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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Where is AI driving us?

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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Associate Publisher, Fran Zankowski Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Editor, Joel Dyer Managing Editor, Matt Cortina Senior Editor, Angela K. Evans Arts and Culture Editor, Caitlin Rockett Special Editions Editor, Emma Murray Editorial interns, Giselle Cesin, Lenah Reda Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Will Brendza, Rob Brezsny, Michael J. Casey, Paul Danish, Sarah Haas, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, John Lehndorff, Rico Moore, Amanda Moutinho, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Josh Schlossberg, Alan Sculley, Ryan Syrek, Mariah Taylor, Christi Turner, Betsy Welch, Sidni West, Tom Winter, Gary Zeidner SALES AND MARKETING Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Julian Bourke, Matthew Fischer Market Development Manager, Kellie Robinson Advertising Assistant, Jennifer Elkins Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar PRODUCTION Art Director, Susan France Senior Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Graphic Designer, Daisy Bauer CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama January 31, 2019 Volume XXVI, Number 25 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, noholds-barred journalism and thoughtprovoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage.

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Highroad Where is AI driving us? by Jim Hightower

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ith chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last thing we need is another big challenge. But — look out! — here comes a doozy!

It’s AI — artificial intelligence — the fast-evolving science of autonomous machines that can think, learn and even reproduce themselves. Consider self-driving vehicles. Once the stuff of science fiction, the future is suddenly upon us, with Google, Daimler and GM rolling out driverless taxis, commercial trucks and even cars with no steering wheels or gas and brake pedals. An army of corporate lobbyists is rushing to legislative halls, literally changing the rules of the road to allow full deployment of these vehicles.

What about the hundreds of thousands of professional

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drivers who’ll lose their jobs? Not our problem, say the financiers and AI barons who’ll profit from a mass bot-mobile conversion. Besides, as one AI champion coldly asserts, those drivers get sick, take vacations, etc. “People are messy,” he notes; “machines are straightforward.”

Indeed, so straightforward that these two-ton, non-sentient “drivers” will be driving straight at a world of defenseless pedestrians — already, one of Uber’s experimental cars killed an Arizona pedestrian last year.

We can fix that, says Andrew Ng, a prominent AI investor: They just have to be reprogrammed. By “they,” Ng doesn’t mean the self-driving machines — he means we pedestrians must be reprogramed! “Please be lawful,” he scolds, “And please be considerate” of the computer-driven vehicles. No jaywalking, obey pedestrian signs, give right-of-way to the new technology.

So, don’t just prepare yourself for A Brave New World of automation — prepare to be re-educated so you interact properly with machines and don’t get in their way.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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guest column The Indian Peaks Traverse as a solution

by Jason Vogel and Allyn Feinberg, Indian Peaks Traverse Coalition

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magine stepping out of your front door, grabbing your hiking poles, putting your binoculars around your neck, lacing up your running shoes, or putting your legs over your mountain bike to begin a 60-plus-mile, non-motorized, backcountry trail adventure from your home, over the Continental Divide, and all the way to Winter Park. We have good news.

This is exactly the vision that a group of grassroots citizens have been working toward over the last two years. We call it the Indian Peaks Traverse (IPT; indianpeakstraverse.org). We just incorporated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation to support this vision and the land management agencies that will be crucial to realizing it.

Our coalition is taking an inclusive, grassroots and big-tent approach to realizing the vision of the IPT. We have been networking with different user groups, communities, land managers, conservation organizations and political leaders, all in the service of getting constructive feedback early and often. We

were founded and are run by a grassroots group of optimistic, enthusiastic and adventure-loving citizens of Grand and Boulder counties. And we are taking a big-tent approach by including hikers, conservationists, trail runners, equestrians and mountain bikers, knowing that a vision as ambitious as the IPT will require buy-in, volunteerism and commitment from the broadest possible group of stakeholders.

With a growing Front Range population, increasing demand for recreation in natural places, and fewer resources than ever flowing to the land management agencies that protect our public lands, we believe the stewardship of those lands is up to us — the citizens who love our public lands, value habitat conservation and enjoy recreating in nature.

We also believe that we must find ways to harness the enthusiasm of the young and passionate community of committed recreationists in the service of conservation. We believe that regional connectivity to leverage existing access across land management agencies is necessary to provide

a meaningful recreation experience and to tamp down the demand for an ever-increasing network of trails that can endanger the very habitats and species that define us as Coloradans.

Recently, a three-agency working group consisting of Boulder County Parks and Open Space, City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife recommended that a trail be built from Eldorado Canyon State Park to Walker Ranch, which is the final missing link of the IPT. That recommendation is now being reviewed by interested citizens and the appointed and elected bodies that oversee these agencies. However, the public has raised significant concerns about long-standing management issues in Eldorado Canyon State Park and the spillover effects they have on the Town of Eldorado Springs.

We at the IPT Coalition believe that these concerns are valid and important. The success of the IPT itself depends upon meaningfully addressing them. Elsewhere, we have identified many of the key issues and have proposed solutions as a starting point for continued discussions with the state park, residents of Eldorado Springs and other stakeholders. For example, a shuttle could transport people to the state park, open space trailheads and the Eldorado Springs pool like those

implemented now in many national parks, and locally for the Hessie and Chautauqua trailheads. A multi-use trail into the park could be designated that would allow trail runners, mountain bikers, and even many hikers to avoid the Town of Eldorado Springs and the associated congestion and parking issues entirely. An extension and upgrading of the “streamside” trail has been proposed, which would connect the state park entrance to the visitors center and provide for separation of people from vehicular traffic.

In the final analysis, the IPT Coalition believes that the staff recommendation for an Eldo-to-Walker trail on the north side of the canyon represents a reasonable starting point for further refining the trail route to avoid environmentally sensitive areas, and offers the opportunity to bring political attention and resources to bear on long-standing Eldorado Springs and state park issues while providing a long-sought-after regional trail connection. There is a lot of work yet to be done by the community, but we remain optimistic that this long-needed, but difficult discussion will lead to solutions for existing park users, the townspeople of Eldorado Springs, and a new regional trail connecting Boulder to Winter Park — the Indian Peaks Traverse!

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Stew’s views Boulder Weekly Staff Hall of Fame

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s the company’s founder and publisher, my passion for and commitment to the success of Boulder Weekly has been a double-edged sword that has garnered both praise and criticism from my staff, past and present. On the one hand, my ability to turn up the heat, within myself and my team, would have to be cited as the primary driving force behind our 25 years of success. On the other hand, for some employees — many of which are found in the incredible “staff box” on the facing page — that heat was simply too hot. In short, working for an entrepreneur with an at-times mercurial personality, for whom failure was never an option, has been a definite challenge for those who have worked for the Weekly over the years.

For me, the last 25 years at the Weekly have been an unparalleled opportunity to engage fully in the universal human struggle of becoming the individual I am capable of being. And not unlike any of my fellow human beings, my growth as an individual has been a function of my experiences and how I have met the challenges I have confronted. As the leader, I have had a unique responsibility to address the weightiest problems, make the toughest decisions and accept responsibility for the outcomes. I have done this willingly and even enthusiastically, knowing all the while that I was being continually shaped by both my successes and my failures.

My approach to my job has always been to receive input from those with whom I work and make my decisions accordingly, all the while adapting myself and my job description to the needs of the organization. In that sense, I have seen myself as working for my staff, rather than the other way around. For it has been beholden upon me to become the leader my team wants and needs me to

be, the one they respond most favorably to, the one who inspires them to give their best, the one they trust.

How well I have succeeded in that great endeavor is not for me to judge. Rather, it is for those who have worked for me to write my epithet as publisher when I ultimately relinquish my role as the leader of this incredible organization. I know there are plenty — particularly those who were involved in the early, tumultuous years of the organization — who will judge me harshly. To them I say, fair enough, for I know I have made plenty of mistakes.

Along the way, though, I have learned a thing or two about leadership — often the hard way — and those who are on the current team at the Weekly are reaping the benefits of the lessons I have learned from their predecessors. One of those lessons is to generously express gratitude for the talent, dedication and good old-fashioned hard work that my co-workers have exemplified.

To all of the individuals listed on the adjacent page I say: Thank you so much for your contributions to what has become a beloved, essential community institution. No matter what your job, and no matter how long your stay, you were integral to the success of this grand experiment. But there are 10 particularly outstanding members of the 25-year staff whom I want to especially thank, their contributions have been so fundamental to the success of the Weekly.

The 10 members of the Boulder Weekly Hall of Fame are very different from one another, but they exemplify certain traits that are universally admirable: they are skilled, daring, compassionate, patient, dedicated, perfectionistic, enterprising, perseverant, funloving and just plain loving. It has been an honor to work with, create with and grow with these fine individuals. I want to thank each one of them for their outstanding contributions, and for teaching me so much over the course of our 25 years.

Leland Rucker

Like Boulder Weekly Hall of Fame inductee Joel Dyer (and quite a few other Weekly staffers), Leland felt compelled to return to Boulder Weekly after a long absence, and recently fulfilled an encore role when he became a columnist on a subject he and I share a deep fondness for: marijuana. Leland can also be heard on the wavelengths of KGNU, and is currently a senior editor at Sensi Magazine.

Kim Sidwell

You would have to be insane to leave a great job as the entertainment editor of the wellestablished Colorado Daily to become the founding editor of the upstart Boulder Weekly — the new publication that was predicted to fail just as fast as the other efforts to establish a weekly in Boulder had come and gone — but that’s exactly what Leland Rucker did back in 1993 when he became the Weekly’s first editor.

A well-known fixture in the Boulder community — and someone with perhaps the largest collection of albums and CDs that I had ever seen — Leland gave Boulder Weekly instant credibility during our first, turbulent years. With Leland on board, I was more than just another guy from California who had come to Boulder with a new business venture; I had a “big brother” with me to fend off the bullies in the Boulder business community who seemed to be unified in a chorus of “that’s been tried before and it never works; come back and see me in a year if you’re still in business.”

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Joel Dyer As a founding member of the Boulder Weekly staff, Joel Dyer quickly demonstrated that he was destined for a far greater purpose than his original title of Staff Photographer. Joel’s passion for social justice, acting as a watchdog on government and big business — particularly the oil and gas industry — and his commitment to upholding the highest see STEW’S VIEWS Page 10

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Following his resignation from Swift Communications — the company that bought his publication — Joel accepted my invitation to attend the Weekly’s 18th Anniversary Party, and we got to talking about his returning to the Weekly. The deal was sealed when he and I subsequently went for a hike together in the foothills visible from our South Boulder headquarters. Perhaps it was Joel’s desire to get back in the game; possibly it was the strength of our sense of mutual respect and friendship; or perhaps it was the double rainbow that appeared before us as we fantasized about the second coming of Joel to the Weekly, but Joel has done nothing less during the last eight years than turn the Weekly into the most award-winning publication in the Rocky Mountain region. Joel is a journalist in the deepest sense of the word, and a true friend. The gratitude I feel for his journalistic contributions, and the love I feel for him as a friend are inestimable.

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Timing is everything in the news business, and as fate would have it Pamela’s first assignment was to cover the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks for the Weekly. Clearly, this was no ordinary assignment, and the fact that 9/11 was on a Tuesday meant we had to act quickly to meet the deadline for our Thursday publication. Luckily, Pamela White is a world-class journalist and her skill and dedication were equal to the task. Her award-winning piece, “Why are we so hated,” was a risky approach to a complex issue that engendered plenty of criticism, but proved to be prescient in the way that it got to the heart of the issue of Islamic extremism.

Shortly thereafter, Wayne Laugesen left his post as editor and Pamela succeeded him, and the Weekly was almost instantly transformed into a highly respected, professional media organization. Eventually, her very successful career as a novelist took her away from us, but her lasting influence on the Weekly lives on.

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One thing I learned very early in my 38-year journey as a publishing entrepreneur: a publication is a business, and no matter how excellent its content, it will fail without staff on board who have the necessary business acumen. I prided myself on the 12 years of publishing success I had in Santa Cruz, California, prior to launching the Weekly in 1993, but there is much more to running the business side of a media company than sales and entrepreneurial skill. There are income statements, quarterly reports, I

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balance sheets, lines of credit, accounts payable and receivable, and a plethora of other accounting needs that a professional media organization simply cannot do without. In short, we needed an accounting professional, a “controller,” to keep our company on solid financial ground.

After an initial period working on behalf of Boulder Weekly for an independent accounting firm, we were fortunate to hire Benecia Beyer as our full-time controller in the spring of 2007. It is no coincidence that the past 12 years have been the most successful in our now-25-year history. Simply put, upon her arrival Benecia transitioned the Weekly from shakey to solid financial ground, and she has spent the ensuing years making sure it stayed that way.

From time to time, members of the staff cringe at Benecia’s steadfast insistence that every penny be accurately accounted for, every contract properly executed and every company policy adhered to. But from behind the scenes (there are Weekly staffers who have never met Benecia and wonder if she is a “Wizard of Oz,” pulling the strings behind a curtain) she has single-handedly turned the Weekly into a well-oiled machine with squeaky clean financials and a professional business persona that has made our company a pleasure to work with, and desirable to work for. In that sense she is a wizard, and I will forever be indebted to her.

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Roger Bannister changed what we believed, and others followed. And during the early, difficult months of the Weekly’s history — as we were struggling mightily to sell enough advertising to cover our expenses — a determined, young, recent Stanford University graduate named Ross Shell joined our sales team and became our Roger Bannister. Ross was the Weekly’s first successful salesperson, and he showed us that, yes, Boulder Weekly could be successfully marketed. Ross set new standards of achievement and laid the groundwork for the success of dozens of other Boulder Weekly sales reps, past and present.

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Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, etc. — were also worthy of consideration.

I suspect that the debate will continue unresolved well into the future, but with respect to the title of GOAT among the numerous individuals who have worked in the Boulder Weekly advertising department, the conversation begins and ends with one name: Allen Carmichael. We don’t have sales clubs at the Weekly like they do in real estate offices, such as the “Million Dollar Club.”

And this is not the right forum to boast, even on someone else’s behalf. But I will say this: Allen manages more than a half-million dollars of advertising each year, and he has been working for the Weekly since 2004. You do the math.

While media organizations all over the country are downsizing their staffs and offering their readers less, Boulder Weekly has continued to invest in our newsroom and its personnel so that we can continue to offer our community award-winning content that can be trusted and relied upon for quality and accuracy. While our reporters and editors win the awards and receive the credit, none of it would be possible without the efforts of the Weekly’s GOAT, Allen Carmichael.

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Cal Winn

One thing the alt-weekly industry got right from the very beginning when the first edition of the New York Village Voice hit the streets in 1955: A free society is based upon freedom of the press, and the news should be as free as the press that produces it. Boulder Weekly has followed suit with this principle and has distributed our magazine freely for 25 years.

But have you ever wondered how the Weekly gets to your favorite coffeehouse, grocery store, office building, street corner or any of the other 1,100 distribution points in our circulation system? Meet Cal Winn, the Weekly’s circulation manager.

Cal came to the Weekly in 2007 and completely professionalized our approach to circulation. The objective was to make the magazine available more widely to more Boulder County residents and visitors than ever before, and Cal has worked tirelessly to accomplish that objective. And in his “spare time,” Cal built and maintains an organic vegetable garden on the Southwest corner of our South Boulder property, and helps in countless ways to keep the property secure and running smoothly. “Uncle Cal” is a man of the highest integrity, has an incredible sense of humor, and I love him to death. If you ever see him driving by in the Boulder Weekly truck, wave to him and thank him for making sure you get your copy of the Weekly every Thursday.

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Mari Nevar

Among all of the members of the Boulder Weekly team, Mari Nevar, aka Mrs. Boulder Weekly, has arguably the toughest job. I’m not referring to her role as an account executive; and while her management of the company’s online marketplace, Best of Boulder Deals, has been outstanding, Mari deserves more credit for a title that has never appeared in the staff box: Publisher Tamer.

Mari first arrived on the Boulder Weekly scene at the Fox Theatre as an invited guest at our 5th Anniversary Party. And ever since that fateful first meeting, she has been the sole audience of my nightly recap of the front-car roller-coaster ride I have taken every day as the Weekly’s captain. As such, she has shared with me the ecstasy of the Weekly’s successes and the agonies of our failures. Through it all she has been my primary confidant, advisor and support system.

But the job doesn’t stop there. Mari has been my “cornerman” for more than 20 years, providing a safe place for me to rest and close the wounds from my latest round. And the following morning, she has been there to give me a pep talk and encourage me back into the ring for the battle to come.

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behind the scenes, and she has received little credit for them. But I’m here to tell you that her support of me and numerous other contributions throughout 80 percent of the life of this organization have been no less integral to its success — and at times far more difficult — than those of any member of the staff.

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Julia Sallo Among all the staff at the Weekly, past and present, only one has always been there: my daughter, Julia Sallo. Julia was there in 1989, at the age of six months, when a devastating earthquake struck our home in Santa Cruz, California, and led our family to discover there was no weekly publication in Boulder, Colorado. She was there in 1990, at the age of 13 months when we visited Boulder to assess the viability of the Boulder Weekly project. She was there in 1992, at the age of three, when we finally moved to Boulder, and she was there in 1993, at the age of four, when the first edition of the Weekly hit the streets.

Julia spent her childhood at the Weekly’s office after school, where she was found coloring at my desk, doing homework and often falling asleep waiting for me to finish my work on deadline days. And when she reached her teenage years, she wrote a column for the Weekly, called “Next Gen,” that covered the issues high school-aged kids deal with in Boulder.

But the contributions that qualify her for a spot in the Boulder Weekly Hall of Fame were made when she worked at the Weekly concurrently with her undergraduate and post-graduate studies at CU. As a millennial who understood the internet better than anyone on our staff, Julia became the Weekly’s first marketing director. In that position she launched and maintained numerous social media sites, created and ran our Boulder County Events and Best of Boulder Deals online platforms, and initiated awards events in connection with our very popular semi-annual Best of Boulder™ editions, which she transitioned from a paper ballot to an online survey format.

Julia broke my heart five years ago when she left the Weekly to become a high school math teacher. But her immense contributions during her time at the Weekly made a huge difference that continues to define our organization.

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I like to joke that Sue’s status as a member of the Weekly team for 25 years (her start date was on the Monday of the week of our second edition) proves that I am not impossible to work with. But this minimizes her contributions as an artist, a photographer and as the heart and

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Week-in and week-out, over the course of some 1,300 regular editions and countless special editions, it is Sue France’s “signature” as art director that you see when you look through the clean, crisp designs that define the magazines we publish. And much like what goes on behind the scenes in the kitchen of a restaurant that results in an appealing and delicious meal arriving at your table, our readers have no idea how much hard work, dedication and talent goes into creating the magazine you hold in your hands each week.

What Sue has been through over the course of her 25 years at the Weekly is nothing short of miraculous, including two maternity leaves and raising her now college- and high school-aged kids, while holding down a demanding job that often requires her to work long hours. She is an inspiration to all of us who know her, and I suspect she’ll still be a member of our team 25 years from now.

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thought Boulder Weekly was an important endeavor 25 years ago when it launched. And while I’m happy to say that I was right on that account and proud to have been around for that first edition, I’d be lying if I said I knew back then that BW would still be here and making a difference a quarter of a century later... but it is.

As I contemplate the reasons for our success, I keep coming back to one thing; you, our readers.

I knew from the beginning that we could inform and entertain folks in Boulder County, but I didn’t understand the kind of relationship that we would end up building with you over the years.

When I describe your level of engagement with this publication to my friends in the news business around the country, it is usually met with envy or disbelief. For most of them it has been a long time since a loyal reader walked up and offered to buy them a beer or asked them how they could help the subject of their last story or, as happens on occasion, called them a sorry SOB in the middle of a restaurant for some-

thing they wrote. Heck, that’s just another Thursday afternoon in Boulder County for me, and I couldn’t be more appreciative. Your engagement is the reason I’m still here and still love doing this job.

It is truly a gift to know that when we report a story, it makes a difference. Over the years we’ve prompted the cleanup of toxins on open space, forced crooked politicos to step down, uncovered threats to our children, caused laws to be written in the state legislature and warned you of any number of things that were threatening your health or quality of life.

We never forget that our first obligation is to be your watchdog, and if we ever did forget, I have no doubt that you’d remind us in short order.

Why do I think so highly of you folks? Let me count the ways.

When we wrote about a woman living in her car while undergoing chemo treatments, you gave her a roof over her head. When we wrote about a young orphan boy befriended by our reporter in a Bosnian war zone, one of you adopted that child.

When we wrote of a homeless fami-

ly trying to stay together against all odds, you sent us money to give them. When we told you about a man who needed a new kidney, several of you came forward and offered yours. And when we told you that an undocumented father and husband needed $10,000 to get health insurance, which would get him a temporary heart pump and put his name on the waiting list for a new heart that would save his life, you provided more than enough money to make that happen within a few short days.

Thank you for all that, and thank you for letting me have the best job in the world.

When we started this thing 25 years ago we were covering issues like growth, the environment, local and state politics while exploring every nook and corner of the arts and culture that define and nourish our communities. And while it was important work back then, I really believe it is even more so today.

The world is changing quickly and not always for the good. We are living in a time of idiocy wherein accurate, in-depth, explanatory journalism on every subject is being overwhelmed by an ocean of clickbait and partisan talking heads. The electorate is stuck in either a blue or red feedback loop that has resulted in our no longer

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voting for the things our nation needs but rather against certain people of positions that scare us.

We are rapidly destroying our own planet while making silly partisan politics our top priority. It’s not a healthy or sustainable evolution of our democracy.

Fortunately, the independent ownership of this paper and our engaged, loyal readership have together made it possible for all of us at BW to continue to produce the kind of longform journalism that can cut through all the noise and hopefully make a difference when it comes to news and culture.

So let me just say thank you, people of Boulder County — readers and the members of the business community who make our jobs both possible and meaningful.

Here’s to the next 25 years. I hope our 50th anniversary finds the world less threatened by global warming, our broken political and health care systems, racism, internet disinformation and manipulation strategies, nationalism and an overall lack of concern for the least among us.

While I sure can’t guarantee a better world, I do promise that all of us at Boulder Weekly will do our best to give everyone the information they need to help bring about such change.

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danish plan Fighting climate change like World War II by Paul Danish

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lexandria OcasioWhen the government needed Cortez drew a lot of land for hundreds of new military snickers a couple weeks bases and factories, it appropriated it, ago when she said compensated the owners, and gave Millennials and Gen Z them 30 to 60 days to get out. The “thought the world is gonna end in concept of environmental impact 12 years if we don’t address climate statements didn’t exist. If they had, change” and that the fight against it they wouldn’t have been allowed to is “our World War II.” interfere with the war effort.

Most of the merriment focused In six years the United States on “the end is nigh” part, of course, built 27 state-of-the-art fleet aircraft but the “our World War II” reference carriers, probably the single most is actually worth some critical expensive conventional weapons of thought. the war on a per unit basis. An Fighting global warming like equivalent in the war on global World War II, huh? warming would be the construction Well let’s review what fighting of 27 state-of-the-art 1,400-megaWorld War II like World War II was watt nuclear reactors in six years. like before signing up for a similar (Interestingly, the current cost of a sort of rendezstate-of-the-art vous with desti1,400-megawatt ny. nuclear reactor IF THE U.S. World War in the U.S. and a II broke out on state-of-the-art IS GOING TO Sep. 1, 1939 aircraft carrier, FIGHT climate when the Nazis the U.S.S. change like WW II, invaded Poland.

Gerald Ford, are While the U.S. roughly compait has to recognize didn’t actually rable, about $13 that countries like declare war on billion a unit.) anybody until The U.S. also China and India are after the built about 120 also in the fight.

Japanese smaller escort attacked Pearl carriers during Harbor on the war. Think December 7, of them as the 1941, the U.S. equivalent of started preparing for war withlarge solar power plants. (The curin weeks. rent cost of a 500 megawatt solar It didn’t take us long to get up to power plant is about $500 million.) speed.

The U.S. built about 45,000 By the end of 1944, 36 percent of medium and heavy bombers (B-17s, the country’s economy was being B-24s, B-25s, B-29s) during World devoted to the military, about $63 War II. Think of these as the equivabillion out of a $175 billion GDP lent of producing 45,000 3-megawatt (measured in 1940 dollars). A similar wind turbines. (A state-of-the-art effort today to fight climate change 3-megawatt wind turbine costs $4 to like World War II would mean $6 million.) diverting about $7.5 trillion a year of But this amount of World War II a $21 trillion GDP to the fight. weapons output translated into elecFood and gasoline were rationed. tric generating capacity wouldn’t Car production for the civilian marcome close to providing the electric ket was suspended for nearly four power the U.S. would need to disyears. Auto plants were making place its use of fossil fuels. We’re not planes, tanks and military vehicles. just talking about getting rid of coalBOULDER WEEKLY

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fired power plants. We’re also talking about getting rid of natural-gas-fired power plants, home and business heating by natural gas, gasoline- and diesel-powered cars and trucks (all 200 million of them, and expanding electric generating capacity to provide the juice for their replacements), etc., etc.

In 2015, Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson calculated what it would take for the U.S. to get 100 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel and non-nuclear sources. He estimated the U.S. could get half the electricity it needed if it built 484,000 5-megawatt wind turbines and an additional 30 percent from 46,000 50-megawatt solar power plants.

Installing 5-kilowatt home solar power systems on 75 million rooftops would produce an additional 4 percent of national needs.

And that is just part of what it would take to win the war against climate change in the U.S. But World War II was a world war and so is the war against global warming. Ending fossil fuel use in the U.S. is only about 20 percent of the global battle if that. Jacobson has also calculated that if the entire planet were to go to 100 percent renewable energy, it would need 3.8 million 5-megawatt wind turbines to supply half its energy needs.

Jacobson’s calculations have been brutally criticized for being overly optimistic.

There’s more.

On June 30, 1939, two months before Hitler invaded Poland, the total manpower of the U.S. armed forces stood at 334,473. By the end JANUARY 31, 2019

of the war in 1945, about 16 million men and women had served in the U.S. military. More than 416,000 were dead. Compared to other belligerents, U.S. casualties were light.

America’s population at the time was about 135 million; at the height of the war about 12 percent of the population was in the military.

Today’s population is about 330 million, so a similar mobilization today to fight global warming would call up about 40 million.

The U.S. probably wouldn’t need to call 40 million men and women to the colors to fight global warming like World War II. And it probably wouldn’t take hundreds of thousands of casualties. Still...

If the U.S. is going to fight climate change like World War II, it has to recognize that countries like China and India are also in the fight — like the Axis was in the fight during World War II, that is. They’re building coal-fired power plants like there was no tomorrow, or at least no 2030.

If the U.S. wants to win the war on global warming like it won World War II, it will have to challenge them on this — maybe starting with economic sanctions. Like when FDR sanctioned Japan in 1941 by embargoing oil and steel sales to it. Of course the embargo is what led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

If the war on global warming turned into a shooting war with China... uh, maybe Congresswoman Osario-Cortez should give some thought to finding another metaphor.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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What a difference 25 years makes for some Boulder County businesses

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or many in the media business, it was a very different world back in 1993 when Boulder Weekly printed its first edition. That’s an understatement, of course. Few industries have seen as much change in the last 25 years as publishing.

And while newsrooms across the nation have shrunk, papers have folded and reporters have switched careers, the Weekly has actually managed to grow and thrive through it all. While this edition is a celebration of our first 25 years in business, we also thought it would be interesting to talk to other successful businesses that launched around the same time.

What we learned talking to a handful of Boulder County business owners is that a lot can happen in 25 years, and the need for businesses to adapt to change is universal. The population surge in Boulder County, the proliferation of the internet and wind gusts of political and social change has forced local business and organization owners to adapt in order to succeed.

As part of our look back, we spoke to six local owners whose businesses are turning 25 about what they’ve done to keep up with the changing times.

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“It was suggested by my partners who said, ‘Hey, let’s do this.’ We were just playing in rock bands and having a good time, and we did it to have fun and have something on the side. Despite our poor management, it actually made some money.”

The first Tribal Rites location opened in Fort Collins, with one soon to

follow in Boulder and another, later, in he Longmont Community Longmont. Shuger says getting clients Foundation is a great example of how back then was much easier — as easy, he the growth of Boulder County has been says, as going into a bar, making friends driven by those within it. The idea to with the patrons and encouraging them launch a community foundation in Longmont started in 1988, with a chalto stop in at the shop. lenge to raise half a million dollars from But the market has since become local philanthropists that would be saturated. The silver lining, Shuger says, matched by the Boettcher Foundation. is societal acceptance of tattoos and By 1994, the money had been raised piercings. and the Longmont Community “We’re no longer a fringe service,” Foundation was up and running.

Shuger says. “I see statistics pop up There were plenty of projects local every now and then, something like 25 stakeholders were ready to address, says to 30 percent of people have piercings other than in their ears. I Pernillan via Wikimedia Commons think it’s as high as 50 percent of people have some small tattoo. It’s a massive market. It’s huge.

The artistry and how it’s evolved is amazing. The choices you have for jewelry has just expanded logarithmically.”

Back when tattoos and piercings still existed on that cultural fringe, Boulder served as a welcoming enclave because of its progressive values, and despite, Shuger says, what some perceived as the “hoity-toity” attitude Eric Hozempa, executive director of the that came hand-in-hand with that Longmont Community Foundation. worldview.

“One of the things was to help with “Boulder always ... was on the bleeding edge of progressivism, but it had the infrastructure issues in Longmont. At the time, we were looking at reconupside of being open to the edge of taboo as well,” Shuger says. “I personally structing the library and what to do ... think Boulder stayed, at least socially, downtown,” Hozempa says. “So there kind of the same. Things that were was the sense of what to do with revitaltaboo in other places and where it took ization and economic growth. … There some time to warm up to them, it didn’t were some other things going on.

Homelessness continues to be an issue, in Boulder.” [as does] affordability. Education was Eric Hozempa one of the bigger ones too.”

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their goals. Hozempa points out several success stories over the years, including construction of the OUR Center and the Longmont Museum, and providing access to scholarships for local students.

The Foundation also took in funds to aid those affected by the 2013 floods, and Hozempa says it’s a point of pride that nearly all of the money was dispersed, transparently, within four weeks of the flood.

The Foundation currently manages about $13 million in assets, and of the 100 or so groups that apply for funding through the Foundation every year, about 75 percent receive some degree of support.

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eresa and Bob Dodge were living in Massachusetts, spending their weekends indulging their passion for antiquities by perusing New England’s many flea markets, auctions and antique stores. When they came out to Boulder County 25 years ago to be closer to family, they noticed Colorado didn’t have the rich landscape of antique goods the Northeast did, and pursued buying and selling old and rare goods as a hobby.

More than two decades later, what was once a passion project has blossomed into a full-fledged business. The Dodge’s Artemis Gallery — thanks in part to the advancement in internet auction sites — had its biggest auction to date last fall, selling $1.2 million worth of global antiquities from its Louisville warehouse to a worldwide customer base.

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Thirty to 40 percent of what we sell goes outside the U.S.” Today, Bob is the brains, and Teresa’s the brawn, so to speak — Bob locates antiquities and Teresa figures out how to sell them. The internet first provided access to eBay, then came LiveAuctioneers, which has ignited Artemis’ growth. But even though the company sells mostly to customers outside of Boulder County, the internetderived growth has enabled Artemis to employ 20 people locally and fill out a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in the Louisville Tech Center.

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and Facebook and things like that. I am seeing a lot of backlash; people don’t like these companies with all this data. There may be a trend back to smaller, local companies.”

Ilacqua remembers, with a laugh, uploading pictures of editions of Boulder Weekly onto this publication’s first website. Web publishing has grown immensely since then, and Ilacqua is proud to be one of the remaining tech pioneers still in business, even as those big-name companies set up shop in Boulder County.

“I think it’s really exciting. It’s impressive to walk down the street and see the Twitter logo or Amazon logo. It’s kind of cool the tech community we started building has attracted this,” Ilacqua says.

peaking of the internet, Spike Ilacqua founded one of the country’s first internet service providers in Boulder in 1994, Indra. The company not only provided access to the early web, but helped connect people along the Front Range via telephone, when calling from Longmont or Nederland to Denver was considered “long-distance.”

At a time when the internet was still in its infancy, Ilacqua remembers a robust community of tech entrepreneurs in Boulder County helping to connect people.

“It kind of reminds me of the startup community now,” Ilacqua says. “By a matter of coincidence and the presence of the university, there was actually a fair number of internet pioneers here.”

Of course today, large internet service providers like Xfinity and CenturyLink have forced smaller companies like Indra out of that field, but the company still provides email and web hosting. Ilacqua says the growing skepticism of faceless companies holding and selling data has driven the company’s growth.

“We set ourselves apart from the big guys by having strong customer service,” Ilacqua says. “There’s been a lot of consolidation, the world runs around Google I

he internet’s growth and corporate consolidation has affected retail business as much as it has the publishing industry. Mark Benassi took over a music shop, now Lafayette Music, that launched in 1994, and he’s had to adjust his business in order to compete with internet retailers like Amazon that can sell sheet music and instruments below market rate, and national chains like Guitar Center, which flood the market and dictate prices.

But Benassi’s found a way around those changes, creating unique incentives for his customers like a lease-to-own system that allows people to buy, say, a trumpet on a monthly payment plan, and allow these folks to trade in that instrument for another and attribute the money they already paid on the trumpet to the new instrument. What Benassi laments, however, is common among Boulder County retailers: the high cost of doing business in this area in 2019.

“The biggest change is really how much more expensive it’s gotten to operate a retail business,” Benassi says.

“Things like this increase in minimum wage. ... I will not hire a high school kid anymore. We used to hire high school kids, seven, eight bucks an hour. Forget it, I can’t afford it. I don’t know where those kids are going to learn what it takes to have a job.

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“It’s very deceptive, the press doesn’t report it,” Benassi continues. “We want this bond issue, it’s gonna cost the average homeowner 50 bucks a year, but it costs the average commercial property owner 500 dollars. For that increase on the homeowner, there’s a much bigger increase on the commercial property owner, and he just tacks it onto the rent.

Boulder County is killing themselves.”

But Benassi maintains that the challenges he faces are consistent among all Colorado retailers, and he laments that the state hasn’t done enough to support its independent businesses.

“When we looked at this business 10 years ago, the cost and the climate was so much better. People were coming here from other states because it was cheaper to live and we still had jobs. We have the exact opposite today,” Benassi says. “We’ve made Colorado great, property values have gone up, but we’ve created a state that’s so expensive. People are leaving California in droves, they used to come to Colorado; now they’re going to Texas, to Tennessee. That’s not a good sign.”

so has only come about in the last decade or so.

“That’s become a little more mainstream over time... having a rich environment, encouraging play, really working with children to learn their pre-verbal skills,” Bollaert says. “In the last five to 10 years, the focus has started to shift, and we really understand how much

social emotional development occurs [early in a child’s life]. It’s just absolutely transformative what the long-term results are.”

Bollaert says that Boulder County has proven to be fertile ground for parents interested in getting their kids into early childhood education programs, and the abundance of the area’s pre-

schools and early grade schools, no matter the specifics of the program, has proven to be a case study in the benefits of doing so.

Congratulations to all our business peers who have made it 25 years. We’ll look forward to celebrating your 50-year mark before you know it.

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he surge in property values has surely benefited Colorado schools, at least.

Even schools like The Acorn School, which caters to infants and preschoolaged children, benefit from a community that has the means to invest in early childhood education.

But that doesn’t mean the change has been automatic. When The Acorn School launched 25 years ago, it was one of the County’s first schools to place an emphasis on early childhood education, says Executive Director André Bollaert.

“There’s a real focus for our school on education. That seems like a strange thing to say,” Bollaert says.

“We’re not daycare. We do early education. Our teachers have a background in early childhood development. They understand how we can support the development of young people.”

The kids who were in Acorn’s first classes are now out of high school or college and making an impact in the world, and Bollaert says the proof is in the pudding for intervening in a child’s education early on, even if the research proving BOULDER WEEKLY

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oulder’s accelerating growth Not only is Boulder as expensive as spurt is the hot topic in ever, the major arguments for or every bistro and boardroom against development and growth in town. And right at the remain more or less the same as well. heart of it is the question of It seems growth is still the topic that available housing,” so reads Boulder turns Boulder’s political wheel. And Weekly’s first cover story published in with time, the problem has only 1993. The article went on to say, “the spread to the rest of Boulder County. good news is that there are plenty of Growth in Longmont, Louisville houses for sale in Boulder. The bad and Lafayette (not to mention the rest news is that most of them are going of the state) is also booming, and only for more than $200,000.”

5 percent of all housing in the county Wouldn’t $200K houses in is considered affordable, as defined by Boulder be a great problem to have a household spending no more than today? The bot30 percent of All photos by Angela K. Evans tom line is this; income on rent or growth and mortgage, accordaffordable housing ing to the Boulder were the biggest County Regional issues of the day Housing when BW Partnership. launched a quarter “I was discourof a century ago, aged and a little and they’re still chagrined that two of the area’s here we are 25 biggest problems. years later, not So, we decided to only has the situare-interview some tion not improved of the people feabut some of us, tured in our first Steve (Pomerance) cover story and and I in particular, get their take on are still saying the why so little progsame things,” says Steve Pomerance ress has been former mayor made on these (’90-’97) Leslie important issues.

Durgin, who only recently retired “You can just change the prices “again” after working with the Boulder and the date and it’s about right,” say Chamber of Commerce on workforce Paul Danish, former Boulder City housing.

Councilman and Boulder County It has, in fact, become a tragedy of Commissioner who lives in the commons, according to neighborLongmont. It’s a sentiment echoed hood advocate Steve Pomerance, the recently by many of those originally same argument he used in 1993 when interviewed 25 years ago. he was a City Council member.

Local politicians and developers “My impression of it is that the alike, all of whom have lived in problems were a little closer to being Boulder some 50 years or more, say solvable, or a little further away from not much has changed when it comes being completely unsolvable. So they to affordability in Boulder. weren’t as on the edge as they are It’s a quarter of a century later and now,” Pomerance says. “In other the median listing price for a house in words, it wasn’t as obvious then how Boulder is now upwards of $850,000. bad traffic was going to get. It wasn’t BOULDER WEEKLY

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as obvious then [how] dramatic increases in home prices were going to be. We were looking in the future then, saying, ‘We can see this coming.’

Now it’s here. And everything anybody wants to do is going to have an impact on somebody.”

As Pomerance sees it, maybe one thing has changed since 1993: Boulder, like much of the society around it, has become increasingly polarized over these issues. Progrowth factions are pitted against neighborhood advocate groups, each side vying for power, filling public hearings over these issues and fighting for City Council seats.

While Boulder may seem united in its progressive and liberal ideals to the rest of the world, arguments over how to, if at all, develop Boulder as the population grows continue.

“We’re not immune from the Paul Danish polarization,” Durgin says.

“Sartre defined community as two people being stared at by a third, or I would say staring at a third. So we stare at Donald Trump, but our community in some ways is pretty thin.”

“Politics really come out when you try and build something,” long-time developer Rich McCabe says.

“Everybody gets involved, everybody has an opinion. Maybe that’s good, but it makes it slow. And it makes it expensive.”

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ing. “From a selfish point of view it’s because I never have to worry about the market,” he says, “because if you’re building on the low end there’s a long line.”

But it was a model that became increasingly difficult for McCabe locally. When BW interviewed him in 1993, McCabe was trying to get the Dakota Ridge neighborhood approved, a process that took him a decade in the end. The process was so laborious and ever-changing that he’s never worked in Boulder again.

McCabe says, “it was the planning process fiasco in Boulder” that eventually made him start working elsewhere. Although he still lives, and offices in Boulder, he refuses to develop any property in the City.

“They essentially eliminated my profession from town and what I’m trying to do and what I love to do,” he says.

“The scale of job classification from top to bottom would find used cars salesmen ahead of developers.”

He did a few projects in Denver, and now spends most of his time on PrairieStar, a large mixed-use development in Berthoud he’s been working on for the last 18 years or so. “There were some processes there but, man, everybody is cooperative and happy and they help along, they don’t hinder.

It’s a very different world. And it still takes some time, but not at the same expense.”

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hand, he agrees with McCabe: The level of regulations the City has imposed on developers has driven prices up astronomically. On the other hand, he thinks a city has an optimal population of 50-100,000 residents, which Boulder has long-since surpassed.

“The old rule is when you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging. And Boulder is continuing to dig,” Danish says. “It’s the old Looney Tunes expression, ‘That’s all folks.’”

Back then, Danish envisioned a city built to “human scale” where green space was interspersed with three- and four-story buildings of mixed-use developments that didn’t look like “tenements,” as Rich McCabe many of the newer apartment buildings and townhouses do, especially the ones built in the name of affordable housing. It’s what’s behind his infamous 1976 Danish Plan, which restricted the annual housing supply growth to an annual rate of 2 percent, although the current ordinance has undergone some transformations since then.

“But it can’t be forced fed, it has to come up from the bottom,” Danish says, which, in his estimation, didn’t happen. “Boulder has paid lip service to it, but they haven’t implemented it properly, and I think it’s affecting the quality of life adversely.”

Not only that, Pomerance, Danish and Durgin all agree, now the lack of affordability is more widespread, as housing prices continue to rise in Longmont, Lafayette and Louisville, not to mention significant development growth both south, into Superior and Broomfield, and east into Erie. Whereas families who couldn’t afford housing in Boulder 25 years ago moved to East County, I

today there isn’t much of anywhere else to go.

“If you had told us then that Longmont will be a desirable and increasingly unaffordable community, I don’t think we would have believed you,” says former mayor Durgin. “I wish we had known how complicated it would be.”

Although she’s optimistic the county now has a region-wide collaborative effort to address housing affordability, it really only came together in the last few years. And she’s hopeful the relatively new Boulder County Regional Housing Partnership will be able to tackle the problem in informed and innovative ways.

“Simply having money isn’t going to solve the problem. You can’t solve it without money, but money in and of itself, it’s not going to solve it,” Durgin says. “I think back to the CHAP and I think we thought it was going to solve it.”

The 1993 article spoke extensively of the City’s Community Housing Assistance Program (CHAP), which was novel at the time: citizens taxing themselves to subsidize housing affordability through both development and homeownership assistance.

Today, in addition to CHAP, the City has a variety of other programs to fund affordable housing, including money from the federal government, and yet affordability is still an issue.

“I do not believe, as I did 25 years ago, we’re going to have a magic bullet to solve the problem,” Durgin says. “If we are really going to solve the housing problem, we have to look at a whole bunch of different avenues and create some political will and also flexibility and the willingness to experiment.”

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its affordable housing from 3 to 7 percent since 2000, solutions have proved more or less elusive.

So, will Boulder still be having this same conversation 25 years from now?

“Before reading this [1993] article, I would have said no,” Durgin says, admitting she’s now not so sure. “I hope not, but I don’t have much confidence.”

The idea is sobering for Durgin, who says she, like the City Council of 1993, is generally optimistic, with a “can-do” attitude.

In both Danish’s and Pomerance’s estimation, the conversation is only going to intensify and continue to broaden outside of Boulder’s boundaries, to the rest of the Front Range. “[We’ll have a] much more radical discussion then, which is: Do Leslie Durgin you want to continue to develop the strip cities from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Trinidad, Colorado? That’s where we’re headed,” Danish says. “And we may have to, with planetary growth continuing.”

He brings up a good point, one not mentioned in 1993. Impending climate change, and the necessity to both combat and adapt to it as the population continues to grow, will inevitably drive the conversation in the future.

Although sustainability has always been the backbone of Boulder’s development, it now must be the focus of every single conversation moving forward, including housing affordability.

And with that, it may be time to pass the baton and make room for younger generations to decide what they want.

“I’m not at all sure that the present generation wants to live like I did,” Danish says. “It’s a much more urban generation, a great deal of its social life is electronic. ... I don’t know how millennials and Generation Z want to live.

And the most important thing I would say to them is get yourself involved

because you’re designing the city you’re going to live in the next 50 years.”

It’s not only previous generations who are aware of the affordability issues in Boulder, however. In the latest community survey, only 8 percent of Boulderites rated affordable quality housing as excellent or good, and only 19 percent said the same for housing options. The cost of living in the city has an abysmal approval rating of only 9 percent, well below the national average. Contrast that with a 90 percent or more rating on Boulder’s economy, education, transportation and natural environment and it’s clear that affordability is still a major issue in Boulder.

“It’s really essential to get some different voices into this discussion and debate,” Durgin says. “To bring in not just younger voices, but people with different experiences, expectations, maybe [even] from other communities. Having Steve Pomerance and Leslie Durgin yammering on about it 25 years later is not solving the problem.”

As the next generation engages with the issues of affordability in the City of Boulder, Boulder County and throughout the state, perhaps affordability can be addressed in a meaningful and effective way. Or maybe the current, as well as past, situation is just the price tag that comes with living in Boulder.

“The city’s long-time policy of restricted growth has protected the local environment and high quality of life. Along with the area’s natural beauty and strong economy, that has made Boulder one of the most sought-after urban living environments in the country. More and more people are moving here to find the good life,” BW’s inaugural cover story said. And it may still be a good life here in Boulder County, but at what cost?

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our billion miles from the Earth on New Year’s Eve, a spacecraft traveling at 32,000 miles per hour zoomed past a tiny object roughly the size of Denver. It would be humanity’s first glimpse of the vast cloud of icy bodies that populate the space beyond Pluto, a fossil record of the solar system’s formation billions of years ago. Scientists from Boulder had discovered this object only four years earlier, and were ringing in the new year by monitoring the encounter from a control room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. The dramatic flyby was a sequel for NASA’s New Horizons mission, which sent back the first close-up images of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon a few years ago. Launched in 2006, New Horizons was the speediest spacecraft in history, and it still took nearly a decade to reach the edge of the solar system. Like an express train with no stops, New Horizons snaps photos and collects other data as it zips past its targets, with no second chances.

At this distance from the Earth, commands sent from the control room take six hours to reach their destination, and a response from New Horizons takes another six hours to be returned. It’s not possible to maneuver in real time, so the planning must be flawless.

“We knew we wanted to look for objects beyond Pluto,” says John Spencer, a staff scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and Deputy Project Scientist for the New Horizons mission. “There weren’t any known objects that we could reach, so we had to find them ourselves.”

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about this encore for the mission in 2002. Starting in 2011, he led the effort to secure telescope time and scan the region of sky that New Horizons could reach with its remaining fuel after the Pluto flyby.

The team succeeded a few years later, using the Hubble Space Telescope to discover an object formally known as “2014 MU69,” more recently nicknamed “Ultima Thule.”

Final preparations for the recent encounter started last August, when New Horizons began taking regular images of Ultima Thule to refine the trajectory of the flyby and to survey the surrounding area for possible hazards, like moons or rings. At first the images were obtained weekly, but they gradually became more frequent as the spacecraft got closer to the target. By mid-December, no hazards had been identified and the team chose a trajectory that would take New Horizons within 2,200 miles of the surface. The results were spectacular.

By now you have probably seen the first close-up images of Ultima Thule, showing two roundish blobs physically connected like a giant snowman. The color version of the image reveals a reddish-brown hue, an indication that its surface might I

Ultima Thule, with its reddish-brown surface, may be a perfectly preserved specimen from the dawn of our solar system.

be perfectly preserved from the dawn of the solar system. Ultima Thule is part of a population of objects, known as the Kuiper belt, which has remained mostly unperturbed for billions of years.

A fraction of these icy bodies might eventually dive into the inner solar system as comets, destroying their pristine state as they approach the Sun and heat up. The lumpy structure of Ultima Thule encodes important information about how our solar system formed.

“We’ve been saying for years that we would be able to use the shape of this object to help understand the formation of the planets, but I don’t think I ever expected it to be so obvious,” says Spencer. “It’s so obviously two objects that formed separately and then came together, which is essential if you’re going to build planets and not just produce a bunch of debris.”

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clouds, like the famous “Pillars of Creation” image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Collisions within the massive disks of gas and dust that surround young stars gradually build larger orbiting bodies over time. As the objects grow larger, collisions become less frequent, and building planet-sized objects requires city-sized chunks of rock to stick together instead of fragmenting back into smaller pieces. The first image of Ultima Thule appears to be a snapshot of this fragile phase of planet formation.

In addition to the images, New Horizons gathered many other observations that will help scientists learn more about the properties of the Kuiper belt. Infrared data will probe the surface composition of Ultima Thule, searching for water ice, dry ice and frozen methane, while microwave radiation will be used to measure the surface temperature. Ultraviolet observations will measure any gas in the atmosphere, and an instrument built by students at the University of Colorado will detect any dust that surrounds the object.

New Horizons recorded many gigabytes of data during its 12-hour encounter with Ultima Thule, but it will take many months to transmit it all back to Earth with a connection that is slower than 1990s dial-up internet service. The transmitter operates on the amount of power needed to illuminate an old light bulb, but it is expected to keep working for another 15 years as the spacecraft continues its journey outwards.

The snowman image was just our first glimpse of the outer solar system; much more is sure to come in the months and years ahead.

Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

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oulder Weekly has always made environmental reporting a top priority. Looking back through our archives paints a striking picture of just how much has changed on the environmental front, and at the same time, how much still needs to change.

In the early 1990s, much of our environmental reporting was investigative work centered around toxins on public lands. We reported on the hydrazine, aka rocket fuel, that had been poured into ditches when the old Beech Aircraft facility between Boulder and Lyons was still making weapons and fueling rockets for the Vietnam War. This hydrazine — considered one of the most toxic substances on the planet — had made its way into the groundwater and was contaminating the open space and surface water downhill of the plant.

The groundwater now has to be captured and treated before it is released downstream.

Toxins are still a big part of our investigative reporting at BW. We’ve broken many stories over the years from Syntex spills to problems with the Cemex plant near Lyons to the contamination under the Dushanbe Tea House.

And, of course, there was Valmont Butte, our 37,000-word, 10-part series that took three reporters more than six months to produce. What did we get for our efforts besides a few national awards? After refusing to allow BW to

attend the media tour of the finished project offered to all other news outlets, the City of Boulder also started charging BW (but not other local newspapers) ridiculous amounts of money for every open records request we made to the city. I guess some folks just don’t like watchdogs, or abiding by the laws pertaining to free speech... but I digress.

Toxins are still a big part of what we do, but looking back at our early reporting, it’s striking to note the lack of language around climate change, global warming and sustainability.

But it makes sense, that was back before the fracking boom began destroying our air quality and climate change started to show itself in the form of super storms, droughts, floods, crazy warm winters, hotter summers and wild changes in the nation’s weather patterns. And let’s not forget rapidly melting ice at the poles, warming oceans, sea level rise and increasing methane levels due to melting permafrost. There are good reasons our environmental reporting has expanded.

In recent years we have been very involved in reporting on efforts in Boulder County and other parts of the state to stop oil and gas extraction in our neighborhoods and limit its impact on the planet. We have covered the citizen activists fighting the oil industry and the politicians whose backroom deals have prevented Colorado citizens

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from freely exercising their constitutional rights to change the laws in order to protect their families’ health and property values. Even as I write this, the oil rigs are cued up on our eastern county border preparing for their long-awaited invasion of our public lands and our neighborhoods.

In an early issue of BW back in 1993, we wrote about old oil wells contaminating backyards in Lafayette and spoke with residents who wanted communities to have more control over what the industry could and couldn’t do in our neighborhoods.

Sounds familiar doesn’t it? But trust me, the people of Lafayette are making this same demand today only much louder, less politely and with a far greater sense of urgency.

Looking into my crystal ball regarding BW’s environmental coverage over the next 25 years, I suspect we will be writing about the coming assault on Front Range communities by the oil and gas industry. We will, no doubt, be covering the acceleration of global warming and doing our best to take on the political powers who have shown themselves to be beholden to oil industry money to such a degree that their environmental actions in response to global warming are little more than nearly meaningless incremental changes to regulations or the appointment of panels to supposedly “study” the issues.

My crystal ball also says that we will, in the not-too-distant future, be covering the popping of the oilshale economic bubble. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been borrowed against oil and gas reserves that are proving to be much smaller and lower-priced than the lenders had imagined, or were led to believe. This collapse will not only rock the global economy, it will ultimately stick citizen taxpayers with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of environmental remediation that must be done as the oil companies supposedly responsible for the eventual cleanup of tens of thousands of wells simply walk away or become insolvent.

We’ll see if my crystal ball is right.

But I wouldn’t bet or vote against it.

I wish I could say that our emphasis on environmental reporting was no longer needed, but as most of you know all too well, it has never been needed more.

And I suspect its importance will only grow in the future as our planet literally fights for its survival against a greedy corporate system addicted to hydrocarbons that has taken control of both major parties of our political system.

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From Lynn Hill to Alex Honnold, the past quarter-century moves climbing from fringe to mainstream by Emma Murray

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bout two-thirds into the recent Oscar-nominated documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold is balancing between two tiny rock nubs more than 1,000 feet above Yosemite’s valley floor; his feet are smeared against the granite, held by friction. He has no rope, no pack, no snacks — all accoutrements any other human would consider mandatory while ascending El Capitan, North America’s tallest vertical rock face. But Honnold doesn’t think he needs them.

His plan is to reach El Cap’s 3,200-foot summit, where a crew of friends and filmmakers await with celebratory offerings, before lunch.

But first, he has to get past what’s known as the “Boulder Problem” — a faithand-friction move from the two rock nubs with practically non-existent foot holds, to grip a small protrusion the size of a kid’s nose, on which you then switch hands, shuffle your feet a few inches over, and kick out your foot in the hopes that it’ll land securely on the granite face opposite a nauseating mini-chasm with hundreds of feet of air gushing down below.

And then, if you manage that, you push yourself up just enough to slip a few fingers into an overhead crack no bigger than a tube of toothpaste and move the rest of your body over the chasm. Without a rope.

He starts. Every palm in the movie theater sweats. He shuffles his feet over. People cover their eyes, forget their popcorn. He kicks his foot out and lets himself fall into the pad of his climbing shoe. Someone gasps in the front row. He slides his fingers into the crack. A pin drop would now be audible in the dark auditorium. Honnold looks directly at the camera, a remote system that Jimmy Chin, the famed National Geographic cinematographer and decorated climber, has set up a few feet left of the move. Honnold flashes a smile. He knows in that moment, with the hardest singular move of the route now under his belt, that I

instead of death, he is going to achieve “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever,” as the New York Times would later write on its front page. He reaches the top, and everyone — fellow professional climbers and curious, everyday people venturing to the movie theater alike — relaxes.

But rewind for a moment, to 25 years ago. It’s 1993, and the Californian superstar Lynn Hill makes the first “free ascent” of The Nose, El Cap’s most iconic route. For years, the best climbers in the world had been speculating whether or not the route could ever be done without the aid of equipment, so when Hill reached the summit that day, she made climbing history as the first person to use gear for nothing more than protection, her hands and feet doing all of the work to move up the thousands of vertical feet.

“I didn’t get near the attention,” Hill says recently of Honnold’s free solo. “I didn’t get, you know, whatever commercials. ... No car company ever came to me because I was always so far outside the norm. I mean the fact that a woman did something before a man should have been a much bigger thing; the #MeToo movement would’ve been all over that.”

Both Hill’s free ascent and Honnold’s free solo were visionary ascents that now bookmark chapters in climbing’s history; both reevaluated the capabilities of human physical and mental fortitude, redefining the JANUARY 31, 2019

future of climbing’s potential.

Lynn Hill, an instruOne just hapmental figure in pened at a point climbing history, climbs Ultrasaurus, in time when a route up the the thought of Flatirons that loom above Boulder. climbing having anything to do with national news headlines, IMAX movies, Oscar nominations, multi-million-dollar sponsors, the Olympics, or festivals that sell out in under two minutes would have been crazier than a mountaineer’s delusional gibberish after five days without food on a mountain face.

Twenty-five years ago, climbing was just something that white guys with too much time on their hands did for fun. Women like Hill were minorities in the U.S.’s three main climbing communities — Yosemite, Boulder and “the Gunks” in New York. “Training” mostly consisted of just climbing, a lot, outside. People from everywhere migrated to Boulder, which had become the epicenter of cutting-edge climbing.

Ruminating on how the sport has evolved over the past quarter-century, Roger Briggs — the legendary lifelong Boulder resident with thoughtful stormy eyes who climbers can thank for his first free ascents of classic Eldorado Canyon lines and the hardest routes up the vertical east face of see CLIMBING Page 32

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Longs Peak, known as “The Diamond” (which, since age 16, he’s climbed more than 100 times) — considers the span between Hill’s and Honnold’s accomplishments as a measure of the sport’s progress.

“OK, from 25 years ago, you can say it’s gone from Lynn to Alex,” he says. “Climbing is such a classic example of what people think is possible, and then someone shatters that.” One feat might seem more insane than the other, but neither were ever a given for the sport.

So how did we get from Hill to Honnold? Namely, the advent of climbing gyms and social media, both Hill and Briggs point out, two innovations that, on one hand, helped people get stronger and secure professional sponsorships, but, on the other hand, also led to the epic popularity boom the climbing industry grapples with today.

Climbing’s roots dig back before World War II, but most major and modern gear advancements happened between the ’60s and ’80s, with a code of ethics developing in tandem.

This set up the ’90s for a process of technique refinement and the exploration of human limits. The Boulder Rock Club, an indoor climbing facility, opened its doors in 1991, providing a space for climbers to perfect their training regiments, and for a new generation of kids to get involved.

Since then, all disciplines of climbing — traditional, sport and I

bouldering — have exploded in popularity. Professional climbers/Boulder County residents like Sasha DiGiulian, Daniel Woods and Jon Cardwell, among many others, have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of followers on social media. Documentaries are now commonplace, and youth climbing teams continue to grow.

No one really knows how many climbers live in Boulder County at the moment, but with seven public climbing gyms in Longmont, Louisville and Boulder alone, it’s safe to say a lot. Venture to Boulder or Eldorado Canyons on the weekend, and it’s like the entire 5 p.m. gym crowd is out on a field trip.

Briggs bets there are at least 10,000 climbers; in 2011 he founded the Boulder Climbing Coalition to help channel climbing stewardship opportunities, and he says at least 2,000 people are on the organization’s email list.

Malcolm Daly, who moved to Colorado for college (cough, climbing) in the ’70s and never left, founded the climbing company Trango and remembers the early days of Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), back when the overflow parking lots weren’t necessary and only a special occasion instigated a line of cars at the visitor entrance. “When I moved here ... sport climbing had just been invented,” he says. “Boulder Canyon was a trad climbing area just like Eldorado is.”

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In those days, “We could go find a cliff that hadn’t been climbed before in RMNP and do routes on it,” Daly says.

“Those cliffs have pretty much all been found. They have routes on them and they’re in guidebooks now.”

Gary Neptune, founder of Neptune Mountaineering, remembers the early days, too, hiking to a crag in Boulder Canyon, at least twice finding naked women sunbathing. “And that’s how few people there were. They were just down by the river just out of sight of everybody else,” he says. Today, you’re lucky if you find a parking slot after 10 a.m.

While the epic surge of climbing’s popularity has frustrated some, to others it’s a symbol of the community’s success. Hill says, “It’s just a reality.” Since she moved to Boulder in the early 2000s, she’s watched local crags grow too crowded to even get on a route at times. “It’s unfortunate.

[But] I’m glad because I feel like finally the world is waking up. They understand how cool climbing is and they understand how important it is to give back to the environment, give back to humanity.”

Daly says, “Maybe we have the same number of men, but many more women... and that’s a good reason

[why there are more climbers], by the way.”

He sees adventure opportunities simply changing, now that most of the terrain around Boulder has been climbed. “People are combining things.

They’re doing three Diamond routes in a day, or big ridge traverse from Meeker all the way up to Notchtop; they’re finding new ways to have adventures and I think that’s going to continue. I think that’s one of our inherent things being human beings: we seek adventure, we want new experiences.”

This month Free Solo began its second round of screenings in the U.S., this time competing for an Academy Award. Next year, climbing makes its Olympic debut, a handful of Boulderites like Margo Hayes and Brooke Raboutou, both raised on local outdoor rock and at Boulder’s climbing gyms, competing for spots on Team U.S.A. As climbing fever spreads, with people being introduced at gyms in places without outdoor rock or inspired by social media stars and movies like Free Solo, “A lot of them are going to want to go outdoors and come here,” Briggs says, just like they have for decades. “Boulder was the center at [climbing’s inception], and still is.”

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ransformative. It’s a big word, but if anything, it might actually understate the changes Tonight Alive have experienced between making the 2016 album Limitless and starting to tour the band’s newly released follow-up, Underworld.

The Australian band has switched record labels, reshaped its sound and seen the departure of a treasured band member. And in the case of singer Jenna McDougall, the changes have perhaps been even more profound, as she has suffered through major physical and emotional challenges before reaching a place now where she’s able to live a healthier, happier, more authentic life.

Looking back, McDougall realizes she can trace some debilitating physical and mental problems to the time when Tonight Alive was making Limitless and facing some difficult decisions about the kind of album the band would release.

“I mean, Limitless and Underworld are very much connected,” McDougall says. “It’s kind of like a two-part series, and Underworld is a direct product and result of Limitless, even though they might come off as polar opposite records.”

The Limitless album marked a crossroads of sorts in the band’s career.

Their second album, 2013’s The Other Side, received strong reviews and debuted in the states at No. 44 on Billboard’s album chart and at No. 5 in their native Australia.

The momentum had Tonight Alive’s Australian label, Sony, thinking a commercial breakthrough with Limitless was within reach, McDougall says. And those ambitions translated into what in some ways was a difficult album for the group, which at the time included 34

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by Alan Sculley McDougall, guitarists Jake Hardy and Whakaio Taahi, bassist Cameron Adler and drummer Matt Best.

The first hurdle came when the band members submitted what they thought would be the songs for the third album. Sony rejected that batch of songs and suggested that Tonight Alive’s writing team of McDougall and JANUARY 31, 2019

Taahi work with some outside writers to come up with new songs for the album.

The band complied, and the result was an album that softened some of the band’s punkier edges and had more of a radio-friendly pop feel. The label’s commercial ambitions made the making of Limitless a trying experience at times for I

Tonight Alive.

“There was a lot of argument with that record, with our producer (David Bendeth) and with our label about the way things should be recorded and the songs that should be chosen,” McDougall says. “We tried so much to have faith in these people that do have a lot of experience and have had very successful records. It was really getting into our heads because we weren’t just trusting our instincts.”

For McDougall, the stresses of making the album and the mixed reception and lukewarm sales performance of Limitless contributed strongly to some serious physical and mental health issues.

“I remember being in the studio in Jersey and I started getting all of these symptoms I never had before, like head spins every time I stood up,” McDougall says. “And I’d get heart palpitations, but not in moments that were obvious. It wasn’t like a stressful or anxious moment that these heart palpitations happened. It could be when I was lying down and resting. I started getting hot flashes and like my eye, I’d get black and white light in my eyes, just weird things like that. And the final symptom of making that record, being in the studio, was I almost felt like I was being strangled. I didn’t have pain, and my throat wasn’t swollen. But I couldn’t sing without feeling like I was being pushed, something was pushing me back. I pushed my voice back inside my throat, I think.

“So I went to a hospital, I went to doctors, I got acupuncture. I tried a lot of different remedies,” she says. “But I think on a spiritual level, that was really representing the truth being suppressed BOULDER WEEKLY

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and not feeling like I was doing it ty she had neglected and be totally hon(music) for me.” est in her lyrics, while Taahi tapped The mental and physical issues con- back into the riffy, harder edged rock tinued as Tonight Alive toured behind that he loves.

Limitless and extended right through The result is an emotionally impactthe recording of Underworld. At various ful album in Underworld that retains the points McDougall battled depression, pop sense Tonight Alive has always fatigue and eczema — the latter being a shown, but shifts toward a heavier, more skin condition that had long afflicted rock-centric sound, particularly on the singer and actually caused the band tunes like the hard-hitting single to cancel a spring 2012 tour.

“Temple” (a song in which McDougall Throughout this period, McDougall dissects her health problems) and was taking steps to try to improve her “Crack My Heart” (which deals with health, including accepting some emoaltering her diet and tional flaws eventually going McDougall has seen vegan. But what in herself ). Other ON THE BILL: Tonight finally put her on a songs, like “The Alive — with The Mighty, Doll Skin. 6:30 p.m. Friday, path to much better Other,” and “In My Feb. 15, Marquis Theater, health and feeling Dreams,” are more 2009 Larimer St., Denver. more settled emotextured, but retain a $17 advance/$20 day of show (if available). tionally was learning good bit of tension about a meditation and energy. technique called The writing and yoga nidra. recording of “It’s really amazing,” McDougall Underworld went well, even though says. “They say you’re going to the McDougall still struggled with health sleepless dream state, so you’re actually issues through that time. But during the conscious in a way, but your body kind five months off between finishing the of shuts down as if you’re sleeping. So album and starting pre-release promoyou get to consciously experience that tion, McDougall was able to return to peace that your body has when it’s Australia, decompress, and with the asleep. And it’s unreal. I was basically help of her new diet and yoga nidra, prescribed that. I started speaking to a regain her physical and emotional doctor and he was sort of counseling health. me over the phone, and he kind of preBut one significant setback occurred scribed it three times a day to start with. in fall 2017 when Taahi decided to I now only do it a couple of times a leave Tonight Alive to pursue a writing week, but it’s as if it was my medicine, and producing career in Nashville. and it really changed things for me.”

The group has decided — at least The band also got to a healthier for now — not to replace Taahi and place musically with Underworld. instead perform as a four-piece. The After Limitless, Tonight Alive partgroup’s set, McDougall says, will ed ways with Sony (as well as their include a cross-section of key songs American label, Fearless Records) and from Tonight Alive’s four albums, and signed with Hopeless Records in the the group has settled on a way to comStates and internationally, and with pensate for Taahi’s absence — using UNFD in Australia. Both labels told pre-recorded guitar parts to fill the gaps the band to make the kind of album in the band’s live sound. they wanted to make, which freed up “I want to say we’re not ashamed to McDougall and Taahi as songwriters play tracked guitars,” McDougall says. and the band as a whole to fully follow “I mean, those guitars were recorded by their musical instincts. the members of our band. It doesn’t feel McDougall decided to confront in any way like cheating or cutting corsome parts of herself and her personali- ners.”

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Ólafur Arnalds talks software collaborations and new paths by Dave Kirby

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he Icelandic composer/keywhich was released on Mercury KX boardist Ólafur Arnalds creates Records late last summer, was two years music that drifts gently across in the making. reflective surfaces.

But perhaps the most notable Summoning resonance and aspect of re:member is Arnalds’ use of a fleeting shadows of emotion, some have new software program called Stratus called it electronic classical (a vulgar that controlled two player pianos and reduction) and ambient chamber music produced spontaneously generated (more polite, perhaps, but essentially accompanying figures in response to vacuous and ultimately meaningless), Arnalds’ playing. The software system, but describing it as a function of its developed by composer and audio components or benchmarks is as unsatdeveloper Halldór Eldjárn, is premised isfying as categoupon the use of Benjamin Hardman rizing it under a the Euclidian streaming app algorithm drop-down. It applied to rhythdrifts between mic musical patebullient and nosterns. talgic, inching The science toward lachrymose behind the softat times with his ware’s is pretty use of strings, esoteric; humbly swelling toward confessing that it joyous elsewhere, was largely over pensive and the head of a poised. weekly arts writArnalds has er’s head, we made his name as asked Arnalds a composer in a how familiar he was ON THE BILL: Ólafur number of genres — with how the system Arnalds. 8 p.m. Monday, soundtrack music (he worked.

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BAFTA for his work pretend that I know on the British TV much at all about the series Broadchurch in science,” he admits. “I 2014), more conventional releases such worked more on the surface, concentratas Living Room Music (2011) and And ing on the music and the use of the softThey Have Escaped The Weight of ware, while my collaborator Halldór Darkness (2010), which Pitchfork Eldjárn concentrated on the programexclaimed as “a success for the composer, ming and science of it all. I probably and for listeners that don’t balk at a little would have got too lost in it and disunabashed pageantry.” tracted from making the actual music.”

His latest release under his own The artist intersection between name, re:member, was a departure in at man and his machines didn’t start with least two ways for the artist. He has ProTools or Ableton (who knew?), and been known to work very quickly, espeprobably extends back to the first guy cially on his improvised projects (his hitting two hollowed out sticks together, albums Found Songs, 2009, and Living but Arnalds and his collaborator have Room Music, 2011, were each produced created an intriguing niche strategy here, in a mere seven days), and this project, whereby the software “hears” what BOULDER WEEKLY

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Arnalds is playing and adds something complementary, or angularly complementary, and thus contributes to the piece’s basic presentation. In jazz, of course, it’s known as call and response... in chamber ambient (we’ll settle on this tag for now), it isn’t so much improvising on a composition as augmenting one.

Did the software take him to places he didn’t expect?

“Yes! And that was the best part.

The unpredictability of the algorithms and the crude interface we created very often lead me down roads I probably would never have found otherwise. This is well demonstrated in songs like ‘re:member’ and ‘ekki hugsa,’ which both originated from interesting surprises, or even mistakes — me trying to create something else but accidentally getting these results instead and loving them.”

But because these software-generated augmentations were essentially spontaneous, they were also irreproducible.

Meaning, the composition exists exactly one time — played again, the software would generate something different. Was there any sense of... loss?... frustration?... that once recorded, it could never come back?

“No, that’s actually the beauty of it,” he says. “An album is like a photograph.

A frozen moment in time of how the music was at the time of its creation.

The music itself, however, keeps living, developing and changing. New moments get created... This is the beauty of music.”

And still it took him to new places — in at least one case, the entire piece was re-composed based on what the software heard and how it responded. “‘undir’ is probably a good example of that. That track used to be basically a whole other song, but once I added the Stratus track to it, it somehow veered into a complete new direction. I think I actually replaced every single element of it except the Stratus track.”

At the end of the day, though, Arnalds does not allow the software to be the music. He is a vigorously organic artist, and with or without a piece of software on his shoulder, his trade is harmony and melodic soundcraft.

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He found himself unsure of where he belonged; he didn’t want to water ski with the teenagers, or eat watermelon on the dock with the kids.

“Most of the women were inside the house putting up the picnic meal that they’d brought,” Hensinger says. “Most of the men were out on the porch drinking beer and talking, and they didn’t feel right to me either because they were small Midwestern town [men], and probably 90 percent of the men in that group were World War II or Korean War veterans.”

Nonetheless, that’s where the newly minted Vietnam vet found himself.

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but finally one of them asked me what [Vietnam] was like.”

I had recently asked Hensinger the same clumsy question, and he’d spoken about his time stationed in An Khê with the 173rd battalion as a finance clerk for about five minutes before pausing for a breath and asking me to ask another question, please.

“I couldn’t talk about it then either,” Hensinger says of trying to answer the other veteran’s question by the lake. “So I mentioned the fact that we couldn’t get cold beer there.

Everybody immediately loosened up and started talking about their problems when they were in the military. One guy talked about the cold. Somebody else talked about the food and someone else about the mail or whatever, but none of them really talked.”

Hensinger has spent decades processing his experience in Vietnam, more recently writing about it in short stories and a memoir he hopes to get published. But it’s been tough; Hensinger says he developed lateonset PTSD and has struggled to interact with people the way he once had.

But over the course of several coming weeks, Hensinger and a handful of other veterans will open up about their experiences of war and the obstacles they faced coming home in a series of facilitated conversations called “Still Coming Home.”

In 2018, in collaboration with the Denver Veterans Writers Workshop, Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book collected creative writing by Denver-area writers and published the

anthology Still Coming Home: Denver Veterans Writing, which will be shared with attendees at the conversation series. Hensinger will read his short story “The Damn Flag,” from the collection.

Jason Arment was one of the editors of the anthology, and the driving force behind the Denver Veterans Writers Workshop. A machine gunner in the Marines during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Arment went on to earn an MFA in creative nonfiction with minors in sociology, gender studies and technical writing. His memoir, Musalaheen (Arabic for gunslinger), was published in September on University of Hell Press.

Arment’s idea for the writing workshop wasn’t focused on veterans alone, but on anyone who’s experienced conflict.

“We have non-veterans in the class right now,” Arment says. “My idea of a veteran would be anyone who has served or has been displaced or endured. So if you think about it, say someone came from Ukraine right

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now, a civilian.

Honestly, there are Nazis there; there’s also ISIS. Say one of those people show up with a really cool story that centered around conflict. I want them to come write that story.

“We would struggle to find something that hasn’t been defined by what we can say to be war,” Arment says.

He points to the many daily battles typical Americans fight: there’s an ongoing war on drugs that disproportionately punishes people of color; there are domestic wars being waged on women, on immigrants and on transgender people. Even poverty can be a violent experience and has been linked to PTSD. Still, Arment knows many people haven’t experienced such conflict, and he hopes that the anthology can give them a sense of the true cost of war.

“If anybody would read it and be swayed, if maybe warhawks wouldn’t have as much of a footing [in American international policy] anymore, that would be OK with me because I don’t know how we’re still beating that drum.”

Arment won’t be presenting at the conversation series, but he is still teaching workshops at Lighthouse Writers Workshop (1515 Race St., Denver) the third Sunday of every month at 3 p.m.

This series of three conversations builds on themes and is meant to be a deeper experience for those who attend all three, but participants are also welcome to attend one or two. Copies of the anthology will be provided.

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Brigid is the Mother Goddess and Saint of Ireland who keeps inspiration and hope alive. St. Brigid’s Day is the first day of spring on the Celtic calendar, marking the reawakening of the Earth. On this new moon, celebrate Lunar Imbolc, Brigid’s day and Irish culture with music from Jon Sousa and Adam Agee and spiritual leadership from Alyzabeth Rhiannon Anath, a Celtic priestess and a keeper of Brigid’s perpetual flame. Come prepared to sweep your hearth clean, plant seeds of intention for the new year, and fan the flames of transformation. Tickets are $22.

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All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Karen Kitchel, Larger Than Life #5 (detail), Oil on panel

Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

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Assemblage/Mixed Media/Sculpture — by Michelle Lamb. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 1.

Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

Creativity in Action — by Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel. Nalanda and Cube galleries, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 15.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through May 27.

DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

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Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Opens Feb. 2. Through Aug. 18.

Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder at Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20.

Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Mixed Media — by Tabitha Aaron. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through March 1.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Sept. 1.

Robert Restaino. Firehouse Art Gallery, South Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through January.

Storytellers. Abend Gallery, 1412 Wazee St., Denver. Opens Feb. 2. Through Feb. 23.

Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through April 21.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum

Touch: Breaking the barrier between art and viewer. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March. 3.

Vance Brand: Ambassador of Exploration.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

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Water Flow: Under the Colorado River.

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World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

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Thursday, January 31 Music African Rhythm Songs for Moms, Pops and Babies — Session I Thursdays. 10 a.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005.

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Karen Kitchel challenges herself to express her concern for the environment by painting grasses in a variety of sizes. Her work in the current BMoCA exhibition ranges from small 12” x 12” paintings to large 62” x 21” paintings. Grass appears to be the subject of Kitchel’s work, but the real focus is concern for the changes taking place in the world around us and our relationship to it.

Kitchel’s ‘Grasslands’ is now on display at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through April 21.

African Songs of Life. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005.

Armchair Boogie and The Higgs. 7:30 p.m.

Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

The Love Sprockets. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Lucas Wolf Trio. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

CU Boulder Next. 5:30 p.m. Sheraton Downtown, 1550 Court Place, Denver, 303-492-8392.

Marc Emerson Townes of Kind Hearted Strangers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Rebecca Rosen. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Rupert Wates. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

ASG. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

The Gladiators. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Honeytree Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Joe Henry. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Christina P. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More performances at comedyworks.com.

After Hours: Breaking Barriers X The Block.

9 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778.

Art of Data Visualization Contest — with Code for Boulder. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Big Buddy Training: Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Movie Night at eTown Hall: BIFF Shorts. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

Opening Reception: Don Coen: The Migrant Series. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Opening Reception: Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. see EVENTS Page 44

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Here’s what was happening in and around Boulder County during our first issue 25 years ago:

Colorado Garlic Festival — Includes a garlic peeling contest, garlic cooking lessons, and a galic tasting fair. Alfalfa’s Market, 1651 Broadway, Boulder. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

DUB Poetry Reading — Featuring Ras Marc Bengamin. Open poetry reading to follow sponsored by “So, You’re a Poet” Productions. Penny Lane, 19th and Pearl, Boulder. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY

Longmont Folk Festival — Featuring Colcannon, Laughing Hands, Three Fisted Lullaby, Jon Sirkis, Julie Hoest and others. Proceeds benefit The Inn Between, housing and services for people in need.

Thompson Park, Fourth and Pratt, Longmont. Noon6:30 p.m. No charge, but donations for The Inn Between.

Colorado Patriots Project ’93 — Discussing U.S. taxation and monetary issues and constitutional freedom. Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Art Street — Sidewalk art show features work of local artists. 1500 Pearl St., Boulder. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

(Sat.), Noon-5 p.m. (Sun.).

Colorado State Fair Concerts: Julio Iglesias, Antonio Aguilar & Family, Shai with Jad, Everly Brothers/ Dion, Joe Walsh, Chicago. Fair is at exit 97A off I-25 in Pueblo. Grandstand events begin at 8 p.m.

Jeff Haycock — Former member of Acoustic Junction. Taylor’s, 1143 13th St., Boulder.

Images of Alice — Illustrations Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Salvador Dali, Barry Moser and others. University of Colorado, Norlin Room N345, Boulder.

FRIDAY

Bleeker Street — Live music on the patio. Oasis Brewery, Canyon and 11th, Boulder. 5 p.m.-8p.m.

Techno Rave. Ground Zero/Nootrophia, 1360 College Ave., Boulder.

Li’l Abner — Humorous musical continuing until Oct. 24. Boulder Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. 6:15 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. show, $24.50 (Tues., Wed., Thurs., Sun.), $28.50 (Fri.), $34 (Sat.).

SATURDAY

Acoustic Prostitution. Pearl Street Cellar, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Randy Newman. Chautauqua Auditoium, Boulder.

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TUESDAY

The Kinks with Aimee Mann. Grizzly Rose, 5450 North Valley Highway, Denver. $17.50.

Continental Divide Theatre Company One-Acts — Two one-act plays from New York, ‘Big Al’ and ‘Brilliant Traces.’ Boulder Art Center, 1750 13th St., Boulder. 8 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, $8, $6 students and seniors.

Reaction Slacks — Improv comedy theater featuring a mixture of scripted and improvised scenes based on audience suggestions. No drink minimum.

The West End Tavern, 9th and Pearl St., Boulder. 8:30 p.m., $5.

Boulder Singles Hike — Meet at library. Easy to moderate hike up Toe Heel Loop. North Main Library Lawn, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. 11 a.m.

Broker Inn’s Comedy Night. Broker Inn, 555 30th St., Boulder. 8 p.m. $3.

MONDAY

Bob Dylan with Santana. Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater, Greenwood Village, 290-TIXS, 6:30 p.m., $22.50/$17.50.

Barenaked Ladies. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. $8.35 adv./$10.40 d.o.s.

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Friday February 8

THAT EIGHTIES BAND “80s Pop/Dance”

Saturday February 9

THAT EIGHTIES BAND “Dance/Funk”

Screening: Hallways of Hope. 6 p.m. Friends School North Campus, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-499-1999.

Friday, February 1 Music

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The Amity Affliction, Senses Fail. 6:30 p.m.

Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

“Acapella” Wednesday February 13

Armchair Boogie. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

BOURBON & BLUES EEF & THE BLUES EXPRESS “Blues” FREE ADMISSION Thursday February 14

ROBERT JOHNSON & THE MARK DIAMOND TRIO “Music & Dinner”

Friday February 15 Ladies Rock The Blues

KERRY PASTINE AND THE CRIME SCENE & CASS CLAYTON BAND “Blues/Rock”

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A Plastic Ocean — Film Screening and Discussion. 6 p.m. Ocean First, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-444-7234.

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Boldtype. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

The Bookshop Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Break Science. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Broncho. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Celtic Content Concert. 1 p.m. Longmont Senior Citizens Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

The Famous Men. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

FiskeEDM: Featuring the music of Illenium.

10:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Tom Petty Acoustic Solo Tribute Show. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Italian Opera Night. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Tony Furtado. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Jeffrey Foucault. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-8309214.

Sammy Hagar Tribute and Van Halen Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Joe Hertler and The Rainbow Seekers. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Events

The Long Run. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Mendelssohn Double Concerto featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-8654220.

Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Piff the Magic Dragon. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

DU Lamont Faculty Recital: Steven Mayer, piano, and Matthew Plenk, tenor. 7:30 p.m.

Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-6499.

Ramaya and The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Tim Ostdiek. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Goldfish — with special guests. 9 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Dry Ice. 8:30 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Eben Grace. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Sweet Remains. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night.

7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Denver Language School Chinese New Year Celebration. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Heartfelt History. 6 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4850.

Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, February 2 Music

Silkroad Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.

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Thursday, Jan. 31 Mary Pipher — Women Rowing North. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators and sleep trackers. ‘Good to Go’ takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. Christie Aschwanden will speak about and sign her new book, ‘Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery,’ on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Bookstore.

Pam Houston ­— Deep Creek. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Friday, Feb. 1 Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Bookshop Band 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store,1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Saturday, Feb. 2

Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m., Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St. Suite A, Boulder.

Monday, Feb. 4 Joshua Sbicca — Food Justice Now. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Historic Lodo, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Sunday, Feb. 3

Tuesday, Feb. 5

Leigh Bardugo — King of Scars. 2 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Anthony Guilbert. 6 p.m Innisfree Poetry Book-

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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Christie Aschwanden — Good to Go. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Wednesday, Feb. 6 Mattew Horace ­— The Black and the Blue. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Juliet Wittman — Stocker’s Kitchen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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BAS Milky Way Tour — with special guests.

9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Bill McCrossen and Friends Quartet. 7 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Bonnie and The Clydes, Banshee Tree. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Cat Jerky. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Cycles — with Spyscraper, Goose. 8 p.m.

The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Dangerous Friends. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Denver Radio Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Erik Boa and the Constrictors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

From Bulgaria with Love: Roses, Rakiya & Song. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 1328 S. Vine St., Denver, 303-733-1120.

1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Joshua Redman Quartet. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

King Tuff. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-827-6322.

Master Class: Benny Kim, violin, and Keith Robinson, cello, of the Miami String Quartet.

Noon. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 970-305-2261.

Mendelssohn Double Concerto featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Mozart, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

Mozes and The Firstborn, The Parrots. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Nic Clark. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

St. Vrain FC Fundraising Gala. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery-Oak Room, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Strange Parade. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: The Deep Cuts Showcase no. 2. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The Well Intentioned. 7 p.m. Collision Brewing, 1436 Skyway Drive, Longmont, 720-996-1850.

Wendy Woo Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Events Colorado Motorcycle Expo. 9 a.m. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver, 303-835-6967. Through Feb. 3.

First Saturday Yoga. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Heartfelt History. 1 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4850.

The Glitch Mob. 10 p.m. Temple, 1136 Broadway, Denver.

The Pamlico Sound. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Letterpress: DIY Valentines Class. 10:30 a.m. Two Hands Paperie, 803 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0124.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Sensory Friendly Performance. 1:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Mother Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

HomeSlice. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

She Got The Funk: An Evening with Denver’s Women of Funk & Soul. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Sunday, February 3

The Jackson Cloud Odyssey. 3:30 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Sonic Arcade. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Jenn Cleary Duo. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery,

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NEW HORIZONS

Alice in Wonderland. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens Feb. 2. Through March 9.

Anna Karenina. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Opens Feb. 1.

Through Feb. 24.

Bat Out Of Hell, The Musical. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver. Opens Feb 6. Through Feb. 17.

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Nunsense. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through March 3.

Disenchanted!. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 31.

The Wizard of Oz. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888. Opens Feb. 1. Through Feb. 10.

Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Through Feb. 10.

Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens Feb. 1.

Through April 14.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.

Young Frankenstein. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Opens Feb. 1.

Through Feb. 16.

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Bones Jugs, Stillhouse Revival. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m.

Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-875-2292.

The Music of The Rolling Stones for Kids.

11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

Dairy ARTS Center, Boulder TICKETS: www.thedairy.org or 303.444.7328 Boulder Ballet is celebrating the landmark achievements of NASA’s New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt space mission with four special performances, featuring Boulder Ballet company dancers with original music and world-premiere choreography.

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Lost in Yonkers. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 3.

The Pinter Plays: Early Classic One-Acts by Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter — presented by Germinal Stage. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Feb. 2.

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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change ­— presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Feb. 16.

The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens Feb. 1. Through May 17.

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Doris’ Sunday Matinee: International House.

1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Valentine Palooza. 1 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Monday, February 4 Music The Contemplative Voice — with Amy Biondo. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

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Let the Beat Speak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Naked Giants. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Ólafur Arnalds. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Post Animal, Ron Gallo. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Shaggy 2 Dope. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids.

4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Drop In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m.

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.

Tuesday Tapping at Upslope Brewing. 11 a.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-3961898.

The Future of Space Tourism. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Kick Up Your Heels: Line Dancing for Enthusiastic Beginners. 6:30 p.m. Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Monday Night Belly Dance Classes. 6 p.m.

Tribe Nawaar Marketplace & Classes, Boulder, 303-859-5599.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Public Panel Discussion: Funding Our Library Future. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, February 5 Music 7th Annual Bob Marley Birthday featuring Wake Up And Live — with Dubskin and special guests. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Chrome Sparks. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Hope Dunbar, Tim Grimm, John Statz. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Make Music Meetup. 5:30 p.m. Denver Public Library, Fourth Floor SM Energy ideaLAB, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Becoming American. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder at the Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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West Coast Swing Dance Lessons. 6 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, February 6 Music Aaron Carter. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Brian David Collins. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Cody Jeffryes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720442-8292.

DU Lamont Guest Artist: Anton Nel, piano.

7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-6499.

Elton John. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

J.I.D. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Josh Hoyer, Soul Colossal. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-2911007.

MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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Denver Jewish Film Festival. 6 p.m. JCC Mizel Arts And Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Magic @ Main. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mardi Gras Murder Mystery Masquerade.

7 p.m. Bar Helix, 3440 Larimer St., Denver, 720-449-8587.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Boulder. 303-444-0583 With that in mind, meet Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), a 12-year-old boy incarcerated in a Beirut jail for stabbing, as he calls him, “a sonofabitch.”

“You stabbed someone,” the judge clarifies, softening the young man’s testimony.

“Yes,” Zain responds. “A sonofabitch.”

Well, what else do you call a man who accepts the hand of an 11-year-old girl — Zain’s sister — in marriage as payment? And what do you call the father and mother who sell their daughter into such an arrangement? People are quick to judge, even quicker to act, but as Capernaum shows, that sonofabitch didn’t exactly come from nowhere. And neither did Zain’s parents.

To borrow an idea from Michel Foucault, the trouble with origins is that there is always something that came before.

Such is life in Capernaum, the latest film from Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki. Capernaum — a title that invokes both religious significance and chaos — continues the long lineage of movies with children trying to survive in a world that doesn’t want them: Los Olvidados, Pixote, even The 400 Blows. Powerful films all, and Capernaum confidently stands shoulder to shoulder with the lot. Al Rafeea is phenomenal as the young boy hardening his heart to a world filled with poisonous vipers, and Labaki expertly manages to keep the camera constantly positioned between Al Rafeea and the multitude of dangers lurking off to the side.

Sometimes it’s the blaring horn of a passing car, other times it is the chatter of men up to no good. No matter how far Zain wanders, sanctuary is always a mile off.

But Capernaum is not without its miracles. Through a chance meeting with an Ethiopian refugee, Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), Zain is allowed to recreate a semblance of home life — something he is quite adept at — by caring for her oneyear-old son, Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, quite possibly the most adorable child ever captured on camera). But when Rahil is incarcerated for not having papers — a recurring issue in the movie — Zain finds himself locked once more in the predicament of having to care for a child while being a child himself.

It’s a mean old world out there, but movies are safe places where we can go and see the world for what it is without having to place ourselves in harm’s way.

Capernaum is not an easy watch, but it is a beautiful one, despite how grisly it can seem at times. Appropriately, Capernaum is one of the five films nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, easily the most stacked category in the whole line-up. Much more than the eight movies nominated for Best Picture, these five — Capernaum, Cold War, Never Look Away, Roma and Shoplifters — comprise an unflinching look at the world without ever losing sight of the humanity that ennobles them or condemns them. Watching them is the first step in validating the marginalized lives to which they cling.

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Served with mayonnaise on top and rice, salsa criolla, (red onions and tomatoes) and a cilantro dipping sauce on the side, it’s hard not to gulp this dish down. But if fried food isn’t your thing (don’t worry, we get it) there’s plenty on Rosario’s menu (ceviche, lomo saltado steak or aji de gallina chicken) that makes a visit worth it. $10.99.

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carcely a month passes without the City of Boulder winning another food and drink award. This month alone ApartmentGuide.com named Boulder one of the 10 Best Cities in America for Vegetarians because great vegetarian, vegan and organic dining is available here.

Diners now make pilgrimages to Boulder, Bon Appétit’s Foodiest Town in North America. Similar culinary kudos have come from USA Today and Forbes Travel. Boulder is tagged as the epicenter of the craft brew renaissance and the Silicon Valley of natural foods, with an award-winning farmers’ market.

It may be great to eat in Boulder, circa 2019, but that tasty status did not just happen overnight.

In 1994, Bill Clinton was President. America Online (AOL) first went online, CU beat Michigan on a Hail Mary pass, singers Justin Bieber and Harry Styles were born, and Boulder was on nobody’s food and drink radar.

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eries were the Flagstaff House, Ristorante Laudisio, Red Lion Inn, Greenbriar Inn, Radek Cerny’s European Café and John’s Restaurant.

There were a handful of brewpubs but the proliferation of brewery tasting rooms was still in the future. The handful of natural foods eateries included the venerable Boulder Harvest and Rudi’s.

People came to this college town less to dine than to hang out at The James, The Walrus, JJ McCabe’s, Juanita’s and up on the Hill. Brunch spots like Rocky Mountain Joe’s, Pour La France and Nancy’s thrived.

In 1994, I was finishing my first decade as Daily Camera food editor and Nibbles columnist and watching the Boulder food scene morph. From that time I still miss the flaky bastilla at Mataam Fez, smoky ribs at Daddy Bruce BBQ, tart pie at the Calypso Grill and the vodka at the Little Russian Cafe.

For this special 25th anniversary issue, I scanned the 1993 and 1994 issues of Boulder Weekly.

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asked chefs and restaurateurs who were around back then to talk about Boulder’s food scene in the mid-’90s and where we are today.

Antonio Laudisio: ‘Hippies changed the way we eat’ Long before “farm-to-table” became Boulder’s resident restaurant buzz phrase, Antonio Laudisio championed fresh, local, organic ingredients.

With his brothers, he opened the family’s signature Italian eatery, Ristorante Laudisio, at Iris and 28th Street. There were other Italian spots at the time from Attusso’s to Caffe Antica Roma and D’Napoli, but Laudisio was special. It was voted the Best Italian Restaurant in Denver for several years. I tasted my first risotto there. Antonio Laudisio soon joined the Romano family in opening The Med downtown.

“Back then everybody knew each other and went to each other’s restaurants. The food was more approachable and affordable, and there were fewer chain places. Now we’re reaching this celebrity realm,” Laudisio says. I reminded him that in the early- and mid-’90s Boulder’s restaurant community actually gathered annually at the Glenn Miller Ballroom for the Taste of the Nation hunger relief event.

Boulder was ready for good food in 1994. “There were a lot of young chefs and farmers, like Chet Anderson, that were really excited about food. There was also a growing base of educated customers who were well-traveled, because of the university and the business community. They wanted a distinctive dining experience, not an Anywhere U.S.A., cookie-cutter meal,” Laudisio says.

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The other critical factor in Boulder’s subsequent rise to national culinary fame was a demographic that had been long ridiculed and marginalized: Hippies. “Hippies changed the way we eat now. Hippies were people who wanted to identify more closely with nature and against corporate food,” he says. It was the tofu-nibbling longhairs who launched many of America’s iconic natural food brands and made Boulder the address you wanted on your vegan, GMOfree and organic food or beverage product.

Ironically, a corporate healthy eatery called Flower Child recently opened in the People’s Republic.

Dave Query: ‘It was awesome in 1994’ Dave Query had already opened two local eateries (the Lick Skillet Café and Q’s), moved his family to Michigan and returned to town by 1994. He opened Zolo Grill in the old Swenson’s Ice Cream Shop (because it had parking) followed by Jax Fish House west of the Downtown Mall a few months later.

“It was awesome in 1994. There were great places in town like the 14th St. Grille, The Cork, the European Café, Carelli’s and the Flagstaff (House). There was the LA Diner with the roller-skating waiters.

That was cool. It wasn’t foodie heaven yet, but we were all doing a good job,” Query says.

While Boulder had promise, it took the arrival of one restaurant to shift the paradigm. “The opening of Frasca in 2003 raised the bar for all of us and the quality of dining in Boulder. The Foodiest Town in America does not happen if Bobby (Stuckey) and Lachlan (MackinnonBOULDER WEEKLY

Patterson) decide not to open Frasca.

They dragged us to a much higher level of operation. Now Boulder has this big-time cachet,” Query says.

Bradford Heap: Changing the eating philosophy “I was young. I was dumb, but I was passionate and had great ambitions in 1994,” says Bradford Heap, chef/owner of Salt and Wild Standard. A Boulder native, he had opened the Full Moon Grill, an Italian eatery near McGuckin Hardware. Heap went on to help open the Chautauqua Dining Hall as a year-round restaurant, and then Colterra in Niwot.

“I wanted to do things like I’d seen in France. I started going to the farmers’ market for produce. I had one of the first vegetable tasting menus in town. The veggies, not the meat, were the stars,” he says.

“I read The Omnivore’s Dilemma

by Michael Pollan and that changed my life. I decided to stop using factory-farmed meat. My rule was that I wouldn’t serve anything at the restaurants that I wouldn’t eat,” he says.

Heap suggested that the city has grown culinarily since then. “I see people cooking a lot more in season.

There is much more local sourcing of ingredients and working with the farmers, and a greater concern for how the food is grown. Diners expect more transparency,” he says.

Heap has continued to boost local organic farming and sustainable food practices. “There’s so much hype and baloney about food and diets. Just shop carefully. Read labels. Support local farmers. Select food with your family and cook and eat together.

That’s what matters,” he says.

Scott Monette: Change is the only constant Scott Monette grew up at Flagstaff House Restaurant since his dad, Don, operated the eatery on the side of the mountain. In 1994, Monette had begun work as a manager while his brother, French-trained chef Mark Monette, was taking over the kitchen.

In 1995, Flagstaff House was still in its Continental era. “We were still serving plates with domes. The service was about elegance and showmanship, but it was very hectic. The menu featured beef Wellington and

large plates of game meat,” he says.

How has the Flagstaff House survived through the decades as so many eateries have come and gone? “It would have been easy to stick with how we had always done it. We had to keep changing, updating the building and the wine list. You do get pushback from longtime customers but you have to keep it fresh. We’re doing a tasting-style menu now with

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The current crop of competing upscale eateries in Boulder, including Blackbelly, Corrida (and OAK), Black Cat Bistro, The Kitchen, Basta and Arcana have been a plus for Flagstaff House. “There are so many great restaurants that it increases the critical mass of diners who love and know great food and wine,” he says.

John Imbergamo: ‘There wasn’t

much going on foodwise’ “I almost never came up to Boulder in the mid-’90s. There wasn’t much going on foodwise,” says John Imbergamo, a restaurant consultant who represents Jennifer Jasinski’s Denver eateries including Rioja and Stoic & Genuine.

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were few and far between in the Denver area — and mostly steakhouses. I do remember eating at Radek Cerny’s place, the European Café. That food signaled the beginning, to me, of Boulder’s rise from casual dining to much more sophisticated food. Now, Boulder has an oversized food reputation for a city of its size,” he says. Imbergamo, a longtime vegetarian, tipped his hat to Falafel King on the Downtown Mall where he first tasted the fried chickpea fritters.

So many hundreds of restaurants have opened and closed in Boulder since 1994 and there have been multiple eateries at the same address.

“We always talk about all the hot new places, but the restaurants that have survived for 25 years should be highly respected,” Imbergamo says.

Note to self: Check back after dinner in 2044 Antonio Laudisio continues his culinary mission as a caterer and, on many Saturdays in season, you’ll see him at the Boulder County Farmers Market stretching pizza dough to bake in an oven he helped build.

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ing the fare at his sibling Bradford Heap in his kitchen at eateries — Wild Standard Salt and Wild Standard.

Scott Monette is assuring a smooth operation at Flagstaff House while the next generation takes over. Adam Monette, son of Mark Monette, is now the general manager.

Dave Query’s Boulder-based Big Red F group has blossomed into multiple locations of Jax Fish House and The Post, plus Zolo Grill, Centro Mexican Kitchen and the West End Tavern, with two restaurants set to open at Denver International Airport.

I lift a toast to the food pioneers who set the table and the chefs of the ’90s who delivered delights. Check back in with us to see if today’s class of kitchen whiz kids are still dishing mouth-watering victuals in Boulder, circa 2044.

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ack 25 years ago, covering “It’s finally happening! My sense the beer scene wouldn’t of outrage is finally being addressed,” have taken too long.

Wallace remembers thinking. “I guess Boulder Beer was wellI have a karmic obligation to get established on Wilderness involved with this because I bitched Place, Walnut Brewery and Oasis and moaned about it for so long.”

Brewer Pub were ideal downtown And Wallace did — incorporating watering holes, but that was pretty Left Hand with obsessive homebrewmuch it for craft beer. er Dick Doore in September ’93. On “It was new,” Adam Avery of Jan. 2, 1994, Left Hand brewed its Avery Brewing first batch of Courtesy of Mountain Sun Co. recounts. “It beer. was a lot of people For Daly, helping out each opening a brewother. I remember ery was an vividly walking escape. into Kevin “I was really [Daly’s] place, unhappy at law Mountain Sun, in school and didn’t the backdoor and want to be an introducing myself attorney,” Daly while they were says. “I was trying setting up their to figure out brewhouse.” what I was doing That was fall while sitting in Kevin Daly and Ian Blackford 1993, and both these in the early days of Mountain Avery and Daly McMenamins Sun. were on their way Pubs.” to opening their McMenamins, a respective breweries, incidentally, family-owned brewpub chain in using identical seven-barrel brewPortland, Oregon, provided the inspihouse systems purchased from ration: good food, good atmosphere California. and, of course, good beer variety.

Meanwhile, 14 miles northeast, “Every other brewpub you went Eric Wallace was also setting up shop into had five beers: amber, golden, in Longmont, making Left Hand stout, porter and a seasonal,” Daly Brewing Company the city’s first explains. “[Our idea] was to feature brewery. Within four months, the our five or six beers and then have a County’s beer scene doubled. bunch of guest beers from California.”

It was an explosion, a craft beer It worked. Daly and business revolution happening across the U.S. partner Ian Blackford opened For Wallace — who attended high Mountain Sun on Oct. 5, 1993, givschool in Germany in the 1970s — it ing curious craft drinkers a chance to was a long time coming. explore the many varieties of full-fla“It made no sense to me,” Wallace vor beer while ushering in a whole recounts. “I was confused and flabnew generation of macro-lager and bergasted that the wealthiest [nation] non-beer drinkers. on Earth had such a monochromatic Daly wasn’t the only disenfranview of the beer world.” chised law student who hopped But a cross-country trip opened behind the bar. Avery credits his 25 Wallace’s eyes; beer was booming in years in the beer industry to some the most unlikely of places. well-meaning friends in law school.

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“They were than two dozen like, ‘Man, there suppliers.” is no way you’re Over the next going to enjoy seven years, the this,’” Avery distribution was recounts with a “nominally profitchuckle. “Your able” while the homebrew’s pretty brewing industry good. You might stayed flat. Then, Courtesy of Avery Brewing want to think in 2006, Left about that.”

Hand sold the Not one to distribution comturn down good pany and focused advice, Avery on a homegrown enlisted his father sales force.

Larry as a partner For Daly, and set up shop in Mountain Sun September ’93. was a different His first beers beast. were Ellie’s “The brewery Courtesy of Left Hand Brewing Brown Ale, Red is one-fourth of Point Ale and what we do,” Out of Bounds Daly explains. “I Stout. And didn’t love beer as though Out of much as I loved Bounds netted a the food and sergold medal at the vice part. I love ’94 Great the atmosphere.

American Beer “We’re always Festival, business trying to evolve was anything but our menu while smooth sailing. staying true to Left Hand our mission,” also scored gold Daly says. at the ’94 GABF Avery and with Sawtooth Wallace could say Ale, but money the same. wasn’t any better “Initially, it Above: Adam Avery in 1994. for them. was like, ‘Man, Below: Eric Wallace and Dick Doore in 1993.

“We were the beer scene is broke,” Wallace broken,’” Wallace says. “We had says. “Then, once 20-something dollars in our bank we started fixing the beer scene: ‘Aw account.” man, everyone’s community is falling For Avery, the beer that turned apart, and everything’s being homogeverything around was Hog Heaven: enized and standardized.’” an intensely hoppy imperial red ale “Beer is just a part of this artisanal that signaled a line of beers to come. movement,” Avery says. “And now it’s At Left Hand, creating a distrimoved all the way from just artisanal bution network with Tabernash to location, and that local kind of feel.”

Brewing, Ska Brewing, Bristol And it’s that local feel that keeps Brewing Company and Avery Avery’s taprooms packed with drinkchanged the game. ers exploring envelope-pushing ales, “Colorado was a good beer marfills Left Hand’s festival tent every ket,” Wallace says. “It was indepenNovember for Nitro Fest and turns dent liquor stores, and it was super Mountain Sun into a madhouse every competitive and super open. We just February for Stout Month. Here’s to started growing until we had more another 25 years. Cheers.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Here are your fortune cookiestyle horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it yourself.

APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good.

Enjoy the uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It’ll be a favorable phase to upgrade your personal finances.

Think richer thoughts. Experiment with new ideas about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you burn. Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave behind.

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horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You have access to a semi-awkward magic that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its semi-awkwardness.

MARCH: To increase your clout and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that. The universe will then work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good. JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don’t be a fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive quest for perfection.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is even stronger than usual.

MARCH: High integrity and ethical rigor are crucial to your success — and so is a longing for sacred adventure.

APRIL: How can you make the best use of your likability?

MAY: Cheerfully dismantle an old system or structure to make way for a sparkling new system or structure. JUNE: Beginner’s luck will be yours if you choose the right place to begin. What’s a bit intimidating but very exciting?

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism peaks at the same time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toasted ice? Succulent fire?

Earthy marvels? Homey strangeness? All of that is within reach. APRIL: Sow the seeds of the most interesting success you can envision. Your fantasy of what’s possible should thrill your imagination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty.

MAY: Deadline time. Be as decisive and forthright as an Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as systematic as a Capricorn.

JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow.

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style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: There’s a general amnesty in all matters regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness. MARCH: Drop fixed ideas you might have about what’s possible and what’s not. Be keenly open to unexpected healings.

APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers. Pluck goodies that have been off-limits. Consider the value of ignoring certain taboos. MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred truths.

been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL: Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract.

Come to a more complete agreement. MAY: Don’t let your preconceptions inhibit you from having a wildly good time.

JUNE: Start your own club, band, organization or business.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past. MARCH: You’ll be offered interesting, productive problems. Welcome them! APRIL: Can you explore what’s experimental and fraught with interesting uncertainty even as you stay wellgrounded? Yes! MAY: You can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season’s model of success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion.

JUNE: Wild cards and X-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don’t be shy about using them.

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horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: The world may finally be ready to respond favorably to the power you’ve been storing up. MARCH: Everything you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to be too limited. So expand your expectations and capacities!

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MAY: If at first you don’t succeed, change the definition of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation and compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly ahead in service to your single-minded vision.

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horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: A new phase of your education will begin when you acknowledge how much you have to learn. MARCH: Initiate diplomatic discussions about the Things That Never Get Talked About. APRIL: Revise your ideas about your dream home and your dream community.

MAY: You have the power to find healing for your oldest lovesickness. If you do find it, intimacy will enter a new Golden Age. JUNE: Solicit an ally’s ingenuity to help you improvise a partial solution to a complex problem.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Here are your fortune cookiestyle horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have a knack for enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner you and the outer you will become more unified. MARCH: You’ll discover two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom. MAY: What are the gaps in your education? Make plans to mitigate your most pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body’s ready to tell you secrets that your mind has not yet figured out.

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Dear Dan: My girlfriend opposes sex work because she believes it oppresses women. Early in our relationship, she demanded to know if I had ever paid for sex because she couldn’t be with me if I had. And I told her the truth: “No, never.” She didn’t ask if I’d ever been paid for sex. (One guy, he blew me, no women were oppressed because no women were involved, it happened twice.) Do I need to tell her?

—Two-Time Gay For Pay Dear TTGFP: Nope.

Dear Dan: My partner is too embarrassed to raise this question with his doctor: Is it safe for me to drink my partner’s urine? He’s HIV-positive, but his viral load is undetectable. I know that other STIs could potentially be passed on to the watersports receiver through urine. My partner has been tested for everything and has no other STIs. He is worried that his urine could contain enough of his antiretroviral drugs (Tivicay and Descovy) to do me harm. He is particularly worried that I might suffer from the side effects of those

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drugs. I am not currently on any medications. I believe that his fear stems from when he was on chemo drugs for something else. Nurses treating him then advised me not to use his hospital bathroom so that I would not possibly be exposed to any chemo-drug residue. I know that you’re not a doctor — but could you ask a doctor for us?

—Ingesting Medicines Dear IM: “This one is easy,” said Dr. Peter Shalit, a physician who has been treating people with HIV/AIDS for 30 years. “Tivicay and Descovy are very benign medicines with very little potential toxicity in standard doses. If one were to drink the urine of someone taking these medicines, there would be essentially no Tivicay, as this medicine is excreted by the

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liver, not the kidneys. The remnants of the drug are excreted in the feces, so to get significant exposure to secondhand Tivicay, you’d have to eat... well, never mind.”

As for Descovy — that’s actually two medicines in one. First, the bad news: Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide, the meds in Descovy, are excreted in the urine. And the good news: “The amount of Descovy that would be in one liter of urine is much less than a single pill’s worth,” said Dr. Shalit, who is also a member of the American Academy of HIV Medicine. “Since these medicines are intrinsically very safe to begin with, in my opinion the health risk from exposure to the small amounts that may be found in urine is negligible.

Don’t worry about it.”

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Dear Dan: My partner and I have been together for 11 years and have always had a great sex life. I love his cock, we have similar appetites, and until recently everything was great. But he has always had an aversion to blood.

He is a pacifist, a vegetarian and a recovering Muslim, so as much as I don’t understand his fear, I would never push him to have sex during my period.

The problem is now I bleed whenever we have sex — just a tiny bit, but that’s enough to kill it for him, and the sex is immediately over. We already have enough constraints with differing schedules, kids, lack of privacy, periods.

This is a big deal for me, and I don’t know how to deal with it. Any ideas?

—Afraid To Bleed Dear ATB: Turn off the lights, draw the curtains, have sex in the dark, get him a blindfold — and insist he see a therapist who specializes in helping people overcome their irrational phobias.

Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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uper Bowl 53 is upon us. Personally, I think football is problematic and over-glorified, so I don’t even pretend to pay attention anymore. I mean, not to brag, but I literally just had to Google “which teams are playing?” immediately followed by “how old is Tom Brady?” I basically see it as the male version of Keeping up with the Kardashians but with more drama and domestic abuse.

But if there’s anything the Super Bowl is good for, it’s getting lit and binge-eating sevenlayer bean dip on a random Sunday in February. Really, it’s less of a game and just like three hours of watching ad agencies trying their hardest to attach meaning and creativity to mass consumption: the ultimate American Tradition™.

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However, the network nixed the proposed spot after seeing a rough outline, according to the company.

George Allen, the president of Acreage Holdings, told Bloomberg that the commercial is an attempt to “create an advocacy campaign for constituents who are being lost in the dialogue.” Airing the commercial during the game would have been a good way to accomplish that mission. “It’s hard to compete with the amount of attention something gets when it airs during the Super Bowl,” he said.

With more than 100 million viewers, it is the most-watched television event of the year.

How much does CBS charge for that kind of attention? About $5 million for 30 seconds of airtime. Acreage had already produced the ad and was prepared to pay the money to run it.

Maroon 5 is headlining, which should be good but not as good as Rihanna and Cardi B, who rejected invitations from the NFL to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend, rapper Travis Scott, will also be performing, for unknown reasons.

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so attractive it’s almost a shame to grind them. And none of them ever test below 20%*. Cheese, Pine, Diesel, Citrus—you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for from our select group of artisan growers from the western slope to the eastern plains and, of course, Boulder.

FLOWER

CO N N O I S S E U R

COLOMBIAN GOLD (ORIGINAL LANDRACE) 5.5% CBD, 11.7% THC . . . . . . $22/8TH, $75/HALF, $139/OZ JACK HERER (HAZE X NORTHERN LIGHTS X SHIVA SKUNK) 24.77% . . . . . . $22/8TH, $75/HALF, $139/OZ MEMBER BERRY (MANDARIN SUNSET X SKUNKBERRY) 22.11% . . . . . . . . $22/8TH, $75/HALF, $139/OZ DJC (DEADHEAD OG X THE TRUTH) 26.64% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28/8TH, $99/HALF, $179/OZ GOLDEN GOAT (ISLAND SWEET SKUNK X ROMULAN) 25% . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28/8TH, $99/HALF, $179/OZ ROCKSTAR KUSH (ROCKSTAR X BUBBA KUSH) 27.76% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28/8TH, $99/HALF, $179/OZ ABBIE'S ROAD (LEMON SKUNK X SKWURL KILLER) 33.64% . . . . . . . . . . .$34/8TH, $125/HALF, $224/OZ CHEMMY JONES (CASEY JONES X CHEMDAWG D) 32.11% . . . . . . . . . . .$34/8TH, $125/HALF, $224/OZ

E X T R ACT S

CONCENTRATES, EDIBLES & MORE SHORTY 40’S CAVIAR HEMP BLUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25/1.75G LEIFFA ROSIN CONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25/G SHATTER & WAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20/G, $70/4G, $120/8G EUREKA CURE JOINTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16/G ESCAPE ARTIST: LAVENDER RELIEF CREAM: FAST-ACTING, HIGH BIO-AVAILABILITY, TRANSDERMAL 20:1 CBD:THC CREAM . . . . . . . .$49/2OZ

GMO (CHEMDAWG X GSC) 31.83% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34/8TH, $125/HALF, $224/OZ

ESCAPE ARTIST: MICRO-DOSE STRIPS: 10 INCREDIBLY QUICK-ONSET 10MG STRIPS IN SOUR LEMON AND MINT FLAVOR . .$20/100MG

SUPER LEMON HAZE (LEMON SKUNK X SUPER SILVER HAZE) 31.89% . . .$34/8TH, $125/HALF, $224/OZ

PAT PEN: CBD NECTAR 1G SYRINGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $40/G

$79/OZ

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