In print October 2015 - Volume 20, Issue 8 the 1st Friday FREE of each month Online at SUindependent.com PLEASE RECYCLE Now in our 20th Year... See Zion Rocktoberfest on page 3 of Zion~Springdale Guide Section ALSO THIS ISSUE: NINE MUST-SEE FILMS AT UTah’s ART IN KAYENTA FESTIVAL HORROR-FEST & THE GUERILLA RED ROCK FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 16TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS SHOWCASE RETURN - See page 7 - See page 8 - See page 7 will be a pretty busy month for me, including performing at the Live United Live: The Camping World Music Festival on Oct. 10, October 2015 Volume 20, Issue 8 opening up for Howard Jones. It’s quite a unique opportunity, and I’m very grateful to have received the call. I’ve been dusting off some old tunes and learning a few new publisher’s ones, and I plan to put on a show at the level of this big event. I hope you’ll all come out. October also marks the leaves EDITORIAL ............................2 WELLNESS ..........................13 PERSPECTIVE changing colors for most of southern Utah, OPINION .............................3 MOVIE REVIEWS .................18 by Josh Warburton but which has already begun up in Brian SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ..........5 Now that I’ve moved all my Head and the other mountain areas. I BOOK REVIEWS ..................20 belongings to my new home in Springdale, encourage all of you to take a trip up to THEATER ...............................6 Brian Head, Pine Valley, Cedar Breaks or ALBUM REVIEWS ................21 I have the monumental task of organizing EVENTS ................................7 and consolidating even more. This is the Zion Canyon to experience southern Utah’s CLIP-N-SAVE SECTION .........22 second time in three years I have downsized fall colors in full effect. GOLF GUIDE .......................10 my residence to a space less than half the On the business front, The RECREATION .......................12 CALENDAR OF EVENTS ........25 size of the previous one. It’s crazy that I Independent continues to diversify. We ever thought a four-bedroom, 3,300 square- now offer a full slate of services, from our foot house was a good fit for me. Now, traditional print and web ads to special ON THE COVER: ZION ROCKTOBERFEST squeezing my prized belongings into a little event promotion and website building. SEE STORY ON PAGE 3 OF two-bedroom spot is going to be a challenge, We are now also offering search engine but I’m doing it. Everything is just a little optimization (SEO) and social network ZION~SPRINGDALE GUIDE. closer together, and I’ve already shed off services for businesses, in addition to dozens of unneeded items. I’m very much graphic design, brand building and strategic looking forward to settling in and relaxing planning. 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Governor for the State of Utah. As a 34 year resident of St. George I have also attempted to give back to the Downtown Farmers Market community that shaped my views and val- AT ANCESTOR SQUARE ues. (IN THE COURTYARD) I worked for several years in the state capi- SATURDAYS - 8AM TO NOON tol assisting in shaping public policy for the best benefit of our citizens. Currently, in addition to my unanimous appointment to the City Coun- cil, I am the Southern Utah Director in Senator Mike Lee’s office. Pre- viously I was a manager in Congressman Jim Hansen’s office. For vendor info email bettearial4stgeorge.com [email protected] or call (435) 632-3721 /bettecitycouncil Page 2 • The Independent / SUindependent.com • October 2015 First, the Constitution of the seem to agree on as one of the single most For ultimately, Christianity United States had only one reference to devastating forces to our liberties in the champions the salvation of the individual. It religion when it was ratified in 1789 under U.S. is the corporate influence, or outright was all too easy for a group of monopolizing Article Six: “No religious test shall ever be control, of our political and legislative business tycoons to enlist the help of required as a qualification to any office or machinery. Profit is the justification for any the preachers in the land to change the public trust under the United States.” and all behavior, and any notion that this collective narrative and principle of faith Next, the defacto motto of the country ought to model the principles of from that of charity to one of self-service PESKY FACTS United States, adopted as part of the Great Christ in giving to the poor is seen by the and, ultimately, greed. Seal of the U.S. by an Act of Congress in left as obvious and the right as a recipe for The religious right and the liberal 1782, was “E. Pluribus Unum” (Out of freeloading. left may agree that corporate cronyism THE RELIGIOUS many, one). Congress changed it 174 years But to the point here, the push for later to “In God We Trust.” the creed of “In God We Trust” came about is the root of some serious disease in our RIGHT OUGHT And lastly, the U.S. did not issue during Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency country socially. However, they will disagree paper currency until 1861, and “In God We as a direct response to Franklin Delano on how this is coming about. And that is TO KNOW Trust” did not appear on it for 96 years. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which was seen the crux of the most critical and profound These facts stand in direct as legislation that ushered in a social discourse that must be had in this country by Dallas Hyland opposition to the notion that this country welfare state but in fact was also a major if we are to go forward with any measure of When was founded on religious grounds. threat to the bottom line of some very large real success. conversing with It is asserted by some that it was corporations at the time. See you out there. individuals or the Red Scare of the 1950s that moved our As early as the 1930s, groups who leaders to change these things out of a fear businessmen began enlisting the help of lay claim to an of communism. McCarthyism and J. Edgar religious activists to preach and teach from association or Hoover’s maniacal reign of the FBI come to the most unchecked source of information membership to the mind. in the history of man—the pulpit—that the conservative and Today, the mania continues with New Deal was akin to Satanism. A country religious right in the word “communism” now substituted endowed to help its citizens was not seen as this country, there with “socialism.” Might be fun to do a “man Christian at all but rather as communist. is one thing you can on the street” interview here in St. George As Kevin M. Kruse put it in “One be certain of: Almost and see how many people can articulate the Nation Under God: How Corporate America every one of them difference between the two, let alone define Invented Christian America,” “For they saw believes, or at least says they believe, that either one correctly. Christianity and capitalism as inextricably this nation was founded under religious But the truth of the matter is a intertwined and argued that spreading the (read: Christian) principles. little more sinister. It is worth noting here gospel of one required spreading the gospel Put this belief to some test, that something both right and left factions of the other.” however, and you can count on their reaction to be uncomprehending.