps two) local publications that cater to their interests.   Surely there are any number of other pressing matters to which City Weekly could devote its energies? It seems that lately you are “all LGBT, all the time,” and it is becoming tiresome. How about giving it a rest?

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Suicide Watch Doesn’t Work at Utah State Prison

A 22-year-old mentally ill kid who is on “suicide watch” is allowed to jump off a fixture and crush his skull like a melon [“Mental Lockdown,” Dec. 11, 2014, City Weekly]. Isn’t “suicide watch” a precaution that takes away the tools that facilitate self-injury, e.g. lights/projections to anchor a noose to, razors to cut oneself, fixtures to jump off of? The Utah State Prison (USP) has been appropriated money in the past to build cells for this purpose. In fact, there are suicide-prevention cells in the infirmary at the prison. Why wasn’t Ryan Allison in one of those cells? Why didn’t Allison’s file raise red flags for the past four years? Why didn’t the previous article on Allison in the City Weekly [“Lost in the Hole,” Sept. 27, 2012] raise that red flag within the prison? Surely, it put the Utah State Prison on notice. The fact is that the USP punishes mentally ill prisoners. When they are at their lowest, the USP puts them naked in a freezing cell with no mattress, no blanket, no toilet paper—nothing. They are totally isolated from social/caring interaction, with no friendly person to lean on. This physical torture and further isolation only exacerbates their suicidal thoughts, depression and feelings of aloneness. Allison is not the first person at the USP to injure himself while on “suicide watch.”

An audit/investigation needs to be done to discover how many USP inmates have injured themselves while on suicide watch, where one would think the goal would be to create humane, effective suicide watch/prevention and accompanying conditions. It is a cry for help from the grave that echoes across time. I knew Ryan Allison, and he would want his death to bring attention and resolution to other suffering of others. We are only allowed 300 words: Remember Ryan Allison, No. 198279.

Paul Payne No. 47248 Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility Las Cruces, N.M. Correction: An incorrect website was given for Erica Hammon (5 Spot, Jan. 15, City Weekly). Her website is actually LookListenLearnBooks.com.

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Vernal Justice

There are good reasons to take a trip to Vernal. Dinosaur bones, for one. Perhaps you have dealings with the Uintah Basin’s booming oil & gas industry but don’t choose to live where the air can be more toxic than in Salt Lake City or Los Angeles. Maybe you’re just passing through to a Colorado herbal dispensary. I recently made the trek for another reason. On Jan. 8, 2015, 25 environmental activists previously arrested in two incidents in September 2014 for protesting outside permitted areas had their day in court. Protesters were targeting the first tar-sands mining operations on acreage managed by the School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). The state agency oversees 4.5 million acres held in trust for Utah’s schools that generate revenue from mineral and fossil-fuel extraction leases. In 2014, for example, Salt Lake City School District’s cut was about $1.5 million. Who doesn’t want more money for education? But there’s a catch. Squeezing a barrel—about 250 pounds—of oil from 2 tons of tar sands (also called oil or bituminous sands) is one of the filthiest ways to produce energy. Unlike liquid crude, these “tight reserves” require strip mining of the ore as well as the use of chemical solvents and lots of hard-to-come-by water to turn it into a liquid. It must also be transported in what will involve endless convoys of traffic-clogging tanker trucks on our highways, followed by processes in Wasatch Front refineries that will add even more junk to our already foul atmosphere. Mining tar sands has impacted an area the size of Florida in northern Canada, where the heavy metals released are thought to be impacting the health of the native peoples living downstream. Nevermind that we’re still talking about a fossil fuel, the burning of which will further exacerbate the growing global climate crisis. Tar sands are the polar opposite of solar panels and wind turbines. Putting a halt to such a damaging, poorly

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conceived and questionably legal process is what prompted the activists with Utah Tar Sands Resistance, Peaceful Uprising and other individuals to put their freedom on the line and do more than just hold signs and chant songs in the middle of the boonies where tar-sands operations have begun. Their acts of civil disobedience included entering the facilities, chaining themselves to equipment and resisting arrest. But something happened on the way to prison sentences. The legal eagles on both sides of the issue agreed that saddling a bunch of idealistic 20-somethings with felonies and sending them to jail for up to five years with heavy fines might not be the best way to serve the public good or protect the rule of law. One of the protesters was law student Ashlyn Ruga. Her father, Salt Lake Cit y businessman and law yer Jonathan Ruga, believed his daughter ’s cause was just and supported her dissent. He headed for Vernal, got the bail reduced from $112,000 to $4,500 for his daughter and her colleagues, and assembled a defense team including civil-liberties attorneys Monte Sleight, Trent Ricks and Greg Skordas, who put in several hundred hours of pro bono work. In Uintah County prosecutor Mark Thomas, they found someone willing to do the right thing and see justice served in a less exacting way than what the original charges called for. Felonies were reduced to misdemeanors, and plea deals turned jail time into community service of no more than 120 hours for the various defendants. The most affable judge I’ve seen in a courtroom, Edwin Peterson, went out of his way to ensure fairness and justice could co-exist. I rode back to Salt Lake City with three members of the defense team to discuss the case and the law in general, and my

opinion of lawyers went up. During those four hours, I learned that Sleight and Ricks put the right to civil protest and the exercise of free speech ahead of their own personal views (which tend to lean left and green). As such they’d volunteered in May 2014 to provide assistance for states’ rights protesters who rode ATVs up Recapture Canyon in San Juan County in defiance of the BLM that had closed the trail to protect archeological sites. That group ended up using its own attorneys, but these two barristers were willing to fight for the freedom to dissent, regardless of where folks sit on the political spectrum. It was a reminder to me that our adversarial legal system calls for zealous representation for all defendants if the law is to be served and our rights are to be preserved, especially in our ability through peaceful protest to influence our society and how we govern ourselves. Both sides were served in this instance. The state sent a message that breaking the law through civil disobedience will continue to have consequences. The protesters showed their willingness to pay the price for their actions, and again got their message into the media spotlight. They’re committed to continuing the fight with ongoing protests at the site, although some must stay at least 300 feet away from it for 18 months. They hope in time to convince even more Uintah Basin residents to look beyond the immediate financial benefit of exploiting dirty fuel reserves and place their health and that of their children ahead of a handful of high-paying jobs and bigger numbers on a bottom line. So add one more thing you can find in Vernal: justice meted out fairly and with a degree of compassion. It was well worth the trip. CW

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What cause is worth protesting and possibly being arrested for? Scott Renshaw: Anything that moves you to the point that you realize justice demands it.

Jeff Chipian: I might protest them making another My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I’m tired of answering if the movie is accurate or not. But if they would want me in the movie, then I might reconsider. #SellOut

BJ Viehl: I think it is our responsibility as residents of this planet to never stop fighting for the protection of all humans, animals and the environment. Activists throughout history have been compared to extremists, criminals or worse. Being arrested is not important when it comes to protecting the most important things in our lives. Derek Carlisle: Freedom of assembly is important to us all. Very interesting how much land we as a people are no longer allowed to march on or even be standing on in individual protest. Without this fundamental right to protest, we the people are left gagged.

Jeremiah Smith: Brew vies taking the Southwest egg rolls off their menu is the best reason to protest and get arrested ever. Unfortunately, the flesh is weak, and I am still drawn inside, every time, and I leave my picket sign in the car. I do make plenty of snide comments to the staff about it over beers though. We shall overcome.

Colby Frazier: I got kicked out of the race for student-body president at Spanish Fork High School for handing out condoms. We had a high rate of pregnancy, and I thought it was a great campaign strategy.

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As the second Clean Air, No Excuses Rally approaches, so does permitting HollyFrontier refinery’s request to expand. HollyFrontier is building another refinery in the Salt Lake Valley, and the Sierra Club believes this will increase emissions dramatically. HollyFrontier says no, those emissions will decrease. You might recall that HollyFrontier already violated emissions levels and installed new equipment under a consent decree. But a new refinery can only add to the problem. The Sierra Club then took a swipe at Gov. Gary Herbert, who advocates individual voluntary measures to clean the air. This all came after his campaign accepted donations from oil, gas, oil shale and other energy companies—“nearly $1 out of every $6,” according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Un-Chartered Waters Maybe in New Orleans, charter schools were the logical answer after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the education infrastructure. And we’ll give New York City a pass on some of its charters for low-income kids. But here in Utah, the original idea was to provide innovative ideas in a parent-driven environment so that all public education might benefit. That has morphed largely into a movement ultimately seeking vouchers to privatize education. Now, Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, comes along wanting to turn failing schools into charters. Who will run these? He thinks the state board of education, which can barely oversee the charters now, can do it. The schools likely will be turned over to management companies whose real goal is revenue generation. Albert Shanker, the father of the movement, thought charters could “promote social mobility for working-class children and social cohesion among America’s increasingly diverse populations.” Now we just want them to test better.

Priming the Pump Gas taxes have never been popular in freewheeling Utah, and the latest poll from Utah State University and the Exoro Group proves that. Most of those polled gave a thumbs up to an incometax increase for public schools—an issue they say is the most pressing for the state. Only a little more than a third of those polled favored a gas tax. It’s always troubling when more money goes to roads than to kids, but that’s the way it’s been in the past. Frankly, the gas tax hasn’t been raised since 1997, and there’s probably a need. But it might go over better if Utah were to invest in cleaner gas. Just sayin’.

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Linda Strasburg, Utah’s longest-running female DJ, got her start in radio in 1992. She has also given seminars on cruise ships and, when she was a child, lived at her family’s Storybook Ranch in Durango, Colo., where they raised rodeo horses. Strasburg can be heard on her show InterViews & InterActions on K-Talk Radio (630 AM, K-Talk.com) every Saturday at 5 p.m.

How did you get started in radio?

It was like out of the movies. I was getting my master’s in communications and was driving home and heard an ad on the radio for “producer wanted.” I thought, “That would look good on a résumé.” I made a quick left, right when I heard it, and went down there and said, “I’ll produce for you.” They said, “OK, you can be the producer for this lady who’s a psychologist.” People would call in, and she’d do armchair psychology. But she got really mad one day and wouldn’t go on the air. She just left. I called the station owner and said, “You’re going to have silence for the next hours.” He said, “You go on the air.” So I called all my friends and said, “Just call in and say something, ’cause I need to do the program.” The question I posed was, “What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to overcome in your life?” And that got the conversation going. About a week later, he started getting all these letters from people saying they’d loved the show, so he asked me to do the show.

How do you pick your topics?

I have a sixth sense about what’s coming up in the future—not psychic or anything; just what people are interested in, and trends. Now, I have people asking me to come on my program, so I just pick the cream of the crop. At the end of the program, I want people to have learned something new, to have opened up their minds. It’s not confrontational; I don’t do politics or really negative stuff. After about 10 years, they asked me to be more confrontational, but I said, “That’s not me.”

Why aren’t you more confrontational? Aren’t you on K-Talk?

We have so many talk-show hosts that are polarizing this country. And I thought, “I’m not going to do that.” I look at things and see different perspectives. I’m good at putting the spotlight on my guests, and let them shine. They let me have totally creative control over mine, and they’ve never hassled me if I’ve done something that’s to the left. They’re very open-minded about their programs. At one time, it was really right, but right now, it’s really eclectic.

What’s a question you would ask yourself? Probably, “What’s coming up in the future?” There’s this guy I have on who comes on every year in January. He comes on and predicts where we’re going in the world, America. I like the phrase he uses, that we’re spirituality bankrupt in this country. In the future, I’m going to focus on getting a spiritual aspect.

You don’t seem to have any trouble trying new things. What’s your secret? First, you have to validate yourself. Validate what you think you have to offer the world. And once you find that, then you can be daring. When you have that internal confidence, and people out here are not telling you who you are or what you are, and you have your own internal guidance system, then you can take a risk, because you know that no one can take you away from yourself. They asked men and women in their ’80s what they regretted, and they said that they didn’t take more chances, more risks, in relationships, jobs. You don’t have to be stupid about it, but a calculated risk is where you learn the most. I’ve interviewed a lot of successful people, and they all had that confidence. Some of them went through a lot of bad stuff to find it. But once you find that, you can conquer the world.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Dirty Money

BY CECIL ADAMS

My mother always asked us to wash our hands after touching money whenever possible. But is money really so out-and-out filthy that you risk serious illness every time you hand over cash at a drive-thru and then eat your burger? And: Do hundred-dollar bills really have measurable amounts of cocaine on them? —Bruce, Castro Valley, Calif. Get ready for a deluge of I-told-you-so e-mail from vindicated mothers everywhere—in Bangladesh, for instance, where a 2006 study found that about 1 in 11 paper banknotes tested were contaminated with E. coli or similar bacteria. This isn’t to say that Bangladeshis are literally wiping their butts with money (practically speaking, that’s more likely to happen on Wall Street), but rather that bacteria are everywhere, including on currency. And unlike public toilets, twenties don’t get hosed down every so often. Lest you think Bangladesh particularly unhygienic, 103 different fungal colonies were found on 60 randomly selected Egyptian banknotes—some of which were producing toxins. Some Philippine currency notes carried the cysts and ova of intestinal parasites, and were subsequently eliminated from use. Topping the list of diseased and potentially hazardous currency is Nigeria, where 90 percent of paper money is a home for bacteria. (Nigerian bills that were retired after heavy circulation proved to be so contaminated they were deemed a risk to treasury workers’ lung function.) American money might be slightly cleaner. A 2002 study in Ohio that collected and cultured 68 one-dollar bills produced a total of 93 bacterial samples; while 88 of these could pose a threat to people with compromised immune systems, five would be considered dangerous even to the healthy. For context, a similar experiment in Kentucky in 1972 turned up 26 of the scarier bacteria after swabbing 50 lowdenomination bills, a rate more than seven times higher—evidence that in some limited ways American life may have become less disgusting over the last 40 years. And yes, roughly 4 out of 5 American bills bear cocaine residue—but only because the powder is so fine that one patient-zero bill in an ATM can easily and quickly spread it to thousands. Don’t get too excited, though: These amounts are so small that no one’s getting high off the U.S. Mint’s supply. Pretty much everything has germs on it, and most of them won’t kill you. Gas-pump handles, kitchen sinks, your date’s mouth— you name it, it’s probably coated with invisible bugs. Furthermore, we couldn’t find any specific studies that tied illness incidence to handling money. If you’re really paranoid, I suppose you could stick to coins, whose copper content seems to suppress their bacteria load. On the other hand, this will limit your cash purchases to gumballs, and may lead to even more awkwardness than usual when visiting strip clubs. Your mom probably warned you against those, too, but we’ll keep our noses out it.

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I am curious about the use of antibacterial hand gels that are commonly used to disinfect hands. Does excessive use of this substance (say, 40-plus times a day) somehow increase the risk of developing resistant bacteria, much in the same way as prescription of antibiotics has? —Felix Heh. One of my little researchers used to deride Purell users as germ wussies. It took one trip to Thailand, three handsanitizer-less days and many, many trips to the bathroom before she saw the light. That said, worrying about Purell resistance suggests some possible apples/oranges confusion on your part. Antibiotics work by disabling certain specific functions of a bacterial cell. For example, penicillin weakens cell walls. Occasionally some rogue bacillus will have some genetic variant rendering its walls penicillin-proof. Usually, your immune system can handle one or two of these guys. But when you take antibiotics needlessly, or incompletely, or off schedule, you may wind up wiping out the nonresistant bacteria and thus selectively breeding the resistant ones, which can then become the main source of infection. A recent example is every college student’s nightmare: a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea. Alcoholic hand sanitizers, on the other hand, kill germs by first dissolving their lipid-based outer membranes and then dehydrating the proteins inside. Since nearly all bacteria have lipid membranes, 10-second submersion in alcohol can destroy all sorts of deadly and otherwise unpleasant bugs, from E. coli to staph. (The exceptions are bacterial spores like anthrax, which are basically the cockroaches of the bacterial world: They’ve got extremely thick outer coats and can survive extreme temperatures, chemical damage, and probably nuclear warfare if it came down to it.) For most bacteria, alcohol does such sweeping damage that becoming resistant to it would require a monumental structural leap—it would be like humans developing the ability to breathe without oxygen. It’s not evolutionarily impossible, I guess, but so far the survival rate is zero. So why don’t we cure tuberculosis with alcohol? You try soaking your lungs in 190proof ethanol—not only would you die, but they might burst into flame. Cool, perhaps, but ultimately ineffective. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Participate & Speak Out  For the next 45 days or so, your elected representatives are going to get together in well-lighted marble rooms at the Capitol to hammer out laws that will no doubt dominate the evening news. But why not witness the people’s business for yourself? To aid in these efforts, several groups will host events to give the public a schooling on how to elbow their way into the legislative process. But before the Legislature gets going, attend a meeting of the Salt Lake City Police Civilian Review Board, which, in the wake of another fatal police shooting, could be electric.

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Salt Lake City’s Police Civilian Review Board will receive some training on the state’s Government Records and Management Act (GRAMA), and hear a report from its last quarter of business— both interesting, but not typically hardcharging topics. But you will be given the chance to speak your mind during the public comment section in regard to the Jan. 8 fatal shooting by Salt Lake City police of a snow-shovel wielding man.  Plaza 349, 349 S. 200 East, Suite 150, Jan. 22, 5 p.m., SLCGov.com/ civilianreview

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Nursing a Grudge

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A call for change by SLCC administrators sparks an exodus of longtime nursing faculty.

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By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp The nine Salt Lake Community College nursing instructors who gathered in the American Federation of Georgia Teachers union hall in Anderson Midvale in December were not there for the free coffee. For nearly all of those at the table, the preceding four months had led them to either retire early or quit. This exodus now numbers 13 faculty and staff members, many of them tenured, accounting for a large portion of the full-time nursing-school staff at what is one of the largest nursing schools in the state. Around and around the complaints flew. Nurses with two decades of teaching chops—along with those just starting down the path—rattled off an array of circumstances and problems that led them to walk away from their jobs. And at the epicenter of their complaints is the nursing school’s interim associate dean, Francine Weiss. “When you have more than threequarters of your full-time seasoned faculty members, many of whom have been there for over 15 years, saying ‘This is intolerable,’ there is something terribly, terribly wrong, and we cannot keep going like this,” says Jane Jensen, a nine-year veteran nursing instructor who, along with longtime faculty members Georgia Anderson and Jennie Barnes, retired early at the conclusion of the fall 2014 semester. “The program is suffering, the students are suffering and the faculty is suffering. Nobody has taken us seriously.” Problems with the inner gears of the nursing program have included an outdated curriculum and a dip to 74 percent proficiency in 2013 (85 percent is the school’s goal) on the national licensing exam, which all nurses must pass. These problems and others were cited by administrators prior to Weiss’ hiring in fall 2014. And, although she confirmed that 13 faculty and staff members have left the school either during, or shortly before her tenure began, Weiss says this flight isn’t unusual.

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Nurses making noise: “We’re vocal,” Kim Dumas says. “I’ve seen that before,” Weiss says of the faculty departures. “Staff comes and goes. We have turnover in staff.” Kim Dumas, who resigned because of the working conditions under Weiss, says that in her 10 years at the school, only two faculty members left. Weiss says the problems facing the program were caused by the faculty, not the administration. But Dumas says Weiss changed the times and dates of classes, shuffled membership on various staff committees, and arbitrarily disciplined faculty members, all factors that led Dumas and others to quit their jobs. Since Weiss had taken the reins of the program, her critics say, a culture of disrespect for the faculty permeated the nursing school. When instructors tried to engage Weiss in meetings and via e-mail, they say no reply was sent, or that meetings with Weiss were abruptly ended. Weiss denies that she was ever unresponsive, saying regular faculty meetings were held and she did everything she could to respond to the needs of her faculty. “That’s not true,” she says. “They absolutely have been listened to.” But former instructors say it was a lack of communication that caused alterations in how the school interfaced with hospitals, and ultimately, prompted instructors to walk away from their jobs.

Everything Started Coming Apart Russell Shipley, a nursing instructor at the school for the past six years, says he looked on as Weiss ignored his and his colleagues’ suggestions and arbitrarily punished them. It got to the point, Shipley says, that he had to quit, if for no other

reason than to prevent his name from being associated with the college. Shipley began his resignation letter, dated Dec. 22, 2014—which was sent to Weiss and Clifton Sanders, interim provost of academic affairs—this way: “Congratulations!!! One more name to check off your list.” “Now, I am ashamed to have my name associated with SLCC,” Shipley wrote. “Throughout the fall semester of 2014, I, along with many other faculty in the Department of Nursing, have endured harassment from the administration. We have endured manipulation of the truth and at times outright lies regarding faculty interactions. “To remain at SLCC would require that I either lower my ethical standards and compromise my integrity, or, come to work every day wondering if this is the day I will be wrongly accused and persecuted.” Citing rules regarding personnel confidentiality, Joy Tlou, an SLCC spokesman, declined to comment on any of the specifics behind faculty departures. Over the course of multiple interviews, Tlou did admit the school has had difficulty with certain nursing faculty members. And he points to a document, called a Notice of Concern, written in April 2014 by former Provost Christopher Picard. The letter outlined a string of issues facing the nursing program. They range from a high number of student complaints about poor teaching, to concerns that the nursing curriculum was outdated, to nursing staff not treating each other, or their superiors, with respect. And, though Tlou declined to mention names, he says some of these issues were caused by nurses who recently

departed. “This letter was describing conditions that, according to the provost, according to the college leadership, already existed,” Tlou says, noting that the letter was written prior to Weiss being hired. “I suspect those conditions were created by those very people who are complaining now.” But it is broad finger-pointing like this that irks some of the former instructors, who were well aware of the letter and its concerns. Dumas says some of the concerns stated in the letter are real, but that punishing 20 faculty members isn’t the right way to solve the problems. By sheer faculty size and length of tenure, the nursing program, Dumas says, is large. And with around 500 students enrolled each semester, SLCC students often make up the largest number of students from schools in Utah taking the national licensing exam. Since nurses are taught to question when things are amiss, Dumas says she and her colleagues weren’t afraid to make noise. “We’re vocal, and we’re a lot more than people are used to dealing with,” Dumas says, noting that she believed part of the motivation for the notice of concern was a blunt way to ask the nurses to stop bugging the administration. “If there’s a problem, yeah, it’s going to be a bigger voice coming from nursing. That’s just how it was.” Any problems the program was saddled with prior to Weiss’ arrival, however, worsened quickly once she arrived, the former nursing instructors say. One of the points outlined in the Notice of Concern regards the quality of the school’s curriculum. According to Dumas, Shipley and other instructors, efforts were afoot to reboot the

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Slightest Provocation Cornelius Jefferson, 33, moved from Georgia to Kentucky to be with a woman he met online but wound up assaulting her, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office reported, because he “didn’t think she was like she was on the Internet.” Deputy Gilbert Acciardo Jr. didn’t say how the woman failed to match her online persona, only that Jefferson choked her, threw food on her and then left with his suitcases. (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Clarifications of the Week After Gail McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, repeatedly declared that 91 cents of every $1 donated goes toward disaster-relief efforts, the organization abruptly removed the claim from its website. “The language used has not been as clear as it could have been,” the Red Cross announced, “and we are clarifying the language.” The subsequent official clarification was that 91 cents of every $1 the Red Cross spends goes for disaster relief. (NPR) n A witness in the London trial of African preacher Gilbert Deya testified for more than an hour before anyone realized the Sierra Leone native wasn’t speaking English. During the 38-yearold woman’s testimony, lawyers blamed the courtroom’s poor acoustics for their inability to understand her, and repeatedly told her to speak more slowly and stand back from the microphone. Finally, court clerk Christiana Kyemenu-Caiquo, also from Sierra Leone, informed Judge Nicholas Madge that the witness was speaking a native Creole dialect. Kyemenu-Caiquo was sworn in to translate the testimony, which consisted of “I can’t remember” to every question. (London Evening Standard)

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Drinking-Class Heroes Police arrested Richard Curzon, 57, in Omaha, Neb., after observing him straddling the centerline while driving with four flat tires and a deployed airbag. An officer tried to stop Curzon, but he refused to pull over and led the officer on a brief, lowspeed chase. Blood-alcohol level: .253. (Omaha World-Herald) n Vermont State Police said Dwayne Fenlason, 48, was drunk when he drove his pickup off the road in Pomfret and when he went home and got a second truck to pull out the first truck but drove the second truck off the road. He went home again and got his all-terrain vehicle to pull out both trucks but this time was arrested for drunk driving. Blood-alcohol level: .30 (Burlington’s WCAX-TV) n Authorities arrested a 39-year-old woman for drunken driving in Paw Paw (“located in the heart of Michigan’s wine country,” the village website proclaims) after she pulled into the parking lot of the Van Buren County Jail and told the sheriff’s deputy who confronted her that she believed it was a bar. Blood-alcohol level: .17 (Kalamazoo Gazette) n Responding to a complaint that a man was shooting a gun at a can in the street in Blair Township, Mich., while he was “wearing camo pants and a clown mask and at one point was playing a trombone,” sheriff’s deputies found the 54-year-old man aiming at surrounding houses, determined he was drunk and arrested him. (Michigan’s MLive.com)

The Heat Is On The nation’s second-biggest tobacco company introduced a cigarette that uses a carbon tip to heat tobacco rather than burn it. Unlike e-cigarettes, which use liquid nicotine, Revo contains real tobacco, which Reynolds American hopes will make it more attractive to cigarette smokers. Heat-not-burn technology “needed the mass presence of vapor products to open up an experience-base that smokers understood,” said J. Brice O’Brien, Reynolds’s head of consumer marketing. He added the company will inform smokers that Revo is different and harder to use than traditional cigarettes but encourage them to “stick with it, because it’s totally worth it.” (Associated Press) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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Shortly after Weiss took over, 14 nursing instructors and staff, eager for some form of protection, joined the America Federation of Teachers (AFT) union. Brad Asay, the union president, says he’s raced out to the nursing school on five different occasions, only to be shut out of disciplinary meetings involving union members. Greeting him and the other nurses who waited outside the door to hear the fate of their colleagues, were Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) officers—a presence many of the nurses say they found intimidating. Asay called the scene “the most hostile working environment that I have dealt with as a union president.” Tlou, the school’s spokesman, says the school has a contract with UHP to provide security at the school. He knows of only one time the UHP was called to a nursing faculty meeting, and this was done “because of abusive and threatening behavior on the part of the people that were present.” Despite the flight of faculty members, one resignation in particular seemed to bother the administration—that of Shipley. After sending in his resignation letter, Shipley was contacted by interim Provost Sanders, asking if he could persuade Shipley to stay on at the college. Shipley says he met with Sanders but was unconvinced that the “toxic work environment” and “questionable ethics and integrity and bullying tactics” that he cited in his resignation letter would cease. Two new faculty members given fulltime instructor jobs just before the current semester began, who say they were asked by Weiss to contact City Weekly, say it was the recently departed faculty, not Weiss, who created a combative work environment. Another faculty member, Debbe Schuster, director of the nursing arts lab who has worked in the nursing program since 2011, says Weiss has simply tried to implement needed changes to the program, but much of the faculty has resisted. “We have to change with the times,” she says. There is little doubt that the nursing program has changed. Scott, the former dean of the nursing program, says that on more than one occasion, she had her hands full with the outspoken nursing staff. But she says cooler heads prevailed and most of the staff, under her watch, stayed on. It didn’t turn out this way for Weiss, who in spite of losing 13 faculty and staff members, insists the program is on the right track. “I think this faculty is happy, there are amazing things that are happening, I think students are learning more than they’ve ever learned before,” Weiss says. From her distant perch, though, Scott says she isn’t so sure. “She’s just decimating the years of knowledge that are there,” Scott says of Weiss’ actions. “Which is really scary because that means that you’ve lost all of those years of knowledge, all of those years of experience that could benefit Salt Lake.” CW

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curriculum, but when Weiss took over, faculty was shut out of the process. For her doctorate thesis, Dumas, who finished her degree in May, wrote a new curriculum she hoped to introduce at the college. But she and her colleagues, she says, weren’t listened to. “Francine just started randomly changing things,” she says. “The days the classes were on, what you could teach … everything just kind of started coming apart.” Weiss says instructors were told to make a list of the courses they wished to teach, but some did not make their lists. And she says changes to curriculum were handled through faculty-led committees. “The changes were not made from me, the changes were made from committees, from the faculty,” she says. “So even though I’m being blamed for those, that is not the way it was done.” Former nursing instructors, including Dumas, say they were also concerned about Weiss’ past. In 2009, Weiss admitted to the Utah Department of Commerce Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing that she sold and dispensed a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This hormone, which is created naturally by women during pregnancy, is sometimes dispensed to help with infertility and weight loss. In Utah, sales of the drug require a prescription, and Weiss wasn’t licensed to dispense or sell any prescription-only drugs. On her error, Weiss points out that her license remains intact; she paid a $2,500 fine and was reprimanded. “There was never any restrictions on my license, there’s not now,” she says. “It was a long time ago, that’s really all I can say.” When she found out about Weiss’ transgression, Dumas says she was surprised she had been put in charge of a program that each year trains hundreds of new nurses. “If a nurse breaks the law, or the ethical code of nurses, she should not be in charge of a program where new nurses are learning the importance of trust and ethical behavior,” Dumas says. Judy Scott, a former associate dean of the SLCC nursing program who is now an assistant professor for nursing at Dixie State University in St. George, says she left the school in early 2014 after 3 1/2 years when her contract wasn’t renewed. The lack of renewal, Scott suspects, stemmed from her unwillingness to issue a blanket reprimand to the nursing faculty. Scott says this directive came from former Provost Christopher Picard, who also wrote the Notice of Concern. Scott says Picard was understandably upset about a low passage rate on the national licensing exam, as well as the attitudes of a few faculty members. But both of these issues, Scott says, were being dealt with appropriately. “I wouldn’t go there,” she says of punishing a wide swath of faculty for the transgressions of a few. “I felt like it was not a good way to build morale; I felt like it was not a good way to effect change.”

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Sundance

The Strongest Man

Utah native Kenny Riches tells a Miami story with a little help from his friends. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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he Sundance Film Festival draws filmmakers from all over the world. But this year, it’s also a showcase for directors with Utah roots. Meet four young filmmakers who made it into the lineup of their hometown festival, then learn a bit more about the source material for some of this year’s films, and how to use the Sundance app to simplify your festival experience.

or many young filmmakers, it all begins with hanging out with your pals and shooting the fun that you have together. That’s certainly the case for writer/director Kenny Riches, except not all that much has changed in 15 years—unless you count having the chance for the whole world to see your work at a major film festival. Riches, a Salt Lake City native, will be bringing Kenny Riches his feature film The Strongest Man to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of Beef The Strongest Man (Robert Lorie), a Cuban-American living in Miami and working in construction, where his impressive physical size is helpful in a way what you’re supposed to do”—but it was that it isn’t in terms of helping him cope with not accepted. Riches acknowledges now his many anxieties and insecurities. Also part that the film wasn’t in line with the kind of of the story are Beef’s best friend, Conan (Paul writing he had been doing previously. Chamberlain), a Korean-American living in the “I was very worried about having [Must shadow of his more successful brother, and Illi Come Down] be marketable,” Riches says, “so (Ashly Burch), a girl who has just moved back from it’s much safer, kind of cuter. For [The Strongest college, and whom Beef has had a crush on from afar Man], it was like, ‘I just want to make this film no for many years. matter what, I don’t care.’ ” Lorie, Chamberlain and Burch—along with co-star Patrick The result is a quirky, sometimes surreal movie—full of strange Fugit, a fellow Salt Lake native best known for Almost Famous— creatures with glowing eyes, and a Pee-wee’s Big Adventure-esque are all part of a close-knit group of creative friends with whom quest for a stolen bicycle—shot in Riches’ new home of Miami, Riches regularly works, including his producer Jesse Brown and where he and his girlfriend (and art director), Cara Despain, editor T.J. Nelson. According to Riches, “It’s definitely the way moved 2 1/2 years ago. But while it’s certainly a Miami story in its I prefer to work. … For my comfort level, it’s good to work with use of the city’s geography and its particular cultural melting pot, people I know. And, he adds with a laugh, “half the reason I make it’s still the kind of project Riches seems to gravitate to most: one films is so I can force Pat [Fugit] into being in them.” built around his friendships. It’s a dynamic that goes back to the mid-’90s, when Riches was “The movie is a lot more funny than I anticipated,” Riches says. a teenager in Salt Lake City. Through the local skateboard scene, “Paul [Chamberlain, who plays Conan] is so funny in real life, he met Fugit, and through him later met Nelson, Brown and also but I didn’t know how much of that he would bring to the film. … David Fetzer, a local writer/actor whose life and death in 2012 He took that character, and it’s much more funny than it was on were chronicled in a December 2013 City Weekly feature. “T.J. used paper. But I love that aspect of it: You expect one thing as you’re to shoot skate videos doing VCR-to-VCR editing,” Riches says. writing, but once you get on set, things just happen, and you fall “Then the skateboard videos turned into making videos of your in love with the things that are happening.” friends doing stupid stuff.” Now that The Strongest Man is part of the Sundance lineup—a Yet Riches didn’t initially envision himself as a filmmaker. He success Riches says Despain and Brown “just knew” would happen— studied painting and drawing with the goal of focusing on visual Riches says there’s a benefit that comes from being part of a festival arts, and even opened Salt Lake City’s Kayo Gallery. It was really where he grew up in its backyard. “This is my turf,” he says with a only through Fetzer and Fugit, he says, after he returned to Utah smile. “Everyone I know gets to see—or try to see—the movie.” from a year of studying art in Denver, that he began exploring Riches is also back in a place where he still has many emotional vintage films—he cites French New Wave and ’70s American links. As vice-president of the David Ross Fetzer Foundation, he’s cinema in particular—and considering the prospect of making involved in helping support locally the kind of artistic projects movies himself. he believes his late friend would have loved; a title card for The “[Fetzer and I] decided to become roommates,” Riches says, Strongest Man carries a production logo that is a nod to Fetzer. “and it wasn’t until that point when I really became immersed And as Riches moves forward with his filmmaking career— in [film]. Because, it was kind of like he was my teacher, he and whatever direction it takes after Sundance—the connections to Patrick. When you hang out with people who care so much about his friends still inform the way he tries to create. character and performance and writing and the art of filmmaking “[Fetzer and I] would watch movies then write our own short … it was really at that point where everything changed.” films, and it was all building up to do bigger things,” Riches says. Riches collaborated with Fetzer and Ashly Burch on his first “Everything I write now, I imagine David reading it and how he feature, the 2012 romantic-comedy-drama Must Come Down. would react. … If he would say it sucks, I’ve got to cut it.” R They submitted it to Sundance—because, as Riches puts it, “it’s

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In Football We Trust

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Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn bring a little-seen culture to the screen. By Scott Renshaw scottr@cityweekly.net • @scottrenshaw

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ony Vainuku realizes that he may be about to introduce film audiences to a culture they don’t know much about: “There’s no reality TV show about Polynesians,” he says with a laugh. In Football We Trust—co-directed by Salt Lake City natives Vainuku and Erika Cohn—explores Polynesian-American culture through the game that has created the culture’s most prominent public figures in NFL, stars like Junior Seau and Troy Polamalu. But it’s also an intimate study of three Utah families, as Vainuku and Cohn spent five years following four high school students trying to make their dreams of pro-football stardom a reality: Highland’s Fihi Kaufusi, Bingham’s Harvey Langi and Hunter’s Vita and Leva Bloomfield. The project didn’t begin, however, with a goal of focusing on kids. Seven years ago, Vainuku had an idea about a documentary that would be primarily about Polynesian-Americans in the NFL, from pioneers like Vai Sikahema (now retired) to contemporary players like Utah native Haloti Ngata. But eventually, that concept evolved into one inspired by Vainuku’s uncle, Joe Katoa—a promising football prospect who, according to Vainuku, “had all the potential in the world to go to the NFL, but ended up going to prison.” “But,” Vainuku says, “his story had already happened. So it was like, ‘How do we tell that story?’ Through kids in high school who were going through the same things that he went through in his life.” Vainuku received initial guidance and mentorship from Utah’s own Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) before meeting award-winning producer Geralyn Dreyfous (Born Into Brothels), who introduced him to Cohn in 2010. Where Vainuku was inexperienced as a filmmaker, Cohn had been a student and eventually a teacher at SpyHop, then served as an intern with the Sundance Institute. The filmmakers then set out to find their film’s subjects, though Vainuku already had Harvey Langi in mind as a result of the athlete’s prominence as a star college recruit at the time, and the Bloomfields because of their connection through their father to the Polynesian gang culture that often challenges the community. And Vainuku and Cohn found that the families were willing to trust them with their stories. “They were really supportive,” Vainuku says, “because I was Tongan. … They knew that I had their best interests at heart and that I could tell that story.” Finding willing subjects turned out to be the easy part. It was considerably harder dealing with the economic challenges of trying to make a documentary film on limited funds, and the project that they ambitiously thought might take only two years to complete instead stretched into five years. But that also allowed the filmmakers to capture a wide variety of challenges facing their subjects, from run-ins with the law to injuries, from being called Erika Cohn the “salvation” of their poor families to a challenging freshman college season.

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The result is something with echoes of the great 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams—about the pro-sports ambitions of two Chicago-area African-American high school students—and even employed one of that film’s editors, William Haugse, in addition to getting encouraging feedback from Hoop Dreams director Steve James. “If people associate [In Football We Trust] with [Hoop Dreams],” Cohn says, “that’s a wonderful compliment.” “But I think that backs up … how we knew this story was universal,” Vainuku adds. “Everybody’s going through [the experience of] trying to create opportunity in America.” Vainuku and Cohn come at the experience of being in the Sundance Film Festival lineup from very different histories. For Cohn, who recalls that, as a festival intern 10 years ago, she “schlepped all the producers around, got them coffee ... got groceries,” it’s familiar territory. “[Erika’s] one of those rare breeds who knew what she wanted to do at 14,” Vainuku says with a smile. “She was always destined to be in Sundance.” For Vainuku—the first director of Tongan-American descent in the festival’s history—Sundance seemed like a different world. “I feel like I snuck in the back door, and now I just want to get a few drinks while I’m at the party,” he says with a laugh. But while the filmmakers will enjoy sharing their soldout premiere at The Grand Theatre with the film’s local subjects and their own families, the real goal is to continue advancing In Football We Trust ’s goal of educating youth, particularly those of Polynesian descent, about the pitfalls and opportunities they might face. Vainuku hopes to use the Sundance Film Festival platform to get that message out, and for fundraisers like the celebrity Strikes for Scholarships event—featuring NFL players like Ngata—on Jan. 25 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl. “It’s said some films die at festivals,” Vainuku says. “We want it just to be the beginning. It’s also a chance for Vainuku himself—who’s also an entrepreneur, and launched his Soulpro clothing line during one of the hiatuses in production of In Football We Trust—to be an example of what other paths are available to Polynesians beyond professional sports. “Our tag line is ‘Make your own history,’ ” Cohn says. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket; there’s more to life than football. Tony is kind of embodying that through being the person behind the camera.” R

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f you’re a young aspiring documentary filmmaker, you could probably find a more encouraging subject to profile than a filmmaker whose work almost nobody has ever seen. But Sandy native Brad Besser found a uniquely inspiring subject in Utah’s own Trent Harris. And he had a fascinating launching pad for a documentary in Harris’ cult classic Beaver Trilogy. Beaver Trilogy Part IV finds Besser on a dual journey, with Harris’ short-film triptych at its center. Part of the story follows Besser Beaver Trilogy Part IV investigating the questions he was left with by the documentary portion of Beaver Trilogy, which chronicles Harris’ chance meeting in 1979 with a young man identified only as Groovin’ Gary, wasn’t Beaver Trilogy. And he had these kind of loaded sentences: and subsequent visit to the man’s hometown of Beaver to watch ‘People ask all these questions, and they never really get it.’ I him compete in a talent contest singing in drag as “Olivia took it that he meant people didn’t get him, get his process.” Newton Dawn.” Yet it also becomes a profile of Harris himself, a Besser wound up following Harris through the long process of filmmaker who once seemed poised to hit the big time but has making his latest feature, Luna Mesa, including a disappointing instead remained an under-the-radar maker of highly personal London premiere event. He catches Harris fretting over the experimental movies. minuscule amount of money in his bank account, and ruefully Besser traces his fascination with Harris back to junior high joking that Besser’s movie is “probably even a worse idea than school, when a friend had a copy of Harris’ 1991 film Rubin & I’ve come up with.” Ed, an oddball comedy about two men on a desert quest to find Along the way, Beaver Trilogy Part IV comes to explore a the perfect spot to bury a dead cat. “We were always quoting connection between Harris’ struggles to make a career as a it,” Besser says: “ ‘My cat can eat a whole watermelon.’ I always filmmaker and the story of The Beaver Kid. “Throughout Trent’s thought Trent was kind of a mythical figure, then I found out he interviews,” Besser says, “he was talking a lot about reality— was from Utah. Actually finding out there was another guy that what’s real, what isn’t real. Then when we went down to Beaver, had done it, and was from here, was kind of inspiring.” they also talked a lot about reality, and Hollywood—how Dick, Later, Besser took a class on screenwriting at the Utah Film & when he was younger, had trouble figuring out the difference Video Center where Harris was the instructor. It was there that between TV and what can be your real life, and somehow the Besser first encountered the three short films that would eventually dream isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.” come to be known collectively as the Beaver Trilogy: Harris’ Besser himself has achieved something that might be initial documentary about Groovin’ Gary, and two subsequent considered a dream for a documentary filmmaker by getting dramatizations, one a grainy black & white version starring a preinto the Sundance Film Festival—a bit of a different perspective Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sean Penn; and Harris’ AFI thesis than he had in recent years, when he was a festival volunteer at film The Orkly Kid, with Harris’ later Rubin & Ed star Crispin Glover. the Eccles Center. “I do feel pretty comfortable, in that I’ve seen Besser originally set out to make a film just focused the behind-the-scenes,” Besser says. “But it also makes it that on the unanswered questions of Beaver Trilogy: Who much of a bigger moment. When you’re a volunteer at Eccles, was Groovin’ Gary, and what became of him after Harris escorting the director to the stage, you can feel the ‘I wish I was captured him at that talent show? And he does find some there.’ … The last two years, it couldn’t help but motivate me to answers, ultimately tracking down friends and family get through those tough days, those long days.” members of the man whose real name he learned was He also has a different perspective, he believes—simply by Dick Griffiths. “There was a great story,” Besser says. “A virtue of what he learned from making Beaver Trilogy Part IV— lot of people had talked about the Beaver Trilogy, but not about the challenges of trying to make a life as an artist. “When from the Beaver Kid’s side.” you’re a kid,” he says, “you don’t pay attention to studios or box At the same time, Besser came to realize that there office; you just pay attention to your VHS collection. I just loved was also a more expansive story to be told about Harris’ Rubin & Ed, and it was there on the shelf with all these other life and career as a struggling independent filmmaker. movies. It just seemed like they were all great movies. “Our initial interview with Trent,” Besser says, “he “There was a certain kind of innocence getting back to that: was very aggressively against talking about the Beaver Maybe we shouldn’t get wrapped up in box office, and just love Trilogy. He wanted to talk about everything else that the movies we love.” R

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Book Overview: Greg, a deliberately anonymous high school student, finds his senior year disrupted when he befriends a girl who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Andrews tells the young-adult story in Greg’s engagingly self-deprecating first-person voice, though his brutally low self-esteem gets laid on a bit thick at times. But despite the subject matter, the story is never awash in pathos, instead finding insightful material in a kid engaging with real difficulty on the way to learning he’s got more to look forward to than he ever realized. Book Grade: B+ Reason for Adaptation Optimism: Andrews adapting his own book for the screenplay, which might help it keep some of its darker edge. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Will there be too much of an attempt to preserve Greg’s voice through narration, which often kills narrative momentum? The Movie Pitch: “The Fault in Our Stars meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ” Sundance Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

Book Overview: In early 1950s Ireland, young Eilis Lacey takes advantage of an opportunity to move to New York for work, then finds herself struggling to decide where she belongs in the world. Tóibín’s deceptively simple style allows Eilis to develop a beautiful complexity as a woman with ambitions for herself, at a time when neither of the paths from which she’s choosing would ultimately allow her to achieve those ambitions. As a result, it’s perhaps the most heartbreaking kind of romantic triangle imaginable—one where a reader’s most fervent wish might be that Eilis had the option to select “none of the above.” Book Grade: AReason for Adaptation Optimism: Hard to imagine a more perfect choice as Eilis than Saoirse Ronan. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Director John Crowley has talent, but recent films like Is Anyone There? and Closed Circuit haven’t shown a subtlety necessary for this story. The Movie Pitch: “The Immigrant meets In America” Sundance Category: Premieres

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Book Overview: After the death of his best friend, Teddy, from a drug overdose, troubled teen Jude moves to New York in 1988 and forms a makeshift family including the girl carrying Teddy’s baby, and Teddy’s straight-edge half-brother. First-time novelist Henderson crafts some absolutely gorgeous prose as she dives into the world of young people united by their sense of devotion to a ghost, and she nails a very specific era in New York City leading up to the Tompkins Square Park riot. The vivid characterizations contribute to a fascinating portrait of kids trying to navigate the path to adulthood despite getting negligible amounts of parenting. Book Grade: AReason for Adaptation Optimism: Writer/directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman previously did great work adapting challenging source material like American Splendor; a solid cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer. Reason for Adaptation Concern: Feels more like a work that succeeded because of the author’s voice than because of a narrative easily translated to the screen. The Movie Pitch: “Rent meets Kids” Sundance Category: Premieres

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Book Overview: After a nuclear war, a teenage girl in an upstate New York valley believes she may be the last surviving person—until a scientist appears after almost a year has passed with no other humans in sight. Presented in the form of the girl’s diary, the book is focused almost entirely on plot momentum, in a style that has the straightforward sensibility of a ’70s middle-grade story yet also features attempted rape and abrupt, violent tone shifts. Intriguing until it gets far too grim as a psycho-chases-a-girl thriller. Book Grade: C Reason for Adaptation Optimism: Terrific cast trio of Margot Robbie, Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor; directed by Craig Zobel, who nailed the darkly psychological Compliance a couple of years ago. Reason for Adaptation Concern: It’s clear from the Sundance logline that the concept has been radically changed into something more like a romantic triangle. Come to think of it, maybe that’s another reason for optimism. The Movie Pitch: “The Road meets Straw Dogs” Sundance Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

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eing a movie buff and a new enough Utah resident that every time someone mentions Park City, I think, “Park Chan-wook has a city named after him?”, I welcome the idea of an app that simplifies the Sundance Film Festival experience. The Android version of the Sundance 2015 app, to which all references hereafter apply—the iPhone version, one presumes, is pretty much the same—is a stylish, functional-looking thing. It offers, in one tab, the option to “Discover” titles, which are presented with their title and a film still. The full schedule of public screenings is sorted not only by date, but by town (Ogden, Park City, Provo and Salt Lake City) and desired festival subsection (Competition, Documentaries, World, etc.). There is the standard ticket-ordering tab, as well as an “eWaitlist” option for the system launched in 2014 to get on the waitlist for sold-out events electronically (the “eWaitlist” for 2015 was not yet active at press time). There are maps of all four venue cities with festival locations, a list of venues by category and a “favoriting” feature for bookmarking any of the items mentioned above (except the Park Chan-wook joke, but that goes without saying). In terms of functionality, the app runs smoothly, with clearly marked options at every stage. It slows down a bit when working through the schedule and maps sections, even freezing while trying to access maps. But closing it and reopening solves that issue fairly conclusively, and thus, it’s what it sets out to be: a useful tool. It could probably stand an update or two to the schedule and maps sections to sort out the sludginess, but that’s all that’s standing between the app as it exists now and a perfect realization of what it could be. It comes highly recommended to smartphone-using festival-goers, both experienced and inexperienced.

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Billy Schenck: West of the Wasatch

Who is Vort Man? Perhaps a more appropriate way of phrasing the question might be what the enigmatically named artist is. The Pittsburgh native works with an array of different artistic media, from collage and digital art to good old-fashioned painting, but the selftaught artist with a degree in marketing and international business has presented his work in unconventional venues for years, creating collaborative live paintings to music under the moniker Vorcan. The media as subject matter is key to all Vort Man’s works, such as screen prints on T-shirts and other surfaces that bear his visage and the urging to “Vote Republican,” sarcastically or not. This show consists of work created in the 2 1/2 years since Vort Man moved to Utah, and he has been prolific indeed. From the start of 2012 through the middle of 2013, he made a work every day that he displayed in public, and he’s in the process of working on an animal collage every day for a year. In addition to digital-imaging techniques, Vort Man’s work combines disparate elements, like the work titled “Screen Printing, Melting Crayons, and Spray Painting in the Snow.” The works in this show demonstrate his technical advances and stylistic growth, as well as the way his work builds on itself. (Brian Staker) Vort Man: Made in Utah @ Charley Hafen Jewelers Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801-5217711, through Feb. 17, free. TheVortMan.com

Utah Repertory Theater Company’s production of Bare is the product of a deep emotional connection with rich material by a talented group of collaborators. Based on the book by Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo, Bare makes clever use of Romeo & Juliet—that the use was clever is itself an accomplishment, given how exhausted R&J is as a reference in popular culture—to parallel and foreshadow its gay love story at a Catholic boarding school. What lends Bare its emotional heft is less literary cleverness than the fullness of the characters, and the empathy with which they’re crafted. Even the “unsympathetic” characters are granted full lives. Part of that is in the acting, and this ensemble is superb. Lead actors Brock Dalgleish, John Patrick McKenna and Emilie Starr all have ample room to shine, and do, brightly. In another performance of note, late replacement Carolyn Crow did a remarkable job with a key supporting role, to the point where if there hadn’t been an announcement, one never would have known she hadn’t had the part all along. Beyond the terrific work eliciting rich and harmonious performances, director Johnny Hebda creates compelling visuals. He uses Chase Ramsey’s ingeniously designed set to create sight lines that work with and enhance the text, and effectively employs multimedia for expository purposes. (Danny Bowes) Utah Repertory Theater: Bare @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 130 S. 800 West, through Jan. 31, $16-18. UtahRep.org

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New Mexico artist Billy Schenck is one of the true innovators of the Western pop-art movement over the past 40 years, a creator of images that add a strongly stylized sense to timeless imagery of the classic American West. With a manner that can be alternately irreverent and respectful, Schenck does not reinvent history, but instead uses it to his advantage in creating narratives, portraits and genre scenes that speak of the past while reflecting the present. These works retain his signature classical character, transcending time and place. An example of such is “A Lonely Journey II” (pictured). This magnificent image addresses no specific historical moment in terms of past or present. It is not a cowboy on horseback or a native warrior, but a cowgirl heading to an unknown destination. The presentation of her iconic form is reduced to strong, bold color and light and shadow, with a classical beauty that could be from the 1920s, or from 2015. Set against a monumental sky of tall, billowing clouds that look more like sails, she is propelled on her universal journey. Simpler, yet no less iconic, is “Tom Mix—Black and Yellow.” This graphic representation of the famous star of vintage silent serials, in stark yellow and black, still speaks to contemporary viewers. Schenck combines a bit of kitsch with pure fine art, and a heart that’s as big as the West. (Ehren Clark) Billy Schenck: West of the Wasatch @ Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through March 13, free. ModernWestFineArt.com

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The Sundance Film Festival brings a party atmosphere to Salt Lake City every year, and SB Dance wants to bring a local flavor to that party. So, after 2014’s successful hybrid dance/ bar experiment, Salt Lake City’s most alternative dance company welcomes back the interactive pop-up Box Bar to downtown during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival. The Box Bar combines two of the company’s favorite things: creativity and libations. SB Dance founder Stephen Brown says there’s no wrong way to experience the Box Bar, which is designed to be an à la carte experience. Some visitors may choose to drop in during the open hours—between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.—for a quick drink, served up by sponsors Epic Brewing and 8 Seconds Canadian Whisky. But Brown hopes that most folks will be prepared to make their pintglass pit stop an all-night affair. In addition to drinks, SB Dance has an assortment of interactive diversions for their visitors. A late-afternoon warm-up workout with company members tops the list. Next, during the company’s open rehearsal, barflies can contribute their two cents to the creative process as the dancers work on generating new material for future performances or rework old pieces. Jess Greenberg, the company’s new lighting director, will demonstrate how stage magic starts, and, as the evening wears on, visitors can once again put on their dancing shoes as the guest band—Big Wild Wings on Jan. 22; Totem & Taboo on Jan. 23-24—closes this all-out Sundance-style bash. (Katherine Pioli) SB Dance Box Bar @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Jan 22-24, 5-11 p.m., free, SBDance.com

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n adolescent moose—still young and naïve—used to wander a circuit around the house where I lived one winter in Wilson, Wyo. He’d nibble the lowhanging tips of the willow tree outside our house looking like an elephant in a circus act, his ungainly front legs balanced on the top of the snow pile plowed into a mound in our driveway. The wild game was every where that winter. On my long ski outings down the dike along the Snake River, I’d often look through the trees, alerted by the scent of animal musk in the air, in time to see a half-dozen ghostly figures (a herd of elk) bounding away from my approach. These were animals not normally seen in or around town. Winter was particularly long and hard that year. Following their ancestral knowledge and animal instinct, they’d come into the valley, among the people—relative newcomers to the area in the scope of animal habitation—to where they knew the snow was not as deep. Every where in the West—in Utah as

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Slamdance Film Festival Over the years, Park City has seen multiple upstarts move into town during the 11 days of the Sundance Film Festival, taking advantage of industry and visitor presence to deliver different, often specialized alternatives. But none of them has survived—and thrived—as long as Slamdance, which now begins its third decade since Dan Mirvish, Peter Baxter and other “coconspirators” decided to take their frustrations with Sundance and do something about them. Today, Slamdance continues its tradition of focusing on first-time filmmakers and unique voices, with a history of introducing directors like Christopher Nolan and Lynn Shelton. A full slate of dramatic features, documentaries and short films is supplemented by panels and special guests like James Franco. Whether your taste runs to horror and comedy, or real-life stories about colorful characters like Batkid, Dennis Rodman and pro wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Slamdance has something to make it more than Sundance’s little brother. (Scott Renshaw) Slamdance Film Festival @ Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main, Park City, Jan. 23-29, passes $125-$325, single screenings $8-$12. Slamdance.com

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Salt 10: Conrad Bakker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7332, Tuesdays-Sundays, through Feb. 8 Zach Franzoni: Disrupted Identities, Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 641 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, through Feb. 10

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cheese, lettuce, onions, and dressRollin’ out: Chunga’s al pastor burrito is stuffed ing or sauce. with zesty spit-roasted pork, beans and more— The latter is where Freebirds you’ll need a knife and fork for this beast. stands out. Customers have a range of saucing options that include Most of Sushi Burrito’s rolls start with ranch, ancho or tomatillo dressings; stana large piece of untoasted, raw nori (seadard salsa; lime juice; Badass BBQ; mild weed) that serves as a “wrap.” Inside tomatillo; hot tomatillo; Death Sauce; are a range of filling options, but most and habanero sauce, which is itself pretty include sushi rice, cucumber, lettuce, deathly. I won’t bore you with all the details avocado and some sort protein: teriyaki and permutations of my burrito construcbeef, tuna, albacore, escolar, salmon, tion, but I will say that I was pretty pleased yellowtail and such. with my Hybrid burrito (the small size), Prepare to get messy, since Sushi priced at $6.59. The pork carnitas were betBurritos are served burrito-style, not cut ter and richer tasting than expected, and into manageable pieces. Mine and my I’d happily indulge in another Freebirds wife’s were difficult to eat, and fell apart burrito sometime—although I don’t really pretty much from the get-go. Overall, I sort need all the backstory and kitschy marketof liked the Cosmo, which included escoing B.S. that accompanies one. lar, avocado, cucumber, lettuce, jalapeño, At Sushi Burrito (180 E. 800 tobiko, lemon, sprouts, ponzu sauce and South, Salt Lake City, 801-995-0909, tempura “crunchies” wrapped in nori. I SushiBurritoUtah.com), ontological queswasn’t fond of the tough lettuce rib, the tions about the basic burrito makeup tough nori or the tough sliced lemon— began to nag at me. Located in the nicely peel, pith and all—but if a sushi roll that redone space that was formerly home to can serve as the biggest meal of the week Guzzi’s Vintage Burgers & Fries, Sushi is your thing, then Sushi Burrito has your Burrito tests the boundaries of burritonumber. dom. The concept is a simple one: Take At Chunga’s (180 S. 900 West, Salt Lake the typical ingredients of a sushi roll and City, 801-953-1840, ChungasMexican.com), supersize them. The sushi burrito is really I finally bit into something that resembled neither sushi nor a burrito. It’s a sort a burrito as I used to know it. I opted for the of Frankenfood. I’d call it a “shwrapito,” al pastor burrito ($7): a large wheat-flour since it’s essentially a wrap-size sushi roll. tortilla stuffed with rice, refried beans, Thankfully, standard burrito stuffings onions and quite possibly the best al pasdon’t appear in the sushi burrito, nor does tor I’ve ever tasted. And by the way, it was a tortilla. I don’t think I’d want refried served on a plate, not as a wrap or a roll. beans or carne asada mingling with my If you’ve never tried it, al pastor is spityellowtail. roasted pork that’s marinated in chilies Sushi Burrito is very popular with a and spices and cooked with pineapple. young crowd, and there doesn’t seem to The result is a heavenly marriage of spicy be a burrito purist in the bunch. And who and sweet flavors that knocks me out. And, can blame them? For under $10, you get a judging by the hungry patrons awaiting sushi roll/burrito the size of your forearm. seats, I’m not the only person to swoon If you’re looking for subtlety, visit Takashi over Chunga’s classic al pastor. Now, that’s or Naked Fish. But for big, bodacious, ina burrito! CW your-face sushi rolls, this is the place.

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used to know what a burrito was; now, I’m not so sure. There was a time when I’d order a burrito and be fairly certain of what I’d get: a wheat-flour tortilla rolled into a cylindrical shape and filled with refried beans and/or some sort of meat. It might be topped with cheese, lettuce, sauce or all of the above; it might not. That was a burrito. Then, someone decided to add rice to burritos. I’m pretty sure this happened in California. More specifically, it happened in San Francisco, where burritos became supersize with the addition of rice and became known as the Mission burrito. Food historians have traced the Mission burrito to a San Francisco Mission District taqueria called La Cumbre. I’ll take their word for it. All I know is that I’ve been eating burritos since 1976, and I’m no longer sure what is a burrito and what isn’t. A recent random survey of burrito joints didn’t exactly clear the air. It’s still as murky as refritos. My burrito quest began at Freebirds World Burrito (Multiple locations, Freebirds.com), a California-based company that recently opened stores in Sandy, Taylorsville, West Valley City, Sugar House and Kimball Junction. Freebirds proponents are fanatical, in much of the same way that Trader Joe’s zealots are; I was told I must get myself to Freebirds, post haste! And so I did. The Freebirds saga (every franchise must have a saga) goes like this: Two exhippies (why ex-hippies, I wondered) in 1987 Santa Barbara rolled some burritos “using fresh-chopped veggies, housemade rice and beans, and, of course, grass-fed beef and all-natural chicken.” Really? They were using grass-fed beef and all-natural chicken in 1987? Kudos to Freebirds if that’s true, but I have my doubts ... Any way, I rolled into the Kimball Junction location (1784 Uinta Way, Park City, 435-649-1777) to find out what all the fuss was about, only to discover something that looked and operated an awful lot like a Chipotle Mexican Grill—not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s an assembly-line operation where you choose your tortilla type (spinach, cayenne, flour or wheat) and then a protein. I opted for pork carnitas, along with Spanish rice (eschewing the cilantro-lime version). The basic burrito is rounded out with a choice of beans (refried, whole pinto or black)

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Knowing that you can never have too much of a good thing, especially brunch fare, the folks at Avenues Proper Restaurant & Publick House (376 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, 385227-8628, AvenuesProper.com) are now serving brunch both Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a new brunch menu featuring threebuck Bloody Marys and mimosas. In addition, they’ve added a new “midday” menu that’s available from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily and consists of select menu items as well as $6 half-pitchers (32 ounces) of house brew. Look for a couple of new beers coming online soon, too: the Ro-Rye, which is said to be a perfect accompaniment to the braised short-rib sandwich, and Darth Lager.

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Finca Executive Chef Phelix Gardner was gorgeous breast of squab with sobrassada, mushrooms and huckleberry sauce. It was paired with Amayna Pinot Noir 2011, Leyda Valley ($27.95), which had bitter cherry and blackcurrant flavors, a hint of smokiness and that signature Amayna minerality. It was a beautiful pairing. The final course—a complex, rich paella of housemade blood sausage, snails, lamb, winter vegetables and olive relish—was accompanied by Merino 2012 Syrah, Limarí Valley ($18). It’s 95 percent Syrah and 5 percent Viognier, the latter of which gives the dark, deep, brooding wine some light, f loral aromas. It’s a meaty, earthy wine that proved a worthy foil for the deep, rich flavors of Gardner’s paella. For anyone wanting a glimpse into the future of Chilean winemaking, I urge you to track down the intriguing wines from Amayna and Merino. CW

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ast week, in its new downtown Salt Lake City location at 327 W. 200 South, Finca restaurant hosted an exceptional wine dinner. In attendance were two of Chile’s new wave of winemakers: Matias Garcés Silva and René Merino, representing Amayna and Merino wineries, respectively. It was an eye-opener. Chilean winemaking and viticulture dates back to the 16th century, when Spanish colonists introduced grape vines from their native country into the New World, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère. To this day, those tend to be the wines that are most commonly produced in Chile, along with warmclimate varietals like Sauvignon Blanc. But the highlights of this particular wine dinner were cool-climate Chilean wine varietals of the type you’d expect to find from, say, Burgundy: Chardonnay and

Pinot Noir. It’s evidence of the wide range of microclimates that reside in Chile, as well as the adventurous nature of at least two of its winemakers. The evening began with cod croquettes and grapefruit “salsa” paired with Amayna Barrel Fermented 2009 Sauvignon Blanc ($27.66). According to Silva, the wine spends a minimum of 12 months in new French oak barrels. The wine is smoky with mandarinorange and pear flavors, and rich in body. It stands in stark contrast to Amayna’s unoaked Sauvignon Blanc ($19.95), a wine with nice minerality and salinity that’s a slamdunk for pairing with shellfish, especially oysters on the half shell. I really like both iterations of Amayna Sauvignon Blanc. The next Finca dinner course featured a friendly face-off between the two winemakers’ Chardonnays, paired with a mussel-dish duo of mussels escabeche with fennel jelly, apple and cucumber versus steamed mussels with Meyer lemon, parsley and toasted rustic bread. The Merino 2012 Chardonnay ($11) from Chile’s Limarí Valley is aged half in oak and half in steel tanks. It’s an interesting Chardonnay that drinks a little like Sauvignon Blanc and has lively acidity, yet is complex on the palate with flavors of tangerine, apples and lemon. I noticed that it got more interesting and complicated the longer it was exposed to air in the glass. Silva says that his Amayna Chardonnay

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This casual, romantic restaurant & lounge is located on the third floor of Snowbird’s Iron Blosam Lodge, and is open nightly for dinner during the winter. Enjoy shrimp scampi, Wildflower pizza (with artichokes and toasted pine nuts) or other Italian food after a day on the slopes. After feasting on pizza and pasta, cozy up by the fire in the lounge, shoot some pool, catch the game on one of the TVs, or just enjoy the beautiful scenery—the views of the mountains at sunset are stunning. Iron Blosom Lodge, 9600 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Snowbird Resort, 801-933-2230, Snowbird.com

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar

At Fleming’s, the lights are low and the quality is high. There’s everything from Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne to luscious Villa Maria Sauvignon to sip with a French-onion soup appetizer and Fleming’s divine 22-ounce Prime bone-in rib-eye. And for dessert, don’t say no to the bourbon-peach martini—you deserve it. 20 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3704, FlemingsSteakhouse.com

Gracie’s

Offering myriad pleasures all under one roof, Gracie’s can make a drinking-aged adult feel like a toddler in a toy store. This West Temple multilevel hotspot lives up to its gastropub billing by serving an array of appetizing dishes—including the curry burger, Gracie’s signature nachos and more—in a variety of settings. Soak up some sun as you watch passersby from the second story, share a fresh melon cocktail and a smoke on the ground-floor patio, or head inside to shoot pool and follow a game on the big screen. Or come for the live music, DJs, trivia, shuffleboard and Sunday-night cards and board games. 326 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-8197565, GraciesSLC.com

Cisero’s Ristorante

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This joint is old school. You can order chipped beef on toast (S.O.S) with that spackle-like white gravy either solo or on the side. Or clog up your arteries with The Boss’ Breakfast: an egg your way with cheese, bacon, hash browns, S.O.S. and a Utah-style scone (soft, doughy and served with honey butter) roughly the size of your head. Sill’s is located right around the corner from Layton Commons, so it’s the perfect place to score a hefty breakfast before playing it off at the park. 335 E. Gentile St., Layton, 801-544-7438, TheSillsCafe.com

Tram Car Pizza

Located in the Snowbird Center, Tram Car Pizza offers a wide selection of pizzas—whole or by the slice—served on handmade crust. Popular pizza options include the White Pine, Pipeline, Cirque, Black Jack and Big Emma. Equally popular are the oven-baked hoagies—the barbecue-chicken sandwich especially rocks. If it’s not a hand-held food you fancy, Tram Car Pizza also serves salads. Wash down your meal with a soda, Red Bull or canned beer. Snowbird Center, 9600 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Level 2, Snowbird Resort, 801-933-2476, Snowbird.com/dining/ tram-car-pizza

Fong’s Fine Chinese Dining

At Fong’s in Draper, you can temporarily step out of your

busy world and into a friendly, warm Chinese restaurant brimming with vibrant flavors. There’s an extensive selection of lunch combos, which include an entree, egg roll, cream-cheese wonton, rice and a choice of egg flower, hot & sour or wonton soup. Chef specialties at Fong’s include mango chicken, Hong Kong pepper steak, Asian-Pacific pineapple chicken and walnut shrimp. 877 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-542-8004, FongsInDraper.com

The Lift Grill & Lounge at Jupiter Bowl

Part of the Newpark Town Center in Kimball Junction, this upscale bowling alley understands that adults want toys to play with just as much as their kids do. With 16 lanes for bowling, a video-game arcade, pool tables, an intriguing cocktail list and a few local brews on tap, Jupiter Bowl is perfect for an adult’s night out. And the menu at The Lift Grill & Lounge has plenty of Park City flair: Instead of typical bowling-alley pizza and soft drinks, for example, you can sink your teeth into creative and tasty pizzas like the prosciutto & brie, Santa Fe and Fenway. 1090 Center Drive, Park City, 435658-2695, JupiterBowl.com

Andy’s Lounge

Andy’s specializes in Greek food, and some swear that the souvlaki is the best in the state. The friendly neighborhood atmosphere at Andy’s will get you in the door—along with the cold beers, of course. But it’s the

GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net food that’ll make you stay, and come back for more. There’s classic pork souvlaki as well as turkey, for those who might be watching their figures. All the gyros and souvlaki come on soft, warm Greek pita, and it’s the perfect food for munching during a game of pool or darts. 501 N. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801782-9972

Hector’s

Previously Molca Salsa, Hector’s serves up some of the tastiest south-of-the-border fare in the Salt Lake Valley. Popular combo plates include the carne asada burrito, machaca, chorizo, chimichanga and chile relleno plates. The fresh guacamole and spicy carrots are stars here, and you can’t go wrong with the tortas, especially the delicious carnitas torta. For the late-nighters out there, Hector’s is open 24 hours, and minutes away from I-215. 2901 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-3850

Gloria’s Little Italy

Gloria’s Little Italy is a family-run business that features a warm, cozy trattoria atmosphere and rustic, authentic Italian cuisine. Begin a meal with antipasti

of bruschetta, calamari fritti or a Caprese salad before moving on to minestrone or Gloria’s fresh tomato-basil soup. Pasta offerings include arrabbiata, carbonara with pancetta and eggs, and the traditional amatriciana. Vegetarians are not forgotten here, where there are vegetarian sauces to replace the meat sauce. For dessert, try the cream-filled chocolate cake ball, served hot with ice cream. 1 E. Center St., Provo, 801805-4913, GloriasLittleItaly.com

BlueStar Juice Bar and Coffee Cafe

At this fun funky coffee spot, the proprietors are dog-friendly and welcome cyclists, walkers and runners. The BlueStar “banini” breakfast sandwich is a great way to start the day: Choose your favorite fresh bagel, cheese and filling, and they’ll grill it to crispy perfection. For lunch, the cafe offers a variety of bagel sandwiches piled high with your choice of meat, cheese and veggies. Or, if you’re in the mood for liquid refreshment, BlueStar’s menu also features fresh-roasted coffee and handmade juices. 2795 S. 2300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-466-4280, The-Bluestar.com

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At Deer Valley Resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main fine-dining venue, settle in beside a toasty fireplace for delicious appetizers like Kumamoto oysters on the half-shell with housemade seafood sauce and mignonette, or delightful sashimistyle diver scallop drizzled with lime & aji-chile-pepper vinaigrette and cilantro emulsion. I appreciate that The Mariposa menu is mostly small-plate-oriented, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to try a lot of tasty dishes rather than just one or two big ones. More divine dishes came and went: pan-roasted boneless quail saltimbocca and misobraised kale and mushrooms in a Cabernet reduction; Niman Ranch beef short rib with Pontack sauce and salsify-parsnip puree; and my favorite dish, housemade lemon-thyme gnocchi with beurre blanc, Rockhill Creamery aged Edam cheese and slow-poached wild Gulf shrimp. Table and wine service were, as always, up to Deer Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultra-high standards, where guestpampering is taken to extreme levels. Reviewed Jan. 15. 7600 Royal St., Park City, 435-645-6715, DeerValley.com/dining

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Mellow Mushroom

I really do like the pizza at Mellow Mushroom, an Atlanta-based pizza chain with a hippie vibe (which perhaps explains why my pizza took 25 minutes to make). The red sauce tastes of bright, ripe tomatoesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; not the bitter tomato paste that mars so many commercial pizzas. And the toppings are plentiful and of good quality. The crust is of medium thickness, slightly crisp on the bottom with a nice crunchy and lightly blistered outer crust. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wine, cocktails and a formidable beer selection, to boot, with two-dozen local craft beers on tap and more than 70 bottled brews, including ones from Deschutes, Big Sky and Rogue. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll help you remain mellow while awaiting your pie. Reviewed Dec. 25, 2014. 1080 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-844-1444, MellowMushroom.com

The Annex by Epic Brewing

The Annex got a revamp recently, and it knocked my socks off. A newly acquired club license allows patrons to drink alcohol without ordering food. And a new chef, Craig Gerome, is firing on all cylinders in the kitchen. A killer appetizer is a half-dozen Bouchot mussels steamed in Berliner Weiss beer with garlic confit and crisp, crunchy shoestring potatoes. Some of the startersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the pasta, for exampleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could suffice as small entrees, like the housemade tagliatelle pasta with beef-cheek ragout and the generously portioned housemade ricotta. The pasta was some of the best Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever eaten, and perfectly cooked al dente. Exceptional entrees of steelhead trout with Beluga lentils and herb-fried chicken with fried green tomatoes and heavenly buttermilk risotto firmed up my notion that The Annex is one of the best dining options in Sugar House. Reviewed Dec. 25, 2014. 1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-7425490, TheAnnexByEpicBrewing.com

Bruges Waffles & Frites Sugar House

The Bruges Sugar House location is a couple of years old and features its biggest menu and selection. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find well-known items like Belgian-style fries with a multitude of saucing options, heavenly LiĂ¨ge waffles and the popular Machine Gun sandwich, as featured on the Travel Channelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man v. Food. But there is so much more, like waffle sandwiches made with toasted waffles where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d normally expect to find bread. Even more interesting, in my opinion, are the unique omelets. The Averell omelet, for instance, is eggs with Brie, ham, roasted bell peppers, caramelized onions, portobellos and a choice of either one â&#x20AC;&#x153;freakandelâ&#x20AC;? or two merquez sausages. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;freakandelâ&#x20AC;? is a play on frikandel, a Belgian and Dutch deep-fried, skinless, chicken-pork-beef sausage. My ultimate wish is that someday owner Pierre Vandamme will open a full-blown Belgian restaurant serving dishes like waterzooi, tarte au riz, filet AmĂŠricain, lapin Ă la gueuze and moules-frites. But for now, Bruges Waffles & Frites serves my Belgian cravings admirably. Reviewed Dec. 11, 2014. 2314 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-486-9999, BrugesWaffles.com

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Whiplash

Pleasant Surprise: All the love for the wonderfully bonkers The Grand Budapest Hotel (even if it is carrying over from other awards-givers this season). Make a great film, and the industry will remember it at year end even if you released it eons ago, way back in March. You Gotta Be Kidding: It’s hard to see the snubbing of Selma director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo as anything other than pure racism. I’ll give the ranks of Oscar voters—94 percent white—the benefit of the doubt and presume it was unconscious racism, but still. Is there no room for a brilliant black man among the stories about genius dudes the Academy (77 percent male) is choosing to honor so much this year? Rooting For: J.K. Simmons as Best Supporting Actor in Whiplash—though he probably doesn’t need my best wishes. He’s almost certainly a shoo-in.

Pleasant Surprise: The general outpouring of love for Whiplash. A nod for J.K. Simmons was expected; the nods for adapted screenplay and Best Picture were not. I doubt it will win either category (and maybe doesn’t even deserve to), but the nominations are satisfying to me as someone who loved the movie. You Gotta Be Kidding: I have a hard time believing that the voters in the animation category—who are animators themselves—truly feel that The Lego Movie was, at best, the sixth-best animated film of the year. They liked Big Hero 6 better? It’s like I’m living in a cuckoo clock! Rooting For: J.K. Simmons, a terrifically versatile character actor who does thrilling work in Whiplash, and whose career as a whole deserves some kind of recognition.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Pleasant Surprise: Best Cinematography, Ida. The boxy framing and resolute view-from-on-high camera work beautifully reinforces the internal struggle of the characters, making literal the gap between their deeds and intentions. And then it loosens up at precisely the right time. You Gotta Be Kidding: Best Original Screenplay, Birdman. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bustling cranked-to-11 contraption has the performers and the technique to make it possible to forgive much of the film’s proclivity toward self-love. All that swirling virtuosity comes crashing to a halt, though, whenever the characters open their mouths and proclaim What It’s All About. Show, don’t tell. Rooting For: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night. Given a role that would have most actors doubling down on their blue-collar affectations, Cotillard somehow eschews both standard celebrity vanity and the more insidious award-hungry anti-flash. She just is, exquisitely.

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Pleasant Surprise: This year, pleasant surprises were hard to come by, but there were two: Marion Cotillard for Best Actress in Two Days, One Night, and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (better than The Lego Movie, enough so to render the latter’s non-nomination moot) for Best Animated Feature. You Gotta Be Kidding: Selma only getting two nominations, even if one of them was for Best Picture, is absurd, especially given the surfeit of nods for vastly inferior biopics like The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game. But who am I kidding: Those are about white people. Rooting For: In the near complete absence of Selma, and since trying to reverse-jinx Boyhood by rooting for it would be mean, I’m going to quietly pull for The Grand Budapest Hotel in the design categories and Best Director. But mainly, I’m going to be drinking and looking at the dresses.

Pleasant Surprise: Like many, I feared Marion Cotillard would be left out of the Best Actress field. She hasn’t got a shot of winning for the remarkable Two Days, One Night, but seeing her there—rather than Jennifer Aniston for the lousy Cake—showed someone was paying attention. You Gotta Be Kidding: Where to begin? The Lego Movie not being on the Animated Feature list, or Life Itself among Documentary Feature nominees, are most obvious. I’ll also go with Robert Duvall’s unremarkable turn in The Judge resulting in Inherent Vice’s Josh Brolin getting the shaft. Motto panukeiku! Rooting For: Everyone seems to assume that Boyhood is a foregone conclusion as Best Picture winner, and certainly there have been less worthy nominees. But maybe, just maybe, the outcry against Selma’s omission in so many other categories will result in a second look by Academy voters at a great film.

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. The Boy Next Door [not yet reviewed] A teacher’s (Jennifer Lopez) affair with a young man (Ryan Guzman) turns dangerously obsessive. Opens Jan. 23 at theaters valleywide. (R) Cake HH There a curdling cynicism to a movie that twists its structure and narrative so that it’s all about turning our perception of a person who acts horribly into sympathy for her tragic circumstances. That’s what director Daniel Barnz and screenwriter Patrick Tobin do with the story of Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston), whom we meet in a chronic-pain support group, the visible scars on her body clearly serving as metaphor for the still-unhealed emotional scars from whatever tragedy brought her to this state. And what, specifically, was that tragedy? Well, Cake plays coy with the details long past the point where it’s more or less obvious what happened, filling the intervening time with writerly contrivances like imaginary conversations between Claire and a woman from that her chronic-pain support group who committed suicide (Anna Kendrick), and a relationship between Claire and that woman’s widower (Sam Worthington). Aniston does fine work with shabby material, particularly in her physical performance conveying everyday agony, but there’s nothing genuinely emotional about the way this story tries to manipulate our response to Claire’s behavior—unless genuine irritation counts. Opens Jan. 23 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw

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Mortdecai [not yet reviewed] An art dealer (Johnny Depp) begins a quest for a painting that may hold the key to a horde of Nazi gold. Opens Jan. 23 at theaters valleywide. (R) Strange Magic [not yet reviewed] Animated musical fairy tale set in a world of goblins, fairies and elves. Opens Jan. 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior At Brewvies, Jan. 26, 10 p.m. (R) Slamdance Film Festival See More Essentials p. 24. At Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City, Jan. 23-29. Sundance Film Festival See cover story p. 14. At venues in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance Resort, Jan. 22-Feb. 1.

CURRENT RELEASES American Sniper HHH Maybe Navy SEAL Chief Chris Kyle wasn’t the same guy in real life that he was portrayed as by Bradley Cooper here—but that doesn’t mean the movie can’t say something potent and true about the experience of being a soldier and returning home. The narrative follows Kyle through multiple tours in the Middle East post-9/11, while between those tours, he finds himself unable to

find normalcy in life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and kids. Plenty of American Sniper is spent on Chris’ battlefield exploits and traumas, but those straightforward battle scenes at times feel indistinguishable from other wartime dramas. When Chris has to stare down the aftermath during quiet moments, however, the film becomes a compelling portrait of post-traumatic stress, with Cooper’s taciturn performance rendering Chris’ lack of introspection both intriguing and heartbreaking. (R)—SR

Blackhat HH.5 Near the end of Michael Mann’s pursuit-of-a-cyberterrorist thriller, the antagonist is revealed to be someone who values technical achievement over human lives—ironic, since that has often been a characteristic of Mann’s filmmaking. Chris Hemsworth plays convicted felon/hacker Nick Hathaway, who gets a furlough to help his friend/Chinese government official (Leehom Wang) and an FBI agent (Viola Davis) track down the guy who tinkered with a Chinese nuclear reactor and the New York Stock Exchange. Globe-hopping espionage ensues, punctuated by punchy, gritty action sequences and Mann trademarks like speedboats and pretty people falling into bed together. But the slick professionalism of Mann’s visuals gets torpedoed by his resolute joylessness. Blackhat moves through its plot points with a lack of personality that would make a Klingon go, “Sure, revenge is a dish best served cold, but not this cold.” (R)—SR

Foxcatcher HHHH Bennett Miller’s version of a real-life story has a masterful way of keeping us off-balance and uneasy. In 1987, three years after wrestling brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) both won Olympic medals, weirdo billionaire John E. du Pont (Steve Carell) offers to sponsor and coach U.S. national team wrestlers. Thus begins a peculiar, often unnervingly funny bromance; it’s not hard to see why sexually repressed John might want to hang out with strapping young athletes. Du Pont can be dull or outrageous, pathetic or humorous, but Carell plays the man at all times as a real person, and Miller keeps a quiet, deliberate pace, moving gently but steadily toward the climax. The movie is often funny, yet not a comedy; it’s disturbing, but not explicitly horror. It compels our interest even if we know the ending. (R)—Eric D. Snider

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies HH Jokes about the length (and number) of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films indicate a frustration at how he seems to have lost sight of the line between epic and “enough already.” Here he leaps in where The Desolation of Smaug ended, ultimately focusing on a grand battle for control of the Lonely Mountain. Cast-of-digitalthousands warfare ensues, and Jackson clearly excels at this scale of action filmmaking. But his insistence upon going big with this story means too many loose ends to tie up. And while Five Armies is the shortest of the Middle Earth films, there’s still a redundancy to virtually everything the movie counts on to connect with an audience. The final shot of old Bilbo being visited by Gandalf feels less like a linking piece than a threat: My God, this truly will never end. (PG-13)—SR

The Imitation Game HH.5 If Oscar-courting biopics about British geniuses were Highlander, The Imitation Game would easily triumph over The Theory of Everything, which longs for prestige without putting in the necessary artistic work. This cleverly wrought work is led by the inimitable Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, who broke Nazi Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma code in WWII—and essentially invented the computer—only to be accused of espionage and later prosecuted for homosexuality and driven to suicide by the British government. This story is told effectively in Graham Moore’s ingenious script, but the production it receives here is standard-

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Inherent Vice HHHH Paul Thomas Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of Thomas Pynchonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel is weird, rambling, occasionally over the topâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and those are features, baby, not bugs. Anderson follows circa-1970 Los Angeles P.I./habitual stoner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Docâ&#x20AC;? Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) as he investigates a tangled case involving his ex-girlfriend, local police, the FBI, white supremacists and drug smugglers. Much of the fun involves watching Doc grow increasingly paranoid at the way everyone seems to be part of the same mysterious web of intrigue, and Phoenix brings a magnificent zest for physical comedy to the role. It would be a joy to watch simply for Phoenix, Josh Brolin and other madcap performances, but its madness in fact proves both hilarious and kind of tragic, leaving you giggling helplessly at the exact same stuff that might have you crying once the high wears off. (R)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SR

Paddington HHH.5 The young bear gentleman star of Michael Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books comes to movie screens in a visually creative, energetic, thoroughly satisfying film. The surprise derives mainly from the expectation that the warm charm and Britishness of Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories are irreproducible in modern times, but the movie makes the wise choice of being about the kind of nostalgia Paddington fans feel for the stories, set as it is in a cold modern world where the niceties of the past are faint memories. But no matter how good the filmmaking or how measured the writing, if the bear isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cute, Paddington doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. And it is (abetted by Ben Whishawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note-perfect voice performance), so it does. The humansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly an inspired Nicole Kidman as the villainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are all ideally cast, and all seem to be having a wonderful time. (PG)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;DB Spare Parts HH.5 Real-life underdogs-make-good movies often try way too hard, or not nearly hard enough. This one weaves back and forth across that path, telling the story of four Mexican-American kids from a Phoenix-area high school who decide to participate in a national robotics competition. George Lopez plays their advisor, a downon-his-luck engineer slumming as a substitute teacher, and his obligatory backstory pushes past Lopezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s range as an actor and distracts from the real story. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more effective when director Sean McNamara hones in on the familial and societal challenges facing these studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of them undocumented immigrantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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Selma HHHH It could have been just an inspirational drama, or just a hagiographic portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo). But director Ava DuVernay takes a page from Lincoln by focusing on a single crucial philosophical battle—in this case, King’s organization of protests for African-American voting rights in 1965 Alabama, including his interactions with President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson)—and showing all the negotiation, strategizing and mistakes that went into winning it. It’s also a powerful portrait of King himself, precisely because it takes him down from the pedestal and allows Oyelowo’s powerful performance to flourish. With every moment that shows King fine-tuning a speech, it reminds us that having a dream is only a start. Somewhere along the way, even the most eloquent dreamers have to roll up their sleeves and find the best way to do the work. (PG-13)—SR Taken 3 H Liam Neeson’s Grumpy Dad lays waste to the Los Angeles Police Department while avenging his ex-wife. Forest Whitaker stops by. Producer/co-writer Luc Besson’s and director Olivier Megaton’s kinda-sorta approximation of The Fugitive finds Besson’s creative powers at low ebb, displaying an almost fascinating lack of interest toward connecting one low-impact set piece to the next. In what very well may be a motion-picture first, much of the plot’s dramatic weight is shouldered by a bagel. Neeson, his craggy growl and one really sweet leather jacket all do what they can, but lacking the novelty of the first installment—or even the goony ludicrousness of the second—all that remains here is a bunch of humdrum fights edited into near-oblivion. If you peer closely, in the right light, you can actually almost see our hero kick a guy. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright The Wedding Ringer H.5 The Wedding Ringer was made by people who have not learned a fundamental rule: When you start with a stupid premise, you have to work a lot harder. Kevin Hart plays a guy who sells his services as best man to grooms who don’t have any real friends (or qualms about deceiving their brides); Josh Gad is the chubby, desperate client who needs a best man and a fleet of groomsmen. There is much frantic idiocy: an outrageous bachelor party, a muddy football game against the father-in-law, etc. Hart and Gad, both game performers, earn a few laughs through sheer enthusiasm and commitment, but the film never embraces its potential as a bawdy frat-house comedy, seemingly content to stick with safe, easy jokes and a formulaic plot that wastes the talents of its stars. (R)—EDS Wild HH.5 Early in this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) lets loose a primal scream during her 1,000-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail—and Wild doesn’t quite help us understand the personal demons behind that scream. Director Jean-Marc Valée weaves back and forth in time between Strayed’s three-month journey in 1995 and the events that drove her to it, including the death of her beloved mother (Laura Dern) from cancer. That structure never allows the relationship between Strayed and her mother to feel as powerful as she keeps saying it was, nor does Witherspoon’s performance strike the right tone of seen-it-all toughness. There’s enough tension in individual moments to keep you watching, but those moments never add up to more than a howl in the wilderness without a real sense for who’s howling, or why. (R)—SR

Theater Directory SALT LAKE CITY Brewvies Cinema Pub 677 S. 200 West 801-355-5500 Brewvies.com

Megaplex 20 at The District 11400 S. Bangerter Highway 801-304-INFO MegaplexTheatres.com

Broadway Centre Cinemas 111 E. 300 South 801-321-0310 SaltLakeFilmSociety.org

PARK CITY Cinemark Holiday Village 1776 Park Ave. 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Century 16 South Salt Lake 125 E. 3300 South 800-326-3264 Cinemark.com

Redstone 8 Cinemas 6030 N. Market 435-575-0220 Redstone8Cinemas.com

Holladay Center 6 1945 E. Murray-Holladay Road 801-273-0199 WestatesTheatres.com

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Backstrom stinks up the joint; The Americans fall deeper into Cold War drama. Backstrom Thursday, Jan. 22 (Fox) Series Debut: “I don’t see the worst in everyone. I see the everyone in everyone.” That’s just one of dozens of hack lines delivered half-heartedly by Rainn Wilson (The Office) in the premiere episode of Backstrom, this year’s Let’s Get This Over With midseason slot-filler from Fox (at this time in 2014, it was Greg Kinnear’s Rake). Wilson stars as Portland, Ore., detective Everett Backstrom, a disheveled, hard-living mess we’re to believe is a “brilliant” crime-solver, even though he seemingly just stumbles into every clue between blowhard nothin’-means-nothin’ rants (imagine True Detective’s Rust Cohle, minus any ounce of charm or competence). No one onscreen even looks like they want to be here, least of all Wilson—and don’t be fooled by the quirky promos: Backstrom is an under-lit, unpleasant stab at cable “edge” that doesn’t work on any level. Stay tuned for Bones reruns, soon.

Love, Lust or Run Friday, Jan 23 (TLC) Series Debut: Former What Not to Wear co-host Stacy London gives “make-unders” to women whose garish fashion senses fall somewhere between Kmart Drag Queen and Rodeo Clown From Mars, asking strangers on the street to rate the subjects’ before and after looks as Love It, Lust After It, or Run Away From It. I’m only mentioning Love, Lust or Run because, 1. I have a weird thing for Stacy London (I know, right?), and 2. It’s a new TLC show that involves no gay Mormon husbands, polygamist clans, pre-diabetic hillbillies or Cake Bosses. You take the “Learning” wins where you can.

Black Sails Saturday, Jan. 24 (Starz) Season Premiere: 2014’s hit debut of Black Sails was no surprise, as it loaded with blood, boobs and Bay—producer Michael Bay, that is, whose touch gives the pirate drama an expensive, blockbuster look not usually associated

with Starz originals (settle down, Outlander fans). Instead of just delivering more of the same in Season 2, Black Sails will delve into characters’ pre-pirating backstories this time around, flashing back to more proper, crisperuniformed times—but don’t worry, new and more ruthless dirty bastards are introduced into the pirate pack as well. Black Sails may not be content to simply remain escapist blue-sea trash, but no series does escapist blue-sea trash better.

Sirens Tuesday, Jan. 27 (USA) Season Premiere: The bad news is, USA just canceled promising comedy series Benched because, surprise, no one watched it in the dead of December. The good news is the network did pick up second seasons of other promising comedies Playing House and Sirens, granting me another chance to explain that, while Sirens is a stoopid name for a show, it’s still funny stuff. Even though it’s exec-produced by Denis Leary, Sirens (it’s about Chicago EMTs, who, of course, have sirens on their ambulances—still a lame title) plays more like a cousin to Brooklyn Nine-Nine than Leary’s black-humored Rescue Me, but suffers a bit from

Backstrom (Fox) the same self-conscious restraint that runs through all USA originals: It’s almost there—go weirder or dirtier (or both) already, Sirens.

The Americans Wednesday, Jan. 28 (FX)

Season Premiere: It’s 1982, and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is dead—what are covert Russian spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) to do? Will they follow orders from the homeland to recruit unknowing-butsuspicious teen daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) into the KGB, or leave her in the dark as to who and what they really are? What’s going to happen to treasonous Russian double-agent Nina (Annet Mahendru)? Are the producers aware that The Police’s stalker-y “Every Breath You Take,” featured heavily in The Americans’ Season 3 promos, was actually released in 1983? So many questions (and wigs). CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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Elsewhere, “Dogs” is a catalog of Kozelek’s formative sexual experiences, but as the song progresses, it reads not like a register of conquests but a list of completed chores that has led him no closer to happiness. He feels the bitter sting of professional jealousy in “Ben’s My Friend.” He worries, on the layered and oceanic “I Watched the Film ‘The Song Remains the Same,’ ” that he’ll never shake his lifelong melancholy, later conceding he’ll probably “carry it with me to hell.” Also: He’s pretty sure he’s going to hell. Benji paints far from a complete picture of Kozelek, but it’s probably a truer representation of Kozelek as a human. For example, it contrasts with the public persona the songwriter built in 2014, when he told a crowd of “fucking hillbillies” to “shut the fuck up” at a music festival in North Carolina—Kozelek has long been combative with his audiences, more so as his music has gotten more delicate—then engaged in a one-sided Internet spat with The War on Drugs. Indeed, Benji gives us enough of a glimpse into Kozelek’s true nature to allow us to recognize that he isn’t that much different from us: He’s aging, worried about his loved ones, burned out by the more exhausting aspects of his job, trying to make it through another day. He’s complicated, flawed. In other words: He’s human. “Public perception is a megalomaniacal concept,” he says. “If I’m misunderstood, it means that people think I’m worth misunderstanding. And that’s OK with me.” CW

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n February 2014, not long after the release of his devastating and achingly gorgeous Sun Kil Moon LP Benji, Mark Kozelek was asked by Seattle Times rock critic Charlie Zaillian what he thought people most misunderstood about him. Kozelek’s response, in its entirety: “That I’m a human being.” When asked by City Weekly, by way of follow-up, why he feels misunderstood, and if there’s perhaps a perceived disconnect between Mark Kozelek the artist and Mark Kozelek the person, the songwriter doesn’t elaborate, instead digressing on what’s he’s done that day: eat some lunch, pet some cats, book a flight to Lincoln, Neb., on his 47th birthday. “When I get to Lincoln,” Kozelek says via e-mail, “I’ll do what I always do. I’ll play beautiful music and keep people entertained for two hours.” For nearly three decades, Kozelek has certainly been making beautiful music: first with evocative and intense seminal sadcore outfit Red House Painters; and, after disbanding that outfit, under the nom de plume Sun Kil Moon. Insanely prolific and incredibly morose, Kozelek is one of music’s quintessential sad bastards, his hushed songs written in an increasingly wry and realist style. Where Kozelek used to hide behind sonic grandeur and extended abstraction, the nakedly confessional songs on Benji are typically adorned by little more than Kozelek’s barbiturate baritone and nylon-string guitar. They’re often sad, occasionally bitingly funny and largely bereft of metaphor, Kozelek taking the old adage “write what you know” as the alpha and omega of his process, as if his life just happened to occur in rhyming couplets. From listening to Benji’s run-on sentences, we glean that Kozelek has a bad back and a nagging prostate, that he had braces on his legs when he was 5, that he owns a $350 pair of lampshades, that he still practices the guitar (though not as much as Nels Cline), that the dude who signed him lives in Santa Fe, that he loves Led Zeppelin’s acoustic “Bron-Yr-Aur.” We also learn that both his sister and uncle died in freak aerosol-can-related explosions (“Goddamn, what were the odds?” asks Kozelek on aching album opener “Carissa”), that he misses his grandmother and loves his dad and worries constantly about the failing health of his mother, that his dad’s friend Jim Wise mercy-killed his ailing wife. But the problem with packing your songs with such intimate detail and dark introspection is that people will inevitably want to ask you questions about it. Kozelek has always shied away from interviews, even in his Red House Painters days, but there’s a great irony that Kozelek has become shorter with the press as his songs have become more intimately revealing. “Interviews aren’t my greatest passion, but I’m in the music business,” Kozelek says when asked about interviewers who attempt to tie up Benji’s loose ends. “I make music, and this part is business.” Left largely without explanation, we’re left to parse Kozelek’s words to glean insight. And Benji’s at its most directly fascinating when Kozelek turns especially inward, unleashing a flood of troubling memories from his past and examining their lingering effects in a gut-wrenching manner. He’s haunted, for instance, by the deaths of family and friends—like his friend Brett, who “just liked to play guitar and he never hurt anyone”—or the kids who never made it out of his dead-end Ohio neighborhood. “I think about death a lot,” Kozelek says. “I had friends who died way too young, and the effect it had on me is something I carry. I love life, and I wake up every day and make the best I can out of it.”

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fter taking a break from cult favorite Dashboard Confessional, it would’ve been easy for Florida musician Chris Carrabba to keep playing to thousands of people thanks to name recognition alone— after all, he’s an elder statesman of early2000s emo. Instead, in 2011, Carrabba started the folk-pop band Twin Forks. Turning away from the strong emo tendencies of Dashboard Confessional, Twin Forks has been a reboot of Carrabba’s musical career. It’s also proven to be a reboot of his public persona. At concerts, “some people would realize halfway through the set that it was me. Others would talk to me after the show, telling me that I looked like Chris Carrabba. I sure hope I look like me,” he jokes. The five members of Twin Forks came together with the goal of creating communal live shows through their fun, high-energy take on Americana. And the new style of songwriting gave Carrabba a fresh creative outlet to express himself. To the casual listener, that may sound ironic, given the personal, emotive nature of Dashboard Confessional, but it’s clear that Carrabba is reinvigorated with Twin Forks’ lively neo-folk sound. While it might be easy to accuse Carrabba of jumping on the folk bandwagon, Twin Forks is a genuine expression of a love for folk music that stems from his childhood. His earliest exposure to folk greats came from records he inherited from his mother, by legends like Townes Van Zandt, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and his personal favorite, Steve Earle. “Earle was my first introduction to a counterculture figure,” Carrabba says. “He was a badass on every front.” Twin Forks reflects Carrabba’s desire to return to those musical roots. While Twin Forks’ 2014 self-titled debut album includes all of the Americana prerequisites (dueling male/female vocals, stomping, whistling, finger-picked guitars), Carrabba doesn’t feel like classic folk storytelling is that far from Dashboard Confessional’s stirring tales of love and

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heartbreak. But it was difficult for him to find his songwriting voice. “I’ve always been a storyteller, but with the beginning of Dashboard, it was a reaction to listening to [my original influences] and bands like Fleetwood Mac, but I also wanted to be as unique as possible,” Carrabba says. “I had a massive respect for the music I listened to, but I felt as if I needed to do it justice, the art of being a troubadour.” But even though Carrabba wasn’t ready at that point to devote himself to being a folk troubadour, that didn’t stop him from making music. He stepped away from folk and instead melded hardcore rhythms with acoustic guitars in Dashboard Confessional, which evolved into a pop-rock band over the next decade and had its own share of national success. And with those successes, Carrabba felt he’d proven his songwriting mettle and was ready to try tackling making music that paid homage to his earlier influences. “After years of proving that I paved my own road, I then felt a strong draw toward the challenge of trying to excel in folk, which at the time wasn’t popular,” Carrabba says. “I thought with the years of dedication and uber-focus of my craft, I could indulge myself in chasing these song structures that I really love.” His dedication to folk drove him to study relentlessly in developing his finger-picking technique (“it’s deceptively difficult”) and allowed himself to write from a point of view he hadn’t yet explored. Still focusing mostly on love songs, Carrabba blasts any misconceptions of emo hysterics with the infectious joy of Twin Forks’ self-titled album, headlined by the cheerful “Back to You” and the rollicking “Scraping Up the Pieces.” While Carrabba is still going strong with Dashboard Confessional, Twin Forks is the sound of a man who’s reinvigorated. “I was starting to feel like I was forcing myself to write Dashboard songs that had that ‘emo’ quality,” Carrabba says. “I had to ask myself, ‘Am I writing for who I am, who I was or who I’m thought to be?’ So I buckled down to write from the point of view of who I am now.” CW

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Bat Manors Album Release You may be thinking, “Wait, what? I thought Bat Manors’ latest album came out during the summer?” If so, you’re partially right; the Provo chamber-pop band did self-release their excellent fulllength Literally Weird in June. But since then, Bat Manors have signed on with label Bleed 101 to give the album an official release Jan. 27, and tonight, they’re celebrating Literally Weird’s “rerelease” as well as their label debut. So, if you missed the first album-release show, now’s your chance to head out and experience the beautiful music of Literally Weird live. This show will also welcome back a couple local acts we haven’t seen in a while: electro-pop duo Mideau; and Coastal, a band that formed in 1999 but hasn’t

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This long-standing Sugar House fixture—the cabin next to Fats Grill & Pool—is a beer-only tavern that attracts visitors from across the country due to its age (est. 1947), Swiss chalet construction, jukebox and intimate space, which hits capacity at 25. The Bar in Sugarhouse sticks to 4.0 beers, and on the beer list you’ll find some local craft beers from Uinta and Shades of Pale. A Golden Tee machine gets plenty of use from the regulars; otherwise, all you have to do is drink beer and watch TV. Ahhhh … 2168 S. Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-485-1232 Johnny’s on Second

Is everything a game to you? Good: Johnny’s on Second should be right up your alley—not even “Fast Eddie” Felson could lose at these pool tables. Other diversions include shuffleboard, electronic darts and NFL Blitz ’99. And there’s something for everybody on the weekly lineup: Poker nights are Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays; a DJ spins on Fridays; local bands hit the stage on Saturdays; and there are $1 mimosas on Sundays. TVs are plentiful, drinks are cheap, and pizza and sandwiches can be bought at the bar. 165 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-3334, JohnnysOnSecond.com The Woodshed

Now that it has cornhole on the spacious back patio, The Woodshed claims to have everything you need in a bar. Until it warms up, stay inside where it’s toasty, and appreciate the live music that runs the gamut of genres. The most popular night might be Live Reggae Thursdays, but The Woodshed is packed all week long. You might be drawn to the photo booth or free video games, including Ms. Pac-Man, or a spot to share a quiet drink—The Woodshed also can be the place for that until 8 or 9 p.m., then it gets crazy. 60 E. 800 South,  Salt Lake City, 801-364-0805, TheWoodshedSLC.com

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This neighborhood bar is a comfortable spot to hang. Bartenders are no-nonsense yet friendly, and happy to mix you creative cocktails or old favorites. As the official viewing bar of Real Salt Lake, Dick N’ Dixies is also the perfect place to watch a game. You might even spot one of the players chilling between matches. For you music lovers, grab a drink before you head across the street to The Urban Lounge for a show. 479 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-521-3556 City Limits

Every city should have some idiosyncratic dive bars, and City Limits is Provo’s. An unpretentious hangout for either a night out with friends or to be left alone to nurse a beer, City Limits usually hosts a post-college crowd, though anyone can find their spot at the bar or karaoke machine. Beer pong and Jell-O shots complement a satisfying beer and cocktail menu. Be sure to check out Pride Night every Friday. 440 W. Center St., Provo, 801-374-2337 Beerhive Pub

A favorite downtown spot for after-work cocktails and pints, Beerhive Pub specializes in brews sought by the pickiest of beer lovers—with more than 200 choices of beer on draft and in bottles, you’ll never have to settle. The frosty rail on the bar keeps drinks cold, but there’s more to this bar than beer—you can also play pool downstairs and partake in great food. 128 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-364-4268 Kokomo Club

With 50-plus years in Ogden, Kokomo has amassed a stalwart yet diverse group of regulars—one night, you’ll find reticent Ogdenites bellied up to the bar; the next, you might see a group of women dancing to the sounds of the jukebox. Kokomo Club is a cash-only operation and the beer is cheap—you can’t get much more old school than that. 216 E. 25th St., Ogden, 801-621-9991

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I see this process as a metaphor for the work you give yourself more of the credit and respect you deserve. have ahead of you, Scorpio. A new source of psychological and spiritual sustenance will soon be available, but you will have to GEMINI (May 21-June 20) purge its toxins before you can use and enjoy it. Where you have been and what you have done will be of little importance in the coming weeks. Both your mistakes and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) your triumphs will be irrelevant. In my estimation, you have a Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) didn’t like to sacred duty to spy on the future and reconnoiter the pleasures work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact, his desire to avoid and challenges that lie ahead. So I suggest you head off toward strenuous exertion was an important factor in his abundant the frontier with an innocent gleam in your eye and a cheerful output. He got things done fast. His most famous opera, The hunger for interesting surprises. 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