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By Zach Hagadone

How an eastern Idaho farm boy became a contract torturer.

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Zach Hagadone started freelancing for Boise Weekly in 2008. After a short stint as business editor there, he relocated to his hometown in northern Idaho where he co-owned a weekly newspaper. In 2012, BW pulled him back to Boise, asking him to take over as editor-in-chief.

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LETTERS I Mourn the Draftees

In “Memorial Day Apathy” [Letters, June 4, City Weekly, June 4, 2015, p. 4], Tom Nied complains that City Weekly didn’t honor “our currently enlisted men and women” this past Memorial Day. He then goes on to complain about the paper’s “apathy towards our servicemen and service women.” I’m part of the Vietnam War generation of young men who mostly didn’t volunteer for military service but were drafted. Take my friend, Roger, for example, with whom I played baseball at the state all-star level: Roger was shot in the head and killed within a few days of arriving in Vietnam. Another friend, Frank, was tortured by memories of helping his Army unit wipe out a Vietnamese village. I tried to help him by pointing out he had nothing to do with ordering that and was himself a victim—a thought that seemed to calm him at the time. Fred was drafted because he had flushed a cherry bomb down one of the high school’s toilets and blew it up. He was given a choice by the judge: either time in the state prison farm for juveniles or service in the military. Ken did two hitches in Vietnam with the Marine Corps. He was definitely a victim of what later was called “delayed stress syndrome.” One afternoon, Ken snapped and broke some of my kitchen furniture by throwing it across the room. Later, he developed what he called “my disease,” a glandular swelling in his neck. Finally, there was Jerry, whose job it was to fight Vietnamese troops in their tunnels. Jerry was captured and

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Like so many other City Weekly readers, I look forward to spending my Thursday morning Trax ride lingering over the crossword and latest “K Chronicles,” while the porn page hangs facing my fellow passengers, giving them the false impression that I would like to, in the words of the Guy Spy ad, “get on to get off.” Reading City Weekly usually makes total strangers think I’m a pervert and lets me work a sudoku at the same time but, this week, I had to choose one or the other, and the conflicting desires tore at my insides, where I’m soft and vulnerable, like a pretty flower. I hope this oversight will be corrected in future issues.

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Correction: A City Weekly June 11 news story, “O Drone Pioneers,” incorrectly identified commercial drone operator Matthew Baker’s flight credentials. Baker is a former Blackhawk crew chief and a licensed civilian pilot.

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I was very disappointed to open the June 4, 2015, issue of City Weekly and discover that the comics and puzzles were opposite Community Beat and not, as I’m accustomed to, opposite the ads for porno DVDs, gay hookup apps, and something called an “erotic playground,” which I expect has both a swing set and a ball pit.

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OPINION Totes Ma Goats

f you zig-zag north and west of the airport, beyond asphalt and flat-roofed buildings, a gravel road leads to a corral full of goats—132, to be exact—surrounded by 2,200 acres of flat, tawny grassland. In the distance, you can see the dark mountains of Antelope Island and the pallid berm of Kennecott tailings rising along Interstate 80. Not far away is the prisonrelocation site that is opposed by Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker along with more than half of the city’s residents. “Welcome to the East African Refugee Goat Project of Utah,” says Joshua Lloyd, as I walk into the corral. Lloyd is the Economic Empowerment Program Manager in the Utah office of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). My entrance draws a crowd of curious, white-and-brown kids the size of cocker spaniels. They greet me enthusiastically and take turns chewing on my pant leg and tugging at my shoelaces. Lloyd introduces Gustave Deogratiasi—a Burundian refugee whom IRC brought to Utah in 2007—and Hussein Aden, a Somali Bantu who arrived in 2004. Deogratiasi runs the goat project. He tells me 67 goats were born this spring. I write it down. I also note—his shoes don’t have laces. It doesn’t take long to realize the goat project has many facets. Each is worthy of a few hundred words by a scribbler like me. The challenge is to write the right story, a process similar to navigating a maze. At its center, you find the essential story. This one could be about the IRC. Founded in 1933 at the urging of Albert Einstein, the humanitarian agency works in 40 countries helping those escaping war or persecution with no place to go. The United Nations reported more than 50 million people were refugees last year. Salt Lake City is one of IRC’s 22 regional offices in the United States through which refugees are introduced to a new, safe life. In the past two years, 2,274 refugees have been resettled in Utah from such troubled countries as Iraq, Bhutan, Syria and Somalia. It is an engaging story.

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But the best stories are usually about people, and I have a hunch about Lloyd. A lanky, James Taylor lookalike, he was in on early discussions of a goat farm in 2013. I imagine him thinking it was a good idea, but since he lacked land and animal-husbandry experience, raising a herd of 500 goats was in the too-tough-to-do category. However, as obstacles were overcome, one by one, he soon found himself “drinking from a fire hose.” He recalled the arrival of the first goats as a sobering “what now?” moment. Since then, Lloyd, a 2000 graduate of Brigham Young University, has become what I would call an affectionate project manager. This spring, with nannies kidding around the clock, he has served as midwife more than once. Now, with this year’s kid cohort pulling at our shoelaces, he acknowledges that he is working himself out of a job. Once the goat project matures into a nonprofit company run by people like Aden and Deogratiasi, Lloyd will be left behind with the happy-sad ambivalence of an empty nester. That Lloyd’s pet project is a “microenterprise” is another story. The label is typically applied to low-capital businesses launched by immigrants. For the IRC’s goat microenterprise to be viable, two streams of income must be developed—rent and meat (their Boer goats are not a dairy breed). The market is promising on both accounts. Goats are in demand for brush clearing and weed control. Potential local clients include Rio Tinto, Rocky Mountain Power and the airport. The voracious herbivores can lay waste to woody plants, poison ivy and kudzu. (If you have qualms about dousing a patch of poison oak with herbicide, you can now rent a goat on Amazon.com in some places.) Goat meat is also in demand. It’s a mainstay of many African, Caribbean and Asian cuisines. A wedding or Eid-al-Fitr celebration

without goat is like Thanksgiving without turkey. As I talk with Deogratiasi and Aden, I sense mouth-watering anticipation as the conversation turns to the future of the baby goats chewing on our shoelaces. It’s not just immigrants who long for the lean, hard-tofind meat; New York Magazine identified goat meat as a “trendlet” in 2008. I wonder when goat-loin chops will show up on Pago’s menu. In this age of bitter political division, the goat project is a good-news story with bipartisan appeal. For bleeding-heart Democrats, the project is proof positive that government has a legitimate role to play in the business sphere and plays it pretty well. For flinty Republicans, the project exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit and the free market at work. Both are simplistic. In fact, the goat project is an extended, public-private collaboration. The IRC’s herd lives on Rio Tinto land under the watchful eye of three immigrant communities—Somali Bantu, Burundi, and Somali Bajuni. The goats eat hay provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The state Refugee Services Office provides support, as do Levan Ridge Farm and Utah State University. Aden and Deogratiasi say the project has value as a cultural touchstone for the 200plus East African families living in Salt Lake City. Watching the goats browsing in the distance, Aden says wistfully, “I feel like I am back in Africa.” Whatever the right storyline is, the enterprise needs a punchier name. EARGPU won’t work as an acronym, so for a rebranding alternative, I look to Google translator for “success” in Swahili. I can envisage a day when Utah is recognized for its Morgan Valley lamb, Sanpete County turkey, Antelope Island bison and Mafanikio goat. CW

THE PROJECT EXEMPLIFIES THE AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT.

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What animal would you raise for food? Scott Renshaw: I would raise a chimpanzee and teach it agriculture, because the Planet of the Apes isn’t going to happen on its own. Jackie Briggs: Chickens. That way, I could only eat their eggs and not be involved in the slaughtering business. Also, I could vandalize places with homegrown ammunition. Jeremiah Smith: Chickens. I hate them, and they are evil—they stole my sandwich at Wheeler Farm when I was 5. But eggs are awesome, and as I’m a vegetarian (the ovo type), they could still produce food for me. Plus, I might have fun sticking plungers to their butts to see if they would walk like dinosaurs. Nicole Enright: I’d try to raise any animal (except fish, because they creep me out). But then, I would get attached to it and be unable to use it for food. I’d end up with a farm and have to go to the store for food. I need a separation between myself and what I consume. Robby Poffenberger: I once helped out on a farm in Arizona that had a giraffe. Not sure what the practical uses are, but it seemed appealing then, and it still does. Brandon Burt: I was planning on sending my cat to culinary school, but her scholarship fell through after she gakked up her amusebouche. Now, I’m hoping I can just train her to heat up mac & cheese in the microwave. Mason Rodrickc: I would raise Keebler Elves to live in my cupboard and make me cookies. I guess I’d need a cow, too, for the milk. Jeff Chipian: My family would disown me if I didn’t say lamb, since we eat it for holidays, baptisms and birthdays.

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If you think Utah is all about what business wants, you’re not really wrong. Beating the heat of the Utah summer, Gov. Gary Herbert is leading another group, 20 representatives of the Western Europe Trade Mission. They come back this week from a trip to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and France— and he’s already been to Japan this year. The governor’s office has been allocated $32,100 for in-state travel and $84,800 to go out of state for 2015, according to the Office of Management and Budget. “As we deal with people economically, they become our friends,” Herbert told the Deseret News in 2013. “It is a great way to improve and foster better relationships around the world, as we expand our export business and are mutually benefited by the trade that takes place.” And damn, you can get matching grants to help offset the costs! It would be nice if the governor brought back ideas and resources to provide health care to his constituents. But this is about wealth, not poverty.

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Maybe microbreweries and vintners should consider signing up for one of the governor’s junkets. Right now, their name is pretty much mud in this state. And frankly, it’s their cred that holds them back. Much like pregnant women, those who imbibe are seen as sadly lacking in good sense and discretion. Give them a little rope, and they’ll be drinking to excess at every opportunity. South Salt Lake’s Shades of Pale Brewing Co. is getting a hint of Utah’s alcohol intolerance now as it tries to open a tasting room for handcrafted beers. But this is Utah, where we think it’s cool to drink low-alcohol beer. A trip to Germany with the governor might just open some eyes. Of course, Herbert would need to remain an observer.

Eat Real

With all the talk about Monsanto and environmental chemicals, it’s refreshing to see the University of Utah moving toward “real food.” By 2020, the school has vowed that 20 percent of its food on campus will be “real.” As part of a sustainability movement, students helped persuade President David Pershing to sign the commitment in February. In other words, food can’t come from more than 150 miles away, it must be organic, humanely raised and workers have to be paid living wages. The Salt Lake Tribune reported an estimate that 11 percent of campus food is currently “real.” That’s from a food budget of $2 million this year. And the U doesn’t even have an agricultural program. Maybe Utah State should get on board.

Jesse Nicholas Quebbeman-Turley is a local session drummer and co-founder of the Deseret Experimental Opera Company and the Avant Garawge concert series in Provo. He started a filmscoring business, Giant Frame, and is currently the drummer for bands Quiet House, The Number Ones, Ice People, The Logan Hone Large Ensemble, Collapses, FunCoffn and Tvsk/Gypsy Cab. His latest project, Bright Whistles, is set to release their new self-titled album on June 18 at Velour in Provo. While Turley studied jazz drumming and composition at Brigham Young University, he has also composed operas and recently began playing the pump organ.

How hard is it to drum up session work in Utah?

If you’re on time to things, learn the songs, are a decent person and can play your instrument, it’s not too bad.

Any favorite musical projects you’ve worked on?

Right now, I’m really excited about the upcoming Bright Whistles record, White Bristles. We’re releasing it on June 18 at Velour in Provo.

What projects are you working on these days?

I’m playing in a Las Vegas-style pop revue band that plays all over the country, so I’ve been traveling a lot. I’m also writing songs of my own and working on my first solo record. It’s been a whole new thing writing lyrics and singing. I’ve been having fun with it.

Which up-and-coming local artists should people keep an eye on?

Officer Jenny, [who is opening for Bright Whistles on June 18] is getting ready to release an amazing album that y’all should definitely listen to. Also, all of the artists in the Medusa Collective are badass, and they’re shaking up all the things that need shaking.

Name your top musical influences:

Guillaume de Machaut, Jim Black, Dirty Projectors, Philip Glass and Christian Asplund.

What are the best venues to play at around Salt Lake City and Utah Valley?

Venues all depend on the project for me. I love playing at bars like the Bayou and Gracie’s in Salt Lake City with jazz bands, at Velour and Urban Lounge with indie/rock bands, and I still really love a good house show.

How hard is it to find places to practice?

It’s a bit of a struggle. BYU finally realized I’m not going there anymore and kicked me out of their practice rooms.

Hardest pattern to play? Houndstooth.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Chill Effects I recently reread Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything. In his chapter on ice ages, he says geologists believe the earth has had numerous glaciation events, we’re currently in an interglacial period, and we’re likely due for another round of ice. Bryson also writes that global warming could paradoxically accelerate the next glaciation, although no one really knows. I was wondering: What impact would global warming have on an impending ice age? —Ken Chang, North Kingstown, R.I.

This one’s easy. As a result of global warming, the next ice age in all likelihood has been postponed until further notice. Bask in that thought for a moment. OK, time’s up. What we may get instead could be worse—not just droughts and hurricanes, but winters from hell. In the 1970s, scientists thought the next ice was going to arrive, if not imminently, at least disconcertingly soon—possibly within 1,500 years. Abundant geological and archeological evidence showed the earth had experienced many ice ages, the most recent of which concluded about 10,000 years ago. Warm periods, or interglacials, typically lasted about 10,000 years (I’m giving the simplified version of this). You see the nub of the problem right there. Modern humans managed to survive the last ice age, but the experience was brutal. The epicanthic eye folds, flatter facial features, and compact bodies typical of today’s east Asians are thought to be the result of having been trapped behind the glaciers. Unprotected eyes, prominent noses, and long limbs were an invitation to frostbite and death. The entirety of what we now think of as civilization was created during the current interglacial—in the grand scheme, an astonishingly short period of time. The thought that this hospitable era was drawing to a close gave scientists of the time the willies. Yeah, we’d gotten through it before, and we’d get through it again. But cheezit, at what cost—back to the caves? Thanks to global warming (yay!), we can now put this grim prospect behind us. In a 2013 report, the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee, convened by the U.S. Department of Commerce, declared that “humans have so altered the composition of the atmosphere that the next glaciation has now been delayed indefinitely.” So, fine. We, and not untrammeled nature, now control our destiny. That’s not necessarily good. I pause to acknowledge here that, like everyone else who isn’t determined to ignore the evidence, I buy the overall contention that human activity affects climate— not just now, but throughout history. Mostly we’ve warmed things up. Cutting down forests and draining wetlands for agriculture may have forestalled an ice age about 5,000 years ago. (To simplify again, deforestation added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.) Soot produced by burning wood, coal, and other fuels coated ice and snow,

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causing them to soak up more solar heat and melt faster. This phenomenon is thought to be responsible for ending the Little Ice Age, a colder-than-average period from 1350 to 1800, which in turn had been triggered by the reforestation of Europe after farms were abandoned in the wake of bubonic plague. So global warming in principle isn’t new. What’s different is that we’re pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at a greater rate than before, with unpredictable consequences. In his book, Bryson speculates that greater warming would increase cloud cover, cooling the planet. Others posit that as the ice sheets melt and temperatures rise in the northern latitudes, the amount of vegetation will increase, resulting in reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide and again, more cooling. Still others believe a sudden addition of melted fresh water into the oceans could disrupt critical ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, and lead to much colder temperatures in the north and the return of the glaciers. One such event occurred more than 8,000 years ago, when a giant glacier meltwater lake in the middle of North America drained into the ocean and triggered a chilling of the northern hemisphere by more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Change may occur even in the absence of catastrophic events. Global-warming deniers (a dwindling breed, from what I can tell) have made much of the harsh winters of the past couple years in Northeast and Midwest United States. Granted, two cold seasons don’t a long-term trend make. However, a few years ago, I analyzed Chicago weather data for late spring (May 15 through June 15) from 1950 to 2009 and found two things. First, year-to-year temperature variation, modest in the 1950s and ’60s, increased after 1969 and, since 1977, has been characterized by sharp swings. Second, on average, late springs in Chicago now are about 4 degrees cooler than in 1950. Does that mean the glaciers are about to return? No, but we’re pumping enormous amounts of energy into a system with few safety valves. Did that cause the distortion of the jet stream that poured polar air into northern cities, causing the recent catastrophic winter in Boston? It’d be foolish to make such a claim now. Only in hindsight will we be able to say: That was the year the future arrived.

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A push for reform may offer a lifeline to brain-injury victims behind bars. BY STEPHEN DARK sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark

n October 19, 2004, 19-year-old Lyle Davis fell at work while installing heating/air conditioning equipment and hit his head. When his brain began to swell, doctors removed a section of his skull as well as a fist-size blood clot. His mother, Jamie Barmore, says that accident created two Lyle Davises: “Before, he was really smart—a loving, caring big brother.” But after he came home from the hospital, she says, “little things set him off, and he’d be screaming at everybody.” The Traumatic Brain Injury [TBI] Davis suffered also marked his involvement with the criminal-justice system. Now his record includes repeated charges and several convictions—one with a “guilty but mentally ill” plea—for drug-related issues and aggravated assault. He went to jail, and then to the state hospital in 2010 and 2013, only to end up back on the streets. As Davis’ aggression and paranoia grew, Barmore says she could find no treatment that addressed both his TBI and the addiction issues that arose from his self-medicating. Davis’ most recent evaluation, Barmore says, found that “Lyle’s cognitive difficulties associated with severe brain trauma cannot be effectively treated.” His doctor recommended “supervision in a highly structured environment that he appears to thrive in,” she says. Defense attorney Jon Williams worked with then-Tooele Prosecutor L. Douglas Hogan to try to find a long-term answer

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to Davis’ problems. Hogan, now a 3rd District Court judge, met with Valley Mental Health “and explored every available state resource in an attempt to find the services Lyle needs,” Williams says—but Davis requires so much care, “there simply isn’t anything available for him.” After seven years of representing Davis, Williams has realized that “our criminaljustice system is one which can’t deal with people who can’t help themselves.” Davis “falls into a gray area,” Williams says. “He functions just high enough to not qualify for some services but, tragically, can’t live on his own.” Davis is far from alone. The Brain Injury Alliance’s executive director George Gehling says there are 50,000 Utahns with TBI whose injuries range from mild to severe. According to the Utah Department of Health, 24,000 Utahns receive ER or hospital treatment for TBI annually at a cost of $95 million in 2012, which excludes costs for long-term care and disability. Out of that group, Gehling says, 4,000 “will experience long-term consequences as a result of their TBI.” He estimates that less than half that number “get the services they need, whether state or federally funded”— and many, like Barmore, are defeated by “a services system that’s really segmented.” TBI survivors often need housing, employment, substance-abuse counseling, therapy and/or medication management, Gehling says, “but there isn’t any one place you can go to [find it]. You’ve got to pull the pieces together.” State funding is very limited, and often requires a five-year or longer waiting period. Meanwhile, people like Davis cycle through jail and the state hospital without receiving the totality of services over the length of time that they need. But for the efforts of the court, Williams says, Davis “would have been at the prison years ago.” “Nobody has easy answers,” Gehling says. In fact, “sometimes nobody has any answers.” However, recent efforts to reform the prison system may finally be about to change that.

Lyle Davis has been in and out of jail several times due to TBI-related issues.

Waiting on the Money

The 2015 Utah legislative session saw a much-publicized push from politicians and advocates for jail and prison reform, particularly in diverting the mentally ill away from incarceration and into treatment. TBI is neither a mental illness nor a physical disability, which is why advocates are uncertain that TBI victims will benefit from prison reform—even if funding from Medicaid expansion or Healthy Utah became available to support these reforms. On June 11, 2015, Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, attended a meeting of the Criminal Justice Advisory Council, where, for the first time in his 14 years as a legislator, he heard lawmakers call for finding “a better way of managing our TBI population,” he says. Hutchings, a leading proponent of prison reform, says that the political conversation about TBIs historically has been about funding rehabilitation, not addressing chronic and persistent incarceration episodes among Utah’s severe TBI population. The issue of incarceration and TBI survivors is new, Hutchings says. “This is a significant population that, I think five years ago, nobody really paid attention to or understood the severity of.” Two years ago, national publicity over sports-

related concussions helped reframe head injuries as “a serious issue” in the public mind, he says. Part of the problem, he acknowledges, is the medical ambiguity surrounding TBI: “It’s not behaviorial; it’s not mental health. So what is it, who owns it, who treats it? It’s so new, I don’t even know who to talk to,” Hutchings says. George Gehling runs the Brain Injury Alliance from a small office in Murray, along with three part-timers. “There aren’t enough services for people with brain injuries in Utah, especially if you don’t have insurance,” he says. “You’re talking about having a significant need for behavior modification, behavior management, occupation and speech therapy,” to name just a few of the services a TBI survivor often needs. Those who lack private insurance have a difficult time receiving financial help for those services. The TBI Fund, which seeks to provide TBI survivors with neuropsychiatric evaluations and direct them to services, began in 2009, with $50,000 from the Legislature. Over the following three years, the Legislature provided no funding. In 2015, the Legislature put aside $200,000 in ongoing funding, plus any unused funds from the Department of Health’s budget, up to $550,000. “People who have brain injuries often end up in a system geared to providing

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From left: Cameron Payne with mother Alison; Payne in the hospital after a motorcycle accident; Payne in prison. PHOTO COURTESY ALISON PAYNE

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support for people with intellectual disabilities, and the two are not the same,” Gehling says. The challenge with the TBI Fund, he says, “that those monies can only be spent on very focused, specific support services, and they’re not available to address broader service needs that people with TBI require and don’t have funding for.” While there is funding at the state Division of Services for People With Disabilities for brain-injury victims, the problem is the waiting list. In 2014, the Acquired Brain Injury [ABI] Waiver had more than $3 million to help brain-injury survivors. While that meant 112 people received services through the waiver, another 81 remained on a waiting list. Those with the most critical needs, as determined by the state, get to the top of the list first. Barmore says she’s never heard of the TBI Fund. She sought help from the ABI but never got a clear answer as to whom to apply to. “They try to discourage people from applying,” she now believes.

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Source: Utah Department of Health

In 2012, hospitalization charges for TBI in Utah totaled $94 million. 205 patients had bills totaling more than $100,000.

Each day in Utah: n 58 people are treated and released from the ER for TBI n 7 people are hospitalized for TBI n 1 person dies from TBI

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While Utah Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams says the 6,000-strong prison population includes only eight inmates with TBI, Gehling says that number is “nonsensical.” Diagnosing TBIs, is “just not up there on people’s radar,” he says. Still, the numbers available nationally for TBI in prison populations can vary dramatically from 25 percent to 85 percent, Gehling says. Cameron Payne was one of four mentally-challenged inmates held in solitary confinement to manage his “behavior” [profiled in “Lost in the Hole,” Sept. 27, 2012, City Weekly]. Payne smashed his head into a wall coming off a motorbike in 2007. In October 2010, he received a 1-to-15-year sentence after using a knife to slice open a man who was punching him in the head. Payne still remains in solitary, despite the concerns of family—and at least one member of the parole board—that he should be in community care. During Payne’s 2011 parole hearing, board member Robert Yeates expressed sympathy and frustration for Payne’s situation. “As you’ve discovered, Utah does not have TBI programs inside or outside of prison,” Yeates told the inmate, according to an audio recording City Weekly requested from the parole board. Payne’s mother, Alison, had not been able to see him in a year, because Payne’s behavioral issues resulted in denial of visitation privileges. Finally, in May 2015, she was able to visit with her son. Ironically,

she says, the five years of solitary confinement appear to have improved his cognitive skills and speech abilities to some degree. “I’m a fixer, but I can’t fix this,” she says. “You have a hope, then it just gets shut down.” When and if he gets released, “How’s he going to come out and be successful as a human with what life he’s got left?” she wonders. At Payne’s most recent hearing in February 2015, hearing officer Bradley Rich noted Payne had received 51 disciplinary write-ups, which Payne alleged came after he was provoked by corrections officers. Payne had to work harder and learn to play by the rules, or else he wasn’t getting out of solitary, Rich told him. “If you can’t, you’re just going to stay here forever.” Parole board spokesman Greg Johnson wrote in an email that “the board has consistently sought evaluations, treatment and an appropriate placement for Mr. Payne so he can be successfully released from prison.” Payne’s next parole hearing is in March 2016. The board ordered the Department of Corrections to explore options for his placement in the community. “The board also invited his mother to submit information about resources that may be available,” Johnson wrote. After state officials told Alison they could find nowhere for her son to stay, she says she repeatedly offered to take him home, to no avail. In late March 2015, Jamie Barmore thought she, defense attorney Williams, the court and mental-health providers had found an answer for Davis’ situation through a federally funded placement in a supervised, locked-down Salt Lake City nursing and rehab center. “I had my hopes up for the first time in 10 years,” she says. But in April 2015, state officials told Barmore that, although Davis “definitely fits the criteria for being mentally ill, … he is not physically disabled,” Barmore says— which was one of the requirements for the federal funding. Now Davis, who turned 30 in May, is living in a Tooele apartment, and each day his mother checks on him. “What happens when Lyle gets dementia” due to his brain injury, she asks. “I don’t know how much longer I can handle him.” While Davis currently enjoys his freedom, his mother faces her own sentence: watching her son slowly deteriorate while being herself unable to do anything about it. “I can’t even explain to anybody the depth of my betrayal or pain that, somewhere, we have let go of the mentally ill.” CW

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Bring Your Family to Day of Action This United Way 2-1-1 Volunteer Center program brings kids age 5-18 and their families together to do service for kids in need. Cottonwood High School, 5715 S. 1300 East, Murray, 801746-2566, Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m.-noon. UW.org/DayOfAction

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Meet the Freemasons TEAramisu by The Emperor’s Tea, 929 E. 4500 South, Millcreek, 801-590-8247, June 22, 7-8:30 p.m. Odyssey House of Utah’s 31st annual Summer Fling Fundraiser Enjoy an al fresco dinner buffet, live music and bidding for silent auction items all in the cause of helping teens, parents with young children, and adults who struggle with mental illness and addiction. Salt Lake Country Club, 2400 Country Club Drive, June 19, 6 p.m. OdysseyHouse.org/sf2015

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Dinosaur Centennial Enjoy river-themed events at Dinosaur National Monument (near Vernal) as part of the Dinosaur Centennial. Hike to Harpers Corner on June 21, Ruple Point on June 24 and Split Mountain on June 28 and experience places named in Major John Wesley Powell’s journals. Check out the Red Fleet Paddle Fest June 19-20 at Red Fleet State Park. On Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m., Uintah County Library in Vernal presents a retrospective featuring short films and firsthand recollections of Warm Springs Rapid. Learn how this infamous rapid on the Yampa River formed 50 years ago. Call 435-781-7700 or visit NPS.Gov/Dino. The Future of Energy The U.S. energy landscape is set to undergo drastic changes as renewable energies become economically competitive with fossil fuels. This film screening hosted by the Sierra Club highlights Utah’s clean-energy challenges and opportunities. Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 4th Floor, June 18, 7-8:45 p.m. Got a volunteer, activism or community event to submit? Visit CityWeekly.net

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Curses, Foiled Again Police in Virginia Beach, Va., identified Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, as their bank-robbery suspect after he posted video on social media showing the teller stuffing money into a bag and a picture of a note asking for $150,000 (but adding “please”). Alfonseca insisted that posting the video proves it wasn’t robbery. “I don’t think I would videotape it, post the picture of the letter and do that all to come to jail,” he said, adding, “There are a lot of things on my Instagram that have nothing to do with what happened.” (Portsmouth’s WAVY-TV)

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One Is the Loneliest Number Minorities may perceive entering a room full of white people as “microaggression,” according to a report by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Students of color reported feeling uncomfortable and unwelcomed just walking into or sitting in the classroom, especially if they were the only person of color, or one of a few,” the report stated. Academics define “microaggressions” as “brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership.” (National Review)

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n Deputies investigating the theft of a cash register at the Build-A-Burger restaurant in Mount Morris, N.Y., said they caught up with suspects Matthew P. Sapetko, 34, James P. Marullo, 35, and Timothy S. Walker Jr., 23, by following “a steady trail of macaroni salad,” which they’d also stolen and “took turns eating along their escape route.” After the suspects’ arrest, the restaurant posted a sign claiming it had, “The best burgers and mac salad worth stealing for.” (Rochester’s Democrat & Chronicle and WHAM-TV)

n Authorities blamed the shooting death of a 19-year-old college student on a dispute over the rules of a beer-pong game. Police said Ronald McNeil, 39, and others attending a graduation party in College Station, Texas, argued until they eventually came to blows. The host asked McNeil to leave. He did but returned with a handgun and fired 14 times. He told police he intended only to scare the guests, but his gunshots injured two and killed the 19-year-old, a bystander. (Houston Chronicle)

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Little Things Mean a Lot Following the world’s first penis transplant in South Africa in December, on a 21-year-old man whose penis was amputated following a botched ritual circumcision three years earlier, the head of the surgical team, urologist Dr. Andre van der Merwe, 46, said nine more patients are waiting for the same surgery after losing their penises in similar circumstances. He has also been flooded with requests from around the world. “I’ve had someone email from America who wants his penis removed,” van der Merwe said. “He wants to be genderless and donate his penis to somebody.” He said he was wary of such a donor, who might later change his mind and hunt down “the person who has his penis.” Meanwhile, van der Merwe said he had anticipated that his patient would need two years for sex to be viable, but it took only five weeks. (South Africa’s Times and Britain’s The Guardian)

Slightest Provocation Thirty people were asked to leave an America’s Best Value Inn in Mason County, Mich., after a disagreement over the waffle maker in the buffet-style breakfast area. “It sounded like one lady walked up and asked the other lady if she was in line for the waffle maker,” Sheriff Kim Cole said. “She didn’t answer, so this lady started to make her waffle. The other confronted her and said, ‘That was my waffle,’ and the other lady said, ‘No, it’s mine,’ and then it went downhill from there.” Cole said that deputies arrived to find “a large group of people arguing over the waffle maker” and “a lot of yelling and screaming, but no one was assaulted.” (MLive.com)

Love Hurts At the trial of Philip Lyle Hansen in New Zealand’s Wellington District Court on assault and sex charges, dating from 1988 to 2011, Crown Prosecutor Sally Carter told the jury that the defendant liked “gummy ladies.” She bolstered her case by playing a video in which a woman who dated Hansen explained that when they moved to the back seat of his car to have sex, he produced a pair of pliers and pulled six of her bottom teeth. “After that sixth tooth came out, I got him to stop,” she said. At his request, the woman had a dentist remove her remaining teeth and fit her with dentures, which Hansen destroyed by flushing them down the toilet and blaming the cat. When her wisdom teeth started to come through, she said he dug them out of her gums with a screwdriver. (The New Zealand Herald)

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Digital Follies Canadians now have shorter attention spans than goldfish, thanks to widespread use of mobile digital devices. Microsoft Corp. researchers, who reviewed surveys of more than 2,000 Canadians, determined that attention spans have fallen from an average of 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds today. They noted that goldfish average a nine-second attention span. (Ottawa Citizen)

Aroma Therapy American law-enforcement agencies seeking ways to disperse rioters without killing or injuring them are considering importing a chemical product that Israeli police insist “prevents casualties to protesters and security personnel.” Called Skunk, it smells like raw sewage mixed with putrefying cow’s carcass. Israeli soldiers regularly spray Skunk from water cannons at Palestinian protestors. The mixture of yeast and protein is non-toxic, according to its manufacturer, pesticide specialist Odortec, and the only reported side effect is difficulty getting the stench out of clothing and off bodies. (The Economist)

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THE SILENT PARTNER HOW AN EASTERN IDAHO FARM BOY BECAME A CONTRACT TORTURER.

ruce Jessen has been called a war criminal. A torturer. An “American Mengele.” The retired Air Force colonel and trained psychologist was, according to a 2014 report from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, an architect of the “brutal,” “inherently unsustainable” and “deeply flawed” detainee- interrogation program that “damaged the United States’ standing in the world” in the years following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. His alleged actions involved helping design—and in many cases personally administer—methods of interrogation that groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to Amnesty International and the United Nations have labeled as torture. Those methods, according to the report, were applied in secret throughout the Central Intelligence Agency’s now infamous network of “black sites” where detainees were held without charges in “dungeon”-like conditions. Jessen did not act alone. Fellow retired Air Force officer and psychologist James Mitchell helped design, advise, apply and assess the program— operating in a system with almost no checks and which the CIA’s own attorneys admitted would require a “novel” legal defense “to avoid prosecution of U.S. officials who tortured to obtain information.” While Mitchell has publicly pushed back against the report, calling it “bullshit” in a December 2014 interview with ABC News, Jessen has avoided speaking to the media—the silent partner in a global scandal. The contents of the almost 600 pages of the Senate report are as harrowing as they are detailed, except when it comes to the backgrounds of Jessen and Mitchell, referred to by the pseudonyms of Drs. Dunbar and Swigert, respectively. Their true names weren’t known until a 2007 Vanity Fair report, which presaged much of what would come to light in the 2014 Senate report. Eight years later, as HBO has optioned the rights for an original film based on the article, “Rorschach and Awe,” Mitchell is less mysterious but Jessen remains an enigma. His road to the secret prisons of Afghanistan, Thailand and Poland, however, began in eastern Idaho—literally, on Highway 20, in a small town at the foot of the Teton Mountains.

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‘Not Much of a Talker’

As Highway 20 runs north from Idaho Falls, the suburbs give way to run-down trackside buildings. Trashstrewn ditches and fields of cattle are interrupted by lonely monochromatic housing developments. Billboards alternately advertise Internet service and professional-technical degrees, and protest against wind power and same-sex marriage. The road narrows north of St. Anthony, with the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River running to the west and the Tetons rising hazyblue on the eastern horizon. A few miles farther, at the gateway to the Caribou-Targhee National Forest and West Yellowstone, Mont., is the town of Ashton—set in a wide, flat valley punctuated by a cluster of grain silos. Main Street in Ashton is a collection of mom & pop shops—an auto-parts store, hardware store, liquor store, senior-recreation center, two bars and three churches. Trucks rumble by almost constantly, carrying grain and seed potatoes to the silos that dominate the west side of town. Glance down the side streets from Main and the residential neighborhoods quickly give way to fields. Springtime is blustery and cold, and potatoes are more plentiful than people. “It’s time to plant the silly things again,” said Barbara Moon, who works part-time as Ashton’s town archivist. “It used to take the whole town [to plant and harvest], but not anymore.” The Jessens were a potato family. Jessen’s father, Jack, worked their land south of town.

“He was a wonderful man, but not much of a talker,” Moon said. It was Nieca, Jessen’s mother, who was the family’s social link. “She loved people, loved talking to them,” Moon said. Bruce, meanwhile, was quiet, like his father. “To say I know him—no, I really didn’t,” Moon said, navigating the stacks of yearbooks, family histories and mountains of newspaper clippings in the small archive office located in the Ashton Chamber of Commerce building. “I went to a party once [at the Jessen farm] and talked with him and his wife and met his children, but that was it,” she said. Asked if she had heard of the Senate report or read any coverage of its revelations about Jessen’s work with the CIA, she said she had not. “I didn’t even know about that,” Moon said, though added that she was aware Jessen worked for the government in some capacity in Spokane, Wash. Moon has lived in Ashton for 50 years—long enough to know just about everyone in town but, because she wasn’t born there, she gets teased occasionally that she’s not a native. “Like all small towns, it has its good sides and its bad sides, but it’s a wonderful place to raise a family,” she said. Jessen’s family goes back a long way in the Ashton area. His mother was born in nearby Marysville to the Cordingley family, whose members to this day are “everywhere,” Moon said.

“You have to be careful what you say around here, because everybody knows everybody,” she said. Of Jessen, Moon could only repeat that she didn’t know him well, though she did add that one of his two sisters is among her best friends. “What little I knew of him, I thought he was nice,” Moon said. “And quiet is right. Very intelligent.” According to Moon, the Jessens were a tight-knit family, and Bruce was especially close with his adopted brother, who recently passed away. The Jessens took in the boy when he was about 8 years old. He and Bruce were close in age, graduating from high school in the same class. Inviting another child into her family was in line with Nieca’s personality, Moon said. “Nieca was that kind of person,” she said, adding that each spring the matriarch would host a party for the senior high-school girls “just because she wanted to.” Another yearly party would be thrown for Sunday school teenagers.

“Everybody in the town was there,” Moon said. “Everybody loved her in town.” For Bruce, active in highschool sports, intelligent and good-looking, Ashton probably started to feel too small. “He had to work; dig potatoes and plow—I know he did that,” Moon said. “No wonder he wanted to go do something else.”

‘Something Not Previously Seen’

Waterboarding and stress-position techniques from CIA training literature

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a deep unease about viewing the interrogations—both in person and on video: “It is visually and psychologically very uncomfortable.” “It seems the collective opinion that we should not go much further.” “Several on the team [were] profoundly affected … some to the point of tears and choking up.” “[Video footage] has produced strong feelings of futility (and

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legality) of escalating or even maintaining the pressure. … Prepare for something not previously seen.” Reporting from the detention sites became sparse—enough so that the CIA general counsel was concerned that, without more frequent and detailed reports, “the agency cannot monitor the situation.” The situation was, according to some, running off the rails. According to the report, at least five detainees were subjected to having liquids— whether water or pureed food— injected into their rectums, including Zubaydah. At least once he was also the subject of an “unexpected rectal exam” as part of the detention site’s security protocols. At the end of his August 2002 interrogation, Zubaydah was found to have been telling the truth that he had no new threat information. Meanwhile, he had lost an eye at some point during his detention and several video recordings of his interrogation were destroyed. He was waterboarded 83 times. Despite the CIA’s belief that he was the “third or fourth” highest ranking al Qaeda, Zubaydah turned out to be a low-level administrator. What little information he provided came in the two months before Jessen and Mitchell arrived with their techniques. Zubaydah is currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—a prisoner held without charges for more than 12 years. Jessen and Mitchell wrote in a cable that the interrogation was a success, with the “aggressive phase” of the questioning recommended as a “template for future interrogation of high value captives.” Their reasoning was not that the tactics produced useful information, but that they confirmed what Zubaydah didn’t know. “Our goal was to reach the stage where we have broken any will or ability of subject to resist or deny providing us information (intelligence) to which we had access,” Jessen and Mitchell wrote. “We additionally sought to bring subject to the point that we confidently assess that he does not/not [sic] possess undisclosed threat information, or intelligence that could prevent a terrorist event.”

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In August 2002, Jessen was a long way from Ashton. By that time, he and Mitchell had secured a contract with the CIA that would come to be worth upward of $180 million by 2006. Their job was to travel through the agency’s prison system to help coordinate the application of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that they developed based on their work as former training experts in the SERE program—short for Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape. Intended to train U.S. military personnel how to withstand harsh interrogation at the hands of unscrupulous enemies, Jessen and Mitchell had reportedly “reverse-engineered” the techniques to craft what has been referred to as the U.S. “torture program.” At a CIA black site in 2002, which was later reported to be located in northeast Poland, Jessen and Mitchell were preparing for the biggest test of their methods yet. Abu Zubaydah had been captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and was being held on suspicion of running an al Qaeda site there. When enhanced techniques—including the now well-known practice of simulated drowning called waterboarding— were approved for use on Zubaydah, only Jessen and Mitchell were to have contact with him. Based on the psychologists’ plan, Zubaydah was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques on a “near 24-hourper-day basis” for 17 straight days, according to the Senate report. He was shackled, hooded and stripped on the first day of interrogations, as an interrogator slammed him against a wall. He was unhooded and made to watch as interrogators brought in a large “confinement box” that was placed in his cell to mimic a coffin. If Zubaydah did not offer

the asked-for information, he was slapped or grabbed by the face. He maintained that he did not have any additional information, and Jessen and Mitchell were not authorized by CIA leadership to ask any questions other than to demand Zubaydah’s knowledge of plans to attack the United States. The enhanced techniques were continued, with Zubaydah being waterboarded two to four times per day for more than two weeks in what the report called the “aggressive phase of interrogation.” During a total of 20 days, Zubaydah spent 11 days in the coffin-size confinement box and 29 hours in a smaller box, which measured 21 inches wide, 2.5 feet deep and 2.5 feet high. According to the report, Zubaydah was told that the only way he would leave the facility was in the coffin-shaped box. When concerns reached CIA Headquarters that the interrogation was “approach[ing] the legal limit,” Counterterrorism Center Chief Jose Rodriguez responded by telling CIA officers not to question the legality of their activities in written communications. “Such language is not helpful,” he wrote. According to the Senate report, several members of the agency exposed to—or involved in—the tactics expressed “reservations about being engaged in the interrogations.” Emails excerpted in the report, dated August 2002, show

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Main Street in Ashton, Idaho, where traffic in the springtime centers on trucks carrying seed potatoes for planting.

‘It is No Wonder They Settled Here’

Jessen wearing what appears to be a German-style military helmet.

In mid-April, snow still lay in the playground next door to the Zion Lutheran Church in Ashton. Across the street is the Ashton Library, which, along with North Fremont High School and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward house a few hundred yards down Main Street, is the nicest building in town. Among the volumes of local history is a two-volume collection titled Ashton Family Histories, 1906-2006, and a stack of North Fremont High School yearbooks. Between those sources, a basic picture of the Jessen family begins to take shape. The Jessens take up 11 pages in Ashton Family Histories, not counting extended relations. When asked about the family, the librarians were quick to name several members, including Jessen’s sisters. When the subject of Bruce Jessen came up, they, like Moon, said they didn’t know him well. John “Bruce” Jessen was born July 28, 1949, in St. Anthony, Idaho, the youngest of three children in the family of John “Jack” Jessen and Nieca Cordingley Jessen. He grew up in Ashton, where, according to an entry in Family Histories, his family could trace a “history of early settlement” and count “six generations of childhood.” Aside from working as a farmer, father Jack was a member of the volunteer fire department and served on the Potato Board. Nieca worked at a variety store in Ashton, was assistant manager of an irrigation company, served as president of the local LDS relief society and taught Sunday school. She volunteered with the Ashton Chamber of Commerce and served a term as its president. Both Jack and Nieca served in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple for 23 years. Jessen spent his childhood on a century-plus-

year-old homestead that the family bought 2 1/2 miles southwest of Ashton on Highway 20. Affectionately called “the farm” by family and friends alike, the Jessens raised their children in an idyllic rural setting. Photos in Ashton Family Histories show a rolling lawn and orchards. Nieca described her home as “this beautiful little valley in Ashton, Idaho. To the East lies the majestic Teton Mountains. To the North the Snake River, and the beautiful forest with pines, aspen and mountain ash trees. To the West, the rolling sand hills, and the South, on to the big city. It is no wonder they settled here in this little valley in the 1800s.” In the 1980s, the Jessens sold the farm and turned it into an R.V. park and bed & breakfast, which became a family gathering place and stopping point for tourists on their way to Yellowstone and the ski resorts of western Wyoming. Nieca ran the park until her death in 2013, and it is now operated under a new name by new owners, though a roadside sign still bears the name “Jessen’s R.V. Park.” Jessen graduated from North Fremont High School in 1967, where he was involved in a range of activities, including ski club, band, assemblies, Boys State, baseball, football, basketball, track and wrestling. Photographs in his senior yearbook show a handsome, athletic kid. After high school Jessen attended then-Ricks College, now Brigham Young University-Idaho, a few miles down the road from Ashton in Rexburg, going on to graduate cum laude from Utah State University in 1974, where he majored in psychology with a minor in aerospace studies and Italian. He went on to earn his doctorate in psychology, with an emphasis in professional-scientific psychology, from USU in 1979.

The Jessen family traces a history of early settlement in Ashton.

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Jessen, far right, sits with fellow officers of a school club.

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After high school, Jessen went on to then-Rick’s College in Rexburg, Idaho, and finished with a Ph.D. from Utah State University.

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During that time he was enlisted in the Air Force and completed an internship in clinical psychology at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Jessen’s doctoral thesis was titled “The Effect of Family Sculpting on Perceptual Agreement Among Family Members” and focused on a technique for family therapy. Of the six USU faculty members who advised Jessen on his dissertation, only two are still living. Asked if she remembered Jessen as a student, Dr. Jean Pugmire, who still lives in Logan, Utah, said, “No, I really don’t.” “I think you’ll find that most of the people that would have been involved with him are dead,” she said. “I’m sorry, but I don’t remember him at all.”

Bruce Jessen as a football halfback, left, and as a member of the wrestling team during senior year at North Fremont High School in Ashton, Idaho.

Only one detainee is known to have died while in custody at any of the CIA’s secret prisons, and he died shortly after being interrogated by Jessen. Gul Rahman was an Afghani arrested by U.S. agents and Pakistani forces during an attack inside Pakistan. His capture took place on Oct. 29, 2002. Less than a month later he was found dead at the notorious “Salt Pit” detention site in Kabul, Afghanistan—stripped from the waist down and shackled to a wall in such a way that he would be forced to sit on the concrete floor in freezing conditions. Jessen personally interrogated Rahman days before he was found dead, on Nov. 20, 2002, using methods that were not authorized, according to the Senate report. Jessen had traveled to the Salt Pit at the request of the CIA’s ALEC Station— which was tasked with locating Osama bin Laden—where he determined the types of interrogation techniques that should be used on Rahman. According to the report, those techniques included the “insult” slap, auditory overload, total darkness, isolation, cold showers, 48 hours of sleep deprivation and “hard” or “rough” takedowns, which included being dragged outside where his clothes were cut off. Restrained with Mylar tape and wearing a hood, Rahman would be forced to run up and down a long hallway, with CIA personnel slapping and punching him along the way. Jessen reportedly told CIA officials during an investigation into Rahman’s death that “although it was obvious [the CIA officers] were not trying to hit him as hard as they could, a couple of times the punches were forceful. As they ran him along the corridor, a couple of times he fell and they dragged him through the dirt. … Rahman did acquire a number of abrasions on his face, legs and hands, but nothing that required medical attention.” When Rahman’s body was discovered, he was found to have abrasions on his shoulder, pelvis, arms, legs and face. A CIA autopsy report said his cause of death was “undetermined,” but the Senate

report notes that the “clinical impression” of the medical officer who performed the autopsy was that Rahman died of hypothermia. His death ushered in a phase of increased scrutiny of the detention and interrogation activities from CIA headquarters, but, the report notes that many of those involved with Rahman’s interrogation “remained key figures in the CIA.” In 2005, Jessen and Mitchell established their firm—Mitchell, Jessen & Associates—in Spokane, which from 2005-2009 was paid $81 million for its services. Prior to 2005, the pair was being paid a reported $1,800 per day. In 2013—more than a decade after Rahman’s death—the CIA issued a response to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as part of a report on the rendition, detention and interrogation program: “We acknowledge that the Agency erred in permitting the contractors [Jessen and Mitchell] to assess the effectiveness of enhanced techniques. They should not have been considered for such a role given their financial interest in continued contracts from CIA.”

‘Uncharted Territory’

With a freshly minted doctorate from Utah State University, Jessen went to work in the SERE program, helping train airmen to “survive, evade, resist and escape” the interrogation methods used by Cold War-era Communist countries and enemies who could not be expected to abide by the Geneva Conventions. By 1980—around the time Jessen was working as an operational psychologist with the Air Force—SERE curriculum had become standardized across all the branches of the military. It is brutal training. Over a multi-week series of sessions, soldiers are taught the

but told Jones that media reports had contained “distortions.” He noted a “No Trespassing” sign and told the reporter, “You know, they didn’t prosecute Zimmerman.” “In hindsight, this seems like a clear reference to the legality of deadly force in so-called ‘stand your ground’ situations,” Jacobs wrote. “So that’s where his mind went.”

‘Where His Mind Went’

“This is a train wreak [sic] waiting to happen and I intend to get the hell off the train before it happens.” Those words were written by the CIA’s chief of interrogations in a 2003 email to colleagues, announcing he would be “retiring shortly,” before Jessen could reportedly renew interrogation of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, one of the alleged plotters in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and East African U.S. Embassy in 1998. By then, alNashiri had been in U.S. custody for about a year, bounced from CIA black site Cobalt in Afghanistan to Detention Site Green and, finally, Detention Site Blue—secret facilities later identified as being located in Kabul; Udon Thani, Thailand; and Szymany, Poland, respectively. In Thailand and Poland, al-Nashiri had been waterboarded and was judged “compliant” by interrogators. Regardless, according to records cited in the report, CIA Headquarters pushed for continued use of enhanced techniques despite a recommendation that they be discontinued. “[The] bottom line is that we think

“IT’S ALMOST LIKE A GOOD COP/BAD COP KID OF SET UP, YOU KNOW, WITH A REALLY BAD COP,”

[al-Nashiri] is being cooperative, and if subjected to indiscriminate and prolonged enhanced measures, there is a good chance he will either fold up and cease cooperation, or suffer the sort of permanent mental harm prohibited by the statute,” interrogators wrote in a cable from the detention site. A CIA officer was dispatched to administer enhanced interrogation, which included stress positions, blindfolding, and threats with an air pistol and cordless drill. At one point he was reportedly told that his mother would be brought to the site and sexually abused. In January 2003, about three months into al-Nashiri’s interrogation, Jessen was called to assess whether the detainee could withstand any more interrogation and, if so, give recommendations on what techniques should be used. Jessen’s opinion was that interrogators should have the “latitude to use the full range of enhanced exploitation and interrogation measures.” To CIA headquarters, the chief of interrogators wrote a cable intended to be shared among officers at Detention Site Blue—however, according to the Senate report, it does not appear to have been disseminated. “[W]e have serious reservations with the continued use of enhanced techniques with [al-Nashiri] and its long term impact on him,” he wrote, adding that “continued enhanced methods may push [al-Nashiri] over the edge psychologically.” The chief of interrogations was concerned about Jessen’s role specifically: Not only was he administering the interrogation, but assessing its success. “The role of the ops psychologist is to be a detached observer and serve as a check on the interrogator to prevent the interrogator from any unintentional excess of pressure which might cause permanent psychological harm to the subject,” the chief interrogator wrote. “Therefore, the

Vice News posted to You Tube on Dec. 10, 2014, Mitchell called the idea that he and Jessen “reverse-engineered” SERE into a torture program a “myth” but, citing a nondisclosure agreement, wouldn’t go into detail on the origins of the program, his role in it or even whether he was the psychologist referred to in the Senate report as “Dr. Swigert.” Meanwhile, he told The New York Times in December 2014 that he was “just a cog in the machine.” In the Vice interview, Mitchell mentioned Jessen by name, referring to their work together in the SERE school and describing the thrust behind enhanced interrogation techniques. “It’s almost like a good cop/bad cop kid of set up, you know, with a really bad cop,” he said. “It was to facilitate getting actionable intelligence by making a bad cop that was bad enough that the person would engage with the good cop.” While Mitchell has been public with his attacks on the Senate report, Jessen has kept a low profile, refusing to speak with reporters other than to repeat, as he did to Reuters news service that “it’s a difficult position to be in. You want to set the record straight.” A call to Jessen’s Spokane phone number went unanswered, but, in the days after the release of the Senate report, staff writer Jacob Jones, of the Spokane-based Pacific Northwest Inlander, confronted Jessen outside his $1.2 million home south of Spokane. “There’s a lot going on,” he told Jones. “It’s a difficult position to be in.” Jessen wouldn’t go into detail about the contents of the report, also citing a nondisclosure agreement,

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academics of survival and evasion skills, then taken into the field to learn practical survival techniques. The final phase of the program includes setting trainees loose in the field to evade searchers. Once captured, they are imprisoned in a mock POW camp and subjected to even harsher conditions, including verbal abuse, sexual humiliation, painful stress positions and, in some cases, waterboarding. Jessen was stationed primarily at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Wash., where he and Mitchell were colleagues. According to the Senate report, the pair would go on to develop “theories of interrogation based on ‘learned helplessness,’“ drawn from their experiences with SERE. “Neither psychologist had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialized knowledge of al-Qa’ida, a background in counterterrorism, or any relevant cultural or linguistic expertise,” the report noted. Jessen’s résumé, submitted to the CIA in 2003, contained redacted examples of his role as a “debriefer” as well as details of a one-week defense interrogation course in 2002. He and Mitchell had drafted academic and research papers on various psychological aspects of interrogation as they related to the Air Force’s SERE program, “all of which were relevant to the development of the program,” according to a 2013 response to the investigation by the CIA. “Drs. [Mitchell] and [Jessen] had the closest proximate expertise CIA sought at the beginning of the program, specifically in the area of non-standard means of interrogation,” the CIA wrote. “We believe their expertise was so unique that we would have been derelict had we not sought them out when it became clear that CIA would be heading into the uncharted territory of the program [italics and emphasis in original].” In his first on-camera interview, which

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Gul Raman, far right, was found dead at the Salt Pit, right, a CIA detention site in Kabul, days after being interrogated by Jessen.

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medical officer and the psychologist should not serve as an interrogator, which is a conflict of responsibility. We note that [the proposed plan] contains a psychological interrogation assessment by [redacted] psychologist [Jessen] which is to be carried out by interrogator [Jessen]. We have a problem with him conducting both roles simultaneously.” CIA headquarters ignored the chief interrogators’ cable and went forward with Jessen’s plan for al-Nashiri. Between June 2003 and September 2006, al-Nashiri was moved to five different CIA sites around the world and diagnosed by some CIA psychologists with anxiety and major depressive disorder. In 2004 Jessen and another interrogator wrote in a report that al-Nashiri had given “essentially no actionable information.” Al-Nashiri is currently on trial before a military tribunal in Guantanamo on charges that carry the death penalty.

‘No Comment’

Along with finding that the psychologists helped inflict “immeasurable damage to the United States’ public standing, as well as to the United States’ longstanding global leadership on human rights in general and the prevention of torture in particular,” the Senate report called into question the fruits of their interrogations. The CIA “never conducted a credible, comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness” of the enhanced techniques, the report stated. What’s more, almost no one involved in the interrogations was ever “held accountable or removed from positions of responsibility,” despite “significant violations, inappropriate activities, and systematic and individual management failures.” Dating back at least to 2009, with the release of memos detailing the interrogation program, The American Psychological Association has repeatedly issued statements condemning both Jessen and Mitchell, though neither are members of the organization and the APA’s own role in facilitating the establishment of enhanced interrogation methods has been called into question. “If the allegations are true, what this pair did was pervert psychological science to break down and dehumanize detainees in a misguided effort to extract information. It is clear to me that their actions constituted torture,” 2014

APA President Nadine Kaslow wrote in a statement issued Dec. 23, 2014. As recently as Feb. 18, 2015, Jessen held a current, though inactive, license to practice psychology in Idaho. Though not due to expire until July 28, 2015, a check of the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses in early April showed that his licensure—formerly PSY-195—had disappeared. It is still unclear on what grounds Jessen is no longer licensed in the state. “I do not have any other information regarding Dr. Jessen other than he is not currently licensed under the Board of Psychological Examiners, therefore he will not appear on our website,” Bureau of Occupational Licenses Management Assistant Cherie Simpson wrote in an email. According to Idaho Statute, a psychologist’s license may be “revoked, suspended, restricted or otherwise disciplined” if the holder is “[f]ound by the board to have been unethical as detailed by the current, and future amended, ethical standards of the American Psychological Association.” Jessen was appointed in 2012 to serve as bishop of an LDS congregation in Spokane, but resigned shortly thereafter amid protests from human rights groups. At the time, Spokane Stake President James Lee, who proposed Jessen for the office, stood by him. “He’ll take a beating in the press before he sets the record straight,” he told The Spokesman-Review, which has routinely reported on Jessen since his identity was revealed. “The whole story has not been told.” Meanwhile, calls for accountability have come from around the world, including Amnesty International, which advocated in December 2014 for “a full investigation, prosecution and remedy for victims,” and the United Nations. “It is now time to take action,” stated Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, in a statement issued in Geneva following release of the Senate report. “The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today’s report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes.” The U.S. Justice Department has already said it does not plan to pursue charges against those named in the report, which notes that pre-emptive protections from legal fallout came as

early as 2002, when the CIA drafted a letter to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft asking the DOJ for “a formal declination of prosecution, in advance, for any employees of the United States, as well as any other personnel acting on behalf of the United States, who may employ methods in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah that otherwise might subject those individuals to prosecution.” The report mentions that there are no records indicating whether the letter was ever actually sent to the attorney general. Asked if it had a stance on the APA’s statements regarding the allegations against Jessen, the Idaho Psychological Association drew a blank. “We haven’t been involved in any of that, and his name does not ring a bell for me,” said IPA Executive Director Deborah Katz. That appears to be the case with Bruce Jessen, generally: referred to as “Dr. Dunbar” in the Senate report, holder of a vanished Idaho psychology license, living quietly in a rural mansion in eastern Washington and part of a small-town family that everyone—from the local librarians to the city archivist—seems to know, except for him. Asked to respond to the report and give some insight into their brother, one of Jessen’s sisters did not respond. The other, reached by phone at her home, was quick to answer: “I have no comment.” CW This story was originally published in the Boise Weekly.

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Provo artist Namon Bills is an expert at assemblage—whether assembling local artists at various exhibits he has curated over the years or creating his own mixed-media works. His newest installation, Elements (detail above), explores the myriad ways collage, painting and installation artworks relate, framed by the context of the four classical elements: earth, fire, water and wind. Many of his works resemble mental maps, with segments taken from sheet music, atlases, scientific graph paper inscribed with equations, textbooks and newspapers in foreign languages. Through the works in the show, viewers can trace Bills’ background, from the influence of studying painting at Brigham Young University as an undergraduate to receiving an MFA at Utah State University in a program emphasizing design elements in artworks. An artist like Bills isn’t simply the product of an education, and his work shows a highly personal progression as well as an examination of commonalities between knowledge and information theory. On one level, Elements holds a mirror up to the world to ask us what it means to exist in and among nature. But it also takes up questions of how we have shaped the world and how these ponderings have shaped who we are. The exhibit will hold an opening reception Friday, June 19, and also during July Gallery Stroll on July 17. (Brian Staker) Namon Bills: Elements @ Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, June 12-July 31; artist reception, June 19, 6-9 p.m. SaltLakeArts.org

What could be better than watching the Utah Symphony perform outdoors in a scenic downtown setting on a summer evening? Just add four letters: F-R-E-E. There is no admission fee or ticket needed when the Utah Symphony performs June 22 in the open air at the Gallivan Center downtown. Gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and outside food is welcome for those who want to enjoy a picnic before the music starts; low chairs and blankets are also permitted. With an 8 p.m. start time and the program expected to run about two hours and 20 minutes, the concert will begin in twilight and end under the stars. Performing under the baton of Vladimir Kulenovic, the symphony will present a program highlighted by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. The ensemble will also perform well-known pieces such as Gioachino Rossini’s overture to The Barber of Seville, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro and Richard Wagner’s prelude to Act III of Tristan und Isolde. The symphony is also scheduled to play a free outdoor concert on June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Taylorsville Dayzz, held at Taylorsville Regional Park (5100 S. 2700 West). As with the downtown concert, gates will open at 5:30 p.m. and outside food and pre-show picnics are welcome. The Taylorsville concert will be highlighted by a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Symphony @ Gallivan Center, 239 Main, June 22, 8 p.m., free, gates open 5:30 p.m. UtahSymphony.org

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The Gateway’s sidewalks will be a lot more colorful and exciting this Father’s Day weekend. For 13 years, artists of all ages and skill levels have gathered downtown to create chalk masterpieces and support Utah Foster Care, which recruits and trains around 450 people a year to become successful foster parents to the 2,700 Utah children in need. The group also helps raise awareness about why these kids end up in foster care, which is usually due to abuse or neglect. The theme of this year’s Utah Foster Care’s Chalk Art Festival is “Families foster … ,” and participants are meant to fill in the blank. An estimated 120 artists will participate. Awards for Best in Show, Best in Theme and People’s Choice will be presented at 6 p.m. Saturday. This year’s featured artist, Julie Kirk Purcell (pictured), is known for creating dynamic, 3-D art at festivals around the globe. She participated in the 2014 Guinness World Records event for Largest 3-D Pavement Art. In addition to the art, there will be shopping, food trucks, entertainment on the main stage and vendor booths. Salt Lake Comic Con will have a booth full of familiar characters on Saturday, and a Kids Korner will allow children to create masterpieces of their own. Uber will be offering free rides to and from the festival; to get the special code for this offer, check Utah Foster Care’s Facebook page before June 19. All murals will remain in place through Sunday, June 21, for viewing. (Shawna Meyer) Utah Foster Care’s Chalk Art Festival @ The Gateway, 400 W. Rio Grande St., June 19, 2-9 p.m.; June 20, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. ChalkArtFestival.org

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Those who feel intimidated by Shakespeare often struggle with the idea that even the plays described as “comedies” sometimes feel inaccessible and hard to follow. But director Javen Tanner turns Pinnacle Acting Company’s production of The Comedy of Errors into a clinic in how to take a game cast and play broad humor to delightful effect. Like so many of Shakespeare’s comedies, this one involves mistaken and disguised identities—in this case, the arrival in the city of Ephesus of Antipholus (Roger Dunbar) and his servant Dromio (Melanie Nelson), who don’t realize that their respective separated-at-birth twins (Jared Larkin) and Holly Fowers) also live there. Much confusion ensues as residents repeatedly encounter an Antipholus or Dromio who have no idea what they’re talking about. Tanner never shies away from the absurdity of the play’s setup, using a minimalist set that consists almost entirely of a single doorway, serving to keep the focus on the performers. And they do uniformly wonderful work at selling some of the more overtly theatrical staging conceits, like a Greek chorus of sound-effects artists who come on stage to accompany Antipholus’ slapstick punishments of Dromio, or those same characters entering a spotlight to turn their rata-tat wordplay into something out of a vaudeville routine. The result is a show filled with a playful energy that embraces the Shakespeare who loved fart jokes and sex puns—the one nobody could mistake as too highfalutin for regular folks to enjoy. (Scott Renshaw) Pinnacle Acting Company: The Comedy of Errors @ Westminster College Dumke Student Theater, 1840 S. 1300 East, June 11-27, 7:30 p.m.; matinee June 27, 2 p.m., $13-$18. PinnacleActingCompany.org

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FilmQuest Highlights More than 250 shorts, feature films and documentaries will be on the nine-day FilmQuest program. Here are a few that were available for advance screening:

FilmQuest tries to carve out its identity as a stand-alone film festival. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

t’s not easy kicking a new film festival into public awareness. It’s more difficult when even the people who know it exists are not entirely clear that it is, on its own merits, actually a film festival. The FilmQuest Film Festival—a showcase primarily dedicated to genre films—launched in July 2014 at the Gateway Megaplex Theatres while the first annual FantasyCon was taking place at the Salt Palace. That certainly brought attendees to FilmQuest, but it may have also brought a misunderstanding regarding the relationship between FilmQuest and FantasyCon. “FilmQuest definitely was working alongside FantasyCon and coincided with it,” says FilmQuest coordinator Jonathan Martin. “People just assumed, kind of like how Salt Lake Comic Con had a film festival, it was something like that. But we’re separate entities. It overshadowed what we were doing. Now being out on our own, it allows the spotlight to be a lot more on us and what we’re doing.” That spotlight will be decidedly individual this year, since FantasyCon opted to take a break for 2015 and organize for a bigger and better 2016 event in its new location, the Sandy Expo Center. That change comes with new opportunities and challenges for the film festival, which is also moving to Sandy. Among the challenges is providing a clear sense that while many of the films are focused around fantasy, horror and science-fiction concepts, FilmQuest isn’t exclusively about those kinds of films. That’s an identity that, as a result of the affiliation with FantasyCon, Martin realizes he has to sell to both potential guests and filmmakers who might consider submitting films (and who might have spotted an article in Moviemaker Magazine identifying FilmQuest a goto festival [“50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee,” April 8, 2015, Moviemaker Magazine]). “I get a lot of emails from filmmakers,” says Martin, “and they’ll describe to me their film. Not everything is particularly sci-fi/fantasy/horror if it fits the spirit of what we’re doing. I tell them when they’re inquiring, ‘Look, this is what we are, we’ll make a few exceptions.’ And some of them don’t submit, and that’s fine. When push comes to shove, and two films are equal and one fills my theme, I’m going to take the one that fills my theme.” There’s also the challenge of moving from downtown Salt Lake City to Sandy, part of the larger plan including FantasyCon’s relocation. Yet Martin sees opportunities there as well, both in the physical facilities that the Jordan Commons Megaplex provides—with conference rooms and other places to hold the panels and filmmaker workshops that will also be part of the festival—and the kind of venue that can

20 Years of Madness: Jeremy Royce’s hilariously uncomfortable documentary follows high school friends who once collaborated on an oddball cable-access show in Michigan and have decided, 20 years later, to make one more episode. The characters—most of them struggling with disappointing lives as they approach 40—are beautifully drawn in their longing to recapture a moment from their youth, while showing both how much—and how little—people can change over time. (June 26, 7 p.m.)

FilmQuest’s “Chthulu Trophy,” will be awarded to winners. remind average moviegoers of the kind of movies they love to see on any given weekend. “What’s most popular at the box office right now? Sci-fi, fantasy and horror,” Martin says. “What I’ve emphasized with this [festival] is, ‘This is fun stuff.’ These [movies] are energetic, these are fun, these are different.” So Martin is moving forward with carving out a distinct space for FilmQuest, with submissions from more than 70 countries (see sidebar for some program highlights), guest judges like actor Doug Jones (Hellboy, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and programming that’s intended to help local filmmakers with their own work. When FantasyCon returns in 2016, the vibe might be different. But for now, Martin has one message that he needs to get out to those who might have visited last year and to those who might never go to a festival associated with a fan event: “One of the things I have to train people is, ‘This isn’t a convention, guys; this is a film festival.’ ” CW

SuperBob: There’s funny, charming material in this story of a simple British postman named Bob Kenner (Brett Goldstein) who’s transformed into an invulnerable flying superhero after being struck by a meteorite, while remaining hopeless in his personal life. It’s a bit too densely plotted for a mere 81 minutes, but Goldstein’s winning performance finds great punch lines in the story of an ordinary guy dealing with an extraordinary fate. (June 27, 7 p.m.)

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Megaplex Jordan Commons 9400 S. State, Sandy 801-362-0042 June 18-27 $8 individual screenings/$180 VIP pass Full schedule and links to ticketing at FilmQuestFestival.com

The Looking Planet: Eric Law Anderson’s fanciful animated story explores the wonder of an alien race “building” the universe, with an eye towards helping humanity find a grand destiny (Animation Block 2, June 27, 11:30 a.m.)

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SATURDAY 6.20 Sinbad

It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since a former Air Force boom operator named David Adkins took the stage name Sinbad and became an overnight star after winning the comedy competition on the syndicated talent show Star Search. But long after the Ed McMahon-hosted showcase has become a TV history footnote, Sinbad continues to entertain audiences with his engaging, self-deprecating and family-friendly persona. That self-deprecation includes his willingness—as he did in his 2010 Comedy Central special Where U Been?—to address matters like his tax problems and his re-marriage to his ex-wife (“Everybody’s crazy, but I know your crazy, and I can deal with your crazy”). And while his forte may be the kind of humor about relationships and contemporary life that can seem oldfashioned, there’s still something wonderful about a performer with the energy and stage presence to make any joke feel like something he’s saying just to you. (Scott Renshaw) Sinbad @ Sandy Amphitheater, 1245 E. 9400 South, 801-568-6068, June 20, 8 p.m., $19-$34. SandyArts.com

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Big Fish Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, 7:30 p.m., through June 20. Cock Sugar Space, 616 E. Wilmington Ave., 801-558-2556, HiveTheatre.com, June 19-20, 26-27, 8 p.m. The Comedy of Errors Pinnacle Acting Co., Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-810-5793, Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through June 27 (see p. 23). Disney’s The Little Mermaid Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 9 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m.; through Aug. 1. Grease’d Desert Star Theatres, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Fridays, 7 & 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; through Aug. 22. Harvey CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Mondays, Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m., through July 3. The Illusionists Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, June 23-25, 7:30 p.m.; June 26, 5 & 8 p.m.; June 27, 2 & 8 p.m.; June 28, 1 & 6:30 p.m.; June 23-28 The King and I CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Mondays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees 2:30 p.m., through July 19 Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, WednesdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 1 & 6 p.m.; June 24-Aug. 30. Thoroughly Modern Millie Empress Theatre, 9104

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS British Field Day Liberty Park, 600 East & 900 South, June 20, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Center for the Arts: Summerfest 69 E. 100 North, Logan, June 18-20 Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West, Saturdays through Oct. 24, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org Fort Herriman Days W&M Butterfield Park,

6212 Butterfield Park Way, Herriman, June 19-20, Herriman.org Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, June 24-27, 7:30 p.m. Juneteenth Freedom & Heritage Festival Weber State University Bell Tower, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-394-0924, June 19-20 Park Silly Sunday Market Historic Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ParkSillySundayMarket.com Tooele Arts Festival Tooele City Park, 200 W. Vine St., June 19- 21, TooeleArtsFestival.org Utah Foster Care Chalk Art Festival The Gateway, 90 S. 400 West, June 19-20 (see p. 22)

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Bruce Bell: Oma: A Divided German Family Emigrates to Utah Seeking Renewal The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 18, 7 p.m. Wayne Parker: PowerDads The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 20, 1 p.m. Nan Weber: Singing In The Saddle: The Life and Times of Yellowstone Chip Barnes & Noble, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, June 20, 1 p.m. Ryan Tibbitts: Hail Mary: The Inside Story of BYU’s Miracle Bowl Comeback Barnes & Noble, 1102 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, June 20, 4 p.m.

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Celebrating with salmon: Loch Duart salmon fillet with a romesco sauce.

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not losing any of the scrumptious juices within. He then batters the cooked chicken and deep-fries it, ever so briefly—just long enough to obtain a crisp, gorgeous crust. The chicken is so tender and juicy that it’s almost astonishingly delicious, served with fresh corn kernels, sliced fennel, homemade pickles, squash, dill, ramps and a marvelous demi-glaze. I liked the chicken so much just as it was, that the demiglaze sort of seemed like overkill, although it was still spectacular. A nice surprise was a suggested beverage pairing with the chicken of Epic Brewing Cross Fever Amber Ale, another spot-on partnership. Other notable dishes included a beautifully cooked Loch Duart salmon fillet with a romesco sauce—an interesting idea—plus fresh English peas and marinated baby heirloom tomatoes ($38.75). And, turning to the sous-vide technique again, the “72Hour Beef Short Rib” ($38.75) is remarkable. As the name suggests, the short rib undergoes three days of “slow-and-low” sous-vide cooking before it is seared to a nice crust and served with homemade mustard, grilled romaine and cipollini onions. The phrase “melt-in-the-mouth” could have been coined for this short rib. Finish up with an order of hot, sugardusted beignets with raspberry coulis and vanilla cream, and consider treating yourself to a room at the hotel. After all, such a splendid dinner at Powder should only be followed by even more Waldorf Astoriastyle pampering. CW

and corn “milk,” along with potato wedges, zucchini slices and pancetta lardons. The corn-milk broth is poured into a bowl containing the other ingredients at the table, making for an enjoyable and interesting presentation. Up next was a refreshing salad from the spring/summer menu: an eye-popping, Technicolor arrangement of gold, purple and red baby heirloom beets served with cubes of compressed watermelon, Feta cheese squares, crumbled hazelnuts and fresh watercress, all drizzled with white balsamic vinegar ($15.50). What a beautiful and delicious summer salad! By the way, items like the beet salad are plenty large enough to share—and even better when paired with a glass of Leth Riesling from Austria. Another dish built to share is the tasty ahi tuna tataki ($19.75) appetizer. In Japan, tataki refers to foods—usually fish or meat—very briefly seared over high heat. And that’s what Powder’s tataki is: sushigrade ahi tuna peppered and seared just long enough to create a crisp outer crust, with the interior of the tuna left essentially uncooked. The tuna is cut into squares and served with sliced radish, micro cilantro leaves, serrano pepper slices and a gingersoy-lime vinaigrette. The slight sweetness of the ginger helps to balance the heat of the serranos, but the tuna itself is the real star of this excellent dish. Chef Brown and his staff enjoy the art of pairing wines with food, and offer special chef tasting menus with pairings. The tuna tataki, for example, was paired with an unexpected but exceptional partner: Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne. I see a lot of fried chicken on high-end restaurant menus these days. It has made a comfort-food comeback, even in the classiest joints. Well, Chef Brown has kicked the fried-chicken concept up a few notches and created what might just be the planet’s most elegant version ($36.25). Brown prepares his organic chicken sous vide for at least 24 hours, allowing it to cook completely through at low heat, thereby

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or a recent birthday getaway, the missus and I enjoyed a brief escape to the luxurious environs of the Park City Waldorf Astoria. While there, we visited Powder restaurant—an eatery that has had its ups and downs, including multiple changes of name, ownership and management. You might recall that the restaurant that is now Powder began its journey in 2009 at the (then) Dakota Mountain Lodge as Spruce, a spin-off of its well-respected San Francisco namesake. And it was good. In fact, it was great. But, before you could say “relocate,” most of the kitchen and management staff who made Spruce so exceptional were shipped back to San Francisco, and things started to slide downhill at an alarming rate. The Dakota Mountain Lodge would become a Waldorf Astoria property, and there, Slopes restaurant was born, operated at the time by Talisker Mountain Inc. After a period of disappointing dining in that space—disappointing to me, at least— Slopes brought back excellence under Chef Clement Gelas, circa 2013. Then, the restaurant was again rebranded—this time as Powder—under Waldorf Astoria management. I’m happy to report that, today, Powder is firing on all cylinders. In fact, I think the current incarnation of the restaurant, with Chef Ryker Brown in the kitchen, is the best of them all. Dinner begins with complimentary bread (from Park City’s Red Bicycle Breadworks) and accoutrements. We were thrilled to find that our server was one who had waited on us before, at Slopes. His name is Ian Buckingham, and although he’s young, he seems to have a lifetime’s worth of professional server savvy, including a very good knowledge of wines and other beverages. A Utah native, his father owned Moab’s Buck’s Grill House, where Buckingham started in the restaurant industry. Chef Brown works with Caputo’s Market & Deli and artisan purveyors such as Cristiano Creminelli to select items for his artisanal cheese board ($19.75) and charcuterie board ($24.75), and either would be a great place to begin or end a Powder meal. The night I had dinner at Powder, we enjoyed a special soup that was incredible; I hope it finds its way onto the permanent menu. It was a creamy, luscious corn bisque made with fresh, sweet spring corn

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Eat Drink SLC is a new collective of foodies, restauranteurs, food & drink purveyors and such with the stated mission of “building recognition for Salt Lake’s status as a vibrant food and drink scene (locally) and destination (nationally).” The goal is to help raise the visibility of local food and drink business and the organization will donate proceeds from events and fundraisers to local nonprofits “that strengthen places, people and art in our community.” The first Eat Drink SLC will take place July 9 at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park. According to spokesperson Tracey Thompson, “Eighteen of Salt Lake City’s hottest restaurants, a bevy of family-owned wineries, craft distilleries and award-winning brewers” will be in attendance. The summertime food & drink Tracy Aviary social will run from 6-9 p.m. and feature live music. Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased at EatDrinkSLC.com.

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On Saturday, June 20, Ogden’s Your Community Connection Family Crisis Center is adding a national barbecue competition—Real Men Can Cook—to its annual fundraiser. They’ve partnered this year with the Kansas City Barbecue Society and Great Western BBQ Events. The YCC Family Crisis Center provides domestic-violence shelter and rape-crisis services to victims and their children. The pre-Father’s Day event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. at Pioneer Stadium in Ogden (668 17th St.). The gourmet buffet including barbecued meats from the Real Men Can Cook competition, along with sides provided by YCC’s community cooks, such as Dutch-oven potatoes, smoked pork & beans, potato salad, shrimp salad, nachos and desserts including blueberry cobbler, bread pudding, stuffed raspberry angels, Grunander fudge and more. Tickets are $20 per person, and $10 for kids age 4-12. Children 3 and under eat free. Live bands and children’s activities will also be featured. Purchase tickets at YCCHope.org.

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Speaking of Ogden, Hearth on 25th (195 25th St., 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com) has introduced brunch, served on Friday and Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. featuring red velvet Belgian waffles, scallops & grits, pulled pork skillets and more. Quote of the week: Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. —Mark Twain Food Matters 411: teds@xmission.com

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f you’re old enough to remember seeing TV shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched and even The Andy Griffith Show, they often featured scenes where Dad would come home after a hard day’s work, put his feet up on the ottoman (after tripping over it, in Van Dyke’s case), and enjoy a cocktail—sometimes, along with a smoke. More recently, Mad Men reintroduced the after-work (and even during work) cocktail to the culture. My dad was more of a beer guy. But if you have a father who enjoys a good cocktail now and then, here are a few ideas for Father’s Day drinks for Dad. To be honest, as much as I enjoy the

creativity behind the “craft cocktail” boom, I tend to prefer more tried-and-true, classic cocktails. Like the Manhattan, for example. This might not just have been your dad’s drink, but maybe your granddad’s drink, as well. To make a Manhattan on the Rocks, mix 2 ounces high-quality rye whiskey (such as High West Rendezvous Rye) with 1 ounce sweet Italian vermouth and 2-4 dashes bitters. Pour over ice into a rocks glass and stir. The classic garnish is a real maraschino cherry. Since Father’s Day is ideal for summer sipping, I recommend making Dad a Summer Shandy to sip while watching a ballgame or maybe, in my case, during a round of bocce. I like to add a little zip to my Shandy, so I include some hot spices, but they’re optional. Here’s how to make a simple, refreshing Summer Shandy: Mix together equal amounts of salt and cayenne pepper in a small saucer. Rub the rim of an Old Fashioned glass with a slice of lemon, then dip the rim into the salt-cayenne mixture. Fill the glass halfway with a pale lager (Corona, etc., is fine) and fill the remainder of the glass with lemonade. Stir gently, and add a lemon slice garnish and enjoy. Speaking of the Old Fashioned, that was the Mad Men signature drink. Why? Well, it’s classic and so easy to make. Inevitably, the Old Fashioned stirs up an age-old debate, which seems to be regional in na-

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ture: rye or bourbon? I don’t care. Use whichever one you prefer: I’m not going to fight on Father’s Day. Here’s how to make an old-fashion Old Fashioned. In an Old Fashioned glass (of course), place a sugar cube or a 1/2 teaspoon of granulated sugar. Drizzle 2-3 dashes of bit-

ters and a small splash of club soda. Using a wooden muddler or spoon, mash the sugar mixture, rotating the glass while doing so. You want to line the bottom sides of the glass with the sugar and bitters. Add one large ice cube to the glass and pour in 2 ounces rye or bourbon, stirring gently. That’s all there is to it. One of my favorite cocktails, for Father’s Day or any other time, is the Cable Car. It’s a “modern classic,” created in 1996 by master mixologist Tony Abou-Gamin as a signature cocktail for the Starlight Room atop San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Here’s how he makes it: In an ice-filled mixing glass, add 1 1/2 ounces Captain Morgan spiced rum, 3/4 ounce Marie Brizard orange Curaçao and 1 1/2 ounces fresh lemon sour (two parts freshsqueezed lemon juice with one part simple syrup). Shake until well blended. Strain into a chilled suga r-a nd-cin na mon frosted cocktail glass and garnish with an orange zest spiral. Happy Father’s Day! CW

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Aristo’s sidewalk patio might not be perched on the Mediterranean Sea, but once you dig into the extensive Greek tapas selection and other delicious dishes crafted by Chef Aristides Boutsikakis, you’ll definitely feel like you’re in Greece. There are sauteed baby octopus and thick cuts of battered and flash-fried calamari, baked eggplant whipped with olive oil, souvlaki skewers and much more. For entrees, you won’t find better pastitisio in town. 224 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-0888, AristosSLC.com

Saigon Cafe

At Saigon Cafe, you’ll find tasty Vietnamese fare, along with popular Chinese dishes. The noodles are so authentic, you might want to bring a translator to order them. Customers rave about the beef pho and the General Tso’s chicken, but also love the Szechuan chicken, wontons, orange chicken, veggie lo mein, spring rolls, kung pao shrimp and chicken with black-bean sauce. 440 W. 300 South, Provo, 801-812-1173, SaigonCafeProvo.biz

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You’ll find marvelous moles, tacos, enchiladas and other tasty Mexican fare at this downtown eatery. Chile-heads will appreciate the splendid spice of Blue Iguana dishes like chile colorado, camarones Iguana, fiery tinga tacos and especially the housemade mole amarillo, spiked with incendiary habanero chile peppers. And speaking of mole, Blue Iguana has it in spades, with choices of pipian, de almendras, poblano, coloradito, negro and verde versions. The burritos are also popular here, but probably not quite as in demand as the Mexican cervezas and tequilas. 165 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 801-533-8900; 255 S. Main, Park City, 435- 649-3097, BlueIguanaRestaurant.net

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At Pho Bien Hoa, you have more pho options to choose from than you could ever want, in small or large portions. Among the pho meat options are thinly sliced rare beef, flank steak, fatty flank, brisket, beef meatballs, tendon and tripe. Along with your pho, you’ll get condiments such as hot sauce, Thai basil, lime wedges, jalapeño slices, bean sprouts and cilantro. Pho isn’t the only option on the menu; you can choose from vegetarian offerings, vermicelli dishes and even brave a durian smoothie. Dine inside in the clean, modern dining room, or take your comfort food to go. 4146 Carriage Square, Salt Lake City, 801-969-2515, PhoBienHoa.com

Red Banjo Pizza

After nearly a half century in business, Red Banjo Pizza Parlour must be doing something right: It’s Park City’s longest-running family-owned business. Red Banjo specializes in hand-tossed, old-fashioned, fresh baked pizzas. In addition to pizza, which comes with lemon slices, Red Banjo serves sandwiches, appetizers, pasta dishes, wine and beer. 322 Main, Park City, 435-649-9901, RedBanjoPizza.com

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At Tin Roof Grill, there’s a tempting array of tasty tapas, and, of course, the salad, sandwiches and pasta dishes are all popular, too. But if you’re looking to include something from each food group into one dish, we suggest the white-bean & grilled-steak pizza, which comes adorned with tomatoes, red onion and fresh basil. Football lovers will appreciate the Tin Roof’s NFL Sunday Ticket. 9284 S. 700 East, Sandy, 801-566-5226, TinRoofGrill.net

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For a unique dining experience, visit Park City restaurateur Bill White’s Sushi Blue, which features sushi, contemporary Asian food and a sake bar. The impressive sushi menu has a variety of nigiri, sashimi and maki rolls, including signature rolls, many playfully named after celebrities. Diners with a palate for more exotic ingredients will be delighted by the Snow Dance roll: spicy tuna with shrimp tempura, avocado, cucumber and mango wrapped in soy paper, topped with spicy tako. But don’t forget to try something off the small-plates menu, like the Korean street tacos or the seaweed salad. 1571 W. Redstone Drive, Park City, 435-575-4272, SushiBlueParkCity.com

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Red House is a wonderful secret I almost didn’t want to share.I’ve only seen two non-Asian customers during my visits, and I consider that an auspicious sign. 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, and those prices are ridiculously low. Start with a plate of a dozen made-from-scratch steamed dumplings—perfectly cooked, fresh-made pasta purses stuffed with juicy minced pork, cabbage and Chinese chives. 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. Generous portions are the norm; unless you come with a crowd, there will be leftovers. Often in restaurants, I leave thinking, “I could’ve made that at home.” But the fragrance, flavors and complexity of dishes such as cumin-spiced lamb and garlicky, fiery, slightly sweet pork ribs are another story altogether. My favorite dish so far is shredded, tender pork and soft, airy tofu tossed with peas, carrots and onion in a gorgeous, spicy sauce with anise and ginger notes. Reviewed June 11. 1465 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-821-3622, RedHouseSLC.com

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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

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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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Owner Kathie Chadbourne has turned this restaurant into something that resembles a funky neighborhood restaurant in Portland or Boulder. An appetizer like the Manila clams—a dozen-and-a-half clams in a peppery broth made with sautéed garlic and shallots with white wine—is hefty enough to serve as an entree if you’re dining by yourself. If you’re bored with the dry, cardboard-textured garden burger on most menus, sink your teeth into the Bistro’s lentil-rice burger. My wife and I both loved the griddled trout entrée—a generous serving of two trout fillets with a swizzle of butternut-squash purée, radish chunks, warm ginger-spinach-arugula-fennel salad, sprinkled with sunflower seeds. My favorite dish was outstanding—the

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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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Current Fish & Oyster

The list of collaborators behind Current reads like a Who’s Who of the Utah dining scene, and the space that was previously home to not-so-modern Salt Lake Antiques now looks like a million bucks. But how do the food and drink stack up to the heavy-hitters at the helm and the eye-popping décor? Pretty damned well, actually. It’s a no-brainer to begin with fresh, delicious oysters, which come with a choice of cucumber mignonette, spicy ponzu or cocktail sauce. On the “cold plate” side of the menu, try the Alaskan King crab lettuce wraps ($18) with cocktail sauce and citrus-basil aioli; I’d make a light meal of those wraps and Current’s stupendous french fries, which are the best fries I’ve eaten in a Utah restaurant. One of my favorite dishes was a whole branzino fish, cooked to a beautifully crisp exterior and flaky, tender interior in sea salt and extra-virgin olive oil; equally delicious is the ovenroasted chicken. For dessert, I recommend the homemade

sorbets and gelatos. Somehow, Current has managed to hit the sweet spot: It’s au courant without being especially hip or trendy. Reviewed May 7. 279 E. 300 South, 801-326-3474, CurrentFishAndOyster.com

Lucky Slice

This is very good New York-style pizza, close to the type bought by the slice at any of a thousand pizzerias in the Big Apple. A slice at Lucky Slice sells for $3-$3.50, and it’s a generous wedge taken from a 20-inch pizza. Whole pies run from $10 for a basic 14-inch cheese pizza, to $23 for a 20-inch pie with five or more toppings. The options for toppings and sauces at Lucky Slice are mind-boggling: Thai peanut, ranch, herbal, barbecue, creamy pesto and more. Then, there are specialty pies, like the unusual potato pesto or tapenade (chef/co-owner Will Shafer is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu). Still, the best way to experience Lucky Slice pizza is the simplest: hand-tossed crust, with cheese and fresh tomato sauce. The pizzas are stone-fired and the crust is light, with exactly the right amount of sauce and cheese. Transplanted New Yorkers will approve (although the super-friendly service might take some getting used to). Reviewed April 23. 200 E. 25th St., Ogden, 801627-2229; 1245 S. Legend Hills Drive, Clearfield, 801-820-6992, TheLuckySlice.com

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Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong in Inside Out. their carefree child transitioning into the more complicated emotional life of an adolescent? With Joy serving as the parental surrogate in this case, Inside Out hits some of the same wrenching notes that Toy Story 3 did in touching on transitional moments when a mother or father has to let go of a child as they used to know them, in order to make way for the adult they’ll eventually become. There’s plenty of fun to be found in the characters and voice performances—including Richard Kind as Riley’s pink elephant imaginary friend Bing Bong—plus a bunch of hilarious postscript material that expands the “brain control-room concept” to several other characters from the film. But whatever Inside Out offers to kids—and is promising in commercials aimed squarely at the grade-school crowd—is nothing compared to what the Pixar films continue to deliver for adults, in storytelling that nails some of the most defining lump-inthe-throat moments of human experience. Those commercials might get the kids to nag parents into a visit to the theater, where those parents might be startled to discover a movie that’s really all about them. CW

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Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black). As Riley struggles with adjusting to her new home and new surroundings, Joy and Sadness inadvertently wind up whisked away to the far reaches of Riley’s subconscious, trying to preserve the happiness of Riley’s “core memories” and return to headquarters. The fanciful scenario—while something that’s been an idea in everything from Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask) to Herman’s Head—allows Docter and company to craft a fantastically detailed world inside Riley’s brain. Memories are stored in the form of brightly colored balls that race along shiny tracks, with clean-up crews amusingly doing the work of weeding out stuff we all know we’ll never remember. The core memories themselves are manifested as floating mini-cities, while imagination, nightmares and lost memories take on equally fascinating forms. It’s an animator’s dream to create an entire universe from scratch, and Inside Out does so with creativity that pops with its own perfect internal logic. Yet as terrific a technical achievement as Inside Out might be, it’s an even better piece of writing. Throughout his Pixar films— which also include Monsters Inc. and Up— Docter has shown himself to be deeply connected to child caregiver relationships, and the evolving emotional needs of children as they grow. Here, he’s wrestling with something that on its surface would seem to be too much of a downer for an ostensibly “family” film: How do parents deal with the reality of

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. DOPE BBB Drawing on sources as varied as 1980s Spike Lee, 1990s Quentin Tarantino and Risky Business is bound to result in something at least a little fragmented, but it’s often a lot of fun watching those fragments drift and find their shape. Shameik Moore plays Malcolm, a geeky straight-A high-school senior trying to carve out his own identity on the rough streets of Inglewood, Calif. But he stumbles into a situation where a load of drugs ends up in his backpack, making him first a target, then eventually an impromptu entrepreneur. Writer/director Rick Famuyiwa digs deep into the smart dialogue of his 1990s hip-hop obsessed protagonists, including a few classic exchanges pivoting around everything from drone strikes, to who can or can’t use the “n-word,” to the definition of a “slippery slope.” He also tries to keep a whole lot of plates spinning: exploring African-American youths who don’t fit the mold, trying to make a

romantic subplot work, playing with social-media culture, and so on and so forth. The lively performances and funky comic energy keep it hopping, even while it’s busy hopping all over the place. Opens June 19 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw INSIDE OUT BBBB See review p. 39. Opens June 19 at theaters valleywide. (PG) LIVE FROM NEW YORK BB Well, finally: Somebody had the courage to make a documentary that suggests Saturday Night Live is an American institution. Director Bao Nguyen serves up a sloppy, wet kiss to the late-night stalwart on its 40th anniversary, trotting out Lorne Michaels and a host of ex-cast members to do pretty much all the things you’d expect it to do (and which have been done in a VH1 documentary series). The original 1975 season was groundbreaking! There have been controversial moments! It handled 9/11 with grace and dignity! Some of the political impressions became iconic! The Lonely Island pioneered “viral videos”! The retrospective material is so over-familiar and laudatory—notwithstanding a sizable chunk addressing the show’s issues with diversity in

its cast—that it’s almost startling when Nguyen gives us brief glimpses behind the scenes of episodes from the 2013-14 season, like Leslie Jones dealing with fallout from a risky slavery-themed “Weekend Update” routine. We’ve spent four decades dissecting what Saturday Night Live has been; at this point, the only new territory worth exploring is what it is. Opens June 19 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR SAINT LAURENT BB.5 On the one hand, good job to director/co-writer Bertrand Bonello for attempting a film biography of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) that goes for an impressionistic chronological swirl covering 196777 rather than a cradle-to-grave portrait of the tortured artist. On the other hand, maybe 2 1/2 hours is pushing things juuuuuust a touch. Bonello spends ample time on Saint Laurent’s key relationships—with his longtime business/live-in partner Pierre Bergé (Jérémie Renier) and his gigolo lover Jacques (Louis Garrel)—and his struggles with substance abuse, and gets visually inventive with moments such as a multi-frame split screen during the debut of the designer’s landmark 1976 collection. But that admirable goal of avoiding simple character-arc

psychoanalysis starts to lose steam long before the credits start to roll, making the late introduction of a flash-forward to an old Saint Laurent (Helmut Berger) feel more desperate than inspired. There are enough terrific individual moments—an incongruous tableaux of two models gossiping about Saint Laurent’s personal life during a photo shoot; the harrowing fate of Saint Laurent’s first pet dog—to wish that Bonello knew when it might have started to feel like your entire life is unfolding in that theater. Opens June 19 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

THE WOLFPACK BBB A great subject is not the same thing as a great story, and the only thing that keeps Crystal Moselle’s documentary from being a great movie is a balance much heavier on the former than the latter. That subject is the Angulo family—seven siblings, including six brothers, all raised in a New York City public-housing apartment almost never allowed to leave by their controlling father, and with movies their primary exposure to the outside world. There’s so much fascinating material in simply observing the brothers—with their identical waist-length hair and mannerisms, and their line-for-line re-enactments of their

CINEMA CLIPS favorite movies—that the first hour is engrossing simply trying to understand their lives, and decode their mother’s oblique references to there being “more rules for me than there were for [the kids].” But while the enigmatic father’s non-presence through much of the movie creates mystery, Moselle doesn’t really discover a narrative or a clear arc, since much of the brothers’ growing independence was in motion before she began filming. It’s a fascinating in-the-moment experience; it’s also hard not to wish for a bit more resonance. Opens June 19 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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Season Premiere: How do you top Matthew McConaughy and Woody Harrelson from True Detective’s killer debut season? Double-down on the star power: Besides Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, Season 2 also features Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch as co-leads, and the supporting-cast bench isn’t lacking, either. Vaughn is a mob boss looking to go legit, Farrell is a troubled detective—to put it mildly; he makes McConaughey’s Rust Cohle look like a WalMart greeter—who owes Vaughn, Kitsch is a highway patrolman with a past, and McAdams is a hard-as-nails cop written to singlehandedly obliterate Season 1’s Weak Female Problem. Likewise, Season 2 ditches its predecessor’s supernatural hoodoo and time-jumping plot in favor of a linear, hard-boiled California crime story that doesn’t seem to be leading to Season 1’s “happy” ending. To paraphrase Spinal Tap, How much more bleak could this be? The answer is none. None more bleak. But sooo damned pulp-good.

The Brink Sunday, June 21 (HBO)

Series Debut: After True Detective, some comic relief is needed—so how about the threat of World War III? The Brink stars Jack Black as a low-level State Department hack in Pakistan out to score weed with his driver (Aasif Mandvi) when protests break out and a none-too-stable general (Iqbal Theba) threatens to go nuclear. Back at the White House, the womanizing boozehound Secretary of State (Tim Robbins, stealing the show) attempts to talk the Secretary of Defense (Geoff Pierson) and the President (Esai Morales) out of striking pre-emptively as a bomber pilot (Pablo Schreiber, better known as Pornstache from Orange Is the New Black) is already en route. As a Veepmeets-Dr. Strangelove geopolitical comedy, The Brink smartly keeps Black’s we’ve-seen-it idiot from dominating the show, but your faith in government … well, probably won’t change at all.

Ballers Sunday, June 21 (HBO)

Series Debut: Dwayne Johnson has become such a largerthan-life action star that “The Rock” qualifier is irrelevant; casting him as a painkiller-popping ex-NFL star trying to scrape together a post-football life almost feels like a Saturday Night Live sketch. Sure, he’s as charming as ever as Spencer Strassmore, a retired Miami Dolphin transitioning into becoming a financial manager for his fellow money-burning retirees and clueless rookies (or “monetizing friendships,” as his boss, played by Rob Corddry, says), but a sympathetic underdog? Not happening. Ballers critiques the chew-’em-up-spit-’em-out culture of pro sports almost as much as it revels in the glamour, but Johnson is just too big—in every sense—for his role. Maybe HBO should have called Kenny Powers of Eastbound & Down out of retirement.

UnReal Mondays (Lifetime)

New Series: Marti Noxon has contributed to some classic TV series (like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mad Men) and created at least one winner (2014’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), but her new UnReal probably won’t be listed among them— but not for lack of trying. A drama set behind the scenes of a reality-dating show, UnReal pits a ruthless showrunner who’s not above manipulating anything on the screen for ratings (Constance Zimmer, in her usual ballbuster Constance Zimmer role) against a producer with at least a twinge of conscience and TV-PTSD issues galore (Shiri Appleby). Thing is, no one here is remotely likeable (very Showtime, but not very Lifetime), but at least there’s a winking acknowledgement that this brand of “reality” is complete BS.

True Detective (HBO) Another Period Tuesday, June 23 (Comedy Central)

Series Debut: The Bellacourt sisters (Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome) were the Kardashians of the early 1900s, concerned only with being rich, famous and relatively disease-free. Leggero and Lindholme are two of the funniest comic actors around, and the rest of the cast (including Michael Ian Black, Paget Brewster, Brett Gelman, Christina Hendricks, David Koechner, Jason Ritter and David Wain) is equally impressive. But Another Period is more silly than stellar, like a leftover episode of Drunk History (same director, coincidentally) that wasn’t done cooking yet—nice summer filler behind Inside Amy Schumer, but it likely won’t last any longer than that. Leggero deserves her Big Break—has Season 3 of True Detective been cast yet?

Mr. Robot Wednesday, June 24 (USA)

Series Debut: Vigilante hacker by night/corporate IT drone by day Elliot (Rami Malek) is recruited by the mysterious “Mr. Robot” (Christian Slater), the leader of an “underground hacker group,” to e-destroy the company Elliot works for. If you misread the title and were momentarily excited about a series based on the 1983 Styx hit “Mr. Roboto,” apologies. CW

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Why: The remaining members of Gaza, having risen from adversity, really throw down—and “You Are Not My Blood,” from the brand-new Useless Animal EP, is a powerful tune that shows the band’s growth. With: Rosetta, Ides of Gemini, Norska, Dethrone the Sovereign, Disforia Where: Area 51, 18+ stage (day)

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Why: Dead Meadow is one of the coolest psychstoner rock bands around. You’ll swear they induce acute synesthesia, but it could be a contact high. Anyway, enjoy the pretty colors and prettier sounds. With: Black Pussy, Dark Seas, DØNe Where: Urban Lounge, 21+ stage (night)

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Why: SubRosa is unique, deep and badass. And we’re not just saying that because Rebecca Vernon used to work here at City Weekly. Seriously, if you want to see something truly original—SubRosa. Captured! by Robots? It’s one guy getting bitchslapped by his robot bandmates. And the music’s pretty cool, too. With: Kowloon Walled City, Giant Squid, Worst Friends, Anthems, Stickfigures Where: Area 51, 18+ stage (day)

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Why: Because Goatsnake’s bluesy stoner rock rules all over the road, and they’ve got new music (Black Age Blues on Southern Lord) after 15 years. As for Eagle Twin, it’s fuggin’ Eagle Twin. Come on, Salt Lake City metal fans, you know these guys! With: Uzala, Turbo Chugg Where: Urban Lounge, 21+ stage (night)

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Why: Because Mlny Parsonz is one of the most compelling voices we’ve heard in a long time—part Ann Wilson, part Grace Slick. Plus, Royal Thunder’s psych-prog take on hard rock has made the ostensibly moldy old sound interesting again. With: Wild Throne, Settle Down, Top Dead Celebrity Where: Area 51, 21+ stage (night)

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plified things, Bischoff says, although he’d originally envisioned something more like SXSW, “where everyone buys a pass, and it’s a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing.” For now, though, Bischoff says the Salt Lake City music scene can’t accommodate that, “at least not at this point, so we’ve gone toward centralizing it.” Future fests may be consolidated into a single venue, preferably somewhere like the Gallivan Center where all ages can attend, but beer may be served. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Crucial Fest 5 will consist of a day showcase on two stages—one for ages 18 and up and another for the over-21 fans—at Area 51. The 18-and-up ticket-holders won’t completely miss out; they’ll be able to see the over-21 stage through a large window, and at least hear them through the wall. There will also be an over-21 evening showcase each day—Thursday at Area 51 and Friday-Saturday at the Urban Lounge. Fans can purchase tickets for specific shows for $5-10, or a three-day pass. The over-21 pass goes for $55; the 18-andover pass is $20. It’s a great price for that much music. And on Sunday at The Music Garage, there will be “Crucial Rest,” a free showcase featuring local bands not on the main bill. As the buzz grows, Bischoff intends to hold true to Crucial Fest’s founding priority: lots of local music. “We’ve had a lot more success reaching out to booking agents and bands, and a lot more interest. But I want the festival to land at a 50 percent local, 50 percent out-of-town [balance],” he says. “It’s pretty close this year. Because the whole point of Crucial Fest is to promote Salt Lake City music.” The goal is to get national acts to recognize the industrious, talented musicians here. “A lot of bands skip Salt Lake [City] on their tours because it’s smaller, and they think we’re a backward Mormon town or whatever. They don’t realize the quality of music that comes out of Salt Lake City is really awesome.” CW

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n the posters and postcards for Crucial Fest 5, a green swarm of band names surrounds a sick illustration of a magpie, a doe, a deer, a goat dude and … a beehive? Yeeeeeeaaaaah! Horns Antennae up, Utah! Salt Lake City represent! OK, a beehive isn’t the most metal icon— nor is the deer, though the magpie looks mean as hell—but it symbolizes the Utah state motto: Industry. And Crucial Fest founder Jarom Bischoff is a busy bee. Clad in shorts and a Raunch Records T-shirt, Bischoff looks remarkably calm for a guy who is eight days from the start of his three-day, two-venue, 49-band festival. Especially since Bischoff and his wife, Tiffany, are handling all of the pre-festival duties, like booking bands, courting sponsors, reviewing merchandise proofs, doing press, recruiting emcees and posting those posters and postcards. Bischoff asks for permission to leave a stack of the latter on a newsstand at the Sugar House Beans & Brews, before he sits down for our interview. While drumming for local math rockers Loom in 2010, Bischoff realized that his life had “diverged” from the band. “I was in school and doing other things, and we went our separate ways,” he says. Bischoff wasn’t done with music, but he also didn’t know his next step: “I loved touring, and I loved being in that band, but I thought, ‘What can I do here [in Salt Lake City]?’ I knew I’d always play music, but I was done touring my life away—for the time being.” His busy schedule always kept him from attending music festivals like Roadburn in The Netherlands and the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival in Worcester, Mass. “I [don’t think] I’ll be able to do that more than once in my life,” Bischoff says. Instead, he elected to start his own fest, which would acknowledge hardworking local bands striving to be more than drones in the hive. “Knowing the music scene here and how good it is, I just thought starting off with a local festival would be a good thing to try,” he says. So Bischoff—along with a few friends—pulled off the Crucial Fest 1 in 2011. He estimates the lineup was “85 to 90 percent local bands and a handful of touring bands,” like Sleeping In Gethsemane and Microtia, whom he’d befriended while touring with Loom. “It was just a smaller festival with a really cheap ticket.” The idea, though, was to become like Austin’s South by Southwest festival, which involves scores of venues and hundreds of bands. To that end, with subsequent Crucial Fests, Bischoff tried to diversify, to involve more cells from the local and national music scene. While heavy music is his forte—and what he originally wanted his festival to be about—Bischoff endeavored to incorporate hip-hop, indie rock and singer-songwriter genres. “We would experiment a little bit,” he says. “I had the idea to bring the music community together and cross-promote or whatever.” The tests didn’t produce the intended result: “I feel like we’re diverse, but we’re in a very specific genre tree, and that is heavy-metal rock and varieties: doom, stoner, experimental, post-hardcore, stuff like that.” Crucial Fest did expand, and at its largest comprised eight venues, but, this year, there are just two. “That’s sim-

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he nerds have had their revenge: Geek culture is now mainstream culture, with nerds ruling movies, books and television. The mythology of current pop culture is largely based on variations on the theme of being a geek, not fitting in. ComicCon, TV series like The Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley, online retailer Think Geek and others have shown there’s big money in the preoccupations of the socially frustrated class. In popular music, however, the geek phenomenon hasn’t been as pronounced. It’s still largely used as background soundtrack for an (ideally) smooth social scene at dance clubs or is mired in the macho obsessions of myriad heavy-metal subgenres. There have been geeks in music, though, dating at least back to the ’70s, but they’ve dwelled mostly in the margins until now. But as The Rubinoos prophesied in their theme song from the 1981 movie, it “won’t be long, mark my words/ time has come for the Revenge of the Nerds!” Geeky rock bands find a way to make their geekdom an advantage, and in doing so have become won the affections of the disaffected. Devo wears flowerpots on their heads, calls them “energy domes,” and sings, “I’m through being cool.” They Might Be Giants give musical geography lessons; The Decemberists are history nerds. Weezer’s “Sweater Song” is the anthem of awkwardness. Nerf Herder embraces Sleestaks and being “Lamer Than Lame.” Dinosaur Jr. seems to find a kind of geekiness in stonerisms, and Beck pairs awkward dance moves with Dylan-meets-suburban mall rap lyrics. Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard heads an entire cult of obsessed geeks, and crafts songs from an obscure poetics of loneliness—see his latest solo album, Faulty Superheroes (Guided By Voices Records). There’s an element of rebellion in geekdom: “Weird Al” Yankovic has made an entire career out of goofy, nerdy parodies of Top 40 pop songs. GWAR took the comic-book look to the extreme with their space-Viking/Paleolithic stage show and Slave Pit merchandise

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line, which includes comics and toys. Glenn Danzig—a dork beneath his gruff exterior— has his Verotik line of comics and toys, too. Hip-hop even got into the act, geek-wise, with nerdcore acts like MC Frontalot. “Geek rock” is even pulling a heavy metal and splintering into genres based on fandoms: Time Lord rock, aka “trock,” focuses on the TV series Dr. Who, and wizard rock (“wrock”) bands write odes to Harry Potter. Locally, a number of local bands are plenty awkward, including the nerdy power trio Pentagraham Crackers, the ’90s indie throwback Color Animal, and Albino Father with their self-proclaimed “dad rock.” The Layton-based band Secret Abilities’ very name suggests superpowers beneath a nerdy veneer. Singer/guitarist Davin Abegg had been writing songs about geeky subjects like monsters, robots and difficult relationships for years in Chameleons Among Us and Ex-Boyfriends, but the addition of geek-girl singer Tink Safeer in 2010 clinched the local nerd-rock crown. “B movies are a good example of what we’re all about,” Abegg says, “because you’ve got bad acting, bad monsters ... and I think we’re the musical version of that.” The band’s fifth release, last year’s Music To Break Up By, was even recorded at uber-nerd Calvin Johnson’s K Records’ Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington. Abegg also released the compilation Let’s Get Awkward on his own Swoody Records label. Subtitled The Sounds of Off-Step Sincerity, this collection of bands from Arizona, California and Utah looks at ways the best intentions go awry. Safeer makes costumes and recently volunteered at Salt Lake ComicCon repairing costumes. So, awkward rock is alive and well, especially in the Beehive State, with its own awkward cultural mores. To some extent, geek is chic; but if it gets too popular, is it still awkward? It’s a perpetual conundrum. For the time being, as Huey Lewis once noted, completely without irony, “It’s hip to be square.”

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FRIDAY 6.19 Shabazz Palaces

Don’t expect club beats from experimental Seattle rap duo Shabazz Palaces. Ishmael Butler (Palaceer Lazaro)—previously of the ‘90s jazz-hip hop group Digable Planets— is lyrically clever, and multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire backs him up with spare, quiet, dark tracks that are sometimes a little tribal. And the guys have moves—synchronized, choreographed industrial dances. Local rappers Better Taste Bureau (who were named City Weekly’s Rappers of the Year in 2014) open. (TF) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 9 p.m., $12, TheComplexSLC.com

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Upbeat indie surf-rockers San Cisco, from the coast of Australia, are touring behind their joyful sophomore album, Gracetown (Fat Possum), named for a coastal Australian town where the band members’ families have summer homes. The album is mostly catchy indie pop, but San Cisco’s nostalgia for Gracetown is reflected in the hazy pop of the track “Skool,” with its lazy acoustic strumming, whistling and toy piano. Cross your fingers for their mash-up of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” and N.E.R.D’s “Hypnotize U.” In fact, check it out online before the show, to get properly psyched. Mothxr opens. (TF) Kilby Court, 750 S. Kilby Court, 8 p.m., $10, KilbyCourt.com

Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Union Station

At 82 years old, Willie Nelson’s still kicking ass, touring like a boss and topping the charts. Django and Jimmie (Legacy), his collaboration with fellow country outlaw Merle Haggard, came out on June 2 and, at press time, is No. 1 on the Billboard country charts and No. 7 on Billboard’s Top 200. Hell, he could even make his own Top 200 chart—he’s released that many albums. Willie’s also a 5th degree black belt in the Korean martial art GongKwon Yusul, so back dafuq up. Co-headliner Allison Krauss—playing, as usual, with her band Union Station—isn’t even a white belt, but she’s a master of bluegrass and country music, with an umpteenth-degree black belt in fiddle-playing. (RH) Usana Amphitheatre, 5200 S. 6200 West, 7:30 p.m., $29$70, Usana-Amp.com »

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A caravan of circus-bluegrass and folk is blasting through Salt Lake City for two performances: one inside at the Garage on Beck and the second the following afternoon for an outdoor Father’s Day celebration up the canyon. The three bands hail from Wyoming and will play a blend of Americana, indie, roots and blues. Screen Door Porch, “electrified porch music,” if you will, have released their third studio album, Modern Settler (ScreenDoorPorch.com), country and roots-rock record with breezy vocals and gritty guitar riffs. The Patti Fiasco joins with singer Alysia Kraft, a powerhouse of soul and rock. The group lives in Fort Collins, Colo., now, but the sound is still well representative of open, Wyoming-roots rock. The third group, Canyon Kids, has an unexpected twist on Americana rock: a dose of psychedelic soul. (TF) The Garage on Beck, 1199 Beck St., June 20, 9 p.m., $7, GarageOnBeck.com; Blues, Brews & BBQs Festival at Snow Basin Resort, 3925 Snow Basin Rd., Huntsville, June 21, 12:30 p.m., free, SnowBasin.com

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The intensity of a Death Grips concert is a sight to behold—vocalist Stefan Burnett doesn’t just rap, he yells rhymes over the glitch- and sample-heavy tracks from drummer Zach Hill (Hella, Marnie Stern) and keyboardist Andy Morin. The experimental/noise hip-hop trio from Sacramento are touring The Powers That B (Third Worlds/Harvest) and it may be the last time to catch them, as they announced their impending breakup in 2015. Along with tracks from their newest album and favorites their other three fulllengths, expect some unhinged destruction. (TF) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $20, TheComplexSLC.com

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Their sound is appropriately sunny, but with enough grunge to give them a ‘90s garage-band vibe and ‘70s and ‘80s English punk edge, which Jack Dalrymple’s vocals emphasize. The quartet—Dalrymple, Miles Peck, Paul Oxborrow and drummer Rosie Gonce—have power-rock souls, but a carefree, laidback delivery. Las Vegas psych-rock trio Marion Walker opens. (TF) Diabolical Records, 238 S. Edison St., 8 p.m., Facebook.com/DiabolicalRecords

WEDNESDAY 6.24 Gordon Lightfoot

Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot was one of the intimate and personal voices of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Although his discography is mainly folk and country-rock, he’s a jazz-trained musician (at Westlake College of Music), and some of that influence—along with a sort of carefree energy—is heard in his live set, in tracks like “Make Way for the Lady.” What Lightfoot’s really known for, though, is his songwriting. Tonight his fans will be anticipating—and singing along to—the sad but badass “Sundown,” brutally sad “If You Could Read My Mind” and the vivid semi-epic “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a story-song about the sinking of the titular ship. (TF/RH) Sandy Amphitheater, 1245 E. 9400 South, 8 p.m., $25-$45, SandyArts.com/Sandy-Amphitheater

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