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\"\"<\/a>Linda Burton posting from Salt Lake City, Utah<\/em> \u2013 It\u2019s Cinco de Mayo, the fifth day of May. There\u2019s a super moon tonight, and a super show at the Energy Solutions Arena. The San Antonio Spurs are in town and it\u2019s Game #3 in the first round of the NBA Western Conference Playoffs. The home-town crowd is stocking up on souvenirs. There may not be many more games for the Utah Jazz; they\u2019re 0-2 going in. But hey, there\u2019s hope, and faith. Horse-drawn carriages clop around the fringe of the intensity; in every downtown parking lot an orange-vested entrepreneur waves you in; $14 for the Event, fork it over, park close by. They\u2019re lined up to the street at Red Iguana, waiting to get in, waiting for the game to start, waiting for the super moon to rise. Fast forward<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0The Jazz lost. It was a sellout crowd, 19,911 fans whooping it up; energized from the beginning when the green and yellow balloons came floating down, a massive drop. I wasn\u2019t there, but I heard about it on the news; they had the lead, they fell behind, they came within range, the crowd cheered and hollered, up and down, up and down. But when the final buzzer buzzed, the board read Spurs 102 \u2013 Jazz 90. Monday night, Game #4, at the Arena. No NBA team has ever overcome an 0-3 deficit to win best a best of seven series. But there\u2019s always hope.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile, I couldn\u2019t get near the Clark Planetarium to immerse myself in \u201cmoon facts\u201d and astronomy on Supermoon Night; it is just across the street from the Arena, crazy parking, crazy crowds, I hadn\u2019t thought ahead. I gave it up, a foolish effort on\"\"<\/a> such a night. And I didn\u2019t want to wait at the Red Iguana, I was hungry; wound up far from downtown for Cinco Nachos, the menu said Deep Dive with Chicken and a special sauce. Costa Vida was the place, kids and families there, not into basketball.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>The Supermoon came up on schedule though, rising over the eastside peaks of the Wasatch Range, rising over the kids going into Costa Vida on Foothill Drive, rising over the sidewalk crowd at Red Iguana on West North Temple, rising over the horse-drawn carriages clopping the downtown streets, rising over the Arena\u2019s hopeful crowd. Is it really 221,814 miles away? It seems close, shining over Salt Lake City, on a super Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Some stats for the Jazz: their biggest win of the year was 123-121 against Dallas on April 16; biggest loss was 139-133 to Atlanta on March 25. The three main pieces of the team \u2013 Devin Harris, Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson \u2013 have contracts worth about $33.5 million next year<\/em>. http:\/\/www.nba.com\/jazz\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Upcoming events at the Arena http:\/\/www.energysolutionsarena.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Info about Clark Planetarium http:\/\/clarkplanetarium.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Linda Burton posting from Salt Lake City, Utah \u2013 It\u2019s Cinco de Mayo, the fifth day of May. There\u2019s a super moon tonight, and a super show at the Energy Solutions Arena. The San Antonio Spurs are in town and it\u2019s Game #3 in the first round of the NBA Western Conference Playoffs. The home-town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4586,372],"tags":[445,448,447,446,444,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}