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Highroad How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government? by Jim Hightower
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ctor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a
bitch.” So let us consider Donnie Trump, who campaigned as the populist champion of the working-class, promising that — by gollies — he was gonna take on Wall Street and the corporate elites.
But the bitter irony for the workingclass is that they now see what the SOB meant — he’s literally “taking on” the moneyed powers by taking them onboard his administration. For example, he’s brought in Wall Street billionaires to fill the three top economic policy positions in his cabinet! Then there’s Betsy DeVos, the billionaire heiress to the scandal-plagued Amway fortune. Her life’s work has been trying to defund and privatize the public schools that working-class people count on, and to eliminate the workingclass jobs of teachers and support staff. Her new job with Trump? Secretary of Education, where she’ll now use our public money trying to kill off our public education system. And here comes Myron Ebell, honcho of the Competitive Enterprise Institute — a corporate front group funded by fossil fuel profiteers like Exxon and the Koch brothers — where
he pushed relentlessly to gut the Environmental Protection Agency. Where’s he now? Heading Trump’s EPA transition team. Also, more than half of The Donald’s Department of Defense transition team have been executives or lobbyists for such military contractors as Boeing corporation. Overall, according to watchdog group Public Citizen, three-fourths of Trump’s transition teams — which are organizing, staffing and shaping our new government — come from CorporateWorld. Not a single working class populist has been allowed a seat at his power table. As America’s working stiffs know, if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Trump’s no populist, he’s a fulltime corporatist. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 26, 2017 5
the anderson files Triptych and Trump by Dave Anderson
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he uproar over Russian meddling in the U.S. election diverts our attention from the larger phenomenon of Russia’s support for far right movements in Europe which are racist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, misogynist and homophobic. Austria’s far right Freedom Party — founded after World War II by former Nazis — recently came close to winning the country’s presidential race. Shortly afterwards, the party signed a “cooperation pact” with Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia. Last December, Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache said he met in Trump Tower with Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Flynn is seen frequently as a political analyst on RT, the global cable TV network formerly known as Russia Today, which is funded by the Russian government. In 2015, Flynn attended a Moscow gala celebrating RT’s 10th anniversary and sat near Putin. He gave a talk on world affairs at the event. Upscale supporters of Putin held an all-night celebration of Trump’s inauguration in Moscow organized by the “White Star” art collective which is part of a pro-Putin youth movement. The partygoers were treated to two presentations — one about the political philosophy of the “triptych” (the art collective’s belief that Putin, Trump and far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will bring about a new world order), and another by Kirill Benediktov, a science fiction writer with ties to Lyndon LaRouche (a bizarre American neo-fascist). Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, is the frontrunner in the latest poll. The National Front publicly acknowledged that it had received a $9.8 million loan from a Russian bank with links to Putin, allegedly brokered by a sanctioned Russian Duma deputy. Maria Katasonova, 23, is a prominent figure in the Russian collective. She works as an aide to State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov who claims rock music is “U.S.-instigated sabotage” and is a leader of Putin’s United Russia party. Katasonova has been widely featured in news stories around the world because of her enthusiastic support of Trump and hatred of Hillary Clinton. 6 January 26, 2017
She got more press recently when she was photographed at Putin’s annual press conference holding up her art collective’s flattering “triptych” portrait of Putin, Le Pen and Trump, side by side. The three leaders were portrayed as stern, young looking and blondhaired. Katasonova ran for a seat in the State Duma but lost badly to the incumbent. She was a candidate of the ultra-nationalist party Rodina, or Motherland. She’s also a leader of the National Liberation Movement, a farright group that supports Russianbacked separatists in Ukraine and attacks anti-Putin dissidents for lacking in patriotism. During the U.S. election season, her Twitter feed was filled with anti-Clinton videos and images borrowed from the alt-right, which earned her the admiration of American white supremacists and far rightists from other parts of Europe. Katasonova’s video Christmas card in 2015 was cheerful. She was dressed in winter camouflage and proclaimed that the separatists would be victorious in Ukraine. If not, she added, “we will destroy the whole world” in a nuclear war. On Jan. 21, leaders of far right parties from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere met in Koblenz, Germany to celebrate Trump’s inauguration and present themselves as a realistic alternative to Europe’s governments. They are surging in popularity. Their parties (along with new left parties in Europe and Bernie Sanders’ Democrats) are involved in a popular revolt against the center-right and center-left parties which have supported the policies of neo-liberal globalization which pushes deregulation of business, state-led de-unionization, cutting taxes on the rich and the defunding of public goods. Putin supports Trumpism and the European far right but also courts the left. RT America features genuine American progressives who don’t get into the mainstream media too much. But it also pushes Putin’s foreign policy and features far rightists and nut-jobs like Alex Jones (Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist). Putin places himself on the right. see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8
guest column Trump as malware by Chris Hoffman
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f an enemy wanted to cripple the United States, the most sophisticated way would be through the political equivalent of a computer virus or malware: to insert a person or a movement into our country’s operating system which would harness the system itself to bring it crashing down. Now we have Donald Trump nominating a CIA director who supports torture; a treasury secretary known as the “foreclosure king;” an attorney general with a history of racist views who supports government seizures of property; a labor secretary who opposes government regulation and the minimum wage; an EPA administrator who has been a longtime enemy of the agency and who doubts the overwhelming scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm; a housing and urban development secretary with no government experience who believes the Egyptian pyramids were built to store grain; a secretary of education who doesn’t support public schools; a national security advisor who says that fear of Muslims is rational; a chief strategist known for racism and misogyny; and an energy secretary who wants to shut down the very department he’s been nominated to lead. These nominations are like nominating the president of the American
Tobacco Company to be Surgeon General. Actually, this is an exact parallel to the nomination of Rex Tillerson, the chairman of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State. Setting aside concerns about Tillerson’s disturbingly close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin and Tillerson’s financial stake in the Russian oil industry, Tillerson’s nomination is of concern because he heads a company that has made billions by working against the public interest. Even though Exxon’s own research confirmed human’s role in climate change over 30 years ago, Exxon promoted climate misinformation for years, much as the tobacco companies promoted misinformation about the health risks of smoking. Tillerson is perhaps the most egregious climate rogue in Trump’s gallery. Climate change puts us all in the same boat together. And when over 98 percent of the boat’s navigators are convinced, based on the evidence, that we’re heading for an iceberg, but the captain maintains course and ramps up the speed, we’re in for a Titanic disaster. And, as with the Titanic, things on board may seem just fine until it’s too late. And then the orchestra and the fine china and the ladies and gentlemen listening to the orchestra and eating off see GUEST COLUMN Page 8
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His party, United Russia, with threequarters of the seats in the Duma, has officially adopted “Russian Conservatism” as its position. As RT has reported: “Having called themselves ‘conservatives,’ the members of United Russia have simply determined their place as a right-wing party,” political scientist Dmitry Travin said. “That means that they are ‘politicians who defend values of the market economy based on
tion. Cannabis has been re-legalized in Colorado but much of the country still struggles with prohibition Stan White/Dillon, Colorado
Dave Anderson and Fascism
In the space allotted to him, Dave Anderson does well in addressing some basic facts associated with the rise of Fascism in Europe [Re: The Anderson Files, “A familiar path to fascism,” Dec. 29]. Much of the murky philosophical underpinnings of Fascism were formulated in Italy and then regurgitated in what became Nazi Germany. But most Americans, whose knowledge of World War II begins and ends with the versions concocted by nativist reactionaries and their mainstream media (MSM) accomplices, sympathetic emigre communities, and Hollywood fantasies, are woefully unaware that Fascism was endemic in much of Western and Central Europe during the 1920s, 1930s, and into and after the Second World War. The evidence is well documented. For example, Catholic Croatia and Slovakia had overt clerical Fascist governments under respectively Ante
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the fine china will sink just as certainly as all the rest of us in lower-class accommodations. With climate change now accelerating at an alarming rate, the coming months may represent the final struggle to prevent the destruction of life on earth as we know it. Fortunately, the United States still has a lot going for it. Trump’s election does not have to be an extinction event. The majority of Americans rejected Trump in the last election. And within the Republican party there must be more than a few who mourn their party’s degeneration from Lincoln’s malice
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Pavelic (Croatia) and Fathers Hlinka and Tizo (Slovakia). France’s collaborationist government under General Petain had its antecedents in powerful Fascist organizations such as Action Francaise. And then there were the Central European Fascist dictatorships facilitated by such luminaries as Admiral Horthy in Hungary, Corneliu Codreanu in Rumania, Marshall Pilsudski (Poland), Schuschnigg’s Austria, and opportunisticFascist governments in Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. Best not to look past the collaborationist Nordic governments in Norwayunder Vidkun Quisling and the bevy of Fascist sympathizers who effectively joined forces to rule Finland. And let us not forget the overt Fascist dictatorships in Spain under General Francisco Franco and in Portugal under Dr. Salazar. Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark also had their share of Fascist sympathizers as witnessed by the various volunteer military battalions and divisions recruited to serve on the Eastern Russian Front.
both countries. That would be good. Or Putin might invade a European nation causing widespread panic and making Trump appear weak. At which point Trump would turn against Putin. Whatever happens, the left has to fight far right phony populism as well as the neo-liberals in the Democratic Party. But Putin isn’t really our friend. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
guest column toward none and charity for all to Trump’s charity toward none and malice for all. Encouragingly, the latest survey from Yale, conducted after the election, shows that nearly eight in 10 registered voters support taxing and/or regulation of the pollution that causes global warming. Half support doing both. The specter of Donald Trump as president has me thinking about my work years ago in a state mental hospital for adolescents. We had our share of difficult children who were hungry for attention and occasionally tried to bully each other.
Our guidelines for working with them were: Ignore them when they act out inappropriately to get attention; set clear, consistent and firm limits; model appropriate behavior; and keep everyone safe. So, ignore Trump’s grandstanding and obsessive tweeting; oppose his unacceptable nominations and policies; be inclusive, welcoming, and community-minded; and work to limit the worst of climate change. It’s up to us to be the anti-virus for the malware in our democracy. Chris Hoffman lives in Boulder. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Then there is Great Britain and its own Fascist sympathizer, one Sir Oswald Mosley. Sir Oswald is marvelously parodied in several of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster stories and in the subsequent TV series as Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. Of particular current interest are the remnants of the Spanish Falange Movement (in Francophone nations the Phalange) which helped the Nazis to infiltrate the Spanish/French speaking nations of Central and South America and Africa prior to, during and after World War II. Many of the Fascist governments mentioned above were not necessarily driven by Italian/German ideological motivations. The perpetuation of feudal economic prerogatives, urban industrial versus rural agricultural economic conflicts, personal political aggrandizement, German imperial agricultural and industrial interests, religious conflicts and a plethora of other social and economic problems plagued and aggravated the internal politics of Western and Central European nations in the three decades preceding World War II. History is much more complicated than the mind-boggling mush that the MSM dishes out to us day in, day out 24/7. It’s time for America to grow up both intellectually and politically. The time has arrived for the mainstream electronic media to stop inundating our citizenry with disinformation, false narratives, non-news features, infotainment and mind-numbing saturation advertising... Liberty Mutual Insurance, Nutrisystem, and the burgeoning corps of ambulance-chasing shysters immediately come to mind in this context. Dave Morton/Longmont
The civil war of affordable housing
CU South, Twin Lakes, HoganPancost, 3303 Broadway, Balsam/Alpine and Sanitas are all affordable housing issues pitting residents against each other. With Hogan-Pancost, it’s an affordable senior housing proposal on a flood plain displacing runoff to the pre-existing seniors below whose sump pumps were already running 24/7 in the 2013 flood, not to mention those seniors living in downstream Frazier Meadows. Sanitas with a Land Use Designation for Open Space-Other which is land the county wants to buy, is now being manipulated towards a high-end senior housing destination resort, further elevating the demand for affordability. Congregant care nomenclature is the justification under public zoning at this Boulder Weekly
gateway to the mountain access for those seeking walkable retreat from their four level high cost apartments all over town. Do these developers need a helping hand when they bought the land with full knowledge of the Land Use Designation? Whether Open Space Board of Trustees or Planning Commission, the overseeing entities are caught in the middle of an illusory battle. Twin Lakes has 12,000 jobs to 2,400 places to live and their high-density development is
on a riparian wetlands with a high water table. Misrepresentation and takings of open space paid for by the taxpayers, the rights of the archdiocese handed over to BVSD, these remind me of Sanitas and the Washington School takeover of public interest lands to penthouses. In answer to the chair of the CO Planning Commission, Will Toor validated that the same misrepresentation and illegal activity was common with other such projects going
back in time. This means it needs to stop! I’ve never felt so drained feeling the lament of these people and the pitting of interest groups against each other. Whether it is pre-existing resident against affordable housing advocate or prairie dog protector against cowboy, the unification of these interest groups against the unpaid impact fees of the developer is where the focus needs to be! Lynn Segal/Boulder
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hen Dana Derichsweiler and her brother Rocky were around 4 or 5 years old, they had their tonsils taken out together. Some 30 years later, Dana gave Rocky a kidney. “When it happened, we’re in separate rooms ... I remember them wheeling me down to see my brother the next day,” Dana says. “My family was there. Everyone left the room, and they wheeled me in there and we sat; he’s in bed and I’m in a wheelchair and we didn’t say a word.” Dana, usually a fast talker, tells the story slowly. “I have big tears in my eyes right now because that’s how we did,” she explains. “He didn’t have to say anything. Of course he was grateful — over and over and over he told me a million times. [But that day] he didn’t have to say anything because he knew I felt it.” Rocky lived an active life for five more years thanks to his sister, cycling and hiking and just living life. He had a favorite ride in Pueblo, where he lived. It was out at the reservoir, a place called Pedro’s Point. Rocky told Dana that every time he rode his bike out there, he stopped and silently thanked his sister for the gift of life. Rocky was 49 when he passed — cancer struck the final blow — leaving behind a grown son and a grieving family. “It was as much grief as I have ever experienced,” Dana says. “Anyone who has lost a sibling that they are close to... it was really something. I had to do something. That’s what ended up happening.” What ended up happening was classically Dana, the kind of girl who never sits still for too long: Along with her wife, she founded the Kirk “Rocky” Derichsweiler Memorial Foundation (KRD) to support all the things Rocky cared about the most: organ donation, spreading the love of bikes and just plain old helping people. In the five years since the foundation got rolling, KRD has provided substantial donations to charity program across Colorado. Their work dispels myths and fears about organ donation, and provides kids with bikes and helmets and outdoor experiences they might never have been able to access otherwise, all in honor of her brother’s life. At the heart of the foundation is Dana’s business, the Walnut Cafe. Each spring since the foundation’s inception, a fundraiser has been held at each of the Walnut’s
three locations, with all proceeds going to KRD. Dana was blown away by the generosity of the community in the first year of KRD, even while she was experiencing the anxiety of fundraising for the first time. “When people are fundraising and they ask for money, you’re like, ‘Here’s $25 or $50 or $100,’ and you write a check; I’ve done that my whole life,” Dana
KRD also donates to Assisted Cycling Tours, a nonprofit organization in Arvada that uses bike trips to promote health and independence for people with disabilities. Dana says Assisted Cycling Tours recently started a bike mechanic program that helps folks with disabilities learn marketable skills — something her brother, a bike builder himself, would have loved. Further south in Pueblo, KRD supports Rocky’s Riders, a program through the Boys and Girls Club. Last year, KRD provided the organization with mountain bikes and a trailer to haul the bikes so kids can take day trips to trails. One of KRD’s newest recipients is the Chris Klug Foundation, a national organization that promotes organ donation education, particularly for young people. Dana does some educational talks of her own, and even created a sheet of “tips and tricks” to help kidney donors bounce back after surgery. “There are a lot of things that I’ve learned that make it easier and recovery better,” she says. “I’ve talked to I bet a dozen people who have sponsored that surgery. I put my name out there and tell people they can call me if they want to talk about it. It’s so much easier to talk to people who have done it — someone who is gonna tell you the truth. And yes, she says, the truth is it hurts. It’s painful. “That being said, do I think it’s one of the greatest things you can do in your life? Yes,” she says. “You can’t imagine the connection you have then, having given someone the gift of life. It’s a connection that you’ll have forever... and it’s a gift you get that the donor gets. You give something but you in turn receive.” Dana has made sure it’s easy for the community to give throughout the year by just stopping by one of the Walnut Cafe’s locations and ordering Duzer’s breakfast burrito, named after one of Boulder’s favorite adventurers, Ryan VanDuzer. Last year, sales of the Duzer burrito raised $5,000 for KRD. This year Dana hopes to find a partner that can commit to matching dollar-for-dollar funds raised through Duzer burrito sales. Rocky’s death left a void in Dana that nothing can fill, but she finds solace every day knowing he would have loved the work she does in his name. “It’s easy for me in a heartbeat to tear up and think about how much I miss him,” she says. “But every time we get to do something in his honor, I think it helps heal just a little.”
Dana Deirchsweiler: Turning loss into love by Caitlin Rockett
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says. “But it was a different situation [when we started the foundation]. Now we’re asking, ‘Will you write a check? Will you entrust me with your hard-earned money to do good?’” Boulder’s had no trouble entrusting Dana with their money: Just last year, Dana says KRD was able to give $20,000 to various organizations on Colorado Gives Day. One of KRD’s biggest yearly donations goes to Community Cycles’ Kids Holiday Bike Giveaway; their donation has made the event possible for the past few years, allowing Community Cycles to give away 200-300 bikes to low-income children.
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Oak Thorne has spread his passion for the environment throughout the community most of his life.
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n a snowy January day, Oakleigh Thorne sits in an empty classroom at Thorne Nature Experience, overlooking Sombrero Marsh and the Flatirons. While the classroom is empty now, in the spring it will be filled with second graders who will learn about the plants and animals that surround the building. The program and the organization are all a product of Oak’s work from the past several decades promoting environmental awareness in Boulder. It’s all in a day’s work for Oak Thorne, and yes, that’s his real name. He was named after a distant cousin who lived in New York on the family farm, which the Thornes have owned since the 1700s. Nature has always been an important tenet in the Thorne family and Oak continues to spread that legacy. Oak’s interest in environmental education started in his undergraduate days studying biology at Yale in the late ’40s. One summer, he worked with kids at an Audubon summer camp in Connecticut. When he went on to get his master’s degree in conservation at Yale, Oak was tasked to find a project for the summer. He stumbled into a fundraising mission to save a forest on Fire Island. He secured some grant money for the group, which eventually became a new nonprofit known as The Nature Conservancy. That’s right, Oak procured the first grant for the Conservancy that now fights for the environment across the globe. A couple years later, Oak came to the University of Colorado Boulder to get his doctorate in biology. After working with The Nature Conservancy, Oak was inspired to start his own nonprofit, later opening Thorne Ecological Institute. “I had no idea what we were gonna do except ecology, education and conservation — nice big [words] like that we put in our charter,” he says. “And here we are, 63 years later.” The organization then served as a catalyst for establishing several other environmental groups including The Nature Conservancy’s Colorado chapter, the Sierra Club’s Colorado chapter, the Denver chapter of Audubon, the Keystone Science Center and Aspen Center of Environmental Studies. Almost a decade ago, Thorne Ecological Institute rebranded to become what it is today, Thorne Nature Experience, focusing more on youth education. While that’s been a principle for some time — his summer camp is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year — it’s now the main focus of the organization, providing field trips and afterand in-school programming. Oak has stepped down from running the nonprofit, and now focuses on fundraising and teaching. He leads classes on bird banding, which helps to track movements of individual birds, a practice Oak has
Oakleigh Thorne: 88 years old and not slowing down by Amanda Moutinho
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been federally licensed to do since 1947. “The kids learn how to take them out of the net and how to open the band and how to put the bands on. Talk about getting them away from the computer games!” he says. “Here they are, they’re out catching wild birds and banding them, and they love it. They come back year after year.” Passing on a passion for nature is important to Oak, especially imparting its value on kids. “They’re our future leaders,” he says. “Because of global climate change and the way the habitat is being destroyed, they need to understand about the importance of the environment in the broadest sense.” Outside of his organization, Oak has been an integral part of preserving the City’s open space. He was on the first Parks and Recreation Advisory Board in the ’60s. He also served on CU’s Natural Area Committee, which identified natural areas around the city that were important to the university, and he helped to create People’s League for Action Now (PLAN) Boulder County. So thanks to Oak and his friends, Boulder boasts open green belts and areas like Enchanted Mesa and Settler’s Park, which Oak named himself. His list of community contributions doesn’t stop there. He’s also heavily involved with CU, in the past volunteering his time as a mentor and currently as cochair for the science and tech committee of the Conference on World Affairs, which he’s helped with for the past 15 years. But perhaps Oak’s biggest contribution to CU is a capella, notably starting the CU
Buffoons over half a century ago. Oak had been an active member of the Yale singing group the Whiffenpoofs. And when he was finishing up his doctorate at CU, they came to perform in Boulder. “When I introduced them, I challenged the audience to start a group. This is in 1962 and Don Grusin and Roger Nelson came up to me after and asked, ‘Oak, will you help us start a group?’ And they asked for some vocal arrangements they could sing, and I said sure. “Then they made me sing with them,” he says. “I was 34 years old, and I pretended to be an undergraduate for a year, and it was really fun!” The group made a 10-inch LP at the end of the year, and the CU Buffoons was officially launched. Oak still acts as an informal mentor to the group. “I’m going to their rehearsal Thursday night to help them with an arrangement of ‘Georgia on my Mind,’” Oak says, before listing off the names of the multiple other CU a cappella groups he assists as well. For Oak, helping the community was something that was drilled into him in his early schooling and at Yale. But over the years, he says, “I find... it’s much more fun to give then it is to receive.” And at 88 years old, he’s not slowing down, whether in volunteering or in work. “When people ask if I’m retired, I punch them in the nose,” he says with a laugh. “No! I love what I’m doing. Why would I retire?” January 26, 2017 15
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atty buzzes around the brand new OUR Center building in Longmont talking to everyone she sees. She directs people to the nurse if they’re sick, makes others laugh and always inquires about where their pets are. Having volunteered at the center off and on for a decade, consistently for the last four Angela K. Evans years, it seems she knows everyone. Once the questions start, Patty is eager to refocus the conversation off of herself, quick to talk about all the other volunteers who she says do much more than her, or have been helping out for longer. Founded in 1986, the Outreach United Resource (OUR) Center is a community-based nonprofit offering food, clothes and other services to help Longmont residences challenged by the high cost of living achieve self-sufficiency. Patty spends 10 hours a week in the Community Market, walking patrons through the different sections of food: produce, canned meals, meat and dairy. She helps them pick out the proper type and amount and perhaps more importantly, she listens to them. “People will tell you practically their life story in the five minutes you’ve got them, giving them food,” she says. “Because they want somebody to talk to who cares and I do, I care, otherwise I wouldn’t be here helping people.” Patty first visited the OUR Center at its old, smaller location across the street in 1997 as a recipient of the program’s services, after her husband injured his back on a construction site. The couple would get some groceries at the market and stay for lunch, which is where she first met her friend Jim. “He had just wound up homeless. He used to build houses and somebody stole all his tools. He didn’t have any money to buy new tools so there went his business, there went his truck, his mobile home,” she says. “Jim is the main reason I got to know a lot of homeless people. ... Jim showed me a true need, there are people that are homeless that really need help.”
At the time, Patty and her husband were already handing out free pet food in the community. “Longmont knows me as pet food Patty,” she says. “We get it donated and then we give it to people who are indigent who have pets.” But after hearing Jim’s story, she realized she could do more. She thought, “The OUR Center is helping me with all these free goodies so I can come help back.” So in addition to handing out free pet food, which she does to this day, she started volunteering when she could, while also cleaning houses full time. After semi-retiring four years ago, the overly energetic Patty knew she couldn’t just stay home all the time. “I can’t just sit on my butt and drive my husband crazy,” she recalls. These days she commits at least 10 hours a week to volunteering at the center. And she’s happy to volunteer more if they need her. She came in on her day off to talk with Boulder Weekly, and stayed after to see if there was anything she could do to help out with the Community Cafe’s free lunch service. Sadly, Jim passed away on Father’s Day, last year. After the 2013 flood, he had lived on and off Patty has been helping with Patty and her folks as a volunteer at Longmont’s OUR Center for husband, helping a decade. with the gardening and snow removal, joining them for meals. Although Patty obviously misses her friend, becoming emotional when talking about him, he still inspires her in the volunteer work she does and will continue to do so, she says. “People just don’t realize. They see someone standing on the corner and think, ‘That poor sucker.’ That poor sucker, my butt,” she says. “You live in their shoes. I saw it through Jim, I saw it through his eyes.” OUR Center policy is to keep last names private, which is why BW has only used Patty’s first name. Boulder Weekly
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Buddhist Meditations To Awaken From The Illusion of Separation
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hen it comes to making a positive difference in our communities, there are myriad ways to go about it. We can write a check to individuals or organizations; volunteer; find a job that allows us to help others in some way; or, as in the case of entrepreneur Billy Williams, we can create a business model that takes all of this and more into consideration. Williams is the owner of Boulder’s Urban Mattress store at 2830 Arapahoe Ave. He’s the company’s original founder and says he created his own line of mattresses after growing frustrated with what he saw as a lack of quality products he could source through existing manufacturers. You could say he saw a problem and evolved his business
Billy Williams: Business with purpose by Joel Dyer model to fix it. And it’s that sort of pragmatism and creativity that is allowing his business to address other problems of the social nature as well. Williams franchised Urban Mattress, which now has 13 locations. All of the stores are expected to give back to their communities and he’s currently working on a plan that would allow them to address larger societal issues together, but that’s still in the planning stages. His Boulder store, on the other hand, is already engaged in the effort to “do the right thing.” It starts with the people Williams hires. “We bring on only quality people, customer-service-oriented people and we pay them a livable wage,” he says. “We pay more because it’s the right thing to do. Even our delivery drivers are makBoulder Weekly
ing between $15 and $17 an Billy Williams, owner hour.” of Boulder’s Urban Mattress, says he A commitment to paying feels motivated to livable wages is no small thing give back, not obligated. in Boulder where the housing crunch has seen rents skyrocket. But some of those Williams hires are as focused on giving back to the community as he is. He specifically singled out Ken Miller, whom Williams describes as Urban Mattress’s “community liaison.” Ken “drives around in our Urban Mattress Jeep connecting members of the community with services they might need,” he says. This relationship has helped to foster Urban Mattress’s involvement with Boulder’s Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA) among other organizations. “We mostly provide product to [EFAA]. Some people can’t afford a decent mattress and when you consider we spend one-third of our life in bed it’s a big deal.” Another project where Williams and Urban Mattress stepped up to the plate was in the creation of the book Until They Have Faces: Stories of Recovery, Resilience and Redemption, which the company helped sponsor. The book tells the real life stories of 42 members of Boulder’s homeless community as well as shed light on the people and agencies in Boulder County that specifically work with this population in need. Each of the 42 profiles were created by a different writer while all the photographs in the book were taken by David Page. The goal of book was to put a face on the homeless so we can begin to see them for the people they are as opposed to merely a statistic, and it also serves as a fundraising tool. Until They Have Faces sells for $35 and all proceeds directly support Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow and Bridge House. Williams and Urban Mattress are a perfect example of the important role the business community can play when it comes to making Boulder County a better place to live for all of us.
Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. His Holiness the Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “the American Lama.” Coupled with twenty years living in India and the Himalayas, Lama Surya has spent over forty-five years studying Zen, Vipassana (mindfulness), Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia, including some of the Dalai Lama’s own senior teachers. He is an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order, a leading spokesperson for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, a translator, poet, meditation master, cartoonist, and spiritual activist.
The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for Buddhist Studies and American Culture & Values and Naropa University’s Department of Contemplative Psychology are pleased to host an evening lecture with Lama Surya Das.
Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:00–9:00 p.m. Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, CO 80301
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been built on paying it forward. “That has gone on since the very beginning of farming. Older farmers had always helped the younger ones. We had a neighbor when I was growing up, Bob Clynck. From when I was 8 until I was 16, I followed him around constantly and learned what it took to be a farmer,” Ellis says. Asked to share some of the advice he got, Ellis says: “I couldn’t repeat most of it except ‘Always check the oil.’” The old farmer’s “tips” were mainly variations on “Don’t be stupid!” he says. John comes from a family that had farmed in Ohio and he has farmed his whole life in Boulder County. He’s as close to a native son as possible, but like many locals he first arrived as a tourist. “My family came out from Ohio on vacation near Nederland. My dad was a machinist and applied for work at the Rocky Flats plant. We moved here when I was 7,” he says. When his parents bought the farm on the southwest corner of 75th Street and Valmont Road in the 1960s, it was the last acreage still being worked by a team of draft horses. It had something else: irrigation. The family grew sweet corn, pumpkins and blue spruce trees at their Evergreen Acres Farm, which is now Cure Organic Farm. The first thing John remembers growing were strawberries and sweet corn, which got sold at the family farm stand. “Boulder has never been as agricul-
John Ellis: Paying it forward so Boulder County agriculture will have a future by John Lehndorff
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f you find yourself thinking fond thoughts right now of warm Saturday mornings at the Boulder County Farmers Market (BCFM), you might want to pen a thank-you note to Farmer John. “Farmer” isn’t John Ellis’ first name but it might as well be. That’s how everybody has known him for decades. John has been working, sometimes quietly and occasionally pretty loudly, to keep local agriculture alive in Boulder County since he started farming while still a student at Fairview High School, then located near Baseline Reservoir. Over the decades he has helped launch the BCFM, supported sustainability efforts, served on countless committees and worked to make sure there is a next generation of Boulder farmers. “Farmer John has a reputation for always being willing to lend a hand or a piece of equipment from his sizable collection. He genuinely cares about his fellow farmers,” says Brian Coppom, executive director of the BCFM. As far as John is concerned, agriculture has always 18 January 26, 2017
tural as Longmont. The interest here grew after Farmer John has the farmers’ market been championing started,” he says. local farming in Boulder County for The Boulder County decades. Farmers Market now seems like an essential part of what makes Boulder special. Virtually every travel story written about the city now mentions the market as one of the nation’s best along with the foodie culture it has helped to support, but it took a while to convince locals that the idea had merit. Although, farmers did start selling some vegetables and fruits on the Boulder County Courthouse Lawn during the early 1980s a few years after the Pearl Street Mall was installed. “About a dozen of us farmers met with the city to talk about setting up a summer market. We involved the University of Colorado in choosing the best site and they ended up choosing the 13th Street site where we have been ever since,” Ellis says. The importance of the market, beyond supporting local agriculture, became apparent immediately. “It added a sense of community for the students and the people moving here who believed in local food. It was perfect timing. We had Alfalfa’s Market for local produce but there wasn’t any place to come together,” John says. The BCFM that opened in 1987 was quite small compared to the current sprawling complex. “We had stands at the farm but those are different. We were learning as fast as our customers in Boulder were,” he says. The first thing they learned was that only one thing mattered: locally grown food. Boulder Weekly
“We went and looked at a lot of farmers’ markets. Farm to customer was the whole point. What drew people was local food and not just another flea market. Making it all local-grown produce was our best decision. In the early years there was a vendor set up who pulled out a crate of lemons. I told him: ‘You can’t sell those here.’ He looked real surprised,” John says. It also took some time for shoppers to understand why fresh-picked farm produce was worth it. “Sometimes you have to beat people in the head with the celery so they understand why it’s better to get the same item grown just down the street,” he says. Among the folks selling produce along with Farmer John is Cure Organic Farm. He was renting his old family farm at 75th Street and Valmont Road to another grower when he ran into Anne Cure. “Anne was a really good vegetable grower. I told her: ‘You need to farm this place.’ She had no knowledge of machinery when she started up so I helped her with that. Now she grows 100 or more kinds of produce,” he says. Cure Organic Farm provides produce to Boulder Valley School District cafeterias, grows vegetable and herb starts for the schools’ Growing Gardens program, and it hosts farm camps for kids. While the weather has always had its ups and downs including the devastating 2013 floods, the climate is a greater concern, he says. “The climate in Boulder County has changed in the last 40 years. The seasons have shifted. New weeds and diseases are moving in that weren’t here before and new insects predominate. Is it because of climate change or GMOs? I worry about the next generation of farmers and of humanity,” John says. John talks about irrigation ditches as being as essential as sunshine for farming in parched Boulder County, and he has served on the boards of various local ditches. The low-paying gig involves dealing with disputes between ditch users and the owners of property through which the water flows and a knowledge of Colorado’s famously complex and centuries-old water law system. At the age of 68, John would be a geezer in any other profession, but he is far from the eldest farmer in the valley. He has a 76-acre farm near Niwot where he grows hay, wheat, pumpkins and other vegetables. He also owns a 6-acre peach orchard in Palisade. He sells his produce and freshly ground wheat flour at the markets in Boulder and Longmont. Two notable restaurants, The Kitchen and Boulder Weekly
Arcana, use his wheat on their menus. “I’m starting to realize I’m not so young any more so I want to see things happen soon,” John says. He says he would like to see composting grow on a much bigger scale in Boulder County, and an expansion of programs to provide vouchers for fresh produce for atrisk women, children and seniors. He talks to farmers and bakers about growing grain at the Grain School at the University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs. Calling it “the more left-leaning farmers’ organization,” John is also involved in the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. “There is a bunch of new farmers in their 20s, 30s and 40s who have a lot of enthusiasm for farming,” he says. “The future farmers in Boulder County will be small family farmers selling locally, not commodity farmers. They’ll grow a variety of crops instead of a monoculture. I can’t
imagine sugar beets being a viable crop in Boulder County. You’ll see more green houses with more produce sold directly to restaurants and schools,” John says. This year, Farmer John is once again running for the board of directors of the Boulder County Farmers Market. “This is really in my heart. I want the best for this community despite how much I complain about everything,” he says with a chuckle.
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Hannah Leigh Myers, volunteer at KGNU, gets the morning started off with the early newscast.
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t’s barely 8 o’clock in the morning and from the still of the winter air comes a warm voice, sure and trustworthy. “Good morning, you’re listening to KGNU community radio, Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins. This is your Friday Morning Magazine and I’m your host, Hannah Leigh Myers.” She looks at home here, inside the station, as if she’s always had a place among the aged radio broadcasting equipment. From behind the mic she plays pre-recorded news features and promos, reads scripts she wrote in the wee hours of the morning and coordi-
nity deserves — free. To be able to turn on a dial and have someone on the other end telling them what’s happening this week that will be affecting them — that is a right and I am committed to ensuring it is there. It is my duty. It just so happens to also be my privilege.” But when she turns to talk about what she loves most about radio production, her voice takes on a softer, more poetic tone. “You’d be surprised how much you can discern in a voice, when you take away the distraction of visual elements, the truth becomes more apparent,” Myers says. “For me there’s just something beautiful about unadulterated sound, like in the crackle you hear in the throat right before a person begins to cry or the wordlessness of ambient sounds.” Since graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder with her bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2012, Myers has donated over 2,500 hours to KGNU. At first she just came in on Thursday mornings to write headlines and soon moved on to produce news features covering arts, news, social justice and environmental issues. Now, she also regularly hosts the station’s Friday morning news program as well as various panels and call-in shows. KGNU relies on volunteers like Myers to broadcast as an independent, non commercial radio station in Boulder and, more recently, all the way up and down the Front Range. Established in 1978, KGNU has spent 24 hours a day for the last 39 years delivering independent news and music as a community resource, shining a spotlight on the people, groups and issues that are often ignored or underreported. Maeve Conran, news director at KGNU says it’s
Hannah Leigh Myers: Volunteer progressive radio journalist by Sarah Haas nates live guests in the studio. But, like any good radio host, the steady calm of her voice gives no hint of all the action behind the scenes. As soon as she’s done here, Myers will head off to a greenhouse in Louisville where she works tending to and growing orchids. She’s also a dedicated wife and homemaker and, in whatever free time she has left, is spent pitching radio stories to other outlets as a freelance journalist. She loves her life and you can tell a big part of her heart is wrapped up in her volunteer work at KGNU. When she talks about her responsibilities with the station she sounds like it’s her primary job: driven by its mission to inform her community and completely committed to the ethics of integrity and honesty at its core. “Community radio adds something that a commu20 January 26, 2017
hard to get accross the amount of work it takes to put community stories on the air, crediting generations of volunteers for making it possible. Looking forward though, Conran admits she’s worried about the future of local journalism. Local news has never been so depleted and, amid the turbulent political climate, it has never been more sorely needed. Across the country, community radio stations and local newsrooms are shrinking and shuttering as audiences, budgets and staff shrink. Today there are half as many journalists working in local dailies as there were in 1990, according to Nieman Lab. This means there are less reporters covering increasingly nuanced stories in polarized communities, less local stories to fill in the picture of national and global affairs. “Young journalists like [Myers] give me hope for the future in this time when the very essence of journalism is under unprecedented attack,” Conran says. “[The KGNU news department] could not do what we do without volunteers like [Myers]. That’s not hyperbole, that’s fact. As we enter into 2017 and a new political landscape, we need her now more than ever.” “Everybody in community radio knows that the format is struggling,” Myers says. “But everybody that’s at KGNU or who tunes in to listen has the sense that this is really valuable, not just because it’s providing important local news, but because it’s deeply committed to the well being of the people who live here.” Myers says that there is a tendency to write off progressive platforms like KGNU and she herself has been called a “social justice warrior” as a pejorative term, as if to point to bias in her reporting. “I think most people at KGNU would agree that if caring and standing up for people that are struggling to do so on their own, or aren’t able to do so on their own, makes you a ‘social justice warrior,’ then so be it,” Myers says. “I will beat that drum everyday if I need to. I think there is a deep sense of empathy at KGNU, and I am proud to be a part of it.” Boulder Weekly
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Karen Moreno: First generation college grad helps Longmont kids by Rob Jackson
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Karen Moreno has done pretty much everything when it comes to helping at-risk youth in Longmont.
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wenty-eightyear-old Karen Moreno arrived in the United States from Mexico in the late 1980s as a 1-month-old baby. After following agriculture work from Texas to Wyoming, her parents decided it would be best for their young family to settle down, and they chose Longmont to raise Karen and her three younger siblings. Karen attained citizenship at the age of 7, navigated public schools, witnessed an extended family member join a local gang, and overcame difficult odds to become the first from her family to attend college, graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. After working for several youth programs around the Front Range, she returned to Longmont in 2015 to work with high-risk youth as youth program specialist for the City of Longmont. Karen’s accumulated life experiences are proving their value as she is now able to serve as a tremendous resource and mentor for younger generations. Between all the programs she helps run, she’s like a second mom to a whole school’s worth of kids; they just so happen to be hundreds of high-risk youth from schools all around Longmont. Karen mentors third and fifth graders at their schools, she runs leadership groups in high schools and helps students apply for post-secondary education and fill out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms. She also builds lasting relationships with kids in the after school programs at the Longmont Youth Center and the recently launched Countryside Village after school program. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Another part of her job entails working with the Gang Response and Intervention Program (GRIP), an inter-agency and community collaboration to combat gang activity. Ten years ago, Longmont had 22 January 26, 2017
approximately 486 gang members. Today that number has been reduced to about 86, thanks in large part to the GRIP program. Similarly, the 14 gangs that once roamed Longmont’s streets has shrunk to two. The last major incident of gang violence in Longmont occurred in 2014. Such is the impact of community collaboration led by passionate, energetic and capable people who can very much relate to the youth they work with. GRIP Community Coordinator Louie Lopez speaks glowingly of Karen: “She represents the next generation of leaders for youth in the Longmont community and is really doing outstanding work.” Now that gang activity has been quieted to a large degree over the past decade, Karen says that helping kids through mental health issues has become the largest area of need. Karen loves her job because she is able to impact a tremendous number of kids in her hometown and help them to understand their worth, potential and how to pursue positive life choices and goals. “For many kids, their whole lives they’ve been told that they are troublemakers and that they are bad,” she says. “And they are not. They are just misunderstood.” She describes how programs like the leadership groups at Columbine High School can make a major difference in the lives of at-risk youth. “It does create an impact where they become stronger and they feel like they have a voice. Because I feel like people have been telling them that they don’t.”
She says that even her youngest high-risk Latino students hear things like “go back to Mexico” at school, but concedes that she too heard things like that when she was growing up. And she feels that many school counselors were neither helpful nor understanding as she was going through the process of researching and preparing for life after secondary school, so she understands very well the challenging situations that today’s kids are dealing with. Karen says she’s excited about the future and points to the first ever Latino Youth Leadership Conference for Longmont that is now in the works as an example of the good things to come. But her biggest pet project is to create a mentorship program wherein community members can engage as volunteers at a city-wide level to mentor high-risk youth. She says that community interest from willing volunteers is immense and a pilot program is in the planning stages. She hopes that within a couple of years Longmont will have a full volunteer mentorship program. “The earlier you start mentoring kids the more opportunities they see are open to them,” she says. For Karen, much of her work is about building connections so kids can still come to her as a resource later on in their lives. She still communicates with youth from her prior jobs and says she never wants to leave the kids she has worked with hanging in the balance. Although she has no problem with the field, she is concerned that many local school counselors push higher risk kids into trades like cosmetology rather than encouraging them to consider and pursue all of the other options out there, including higher education. Karen is working to change that. And she’s a shining example of what can happen when the youth of Longmont tackle their dreams head on. Boulder Weekly
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hen it comes to dogs, Sandy Calvin is quick to remind, “Adopt not shop.” That seems like simple advice, but it’s not one people always heed. Nor is spay and neutering your pets. Calvin praises Boulder as “the bubble of spay and neuter,” but other cities don’t have their act together and that is where Calvin and her husband and business partner, Jeff Richey, come in. For the past 12 years, Calvin and Richey have owned and operated Farfel’s Farm, a pet boutique located on Pearl Street in Boulder’s
In 2008, Forbes singled out Alexander, a former bond trader from New Jersey, as the best NBA owner. His wealth has helped considerably in assisting Rescued Pets Movement and Farfel’s with rescuing and placing these animals in forever homes. As
Jeff Richey and Sandy Calvin: Facilitating the forever home by Michael J. Casey
historic West End. Farfel’s Farm, named after their adorable bearded collie, is the perfect place for animal lovers to come and purchase tasty treats, harnesses, even Trump-themed chew toys, but it is the work they do outside of the shop that brings them notice: their animal rescue operation, Farfel’s Rescue. “We’ve been rescuing animals for years,” Richey says. “About five years ago we started working with a customer who lived in Oklahoma and we started resJeff Richley cuing dogs on a much bigger scale. We now rescue primarily through three places: Houston, Texas ... Dodge City, Kansas, and Roswell, New Mexico. We have really good relationships with all three.” The focus of the stray problem resides in Houston, and Richey estimates Houston’s stray dog population at a million — an investigation by local news station KHOU placed the number at 1.2 million stray animals in 2014 — and says that on a bad day, a shelter will pull in 200 dogs. “We get well over half the dogs from there, and it’s a partnership from a rescue down there called Rescued Pets Movement,” Richey says. “They work with the Houston Rockets owner, Leslie Alexander, and he’s a good billionaire and he helps pay for some of this.” Boulder Weekly
Calvin reminds, “It takes a village.” “We, along with 14 other Colorado rescues, have taken 150 dogs from Houston every week,” Richey says, pointing out that because of this rescue operation they’ve helped reduce the dog euthanasia rate significantly. Five years ago it was 70 percent, today it is down to 30 percent. That is due in large part to how good Calvin and Richey are with their part of the equation. “We put these dogs on three national or international websites: Petfinder, Adopt A Pet and Rescue Me,” Richey explains. And while the dogs are in transit from Houston, Calvin works hard to place these dogs in foster homes where they can be cared for properly. Richey points out that matching dogs to foster homes is Calvin’s strong suit. “She’s kind of the Match. com of the dog world,” Richey kids. But Calvin has the numbers to back it up. “Ninety percent of our dogs are placed before they ever arrive in Colorado,” Calvin says. But placing the dogs isn’t the last step. “We do a couple things that most rescues don’t,” Richey says. “We give people a twoweek trial period, we call it a ‘Foster to
Adopt’ period.” During this Jeff Richey (top) and period, Calvin and Sandy Calvin (left) have been Richey ask for the preventing dogs adoption fee up from being euthanized for many front but then cover years. the cost of food, vet care, a harness, an instruction book, treats and a chew toy, all of which help establish the dog in its new home during this crucial time. “If things don’t work out for any reason during that two weeks, we rehome the dog and we give them [their adoption fee] back,” Richey says. “We try to make it risk-free.” But making animal rescue risk-free isn’t exactly an easy endeavor, especially when Richey and Calvin are rescuing 400 dogs a year. “I always tell people we’re really lucky to be in Colorado because it may be the only state where there are more people who want to rescue than there are rescue dogs,” Richey says. “For our 400 adopted dogs, we probably get 4,000 applications. ... I call it a high-quality problem.” To learn more about Richey and Calvin’s rescue operation, please visit farfelsrescue.com or stop by the store at 906 Pearl Street. They don’t have any of the dogs in-house, but Richey and Calvin are almost always there and ready to answer any question. January 26, 2017 23
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Lonnie Hernandez rethought his approach to dealing with shoplifters, and now he’s changing lives through restorative justice.
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onnie Hernandez, a 33-year-old lifelong resident of Boulder County, is often called the “eye in the sky” at Kohl’s Department Store in Longmont. As Supervisor of Loss Prevention, it’s Lonnie’s job to monitor myriad camera feeds and catch shoplifters attempting to steal items from the store. For his first 10 years doing this work at several different Boulder County shopping chains, Lonnie was tough on crime. This meant giving tickets and sending shoplifters through the grind of our criminal justice system, sometimes with stiff and lasting consequences that made it difficult for them to obtain jobs moving forward. In the past couple of years however, Lonnie has rethought his approach. These days he is referring a steadily increasing number of shoplifters to the restorative justice program at the Longmont Community Justice Partnership (LCJP), which he once dismissed as a mere “slap on the wrist.” LCJP is a partnership between the nonprofit organization, Longmont Police Department and local stores. The partnership holds monthly “circles” where trained facilitators, retail store representatives like Lonnie, law enforcement representatives, and shoplifters meet to discuss the impacts of the offenders’ actions and work to rehabilitate them rather than punish them outright. Outside of his regular full-time work schedule, Lonnie now volunteers actively in helping to set shoplifters on the right track toward being productive citizens. It’s a big turn around for a guy who touts the value of retail stores in a community that doesn’t offer many options for clothing and certain brands in particular; who is concerned for the future of these remaining stores in an ever-changing retail climate; and who
their lives for the better. But the first experiences that Lonnie attributes to “melting my ice heart” were when he was invited by Kathleen McGoey, executive director of LCJP, to sit in on a couple of circles. “I actually faced my shoplifters for the first time and saw that they weren’t just lying or trying to get out of a ticket. They were actually dealing with major regret and remorse and trying to make things right not just for me but for themselves and for their family.” Now, as soon as he sees shoplifters exiting the store with stolen merchandise, Lonnie walks out front and tells them, “Listen, there are options for you, but it all starts with you.” He empowers shoplifters to make the decision for themselves and most realize that rather than run they should go back inside with Lonnie and have a conversation, where he tells them about their options, which include restorative justice. Lonnie asserts that he can’t count how many times over the past two years he’s seen shoplifters that he’s caught and who have been reintegrated back into society through restorative justice. “It feels reasonable and comfortable to talk to each other because we’ve gone through this process together and we know that the other one is OK now,” he says. Lonnie is so beholden to the LCJP restorative justice circles and their positive results that he has now been trained as a facilitator and sometimes runs the circles, stepping away from his role as a retail representative in them. For his service, Lonnie was named 2016 LCJP Volunteer of the Year. That is quite a turnaround from the days of folding his arms, viewing every shoplifter as a criminal, and sending people toward a theft record that could haunt them for the rest of their lives. All over one bad decision.
Lonnie Hernandez: Conversations with shoplifters and the value of restorative justice By Rob Jackson considers epidemic levels of shoplifting to be an existential threat to both the stores and his own continued employment. It begs the question: What caused Lonnie’s change of heart and approach to shoplifters? The 75 letters hanging on his control room wall in a tucked away corner of Kohl’s tell the tale. The letters were written to Lonnie by Kohl’s shoplifters of all ages who have gone through the LCJP restorative justice program over the past couple of years. There are heartfelt apologies and reflections. There are promises to never do such a thing again. There are sincere words of gratitude to Lonnie for being understanding and helping them with the difficult task of changing
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fter years of work, newly minted retirees usually pack their schedules with the fun stuff: painting classes, vacations and a few extra hours of sleep. When Louisville resident Mark Biggers retired eight years ago after 35 years as a civil engineer, his wife Pat told him he’d have to be a little more productive. “The first Sunday before my first day of official retirement, she made it clear that she still expected me to leave at 7 in the morning and didn’t expect me to be back until 6 in the evening,” Biggers says. “So I just got on to the internet and looked for places that were nearby.” The next day Biggers was up early and knocking on Community Food Share’s door, and he hasn’t turned back since. Over the past few years, Biggers has spent roughly 40 hours a week donating his time to a variety of organizations. He’s worked with St. Benedict’s Health and Healing Ministry, Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow and Casa de la Esperanza; and he’s consistently donated his hours to Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, Emergency Family Assistance Association and Habitat for Humanity. “So between all those things, I’ve been able to cobble together to something that keeps me busy and out of trouble,” he says with a laugh. During his time as a civil engineer, Biggers says he didn’t volunteer too much, just a few hours here and there for Habitat for Humanity and his church’s soup kitchen. His passion to serve the community stems from his parents, who were both volunteers and would occasionally take him along to help. Overall, Biggers mostly works with the homeless population of Boulder County, helping with issues around food insecurity and resource donations. While he says he didn’t necessarily grow up in the lowincome bracket, his family of five was on the poorer side of things.
And Biggers goes above and beyond. In addition to countless volunteer hours, he also buys whatever food is lacking in the shelter’s pantry. “Canned peas don’t taste the same as fresh or even frozen peas,” Biggers says. “And there’s seasonal things, during the winter they don’t get a lot of produce. So I’ll go out and bring extra groceries in.” He also serves as kitchen lead for breakfast every Thursday and dinner on Mondays at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. He’ll chat with the food director about what to serve, finding out what ingredients the shelter has and which he needs to bring in himself. This attitude again goes back to Biggers’ early family life. “You were always expected to do your best, whether washing the dishes or doing chores,” he says. “My parents weren’t overly strict. They didn’t bench me when I didn’t get A’s, but they expected doing our best. If your best was a B that was good. But they were always asking if we did our best or if we worked hard.” In the end, Biggers says he feels like he helps to make a difference. And he gets inspired every time he sees the reciprocity of volunteering. “And actually quite a few of them will come back and make contributions to their brethren who are homeless,” he says. “That’s heartening.” But for Biggers, it’s about doing as much as he can. “None of us know how much time we got left to be around,” he says. “I don’t expect to live forever, but you like to do as much good as you can, for as long as you can, for as many people as you can.” And he does cite one more benefit, with a laugh: “And my wife is very excited that I’m out of the house too.” Biggers spends 40 hours a week donating his time around Boulder County.
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“You had one pair of shoes, one pair of trousers, birthday presents are always clothes, never toys, because we couldn’t afford toys,” Biggers says. “So you learned to appreciate things.” Biggers also credits his benevolence to his profession. “Virtually all the work civil engineers do is public work,” he says. “So you’re getting paid by the public to design or build a road or a dam or a water plant. There’s a lot of engagement with the community and to be a good citizen and be good stewards of the public funds.” Plus, through his career, he worked in many lowincome areas across the world, from Indonesia and the Philippines, to Native American reservations and downtown Miami. His job gave him financial stability and retired life gave him time. “When you’re feeling comfortable, I think you have an obligation to help out however you can,” he says.
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p in North Boulder, there’s a large house with a large front patio and a bright yellow door, seemingly smilCedar Barstow has advocated for ing at all who pass by or venture up cooperative housing the front stoop to say hello. in Boulder since she moved here in 1985. “It’s a house that has grown up with me,” says Cedar Barstow, the home’s owner since 1985. Since then, 66 other people have called the happy house home, as it’s been a residence co-op, since the day Cedar bought it with her then husband and another friend, who was preparing to become a single parent. Drawing from her experience as part of a professional commune in Sommerville, Massachusets in the 1970s, Cedar set up the house in Boulder with a plan: weekly meetings to discuss house business and build community; systems for
Cedar Barstow: The happy house by Angela K. Evans food sharing and cleaning duties; and an overall bent towards engaging with each other in way that doesn’t require people to change, but rather accommodate people’s differences. “I loved living in this way,” she says about the Sommerville commune. “It was exciting, I got to know all kinds of different people; people I wouldn’t have met otherwise. We helped each other grow and learn and learned how to work stuff out.” Even after Cedar got divorced and the other owner moved out, she raised capital through friends to buy out her former partners and continue running the co-op, housing up to five people at a time. Then in 1994, the police showed up to her house. “To be the honest, I learned somewhere along here that there was this law but that the City didn’t follow up unless there was a complaint,” she says. “I’ve always wanted to be a good neighbor, but the policeman came to the door and asked how many people were living there.” When she answered five, he gave her a court summons, citing Boulder’s occupancy regulations which limited the number of unrelated adults living together to three. The judge slapped a $500 fine on her with a year of probation and told her two people had to move out. By raising the rent a bit, she was able to still cover the cost of the house with only two other people living with her, but she didn’t have the money to pay the Boulder Weekly
fine. Instead, she did 100 hours of community service at $5 an hour. “Each time I went to volunteer to do something, they’d say 100 hours, what did you do? I don’t know if we can leave you with our children,” she remembers. But then she found the Solstice Institute, a nonprofit that, among other things, was working to get an ordinance passed to allow cooperative living in Boulder. “It was this interesting moment where I was working off this punishment in a way that would rectify the injustice of what I was being punished for,” she says. And she’s been working on some version of Boulder’s recently passed co-op ordinance ever since — for the last 22 years — while continuing to run the co-op out of her house, albeit with only ever two other people at a time. Now at the age of 72, there are four people living in the house as she was remarried in 2010. In addition to working on passing co-op regulations, Cedar threw herself even deeper into community building in her neighborhood. She became an EcoPass coordinator, walking door to door to talk about transportation. She started progressive dinners in the neighborhood, which eventually turned into an annual block party. She takes care of neighbor’s houses while they’re away, and lets her neighbor’s friends and family stay in her guest room when they’re visiting. And she’s continued to run the house like a co-op, focusing on building a family of people who have lived there over the years. She’s had people recovering from divorces and other traumas, difficult living situations and single parents. She’s even had people from Africa seeking asylum stay as her guests for a few weeks at a time. “It happens that we all arrive at our homes with issues and some are more challenging than others,” she says. “But once we take somebody in, they’re in. They’re in.” But more than that, her home has housed people Cedar and the other residents want to do life with, people they want to see in the morning when they get up or catch a spontaneous movie with. Out of the 66 former residents, there have been only four that Cedar has asked to leave. And some or those have even come back to live with her after a period away. “I can tell you each one and what bedroom they were in,” she says. “They are all my family.” And she’s kept the family connected, throwing parties both for the 20th and 30th anniversary of the co-op. When the first garage and first floor Boulder Weekly
filled with water during the 2013 flood, she had 54 people come to help rebuild — a godsend given she didn’t have renter’s insurance. “I can’t tell you enough how grateful I was to my community that I had developed for so many years,” she says. And she’s continued to advocate for cooperative housing in Boulder, working with groups like Our Home, a nonprofit working to establish shared senior living situations to help older people age in their own homes without feeling
isolated, and the Boulder Community Housing Association, the main organizers behind the recently passed co-op ordinance. “They were such an inspiration to me, what do we need to do, who do we need to talk to,” Cedar says. And through the collaborations, more than a year of community meetings and public hearings, and some compromises, the Boulder City Council officially adopted the ordinance on Jan. 17.
The victory for Cedar was thrilling, seeing her life’s vision finally become legal. And yet, her happy house will not be one of the first 10 approved co-ops under the new ordinance. “I’m not going to go for that this year,” she says. “I’m going to give other groups a chance.” Regardless, she will continue to support co-ops as they pop up around the city, and invite people into her home and life, leaving a sense of family with all those who respond.
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Through his nonprofit, Bicycle Power, Glenn Francis fixes bikes for people experiencing homelessness.
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ince its inception in July 2015, the nonprofit Bicycle Power hasn’t skipped a single weekly repair clinic at the First Presbyterian Church Resource Center at 16th and Walnut. “Consistency is very important, particularly for this population,” says Glenn Francis, the organization’s founder. The population he’s referring to doesn’t tend to carry cell phones or check their email for schedule updates. He’s talking about people experiencing homelessness in Boulder. So every Wednesday without fail, Francis and his small group of Bicycle Power volunteers set out their equipment — bicycle stands, pumps, patch kits, tools and spare parts, mostly all donated — and provide free bike repairs for those who inevitably come by. Sometimes just a handful of people show up to fix their bicycles, which are often in dismal states of repair. In the busy summer months, it can swell to dozens per day. It’s mostly men, ranging in age from 18 to many decades older. Some show up just for the company and community, or to help others repair their bicycles. Francis and his grassroots group of volunteers keep a rough count of who attends Bicycle Power clinics, but they avoid formal processing. “There’s no barricade to any of our services. There’s no lining up to any windows or anything like that,” he says. The homeless community, he feels, has enough barriers to navigate just in order to survive. He sees no need to add bureaucracy to what is, in essence, a very simple mission: provide people experiencing homelessness a place to repair, maintain and for some, even acquire their own means of twowheeled transportation. For many of the people Francis meets, their bicycle is the most precious thing they own and their only means of getting around other than walking. “In and of itself transportation and bicycling are certainly not going to solve any homelessness, but I feel like it’s a pretty critical, if miniscule, part of the whole problem,” he says. Francis is just the person to help address this problem in Boulder. He’s chosen a carless life here for
No longer with the shelter, these days when Francis isn’t running Bicycle Power he’s managing the Transitions program at Community Cycles — a Boulder nonprofit with a membership of more than 2,500 that recycles and refurbishes donated bikes and educates people on bicycle safety and maintenance. Transitions is another way that Francis shares the power of bicycling — and the ability to repair a bike — with less advantaged communities. With six-week courses and other support, Transitions teaches developmentally disabled and at-risk youth and young adults the fundamentals of bicycle mechanics, and then works to place them in paid jobs in the bicycle industry. “The students get a bike when they complete the program,” Francis says. “The hope is they can provide, if nothing else, basic maintenance and know what’s wrong with their own bike if something happens.” Back at Bicycle Power, it can sometimes be a challenge to do even basic maintenance. “There’s a high emphasis on ingenuity, improvisation, working with the parts we have and seeing if we can modify them, or disassemble them and take small parts off that part,” he says. Thankfully, and perhaps not surprisingly, many of those his organization serves are very mechanically skilled, he says, and often have kept their bikes running through ingenuity and improvisation themselves. Now in 2017, Community Cycles is providing financial support to Bicycle Power and Francis’ two roles have somewhat dovetailed. He hopes to see his small nonprofit organization grow to be as robust as Community Cycles, as he works to grow Bicycle Power’s small inventory of parts, tools and donated bikes, and expand his volunteer and donor community. Eventually, he hopes to offer repair services to people experiencing homelessness up to five or seven days a week. “There’s a really strong social justice component to supporting bicycling and allowing bicycling to happen for everybody,” he says. “I strongly believe this works toward the overall social justice project of emancipation.”
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the past 17 years, and along the way he’s come to understand how bikes work and how to fix them. For years he was his friends’ go-to person to help fix their bicycles. When he began working at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, he realized his skill with bikes was something he could extend to more people who needed it. “It became apparent to me, very quickly, that transportation was a significant challenge for people who were experiencing homelessness, and even lowincome people,” he says. And with the shelter so far from downtown, some people who had work until after the bus stopped running would return to the shelter in the middle of the night, having walked the entire way. “We live in a wealthy society that privileges car ownership, and it’s kind of expected that you’ll have your own personal car,” he says. “There’s no other effective method of getting people around everywhere. Everyone’s expected to do it on their own.”
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onathan Montgomery is a small, averageheight man, with long, loose curls of sandy blond hair. He wears wirerimmed glasses and a nice, navy suit jacket and pressed slacks. The clothes look great, but he doesn’t quite fit the part, the wild inside him busting through the seams — a little extra bounce in his curls, a small woolen bird stuffed into his jacket pocket, his restless hands jittering on his small writing desk. Montgomery is a poet, and as such is sort of a hero in his own right. “Life is hard for creative, sensitive people,” he says. “You have this thing where you are like Clark Kent in the rest of the world, but you get to be Superman through your poems and your poetry.” Since attending Naropa for his master’s degree in poetry in 2005, Montgomery has made a point to live a “Beat life,” working behind the wheel first as a pizza delivery guy and then as a taxicab driver, always on the move, gaining insight into the people and places that together make up the society he writes about. He
many of the best poets write and many of those poets have called Boulder home. “Poetry matters in Boulder because its roots [here] are so deep and true,” says local poet Joseph Braun. “Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (along with many others) deliberately installed a learning institution that is emblematic of Boulder’s situation in America: as a middle ground where East and West become one, where we can practice and articulate a global consciousness.” It was this history and lineage that brought Montgomery to Boulder, but it was its strength that made him stay. “We have a poetry scene that is doing what any other poetry scene in history has done,” Montgomery says. “There is no difference between us and the Beats, there is no difference between us and the Dadaists, there is no difference between us and romantic poets in the 1800s. The only difference is that nobody knows about us.” So he got to work. Inspired by primitively produced punk zines that came about in the 1970s, Montgomery took it upon himself to get the word out about local poets. In 2013, he likewise made a primitive website,
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says there was something about sitting there, useful but invisible to those around you, which felt like poetry, so he turned it into just that. Montgomery has spent many nights bringing his poetry out of his mind and onto the page and then off of the page into people’s lives. For him, poetry isn’t meant to be caged within pages of a book — it’s meant to be read aloud, performed and shared. He embraces a theory he calls “me too poetics” — the idea that the poet’s too-close and visceral connection with life is shared through writing, revealing the personal to illuminate the universal. In that tradition,
boulderpoetrytribe.com, to synthesize, document and support the community. “The website is not trying to create a scene; it’s reflecting what’s already here,” Montgomery says. “Poets are really fragile. It’s easy to think this work doesn’t matter. This site is proof that it did matter, for this moment.” But type the url in your web browser and you might be underwhelmed by what you find. The site is barebones with a sporadically updated calendar of local events and an irregularly kept series of articles about Boulder poets, mostly authored by Montgomery himself. It has just 47 members. But to judge the site by its Jonathan stats would be like judging Montgomery speaking at The Lebron James by his poetry. Laughing Goat’s Lebron and Montgomery Monday night poetry reading. both hail from the town of Akron, Ohio, and Montgomery has spent a lot of time thinking about how he compares to the pro-basketball star. He even wrote a poem about it called “Lebron > Poetry,” i.e., greater than him, a poet. But is he really? Or are they just different, called to work according to different talents, performing on different stages, cursed with different challenges yet somehow victorious in a kindred way? Lebron James, arguably the best basketball player in the world, is living a hero’s journey. Raised poor, he rose to fame through hard work and talent, no win easy or taken for granted. He was villainized for leaving his hometown for Miami, but after winning a championship, welcomed back home in Cleveland as a hero. Promptly, he showered the city with riches, bringing it a championship of its very own. The story of any working artist, including Montgomery’s, isn’t any different. It’s just they don’t look like the Superman we have come to expect. “A hero isn’t just somebody who I admire because they can do things I can’t,” Montgomery says. “A hero is somebody who goes through the shit and is winning in the end.”
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BY MICHAEL LEVY Amy Gray-Smith free soloing on South Maroon Peak in the Maroon Bells during a spring ascent of the Bell Cord Couloir.
Driving up to Independence Pass for a day of climbing this past September, I gripped the steering wheel with a sense of nervous anticipation. My partner for the day was Amy Gray-Smith, a climber I’d never met. The night before she’d sent me a text: “How do you feel about free soloing, Mike?” Free soloing is climbing without ropes or any safety equipment — just you, the rock and the air beneath your feet. I’d never done any free soloing whatsoever, let alone contemplated it, and now here I was about to do it with a complete stranger. “Just look for the little, spunky blonde lady parked in a Subaru,” she texted me that morning. “That’ll be me!” Gray-Smith, 40, is from Aurora, Colorado. Professionally, she has been an ultrasound technician, a bartender, a pilot and a professional duathlete. Though
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among the most accomplished female alpinists in Colorado, Amy hasn’t always been a mountain climber. Just as she has continually reinvented herself in her professional life, she has transitioned from success to success in different outdoor pursuits, overcoming daunting obstacles along the way. In the late ’90s, Amy was a full-time student studying Aviation Technology at Metropolitan State College, tending bar to make ends meet while she collected enough flight time to earn her wings. Upon graduating in 2001, she spent several years teaching students to fly Cessna 172s, and in 2004 met her husband Marc, also a pilot. Though she had always been a runner, routinely competing in 5 and 10ks, it was when she met Marc that she took up biking, setting her on a whole new trajectory. see GRAY-SMITH Page 34
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She dabbled in triathlon, but it was the one-two punch of biking and running where Amy really excelled. She decided to focus on duathlon, and quickly rose to the top ranks of the sport. After winning an event in 2006, she placed in the top 10 at the National Championships in Charlotte, North Carolina, thereby qualifying her for Worlds in Rimini, Italy. “That was horrible,” she groans. She decided to rent a bike for Worlds rather than lugging her own rig across the Atlantic. “I learned an important lesson that bike fit is absolutely key at that level,” she says. As if riding a rental bike wasn’t disadvantage enough, Gray-Smith also got food poisoning before the race. “Despite all that, I placed 22nd in the world,” she says. After returning from Worlds, Amy pulled a double-switch: She began focusing purely on biking, and she decided to go back to school to become a sonographer (an ultrasound technician), as she was tired of being couped up in a cockpit all day. As a Category One Cyclist (one step below professional), she quickly began racking up victories like the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb and the State Hill Climb Championship. But winning came at a cost. In 2009, Amy put competitive racing behind so that she could focus more on her career as a sonographer, but also because she was tired of the unavoidable crashes and serious injuries that accompanied them. “I had a big crash in Salida, Colorado,” she says. “There was an entanglement in the last corner, a quarter-mile from the end. I had severe bruising and road rash.” Amy didn’t hang up the bike and become idle, though; she pivoted. Instead of racing, she took her bike into the mountains. She mountain biked to the top of multiple 14ers, Mt. Elbert and Mt. Evans among them — the latter in the dead of winter. The mountains opened up a whole new world for Gray-Smith, and led to arguably her biggest project to date. She has already summited all 58 Colorado 14ers at least once, but over the past two years she has made it her goal to climb all the them in winter — a formidable feat. Only one other woman has done so previously. Boulder Weekly
ADVENTURE Always looking to up the ante, Gray-Smith started rock climbing in hopes of completing some of the more technical routes on the 14ers. She found a mentor, a friend of a friend named Bob, to show her the ropes. “I learned to climb wearing his shoes — which were too big for me — at Lookout Mountain,” she says. “And I fell in love with it instantly.” Gray-Smith is quick to give credit to Bob and a couple of subsequent mentors for having helped shape her into the accomplished, safe and ambitious climber she has become. Her second mentor, Tony, turned her on to free soloing. She trekked up to Spearhead in Rocky Mountain National Park with him in the summer of 2014. Gray-Smith says, “When we got to the base, Tony just said, ‘We’re gonna free solo it.’” And that was that. Free soloing is inherently dangerous, but Gray-Smith doesn’t do it just to get an adrenaline fix. “It takes away from everything that clouds your mind each day,” she says. “All you’re focused on is climbing. I like the simplicity of free solo.” In August 2015, Gray-Smith was out for a day of rock climbing near Pike’s Peak. Though she was not doing anything particularly risky or dangerous, a fluke accident resulted in a broken Michael Levy foot. Gray-Smith clearly has a penchant for daredevil, dangerous adventuring, what with her races and crashes, her free soloing and broken foot, and 21-hour solo days in the dead of winter. “I used to have hair,” her husband Marc says, alluding to the stress his wife’s daring adventures cause him. But even with the inevitable setbacks of her chosen pursuits, Gray-Smith maintains a remarkable resiliency and desire to push herself. The whole while she was recovering from her broken foot, she remained focused on her winter assault of the 14ers, and started climbing again just a couple months after the injury. She acquired a new mentor named Dave to bolster her traditional climbing skills. At winter’s end in 2016, she was 39 peaks down. The plan was to finish the remaining 19 peaks this winter. One morning in the beginning of November, Gray-Smith was biking to work as she has nearly every day for the past 10 years when she was hit by a car. She has no memory of the accident due to traumatic amnesia, but it has altered her life and plans dramatically. Gray-Smith was in the ICU for 19 days. She had multiple breaks in her pelvis, spine, shoulder blades and clavicle, in addition to severe head trauma. She endured daily surgeries in the aftermath of the accident. When I met her for pizza on Dec. 31, she was in a wheelchair. She can stand, but she cannot walk yet. “There’s still a long road ahead,” Marc says. She should recover some degree of normalcy in her day-to-day life, but whether she’ll be able to return to the mountains to complete her winter 14ers is anybody’s guess. I think back to September, standing on the top of a 400-foot-tall buttress that we had free soloed to start our day, Gray-Smith pointing out all the 14,000-foot peaks around us in Independence Pass, peppering in little stories from her various ascents here and there in her typical spunky style. Up top there, I felt that elation and centeredness Gray-Smith spoke of with regard to free soloing. “You look so happy,” she said to me, snapping a picture of me on her iPhone. Just as Bob, Tony and Dave had mentored her, Amy had begun, consciously or not, to do the same for me. And despite the challenges ahead of her, Gray-Smith somehow still exudes that singular positivity. “I think I’ll be back” she says, a fire in her eyes, the will to get up after getting knocked down as she has multiple times before. “I still have mountains to climb.” Boulder Weekly
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man’s land, in the under appreciated realm, and I tend to gravitate toward those types of artists and always have. Specifically in that genre, that has always been one of the main drivers in my own creative experience,” he says. About four years ago, Layus left Los Angeles for its eastern sister, Nashville. The move was as much about tapping into a new musical landscape as it was about giving his children a more familyfriendly environment to call home. The move calls to mind the chorus of Augustana’s biggest hit, “Boston,” written a decade before. She said I think I’ll go to Boston/ I think I’ll start a new life/ I think I’ll start it over, where no one knows my name/ I’ll get out of California, I’m tired of the weather ... I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind/ I think I need a sunrise, I’m tired of the sunset Right in the heart of Music City USA, Layus found himself out of California, starting a new life, and deeply in love with the lonesome (and sometimes rollicking) sounds of country’s greatest legends. “Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Don Gibson, Ray Charles’ country record, Loretta Lynn... Hank Williams has always been one of my favorite artists of all time,” he says. “I fell deeper into it and it felt like home to me — it felt like a songwriting home to me.” Layus shed the Augustana band name in the late summer of 2016, about three years after his move to Nashville, and begin, as he says, “to direct my own film, in essence.” “I could visualize from beginning to end how I wanted [the solo album] to look and feel and sound. That’s the first time I’ve been able to do that. I don’t regret not being in total control in the past, but because of various factors — a band, producers, a major label — those are all factors that play into what comes out of a record, but I could own them all the way [on the solo album]. I feel proud of every choices I made on [Dangerous Things].” Despite the move to Nashville, Layus never intended to make a country record, but the work just “started to spill out.” “It happened, so I just went with it because that felt like the responsible thing to do,” he says. “I felt responsible, as a creative type, to follow my instinct. Whether it works on a scale beyond yourself in some kind of career way, that’s not really the first goal. I can always go to sleep at night knowing I was true to myself.” And, true to his promise to his
manager, he got outside of his head to write tracks like “Driveway,” which details the slow, painful end of a marriage. Layus was a child of multiple divorces, and so while “Driveway” reflects on the dissolution of a neighbor’s marriage, Layus brings his experience and emotions to the table. “A lot of times we are a product of our surroundings and our upbringing. My daughter, our daughter’s friends, most of their parents are divorced or getting divorced,” Layus says. “She’s in middle school. It’s a time when kids start to grapple with reality and realize [their parents aren’t] superheros. We’re hitting that age where we do have faults and they are easier to see. I don’t know if this song is helpful or hurtful, but it is truthful. In my opinion, putting forward the truth in the end will be more helpful to people. It helps you feel like you’re not alone out there.” The video for “Driveway” features Layus’ wife and kids, an intentional choice that places a song about losing a marriage against images of the loving moments that are lost. Dangerous Things isn’t without personal introspection. The title track — kicked off with some classic Johnny Hiland-esque bending — pits Layus’ tendency to go to extremes against his desire to find moderation. “That’s something I think a lot of creative types, and really the general human experience, aligns with,” he says. “I don’t think I’m alone on that. I think we’re all fighting to find that middle ground at times.” With Dangerous Things, it would seem Layus has found his middle ground, staying in the music biz without giving in to the pressures of the biz. He’s made a new home for his family and pushed himself to write from new perspectives. He’s already written about half the material he needs for a new record. “Lyrically I’m pushing myself even harder to find new territory,” he says. “I guess to go beyond that, I see [artists like] Elvis Costello, David Bowie and Emmy Lou Harris as very influential, not only musically but in their career choices. Costello could put together a country record and come back with a pure early Elvis Costellostyle punk record. That’s where I wanna go, and the way you have to do that just has to happen naturally or else people spot it and they’ll smell it and they’ll know it’s insincere As long as I’m writing what I’m writing, I think I’ll always be OK.” Boulder Weekly
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dam and Eve may have world, honing their skills into expert been duped into eating mastery of their craft. the forbidden fruit, but Self-managed and self-produced, the Chris Robinson walked band has total control over their creative right up to the tree of process and output, and they’re prone to good and evil, plucked the apple from retreating to a recording studio in the its branches and ate it as he walked out mountains outside of Stinson Beach, the gates of paradise into a mortal life. California, for weeks at a time, leading He didn’t think twice because he to prolific periods of creation. Their was never that interested in paradise to time in the private studio is a microbegin with. From his early days roamcosm for CRB — without anybody to ing the streets of Atlanta as a kid, set the rules, there are no rules — an Robinson came to music looking for experience Robinson describes as total nothing more than a gateway to reality freedom. and since then, that’s been the only Big Moon Ritual, the band’s debut goal worth shooting for. album recorded in Los Angeles in “Music is a conduit 2012, set a firm baseto be in the present,” line for the band’s he says. “There’s a identity — a psycheON THE BILL: The Chris spiritual element when delic rock band with Robinson Brotherhood. 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, people are sharing characteristic long, Ogden Theatre, 935 E. emotional content, a complex songs that Colfax Ave., Denver, dynamic that occurs give way to jammy 303-832-1874. when everything — interludes bolstered by the electricity, the collaborative spirit and energy — flows in the right direction sturdy lyrics. at the right time. It’s magic.” In the summer of 2015, the music In the pursuit of such “sonic underwent a transformation. As enchantments,” Robinson left his post Robinson moved north to Marin, at the helm of The Black Crowes, California, the Nor Cal rock ‘n’ roll leaving the glamour of rock stardom as vibe (perhaps best expressed by the well, to get back to the life of a humGrateful Dead) infiltrated the hard ble, hardworking musician. Since 2011, rock foundation of CRB and cracked it he’s been playing with The Chris open, making room for a modern hipRobinson Brotherhood (CRB), a band pie vibe. CRB’s newest album, Anyway he says reminds him why he started You Love, We Know How You Feel, and playing music in the first place. its companion EP, If You Lived Now 50 years old, Robinson has Here,You’d Be Home By Now, are decidcreated his own family of misfits in edly more spacious and patient than CRB: guitarist Neal Casal, keyboardist the band’s previous releases. Adam MacDougall and drummer Tony Anyway You Love achieves an emoLeone. The crew boasts varied career tional depth not yet heard in the music paths, each spending years touring, of the Brotherhood. The tempos are recording and playing around the still upbeat, but they’re more compliBoulder Weekly
cated, tethered by lyrical stories of tragic heroes, angry tales of the workingman and reflective autobiographies. Robinson’s first love is for writing, and on this set of songs, it shows. “I wanted to express a little bit more of a melancholy mood on some of these songs,” Robinson says. “The tougher stuff is not to be whitewashed. It’s indicative of our age as musicians, but also of the broader climate of the country — culturally, consciously and subconsciously. “No matter who, no matter when or where or how, we all experience the same range of joy and ecstasy, pain and degradation,” he continues. “No one is immune to the harsh reality that life brings us sometimes, no matter who you are. I want there to be great imagination in the lyrics, but it’s important they are also real.” He writes his songs like theatrical scenes that unfold with the magic of cinema, not just telling a story, but also trying to give the audience the opportunity to have an experience of their own. It’s as if The Chris Robinson Brotherhood is inviting you into their world, saying, “pick an apple from the tree, fall with us and enjoy the ride.” “I mean, music is just that,” Robinson says. “Either you are on the side of the river watching it float by or you are in [it] swimming around and letting it take you where it takes you. That’s beautiful — beautiful. That is magic.” He pauses and laughs. “I’m guess I’ve been lucky,” he continues. “I’ve always had art. I’ve always had literature. I’ve always had music. I’ve always had writing. I’ve always had strange, mad people in my life.”
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ack in September, The many of the Bard’s plays as they could Catamounts put on The find. It was an epic endeavor that would Taming, a rousing if uneven span years and face seemingly overplay by Lauren Gunderson. whelming obstacles. It would prove to It was my first experience be one of the most important literary with Gunderson’s work, and I found it and theatrical undertakings ever, but it exceedingly clever and biting, but lackis seldom mentioned in English or hising a certain focus and clarity. In short, tory classes. The Taming made me take Courtesy of DCPA/Adams Viscom notice of Gunderson and begged the question of what her potential might be. The Book of Will answers that question with a throaty roar and unequivocally announces Gunderson as a playwright with whom to be reckoned. It is, quite frankly, one of the best plays I have ever seen. It will bring tears of both laughter and sorrow to all but the most jaded audience member’s eyes. It is, in a word, a triumph. Shakespeare lovers will kick themselves, hard, if they don’t get to a performance of The Book of Will. Those unfamiliar with Shakespeare’s work may get slightly less out of the play but should still enjoy it immensely as an explication of a little-known but pivotal moment in Gunderson’s play could change that, theatrical history, a thoughtful ruminaand for good reason. The Book of Will tion on mortality, a touching ode to the assiduously avoids coming off as a dusty power of love and a laugh-out-loud history lesson even as it follows comedy. Heminges and Condell step by step The Book of Will is, fundamentally, from conception to completion of their the story of the creation of the First project. Instead, it relates the history Folio, which is the original collection of using fully-developed, utterly human many of Shakespeare’s most wellcharacters whose humor is infectious, known and well-loved plays. The First whose passions are profound and whose Folio includes, among others, Macbeth, losses are heartbreaking. The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, All’s Heminges, played with warmth and Well That Ends Well and The Taming of pathos by Liam Craig, is the worrier, the Shrew. Without the First Folio, a the skeptic. He believes in the imporsubstantial amount of Shakespeare’s tance of their task, but he often feels work would, almost certainly, have been like it is an impossible one. Condell, lost forever. This is because when played with panache and depth by Kurt Shakespeare died, few if any complete Rhoads, is the optimistic yin to copies of his plays existed. Actors were Heminges’ yang. Whenever Heminges provided only their parts. To make mat- questions or falters, Condell answers ters worse, publishers published unauand steadies. It is Condell’s unwavering thorized versions, often only from belief and boundless energy that pushes memory, that diverged drastically from the First Folio forward. the original texts. The rest of the cast of this world Two actors, John Heminges and premiere assay multiple roles with Henry Condell, took it upon themdecided aplomb. Early on, Thaddeus selves to preserve Shakespeare’s legacy Fitzpatrick earns peals of laughter with by assembling and publishing, in one his deft delivery of a purposefully and definitive and official collection, as hilariously mangled version of Hamlet’s Boulder Weekly
“To be, or not to be?” line. Later, his printer character somehow amuses amidst the minutia of publishing. Wesley Mann plays the unscrupulous publisher William Jaggard with villainous relish. Triney Sandoval is a comic joy as both Richard Burbage and Ben Jonson. Nance Williamson plays John’s
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Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro heads to town this week to perform with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Shimabukuro has been playing the ukulele since age 4, but he gained international attention when a video of him performing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral. Since then, he has toured North America, Europe and Asia performing his own renditions of famous songs such as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Hallelujah” and “Nessun Dorma,” along with his own original compositions. Purchase advanced tickets at the Boulder Philh’s website, boulderphil.org. — Carrie Davidson
Support FEED: Darkness 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27- Sunday Jan. 29, Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Suite C, Longmont, Courtesy of 720-204-6064. the Catamounts
For dinner and a show, head to Still Cellars in Longmont for the The Catamounts’ production FEED: Darkness a look at how the darker side of life is necessary for the light. The Catamounts, a nonprofit, Boulder-based performing arts group, will perform four short pieces examining the night’s theme. Audiences will be served a fourcourse meal from Le Frigo Deli, each paired with a cocktail created with Still Cellars organic spirits. The show will be performed three times nightly from Friday, Jan. 27 to Sunday, Jan. 29. Tickets start at $45 at thecatamounts.org. — Carrie Davidson
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The Previously Invisible History of Boulder County’s Latinos 7 p.m. Thursday Jan. 26, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Join CU Boulder’s Distinguished Professor of History Emerita Marjorie Keniston McIntosh at Innisfree for a discussion on her twovolume set of books, The Previously Invisible Courtesy of History of Boulder Innisfree County’s Latinos. The history of discrimination chronicled in the two volumes feels uncomfortably familiar, as anti-immigrant political rhetoric becomes commonplace in our country today. The study focuses on Latinos in the City of Boulder, Longmont and Lafayette from 1900-1980 and is based on sources collected by the Boulder County Latino History Project. It utilizes oral histories and written biographies, along with visual media, to tell true stories of Boulder County Latinos. — Carrie Davidson
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Glory of Venice. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 12.
Bodacioussss. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
Joan Jordan. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through Feb. 3.
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Adult Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Artists’ Workshop with Rosemary Wells. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1898-1950. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Feb. 4.
Aspiring Artists (Ages 13-16). 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Clay Class (Ages 5-8). 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902.
Kim Dickey’s eccentric approach to sculpture is showcased in MCA’s Words are Leaves, through Jan. 29.
International Talent Show. 7 p.m. CU Boulder Libraries, University of Colorado, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-7521. Maureen Riesco Art Exhibit and Sale at Sun Rose Cafe. 7 a.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Open Access for Painters and Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Opening Reception: Dylan Gebbia Richards: Eclipse. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Opening Reception: Mathias Kessler: Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Up Down Circus — Juggling & Ground Skills Class. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.
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Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space, Boulder.
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Contemplative Landscapes — Suzanne Frazier. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 26. Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 26.
Shockwave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through May 28.
Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 2. Stop/Look/See — James Milmoe. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. Through March 26. Words are Leaves — Kim Dickey. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.
214-770-9847.
Groove a Licious. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Antarctic Edge 70 Degrees South. 7 p.m. Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303442-3282.
The Johnny O Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Join Us For Our Weasel Birthday Bash. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Liquid Light Press Poets & Open Reading. 7 p.m. Chuck Ceraso Gallery & Studio, 1294 Doric Drive, Lafayette, 303-926-9626. Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Events
The Dairy Arts Center Exhibition Reception. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Dance Nia on Friday Nights at LRC. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Friday Art Club (Ages 5-8). 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Hidden Figures Screening. 4 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Masterpiece Makers (Ages 3-5). 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Boom! 6 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434.
Other Black + Mama Magnolia + The Burroughs at The Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Dark Side of Pearl with Sun Jr. 9:45 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
The Prairie Scholars. 8:30 p.m. The Roost at 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-622-5021.
Maureen Riesco Art Exhibit and Sale at Sun Rose Cafe. 7 a.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
Synesthesia Chamber Music. 6:30 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont,
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Ophelia I Leaves. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder, 303-735-4577. Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY JANUARY 26 8PM
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MAX MONDZAC 8PM PUTNAM SMITH & ASHLEY STORROW 9PM MONDAY JANUARY 30 8PM “So, You’re a Poet,” presents
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Saturday, January 28 Music Bluez House. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Colorado and New Mexico Songwriting Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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See what BW thinks of Shakespeare back on stage in our review of The Book of Will on page 45.
An Act of God. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through March 12. The Book of Will. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through Feb. 26. The Christians. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through Feb. 26.
Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
HIR. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through March 5.
Dopapod & Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Thoroughly Modern Millie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 25.
An Evening with Stuart Davis. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Jerimiah Owens Solo Piano Concert. 7 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177. Live Music. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Longmont Symphony Orchestra January Concert. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brank Civic Auditorium, 600 East Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303651-0401. Lucas Swafford. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Mayhem Gulch. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Mitch Barrett Concert. 6:30 p.m. The Black Forest Restaurant, 24 Big Spring Drive, Nederland, 303-258-0495. The Wailers. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Wash Park. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Events Birds of a Feather. 10 a.m. Mercury Framing, 4692 Broadway, Boulder, 303-938-0123. Boulder Ballet with the CU Buffs. 7:30 p.m. Coors Event Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5316. Final Cut Pro X Hands On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. The Frog Prince. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Girl Painters West Art Show. 9 a.m. Ace Self Storage Community Art Gallery, 4635 Broadway
St., Boulder, 303-444-7870.
18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.
Introduction to Contemplative Art. 10 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.
Saturday Afternoon Art Experience: Ages 5-8. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Kid’s Saturday Morning Art Exploration. 9 a.m. PoshSplat, 1468 Pearl St., Suite 120, Boulder, 303-442-7674.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Ophelia I Leaves. 7:30 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder, 303-735-4577.
Sunday, January 29
Pioneers Panel Discussion. 1 p.m. CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 1085
Music Concert. 2:30 p.m. Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720-934-9497.
words Courtesy of Scott Carney
Scott Carney pushes his body to the limit in his new book What Doesn’t Kill Us. Carney stops by the Boulder Book Store on Jan. 31. Read more about him on page 37.
Saturday, Jan. 28 Bouldering Poets. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, Jan. 30 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Nobel Lecture Series: The work of Bob Dylan. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Tuesday, Jan. 31 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Scott Carney — What Doesn’t Kill Us. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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1. 4 p.m. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Suite 1, Louisville, 720-890-7888.
Rare II. 9 a.m. CU Museum of Natural History, 1030 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.
Open Mic at Twisted Pine. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Drawing “What You See” Art Class. 2 p.m. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Suite 1, Louisville, 720-890-7888.
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Anime Club. 4:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.
Getting Started with After Effects. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
FEED: Darkness. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Max Mondzac. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Zach Brock and Triptych. 6 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Open Mic Hosted by Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.
Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.
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Events 20th Annual Boulder Wedding Showcase. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Winter Heritage Day. 1 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303776-8848. Adult Coloring. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303532-1892. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dance Nia on Sunday Mornings at LRC. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. HIMALAYAN DOCUDAYS Screenings for Nepal. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 720-340-2131. Paint Empty Bowls. 12 a.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 505 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-2211. Seussical. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Monday, January 30 Music Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing-820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Events Adult Wheel Throwing: Beginners/Intermediate. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Astrid Paustian Artwork. 11 a.m. Colours Salon, 2015 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-0882. Girl Painters West Art Show. 9 a.m. Ace Self Storage Community Art Gallery, 4635 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7870. Maureen Riesco Art Exhibit and Sale. 7 a.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303651-3533. MindArt: a Mindfulness Based Art Class. 3:30
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The sail is so vast when it’s laid out on the driveway. I stake it with a screwdriver through the shackle at the tack to stretch it smooth, pulling on the head and clew. Now it’s smooth as a night’s worth of new snow. My wife, my partner, has been torn from her busy day. We face each other across the sail’s foot and with my right hand and her left hand (I’m right handed, she’s left handed) we pull an arm’s length of the sail down over itself, then do this again, keeping my left hand, and her right hand, towards the foot. Each fold is easier since the sail grows narrower near the top. Then we fold towards each other and I wrap my arms around it, while she holds the bag’s mouth open, the gray bag that will cover it through the winter. Then I thank her. And the driveway is visible again as it is in spring, when all the snow has melted.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 615: I’m fond of poems in which we see people working together, helping one another. I’ve never folded a sail, nor seen anybody fold one, but here I get to watch it happen, and feel it happen, too. Alan Feldman is from Massachusetts and his most recent book is Immortality (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2014 by Alan Feldman, “Love Poem,” from Immortality (University of Wisconsin Press,2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Alan Feldman and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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‘XXX: Return of Xander Cage’ is a mixed, goofy bag by Ryan Syrek
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ike a car mechanic tasked with repairing a UFO or a political pundit faced with explaining Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments, critically appraising the third XXX movie is guesswork followed by confusion, disappointment and terror. XXX: Return of Xander Cage is shaped like a movie. It is movie-esque. There are actors and stuff. Presumably, a script was involved. But it may be best described as an alien cinematic vehicle assembled by a potentially deranged lunatic. Vin Diesel’s Xander Cage is a derpy, muscled, sentient ESPN commercial for the X-Games. In the first movie, he was recruited into the government by Sam Jackson to do kick flips and wheelies for justice. In the second movie, his character was killed off-screen so Ice Cube could engage in some vaguely racist bullshit. In this third installment, he is unkilled so he can hunt for a magic computer box that bad people want to use to do bad things. Everyone knows, when it comes time to stop evil people from getting a magic computer box, you’re going to want two people first and foremost: a DJ with no discernible skills or talent (Kris Wu) and an idiot who crashes cars every time he drives them (Rory McCann). Cage also accidentally recruits Adele Wolff (Ruby Rose), whose sniper skills are applicable to the situation Vin Diesel tries to helm another action franchise, as at hand. This ragtag his extreme government agent is brought back with a diverse cast of good-looking people to stop a bad thing bunch of Xtremers first from happening. That bad thing is as irrelevant as the fight and then join forces plot, dialogue and good taste seem to be. with Xiang (Donnie Yen), Talon (Tony Jaa) and Serena (Deepika Padukone) to form the most diverse collection of good looking people this side of a college recruitment brochure. The fact that the movie is stupid is as forgivable as Diesel’s narcoleptic line delivery. What is less permissible is that things never quite get wacky or wild enough. XXX desperately wants to be Fast and Furious when it grows up. However, the collateral damage that kills hundreds of innocent civilians is hella distracting, the team’s lack of chemistry is OMG blatant and the absence of a definable villain is as obvious as Jason Statham’s forehead. Whereas the FF franchise has perfected its formula, XXX is trying to ape it without putting in the work; it is the uneducated Mr. Pibb, swaggering like it has the PhD of Dr. Pepper. Although it’s nice to see another would-be-blockbuster series embrace diversity, stereotypes and male gaze abound. For example, Nina Dobrev plays a character so in awe of Xander’s sweaty, vest-wearing persona that she is talking sex swings and safe words before we even find out she’s supposed to be a braniac computer expert. She also flirts with Rose’s character in a way that can only be described as “written and filmed by a dude.” Xander Cage’s return is no triumph nor prophesy of good times ahead. It’s just an off-brand version of Fast and Furious: the Toasted Whole Grain Oats to Cheerios, the Mountain Lightning to Mountain Dew, the Go-Bots to Transformers. If you’re starving for entertainment, it may keep you alive, but nobody will prefer the extreme taste or flavor. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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uman beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly ON THE BILL: Christine. based on what we see and how we Jan. 25–28. The Boedecker Theater, The Dairy Arts Center, see, but there is a third aspect to 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303sight: why. Why must we see? To 440-7825, thedairy.org. believe? To understand? Because we are curious? International Film Series. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Furthermore, capturing that truth with a Muenzinger Auditorium, camera is no easy feat. Every image presented University of Colorado for an audience has, by its nature, some level of Boulder, internationalfilmseries.com composition, some level of selection to it. The same goes for the choice presented to the audience; you are choosing to watch this and not that. Sometimes we watch seeking distraction, other times we watch seeking edification, but every time we watch we are seeking something. That something forms the thematic and critical crux of Christine, a bio-pic about a Sarasota, Florida, news reporter and the infamous decision she made on July 15, 1974. Rebecca Hall stars as Christine Chubbuck, the 29-yearold reporter who wanted to present hard-hitting news in a time where “if it bleeds, it leads” started taking over. Looking back from a 21st-century vantage point, it is clear that Chubbuck had some forms of social anxieties and clearly battled depression, but Hall plays Chubbuck more frustrated than depressed. Frustrated that she lives with her boozy mother who always has a guest over. Frustrated that she isn’t getChristine tells the story of a Sarasota, Florida, news reporter who took her own life on camera. ting the stories she wants. Frustrated that the hunky anchor (Michael C. Hall) is getting the Baltimore promotion and that the little tart (Kim Shaw), who is going with him, is just a little bit younger, a little bit perkier and a little bit more the person Christine wishes she could be. Christine Chubbuck was a real person and if that name doesn’t exactly ring a bell, then a major spoiler is to follow. What Chubbuck is famous for, and why we are watching this movie, is that Chubbuck committed suicide on air. Chubbuck even requested the morning’s broadcast be taped — not common practice — she wanted her death to be public. But giving away Christine’s ending isn’t really a spoiler. This is not the type of movie we watch to see what happens; we watch in hopes of comprehending what happened. In an odd turn of synergy, Christine wasn’t the only movie to come out this past year about Chubbuck’s public suicide. The other, Kate Plays Christine, is a documentary from Robert Greene and focuses on Kate Lyn Sheil’s preparation to play Chubbuck in a movie about her life. Of the two, Kate Plays Christine posits more questions about why filmmakers would tell such a story and why an audience would want to see it. Christine does too, but in a much more subdued manner. Director Antonio Campos works in tandem with Hall to present a doom-laden portrait of a frustrated woman, a disturbed woman, a woman under the influence of a time and place. It may be written, it may be acted, directed and edited, but there is an unmistakable truth behind the camera. Maybe that is why we watch; we’re looking to understand something we don’t. Boulder Weekly
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mericans collectively scoffed last spring when John Kasich, still on the trail for the Republican presidential nomination, picked up a knife and fork and took down a slice of pizza in New York. This was, by all American standards, a faux pas of epic proportions. Everyone knows you fold a slice of New York-style pie in half, lengthwise. Shove in face. Chew. Repeat. But Kasich ate the pizza with a knife and fork, and now Donald Trump is president. Thanks a lot, Kasich — look at what you’ve done. If Kasich had been eating a slice of Neapolitan-style pizza at Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse, his knife and fork technique would have been applauded (no guesses on what effect it may have had on Caitlin Rockett our federal government) because that’s exactly how you eat Neapolitan-style pie. Let me tell you why: It’s saucy and the crust is thin.
a slice in 1889, and that version of Neapolitan became known as Margherita. Its tomatoes, mozzarella and cheese resembled the Italian flag.) This all brings us up to speed and leaves us with what to expect from a great Neapolitan pizza. First, this is basically a personal pizza, no larger than 12 or so inches in diameter — you can’t make a gargantuan, saucy, thin-crust pizza. Not gonna work. Second, a true Neapolitan is simple: made with highly refined Italian wheat flour, fresh brewer’s yeast, water and salt. Roll that dough by hand or with a low-speed mixer; no rolling pins allowed. You use fresh ingredients, specifically raw, pureed San Marzano tomatoes for the sauce and fresh mozzarella. The San Marzano tomatoes are important:
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That’s why. This can be off-putting for Americans accustomed to heftier crusts. I remember my mother once telling me she didn’t enjoy pizza when she lived in Italy, as it was too “soggy.” She loved every other aspect of Italian cuisine. But I find soggy to be a harsh adjective for Neapolitan pizza. This pie’s got quirks, style and history, all reasons an award-winning joint like Lucky Pie chooses to focus on the little pizzas born of Naples. First, Neapolitan pizza is a food of the common man — Italian peasants pioneered it in the 18th century. See, when tomatoes made their way into Europe from Peru some 200 years earlier, Europeans thought they were poisonous. Peasants in Naples, hungry and desperate, eventually put tomatoes on flatbread because, hey, they were either going to starve to death or this poisonous tomato would kill them. It was worth a try. No one died of tomatoes (to my knowledge), and eventually rich folks were traveling to poor neighborhoods to get their hands on what was soon to be known as Neapolitan pizza (Side fact: The richest folks of them all, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy, traveled to Naples to get
These firm, deep red plumb tomatoes grow in the enriched volcanic soil at the base of Mount Vesuvius. They are sweet and low in acidity — perfect for sauce. But the real mark of good Neapolitan is charring on the crust. These are cooked in super hot ovens. The charring adds another layer of flavor to the pie, a mild bitterness against the sweetness of the sauce and the savory nature of the toppings, whether that’s mozzarella and basil, sausage and ricotta, or salami and chilies. The trick is keeping the crust tender and chewy while getting that light char. Perhaps Gwyneth Paltrow will let you come over to her house to use her backyard brick pizza oven. Lucky Pie sticks to the centuries-old traditional style of Neapolitan pizza, and as such, so should you. Take your time with one of these pies, and eat it fresh out of the oven as it loses any crispness at all as it cools. And for God’s sake, use a knife and fork. Lucky Pie and Taphouse. 637 Front St., Louisville, 303-6665743.
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awake before the alarm and before the dawn. This is a situation I would have avoided at all costs when I lived a younger man’s life. In the winter dark I make minimal efforts at attire. Why do I scrape my eyes and then the windshield? Why grumble, shiver and drive through the dimness minus any caffeine? About once a week I head out to clean, well-lighted place where I can stumble into consciousness in a dignified and affordable fashion. Sometimes when you work at home every day you have to leave the house to return and punch the clock for the day. There is something remarkable about being a semi-regular at a breakfast place. I am looked after by people who know my name, or at least how I like my eggs. When I say “people” what I really mean are see NIBBLES Page 60
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women. The majority of breakfast servers are hardworking waitresses. I leave it to the psych majors to analyze the reason, but it makes me happy. On the mornings when I am at the door when the diner first opens, the other scattered tables are usually occupied by solo men. I do not know whether they are single, married or widowed. In manly fashion, we acknowledge each other with a nod and maybe a comment about the weather. There is interaction, but there are no demands to interact. Those who want to chat sit at the counter or a community table. If I invite you to share an early breakfast with me then you know you are pretty special (and probably a blood relative).
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I visited the new location for Mama Mead’s Pizzeria at 900 Coffman St. in Longmont only to discover that it is ideally situated between two independent food attractions: Your Butcher Frank and Blue Reef Seafood Market. There are not many locations in Boulder County where you can pick up a flatiron steak, a pound of sea scallops and an all-white (garlic, ricotta and mozzarella) Long Islandstyle, thin crust pizza or a great eggplant parmesan grinder. More importantly, Mama Mead’s is also one of the rare places that serves the iconic Italian-American treat: zeppolis. These are hot bite-size pieces of pizza dough deep-fried and dusted with powdered sugar. What’s not to like?
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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In the beginning was the wild cabbage. Our ancestors found that it had great potential as food and proceeded to domesticate it. Over the centuries, they used selective breeding to develop many further variations on the original. Kale and kohlrabi were the first to appear. By the 15th century, cauliflower had been created. Broccoli came along a hundred years later, followed by Brussels sprouts. Today there are at least 20 cultivars whose lineage can be traced back to the wild cabbage. In my astrological opinion, you Libras are in a wild cabbage phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming months you can and should do seminal work that will ultimately generate an abundance of useful derivatives.
SCORPIO
named Casey Affleck the Best Actor of the year for his role in the film Manchester by the Sea. In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony, Affleck gave a dramatic reading of quotes by David Edelstein, a prominent critic who has criticized his work. “Mumbly and mulish,” was one of Edelstein’s jabs about Affleck. “Doesn’t have a lot of variety,” was another. A third: “Whenever I see Affleck’s name in a movie’s credits, you can expect a standard, genre B picture — slowed down and tarted up.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, Taurus, you may get a vindication comparable to Affleck’s. I suggest you have wicked fun with it, as he did.
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In 1733, workers finished building the New Cathedral in Salamanca, Spain. But if you go there today, you will see two seemingly modern elements on one facade: carvings of a helmeted astronaut and of a gargoyle licking an ice cream cone. These two characters were added by craftsmen who did renovations on the cathedral in 1992. I offer this vignette as metaphor for your life, Scorpio. It’s a favorable time to upgrade and refine an old structure in your life. And if you do take advantage of this opening, I suggest you add modern touches.
GEMINI
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be afforded opportunities to bend the rules in ways that could make life simpler, more pleasurable, and more successful — or all of the above. To help you deal with the issue of whether these deviations would have integrity, I offer you these questions: Would bending the rules serve a higher good, not just your selfish desires? Is there an approach to bending the rules that may ultimately produce more compassionate results than not bending the rules? Could you actually get away with bending the rules, both in the sense of escaping punishment and also in the sense of being loyal to your own conscience?
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Monaco have 37 pockets. Eighteen are black, 18 are red and one is green. On any particular spin, the ball has just less than half a chance of landing in a red or black pocket. But there was one night back in August of 1913, at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, when probability seemed inoperative. The little white ball kept landing on the black over and over again. Gamblers responded by increasingly placing heavy bets on red numbers. They assumed the weird luck would soon change. But it didn’t until the 27th spin. (The odds of that happening were 136,823,184 to 1.) What does this have to do with you? I suspect you’re in a comparable situation — the equivalent of about 20 spins into an improbable streak. My advice: Don’t bet on the red yet.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Born to a religious mother on July 8,
1839, John D. Rockefeller amassed a fortune in the oil industry. Even in comparison to modern billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, he’s the richest American who ever lived. “God gave me the money,” he said on numerous occasions. Now I’m going to borrow the spirit of Rockefeller’s motto for your use, Cancerian. Why? Because it’s likely you will be the recipient of blessings that prompt you to wonder if the Divine Wow is involved. One of these may indeed be financial in nature. (P.S.: Such boons are even more likely to transpire if you’re anchored in your sweet, dark wisdom and your holy, playful creativity.)
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: What influence do you need most
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VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: The next two weeks will be a favorable
time to kiss the feet of helpful allies, but not to kiss the butts of clever manipulators. I also advise you to perform acts of generosity for those who will use your gifts intelligently, but not for those who will waste your blessings or treat you like a doormat. Here’s my third point: Consider returning to an old fork in the road where you made a wrong turn, and then making the correct turn this time. But if you do, be motivated by bright hope for a different future rather than by sludgy remorse for your error.
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AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A London-based think tank does an
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n the 1970s and ’80s, Robert J. Riley was a Deadhead, following the Grateful Dead around the country in pursuit of the music and its free love spirit. Tall and gangly, he was well liked by fellow travelers, or, as he called them, “people unafraid to be barefoot on the Earth.” It’s no secret that the band and their dedicated fan base consumed psychedelics — everything from LSD to psilocybin. In the mid 1960s, the Grateful Dead found themselves and their characteristic sound by experimenting with music tripping, and fans in their audience became attuned to listening while high. Riley was just another hippie along for the ride. Wikimedia commons; kazan.vperemen.com
His first arrest came for selling a joint on a beach in San Diego. Over the next 15 years he’d be arrested two more times; first for selling 3 grams of hash and next for $25 worth of amphetamines. Then, in 1992, he was arrested for the last time, for mailing LSD and mushrooms across state lines. Under the harsh, black and white mandatory minimum sentencing requirements of federal drug policies, the details of his conviction and arrest history didn’t matter. This was his fourth arrest and he was sentenced to life without parole. Last week, on Jan. 19, 2017, just days before leaving office, President Obama commuted the rest of
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Riley’s sentence so that in a year’s time he will walk out of jail a free man. Riley was one of 330 nonviolent drug offenders to receive clemency or commutation from the executive office that day, the most ever issued in a single day. It brought the total commutations and clemencies granted by Obama to 1,715, more than the last 13 presidents combined. In a letter to those granted commutation, Obama wrote: “I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity. It will not be easy, and you will confront many who doubt people with criminal records can change. But remember that you have the capacity to make good decisions.” In the name of second chances, Obama’s last and most productive day of commutations was a victory for the 2014 Clemency Initiative, a joint effort between the Executive Office and the Office of the Attorney General to increase the number of clemency applications. “For our criminal justice system to be effective, it needs to not only be fair, but it also must be perceived as being fair,” wrote then Deputy Attorney General James. M Cole at a press conference announcing the initiative. “These older, stringent punishments that are out of line with sentences imposed under today’s laws erode people’s confidence in our criminal justice system.” Despite advocating for reforms to federal drug law during his presidency — such as reducing the disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing, ending the ban on federal funding for syringe access programs and supporting state medical marijuana laws — President Obama was largely unsuccessful in shifting criminalization platforms to healthbased policy. Unable to persuade lawmakers to shift policy or to unilaterally adjust laws, his only power to signal shifting attitudes to drug law was to commute prison sentences.
Colorado was indisputably a catalyst in sparking the shift in public attitudes about drug policy. While there is no way to know why 55 percent of Coloradans voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, it is largely credited to the campaign to treat marijuana like alcohol and the corollary argument that it is unjust to criminalize its consumption or trade. The scenarios surrounding the 330 names on the list of commutations issued in Obama’s final hours makes it clear that marijuana is but a part of a bigger issue in drug policy. In fact, there are only a few people on the list imprisoned solely for marijuana related charges — the vast majority were convicted for use or distribution of cocaine, amphetamines and other drugs. By broadly addressing convictions for many drugs, Obama points at the need for comprehensive reform that goes beyond the confines of any one drug. The same day he issued the shortened sentences, Obama also published an article in Harvard Law Review about criminal justice reform, “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform.” In the article Obama notes that he is the first president in decades to leave the office with fewer people in federal prison than when he started, but he admits limits to the executive office’s power in reforming policy. Only Congress can achieve the broader reforms needed to ensure our criminal justice system operates more fairly and effectively in the service of public health and public safety. With Donald Trump now at the helm in the Oval Office, staunchly committed to a “law and order” platform with all its tough-on-crime implications, it is doubtful that the reform Obama hopes for is coming. His selection for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, has been one of the principle opponents of a bipartisan sentencing reform compromise in Congress. Criminality is not an inherent trait — it’s accidental, extrinsic. On Jan. 19, Robert J. Riley was a criminal, the next day he wasn’t. Similarly, on Dec. 31, 2013 anyone consuming marijuana in Colorado was in breach of the law, the next day they were not.
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his could be huge! On the other hand, it might not amount to a hill of beans. Then again, it might be really huge, but not in a good way. And yet... And yet... Within minutes of Trump taking the oath of office on Friday, Jan. 21, 2017, the new administration started remodeling the White House website by purging the Obama administration’s policy statements. CBS News swiftly reported that first to go were “all references to Global Warming and Climate Change”, that the LGBT rights page disappeared, and, mirabile dictu, that the link to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka the office of the Drug Czar) had vanished. The deleted page had stated that the President (Obama) “steadfastly opposes legalization of marijuana and other drugs because legalization would increase the availability and use of illicit drugs, and pose significant health and safety risks to all Americans, particularly young people.” That set off speculation as to whether or not Trump was intending to take a different approach to marijuana; the assumption was that the removal of the global warming references may have been indicative of the administration’s near-certain change of approach to climate change, so maybe the same was true of marijuana. If true, that would indeed have been huge. Alas, reports of the demise of the Drug Czar’s pages were somewhat exaggerated. The pages were not deep sixed, merely 86’ed. It turns out the website’s Obama Administration content wasn’t made to disappear from the White House website like the Cheshire Cat, but merely moved to an archiving site — from WhiteHouse.gov to ObamaWhiteHouse.gov.
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By Sunday, new Trump Administration content had started to appear on WhiteHouse.gov, including sections titled, “America First Energy Plan,” “America First Foreign Policy,” “Bringing Back Jobs and Growth,” “Making Our Military Strong Again,” “Standing up for our Law Enforcement Community” and “Trade Deals working for all Americans.” Happily, the Office of National Drug Control Policy page remained deleted. And the word “marijuana” failed to appear in any of the six policy statements. However, the word “drug” did appear. Once. And it appeared in a way that could be huge in a bad way. The Standing up for Our Law Enforcement Community contained the following paragraph (emphasis added): “President Trump is committed to building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. He is dedicated to enforcing our border laws, ending sanctuary cities, and stemming the tide of lawlessness associated with illegal immigration.” The offending clause in the paragraph can be read in a number of ways. Worst case scenario: The administration intends
to crank up the war on drugs including a new war on marijuana, public opinion be damned. Better case scenario: The promise “to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities” is made in the context of securing the border. That may mean that antidrug efforts will be focused on stopping smuggling at the border and not on hassling states that have legalized. Much better case scenario: The phrase “and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities” is a placeholder for a drug policy that hasn’t yet been decided upon. Trump has used the phrase in previous speeches but never elaborated on it. And there is some evidence to indicate that Trump is willing to leave the status quo ante between the feds and the legalizing states that was spelled out in the “Cole Memo” (written by Deputy Attorney General James Cole) in place: Federal anti-pot law won’t be enforced in states that legalized so long as growers, vendors, and users follow their states’ laws. The evidence is that a) Trump said as much during the campaign, and b) Chuck Rosenberg, who has been acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since May 2013, has agreed to stay on. Rosenberg has been cool with operating under the Cole Memo, so leaving him in place could be a sign that the new administration isn’t about to come down with a case of latter day reefer madness. Make America Great Again scenario: Maybe we’re reading too much into this. When Trump says he’s “committed to building a border wall... to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities” maybe he’s just advocating an America First Marijuana Policy. So calm down, take a deep breath, inhale, and make America great again.
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