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Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’ run for president fuels a swag bonanza. Cover photo illustration by Derek Carlisle

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LETTERS Utah Rules of the Road

I have lived in Utah for a quarter-century, so I have a lot of experience dealing with Utah’s unique driving habits. As a non-native, I try to observe quirky cultural norms with detachment—until I have to slam on the brakes because someone pulled out in front of me going one-twentieth the speed limit. Out-of-town visitors often comment on Utah drivers, usually saying something along these lines: “Jeez, these people around here drive crazy!” And statistics support that sentiment: In an Insure.com survey ranking states with the rudest drivers, Utah made the Top 10. So it makes sense that about 1 in 5 Utah drivers are ticketed annually. However, I would argue that Utah drivers are not crazy, but simply adhere to their own unwritten Law of the Road. If observed with the detached eye of a keenly observant (but constantly swerving) road scientist, these laws reveal themselves. I am confident, after years of research that I can now codify these laws: 1. The posted speed limit means that you must drive 20 mph over, or 20 mph under, that limit. 2. If you want to change lanes, put on your turn signal. This creates an automatic right to swerve into an adjoining lane, even if someone foolishly occupies that space. 3. A “yield” sign means: “No need to look—just pull out.” 4. If your lane ends, the best response is to pretend that the other guy’s lane ended.

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should celebrate a John Wayne Gacy Day or add an annual Ted Bundy Festival to its official holidays. After all, like Christopher Columbus, these men were prominent murderers and rapists. Utah continues to glorify a man who murdered, tortured, raped, and plundered the unfortunate indigenous people of the Americas. Following his landing on Hispaniola—now the Dominican Republic and Haiti—Columbus openly endorsed the kidnapping of girls, as young as 9, to be sold as sex slaves; chopped off the hands and ears of those who failed to give him enough gold; and totally decimated an entire population of indigenious people. Today, consistent with their overall view of the world, Utahns seem to believe that it was all part of God’s plan, and that the atrocities of Columbus were simply the byproducts of a manifest destiny. It’s time for Utahns to engage their individual consciences and ask our legislators to end this tragic celebration.

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PRIVATE EY The Kelvynator For nearly 70 years, The Canyon Inn poured beers for hot, thirsty, fun-loving patrons. For parts of those years, as the valley suburbs pushed east and south, construction crews building all those Cottonwood-area homes came in droves for lunch. They came on Sunday nights when The Canyon Inn was known for serving one of the best steaks in town. They came before and after a day of skiing at Brighton, Solitude, Alta or Snowbird. They came as well to find a bit of privacy—even Utah’s highbrow or closet drinkers—to a watering hole removed from the hubbub and snoopy eyes of city-slicker clubs. They came to party. This past Saturday night, the party ended. The Canyon Inn closed its doors and poured its final glass of beer, spilled its final shot of tequila, and served up its last slice of pizza. The band did not play on. The jukebox quit. Kaput. Just like that. Except it wasn’t really “just like that.” The Canyon Inn—once isolated among small family farms and apple orchards at the intersection of Fort Union Boulevard and Wasatch Boulevard, smack at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, stood a proud watch over the enormous growth in that area. And the property became desirable, to say the least. To the east of The Canyon Inn, for example, is what is said to be one of the busiest 7-Eleven’s in the country. Could be. Even if it’s not, there’s little doubt that the roads converging there deliver more than their fair share of traffic in and out of the area, in and out of The Canyon Inn. And therein lies the rub. At the same time the property surrounding The Canyon Inn increased in value, the most recent proprietors of The Canyon Inn (Jim Stojak and wife) began noticing a most peculiar effect—their business was going down, not up, in stark contrast to businesses around them, which were benefitting from that growth and increased traffic. It wasn’t that their pizza was burned nor that their beer was flat. It was due, they documented

and loudly claimed, to their customers being unfairly targeted by the local Cottonwood Heights Police Department. From photos, to videos, to individuals writing letters or offering to legally testify, The Canyon Inn owners built thick dossiers of what they considered evidence of police harassment of their customers. Since at least 2011, this newspaper and other media outlets have reported about the growing sense that The Canyon Inn was being targeted. Before that, in 2009, City Weekly reporter Jesse Fruwirth revealed alleged insider deals between the city of Cottonwood Heights and private developer Terry Diehl, who was seeking approval for his high-density, high-rise Tavaci project in the foothills above Cottonwood Heights. The group Save Our Canyons had accessed city’s emails compromising the city position of transparency with the public. In 2010, KSL reporter John Daly aired his take on the controversy as well, revealing at least a six-month gap between the time the city first began rezoning discussions on the Tavaci project and the date on which city officials hoped to make the news public to Cottonwood Heights residents. It wouldn’t be the first time in sloppy city politics that a phony public hearing and a “that’s not what I meant when I didn’t say it” statement resulted in a fait accompli public screwing. That’s all just background. The property directly south of The Canyon Inn that once housed The Canyon Racquet Club on Wasatch Boulevard (plus the Canyon Inn property and other private lots along Fort Union Boulevard) is, for obvious reasons, highly coveted by developers, who see it as a primo locale for a nice shiny hotel or modern commercial complex. City officials see dollar signs in the form of new tax revenues. It can be fairly said that Cottonwood Heights and the developers, while yet to consummate, have passed the wet-tongue phase

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and are, by now, familiar with each other’s private parts. Yes, it’s a love affair. Trouble is, The Canyon Inn didn’t want any part of a threesome, and somebody had to go. As reported by Stephen Dark in City Weekly in 2011, in the years 2006 and 2007, Salt Lake County Sheriff officers made 112 DUI arrests in Cottonwood Heights. In 2008, Cottonwood Heights created its own police department with former county Sheriff’s deputy Robbie Russo hired as chief of that department. By December 2010, Cottonwood Heights recorded 527 DUI arrests. According to Stojak and others, the cops were overtly harassing customers of The Canyon Inn in an effort to drive him from business, clearing a path to more lucrative development on that corner. Revenues collapsed as once-loyal customers simply quit going to The Canyon Inn. On nearly any evening over these past years, at least one police vehicle—either marked or unmarked—managed to find itself in close proximity to The Canyon Inn, intimidating customers, issuing citations, and driving them from the neighborhood. Cottonwood Heights officials disagree with that account. Just doing our jobs, they say. Keeping the public safe, they say. We love our businesses; we’d never target a business like that, they say. Well, those Canyon Inn customers are breaking the law, they say. I didn’t say what you think I said, they say. Maybe, I say. And maybe Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore will talk to me—privately, of course, and off the record— so I may become educated on how to cover my ass and decide which laws to enforce and who to set the dogs upon. Meanwhile, I’ll take him at his word, that he really has the public interest at heart, and that he is not the manipulating buffoon many people make him out to be. Wait, wait! I’m must be drunk. Pull me over Kelvyn, I believe The Canyon Inn. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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What’s your favorite memory of The Canyon Inn? DerekCarlisle: I worked at a nearby restaurant for 10 years. We took our after-shift shots at The Canyon Inn, and it will surely be missed. Cottonwood Heights Police would come into our place, take up a table (that was someone’s tip income) and drink water while looking out the windows, busting everyone they could who came out of that parking lot. They basically had a steak-less stake out on our dimes.

Nicole Enright: Getting a DUI. Jeremiah Smith: In my very early 20s, I played keyboard in a classic-rock cover band. The rest of the band was made up of guys pushing 40, and we played Canyon Inn a few times. After a show, one woman in her early 40s offered to buy me a drink. I asked for a beer, and 45 minutes later, she brought me a half-full rum-&-Coke. Needless to say, I didn’t drink it.

Pete Saltas: Sitting on the patio by the firepit, chilling and looking up at the stars. Bryan Bale: I was there to see my good friend Dimitria sing with Channel Z a few years ago. After that, I played there with Juana Ghani a couple times; we were invited to share the bill with Opal Hill Drive in the summer of 2013. I remember half the band playing on the floor in front of the stage, because the stage wasn’t quite big enough to contain our entire mad gypsy menagerie.

Jerre Wroble: Their pizzas, made in-house with fabulous toppings, always hit the spot. Combine a few slices of their Chicago-style pizza with wine and pool, and one’s night is complete. Sadly, Cottonwood Heights politics have left me with heartburn.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE

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Republicans say they’re about less government intrusion. Now, they want to secretly get into your bank accounts. But, hey— that’s only if you’re late paying your taxes and there’s a lien against you. The new database would contain Social Security numbers, bank-account numbers, account balances and contact info. Not to worry, it will be really super-secure—just like Medicaid, before a 2012 data breach sent the data of hundreds of thousands of people to Eastern Europe. The GOP plan is for a good cause: paperwork reduction. It’s unclear when the government has ever managed to reduce paperwork, but Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Taylorsville, thinks it could happen. So why do Republicans suddenly want to save the forests? Don’t be silly: The plan’s not about trees—it’s about money. In order to recoup millions of dollars in lost revenue, the state tries to track down tax evaders by sending out truckloads of 67-page documents to financial institutions. Wasteful, time-consuming and expensive.

Shake That Moneymaker

It’s bad enough that the Utah Association of Counties chose San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman as its Commissioner of the Year (Lyman was guilty of conspiracy earlier this year for his role in an illegal ATV protest ride). This month, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announced that his office has concluded its investigation of Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, and that no prosecution would be forthcoming. Both Ivory and Lyman are leading the struggle to seize public lands. Ivory called the AG’s investigation a smear campaign by “dark D.C. extremists.” Ivory presides over the American Lands Council and has persuaded states to give taxpayer dollars to the group—and then allegedly kept much of the money himself. This may not amount to actual fraud—although Montana and Arizona were a bit suspicious—but if Ivory wants to model laws for state legislators, he should avoid all appearance of evil.

The Mighty Oaks

Despite his previous infuriating, anti-gay statements, LDS Elder Dallin Oaks’ star rose just a bit among the LGBT community when he spoke out about Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses. The National LGBTQ Task Force issued a statement praising Oaks for saying that “using faith as an excuse to ignore the law and discriminate is wrong.” OK, so that’s not exactly what Oaks said—but no matter. The Deseret News wrote a notably long article discussing the issue and saying Oaks was calling for a “middle ground.” There’s still plenty of room for disagreement, but at least the call for dialogue came through loud and clear.

Recognizing that Utahns have a hunger for good storytelling, Lane Richins founded the Salt City Radio Players in 2014. Mid-20th century radio dramas have long held a fascination for Richins, and the group produces and perorms staged readings evocative of those old-timey entertainments.The Salt City Radio Players will perform the 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds, Oct. 29 & 30 at Clark Planetarium (110 S. 400 West, 385-468-7827, ClarkPlanetarium.org). The Hansen Dome Theatre will host the actors, live musicians and foley artists (who create sound effects using the same ingenius techniques their counterparts developed before digital FX technology had been invented). Performances are free; tickets are available inperson at the planetarium box office on a first come, first served basis. KCPW 88.3/105.5 will also broadcast the performance.

Why is War of the Worlds still so popular?

The invasion story is timeless. It has lived before us and will live when we’re gone. It’s a tale of what lies beyond. There’s even a theory out there that says the invasion was actually real. The panic started because of aliens, but the local militia shot them down. According to conspiracy theorists, the real story was covered up.

Are you doing anything special to appeal to the specialized tastes of Utah audiences?

Yes, I’ve gone through and made it my own. I’ve changed all the names and geography to match Utah’s.

Will producing the show at the Clark Planetarium give you an opportunity to use visual elements radio audiences don’t see?

The planetarium has been working on the visual aspects of show. Think of the Clark Planetarium’s Pink Floyd laser show. You’ll listen and watch them perform lights. There will be a total immersion with fog machines included.

Do you perform contemporary as well as historic radio dramas?

We don’t want shackles on what we choose to do. Anybody who wants to work with us can bring ideas and, if it works, we’ll use it. Working with Clark Planetarium means we’ve done a lot with science fiction, but if it’s a good story and we find it compelling we’ll use it.

How often do you broadcast live on the radio?

Over airways, we haven’t done anything live, but on Oct. 30 at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., we’ll be broadcasting a recording of the live performance on KCPW FM. Theoretically, you could go to the show at 7 p.m. and, on your way home, you can turn on the radio and tune in again.

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I’ve heard rabbit meat was once thought of much how we think of chicken today, and I’m curious why things have changed. Rabbits reproduce quickly, and they’re tasty. Have I just solved the hunger crisis? —Bunny Biased

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he other day I trekked over to my local high-end grocer to examine the leporine options, hoping to gin up a little anecdotal evidence. I found five rabbits—fresh, not frozen, which would seem to indicate that someone’s eating them once in a while, at least among the Whole Foods set. In fact, in summer 2014 Whole Foods launched a rabbit-meat pilot program in select stores, recognizing the bunny’s potential to be a next big thing in proteins. As you demonstrate, the case isn’t hard to make: The meat is low-fat, the animals are famous for breeding prodigiously, and rabbit husbandry is far better for the environment than many of the extant options. Rabbit’s been a next big thing before. For nearly as long as the republic has existed, really, people are on record wondering why we don’t eat more of it. “The cultivation of rabbits would be profitable in America,” argued Amelia Simmons in American Cookery (1796), initiating a media tradition that continues to the present: Every few years or so a spate of newspaper stories proclaim, as the L.A. Times did last year, that “rabbit appears to be going through a renaissance of sorts,” enumerating all the reasons it makes sense to eat the critters and suggesting they may finally be on the cusp of culinary glory. And yes, there was a period when rabbits were big here. Beef, you’ll recall, was rationed during World War II; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service advised housewives instead to “meet the meat shortage by eating domestic rabbit meat,” the Department of Agriculture released rabbit recipes, and Life magazine pitched in to the effort with a 1943 article featuring the memorable opening line “Domestic rabbits are one of the few pets which can be enjoyed dead or alive.” After the war, though, the American eating public went back to its old ways—beef, chicken, pork. There’s no single explanation for rabbits’ failure to catch on, but we might point to a cluster of issues. Like squirrels, rabbits as foodstuff suffer from an association with poverty. Even before wartime rationing, during the Great Depression rabbits were maligned as “Hoover hogs”—the poor man’s pork, lean meat for lean times. (So lean, in fact, that there’s a form of malnutrition called “rabbit starvation,” or protein poisoning—what happens when you digest too much protein and no fat. Here’s where I mention that when I cooked that bunny the other day, it was with a quarter pound of pancetta.) Also during the Depression, a feed farmer named Jesse Jewell figured out how to vertically integrate the production of chicken,

theretofore a decentralized affair—and, contra the bunny, chicken was then considered something of a luxury meat. (Recall the political-ad promise of “a chicken in every pot.”) Jewell lived in Georgia, where many farmers raised poultry, whereas the rabbit producers of the time were centered in California. Had the contingencies of history and geography been different, we might be eating a lot more rabbit these days. Then again, maybe not. Rabbit producers say the creatures resist the kinds of industrial farming that would allow them to be raised on a mass scale. Those that receive insufficiently gentle treatment may engage in uneconomical behaviors such as eating their young. They’ve got weak immune systems and are prone to illness. As one rabbit rancher explained to Modern Farmer magazine, “Mother Nature designed them at the low end of the food chain so they die easily. That’s problematic.” And then there’s the cuteness factor. That Whole Foods pilot program I mentioned up top? It’s about to end. The store blamed low sales, and journalists uncovered some unsavory practices on the rabbit farms, but it didn’t help that the initiative was met with ferocious opposition by animal-rights activists, who picketed stores with signs saying things like “Whole Foods Market Is Now Serving Our Pets.” In a context of infinite plenty, this outsize sympathy for charismatic megafauna—the so-called Bambi effect—wouldn’t be too troubling. But in this era of climate change, dwindling natural resources and rising consumption—global meat production almost doubled between 1980 and 2004—we’re direly in want of proteins more environmentally friendly than, say, cows, which require enormous amounts of energy to raise and process. One researcher claimed last year that giving up beef would be more effective in cutting carbon emissions than giving up cars. Rabbits convert calories into meat far more efficiently, producing six pounds on the amount of feed and water it takes a cow to produce one. Of course, they’re not the only alternative protein source out there. One sees touted, for instance, the potential of insects, which also tend to elicit some real resistance—this time it’s the ick factor. Given our need for more sustainable sources of protein, though, consumers might someday have to make a choice: bugs or bunny? Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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“Because they don’t have money, … I end up getting a call from the sheriff’s department letting me know my patient is dead.” —Rep. Edward Redd, R-Logan

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Lawmakers fear Medicaid expansion’s price tag, but inaction costs Utah lives. BY ERIC ETHINGTON eethington@cityweekly.net @ericethington

n the 22 months since the Utah Legislature met to first consider crafting a health-care plan, there’s been a lot of talk—but no action. In January 2014, Health Affairs Journal published a study by Harvard University and CUNY researchers that estimated between 102 and 316 Utahns have died because they didn’t have access to health care. The liberal advocacy group Alliance for a Better Utah projected that number today could be as high as 360. After Utah House Republicans rejected the latest proposal to expand Medicaid, it appears Utahns needing care will have to wait still longer. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) made it possible for states to expand Medicaid and provide health insurance to those who fall into the “coverage gap”: people who earn too little to receive subsidies for private health insurance, but earn too much or otherwise don’t qualify for Medicaid in Utah. So far, 30 states plus the District of Columbia have opted in; 19 have declined outright. Utah has done neither, and is instead trying to come up with its own version of Medicaid expansion. Over the past two years, the Utah Legislature has rejected several proposals to cover all or some of the Utahns in the coverage gap, many of whom are working families. The first such plan was outright Medicaid expansion, which would have covered every Utahn in the gap. Gov. Gary Herbert’s “Healthy Utah” plan was defeated during the 2015 legislative session. Other plans that members of the Legislature came up with—Utah Cares and the so-called Frail Utah plan—met similar fates. The latest plan to meet with the Legislature’s ax was the highly anticipated Utah Access Plus plan, brought forward by the so-called Gang of Six— which included legislative leaders, Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox. The plan would have expanded Medicaid, and paid for it through sharp increases in fees paid by health-care providers. “[The Utah Access Plus plan] made everybody mad,” says House Speaker

A health-care advocacy group placed more than 360 white crosses at the Utah Capitol Oct. 21 to represent the number of estimated deaths resulting from Utah’s failure to expand Medicaid. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, one of the Gang of Six. “The doctors are mad at me, the hospitals are mad at me, conservatives are mad at me, Americans for Prosperity are mad at me. So it’s not a plan that’s done me any favors. But I did believe that it was the only straightforward way we could afford this.” Advocacy groups such as the Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) have been outraged by the House’s inability to act. “What we’re seeing is a little bit of a Groundhog Day movie-type scenario,” says UHPP communications director Jason Stevenson. A significant number of Utahns are impacted by the Legislature’s inaction, but even that doesn’t seem to be enough to get lawmakers’ attention: “This is a real issue. The coverage gap [in Utah] is 50,000 to 60,000 people” Stevenson says. Rep. Edward Redd, R-Logan, is a primary care physician who says he’s concerned with the delays. “Over the years, I’ve taken care of a number of patients who didn’t have health insurance,” Redd says, “and because of that, they didn’t get treatment in a timely fashion and ended up passing away at relatively young ages.” Redd says that many of those who have died are people with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes. Such patients can get very sick very rapidly: “Even though the illnesses are treatable, because they don’t have money, don’t have a credit card or anything, I end up getting a call from the sheriff’s department letting me know my patient is dead,” he says. “It gets quite frustrating knowing that many of these people could have survived if they’d had adequate health care.”

The system’s inability to prevent these needless deaths troubles Redd. “It’s really quite a disturbing experience, and one that’s happened too many times over the years. I try to do the best I can, but so many of these people need additional services that I can’t provide—like specialists, lab work and things that they just can’t get for free,” he says. Hughes says he shares that frustration, but that he believes the political will exists in the Utah House to get uninsured Utahns some type of coverage— if only lawmakers can think of some new way to fund it. “Absent a revenue source,” Hughes says, “we can’t do it.” On Oct. 13, after House Republicans voted in the party caucus to reject Utah Access Plus, Hughes says there’s no way forward for Medicaid expansion through any type of traditional fee assessments. Crafting a solution that House Republicans can agree on “is a tough nut to crack,” he said. Still, Hughes is pleased lawmakers have begun to focus more on the people who need care and less on finances. The 2016 legislative session is right around the corner, and the health-care debate is expected to once again be a marquee issue. UHPP’s Stevenson says he suspects the Frail Utah plan might make a comeback, but UHPP strongly opposes it. “[Frail Utah] is a plan that came out of the Legislature’s Health Reform Task Force last December,” he says. “It covers only a small portion of the coverage gap: those who are medically frail, and those leaving incarceration.” Stevenson says not only does Frail Utah do too little—cov-

ering only about 10,000 of the 50,000-60,000 people in the gap— what little it does could make matters worse: “Because it covers only the sickest, it creates a race to the bottom where everyone has to get sick enough to qualify for the plan,” he says. “It’s an incentive to become sick as opposed to an incentive to get better.” Hughes says it’s premature to make predictions about what might happen next. “We’re all political junkies, and we all want to know what the next plan is. But I can honestly tell you that anyone’s guess is just that—a guess,” he says. “The Health Care Task Reform Task Force will continue its work ... taking in new information and feedback.” Hughes says that while the process is dragging on too long, it will be better in the long run than adopting the ACA. “We have to know how we’re going to pay for this, we just have to,” he says. “It’s so easy to be one of the 31 states who have accepted the full Medicaid expansion, because the feds are paying the full ride right now,” says Hughes. “And yes, we could just start accepting those federal funds right now. But, good or bad, Utah is taking the longer view, and we’ve got to know how we’re paying our portion.” Hughes says he forsees an approved plan by the end of the 2016 legislative session—and, whatever it may be, it’s sure to be a step in the right direction. “What we do will be better than what we have today in terms of not having any coverage,” he says. “Will it be as rich or robust as Medicaid expansion? Probably not. But we are going to find a way to provide care for those who need it.” CW

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Some say it’s a “hate group,” but Gov. Herbert says, “Welcome to Utah.” BY COLBY FRAZIER cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierLP

An attendee of the World Congress of Families convention enters the Grand America hotel. organizations is their mutual “hatred against our fellow human beings.” Kaoma said WCF has helped push anti-gay laws in Uganda and Nigeria that criminalize homosexuality—contentions that WCF officials deny. In Salt Lake City, he says, America has the chance to take a stand against groups that advocate hate in the world. “Their lies are killing people, and that cannot be done in the name of America,” Kaoma said. Restore our Humanity is hosting a protest at the Grand America on Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. The protest, Lawrence says, will convey a more positive message than that espoused by the WCF. “We think all families deserve exactly the same recognition, the same respect and the same protection,” Lawrence says. “We don’t believe that any one person or any one organization has a right to stand in the public square and say which families are right for society. That’s oppressive and that’s demeaning to a lot of people.” CW

Security appeared tighter than normal, with a fleet of 11 police cars parked in the Grand America’s south lot, four in the north lot and one posted out front. Beyond the heightened police presence, the general atmosphere resembled a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society meeting. The week before the WCF conference came to Utah, the National LGBTQ Task Force—which promotes inclusion of the gay community in religious organizations— held its conference in Salt Lake City. Several organizations and clergy held a news conference (organized by Massachusetts group Political Research Associates, where City Weekly freelancer Eric Ethington serves as communications director) to tell Utahns what the group is all about. The Rev. Kapya Kaoma, a senior researcher with Political Research Associates, said what brings the WCF together with its partner

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rom stockpiles of multilevelmarketing firms like Doterra and LifeVantage to the semiannual Outdoor Retailer show, Salt Lake City is no stranger to conventions. But this week, from Oct. 27-30, ballrooms at the Grand America Hotel are filled by delegates from a group that’s never before held its convention on American soil: the World Congress of Families. At first glance, the WCF—an organization with enough pull to snag marquee local speakers such as Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Apostle M. Russell Ballard—sounds pretty harmless. But the “family” the World Congress of Families (WCF) promotes is the so-called “natural family,” consisting of a mom, dad and some number of children. This restricted view of the family, combined with the Illinois-based organization’s support of numerous conservative groups—some of which advocate for anti-gay laws around the world—has earned it a spot on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. WCF’s leaders say its inclusion on the hate-group list is one of many “inaccuracies” being spread about the organization. They maintain they’re simply promoting their beliefs that gay marriage, pornography and abortion aren’t helpful to furthering the natural family. Mark Lawrence, founder and director

of Salt Lake City-based group Restore Our Humanity, says he began researching WCF nine months ago when the Utah conference was announced. Since then, he bought the website domain WorldCongressOfFamilies.org, which the WCF did not own, and has posted information there in an attempt to educate Utahns on the group. That the WCF chose to have its conference in Utah—a decision due in no small part to the right-leaning Utah-based Sutherland Institute hosting the WCF—doesn’t bother Lawrence so much as the warm greeting being shown by some of Utah’s elected leaders. “It’s extremely inappropriate and wrong for him to be participating in that event,” Lawrence says of Herbert. “They’re welcome to come here and have their conference, but for our elected officials to participate ... is outrageous, and I think it’s important that our governor understands that.” In his monthly news conference at KUED Channel 7, Herbert defended his decision to address the WCF, saying, “We have a lot of people here in our community. They have very diverse points of views and ideas. We don’t agree on everything.” So Herbert feels comfortable rolling out the welcome mat: “It’s appropriate for the governor to go to this organization and say, ‘Welcome to the state of Utah. We hope you enjoy your stay here,’” he said. When the WCF held its 2014 conference in Australia, it was met with fierce public opposition. Hotels declined to host the event. As public pressure mounted, right-wing politicians who were slated to speak withdrew. This same level of outcry does not seem to have followed the group to Salt Lake City. However, Lawrence contacted officials at the Grand America Hotel to persuade them to cancel the reservation, but without success. On the conference’s opening day, diverse groups of people shuttled across Main Street between the Little and Grand America hotels, clutching torquise WCF conference bags.

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WRITING WORKSHOPS

If you’ve ever wondered how authors slog through the writing process to come up with a novel, well, slogging might not be the right technique. The Salt Lake Community Writing Center is holding a four-part workshop (NaNoWriMo: Write a Novel in a Month) offering a seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. They’ll offer techniques to help writers crank out those 50,000 words in 30 days and end the month with a finished product. Don’t worry about mistakes; they are part of the process. Coaching sessions will also be available during the week, pre-registration required. The cost to join in is $60. Salt Lake Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 South, No. 8, 801-957-2192, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 1-3 p.m., SLCC.edu/cwc

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n A free Race Perspectives Workshop will help writers explore how racial identity plays out in our society. As part of the Utah Race Perspectives Project, participants will generate microstories, poems and essays about race, ethnicity and cultural identity, and may submit their work to the Race Perspectives website. Registration is free but required. Salt Lake Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 South, No. 8, 801-957-2192, Nov. 4 & 11, 6-8 p.m., SLCC.edu/cwc

VOLUNTEERING

Eight easy last-minute Halloween costumes:

8. “Captain Cargo Shorts” 7. “Sexy Chemtrail” 6. “Guy in The Cure Who’s Not Robert Smith”

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CITIZEN REVOLT

Time for This Nonsense Because This Country’s Going to Hell in a Handbasket While You Dress Up Like a Whore, Young Lady”

3. “Sexy Bacon Strip(per)” 2. “Afternoon Drunk” 1 . “Adult Who Doesn’t Have

Do you want to help kids from the Road Home celebrate Halloween? Bob Chilton is looking for volunteers on Halloween to set up games, decorate trunks and work to provide 250 children a Trunk-or-Treat experience they can remember. Some 16 cars will be parked in an oblong shape within the Road Home’s private, secured parking lot. Tax-deductible donations can be made on the Road Home’s website to help buy shoes for the kids. Call Jackie Chilton, 801-657-2325 to offer time and assistance. The Road Home, 210 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1-3:30 p.m., TheRoadHome.org

GOOD CAUSES

Comunidades Unidas/Communities United is sponsoring its sixth annual Pink Dress Masquerade to raise awareness for breast cancer, health disparities and community integration. This event includes a breast-cancer-survivor fashion show, competitions for best locally designed dresses and best masks. Tickets are $40 each; call 801-487-4143 to avoid processing fees. The Leonardo Museum, Third Floor, 209 E. 500 South, Friday, Oct. 30, 7-9 p.m., CUUtah.org

ART EXHIBIT

Chad Farnes’ Tapenography: Duct Tape Paintings explores a nontraditional approach to art. Farnes uses only duct and masking tape to create images. You’ll want to see how Farnes layers strip upon seemingly insignificant strip of tape to produce stunning depictions of the National Park System. His goal is to explore the intersection between humanity and federal-land preservation. Finch Lane Gallery, 1330 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Nov. 20, SLCPL.org/events.

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Doing Time Right In October, a Harvard University debate team (three-time recent champions of the American Parliamentary Debate Association) lost a match to a team of prisoners from the maximum-security Eastern New York Correctional Facility. Prison debaters “are held to the exact same standards” as college debate teams, according to the director of Bard College’s Prison Initiative, which coaches the inmates. Prisoners took the “pro” side of public schools having the right to turn away students whose parents had entered the U.S. illegally (though team members personally disagreed). The Bard trainers pointed out that the inmates perfected their presentation despite (or perhaps because of) the prison prohibition on Internet access.

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Compelling Explanations A black alleged gang member, Taurus Brown, 19, under arrest in Clearwater, Fla., in September for having a marijuana cigarette casually tucked behind his ear as he talked politely to a white police officer, tried to flee on foot but was quickly taken down. Asked why he ran, Brown replied (according to the police report): “I don’t like white people touching me. White people do weird stuff.”

Shameless In rare bipartisan action, the U.S. Senate is preparing a bill to ban taxpayer funds for those military salutes at sporting events. Teams (the legislators believe) already benefit from the fan-friendly staging of heartwarming patriotic displays. (The Pentagon had paid $5.4 million just to the National Football League over the last four years.) An NFL spokesman, finally playing catch-up, said in September, “(N)o one should be paid to honor our troops.”

Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time: It was at 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 8 that, according to Dallas police, Kristopher Jones, 18, and a buddy decided it would be Joy’s Donut shop they should rob. As they exited the store (one carrying the shop’s cash register), a uniformed, off-duty officer (who apparently had pulled up to the store—for doughnuts) saw the whole thing and arrested Jones (though his partner was able to flee). n I’m Da Man! John Morgan, 28, and Ashley Duboe, 24, were charged in September with robbing the Savings Bank in Ashville, Ohio—with their apprehension made easier by Morgan’s Facebook photos of himself riffling through (and with a mouthful of) his newly acquired stack of bills (a “McStack,” he wrote) and describing his current elation: “I got six bands bra … I’m doing rrreeaaaalll good.” (Police were quick to find the Facebook page because Morgan was already on parole from a 2010 bank robbery.)

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Armed & Clumsy More Men Who Accidentally Shot Themselves Recently: A 16-year-old boy, in the leg—for the second time in three months (same leg) (Tulsa, Oklahoma, September). A road-rager waving a gun at a motorist, jarring his trigger finger as he subsequently crashed (Estero, Florida, September). Christen Reece, 23, shot in the head demonstrating to friends the gun’s “safety” (Navajo County, Arizona, September). A man celebrating his 21st (and, alas, final) birthday (Dallas, July). A 49-year-old man who failed the “removing the magazine does not clear the chamber” test (Mims, Florida, June). Martin Hoyer, 51, who failed the “waistband is not a holster” test (Wenatchee, Washington, September). Thomas Javier, 26, trying to hide his gun (after being caught urinating in the street) and fumbling it, accidentally shooting himself in the vicinity of the organ in question. (Brooklyn, New York, September). Donald Watson, 43, slipping a for-sale gun into his pocket and somehow firing on his penis (Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September).

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n By September, Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser were finally out of the Michigan Legislature—Gamrat by guard-escorted removal after her formal expulsion and Courser by pre-emptive resignation—following the pair’s months-long “secret” sexual affair and clumsy handling of its revelation. Courser’s original defense strategy was to plant a bogus story of a gay-sex scandal, hoping to discredit as hysteria any news about his actual affair,

Perspective In June, Tennessee’s much-publicized program to kick drug users off of welfare rolls (and only from welfare rolls, among all people receiving any type of state subsidy) wound up its first year cutting off fewer than 40 people out of 28,559 people on public assistance (“temporary assistance to needy families”). Nonetheless, the sponsoring legislators said they were pleased with the program and planned no changes. The state paid a contractor $11,000 to conduct 468 drug tests, but did not disclose staff costs of processing applications, deciding who to test and managing cases.

Legislators in Action In a recent resolution, Blount County (Tennessee) Commissioner Karen Miller called for her fellow commissioners and state officials all the way up to the governor to prepare for “God’s wrath” for recent national policies (same-sex marriage, etc.) she disagrees with. Though other states might be in for a smiting, Miller’s resolution calls on God to spare Blount County (by the “safety of the Passover lamb”). In October, the commission tabled the resolution 10-5, but she promised to reintroduce it.

The Weirdo-American Community “Officially” declaring oneself not subject to the laws of any jurisdiction (i.e., a “sovereign”) opens a wide range of career choices. The FBI and Las Vegas police say that in Rick Van Thiel’s case, once his porn industry career ended (because someone stole his video equipment), he “decided to go into the medical field,” becoming “Dr. Rick” with expertise performing dozens of abortions, circumcisions and castrations (plus cancer treatments and root canals). Proudly avoiding actual licensing, Van Thiel promoted “alternative” remedies, with an office in a Nevada compound of trailers that one hesitant “patient” described as something out of a horror movie. Van Thiel, arrested in October, nonetheless staunchly defended his ability (acquired, he said, by watching YouTube medical videos). (Bonus entertainment: In court, he will be acting as his own lawyer.)

n Philosophy professor Anna Stubblefield (Rutgers-Newark University) was convicted of aggravated sexual assault against a severely disabled man she was discovered having sex with on the floor in a locked office, but at trial in September, she testified that the man had “consent(ed)” and that the two were “in love.” The victim, 34, has cerebral palsy and other ailments, wears diapers, requires assistance for nearly all activities, is intellectually disabled, and does not speak, “except for making noises,” according to a brother. Stubblefield had been working with him on the controversial practice of “facilitated communication,” in which a facilitator reads a patient’s mind via subtleties such as eye movement and articulates the words for him. However, a jury failed to appreciate that facilitated “consent” and quickly convicted her.

but when that failed, he issued a 1,900-word plea, liberally quoting the Bible, acknowledging his hypocrisy and hoping for salvation from his colleagues (who failed to come through).

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Unclear on the Concept The Merit Systems Protection Board is (wrote The Washington Post) “a personnel court of last resort” for federal employees unfairly punished by demotion or firing—which is just what employee Timothy Korb needed when his federal agency suspended him in 2013, allegedly for revealing at a staff meeting that the agency’s actual case backlog was much worse than it was letting on. Korb’s employer, ironically, is the Merit Systems Protection Board, and in September 2015, an administrative law judge upheld his claim of unfairness.

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Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders' run for president fuels a swag bonanza.

ne night in May, graphic artist Dave Barron found himself sitting up in bed, doodling. Against a dark background, a simple design in stark white emerged: eyeglasses, “2016,” and a shock of unkempt white hair. “Bernie,” he added, though many would have easily recognized the locks and dome of Vermont’s independent junior senator, who was just weeks from announcing his run for president. For kicks, Barron posted the image on Facebook under the header, “My contribution to the campaign.” By morning, the requests were rolling in: “Where can we buy the T-shirts?” Barron has since shipped thousands of them, to addresses in all 50 states.

He’s not the only one. Outside the realm of official campaign buttons, mugs and tote bags, homegrown Sanders swag has proliferated like Subarus on Interstate 80. The rise of Vermont’s most famous socialist, it turns out, is working just fine for smalltime capitalists. Burlington artist Madeline McLennon has sold so many of her Bernie tank tops that she was able to cut back hours at her day job to devote more time to her art. Bo Muller-Moore’s iconic Eat More Kale T-shirts are no longer his top seller: The Montpelier, Vermont, man is struggling to keep up with orders for his Bernie shirt. It’s not just Vermonters making the stuff, either: In Boone, N.C., Gwynne Dyer may realize the dream of a retirement funded by earring sales—thanks to people who love Bernie enough to wear him on their lobes. In searching for merch, one can’t help but notice that the items associated with other presidential candidates lack a certain impassioned authenticity.

Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again hats and Hillary Clinton’s barbecue apron— Grillary Clinton— look like the products of campaign staffers who aren’t as clever as they think. The grassroots designers of Sanders swag have no such creative problems. There are products featuring Sanders as Doc from Back to the Future and firing rainbows from his hands while astride a unicorn. A Christmas ornament sports Bernie in a disco dance-off with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D -Mass., and a sticker compares Bernie to wrestling legend Andre the Giant. The makers’ anecdotal sales figures support the narrative of Sanders on the rise. Dyer, for example, sells earrings featuring the faces of all presidential candidates. Guess whose mug is most in demand? Sanders, of course. “He’s my best-selling politician, that’s the God’s honest truth,” Dyer said. “I’m not just saying that to you. Far and away. There’s not really a close second.”

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$2.75, Etsy.com, OccuTees Yup.

“Eat More Kale” Bernie T-shirt $25 (10 percent of profits to the campaign) EatMoreKale.com This design was intended to capture Sanders in his sternest glory. “He’s not smiling. His eyes are squinted. He’s in that serious pose that he takes,” said Bo Muller-Moore, who is shipping “hundreds” of the shirts every week. “ You can almost see the spittle flying out of his mouth,” he added.

Lil’ Bernie Doll $80 ($25 goes to the campaign), LilBernie.com Professional tailor Emily Engel makes dolls that resemble friends—for the fun of it. But her dad, a hardcore Sanderista, was dead serious when he recommended she make a Bernie doll in her shop in Ludlow, Mass. On Sept. 16, she posted a design of Lil’ Bernie on Facebook, thinking a friend or two might buy one. One week later, she had shipped the dolls to customers in 20 states and Australia.

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Pipe: $50 (some proceeds will be donated to the campaign), tee: $20, Stash N’ Stowe Smokeshop, Waterbury, Vermont It doesn’t get much more Vermont than the Bern One for Bernie pipe. For the record, Sanders supports medical marijuana but has not declared support for legalization. He told journalist Katie Couric that he wasn’t a fan, personally. “Because I coughed a lot, I don’t know,” Sanders said. “I smoked marijuana twice, didn’t quite work for me… It’s not my thing, but it is the thing of a whole lot of people.” The pipe is the brainchild of Sarah Coshow Bobowick, owner of Stash N’ Stowe Smokeshop in Waterbury, Vermont “ We’re just doing our part to spread the word,” Bobowick said. Her friend Marshall Cummings, came up with the T-shirt, as a companion item.

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$25 (10 percent of the profits to the campaign), TheBernieShirt.com Dave Barron’s T-shirt is arguably the most iconic image thus far of the Sanders campaign. “The simpler you can get your point across as a designer, the stronger it is,” Barron said. From 20, 30 feet away, people can “see what it’s all about,” he noted.

$28, Burlington City Arts Artist Market or ChrisThrowsPots.com Wake up and smell the inequity. Essex potter and teacher Christopher Vaughn said that as a small business owner, he appreciates how Sanders hammers the “1-percenters.”

$9, Esty.com, Charm456 Gwynne Dyer isn’t big into politics. But the many hours she’s spent cutting out tiny images of Bernie’s mug to make earrings may yet convert her. “I’m not quite sure,” Dyer said. “I like to listen to everybody. But he has an honest face. I look at their faces a lot, and I think he looks like a nice, honest man.”

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Bernie 2016 T-shirt

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Bernie Earrings

hen presidential candidates are in it to win it, they, of course, need a logo, a website and a big formal announcement. But most modern campaigns now operate what would seem to be outside the scope of politics: a store. These retail divisions sell products to supporters such as T-shirts, caps, coffee mugs, buttons and stickers. When supporters shop at an official campaign store, they soon learn they are actually donating to candidates. The items in the store are seen as “premiums”—similar to what subscribers of public radio or TV receive when they pledge support to the station. Shoppers are asked to provide not only their contact information but the name of their employer and occupation. Their choice of purchases tell candidates a little something about their supporters, plus purchases provide much-needed campaign cash.

The campaign of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, a proud Democratic socialist, operates a shop where it sells typical campaign “merch”—T-shirts, buttons, baseball caps, stickers and signage. But it is his unofficial “merch” that seems to be catching fire lately, as this feature would attest. However, since dollars spent on unofficial merch don’t necessarily go toward the campaign, City Weekly checked with the local Utah for Bernie group to see what they thought about it. Not only did they not hate it, some proudly displayed their own purchases of “bootleg” merch. We interviewed Sarah Scott, the founder of the all-volunteer Utah for Bernie group to find out what her group is up to. We also caught up with volunteer Dana Clark, a Utah resident who once worked on Sanders Senate campaigns in Vermont in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Their interviews follow:

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Founder of the all-volunteer Utah for Bernie Sanders, Sarah Scott got her start in community activism in Detroit. That was where her job in technology marketing and design took her before she became a software developer in Utah. Born in Alabama, raised in Rhode Island, she hails from a very conservative family.

Bernie Sanders New World Money Posters Giclee posters available in three sizes, $69-139. DonnaRosenArtists.com Russian-born artist and aspiring Vermonter Val Bochkov launched a New World Money series a couple of years ago and has graced his elegant “bills” with celebrity faces from Billie Holiday to Bono to … Bernie Sanders. Read more about Bochkov in State of the Arts.

Because I was so angry at the political state of this country. I want to believe in the American dream, but as someone who’s 27, I don’t see that happening any time soon unless we make changes that benefit real Americans, not the billionaire class. In early 2015, I contacted the Bernie Sanders campaign. They said they had nothing going on in Utah and if they [decided to open an office here], it would be months, if that. After combing through social media and Google, I realized that no group existed here in the state. So I started one and bought a website domain. Within a week, I had 100 members and, now, it’s well over 4,000.

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Why did you launch Utah for Bernie?

Describe the average Bernie Sanders supporter in Utah.

One of the most surprising things about this campaign has been the diversity of supporters. We have a huge outreach program at BYU, and at almost every college in the state, actually. We have individuals who work in the mining community, farmers, small-business owners, teachers, community leaders, politicians, Republicans, government workers, stayat-home mothers, bankers, and supporters of all cultural backgrounds. It’s impossible to describe an average Bernie individual.

Talk Bernie to Me T-shirt

How is it that Sanders was ahead of Hillary Clinton in a recent UtahPolicy.com poll?

Utah is unique, because we place such a strong emphasis on family. At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, the ones we love and the community we live in are the most important things to Utahns. Bernie is the only candidate running for president that is sync with these values.

What’s your view on the unofficial “merch” shown in this story?

At first, I was worried about the unofficial merchandise [and its impact on fundraising efforts versus selling official merchandise] and then realized that Bernie’s entire campaign is about empowering individuals. My rule of thumb is, first and foremost, donate to the campaign; if you have money to spare, then buy whatever you want including noncampaign related merchandise.

Models: Emma MulvaneyStanak, and Ruby Model: Nicole Nelson

If you were going to buy some of the unofficial merch in the article, what would you buy?

Badass Bernie T-shirt

Ha ha. I would definitely buy the Badass Bernie shirt (can you even print the word “badass” in City Weekly?) because A. 100 percent of the proceeds go to the campaign and B. my dog is named Badass—not even kidding! I call her “B” when I’m in public, though.

Any Bernie events coming up for interested readers?

The biggest event we have coming up is the next Democratic debate on Nov. 14. The best way to get involved is to go to BernieSanders.com, where you can attend an event near you or create your own event. We are urging people to find events that are near you, and then “flyer” those events. Make sure to bring your friends and family—the more the merrier. To sign up for our local newsletter, visit UtahForBernieSanders.com . —Jerre Wroble jwroble@cityweekly.net

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$24, LookHuman.com Nothing less sexy than a Bernie Sanders speech, but this “ Talk Bernie to Me” T-shirt makes an interesting proposition.

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Locals ‘Feeling the Bern’

$15 (100 percent of profits to the campaign) XFeelTheBernX.com Behold, a badass Bernie. This was designed by Burlington, Vermont, artist Justin Gonyea and Big Heavy World music shop manager James Lockridge to appeal to the “punk and metal kids in town that like Bernie Sanders but don’t really feel like wearing a pastel shirt with a logo on it,” Gonyea said.

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$20 ($5 goes to the campaign) Pineale.BigCartel.com “Chant Down Babylon” is a Rastafarian phrase and the title of a Bob Marley song about bringing down corrupt and unjust human institutions. So naturally, like you, we assumed the Jeb Bush campaign had already secured the rights to the phrase. But Winooski, Vermont, T-shirt designer Drew Burns said it reminded him of Vermont’s man in Washington. “Obviously, the message is a niche one,” Burns said. “Not really something that your grandma would wear. But we’ve been getting a lot of love from the West Coast … and Vermont as well.” Model: Craig Mitchell

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Midvale resident Dana Clark first met Bernie Sanders in Vermont, working as a field coordinator on Sanders’ 1988 and 1990 congressional campaigns (shown, left, wearing a T-Shirt from the 1990 race). That experience got him interested in running for office himself, and Clark later got elected to the Burlington School Board and later its city council. He later got involved with the winter-sports industry, and that work brought him to Utah nearly 10 years ago to take a job with a Park City ski manufacturer.

Where did you first meet Bernie Sanders?

Bernie was mayor of Burlington when I first learned about him. I didn’t meet him until I started volunteering on his 1988 campaign. I was just extremely impressed with his clear vision for our democratic society and how it should work and his directness and honesty about his ideas. Bernie gets a lot of votes from people, including some Republican-leaning voters, who don’t agree with him on all the issues.

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What makes Bernie Sanders a good candidate for president?

Bernie is passionate about what he does and is driven to make the world a better place. He was always the hardest-working person on the campaign and an inspiration to the rest of us. While he’s a big-picture guy, he also takes an interest in common every day people. He’s very approachable and open to meeting people and wants to learn about their lives and hear their concerns.

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FullSnowMoon The original concept from Wyoming artist Kim Harris pictured Hillary Clinton, Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley onstage, with Michael Jackson sitting on the side, watching them in the rumble scene from West Side Story. “It was getting to be too much,” Harris lamented. This is her revised version.

The campaign is not Super Pac-funded so [buying merch from Bernie’s store] is a great way for people to contribute to the campaign and show their support along with making individual cash contributions.

What unofficial merch would you buy?

The St. Bernie prayer candle is my first choice since it would be a classy addition to my secular home décor.

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I think they are good. We have a petition on our website, UtahForBernieSanders.com, that people can sign expressing their desire for him to come to Utah and make a speech. We are pushing for 10,000 signatures. [As of press time, the petition had 2,000 signatures.] —Jerre Wroble jwroble@cityweekly.net

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What are the chances that Bernie Sanders will visit Utah?

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$19-$250, Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Church St., Burlington; Burlington City Arts Artist Market Veteran Burlington artist dug Nap has been making Sanders-related prints for years. His “Bernie” vanity license plate prints have always sold well. Now he’s also got 11-x-14-inch posters that read “Bernie for Prez,” “Add Some Bernie to Our Journey” and “I Am a Bernie Maniac,” among others. “ You’re trying to figure out who’s going to buy them, who is going to hang them on the wall,” Nap said. “ You don’t know. You just find out.”

He is probably amused by it. On a side note, the Trump campaign reminds me of a story when I was campaigning with Bernie in Vermont many years ago, and we were in a discount department store meeting voters. The store was advertising Donald Trump’s board game (it was like a version of Monopoly) at a deep discount. Trump was going through one of his huge bankruptcies at the time, so we joked that even his board game was on sale.

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What’s your view on the unofficial “merch?”

Do you think Bernie gives a hoot about the unofficial swag?

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As we move further into this century, voters are now recalibrating what they are looking for in a candidate. A candidate who is willing to buck the system a system where Washington is not functioning well becomes more appealing. We have some big challenges as a nation, and voters are willing to follow a leader who has clear common-sense answers on how to effectively deal with these challenges.

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Why is Sanders gaining traction in Utah?

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$39-$59, 60 Lake St., Burlington, or FlashBagsOnline.com The folks at Burlington’s Flash Bags laminated Obama several years ago—and the item sold well. So they had a pretty good idea that “Bernie Pop”—à la Andy Warhol and his Campbell soup cans—would also be a winner. It doesn’t hurt that Bernie’s poll numbers are so hot, you have to blow on them before digging in.

$15, Etsy.com, Rustbelt Cooperative We’re nondenominational at City Weekly, but take seriously the Bible’s admonishment not to worship false gods. So exercise caution with this St. Bernie Sanders for President prayer candle, no matter how much you love the Jewish candidate and hate multinational corporations. And don’t bern yourself.

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Feel the Bern T-shirt

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$20 (10 percent of profits to the campaign) Etsy.com, Madeline McLennon, or at Maglianero Caf, Maple St., Burlington This is the shirt that’s enabled Madeline McLennon to work a bit less as a barista at Maglianero Café and focus more on her “Feel the Bern” art. “I wanted to use the phrase and show that Bernie and all the people in the campaign are doing a lot of hard work to make him a frontrunner,” McLennon said. “And I wanted something goofy, because politics can be a depressing subject.” Disclaimer: We haven’t seen Bernie shirtless in a while, and we didn’t have the courage to ask his wife, Jane, so we can’t say whether the six-pack McLennon gave him is accurate.

$18 (roughly 80 percent of profits to the campaign), BernieFlag.BigCartel.com Chicago resident and punk rocker Steven Vainberg just got out of graduate school and is “broke as hell,” so he couldn’t donate money to the campaign of the man who wants to make college more affordable. He was also moved by stories about how Sanders, who, as mayor of Burlington, supported 242 Main, the allages youth center that hosted bands like Fugazi and became a punk mecca. So he and a buddy decided they could raise money for Sanders—and themselves—by selling a shirt that borrows one of punk’s most iconic images: Black Flag’s thick black bars. In August, Vainberg’s first run of 50 shirts sold out in two hours. He has moved 200 shirts a week since. “The punk community is pro-Sanders,” Vainberg declared. CW

This story originally ran in Burlington, Vermont's Seven Days.

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There are two things to look forward to every time winter rolls around: snow at the ski resorts, and 41 home games for the Utah Jazz. The Jazz open their 2015-16 home schedule Wednesday, Nov. 4, against the Portland Trail Blazers. Highlights of the other 40 games scheduled from early November to mid-April include the defending champions Golden State Warriors on Nov. 30 and March 30. LeBron James will appear in Salt Lake City on March 14 when the Cleveland Cavaliers visit. And, when the Los Angeles Lakers visit on Jan. 16, and March 30, it could be Jazz fans’ last chance to relentlessly boo Kobe Bryant. Other notable dates are visits from last season’s Western Conference playoff contenders Memphis Grizzlies (Nov. 7 and Jan. 2), Oklahoma City Thunder (Nov. 23 and Dec. 11), Los Angeles Clippers (Dec. 26 and April 8) and Houston Rockets (Jan. 4 and Feb. 23). For the first time since 2012, 41 regular-season games could be just the beginning for the Jazz, as the young team is considered a possible contender for the playoffs. After the All Star break last season, the Jazz went a surprising 19-10 while establishing themselves as a tough defensive squad, and previously unheralded center Rudy Gobert became everybody’s favorite 7-foot-1 Frenchman. Under second-year coach Quin Snyder, the Jazz return Gobert, Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Rodney Hood. While Dante Exum is out injured, the Jazz get Alec Burks back from injury and add draft picks Trey Lyles and Raul Neto. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Jazz Home Opener vs. Portland @ Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-7328, Nov. 4, 7 p.m., $18.25-$214.50. NBA.com/jazz

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It’s perhaps misleading—or, at the very least, incomplete—to describe the Plan-B Theatre Co./ NOVA Chamber Music co-production of Eric Samuelsen’s The Kreutzer Sonata as “theater.” As a unique mix of monologue and concert, it tangles up irrational emotions and artistic creation in a package with a particular visceral kick. Samuelsen loosely adapts the 1889 novella by Leo Tolstoy, as an unnamed man (Robert Scott Smith, pictured) relates the events that he informs the audience quite early on led to him murdering his wife. And as he tells this story of a 19th-century marriage with little actual affection at the outset that rapidly curdles into mutual loathing and jealous rage—a violinist (Kathryn Eberle) and pianist (Jason Hardink) play selections from the Beethoven violin sonata that give the piece its name. The staging is tricky—Smith disappears out of sight for long stretches of the musical performance. But director Jerry Rapier maintains visual interest through simple lighting cues and a filmy backdrop that illuminates to evoke the firing synapses of a brain wrestling with madness. As straightforward as the narrative proves to be—introduced and resolved within the space of an hour—it still resonates with the idea that a marriage—even one bereft of love—is further crippled by a husband’s sense of possessing his wife. With the live musicians contributing haunting, sometimes ferocious energy to the proceedings, The Kreutzer Sonata turns into a study of how the phrase “crime of passion” corrupts something beautiful. (Scott Renshaw) Plan-B Theatre Co./NOVA: The Kreutzer Sonata @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Sundays & Mondays, 7 p.m., through Nov. 9, $15 (this event is sold out. A wait list begins one hour before showtime). ArtTix.org

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So, what had you managed to accomplish professionally by the age of 25? You can be forgiven if you haven’t achieved the equivalent of Bo Burnham’s rock-star status in the comedy world; not many funny folk have reached the “selling out big theaters” level when they’ve only just barely become eligible to run for Congress. But Burnham has found his audience through an age-appropriate savvy at maximizing his social-media and online presence. His YouTube channel boasts nearly a million subscribers, and his popular Vines might find him mimicking Phoebe Cates’ poolside emergence from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, or performing some particularly goofy sleight-of-hand. While he’s been remarkably successful at marketing himself, there’s an undeniably unique quality to his material. He takes terrific advantage of the disconnect between his elfin appearance and his naughty-boy punch lines, or sitting down at a piano to perform a lovely lilting melody that turns into a song from God’s point of view, or opening up a book of his own poetry and reading one written by a dog: “Roses are grey/ Violets are a different shade of grey/ Let’s go chase cars.” A Bo Burnham concert performance—like his current “Make Happy Tour”—combines all of these elements with occasional bits of multimedia surreality for a show that’s a little bit stand-up comedy, a little bit performance art, and a lot of watching a guy who already seems to have figured out how to put it all together in a way his fans can’t get enough of. At the age of 25. (Scott Renshaw) Bo Burnham @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 31, 8 p.m., $39.50. ArtTix.org

SUNDAY 11.1

Revenge and tragedy go hand in hand. So it’s no wonder William Shakespeare’s first tragic play, Titus Andronicus, focused so heavily on vengeance. This isn’t a story for the faint of heart. It’s a brutal, bloody affair that New World Shakespeare Co. brings to life on stage using Shakespearean prose, making it more accessible to audiences with modern dress. In Titus Andronicus, the titular character (played spectacularly by Jon Turner) returns from a Roman war against the Goths, holding Tamora (Elise C. Hanson) and her sons as prisoners. When Titus sacrifices Tamora’s eldest son and refuses the role of Roman emperor, he sets into motion a horrible series of events starting with Saturninus (Christian Maestas) ascending to the throne and marrying Tamora—who seeks revenge on Titus. Titus’ daughter Lavinia (Allison Dayne) marries Saturninus’ brother Bassianus (Ava Kostia), and is raped and dismembered while her husband is killed. Lurking in the background and conceiving a nefarious plan is Aaron (E. Cooper Jr.) who happens to be Tamora’s lover. As Shakespeare’s plays go, this one is something of an anomoly. And directors Blayne Wiley and Hanson emphasize its atypical themes with gender-, race- and age-blind casting of the characters. While that choice makes the story a little harder to follow for those unfamiliar with the material, it’s also a refreshing change of pace. Despite the tragic events that unfold, even Titus finds the will—helped with a little humor—to keep pushing forward. (Missy Bird) New World Shakespeare Co.: Titus Andronicus @ Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-719-7998, Oct. 23-Nov. 1, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 5 p.m., $15. NewWorldShakespeare.com

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Piece de Resistance

Firelei Baez explores the connections among historical struggles for identity. BY BRIAN STAKER comments@cityweekly.net @stakerized

he legacy of social movements around the world in the past century shows that resistance to systems of power can take many different forms, but they all tend to have certain things in common. Born in the Dominican Republic, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Firelei Baez uses her large-scale works on paper to demonstrate parallels between experiences of black women in 18th-century Louisiana and the Latin American azabache movement, with its genesis in Cuba. Baez’s painting series Patterns of Resistance will be on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art through mid-January. The exhibition title itself suggests that resistance follows familiar patterns. And, as opposed to predominantly male perspectives and aesthetics that still persist in the art world, her art not only depicts women as subject matter but exalts their existence— not as objects of masculine desire, but as figures of empowerment. Baez says the title was inspired by lineages of black resistance in the Caribbean and how it then influenced other social movements around the world. In Patterns of Resistance, Baez says she “merged past and potential histories to illuminate obscured narratives of identity, primarily focusing on female figures and their subjectivities.” The paintings and drawings of textiles, hair designs and body ornaments illustrate the link between “traditionally loaded symbols [and] individual human gestures, aiming to reveal new emblems of power and invoke disparate patterns of resistance within the African diaspora in the rich and intricate compositions,” she writes. As elaborated in her work, these patterns can be extremely subtle or somewhat surreptitious but always express a dramatic viewpoint. Baez’s work is conceptually multifaceted and technically very rigorous. Her meticulous studio practice bears fruit in wondrously complex compositions. She incorporates linear detail and resonant color and demonstrates an ability to seduce the eye with layers of textures, symbols and artistic gestures, suggesting a process of endless discovery. The addition of humor amid profound tragedy leavens the scope of her work. The paintings often utilize textile patterns, reminiscent of the floral motifs of

garments worn by laborers and include symbols from the U.S. progressive left in the 1960s, such as the “clenched fist” used by the Black Panther party and other groups. Known in Latin America as the azabache, the symbol is both visually and thematically the centerpiece of the show. A black coral charm in the shape of a fist links the collision of indigenous, African and European heritage during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. The symbol was originally used to ward off mal de ojo, or “evil eye.” Baez is the recepient of UMOCA’s 2015 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Curator Rebecca Maksym explains the jurors’ choice: “The jurors were most captivated by her technique and use of a multitude of media, including sennelier, gouache, water color and colored pencil, to name a few. Each of her large works has a minimum of 30 layers, which not only includes the many forms of pigment, but also numerous symbols of and references to diasporic narratives. So, not only was her unique painterly style a contributing factor to her winning the prize, but also the way she incorporates sociopolitical awareness into her work.” Though still an emerging artist, Baez is starting to receive wider acknowledgment for her talents, and the exhibition at UMOCA will gain her exposure to a new audience and help further the museum’s mission of showing innovative, progressive work. In her mid-30s, the Master of Fine Arts graduate of Hunter College in New York has already shown at select venues around the country and been the recipient of a prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. Baez has the uncanny ability to draw parallels between groups, including victims

Patterns in pieces from Firelei Baez’s are juxtaposed with patterns in resistence. of the African diaspora and women who have struggled throughout history. This is because she is able to connect struggles for identity with their symbols. Thus, the fabric bearing them becomes the fabric of history. Stylistically, her work contains echoes of the psychedelic art and design of the 1960s and ’70s that found its way into political broadsides, as well as the surrealism of the era. This ambitious mixture is all in service of social statements. The arc of her artworks is ultimately even broader than that, though. “Firelei’s work gives life to hidden, marginalized and complicated experiences of cultural hybridity,” Maksym says. “She not only draws on her personal experience, but also conducts rigorous research to uncover the complexity of diasporas that occur all over the world.” In telling these interwoven stories of cultural displacements, Baez provides an alternate perspective on history that empowers the disenfranchised and gives voice to their struggles. CW

FIRELEI BAEZ: PATTERNS OF RESISTANCE

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Mysterioso: Music, Magic and Mayhem Those looking for family-friendly Halloween plans should consider Utah Symphony’s “Mysterioso: Music, Magic, and Mayhem” concert. The show will blend symphonic music and magic acts together to create something wholly unique and entertaining. Conductor Jack Everly will lead the group through works such as Miklós Rósa’s “Spellbound Concerto” and Paul Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” along with Maestro Everly’s own arrangements created for this program. Everly has worked with the Utah Symphony a few times before, including earlier this fall. The performing artists will include quick-change artists David and Dania, vocalist Christina Bianco, illusionist Joseph Gabriel and comedy magicians Les Arnold and Dazzle (pictured). David and Dania appeared on Season 1 of America’s Got Talent, making it to the semi-finals before being eliminated. Bianco made her West End debut in a production of Forbidden Broadway at the Vaudeville Theatre in London and has since become a YouTube sensation. (Shawna Meyer) Utah Symphony: Mysterioso: Music, Magic and Mayhem @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Oct. 30-31 7:30 p.m. $18-$84. UtahSymphony.org

PERFORMANCE THEATER

The Addams Family Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 3 p.m.; through Nov. 28, HaleTheater.org The Addams Family Beverly’s Terrace Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-393-0070, Monday, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, TerracePlayhouse.com Aida Centerpoint Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2:30 p.m.; through Oct. 31, CenterpointTheatre.org Big Fish Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City, 801-984-9000, Monday-Saturday, 7:30; Saturday matinees, 12:30 & 4 p.m.; through Nov. 28, HCT.org Breaking Vlad Off Broadway Theatre, 272 Main Street, 801-355-4628, Monday, Friday-Satudray, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, TheOBT.org Bride of Frankenstein Sackerson Theatre Co., The Warehouse, 1030 S. 300 West, MondayThursday, 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 & 11 p.m.; through Oct. 31, Bride-of-Frankenstein.com Carrie: The Musical Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 435-612-0037, Oct. 30-Nov. 15, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.; matinee, Saturday, 2 p.m.; UtahRep.org Clue: The Musical Empress Theatre, 2700 S. 9104 West, 801-347-7373, Monday, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; matinee Nov. 7, 2 p.m.; through Nov. 7, EmpressTheatre.com Good Kids Studio 115, 240 S. 1500 East, 801-581-7100, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 5-8, 7:30 p.m., Theatre.Utah.edu James and the Giant Peach SCERA, 745 S. State, 801-225-2787, Monday-Friday, 7 p.m., through Nov. 6, SCERA.org Jekyll & Hyde Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, 435-723-8392, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; through Nov. 7, HeritageTheatreUtah.com The Kreutzer Sonata Plan-B Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W. 300 South, SundayMonday, 7 p.m., through Nov. 9, PlanBTheatre.org (see p. 20)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, 801-852-7007, Monday, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 31, CoveyCenter.org Outside Mullingar Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Oct. 30-Nov. 14, Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; matinee, Saturday, 2 p.m.; PioneerTheatre.org Radio Hour 10: Otherwhere Rose Wagner Center, 801-355-2787, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 30, 11 a.m. & 7 pm., RadioWest.kuer.org Salem Witch Trials Salty Dinner Theater, Dry Creek Steakhouse, 10290 S. State, 801-466-6639, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., SaltyDinnerTheater.com Star Wards: These Are Not the Elders You’re Looking For Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, Monday, WednesdayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; through Nov. 27, DesertStar.biz Titus Andronicus New World Shakespeare Co., Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-719-7998, Oct. 22-Nov. 1, Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 5 p.m.; NewWorldShakespeare.com (see p. 20) Tribes Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m.; Oct. 21-Nov. 15, SaltLakeActingCompany.org Utah Shakespeare Festival: Charley’s Aunt, Dracula, The Two Gentlemen of Verona Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center, Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Oct. 31, Bard.org War of the Worlds Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, 801-328-2586, Oct. 29-30, 7 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Young Frankenstein Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, 801-957-3322, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; through Oct. 30, The-Grand.org Young Frankenstein Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., through Nov. 14, ZigArts.com

DANCE

Odyssey Dance: Thriller Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees 2 p.m., through Oct. 31, OdysseyDance.com

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Music from Around the World Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-4636, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Calendar.BYU.edu Mysterioso: Music, Magic and Mayhem Utah Symphony, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Oct. 30-31, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org (see p. 24) Tad Calcara & New Deal Swing Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, 801-852-7007, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., ExcellenceConcerts.org University Campus Symphony Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Music.Utah.edu Utah Philharmonia Halloween Concert Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-6762, Oct. 29-30, 7:30 p.m., Music.utah.edu West Jordan Symphony Fall Concert Viridian Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, 801-948-7858, Oct. 30, 7-8:30 p.m., WestJordanSymphony.org

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Clean Comedy Open Mic Club 90, 9065 S. Monroe St., Sandy, 801-566-3254, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Club90SLC.com Improvables Centerpoint Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, Tuesday, 10 p.m., 801-450-7189, Facebook.com/The.Improvables.Utah Adult Improv & Open Mic Club at 50 West, 50 West Broadway, 801-961-1033, Thursday, 7 p.m., Club.50WestSLC.com Bo Burnham Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 31, 8 p.m., ArtTix.org (see p. 20) Comedy Sportz Comedy Sportz, 36 West Center St., Provo, 801-377-9700, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., ComedySportzUtah.com Funny Fridays Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, Fridays, 9 p.m., SandyStation.com Improv Broadway Studio Theater, Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, 801-852-7007, Oct 2-Nov 20, CoveyCenter.org Josh Fonokalafi Wiseguys Comedy Club, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Oct. 30, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Keith Stubbs Wiseguys Comedy Club, 2194 W. 3500 South, West Valley, 801-463-2909, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Laughing Stock Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Friday, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Campbell McGrath & Natalie Scenters-Zapico Westminster College, Gore Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-2376, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu Craig Dworkin: Alkali and Chapter XXIV The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 29, 7-9 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Craig Johnson: Dry Bones The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 South 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Marc Beaudin: Vagabond Song Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., KenSandersBooks.com Linda Dunning: A Haunting Halloween Salt Lake City Library Chapman Branch, 577 S. 900 W, 801-594-8623, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. SLCPL.org Donna Poulton: Painters of Grand Teton National Park Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, Oct. 30, 7 p.m., KenSandersBooks.com

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Fugu Americans tend to fear sharks. But your fishy fears might be better focused on fugu. That’s the Japanese word for puffer fish, which naturally contains tetrodotoxin, a deadly poison. Chefs in Japan must be specially certified to serve fugu, with at least three years of training learning how to prepare the fish. Strict laws control the fish’s preparation in restaurants. The liver is the most poisonous part of fugu, but is also said to be the tastiest, usually served raw as sashimi or as a hot-pot dish called chirinabe. I’ve never been able to confirm the rumor that some Japanese chefs leave a smidgeon of poison in the fish, to create a numbing or tingling sensation in the mouth. Care to try it? A dozen New York City restaurants serve fugu, with handful of puffer fish eateries scattered around the United States.

Haggis Cod Milt If you enjoy pork brains, you might want to try cod milt, to which it is often compared in flavor: soft, custardy and light. But then, you’d probably expect cod sperm sacs to be … soft, custardy and light. In Japan, milt is called shirako, kiku (oddly, the name of my first pet) or tachi. Now, before you get too high on your horse, you probably wouldn’t turn down a scoop of Beluga caviar, would you? And after all, that and the tobiko we love at sushi restaurants are just fish eggs— not that far afield from fish sperm. Milt is best served steamed or deep-fried.

Haggis—a Scottish delicacy—is a hearty savory pudding that contains a sheep’s heart, lungs and liver (the mixture is called “pluck”), mixed with oatmeal, suet, spices, salt and minced onion, all wrapped up— here’s the kicker—in the sheep’s stomach. It’s the traditional dish served at annual (Robert) Burns suppers, Jan. 25, and is commonly accompanied by a dram of Scotch whisky.

The so-called “century eggs” ( pidan) of China certainly look like they’ve been around for 100 years. The whites of these preserved eggs are dark brown, and the yolks are the greenish color of mold. Also known as thousand-year egg or millennium egg, you’ll be relieved to know that they’re actually preserved for mere weeks, or, at most, up to a few months. Century eggs have a strong flavor (as you might expect) and creamy texture. Traditionally, they are preserved in clay. If you tend to eschew the plum wine offered in many Asian restaurants, and are in the market for something a little more robust and hardy, how about snake wine? Throughout China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia venomous snakes are steeped in grain alcohol or rice wine. Good news though: the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol in the wine, so you won’t die, but might wish you had.

Sannakji Live octopus. Now there’s a dining challenge. Sannakji is a Korean dish consisting of small octopus cut into pieces—while still alive, and served immediately, usually with sesame oil. While sannakji is typically served in pieces, it can also be eaten whole, which presents a bit of a hazard: Many folks have choked on sannakji—especially while intoxicated. But, how the hell could anyone manage to down a live octopus while sober? There are some awfully fascinating sannakji-eating videos on YouTube. It’s been reported that Americans have been known to eat a 1,080-calorie hamburger from Carl’s Jr. called The Most American Thickburger, which appeals to Americans’ patriotic spirit, or maybe just our gluttony. It’s a beef patty topped with hot dogs and cheese atop a layer of potato chips. Now that’s scary! CW

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e are inundated, these days, by “craft” cocktails. You can’t shake a rosemary sprig or maple shrub without running into one. But for Halloween, the standard craft cocktail just won’t fly. You want to serve your adult party guests witchcraft-y cocktails that are a little spooky and ghoulish. Here are a handful of my favorites. Feel free to experiment with them and make them your own. Drizzle in a little Type A, for example? A big bowl of punch on All Hallows’ Eve is just the ticket. Here’s a Halloween punch that packs a punch: Blood of Innocence. In a large punch bowl, combine the following: 1 liter Caliche Rum, 16 ounces Ruby Port, 12 ounces Curaçao liquor, 12 ounces fresh-squeezed and strained orange juice,

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Hector’s serves some of the tastiest South of the Border fare in all the Salt Lake Valley. Popular combo plates feature carne asada, machaca, chorizo, chimichanga and chile rellenos. The fresh guacamole and homemade picante sauce are stars here. And, you can’t go wrong with the Mexican sandwiches called tortas—carnitas are particularly good. For the late nighters out there, Hector’s stays open until 3 a.m. every day of the week! 2901 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-487-3850

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This quaint gourmet deli offers a wide selection of inventive pasta, fruit & veggie salads, fresh sandwiches and entrees, including bourbon salmon and pepper steak. Imported chocolate, cheese and candy are available in the store. Among Cucina Deli’s specialties are the Thai beef salad, chicken scaloppine, lamb burgers, linguini carbonara, crab cakes, confit duck tostada, and macaroni & cheese with roasted jalapeños and smoked bacon. Dine in or take out—Cucina’s “executive” box lunches can be enjoyed on the go. 1026 E. Second Ave., Salt Lake City, 801-322-3055, CucinaDeli.com

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This bright and bustling ultra-modern space foregoes the predictable Greek blue-and-white color scheme and traditional bouzouki music playing in the background. While there are plenty of other places in Salt Lake City to get Greek fast food, here you’ll find contemporary meze (small plates) and entrees. The yemista meze is a trio of bright-red roasted and peeled piquillo peppers, stuffed with smoked feta, sprinkled with chopped scallions, olive oil and black sea salt. Other enticing meze options—and there are many—include htenia (sea scallops on a purée of yellow split peas, garnished with microgreens and a ring of citrus-ouzo vinaigrette), arni psito (lamb-belly sliders with smoked feta-cheese spread, Greek coffee barbecue sauce and pickled cucumber), and htapodi (charred octopus with warm Zürsun heirloom-bean salad). You could easily make a meal of meze, but that would mean that you’d miss out on wonderful entrees like moist and juicy Mary’s half-chicken, roasted and served with lemon rice pilaf, grilled toast and an exceptional chamomile broth. Excellent, friendly service to the roster of fine Greek fare, and it becomes clear what all the buzz is about. Reviewed Oct. 22, 2015. 402 E. 900 South, 801-532-3760, ManolisOn9th.com

Hearth on 25th

Restaurateurs Shana and AJ Hubbard don’t play it safe when it comes to food and drink. Who else would put yak tartare on an Ogden menu? This may be Ogden’s priciest restaurant, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. The coconut-curry popcorn at the bar is $5, but it’s the best popcorn I’ve ever tasted. The centerpiece of the kitchen is, indeed, a hearth—a Tuscan wood-burning oven. Like everything on Hearth’s menu, the pizzas and flatbreads are eclectic, and you can even try bone marrow—which tastes a bit like warm foie gras—spread on thick slices of house-baked sourdough toast. Hearth’s “Slow Food Stroganoff” features excellent house-made noodles, but contained stringy, dry strands of beef, all but obliterated by a mountain of mushrooms, and the flavor was bland and lacked seasoning. A much more satisfying entree is the quail and dumplings, with seared-then-braised tender quail in a hearty chasseur sauce with wild mushrooms, pancetta, small bluecheese dumplings, grilled endive and pickled quail egg. Utah’s culinary scene could surely benefit from more risk-takers like Hearth on 25th. Reviewed Oct. 13, 2015. 195 25th St., No. 6, Ogden, 801-399-0088, Hearth25.com

Mom’s Kitchen

Two culinary cultures come together under one roof—Mama Zhang hails from Beijing, while Mama Chen is Taiwanese— and the combination is killer. Don’t expect a cookie-cutter, lunch-buffet Chinese restaurant experience. A lunch of minced pork came in a bowl with brown sauce and the slightest hint of star anise, with a generous mound of steamed white rice, a cold cabbage salad and hard-boiled egg. Noodles, buns, potstickers, fried dumplings and such at Mom’s are lovingly homemade, and taste like it. Another terrific starter/ small plate is the green-onion cake. The Kung pao chicken and shrimp is the best in Utah, a much more traditional dish than you’ll find in most Chinese restaurants, featuring nothing more than chicken and shrimp fried in oil with peanuts and dried chili peppers, garnished with minced scallions. If you only order one thing at Mom’s, however, make it Mom’s cold noodles with a silky, heavenly peanut sauce. These dandan type homemade noodles simply can’t be improved upon. Reviewed Oct. 1, 2015. 2233 S. State, 801-486-0092, MomsKitchenRestaurantSaltLakeCity.com

Oak Wood Fire Kitchen

Executive chef/partner David Kimball’s place isn’t just about pizza. The pizza is incredible, but so were other dishes we tried: a gargantuan serving of fried calamari with lemon and parsley on a smear of zippy “feisty sauce”; Oak Bread with parmesan, rosemary, garlic oil and black pepper; incendiary Sriracha-honey chicken wings with shredded carrot slaw and blue cheese. I’m a sucker for spaghetti and meatballs, and the meatballs and sauce here—like most menu items—are made from scratch; the al dente thin spaghetti was lightly coated in tomato-basil sauce, not smothered to death with it. Ultimately, though, it’s the woodfired pizzas that will bring you back again and again. My baseline for pizza is the Margherita. Unfortunately, so many places screw it up. Not Oak Wood Fire Kitchen, however. It is as good—and as simple—as the best Margherita I’ve ever tasted. Nothing more than top-notch crust, lightly charred bubbles intact, with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh basil. Next time, I’ll try the Creminelli prosciutto and arugula pizza with fontina, Parmesan and ricotta. Reviewed Sept. 24, 2015. 715 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-996-8155, OakWoodFireKitchen. com

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Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford in Truth the fate of hard journalism in the face of corporate concerns, Truth doesn’t take on the potentially enlightening premise of, “Yeah, the story was a botched job, but here’s why, and why that matters.” Instead, the narrative is built on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy—and while that conspiracy absolutely exists, in this case, it’s a dodge. The film’s references to the Swift Boat Veterans attacks that damaged John Kerry’s campaign are relevant, because they demonstrate what’s supposed to be the difference between real journalism and a smear campaign: the almost scientific dedication to results that can be duplicated. Truth ignores that journalism is built on the saying that also applies to prosecutors: It doesn’t matter what you know, it matters what you can prove. The title alone demonstrates a focus completely different from what it might have been had the title been, say, Proof. When it comes to understanding that journalism demands a higher standard, Vanderbilt can’t handle the truth. CW

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source who backtracks after initially seeming to verify the documents’ authenticity. The bulk of Truth becomes a story about the fallout, as CBS News scurries to cover its ass and other media outlets pile on the allegations of shoddy journalism initiated by conservative bloggers. Mapes is at the center of it all, and Vanderbilt has trouble shaping a consistent characterization. Blanchett is effective at conveying Mapes’ bulldog tenacity, but there’s an uneven attempt to incorporate her history as a survivor of childhood physical abuse by her bullying father. It’s even more puzzling when we watch Mapes reacting with pearl-clutching alarm at seeing threats and insults directed at her in comments on conservative websites—an oddly naïve response, given that she had already produced a story revealing the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The larger problem with Truth is that it never really confronts the allegations of journalistic sloppiness as worthy of legitimate concern. In one of the film’s most intriguing bits of background, we watch as Mapes is forced by the network’s schedule to choose between rushing the story into a slot just days away, or waiting until too close to the election. The decision to go with the former option results in bad choices regarding putting the report together—we see Mapes, due to time constraints, ax an interview with one of the experts who supports the documents’ authenticity—yet despite the number of speeches we get from people lamenting

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he title of Truth—writer/director James Vanderbilt’s dramatization of the controversy surrounding 60 Minutes’ 2004 story about President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard Service, by way of producer Mary Mapes’ memoir—feels like it should be spoken with an exclamation point. You can almost hear Tom Cruise saying it the way he does before Jack Nicholson’s famous monologue from A Few Good Men, brimming with righteousness. Except this movie doesn’t understand the ways in which that righteousness is misplaced. That’s because the entire underlying premise of Truth is cued to the audience by its title: that “what actually happened” is all that really matters. Journalists were called on the carpet for the way they gathered and vetted their story, but only “the truth” should have been relevant. That premise is so false that it becomes virtually impossible to take seriously anything that Truth tries to say. Vanderbilt does a perfectly effective job of setting the stage for Bush’s tightly contested 2004 re-election battle with John Kerry, where anything might tip the balance one way or the other. Into that fray tread Mapes (Cate Blanchett) and her research team— Mike Smith (Topher Grace), Lucy Scott (Elisabeth Moss) and Lt. Col. Roger Charles (Dennis Quaid)—when they get a bombshell tip. Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett (Stacy Keach) claims to have documents that prove Bush was AWOL from his National Guard posting, which will be tied into a story—anchored by CBS News veteran Dan Rather (Robert Redford)—showing that the Bush family used political connections to keep George W. out of Vietnam. That story eventually blows up in everyone’s face as questions arise over the authenticity of Burkett’s documents, Burkett’s reliability and that of another

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. THE ASSASSIN BBB Maybe it’s missing the point to wonder why Hou Hsiao-Hsien can’t pay as much attention to the solid premise he sets up as he does to the beautiful images he creates. That premise—set in the 9th century Tang Dynasty era in China—focuses on a trained killer named Yinniang (Shu Qi) who fails in an assignment and is subsequently sent by her master to kill Tian Ji’an (Chen Chang), the man to whom she was once betrothed. That potentially charged dynamic between assassin and target is almost entirely ignored by Hou, whose narrative instead wanders through plenty of convoluted political machinations seasoned with a couple of magical spells. There are also a few sequences of semi-wuxia martial-arts action, which get almost all of their energy from the locations in which Hou sets them, like a towering forest of aspens. From the conversations shot through filmy drapes glowing with blobs of candlelight

to treks through tall golden grass, dozens of individual shots are breathtaking in their composition. And it still would have been lovely to have more genuine emotion to pull it all together. Opens Oct. 30 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw BURNT BB The temptation for kitchen-related metaphor is strong, but the more relevant analogy may be to Steve Jobs—and not in a way that does this movie any favors. Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a gifted chef whose career was sidetracked by addiction. Now he’s ready to get back in the game in London, counting on old friends (Daniel Brühl, Omar Sy) and a talented sous chef (Sienna Miller) to bring him back to superstar status. Director John Wells is at his best capturing the controlled chaos of Adam’s kitchen, and building a story that—like Steve Jobs—is about a haunted man pursuing creative perfection at the expense of the personal relationships in his life. But there’s an awkwardly formulaic quality to almost everything in Steven Knight’s script, from the forced romance between Cooper and Miller to the dialogue in which every character connection is introduced in ways that would never pass between humans (“When I was your sous chef

in Paris …”). Luscious food porn and a few solid performances aside, it feels like a redemption narrative that’s mostly half-bak- … nope, not gonna do it. Opens Oct. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR

THE KEEPING ROOM BB.5 There’s a daring intersectional premise at the core of this period suspense drama—and it’s one that never quite hits its sweet spot, no matter how many thesis-supporting speeches the characters deliver. Set in 1865, it follows three women alone on a Southern farm in the waning days of the Civil War—sisters Augusta (Brit Marling) and Louise (Hailee Steinfeld), and their slave Mad (Muna Otaru)—who face the threat of two advance Union soldiers (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller) on a rampage of rape and destruction. Director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown) builds tension throughout, right from a terrific, effectively shocking prologue. But Julia Hart’s screenplay wants to dig into the horrors of a war driven by masculine impulses, as well as the possibility that these Southern white women may have more in common with their slaves than with the Southern white men off defending their “way of life.” And while there may be some

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visceral power in the simple revisionist revenge yarn, The Keeping Room trips clumsily over every attempt to plunge into those complex ideas, never missing an opportunity for a monologue. Opens Oct. 30 at Tower Theatre. (R)—SR OUR BRAND IS CRISIS BB.5 No matter where else we may have fallen behind, America is still a great exporter of political skullduggery. Based on a 2005 documentary about the 2002 Bolivian presidential election, this slight political dramedy stars Sandra Bullock as Jane Bodine, a fierce campaign strategist who’s flown down to La Paz by Sen. Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), an aloof, unpopular former president, trying to achieve a come-from-behind victory. Castillo’s rival has hired Jane’s rival, a smiling Carville-esque weasel named Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton) with whom Jane has a long, bitter, occasionally playful history. There are funny moments and crafty maneuvers as Jane and her team (featuring Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Zoe Kazan) try to guide their candidate to victory, but the film (directed by David Gordon Green) stays grounded in reality, never veering into satire or farce. It might have been better if it had gotten zanier; instead, it’s rather staid and un-risky—until the end, when it takes a turn that might have been effective if it hadn’t come out of nowhere. Still, our love affair with Sandy Bullock continues. Opens Oct. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

TRUTH BB See review p. 35. Opens Oct. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)

A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND At Park City Film Series, Oct. 30-31 @ 8 p.m. & Nov. 1 @ 6 p.m. (NR) FROM THIS DAY FORWARD At Main Library Auditorium, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. (NR) PAPER TIGERS At Rose Wagner Center, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. (NR) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW At Tower Theatre, Oct. 30-31, 11 p.m. (R)

JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI BBB.5 Facing a 20-year ban on making movies in Iran, Jafar Panahi continues to find fascinating ways to make them anyway. This one is structured as something akin to a free-form documentary, with Panahi driving around Tehran as though he were a cab driver and picking up random passengers, filming the encounters with dashboard-mounted cameras. It’s never entirely clear if some or even most of those encounters are staged; one passenger, who recognizes Panahi, assumes his fellow passengers are actors. But that uncertainty feeds into Panahi’s often-reflexive exploration of how Iran’s restrictive policies for filmmakers cloud the notion of how much “reality” you’ll ever get a chance to see. There are fascinating glimpses of contemporary Iranian life here, even if every viewer shares the sentiment of one character when she says, “Real, unreal … honestly, it’s beyond me.” (NR)—SR JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS B.5 Director John M. Chu brings the 1980s cartoon about an all-girl rock band into the real world—sort of. It’s certainly live-action, with teen Jerrica (Aubrey Peeples) taking on the stage identity of Jem while her three sisters form her backup band, with evil music exec Erica Raymond (Juliette Lewis) executing a vague plan to cheat them while her hunky son, Rio (Ryan Guzman), cozies up to Jerrica. Chu (who made a couple of Step Up movies and the Justin Bieber concert films) aims for authenticity, treating it like a realistic a-star-is-born drama. But Ryan Landels’ drab, simple-minded screenplay—with no grasp of how the real world works—undercuts those efforts. The paper-thin characters and their implausible rise to fame are pure fantasy—and tedious, often overly serious fantasy, at that. Surely the animated series was at least fun. (PG)—EDS

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EXPERIMENTER BBB.5 Writer/director Michael Almereyda turns social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 experiment—about people’s willingness to inflict pain on strangers—into a playful, self-aware movie with an eccentric personality. Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) breaks the fourth wall to narrate the story through the whirlwind of notoriety that followed Milgram’s controversial work, and Almereyda uses things like deliberately fake backdrops to remind us of the movie’s inherent artificiality. He also shrewdly avoids telling Milgram’s entire biography, focusing instead on the more easily managed story of this experiment and its aftereffects. Sarsgaard plays Milgram as resourceful and optimistic, a trustworthy pal eager to let us in on his secrets. Despite the alarming questions the study raised about human nature, the film is enjoyably relaxed, a humorous and upbeat account of a fascinating phenomenon. All social science should be this entertaining. (PG-13)—EDS

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THE LAST WITCH HUNTER BB.5 Vin Diesel is Kaulder, a family man from the Middle Ages cursed with immortality and tasked by the Roman Catholic Church to wipe out a slew of modern-day cackling crones. Yes, it’s as preposterous as it sounds—possibly even more so—but the rampant hooey is kept stylish and relatively fleet-footed by director Breck Eisner, who after this and the entertaining remake of The Crazies deserves to be in the upper tier of genre filmmakers (Michael Caine also drops by for a bit, which is never bad). This vehicle, however, belongs unquestionably to its star, whose hysterical confidence in his own radness might actually allow him to best Tom Cruise in a self-belief off. Straightfacedly rumbling about the location of a witch prison, the big guy somehow holds it all together—even the stuff involving Evil Trees. (PG-13)—Andrew Wright

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION B.5 Each entry in the franchise has been duller, unscarier and further adrift from the found-footage conceit than the last—and the trend continues. The demon “Toby” (not his real name) is back, haunting yet another family, which dad (Chris J. Murray) discovers via a vintage jury-rigged camcorder from the early 1990s that not only can see into the “ghost dimension”—spoiler: It’s mostly ashy dust motes floating in the air—but also sees in 3D, making it officially the most cynical, contextually inappropriate excuse for 3D up-charging ever. Unlike the first film, set in a modest suburban home, this one rambles around an obnoxiously large McMansion, making it more real-estate porn than ghost story. If Nancy Meyers decided to make a horror movie, it might look something like this. That is not a recommendation. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson ROCK THE KASBAH B.5 The inspired-by-a-true-story narrative features a young Pashtun woman named Salima (Leem Lubany) risking her life to sing—against cultural proscriptions—on a popular TV talent show in Afghanistan. But the central character is Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), a washed-up talent agent who takes his lone client on a USO tour to Kabul and winds up mixed up with black-market gunrunners, an American prostitute (Kate Hudson) and tribal in-fighting. That’s a ridiculous number of balls to keep in the air in order to focus the story on Richie’s career redemption—and for a while, it’s almost perversely fascinating to watch director Barry Levinson juggle them. But not even the chance to see Murray in vintage huckster mode is worth the flop sweat, or the uncomfortable sense that a woman’s life is made the B-plot relative to a man’s pride. (R)—SR STEVE JOBS BBBB This is much narrower than a childhood-to-death biography of the Apple founder (Michael Fassbender), a tale told through three public product-launch events of how one man revolutionized the computer industry and changed the world through sheer force of personality—a personality that was mainly Breathtakingly Narcissistic Jerk. Aaron Sorkin’s funny screenplay is almost a stage play about Jobs’ personal and professional relationships, but director Danny Boyle renders it so cinematically that it could never be mistaken for one. I can’t recall a film that so beautifully gets right the complicated but still creative mess one person’s life can be, or manages it in such a satisfying way. Nothing here mythologizes the man; if history is about finding the roots of the present in the past, then this is one of the more compulsory bits of modern history I’ve ever seen. (R)—MAJ

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Ash vs. Evil Dead and The Returned rock Halloween; Après Ski is a snow job. Ash vs. Evil Dead Saturday, Oct. 31 (Starz)

Season Premiere: ’Merica tried like hell to replicate it (ABC’s Resurrection and A&E’s The Returned, now both canceled), but only France’s The Returned strikes the right balance of dread and pathos—and with subtitles, no less. The story of a small mountain community experiencing an influx of thought-tobe-dead former residents—who themselves don’t recall any passage of time or, you know, death—could have been treated as straight-up horror, but The Returned also embraces its sadness and personal drama, and wraps it all up in gorgeous cinematography with a chilling soundtrack (produced by Scottish band Mogwai). The uninitiated should begin with Season 1 (available on Netflix, iTunes and Google Play—just make sure it’s not the A&E version); the rest of you should note that this is the rare occasion that I recommend anything French besides fries, toast and Serge Gainsbourg.

Season Premiere: It should have been a home run, but the 2014 debut season of The Librarians turned out to be more of an air ball (am I doing these sports analogies right?). The creative team behind the original Indiana-Jones-with-asupernatural-twist Librarian movies and the TNT series Leverage somehow fumbled (I know that one works) the series after a promising pilot that established a new magicalartifact-hunting team (Rebecca Romijn, Christian Kane, Lindy Booth and John Kim) with some veteran backup (O.G. Librarian Noah Wyle, to varying effectiveness). Season 2 looks to be more of the same action-adventure fluff with a distinct “family-friendly” vibe, which is probably what’s throwing me off: gotta remember that not everything has to be American Horror Story-dark; working on it.

Mike Tyson Mysteries Sunday, Nov. 1 (Adult Swim)

Season Premiere: Mike Tyson (voiced by Tyson at his most Tyson-y) solves mysteries with the help of his sidekicks Pigeon (Norm Macdonald), the Marquess of Queensbury’s ghost (Jim Rash) and adopted Korean daughter Yung Hee (Rachel Ramras). This ’70s-Saturday-morning-cartoon throwback looked like an insane, one-and-done joke when it first premiered a year ago, but Mike Tyson Mysteries proved to be an addictive series with smart writing and genuine character development—yes, even Macdonald’s alcoholic

Ash vs. Evil Dead (Starz) asshole of a talking bird. Not that it isn’t still insane and poorly animated …

Après Ski Monday, Nov. 2 (Bravo)

Series Debut: Lest you think the Colorful Idiots With Posh Jobs reality-show well had run dry at Bravo, here’s Après Ski: “Canadian hospitality mogul Joey Gibbons has recruited a dream team of dynamic staff members to orchestrate unforgettable experiences—from backcountry heli-skiing and steamy hot springs spa treatments to fine dining in the gondola, no request is too outrageous,” says Bravo. “But when the chairlifts go up and the shotskis go down, the sexy staffers will bump heads and break hearts.” That’s right: more entitled pretty people alternately screaming at, and screwing, each other. This is why there will never be a behind-the-scenes reality series about TV critics—as the lone good-looking one, I can’t carry a show on my own. CW Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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If you missed The Slow Poisoner’s set at SLC Solo Fest in August, you should be sad. I know I am. The self-proclaimed “one-man weirdo garage band” from San Francisco is catnip for fans of music, horror movies and comic books. He’s like Southern Culture on the Skids meets Joe Coleman meets Dan Clowes meets Abbott & Costello meets H.P. Lovecraft meets … more references. This funky, roots-y, supercreepy reverb fest is one of his best. It starts with the line, “Ever been chewed upon by teeth as sharp as knives? Well, so have I,” and finishes thusly: “Ever had your head removed by goblins in the woods? You know it’s good.” Ever had your spine chilled by The Slow Poisoner? You know it’s good.

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Horror-film fans know Goblin’s unsettling, atmospheric soundtracks from George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Goblin Rebirth is one of several versions of the Italian prog-rock band (these tend to feature one to four original members; this one has two: Fabio Pignatelli and Agostino Marangolo). Rebirth harks back to classic Goblin as heard in the films. It’s airy, often sublime, but more often hair-raising. Taking its name from the Italian title of Romero’s Dawn, Zombi does a spacey take on Goblin’s sound, no doubt because spaghetti-splatter soundtrackers are a huge influence on keyboardist/composer Steve Moore (Red Sparowes, Panthers), who scores horror films (Gutterballs) himself. Both albums are a feast for horror and prog fans alike.

Acid King, “39 Lashes” from Busse Woods (Man’s Ruin/Small Stone, reissue, 2004)

What could be more ominous than a song that starts with a bass guitar plucking notes as if counting, I dunno, something? Then a guitar comes in, intoning like a priest at an altar, until its strings fade into silence, which is broken by drums, before all three instruments come in behind vocals hissing, “One, two, three, four, five, six …” all the way up to ragged, bloody 39? And, then, the bass resumes its numberless count, implying—in spite of the fact that this song ends after roughly 6 1/2 minutes—that the lashes continue.

The Dollyrots, “Punk Rock Werewolf” from Love Songs, Werewolves & Zombies (Arrested Youth, 2014)

As with most songs by these masters of catchy pop punk, this one’s just fun. “Punk rock werewolf/ On the prowl/ Punk rock werewolf/ Hear me howl/ Punk rock werewolf/ Chasin’ after you/ Baby, it’s a full moon!” There’s only one version, and it’s acoustic—but the guitars still snarl, and that chorus sinks its teeth into you.

Herman Kopp, “Menschentrümmer 4” from Der Todesking OST (rare import, 1989)

“Menschentrümmer” is a German word that means “human debris.” That, alone, is supremely freaky—and it doesn’t scratch the surface when it comes to describing the extreme horror films of Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Schramm). Der Todesking (The Death King) is a hard-to-watch examination of death in seven vignettes, each focusing on the death of a different person, with interstitial time-lapse footage of an actual rotting corpse. “Menschentrümmer 4” is your standard glockenspiel/music-box horror music: almost soothing, but with a queasy undercurrent—perfect for juxtaposition with Buttgereit’s twisted art-house horror.

Butt-Out, “Monsterous Problems” from The Swoody Spooky Halloween Party Mix (Swoody, 2015)

If you dig the weirdness, Blair Sterrett’s Swoody Records label will do you right. This brand-new compilation is 22 tracks of goodness—seven from local acts, including Secret Abilities, Hell and the Graverobber, Michael Biggs, Shot in the Mountains, Valerie Rose Sterrett, NSPS and The Dawn and the Dew. Every juicily odd track is worth hearing, but the Randomizer landed on this mush-mouthed, lo-fi soul jam from Florida’s Butt-Out, featuring blather from George W. Bush. You can stream the whole thing—available at pay-what-youwant pricing—here: SwoodyRecords.Bandcamp.com/album/theswoody-spooky-halloween-party-mix.

Love, “Graveyard Hop” from Reel to Real (High Moon, 2015 reissue)

The second bonus track preview from the upcoming reissue of Love’s 1974 album is a raw, punky, live-in-the-studio, one-timeonly version of Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock.” Frontguy Arthur Lee opens the tune with a howl, singing the remainders in a soulful rasp while cranking out licks that’d make Chuck Berry’s ding-a-ling jump. Whoooo! CW

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Ogden hip-hop collective BassMint Pros drop a regional, self-referential party platter about … us. BY RANDY HARWARD rharward@cityweekly.net

he sound of static, then that of a radio being tuned. An announcer intones: “In a world without real hip-hop, live in-studio, it’s The BMP Pirate Radio Takeover Show!” More static as the dial moves. A velvet-voiced smooth-jazz DJ says, “That was Herb Bangcock’s new single, ‘Hip-Hop Love,’ here on KWBMP 80.1 FM, home of soft hits and big—” A knock cuts off the DJ’s chatter. “It’s BMP, mo-fo!” Sirens, and a scuffle. “Do not adjust your dial! BMP has control of the airwaves! This is the joint that started it all!” That’s a lot of noise for a Tuesday morning, pre-coffee. It leads to uncharitable thoughts like, ‘Oh, great. Buncha honkies from Ogden playing at hip-hop, believing that their genesis was a landmark event.’ The eject button began to look, as that snack-happy YouTube kid says, “gooder than a bitch.” A needle scratches vinyl (in a bad way). A robot voice says, “Let’s go to work.” A needle scratches vinyl (in a good way). The first words out of BMP’s mouths? Their own name. (Why does every hip-hop artist do that?) A woman sings, repeatedly, “BaaaassMiiiint Proooos.” The group identifies itself yet again, and reiterates the imminent cultural flashpoint that is their own existence. To be fair, the track is called “Intro/ BassMint Pros,” so the solipsistic stuff is perhaps justified. But now, a different emcee is up. His flow is smooth as he rhymes about his group—er, collective—while the woman from before continues to sing BMP’s name. Then, surprises: a beat from Gary Wright’s “Love Is Alive,” a guitar lick from Huey Lewis’ “Heart and Soul,” the watery hook from Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” The next 72 minutes are crammed with hypnotic beats, sly rhymes, comedy skits and copious samples. There’s movie dialogue (“Nobody tells DJ Request what to play!”), bits of radio shows (Casey Kasem’s profane America’s Top 40 rant) and more odd bits of music (Rush, AC/DC, Depeche Mode, Eddy Grant). Suddenly, this is fun.

BassMint Pros release a new rap record.

A sampled line from Mr. Show sums it up: “Can I get a fuckin’ A?!” Typically, hip-hop artists get slammed for sampling other acts’ songs. In a lot of cases, the criticism is deserved: Any fool can mix clips into something that’s nice to hear and ultimately forgettable. With Takeover, BassMint Pros deftly blends hip-hop, classic rock, comedy, political commentary and local references into a compelling, irresistible listen. Which is some trick, because all of this could easily have resulted in a big, selfreferential, self-important mess. Fortunately, The BMP Pirate Radio Takeover Show just wants listeners to have a good time. It’s that simple, clear concept and the relentless creativity of the collective, that makes Takeover a resounding success. About the “collective” thing: BMP is more than the core four of Beatnic da Diabolik, Ransom, Mad Max and Weird Beard. “We’re a band called PNC, or Partners in Crime,” Diabolik says, “and BMP is the tent”—a tent that encompasses a variety of local musicians, rappers and singers. On Takeover, PNC is joined by 15 contributors, including vocalists Kishana Weems (from “Intro”) and Ischa Bee (Minx), rappers Rhagenetix and guitarist Mike Sasich (Thunderfist, Bronco). Camden Chamberlain (Suicycles, Cavedoll) engineered. Although the material originated with PNC, Diabolik insists Takeover wouldn’t be what it is without everyone’s contributions. The collective, then, should be proud of Takeover, an affectionate, self-deprecating, incisively critical, immersive and genuinely fun collage portrait of BMP, Ogden, the State of Utah, and LDS culture. “Hiphop is regional,” says Beatnic, explaining that East Coast, West Coast, Southern and Midwestern hip-hop “all have their own production sound, style, and presentation. I want to show specifically what the Mountain West—and specifically, Utah—have to offer. We love the 801. Utah is who we are.” That’s another reason why Takeover, in spite of its initial apparent lameness, ultimately wins you over. Great hip-hop is fun and inclusive, a party where you feel as though you belong. It’s not about one person, or one entity; it’s about us. CW

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The Heber Valley Western Music & Cowboy Poetry Gathering commemorates 21 years in November—and, come to think of it, it seems it’s been about that long since any of us city slickers have heard of the phenomena. The event covers the better part of a week, and you could do a lot worse than spend a few crisp autumn days in the picturesque Heber/Midway area. This year’s performers are nothing to sneeze at, either, with the ever-popular Ghost Riders in the Sky, Jim Curry’s tribute to John Denver and Michael Martin Murphy, known for country-pop hits, “Wildfire,” “Carolina in the Pines,” and “Geronimo’s Cadillac.” Check the website for complete schedule, accommodations and ticket prices for each event. (BS) Wasatch High School, and other area venues, 930 S. 500 East, Heber City, $10-$65, HeberValleyCowboyPoetry.com

SATURDAY 10.31

The Sword, All Them Witches

Austin, Texas, is such a music town that even heavy metal—a genre seemingly unlikely for the region—flourishes there. The Sword has plied its brand of stoner doom metal (a la Sleep and Witch Mountain) to some acclaim since 2003, but began moving toward a more hard-rock sound with 2010’s Warp Riders. Their latest release, High Country (Razor & Tie) finds them settling into a Thin Lizzy-style sound. Some fans complain the new sound isn’t metal enough, but even without the epic instrumentals and George R.R. Martin/Robert E. Howard sci-fi/fantasy lyrics, The Sword still sounds larger than life. Nashville psych-rock band

All Them Witches open on the heels of their new album Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (New West), and what could be more appropriate for Halloween? (BS) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 8:30 p.m., $20 in advance, $22 day of show, InTheVenueSLC.com

King Diamond, Exodus

Back in the ’80s, satanic heavy-metal singer King Diamond took kabuki makeup used to great advantage by Kiss to a sinister level, adding inverted crosses and a baleful grimace. He scared the bejesus out of me. It didn’t help that my Born Again father kept talking about how I was destined for hell just for listening to hair bands, or the Fat Boys, or anything that didn’t exalt the Lord. So just looking at this Danish dude’s picture felt like mortal sin, and listening to his operatic wailing, buttressed by a twinguitar assault and evil metal tritone, was inviting Lucifer to take the wheel. Then someone compared KD to the Hamburglar, and I lightened up, realizing that the makeup and the stinkeye (dibs on that band name!) are nothing to worry about— ditto Jesus or Satan. And finally, finally, I was able to enjoy some of the finest heavy-metal music ever made, including Abigail, King Diamond’s magnum opus, which he’s performing in its entirely on this tour, along with selections from his new release, Dreams of Horror (Metal Blade). Too bad he’s not eviscerating the new, studlier Hamburglar, who should definitely be ahead of KD in line for Hell’s 10th circle. Speakin’ of good metal: California thrash gods Exodus join King, touring behind Blood

The Sword In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast), for a bitchin’ double bill. Guys, if you’re reading this: Pleasepleaseplease play your cover of War’s “Low Rider.” Please. I’ll bring the cowbell. (RH) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $30 in advance, $35 day of show, TheComplexSLC.com

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In this crazy decade, one of the things you can do if you’re a 30-something is to become a rapper, as did Andrew Robert Nielsen, aka Lars Horris, MC Lars, to be exact. For a decade, he’s been one of the chief practitioners of nerdcore hip-hop, with shout-outs to emo, indie and post-punk bands, as well as Shakespeare and Poe. He will likely premiere songs from his The Zombie Dinosaur LP, due out Nov. 6 on Horris

Records. It’s also probable old faves like, “Hot Topic is not Punk Rock,” “This Gigantic Robot Kills” and “Flow Like Poe” will be heard. That’s correct: Edgar Allan. (BS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $12.50 in advance, $14.50 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

Rusted Root

Rusted Root’s breakout hit “Send Me on My Way” conjures an image of a human baby, riding on the back of a woolly mammoth, accompanied by the ragtag group of misfits from Ice Age having a sweet and lighthearted journey. Rusted Root is well-known for jaunty polyrhythmic tunes, but they can get serious, like the song “Smarty Pants,” featured on Buy This Fracking Album (Movement, 2015), a two-disc anti-fracking compilation album also featuring Michael Franti, Moon Hooch and others. When Rusted Root jams, they sound like a mellow Led Zeppelin—in fact, they’ve been known to play “Heartbreaker.” Even if they don’t whip out that particular cover, their repertoire is deep; they’re as likely to cover The Rolling Stones or Neil Young, as play one of their own numerous unreleased tunes. (TF) The State Room, 638 S. » State, 8 p.m., $28 TheStateRoom.com

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It’s hard to believe Heartless Bastards have been at it for more than a decade. This Texasvia-Ohio bunch, led by Erika Wennerstrom, are still cranking out a heady brew of hard rock, garage, blues and country. In live performances, the band lays down a scrappy, precise groove—and they never, ever forget their amps (honest—it might get loud). Openers Slothrust, from New York City, are a little bluesier (or is that bloozier?) than the Bastards, but sonically, a good match. I’m not telling you people what to do, but earplugs might be a good idea (and remember to wash behind your ears). (TH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $20, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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I just don’t get how bands decide what to call themselves these days. But Brooklyn, New York indie band Here We Go Magic seems to, in accordance with their name, rush headlong into whatever stylistic whim takes their fancy from moment to moment. Their latest, Be Small (Secretly Canadian) tells a story, maybe not on an epic scale, but it holds you spellbound. From lo-fi pop and rock to synthesizer psychedelia, freak folk and noise, they don’t seem to take any of it too seriously, but the effortlessness with which they flit from one thing to the next evokes a bit of awe. But then, dork that you are, you find yourself dancing to it even though you can’t dance. (Brian Staker) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15 in advance, $17.50 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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It’s going to be a neon dance party of disco-funk, rave-rap and jovial life-lovin’ pop and it’s going to be a bit like watching a bizarre rendition of a live early-’90s music video, had the ‘90s been held together mostly by brightly colored duct tape. The Portland, Ore., group is known for their party anthem attitudes, reflected in their music videos and clothing brand, and in their newest single release, “What I Like” (with the rest of the record expected soon). There’s not a negative song in the bunch, with titles such as “We Should Hang Out,” “Power Happy” and “Come to My Party.” Be prepared to question what the hell is going on; this show will be full of unexpected malarkey and multiple costume changes. Reggae group Este Noche opens. (TF) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, $15 in advance, $20 day of show, KilbyCourt.com

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Albert Hammond Jr.

How musical fashions change. Hammond’s band, The Strokes, was at the top of the of indie-rock cool-cred charts several years ago. And, although they never matched the success of their breakthrough, Is This It, there hasn’t been anything in indie music quite like them since: a combination of musical-trust DNA (the guitarist’s father is Albert Hammond Sr. of “It Never Rains in Southern California” fame), nattily dressed garage-rock aesthetics, and sheer rock chutzpah tempered with great hooks. The junior Hammond’s third solo release, Momentary Masters (Vagrant) finds his songwriting and playing more focused and lyrically terse, yet still evocative. “Born Slippy” isn’t the Underworld number—but in an alternate universe, it might be just as big a hit. (Brian Staker) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $13 in advance, $18.50 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Aaron Woodall Comedy (Egyptian Theatre) Albert Hammond Jr., Walking Shapes (The Urban Lounge, p. 48) Con Bro Chill, Este Noche (Kilby Court, p. 45) Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood (EnergySolutions Arena) Harry Lee and the Back Alley Blues Band (Gracie’s) Heber Valley Music & Cowboy Poetry (Various venues in Heber City, p. 42) Highland Drive & Momentus (Gallivan Center) It Lies Within, Cry Excess, Elysium, When the City Falls, Storm Tide Horizon (The Loading Dock) Kass, Emily (The Stereo Room) Lumberjack Fabulous (The Spur Bar & Grill) Mark Chaney and the Garage All Stars (Garage on Beck)

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Michelle Moonshine (Hog Wallow Pub) New Years Day, Get Scared, Eyes Set To Kill, New Volume, It’s Awake (In the Venue) One Eyed Doll, Stitched Up Heart, Run 2 Cover, The Cliterinas (Area 51) Patty Griffin, Darlingside (The State Room) Rack En Espanol, Reggae Thursday (The Woodshed) Steel Born Buffalo, Queenadilla, Lost in Bourbon, Bectics (Velour)

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Jazz Jam Session (Sugarhouse Coffee) Live Jazz with the Jeff Archuleta Combo (Twist) Open Mic Night, Hosted by Once the Lion (Legends Billiards Club)

Antidote: Hot Noise (The Red Door) Sub Focus & Mat Zo (Sky)

Karaoke (A Bar Named Sue) Karaoke (A Bar Named Sue on State) Karaoke (Habit’s) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Karaoke w/TIYB (Club 90) Ogden Unplugged (Lighthouse Lounge)

FRIDAY 10.30 Brain Bagz, Nods, Lazy Susan (The Woodshed) Breakfast Klub (The Spur Bar & Grill) Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Nothing More (Maverik Center) Brenda Xu (The Barrelhouse) Controlled Burn (Garage on Beck) Divisions, Crisis in Consciousness, The Cmdwn, Charlatan, No Safe Way Home (Liquid Joe’s)

Eprom (Club X) Genre Zero (Mestizo Coffeehouse) The Ghost Inside, The Glass House, Alumni, Hollow, I Am (The Loading Dock) Have Mercy, Transit, Somos, Microwave (The Complex) Heber Valley Music & Cowboy Poetry (Various venues in Heber City, p. 42) Joshua James, Children of the Corn, Bryan John Appleby (Velour) Kaleb Austin (Westerner) Magda-Vega, Salt Lake Spitfires, Red Telephone (Devils Daughter) Marmalade Hill (Hog Wallow Pub) Show Me Island, The Anchorage, The Makeways, The Beam Me Up Ska-Ts, TBA (Kilby Court) Rail Town (Outlaw Saloon) Small Black, Painted Palms (The Urban Lounge, p. 50) Talia Keys & Friends Halloween Bash: Michael Jackson Tribute (The State Room)

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BassMint Pros (Brewski’s, p. 40) The Big Red Band (Scofy’s) Collective Soul, King Washington (The Complex) Cory Mon (Hog Wallow Pub) Pheonix Rising (Ice Haus Bar) Halloween Rocks with ThePatrollers (The Devil’s Daughter) Heber Valley Music & Cowboy Poetry (Various venues in Heber City, p. 42) Flash and Flare, Max Pain & The Groovies (The Urban Lounge) Michelle Moonshine (Fats Grill) In The Valley Below, The Moth & The Flame (Kilby Court) John Chandler (Barton Hill Farms) Kaleb Austin (Westerner) King Diamond, Exodus (The Complex, p. 42) Late Night Savior, Penrose, Scarlet Rain (The Royal) Monkeygrinder (Velour) Rage Against the Supremes (The Spur Bar & Grill) Rail Town (Outlaw Saloon) Robyn Cage (Prime Piano Bar) Flynnstones (The Music Garage) The Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Starkillers (Park City Live) The Sword, All Them Witches (In the Venue, p. 42) The Temples, The Troubles, Mortigi Tempo (ABG’s)

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ith Halloween right around the corner, readers looking for a fresh new thrill should check out Eskaped, a mobile escape room in a 1969 Airstream trailer. Founded by Preston James and James Conder, Eskaped is a 3-D puzzle that is perfect for a group date, corporate event or family party. James says the escape room concept has been around awhile, but he got the idea to make a mobile escape room after working for the Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus (98 E. 138000 South, Draper, StranglingBros.com/draper). “I mixed the two ideas together and created an escape room that’s mobile,” James explains. James and Conder started their business in February 2015 and opened in June. In addition to being mobile, Eskaped is set apart from other escape rooms because of how in-depth the puzzles are. “I build all of the puzzles,” James explains. “I build them into furniture and all of the décor inside the room, which is pretty unique among escape rooms.” The pieces of the puzzles are also specialized—some designed for people who are mathematically inclined, others for folks with a skill for exploring. “We are able to cater to all different types of thinkers,” James says. And because the puzzles change frequently, people can escape as many times as they’d like. The traditional Eskape experience lasts 45 minutes. Teams of 10 people attempt to break out of the Eskaped Airstream trailer using only the clues provided within the trailer. If the players haven’t figured it out in 45 minutes, they are released—to their shame. But don’t worry, even if you don’t figure it out the first time, you can always attempt to Eskape again. James and Conder originally had corporate team-building events in mind when they created Eskape, but so far, their biggest clientele has been people on group dates. Interested parties can rent out the entire trailer and invite between 5 and 9 of their cleverest friends to play. Or just reserve a spot

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Read more Career News at utahjobcenter.com Here’s a fun fact that might stress you out a bit: Hiring managers all look for different things when searching for candidates. And sometimes the things they’re looking for aren’t just different, but they contradict each other. This took me by surprise when I started recruiting. I went into it thinking there’s a commonly accepted playbook used everywhere that would guarantee that I’d find the best candidates. Except it’s the complete opposite, and I learned that there are just some things about the job search that hiring managers will never agree on. Here are three of those things, and how you can find a happy medium to make any recruiter think that you’re awesome.

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Hiring managers will argue until they’re blue in the face about how to evaluate candidates. But, here’s the good news: As the job seeker, that’s not your problem. Recruiters will always be headstrong, so it’s important to focus less on how to impress every one of them with every piece of your application, and focus more on telling your story. If you do a good enough job showing how awesome you are, the person reviewing your materials will have no choice but to let go of his or her preferences and do whatever it takes to hire you.

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The solution for you involves taking stock of what kind of work environment you want to land in. If you’re really into working with folks whose suits outnumber their socks, make sure you look buttoned-up on LinkedIn. But if you’re keen on working in a more laid-back environment, go for less of a headshot and more of a casual pic. (And obviously you’re smart enough to know casual does not mean disheveled and drunk.)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, S.D., experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m., the temperature was -4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to -4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn’t have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll & Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.

talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering TAURUS (April 20-May 20) How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such medicine woman who heals with sound. a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume sug- as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your gestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny. growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale. suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks and mythic escapades. But the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one If so, I bet you will get sneak peeks of the fun and productive mischief of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. suggestion: the most normal person in the world. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake CANCER (June 21-July 22) Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically molting its skin. engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a spring- away at business as usual could become counterproductive bok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleato find a rare rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, sure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. “They are an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggesdancing for joy,” Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks tion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you. pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you clues about the real key’s location become available. You will know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you reserves of confidence and command. want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) protective possessor of a magic key. It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming and go in quest of provocative curiosities. 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