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In Praise of the Lone Holdout

On September 4, Judge William Sullivan, of Massachusetts’ Plymouth County Superior Court, declared a mistrial in the case of Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy. After seven days of deliberation, the jury was clearly “hung,” with one member refusing to support a verdict of “not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility” in Clancy’s killing of her three young children. I suspect I may be the only person in America who doesn’t hold strong opin-

ions on what verdict the jury should have reached. Yes, I oppose murder. Yes, I’m especially appalled by the murders of children. Yes, I am skeptical of most “insanity pleas.” And yes, I’m aware that juries don’t always get things right. But I was not one of the 12 people who spent a week in that jury room, carefully considering the trial’s 21 days of testimony, its more than 1,500 evidentiary exhibits and the details of the applicable laws. I don’t consider myself qualified to gainsay the conclusions of any of those 12 people. I do, however, have a strong opinion on the controversy around, and the court’s handling of, one juror’s filibuster, his insistence on voting his informed opinion and personal conscience despite severe pressure to give in. On the sixth day, the jury’s foreperson sent a note claiming that the holdout juror wasn’t following Judge Sullivan’s instructions on the meaning of “reasonable doubt.” The judge then pri-

vately lectured the jurors on the meaning of that term. Clancy’s attorney then petitioned Sullivan to remove the recalcitrant juror, essentially claiming that a single vote to convict in the face of 11 votes to acquit constituted a violation of the law. Sullivan rejected the petition ... but neither the lecture nor the petition should have happened in the first place. American law recognizes the right of a jury to acquit a defendant “in the teeth of the facts.” We call it “jury nullification”: The jury decides that even though the defendant did X, the law forbidding X is wrong, at least in that case. Prosecutors hate that, because they prefer convictions at any cost. Judges hate it, because they like to be in charge and don’t think anyone should be free to ignore their “instructions.” The lone juror in the Clancy case is a flip side of jury nullification. He decided, based on the evidence he’d seen and the testimony he’d heard, that she was guilty, and he wasn’t going to let

himself get bullied into saying otherwise. The effect isn’t as broad as acquittal—the prosecutor is free to bring the case again—but it’s the same principle. Jurors get to vote their conclusions and their conscience. Period. That’s important. The American “justice” system is less about actual justice these days than about padding prosecutors’ records with plea bargains and convictions to advance their careers, keeping cases flowing through judges’ courtrooms without inconvenient delays and keeping American prisons operating at full capacity. Jurors are our only line of defense against that trend. Respect them. THOMAS L. KNAPP The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism Care to sound off on a feature in our pages or about a local concern? Write to comments@cityweekly.net or post your thoughts on our social media. We want to hear from you!

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COOLER What reality TV show would you absolutely crush given the chance? Benjamin Wood

I like to think I’d do pretty well on Survivor, but it’s hard realizing that time has passed and I’d be considered an “older” player if I ever made the cast.

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I don’t want to do any of the gross stuff like eat bugs or pretend war criminals are good dancers.

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Fear Factor or Naked and Afraid.

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I would be terrible at any reality show. Maybe COPS because I am pretty good in an emergency situation? Or Bondi Rescue. I don’t really know.

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Every reality show would crush me, because on the first day I’d say, “I’m not here to win, I *am* here to make friends,” and everyone would just see me as the fish at the poker table.

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Crush: Grocery Games. Never ever: RHOSLC

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Department of (In)Justice

here are actual Republicans who will fight to protect the U.S. Constitution, but none are named Sen. Mike Lee. The federal agency ironically called the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Republican Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson for her refusal to turn over state records that include voters’ private information. The Constitution, in clear language, sets out that voting is the sole province of states, not the federal government. The Trump administration insists it is seeking voting rolls from all 50 states to make sure the upcoming mid-term elections are “secure” and immigrants are not voting. It’s clear what this is all about. President Donald Trump wants to cause so much chaos that he can then cast doubt on the election’s results. Enter Trump sycophant, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who said Henderson should comply with the DOJ: “Election security is the actual problem.” It’s been a Republican battle cry for years. After he was elected in 2016, Trump formed the Voter Fraud Commission in May 2017 to find illegal voting. But the commission could find almost none and disbanded in February 2018. Said Henderson: “It would be nice if the good folks at the DOJ would focus on actual problems instead of baselessly harassing election officials.”

Highlights of the GOP “Trumpalooza” Convention

Vice President JD Vance: “I think that what’s new about (Democrats) is, what motivates them is a new type of hardcore hatred.”

Vance: “Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Don’t give the country over to a bunch of crazy people because you happen to disagree with us on a policy issue here or there.” Sen. Ted Cruz: Democrats “hate Christians, they hate Jews, they hate the ‌capitalism, they hate ⁠the Constitution and they hate America.” Donald Trump, Jr.: “Don’t let them convince you that caring about this country makes you a villain.” President Trump: Democrats “turned our cities into scenes of death and misery, murder, poverty and destruction, and made America a laughingstock all over world. But we took that dark age of America and turned it into the golden age of America.” President Trump (after directing the crowd to raise their right hands and repeat): “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much he can’t even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends, I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do.”

New “Underpants Index” Reveals Soil Threats

News Flash—Swiss scientists buried 2,000 pairs of underwear, then discovered the “threat.” No, Wilson, we are not making this up. They found that private gardens contained far more phosphorus than plants need and that could pose an environmental threat. Excess nutrients can affect groundwater, surface water and biodiversity. Who knew? But here’s the cool part: The scientists didn’t bury the underwear. They got 1,000 volunteers across Switzerland to bury 2,000 pairs of underwear (two pairs each). And that’s not all—the underwear had to be 100% cotton. Why cotton underpants? Because the breakdown of cotton provides a simple measure of biological activity in soil. The “Underpants Index” was born. We hope the Trump administration doesn’t find out

about this—they hate science and are gutting research institutions. In 2025, the administration cancelled or suspended more than 7,800 research grants. But in Europe it’s different. “I think the somewhat strange idea of burying underpants to study soil caught the interest of many people,” said S. Franz Bender, one of the researchers. “Given the urgency of current problems we are facing on this planet, it is paramount to include people, to catch their interest and emotions.” Postscript—That’s a wrap for another historic week here at Smart Bomb, where we keep track of the future so you don’t have to. And we’re happy to report that things are going swimmingly well. There’s good news everywhere, including on the technology front, where AI models can now “think” for themselves. Not only that, but they can actually improve their capacity and functions without humans. Imagine a 1908 Ford Tin Lizzy changing itself into a 2026 Mercedes-Benz SL. In no time at all, AI models will solve all of our problems. Of course, there are some frowny faces—like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI—who say that if we don’t slow AI development, humanity will be destroyed in the coming decade. But isn’t that what they always say about breakthroughs? Atom bombs and vaccines, for example. It’s true, not all advancements are great—like NIL money for college athletes. But AI could solve the problem of Earth’s melting icecaps and global warming. Think of it, Salt Lake City could still host the 2034 Winter Olympics, because it would snow again. Elon Musk could go to Mars. And people could actually come to like Jeff Bezos. Well hold on … not even AI could do that. CW Christopher Smart writes the weekly Smart Bomb column, available online at cityweekly.net.

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MISS: Cox on the Road

Gov. Spencer Cox continues his quest to establish himself as a common-sense Republican on the national stage. Unfortunately, Salt Lakers aren’t buying. In May, locals lobbied The King’s English to cancel a promotional event for the governor’s recently-published manifesto/autobiography, Off Ramp. And last week, Cox appeared on every college leftist’s favorite news source, The Daily Show. He traded butter-knife jabs with host Jon Stewart over Charlie Kirk’s assassination (see below) and June’s so-called “Fidelity Month,” which Cox argued only coincidentally occurred during Pride. While the governor’s smooth baby face wept crocodile tears over the unprecedented ugliness of our time, citizens need look no further than his 2024 endorsement of Donald Trump. Sorry Cox, call yourself a peacemaker—but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s not going to be a presidential candidate.

HIT: Growing Up Glendale

Don’t listen to your critics, listen to your fans. It’s the mentality that led the Salt Lake City Planning Commission to move forward with a Glendale neighborhood rezone that would allow townhomes in the place of three single-family lots. The project is one piece of a much larger debate over the future of Salt Lake’s housing regulations. With large swaths of land zoned exclusively for large, single-family residences, finding workarounds to create new housing units is increasingly difficult. The city has previously prioritized high-density dwellings on high-traffic corridors, but the singlefamily zones make it difficult to meet demand for medium-density homes like ADUs, fourplexes and rowhouses. While the city’s fortunate homeowners may look down on new construction, the needs of the many outweigh the aesthetic preferences of the few.

HIT: Back to Kirk

Utah was back on the national stage for the one-year anniversary of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination at UVU. In life, Kirk was best known for his hobby of touring college campuses with his organization, Turning Point USA, to debate 19-year-olds. In death, he is perhaps best remembered by the AI song, “We are Charlie Kirk” and clips of his widow dancing to fireworks. The suspected shooter, 23-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested two days after Kirk’s death, when he surrendered himself to authorities. The homegrown Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges, although the state plans to use affidavits regarding Robinson’s movements and Discord messages with a roommate to pursue the death penalty. While UVU commemorated the anniversary by unveiling a Charlie Kirk statue, the U of U College Republicans commemorated the day the best way they knew how—doxxing a U student who baked a cake bearing the words, “Happy Kirkiversary.” CW

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See You Soon, MLB

ajor League Baseball has been flirting with expansion for years, but they may be ready to seal the deal soon. And while it’s not a 100% guarantee, all the signs are pointing to Las Mayores coming to Salt Lake City. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has long said he wanted the stadium situations for the Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland … er … Sacramento Athletics to be sorted out before adding more teams. The Rays got their new stadium deal in late August, and the A’s are set to move to Las Vegas in 2028. The dominoes are tumbling. Manfred intends to retire in January of 2029, and he wants to get expansion done before then. His preference is to add one West Coast team and one East Coast team, and per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Salt Lake City is in poll position to claim the West Coast slot. With Big League Utah—the local group leading the bid for expansion—already pledging $3.5 billion for a 100-acre, mixed-use sports and entertainment district, and drawing up renderings for a new transit- and trailoriented stadium in the Power District northwest of the city, SLC’s bid is the “closest scenario to a turnkey operation,” Passan wrote. There’s only one other western city that could realistically challenge SLC for the bid, Passan reported: Portland, Oregon. Portland’s bid is strong, and would likely be the favorite for second place if it was on the East Coast, Passan notes. But as Ricky Bobby said: If you ain’t first, you’re last. I’m stunned the Utah sports market has come this far. I grew up in the post-Stockton/Malone and pre-Deron Williams doldrums of the Utah Jazz, before even Major League Soccer took a chance on Salt Lake. If you told me then we’d bring three of the big four sports leagues to our market, that would have sounded too perfect. It is amazing how much we have grown as a sports city in that time, and so much of it has come from the hustle of local—and some very rich—people. Without a doubt, the ‘02 Olympics changed our infrastructure and elevated our reputation. The overnight success of the Utah Mammoth proves that fans are ready. Put together any semblance of a winning team on the diamond and the sellouts will come. There is even builtin infrastructure for a minor-league team in South Jordan. Think of all of the children who yearn to be taken out to the ballgame. Sign one Venezuelan player and his jersey will fly off the shelves. It will be lit. Not to overhype the bazillionaires too much, but the amount of organization and straight cash that has gone into this bid is kind of (excuse the parlance) gangster. This isn’t a throwy o u r-h a t-i n-t h e -r i n g-a n d-h o p e situation. They’re acting like they’ve already won the bid, and everyone else has to come take it from them. Respect. Pair the possibility of an MLB team debuting in 2032 with the 2034 Winter Olympics, and we’re looking at a crucial time of development for the city. Now it’s time to put our money where our mouth is and get to work. CW

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ot all creative forms are given the same respect as art. Sometimes, that’s a result of people not understanding the kind of work that goes into the creation; sometimes, it’s because the creators themselves have a different sense of their own work. “I grew up in Chiapas, Mexico, surrounded by people who created things,” says artist/educator Vicky Lowe K’ulub. “But I don’t know if they would call themselves ‘artists.’ … The relationship that people there have with creating, it’s a different one.” Among the common creations in those communities are textiles, a form that Lowe K’ulub is celebrating in a new exhibition she has curated for Finch Lane Gallery. Weaving Memories: Textile Art as Cultural Knowledge brings together work by a dozen artists—including Lowe K’ulub herself, Alejandra Quechol, Allison Martínez Arocho, Calixta Chávez, Deyanira Cerrito Hernández, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, Gerónimo Bazán, Jem, Maria Elena Lowe Gomez K’ulub, Maria Garcia and Marisela Garcia—representing several diasporic communities, and whose work conveys a cultural story. Lowe K’ulub traces her own interest in the form back to her maternal grandmother, a master weaver who used the backstrap loom, a traditional type for Mayan communities. “It’s the way that she would dress her children, and herself, and

her family,” Lowe K’ulub recalls. “She’d need to weave to have clothing available, and also to make a little money for her family, but also to have a creative outlet.” That tradition was passed to Lowe K’ulub’s mother, who in turn was able to teach her when Lowe K’ulub applied for an apprenticeship grant through the Utah Division of Arts & Museums that brought her mother here from Mexico. “I sat with her, and she taught me the steps from the beginning,” she says. “It’s an artform I never thought I would learn, because it looked very intimidating. Other artforms came to me very organically; backstrap weaving takes a teacher. Having my mom here to teach me was one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever had. “When I finished my first piece, I was just crying,” she added. “You would look at it and see just a simple white belt, but for me, it was connection—my lineage.” That sense of textile arts as being part of a cultural, historical and often familial tradition is a large part of what can make the pieces so special to the creator—and, according to Lowe K’ulub, what can give them a larger significance. “Weaving, especially backstrap weaving, is a very difficult tradition,” she says. “What people don’t know is that women write their stories through colors, through symbolism. When a woman creates a textile, there’s always a story, a memory that goes in it: the sacred mother, corn, the natural world around you. There’s an invisible signature; when you look at a woven piece, you can tell who makes a piece. … When they wear this, it is telling you, you can see where they’re from, what language they speak, and it’s all from reading that textile. Colonization destroyed most of our texts, most of our art. But textiles preserved those stories, and that was women’s work.” That association of the creative form with “women’s work” is one reason, Lowe K’ulub believes, that it often isn’t treated with the same seriousness as, for example, fine-art painting or sculpture.

“It is very hard to put a price on a piece, because the hours that you invest, it’s hard to let it go for $25,” she notes. “Because it’s labeled a ‘craft’ and it’s women’s work. If you see a man weaving, wow, he’s going outside the boundaries. When it’s women’s work, the value decreases. Women are expected to do that kind of work. It’s a very complicated world to navigate.” It’s also important, she observes, to recognize the way these traditions connected the practitioners to their land, and how they’re often preserving complex scientific processes. “A lot of the materials we have involve natural dyes, very old processes,” Lowe K’ulub says. “Keeping that knowledge of weaving also brings in that knowledge of learning how to prepare your yarn, and it’s also about your connection to the land, so we can have the materials to create not just an art, but also a livelihood.” Lowe K’ulub specifically says she doesn’t want to romanticize this work as one where everyone comes from poverty, even though many practitioners create work as a livelihood. Supporting this work might support individual creators, yes, but it also supports the idea of its value connecting generations and representing the history of a community. “We’re giving this type of art the value of knowledge-keeping,” she stressed. “It’s an archive of memories. We are all diasporic communities, and this is how we are still connected even though we are far apart. … I’m the only one from my generation of grandkids who weaves; if I didn’t learn, it would have been lost to my generation. Every time I create a new piece, that connection gets stronger.” CW

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It’s not unusual for an arts organization to create a thematic connection for its season. It’s a little bit unusual, however, to make that thematic connection focus on the way that all of the performances are different, while still representing the same tradition. And thus Act I of the 2026-2027 Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Season kicks off in a black box theater space, where subsequent performances make use of (respectively) an art museum and a traditional proscenium theater as a venue. According to RWDC Artistic Director Leslie Kraus, “Whether you’re sitting in a theatre or moving through a museum gallery, the work draws you in and asks you to connect with both the performers and the exceptional worlds these artists have created. It’s exciting to be a part of a season that stretches the definition of dance.” The Act I program includes two works by New York-based choreographers. The team of Dual Rivet (Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith) presents Smile Pretty, an energetic new commission that the company describes as a work that “investigates the complex truths obscured by the polished veneers we maintain when subjected to the public gaze.” And choreographer Kayla Farrish presents a longer piece featuring an original score by Alex MacKinnon, which Farrish describes as “playing with storytelling, arcs, relationships, characters, and blossoming embodiment growing into movement which are the textures of each experience.” RWDC’s Act I comes to the Rose Wagner Center Leona Wagner Black Box (138 W. 300 South) Sept. 17 – 19, with performances 7:30 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $17.50 general admission; visit saltlakecountyarts.org to purchase tickets and for additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)

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On any given day, the Salt Lake City intersection of 900 East and 900 South is a lively blend of residents and visitors alike. Whether it’s finding something sweet at Dolcetti, or a pick-me-up at Coffee Garden, 9th and 9th has much to explore. But one day of the year, the block truly has something for everyone: the historic 9th and 9th Street Festival. For 33 years, the neighborhood has hosted vendors, food, activities and music, and on Sept. 19, everyone (even pets) are welcome to the occasion. East Liberty Park Community Organization (ELPCO) chair Kristina Ann Robb knows the importance of these events. “This is a neighborhood full of people, full of stakeholders celebrating their community, and welcoming it to the rest of Salt Lake City; it’s really important. People enjoying their neighborhood is a fantastic thing,” Robb said. “We’ve been having a lot of conversations about what is unique about 9th and 9th, and what the brand of our neighborhood is,” she continued. “We want people to look for a quality experience, and have a lot of diversity in our vendors.” ELPCO received 400 applications to participate, and they are determined to pick vendors that will showcase the unique spirit of 9th and 9th, and have a multicultural event that celebrates different backgrounds. ELPCO and The Mayor’s Ace Fund, the primary sponsor of the event, are optimistic that the celebration will be another success. The 9th and 9th Street Festival takes place at 900 East and 900 South on Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Admission is free; visit 9thand9thstreetfestival. com for additional information. (Sam Goodman)

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For more than 25 years, Spy Hop Productions has given young people a place to learn artistic skills while building their creative confidence. Now, the organization is taking that work outside its walls with a new event designed for the whole community: Spy Hop will host its inaugural Backyard Film Bash at Smith’s Ballpark featuring short films, live music and interactive media. “For Spy Hop, the Backyard Film Bash has been a long time coming,” said Adam White, Spy Hop’s development director. At the center of the bash is a national competition challenging filmmakers to tell a story in under seven minutes. This year’s films will incorporate the Signature Item “salt,” giving filmmakers room to interpret the theme visually, narratively or symbolically. “When we think about how weird and wonderful filmmaking can be here in Utah, we also have to look around at our landscape and say, well, what else is signature in Utah? And to us, salt is Utah in a lot of ways,” White said. Twelve finalists will have their films screened at the event, with cash prizes awarded for storytelling, creativity and technical achievement. The event was created to open the organization’s doors to everyone, whether or not they have kids involved in Spy Hop programs. “When you come to somebody’s backyard, it’s supposed to be a really welcoming space where you can share stories, share food, share connection,” White observed. The Backyard Film Bash takes place Saturday, Sept. 19, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Smith’s Ballpark (77 W. 1300 South). The event is free and open to all ages. More information is available at spyhop.org. (Hailey Edmonds)

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war zone of Gaza; I’m just not convinced that approach works as filmmaking. Three doctors are at the center of this profile— North Carolina-based orthopedist Mark Perlmutter; California trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa; and Chicago-based Thaer Ahmad—which focuses on the period of the all-too-brief March 2025 ceasefire, with the three doctors returning (or in Ahmad’s case, trying to return) to provide assistance after already seeing the atrocities in 2024. You get varying perspectives on the subject, like Jewish-American Perlmutter’s ability to be a different, angrier voice than Sidhwa and Ahmad, and the kind of devastating images of dead and injured children that Perlmutter considers “journalistic malpractice” to blur out for fear of affecting delicate sensibilities. Yet beyond the frustration of being first responders who never know if they will save someone only for that person to be targeted again, the movie just never finds a character focus that lands, as it keeps bouncing back and forth between its three subjects. You end up getting lots of footage of the doctors appearing on interview shows and at conferences to rage about what they’ve seen, and a sense of impotence that too rarely translates into a movie that’s compelling to watch as a movie. Available Sept. 18 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)

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We sometimes overthink what it is that makes a narrative compelling, whether that narrative is in a book, on a theater stage, on a TV screen or in a movie theater. The fundamentals of storytelling haven’t changed all that much in the thousands of years since humans turned perilous hunts into cave paintings: give a protagonist a clearly-defined goal, place a bunch of obstacles in that protagonist’s way and guide us deftly toward the resolution. Everything else is a fringe benefit. The Weight provides solid evidence for that principle, as director Padraic McKinley and the writing team including Matthew Chapman, Matthew Booi, Shelby Gaines and Leo Scherman craft a propul-

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sive survival yarn out of one man’s quest to be reunited with his daughter. Set in 1933 Oregon, it follows an itinerant, widowed World War I veteran named Murphy (Ethan Hawke) as he runs afoul of the law and finds himself in a labor camp, with his young daughter Penny (Avy Berry) destined for foster care. But the camp’s boss, Clancy (Russell Crowe), sees the quiet, intelligent Murphy as the solution to a problem: As gold mines are about to be nationalized by the government, one mine’s operator needs a fortune in gold bricks smuggled across the Oregon woods, and Murphy can get an early release if he leads the effort. Most of what follows deals with Murphy, three fellow convicts (Austin Amelio, Avi Nash and Lucas Lynggaad Tønnesen), an Indigenous camp cook (Julia Jones) and a pair of overseers (George Burgess and Sam Hazeldine) making their way across miles of wilderness, facing perils both natural and human. There’s more than a whiff of The Wages of Fear/Sorcerer DNA in the stripped-down structure of desperate people on a mission where mere survival starts to become improbable, and the filmmakers are smart enough to squeeze the tension out of their centerpiece sequences. If you’re not clenching an armrest a little bit tighter as Murphy stands in the middle

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n March 21, 1960, then-Salt Lake City Mayor J. Bracken Lee introduced a motion to fire the city’s chief of police, W. Cleon Skousen. After just three months of working together, tension between the two men had become untenable. Both Lee and Skousen were conservative iconoclasts who had spoken highly of each other. But they reportedly came into conflict as Lee endeavored to tighten city finances and push back against what he saw as an escalation of police power. Skousen’s ousting took the city by storm and threatened Lee’s political standing as protesters revolted against his administration. The firing was not the first or last of its kind in the city’s history. In 2015, then-Mayor Ralph Becker ousted Chief Chris Burbank amid sexual harassment investigations within the department. Ten years later, Mayor Erin Mendenhall fired Chief Mike Brown after years of mounting calls for Brown’s resignation as trust in his leadership eroded. Each case showed how divisions between City Hall and the police department can explode into public view, raising questions about where the power lies in the interplay between politics and law enforcement. “The tension between a mayor and a police chief, particularly in bigger cities, is commonplace,” Becker told City Weekly in a recent interview. Bracken Lee built his career on fighting debt— a belief rooted in medical expenses from his first wife’s death that he carried from the mayor’s office in Price to the Governor’s Mansion and onward to Salt Lake City. In each office, his temper won arguments and got him into trouble in equal measures. Cleon Skousen was an FBI desk jockey, author, BYU professor, advisor to both politicians and religious leaders and, between 1956 and 1960, police chief of Salt Lake City. In each role, his hatred of the Soviet “red menace” defined the job. His guiding principles—proclaimed in his manifesto, The Naked Communist—saw a world under threat from a Soviet-engineered “regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters.” Both men belonged to the “Old Right,” defined by distrust of federal authority and embrace of tradition. However, their views on power in practice divided sharply—one believing that a conservative government keeps its nose out of people’s business, the other seeing conservative government as a means of enforcing acceptable behavior.

Lee v Skousen When Lee entered the mayor’s office in January 1960, he had one central goal—cut spending. Public safety then, like today, accounted for the bulk of the city’s expenditures. Lee aimed to cut that funding by $75,000 (roughly $854,000 today). Lee called Skousen a “very expensive man,” splurging on travel and city contracts while wasting money and manpower on a morality crusade. But four years on the job had earned Skousen a reputation as a bulwark against moral turpitude and an enemy of private clubs, bars, gambling halls and striptease shows. The police chief took aim at establishments known for allowing same-sex dancing and ordered suspects to be charged and committed as “mentally ill,” a diagnosis that was then legally applied to homosexuality. These views shaped Skousen’s hiring practices. Lee later told historian Dennis Lythgoe that new officers were subjected to a polygraph and asked questions that dwelled on relationships and sex, like “when did you first want a woman?” Skousen defended the practice to weed out men “vulnerable to blackmail.” When Lee called it a serious intrusion and told him to stop, Skousen kept on. Meanwhile, Skousen shaped backroom deals with a “self-policing” program that asked taverns to avoid law enforcement scrutiny by regulating themselves. Lee saw the program as a “deal with the underworld” and accused Skousen of soliciting payments and withholding licenses from taverns that didn’t go along. Indeed, tavern owners testified about vicesquad visits that stopped when they started paying the Skousen-backed tavern association. According to Lythgoe, officers conducting one raid on a banquet found dancing girls who, as

Skousen reported, “hadn’t taken off their clothes yet.” Lee scoffed, “Well, what if they had? To me the most beautiful thing on earth is a naked woman.” Conflict reached its fever pitch when Skousen raided the local Ambassador Club, targeting horse-race gamblers. Among them were Lee, the city’s attorney and the budget director. Finally, Lee had had enough. Fearing Skousen’s connections, he quietly resolved to fire the chief. Across town, Skousen was having lunch, none the wiser that he had just lost his job. In the aftermath, Lee was derided by TIME magazine as a “Nettled Nickel Nipper” who had just ended his own career. Skousen, though, was lauded. The talk of the town was that Lee was finished. University of Utah students hung his likeness in effigy, and a cross was set ablaze on his lawn inscribed, “LEE, YOU ARE A FOOL.” In his 1974 account, Lythgoe recorded that the Deseret News had a full-page editorial ready to run, deriding Lee’s “high-handed autocracy” and praising Skousen for raising the police department “from a morass of unbelievably low morale.” But the piece was killed after Lee learned of it and called LDS President David O. McCay in a panic. Henry D. Moyle, McKay’s First Counselor, told Lee not to worry: “Bracken, the Church supports you.” Church leadership reportedly had reservations about Skousen and were relieved to see him gone. In backing Lee, a non-Mormon, they chose a diplomatic outsider over an uncontrollable insider. For weeks, the press aired Lee and Skousen’s dirty laundry. “All hell broke loose,” Lee later recalled. Lee accused Skousen of financially benefiting from his position, of ordering a tail put on him, commanding officers not to speak to him and manipulating department statistics. He said Skousen was “practicing Communism to fight it” and running the department “like a gestapo—through fear.” Skousen refuted the claims.

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Becker v Burbank In the Lee-Skousen fight, Salt Lake found a prime model for conflict between City Hall and the police department. In years before and since, the two offices have warred over budgets, enforcement practices and other issues. Former mayor Ralph Becker, like Lee, had worked to rein in city budgets during the Great Recession. But even when the police department had been hostile to cuts, like the loss of take-home vehicles, he reported that he and Burbank had gotten along. Then, complaints of “structural harassment and abuse” within the department, involving some of Burbank’s senior staff, came to a head. When three women came forward with a lawsuit, Burbank was asked about it publicly and brushed it off. “It really pissed me off,” Becker told City Weekly. “We had a major investigation, an internal investigation, and [Burbank] agreed it was a big deal, and he agreed he was going to make all these changes— and here [he’s] saying there’s nothing to it.” Becker said he called Burbank in and gave him hours to decide if he’d resign, be fired or retract his statement and fix things. Burbank, who could not be reached for comment on this story, chose to resign. Like Skousen, Burbank was well liked. A dynamic communicator, Burbank gave statements at the time that he’d been treated unfairly. In the days that followed, Becker’s approval rating dropped and supporters challenged him for making the wrong call. A few months later, he lost his reelection bid to Jackie Biskupski. Burbank had built his reputation on exactly the kind of accountability he later appeared to avoid,

leaving Becker at a loss. Becker remembers asking him directly about this “blind spot” and being told that it was the way things are. Becker’s response: “Well, then the way things are, from my vantage point, is not the way they should be.” Looking at the department today, Becker’s reading of conditions is more skeptical than when he was in office. “Law enforcement officers in the community almost have a built-in sense of entitlement,” he said. “[They think] that ‘what we do is so important, and we put ourselves at such risk, that we deserve more as public employees.’” He traces some of that dynamic to a broader shift in public mood that he first noticed near the end of his time in office, running from the Tea Party era through Occupy Wall Street and into the “defund the police” effort years later. The backlash to that backlash, in Becker’s view, produced its own distortion that “police can do no wrong.” Such a philosophy, he said, now colors how police departments everywhere get treated—Salt Lake included. When asked about ICE’s current role in local communities, Becker didn’t hesitate. “I find it horrific,” he said. “It’s astounding to me that we are letting, basically, a totally untrained, unvetted force occupy our country in this way.”

Legacy In the years after his firing, Skousen founded the All-American Society and took his political philosophy on tour. TIME noted the “balding, bespectacled one-time FBI man hit the anti-Communist circuit” with a Bible in one hand and The Naked Communist in the other. His influence is clear in much of the modern conservative movement, where political actors like Orrin Hatch and Glenn Beck amplified his work to new audiences. The “radical” Skousen even had

influence on Mitt Romney, who reportedly studied under him and privately urged Skousen’s work as “worth reading.” Lee, meanwhile, is remembered as a spirited, if ill-tempered man, who stuck to his principles at any cost. Although he eventually forgave Skousen for the harassment following his firing, he still couldn’t help but recall to Lythgoe: “He was a dictator! He was the type of guy who would cut off your head.” Through the firings of Skousen, Burbank and Brown, the central conflict between City Hall and the police department remains unanswered—who answers to whom? Brown’s successor, Chief Brian Redd, recently asked the City Council for millions of dollars in new funding as crime rates reportedly fall. The reason? Widespread surveillance, with hopes to fund an expanded drone program, license plate readers and a mobile command center as the cost of staying “on the cutting edge.” Andrew Wittenberg, Mendenhall’s spokesman, said that the mayor’s top priority is public safety and that it is “vitally important” the community be kept safe. “Mayor Mendenhall and Chief Redd have a great working relationship, and she supports his leadership,” Wittenberg said. “They meet regularly and are aligned on the future of the police department.” At recent City Council meetings, residents have pushed back on the increased police budget. One resident warned, “it seems like this city is turning toward a police state.” It echoes the argument Lee had with Skousen over enforcement, and the one Becker had with the Burbank-led department over internal accountability. Different chiefs, different mayors, different decades. A police department convinced it knows best how to police the city, and a mayor’s office that keeps discovering—usually the hard way—how much room that leaves for disagreement. CW

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was so fun, and I was like, ‘how about we create something so that everyone can exchange?’” The result is Cultivate.Garden, a platform Teng launched in April 2025 with help from Chicago-based software engineer Shend Vishi. Though Teng has a design background, she says she’s not a coder and didn’t want to use AI for the site. She went to Upwork, posted a listing and eventually connected with Vishi. It was a nice fit. “He said he had a similar project when he was in grad school called Blueberry Swap,” she recalled. After the site launched, Teng tabled at farmers markets every weekend, “trying to get our first 50 users. And at the time, it was more like a user testing phase.” When people came to the table, she asked for feedback. “I have very rigorous ways of building a product,” she said. “Even though I’ve never worked in tech a single day in my life. But I do a lot of user research, I talk to people, and with the help of the program at the University of Utah, I have some feedback from industry professionals … when I build something, I want to make sure I build it right.” Cultivate.Garden now has about 1400 users; registration is free. A recent search on the site pulled up the following listed for pickup, exchange, or a tiny fee: zucchini (natch!), lettuce, mint, chives, oregano, Thai basil, Jewel Black raspberries, chicken eggs, duck eggs, honey, butternut squash, jalapenos, snake melon, cucumbers and golden currants. Some growers allow users to schedule a time to harvest produce straight from their gardens. Others donate surplus fruits and veggies to community fridges and pick-up boxes around Salt Lake and Utah County. Teng also organized inperson produce swaps this summer, and may have more on deck for September (check Cultivate.Garden’s social media account for updates). User profiles can be set to private or public, and people can message each other on the platform to facilitate swaps and

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Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC HopkinsBrewingCompany.com On Tap: Equinox IPL

Red Rock Brewing 254 So. 200 West RedRockBrewing.com On Tap: Gypsy Scratch

Avenues Proper 376 8th Ave, SLC avenuesproper.com On Tap: Drop Top - English summer ale (collaboration with Salt Flats)

Kiitos Brewing Sugar House 1533 S. 1100 East, SLC KiitosBrewing.com On Draft: Strawberry Blonde (limited release)

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Bewilder Brewing 445 S. 400 West, SLC BewilderBrewing.com On Tap: Pink Boots - Pink Pony Pilz Bohemian Brewery 94 E. Fort Union Blvd, Midvale BohemianBrewery.com NEW Releases: Kölsch, Dusseldorfer “Alt” Bier Bonneville Brewery 1641 N. Main, Tooele BonnevilleBrewery.com On Tap: Peaches and Cream Ale Chappell Brewing 2285 S Main Street, SLC chappell.beer On Tap: Pie Hole - Strawberry Rhubarb Tart Ale Desert Edge Brewery 273 Trolley Square, SLC DesertEdgeBrewery.com On Tap: Edge’s Special Bitter ESB Epic Brewing Co. 825 S. State, SLC EpicBrewing.com On Tap: Honey Wheat Ale Etta Place Cidery 700 W Main St, Torrey EttaPlaceCider.com On Tap: Cherry Saison Cider; Orange Creamsicle Session Mead Fisher Brewing Co. 320 W. 800 South, SLC FisherBeer.com On Tap: A rotation of up to 17 Fresh Beers! Grid City Beer Works 333 W. 2100 South, SLC GridCityBeerWorks.com In a Can: Extra Pale Ale Heber Valley Brewing 501 N. Main Street, Heber City hebervalleybrewing.com Freshly Canned: 435 Pale Ale 16oz 6% ABV Helper Beer 159 N Main Street, Helper helperbeer.com

Level Crossing Brewing Co. 2496 S. West Temple, SLC LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Nitro Sinday Pale Ale Level Crossing Brewing, POST 550 South 300 West, Suite 100, SLC LevelCrossingBrewing.com On Tap: Helles Munich Pale Lager Moab Brewing 686 S. Main, Moab TheMoabBrewery.com On Tap: “Big Drop” West Coast Pilsner Mountain West Cider 425 N. 400 West, SLC MountainWestCider.com On Tap: Island Orchard Punch (Strawberry and peach cider) Offset Bier Co 1755 Bonanza Dr Unit C, Park City offsetbier.com/ On Tap: DOPO IPA Ogden Beer Company 358 Park Blvd, Ogden OgdenBeerCompany.com On Tap: 11 rotating taps as well as high point cans and guest beers Park City Brewing 1764 Uinta Way C1 ParkCityBrewing.com Freshly Canned: Exit 145 WCIPA 7.5% Prodigy Brewing 25 W Center St., Logan Prodigy-brewing.com On Tap: 302 Czech Pilsner Proper Brewing/ Proper Burger 857 & 865 So. Main properbrewingco.com On Tap: Concerning Hops West Coast IPA Proper Brewing Moab 1393 US-191, Moab properbrewingco.com On Tap: Concerning Hops West Coast IPA

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Marmalade Jam Fest On Sept. 26, Capitol Hill’s Marmalade neighborhood celebrates jam in all its manifestations—from strummy guitars to plummy preserves. This annual arts, crafts, music and food fest, organized by the Capitol Hill Neighborhood Council, is a way for neighbors and others to share their talents, whether they’ve mastered the tricky art of making crabapple jelly or are a monster performer with a well-tuned guitar. This year, organizers have an open call for the jam, jelly, preserves, and pie contest, and want to know everything “about what you make, where your recipes come from, and the people and traditions behind them.” You can enter up till the day of the festival; sign up by accessing the Google form via the QR code on the fest’s Facebook page (facebook.com/TheMarmaladeJamFest/). The fun happens from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. in the plaza next to the Marmalade Branch Library. Introducing City Weekly’s new food editor (me) Once, I thought I might try writing a cheeky nostalgia piece about Chuck-a-Rama. Then I read the farewell letter by Salt Lake City Weekly’s former “food dude,” Alex Springer. I saw he’d written about Chuck-a-Rama, so I pulled that story up from the archives. Wow. Well—I won’t be writing about Chuck-a-Rama. Alex’s piece was pretty close to perfect, and it deserved to win an award. Though I won’t be writing about the ‘Rama, I will be taking over Alex’s role as food editor, and I’ll be taking over Emilee Atkinson’s music beat as well, under the title of Associate Arts and Entertainment Editor. I’m a fan of both Alex and Emilee—she will stay in the mix as a contributor—and I want to continue their thoughtful, hyperlocal coverage of Utah’s music and food communities. Feel free to give me a shout at srussell@cityweekly.net with tips, story ideas, feedback, or commentary.

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pic – Mango Double IPA: If you’ve been a Utah beer nerd for a while, you may remember Epic Brewing’s Mango Double IPA from roughly eight years ago. Simply called “Mango Double IPA,” that 8.0% ale was brewed exclusively at Epic’s Denver brewery, which has since closed. Unfortunately for us beer lovers in Salt Lake City, it never made its way here. Why? Because it was draft-only— and if you’ve been drinking beer in Utah since the end of Prohibition, you know the state’s draft laws haven’t exactly been friendly to big beers. That original version was brewed with Citra, Amarillo and Mosaic hops before getting finished with mango, vanilla and lactose. Fast forward to today, and Epic has brought the concept back with a new approach. This version is all about Citra and mango. Lots of mangoes. We’re talking one pound of mango per barrel, and it absolutely shows. Mango is unquestionably the star of the show, delivering a big, juicy, tropical character right from the start. But the Citra hops crank up the citrus side of the equation, adding plenty of orange and bright zest to the fruit-forward profile. The result is damn tasty—and incredibly fresh-tasting right now. There’s a vibrant, juicy quality to this beer that makes it hard to put down. At 8.2%, it has plenty of Double IPA muscle, but the fruit and hop combination keeps everything lively rather than letting the higher ABV dominate. One of the biggest differences from the original is what’s missing. There’s no lactose in this version, so if that ingredient doesn’t jive with your diet, this Mango DIPA should be much more your speed.

Verdict: It’s a cool evolution of a beer that many Utah beer nerds never got the chance to experience the first time around. Eight years later, Epic has given us another shot—and this time, Salt Lake City gets to join the party. Uinta – Nitro Cream Ale: Who loves a Nitro Pub Ale? This guy. Who loves honey malt? Yup, same beer nerd. Put the two together, and you’ve got a beer that checks a whole lot of boxes for me. This 5.0% ale gets its distinctive sweetness and deep golden character from honey malt, a specialized brewing grain that delivers an intense honey-like flavor without actually adding honey to the beer. And it works beautifully here. The sweetness is immediately noticeable, but it never crosses into cloying or dessert territory. It’s just enough to keep things interesting while letting the malt character shine. The first sip brings honey, toasted bread crust and pretzel-like malt flavors, followed by a gentle layer of toastiness. There’s a wonderful bakery quality throughout the beer that makes it incredibly easy to drink. A subtle hint of citrus adds just enough brightness to keep all that malt sweetness from becoming too rich. Then there’s the nitro conditioning, which takes the texture to another level. The carbonation is soft and creamy, giving the beer a silky, almost velvety mouthfeel without making it feel heavy or overly rich. It’s the kind of texture that makes you want to take another sip before you’ve even finished the first. The hops stay nicely in the background, offering a pleasant floral character and just enough bitterness to balance the honeyed malt. Nothing is fighting for attention here. It’s all about balance, drinkability and that fantastic combination of sweet malt and creamy nitro texture. One word of advice: patience. Like most nitro ales, this one takes a little extra time to pour properly. Let it settle, watch that cascade happen, and give it a minute. Verdict: The payoff is worth the wait. Simple, silky, malty and wonderfully balanced. This is exactly why I love a good Nitro Pub Ale. Nitro Cream Ale is clearly only on the “nitro” handle at the brewery. Epic’s Mango Double IPA is waiting for you to enjoy at the brewery, to stay or to go in 16-oz. cans. As always, cheers! CW

Chi mangia bene, vive bene In a sea of Utah Oktoberfests, Festa Italiana stands out. The free fest happens this year Sept. 19–20 at The Gateway, and though there’s lots of music on the schedule, the focus, as always, is on the food. This year’s vendors include Granato’s, the Buzzed Coffee truck, Per Noi Trattoria, Veneto, Mastra Italian Bakery, Fratelli Ristorante, and Pizzeria Tasso. The latter is sponsoring a 15-minute (!!) pizza-eating contest on Saturday afternoon, and if you miss that competitive eating display, Fratelli Ristorante is bringing the carbs to the pasta-eating competition on Sunday. (If you are stout of stomach, and want to compete in either contest, be there 30 minutes before the competition to sign up.) The fest is a once-a-year chance to sample food from an array of local Italian eateries, and watch chefs—some from Italy—demostrate their wizardry on the cooking stage.

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Electronic music seems like a logical application for AI—but many local musicians and producers disagree. BY ARICA ROBERTS comments@cityweekly.net

Detecting AI Music

A specific technical marker for AI, identified by AI Music Detection Company (Instagram: @humanstandard__), is a frequency cutoff at 16 kilohertz and above, visible through a spectrum analyzer. Repeated vocal and instrumental elements across AI-generated songs are also a giveaway, because AI platforms like Suno and Udio use the same tagged audio examples as foundations across different prompts. But a trained ear, says Primavera, is even better at sensing AI than detection software. “There’s a clear difference between an AI vocal and someone who sang in a mic in a vocal room,” he observed. From an experienced producer’s perspective, he says, AI music can be identified through distortion artifacts, or a high-pitched hiss on vocals and higher-octave instruments. For ordinary listeners, AI-generated vocals often do not make sense lyrically, as the AI simply strings together catchy buzzwords. “It produces a lifeless, soulless kind of music, and it doesn’t have any sort of natural human movement to it,” agrees Allen Salazar, a local producer, DJ and teacher at Salt Lake DJ & Production.

Threats Against Real Artists

even a small percentage of a million followers showing up represents a massive crowd. “If an artist has a million followers on Instagram and half of a percent of them show up to a festival, that’s 50,000 people,” Salazar explains. Primavera extended his objections beyond AI music alone, stating he has also refused to share promotional assets he identified as AI-generated. His friend, Sebastian Callahan, is a talented flyer and album art designer whose livelihood is threatened by the practice artificially generated graphics. “If people see it’s AI, you’re already losing, in my opinion,” Primavera says. “Just pay the person 100 bucks or whatever.” He also raises the related issue of ghost production, noting he has handed the decks over at festivals to artists who did not write their own music, and that his own mentor produced a track for one such artist just to fulfill a booking requirement. He views this as part of a broader pattern: “Are you really doing this for the right reasons, or are you doing it for the clout?”

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away, citing the enormous financial investment being made by developers. The main check on AI is expected to come from ongoing copyright lawsuits, which according to Forbes Magazine, AI music has been losing. The removal of financial incentive means that platforms will potentially refuse to support AI artists. Bandcamp bans AI music entirely, and sample companies are beginning to notarize statements that their products contain no AI, representing a push toward transparency. “There is growing consumer demand for AI and real music to be clearly separated and labeled, giving listeners the agency to choose,” Salazar says. Primavera is skeptical that boycotting alone will change anything, but believes the main response is personal integrity, surrounding himself with like-minded people, and refusing to play shows run by promoters who book AI artists or use AI assets, even if it means being booked less. “The equation for getting past that is just writing good music,” argues Primavera. “At the end of the day, good music is going to prevail. Those thousand hours you spend in the studio, it’s going to pay off.” CW

An AI tool can generate a full track from a text prompt in two minutes. Primavera’s own process starts from a blank canvas. He uses Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and a keyboard, and it can take days or even a month to complete a track. The AI shortcut is a threat to real artists, he says, because artists who use AI are being booked primarily because of their follower counts and popularity metrics rather than the quality or authenticity of their music. Major promoters focus on maximizing attendance and revenue, with the logic that

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rtificial intelligence doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. But neither is the backlash against it: Criticisms include the devaluation of human labor, the practice of scraping copyrighted works without consent, the environmental impact and the undercutting of human creative expression. Salt Lake City’s electronic music scene is already feeling the impact of AI. Promoters have booked artists who make AI-generated music, and cut costs by using AI-generated imagery instead of hiring human artists to create flyer art. It makes sense there might be a backlash against all of this as well— but speaking out, it turns out, comes with real risk and censorship. Local electronic music producer and DJ Zachary Primavera (Audeamus) has had many closed-door conversations with promoters and others in the industry, and is willing to say uncomfortable things that others are afraid to say, even if it impacts his music career. “If I feel a certain type of way, and that means I can only play two or three big shows a year, so be it,” he says. Last month, Das Energi—the largest electronic music festival in Salt Lake City, hosted by MASV Music Group and V2 Presents—booked the California-based Ian Asher for the main support slot, which drew immediate controversy. Two months prior to Das Energi, Asher faced online backlash after releasing a remix of the track “Take Me (to the Moon)” with artist DJ DANNY. After suspicious fans ran the track through AI-detection software, it was revealed to have AI-generated vocals and elements sourced from the Suno AI platform.

“The funny thing about [Asher’s social media] comment section is people saying, ‘Oh, this is AI,’ and they get deleted,” Primavera says. Long-time local raver Evan Welch posted a comment about Asher in the Rave Utah Facebook group, and he says it was also immediately deleted. Welch says he called out the group for deleting his comments regarding V2 Presents and about artists using AI.

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The quintessential Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd got their start in Jacksonville, Florida during the late ’60s as part of the same music scene that eventually brought forth the Allman Brothers Band. The group landed a record deal in the early 1970s, working with Blood, Sweat & Tears founder Al Kooper to produce their million-selling debut album. The spotlight track on Pronounced ‘Lĕh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd was “Free Bird,” a long song with an extended jam (with three guitars) that soon went on to become a staple of FM radio and an anthem of ’70s rock. Four more hit albums would follow, but a plane crash in rural Mississippi took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and four others. After a decade-long hiatus, Lynyrd Skynyrd reformed with Johnny Van Zant (Ronnie’s younger brother) taking over as lead singer. The group returned to touring and (for a time) releasing new records; 2012’s Last of a Dyin’ Breed is their most recent studio release. The current lineup features Van Zant plus Rickey Medlocke (a member of the band from its early days) plus seven comparatively newer members. Lynyrd Skynyrd performs at the Days of 47 Arena as part of the Utah State Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 and up from axs.com. (Bill Kopp)

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This jazz fusion duo first took off from within the walls of their bedroom with the 2022 hit song “Bound,” released on TikTok. That single was soon followed by a full-length album, Quiet Music for Young People. In 2026, Dana and Alden have broken away from the quiet afternoons in their bedroom to become renowned modern jazz artists. This week, the group brings its eccentricity to Salt Lake City with new music from the latest record, Papa’s Boat. The album takes inspiration from the 1970s era of disco and the early days of EDM, re-envisioning those genres into a new, vibrant sound that brings a whimsical chime to the winds of autumn. During quiet daydreams and walks in the park as the leaves change and fall from the trees, Dana and Alden offer the perfect soundtrack with Papa’s Boat, with each track reflecting on themes of love, friendship and fun. And what better cure for a solemn, chilly fall evening than a bubbly night filled with jazz and soulful crowds? Spend an evening swaying along with Dana and Alden at Metro Music Hall on Thursday, Sept. 17. The show begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are $31 ahead of the show and $35 at the door. This is an all-ages event. You can find more infomation and buy your tickets at 24tix.com. (Laney Hansen)

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The Ogden Twilight Concert Series is about to have its penultimate event this weekend. The father of “emotional dance music,” Daniel Goldstein—better known as Lane 8—headlines this week’s series with his dreamy and peaceful vibe. The Colorado-based DJ and producer’s stage name was inspired by his high-school swim days, where the slowest swimmer was assigned to lane eight (the outside lane). Since then, Goldstein has proven that sometimes the slowest really can win the race. He was signed in 2012 to Above & Beyond’s label, Anjunadeep, before founding his own label, This Never Happened. For fans of smoothly flowing, melodic house music, Goldstein will showcase his impressive discography of five studio albums: Rise (2015), Little by Little (2018), Brightest Lights (2020), Reviver (2022) and Cross Pollination II, released this past June, which highlights his range from techno to flowing progressive house. The new album is a follow-up to his collaborative project Brightest Lights, and features tracks made with friends and roster artists from his label, including “Disappear” (with Sultan + Shepard and sadHAPPY) and “World Is Mine” (with Kasbo and BJOERN). This event takes place on Friday, Sept. 18. Doors open at 5 p.m. at Ogden Amphitheater (343 E. 25th St.) where there is plenty of space to dance and connect to a music community through rhythm and trance. General admission costs $23.71 at 24tix.com. (Arica Roberts)

The Linda Lindas @ Metro Music Hall 9/22

Inspired by the era of Riot Grrrl and 2000s pop punk, The Linda Lindas are a Los Angelesbased band growing to new heights with each release. Eloise Wong, Bela Salazar and sisters Lucia and Mila de la Garza started the band within the confines of their high school hallways, practicing over long weekends and breaks. They eventually evolved past the boredom of their studies and high school dramas, and stepped into the recording studio. The band’s third full-length record, Gotta Get Out, charts the aching heart of teenage love and loss, bringing a new light to what it means to be young in a dying world. Lose yourself in the sheer attitude and the catchiness of the music, and you may find you need to scream along to each lyric, even if you have long since graduated from high school. Each track takes you back to the age of Tumblr, eyeliner, chokers and teenage angst, when you waited for a weekend that felt like it couldn’t come soon enough. If you need another break after Labor Day, take the night off on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and let go with The Linda Lindas. The show begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $38 in advance, $42 at the door. Find yours now at 24tix.com. (Laney Hansen)

Social Distortion @ Union Event Center 9/23

Somewhere in your inner being is a memory of how Social Distortion’s music first excited you; say, the first time you heard “Mommy’s Little Monster.” You remember the thrill of being in a crowd where everyone is taken away by the moment, where Orange County’s finest rips through such classics as “Story of My Life,” “Don’t Drag Me Down,” and “Reach for the Sky.” Now, after 15 years, Social D is back with a new album (Born to Kill), and it feels truer to its original sound and image than ever. “I really wanted to go back to the primitive grooves and attitude of the late ’70s punk scene. It’s my chance to pay homage to a lot of my idols growing up,” frontman Mike Ness told NewNoiseMagazine.com. “Bowie, Iggy Pop, T. Rex, that first wave of punk, I feel like it’s all in this record.” The album is reminiscent of the band’s 1990 self-titled LP, stylish and filled with anthemic swagger, and finds the members rediscovering the joy of just making music. If you are down with being sprayed with beer, getting a bit bruised, and experiencing a night of joyous chaos, do not miss this one. Descendents and The Chats open. Catch these musicians on Wednesday, Sept 23. Doors at 6 p.m.; show at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages show are $73.75 and can be found at ticketmaster.com. (Mark Dago)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Realities you’ve been oblivious to will soon pop into view. Hints and signals you’ve been unconsciously pushing away will start flocking toward you. A lingering emotional numbness will thaw, and surges of feelings will pour into your awareness. Warning! At first, it may feel like an overload: too much sopping wet data arriving too quickly for you to organize or interpret. If you’re willing to be patient and focus on slowly metabolizing the influx, though, the apparent chaos will ultimately weave itself into a luminous web of new understanding.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In Peru’s Andean mountains, Indigenous and smallholder farmers cultivate a rich diversity of potato varieties, continuing a farming tradition rooted in the crop’s domestication thousands of years ago. Each variety thrives in slightly different soil, altitude and climate. By planting many types at once, the farmers ensure that at least some crops will flourish no matter what conditions arise. I suggest you apply this way of thinking to your own life in the coming weeks, Taurus. Diversify your efforts instead of depending on a single plan or expectation. Plan for multiple small initiatives that will evolve with unique growth patterns.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

In chemistry, catalysts are substances that accelerate reactions without being consumed in the process. A tiny amount of catalyst can dramatically transform how quickly elements combine. An example is the enzyme catalase in our cells, which breaks down hydrogen peroxide (a byproduct of our metabolism) into water and oxygen millions of times faster than it would decompose on its own. I believe you are now in a phase when your catalytic powers are at a peak, Sagittarius. Be careful where you point that potency of yours! Make sure you really want to change what you’re capable of changing.

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Every species adapts to its surroundings. Even harmful microbes evolve over time in order to survive. Syphilis, for instance, was once ferociously swift and deadly, but that intensity limited how far it could spread. So a gentler strain gradually evolved that allowed its hosts to live longer and pass it on more widely. Let this serve as a metaphor for how you handle your dark moods, odd compulsions and brief bouts of craziness. Befriend the mild, manageable versions of these states and give them space to be felt and understood. Over time, the harsher, more destructive versions will lose ground and fade from power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Paleontologists know that some dinosaurs traveled in herds with a specific formation: the most vulnerable members gathered in the center, protected by stronger individuals on the perimeter. It was a savvy way to run things, ensuring the group would thrive. I hope you’re willing to borrow some dinosaur wisdom, Aquarius. The coming weeks will be a good time to apply it to your own life. Who or what needs protection? What vulnerable projects or relationships deserve to be surrounded and shielded? Are you willing and able to use your strength to guard what’s tender and growing? Be a shepherd, a steward, a defender.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

In ancient times, Hawaii’s Coconut Island was renowned for its healing powers—but on one condition. Those who sought its medicinal help couldn’t just expect the local spirits to do all the work, but had to take part in awakening the magic. Legend tells us that a seeker could be cured by swimming three times around the island. This participatory approach to healing mirrors your current situation, Pisces. You are close to a source of renewal, but if you hope to unlock its full strength, you must coax it out with your ingenuity.

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If I were writing this horoscope for the Gun Lovers’ Gambling Porn website, I might counsel my Virgo readers to maintain strict control over their wickedness, debauchery and decadence. Why? Because now is a time when vices and sins are even more likely than usual to sow chaos and spawn big messes. However, since you are reading my oracle in a more genteel publication and are almost certainly a refined person of high integrity, I’m confident there will be minimal uproar if I dare you to tap into your raw animal energy and unruly instinctual nature. I believe it’s time to at least experiment with wilder aspects of your deep self.

Hummingbirds can fly backward. They’re the only birds capable of reverse flight. This requires extraordinary wing flexibility and energy expenditure, but it gives them access to nectar that forward-only fliers have difficulty sampling. Let’s treat this as a useful metaphor for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. It may be that your progress and success won’t always come from advancing. Some rich resources may require the equivalent of reverse flight. Consider returning to conversations you thought were finished, revisiting places you’d mentally filed away as “done,” and extracting value from sources you’ve already passed by.

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The Real You and the Semi-Real You have been embroiled in a showdown with the False You. This is as tough and heroic a struggle as you’ve had to deal with in quite some time, though it has often been subtle and partially cloaked. I am of course rooting for the Real You and the Semi-Real You to emerge victorious from the conflict, though I also hope you don’t feel the need to humiliate and crush the False You. That part of you has sometimes served a valuable purpose and doesn’t deserve to be trashed. And what will become of the Semi-Real You after this drama is finished? I suggest you give it a modest place in your repertoire. Like the False You, it sometimes proves to be useful.

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In biology, many organisms can survive harsh or unpredictable conditions by entering dormancy. This is a reversible state of greatly reduced metabolism and development. Seeds, spores and the dormant stages of some small animals can remain viable for years until cues such as water, temperature, light or nutrients signal that conditions are favorable again. Then they can resume growth, development or activity, often rapidly. I suspect you may experience a comparable upsurge in the coming weeks, Gemini. A project or aspiration that seemed inert may reawaken and reignite.

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ast week, I explained why banks require appraisals when someone gets a home loan. This practice didn’t start until 1980. One of the reasons for this was because in 1974, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act allowed women to get credit cards and apply for mortgages and car loans without a male co-signer. This increased the demand for housing, because for the first time in U.S. history, women could buy or lease property on their own, and many were hungry to do so. Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) were created by Congress in 1938 during the Great Depression to support the housing finance system as part of the New Deal. Their primary role is to buy mortgages from lenders, either holding them in their portfolios or packaging them into mortgagebacked securities (MBS) that are sold to investors. This process provides lenders with cash to issue more loans, ensuring a continuous supply of mortgage funds for homebuyers and investors in multifamily properties. By purchasing mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reduce the risk for lenders and investors, making loans more affordable and accessible to their customers. They support the secondary mortgage market, which allows banks, credit unions and mortgage companies to continue lending, even during periods of financial stress, which helps maintain lower interest rates over the long run. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac support roughly 70% of all U.S. home loans. They also promote affordable housing by backing conventional loans, and they require appraisals in most cases. The rules for appraisals have been updated, and your lender may not require a traditional appraisal for a home mortgage. There are several alternatives now, including drive-by and desk appraisals in cases of a simple loan and purchase with strong comparable data. Your mortgage lender, bank or credit union is what determines whether or not a home appraiser has to visit the property, measure it, draw up a floor plan and note whether there are issues or if an automated underwriting system will fit the need to prove value in the purchase. Utah’s housing market is soft, which is great for buyers. But interest rates hover around 7% and may go up further with the next meeting of the Federal Reserve this week. The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah reported last week that with an average monthly mortgage payment of $3,669, home ownership is out of reach for roughly 91% of renters here in our state. Sure, rates can come down and there are deals to be found in housing. But you must start by getting pre-approved with a lender if you’re not paying cash. The lender can pull your credit and counsel you on options now to buy or help fix your credit so you can buy at a later date. ■ Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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BY MATT JONES

ACROSS

1. Audibly stunned 6. Obstacle 10. Attempt 14. Firenze’s ___ Vecchio 15. Beginning of a Shakespearean soliloquy 16. Luau tuber 17. Introduction to cooking? 19. Chain selling meatballs (and other, larger things) 20. “300” setting 21. Happening 23. Tuesday offering? 25. Museum guides 26. Like random whistling, say 30. Southwest formation 31. Long-legged wader 32. The “T” in GTA 6 34. Friend-o 37. Cookware items 38. Exhausted 39. Curse 40. ___ Na Na (oldies vocal group) 41. Japanese barberry feature 42. ___-Potty (music festival amenity) 43. Response in court 45. Where wrecks may lead to an x-ray? 47. Close off 50. Farm females 51. 2016 film whose poster was updated slightly in 2026 to fix the angle of a hand 53. One way to get around the U.S. 57. Subject of adulation 58. Forensic scientist’s findings 60. Golden Fleece ship 61. Invisible glow 62. “Cars” singer Gary 63. Chips supplier 64. Second-person plural pronoun, to Pittsburgh residents 65. Caught a little shuteye (which can be found in the four longest answers)

DOWN

1. Alerts from HQ 2. Paltrow lifestyle brand 3. “Black Beauty” novelist Sewell 4. First courses 5. Motivator’s message 6. ___-Foy, Quebec 7. “Chicken Little” denial 8. In ___ (trapped)

9. Settle in 10. Malt liquor hyped in ‘90s hip-hop (and not the “man with seven wives” town) 11. Dismantled 12. “___ you the cutest?” 13. Regatta entrants 18. Racing speed 22. Rapper on “Law & Order: SVU” 24. Bony prefix 26. Amts. in recipes 27. Monument Valley locale 28. It means never having to say you’re sorry? 29. Like a 41-Across 33. “Rubber Duckie” singer 35. Against 36. Tilt to the side 38. Exclamation after getting home 39. Full of oneself 41. Greenish-blue 42. “Bugonia” star Jesse 44. Colombian plains 46. Satirical horrormetal band in giant foam costumes 47. Related to a hipbone

48. Pelvic bones 49. Tedious feeling 52. “Well, shucks” 54. “The ___ of the Ancient Mariner” 55. “Take ___!” (coach’s order) 56. “The Simpsons” news anchor Brockman 59. Ciudad de la ___ (Equatorial Guinea’s new capital, not to be confused with Bolivia’s)

Last week’s answers

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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It started with some posts and AI-made memes. Now authorities are warning of some strange social schemes. Newsweek reported on Sept. 10 that the Cat in the Hat, the character of Dr. Seuss fame, is at the center of a viral social media trend that has made its way around the globe. Images and videos—sometimes AI-generated, sometimes of a real person in costume lurking outside of homes and schools at night—of the Cat in the Hat are accompanied by menacing text warning of where the “Cat” is headed next and listing specific people or schools as its next targets. Students in Kansas, Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky have been apprehended and face criminal charges for participating in the hoax, and school districts in Pennsylvania, North Dakota and Minnesota have put their communities on alert. In Canada, the online hoax turned into a real nightmare when a teenage girl in British Columbia was chased by someone wearing a Cat in the Hat costume. She arrived home safely, but authorities are still looking for the perpetrator. “People should understand that behavior intended as a prank can have serious consequences when it causes another person to reasonably fear for their safety,” said Corporal Devon Gerrits of West Kelowna RCMP.

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An alleged dumpster diver had to be rescued from a garbage truck on Sept. 2, the LA Times reported. A driver for Recology, a commercial waste collection company, picked up and emptied a dumpster, and then ran the trash compactor before hearing yelling from inside the truck and calling 911. When firefighters arrived, they couldn’t just reach in and pull the man out—he might have had crush injuries—or have the driver dump all the trash out, which could have released hazardous material, such as glass, batteries and even vermin. What followed was a two-hour rescue effort. Paramedics were able to get an IV in the man’s arm while firefighters carefully removed the trash with pike poles. The man was conscious when firefighters reached him, and he was taken to a local hospital. The extent of his injuries was undisclosed; one firefighter suffered a laceration injury during the rescue but is in stable condition.

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St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office received a call about an unusual home break-in—one that involved a large buck making its way into the bathroom. According to a Sept. 4 report from WSVN, after moving furniture and offering a few words of encouragement, the deputies were able to guide the buck out of the house ... only for it to fall into the pool outside the home’s doorway. With further guidance, the buck got out of the pool and took off running. However, it came back one more time for a quick plunge before making its way back into neighboring trees. The sheriff’s office social media post said, “The buck fled before deputies could issue a warning for trespassing.” Send items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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Shoppers browsing the Heron Foods grocery store in Maryport, England, got a little more than they bargained for. On Sept. 2, BBC reported that a baby corn snake had been found in the bread aisle. “Crumbs,” as the snake was called, was first taken to a veterinary practice but ended up being put in the care of an animal education organization. Ben Nicholson of Pet Encounter said the organization has rescued more than 20 snakes so far this year. Whether Crumbs had been abandoned in the grocery store or had escaped from somewhere is unclear, but Nicholson said he believes high costs and a lack of education are playing parts in pets being abandoned.

“So this is an interesting case, she thinks the neighbor is having relations with her husband so she pushes her way into the victim’s house and then throws poop on the victim, a bucket of poop,” is an actual thing a judge said during a recent bond hearing for Yirsi Machado Rivera, 50, of Miami. NBC 6 reported that Machado Rivera was arrested on charges of burglary and battery after attacking her neighbor with a bucket of human feces. Machado Rivera told police that she did, in fact, have such a bucket that she was using while her toilet was out of commission; however, she denies dumping the doody, instead claiming that the neighbor attacked her with a bat. Judge Mindy Glazer ordered Machado Rivera to be held without bond and appointed a public defender. Oh, and leave the poor neighbor alone.

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An unnamed Italian man made it all the way from Miami to Turin, Italy, with a dried crocodile head in his luggage, The Guardian reported on Sept. 8. The Turin unit of Italy’s financial police squad said in a statement that the man wrapped the head in brown packing paper in an evidently feeble attempt to keep it from the astute eyes of customs officers. The man was swiftly taken into custody upon discovery of the croc, and is accused of smuggling a specimen belonging to a protected species. If convicted, the man could have to pay up to $270,000 USD or face a prison term of up to one year.

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Police in Chatham County, Georgia, are looking for an unusual suspect. Among his questionable behavior? “Becoming infatuated” with a rubber duck that he played with for 10 minutes while soaking in a hot tub—uninvited—at someone else’s home. According to WOTC, video footage from Sept. 1 shows an unidentified male trespassing on private property and going for a dip in the pool before availing himself of the hot tub sometime between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. He also helped himself to over $1,000 worth of beach towels before riding away on his bicycle. “It’s obviously not the biggest crime we’ve dealt with this month, but it has a lot of ick-factor,” the local police department said in a social media post. “So, we’d like to find this guy so he doesn’t do this to someone else.”

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CBS News reported on Sept. 3 that the City of Denton Animal Services in Texas was contacted by employees at a local FedEx office after they discovered an unusual attempted shipment—191 tortoises and turtles. The shelter took custody of the animals and contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which began an investigation. The turtles and tortoises were then moved to the Dallas Zoo for secure shelter. “This unusual rescue is just one example of how our animal services team supports the community,” the animal shelter said. “We’re grateful for the strong partnerships with our animal welfare colleagues, who help us coordinate responses in unique situations like this.”

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