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Stephen Dark worked as a reporter in the U.K. before falling in love with Argentina in the mid-’90s, only to be driven out, along with his family, in 2004 by social and economic instability. For the past 10 years, he’s explored the highs and lows of Utah while working as a writer at City Weekly.

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LETTERS You’ve Got to Earn That $15

I came across an interview on PBS with author and ROCUnited co-founder Saru Jayaraman. Her book Behind the Kitchen Door chronicles the nationwide “Fight for 15,” where restaurant workers are demanding that the minimum wage be raised to $15 per hour. She seemed intelligent and well informed. I have been in food and beverage for over 20 years, and if I were to open a restaurant tomorrow, there is no way in hell I would offer a starting wage of $15 per hour, whether I were required by law to do so or not. I would find some way out of it, up to and including closing my doors. My reasoning is simple: Today’s entry-level F&B workers just aren’t worth that much. Not even close. The state of our current labor pool is abysmal. People are entering the workforce completely bereft of even the most fundamental of work ethics. Just getting people to show up is like pulling teeth. Getting them to complete all assigned tasks correctly takes an act of Congress. There are some very hard-working people in F&B. I have the privilege to know and work with many. But for every “rock star” an employer is lucky to get, he has to blow through 20 dough-heads first. Asking that employer to fork out big bucks right out of the gate is unreasonable at best. I have come up with what I feel is a fair test that an employee should take before demanding anything: Show up

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Most job titles and job descriptions are fairly straightforward. Thus, a baker is expected to bake, and a teacher is expected to teach. Those not living up to their job titles or their job descriptions usually get dismissed. Does the LDS Church use this commonly used criteria for its president? According to Mormon tradition, the president is a prophet, seer, revelator and translator. Among the many definitions of the word “prophet” is “a person who predicts or claims to predict what will happen in the future.” “Seer” is defined as “a person of supposed

supernatural insight, who sees visions of the future.” A revelator is “one who reveals something hitherto unknown.” And a translator is “a person who translates from one language to another.” An LDS Church president’s job description puts to shame that of a rocket scientist, a brain surgeon, a U.S. president or even the Pope. Has Thomas Monson demonstrated any of the skills numerated in his job description? How are these unique skills transferred to Monson’s successor? Is there a laying-on of hands or a light so blinding that no one has ever been able to see what’s happening? Or could this whole business be like in The Wizard of Oz? Will the curtain ever be pulled aside?

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OPINION Squeaking Pickle OK, people, let’s see how well you do on this little sports quiz: 1. What sport was invented 50 years ago in a suburb of Seattle? 2. What sport is widely believed to be named after a dog? 3. What is called “the fastest growing sport you never heard of?” 4. What sport will have a facility completed this month on fifth Avenue and C Street? Chances are the under-50 folks are stumped. So here’s a hint: All four questions have the same answer. And the answer is? [drum roll] Pickleball! Pickleball is a tennis-like game played with a solid paddle and a perforated plastic ball. The net is 2 inches lower than a tennis net. The sport was invented in 1965 by the late Joel Pritchard, a congressman from Washington. He cobbled together handmade plywood paddles, a whiffle ball and a badminton court to create a game for his kids. Two stories compete as the source of the name. One is about Pritchard’s ballchasing cocker spaniel, Pickles. Another comes from Pritchard’s wife who wrote in 2008, “The name of the game became pickleball after I said it reminded me of the pickle boat in crew, where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats.” Interest in the sport took root in Sun Belt retirement communities and spread like dandelions. As more and more Baby Boomers put aside their tennis racquets and golf clubs, many took up pickleball paddles. There are several reasons for the sport’s popularity. It is more forgiving than tennis—especially on aging knees and slowing reflexes—and it is a game which rewards deft tacticians, not heavy hitters. Learning the basics takes only a few minutes, and the game has an infectious, transgenerational appeal. That appeal is evinced each year at the Huntsman Senior Games in St. George, where the pickleball competition is capped at 500 players. An annual tournament in

Ogden draws players from around the country and Canada with $3,000 prizes for top finishers. Brigham, Tremonton, Hurricane and Pleasant Grove hosted local tournaments last year. And then there is Salt Lake City. Utah’s capital has dawdled on the shore and watched as others like Ogden, Riverton, Sandy and Bluffdale caught the wave. If you want to play outdoor pickleball in Salt Lake City, you have only four options: a temporary court at the Gallivan Center or a tennis court striped with pickleball lines at Reservoir, Pioneer and Sunnyside parks. A fifth option becomes available by the end of June: The city’s first outdoor courts will open on fifth Avenue and C Street at about the same time as four new courts in Riverton are finished. Next year, a six-court pickleball complex will be built as part of a renovation of the 11th Avenue tennis courts; and Jordan and Riverside parks will each gain two courts. By next summer, then, the city will have 12 outdoor pickleball courts—four more than Ogden, four fewer than Bluffdale. The city’s plodding pace belies the explosive growth of the indoor pickleball subculture along the Wasatch Front. In 2010, only Dimple Dell Recreation Center offered pickleball on three makeshift courts. Today, there are more than 30 indoor courts in several recreation centers. On weekday mornings, players set up portable nets and play on courts laid out side-by-side in the gyms. Some are tennis players with wornout knees. Most are retirees. As they wait on the sidelines to join a doubles match, they chat sociably. They are quick to invite a visitor to try her hand at “the fastest growing sport in the country.” Pickleball partisans like me have been lobbying for outdoor courts for the past three years. We have attended meetings in Salt Lake County, and we have badgered Salt Lake

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City’s Parks and Public Lands Department (P&PLD). Along the way I have learned that pickleball is not the only squeaking wheel. Walkers, bike riders, dog owners, inline skaters, disc golfers, tennis players—all want accommodation. But it is a zero-sum game. If the P&PLD builds tennis courts at Fairmont Park, as it might do, the upshot may be that disc golfers make do with what they’ve got until money becomes available. There is never enough money, however, and when dollars are a deciding factor, politics comes into play. Politics impedes the least-expensive option for pickleball: converting two existing tennis courts into six pickleball courts. The P&PLD owns about 90 tennis courts. Many are idle; many need resurfacing. But most of them have a guardian angel in the guise of an elected official. The prospect of a single tennis court being given over to an “upstart sport” like pickleball is dismissed out of hand—a hidebound reaction, I think. After 50 years, pickleball is not a fad that will fade as inline skating did. The data are clear: Tennis is on the decline; pickleball is on the rise. Salt Lake County groks it. Its new Southwest Regional Park in Bluffdale, where the median age is 27, will have 16 lighted pickleball courts—and none for tennis. If Southwest Regional Park is the future, Liberty Park is the past. Its 16 tennis courts are certainly part of my past. I have spent many hours hitting tennis balls there over the years. I have no doubt that I will hit pickleballs there sooner rather than later. In the meantime, the good people running the P&PLD have an opportunity in booming Sugar House. If the plan is to build new tennis courts in Fairmont Park, then pickleball courts ought to be included. To do otherwise is to ignore the handwriting on the wall. CW

What recreational updates would you have installed in Liberty Park?

PICKLEBALL PARTISANS LIKE ME HAVE BEEN LOBBYING FOR OUTDOOR COURTS FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS.

Scott Renshaw: Massage tables. Tell me that wouldn’t be the single most used public facility.

Jeff Chipian: It’s time to re-open the gladiator pits! We need champions to be crowned and blood to be spilled. The tradition of our forefathers must be brought back to this day and age. Or they can put in a cool turf football field for everyone to use, whatever is easier.

Jeremiah Smith: I would lobby very hard for a Thunderdome to be installed. I feel like that is just the kind of family entertainment that Liberty Park is lacking.

Ryan Carillo: A permanent bounce house for adults, not kids. Brandon Burt: A “no cryptosporidium” section in the swimming pool.

Bryan Bale: Maybe they could build a “slip-n-slide” that runs the entire length of the park. It wouldn’t even have to be funded by taxpayers; just get Exxon to foot the bill and call it the Broken Pipeline.

Josh Scheuermann: Any large population with a controlling majority needs an openburn pit for educational books and the devil’s brew! That’s how the “Literature, Music, Fun, Alcohol and Obscenity” Pit will be created! L.M.F.A.O.!

Liberty Park needs a miniature railroad that winds through the aviary, glides around the pond, jigs and jags through the drum circle and then spring-loads its passengers into— or at least nearby—the swimming pool. Jerre Wroble:

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A Streetcar Lacking Desire

Hold on. There’s more news coming about the Sugar House Ghost Train, also known as the streetcar to nowhere. The Salt Lake City Council has unenthusiastically (4-3) voted to match $3.1 million in federal funds to extend the line. No, the Utah Transit Authority won’t throw in a dime, and who knows how long this will take to build, anyway? The Salt Lake Tribune even editorialized that the city would be better off operating a small, intra-city bus system. You know, one that actually gets people where they need to go. But the real issue here is a lack of planning, which Councilman Charlie Luke hollered about. He bemoaned the lack of a comprehensive mass-transit plan. Planning should be first on any city agenda. Issues like the golf-course debacle might be helped if there were more planning and a vision for the future.

Code for Cleaner Air

While going through the process to create local historic districts, the Salt Lake City planning commission heard from a couple of men who advocated tearing down all the old homes in the Yalecrest area. They would be rebuilt not only much more earthquakeproof, but much more energy efficient. Meanwhile, the governor’s Clean Air Action Team has endorsed new energy codes for builders. “According to the Utah Division of Air Quality, homes and buildings now contribute nearly 40 percent of the emissions that cause Utah’s unhealthy air—and this percentage is expected to grow,” a recent Deseret News op-ed noted. But during the last legislative session, an attempt to change the building code adoption cycle from three years to six years luckily failed. If it passed, it would mean that new homes could be built using outdated standards. The next Legislature needs to heed the team’s recommendation.

Christine Stenquist is a medical-cannabis patient and executive director of the Drug Policy Project of Utah (DPPUtah.org), a nonprofit patient-driven advocacy group working to reform state drug laws. The organization is pushing for changes in Utah law to allow patients to access to medical-cannabis products to treat conditions such as epilepsy, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis.

What sparked your interest in medical cannabis?

I suffer from a few conditions that have left me bedridden and housebound for the past 15-plus years. I have an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor. In 1996, during a surgery to remove the tumor, I started to hemorrhage and they had to stop the procedure. I slipped into a coma, and several days later when I came to, I was deaf in my left ear and had muscle weakness on the left side of my body. I required a walker and spoke like a stroke victim. I still have about 60 percent of the tumor remaining and a lot of nerve-damage pain. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 15 months after brain surgery, and a migraine specialist diagnosed me with hemicrania continua.

Why should medical users have all the fun while recreational users are deemed lawbreakers?

Recreational use and medical use are two very separate conversations. Virtually no one would argue that the large-scale criminalization of drugs (the so-called “War on Drugs”) has been successful. The worst offenses related to the recreational use of cannabis come from organized criminal elements and not from the individual users. I’m supportive of any policy that reduces the power of criminal organizations, empowers individuals to make responsible choices and takes the crosshairs off of peace officers and citizens.

What’s Utah’s problem with medical cannabis?

There’s an assumption that medical cannabis has not been studied. We’re locked in a perpetual Catch-22, because opponents of medical cannabis consistently request “good research,” but the federal government doesn’t allow research on medical cannabis because of its status as a Schedule I drug. This “lack” of evidence is then consistently used as an excuse to put off allowing cannabis to be responsibly used as a medicine. Utah is not exploring new territory: Nearly half of U.S. states have legal medical cannabis.

Isn’t cannabis a “gateway drug”?

Correlation isn’t indicative of causation. Just because someone tried cannabis doesn’t mean it lead him or her down the road to hard drugs. Typically, this argument is an example of the one-size-fits-all logic that has led to emotionally-based legislation, and not to legislation based on data-driven science.

For those on board with your medical-cannabis mission, what’s the next step?

Visit our website. Come forward and share your stories. Utahns are already benefiting from cannabis, and The Drug Policy Project of Utah is collecting patient stories from patients who meet the appropriate criteria. In order to build upon our successes, we need new supporters as well as donors willing to help our advocacy organization for Utah’s patients.

Cool to Skip School

Mia Love wants colleges and universities to spend lots of money telling students why they shouldn’t go to college. In her first big jump into legislation, the congresswoman introduced the “Student Right to Know Before You Go Act,” apparently aimed at telling kids what the return on their educational investment will be. This is based on a Salt Lake City woman whose son graduated with $80,000 of student-loan debt and no job prospects. Wouldn’t it be great if colleges could guarantee jobs for their graduates? Or if, as President Obama proposes, the first two years of college were free? Love’s act sounds like a way to talk students out of higher education. Maybe she should propose a law called a “Couples Right to Know Before You Impregnate Act.”

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Have there been more natural disasters than usual in recent years? Or are there just more videos of them on YouTube? —Haley Block

For once, our answer is a pretty clear yes. According to the World Meteorological Organization, humanity experienced nearly five times as many natural disasters (3,496) in the first decade of this century as we did during the 1980s (743). That said, the increase in the sheer number of events isn’t as simple as it seems. For one thing, as you’ve pointed out, everything’s betterdocumented these days—though how anyone manages to appropriately angle their phone to film themselves running down Everest away from an avalanche and then moments later post it online is beyond my imagination. I care about you, dear readers, but if the earth opens up to swallow me as I sit at my desk writing this, your viewing pleasure won’t be my immediate concern. Backing up a bit: As a species and a planet we’re more vulnerable to cataclysmic events than in the past, and a considerable part of this vulnerability comes from climate change. It’s of course impossible to pinpoint what percentage of events are directly our fault, but there are signs we’re not doing ourselves any favors. If you divide disasters into climate-related events (tornadoes and hurricanes, flooding, etc.) and geophysical occurrences (earthquakes, tsunamis), the latter have remained basically steady for decades while the former are responsible for at least 80 percent of the overall increase in reported disasters. Floods and megastorms represented 89 percent of all disasters between 1970 and 2012. Heat waves are responsible for a much larger proportion of deaths in the last decade than ever before, and some of the deadliest killers of the past half-century were droughts in East Africa. And over that same 42-year period, damage from storms, droughts, and flooding (in that order) have cost the most money— more than 80 percent of overall disaster losses worldwide. But 10 percent of that went just to the Sandy and Katrina cleanups (and in Katrina’s case, the cleanup of the cleanup). Which stands to reason: it obviously costs a lot more to repair disaster damage in New York City than in Sri Lanka, and the money is more easily come by. You see where it gets tricky—the definition of natural disaster is unavoidably tied to the number of people affected and/or the value of the damage done, both of which will naturally increase as the Earth’s population and wealth do, and of course wealth and population aren’t evenly distributed worldwide. And that brings us to the other big part of our growing vulnerability to disasters: urban migration in developing countries means denser populations, which often goes hand in hand with quickly-assembled, not overly sturdy housing. The parts of the world where this is most common tend to have largely informal

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economies, in which the enforcement of building-code regulations may not be a top priority. All this makes it much more likely that a serious meteorological or seismic event will meet the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance’s criteria for a disaster: ten or more people killed and at least 100 injured, evacuated, displaced, or left homeless. By that organization’s count we now have twice the number of disasters per year that we did 20 years ago. Take the Haitian earthquake of 2010: measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, it killed about a quarter-million people, with another 1.5 million displaced; a whopping $13.34 billion dollars was spent in aid. As it happens, a 7.0 also hit New Zealand later that year, followed by a much more destructive 6.3 aftershock in early 2011. Total deaths: 181. The key to the difference, of course, is that Haiti has about twice the population of New Zealand living in a tenth the space, and the buildings housing this population are of generally poorer quality—the lack of rebar and other structural reinforcement led to exponentially greater damage. Comparing India and the U.S., it’s a similar story: between 1980 and 2002 India had 14 major earthquakes killing 32,117 people, while the U.S. had 18 that killed only 143. And so on: a disproportionate share of the deaths caused by environmental shocks are borne by people in developing countries where population growth is greatest. According to the University of Colorado, roughly 403 million people live in places with significant seismic hazard. It only makes sense that the death tolls are increasing. So yes, there are more disasters, and they’re hitting us harder. This may not be entirely inevitable: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, for instance, is pushing a seven-year, $2 trillion plan to build improved housing for 170 million citizens now living in slums. On the other hand, climate change will worsen as long as we continue to ignore it, as President Obama not-quite-jokingly pointed out at the White House Correspondents’ dinner in April. At any rate, we’re not likely to turn the morecatastrophes trend around soon. The fact that CGI is finally capable of realistically rendering all this stuff for summer-blockbuster audiences is small consolation, but for now it may be all we’ve got.

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City leaders are eager to close the Glendale Golf Course, but turning it into something else will take loads of money. BY COLBY FRAZIER cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp

n 2014, golfers played 66,812 rounds at Salt Lake City’s Glendale Golf Course—160 acres of fairways, sand traps and plush putting greens abutting the Jordan River that many golfers believe is just about perfect the way it is. But the golf course, which the city built in 1973 and, on paper, is projected to rake in nearly $50,000 more than its $1 million in expenses this year, is slated for closure. In shuttering Glendale and Wingpointe golf courses, Salt Lake City leaders hope to heal its ailing golf programs, which they say have been propelled downward by changing demographics and a nationwide trend showing waning interest in golf. These factors, a study commissioned by the city that analyzed its golf programs shows, will cause the city’s golf fund to run a $1 million deficit by 2020. Few disagree that the city must find a way to better manage its inventory of seven golf courses. But those opposed to the closure of Glendale say that city leaders— blinded by the prospect of repurposing 160 acres of rare wide-open space—have zeroed in on the wrong culprit. And, in an era where money is being used as a justification to turn off the golfing spigot at Glendale, critics point out that it would cost tens of millions of dollars to change the course into a city park—a future that would be void of the millions of dollars in greens fees that flow to Glendale. An idea that has arisen to pay for transitioning Glendale to some sort of a mix between a park and open space is a bond measure, which, if approved by the mayor and city council, could end up on the November general election ballot. Though no fixed number has been placed on the bond, it could cost taxpayers as much as $50 million— a far cry the $150,000 that the golf courses are expected to lose each year over the next five years. “It’s just a point of saying, ‘We’re going to make this thing work,’” says Van Turner, a former District 2 city councilman who, motivated in part by the ap-

Glendale Golf Course: On an upswing, or in the rough? proaching demise of Glendale—which he believes should remain open—is once again seeking a seat on the council. “Right now we’ve got people saying ‘We don’t want it to work.’” With the closure of Wingpointe, which the city intends to turn over to the Salt Lake City International Airport, and Glendale, the city will still face a $269,000 deficit in the golf fund in 2016. The main money-loser in the city’s golf system is Rose Park, which in 2015 is expected to lose $281,000, a hole that will grow to $575,000 by 2020. The survival of Rose Park seems to hinge, in part, on politics. James Rogers, the District 1 councilman, advocated fervently on the golf courses’ behalf. As discussions were afoot on which golf courses to close, Rose Park residents turned out in droves to speak in favor of the course. The course also has been riddled by construction projects that city leaders say may have contributed to its flagging revenues. Far from a cheerleader for the Glendale course, Kyle LaMalfa, the District 2 councilman who represents the area, says that the Rose Park course is a community asset, while the Glendale course is presently not. “Glendale Golf Course could be made into a community asset that appeals to far more residents,” he says. “The open space where Glendale Golf Course resides has enormous potential for other uses that are much more compatible with our community.” Possibilities for what Glendale could be turned into abound. Some have advocated for a regional park that would include soccer fields, tennis courts and other amenities. Others want to see it turned back into the river-front property it once was, providing a sanctuary for native plants, birds and other wildlife. The latter of these options is what Ray Wheeler, a champion of Jordan River restoration, would like to see. Wheeler has put together a compre-

hensive package of plans for not only Glendale, but for Salt Lake City’s share of completing and improving the Jordan River trail. In all of the scenarios—with the exception of development—Wheeler sees golf as the lowest common denominator. He’d rather see more intensive developed recreation on a portion of the Glendale property instead of golf. And, to take it a step further, Wheeler says he’d like to see the Rose Park course shuttered. With the Jordan River Par 3 course, which closed in 2014, Rose Park and Glendale all void of golf balls, Wheeler says it would afford the city a rare opportunity to create a large network of natural restoration. “The golf courses really are the final frontier for open spaces on the river,” Wheeler says. “This would be an international showcase for the restoration of nature within the heart of a major metropolitan area.” But all of these scenarios come with a price tag. Developed recreation sites, Wheeler says, would cost around $600,000 an acre. If half of Glendale became soccer fields and playgrounds, he says it would cost in the neighborhood of $48 million. It is this cost that bothers Jackie Biskupski, who is challenging Mayor Ralph Becker in his re-election bid. Biskupski says that Glendale could remain a golf course and still appeal to a broader swathe of the population by altering how it’s used. And she says it’s unfortunate that golfers have been pitted against open space advocates in this debate. Biskupski, who along with Turner will speak at a June 13 rally in support of the Glendale course, also noted that the course remains profitable—a trend that she acknowledged the city believes will move the wrong way in coming years, but that with the switch away from using expensive culinary water for irrigation, could become much more profitable.

“Let’s stop saying it’s expensive to keep the golf courses and let’s start saying ‘Let’s make sure that as we’re providing this activity that people in our community enjoy that we’re as fiscally conservative as we should be and that we’re environmentally sensitive,’” she says, noting that golf, as recreation, is rare in that it is expected to pay for itself, while a basketball court or soccer field is not. “This mentality that somehow golf has become extremely expensive for the city is silly. There’s just not a lot of logic going into the closure of Glendale considering the arguments being used to do it.” Art Raymond, a spokesman for Mayor Becker, says that 160 acres can provide a broader range of activities more appealing to a wider variety of Salt Lakers. And ultimately, he says, the taxpayers will decide if tens of millions of dollars in bonds is worth it. “It’s important to note that we know we have very avid golfers in Salt Lake City and we’re going to continue to operate five golf courses,” Raymond says. “The thinking behind it is, this is an overall restructuring of the golf program to ensure that the system is viable and continues to do what it’s supposed to do, which is pay for itself.” But while the discussion about Glendale often winds back to money, supporters of the course note that to this day, coming off of a dry and unseasonably warm winter, Glendale is making money and is enjoyed by thousands of average-Joe golfers. Tim Branigan, a part-time golf instructor at Glendale who says it’s “the perfect public course,” organized Saturday’s rally because he wants to let people know that Glendale is being used by golfers and that the course is making money. “They say golf is losing money; they say golf is waning,” Branigan says. “Trends go down, and trends go up, and we’re definitely in an upswing.” CW

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A commercial drone company in Utah is exploring unmapped regulatory territory. BY ERIC S. PETERSON epeterson@cityweekly.net @ericspeterson

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commercial drones by 2015. That hasn’t happened yet. But the FAA has started offering a small number of exemptions to FAA rules, allowing some commercial drone uses. “It went glacially slow,” Waite says. “But then, about a year ago, they granted the first six exemptions … to Hollywood film companies—that opened the door.” Since then, the exemptions have been approved in batches and have been gaining momentum, Waite says. Still, the exemptions come with key restrictions that are part of a proposed final rule that is currently under public consideration. The restrictions include limiting drone flight to within the operator’s line of sight, and only in daylight hours. Special certifications likely will be required to operate drones. Currently, exemptions are allowed only for those who hold at least a light-sportcraft pilot’s license—something Professor Waite is trying to acquire just to use drones. “I’m spending $6,500 to get this lightsport license this summer, and that’s to fly a $200, three-pound hunk of plastic around,” Waite says. Baker, however, favors the FAA’s caution, noting that licensed pilots have a better appreciation than others of how busy the airspace is, and pilots should test the industry out to help prevent any kinds of accidents that might set the drone industry back. “They’re taking really proactive measures to hopefully avoid any huge thing that would cause reactive laws and guidelines,” Baker says. “In the end, it’s going to produce good results.” Captain Jim Green, who is putting together a drone-certification course to be offered at Utah Valley University in 2016, also sees value in the FA A’s caution. He understands why operators should prove they can control the vehicles safely, pointing out that if someone tried to film a sporting event and crashed even a small drone into a crowd, it could cause serious injuries. Still, Green doesn’t think the technology requires the same oversight as a commercial airplane. “I don’t think the FA A should have anything to do with it,” Green says. “It should be a state issue. These are small devices that could be operated in our own backyards—they’re not going to be flying high up in the way of airliners.” Regardless of how the final rule shakes out, Baker is excited to begin operating now and helping to blaze a trail for the burgeoning industry. “It’s going to be a wonderful and amazing field in the future, and it’s just too exciting to not be a part of it now,” Baker says. CW

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he eyes in the sky don’t belong just to Big Brother anymore. A proposed rule from the Federal Aviation Administration carves out new exemptions for commercial businesses to put drones in the sky. More than 500 of these special exemptions have been confirmed—including one for a Utah business named Stunning Heights. The photography company hopes not only to make a profit off its unique drone’s-eye-view images but is also playing a role in helping to shape the way the budding field of commercial drone technology is regulated. Stunning Heights received its FAA exemption in May. Matthew Baker runs the company with his wife, Rebecca. A former Blackhawk helicopter pilot, Baker has the advantage of already possessing the necessary credentials for the FAA exemption. He wants his company’s services to be as versatile as the technology itself—able to photograph homes and developments for realtors, inspect wind turbines and take aerial shots for film-production companies. In the near future, he would like approval to cover breaking news events and offer footage to media outlets. Given his pilot background, Baker realized he could get a head start in the drone business—but his interest goes deeper than that. “This kind of makes me sound a little bit full of myself,” Baker says, “but I also saw this as a way to influence [the regulations] and make it a smoother transition.” That smoother transition would be welcome in an industry whose outlets are often frustrated by the FA A’s slow progress in setting down rules for commercial drones. University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism professor Matt Waite founded the school’s Drone Journalism Lab in 2011. Waite says the commercial-drone debate started in 2012 when Congress passed a law to modernize the FAA, calling for a system that would allow

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8. Plot threads from the littleknown George R.R. Martin novel, The Sword & The Fire Beaver, are introduced.

7. The Meereen fighting pits are shut down once more and replaced with Daznak’s Comedy Dungeon.

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stand-up set at the Comedy Dungeon receives mixed reviews.

5. In Braavos, Arya finally kills the Thin Man with a Red Lobster seafood platter. Not poisoned, just a regular Red Lobster seafood platter.

Ever-shrewd Jon Snow recruits the Hell’s Angels and ISIS to help out at The Wall.

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Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Parade June 13, 9 a.m., Layton Commons Park, 437 Wasatch Dr., Layton. Organized by Northern Utah chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America & Fleet Reserve Association, this parade runs along Gentile Street and Fort Lane before ending at Layton Commons Park. Other events include flag ceremonies, speeches and an evening concert will be held.

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Sugar House Monument Plaza Grand Re-Opening Event takes place on the corner at Highland/1100 East and 2100 South, June 12, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Features live music, community booths and a historic photo gallery and a time capsule to be lowered into the ground at 6:00 p.m. Urban Flea Market 600 S. Main, Sunday, June 14, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. A great place for vendors to sell unwanted items that can become Got a volunteer, activism or community event to submit? Visit CityWeekly.net/addevent

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Curses, Foiled Again Investigators said David Menzies, 30, tried to steal bicycles and apparel from a bike shop in Wesley Chapel, Fla., that is located next to a self-defense and jiu-jitsu studio— ”definitely a bad environment to come and try to break the law,” Hammerfist Krav Maga coowner Jason Carrio said. Hammerfist instructors confronted the suspect, who finished loading his vehicle, a Jeep that he was taking for a test drive, then said he’d wait in the vehicle. Carrio pulled the suspect out of the Jeep and held onto him until police arrived. (Tampa’s Bay 9 News)

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n Army officials blamed a data link for causing controllers to lose track of a drone being used “in support of increased force-protection measures” at Colorado’s Fort Carson. The 4-pound drone crashed in a civilian’s yard 12 miles from the military base. “I couldn’t figure out who owned it, so I wrote my telephone number on a piece of paper … and held it in front of the camera, thinking someone would call me if they wanted it back,” Colorado Springs resident Ronald Fisk said. No one responded, so Fisk called police. (Colorado Springs’s The Gazette)

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n Police in Lake Huvasa City, Ariz., reported that Nolan Pollard threw a T-shirt at a low-flying drone, causing it to fall to the ground and break. Pollard explained that he reacted because he was scared when he saw the drone flying toward his face. Police cited him for criminal damage. (Lake Huvasa City’s News-Herald)

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n Washington state Sen. Pam Roach introduced a bill making the use of a drone to commit a felony an aggravating action that would add a year to a prison sentence. “Nefarious drone enterprise” would join carrying a firearm (up to five years extra), trying to outrun a police car (one year) or being armed with a crossbow or hunting knife (six months). Roach said she fears drones could be used to smuggle drugs into prisons, help burglars scout empty houses or enable poachers to track protected Roosevelt elk. (The Economist)

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Golden Oldies A man in an assisted-living facility in Norristown, Pa., lost his housing subsidy after officials discovered a prostitute under his bed. Uri Z. Monson, the facility’s financial director, said the man, believed to be in his 70s, was a “more mobile gentleman” than other residents and bought alcohol for them, using his profits to pay for prostitutes. (Associated Press) n The FBI reported that a gunman wearing an oxygen tank with tubes in his nose robbed a bank in Washington, D.C. He received an undisclosed sum and fled. (The Washington Post)

n New Justice Department guidelines for government-operated drones ban flying them “to engage in discrimination” against targets on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, sexual orientation and “gender identity.” Unmanned aerial surveillance also cannot legally be used to monitor activities protected by the First Amendment. (The Washington Times)

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FOR RUNNERS, THE WASATCH BACK RELAY IS NOT JUST A GRUELING PHYSICAL CHALLENGE—IT’S A LIFE-CHANGING EVENT. BY STEPHEN DARK • SDARK@CITYWEEKLY.NET

sk a Utah runner if they have a “Ragnar story,” and chances are, they’ll share a rite-of-passage tale involving the nationally popular endurance relay race. They will wax lyrical about the drama and the hilarity of being one of six members of a team crammed into a stale-sweat-drenched van. Or they’ll enthuse over the challenges and rewards of running a particular leg—one of three— within a 30-hour time-frame with little sleep, hygiene and good food. But no one among the thousands who gathered to run the original Ragnar Relay, the Wasatch Back, on June 18, 2010, had quite the same story as Melinda Kunz. Kunz’s husband Jeremy had decided to run the 2009 relay after he saw Ragnar runners coming to his hometown of Kamas. Melinda wasn’t convinced. “No way,” she remembers thinking. “Running three times in 24 hours? That’s insane.” He organized a 12-person team to fill the two vans that would leapfrog each other along the course from Logan to Park City. He called the team the Wannabees—as in, “I wanna be running”—and filled it with family and friends. Melinda was as enamored by the experience as her husband. “It was kind of like a party with a little bit of running in between,” she says. Inspired, they signed up for Ragnar’s late-2009 Las Vegas run. Run both races, and you earn the “Saints & Sinners” medal. Jeremy was waiting to give water to a teammate on a Nevada street in October 2009 when a drunken driver hit and killed him. Melinda couldn’t get past the police barricade to see her husband’s body. She and her relatives were “falling apart on the side of the road,” she says. Melinda decided to run the Wasatch Back in her husband’s memory. That first run after his death was particularly difficult when it came to the late-night leg, which took her through her hometown. As she ran to the outskirts of Kamas, she was greeted by glow sticks placed every 100 yards, marking the path. They were laid out to form messages: the word ‘love,’ the symbol of a heart. When she slapped the bracelet baton over the wrist of the waiting member of her team, her three children were waiting for her, holding up signs that said “Run, Mom, run,” and “Way to go, Mom.” Tears streaming down her face, Melinda fell into her children’s embrace. Melinda’s father-in-law, Bart Kunz becomes emotional as he talks about how Ragnar’s founders Dan Hill and Tanner

Bell visited with the family in the days after the tragedy. “We are a Ragnar family, and they are our family,” he says. When Bart Kunz sees a stranger wearing Ragnar merchandise with its logo of a stylized Viking helmet, he feels “an immediate connection with someone who has done, in a lot of cases, something that was very hard for them,” he says. “They trained, they sacrificed, they’ve gone without sleep—and in some cases, they’ve done Ragnar without having been a runner at all.” That sense of family, of being Ragnarian, part of the self-styled Ragnar Nation, is a sentiment that many Ragnar veterans express—bonding born of forced intimacy that comes when six people share a small van for 24 hours or more. From the pun-festooned team names to the outlandish costumes some runners wear, Ragnar’s cofounder Tanner Bell says the race he first debuted in 2004 with 264 runners is an opportunity to “let your inner wild out.” This year, 950 teams comprising more than 11,000 runners will run the Wasatch Back June 19-20. Each participant has paid $140 for the privilege. “It’s considered one of the hardest Ragnar races … because of the elevation,” says Utah Film Center executive Mariah Mellus, who has run nine Ragnar races. “It’s the crown jewel; it’s the first and the hardest.” -BART KUNZ Mellus says she started Ragnar to stretch herself athletically. “I was not a runner four years ago,” she says. “I wanted to be with my friends, to see if I could do it.” But then, her involvement became more personal. “Now I do it because it’s a tradition. Once girls have been on this Ragnar, they’re friends for life.”

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Ragnar comprises a series of long-distance relay races—and is also the organization, whose roots and ownership are distinctly Utahn, under whose aegis those races operate. In the booming world of long-distance and endurance running, Ragnar Events LLC has become a dominant player. Owned 75 percent by venture-capital firm Dolphin Capital, Ragnar has propelled itself across the United States in just 11 years to control around 80 percent of the relay-race market. Other relay-race owners say Ragnar, for good or bad, has become the byword for relays—so much so that many entrants think the Utah-based business created the concept. A combination of astute marketing,

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ighteen months after Annie Macdonald buried her 5-year-old daughter in late 2003 in the Farmington cemetery, a woman approached her at her LDS ward and asked her if she wanted to join her and some friends in a run. Annie had long relied on solitary running as a physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual outlet. It had also aided her in processing a terrible accident in 1999, when her toddler daughter Kailee got caught in a tree swing and nearly hanged herself. Until her death four years later, Kailee was severely disabled. Annie joined the group as they ran through leafy Farmington, up past Lagoon amusement park and into the surrounding hills, where they could look down at the animal enclosures and rides. “I remember at the end of it thinking, ‘This is home, this is good,’” she says. Running was “the breaking point,” she says, in dealing with her grief. She resolved to live life to the fullest and honor her daughter’s memory. Several of the women asked her if she wanted to do the Wasatch Back relay with them. Two of them were the mother and wife of Tanner Bell, co-founder of the Ragnar Relay Series. “Doing my first Ragnar was so inspirational and made me feel like I could do anything,” Annie says. Fast-forward nine years through a multitude of Ragnar relays, and Annie decided to embark on a unique running adventure. One rain-swept Saturday morning in mid-May, 2015, she gathered with family and friends in the small, picturesque Pleasant Green cemetery overlooking Magna and the Salt Lake Valley, where her ancestors are buried—including descendents of the first Italians to convert to Mormonism in the 1850s. Cheers erupted as Annie—her thick, black, long wavy hair pulled up in a pony tail—set off with her sister Reese Pahl and several relatives to run one mile in the Salt Lake Valley for each year of her life. She and Pahl grew up on a 110-acre farm, back when Magna and the surrounding area were predominantly rural. Their marathon-runner parents routinely signed up their six children for half-marathons—Annie loved it, but her sister, Pahl, hated it. As she left home, she says, she vowed never to run again. They ran down the middle of 3500 South, which in the pre-dawn hours, was all but empty of traffic. Their route took them past the house of their 90-year-old grandmother, who awaited them on her covered porch to cheer them on in the rain. Pahl thought about how, when her grandmother was in labor back in the 1940s, 3500 South had been a dirt track and she had to be transported to the hospital in a sleigh. Annie and her small entourage turned left onto 5600 West, passing a fast-food restaurant where she had her

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Annie Macdonald, her sister Reese Pahl and cousin Tyler Miles on an urban run.

A Ragnar relay, Ragnar’s Bell says, is akin to a hero’s journey: By the time you’ve finished it, you’ve changed. Co-founders Dan Hill and Bell were introduced to the concept of relay races as wild parties by Hill’s father, Steve. He rhapsodized about running the Oregon monster-relay race “Hood to Coast.” Hill and Bell, Brigham Young University business graduates, decided to emulate that race in Utah. While the race is named the Wasatch Back, the name they eventually chose for their grand relay race and their company came from a friend Steve had known in younger days—“a rough, tough, burly” type, Bell

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recalls. Ragnar is also the name of a ninth-century Norse hero, “a wanderer, a conqueror”—which, Bell says, fits the ethos of the race. Utah, he continues, “was a prime place to incubate this idea, then take it nationally,” where it has had “very significant success.” LDS networks, he adds, “helped us grow outside of Utah.” Like most running events, for-profit enterprise Ragnar includes a charity component. Bell estimates, for example, the Wasatch Back’s charitable impact alone at $150,000 to $200,000 annually, with the money going to communities along the races’ routes, he says. The Wasatch Back starts in Logan and then stretches through small towns like Huntsville, Eden, Liberty and Paradise. “It is some of the most beautiful countryside you’ve ever seen,” says Macdonald. It’s also a complex, logistical nightmare: 50-plus permits have to be pulled, from 30 cities, five counties and three jurisdictions. “We definitely say at Ragnar that the magic we think happens in the van,” Bell says. Those 24plus hours of enforced cohabitation encourage bonding, he says, to the point, many say that you emerge either lifelong friends—or you never want to talk to them again. “The stories, the memories, the insider jokes, the stink and sweat. No sane person would do this, yet, by the end, you want to do it again,” Bell says. While Mellus loves the female-bonding in her van, that submarine-like intimacy can work against you if there’s a personality conflict. She recalls one dictatorial woman teammate who “pushed everyone beyond their breaking point.” Life in the van can quickly become a question of bodily functions. Along with MARIAH MELLUS, UTAH negotiating the rising tide of odor in the van, there’s FILM CENTER EXECUTIVE body a mildly scatological aspect to Ragnar, which Mellus notes doesn’t only relate to the portable toilets that dot the route every five miles. Longdistance runners live in fear of an involuntary defecation known as a “shart”—an unpleasant combination of bodily functions that can leave indelicate stains on the back of your pants. As much as Ragnar is about van-time, it’s also about the challenge of running seven or 10 miles, even when exhausted. Ragnarians get a faraway look in their eyes when they talk about running the second night leg of an event, typically alone, under the stars, their footfall in time with their heartbeat, as the cool, crisp air fills their lungs. The night run is so solitary, Bell says, it makes that leg a very personal journey. He recalls running

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first job at age 14. Along 5600 West, what had once been their playground of farms, barns and fields, was now home to WalMart, Del Taco and Discount Tire. As they ran, the darkness turned the darkest shade of blue, before the sun rose, barely peeking through the rain clouds. Annie collects objects on her runs. She picked up a small ceramic heart, scratched and broken, along with beaten and marked pennies. When she stopped to pick up a Barbie doll’s leg, Pahl had enough of her younger sister’s ways. “Don’t,” she snapped. They crossed 2100 South, soaked to the bone. Shortly after, Annie’s husband of one year, Brad, joined them. Brad is a fellow runner, although without Annie’s love of the sport. They turned off 5600 West, going up 700 South towards Redwood Road and met one of Annie’s friends, who had run 10 miles from Bingham High School, to symbolically connect her to her old school days. On the corner of Redwood Road and 400 South, they shot off a confetti cannon to mark the encounter. Puzzled passersby called out, “What are you doing?” Rain-drenched blankets were stretched out on the Interstate 15 underpass, their owners panhandling at the intersection below. “Can you imagine having to sleep on concrete?” Brad said to his wife. A homeless man called out to them, “You guys are wack-wack.” They ran past the Copper Onion—the restaurant where Annie and Brad had their first date—turned up 200 East to 100 South, then turned left. Annie glanced to her right; she had chosen this part of the route because, for four years, she and Kailee had travelled that street three or

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Run a marathon, and people cheer you on even though they don’t know your story, Mellus says. Ragnar is different: People check on you, encourage you, and they want to hear your stories when you get in the van. Ragnarians, she says, feel like “warriors out there.” For her artist-husband, an unrepentant non-runner, the gathering together of so many “shiny, happy people”—as she selfmockingly terms them—“feels more like a cult.” Rather than boosting a counterculture the way Burning Man does, Bell says, his nationwide 15-event series is “like a microcosm of a culture we already have. It pulls you out of your normal everyday life—puts you in a situation where you have to do your part, pull your weight, to accomplish something.” Bell says that the pride of being part of the “Ragnar Tribe” has led to several hundred runners nationwide getting Ragnar tattoos. Ragnar stickers are a common sight on many vehicles in the streets of Salt Lake City—which is not surprising, given that 200,000 Utahns have run at least one Ragnar event. Still, the thought of people tattooing themselves, Bell says, “stresses me out a lot. That’s a lot of responsibility, something permanent on the body. I want to do right by them. I’m never going to change the logo, that’s for sure.” Salt Lake City yoga teacher Scott Moore ran the Zion trail race in May. “People want to belong to a tribe, to identify with it,” he says. With Ragnar, “you create your tribe, your team.” That’s what keeps people doing the event year after year, he says. As with much of contemporary fitness-franchise marketing, “They don’t have to convince you to come on your own anymore,” he says. “It’s the network marketing Mormons are so famously known for.”

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four times every week on their way to Primary Children’s Hospital, before Kailee’s respiratory system began to shut down. When the accident occurred, Kailee had been playing with her cousins on the swing in Pahl’s garden. Pahl went inside to answer the phone. Annie never blamed Pahl for what happened— and Pahl, like her sister, had found in running a way of processing her feelings. “It was a super-hard time for me,” Pahl says. “I felt like I was the one who ended her life.” The sisters grew closer through running together. Pahl thought it irreverent to their Mormon faith to run up Main Street through Temple Square, but followed her sister. Annie had been excommunicated in her early 20s because, after her first divorce, she had had sex outside of marriage. That expulsion—and her daughter’s horrific accident—left Annie angry at both her God and her church. To be re-baptized required a genuine commitment on her part, but first she had to find out if she actually wanted to remain in the LDS Church. “I’m going to dig to find out if I believe this,” she said. She gave up running during her first marriage, but in the years following her daughter’s accident, she returned to it with a vengeance. “I had nights on my runs—I was screaming, swearing at God, I was absolutely angry,” she says. But, after reconciling herself with God, she regained her church membership. Annie and Pahl ran up Capitol Hill, where they were met by their youngest sister, bringing them PB&J sandwiches. Annie pointed out an apartment near the Capitol where she once lived, then set out on a four-mile trail run close to Ensign Peak. It was like a secret trail, Annie thought, as she ascended almost up into the clouds. “It was away from everything. The clouds felt like we were alone, out there by ourselves.” Annie knew that the Davis County section of her run would be emotional. As they ran down into Bountiful, Pahl told her she couldn’t go on. The rain and the cold had gotten into her bones to the point she couldn’t pull her gloves off. The sisters hugged and parted, Pahl having accompanied Annie farther than anyone else on her run. Annie was joined by a married couple of runner-friends who wore costumes in tribute to her love of costumed running: He wore a buffalo hat and brightly colored socks; and she, a boa, cat-hat and tutu. Annie ran by the home where she cared for Kailee in the last years before her death. The group fell silent as she pointed out her daughter’s bedroom window. They ran past the LDS ward house where Kailee’s funeral was held. Annie recalled that 350 people attended the funeral, showing that, even though her daughter had been unable to communicate after the accident, she had touched many lives. The last leg of Annie’s “sentimental journey” was from Kailee’s grave to her home, a distance of 2 1/2 miles. A running friend unaware of Annie’s journey pulled up and jumped out of her car to join the swelling ranks of supporters, accompanying her in high heels. Whether in relays, alone on the street or on a life-affirming run, “That’s what you love about it, the camaraderie,” Annie says. “That’s why you do it.” It was 11 hours since Annie had left the cemetery. She and a group of a dozen other runners climbed a gentle hill to witness, just over the crest, a crowd awaiting them outside her home. Tanner Bell’s wife Kristen screamed, “You did it!” as 40 well-wishers each presented a stunned Annie with a red rose. Brad took a homemade, hand-carved wooden medal from around his neck and placed it over his wife’s head: “Annie Macdonald,” it read, “40 miles, 40 years.” CW —Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net

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into it.” That’s the key chalyou are truly a local. “A lenge that Bell says he faces: lot of them tend to have Namely, sharing Ragnar with elements of suffering, as large an audience as posat least on the trails,” sible while retaining the dishe says. “You go 20 tinct flavor that defines it. miles, 25 miles without Yoga teacher Moore exsupport. If there is a presses ambivalence about guy, he’s got a 2-gallon Ragnar. On one hand, he adjug of water and tells mires its ability to “get people you, ‘Good job,’ as you off their ass” to exercise. He pass by.” also acknowledges how efWith neither insurance fective its branding has been. nor registration, the course In the same way that Harleyis passed friend-to-friend via Davidson’s customers went from word of mouth. Even such an underground approach to running has “big, tough dudes riding bikes to experienced rising popularity. When Stoughton first took part after fat-cat business dudes,” Ragnar moving to Utah in 2006, he says, there were 20 entrants. Now, he puts has brought marketing and swag to the number at 150-200. the ultra-athlete culture—and, Moore adds, “It’s not the worst thing to buy into.” A NEW CHALLENGE On the other hand, Moore says, “As with too many people doing For the first time in its 11-year history, Ragnar is changing the anything, it becomes such a melee of people and organization.” His Wasatch Back route—in part, to accommodate the relay’s extraormemory of running the Ragnar trail race in Zion National Park recentdinary growth. Instead of finishing at Park City High School (which ly is “dust, dirt and hordes of people. I didn’t know quite where to go, does not allow for celebratory beers), the 2015 Wasatch Back will end what to do. It was a little chaotic, in my opinion.” at Soldier Hollow, near Midway. Ragnar set up trail runs a few years ago to diversify from relay racThis year is also the year Bell was supposed to run the Wasatch es. It has conducted several on the edge of Zion National Park, only to Back for the first time. The course, which started Ragnar’s rise to the be plagued by bad weather. top of the endurance relay-race circuit feels like “my second home,” Moore characterizes Ragnar as “Mormon moms doing a race he says. But he’s never run it himself: In the together,” in contrast to the “gnarly runners doing things SCOTT MOORE, early years, he was too busy organizing it and, like the Wasatch 100.” (The Wasatch 100 is an annual PARTICIPANT IN ZION TRAIL RUN in later years, it didn’t coincide with his sched100-mile run from Brigham City to Soldier Hollow, ule. However, a recent injury means that, once which enshrines a Spartan culture.) “No one is more, he will miss running the race on which walking around with a ‘100’ tattoo on their back,” he has built his relay empire. Moore says dryly. His “home” has a new challenge: the Ragnar Long-distance runner Pete Stoughton runs Leg, the toughest single run of the relay. Origi300 days a year. He did Wasatch Back once, he nally about 7 miles up a steep dirt road (paved says, and was unimpressed. He describes it, not two years ago), in 2015, it has become a 2,608unkindly, as “kind of the Saturday Night Live of foot ascent over 10 miles, winding up from Park running,” nevertheless acknowledging its role City and over Guardsman Pass to the new finish in introducing many thousands to the sport. line at Soldier Hollow in Midway. His Ragnar story involved repeatedly wishing Bell stands on the top of Guardsman Pass, he was running the entire race rather than facing Midway, with Park City behind him. legs at a faster pace. He felt like a caged Memories of countless runners who, often as animal in the van, and when he did get not, walked up the steep slope still give him to run, he’d jump back into the vehicle chills. “It’s a pretty mean leg, man. It’s amazing only to struggle with leg cramps. “I’d people do it. They love us, and they hate us for it.” rather be out on the trail looking at the The Kunzes’ Wannabes are still the No. 1 team in a views, rather than exhaust pipes.” list of 950 that will run the route June 19-20. Bell promIn contrast to Ragnar, Stoughton ised the Kunzes that, to honor Jeremy, they would retain prefers trail runs. Some of his most treathat placing as long as they want. Melinda is excited to see sured runs are called “bandit runs” (not to be how the new course “plays out.” She says, when she gets to the finconfused with “bandit runners,” who jump ish line and watches other people come through, “You see it on their in on organized runs without paying fees). A faces: They are proud of themselves. They had to train a long time, PRESIDENT bandit run provides a sense of a rite of pasand they finally did it.” CW & CO-FOUNDER sage for some trail runners, a validation that

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The fair-weather season of the year is time for plein-air painting to come to the forefront in local art exhibitions, although a mild winter can be conducive to it as well. Far from being an invitation to nature-based kitsch” plein air shows that skilled practitioners of painting nature in nature can create a communion that brings viewers closer to both art and nature. Slusser Gallery’s isn’t just your run-of-the-mill plein-air exhibition. One of the local masters of the small canvas, Randall Lake, offers work like “Entering Fountain Green” (pictured), a delightful cavalcade of color. The subject matter of Rita Pacheco’s “Mint Green Ride”—a Volkswagen bus on a California street—offers the visual equivalent of a thirst-quenching beverage on a hot day. Anastasia Dukhanina’s “Late Spring” shows just how late spring can be in a snowy mountain region. These paintings are seemingly as different from each other as any paintings could be within the same broad category. Plain-air painting is somewhat like cinema verite: artists exposed to the elements, recording what they see on the fly, but with an almost athletic competition thrown in. The most surprising thing is the stylistic and compositional versatility possible within the genre. It’s ultimately not an attempt at literal accuracy of representation, but to convey a sense of the surroundings—to put the viewer in the picture, too. (Brian Staker) Plein Air Exhibition @ Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Aug. 2. MarkSlusser.com.

The annual Ogden Arts Festival marks the official kick off of summer in the Ogden area, and it’s happening this weekend. Festivalgoers will enjoy the new venue at Ogden Municipal Gardens & Amphitheater this year, as it allows for more time to enjoy all the festivities while strolling around a larger area filled with art and many juried artists booths. The Ogden Arts Festival produces an artistic environment that can be enjoyed by all ages. Take in the free “kids’ ARTivities” provided by local nonprofit organizations like the Treehouse Museum as well as the eclectic musical lineup, where you can listen to some of the best local bands while you lounge on the lawn. Food vendors will make sure you don’t go hungry as you peruse the arts and entertainment. A special performance by Holy Water Buffalo and Municipal Ballet Company will take place on stage on Friday night. Classified as a rock & roll ballet performance, it is sure to be mesmerizing and full of energy. Sometime throughout the festival, make your way over to the “Nurture the Creative Mind” (NCM) zone where you can get your own creative juices flowing by throwing paint, building crafts or simply coloring. You may discover a talent you didn’t know you had. (Aimee L. Cook) Ogden Arts Festival @ Ogden Municipal Gardens & Amphitheater, 343 25th St., Ogden, June 12-13, noon-8 p.m. OgdenArtsFestival.com.

Back in 1977, Utah culture was enriched by a sharp influx of Southeast Asian refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and the Hmong. According to JoAnn Wong, marketing and publicity director for the annual Utah Asian Festival, in order to build a bridge between these newly arrived minority groups and Utahns, the alreadyestablished Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino communities pooled their resources for the very first multicultural festival in the state. Now in its 38th year, the Utah Asian Festival highlights food, performing arts and merchandise from all those cultures and more—like Thai, Indonesian, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Pacific Islander and Indian groups. Think tons of origami, kitemaking for the kids, folk arts and dance troupes, and enough ethnic cuisine to keep you stuffed. In more recent years, fundraising for specific aid groups has also become a part of the festival. In 2011, Japanese groups collected money to help victims of the Tōhoku tsunami. This year, the Bhutanese community will join the festival fun for the first time, not only to emphasize its beautiful culture but also to help provide awareness about the devastation in Nepal after the two recent earthquakes. There will also be a Nepalese dance group showcasing traditional dance forms of the region in the morning on the main stage. Not limited to celebrating all things culturally traditional, the final part of the festival will include the Asia Pop Dance Party & Parade, with live music provided by DJ Jpan and DJ Luva Luva. Cosplay and fun dress are highly encouraged. (Jacob Stringer) Utah Asian Festival @ South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State, June 13, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., free. Facebook.com/UtahAsianFestival

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Dan Wells: The Devil’s Only Friend In 2010, Utah author Dan Wells introduced John Wayne Cleaver, a teenage sociopath who became the improbable hero in a trilogy of novels—I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster and I Don’t Want to Kill You—that pitted him and his skill of profiling serial killer behavior against the terrifying threat of ancient, deadly supernatural creatures known as “the Withered.” Wells returns to Cleaver’s story in The Devil’s Only Friend, in which the war between humans and the Withered has escalated—and may now involve a civil war between the Withered themselves. Now part of an FBI team dedicated to hunting down and destroying the Withered, John is concerned when it appears that multiple Withered are living in the same small town. Have they figured out who is targeting them, and decided to join forces to go on the offensive? Or are they congregating in part to choose sides in a massive power struggle? With the developments that changed John’s life in I Don’t Want to Kill You, the focus has shifted from the tension between John’s awareness of his own potential for violence and the family normalcy he tries to maintain. But Wells digs deeper into the mythology of the Withered, while complicating the question of what makes someone a hero or a monster. The result is yet another terrific mix of whodunnit puzzle and shivery horror yarn, built around one of the most fascinating anti-heroes in contemporary fiction. (Scott Renshaw) Dan Wells: The Devil’s Only Friend @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, June 16, 6 p.m. Free; @ Barnes & Noble, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, 801-229-1611, June 17, 6 p.m., Free.

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n a small studio on the top floor of the Rose Wagner Arts Center, director/choreographer Stephen Brown and cast member Payden Adams are rehearsing a scene from SB Dance’s upcoming performance Surrenderella. Brown—a towering, muscular man wearing a CrossFit T-shirt and athletic shorts—hunches over a small laptop on the studio floor, following the script on its screen. Next to him lounges Adams, who—brushing a splash of bleached-blond bangs back from his forehead with a dramatic flourish—finishes another read-through of his lines. “I think this needs to be a lot sexier,” Brown says, as Adams, his face relaxing as he comes out of character, looks at Brown for approval. “What you are playing,” Brown coaches, “is seduction. They’re strapping it on, you’re strapping it on them, and you’re explaining kink.” Yes, kink. Part dance company, part theater and— as Steven Brown likes to say—part circus, SB Dance, since its inception in 1996, refuses to be labeled. It has, however, earned a reputation for high-energy, creative and often provocative performances with sexy, mature-content themes. Most recently, there was 2014’s The Pushers (based on punk rocker Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids about her relationship with her lover, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe) and 2012’s Of Meat & Marrow (a Rocky Horroresque journey into the afterlife). Now, Brown is upping the ante again with his latest adult-rated theatrical engagement, Surrenderella, an S&M Cinderella story. “I like art that challenges people,” says Brown, who names among his inspirations Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park, the “Mark Twains of our era.” If, in Utah, that means talking about sex—the consensual, adult kind—that’s what he’s willing to do. But, he stresses, talking about sex doesn’t make his work experimental. “Experimental is shitting in a teacup,” he retorts. “Our work is more in the realm of surrealism or abstract expressionism, certainly not the formalism that has ruled dance for many years. This is not art put on a pedestal. This will crawl up and get you.” The Surrenderella story, at least the basic components, will be pretty familiar to anyone who’s seen the Walt Disney movie Cinderella. There’s the protagonist, the Cinderella character, who, in this case is a man named Gus. There’s a stepmother, two step-

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sisters, and a handsome prince. Gus has a fairy godmother and a special gown. Gus even goes to a ball—though it’s not the kind of ball with curtsying and glass slippers. The idea for Surrenderella’s fetish focus developed, quite innocently, from Brown’s desire to play with stage props. Built around a movement concept—a common starting point for his work, like the gurney table in Of Meat and Marrow—Surrenderella revolves around stage rigging, those rope—and—pully systems that can suspend an actor playing Peter Pan, or elongate a dancer’s leap across an entire stage. Brown, who’s always loved working with rigging, began playing with suspensionenhanced movement more than a year ago; from first idea to opening night, most of his productions take over a year to complete. These suspension-movement studies, he could tell, held a lot of creative potential. Consistently, however, two problems plagued him: how to get the dancer in and out of the harness without scene changes, and how to explain the harness in a way that seemed natural. “I needed to hang the idea on something,” says Brown, seemingly unaware of the pun he’d just made, “and kink works.” In a world where Fifty Shades of Grey is, sadly, most people’s introduction to bondage, Brown says he wanted his production to accurately and positively portray the culture and tools of sadomasochism. “If you don’t understand the consensual nature of S&M,” he explains, “you don’t understand anything about it.” For his research, Brown reached out to a local dominatrix. He also studied the work of poet and BDSM (bondage/discipline/ sado-masochism) performance artist Bob Flanagan. Diagnosed as a child with cystic fibrosis, a painful and debilitating condi-

Rick Santizo and Nathan Shaw in Surrenderella tion, Flanagan used acts of violent body manipulation to challenge culturally held ideas of pain and pleasure. “What attracted me to the subject was that, on closer examination, fetishism and kink is really an act of courage,” says Brown. “It occurred to me that, if I found I liked getting the shit spanked out of me, I wouldn’t have the courage to explore that. I would suppress it. Not repressing that urge is heroic.” Brown also came away with an understanding of S&M as a form of physical communication—not a surprising interpretation, it seems, for a dancer. With his idea in place, Brown assembled his creative cast of actors and dancers, including Rick Santizo and Nathan Shaw (pictured), and crew, with lighting designer Jess Greenberg and rigging specialist Craig Berman. Together, the team has spent the past year-and-a-half creating this built-fromscratch original production: Surrenderella, a show about an unusual man named Gus who’s not afraid to be himself. A man some might call a hero. “We all make shows about heroes,” Brown concedes, “but I find mine in odd corners.”

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Salt Lake City Library: Super Summer Cinema Series This year, libraries nationwide have adopted a superhero theme for their summer reading programs, inviting kids into the world of books through now-ubiquitous costumed pop-culture characters. Since summer is also the season for enjoying outdoor movie screenings, the Salt Lake City Main Library has taken advantage of this theme to showcase some family-friendly heroic adventures. The free monthly Super Summer Cinema Series launches this week with The Incredibles (pictured), the 2004 Disney/Pixar favorite about a superpowered family united against a dangerous villain. In July, it’s the 1991 adaptation of the comic-book series The Rocketeer, with Billy Campbell as the 1930s stunt pilot who winds up with an experimental jet pack. And in August, last year’s hit Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy brings a rag-tag collection of mercenaries and outlaws together to become unlikely heroes. Bring a blanket and snacks, and don’t worry about weather—if conditions require it, screenings will move indoors to the library auditorium. (Scott Renshaw)

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Big Fish Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 N. 400 West, Orem, 801-226-8600, through June 20. Comedy of Errors Pinnacle Acting Co., Westminster College, 1250 E. 1700 South, Fridays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., matinees Saturdays 2:00 p.m., through June 27. Disney’s The Little Mermaid Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 Decker Lake Dr, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, June 11-13, 15-17, 7:30 p.m.; matinees Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m., 12:30, 4 p.m., through Aug. 1 Disney’s When You Wish Tuacahn Theatre, 1100 Tuacahn, Ivins, 800-746-9882, June 11, 13, 15, 17, 8:45 p.m. Greas’d Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, 801266-2600, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays 9:30 p.m., Saturdays 2:30 p.m., 6 p.m. & 8:30 p.m., through Aug. 22.

Noises Off Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St., Logan, 435-797-8022, June 11-13, 7:30 p.m., through July 30. The Foreigner Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, June 11-13, 8 p.m., June 14, 6 p.m. The Revengers Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., through June 16. Thoroughly Modern Millie Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., through June 20. Treasure Island Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m., through June 27. West Side Story The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, 855-944-2787, Friday, Saturday, June 12-13, 7:30 p.m Yellow Face Sugar Space at River District, 130 S. 800 West, June 12-13, 7:30 p.m., June 14, 3 p.m. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, University of Utah,

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moreESSENTIALS 801-581-7100, Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m.. through June 21.

DANCE

Surrenderella SB Dance, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, June 12-13, 8 p.m. (see p.22)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Joe Machi Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-463-2909, June 11-13, 7:30 p.m., June 13, 9:30 p.m.

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Dan Wells: The Devil’s Only Friend Weller Book Works, 665 E. 600 South, Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Tuesday, June 16, 6 p.m.; Barnes & Noble, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, 801-229-1611, Wednesday, June 17, 6 p.m. (see p. 20) John Neeleman: Logos The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 11, 7 p.m. Matt Canham & Thomas Burr: Mormon Rivals Barnes & Noble, 5429 S. State, Murray, 801-261-4040, Saturday, June 13, noon. Michael Keop: Newirth Mythology Barnes & Noble, 5429 S. State, Murray, 801-261-4040, Friday, June 12, 12 p.m.

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VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Adjunct Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 25. Ancient Nights: Photography by Mark Toso Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 19. Beaux-Arts Academy’s Lost Masters Art History Lectures Beaux-Arts Academy, 329 S. Rio Grande, 801-915-4848, Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Brian Charles Patterson: Missileblower (and the Selected Good) Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through June 20. Brian Lindley, Namon Bills, and Eleanor Scholz @ Finch Lane Galleries Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1325 E. 100 South (Reservoir Park), 801-596-5000, Friday, June 12, 6-8 p.m. The Cost of Anything Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through July 10. Et in Utah Ego Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, through June 27. Geek Themed Group Show Mod a-go-go Furniture Gallery, 242 S. Temple, 801-355-3334, Mondays-Saturdays, through June 12.

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Sichuan-derful: Sichuan Pork Ribs

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These are 1- to 2-inch bone-in pork-rib pieces cooked with a gorgeous crisp crust, wok-fried with onions, carrots, potatoes (something you don’t find much in Chinese cooking) and loads of hot chilies. Offsetting the heat of the chilies is fragrant ginger and Sichuan peppercorns, the latter imparting a subtle lavender-like flavor. Pork is the most common protein found in Sichuan cooking, and this is Sichuan pork at its best. When I return to Red House with friends to help out with the mountains of food, I’ll try its clay pot dishes such as mutton leg ($11.99), braised beef ($9.99) and hot & spicy fish ($9.99). For beef lovers, I have a couple of solid recommendations: First, there’s beef with spring onions ($9.99). It’s another dish that seems so simple on the surface, but it has deep, complex flavors, though not as spicy as many Red House dishes but still with some kick. The main attraction for me was the flavor and texture of thin-sliced, wok-fried beef, which was so tender I could have easily mistaken it for Wagyu. It comes in a garlic-ginger sauce with both regular onions and scallions. My favorite dish so far, though, is shredded, tender pork and soft, airy tofu tossed with peas, carrots and onion in a gorgeous, spicy sauce with anise and ginger notes ($10.99). The truth is, I thought long and hard before I decided to review Red House. It’s a secret I’m not sure I want to share. But, that’s what I do, so, enjoy! Now! Before the crowds come. CW

pao pork buns ($6.99) are also a Red House favorite. I normally like to begin a Chinese meal with hot & sour soup but was told by our friendly server that it was too big for two people. Instead, order one of Red House’s more manageable soups ($7.99-$8.99) with handmade wheat noodles: spiced beef, pork belly, pork ribs and pig intestine are among the options. The truth is, every dish at Red House is too big for two people to handle. Generous portions—most which come with heaping helpings of white rice—are the norm, and prices tend to top out at around $10.99. Unless you come with a crowd, there will be leftovers— and I love leftovers. I really feel like I’m buying two meals each time I eat at Red House: dinner and then a lunch of leftovers for the following day. Still, I’ve yet to surpass the $30 mark for plentiful meals-for-two here. A classic Sichuan dish that you don’t see on many local Chinese menus—none that I can think of—is Chongqing chicken ($7.99). Like much Sichuan cuisine, this dish is characterized by the bold flavors and heat of dried chili peppers. Bite-size pieces of boneless chicken are dunked into a simple marinade of cornstarch, egg whites and (usually) soy sauce and/or Chinese rice wine. Then, the chicken is rapidly deepfried with a scary amount of those chili peppers and tossed with minced green onion. The result is incendiary chicken “poppers” with the lightest crunchy batter you could imagine. Aside from the heat, this is a dish that even youngsters can love. Often in restaurants, I leave thinking, “Well, I could’ve made that at home.” But the fragrance, flavors and complexity of dishes such as cumin-spiced lamb ($9.99) and spicy pork ribs ($9.99) are another story altogether. The pork ribs, for example, are—typical of Sichuan cuisine—salty and garlicky, yet also fiery, and with a slightly sweet finish.

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he longer I write about food and restaurants, the less likely I am to pass judgments about their culinary authenticity. We live; we learn. And I’ve learned that my favorite, most “authentic” taco cart might be a travesty for someone from South of the Border. I certainly can’t, with confidence, declare the complete authenticity of this Himalayan dish or that Icelandic one. But, if the Sichuan cuisine at Red House Chinese restaurant isn’t brimming with authentic flavors, then I’m perfectly at peace with inauthenticity. At those taco carts, I always feel like I’ve made a good choice if there are mostly Latinos eating at them. At Red House, I’ve only seen two non-Asian customers during my visits, and I consider that an auspicious sign. Part of the reason might be that all of the restaurant’s specials and much of the rest of the menu is written in Chinese. There is an English menu—without prices— but it seems aimed mostly at the sweet & sour crowd. Don’t worry about the prices; they’re ridiculously low. As for the menu, bring a Chinese friend with you, or prepare to work your way through recommendations by (mostly) non-English speaking servers. It’s part of the fun. I didn’t even know about the existence of Red House, which is located in State Street’s Midtown Plaza, a mini United Nations of world cuisines that also includes Midtown Food Market, Tosh’s Ramen, Korea House, Café Anh Hong and Mahider Ethiopian Restaurant & Market. Thankfully, a City Weekly reader named Brady recommended it to me. Red House is a clean, well-lit restaurant with sparse décor. I’ve seen only two college-age servers there during my visits, and there’s usually catchy Chinese pop/ dance music playing on the sound system. This is a good thing. The last time I ate there, I even heard an updated, Chinese pop version of “You Are My Sunshine.” There’s a sound system and flat-screen TV in front, and I’m told that karaoke is known to sometimes break out late at night. Anyway, you’ll come for the food, not the ambience, pop tunes or karaoke. Start with a plate of a dozen made-from-scratch steamed dumplings ($6.99). They are perfectly cooked, fresh-made pasta purses stuffed with juicy minced pork, cabbage and Chinese chives. The signature steamed

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FOOD MATTERS BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

Dinner @ A Good Life

Fans of the healthy, all-natural, organic foods that are the focus of Ogden’s A Good Life Cafe (274 25th St., 801-394-1020, AGoodLifeCafe.com) will be thrilled to know that the cafe is now open for dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 6-9 p.m. A Good Life Cafe continues its normal lunch service weekdays and Saturdays, beginning at 10 a.m. According to chef/owner Gary Greenwood, the new dinner menu “is intended to accommodate both tapas-style and traditional dining with small tapas plates—seared shrimp lollipops, roasted root vegetable hash, and barbecue baby back ribs with guava barbecue sauce—featured alongside larger, ‘big bites’ menu options— warm sweet potato quinoa, carnitas tacos, and bison and mushroom, mac n’ cheese.” In addition, Greenwood—who hails from southern Louisiana—will also feature nightly specials. Don’t miss his Southern-style shrimp & grits!

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While artisan cheese, bread, charcuterie, coffee makers and such get most of the press, bigger food businesses like Janey Lou’s (JaneyLous.com) also employ Utahns (37 at present, and 100 forecast by the end of 2016) and keep our local economy thriving. Utah’s premier producer of gourmet frozen doughs and other treats, Janey Lou’s has relocated from Orem to a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility in Salt Lake City. The new digs feature indoor flour silos and high-tech European doughmaking lines, where Janey Lou’s signature peanut-butter bars will be made, along with more than 75 other product lines including bagel, cookie and bread doughs, Beehive rolls, Rice Krispies treats and others. Welcome to Salt Lake City!

Treat Dad to Brazil

Just ahead of Father’s Day, on Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, Tucanos Brazilian Grill (162 S. 400 West, 801-456-2550, Tucanos.com) is offering special lunches and dinners for Dad, priced at $19.95 and $29.95, respectively. Included is the special churrasco with open-flame grilled meats and veggies, plus salmon, roasted ribeye, grilled shrimp, center-cut sirloin, unlimited salads and sides and more. Everyone will also get a free dessert, and Dad gets a 2015 Tucanos Father’s Day glass to keep.

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Summer Brews

Refreshing local beers for summertime sipping. BY TED SCHEFFLER comments@cityweekly.net @critic1

lthough City Weekly’s annual Utah Beer Festival isn’t until Aug. 15 at Library Square, I suspect many of us will be sipping summer suds long before that. (Tickets for the Beer Festival went on sale last week, by the way, so be sure to snap yours up before they’re all gone!) Local brewers offer a wide range of beers perfect for summer imbibing—far too many to list here—but these are a few of my favorites: Uinta Brewing Co. makes it easy with its summer “Duo” sampler, available at grocery stores: It’s a 12-pack, six cans each of Sum’r Ale and Wyld Extra Pale Ale, available May through August from the brewery’s Organic Line of beers. Sum’r is an easy-drinking golden ale that’s clean-

tasting, refreshing, and citrusy with lemon hints and honeyed sweetness. It’s the type of beer you’d want to drink on a boat. Wine drinkers who love Sauvignon Blanc would probably dig Wyld, with its floral aromas, grapefruit and herb flavors, and crisp, dry finish from aggressive dry-hopping. It would be a full-time job, and then some, to keep up with Epic Brewing Company’s ever-growing collection of brews. However, a slam-dunk summer beer from Epic—and one available in cans—is Hop Syndrome lager, part of the brewery’s Exponential Series. I’m not sure what hops are used in this one—they’re said by Epic to be “rare”—but I like the crisp, citrusy hops that are well-balanced, not overpowering, with classic pale-lager malts. It’s effervescent, extremely drinkable and refreshing on hot summer days. Trade in your Bud or Coors for this one. If you’re in the market for a South of the Border “slice of lime”-type beer, get your lips around the seasonal Little Sister Cerveza at Avenues Proper Restaurant & Publik House. Described as a “blue corn Mexican-style lager” by the brewer, Little Sister is actually brewed with malted blue corn. In fact, blue corn makes up more than 30 percent of the lager. Add German Tettnanger hops and substantial carbonation and you’ve got a fizzy, festive beer that rocks with the kitchen’s

DRINK Spicy Prop-corn. For more than 20 years, I’ve been enjoying Wasatch Brewery’s seasonal, summertime Raspberry Wheat beer. Don’t let the straw color of this brew fool you, it tastes pink. And I say that lovingly, in the way I love well-made Rosé wines. I could drink this all day—and, on occasion, I have. It’s got a dense head that dissipates slowly, with aromas of raspberry (naturally) and kiwi. The candied raspberry flavor—subtle, not inyour-face—along with an overall lightness, is what keeps me coming round to this refreshing fruit brew every year. Red Rock Brewery’s classic Honey Wheat Ale lives up to its name: a wonderfully refreshing and light brew with hints

of honey. No wonder it’s such a crowd-pleaser, especially in summer. I remember having the opportunity to taste Squatters’ Full Suspension Pale Ale years ago, before it was officially released. I loved it then and I love it now. This two-time Gold Medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival is a Northweststyle pale ale that’s one of the best 4-percent ABV beers I’ve tasted. There are pineapple and pine scents on the nose, with nicely balanced bitterness from 40 International Bittering Units of dry-hopping— I’d suspect Cascade and/or Chinook hops. Overall, this is a brilliant session-style pale ale. Named Radius because Desert Edge Brewery’s Radius beer is brewed from components found within a 150-mile radius of the Wasatch Front, this is a “green-hopped,” grassy blond ale. As a hophead myself, I love this seasonal brew that stands out in a summertime crowd. What’s your favorite summertime brew? CW

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Housed in the historic Gardner Mill, Archibald’s Restaurant features four distinct dining rooms that profile Archibald Gardner’s life, as well as banquet facilities for special occasions. The Archibald’s menu is eclectic to say the least, ranging from teriyaki chicken and fried green tomatoes to country fried steak, prime rib, chicken Cordon Bleu and lemon-crusted salmon. You can still get a bottle or glass of beer with lunch or dinner in this über-Utah facility. The carrot cake is all you need to know about dessert. 1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 801-566-6940, GardnerVillage.com/Archibalds-Restaurant

Blind Dog Restaurant & Sushi Bar

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With authentic Mexican food, it’s about the flavor, not the style, and that’s what you’ll find at this little Rose Park spot. The family establishment is a popular place for the locals to indulge in a little bit of Mexico, with fresh tortillas, smothered burritos and traditional dishes like chile rellenos. 955 N. 1400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-596-2070

Asian Snacks • Sauces • Spices • Vegetables • Seafood • Tea & more

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“In a perfect world, every town would have a diner just like Ruth’s”

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The Blind Dog crab cakes are rightfully renowned, served with the house mustard sauce and frizzled leeks. But equally delectable are the juicy lamb burger, the shellfish pan roast and Penn’s signature “dreamloaf.” On the sushi side, specialty rolls like the funky Frida and lollipop really rock. There is also an extensive wine list available, and over at the bar, you’ll always find a gaggle of Park City locals. 1251 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-0800, BlindDogPC.com

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GOODEATS Complete listings at cityweekly.net The Copper Bowl

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The Copper Bowl serves up traditional Indian food with local flavor and seasonal ingredients, all laid out on copper serving pans. Start with the surf & turf, which includes lamb boti kebab and tiger shrimp cooked in a tandoor oven. For the main course, you can venture beyond the normal picks into southern Indian dishes, such as the Frankie, which includes your choice of paneer or chicken wrapped with spiced chutney, egg and roti. There are also plenty of vegetarian options, ensuring that no one is left out. If there’s room for dessert, there is a variety of delicacies to choose from. 214 W. 600 South, Salt Lake City, 801-532-2322, Copper-Bowl.com

Dylan’s Drive-Inn

Owned by Kirk Dean, Dylan’s features burgers, fries, shakes, salads, sandwiches and more, all made from scratch daily and all cooked to order. For breakfast, there’s an extensive menu that includes breakfast wraps, biscuits & gravy, pancakes, French toast, omelet and scones. For lunch and dinner, the burgers and classic American sandwiches are great. Be sure to try the yummy Rocky Mountain Reuben, halibut & chips and the chicken Philly. 981 12th St., Ogden, 801-393-4545, MyWarrens.com

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The Eating Establishment was opened in 1972 and holds the honor of being the oldest continuously open restaurant in Park City, catering to both locals and tourists alike with breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. The owners’ motto is, “We’re not good because we’re old. We’re old because we’re good.” Generous portions and fair prices make this Park City eatery enticing, serving up everything from omelets, bagels & lox and biscuits & gravy for breakfast to red snapper and prime rib at dinner time, with burgers, sandwiches and fish tacos in between. The Eating Establishment also offers wine and beer. 317 Main, Park City, 435-649-8284, TheEatingEstablishment.net

Ekamai Thai Curry

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At Ekamai, you’ll find a wide range of Thai curries, made for folks in a hurry. Each day of the week brings new Thai flavors: Massaman curry beef and pad basil chicken, along with other bold dishes, are featured on Mondays; on Tuesday, you’ll find sweet & sour chicken and pad cashew nut beef. But every day at Ekamai brings lively, fragrant flavors, served in one- and two- item combo meals with rice and an egg roll. Don’t forget the mango with sticky rice for dessert. 336 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-363-2717, EkamaiThai.com

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The kitschy neon signs beckon you to stop at the Road Island Diner, and the food will prompt you to return again and again. The pancakes, French toast and Southernstyle biscuits & gravy are especially tempting breakfast items. The omelets and corned-beef hash are terrific, too. Lunchtime brings out a barbecue pulled-pork sandwich, a lamb sandwich, a classic Reuben and a really good toasted sub with roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy. In the evening, try the baby-back ribs, meatloaf and stuffed chicken breast, then finish it all off with a shake, malt, float or sundae from the fountain. The banana split is super, too. 981 W. Weber Canyon Road, Oakley, 435-783-3467, RoadIslandDiner.com

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A sampler of Ted Scheffler’s reviews Kobe Japanese Restaurant

Chef/owner Mike Fukumitsu has put Kobe on a very short list of my favorite Utah Japanese restaurants. The tonkotsu ramen is as good as any I’ve ever eaten, with bodacious house-made broth cooked down from pork pieces and bones for a minimum of 24 hours, plus crisped pork belly batons, slightly runny hard-cooked egg, scallion, bean sprouts and perfectly cooked ramen noodles. Twice a week, Fukumitsu gets a “surprise package” delivery of fresh fish from central Tokyo’s renowned Tsukiji wholesale fish market. That keeps things interesting and fresh at Kobe; for example, during one recent visit, we enjoyed a sashimi platter featuring an 18-piece assortment of five different raw fish. We’ve also enjoyed melt-in-the-mouth hamachi belly nigiri, sea bream, escolar and a superb salad of mixed greens, tangerine wedges and fragrant citrus-ginger dressing topped with a flash-fried soft shell crab—all at very reasonable prices. Among the must-try specialty rolls are Kobe’s most popular: the Summer Breeze—a huge roll with yellowtail, jalapeño, mango, cilantro, avocado and spicy sauce, all topped with salmon, lemon, honey, habanero powder and tobiko. Reviewed May 28. 3947 Wasatch Blvd., Millcreek, 801-277-2928, Facebook.com/ KobeJapaneseRestaurant

Shoyu Sushi House

Located at Kimball Junction, Shoyu is a place that many sushi aficionados would like to remain a secret. The diminutive eatery fills up quickly—just five four-top tables, two two-tops, and six sushi-bar seats—plus, prices are remarkably low for Park City. Cucumber lovers will enjoy the Sunomono salad—a straightforward dish of Japanese cucumber served with ponzu. Most nigiri is priced at $5 or $6 for two pieces; I was happily surprised by the generous slices of hamachi, maguro and saba with the nigiri I ordered. It comes unadorned, with nothing more than ginger, wasabi and soy alongside. I don’t know the significance of “88,” but the 88 Roll is outstanding. I tend to like maki rolls where the fish, rice and other ingredients are the main attraction, not rolls smothered in too much sauce. Well, the 88 Roll fits the bill perfectly: wedges of avocado and albacore tuna with sushi rice, wrapped simply in strips of fresh escolar with just the slightest hint of ponzu citrus sauce. It’s a perfect example of how simple and sensational sushi can be. But, shh! Don’t tell anyone. Reviewed May 21. 1612 Ute Blvd., No. 116, Park City, 435-901-3990, ShoyuSushiHouse.com

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Like the restaurant’s name implies, shabu shabu—a DIY Asian hot-pot meal of broth, veggies, noodles and choice of protein—is one of the highlights here, but there’s also exceptional sushi. The Yellowtail jalapeño “cold plate” includes eight thin yellowtail sashimi slices formed pinwheel-style, topped with jalapeño pepper, hot sauce and cilantro leaves in a citrusy yuzu-soy bath; also try the Coco Loco roll with avocado, cucumber and albacore tuna wrapped in rice and Thai basil, topped with salmon and maguro tuna, more avocado slivers and tobiko, then finished with wasabi-coconut aioli. But the best menu item at Shabu is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten anywhere: the Wagyu beef hot rock ($23). Thin slices of premium Snake River Farms Wagyu beef strip loin come to the table raw, with ponzu butter. A blazing hot rock is delivered to the table in a wood container. You simply dip the beef into the butter, rest

them on the red-hot rock for a few seconds, then allow them to melt in your mouth. The flavor is nothing short of spectacular. Order the amazing blistered green beans with spicy miso to share on the side. Reviewed May 21. 442 Main, Park City, 435-645-7253, ShabuPC.com

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WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

Drawn From Life

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When Marnie Was There may be a farewell to Studio Ghibli’s human approach to animation. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

n the opening minutes of When Marnie Was There, 12-year-old Anna (Sara Takatsuki; Hailee Steinfeld in the English-dubbed version) sits on a park bench, sketching. She’s isolated—her classmates are giggling together while working on their own art projects—but it’s not immediately obvious that there’s anything particularly wrong with her. And then we see her begin to experience an asthma attack, as the voice-over narration by Anna lets us know what she’s thinking: “I hate myself.” Take a few minutes to ponder the last time you saw an animated film featuring a protagonist so deeply, bluntly troubled. If you can come up with one at all, it was almost certainly another Studio Ghibli film, because while the legendary Japanese animation studio has primarily made films about young people, it has almost never pandered to an audience it assumes is made up entirely of even-younger people. That’s part of what makes the idea that When Marnie Was There may be the last Studio Ghibli feature ever—as founder Hayao Miyazaki indicated in 2013—so crushing. In America, we’ve been trained to think of animation as a genre, and a genre aimed almost entirely at children. When Marnie Was There is a reminder that animation is simply a way of telling a cinematic story—and that sometimes those stories can be awkward, painful, meditative and sad. Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi (The Secret World of Arrietty)—adapting Joan G. Robinson’s 1967 novel—follows Anna as her foster mother, concerned about Anna’s asthma attacks in the city of Sapporo, sends her out to a rural fishing village to spend the summer with relatives. There, while exploring, Anna discovers the Marsh House, a glorious mansion that appears to be long-deserted.

But Anna begins seeing a girl in a window of the house, and eventually meets and befriends the girl, named Marnie (Kasumi Arimura; English voice by Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka)—though it’s not clear if she’s real, a dream or some kind of ghost. As has been true through decades of features from Studio Ghibli, there’s a gorgeous level of detail in the animation Yonebayashi builds into Marnie. When Anna looks around the room in which she’ll stay at her aunt and uncle’s house, we get just a glimpse of a cat carved into a window seat by a now-grown previous inhabitant. Grass ripples slowly in the breeze, providing a physical texture to this world. When Marnie Was There may be far less overtly fantastical than Ghibli classics like My Neighbor Totoro or Spirited Away, yet there’s something just as fascinating about the way this movie invests care into the simple movement of shorebirds and Anna’s tense body language. And Anna really is what makes Marnie such a wonderfully heartbreaking story. Yonebayashi refuses to make her “troubled” in the timid way we might expect from a conventional modern animated film. She’s filled with that self-hate as a result of what she knows about how she came to live with her foster mother—and also by what she doesn’t know—and those emotions manifest themselves in behavior that’s sometimes cruel and unpleasant, like when she lashes out at a local girl. Her moods swing wildly as she latches on to her vaguely magical friendship with Marnie—who has her own

Anna and Marnie in When Marnie Was There

difficult relationship with her parents—in a way that adolescent girls often cling to the life raft of their best friends. It’s an honest, rich story about the emotional volatility of a young girl, and it just happens to be a story that’s told through animation. When Marnie Was There does suffer from a tonal sameness throughout the material. Lacking the kind of fanciful set pieces characteristic of other Studio Ghibli features, it rides almost entirely on the highs and lows of Anna’s own emotions, while generally feeling restrained even during the moments of upheaval and revelation. As finely crafted as it is, it’s a character study that doesn’t invite you into the wildly imaginative places you might expect. But perhaps, in a way, that makes it even more of a perfect—and tragic—farewell to what Ghibli brought to feature animation. Without funny sidekicks, frenzied pacing or musical numbers, their films had to be human stories. We’ll miss them when they’re gone. CW

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AAA Sara Takatsuki Kasumi Arimura Rated PG

TRY THESE My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Dakota Fanning Elle Fanning Rated G

Spirited Away (2001) Daveigh Chase Suzanne Pleshette Rated PG

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) Bridgit Mendler Amy Poehler Rated G

The Wind Rises (2013) Joseph GordonLevitt Emily Blunt Rated PG-13

CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. THE CONNECTION AAA.5 With super-cool ‘70s chic and a smart thriller vibe, The Connection feels more like Goodfellas than like the movie it is directly related to, The French Connection—though that’s hardly a bad thing. Here we discover the other side of the trans-Atlantic heroin-supply chain that Popeye Doyle was investigating in 1970s New York City, via Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) and his years-long battle with crime boss Gaëtan Zampa (Gilles Lellouche) to destroy his narcotics empire. From the fog of cigarette smoke that hangs over Michel’s approval of questionable law-enforcement methods, to the delicious visual grit director Cédric Jimenez achieved by shooting on 35mm, this is a welcome throwback to action dramas of the past, before they got bloated with spectacle and forgot that we need intriguing characters and a story that wraps us up in its world. Dujardin’s performance is intense and gripping; you will instantly forget that this is the first truly dramatic role for the comic actor. It’s a movie I could have watched forever. Opens June 12 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 AA The law of diminishing returns is in full effect with this mediocre followup to the half-decent sequel to the quite-good 2011 horror flick. This one’s a prequel, actually, focusing on a teenager named Quinn (Stefanie Scott) who has a near-death experience and is thereafter haunted by something in the apartment building where she and her father (Dermot Mulroney) and irrelevant little brother live. Veteran workhorse actress Lin Shaye, committed as always, returns as Elise, the psychic who says she’s out of the seance business but reluctantly helps Quinn. Screenwriter Leigh Whannell, in the director’s chair for the first time, delivers a scant few shocks and shivers with his unimaginative take on a tired formula, and doesn’t add anything to the Insidious “mythology,” either. Get some fresh ideas, or let this series die. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE AAA See review p. 44. Opens June 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG)

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ENTOURAGE A.5 I’ve never watched a minute of the HBO series, so if the movie was going to work for me, it would have to work as a movie. Despite making vague gestures at introducing newcomers to actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his posse, this feature—centered around Vincent’s debut directing effort, a contemporary adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—is mostly about hanging out with characters it presumes we find entertaining. And writer/director/series creator Doug Ellin does little to convince me that’s the case, aside from

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THE COKEVILLE MIRACLE AA Writer/director T.C. Christensen’s drama is based on real-life events in 1986, when a small Wyoming ranching community was terrorized by a lunatic with a grudge (Nathan Stevens) taking the local elementary school hostage—and the manner in which the crisis ends leads local sheriff Ron Hartley (Jasen Wade), who has been experiencing a crisis of faith, to explore seemingly unexplainable events. Christensen weaves a few genuinely tense moments into his portrayal of conditions inside the school, but the narrative faces a huge structural barrier in that the end of the crisis isn’t the end of the movie. Instead, there’s still an hour to spend on Hartley gradually coming to terms with the possibility that divine intervention saved innocent lives—and this avalanche of evidence isn’t necessary for an audience entering the theater already believing that Jesus loves the little children. (PG-13)—SR

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RESULTS AAA Let’s just ditch the “m-word”—”mumblecore”—where writer/ director Andrew Bujalski is concerned, because he’s simply writing smart, funny movies about people fumbling with what they want out of life. Here, he puts together an odd sort-of romantic triangle: Trevor (Guy Pearce), the owner of an Austin, Texas fitness center; Kat (Cobie Smulders), a tightly-wound personal trainer working for Trevor; and Danny (Kevin Corrigan), a recently-divorced guy who has just inherited a fortune. Bujalski lets almost all of the humor evolve out of low-key character moments, with Smulders finding hilarious physical comedy in Kat’s inability to relax, and Corrigan getting even more mileage—sometimes just in a subtle eye movement—out of Danny’s inability to do anything but relax. And while he takes a somewhat circuitous route to get there, Bujalski winds up with a fairly charming portrait of people stuck in ruts of isolation, without the people skills to get out of them. Working for the first time with a great group of actors, Bujalski finds a voice to clear and sharp to be mistaken for mumbling. Opens June 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)— Scott Renshaw

Jeremy Piven’s occasionally funny work conveying agent-turnedstudio-boss Ari Gold’s bottomless reservoir of rage. The parade of pointless subplots and cameo appearances suggests a show that’s not remotely the parody of Hollywood’s absence of meritocracy I’d expected. If Entourage has any message about show-biz superficiality, it would be, “Hell yeah, we’re all for it.” (R)—SR

IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER B.5 Based on a true-crime mystery from 1970s France, this could have been a companion piece to the marvelous The Connection— if only it had characters we could care about, a sense of suspense or even a clear idea of the story it wants to tell. Not even the luminous and steely Catherine Deneuve, as Nice casino manager Renée Le Roux, can save this. It’s all to do with Le Roux’s daughter, Agnès (Adèle Haenel), returning home to France after the breakup of her marriage and instantly falling in with Le Roux’s attorney and business advisor, Maurice (Guillaume Canet), a canny manipulator who is secretly scheming to help a mobster (Jean Corso) take over the casino. Maneuvering Agnès and her small stake in the business is so easy for him that it is dramatically inert; she is so shockingly naïve that even Maurice is openly astonished by her immaturity. This isn’t so much a crime drama as a soap opera of corruption and obsession, and a slow-moving one at that, with any hint of the high stakes in play for these characters all but ignored. Opens June 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MAJ

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HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT AAA By the time the opening credits roll, the main character—a New York City street junkie named Harley (Arielle Holmes)—has already slit her wrists. Things get better for her after that, but not much. Directed with cinema-verité rawness by siblings Josh and Benny Safdie, Heaven Knows What is based on the real experiences and memoir of its lead actress, whom the directors found on the street. A documentary about making a movie starring homeless heroin addict might be more compelling than the one in the film, which is basically the usual junkie tale of despair: Harley is poisonously in love with fellow heroin-user Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones), and tries to stay away from him by hooking up with her semi-homeless dealer, Mike (Buddy Duress); self-destructive spirals ensue for all involved. But not only is Holmes’ performance unsurprisingly convincing in the details (her tone of voice when she panhandles, for example), it’s astonishingly good as a piece of careful, measured acting. The whole cast feels authentic, and the Safdies wisely avoid melodrama, keeping a grip on grimy reality that keeps a grip on moviegoers. June 16 only at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS AAA Brett Haley’s low-key character drama gets a boost from Blythe Danner’s lovely lead performance and a unique spin on crises of purpose that can face us at any age. Danner plays Carol, a longwidowed woman who responds to the death of her dog by reaching out to new relationships, including a friendship with her pool cleaner (Martin Starr) and a romance with a handsome newcomer (Sam Elliott). Haley does trot out the old “isn’t it hilarious when old people get stoned” bit, but mostly he showcases Danner’s spirited work as a woman finally trying to figure out what she wants from the rest of her life, while Starr’s under-employed pool guy provides a Millennial counterpoint. Though never revelatory, it almost always feels sweet and honest, providing heart-melting lines like Sam Elliott saying, “I like you a little bit, I think.” (PG-13)—SR LOVE & MERCY AA.5 Director Bill Pohlad splits his story of founding Beach Boy Brian Wilson into intertwined parts: circa-1965 Brian (Paul Dano) exploring musical creativity while facing the first indications of mental illness; and circa-late-’80s Brian (John Cusack) under the domineering care of psychiatrist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). Pohland and his screenwriters show some visual spark by opening with almost avant-garde layering of sound over a black screen, and the “good times” montage you’d expect to find in the second act. But despite Dano’s effective performance as the younger Brian, the film sags whenever it turns to the conventional rhythms of the conflicts between Landy and Brian’s girlfriend Melinda (Elizabeth Banks) over Brian’s well-being, and to efforts by Cusack that fall well outside his comfortable range. The events of Brian Wilson’s later life make for more obvious drama, but a lesser movie. (PG-13)—SR

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SPY AAA.5 Writer/director Paul Feig crafts a sneakily subversive movie that confronts issues of women’s confidence and men’s arrogance— all while being funny as hell. At first, it looks like a simple spoof of secret-agent adventures, with Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a CIA desk-jockey who heads out into the field after the identities of field agents are compromised, to track a suitcase nuke that may end up in the hands of terrorists. The male characters here—including Jason Statham, hilariously sending up his onscreen persona—underestimate women to, ultimately, their own detriment, and the women end up overcoming the preconceptions about what they’re capable of in glorious ways. The few bits of gross-out humor are unnecessary, but they don’t overwhelm the rest of the genuinely clever humor, or Feig’s sympathetic, witty approach to the particular battles professional women fight. (R)—MAJ

SUNSHINE SUPERMAN AA.5 BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish gets a cradle-to-grave profile from director Marah Strauch, following his life as a determined polio survivor through his twin fascinations with skydiving and filmmaking in the late 1970s, right up to tragic events that claimed his life. Strauch leans heavily interviews with Boenish’s wife, Jean, and others who knew him, while also making use of remarkable footage from Boenish’s own seminal adventuresport movies; the vertigo-prone might not survive watching the rig Boenish creates so he can capture footage of jumpers leaping off a cliff towards him. Yet in the last half-hour, it starts to feel like a long march through the circumstances surrounding Boenish’s death, including plenty of re-enactments of events. Boenish’s enthusiasm and life-force energize the movie whenever he’s an onscreen presence; his absence proves much harder to turn into compelling cinema. (PG)—SR

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Orange Is the New Black is (still) trying to break your heart, and so is Proof. Orange Is the New Black Friday, June 12 (Netflix)

Season Premiere: Aside from the return of a beaten-down and bruised-up Alex (Laura Prepon), things are almost too bright and happy at Litchfield Penitentiary in Orange Is the New Black’s Season 3 opener. The episode, however, ends on a heart-rending downer that drives home the facts that this is still a prison and, unlike narrow award-show categories, creator/writer Jenji Kohan will pivot from “comedy” to “drama” however she damned well pleases. Kohan also introduces even more character flashbacks and new faces without spinning into Game of Thrones overload, and spends just enough quality time with the woman she initially fooled us into thinking was the “star” of the show, Piper (Taylor Schilling). That “Best Season Yet” buzz may turn out to be more than just Netflix hype.

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Series Debut: If the notoriously nostalgic TV Land can drop the laugh tracks (see the just-wrapped, fantastic Younger; the upcoming, promising Jim Gaffigan Show and Impastor), why the hell can’t TBS kill the canned sitcom yuks already? Clipped, about a group of former clashing-clique

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Series Debut: Shows like Rizzoli & Isles and Major Crimes still pay the bills, but TNT tried to shake up its mom-cops image last summer with new dude-centric testosterone-fests like The Last Ship and Legends, with varying results. Proof is something else entirely, like Grey’s Anatomy meets Ghost Whisperer (Ghost’s Anatomy, a better title than Proof). Jennifer Beals plays a brilliant surgeon whose life is a steaming bag of suck (bitter ex-husband, estranged daughter, dead teen son—guess the plot point), until she’s hired by a cancer-stricken tech billionaire (Matthew Modine) to prove—or disprove—life after death. Will her hard-science ways conflict with supernatural hooey? Will there be tears? Can Modine rock a turtleneck? Yes, hell yes, and was there any doubt? Beals and Modine are good enough here to keep Proof from devolving into a manipulative weeper, but just barely. Proceed with caution, and a box of tissues.

Tyrant Tuesday, June 16 (FX)

Season Premiere: It’s a political drama! It’s a family drama! It’s back for a second season? Tyrant, set in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Abbudin, may not seem like an on-brand fit for FX (devoid of pulp theatrics or any trace of humor, it’d make a better companion piece for Homeland on Showtime), but it deserves a second chance to clean up after its messy debut season. Then, expatriat Barry (Adam Rayner) went from advising his power-mad dictator brother Jamal (Ashraf Barhom) to attempting to overthrow him. Now, Barry awaits execution, much to the distress of his American wife (Jennifer Finnigan) and Jamal’s wife (Moran Atias), Barry’s long-ago ex. Even more concerning than the possibility that he may order his brother’s death is Jamal’s lack of his fearsome Season 1 power beard— shaved, he bears an unfortunate resemblence to Arrested Development’s Buster Bluth. 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.

Series Debut: The writers and producers behind longrunning sci-fi-lite hits Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis essentially killed the franchise with 2009’s Stargate Universe, the bleak tale of a space-exploration team lost in uncharted cosmos. Dark Matter finds another crew adrift in space—but they have no idea who they are, how they got there, or why random Scumdogs of the Universe are out to kill them. As you’d expect, the amnesiac models soon learn they each have requisite A-Team abilities (fighter, hacker, thinker, more fighters, etc.), assign nicknames (like “Boss Lady,” “Kid” and, best of all, “Slashy McStabberson”), and at least pretend to trust one another to survive. It’s nothing new, but at least Dark Matter serves up slick action-distraction, and it’s actual sci-fi in space—how often do you get that from Syfy?

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high-school classmates who all end up working in the same Bah-ston barbershop, is from KoMut, the TV production company that’s been cranking out failed variations on this crapcom since the ’90s (with one hit exception: Will & Grace). Like every other “comedy” KoMut has somehow sold into instant cancellation, Clipped wastes genuinely funny actors (like Ashley Tisdale, and a bored George Wendt on autopilot) on the same tired setups and stale jokes they’ll probably use in their next network pitch. I should have gone into TV production instead of TV watching …

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UTAH BLUES FEST

The Blues Don’t Get the Blues

MUSIC CHECK US FIRST! LOW OR NO FEES! Thursday, June 11

In a changing industry, Utah Blues Festival keeps the fire burning.

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he Utah Blues Society has rebranded its blues music festival, the Rhythm & Blues Rendezvous, with a second stage and a new name: The Utah Blues Festival. The day-long festival at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center will show off the chops of local blues bands as well as two big-name, nationally touring bands: Café R&B and the Lloyd Jones Struggle. With the addition of the Garden Stage, musicians can set up while other bands play, so the music will be nonstop from 1 p.m.-10 p.m. at the outdoor stages. The proceeds from the festival will go the revived Utah Blues Society, to be dedicated to helping local blues bands book bigger gigs and reach wider audiences, building a network of artists and educating youngsters. “Part of this whole mission is to spread the gospel of blues,” says Brian Kelm, KRCL 90.9 Monday-night blues DJ and emcee/producer for the festival. “The blues is the foundation of all other forms of music that you are going to listen to on your iPod or your radio or any of your CDs, guaranteed. Without the blues, we wouldn’t be where we are today.” Although it’s being promoted as the first annual Utah Blues Festival, its original incarnation, the Rhythm & Blues Rendezvous, blasted the blues for five years. During its run, the organizers donated the money from ticket, food, beer and merchandise sales to Shriner’s Hospital to buy musical instruments for kids there. The Rendezvous was started by Sharon and Greg Daniels—the latter the guitarist for The Ides of Soul—originally to bring local blues bands together, and then as a fundraiser for Andrew Arnold, a Heber City boy with liver cancer. Before that, The Zephyr Club and the Dead Goat Saloon had popular weekly blues nights—and the Dead Goat’s was broadcast live on KRCL. Now, Kelm says, it’s a crucial time for the genre of Etta James and B.B. King. An astounding 602 weeks after closing in 2003, the Zephyr—once Salt Lake’s premier live music club—is an empty, sticker-covered monument. The oncemighty Dead Goat Saloon also closed that summer. Despite efforts to keep it alive as the Crazy Goat, it, like the Zephyr, remains an empty shell. Utah is “a challenging place to promote blues,” according to Kelm, but things are tough all over. Blues acts across the nation are booking less stage time, clubs are bringing in less blues music and the existing blues musicians are vying for spots on the summer festival circuits or on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, a floating multi-day music festival that hits various countries twice a year. “In the last 15 years, it’s gotten harder and harder to attract national bands here and fill the joint,” says Kelm. “There’s a small but dedicated audience for the blues, which is what we’re trying to expand with this festival, in order

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Friday, June 12 The blues get hot with Roach of Cafe R&B to support getting more club-scene blues going from fall through spring.” That’s why the festival earnings will be donated to the Utah Blues Society, which originally organized in 1994, but faded away. Last year, Kelm and Tony Holladay, a local blues musician, resurrected the organization. “The day that blues musicians stop or significantly reduce touring [will be] an extraordinarily sad day for music,” says Kelm. “The architects of this music were around, and frankly, one of the last of them just passed away, B.B. King. Who’s left? Buddy Guy and maybe a small handful of others, and then it’s gone. We need to sustain it and keep it going as best we can.” As the tribute to blues is scheduled a mere month after King’s death, this year’s Utah Blues Festival is dedicated to him. One of the local acts, the Music Garage Blues Band, a handpicked group of five students from the Music Garage will perform a cover of one of King’s biggest hits, “The Thrill Is Gone.” The Music Garage is a prime example of where the musiceducation dollars will go. Similar to the School of Rock, the nonprofit brings students, recording artists and producers together for classes, workshops and rehearsals, with an emphasis on an after-school youth-rock-band program. The headliner, Cafe R&B, a Santa Barbara, Calif. group, played the Utah Arts Festival five years ago. The lead singer, Roach, “is a force to be reckoned with,” says Kelm. “She is on fire. Period. Exclamation mark. She is a tigress on the stage—part Tina Turner and part Etta James. She’ll get down on her hands and knees, crawl around, land on the ground and put her legs up and scream the blues. She wails.” The rest of the lineup includes The Kapp Brothers, The Soulistics, Amanda Johnson, Harry Lee and the Back Alley Blues Band, Sister Wives, George Gregory Band, Better Off With the Blues, Candy’s River House, Riverhouse and Blues on First. The Utah Blues Society intends to revive the blues scene, and will continue the festival as long as there are fans to play for—even if it means the genre shifts and mingles with other genres, as is the tendency in the current musical climate. “As long as it has soul and it resonates with me and everyone,” says Kelm, “I think we’ll be OK.” CW

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Utah Cultural Celebration Center 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City Saturday, June 13 1 p.m. $15 advance, $20 day of show UtahBluesFestival.org

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fter you get the message, hang up the phone.” British philosopher Alan Watts was talking about the limits of psychedelic drug use and “enlightenment”—avoiding burnout by supposedly hitting that “sweet spot” of some kind of psychological insight, but before the point of burnout, blistering brain cells melting like plastic toy soldiers under a magnifying glass in the scorching sun. The same thing is arguably true of psychedelic music: avoiding the self-indulgent excesses of noodling, navel-gazing jam bands and post-Grateful Dead hippie music mutations, to create real, mind-bending, psycheexpanding music that’s still rock & roll. Taking their name from the song of the same name by legendary ’60s psychfolk group Love, Sugar House’s Red Telephone—Holland James Redd (guitar/vocals), Colton Naffziger (drums) and Aaron Wilkinson (bass)—got into music as a side project to finding sounds that went well with skateboarding videos. Oddly enough, that turned out to be psych bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Black Angels. “Seeing the Black Angels play live was a true inspiration,” recalls Redd. Having played together for five years, the band is preparing to release their first fulllength album by the end of June, on Psych Lake City Records, tentatively titled Electric Life Light Show. PLC, a local psych band collective, has done a lot to support the band, adding them to bills with Spell Talk, Dark Seas and Max Payne & the Groovies. They find the resurgence of psychedelic music not antiquated at all, but a natural progression: “With all the technology out there, it’s more accessible to do the coolest things ever live,” Naffziger says, “it’s a rebirth (of an old genre) for a new generation.” Running through their song “Earth Plane,” Red Telephone are quick to remind that they aren’t a jam band. “[Our songs are] written out note for note,” Redd says. In a way, psych

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music is about fashioning something pleasurable, even blissful, out of unpleasant experiences in life. It does not attempt to create a utopia, but out of the muddle of sensations and circumstances in which we find ourselves, it seeks to attain or reach something greater than the sum of its parts—not trying to force the issue, but out of the noisy din or “haze,” some kind of clarity emerges. There is a clear Brian Jonestown Massacre influence, as well as a bit of Spiritualized, but they have their own distinct style—there is noticeably more drum propulsion, and Redd has a flair for Hendrix-esque, sometimes droney, sometimes slightly astringent guitar riffs. Among their other song titles are “Cosmic Vibration,” “Toner,” “Hofmann’s Potion,” and “Sabbath of the Solomonder.” They cover bands ranging from the Animals and The Beatles to Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer. Psych music isn’t all old news, however: having attended Austin Psych Fest, Red Telephone will play Urban Lounge July 2 with Ancient River and have played with Night Beats, who are both APF alumni. They are also playing the Garden Extravaganza June 26 at the Artists for Local Agriculture Community Art Garden’s fundraiser. Because there’s another band called Red Telephone in Boston, the local band will probably change its name to UFO TV. That’s too bad, because they even have an old-style red phone in their house (“I found it out in the desert,” says Redd). An object somehow alien, yet as natural as anything; its discovery was an anomaly, like their old-fashioned yet futuristic music. For them, music is in the air but it’s also in the earth. “The earth is a conductor of acoustic resonance,” reminds Naffziger. But that’s likely oversimplifying it. “We just like to play a lot of music,” Redd says. “It’s a form of meditation.” Like a phone call from a close friend, music is a healer. Naffziger has found, “if you’re having a hard day, put on a good song and it can turn everything around.” CW

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FRIDAY 6.12 BRIT FLOYD We’ve already established this: “Floyd Good” [“Faux-loyd Good,” Sept. 24, 2014, City Weekly], and so is The Australian Pink Floyd Show. So what about this British tribute to one of the greatest rock bands of all time? Do they have an edge because they, like the original group, are English? There’s not much of a difference, actually. Each tribute act is staffed by sound-alike musicians who do a great job replicating hits like “Comfortably Numb” and “Money.” They both have amazing light shows, but the Brit act doesn’t incorporate Aussie imagery into the show. The Aussie act has more connections to Pink Floyd, but they’re both sanctioned by the band, and have rubbed elbows with the originals. It boils back down to the simple truth that Floyd is good—and, when you can’t see the real thing, a capable, talented replica will do nicely. Maverik Center, 3200 South Decker Lake Drive, 8 p.m., $25-49.50, MaverikCenter.com TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, DOYLE BRAMHALL II You’ve gotta wonder if Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi’s kids even care that both of their parents are bona fide guitar heroes. How cool would that be? And consider the DNA trickle-down. What kind of blues-minded prodigy might be on deck to take over for Mom and Dad? It boggles the mind. Even more so when you know that Trucks descends from Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch

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NEON TREES, ALEX WINSTON, BIG DATA, FICTIONIST, THE STR!KE, Indie-pop songsmith Alex Winston’s video for “Careless” opens with her in a swimming pool surrounded by pensive old men. Then, the action moves inside to the rec room of a nursing home for bingo, and then to a quiet corner in the same place for chess. Dancing around them in a tight white dress like she does, you’d think the bunch of old men would notice. Yet, they don’t—even when Winston sings, “Give it to me/ I’m down on the floor/ Make me believe/ This can’t be ignored/ I want to be/careless.” They don’t even notice when she stretches out across their laps. What’s most beguiling about Winston, though, is her airy but powerful voice, which channels Kate Bush and Hope Sandoval—and how she just bleeds in her lyrics. As for Neon Trees, you know them well enough by now. Great band. Homegrown. Brent Brown Ballpark, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, 5:30 p.m., $25, SmithsTix.com

SUNDAY 6.14 SAGE FRANCIS When a rapper drops names such as novelist Kurt Vonnegut, he’d better know his shiz. What’s more, he should be able to turn a phrase. Sage Francis is one such hip-hop artist. He proved as much with four albums of sick beats

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously—to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries. Pick out a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus. Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed, and transform it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Drug expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are number one and the French are fourth. But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next twelve to fourteen days. In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I think it’ll be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise, or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It’s time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s no better time than now to ask the big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons? Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed. “Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations, and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme’s essay, “Not-Knowing.”)

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sidney Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals. Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge. I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he made ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publica- when they arrive. tions, all of which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review that appeared in one newspaper. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, you “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the now have license to engage in similar behavior. You will incur no most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. karma, nor will you tempt fate, if you tout your own assets in the I agree with him. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who coming weeks. Try to make your bragging and self-promotion you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, as charming as possible, of course. But don’t be timid about it. cagey tenacity, and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your self-understanding. So take advantage! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you carry out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your To get started, why don’t you interview yourself? Go here to see charisma, your chutzpah, and your creativity. Here’s the first one: some questions you could ask: http://bit.ly/interviewyourself

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a Friends Cleanse. It would be a three-week-long process of reviewing your support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances. If there are any who have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here’s the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the 16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. In the course of his satirical story, a learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids. In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa? What’s enormous that should be small? And vice versa? What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will soon be escaping—or maybe “graduating” is the right word—from your interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual. It can be a full-fledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance, or a fiveminute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for the resources you’ve managed to call on in the course of your struggle. To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’“

Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn’t important. To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here’s your second assignment: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Here’s the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unproveable theories, and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness.

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