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The death of Peter Hayes has dredged up fears that Red Butte Creek’s 2010 oil spill not only harmed the waterway but also the health of those who live along its banks. Cover illustration by Trent Call

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When he isn’t busy designing our paper or emailing bizarre GIFs to the entire staff, you may find this saucy dude binge-watching Sherlock episodes he’s already seen twice (but only during his off-days). Also an illustrator, his other interests include cartoonist Chris Ware and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Mason’s worked here just under a year, but we’re not even sick of him yet. In fact, we might just keep him.

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LETTERS West Valley City 911 Dispatchers Really Care

I read the article [“You’re on Your Own,” Opinion, Nov. 19, City Weekly] about the couple from France who had their car stolen and were able to track it with the phone that was in the car. They got no help from the 911 dispatcher. The reason I am writing is to let you know that the 911 dispatchers in West Valley City are just the opposite. I have nothing to say but praise for the way they have handled my calls. I have always been attended to and even once when I said I could do without assistance—the fire department still came out to check and make sure things were OK. In all four times that I have called, the operator made me stay on the line and talked to me the whole time until help arrived. Please show this to the West Valley City 911 dispatchers if you readers know any of them.

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As executive director of the Western Watersheds Project— an advocacy group dedicated to ending public lands livestock grazing—I’m disappointed with the government’s acquiescence to law-breaking on public lands across the West that has led to the armed occupation of one of America’s premier bird sanctuaries. This weekend’s militia takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is another battle in the “War on the West” that extractive

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Widespread livestock grazing occurs on nearly 220 million acres of public land in the Western states, and this is a leading cause of soil loss, species endangerment, invasive species infestations, and predator killing. Only 22,000 ranchers have the privilege of using federal lands for their operations, a business opportunity mistakenly referred to as a “right” by those that would seek to establish it as such. The courts have affirmed that there are no “grazing rights,” and the Bundys’ use of the term does not make it so. There are no grazing rights, but there are lots of grazing “wrongs.” The federal agencies failure to rein in the worst abusers of public lands livestock allotments has emboldened people like the Bundy brothers and others across the West to take land management into their own hands. It’s time to stop caving in to their demands and manage wildlife habitat in the true public interest.

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OPINION

Sing Along

How can we help you, Utah? How can we make you great? Well, we got to irrigate our deserts We’ve got to get some things to grow And we got to tell this country about Utah ’Cause nobody seems to know.

Randy Newman “The Beehive State”

hat Americans do know about Utah must be a source of bewilderment. Setting aside the embarrassing antics of Chaffetz, Lee, Love and Bishop—all of which made news recently—homophobia is a case in point. I think that the average American has come to believe that homosexuality is anathema in Mormon Utah. But then, out of the blue, Biskupski beats Becker! The “openly gay” mayor lands on the front page of The New York Times just as Judge Scott Johansen turns tail and heads for the hills. Yes, we need to tell the country about Utah. Maybe another “life elevated” PR campaign and a troubadour like Randy Newman to put our story to music. I mention Newman because so many of his songs are inspired by a place (e.g., Louisiana) and its residents (e.g., Huey Long). That is just what Utah needs, a purveyor of place. Consider this modest proposal: divert some of the millions being wasted suing the federal government. Use it to commission some Utah songs by a singersongwriter like Newman or even Orrin Hatch, our moonlighting senator. Had Utah Phillips not died in 2008, the bewhiskered folksinger would have been the ideal candidate. He was a Joe Hill-type whose legacy is not anchored by his 1975 song, “I’ve Got a Home Out in Utah.” Sing along on the chorus if you like: You can take away all my money, You can take away most anything I own, But I’ve got a home out in Utah And I’ll always love my Rocky Mountain home.

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I don’t know how other states fared at the hands of songwriters in the last century, but Utah has done at least as well as Delaware. Here’s one example from “Red Hills of Utah” written in 1963 by countryand-western singer Marty Robbins: How green are the valleys, how tall are the trees. How cool are the rivers, how soft is the breeze. If it’s just like my dreams, then I must go and see For the Red Hills of Utah are calling me. Robbins’ 1959 chart-topping hit, “El Paso,” was covered by the Grateful Dead 15 years later. I mention that as segue to the Utah hills which figure in the Dead’s song, “Friend of the Devil,” to wit: “Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me 20 bills / I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills.” The words date to the age of electric Kool-Aid in San Francisco, and the song’s narrative is arcane. You might have some fun by updating it like this: “Ran into Judge Johansen, babe, he was looking pretty ill. He told me he now spends his days in a cave up in the hills.” I have noticed that despite Utah’s patriarchal culture—where a woman earns 70 cents on jobs paying a man $1—most songs valorize women. I like the Dave Carter one about a “wide-eyed and wistful, pretty little Mormon girl” who aspires to “the glamorous life of a cowboy singer.” And the Beach Boys’ “Salt Lake City,” which must have made the tourist bureau giddy when it was recorded in 1965:

Sure, the words seem corny. Singing redeems them. It is a disservice to decouple them from the music. Sometimes, the synergy of word and music is transcendent— even as anthemic as “We Shall Overcome” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.” In Utah, we turn to the Mormon hymnal for examples. “Come, Come Ye Saints” and “O My Father” come to mind. The latter is unique in that Mormons regularly cite it as evidence of their belief in a heavenly mother: In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason; truth eternal  Tells me I’ve a mother there. My Mormon upbringing notwithstanding, I don’t recall any mention of Heavenly Mother in Sunday school classes, so I was surprised to find a song by David Allan Coe (who composed “Take This Job and Shove It”) about her:

I DON’T KNOW HOW OTHER STATES FARED AT THE HANDS OF SONGWRITERS...BUT UTAH HAS DONE AT LEAST AS WELL AS DELAWARE.

And girl for girl, they’ve got the cutest of the Western states, yeah. They got the sun in the summer and wintertime the skiing is great, yeah. Salt Lake City, we’ll be coming soon.

But now and then we gather down in Salt Lake City, To raise our voices in a joyful song, And we sing Heavenly Father, Holy Mother.

The more I think about it, the only Utah-related lyrics I can readily recall are those of the University of Utah’s fight song, “Utah Man.” If there is an official state song, I don’t know it. Gladys Knight used to tease the late President Gordon Hinckley about the lack of zip in LDS Church music. The same can be said of Utah. We need what Jimmy Buffet has done for the Caribbean islands rather than what the Eagles did for Winslow, Ariz. Neither do we need a “Ballad of Warren Jeffs” nor “States’ Rights Blues.” No rap, no metal. Just a catalog of sing-along tunes with enough zip to resonate beyond our borders. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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What song reminds you of home? Mason Rodrickc: “The Beauty of Gray” by Live really makes me think of home because my dad made it important when I was small. Also, more recently, “Wall of Arms” by The Maccabees: It’s about my home now, the home I take with me, the love I carry for everyone that I’ve ever held dear, that home.

Jeremiah Smith:

“Proud Mary” By Creedence Clearwater Revival is the song that mostly reminds me of home. There were lots of Creedence songs playing through my youth, so its hard to pick. But that’s what came to mind first, so I’m stickin’ with it.

Jackie Briggs: So many! Nirvana and Pearl Jam always remind me of growing up in the Northwest, and Sublime was our skipping-school soundtrack. NAS’ “The Message” was for playing in the parking lot with the windows of our Honda Civics down. Randy Harward: Whenever I travel, “Comin’ Home” by Kiss gets stuck in my head on the flight/ride home. Especially if I’m traveling by myself ... because I get *sniff* lonely. Brandon Burt: It’s not a song, but Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 3 brings back so many memories of when I was in my teens. Yes, I said teens, that’s how much of a geek I am. I loved Prokofiev, but it was much too virtuosic for me to play. So I’d listen to it again and again.

Enrique Limón: “Santa Fe” by Beirut. Santa Fe is a very magical and to some degree, a somewhat territorial place. During my stint there, I could never fully say I was from there. Now, that song brings with it a sense of belonging and ethereal nostalgia. Scott Renshaw: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash’s “The Road to Bakersfield.” Perfectly evokes that dusty valley in which I grew up.

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2015 Is a (Fish) Wrap

Maybe they have to do it, what with the year-end festivities, staff vacations and a general lack of breaking news. But the New Year’s news rehashes are frankly boring and predictable. People who died are still dead, people who lost political races are still defeated and the LDS Church is still making news in the LGBT community. Even Paul Rolly felt it necessary to continue his glorification of a recalcitrant teacher who bucked a system she just didn’t like. Read The Salt Lake Tribune’s letters to the editor, however, if you want to know how year-end wrapups should be done. One suggested making a poster of homicide victims, highlighting gun deaths. Another thanked the Trib for remembering a friend who died in an avalanche. Thanks, but it would have been nice to highlight avalanche dangers. In fact, that’s it: Put the events of 2015 in context and tell the reader why they were important.

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Chaffetz Eyes His Future

Is there no end to the ambitions of Rep. Jason Chaffetz? Now he’s testing the waters for a 2020 run for governor, according to the Deseret News. It’s not out of the question, of course. Gary Herbert likely won’t be a factor, and unlike Chaffetz’s quest to become Speaker of the House, there will be plenty of time for him to campaign. Here is the guy who started as then-Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s chief of staff, ran a stunningly successful social media campaign to join Congress, latched onto some high-profile committees and then sought the speakership. Never mind that he spouts misinformation about Benghazi and Planned Parenthood. He’s out there to serve. What’s next? President of the U.S.?

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Early days as a charro

Enrique Limón

Say hello to Enrique Limón, City Weekly’s new managing editor. Born in San Diego, Calif., raised in Tijuana, Mexico, Limón arrived in Salt Lake City in late December after serving as arts & culture editor for the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico. Read more from this interview at CityWeekly.net and follow Limón on @EnriqueLimon

So, how do you pronounce your name?

Imagine Henry-k, but without the H. Enrique Iglesias has done a lot of footwork when it comes to people getting my first name right, as has Bacardi Limón with my last.

What’s your first impression of Salt Lake City?

That it is an extremely vibrant place to be in (even in December), and a more diverse and multicultural place than most people give it credit for.

Tell us more about your San Diego/Tijuana upbringing.

I was actually born in San Diego and grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. It was, in a way, the best of both worlds. There’s something about border towns that just makes me feel at home—a certain ingrained survival instinct—that, as border folk, defines most of what we do.

Your parents had hopes you would become a charro (Mexican rodeo star), true? What happened?

Horses and I just don’t get along. I remember being 2, 3 years old and being mortified after being propped up on a full-size horse. My parents even invested in a mini pony (an extravagance at the time), to help me get acclimated. I blame an ear infection I got as a toddler with permanently stunting my sense of balance. About my only regret in not sticking with it is the insane wardrobe that comes with the role.

So how did you find your way to journalism, or how did it find you?

We found each other. My dad owned a printing shop and he was instrumental in the founding of several newspapers. My grandfather before him did the same, and my greatgrandfather, Hernando Limón Hernández, a general in the Mexican Army, was the editor and publisher of EL Hispano Americano, a first-of-its-kind bilingual weekly that was distributed on both sides of the border.

What is your highest hope in your new role with City Weekly?

I would like to start a petition to better our toilet situation. For those not in the know, the current setup involves making your way down a narrow hallway on the abandoned part of the building. Adding to the creep factor, an old Halloween banner that reads ‘Keep out!’ written in blood splatter is prominently featured at the end of the hall, along with a poster of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. If anything, I’d like to see the oversize googly eyes used to replace Jack’s own removed. Sometimes I’m here on the off-hours, people.

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Is it true that due to similar protein compositions, blood can be used as an egg substitute in baking and in ice cream? —Kathy

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udos, Kathy. As a result of your question, “Blood Cookie” is no longer just an extremely death-metal name for an album of children’s music—it’s also something we’ve actually whipped up in the Straight Dope Test Kitchen. As a general proposition, of course, cooking with animal blood has been popular across time and geography. Swedes and Finns use it in pancakes. Southeast Asian cuisines avail themselves of all manner of the stuff—pig, chicken, duck. Poles eat duck-blood soup; in east Africa, the Massai people drink cow’s blood straight up. The Brits and the Irish enjoy black pudding; the Spanish and French make blood sausages called morcilla and boudin noir, respectively. Getting closer to your question, pig’s blood is the thickener of choice in the Italian chocolate pudding sanguinaccio. In the United States, you’ll find animal blood sold and consumed mainly among immigrants of more recent vintage—like at Korean and Thai groceries. It’s made some headway, though, in high-end kitchens, probably thanks to the snout-to-tail trend that’s rolled through the culinary world in recent decades. Several years ago a Washington, D.C., restaurant called the Pig offered a frozen variation on sanguinaccio billed, inevitably, as “Sundae Bloody Sundae.” One critic sniffed that “the novelty was more exciting than the actual dessert,” and it seems no longer to be on the menu. But insofar as the chef at the Pig did make something like chocolate ice cream using blood instead of egg yolks, here we see progress right along the lines you suggest. The Scandinavians are apparently at the forefront of this pursuit; the best source I found on the subject is Nordic Food Lab (NFL)—an adjunct of the Copenhagen restaurant Noma, a mainstay on world’s-best lists—which exists as a sort of open-source testing ground for all sorts of outré culinary ideas. In 2014, NFL’s Elisabeth Paul published the results of an investigation into the possibility of blood as an egg replacer. Her arguments in favor are strong: Egg intolerance is a major food allergy among European children. Anemia, meanwhile, is everywhere a prominent nutrient deficiency; know what’s got a lot of iron in it? And the chemistry’s right. In egg white, six protein types interact to trap air when the white is agitated—say, by whipping. This is the first step in making a meringue, or in more technical terms a colloidal foam: tiny gas bubbles suspended in a liquid. Key in baking, though, is the protein ovalbumin, which coagulates when heated and so prevents collapse. Ovalbumin accounts for about 54 percent of egg-white proteins; conveniently,

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related albumins make up about 55 percent of the proteins in blood plasma. In theory, then, sure, this ought to work. What about in practice? Paul reported salutary results after using pig’s blood in place of eggs in recipes for sponge cake, meringue and ice cream; she also mixed it with vodka (after straining out a few unwanted clots) into a cocktail dubbed the “Red Russian,” which was—per her terse but telling description—“only sipped once.” A key finding here was that pairing blood with something acidic, as in a sourdough bread, will go some way toward masking its, er, more assertive flavors. Unwilling to leave all the glory to the Danes, I called up my local butcher, who rendered unto me twice the volume of cow’s blood I’d requested (no pig’s was available), and gratis, which tells you something about local sanguinary demand. By the time I got to it the following day, much of it had coagulated into a slimy block. (I hadn’t asked, but this can be prevented by the butcher treating the blood with an anticoagulant, such as vinegar.) I whipped some of what was left with sugar; the process took maybe 10 minutes longer than egg whites typically do, but eventually the mixture rose into a lofty and visually striking pink foam. The blood meringues fell in the oven, but that may just mean I should’ve whipped the stuff at still greater length. Next I tried the pastry qua non: the chocolate chip cookie, substituting, at the recommendation of NFL, 65 grams of blood per egg; in this case I also made a control batch. The results? The blood cookies came out of the oven about an eighth-inch shorter than the batch with a whole egg in it. This tracks with a 1994 Iowa State University dissertation in which researchers compared egg whites and bovine blood plasma in cake baking, finding that an egg-white cake boasted “slightly larger volume, significantly more crowned profile and finer texture” than the plasma version. But come on: The fact that my cow blood produced a recognizable (and, I should add, edible) dessert at all is what I would call passing with flying colors—specifically, a greenishgray hue seen in both the meringues and the cookies, which, I’ll concede, eaters might be justified in finding off-putting. Perhaps this suggests opportunities for future innovation. n

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New World Order In December, Canada’s supportive organization The Transgender Project released a biographical video of the former Paul Wolscht, 46, and the father of seven children with his ex-wife, Marie, describing his new life as not only a female but a 6-year-old female, Stephoknee Wolscht. She told the Daily Xtra (gay and lesbian news site) that not acting her real age (even while doing “adult” things like working a job and driving a car) enables her to escape “depression and suicidal thoughts.” Among the trans-age’s favorite activities are (coloring-book) coloring, creating a play-like “kingdom” and wearing “really pretty clothes.” Stephoknee now lives with the couple who adopted her.

Compelling Explanations 1. Breen Peck, 52, an air-traffic controller who has been having career troubles in recent years, was arrested during a traffic stop on New York’s Long Island in December when officers found illegal drugs in his car. “That’s meth,” he said. “I’m an air-traffic controller. I smoke it to stay awake.” 2. In a “shesaid/he-said” case, wealthy Saudi businessman Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, was acquitted of rape in December in England’s Southwark Crown Court, apparently persuading jurors of “reasonable doubt” about his DNA found in the alleged victim’s vagina. Perhaps, his lawyer said, Abdulaziz was still aroused after sex with the other woman in the apartment and accidentally fell directly upon the alleged victim lying on a sofa.

Unclear on the Concept Thee, Not Me: American “millennials” (those age 18 to 29) continue a “long-standing tradition,” the Washington Post wrote in December, describing a Harvard Institute of Politics poll on their views on war. Following the recent Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 percent of U.S. millennials said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 percent answered, in the next question, that no, they themselves were “probably” or “definitely” not joining the military.

Ironies Christopher Manney was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department in 2014 after shooting a black suspect to death in a case bearing some similarity to 2015 shootings that produced “Black Lives Matter” protests—not fired for the shooting (adjudged “not excessive force”) but for improper actions that preceded the shooting (not announcing a valid reason for a pat down and conducting a not-by-the-book pat down). Two days before the firing, he had filed a disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder from the shooting and aftermath, and, in November 2015, the city’s Annuity and Pension Board, following city law, approved the claim. Thus, Manney, despite having been subsequently fired, retired with full disability, with basically the same takehome pay he was receiving when fired.

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peaker of the Utah House Greg Hughes, R-Draper, says he will appoint longtime LGBT rights leader and local businessperson Babs De Lay to the board of the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). The move comes after three other board members resigned when their involvement in a controversial trip to Switzerland came to light in November. “This was something I actually had in the works prior to the Switzerland reports,” Hughes says. Speaking to City Weekly from New York where he was on vacation, Hughes said the changeup has been planned for months, since it became clear that Proposition 1, a ballot initiative in the last election that would have allocated more money to UTA, looked like it was going to fail. “As I watched Prop 1 in October look like it wasn’t going to pass in Salt Lake County— a county that has traditionally supported mass transit and transit infrastructure—I started wondering what that really meant.” Hughes, who himself once served as the chairman of the UTA board, says that while he was with the agency, he was “laser-like focused” on long-term planning. But with the defeat of Prop 1, he now realizes that “long-term planning doesn’t do much good if you don’t have public confidence in the bread-and-butter basic needs, service and infrastructure we already have.” Hughes says it’s a false narrative that now former UTA board member Sheldon Killpack—also a former state Senate majority leader—resigned because of the scandal around the Switzerland trip, but that Hughes has been looking for a shakeup on the UTA board and Killpack’s departure had been planned. “I think Babs has a great eye for the system,” he says. “She works downtown, she lives downtown, she sees [Trax], she uses it. She’s been on the [Salt Lake City] Planning Commission, she’s a businessperson. So on so many fronts, her leadership will be phenomenal for UTA.” Hughes says he and De Lay have been friends for 20 years, meeting when De Lay was looking at some properties downtown that Hughes, who works in construction and property management, was working on at the time. “Actually, at the inauguration for

Babs De Lay: “We are all going to have to rely on public transportation in a major way.”

[former Gov.] Olene Walker, Babs and I joked that we should show up as a couple.” “I feel really excited,” says De Lay, who also volunteers as a columnist for City Weekly, writing about community events and topics. “I was a planning commissioner for Salt Lake City for eight years, and I found that one of the most interesting and educational times of my life, learning how my city runs and doesn’t run. And I think this will be a similar opportunity, only in a bigger way.” De Lay acknowledges that UTA has had no small amount of bad press in the last decade, but describes the agency as “an essential part of the being” of Utah. “I may be the only [board] member who actually takes Trax, and I may be the only member who lives at a Trax station and is a user of the system. I’m a huge fan of public transportation and, in my house, we try to use Trax as exclusively as we can and not pollute.” De Lay points to estimates that Utah’s population could double in the coming decades, and says if Utah’s public-transit system can’t update and be as user-friendly and affordable as possible, not only will it stunt the state economically, but it could “return us to the ‘pea soup days’ of pollution when everyone was burning coal. We are all going to have to rely on public transportation in a major way.” Some short-term changes she would be in favor of include free fares on New Year’s Eve, when getting party-goers out of cars and onto buses is critical. Also keeping service up and running during holidays as well as on late nights and weekends. “I hope I can figure out the beast and help move it forward,” says De Lay, “because I think we’re all sitting on pins and needles wondering how transit is going to affect our lives as we move forward.” Alex Cragun, vice president of the Utah Transit Riders Union—an advocacy group for more efficient and usable public transit—says the group is thrilled to have someone on the board who recognizes the problems a growing population has without sufficient public transportation. However, Cragun says, his group feels that the real-estate development community is already overrepresented, and they would like to see more board members with differing backgrounds. CW

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Crude Awakening The death of Peter Hayes has dredged up fears that Red Butte Creek’s 2010 oil spill not only harmed the waterway but also the health of those who live along its banks. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net

n winter, the water of Red Butte Creek drifts at a slow and steady rate through what was Peter Hayes’ backyard. The creek, as it flows beneath 900 South, appears inky against the white snow heaped on its banks. To Peter Hayes, his house became its own entity, and the creek there—modest in size and surrounded by homes—was nevertheless a creek, a moving, live body of water that carried itself toward some unknown union with other, perhaps greater, stretches of water. “It had to do with the place itself, the creek being an integral part of that,” says Heidi Hayes, Peter’s sister. “And being by the water there was really important to Peter.” They say Peter was one of the most capable river guides to ever wrap his thick fingers around an oar. And after more than two decades as a river bum, guiding approximately 75 trips down Class IV whitewater on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, he took a step back from full-time river-running, and settled down in Salt Lake City, where he started a family and taught ninth grade biology at Rowland Hall. The average trip length on the Middle Fork is six days, meaning by the time Hayes hit his mid 20s, he’d spent just over a year floating on that river alone. Even when one leaves the river for new strands of adventure, the roar of rapids and the freedom granted in fortunes on a wild river cannot easily be expelled from the brain. And so it was that Peter Hayes got a house by a creek that moved and murmured and ebbed and spoke in the same way as all the rivers of the world. “The river—and it’s kind of a funny thing—the river isn’t one river, it’s just the river, and wherever you are around a creek, a stream, a river, there’s a feeling of home there and of belonging and it’s a very unique environment,” Heidi Hayes says. “An incredibly important part of that home was that creek, and that place to him was exceptional.”

On Sept. 15, 2015, 60-year-old Peter Hayes suffocated. A couple of years before his death, Hayes began to cough. His sister says he thought he was coming down with asthma. But a trip to the doctor ruled this out, and eventually, Hayes learned his lungs were slowly but surely eating themselves up. That’s what idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) does—it suffocates its victims by destroying the tissues that distribute oxygen into the bloodstream. According to the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, a nonprofit that aims to generate research and find a cure for the disease, 48,000 new cases of IPF are diagnosed in the United States each year. The disease has no definitive cause and is incurable. Hayes received his death sentence in January 2013, roughly three years after an event that would change the course of his final years. Just before 10 p.m. on June 11, 2010, a pipeline ruptured and 800 barrels of toxic crude oil rushed down Red Butte Creek, spewing high levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air and into the homes of those who slept with their windows open during a balmy summer night. The usual scene unfurled: Emergency crews arrived, politicians and publicrelations experts spoke to cameras and, after months and years of cleanup, the creek has begun to resemble its old self. And through it all, the creek, the soil, the birds and the creekside residents had an unofficial spokesman: Peter Hayes. Like the politicians, he stood before the cameras—his gray mustache curled up like a Wild West gunslinger—demanding that someone take responsibility for the spill.

Peter—his neighbors, friends and colleagues say—demanded that the creek be restored to health and that residents who huffed the fumes as oil burst into the creek for hours before being detected, be taken care of. While the pipeline operator—Chevron Pipe Line Co.—spent north of $40 million, according to media reports (Chevron declined to provide an exact number), to clean up the spill, it forked over only $4.5 million in penalties to local and state entities, much of which was spent on water-quality and restoration projects. The kind of health support Peter sought never came close to being realized. While a Chevron Pipe Line Co. representative did respond to City Weekly’s questions about the spill, he declined to answer any questions about health impacts or studies. The only monitoring of human health arising from the spill is a pledge by Salt Lake County and the state health department to conduct a cancer-incidence review of the zip codes surrounding the creek every five years. But Peter, a rock of healthy living, suffocated—a fact that has left many of his neighbors ill at ease as they wrestle with the possibility that his death could have been caused by exposure to crude oil— the same oil that hundreds of residents were exposed to. In his final days, Peter’s mouth became so dry that his family would spray his tongue with water so it could become unstuck without tearing away the skin tissue. In Peter’s mind—his friends and family say—was an unshakable belief in what had caused his lungs to abandon him:

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Red Butte Creek at the site of the June 11, 2010 spill

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Originating in Rangely, Colo., Chevron Pipe Line Co.’s crude-oil-pipeline system dips and dives over a 182.5-mile stretch of rugged Western land. As it gathers crude from Rangely and three other areas, it crosses the Green and White rivers in the Uintah Basin, and then glides across much of Utah’s watershed, grazing the upper Provo River near Woodland, crossing Parley’s Creek, Red Butte Creek and then Emigration Creek before depositing its product at Chevron’s refinery in Salt Lake City, where it is turned into gasoline and other petroleum products. From Wolf Creek Pass along Highway 35 near Hanna, Utah, to its final destination at the refinery, the pipeline loses 4,216 feet in elevation. Jeff Niermeyer is the former director of Salt Lake City’s Department of Public Utilities. With a vast understanding of the city’s drainage system, Niermeyer’s voice was crucial in the early days, as well as the aftermath, of the spill. He says that for 20 of his 25 years in the public utilities department, he didn’t think too much about the hazardous materials carried by pipelines that crisscross the valley. But since the Red Butte Creek spill, he says that, on some days, his mind is as focused on oil as it is on water. “It really opened my eyes to the extent of these energy pipelines going through our community,” Niermeyer says. “It’s something we can’t live without, but how do we live with them?” In news stories about the spill, the

Chevron’s crude oil pipeline marker as it crosses Walkera Way near Red Butte Garden and Arboretum

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check the pipeline, much of which runs underground. In the early morning hours of June 12, emergency r e s p o n d e r s estimated that 50 to 60 gallons of crude oil gushed into the creek each minute. A corrective action order from PHMSA says that Chevron did not detect or respond to the pipeline failure for more than 10 hours. The first emergency responders were members of the Salt Lake City Fire Department, who first saw oil in the creek just before 7 a.m. after receiving a complaint about petroleum odors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Foothill Drive. A short time later, Niermeyer himself was on the scene. The creek, he says, flows through an open channel from the mouth of Red Butte Canyon to roughly 900 East, where it sinks underground into a series of concrete culverts. It travels south on 700 East, and then cuts west at 1300 South, where the majority of the water flows downhill until reaching the Jordan River. Shortly after firefighters reported the spill, Niermeyer says his storm-water crews had already detected some oil entering the Jordan River. The oil was threatening sensitive wetland areas not too far downstream. He says a decision was made to cut off the flow headed down 1300 South and divert the entirety of Red Butte Creek into Liberty Lake at Liberty Park. “I knew that if we did that diversion, we could capture most of that oil in Liberty Lake before it made it further down the system,” Niermeyer says. A bigger challenge, he says, was for Chevron to shut down its pipeline, a difficult task that Niermeyer estimates took around 10 more hours. Because the pipeline travels so far and over so much varied terrain, Niermeyer says that simply shutting down an emergency valve could have caused a spike in pressure somewhere along the line, and with potentially tons of crude bearing down, might have split the pipe, resulting in another oil spill. “That’s one of the sequences that took a long time back in June of 2010,” Niermeyer says. “They were shutting that valve down

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That river of crude oil, the VOCs that filled his home that morning and for weeks afterward, and that 63-year-old steel pipeline just up the road from his house which tirelessly delivered 15,000 barrels of crude every day to Chevron’s oil refinery. “I did not have him ever tell me that it could be something else,” Heidi says. “He felt like it was the creek.”

official cause was often identified as an “electrical surge,” or an “electrical arc.” Though the pipeline is getting on years, Niermeyer says its age had nothing to do with the rupture: The cause, according to Niermeyer and incident reports prepared by the federal Pipelines & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration [PHMSA], was a failure by Chevron Pipe Line Co. to maintain its right of way. The electrical surge blamed for the June spill transpired through a series of events dating back to the 1980s, when Rocky Mountain Power built an electrical substation near the pipeline. Later, the power company installed a fence around the substation. One fence post was pounded into the earth directly above the pipeline. Some 25 years later, on June 11, 2010, a typical high-mountain thunderstorm flashed through the Salt Lake Valley, ripping branches from trees and setting off flashbulbs of light in the night sky. An exact cause for the electrical surge has never been identified. But Niermeyer, as well as federal incident reports, indicate that a branch likely dropped onto power lines near the electrical substation. The branch then came in contact with the substation fence, electrifying it. And since electricity is always in search of a ground, it jolted through the fence post above the pipeline, traveling through the ground, jumping into the pipe and ripping a hole the size of a dime in the steel. The electricity then exited at the south side of the creek at a valve station. PHMSA’s incident report notes that Chevron knew about the fence post, and even installed a pipeline marker near the post that caused the leak. “There is no record that Chevron ever identified this transition station as something that could be detrimental to their pipelines,” the report states. “Chevron had installed a pipeline marker within one foot of the metal corner fence post that was installed over their No. 2 pipeline.” At the time, Chevron Pipe Line’s spill-detection technology consisted of monitoring how much oil was put into the pipe on one end, and doing the same on the other end, PHMSA reports show. If a discrepancy occurred, it could be due to a leak. But rather than the company immediately shutting down the pipeline, Niermeyer says, the custom at the time was to send employees into the field to

consequence of Red Butte,” Baker says. He went on to say it’s a “fair characterization” to call the Red Butte spill the most serious in Utah history. “It’s uncommon to have an oil spill like that in an urban setting,” Baker says. “Almost unprecedented, nationally.”

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slowly, draining the pipe, so that you didn’t exceed the capacity of that line, creating a much bigger problem.” By the time the pipeline was shut down in the afternoon of June 12, an estimated 800 barrels, or 33,600 gallons of crude had fowled Red Butte Creek, exposing 190 residences and a number of businesses to its fumes. By volume, 800 barrels is small potatoes. In 2013 and 2014, Kennecott reported a pair of spills of polluted water totaling 514,000 gallons, according to spill reports filed with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. And spills of crude oil regularly occur in the Uintah Basin, but Niermeyer says no one is around to be hurt by them. But the Red Butte Creek spill, says Walt Baker, director of the Utah Division of Water Quality, while not spectacular in size, was monumental when viewed through the lens of those impacted. “As far as the threat and the impact, I think there’ve been larger spills, but none of the

Annie Payne lives south of Miller Park, a 9-acre patch of open space owned by Salt Lake City. Red Butte Creek cuts through its center, creating an oasis of river, trees and trail in the middle of a neighborhood. Payne awoke on June 12, 2010, at 6 a.m. to what she remembers as “an overwhelming smell of oil.” Payne walked to her children’s room where she found her 4-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son sound asleep. “Both of them had wet the bed, and they were sleeping in their own urine, and I couldn’t wake them,” Payne says. “For a few seconds, I thought they were dead.” Payne and her family spent the next couple of days in a hotel, then left town for a couple of weeks for a family reunion. When Payne returned, her friend and neighbor, Peter Hayes, reached out to her. “He was busy organizing,” she says. While Payne quickly realized that she and her family had been exposed to something with potential health hazards, one fact stood out: There was no coordinated evacuation nor notification in the immediate hours after the spill alerting residents that anything was wrong. The only person who banged on Payne’s door was a representative—of which organization she does not recall—who told her, “It’s safe to stay in your house, and we will not pay for you to stay in a hotel.” For Joe Cook, who, like Payne, owns a home that borders Miller Park, the day of the oil spill was life-changing. He says his home, the creek and his health were one way before the spill. But now, they’re all different. Cook recalls smelling an “organic odor,” but he didn’t immediately seek out the source, nor did he flee. “It’s not as much of an insult that would cause you to pack up and go to a hotel,” Cook says of the smell. “But there are probably many toxic substances that don’t assault the senses and directly repulse someone to the point where they seek relief.” Cook says he and his daughter both felt ill the evening after the spill, but he toughed it out. Since then, though, Cook says he’s been diagnosed with cardiopulmonary issues, meaning that he has a hard time breathing because his blood isn’t receiving adequate amounts of oxygen. Cook’s daughter, who is in her 30s, also has pulmonary issues and now uses an inhaler. Both Cook, Payne and other neighbors say that at least two area women have been diagnosed with breast cancer, and that a woman living across the creek from Peter Hayes died of lung cancer. Roughly 60 property owners affected

by the spill were part of a lawsuit, Peter Hayes v. Chevron Pipe Line Co., filed in federal court by Paul Durham, a Salt Lake City attorney, seeking compensation for property damages. In a Salt Lake Tribune story published March 25, 2012, Durham was quoted as saying the lawsuit sought “tens of millions” in compensation. The case was settled in 2014, and the details are confidential. Durham did say that Peter Hayes was the “moving force” in the litigation. Hayes’ wife, Thi-Ly, still lives in the family home, but did not respond to interview requests. Joe Cook was not close to Peter Hayes, but he does recall their last encounter. “The last time I saw him I was up at the hospital, he was up at the hospital,” Cook recalls. “I was on oxygen, and I was surprised to see him on oxygen.”

Crudely Put

Crude oil is composed of numerous chemicals, many of which can be harmful to touch and to breathe. According to a Utah Department of Health fact sheet released shortly after the spill, of all the components of crude oil, VOC’s were of special concern. Chemical compounds in crude oil, the fact sheet notes, can maintain levels up to 10 times higher indoors than outdoors, and several of them—including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene and naphthalene—can be hazardous. Although exposure to any of these chemicals is unhealthy, linking any of the health problems of residents living around Red Butte Creek to the spill is difficult, if not impossible. A lack of definitive causation, however, does little to allay concerns of residents who believe that their health problems were caused by the spill. And even residents like Annie Payne, who remains in good health, worries for herself and her children. From Payne’s backyard, a chainlink fence separates a steep slope from the creek below. Before the spill, Payne says she let her children pass freely through the fence to play near the creek. But to this day, the creek remains off-limits. “I continue to worry,” she says. “Every time my daughter throws up, I think, ‘Oh, my goodness, it’s leukemia.’ I am super, hyper-vigilant about childhood cancers. I know my kids have been exposed to this terrible thing.” On Sept. 9, 2015, six days before Peter died, the Salt Lake County Health Department placed door hangers with information about its cancer incidence study at the 190 homes along the creek. The main thrust of the information noted that a cancer study had taken place and only one type of cancer—ovarian—was elevated in the area. Ovarian cancer, the study noted, is not known to be associated with exposure to crude oil. Nathan LaCross, an epidemiologist with the Utah Department of Health, says that it’s “very understandable” that residents

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The crude oil pipeline as it exits the block valve station and makes its way north to the refinery

A block valve on the pipeline was installed after the June spill just south of the Utah Museum of Natural History

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From the lips of his colleagues, family members and friends, Peter Hayes’ life was manufactured of the stuff that makes everyone else’s seem boring. Hayes’ father, Ron Hayes, was an actor, appearing in several films and television series, including The Everglades, in which he starred as a law-enforcement officer patrolling wilderness areas around Florida by boat. But Ron Hayes was also a river man who had inherited from his own father, Sam Hayes, the blood of a natural-born protester. During a teachers’ strike in Los Angeles, Heidi Hayes says she and her brother were pulled from school to march in support of the teachers. Ron Hayes, Heidi says, was the honorary mayor of Sylmar, the small California town where Peter, Heidi and their sister, Vanessa, grew up. But when Ron Hayes put up a lawn sign in support of the town’s first black mayor, his honorary mayor status was swiftly revoked. “That is the venue in which Peter grew up,” says Heidi, who, like her brother, is a science teacher, and president of her local teachers’ union in California. “We’re kind of that way; we speak up.” But Peter’s life took a drastic turn, whether he knew it then or not, when his father, in the early 1960s accompanied legendary Grand Canyon boatman Martin Litton on a river trip. At its conclusion, Litton gave Ron an order of sorts. “He said, ‘Ron, if you want to go on another trip, you’ve got to get a boat,’” Heidi remembers. “So my dad went on the next trip in [his own] dory.” With his college friend, Ron started a business, Wilderness World, which operated rafting trips on the Grand Canyon. When Ron wanted to expand the business north on Oregon’s Rogue River, he sent Peter and a friend, both barely out of high school, to start running trips. “From a very young age, [Peter] took a leadership position, which was Peter’s way,” Heidi says. Peter stayed working on the river, eventually moving to Idaho to work for Steve Lentz, who

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owns Far and Away Adventures in Sun Valley. For Lentz, Peter was a lead guide, the kind of person, he says, that “you were just proud to stand side by side with, not only because of his abilities, but the process in which he guided people.” When the actor Tom Hanks called Lentz to book a trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, Lentz says he summoned Peter, who a few years earlier had retired from professional boating. “Their request was, ‘We really want to come out of this river trip with the full experience, with everything we can get,’ and so Peter was their guide,” Lentz says. Because of his summers on the river and winters on the mountain (he was a ski patroller at Bear Valley, Calif., for several years), Peter started college in his mid 20s, says Rob Wilson, a colleague who took over Peter’s ninthgrade biology classes at Rowland Hall. The two taught together between 200513, and Wilson says he considered Peter a friend and a mentor. Peter, Wilson says, would have likely been an actor had the river not so thoroughly enchanted him. But in the classroom, Peter found a stage. “He had this stage prop—an 1800s-style waxed mustache,” Wilson says. “So he didn’t go into acting because he couldn’t study acting and audition if he was out on the river, and he chose to be out on the river.” Wilson says Peter was the rare teacher who inspired his students at a deep level, loving them almost like he loved his own son. Like all great mentors, though, Wilson says that while much of what Peter taught him was useful, some of the time, Peter showed in his own way how to not do things. In other words, Wilson says he was like anyone else: fallible, and, at times, stubborn to a fault. Peter also had bad feet, the result of shattering both of his heel bones during a nasty rock climbing fall in 1987. Wilson says he still has the inch-deep rubber cushion that Peter stood on while scribbling on the chalkboard. The pain from his feet, Wilson says, was never broadcast, but he could tell that it bothered Peter, as an achy tooth would bother a bear.

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remain concerned about their exposure to crude oil. And because cancer is often slow to develop, the health department plans to continue to do an update on the cancer study every five years to see if any clusters emerge. LaCross says that although exposure to crude oil components has been linked to other types of cancer, including lung cancer, esophageal cancer and blood cancers like leukemia, none of these have been found to be elevated among those living around Red Butte Creek. Payne says she believes the door hanger, coming as it did in the days before Peter’s death, was timed as a diversion to take the neighborhood’s mind off the fact that its biggest cheerleader was running out of oxygen. “Peter, who was in the prime of his life, who was one of the more fit people I know, just went down,” she says.

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Before his death, Hayes completed an art piece incorporating the grade sheets for all of his students. It hangs in the library at Rowland Hall.

“It created a little bit of a dangerous element to his emotional life, but pain does that,” Wilson says. “And he took that combativeness right to Chevron. Those guys at Chevron had to have known him by the end of the day. ‘Oh, OK, it’s Peter Hayes, he’s not going away.’ And it’s a shame that he couldn’t have chastised them for longer.” Wilson remembers that it was January 2013, just after winter break, when Peter told him he’d been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Peter taught to the end of that term, resigning because his doctors said being around children increased risks of infection. Wilson, like Hayes, is a pragmatic scientist. During an interview, he spoke of hypotheses deriving from specific mechanisms and diagnosable symptoms that all must be tabulated and recorded in order to ever draw a line from the oil spill to Peter’s lungs. “It may or may not have

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1. Red Butte Creek at the site of the spill 2. Signs indicate where the pipeline approaches the creek 3. A sign highlighting the beauty of the area

contributed to his disease. I don’t have enough evidence to say one way or the other,” Wilson says. But for Peter, Wilson says, there was never any doubt. And for a man like Peter, with death knocking at the door, only one mind matters. “He believed it,” Wilson says. “And that’s the right word—he believed it.”

Learning Is Work

Peter Hayes, or Mr. Hayes as the students that passed through his classroom knew him, had a motto: Learning is work. These words are the first one sees upon entering the Eccles Library at Rowland Hall. Taking up a large portion of the wall above the reference section is a painting by Mr. Hayes, who in addition to being a father, husband, river guide and educator, was an artist. From a distance, the painting appears

to be little more than a few sketches of students in various poses of study. A closer look reveals a series of intricate words and letters, including rows and rows of carefully crafted A, A, A-, B, B, C+. These letters and words, says Doug Wortham, who has taught French at Rowland Hall for 38 years, and often helped Hayes keep his temper in check before the school’s administration, are the grades and notes that Hayes recorded for every single one of his students. When all of the school’s teachers jettisoned leather-bound grade books in favor of Internet grade books, Hayes followed suit, but Wortham says he never stopped doing things the old-fashioned way “just in case things failed online.” Peter created the art piece, Wortham says, shortly after his diagnosis. Peter began by removing every page from every grade book and made it the background. “So, this is a real work, not just of art, but also history,” Wortham says. “If you had the time and if you were one of his students, you could climb up there and find your name and all of your grades during that year.” Another large art piece from Mr. Hayes hangs over the fiction section. It is an abstract weave of colors, golds, reds, whites and blacks all splayed out on canvas. This piece is more reflective, Wortham says, of Peter’s larger body of work. But as his dying day became less abstract, so too did the artwork that he sought to leave behind. “This isn’t abstract at all,” Wortham says of the “Learning Is Work” piece. “It’s the absolute opposite, but death in his case was not abstract. It was looming, it was coming, there was no way out. He wanted to do something solid, stable, that didn’t require almost any interpretation.” Anyone who has ever learned anything can see the truth in Peter’s motto. And, according to Salt Lake City’s Niermeyer, much was learned from the Red Butte Creek oil spill. Niermeyer says Salt Lake City made strides in working with federal regulators to improve the oil-spill response time. If a discrepancy is recognized at the refinery, Niermeyer says, the policy now requires Chevron Pipe Line Co. to immediately take steps to shut down the pipeline rather than simply sending workers to scope it out. Had this occurred in 2010, Niermeyer says, oil still would have spilled, just not as much. Some of the money Chevron Pipe Line Co. spent after the spill included the installation of fake beaver ponds in Parley’s Creek, which the pipeline crosses and which provides drinking water for around 200,000 people. An exposed portion of the pipe in the Provo River near Woodland was lowered and covered to prevent a rock from bashing into it and rupturing it, which could spoil drinking water supplies for more than a million Utahns. Niermeyer says there is now oil-spill response equipment, including boats at

Jordanelle Reservoir, booms and absorbent materials, along the Provo River and Parley’s Creek in case of a spill. A second valve was installed on the south side of Red Butte Creek. Many of the vales along the pipeline can now be controlled remotely by satellite, in case of a natural disaster that knocks out the power. “I think we’ve been pretty good in using the leaks to work with the oil companies, and they’ve been pretty responsive,” Niermeyer says. “If there is another leak, for whatever cause, we have a better way of controlling it more quickly before it spreads.” But Niermeyer remains haunted by a few inconvenient realities surrounding the pipeline, and any future lines that might be built, as one was recently proposed to follow the same path as Chevron’s line. Chevron’s pipeline crosses and runs parallel to the Wasatch faultline, and many experts say the Wasatch Front is due for a hearty earthquake. The pipeline also runs near much of the Salt Lake Valley’s medical infrastructure at the University of Utah. Where the nightmare of an earthquake and broken water and sewer lines have previously occupied Niermeyer’s thoughts, he now also imagines how the Salt Lake Valley would look in the aftermath of an earthquake with a massive oil spill on its hands. In normal operation, though, Niermeyer says the pipeline has caused little fuss to Salt Lakers during the majority of its existence. And as Niermeyer and incident reports note, the cause of the spill, an errantly placed fencepost that went undetected for decades, was 100 percent avoidable. But the June 2010 spill was but one of two incidents at Red Butte Creek that year. A second spill occurred on Dec. 1, and once again, federal regulators say the cause was failure by Chevron to follow protocol. Before the pipeline was back up and running in June (it was functioning nine days after the spill), Niermeyer says federal regulators had Chevron pressure test the section that runs beneath Red Butte Creek. Dyed water was injected into the pipe to help spot any leaks. The test went off without any hitches. But in December, as cold weather set in, Chevron shut the pipeline down to run another test. When the company resumed pumping crude, a valve burst near the creek, spewing crude into the company’s new containment area. The oil eventually overtook the containment area, and flowed to within a foot of the creek before it was stopped. According to a corrective-action order from PHMSA, after the dye test, Chevron Pipeline officials failed to purge all of the valves to ensure that no residual water remained. “The preliminary findings indicate that the failure to remove all of the test fluid (water) used during the June 2010 hydrostatic pressure test or to take appropriate action to ensure that any remaining water would not adversely affect the operation of the Number 2 Line

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After spending its tens of millions on cleanup, Baker (with Utah’s Division of Water Quality) took the lead in negotiating the penalty that Chevron Pipe Line would have to pay. Baker’s scope of responsibility, he explains, was to penalize Chevron for violating water-quality standards, and nothing else. “Our authority and the scope

used by the Utah Department of Health on the cancer incidence reports came from the settlement. LaCross says it’s all taxpayer money] is, in Moench’s opinion, “unsatisfactory.” “The idea that a settlement was reached where there really wasn’t any money to study these people or to help them with the health-care consequences, that to me sounds like a poor settlement,” he says. Peter is gone, but his vocal opinions, his refusal to quit and his ideas have been pounded into the minds of many who met him. Baker at the Utah Division of Water Quality immediately recognized the name of Peter Hayes. Niermeyer, too, even knew that Peter had passed away. Peter mentored Wilson, who might well end up teaching more ninth-grade biology students than Peter did. And Wortham, the French teacher, says that Peter’s visionary opinions on education, whether well received by his bosses during his life or not, have all managed to come to fruition after this death. Chevron’s oil pipeline, though, was put into the ground three years before Peter was born. It pumped oil to the refinery all those days Peter spent on the river. The pipeline’s steel is a tireless, ominous and mysterious resident of this community. It outlived Peter, and in the opinion of many, it silenced a man who was good at being heard. “He had a voice worth hearing,” Wilson says. “He had a voice that wanted to be heard. He had a loud voice, and it was quite literally silenced by the fibrosis. He was running out of breath.” But that desire to speak out, Wilson says, is something that Peter passed down to his students, his family and his friends. It is this legacy, Wilson says, that Peter should be remembered by. Not his brief time sparring with Chevron. “The desire for speaking up for yourself, speaking up for the little guy,” Wilson says. “That’s part of the legacy he left with people he touched before any of this happened.” CW

Not Our Responsibility

of our settlement was just on water-quality nice neighborhood,” Wilson says. “Those issues,” Baker says. “They weren’t on air- are voices that get heard. You could say quality issues, they weren’t really on the we’re represented. We’re enfranchised, health aspects, other than the protection of that neighborhood. Not so well when it recreational activities in the water.” came to the spill.” Baker wrung $4.5 million out of Chevron Pipe Line for the spill, and by A Voice Stolen the time Peter Hayes took his last breath, Moench, of Physicians for a Healthy nearly every penny had been doled out as Environment, came to know Peter through grants for conservation and restoration the spill, and he says that it’s clear that the projects along the creek, and other parts of proximity of Peter’s home to the creek the watershed. exposed the Hayes family to “significant Since it wasn’t Baker’s responsibility concentrations of VOCs.” to advocate for health-care studies, even The question of whether or not Peter’s though he was at the table negotiating disease was caused by the spill is a settlement with Chevron, it’s fair to partially answered, he believes, by a ask whom Peter Hayes should have study that analyzed fishermen who petitioned to establish such a fund. helped clean up an oil spill off the The answer, Baker says, would coast of Spain. The workers, have been for affected residents “It’s Moench says, showed signs two to sue Chevron. “We just years after their exposure uncommon didn’t think it was our of inflammation in the to have an oil responsibility to do that,” lungs and chromosomal Baker says, of hitting spill like that damage to white blood Chevron up to establish cells, which increases in an urban a health-care fund. “If the risk of cancer. setting. Almost there was a case that “If you look at could be proved unprecedented that information that Chevron had and apply nationally.” caused health it to Peter’s effects to a lot of situation, it is people, or a group —Walt Baker, director very plausible of people, then I that Peter’s lung of the Utah Division think that should injury could have of Water Quality have been pursued been triggered by civilly.” the VOCs he was Rowland Hall exposed to,” Moench biology teacher says. Wilson says that Peter But Moench, like Wilson, knew and loathed the fact says the problem with pollution that disenfranchised people the world is that it’s never easy to “pin a toe tag” on over had to fight corporations for a foot at the morgue and say “pollution justice when environmental accidents did this.” occurred. Within days after the spill, “In my mind, [Peter’s disease] pretty well Wilson says, Peter had compiled a list implicates his exposure, but it certainly of instances where pipelines had burst doesn’t prove it,” he says. around the world, often in impoverished On the day of the spill, Moench says areas. One big difference separated he believes residents should have Peter from the many other individuals, been evacuated. Certainly, he says, any families and towns where pipeline residents with young families or pregnant accidents caused mayhem: Peter, by women should have been put on notice. every definition of the word, was not And any settlement lacking money disenfranchised. for health studies [none of the money “Pete’s neighborhood is different, it’s a

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may have caused or contributed to the December 2010 spill,” the PHMSA order states. Ken Robertson, a policy, government and public affairs expert at Chevron, defends the pipeline company, saying that Chevron cleaned up after itself, and that all of the work it performed was done under the direction and approval of the EPA, Utah’s DEQ, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County and the Utah Department of Health. “Chevron Pipe Line immediately accepted responsibility for the spill, apologized to those affected and set up a claims facility to provide residents with prompt and fair compensation for property damages, personal inconvenience and other losses,” Robertson said in an email. Robertson, however, did not answer any questions about Peter Hayes or any publichealth concerns resulting from the spill. What Peter, many of his neighbors and Brian Moench, president of the group Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, all wanted to see was the establishment of a long-term health study, funded by Chevron. A short time after the spill, KSL Channel 5 did a story about how Peter and others who lived near the creek were asking Chevron to create a $15-million escrow account to help pay health-care costs of affected residents. In the story, then-Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker said that he believed Chevron had met its responsibilities and a health-care fund was unnecessary. In the immediate aftermath of the spill, Becker was a vocal critic of Chevron and he vowed to hold the company accountable for damages stemming from the spill. Becker did not return calls for this story.

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A young Hayes on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River

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Nostalgia, it seems, is one thing they’re always making more of. No matter when you grew up, the pop culture of your youth holds a special place in your heart. And a chance to experience those things all over again is hard to resist. Lee Shapiro understood the appeal of some of the most beloved hits of the 1960s and 1970s from a unique point of view: He was there when they were recorded. As arranger and keyboard player with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, he was in the studio for “Oh What a Night,” before later touring with Tommy James and the Shondells and collaborating with Barry Manilow. It was his notion to put together a kind of supergroup of unsung music industry legends—guys who were behind the scenes playing or singing notes you know by heart, even if you didn’t know their names. The current lineup features four other performers alongside Shapiro. Drummer Gerry Polci was also one of the Four Seasons, even singing the lead vocal on “Oh What a Night.” Guitarist Jimmy Ryan played with Carly Simon on recordings of “Anticipation” and “You’re So Vain,” part of a career that also included work with Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Elton John and Paul McCartney. Composer and lyricist Larry Gates has co-written songs with the likes of Desmond Child. And musician/composer Russ Velazquez has played with Carole King, Luther Vandross and more. Hear their celebrated songs—and the stories behind them—to get that special nostalgic kick. (Scott Renshaw) The Hit Men @ Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, 435-752-0026, Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m., $25-$39. CacheArts.org

Nestled in the hills of Midway, near the Soldier Hollow Olympic venue, Ice Castles will take over a portion of the land to bring you their unique sculptures and displays while winter can best preserve them. The first Ice Castles were constructed years ago by Brent Christensen of Alpine, as he built ice caverns for his daughter to play in during the chilly months. The concept has since blossomed into a major event, where blue ice is turned into something the Snow Miser would be proud to command as his base of operations (or at the very least a weekend getaway). Every castle is painstakingly crafted and designed to bring out the natural look of the ice and snow, while also constructing a fully functional palace for people to walk through in wonderment. Each castle weighs roughly 25 million pounds, with walls measuring 10 feet thick to withstand whatever nature may throw at them during the season, and the throngs who may walk their chilly corridors. The crew grows 10,000 icicles every day and places them throughout the castles to maintain the structure, eventually absorbing into the castle and keeping it steady. The castles will be running for the next three months, or until Mother Nature no longer cooperates and decides to melt it on her own schedule. Of course, you should dress in your warmest gear for at least an hour outside in the freezing temperatures, and always check the weather forecast before you go. (Gavin Sheehan) Midway Ice Castles @ Soldier Hollow, 2002 Soldier Hollow Road, Midway, Jan. 8-March 31, Monday through Thursday, 3 p.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 3 p.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday, noon-11 p.m., $6.95-$18. IceCastles.com/Midway

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Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews (pictured), cocreators of Broadway’s award-winning new musical Invisible Thread (formerly Witness Uganda), aren’t bringing their full musical to Park City. Instead, they’ll use songs and stories from their production as a starting point for a discussion about how to achieve positive change in the world. What does social change have to do with a Broadway musical? Well, this isn’t just any musical. Some critics have called Invisible Thread the less-raunchy, more-heartfelt version of The Book of Mormon. Or, as an NPR review recently explained, it’s a “classic story of an American do-gooder in Africa” that depicts a complicated reality. The mostly autobiographical story, written by Matthews, tells of his post-collegiate experience working for a religious relief organization in Uganda—something he hoped would reinvigorate his life after a disappointing start to an acting career in New York and dismissal from his church choir for being gay. Unfortunately, the Uganda mission doesn’t turn out quite as planned. As Matthews watches the corrupt relief official undermine the well-intentioned work of the volunteers, Matthews instead finds purpose as he develops a surprising friendship with a group of orphaned teenagers. Invisible Thread includes thought-provoking accounts of real people and real issues—education, homophobia, race, equality, HIV and AIDS— and it’s from this starting point that Matthews and composer Gould will begin this evening. It seems that Gould and Matthews know how hard it is to reach an audience with only heart-wrenching narratives. It just goes over a little easier when paired with music. (Katherine Pioli) An Evening with the Creators of Invisible Thread @ Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m., $25-75. EcclesCenter.org

Audiences will be treated to two pieces dedicated to royalty—plus a single-movement 20th century work—when the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet appears Wednesday at Libby Gardner Hall on the University of Utah campus. The concert is presented under auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. Quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music since 2012, the Pacifica formerly was quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a position previously held only by the world-renown Guarneri String Quartet. In 2009, Pacifica—praised by critics for its virtuosity, exuberance and daring repertory—accepted a Grammy Award when their Naxos-label recording of Carter’s quartets No. 1 and 5 was judged the best chamber music performance of the year. Wednesday’s program is scheduled to include Mozart’s Quartet No. 23 in F major. Composed in 1790, a year before Mozart’s death, it was dedicated to the king of Prussia, himself an amateur cellist. Thus, the cello takes a prominent role. In Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, the viola is featured in the single-movement piece, written in 1970 while the composer was being treated at an orthopedic clinic. At several places, players tap the bodies of their instruments—a practice rarely used before in Soviet music. Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 4 in E major premiered in 1837 in Leipzig, where it was dedicated to Sweden’s crown prince. While earlier quartets were influenced by Beethoven, the piece reflects Mendelssohn’s originality. Gerald Elias, associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, will give a pre-concert lecture at 6:45 p.m. (Lance Gudmundsen) Pacifica Quartet @ Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., general admission $30, students $10. CMSOfSLC.org

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Eternal Laugh

After six years, comedian John Hilder commits new material to recording. BY GAVIN SHEEHAN comments@cityweekly.net

ohn Hilder is about to take a major leap in his career—for the second time. The Salt Lake Cit y-native comedian will be taking the stage at the Club 50 West this weekend for t wo nights to record material for his second, yet-tobe-titled CD. It’s always a risk y venture for a comedian to record a live set; you get one or t wo shots to make it great and deliver your best material at the time, and you can only hope that the live audience responds. It serves as a permanent landmark of where you are in your career, and could very well launch it to new heights. Just look at Woody A llen, George Carlin, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Mitch Hedberg or Patton Oswalt, whose live recordings brought them to prominence and endeared them to larger audiences. Over the holiday break, Hilder considered his most inf luential comedy albums that served as a catalyst for his own material. He constantly goes back to Dave Chappelle’s Killin’ Them Softly and For What It’s Worth, as well as every album Louis CK has ever recorded, as “constant companions for the long road trips bet ween terrible gigs.” Those t wo stellar comedians set a very high bar. Hilder grew up loving Jerry Seinfeld and watching the comedian’s NBC show with his family. But he heavily credits his friends and family for being the biggest influences behind his style. Hilder also found hilarity in Eddie Murphy’s Delirious, and he became one of the kids in his neighborhood

who circulated a VHS copy of Murphy’s comedy concert among his friends at age 11. He watched it over and over, as he and buddies cackled like hyenas. Hilder’s professional career actually started in Las Vegas, after he moved there from Salt Lake Cit y at the age of 21. He had been writing jokes for four years and kicked himself for not trying it sooner. His ambitions of playing the Strip were quickly dashed, however, as he found himself performing in seedy bars in the not-so-glamorous parts of the cit y. For some, this would be spirit-breaking, but Hilder soon grew to appreciate his career obstacles. “My first five years on stage were spent almost exclusively in some of the roughest, crappiest bars and shows you could ever hope to see,” he says. “The crowd was six drunks with their back to you, pumping their entire paycheck into a videopoker machine. When you can make a guy laugh who just lost his rent money in t wo clicks of a button, no other room will ever intimidate you.” After a five-year stint in Vegas, Hilder came home to what was a more inviting and accepting comedy circuit. He was given several opportunities to perform on every stage in Salt Lake City at that time, which included recording his first album, Johnsense, in 2009. Since that time, he’s moved back to Las Vegas, making regular visits to Salt Lake City at Wiseguys and other venues while frequently touring the United States. But with a six-year gap between his work on the first album and this new recording, Hilder looks to making something that better represents the evolution of his work that he can sell online and on the road.

Hilder chose 50 West specifically for the room’s setup, and for how supportive the staff was the last time he performed there. “Once I saw the room, I knew immediately that’s where I wanted to record my next album, and it lit a fire under my ass to make it happen and make the album really great,” he says. “I think Salt Lake Cit y is a comedy-hungry town—and for all t ypes of comedy—and 50 West couldn’t be more supportive.” In regard to what people can expect to see, Hilder has been developing the best possible material for this project over the past several years, constantly adding new jokes, and removing bits that didn’t hit the mark or were working on a different level than what he was aiming for. After touring the country with this set for a while, he’s confident that it will delight audiences but also acknowledges the realit y that it will never really be complete. “The pursuit of perfect timing and material is impossible, but it’s constant, and it’s what keeps us coming back,” he

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says. “It has taken me almost five years to get to this point where I feel like this material is too good not to record—and sell to people at a vast markup. But I can guarantee you, as happy as I am with it all, no matter how great it turns out, I will hear at least 50 things I wish I could change.” CW

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Ring Around the Rose: Ballet West Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Jan. 9, 11 a.m., ArtSaltLake.org

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Pacifica Quartet Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., Music.Utah.edu, see p. 20 Salt Lake Symphony: Wild, Wild Musical West Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, University of Utah, 877-425-1537, Jan. 9, 2 p.m., SaltLakeSymphony.org Utah Symphony: Mozart & Mahler Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Jan. 8-9, 7:30 p.m., UtahSymphony.org Utah Symphony Harris Fine Arts Center, 1 University Hill, Provo, 801-422-2981, Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m., Arts.BYU.edu

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Pinnacle Acting Co.: Art Art really only exists in a relationship with the viewer; what we say about a work often says as much about ourselves as it says about the work. So what does it say about any given person when you find out what they think about—almost literally—a blank canvas? Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play Art—produced locally this month by Pinnacle Acting Company—explores this idea through three long-time friends in Paris: Serge, Marc and Yvan. Serge, a collector of modern art, has just purchased a new painting for 200,000 francs—a painting that happens to be a plain white field, with, perhaps, a few lines that are a slightly different shade of white. Marc ridicules the purchase, and while Yvan tries to play the peacemaker, their interactions regarding its merit begin to reveal things about the nature of their friendship, and how we process our reaction to people whose perspectives we just can’t understand. (Scott Renshaw) Pinnacle Acting Co.: Art @ Westminster College Courage Theater, 1250 E. 1700 South, Jan. 8-23, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 23, 2 p.m. matinee; Thursday, Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m. preview, $13-$18. PinnacleActingCompany.org

STAND-UP COMEDY

Adrenaline w/ Christian Pieper Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com All Jacked Up Comedy Tour: Featuring Aaron Farnsworth, Merry Cole & Taber Johnson Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St.,

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, Jan. 8-30, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; check Website for special performances, EmpressTheatre.com Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike Wasatch Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 7-30, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; matinee Saturday, Jan. 23 & Jan. 30, 2 p.m.; WasatchTheatre.org You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 80-1-3930070, through Feb. 6, 2016, Thursday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com

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OPEN MIC & IMPROV COMEDY

Comedy Sportz Comedy Sportz, 36 W. Center St., Provo, 801-377-9700, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., ComedySportzUtah.com Laughing Stock Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 & 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us Quick Wits Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-1523, Saturday, 10 p.m., QWComedy.com Sasquatch Cowboy Improv Comedy The Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedy.com Split Sides Comedy Open Mic w/ Melissa Merlot & Improv Against Humanity w/ Quick Wits Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, Saturday Jan. 9, open mic, 6 p.m.; improv, 8:30 p.m.; SandyStation.com Wiseguys Open Mic Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Brooke Arnold: Elements of Evil Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2586, Jan. 9, 2 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Ann Cannon, Emily W. Jenson & Tracy McKay-Lamb: A Book of Mormons: Latter Day Saints on a Modern Day Zion The Kings English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Jan 13, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FILM FESTIVAL

Outdoor Retailer Backcountry Film Festival Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West, 801322-3891, Jan. 7, 7 p.m., WinterWildLands.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

24 Hours in China: Photography from the China Overseas Exchange Association, Part One Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5248200, through Jan. 10, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Benjamin Gaulon: Corrupt.Yourself Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMoca.org Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 10, UMFA.Utah.edu Brian Christensen: Reconfigure Central Utah

Arts Center, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Feb. 7; CUArtCenter.org Cheryl Sandoval: Steps from the Reservation Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, 801-596-0500, through Jan. 9, MestizoArts.org Colors of the Season Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through Jan. 10, ArtAtTheMain.com Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Jan. 16, UtahMoca.org From the Collection of Thomas M. Alder Charley Hafen Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801-5217711, through Jan. 9, CharleyHafen.com Holiday Group Exhibition Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, 801-532-1956, through Jan. 8, MarkSlusser.com Inside: Out: Solo exhibition by Lindsay Frei Alice Gallery, 617 East S. Temple, through Jan. 16, VisualArts.Utah.gov Jennifer Jo Deily: Mostly Wildlife Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Jan. 9, SLCPL.org Mark Thomas Palfreyman: Little Monsters: Scientific Illustrations Sprague Branch, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through Jan. 18, SLCPL.org Mummies of the World The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, 801-538-9100, Dec. 18-March 6, MummiesOfTheWorld.com Occurrences: A Further Examination of Phenomena in Nature Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 6, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., SLCPL.org Part Two Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Jan. 12-Feb. 21, Portraitures of Life: Works by Bea Hurd Main Library Canteena, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5248200, Jan. 6-Feb. 7, SLCPL.org Robert Martin: Episodes: Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801524-8200, through Jan. 8, SLCPL.org Sarina Villareal: Efflorescent Interference Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801524-8200, through Jan. 8, SLCPL.org Small Works Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through Jan. 12, TuesdaySaturday, ModernWestFineArt.com Statewide Annual Statewide Annual Exhibition Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through Jan. 8, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., VisualArts.Utah.gov

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But you won’t need hot sauce for the camarones ala Diabla; the “Devil’s shrimp” is incendiary enough already. Devil’s style octopus ( pulpo) is another fiery option. Fish tacos, crawfish, raw oysters, scallops, a variety of different fish and abalone are all options here. But for something really unique, try the pineapple stuffed with mixed seafood and cheese. There’s something you won’t find at Del Taco. For stick-to-the-ribs, inexpensive Mexican fare, I go to Lorena’s Mexican Restaurant (2477 S. 800 West, Woods Cross, 801-295-2441, LorenasRestaurant.com). Opened in 1989 by Tob and Lena Paul, Lorena’s specializes in hearty dishes like smothered burritos, enchiladas, chile verde, tamales and their popular combo plates, which include a choice of three mix-and-match burritos, tacos, tostadas, enchiladas, etc., plus rice and beans, at prices averaging $7 to $9. That’s a great bang for the buck. Now, it must be said that there is nothing subtle about Lorena’s. It’s the Mexican version of a rapid-fire American diner, where the service is friendly, but folks are moved in and out quickly, because the place is almost always packed. Attention to décor is minimal, but once you’ve dug into one of the homemade tamales ($2.90), the chile verdesmothered burrito ($3.65) or the creamy refried beans ($1.50), you won’t give a hoot about ambiance or Michelin-starred service. Lorena’s is all about heaping plates of great food and friendly service at prices that don’t seem to have increased much since ’89. Since opening in 1997, Park City’s El Chubasco restaurant (1890 Bonanza Drive, Park City, 435-645-9114, ElChubascoMexicanGrill.com) has been one of the busiest spots in town, thanks to authentic Mexican flavors at not-so-ParkCity prices. The head chef is originally

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ike the cooking of Italy, China, Brazil or the United States for that matter, there’s no single “Mexican” cuisine. As with most culinary traditions bounded by geography and culture, Mexican food varies from region to region, ranging from Mesoamerican cooking and Spanish influences to the flavors of the Yucatán Peninsula. So, I’m often at a loss to answer the question: “What’s your favorite Mexican restaurant?” I have about a half-dozen “favorites,” but they vary widely in terms of the foods they offer. For more refined Mexican dishes, I’m especially fond of Alamexo and Frida Bistro. For funkier fare, taco carts are my first choice. But then, I also love the homestyle cooking of Julia’s, everything about Luna Taquería, Red Iguana, Tamales Tita, El Paisa Grill and others. Well, here is an additional trio of can’tmiss Mexican eateries—ones that might not be on your radar but that are all distinct in their take on Mexican cuisine. You’ll feel like you’ve entered a seaside Mexican restaurant when you walk into Salt Lake City’s Mi Lindo Nayarit (145 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-908-5727) (not to be confused with Mariscos Mi Lindo Nayarit in West Valley’s Latino Mall). From the straw-covered shack in the back that serves as the bar and cashier area to the blast of tropical colors that energize the eatery’s décor—orange, lime, turquoise, pink, ocean blue and more—this is a place with a festive feel, and food that’s as vivid as the ambiance. Nayarit is a state on the Pacific Ocean in western Mexico, with 180 miles of coastline, so its cuisine consists, naturally, largely of seafood. Bass, oysters, snapper and other fish and shellfish are in abundance, much of which gets exported to urban areas like Guadalajara and Mexico City. So, seafood is in abundance, too, at Mi Lindo Nayarit. I’ve heard complaints about high prices here, but the portions are generous, and the quality and freshness of ingredients at Mi Lindo Nayarit are top-notch. For example, we ordered a “medium” size shrimp ceviche ($8.99), and it was too large for the two of us to finish. The shrimp, “cooked” in lime juice, came with huge tostada-style deepfried tortillas, which were perfect for scooping up the tender, tangy shrimp. A whole fried tilapia ($11.99)—seasoned gently with not much more than salt and garlic—is delicious when doused with something from Mi Lindo Nayarit’s huge hot-sauce selection.

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Munich Bock beer—that pairs nicely with grilled meats. The same brewery also makes a unique beer called Casta Morena—a fruity, dark ale with notes of plum, a Mexican beer made in the style of Scottish Ale. In my opinion, though, the most interesting and f lavorful beer widely produced in Mexico is Negra Modelo, from the Grupo Modelo brewery that also makes Corona. The t wo beers couldn’t be more different. Negra Modelo is a complex beer (akin to a German-st yle Altbier), creamy and somewhat sweet with hints of chocolate. That subtle chocolate f lavor makes it a slam dunk to drink with rich Oaxacan mole dishes, as well as with beef, lamb and pork dishes. A bit on the dark and stormy side, it’s also a good Mexican beer to enjoy after dinner. Salud! CW

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ovies have told love stories as long as there have been movies, but occasionally it takes a movie like Todd Haynes’ Carol to remind you how hard it is to show people falling in love. That moment is particularly complicated in Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s pseudonymously published 1952 novel The Price of Salt. And that’s because the two people falling in love with one another, circa the winter of 1952-1953, are both women. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is a young shopgirl working at the toy counter of a New York City department store; Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) is a married mother recently separated from her husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler). They meet-cute over a Christmas present purchased for Carol’s daughter. They meet again when Therese returns to Carol the gloves she left behind in the store, and Carol buys her lunch as a thank you. But then there’s the sequence in which Carol picks Therese up in her car and drives her back to her house in New Jersey for a visit. As Carter Burwell’s remarkable score pulses and swells, Haynes transforms the drive into a swirl of images: the lights inside a tunnel; Carol’s gloved hands on the steering wheel; a glimpse of her fur coat. It’s a perfect impressionistic snapshot of that crazy moment when the thing you might not have dared think was possible suddenly becomes possible. As perfectly as Haynes pitches that sequence, it’s only part of one of the most magnificently directed features in recent years. Haynes finds a brilliant visual motif by repeatedly shooting his main characters through glass—the windows of cars, motel offices, diners—separating them from the world as they look longingly at the things they want, but expect they can never have. He also pinches

Therese into corners and edges of his frame, echoing the ways in which she seems constrained. That idea carries beyond the “love that dare not speak its name” central relationship between Therese and Carol. As heartbreakingly lovely as that romance is while it unfolds, it’s also part of a bigger picture in Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay about the limitations facing every woman of this time. Therese’s pursuit of a career as a photographer seems to rely on the help of a man who wants to hit on her; Carol’s hope for a clean break from Harge is complicated by his possessive sense of her as his property. Even the most minor female characters in Carol exist as faces of frustration: Therese’s supervisor; a neighbor who snaps at her over a late-night phone call; the wife of a co-worker of Harge’s, who sneaks a cigarette at a Christmas party because her husband “doesn’t like me to smoke.” She’s the same character who inspires a key line of dialogue, as Harge tells Carol, that “Harrison’s wife asked after you,” which Carol immediately corrects to “Jeanette.” How hard it is to imagine being in a relationship with a woman, when being a woman generally means being defined by a man. Yet for all that thematic subtext, Carol is still a love story, and it resonates most thanks to the performances that bring it to life. Rooney Mara is the true revelation, bringing a watchfulness and passivity to Therese’s early scenes—with her boyfriend

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(Jake Lacy), and at that first lunch where she follows Carol by placing an identical order—that convey her sense that she doesn’t really have choices of her own. And while Blanchett’s screen performances can often seem mannered, that approach generally works for a character like Carol who has lived most of her life in a kind of public performance of “normalcy.” Carol risks turning into finger-wagging at those repressive 1950s, as the plot shifts to a custody battle between Carol and Harge based on a “morality clause,” as well as topics like therapy attempting to “cure” homosexuality. These obstacles, though, set up some of Carol’s most powerful scenes, building to a resolution that’s genuinely in doubt almost until the film’s final moment. Haynes nails that moment, too, pulling his focus in a way that puts these two women at long last in the center of their own world. From that dreamy first moment of falling in love, Carol evolves into the real-world power of being in love.

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RIVER OF FUNDAMENT [not reviewed] Director Matthew Barney’s operatic six-hour journey through Egyptian cosmology. Opens Jan. 8 at Tower Theatre. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES THE HATEFUL EIGHT BBB Quentin Tarantino’s films generally seem deeper than their superficially visceral appeal with the benefit of multiple viewings, but this gritty drama—about snowbound characters trying to survive treachery and personal conflicts at a remote general store/tavern in post-Civil War Wyoming—initially feels even more superficial than usual. There are pleasures to be found in the sharp performances, as well as Tarantino’s trademark gift for using dialogue to convey the power of myth and storytelling. Yet this Western riff on paranoia-tinged horror like The Thing plays out mostly as a profane, blood-soaked genre exercise, where Tarantino has typically wrapped such content around something with a real moral compass. Q’s got a few salient things to say about cleaning up the legacy of American racism; maybe a second look will make it easier to hear them through the F-bombs and gunfire. (R)—SR

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seeing a character’s breath condensed on the camera lens indicates what Iñárritu misunderstands about a story like The Revenant. As infatuated as he seems to be with making sure audiences appreciate the gritty realism, he also wants to make sure they know they’re watching a movie—and he can’t have it both ways. For all of his gifts as a filmmaker, he sure hopes you don’t forget that he’s there behind the camera. Opens Jan. 8 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR

THE REVENANT BB.5 Something as ephemeral as a breath shouldn’t mark the point when a movie this relentlessly physical lost me, but Alejandro G. Iñárritu pulls it off in his loosely fact-based story of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), a guide for an early 19th-century fur-trapping operation who finds himself alone in the winter wilderness and mortally injured, with only a need for vengeance driving him onward. Iñárritu has plenty of skills at crafting fascinating visuals—ideal for moments like the hard-to-watch bear attack that cripples Glass— and DiCaprio’s largely wordless performance transcends the ubiquitous media focus on the physical hardships he endured. The trouble comes when the 2 1/2-hour march through Glass’ ordeal starts to become simply exhausting—and when

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J. Lo gets gritty in Shades of Blue; the Gallaghers are back and still Shameless. Shades of Blue Thursday, Jan. 7 (NBC)

Series Debut: When The Player was quietly-but-unofficially canceled last year, Shades of Blue materialized out of nowhere as its NBC Thursday replacement. A gritty cop drama pitting Jennifer Lopez against Ray Liotta? Sounds like a forgotten ’90s flick you’d run across on TNT at 3 a.m., but Shades of Blue is more like The Shield with bigger hair: NYPD detective Harlee Santos (Lopez), having spent most of her career skirting legalities with “creative” police work, is busted by the FBI and forced to take a deal to secretly inform on her equally sketchy colleagues (including Liotta and Drea de Matteo), or risk never seeing her moppet daughter again (because, of course, Harlee’s a single mom). What follows is mucho capital-A Acting!, few twists you didn’t fully expect, and the nagging truth that, “well, it’s not the worst show NBC’s thrown at us this season.”

Angel From Hell Thursday, Jan. 7 (CBS)

Series Debut: At least CBS is still trying to break out of its tired sitcom mold, first this season with Life in Pieces and now, the ultimately doomed Angel From Hell. Like Life in Pieces, Angel From Hell follows the single-camera format sans canned laughs, and features a solid cast (Jane Lynch,

Maggie Lawson, Kyle Bornheimer and Kevin Pollak). But then it goes weird, if not Wilfred: Is the crazy lady (Lynch) who’s forced her way into Allison’s (Lawson) stable-if-dull life actually a guardian angel, or a stalker, or a figment of her imagination? Two more questions: Who thought they could stretch a Hallmark Christmas movie trope into a series? And, why was the debut of Angel From Hell delayed by a couple of months? Was it the “ultimately doomed” thing?

Shameless Sunday, Jan. 10 (Showtime)

Season Premiere: America’s Greatest TV Family returns for a sixth go-round that’s, more so than any previous season, a direct continuation of the previous one for the Shameless clan: Fiona’s (Emmy Rossum) still sleeping with, and getting promoted by, her diner boss; ditto Lip (Jeremy White) with his married college professor; Frank (William H. Macy) is a distraught ball of mush over his cancersuicide girlfriend; Debbie’s (Emma Kenney) knockedup; Ian (Cameron Monaghan) won’t take his meds; Carl’s (Ethan Cutkosky) fresh out of juvie; and their squalid South Chicago neighborhood is still under siege by gradual hipster gentrification (recoil in horror as the Alibi Room bar suffers its first “Appletini” order). Welcome back, Gallaghers—this country needs you now more than ever.

Second Chance Wednesday, Jan. 13 (Fox)

Series Debut: First it was The Frankenstein Code, then Lookinglass, and finally, Second Chance—the show still sucks, but at least it went through a drawn-out, committeethink, network-nightmare process to arrive at the dullest title possible. The setup: A 75-year-old disgraced ex-sheriff (Philip Baker Hall) is gunned down by corrupt cops while

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protecting the kids of his FBI agent son (Tim DeKay), but then “brought back to life” as a 35-year-old version of himself (Rob Kazinsky) by a pair of rich twins (Adhir Kalyan and Dilshad Vadsaria) who made their millions with a social-networking site but are now totally into bioengineering. Also, New Guy (a way better show title, BTW) has super-strength, as well as scores to settle. As stoopid as all this sounds, it was actually done better and smarter by CBS’s plot-identical Now & Again in 1999. Look up that show, instead.

Younger Wednesday, Jan. 13 (TV Land)

Season Premiere: Sutton Foster charmed critics and a handful of fans on ABC Family’s long-canceled Bunheads, but the new-ish, Darren Star-produced Younger, now kicking off Season 2, should finally be her Big Break (or at least as big as you can get on TV Land if you’re not Jim Gaffigan). For the uninitiated, Foster stars as a 40-year-old woman posing as 26 to break into the cutthroat world of ... book publishing? Just go with it: Foster is fantastic, the writing has an edge new to TV Land (and no laugh track!), and the show’s Politics of Ageism are far sharper and less heavyhanded than you’d expect—oh, and Hilary Duff is finally not annoying in something. Major victory, right there.

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eah, thanks to the Internet, music is free. But when you’re searching for something to download, is it—to borrow from Portlandia—local? Chances are you’re looking for something else, like the latest from Jack White or that rare out-of-print jewel that, if you can find it, is priced out of your reach. It’s not local music you’re lookin’ for, either, because you buy it at shows to support them—or it just doesn’t occur to you (or me). Isn’t that weird? Considering the abundance of great music Salt Lake City has to offer, and the fact that it’s priced cheap to free, we should be gorging ourselves on local ear candy. Alas, this is not the case. When interviewing Starmy this week, they mentioned how all five, and soon to be six, of their albums are available to download free on Bandcamp. “But nobody’s listening to it,” says Starmy frontman Mike Sartain. Since uploading Starmy’s catalog on March 1, 2012, the band has only 1,482 total plays according to the statistics graph Sartain shared with City Weekly. That’s taking into account every song on all five current releases—and it includes full plays, partial plays and even skipped tracks. Here’s a guide to local music that can be had for free—or purchased for the proverbial song (ha!). You’ll have an embarrassment of local music riches in no time at all. In fact, I’m at five gigabytes and counting as my computer chugs like a frat boy. Binge away, readers!

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Most musicians, especially local ones, realize they’re not gonna get rich playing music. But there are costs to cover, and you can’t blame someone for wanting to make a living doing what they love. A lot of local musicians meet us more than halfway, posting their music for cut-out bin prices. Hip-hop artist King Niko charges from $0.89 cents for single tracks to $1.50 for an EP to $5 for full albums—but he still tosses out stuff like his Live on KUER EP for nuttin’. Groove rockers Honest Engine have three tracks up on Bandcamp—two at $1 and one for free. At those prices, you can’t afford not to buy!

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You want to be scared? I mean really frightened? Then go to The Nods’ Facebook page. It looks like outtakes from some George A. Romero flick. OK, so the tongue is firmly planted in cheek, but their hilarious, gory photo gallery is quite a sight. In true garage rock form, their songs are tight, compact and muscular, and they’ll knock the wind out of you just like that bully did back in middle school. One of the best songs on their Bandcamp page is called “Ignore the Scene,” (something I’ve been trying to do for years, with no luck), but “Dull Swords” and “KULT 2” are just as righteous. If you show up with lots o’ money tonight, here’s good news: You can spend it at the bar, as there’s no cover charge for tonight’s show. That’s one hell of a deal, since Bitchin’, Donner Partyhouse and Red Bennies are also on the bill. (TH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., free, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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G-Eazy, A$ap Ferg, Marc E. Bassy, Nef the Pharaoh

From the streets of California’s East Bay comes rapper G-Eazy. He found his beginnings in releasing early tracks on MySpace, rose during the countless tours he undertook opening for bigger acts like Snoop Dogg and Lil’ Wayne, and his debut album, These Things Happen (RCA) peaked at the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200. Since then, he’s seen a meteoric rise. The lyrical themes of struggling to make it against the odds and a turbulent childhood have definitely struck a chord with a number of people. His headlining “From the Bay to the Universe” tour sold out completely as his album sells more and more copies every day. His second album, When It’s Dark Out (RCA), was released in early December, and features multiple guests

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As We Speak

A lot of musical acts have come out of Salt Lake City over the years: Chelsea Grin, The Used, Royal Bliss, Panic! At the Disco guitarist Dallon Weeks. Now adding to that list is the alt-rock group As We Speak. Their self-professed goal is to “write music they love that will leave all who listen a foot off the ground.” They keep finding new ways to express the central ideas of their foundation of youth, love and living in the modern world in their songs, and they’re currently at work their first full-length album. Although it’s a sound some alt-rock fans might say they’ve heard before, As We Speak has developed a variation on that sound that is completely their own, and are attempting to reach out to a wider audience with it. Bands in this

G-Eazy genre are hard-pressed to create something original and still thrive in the industry today, and As We Speak may be another success story in the competitive jungle of the genre. Time—and their debut full-length album— will tell. The Cardboard Club, Woffinden and Passport open the show (DB) The Loading Dock, 445 S. 400 West, 6:30 p.m., $10, LoadingDockSLC.com

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Rocky Mountain blues-rockers Big Head Todd & the Monsters are a rare band. They’re ace musicians who can jam like nobody’s business, and singer-guitarist-songwriter Todd Park Mohr has songwriting chops to match. They play blues-rock, but they’re poppy enough to be accessible (like their watershed single from 1993, “Bittersweet“), often bombastic enough to be arena rock

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Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel haven been at it for two decades and, judging by their fourth record, Imani Vol. 1 (OGM) they’re still going strong. They’re among the elder statesmen of the hip-hop scene and, as such, they focus more on the uplifting rather than the knuckleheaded and violent. The flows come smooth and seductive and, musically, it’s all over the map—in the best way possible. Live, their numbers tend to increase; who knows how many folks will be on stage (maybe two, maybe 200), but this tour promises to bring many surprises. Local acts Dusk, House of Lewis and Swell Merchants round out the lineup. (TH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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Advent Horizon are a quartet who consider what they do “progressive rock.” They call our fair city home, and are playing a holy handful of gigs all around Utah in places both far and wide. Now, back to the genre thing: Think prog rock circa 2015 and not, like, Emerson, Lake and Palmer or Yes. They’re not your dad’s prog rock. Their stuff gets angular and freaky, and they wouldn’t sound out of place on the Warped Tour. See their new-school take on old-school sounds for yourself, and pick up a copy of their new LP, Stagehound. Orem’s 20 Stories Falling and Draper’s The Thrill Collective open. (Tim Hinely) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com

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Blues singer/raconteur Paul Thorn is best known for wry, frequently self-deprecating story songs like “I Guess I’ll Just Stay Married” and “It’s a Great Day (for Me to Whoop Somebody’s Ass).” His latest album, Too Blessed To Be Stressed (Perpetual Obscurity), is a bit different. “In the past,” he writes on PaulThorn.com, “I’ve told stories that were mostly inspired by my own life. This time, I’ve written 10 songs that express more universal truths, and I’ve done it with a purpose: to make people feel good.” He was already doing that before, but that’s cool. A little positivity never hurts. (Randy Harward) Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd. (Ogden), 7 p.m., $27.24, EgyptianTheaterOgden.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When he’d almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn’t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic. The new edition of Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck’s breakout book. I’m guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries— although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Remember back to what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004. I suspect that you fell just short of fulfilling a dream. It’s possible you were too young to have the power you needed. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be pretty good, but not great. Maybe you were pushing to create a new life for yourself, but weren’t wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, you have returned to a similar phase in your long-term cycle. You are better equipped to do what you couldn’t quite do before: create the masterpiece, finish the job, rise to the next level. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath. You’ve got to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it in ways that facilitate rather than interfere with the sounds coming out of your mouth. When you’re beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which previously you’ve done unconsciously. Later, you have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline so you can reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully. Although you may not be working to become a singer in 2016, Gemini, I think you will have comparable challenges: 1. to make conscious an activity that has been unconscious; 2. to refine and cultivate that activity; 3. to allow your consciously crafted approach to become unselfconscious again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Around the world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh will not be one of them. It has enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, it’s taught in many schools, appears on road signs and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Libra? A tradition that can be revitalized and should be preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves to be reclaimed? Make it happen in 2016. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales. It became a seminal text of English literature, even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. The artist Michelangelo never found the time to put the final touches on numerous sculptures and paintings. Why am I bringing this theme to your attention? Because 2016 will be an excellent time to wrap up long-term projects you’ve been working on—and also to be at peace with abandoning those you can’t. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In her poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch CANCER (June 21-July 22) Ancient humans didn’t “invent” fire, but rather learned about it out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year. “Already from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes the first branch-tips brush at the window,” Hirshfield writes. had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” I suspect this will tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid be an apt metaphor for you in 2016. The expansion and proand knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology liferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten and carry. It was essential to the to intensify. That’s mostly good, but may also require adjustdevelopment of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you oppor- ments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life? tunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides. Millenia ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) British author Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) had a day job with the breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as postal service until he was in his 50s. For years, he awoke every morn- a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around ing at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets. The achieving. “A small daily task, if it really be daily,” he wrote in his auto- process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an biography, “will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.” I recommend unstoppable momentum that will ensure success. that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular, disciplined PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success. Imagine that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures aren’t rendered VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Umbrellas shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect through dream-like scenes that have symbolic resonance. With us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I’m very this as our template, I’ll predict a key plot development of 2016: much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear You will grow increasingly curious about a “forbidden” door—a in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They door you have always believed should not be opened. Your can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won’t do locating the key for that door. If it’s not available, you may even much of that in 2016. In my opinion, you need a lot of face-to-face think about breaking down the door. encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year.

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