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n the 1980s, when I was Texas Ag commissioner, my staff and I proposed a comprehensive set of state rules to protect farmworkers, public health, our water supplies and farmers themselves from the life-threatening consequences of toxic pesticides. But trying to enact these policies in Texas (a state that back then made and sprayed more agricultural poisons than any other) meant taking on the enormous money and power of the chemical lobby, as well as a hostile Republican governor and a legislature largely made up of corporate lapdogs. All of the above were howling furiously at us, snarling that they’d kill the new protections we’d laid. When I told my legislative director that it seemed like the political odds were against us, his response was not a confidence booster: “Some of the evens are against us, too,”
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he said. Yet — by rallying a big coalition of family farmers, consumers, environmentalists, church leaders and others, then bringing these “outsiders” inside the usually closed legislative lair to confront the cozy club of lawmakers and lobbyists — we won! As in that firefight, today’s Good Food forces (made up of the grassroots people and groups across the country striving to build a sustainable, equitable agriCultural system) are under constant attack by the moneyed forces of agriBusiness, which view food as nothing but another assembly line product to be fabricated by any means that fatten the corporate bottom line. We’re in an ongoing, momentous struggle (cultural, economic, political and moral) over the very nature and future of food, and our best path to victory is to do as we did in Texas three decades ago: Forge coalitions of outsiders to confront and expose the self-enriching cabal of insiders. To join the fight, visit www.OrganicConsumers.org/ Campaigns. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 4 , 2018 5
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he Trump administration may moment.) be about to toss The Elliott also quotes Steve Jost, “a Resistance a New Year’s hand former top bureau official during the grenade. 2010 census” as saying “people are not The left-leaning website going to come out to be counted ProPublica last week reported that the because they’re going to be fearful the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has information would be used for negative sent a letter to the U.S. Census Bureau purposes. This line about enforcing asking that a question be added to the voting rights is a new and scary twist.” 2020 census: Are you a citizen of the The yarn gives the impression that United States? asking a citizenship (Exact wording to question is unprecbe determined) edented in modern Observers say times, which is the addition “could misleading. True, depress participafrom 1970 to tion by immigrants 2000, the census who fear that the “short form,” FOR ASKING IT, government could which was sent to THE TRUTH IS THAT use information about five out of against them,” six U.S. houseTHE CITIZENSHIP according to the holds did not ask story. people if they were QUESTION STICKS IT “That, in turn, citizens, but the TO THE RESISTANCE IN could have potenmore nosey “long tially large ripple forms,” which MULTIPLE WAYS. effects for everywent to the thing the once-aremaining onedecade census sixth did. determines — from Gary’s letter how congressional seats are disformally requests “that the Census tributed around the country to Bureau reinstate on the 2020 Census where hundreds of billions of federal questionnaire a question regarding citidollars are spent,” the story added. zenship, formerly included in the soThe letter, which was written by called ‘long form’ census.” Arthur E. Gary, General Counsel of Gary’s wording is important here. the DOJ’s Justice Management diviThe Census Bureau stopped using the sion and addressed to Ron Jarmin, the “long form” in 2010, replacing it with Census Bureau’s acting director, said the American Community Survey, an the DOJ wanted the citizenship quesannual survey that goes to about one in tion included to help it enforce the 38 households, so the citizenship quesVoting Rights Act’s “protections tion wasn’t asked in the 2010 decennial against discrimination in voting.” census (but was included in the The ProPublica story was written American Community Survey). by Justin Elliott, a reporter with the What Gary is asking the Census website whose oeuvre over the past Bureau to do is put a citizenship quesyear consists largely of stories critical tion on the 2020 short form, which is of the Trump administration. the form everyone will get in 2020. And the piece on the citizenship Elliott obviously thinks Gary is question is no exception. being disingenuous in focusing entirely Elliott quotes Arturo Vargas, a on the Voting Rights Act as his reason member of the National Advisory for wanting the citizenship question in Committee of the Census and the the census — and he’s probably right. executive director of NALEO Whatever the reason for asking it, the Educational Fund, a Latino advocacy truth is that the citizenship question group, as saying the addition of the cit- sticks it to The Resistance in multiple izenship question “is a recipe for saboways. taging the census.” The primary reason for having the (Actually it’s a recipe for sabotaging see DANISH PLAN Page 8 The Resistance. More about that in a
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letters Trickle down
Let’s call it Trickle Me Once, Trickle Me Twice. The Trumpublican tax “reform” is a simple reaffirmation of Ronald Reagan’s supply-side, trickle down economic platform that has resulted in the wealth and income disparity we have today. It is purely magical thinking to believe that the corporate world will share its tax windfall with the average working American whose own tax “relief,” unlike that for corporations, is set to expire. In other words, all future deficits will fall squarely upon public rather than corporate income and conservatives can amplify their disparagement of federal safety nets such as Medicare and Social Security. The goal seems to be to transform America into a Banana Republic ruled by a wealthy, oligarchical class. All “isms” have positive and negative aspects, but this is capitalism at its worst. Robert Porath/Boulder
Trump: the American vaccine?
America is still a young country with much to learn. We started on good footing with a democracy and the rights for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our system of government was developed to keep a balance among the executive, legislative and judicial branches, which worked well until 2016 when we elected a defective candidate into the White House without revealing his financial information. In retrospect, we could have been spared the travesty if it had been the law instead of a gentleman’s agreement to require all political candidates to make their financial deal-
ings public. Duh! Donald Trump has proceeded to dismantle many hardearned regulations that protected us from industrial-caused environmental hazards and human rights abuses. He has seriously divided our people by denying science, promoting conspiracy theories and aligning with nationalist and racist radicals. Trump has been documented as proffering over 100 outright lies. Our national departments are now stacked with unqualified campaign contributors and Wall Street bankers. His purged cabinet still has people with nefarious connections to Russian spies. Trump’s only major legislative accomplishment is a tax overhaul of which 80 percent benefits the already wealthy particularly himself, while sabotaging the ACA, which will cause millions of Americans to lose their health care. The bad news is that the trillion and a half dollars added to our deficit and paid mostly to billionaires will mostly be paid for by the middle class, the working class, our children, their children and future cuts to social security, Medicare and Medicaid. For over the last half-century our country has gone from a democratic nation to a corporatocracy, which sculpts the government to feed itself. Gerrymandering, polling restrictions and an outdated electoral college are further eroding our fractured democracy. The good news is this is exactly what America has needed to see; what can happen when we get too lazy to go to the polls, or read a newspaper or become active in the electoral process. Consider see LETTERS Page 8
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The Trump administration ruled recently that animals raised for food under the “USDA Organic” label need not be treated any less cruelly than those in conventional farming. The decision reverses years of U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, which held that the “organic” label should impose minimal ethical, health and environmental standards. For the animals, this included adequate space, light and access to the outdoors. Under the Trump administration, this will no longer be the case. “Organic” farm operations will be allowed to cram laying hens five to a small wire cage that tears out their feathers and to grind or suffocate millions of male chicks at birth because they don’t lay eggs. Mother pigs will spend their miserable lives in tight metal crates, as their babies are torn from them and mutilated with no anesthesia. And dairy cows will continue to cry for their babies torn from them at birth, so we can drink their milk. Caring consumers opting for “organic” animal products, to reduce their role in subsidizing these abuses, will now have no choice but to switch to plantbased foods, including the widely available nut- and grain-based meats, milks, cheeses and ice creams. Stanley Silver/Boulder
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Thanks for Michael Casey’s essay “‘Cold or not, God is present,’” [Dec. 28, 2017]. Here is additional information: Sebastian Gorka, a key member of Mr. Trump’s team, continues to wear a lapel emblem which may be that of Arrow Cross. Two-thirds of Hungary’s 825,000 Jewish population was slaughtered with the active participation of pro-fascist Hungarian officials and voluntary organizations. I recently read the Pulitzer-winning journalist Susan Faludi’s account of some Hungarian atrocities. On pages 183-4 of her recent book, In the Darkroom, she wrote: “It was on the grounds of the Jewish Maros Street Hospital where, on January 11, 1945, all but one of its ninety-nine patients, nurses, and doctors were murdered by the Arrow Cross. In front of the table (shown in a photograph) were three rows of bodies, exhumed from the mass grave by the Soviets a few weeks after the liberation of Budapest.” Faludi’s father, then a high-school student, was one of the photographers there. I don’t know whether Gorka was a member of the White Cross or a similar group. But it is important for your audience to understand what such groups did. Barry Karlin/Lafayette
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Restaurants in Boulder.” I’m sure you’ve seen the ad. Here’s the rub. If you read this paper, you know Boulder is cool. It is a destination spot; a place people around the country and the world want to checkout. But inside Colorado, if you watch political ads on TV, you’d think Boulder was the epicenter of evil; the place where illuminati scum must have their headquarters. Take, for instance, the election campaign that brought forth Amendment 71 — an amendment to make it far more difficult to amend the state constitution with a citizen initiative. This time, it was the oil and gas industry responsible for the smear, but we’ve seen and heard the Boulder bashing in campaign ads before, with tag lines like “Boulder Liberal” used liberally. (At least) since the McCarthy era, Boulder pushes a hot button with conservatives around the state. It is the place they all love to hate, unless of course when the CU football team is ranked in the Top 25. Other states have their version of Boulder. Madison, Ann Arbor, Austin. In my state of origin, Delaware, it is a place called Arden, a fascinating place founded by single tax proponent Henry George. It attracted artists and free thinkers from around the Eastern seaboard. But while I was growing up 2 miles from there, it was considered by many to be the place where all of those weird artists, “perverts” and Communists lived, and we were instructed to not tread there. We did anyway, because it was the coolest place in the Delaware Valley. Just know Boulderites, you are not alone. Pete Simon/Arvada
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census every 10 years is to re-distribute seats in the U.S. House of Representatives (and thus electoral votes) to the states on the basis of their current population. But if the census hasn’t been distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens in its count, it means that states with large numbers of illegal aliens, like California and Texas, may be getting more seats in Congress than they would otherwise receive. Especially California, which unlike Texas has been experiencing stagnant population growth for the last couple of decades. If a couple million non-citizens dropped out of California’s count, it could lose two or three seats in Congress. Ditto for New York. Then there’s the economic impact.
Every year the federal government directs hundreds of billions of dollars of its spending on the basis of population. Which means that those census tracts with the largest numbers of illegal alien no-shows will take the biggest hits. And where might those census tracts be found? Why in sanctuary cities, of course. But surely the Trump administration can’t just arbitrarily add or subtract questions from the census on its own, can it? Surely Congress has the final say, doesn’t it? Yep, it sure does. The Census Bureau is part of the Commerce Department, and the law governing the census gives the Secretary of Commerce, currently Wilbur Ross, the power to make the call on which questions to include.
And by law his choices must be submitted to Congress for review two years before the census takes place, by April 2018 in this case. Which means that Congress will have to vote on them about six months before the election. And that if The Resistance (or the Democratic Party as we used to call it) demands a partyline vote against the citizenship question, then the 11 Democratic senators up for re-election in states that voted for Trump face the prospect of casting a vote that most of the voters they need to get re-elected — Trump Democrats and independents — would probably see as an example of putting America second. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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most vulnerable populations and there needs to be more consideration of trans rights. The suicide rate among trans people is very high, feeling safe just walking in public is something that trans people often don’t have the capacity to do. Sort of [similar to] what the gay and lesbian movement was 15-20 years ago ... there are almost more societally accepted norms [now] around being gay and lesbian, and that’s not the same as trans people. BW: In comparison Austin Drawhorn to recent decades, do you think the average woman feels more empowered or more threatened today? JN: With the current presidency — as Trump was elected and he’s speaking out basically to say that he’s a perpetrator and that he’s grabbed women by the pussy — I think that that has actually, in my clinical practice, led to a lot more fear ... of having somebody in charge of our country who has committed these acts. I also feel like, in the small circle that I run in in Boulder, there is more empowerment around sexuality. There are women who are using their sexuality and their voice as their own, to take a stand and represent themselves in ways that they feel comfortable about. And so I think the sexual empowerment edge is kind of right there, they’re kind of hand in hand. I think that there’s actually more capacity right now to speak out and to be open. BW: Should men be re-examining the way they interact with women they’re interested in? How about vice versa? JN: I think there are some men who are incredibly aware, incredibly conscious, who kind of knew these dynamics were going on all along. If you were a man who didn’t know this was happening ... it’s time to really start to look at what it means to be in a masculine body ... the rights that you can exploit unconsciously without realizing, because you’re in a power position. There’s definitely some education to be done on all sides of this framework. That’s the opportunity of something like this ... the more voices, the more opportunity for us to come together to support one another across gender. BW: How would you respond to
you’re in a really tricky area and you can’t assume that that’s what a woman wants. And I don’t think you can assume necessarily that’s what a man wants either. BW: What does empowered female sexuality look like to you? JN: In the population that I work with, empowered female sexuality looks like knowing your yeses, knowing your nos, knowing how to convey them, knowing how to speak your truth, knowing how to go toward what you’re actually desiring, and not submitting when you’re not actually interested. Empowered sexuality looks like owning your sexuThere’s some ality for yourself. And I think historical work to be done in each it varies from person to perbeing. Can you son, like sometimes it’s very tune into your desire? And is subtle ... it doesn’t require a there shame stage performance or some associated with it? And what is your huge act. To be actually tuned own history in to yourself enough to know around sexuality? And what were exactly what’s the most desirthe messages you ous to you and how to move were told? toward that, and also to really be clear about what isn’t working. BW: Do you think that, in 2018, your average man might be more reluctant to express romantic interest in a woman than in the past? tain segment of the population ... that JN: It seems like, especially in this maybe isn’t so OK, and there are so many people who have been victimized, culture ... some men are so shy to even applaud a woman or to convey their so that’s the real issue at hand. desire because they’re so afraid of hurtThere are amazing men in the ing someone. Where they’re afraid to world who are protectors, who are proactually pursue because they’re afraid viders, who are engaging in ... what it means to be an upright man in this cul- that those attempts might be misinterture. And I don’t think it’s actually easy; preted, or maybe they’re not necessarily aligned with their own sexual forces, so I think there are a lot of cultural presit’s confusing for them. So, maybe they sures on men that don’t get talked either act out aggressively, or they about. It’s so painful, so for those peorepress it, or those two things are going ple who are fighting the good fight ... hand in hand. the knights in shining armor: keep BW: How can a man express interfighting and speak out. est in a woman without coming across BW: Is male sexuality inherently as creepy? aggressive? JN: Stating your desires, like, “Hey JN: I work with a lot of non-binary I’d really like to make out with you, individuals ... so I think [while] some people who are masculine identify being how does that sound to you?” I think a lot of people are afraid to ask because dominant, some are actually interested in being submissive, and there’s actually they think it might ruin the mood, but I genuinely think there are ways of aska big range of human experience. ing that are really sexy ... really attracHistorically, throughout time, I think tive. that men have been more of the pursuAll of the media [focus] on the er, and the feminine archetypes more masculine end is leading to some sense receptive. of discomfort and not knowing of how I advocate for BDSM/kink rights to be, on some level. It’s almost a fear with the people I work with, so if you have consent, I think you’re good to go. of how to do anything when there’s been so much harm, so there’s almost There are plenty of women out there an internalizing, “Was it me? How do I who like to be dominated, and would prevent it? How do I convey my desire say so. But if there’s not consent, then
men, such as actor Matt Damon, who say there is now a disproportionate focus on men behaving badly and not enough attention paid to men who have been following the rules? JN: It reminds me of “All Lives Matter.” It’s like, “Well, fuck you, actually Black Lives Matter!” At this point in time it’s not about the good guys, it’s about the fact that there are a lot of not good guys out there. Of course there are amazing men out there. Of course. But there’s a cer-
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without messing this up?” I’ve never lived in the male body. My sense is there are sensations that arise: desire, attraction. And there’s the choice to act, which is reactionary. And then there’s a choice to respond, which is a little different, and it requires a little bit more time, a little bit more thought, a little bit less impulse... attuning to what the other person wants, too. If I’m talking a lot but I’m not listening to anything you’re saying, then it’s a one-sided dynamic. And it seems that in a lot of these encounters there was one desire ... coming from a male toward a woman, and this female body wasn’t attuned, wasn’t interested in it, so for her it ended up feeling like she wasn’t heard. There was a sense of violation because her boundaries were crossed — she couldn’t get out of the situation, couldn’t say no. BW: What similarities and/or differences do you see between Harvey Weinstein — who’s been accused of sexual assault — and Louis C.K., who admitted to asking women if he could masturbate in front of them? JN: From what I understand, many of those people were working with Louis C.K. and they were aspiring comedians, and he’s like the big guy on campus; he’s the big cheese. So there’s a power dynamic that’s at play there. There is this way in which — if I was in a room with Louis C.K. — who doesn’t want to impress him in some way or be liked by him? So even if they’re saying yes, are they sober? Well, that wasn’t the case in some of the situations. Are they in a dynamic in the workplace that ... agreeing to it is about them keeping their job on some level or getting promoted in the industry? It gets tricky. There’s obviously some part of this that wasn’t clean, wasn’t an arrangement that felt good. It’s kind of back to that silencing thing, what happened in the moment where they couldn’t say, “Fuck you, fuck this, I’m out! Me and my friend are getting out of here, this is weird!” BW: How do you see the interplay between social status, power, sex and consent? JN: It’s like sexuality is the female currency and finance is the male currency. Sex and power are often really lumped as the same thing. There’s a beautiful woman, there’s a rich man, they want to be together, they’re both into it. A lot of these dynamics are so situational, they’re so nuanced, and then they get tricky. And then there are these huge egregious areas where it’s happening — how did this person get away with this for so long? How did no Boulder Weekly
one speak up about it? I can see that, where is that line, what’s OK, what’s not OK? But it’s also like, how do we protect people, how do we know where safety is? I’m about to go to Cambodia ... [to work] with sex trafficking victims. Talk about power and privilege ... a child doesn’t have the right to consent and then is shipped off ... and sold into the sex industry at [a] really young [age]. I think across cultures, there are very different ways that this dynamic
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Jenna Noah, MA, Ph.D. (Cand.), LPCC, works as a psychotherapist in Boulder and is adjunct faculty at Naropa University, member of the American Group Psychological Association, Director of the Boulder Therapy Center, board member of the International Center For Mental Health and Human Rights and international conference organizer for Partners For Social Justice. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Saybrook University with a specialization in Existential Psychotherapy.
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block of green grass, which spans about a quarter of an acre. “I hand water everything,” Alice says. “Every three or four days, especially the Maple.” But the lawn? “Actually, I didn’t water it all summer,” she says, raising her shoulders and tucking her chin, as though shamefully shirking an American civic duty. She might as well have been. Robust lawns have practically defined the American urban landscape for the past century; so much so, a NASA-funded study recently found “potentially [over 40.5 million acres] of land are cultivated with some form of lawn in the continental United States.” That’s about 2 percent of American land (pavement only covers 1.5 percent), an area roughly the size of Colorado and three times larger than any other irrigated crop. If Alice were to have watered her lawn, calculates Natalie Antonucci, the senior manager of Boulder’s Center for ReSource Conservation’s (CRC) Water
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avender and lilacs — what Alice Hartman dreams of planting in her backyard next spring. Lavender, fresh and soothing; lilacs, ornamental and sweet-smelling. The former requires no watering; and the latter, about two inches of water per plant every two weeks. Standing on the porch in her backyard, she points to a row of wood planks that sit across the lawn. “I added those boxes there when we moved in,” she says, tucking a strand of brown shoulder-length hair behind her ear. In the summertime, she’ll use them to grow a few veggies and flowers for the family. In between the boxes and the porch, there’s a slackline wound tight between two Green Ash trees, and a Maple sapling a few yards back. On the porch, two cats — Fred and George — gingerly step between potted plants. Then, of course, there’s the
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lawn could afford to shop at the market; a house with a farm had to grow their own food.) “By 2020 we want to have conserved 1 billion gallons of water through our programs,” Antonucci says. “And we’re on track for that.” The City, too, has goals for outdoor water reduction and is developing a turf replacement program that might roll out next year. “We will essentially give [residents and businesses] a free xeriscape garden as long as customers prove they [will replace] their turf for the garden,” explains Nason. “Our current Water Conservation Goal is a 20 percent reduction in overall per capita water demand by buildout (currently 2080), but we continuously monitor our water demand and supply trends and plan to adjust that goal if needed.” While there isn’t a pressing need for drastic conservative approaches today, says Kim Hutton, a City of Boulder water resource engineer, reducing water use is still a practice everyone should perform. “The current [water] usage and projections for usage are all within a volume that we predict that we can supply in the future in accordance with our water supply policy, although we will continue to monitor this as we learn more about climate change and land use changes. “[Boulder’s water balancing act comes from] a conservation ethic rather than a concern about not having enough water supply,” Hutton says. Xeriscaping and simply abstaining from watering grass can be a simple solution for residents, but in outdoorloving community spaces it boils down to striking a balance between “different values — making sure that people have outdoor spaces that they enjoy, while conserving water,” says Meghan Wilson, the City of Boulder’s communication manager. Grass, after all, is the prime setting for picnics, playing softball, throwing birthday parties or letting your dog run free. For Alice, that balance looks like a partial lawn, a small garden and some trees in the backyard, and a xeriscape out front. During the summer, she says, the grass gets her four kids out of the house in a way that playing amongst shrubs or dirt wouldn’t do. “They love playing soccer out there; they spend a ton of time outside.” She doesn’t want their small patch of grass to go. At the end of the day, as with most things, it’s all about balance — like lilacs and lavender. Boulder Weekly
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f the whole of 2017 could be summed up in one cinematic moment, then that moment would not be found in the cinema but on TVs, tablets, laptops and phones. And it would not be a moment of illuminating comprehension, sudden compassion or transcendent empathy; it would be of utter confusion and total frustration. That moment belongs to Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch’s 17-hour movie/miniseries that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival before running its course every Sunday on Showtime. In the show’s final scene, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (or what we hope is FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper) tries to set a fractured world right by taking Twin Peak’s living dead girl, Laura Palmer, back to her childhood home 25 years after her highly publicized death. The problem: she might not be Laura Palmer and this might not be 25 years later. It’s an odd scene, one that doesn’t make sense to us watching or the characters participating. Cooper, totally confused, breaks. “What year is this?” he gasps while Laura Palmer (if she is Laura Palmer) watches silently. Her gaze drifts from Cooper to the idyllic suburban home where the most reprehensible of familial acts have transpired. Then, a whisper; the faintest of whispers descends and shakes Laura Palmer to her core. And Laura Palmer, a woman neither allowed to live nor die, screams so loud even the heavens must have heard. Cut to black. • • • • To put it mildly, 2017 was not a blissful year. Every day seemed to vacillate between Cooper’s confusion and Palmer’s helpless cry at the void, and not even movies could hold the world behind theater doors. Public politics and personal problems bled into every aspect of moviegoing, from production to reception, intention to exploitation. Some movies dealt with those problems head-on, others returned to historical moments in search of eternal truths, while a few even tried to provide whimsical and entertaining diversions. Regardless of how they found their way, all engaged with a similar question: Can movies fill
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Twin Peaks: The Return, directed by David Lynch.
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once claimed all art was political; in 2017, all art had to be.
you up after the world has wrung you across whole buildings and structures, dry? honoring them with a level of celebrity The following movies did for this that leaves them speechless. humble critic. They brought comfort to • • • • an uneasy viewer in an increasingly Roger Ebert famously called movies uneasy world. “empathy machines,” and it was empaNone more so than Faces Places, the thy that beat back the darkness 2017 latest documentary from one of wrought. From the French countryside France’s greatest treasures: Agnès in Faces Places to the free-roaming cats Varda. of Istanbul in Kedi to a villa in Varda, who began her career in Northern Italy where a sensual and 1955, has spent a lifetime peering into tender love story gives Call Me By Your the forgotten nooks and crannies of Name a lush and intoxicating style, society. Not with hopes of exploitation these movies were enchanted by and sensation, but with compassion humanity and emotion. They say eyes and curiosity. are the windows to the soul; well, the In Faces Places, camera’s eye widens Varda brings along that window 40-fold. 33-year-old French But even 40 wasn’t street photographer, enough for Michael J. Casey’s Top 10 Movies of 2017: JR, and the two tour Christopher Nolan, Faces Places the French countryside who once again made Call Me By Your Name in JR’s mobile photo the case for event cineKedi Phantom Thread booth, which also ma with Dunkirk, a Dunkirk prints large-format movie that took the Good Time images that he flyposts 1940 evacuation of LA 92 Baby Driver on various structures. 300,000 Allied troops Lady Bird The towns they from the beaches of Star Wars: The Last Jedi visit are mainly blueDunkirk, France, and collar — the ones rapapplied an angelic-like idly slipping into perspective. obscurity thanks to technological and Compressing time — one week, one economic progress — and Varda sees day and one hour all run simultaneously their job as a race against the clock. — and stripping characters down to They must meet these people, hear their base needs, Dunkirk utilizes an their stories and take their pictures so omniscient point of view to observe “they don’t fall down the holes in my humanity at its most dire. It’s as if the memory.” angels from Wings of Desire decided to Many of these villages — including stop by and see what all the commotion the people who remain long after the was about. world has left them behind — echo the The same is true with LA 92, a same American cities that felt forgotdocumentary about the 1992 Los ten by the previous political adminisAngeles riots constructed entirely tration. Had Varda and JR wanted to from archival footage. Much like visit these towns seeking loudmouths, Dunkirk, there are no characters to radicals, bigots and outliers they no latch on to, identify with or root for doubt could have. Instead, Varda seeks — only players in an event bigger to capture the most important and the than any one person. most forgotten of these villages: the The results are stunning. Both women. Be they the wives of dockDunkirk and LA 92 are adroitly conworkers or the last inhabitant in a row structed — thanks in no small part to of houses set to be demolished, Varda their outstanding scores — and both and JR plaster these women’s images benefit from tension and propulsive Boulder Weekly
energy, something cinema captures better than any other art form. That propulsive energy can also be found in two street-level crime movies: Good Time and Baby Driver. The former, anchored by an outstanding lead performance from Robert Pattinson, moves through the streets of Queens, New York, like a snake slithering through a briar patch. The latter, a musical set to the beat of burning rubber and revving engines, refuses to yield, racing headfirst into certain doom. Why? Because life is just more interesting that way. The protagonists from Good Time and Baby Driver both end up in similar situations, but with very different understandings of how they got there. And like Baby Driver, some movies are best when they bring pleasure while also touching a few raw nerves: Phantom Thread, Lady Bird and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. All are entertaining, but simple diversions? Certainly not. Whether it was post-war London, turn-of-thecentury Sacramento, or a galaxy far, far away, these movies engage with everyday life in ways that are surprising and confrontational. Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once claimed all art was political; in 2017, all art had to be. • • • • There were more, so many more. Cinema in 2017 was too good for just 10: Get Out, Coco, A Ghost Story, Personal Shopper, The Florida Project, The Lost City of Z, Dawson City: Frozen Time, I, Tonya and on and on. Many have theorized that great art can only arise from great conflict. Put another way, the artist needs something to push up against. That certainly seems to make sense (look at how many iconic American movies were made during World War II and the Vietnam War), but there might be another explanation, one that reverses the equation and instills it with action rather than reaction: In times of great conflict, great art becomes the antidote. Lord knows we’ll need it in 2018. January 4 , 2018 19
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overtones The real Joe Satriani
How a documentary helped the guitar legend reconcile his public and private personas by Alan Sculley
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uitar great Joe Satriani began to question whether his persona remembers a random was overtaking him. The concluding encounter he had with song on that album, “Goodbye the late comedian Supernova,” hinted at the emerging Robin Williams that conflict. And then Satriani got to furillustrates, at least to an extent, a prother examine his alter ego when his son, cess Satriani’s gone through in evaluatZZ, joined the tour to film a documening his public and private personality tary, finding his father at a place where traits over the past few years. he was trying to reconcile his on-stage Living near an elementary school in persona with his natural traits and perSan Francisco at the time, Satriani and sonality. his wife were in their garage one mornIn the end, Satriani found a way ing. Larry Dimarzio “We hear what sounds like an absolute crazy person walking up the street. It really sounded like a crazy, deranged person, right?” Satriani recounts. “So we kind of froze and looked and we were waiting for this person to come into view. “All of a sudden who comes walking by, but it’s Robin Williams walking his son to school. Of course, he’s entertaining his son like you’ve seen him in movies and television shows,” the guitarist says. “It reminds me that he was such a wonderful person and a great performer, but I suppose there wasn’t a line there. If he was doing that at 7:30 in the morning with forward. his son just to put a smile on his son’s “I think one of the things he (ZZ face, that’s pretty remarkable. So it Satriani) discovered is it wasn’t so much comes to mind when I think about that a discarding of an alter ego as it was me whole thing about performers have two accepting that it was really part of me lives, one for home and one for the all along,” he says. stage.” Satriani put his decision to express a For many years, Satriani saw a truer version of himself into practice in marked difference in who he was in writing for his newly released 16th stuprivate and how he tried to come across dio album, What Happens Next. on stage. Recruiting Red Hot Chili Peppers Like many musicians, he was quite drummer Chad Smith (who also plays shy when he first started touring. To with Satriani in the side band help him come out of his shell, over the Chickenfoot) and bassist Glenn years Satriani developed a series of onHughes (of Deep Purple fame) to form stage personas — the latest he named his studio band, Satriani dispensed Shockwave Supernova — that allowed almost entirely with the progressive him to be a flashier performer who rock influences and science fiction embraced stunts like playing the guitar motifs that had flavored his past several with his teeth in order to entertain albums and pursued a sound rooted in audiences. rock and soul. This pushed Satriani to But especially in making his 2015 look more inward and use his songs, album, Shockwave Supernova, and then which remain all instrumental, to touring to promote that release, Satriani express more basic human emotions. Boulder Weekly
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The result is a potent album with songs that are more concise and direct in their emotions. Several songs, including “Energy,” “Catbot” and “Headrush” are among the hardest rocking — but still catchy — songs Satriani has created. At the same time, tunes like “Smooth Soul,” “Righteous” and “Forever and Ever,” dial back on the voltage and showcase a more fluid and highly melodic feel that draws strongly from soul and rock, bringing a nice balance to the album. Now Satriani is embarking on upwards of two years of touring. The first round, behind What Happens Next, will find Satriani joined by Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci and Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen for the latest edition of his G3 tour. Each guitarist will play a set running 45 minutes to an hour and then the trio will perform together to finish the night. Satriani said he plans to showcase several songs from What Happens Next in his set, along with fan favorites from his back catalog. And given the changes he has gone through in reconciling his Shockwave Supernova persona and his real personality, will audiences see a different kind of performer when Satriani hits the stage for his G3 sets? Even Satriani isn’t sure. “I’m curious to see what happens,” he says. “But my guess is I’ll probably hit the stage with renewed excitement and maybe I’ll go even further with the performance. I know that period of laying myself open, allowing myself to be sort of dissected during the filming of (the ZZ Satriani documentary) Beyond The Supernova, really was a healthy thing. It helped unlock the emotions to create a new album, finish it and then feel comfortable to prepare to bring it out on tour. All the things that seemed to be part of the pathos behind the Shockwave Supernova character were somehow excised during that whole process. So I’m looking forward to it, like it’s the final step. It should be very interesting.”
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Brilliant pianist Simone Dinnerstein performs the premiere of a Boulder Phil co-commission by Philip Glass, inspired by Bach. Bach’s spirit also pervades the program through his G minor concerto and in a work by his son, struggling to both honor his father and assert his independence from him. After intermission, themes of forgiveness and redemption prevail in the lush, Transfigured Night by Schoenberg, a man deeply influenced by Bach’s bold chromaticism. Boulder Weekly
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llen Mahoney, Boulder-based journalist and co-author of the young adult nonfiction book Earthrise: My adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, can’t remember a time when she didn’t stare up at the stars and wonder about the big, humbling questions of life. “Who I am? Why am I here? What is that we’re all a part of? Where are we going? That’s always who I’ve been, and that was who Edgar was, too,” Mahoney says. She’s referring to her coauthor, the late Edgar Mitchell, the moon-walking, alien-hunting, psychically inclined astronaut. As a journalist, Mahoney focuses on the cold, hard facts of Mitchell’s life. But from these, she hopes to construct a more encompassing narrative, one that can lift our thoughts from scientific infrastructures to consider the mysteries of the universe with equal fervor. Mahoney first met Mitchell decades ago, when living in sunny Palo Alto as a bright-eyed 20-something eager to volunteer at his newly founded Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). The institute was the first home for the emerging, multidisciplinary field Mitchell founded, bringing objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner wisdom in order to study the full range of human experiences. IONS was a bold new step into phenomenological studies, not because it hadn’t been done before, but because for the first time it was backed by the mainstream notoriety of Mitchell the aviator, aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut. “To me he is an important person to recognize on our planet for all he has accomplished, but more so for his courageous work to help us to question,
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and to imagine,” Mahoney says. “He was one of 12 men, out of 7.4 billion on Earth, who went off planet and walked on a different heavenly body.” Mitchell was a part of NASA’s Apollo 14 mission in 1971, spending more than 30 hours on the moon. And while he was up there, staring into the starry sky, watching the Earth rise above the horizon, he had a transcendent experience that would soon beg him to ask the big questions with a scientific intensity and a boy-like wonder: Who am I? What am I part of? When he came back to Earth he would answer, “we are stardust,” and so began his explorations into parapsychological phenomenon that would continue to his death in 2016. It was and still is unusual for figures of scientific prominence to so seriously and publicly explore such woo-woo terrain, and that’s precisely why, decades after first meeting him, Mahoney approached Edgar in hopes of turning his story into a book for children. “Adolescents are at the age of always questioning,” she says. “They are always curious with an innate openness to the big questions. I hoped Mitchell’s story could help them to ask those questions broadly, in a profound sort of way.” With a penchant for early education, Mitchell eagerly agreed, and for the better part of a year they held regular Tuesday phone interviews that Mahoney says “were an awful lot like Tuesdays with Morrie.” They didn’t have a friendship exactly, but over time developed a close relationship that allowed their conversations to toe the
line between factual storytelling and philosophical hypothesizing. With each call, Mitchell’s story unfolded, chapter by chapter, as an extraordinary biography that touched on some of humanity’s most historical moments. For Mitchell they were intimate and introduced him to profound considerations of his inner and outer worlds alike. He told Mahoney about his days as a kid on his family’s Texas ranch, herding hungry cattle during the Great Depression. Almost always covered in a thin layer of Dust Bowl dirt, he learned about man’s survival on a sometimes unforgiving planet. By the time he was 15, his family had moved to the periphery of Roswell, New Mexico, and he remembers having his first considerations of extraterrestrial life then, in 1947, when he says a UFO plummeted into a nearby cow pasture. In 1965, he remembers being awoken in the middle of the night by a bright light and a violent shake. In the morning he learned it was the first test of an atomic bomb at the Trinity Site — an early lesson in the power of the stuff of the universe. He went on, telling Mahoney about his early days as an aviator, about getting his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at MIT and about his nearly catastrophic Apollo 14 mission, which he managed to save with quick thinking and 180 lines of code to become the sixth man to walk on the moon. As he talked, Mahoney realized even though each of these moments were spectacular in their own right, what was truly remarkable was how they synthesized to prepare Mitchell for his moment of epiphany in space. “I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but to hear him talk about it was to hear a man describe becoming one with the universe, viscerally,” Mahoney says. “When he got back to Earth, he wanted to figure out what had happened to him up in space and found the word of the samadhi (a state of meditative consciousness) best captured it. He had experienced a higher state of consciousness, he felt at one with the universe, as if every particle of his being was connected.”
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7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Bouder. Tickets are $35-$50.
Guy Fieri and Courtesy of Samples the crew from his hit show Diners, DriveIns and Dives stopped by Samples restaurant in Longmont recently to cook up two “hand-helds” from the menu with owner Mark Sample. The poutine burger has a beer-infused demi glace served on a brioche bun with house-made beer pickles, cheese curds and fries, while the Korean BBQ features thinly sliced marinated short-ribs, house-made kimchi, Asian aioli, pickled red onions and cilantro on a brioche bun. Stop by the restaurant to try these or other Samples favorites and catch the segment as it airs with the Samples team.
From being raised in a family of nine in the projects in the most gang-infested neighborhood in the country, to winning NBC’s Last Comic Standing, to selling out live comedy shows all over the country and being able to act in TV shows and movies, Felipe Esparza’s life has been anything but boring. You may have seen Felipe in his stand-up comedy special, They’re Not Gonna Laugh at You, which is available on Netflix. He has also made several TV appearances such as recurring roles on The Eric Andre Show and NBC’s Superstore, TruTV’s World’s Dumbest and Russell Simmons Presents Stand-Up at the El Rey. Now you can see him live at the Boulder Theater on Friday, Jan. 5.
1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Registration required, GourangaUK. via Wikimedia Commons $60.
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In Buddhism and Hinduism, mala (the Sanskrit word for garland) beads are traditionally used as a tool for meditation. There are 108 beads to be exact, with one “guru” bead, which can be held in the palm of your hand or worn around your neck as a reminder of your positive intentions. Set your intention for 2018 by making your own set of mala beads at the Schiff Dance Mala Making Workshop on Jan. 7. Your fee of $60 includes materials and guidance — but registration is required, so email move@ schiffdance.org.
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“Configurations II,” layers of oil paint, glazes and textures, by Kathy M.Friesz.
Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May.
Kathy M. Friesz is a Colorado native. Her professional interior design experience has significantly influenced her sensibilities in achieving strong paintings. Her collection of original abstract oil and mixed media paintings will be on show at NCAR’s Mesa Lab through March 2.
Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14. Less Ephemeral — by Marco Pinter. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21. Lined Out — by Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.
Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February 2018. Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.. Through Jan. 21.
Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1.
Original Abstract Oil and Mixed Media Paintings — by Kathy Friesz. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.
Marginalia — by Joel Swanson. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.
Marking Presence. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.
Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th
Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February. thINK! Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Feb. 4. Works Of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink and Paint — by Mark Ludy. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.
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Son and Cynic. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
Thursday, January 4 Music Brent Loveday and The Dirty Dollars, Charlotte Sass. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Captiva. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Chris Knight. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Defectives. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Determyned. 6 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Hot Trash. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Ignition Thursdays. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. LowPro (Album and Visual Release Party). 8:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionoshere St., Suite 6, Longmont. Rue The Day. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. 26 January 4 , 2018
Thunder and Rain — with Lineage, Pistols in Petticoats. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. You Knew Me When. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Events Beth Stelling. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Bingo and Taco Thursday! 7 p.m. Bootstrap
Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet Winter Workshop 2018. 10 a.m. Kinesis Dance Studios, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Extravaganza. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.
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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. A lauded fiddle champion and classical violinist. A veteran bluegrass mandolin player and composer. One of Colorado’s jazz guitar greats reborn as a flatpicking sensation. An upright bassist with roots running deep in the classical and jazz traditions. These are the individual elements that come together to create Masontown. The Colorado band’s sound is an exciting take on the American acoustic tradition. At once fresh and familiar, the group unites the sounds of bluegrass, old-time, folk and new acoustic music into a sonic melting pot. Invisible Audience Presents is a new initiative at the Center for Musical Arts, aiming to provide more access to great music from Colorado and around the country. Led by recording engineer and music enthusiast Duncan Taylor, the Invisible Audience Presents series promises to bring exciting new talent to the CMA stage, to promote local musicians and to nurture the live music scene in East Boulder County. Masontown is a band on the move, driven to delight the ears, touch the hearts and move the feet of generations of music lovers in Colorado and far beyond. Enjoy beer, wine and other refreshments at the Jan. 6 event. Tickets are $15.
Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Friday, January 5 Music Alala.one. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Arthur Lee Land Trio. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 1624 Market St., Denver. Awesome DJ TBA. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Big Dopes Single Release Show + Turvy Organ + Beauty & the Ghost. 8 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.
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events Escort (Full Band). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 5 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont. Foreign Roots., Groove Werk, Broderick, EERIE, LUVr. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. KD and the Painkillers (Free Show). 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Guilty Pleasures. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Haeger & Hoffman. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Highway 50. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Larimer Lounge 15th Year Anniversary Celebration (featuring a Free Show). 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Larry Carlton. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Lori’s Cuisine. 4:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Love Warrior & Gah-bé. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.
Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet Winter Workshop 2018. 10 a.m. Kinesis Dance Studios, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Lobster Fest. 6 p.m. Charcoal Restaurant, 43 W. Ninth Ave., Denver. Lucha Libre & Laughs: Enter The 36th Chamber of Wrestling. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver. Make-A-Movie Workshop — Claymation Vacation Day Camp. 8 a.m. Digistars MakeA-Movie Workshop (Mile Hi Youth Corp Office), 6740 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7
p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder. Rainbow Militia Presents: Tabula Rasa Cabaret. 7 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Saturday, January 6
Bear Antler. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Espresso. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.
Music 037 featuring Syntax. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Arcangelo’s Circle. 7:30 p.m. Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman St., Denver.
The Goonies (’80s Tribute). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Guerrilla Fanfare. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. see EVENTS Page 28
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Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.
Galema, organ. 4:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.
Here Come the Mummies. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Endless, Nameless. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Holocene Hills — with Voxout, The Ephinjis, Benji Piascik. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Major Glen. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.
Invisible Audience Presents: Masontown. 7:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. Ken Block and Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Lez Zeppelin. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Movie at the Symphony: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ™ in Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Pkew Pkew Pkew. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Really Good Bad Boy Club. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. RiNo Replay Old School Hip Hop Dance Party. 12:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Events Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder. Prairie Winter Hike. 1 p.m. Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm, Stearns Lake Trailhead, South 104th Street, Louisville.
Sunday, January 7 Spilled Ink, an Open Mic for Youth. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Spark Intention: Soulful Practices for the New Year. 9 a.m. Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1241 Ceres Drive, Lafayette.
Tuesday, January 9 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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Music
Carl Sever — Alphonse. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
God Save the Queens: Queer Punk Night. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.
SPELLS 7” Release. 9:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.
Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
State Drugs. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.
Open Mic — with Jam and Jiggatones! 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., 364 Main St., Longmont. Events
The Swat Team. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Black & Blu — Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.
Wake & Bake Brunch DJ Imeh. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
Griefshare Support Group. 6:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont.
Wild Road. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion
Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Tuesday, January 9 Music Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. K.L.O. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Open Jam/Mic Night. 10 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Suite 1, Denver.
Beth Stelling. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Fab Feb Comedy Kickoff! 8 p.m. Jakes Sports & Spirits, 3800 Walnut St., Denver. Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet Winter Workshop 2018. 10 a.m. Kinesis Dance Studios, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Playback Theatre West. 8 a.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Stand-Up Comedy and Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday, January 7 Music Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Brunch — with La Pompe Jazz. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. DU Lamont Faculty Recital — Joseph 28 January 4 , 2018
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Birds of Prey Slide Program. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder. Wednesday, January 10 Music
Igor Levit, piano. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.
Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Feb. 14.
Radio Enemy, Quiet Please, Above it All, Corey McCauley, Suspicious Activity. 6 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.
Into the Woods. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Begins Jan. 5. Through Jan. 21.
Reggae Night. 9 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.
Red. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 7.
Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14.
Events
Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24.
Rumors — presented by Lowry’s Spotlight Theater. The John Hand Theater, 7653 East First Place, Denver. Begins Jan. 6. Through Feb. 3.
Open Stage — Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.
Events 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch, and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver.
words After 20 years of riding the rails, Alphonse has earned a reputation for being a kindhearted soul always ready to help in Carl Sever’s new novel, Alphonse. When he helps the Sadlers, a young couple seeking a better life in smalltown 1950s Indiana, he doesn’t intend to stay. But stay he does, to keep a close eye on the Sadlers and their two young sons — and an even closer eye on the town’s new priest, Father Brennon. Hear Sever talk about his novel at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Rarebyrd$. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
Shelvis & the Roustabouts. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.
Spirited Concert with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
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Events Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I is a classic must-see. Catch it at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Buell Theatre through Jan. 14.
The King And I. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Jan. 14. Unseen — by Rowan Salem and K. Vuletich. 9 p.m. Art Gym Denver, 1460 Leyden St., Denver. Legally Blonde: The Musical. 2 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.
Cupid’s Undie Run Burlesque Party & Fundraiser. 7 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Ellen Mahoney: Earthrise. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Kickback Comedy — with Cody Spyker. 8 p.m. Call to Arms Brewing Company, 4526 Tennyson St., Denver. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Trivia in Longmont — with Quizmaster Entertainment. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
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film Wildly contradictory and totally true
‘I, Tonya,’ the personal story behind a public fiasco by Michael J. Casey
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ractically everyone knows of Tonya Harding, the figure skater connected with kneecapping her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics. But how many know the story leading up to that dramatic incident? How many skip the article and rely solely on headlines to make an assumption? Fake news can be blamed some of the time, but ignorance is a lot more prolific. Opening with the titles: “Based on irony-free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,” I, Tonya tries to set the record straight with a Shakespearean farce that is both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply painful. Written by Steven Rodgers and directed by Craig Gillespie, I, Tonya covers the skater’s upbringing, career, Olympic flame-out and aftermath through dramatic scenes, faux-documentary interviews and occasional asides to the camera. Harding (played exquisitely by Margot Robbie) is a gifted figure skater, but her foulmouthed, abusive mother, LaVona (Allison Janney), treats her with utmost disdain. Dismissing her as “the fifth child of husband number four,” LaVona makes the necessary I, Tonya tells the sacrifices to ensure Harding will develop as a skater but much-less-publicized struggles refuses to let Harding forget those sacrifices — someof figure skater times with barbed words, sometimes with blunt instruTonya Harding’s life. ments. A happy home this is not. Abuse, both mental and physical, play a key role in Harding’s life; first from her mother, then from her boyfriend/husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), and then as as a celebrity. Reflecting in one of the movie’s many interviews, Harding explains: “I was loved for a minute. Then I was hated. Then I was just a punch line. It was like being abused all over again. Only this time it was by you.” But in a more profound sense, I, Tonya is about the American class system — a system most refuse to acknowledge. Born into a poor and broken home, Harding couldn’t escape the hand she was dealt no matter how good her abilities were. In one scene, Harding confronts a skating judge who consistently gives her low marks. The answer given is the one she fears most: Harding is not the wholesome American image the skating committee wants. To which Harding responds, “I don’t have a wholesome American family. Why can’t it just be about the skating?” In America, it’s never just about any one thing, it’s about the total package, the wholesome image. And, more often than not, that image is a lie. Norman Rockwell paintings may look nice, but they don’t look real. I, Tonya does. Especially when the movie goes for broke, reveling in obscenity, crassness and pain. As Harding preps for her final skate, she applies stage makeup; it looks clownish and grotesque and might cover a bruise or two, but it doesn’t come close to masking the pain within. She smiles, but it doesn’t help. It’s not a pretty picture but it looks a hell of a lot more real than a Norman Rockwell Christmas card. And when we’re being honest with ourselves, it’s what we look like, deep down inside. Boulder Weekly
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Devils on Horseback
Timberline Steaks and Grille Denver International Airport, Terminal C, diafood.com/timberline-steaks-grille
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ith some time to spare at DIA over the holidays, (thanks TSA for making security easy this time around), we found ourselves at Timberline Steaks and Grille in Terminal C for a little pre-flight snack and drink, and the Devils on Horseback fit the bill. Sweet, plump dates are filled with Boulder County’s own Haystack Mountain creamy goat cheese. The dates are then wrapped in Peachwood smoked bacon and drizzled with tangy chipotle honey. Each bite is decadent and delicious. The busy holiday travel season may be over, but that doesn’t mean we all won’t find ourselves at DIA again soon. $11.
Navaratan Korma
Curry N Kebob 3050 28th St., Boulder, currynkebob.com
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urry N Kebob has long been Boulder County’s quintessential strip mall gem: it’s in the most non-descript strip mall on the most unremarkable stretch of 28th Street, and yet it’s constantly packed. That’s because it serves a wide variety of Northern Indian and Bangladeshi food at insanely affordable prices, and it’s consistently fantastic. Though it’s tempting to dive into the “exotic” specials — sometimes goat, Photos by staff sometimes duck — the navaratan korma, packed with nine different vegetables, really lets the magic of the sauce-work shine. It’s got as much kick as you want, and coconut milk can be substituted in to make it vegan, but it also makes it fruity and nutty. The vegetables include everything from cauliflower to green beans to peppers to carrots, and they offer varying textures, temperatures, colors and flavors. Pillowy jasmine rice soaks it all up, and you’ll be wanting more as soon as the plate is empty. It’s a feast for the eyes and palate, and happens to go alongside samosas pretty well. $9.95.
Boulder Melt
South Side Walnut Cafe 673 S. Broadway, Boulder, walnutcade.com/southboulder
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Puttanesca Pizza
Brooklyn Pizza 1647 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, brooklynpizzaboulder.com
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YOU ARE WHAT YOU WILL EAT Thank millennials for making the future of food a little spicier
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illennials and members of Generation X and Y are constantly being blamed for everything from the election of Donald Trump to the rise in textingrelated traffic accidents. As a muchmaligned Baby Boomer, I think they are just getting their fair share of blame. However, let’s applaud the current younger generations when they change the prevailing paradigm for the better, especially in the food world. You can hug your local millennial for broadening the American palate to embrace more exciting global flavors and dishes. Culinary trend-watchers credit them for the increasing popularity of everything from tikka masala and mole negro to Lampong peppercorns and Ethiopian harissa spice. Thanks to them we have sriracha sauce and “the new srira-
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cha” — sweet-spicy Korean gochujang sauce. And we have more diverse Asian fare such as regional Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Indian dishes. A parade of experts has already predicted the food, drink and dining trends that will be hot in 2018. Somehow the bone broth and jackfruit burgers that were supposed to sizzle in ’17 are missing on these lists. Sometimes prognosticators predict weird foods just to sound edgy. I like the cheesy Georgian flatbread kachapuri, as well as burnt caramel and purple yam, as much as the next culinary soothsayer, but I know that few Americans will taste them in the next 365 days. Whole Foods Markets’ 2018 hot list includes turmeric, matcha, maca and cacao powder in smoothies as well as mushrooms in tea, broth and in chocolates. Personally, I prefer my mushrooms sautéed and my choc-
olate truffles fungi-free. The Boulder-based Sterling-Rice Group says plant-based proteins, chaistyle coffee (like Bhakti Iced Chai Coffee Blend), moringa tea and fresh sardines are on the front burner ... at least through December. Here’s what you may (or may not) taste on a menu or at a supermarket near you in 2018.
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beans, meat and veggies at the Pupusas stand at CO-42 and South Boulder Road in Louisville and at El Tazumal Restaurant & Pupuseria in Denver. Boulder-born Tres Latin Foods creates first-class frozen pupusas which are sold at many supermarkets. The chefs’ survey also predicts we’ll see more house-made soft drinks, house-roasted coffee and doughnuts with savory and nontraditional fillings like the sweet red bean-filled doughnuts I tasted recently at H Mart in Westminster.
Cashing out in ’18
Is it classist to go cashless when you are in a service-based industry? According to the New York Times, more eateries across the country are choosing to stop dealing in cash to speed transactions and because counter folks don’t want to handle unhygienic paper and metal money. Locally, Alpine Modern Café in Boulder recently posted signs announcing that it will soon no longer accept cash. How do you then deal with a patron, a cranky elder perhaps, who walks in with cash? Will you turn them away in favor of a millennial using Apple Pay?
Good signs on the food horizon
Some trends bode well for a food future that is equitable and sustainable. Trend watchers predict that more chefs and butchers will use a whole animal approach to beef and market affordable “other” cuts like oyster steak and Vegas strip. (Sign up for the Charcuterie and Whole-Animal Butchery Course Feb. 18-19 at Il Porcellino Salumi in Denver.) Meanwhile, a number of new startups are using fermentation to make vegan egg whites, cheese and milk. In seafood news, Finless Foods is producing lab-grown tuna and Loliware is introducing Lolistraw, a compostable straw made from flavorless seaweed. I’m also happy to hear that kelp is the new kale. Frankly, anything that replaces kale, that glorified rabbit food, is welcome. By the way, environmentally friendly rabbit is predicted to become “the other white meat.” Crispy Buttermilk McRabbit tenders, anyone? According to a national survey of dietitians, fermented foods like kefir, tempeh and kimchi will be the top superfood in the coming year. They are already huge in Boulder along with the diet experts’ other nutritional faves: avocado, seeds, nuts, green tea, ancient grains, coconut and salmon.
One sobering fact: Even after decades of focus on organics and the rise of Whole Foods and its cohorts, The Nielsen Co. estimates that organic produce is still only 10 percent of the produce sold in the U.S. That percentage is probably much higher in Boulder County. A full 30 percent of all organics sold are lettuce and berries.
Foods jumping the shark in 2018
Some foods have really overstayed their welcome. Spiral “noodles” made from vegetables were an interesting alternative even if they didn’t taste like linguini. Clearly they have jumped the shark now that Olive Garden is debuting a zucchini noodle pasta dish in 2018. Mochi (MOW-chee) has also gone mainstream and non-ethnic. That was clear when I spied a freezer at King Soopers in Louisville devoted solely to the modestly interesting dough-wrapped ice cream.
The “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” food trends
Some of the news doesn’t bode well for the future of food. I urge restaurateurs to avoid “ambient scenting,” a term that would have prompted snickers from me and my brothers. Restaurants are apparently diffusing synthetic aromas through air systems to hide smells or enhance the experience. A better choice is to serve food that smells great. It doesn’t stop there: The future may be forkless. Lab researchers at the University of Sussex have devised TastyFloats, a “contactless food delivery system” that acoustically levitates food into the mouth. What could go wrong? Finally, there is dietary horror in the cereal aisle. Kellogg’s is introducing Unicorn Cereal with red, purple and blue circles, as well as Donut Shop cereal in “pink donut” flavor and Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes cereal. Post is launching Chips Ahoy! and Nutter Butter cereals. This is how America’s breakfast makers will display their commitment to fighting the childhood obesity epidemic in 2018.
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“The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.” — Sophia Loren John Lehndorff has written about national food trends for national magazines including Cheese Connoisseur and Flavor & The Menu. Boulder Weekly
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Giuseppe Oreamuno has made fresh pasta nearly every day for the last 17 years at his Boulder restaurant, Il Pastaio.
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dining is kind of a pretentious qualifier; if a chef can prepare dishes with the same ingredients in the same manor as they are where the dishes “originated,” so what, and who could even assess that? No, the best chefs follow their own compasses. “[For instance], in Italy cream is not used a lot like here in America,” he says. “It’s different here and so Italians say, ‘Woah, what is alfredo? Alfredo is a guy in Rome.’ When you make a pesto cream, this is from here, man, but the people like it, what can I say? It’s good.” Oreamuno’s compass has led him around the
world. But his affinity for cooking started with his parents, in Costa Rica. His father — “my father, oh my father, my father...” Oreamuno fawns — was a natural cook who taught his son the basics. Oreamuno took to it and cooked for his friends in high school. When his father sent him to Pisa, Italy, after high school “to study computers,” he didn’t. Instead, he learned first-hand how to cook Italian food, and enjoyed the scenery. Oreamuno returned to Costa Rica, which had a large Italian population across the country; there were about a half dozen Italian restaurants in just his neighborhood. Oreamuno added a seventh Italian place, a small place about the size of Il Pastaio. Soon, though, he took a job cooking aboard a cruise liner, one which made regular stops in Miami. After bouncing around for years, Oreamuno said finally, “I like Miami,” and moved there with his wife, Marta. In Miami, he worked in plenty of restaurants over 16 years, but when a former employer told him he needed help at Antica Roma in Boulder, Oreamuno said, “why not,” and came out to help. It turned out Oreamuno — with his unique cultural exposure and cooking chops — was suited for the job. “I came out to help him fix the place. It had a lot of problems because [the owner] speaks Italian, and then I tried to speak Spanish con the people in the kitchen, translate what they say into Italian, and then I translate what he say to the guys in Spanish. Finally I made one language. Everyone knew what everyone wanted. Bum-bum-bum, back and forth,” he says. The plan was for him and Marta to return to Miami after three years, but when the owner offered him the opportunity to buy Il Pastaio (and with their four kids out of the house already), Oreamuno took Boulder Weekly
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it. Seventeen years later and Oreamuno hasn’t changed much. “[Making pasta] is simple,” he says. “The reason the pasta is good is for 17 years I didn’t change the recipe. I don’t want to make profit, take something for me. No, I make the same, same recipe, and that is what people like. People like, people happy, happy people come back.” Still, Oreamuno’s nonchalance toward the craft of pasta-making obscures the subtle skills he’s developed over the years and which set Il Pastaio apart from other restaurants. He says pasta-making is “physical, but in the kitchen you need to use your brain, too.” Patience is the key: knowing exactly when the pasta dough is ready to start molding; operating in different humidity levels; moving precisely with egg-based dough, which is damaged by air; and manipulating the machines to accommodate those variables. Oreamuno has been able to pass off some of the work to cooks, but he still spends 14-hour days on his feet prepping pasta and sauces for lunch and dinner. Going on five decades in the food business, and all it entails, is draining. “I am tired now for my age, for my pains,” he says. “The employees change a lot in the last year. People now are more lazy. Some people come here to work and two or three days later say, ‘Now I’m leaving.’ Why? I say, ‘What happened?’ I am tired for that.” Oreamuno laughs and adds, “I say that for everybody — Americans, Mexicans, whatever — no matter where you come from, people are lazy today.” It’s the kind of comment that might sound cynical if it came from anyone without Oreamuno’s resume of work. But it underscores his unofficial, unspoken credo: Do you, and forget about the rest. And that extends far beyond the kitchen. “I don’t believe in nobody,” he says of politicians. “This culture is good because it’s free. If you free, you happy. No matter who is the president, you free. Every four years, [it] changes, that’s it. This is America. “One day, I remember watching TV, the day Nixon quit, everybody [was] talking and the next day nothing changed, everything stayed the same. Nothing changed.” It’s that laissez-faire, come-whatmay perspective that has sustained Oreamuno in life, in business and, surely, in pasta. It’s also supported his marriage, which he himself credits more than anything to his longevity. “I’m very lucky because one of the best connections in life is when you and your wife have the same [values],” he says. “We move to Costa Rica, I eat rice and beans, she eat rice and beans; she happy, I happy. I move to Italy, I eat Boulder Weekly
pasta, she eat pasta; she happy, I happy. We move to Miami, I eat fish, she eat fish; I have no problems, she have no problems. We are so very happy in the place we are.” Thinking about how much longer he can do it — make pasta and be happy in the place he and Marta are — comes with a sigh, and then a chuckle. “At least for five more years,” he says. “I don’t know if God gave me a lease for five more years for my life, really I don’t know. But I’m here for now.”
Oreamuno says he thinks he’s got at least five more years in him. Still, better start stocking up on those raviolis now.
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In 2018, your past will undergo
transformation. Your memories will revise and rearrange themselves. Bygone events that seemed complete and definitive will shimmy and shift, requiring new interpretations. The stories you have always told about how you became who you are will have to be edited, perhaps even rewritten. While these overhauls may sometimes be disconcerting, they will ultimately be liberating.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: In 2018, people will be drawn to
you even more than usual. Some will want you to be their rock — their steady, stable source of practical truth. Some will ask you to be their tonic — their regular, restorative dose of no-nonsense. And others will find in you a creative catalyst that helps them get out of their ruts and into their grooves. And what will you receive in return for providing such a stellar service? First, there’ll be many opportunities to deepen and refine your integrity. To wield that much influence means you’ll have to consistently act with highminded motivations. And secondly, Taurus, you’ll get a steady supply of appreciation that will prove to be useful as well as gratifying.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: Influences that oppose you will fade
as 2018 unfolds. People who have been resistant and uncooperative will at least partially disengage. To expedite the diminishing effects of these influences and people, avoid struggling with them. Loosen the grip they have on your imagination. Any time they leak into your field of awareness, turn your attention instead to an influence or person that helps and supports you. Here’s another idea about how to collaborate with the cosmic rhythms to reduce the conflict in your life: Eliminate any unconscious need you might have for the perversely invigorating energy provided by adversaries and bugaboos. Find positive new ways to motivate yourself.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: I predict that in 2018 you will figure
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this heroic feat will change you forever. You will be reborn into a more vibrant version of your life. Passions that in the past have drained and confused you will become efficient sources of fuel for your worthiest dreams.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: Just because you have become accustomed to a certain trouble doesn’t mean you should stop searching for relief from that trouble. Just because a certain pain no longer knocks you into a demoralized daze for days at a time doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Now here’s the good news: In 2018, you can finally track down the practical magic necessary to accomplish a thorough healing of that trouble and pain. Make this the year you find a more ultimate cure.
the coast of West Africa. Eventually, this new technology enabled long westward trips across the Atlantic. I propose that we make the caravel your symbol of power for 2018, Libra. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will find or create a resource that enables you to do the metaphorical equivalent of effectively sailing into the wind.
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use the treasure; that you’ll have to grow new capacities before you’ll be ready for it in its fullness.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Soulful beauty will be a major theme for you in 2018. Or at least it should be. But I suppose it’s possible you’re not very interested in soulful beauty, perhaps even bored by it. Maybe you prefer skin-deep beauty or expensive beauty or glamorous beauty. If you choose to follow predilections like those, you’ll lose out on tremendous opportunities to grow wilder and wiser. But let’s hope you make yourself available for a deeper, more provocative kind of beauty — a beauty that you could become more skilled at detecting as the year unfolds.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Let your freak flag fly” was an
expression that arose from the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a colorful way to say, “Be your most unique and eccentric self; show off your idiosyncrasies with uninhibited pride.” I propose that we revive it for your use in 2018. I suspect the coming months will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your quirks and trust your unusual impulses. You should give yourself maximum freedom to explore pioneering ideas and maverick inclinations. Paradoxically, doing so will lead to stabilizing and enduring improvements in your life.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In accordance with the astrologi-
cal omens, I suggest you start compiling a list entitled, “People, Places, Ideas and Things I Didn’t Realize Until Now That I Could Fall in Love With.” And then keep adding more and more items to this tally during the next 10 months. To get the project underway in the proper spirit, you should wander freely and explore jauntily, giving yourself permission to instigate interesting mischief and brush up against deluxe temptations. For best results, open your heart and your eyes as wide as you can. One further clue: Act on the assumption that in 2018 you will be receptive to inspirational influences and life-transforming teachings that you have never before been aware of.
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Dear Dan: I’ve been with my girlfriend “J” for two years. Her best friend “M” is a gay man she’s known since high school. M and I have hung out many times. He seems cool, but lately I’ve been wondering if he and J are fucking behind my back. For starters, J and I rarely have sex anymore. Even a kiss on the cheek happens less than once a week. Meanwhile, J’s Facebook feed has pictures of M grabbing her tits outside of a gay club in front of her sister. She told me he’s spent the night in her room, even though he lives only a few miles away. I’ve also recently found out that although M has a strong preference for men, he considers himself bisexual. I understand that everyone loves tits, even if they’re not turned on by them, and gay men can sleep with a girl and actually just... sleep. I also know that her antidepressants can kill sex drive. All three things at once feel like more than just coincidence, though. At the very least, the PDAs seem disrespectful. At worst, I’m a blind fool who’s been replaced. Am I insecure or is there something to these worries? —You Pick The Acronym I Gotta Get To Work Dear YPTAIGGTW: Your girlfriend’s best friend isn’t gay, YPTAIGGTW, he’s bisexual — so,
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not in any physical danger, but his requests (if carried out) could ruin some of my existing relationships. Did I blow it by not giving him a list of my hard limits in advance of becoming his sub? Or is he just a shitty, inconsiderate top trying to take advantage of a novice? After play, he checks in to see if I’m OK, which on the surface looks like great form — aftercare and all — but this also feels manipulative. How can I pull things back to where I’m comfortable? Do I run from the scene — or just this guy? —Tired Of Overreaching From A Shitty Top Dear TOOFAST: A top who reopens negotiations about limits and what’s on the BDSM menu during a scene — a time when the sub will feel tremendous pressure to, well, submit — is not a top you can trust. The same goes for a top who makes demands that, if obeyed, could ruin their sub’s relationships with family, friends, other partners, etc. Run from this guy, TOOFAST, but not from the scene. There are better tops out there. Go find one. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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or any other column, I’d call Gary King by his last name, but we both agreed that’s too formal for our purposes. It’s weird though, because I’ve never met Gary in person. For the past few months we’ve been penpalling and occasionally catching up on the phone. Save for a few old photos of him in his 20s hanging from trees on the Hill, I have no idea what he looks like, although I Courtesy of Gary King imagine his features have rounded and his hair grown white and thin. I bet he has a long beard. He sounds like he would, at least, with his soothing bass of a voice drenched in a Wisconsin accent, the round consonants and long vowels sounding like home, no matter where you’re from. It’s a digital-age mystery to know someone and not know what that someone looks like. But after talking to Gary on one of our calls, I stopped trying to imagine it. Instead, I just threw my prepared questions out the window and tried to, in his words, “slow down, relax and enjoy.” Gary is a storyteller and he never starts at the beginning. He contacted me at the beginning of the summer hoping I could help him do some research about his marijuana arrest in May of 1967. He’d been a casualty of a police sting, caught with a couple of cannabis seeds in a film canister stashed in his car, although he doubts he would have been so careless. “Of course I had marijuana,” he says. “I had a stash up on Sugarloaf. I had a stash down on Boulder Canyon, Sunshine Canyon. You know I had places everywhere, but I knew better than to keep it with me. But then again, I had just gotten back from San
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Francisco... ” Before his arrest, Gary had spent the last few months in Haight-Ashbury celebrating the Summer of Love. Understandably, the details of his coastal pilgrimage are fuzzy, but he remembers just enough for a fanciful tale: He was living out of his VW bus, shared a joint (or two or three) with Jerry Garcia and somehow met Timothy Leary and took a trip. Fifty years later, the memories are flooding and filling in the blanks in his aging brain. When we talked on the phone last week he told me about a series of artworks he’s making, large and small, all collages made up of jeans and beads and all sorts of hippie attire and covered with words plucked straight from his subconscious depths. Words and messages like those pictured on the art in this photo. Each word triggers memories of stories Gary’s told me: of his reaction when he saw photos of the Vietnamese monk, Thích Quang Đuc, setting himself on fire; of skipping out on the Vietnam War, not on purpose, but because his hometown post office had burned down with his draft notice lying inside; of the time he sat stoned in a field in Boulder listening to Buffalo Springfield play carnival like songs; of hearing about the conspiracy to shoot JFK weeks before he rode high on the back of that damned Lincoln Continental. But it’s the last part, the bit about the ghost dance, that I haven’t heard before. So Gary starts to tell me, in his roundabout way, of being the lone white man teaching at the American Indian
Movement’s survival school in Wisconsin in the ’70s, one of a few locations that sought to reclaim native sovereignty and extricate their way of life, their spirituality, from white culture. Born in the 1890s in a Paiute prophecy, the ghost dance re-gained favor in the 1970s amid the era’s increased Native American activism. In its original form, dancers dressed in white cotton would dance for five days straight, eventually falling into a trance in the process. The dance was a reflection of a prophecy that claimed that the dance was a way to gain entrance to the spirit world and, once the people were enveloped in the sky, the Earth would open up to swallow all whites and so revert back to its natural, peaceful state. The exact prophecy varied somewhat from tribe to tribe. So, after leaving the survival school Gary would mimic the ghost dance at festivals or in psychedelic ceremonies far off in the desert. I don’t think Gary’s the kind of guy who thought much about why he was doing it, just that it felt like the right thing to do, a peaceful act of standing for something he believed in in a world that felt lost to “the Man” and his rat race. “Do you remember in The Graduate when that guy was like, ‘I’ve got one word for you: Plastics.’? That movie came out in 1967 and it’s then that the fulcrum tipped, when more things were made of plastic than of anything real,” Gary says. “Did you know every person on the planet has plastic in their blood now? I hear it’s absorbed through your skin.” On each piece of his art commemorating the Summer of Love, Gary has sewn back pockets and in each he’s tucked a little, hand scribed story. He warns against reading them, saying they’re not stories you want to hear. “Terrible knowledge, or as I call it, PTSD,” he says. “Remember though, it’s not just about dropping out. It’s about turning on and tuning in. That’s what pot was always good for, at least the old stuff, a way to relax and get back to what’s real, and meaningful.” This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly but rather those of the author.
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n Monday, California million. Clothes, which was a Whole Earth became the sixth state (Eight states have legalized recre- Catalog of marijuana and hemp lore. in which recreational ational sales, but two, Massachusetts The book contained a trove of marijuana is sold and Maine haven’t let them start yet.) information on the history of marilegally — with the Statewide, more than 400 cannajuana and hemp, the medical and same absence of fanfare that marked bis businesses currently hold licenses economic benefits of cannabis, the the start of legal sales in Colorado (mostly medical), with an additional conspiracy that made marijuana illefour years ago. 1,800 license applications (mostly gal and the breath-taking damage Good tempered crowds lined up recreational) awaiting processing. that marijuana prohibition had done, at the few dozen dispensaries that About 165 cultivation licenses have and a clarion call for re-legalization. opened on New Year’s Day to make also been issued, with more expected. It has now gone through 12 edithe first buys in what is expected to In Berkeley, Mayor Jesse Arreguin tions, sold more than 600,000 copies be a $7 billion-plus market D. Paul Stanford via Wikimedia Commons and is arguably the by 2020. single most influenAs the San Jose Mercury tial book in the News reported, “The sky struggle to get marididn’t fall. Stoned zombies juana legalized. didn’t crash cars. U.S. The late New Attorney General Jeff York Senator Daniel Sessions didn’t jump out Patrick Moynihan of the bushes with handonce famously said, cuffs.” “You are entitled to The relaxed normality your own opinion, of the day was the perfect but you are not enticounter-point to the tled to your own decades of hysterical facts.” Jack’s book viciousness that have un-earthed the facts defined the war on mariabout cannabis and juana. In California it had hemp that vermin been going on for more like Harry Anslinger, than a century; the state William Randolph first banned pot in 1913. Hearst and their Legal marijuana in California is and state Senator Nancy successors had sucJack Herer (left) going to be Huge. California is the Skinner were on hand for a cessfully suppressed with fellow activist most populous state in the country ribbon-cutting ceremony at a for two generations. Dana Beal at a marijuana festival with some 39.5 million people, repre- dispensary. It really did change in 1989. senting about 12 percent of the counIt’s a shame that Jack the prevailing paratry’s population. Herer didn’t live to see it. digm as far as mariWith the start of legal sales in Herer, who died in 2010, juana was conCalifornia, the number of Americans was a Southern California head shop cerned. living in states where they can buy owner who devoted his life to getting In addition to publishing The recreational pot legally more than marijuana legalized. In 1985, he wrote Emperor, as he called his book, Herer doubled overnight, to close to 60 a book titled The Emperor Wears No was the dean of marijuana legaliza-
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tion activists. In 1974, when he and his friend Edwin “Captain Ed” M. Adair III were 34 years old, they swore an oath “to work every day to legalize marijuana and get all pot prisoners out of jail, until we were dead, marijuana was legal, or we could quit when we turned 84.” Herer was true to his oath and worked for legalization until the day he died. He traveled the country, gave scores of speeches and interviews and even ran for president twice,as the Grassroots Party candidate, (getting 3,875 votes in 1992). I met Jack two or three times when he spoke in Colorado. He genuinely believed that hemp could save the world by being an alternative source of food, fiber, fuel and medicine. During one of his speeches at CU, he cited anecdotal evidence and obscure studies that indicated marijuana had both anti-cancer and antiarthritic properties — claims that were considered over-the-top by “serious people” at the time. I had never heard them before and started chasing them down myself. To my surprise, they checked out. Today a growing body of rigorous research is validating them. In retrospect, Herer was the Thomas Paine of marijuana. The Emperor was the Common Sense of the marijuana revolution. Like Paine, Herer was passionate, idiosyncratic and relentless. When legal sales began in California at 12:01 a.m. on New Year’s Day, he should have been at the head of the line.
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icumi (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) AN IRREVERENT AND NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE VIEW OF THE WORLD
MUNI GETS ITS FUNDING A woman in Pennsylvania received a $284 billion electric bill last week. When she brought it to her electric provider, Penelac, the company said, “OK, we know our name sounds like a brand of medicine for penis leaks, but we did not do this to your bill!” (For the record, Penelac is owned by Martin Shkreli and each pill costs $284 billion.) The woman, however, was able to track down the culprits of the inflated bill, when she noticed the email address it was sent from ended with @boulder.gov. And when she did some digging and streamed a recent Council meeting and heard members saying, “We moved some
money around and we think we can buy the muni now!” she really started thinking something was fishy. Documents show it was part of the City’s attempt to “Nigerian scam” their way to the muni. When the woman contacting the City, officials were reported to have said, “Huhhh?” and “Whaaa?” and “Nawww.” The City is reportedly cold-calling seniors and selling them bogus Penelac prescriptions to pay for the ice skating rink downtown, and is sending out pickpockets disguised as performers on RTD busses to pay for a citywide EcoPass. Asked for a comment, a local energy supplier in Boulder said, “None of this would have happened if you all hadn’t passed that muni tax. Way to go.”
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ENDLESS PLATES OF CRUELTY In a press release earlier this week, Applebee’s restaurants announced “the long-awaited return of All-You-Can Eat Riblets to kick-off 2018!” But the pain and torment for Longmont residents doesn’t stop there. Applebee’s went on to say that the “riblets are cut from the most tender pork for a delicious bone-in flavor, then slow cooked and served dripping in either Honey BBQ or Spicy Texas BBQ sauce, with Classic Fries and cole slaw.” And just when you didn’t think it could hurt anymore, the company threw this in: “As an added option, Applebee’s lip-smacking, All-You-CanEat Riblets are joined this time by AllYou-Can-Eat Chicken Tenders. Guests can enjoy plate, after plate, after plate of either riblets or tenders.” Make it stop. What kind of monsters are these people? “Back by popular demand?” All the plates full of meat you can possibly eat? If only it were so simple for Longmontites. If only their beloved Applebee’s could be “back by popular demand.” Sadly it closed for good in 2013. You’re too late, riblets. No endless plates of meat for you, Longmont. It’s all a cruel joke. Boulder Weekly
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