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t’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer rings, where the Koch brothers, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and their corporate cohorts have laid siege to our state governments. It’s not a coincidence that such a
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large flock of corporatists and rightwing ideologues now roosts in state offices and keeps pushing exactly the same anti-people rhetoric and tactics. Nor is their lockstep embrace of identical corporation-enthroning proposals the result of small minds thinking alike. More than a firefight here or an ambush there, the Koch-ALEC cabal have launched a massive, coordinated maneuver to conquer the countryside. If you doubt that the strategy has gone local, consider this fact: Even though the Kochs did not back a presidential campaign and said that they were concentrating on only a half dozen U.S. Senate races last year, they deployed 1,600 paid political staffers into 38 states to drive elections and policy campaigns. This is why we must pay attention: Donald Trump is not the only — or even the biggest — danger to our democratic republic. As Arn Pearson, general counsel of Center for Media
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Democracy, warns: “There are a lot of different parts of the Koch machine pulling on this oar. From their think tanks up through their elected officials, they’re pushing on it. Hard.” You might think this is madness, but madness — spurred by plutocratic greed — is the new American political reality. Just being progressive won’t stop it. We have to get aggressively progressive to confront and defeat the Kochheads in our states. Rolling back the effects of the continuing decades-long attack on America’s ideal of the common good will take some work. To get started, check out Center for Media Democracy www.prwatch.org/cmd. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. January 5, 2017 5
danish plan The Donald is about to enter the oil patch by Paul Danish
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rediction: If you want to know where the Trump administration is headed, start by reviewing what’s been going on in the oil patch for the past couple of years. In October 2014, the number of drilling rigs actively targeting oil in the U.S. topped out at 1,609. Nineteen months later, in May 2016, the number bottomed out at 314. The collapse of the rig count was driven by the collapse of oil prices, from about $107 a barrel in June 2014 to $26 a barrel in February 2016. The price collapse resulted from a surge in domestic U.S. oil production from shale formations made possible by high prices, horizontal drilling and fracking, which produced an oil glut — and by a decision by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC partners not to cut production in order to shore up the price of oil. At the time, OPEC’s member states could produce oil for less than half of the break-even price of U.S. shale oil producers. OPEC’s thinking was that if they flooded the market with cheap oil they would drive the American shale oil producers out of business and raise prices later. It was a beautiful theory done in by two ugly little facts. The first was that while the price collapse did some real damage to American shale oil producers — there were scores of bankruptcies, acquisitions and mergers, and tens of thousands of people lost their jobs — it failed to destroy the industry. That’s because the industry figured out how to cut the average cost of producing a barrel of oil from shale in half in the space of two years — from about $60 a barrel to $30 a barrel in the Bakken shale of North Dakota for example. In some areas the cost of producing a barrel of oil plunged even further. According to a report put out by the Institute for Energy Research, in Dunn County North Dakota, “there are about 2,000 square miles where the cost to produce Bakken shale oil is $15 a barrel, which is about the same as Iran’s cost ($15.60/bbl), and a little higher than that of Iraq ($11.38/bbl).” (Saudi Arabia’s per barrel production cost was given as 6 January 5, 2017
$12.50 and Kuwait’s as $10.15.) Similar drops are occurring all over the country. The price drops are largely the result of improved technology and drilling techniques. And by embracing them, the industry survived. Although the rig count dropped by nearly 1,300, domestic crude production from shale declined by only about 1 million barrels a day, enough to eliminate the glut but not sink the industry. And after bottoming out in February, the price of oil started going up again And by May, so did the rig count. As of December 30 it was up to 525, and domestic oil production was increasing. Then OPEC and Russia announced they would cut their production by 1.8 million barrels a day to raise prices, starting January 1. As of January 2, international oil prices were up to $54-$57 a barrel. At those prices, shale oil producers can make a lot of money, and those with acreage like that in Dunn County can make out like bandits. That brings us to the second fact that derailed OPEC’s attempt to kill American shale oil production: OPEC might be able to produce oil at $10 to $15 a barrel, but it can’t afford to sell it cheaply indefinitely. That’s because most OPEC members fund their governments with oil revenues. Petrodollars pay for their armies, their infrastructure and the welfare state benefits that keep their populations relatively docile. In order to meet those expenses they need to get $50 to $60 a barrel minimum, and a lot more in some cases. If OPEC members didn’t raise prices by cutting production, they ran the risk of losing their ability to govern. But won’t another U.S. oil boom quickly lead to another oil glut and price collapse? Eventually yes, but not quickly. That’s because of another development that’s been almost entirely overlooked — a year ago Obama lifted the ban on U.S. crude oil exports, which has been in place since the 1970s. As of last September, U.S. crude exports had reached to 692,000 barrels a day, and they’re growing fast. Since OPEC needs to defend an oil see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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Thanks for the terrific article written by Zach Evens on the exhibit Weathering Climate: Art, Science, and Sustainability at NCAR in the Dec. 22, 2016 issue of Boulder Weekly [Re: Boulderganic, “The union of science and art.”] Some tiny tweaks and omissions likely due to lack of space are: the exhibit will be up until January 15th; it was part of HOVAB (History of Visual Arts in Boulder) — thanks for covering other HOVAB exhibits in BW!; Lisa Gardiner, from the UCAR Center for Science Education, and I co-curated the exhibit, pulling from a selection of arts/science works commissioned by EcoArts Connections since 2007. What was especially good about Mr. Evens’ article was how he described the arts/science collaborations, interviewed some of the collaborators, and was able to weave in information about climate change, renewable energy and other topics. As Aviva Rahmani, one of the artists interviewed wrote after reading the story: “What a fabulous article drawing attention to our imminent dangers at this critical time in American history.” Thanks BW and BW writers for all your work! Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections/ Boulder
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Give us a break. One cannot govern (or even communicate) effectively in 140 characters or less. It would appear that some Americans have just selected a spoiled 12 year old with a VERY thin skin and a short attention span as leader of our previously well respected nation... SAD. So very sad indeed. Tommy Holeman/Christiansted USVI
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minimum wage really effective at keeping people out of poverty? The poorest of the poor are unemployed, and therefore increasing the minimum wage can’t possibly help them because they don’t have jobs. Increasing the minimum wage makes it more difficult for the unemployed poor to obtain employment. If someone can’t find work at $8.31 per hour, they’re going to have greater difficulty finding work now that we’ve increased the min-
imum cost to employ them. The minimum wage doesn’t guarantee anyone a job. In fact it prohibits employment of anyone whose labor is worth less than the minimum. If someone’s labor is worth only $6 per hour but the minimum wage is greater than $6 per hour, they will be forced to be unemployed. They’ll be denied the opportunity to gain job experience and on-the-job training that could eventually make their labor worth
more than the minimum. The minimum wage could lock them into perpetual poverty. If the minimum wage is an effective poverty-fighting weapon with no downside, why be cheap and only increase the minimum to $12 per hour? Why not increase the minimum wage to $30 per hour and thereby lift the poor well into the middle class? If see LETTERS Page 8
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fighting poverty is as simple as raising the minimum wage, why don’t poor countries, such as Haiti, solve their poverty problems by increasing their minimum wages to $12 per hour or higher? Some people claim that increasing the minimum wage doesn’t have a negative impact on jobs, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that increasing the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to President Obama’s proposed $10.10 per hour would most likely result in about 500,000 lost jobs. $12 per hour is nearly 19 percent more than Obama’s proposed increase, and its negative impact on jobs will be all that much greater. Minimum wage’s strongest supporters are labor unions, but most union employees earn much more than the minimum wage. Why then does minimum wage have such strong support from labor unions? It’s not because labor unions have compassion for the working poor. It’s because they don’t want low-wage low-skilled poor workers competing with their highly-paid skilled labor. Low-skilled poor workers are actually getting screwed for the benefit of highly paid union members by minimum wage. Chuck Wright/Westminster
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price well above the cost of U.S. shale oil production, U.S. companies can become serious exporters. All of this explains a lot about what the Trump administration is likely to do when it takes power in two weeks. Trump has promised to crank up the economy and produce a lot of blue collar jobs. The fastest way to do this is to reignite the shale oil boom, keep the cost of producing American oil heading south and enable greater exports of crude. Moving crude by pipeline instead of train knocks $10 off the price of a barrel of crude. Trump’s first move will be to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline and approve completion of the Dakota
greatly reduce our electrical usage: 1. LED lights use 10 times less energy than incandescents and less than half what CFCs do. 2. A modern LED TV uses less than one-third what an old fashioned TV the same screen size did. 3. Miniaturization means that for a solo person like me, a big-screen smartphone and a tiny keyboard replace an entire office (typewriter, computer, phone, fax, scanner and files) AND entertainment/living room: it’s my TV, clock, radio, player and a room of records, CDs and tapes, not to mention a connection to libraries of newspapers magazines, books and the entire internet. Now I only need to heat, clean, maintain and pay for a bedroom, kitchen and bath. All I need for a basic kitchen is a 90-watt compact fridge, a 300-watt rice cooker and a 5-watt LED light. So that too can be put in the bedroom, along with the “office” and “entertainment” rooms. 4. Similarly my new electric bicycle will have 2 horsepower, go 40 mph-plus on the flats, use about 20 times less electricity than an electric car and 90 times less energy than a regular car. It takes 10 or 20 times less space to park, hardly contributes to congestion and gets out of harm’s way much faster than a regular bike. For solo trips in town it’s faster than a car and you can park it closer. see LETTERS Page 9
danish plan Access pipeline and several more. This will horrify anti-oil and antipipeline protesters, of course. They will do everything they can to stop it. Just guessing here, but I suspect Trump is looking forward to the fight. Shale oil and pipelines to carry it is a perfect wedge issue with which to split the Democratic Party. And taking down anti-pipeline protesters as swiftly and decisively as Reagan took down the air traffic controllers would give him the same sort of early victory that shows he came to play and is not to be trifled with. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Lots of millennials live a very portable life like this and quite a few retired people like me. It’s very liberating. It’s not for everyone but it gives you an idea how we can all downsize and be happier. Why spend our lives housing, powering and maintaining dinosaur appliances? The electric bike is WAY more fun than a car. No license registration or insurance. Smaller houses are more easily solar heated, which would greatly reduce our natural gas usage in Boulder. Unfortunately, City policy requires lots of insulation, but not the use of available solar energy for heating. If you’re in a sunny place, money is far better spent on big southerly windows, and some way to store the heat, than lots of insulation. All the new luxury buildings on the north side of Canyon Boulevard near City Hall should be solar heated but none really are. Evan Ravitz/Boulder
Israel prospers as America declines
For the first time, an American administration has finally stood up to Israel with President Obama’s decision on Friday, Dec. 23 not to block a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlements and colonization of the West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has disingenuously called the resolution anti-Israel and in a pique summoned ambassadors from all 14 Security Council countries, including the U.S., on Sunday Dec. 25, Christmas Day, in protest. This year Congress voted to give Israel $38 billion over 10 years or $3.8 billion a year; yet, Netanyahu wanted $50 billion. Israelis receive universal healthcare at American taxpayers’ expense; yet, in 2016, 48.6 million Americans were uninsured. In Israel, higher education is basically free. All of Israel’s nine public universities, and some of its colleges, are subsidized by the government, and students pay only a small part of the actual cost of tuition; yet, American students have to go into significant debt to get a college degree. The U.S. is ranked 29 of developed nations for childhood poverty. Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining and families are deteriorating as Americans work harder just to survive. Why should average Israeli’s quality of life prosper, at American taxpayer expense, while the average American suffers and their quality of life declines? Wouldn’t Boulder Weekly
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Republicans are counting on the Russian email hacking controversy going the way, like Trump’s tax returns, of the 24/7 news cycle: here today, gone tomorrow. Foreign interference in an election is both illegal and unconstitutional. There is also a distinct possibility that the Russians were cued in by the Trump campaign, and one has to suspect that our own intelligence agencies were aware of the content of the Clinton campaign email messages. Further, in the middle of the Comey controversy, conservative talk radio was spreading an alarm of coups and counter-coups within the FBI. Could a rogue faction of the FBI be involved here? We have a right to know. Robert Porath/Boulder
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NEWS A brief history of the Right’s hate: from 1885 to Trump by Theo Anderson
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The annals of crying wolf The half century after the Civil War produced not only a vicious racist backlash against African Americans, but a period of strong nativist fervor, sparked by rapidly rising immigration. About 20 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. from 1880 to 1920, mostly from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. In Our Country: Its Possible Future 10 January 5, 2017
and Its Present Crisis (1885), Congregationalist minister Josiah Strong offered one of the most influential responses to this wave, predicting that the world would soon “enter upon a new stage of its history — the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.” Strong proposed a massive Protestant missionary campaign to Christianize the nation’s cities and, ultimately, the world. The book reportedly sold 175,000 copies in the early years after its publication — a bestseller for the time. Through the early decades of the 20th century, influential social reformers across the political spectrum — including many white progressives — followed Strong in defending the nation against the threats from immigrants, racial and religious minorities, and the generally “unfit,” a broad category that encompassed the poor and the physically and mentally disadvantaged. The pervasive racism of the World War I era was expressed most powerfully in the Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the first half of the 1920s and directed its violence not only against African Americans and immigrants but against religious minorities — Jews and Catholics in particular. Amateur anthropologist Madison Grant summed up the energies that fed into the Klan’s rise in his The Passing of the Great Race (1916), a seminal text of the emerging eugenics movement. “Altruistic ideals,” Grant wrote, “are sweeping the nation toward a racial abyss.” He meant that philanthropic efforts aimed at helping “unfit” races threatened the dominance of the “superior” race of white Nordic people. (Certain white ethnic groups, including Irish and Italians, were often included in the “unfit” races.) The book was widely read and endorsed by American politicians — Theodore Roosevelt applauded its “fine fearlessness” — and it is still widely read, circulated and celebrated within white nationalist circles. World War II marked a transformative moment in the story of American conservatism, as communism moved to the foreground as the most prominent civilizational threat.
In 1951, William F. Buckley provided the movement with its modern foundational text in God and Man at Yale. Freshly graduated, young Buckley looked back on his undergraduate days with consternation. “I had always been taught, and experience had fortified the teachings, that an active faith in God and a rigid adherence to Christian principles are the most powerful influences toward the good life,” he wrote in the foreword. But at Yale, he found that he was “one of a small group of students who fought against those who seek to subvert religion and individualism.” A devout Catholic, Buckley shifted the battle away from explicit interfaith antagonisms. The new enemies would be creeping communism, godlessness and culturally critical institutions, like Yale, that betrayed the nation by promoting “atheistic socialism.” Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy planted that flag dramatically in the public square in the early 1950s, and though his wild accusations eventually backfired, anti-communism remained a vital source of energy and passion for the postwar conservative movement. In 1964, for example, a Missouri-based Baptist preacher, John Stormer, regurgitated McCarthy’s themes in None Dare Call It Treason. It reportedly sold 7 million copies; a new edition was published in 1990. “A cold analysis of the world situation and of the degree of control exercised by the collectivists can only produce the realization that the odds against our survival are great,” Stormer wrote. Even with anti-communism ascendant, explicit racism remained a distinct element within mainstream conservatism through at least the mid-1960s. Buckley Boulder Weekly
NEWS was an aggressive critic of the civil rights movement, for example, explaining in 1957 that “claims of civilization supersede those of universal suffrage.” He was addressing the question of whether the white race is “entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas” where it is a numerical minority. He thought it was, since “for the time being, it is the advanced race.” Through the late 1970s and 1980s, as the Christian Right matured as an organized political force and became the GOP’s base, conservative polemics focused less on explicitly racist appeals or communist subversion and more on “secular humanism.” These jeremiads had a familiar conspiratorial edge, but they broadened the critique to position communism as one variety of humanism, which they defined as a philosophy that privileged human abilities and reason over faith in, and total submission to, God’s agency. “Humanism means that man is the measure of all things,” wrote Francis Schaeffer, an influential Christian apologist. Schaeffer thought there could be no compromise between humanism and Christianity, and evangelicals responded to this message with a burst of institution building, focused especially on elementary and secondary schools. Subsequent scholarship has shown that their creation of educational enclaves in the 1970s was, in large part, driven by racial fears and animosities about blacks. But the explicit justification was the defense of Christianity and civilization against the onslaught of humanism. In the late 1980s and 1990s, a variation on this critique found an audience far beyond evangelical circles through a flood of influential books and articles decrying the corruption of American higher education, brought on by conservatives’ despair over the increasing presence of women and minorities on campus and the curricular reforms, such as the creation of race and gender studies departments, that reflected the new diversity of the institutions. In 1987, Allan Bloom, a secular Jew, gave this critique its most polished expression in The Closing of the American Mind — in which he explained “how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today’s students.” It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for several months. There are still distinct echoes of these eras within the conservative movement, but 9/11 initiated a sharp transition by refocusing conservative fears on perceived foreign threats. The demonized immigrants of a century ago, largely of European origin, have been replaced with Latino immigrants, especially Mexicans; the religious bigotry once aimed at Jews and Catholics has been trained on Muslims. In that sense, the story has come full circle. Both groups, Mexicans and Muslims, can be portrayed as powerful villains, because they pose perceived threats that exist within and beyond the nation’s borders: “They’re taking our jobs,” in the case of Mexicans; and “they’re plotting war on us,” in the case of Muslims. And the latter narrative offers not only a military dimension — the “war on terror” — but also an ideological one. Since 2010, at least seven states, mostly in the South and Midwest, have passed laws to address the non-existent threat that Sharia law poses to the American legal system. The Muslim threat — like the former Soviet Union — is perceived as all-consuming and everywhere at once.
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A Trumpocalypse? The racial and religious hostility of Donald Trump’s campaign was jarring in part because, before 9/11, the conservative end-of-civilization story focused on threats that had little to do, explicitly, with race or religion. And while racial and religious bigotry had been simmering within the conservative movement since the World Trade Center attacks, they’d been confined primarily to the movement’s pundits and publications — as when Ann Coulter wrote last year, in Adios America, “The only thing that stands between America and oblivion is a total immigration moratorium. No matter how clearly laws are written, government bureaucrats connive to confer citizenship on people that a majority of Americans would not let in as tourists, much less as our fellow citizens.” With the possible exception of Ted Cruz, no mainstream GOP politician has said anything nearly as incendiary. But Trump, with his demagogic instincts and total lack of party loyalty, was free to join Coulter in taking the end-of-civilization story back to its roots in racial and religious animus. It is an open question where the story will take him now — and how his party, and the conservative movement with it, will navigate his aftermath. This article first appeared in In These Times. Boulder Weekly
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The rewards of risk by Frank Bures Andrew Harvey and Dorothy Walters will read poems from her new collection “Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New” as part of a book launch for this volume. Andrew wrote the introduction for this book. The reading will be followed by discussion and book signing. All who love sacred poetry are invited to attend. In “Some Kiss We Want,” Dorothy Walters effortlessly weaves mystical jewels from all the living traditions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and the Abrahamic lineages—with succulent poetic language. The tapestry that emerges from the warp of wisdom with the weft of beauty is a magical carpet. Fly this book straight into the arms of the Beloved.—Mirabai Starr, spiritual teacher, writer, mystic, The Interior Castle: St. Teresa of Avila; The Showings of Julian of Norwich; God of Love
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n 2008 in his Los Angeles home, a man named Dave Freeman fell, hit his head and died. This wouldn’t have been big news, except that the 47-year-old Freeman had launched what became an entire genre of books when, in 1999, he and a friend published 100 Things to Do Before You Die. In it, they exhorted people to get out and experience things like the Namaqualand wildflower bloom in South Africa, or a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti, or the Fringe Festival Nude Night Surfing competition in Australia. Before his death, if I thought about Freeman at all, it was to dismiss his book as a gimmicky Christmas present you might get from an aunt who doesn’t know you very well. But since his demise, I have found my thoughts returning to him and his project. “This life is a short journey,” Freeman wrote in the introduction, then told the reader to “get off your butt and create a fabulous memory or two” before it was over. It was a call to arms against complacency, a prod to approach life as a beast to be wrestled to the ground rather than one to be led placidly to the stockade. This way of living didn’t, however, come without risk. “Be warned,” Freeman noted, “that aside from having fun, you could be crushed, gored, burned, frozen, drowned, run over, electrocuted, infected, punctured, or dehydrated. You could get hit with a mallet, arrow, or pumpkin. So be careful. And don’t say we didn’t warn you.” The tongue-in-cheek disclaimer was probably enough to send many armchair travelers back to their La-Z-Boys. Yet it also made a serious point: Travel can be risky. The world can be dangerous, and you never know what you will encounter. What Freeman didn’t say, though, and perhaps didn’t even realize, was that many of the things he was writing about are exhilarating not in spite of the risk, but because of it. Frank Farley, a professor of psychology at Temple University, is an expert on the psychology of risk and says that the more he researches it, the more he sees it as the essential ingredient of life. “Helen Keller would say over and over, ‘Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing,’” Farley told me. “How many people don’t view life that way? They view life as a series of dangers to be avoided. Nuclear war. Toxic environment. Bad food. Danger in the streets. They focus more on the things to be avoided than on the things for which we should live.” This, he thinks, is a recipe for disappointment. “So many people in their last days realize, ‘My God, it’s over and I never really lived.’ And that’s got to be an awful mental state to be in.” Farley has divided personalities into two types. There are what he calls “big-T” people, who seek challenges and who “let go of life’s handrails,” as he puts it. They Boulder Weekly
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hillsides unabated. “No excitement, the grinder is down. Can’t get the discharge conveyor unfolded,” says Scott Golden, the Boulder County Parks and Open Space project manager for this Betasso operation, as Reinold approaches. The overnight cold snap has somehow caused the large machine’s hydraulic pump to malfunction, and the contractors can’t do their work of grinding the remaining felled trees down to woodchips — some of it to be sent off to generate heat at three area biomass facilities, some of it to be sold to composting and mulching facilities. This is the final phase of the project; there are only about 25 to 30 truckloads left to grind and haul, at about 20 to 25 tons per load. At the project’s pace, that means only about three or four more days of grinding. “I’m getting ready to get on the phone and open up the park,” Golden adds. “It’s a nice day.” And it is — a blue-skied, crisp winter’s morning. When Golden walks up a hill and tweets that the park is open for the day, it takes just a few minutes for a trio of runners to show up on the path, bounding through the snow in cold-weather gear. The three contractors onsite to grind through the stacks of felled trees get an unexpected day off. But for a few mechanical issues such as this, the work has been proceeding at a steady pace since it began Oct. 24. Throughout the project, the preserve has remained open to the running, hiking and mountain-biking public on weekends. And the impact on the land has been intentionally as light as possible, Reinold says. The majority of the felled trees were removed by helicopter, and then collected in two designated landing areas that were already considered “previously disturbed” sites and located close to Betasso’s existing roads, eliminating the need to cut access roads through the steep, erosion-prone terrain. “When you normally do a forestry operation with land-based equipment, there’d be roads and tracks from all the trucks running through,” Reinold says. “With helicopter logging, this (landing site) is really the only damage. When The Betasso wildfire fuels reduction project is intended, in part, to protect the Betasso Water Treatment Plant seen below.
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boulderganic they’re done, the contractor is responsible for regrading the road and getting everything that they’ve damaged back to an acceptable level.” To the southeast, across the forested hills from where Reinold and Golden stand beside the silent grinder, the Betasso Water Treatment Plant sits on a hilltop, adjacent to the Betasso Preserve. The treatment plant is undergoing its own project — a $35 million update to replace Scott Golden and aging equipment and modernize its water treatStefan Reinold with ment processes. The Betasso facility — in conjuncBoulder County Parks and Open Space at tion with the Boulder Reservoir Water Treatment the Betasso Preserve. Facility — maintains the City of Boulder’s water supply. Although the two Betasso area projects are separate, the fuels mitigation work will help protect the vital treatment facility in the event of a catastrophic wildfire. The nearby fuel break — the project’s most dramatic removal of trees at an almost 90 percent reduction in tree density versus the 60 to 80 percent reductions in other areas — is particularly important. “Here’s an anchor point where we can actually stop fire and hold it from going any further,” Reinold says of the fuel break. “If a fire’s coming from the west toward this treatment plant... this will decrease the amount of fuel that’s there and decrease fire behavior, which could allow for aerial attack, or it could actually allow for safe egress for firefighters to get in there.” Golden adds that by breaking up tree continuity, a fast-moving, catastrophic fire — such as the nearby Cold Springs Fire in 2016, or the 2010 Fourmile Fire — could drop back to the ground instead of continuing its run through the tree tops. “When it’s in the canopy, we can’t do anything other than take pictures,” Golden says. Jim Webster, manager of Wildfire Partners, works with homeowners in Boulder County to protect their properties from wildfires. To be most effective, of course, homeowner mitigation should be reinforced with fuels reduction in public forests. “Homeowners are taking action, and there’s a lot of pressure on public lands managers to do their part, too,” Webster says. “The larger story is trying to create fire-adapted communities — because preparation works.” “We see a future with more fires,” he adds. “We can’t stand around and do nothing.” Even so, for a few neighbors, the mitigation work of the helicopters was jarring. A local veteran with post-traumatic stress symptoms and a neighbor who missed the community meetings, emails and direct mailings leading up to the project were among those who contacted Reinold’s office with concerns. But many have expressed support for the project as well. CB Bassity — local resident, volunteer firefighter and member of the group Saws & Slaws, which gathers for local forest mitigation projects followed by communal potlucks — says although he first thought helicopters might be too much for the job (from a cost perspective), he realized helicopters could do the necessary mitigation work with little impact on the land, and in less time than ground vehicles. Helicopters, according to Golden, are by far the most productive means of mitigating fire risks, bringing in about an acre an hour of felled trees. “I live on three acres that border the Betasso Preserve,” Bassity says. “I’m pleased with the work next door — it is now an area from which fire is far less likely to come raging in my direction.” Editor’s note: Just before the holiday break, contractors finished the grinding and Betasso Preserve reopened to the public full-time. Boulder Weekly
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There’s more than one way to be a cowboy One Colorado native learns how to stay in the rodeo game by Caitlin Rockett Boulder Weekly
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Steven Wiersma didn’t start bull riding until he was 24 years old, while most start the sport as youngsters.
t was late February 2016, and from what Steven Wiersma could tell, the bull had to be close to 1,900 pounds, having been on the feedlot all winter. The bull’s size certainly wasn’t stopping the Calhan, Colorado, native from saddling up and riding his way to the title at the Castle Rock Bull Riding challenge. Wiersma had come a long way in just six years; most folks start learning to ride bulls as children, riding sheep in mutton busting contests and moving their way up through junior rodeo competitions until they’re 18 and eligible for a Pro Bull Riders’ (PBR) membership. Now, if there’s one thing you’ve got to understand about bull riding, it’s that it’s the most dangerous 8 seconds in sports. That’s all the time a cowboy’s got to spend on top see COWBOY Page 20
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of a bull to qualify for points. getting married and having children,” he says. “At that But 8 seconds is a hell of a long time atop a point [when I had the accident] I figured you can live 2,000-pound, highly agitated animal. And frankly, your life or you can try to be an amateur rodeo star.” that must be why some folks, like Wiersma, think it’s Wiersma never intended to be a rodeo star, amafun. teur or pro, in the first place; he wanted to play col“7.9999 doesn’t count,” Wiersma says. “And I’ve lege basketball. been there before, a couple times, and it sucks.” “That was my main goal as a young man,” Despite growing up on a dairy farm, Wiersma Wiersma says. “I have a younger brother and he was didn’t start riding bulls until he was 24. Now here he into rodeo. Being that we were close enough in age, was, 30, sitting atop a colossal bull and a couple of he was into it and I walked away from it. We didn’t rodeo wins in the last Courtesy of Steven Wiersma year. He’d doubled his prize money from 2015, and all signs pointed to more success. That February day he says he didn’t feel pain when it first happened, just “a weird, warm sensation.” A trip to the restroom revealed he was bleeding. “So I went to the hospital and I told the [staff ], ‘I need you guys to hurry. I’m not trying to be rude, and I know this is your job, but I need to get back to the rodeo arena at 7 o’clock,’” Wiersma remembers. The doctor informed him he wouldn’t be going anyget along at that age.” where. After two years of playing junior college Instead of getting back on the Bull riding is often called basketball for Lamar Community College, bull, Wiersma underwent immethe most dangerous 8 Wiersma found himself less inspired by the diate surgery to repair his urethra seconds in sports. game. It wasn’t going the direction he — he’d torn it in two places. He’d wanted and he felt he had accomplished all ultimately spend 45 days with a he wanted with the sport, so, like any other catheter in place because the injury was slow to heal. young adult, he went out and got a job and set out on During his first consultation after the surgery, the rocky path to maturity. Wiersma asked the doctor about his recovery time; And like most adults, he woke up one day and “When can I go back to rodeoing?” found himself a little lost. “He looked at me like I was an idiot,” Wiersma “I was 24 years old. I just wasn’t doing a whole lot: says. hanging out, bumming, working, partying,” he says. “I The doctor wouldn’t directly tell his patient that was working but I wasn’t doing anything, and my his rodeo days were over, but he made the consebrother, who rode bulls at the time, said, ‘Why don’t quences clear: Another tear in his urethra would be you try riding bulls?’ I had been on steers when I was irreparable, and Weirsma would have a catheter for a kid. So I went out and got on a practice bull and I the rest of his life. was hooked. That’s all it took.” “He told me, ‘You’ve used your get-out-of-jail-free Wiersma was so enamored that he entered his first card,’” Wiersma says. rodeo after riding only four or five “pro-stock” bulls So Wiersma quit, leaving behind six years of work, (more aggressive than so-called practice bulls). hopes and dreams in favor of other hopes and dreams. “Yeah... that didn’t go well,” he says. “That didn’t “I quit because I wanted to have a family,” go well at all.” Wiersma says in a phone conversation, the slight But nothing stopped Wiersma from chasing his drawl in his accent conveying more sincerity and new rodeo dream. He didn’t give up his regular job as a warmth than frustration. It’s been 10 months since his plumber, but he practiced during the spring and sumlast rodeo. mers, riding four to five bulls every week, entering con“I’m 31 years old. I have a girlfriend; we plan on tests during the rodeo season in summer and early fall. 20 January 5, 2017
He got better, year after year, and was starting to bring in some money from his wins — not milliondollar prize money like the pros make at the PBR, but good money nonetheless. “The last summer [I rode bulls], I made just under $3,000, and that’s just an amateur rodeo,” Wiersma says. “That’s just 8 seconds at a time, so I won like 2 rodeos and made almost 3 thousand bucks off of 16 seconds of work.” Wiersma was never blind to the risk he took riding bulls. As an older participant (most bull riders don’t ride past their mid-30s), he also knew his days were numbered. “Even when it goes great there’s a good chance of getting hurt, even if you rode the bull perfectly for 8 seconds,” he says. “You could land in the wrong spot, [the bull] could step on your leg, break it. “If you get your spur in the wrong spot you can tear your groin completely apart, you can rip biceps off the bone. You’re taking a 150-pound guy and matching him up against a 1,500-pound animal,” he says “Everybody told me I was crazy for doing it but it’s just like anything else; if you like shooting guns or you like skydiving or anything people don’t normally do, then people are going to think you’re crazy. But for me it’s my life. It’s what I woke up everyday for.” About a year and a half before his accident, Wiersma met Sean Webley, a filmmaker based out of New York City. Webley was in Colorado doing research for a narrative film about rodeo, catching shots on an 8mm and jotting down notes during his chats with rodeo participants and spectators. Webley happened to be at the Boulder County Fairgrounds the night Wiersma won the Colorado Pro Rodeo Association bull riding competition. Webley had no intention of making a documentary about an actual bull rider, but there was something different about Wiersma. “A lot of people I met were probably in the 18-25 range and had a lot of experience,” Webley says. “And [they had] a certain type of approach to riding a bull, like conquering things. And Steven [Wiersma] was more my age, basically, and he had a different approach ... a different demeanor. It was interesting to see him win without any of this bravado. He has a certain amount of confidence to be able to get on the bull, but he had a different background story than most of the guys.” Boulder Weekly
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Supplying the drama Artist George Strasburger explores masculinity in new exhibit at The Dairy by Amanda Moutinho
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n George Strasburger’s painting “The Transaction,” two businessmen are talking in an office next to a big window. A man in a chair gestures to another man with a contemplative look on his face sitting on a desk. While the viewer has no real context of who these men are or what they’re talking about, the scene is heavy with possibilities — from the mundane to the bizarre. “Someone was looking at that painting and she said the strangest thing. She shook her head and said, ‘Wow, he’s going to push him out the window.’ Which was like the furthest thing from my mind,” Strasburger says with a laugh. Strasburger’s show, States of Men, now on display at The Dairy through Jan. 15, features multiple realistic paintings with one or more men in various situations, whether sitting on a curb or walking together in a group. Yet with the lack of visible plot, the viewer then is able to project their own thoughts on the work. “That wasn’t intentional. I think that’s the nature of choosing scenes that are so unspecific,” says Strasburger. “It makes you think, ‘Where is the drama here?’ ... I don’t think they’d be so dramatic had they been more typically dramatic. It’s something about the stillness and the commonality of the scene or the narrative that makes you think there’s something going on.” For States of Men, Strasburger responded to a call for artists at The Dairy and his exhibit unfolded organically from there. He set out with no specific purpose or subject matter in mind. His only goal was to continue to improve his craft. see DRAMA Page 24
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Strasburger started making art as a child, drawing portraits from man leans on another for physical support, Strasburger got the idea baseball cards when he was 6 years old and taking painting class at from his own curiosity about strength — its variety and how it 12. He took a break for a few years to pursue music, then got back manifests. in the art game by doing commissioned portraits. In the past five The image of a physically weak man assisting a physically strong years, he’s committed himself to painting his own work. man intrigued Strasburger, saying it seemed like a metaphor, “We His first exposure to art was in church and museums, seeing are all strong in different ways.” large-scale Biblical or historical scenes with many figures engaging He found a model in his next-door neighbor, who Strasburger with one another. describes as a brawny man with a beard. And when Strasburger said “For me, that seemed like an accomplishment for an artist to be he was trying to find the weaker or smaller model, the neighbor able to do complex images,” he says. “And [the States suggested his friend, who happened to have cerebral of Men pieces] aren’t particularly large paintings or palsy. that complex, but to me they are. Because having “I wasn’t intending to use a disabled person to ON THE BILL: States of Men — George done primarily posed portraits until [a few] years make a statement about disability; it just happened Strasburger. The Dairy Arts ago, this kind of interaction was attractive and chalto turn out that way that it was the actual situaCenter, 2590 Walnut St., lenging too.” tion,” he says. Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 15. There’s a learning curve for Strasburger, but he “The big guy actually told me that there were realized he needed to push himself to create. In the many times where they’d be out drinking and they’d beginning of his painting career, he says he spent too go to these heavy metal concerts. And the guy with much time worrying about how important his work would be in palsy would help him get out of mosh pits when he drank too terms of legacy. much. It ended up being a perfect example of what I was thinking.” “I had this romantic artistic notion that work is valuable if it can As an interesting coincidence, viewers often don’t know who’s take a big place in history or if it has a big statement,” he says. “But helping whom in “The Assist,” Strasburger says. This added another that makes it hard. It made it hard for me. I would spend more time layer to the painting, further questioning who can receive help verstewing about why I don’t have a vision than getting work done.” sus who can’t, strong versus weak, young versus old. So about five years ago, Strasburger gave up trying to force it In terms of models, Strasburger says he chooses people based on and trusted his vision would come through. appearances that interest him. States of Men features young boys to “I don’t want to spend a lot of time sitting in my studio looking older gentlemen. Strasburger is close to 60 and says that he gains at a blank canvas thinking, ‘Why can’t I think of something?’ That’s insight when painting younger models. a pretty distressing place to be,” he says. “It helps me process in my own mind who it is to be an older So Strasburger let inspiration strike at will, and each painting in person in a younger world. What do I have to offer? What do I no States of Men had a different catalyst. In “The Assist,” where one longer have to offer? ... As we get older, I often hear that people my
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age or older start feeling invisible because younger people are more visible,” he says. “They’re given more presence or something. It preoccupies my mind when I’m working.” At the onset, Strasburger didn’t set out to explore masculinity. One of his only goals was to portray various interplays. Although he’s married, Strasburger describes himself as a solitary person. So even more so, he’s interested in connections between characters. In these painted scenarios, there’s vagueness in storyline but complexity in relationship. And it’s in this complexity where Strasburger started asking questions about manhood. “I reflect on what does it take to be a man. What are men? Part of that is a gender thing — what are men as opposed to what are women? But it’s mostly what are men in terms of mankind?” he says. “What are we? What are we made of? What do we do?” It was actually the lack of portraying a direct message or objective that guided Strasburger to create more meaningful work. “Detaching myself from that intent, it made the result inadvertent and truer or more honest,” he says. In “The Relationship,” a young guy sits on a cinder block in a backyard, while an older man hands him a lighter. Strasburger says people have interpreted this painting in many ways, from doing hard drugs to making Matrix references about “taking the blue pill.” While Strasburger’s paintings are far from blank canvases, their ambiguity engages the viewer to create their own stories. The moments are loaded, and they can be good or bad, depending on whatever ideas the viewer comes up with. “People read into them different things,” he says. “To me it’s just a goodnatured interaction, and that’s often what they are, just simple good-natured interactions. But you know, we supply our own drama.” Throughout the process of creating the show, Strasburger says he learned the value of these small moments. “There’s a depth, maybe an existential depth to be found in every interaction. It’s not a scene of saving someone’s life or killing someone or doing a major historic thing. It’s just that simple stuff that contains that substance,” he says. “I think it’s the wiser person who recognizes that and values that as opposed to thinking that their life is vacuous or a waste because there’s not some epic thing going on. Epic is where you find it.”
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s the Drive-By Truckers continue their touring cycle this winter behind their new release American Band — one of their best, most lyrically provocative albums ever — the group also celebrates its 20th anniversary as a band. Singer/guitarist Mike Cooley, who co-founded and shares frontman duties with fellow singer/guitarist Patterson Hood, is well aware of the anniversary. But what’s special to him has more to do with the music the Drive-By Truckers are making now than simply the band’s longevity. “To ... be coming up on 20 years and not only still be doing it, but to be excited about it and to be able to make a record like this with so much passion in it still, that’s the greatest thing,” Cooley says in a recent phone interview. “Everybody would like to have a little more money. Everybody would like to have a little more success. But I can’t complain,” he says. “You see so many people that do what we do and get to this point, 20 or so years, and you’re pretty much going through the motions. You’re not making new records. If you do, they’re not well received. You have a fan base that still pretty much all revolves around the two or three, at the most, albums they got into way back when. Nobody wants to hear the new stuff. You play the new stuff and everybody goes to the bathroom. For us, and if that was the case, I’d be happy I could still make a living doing that instead of going and finding a regular job of some sort. But I feel lucky.” American Band is a resounding indication that the Drive-By Truckers are still as inspired and scrappy as they were when the group was formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1996. The band has seen several high points over its 20 years, including its 2001 double album Southern Rock Opera, which thoughtfully examined what it means to be Southern through a thematic song cycle, and other
first-rate albums like Decoration Day (2003), The Dirty South (2004) and Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (2008). Along the way there have also been several lineup changes and a period where Cooley’s songwriting output slowed and Hood carried the songwriting load for the 2010 album The Big To Do and the 2011 follow-up Go-Go Boots. But by early 2012, a revamped lineup that included keyboardist Jay Gonzalez (who replaced Jason Isbell in 2008) and bassist Matt Patton (replacing Shonna Tucker) roared back on the inspired 2012 album English Oceans. A stirring three-CD live album, It’s Great To Be Alive, followed last year and now the veteran group has hit a new peak with American Band. It’s an album that’s potent musically, and even more powerful lyrically, as Cooley and Hood unflinchingly and intelligently examine where America stands in the 2016 election year. The album doesn’t specifically address the rise of Donald Trump and his successful run for president; the first primaries were still a few months away when the bulk of American Band was recorded in a productive three-day session in November 2015. And while Cooley strongly opposed Trump and says he sees him as playing to the deepest fears of white, male America (that they are losing their power to minorities and women), the songs he and Hood wrote address a variety of topics that were front of mind throughout the general election season. They include gun control and the role of the National Rifle Association, immigration, and in sever-
al songs, the racial tensions that exist in America today. Hood’s “What It Means” directly addresses police shootings in Ferguson, Baltimore and other cities, media coverage of those events and the reluctance to face up to the key question of what’s behind the tensions. The thought-provoking lyrics demand attention in and of themselves. But the music on American Band is nearly as powerful. Hood generally favors moderate tempos in his songs, but there’s still plenty of edge and heft in songs like “Baggage,” “Darkened Flags” and “What It Means.” Cooley, meanwhile, ties his words to muscular, high-energy rock, as he and fellow Truckers tear through sturdy tracks like “Ramon Casiano,” the brisk “Surrender Under Protest” and the Stones-ish swagger of “Kinky Hypocrite.” As a band that generally plays sets running two hours or more, there will be time to cover plenty of back catalog songs in Drive-By Truckers shows this winter. But Cooley says most, if not all, of American Band will be performed from night to night. “It’s going to all get played,” he says. “Luckily, most of the stuff so far has worked really well live. There’s not anything that’s too slow or moody. Sometimes there are those things that come together in the studio and it’s a great track on the record. But it’s a one-time thing and it doesn’t really work live. But in this case, I think most everything is going to work very well.”
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fter the November presidential election, comedian Dana Gould was taken aback, not just by the results, but how sure he’d been that Trump wouldn’t be
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Comedian Dana Gould on upending the status quo by Sarah Haas elected. It’s not that he’s unaware of the demographics of Trump supporters. The progressively leaning Gould comes from a blue collar family of servicemen, cops and prison guards,
the kind of people who “get their news from each other and who each gets it from Fox News,” he says. What startled him the most was realizing just how powerful the media could be, not only in convincing conservatives of their own opinions but of how convinced he’s become of his own. “After the election I got very curious about what I was missing, so started tuning into to all sorts of conservative media,” he says. “It’s all just propaganda and it works really, really well. Unfortunately, [conservatives] are better at it than progressives.” Since the election, Gould is considering it his responsibility to burst what he calls “misinformation bubbles.” As a citizen, he thinks all of us have a duty to seek a diversity of information to formulate a more scrutinized and truthful version of Boulder Weekly
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reality. As a professional comedian, he thinks it his job to reveal that none of us know as much as we think we do. There are two ways that this can happen with comedy, Gould says, the first bordering on propaganda. “It’s why I have a hard time with conservative comedians,” Gould says. “Which is not to say that they are not funny, because they are. But the trend of conservatism is by and large to maintain the status quo.” The other is a more truthful sort of comedy, the kind that holds a mirror up to society in hopes of revealing its own stupidities. A wise word from a comedian can prevent us from making fools of ourselves and question senseless allegiances. As a professional, Gould prefers the later: “I feel it is the job of an artist or a musician or comedian to always want to upend the status quo, with a contrary sort of mind-set, and to ridicule those in power,” he says. “At the beginning of the Obama administration, Bill Maher would make an Obama joke and people would boo. To the audience he would go: ‘Hey, it’s not like he’s your boyfriend!’ “With Trump it’s just hard because I don’t know where to stop, or where to start,” Gould continues. “It’s like making fun of an explosion. So what I like to do is take the stance of somebody pretending to defend him. “People call him an anti-Semite. But, look, he has said how much he wants to sleep with his daughter, who is Jewish. I just don’t think an antiSemite would want to sleep with their Jewish daughter.” And in such a cohabitation of unlikely truths, Gould refuses to employ propaganda, insisting instead on a more cutting honesty. Gould is a cultivated talent. Since the age of 17 he has been performing live stand-up, and writing and acting for television and the silver screen. Now, as a 52-year-old father of three, Boulder Weekly
versations. Gould calls it “a sort of comedic cubism.” The format of the show mirON THE BILL: Dana Gould. 7:30 p.m. rors the chaotic Wednesday, Jan. 11, The nature of modGordon Gamm Theater, ern, wired living The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, with dozens of 303-440-7825. things always competing for our increasingly divided attention, but avoids falling to pure chaos by rooting it in an old-timey, ’50s radio sound that harkens back to the simpler era. Gould’s cubist methodology is perhaps best used in the TV series he creates for his absurdly long resume boasts comeIFC, Stan Against Evil, dy spots on pretty much all of the late just renewed for its second season. night TV shows, acting alongside the To a T, the show is perfectly Gould, likes of Ben Stiller and Jerry Seinfeld a Frankenstein-like mix of comedy and and a five-year stint writing for The horror that blurs the line between the Simpsons. But more important than the two genres. notches in his comedy belt are the “Laughing and screaming are friendships and mentors he encouncousins,” Gould says. “They are both tered along the way, most notably with involuntary reflexes that release tenAlbert Brooks and the late George sion. Some people on a rollercoaster Carlin. scream, some people on a roller coastThese narrative-style comics are er laugh uncontrollably. But, oddly masters at weaving together their perenough, it is very difficult to get the sonal lives with the social worlds they two genres to work together, because inhabit, offering insights to reveal unithey are so similar they are kept very versal absurdities about modern separate. humanity. And it’s a tendency that has “But it’s not hard for me. It just so rubbed off on Gould. happens to be the only thing that I But times have changed since know how to do. I am specifically built these greats were in their prime, and to do this show.” so has the nature of their intimate This is where he started, when he style of comedy. While Carlin would was 8 years old, making horror comeconnect with audiences by inviting dies on 8mm film in his backyard. them into his inner life during his Coming full circle, Stan Against Evil stand-up routines, modern comedians comes at a time when Gould is finally are finding intimacy on social media embracing the carefree curiosity of and podcasts. childhood. Gould’s podcast, The Dana Gould “This show happened because I Hour, offers conversations between wasn’t trying,” he says. “I wasn’t second Gould and other comedians that guessing what I thought people wantalmost unilaterally avoid the topic of ed, in the way I voted for Hillary comedy, instead finding it in the hilari- Clinton. This time I made what I felt ties of life and current events. like making.” But Gould doesn’t just dump the This is the sort of authentic comeconversations on the internet. He dy that Gould has always been after, painstakingly edits them, cuts them to the kind that reveals society’s stupidibits, rearranges the pieces and reassem- ties and maybe even turns the status bles them into one overarching narraquo on its head, the kind that blurs the tive, composed of several distinct conline between laughing and crying.
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Dance Hamilton Loomis 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Courtesy of Hamilton Loomis With a name like Hamilton Loomis, there’s no other choice but to become a rockin’ musician. Loomis grew up in Texas, where his parents, both musicians, raised him on a healthy diet of blues, rock and soul. Loomis operates with a pay-it-forward mentality, sharing the knowledge he received as a young musician. With his latest album, Give it Back, Loomis transcends generations of musical influences to create a sound that appeals to both young and old. Stop by Dickens for a night of solid tunes.
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Dar Williams 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Singer-songwriter Dar Williams has spent close to three decades spreading her music around the country. She’s even been described as one of the best American singer songwriters in The New Yorker. On her newest album, Time of Gods, Williams was inspired by a drive from New York to Ontario. With a flash of insight, she decided she wanted to write an “epic biker song,” later becoming “You Will Ride With Me Tonight.” She was also inspired by mythology and her own life as a wife and mother. Williams stops by eTown this week along with Peter Faccini.
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7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
Musician Andy Goessling didn’t waste any time starting his musical career. He started at the age of 11 and by 15 he became a full-time musician. Along the way, he was a founding member of the Americana band Railroad Earth and now works on his Zither Revival project, enlightening audiences on the history and musical possibilities of the zither. Goessling has always been a champion for playing multiple instruments including the acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, banjo, reeds and recorder.
Brian Rezac. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Bryce Merritt. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
DJ Petey. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Glovebox Money. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Hazel Miller. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jessica Eppler. 6 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Joshua Vanachorn. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see EVENTS Page 33
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Maxwell Mudd. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Mayhelm Gulch. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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Natalie Tate, Macon Terry, and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Nick Miller Project. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Monday, Jan. 9 Local Author Open House. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Vocal Journeys Concert. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Tuesday, Jan. 10
Graphic Design Certificate Program. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts Studio, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
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Katherine Marlowe — The Blue Ribbon. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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A-Mac DZ. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
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Brandon Howard and the Red Iron Push. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
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Monocle Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Chicos Malos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Andy Goessling. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Antonio Lopez. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Tuesday January 17th
Citizen Dan. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Clay Rose. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Robert Johnson and the Boulder Blues Quartet. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.
Big Thompson Flood. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Dar Williams and Piers Faccini. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Rumours “A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Brad Murphey Duo. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 3525 State Highway 119, Longmont, 303-678-9402.
Scott Martin Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Brian Parton. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
A Shadow of Jaguar. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Broken Land. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
DJ Goodie. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. The Farmer Sisters. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Intuit Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. John McKay. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Jus Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Keith Hicks. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Lucas Swafford. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, Boulder Weekly
Shanna in a Dress. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Steve Itterly. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Tim Ostdiek. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Saturday, January 7 Music A.J. Fullerton and Jodie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Long-
DeadSet. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Dueling Ukes. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Eminence Ensemble & Greener Grounds. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. Espresso. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Flash Mountain Flood. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues see EVENTS Page 34
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Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. 2 p.m. Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-499-4888. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Havoc and DJ Rhen. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. The Jerryatrix with Chris Sheldon. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Jim Ciago. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Julian Peterson. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Los Cheesies. 8 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Masontown. 6:30 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Morsol. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Nicholas Bernhard. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. One on One. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Pamlico Sound. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Prohibition Six. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Ravin Wolf. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Bodacioussss. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29. Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31. Glory of Venice. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 12. HOVAB: Evolving Visions of Land and Landscape. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 5. Joan Jordan. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Feb. 3. Ladies and Gentlemen Meet the Dramastics — Nathan Carter. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
George Strasburger explores masculinity in States of Men, now showing at The Dairy through Jan. 15. Read more on page 23.
Of Earth: Boulder Potters’ Guild. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through Jan. 8. Olga Karpeisky. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Feb. 3. On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8.
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Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 3525 State Highway 119, Longmont, 303-678-9402.
Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Tilia Americana. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Bella Musser. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
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Events 2017 Boulder Polar Plunge Benefitting the American Cancer Society. 10 a.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461.
Shockwave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 28.
Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 2. States of Men — George Strasburger. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 15. Words are Leaves — Kim Dickey. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
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Smith House. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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1898-1950. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through Feb. 4.
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Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. David Bromberg and Jonatha Brooke. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Flynn & Co. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Honeytree Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Mayhem Gultch. 8 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Redlands, Josh Epifanio, See Bright Lights, Slowriter. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tyler Grant. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Events Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Monday, January 9 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 a.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. see EVENTS Page 36
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An Act of God. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 12. Fun Home. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Jan. 22. Thoroughly Modern Millie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 25.
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Many Mountains. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
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Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Technicolor Tone Factory. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Upslope Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Events MindArt: A Mindfulness Based Art Class (Ages 8-12). 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
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Cocktail Hour with Laurie Dameron. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898. Dave Tamkin. 6:30 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234. Hindsight. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Open Stage. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Tuesday, January 10
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Music Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pikes Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-823-6685. The Coteries. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Espresso! 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Jam. 10 a.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Wheel Throwing 1, (Ages 8-13). 3:30
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marter, better people than me have written about Moonlight, writer/director Barry Jenkins’ megaton bomb of artistic triumph. Honestly, I almost didn’t write this at all, seeing no need to add yet another voice of praise to what is already a fairly deafening chorus. Then I remembered what Roger Ebert, the patron saint of modern pop criticism, said in Life Itself: “For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It helps us identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.” Redundant or not, I have to tell you why Moonlight matters. A large group of people who voted for Donald Trump legitimately didn’t understand the palpable and substantive depression and fear that set in for millions after the election. A bigot who taunted the disabled and those of different races, picked a running mate who openly hates LGBTQ individuals and laughingly joked about sexually assaulting women is about to be the symbolic and literal face of our nation. “How we got here” is only worth asking now in the course of answering “how do we fix this?” Moonlight. Moonlight is how we start to fix this. Beyond shouting down, disempowering and casting out the truly unconscionable who nakedly embrace homophobia, racism and misogyny, the social correction that needs to occur is a booster shot of empathy. And Roger was right: We have a great tool already. Moonlight follows Chiron, a beautiful soul trapped in an ugly life. His mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), is addicted to crack and is an emotional torturer. The film is a triptych, splitting Chiron’s life into his time as a young boy, called “Little” (Alex R. Hibbert); a teenEverything you’ve heard and then some, Moonlight is the three-part ager, Chiron (Ashton Sanders); and an adult, story of a young boy growing to nicknamed “Black” (Trevante Rhodes). The adulthood while discovering his homosexuality in a drug-laden first third is consumed by the omnipresence environment. of drugs, from the brutal addiction of Little’s mom to the occupation of his reluctant savior, a dealer named Juan (Mahershala Ali). The second part focuses on the claustrophobia Chiron experiences while discovering his homosexuality as a pubescent in an environment that violently punishes the different. The final act follows the tenderhearted Black, who wears faux swagger and hardness as a protective shield until he rediscovers the man (André Holland) who can see through his every charade. No one has lied to you: Moonlight is everything you’ve heard; it is a gorgeous, lyrical, spiritual, moving symphony of visual poetry that uses silence as a paintbrush to color the most vibrant muted emotional complexities. Jenkins coaxes consistent, complex performances from three actors playing one character and gives space for every supporting player to add their own nuance and depth. It’s a masterpiece, a triumph of the art form. And then some. I will never personally experience how it feels to grow up as a person of color confronting nascent homosexuality in that environment. But for just under two hours, I got as close as I ever will. The empathy machine performed its magic, making it impossible for me to ever again confuse statistics or abstract data for human beings like Chiron. Please, don’t let colorful, noisy tripe like La La Land steal the spotlight from the very type of art we need to fix this mess we’re in. Please see Moonlight. And take someone who needs to see it with you. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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t all goes back to Mean Streets: “You don’t make up for your sins in church, you did it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.” Those lines, spoken by the film’s director, perfectly encapsulate the beliefs of Martin Scorsese and the stories he tells. From the guilt of Henry Hill and Jake LaMotta to the loneliness of Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin; from the self-aggrandizing sermons of Jordan Belfort and Frank Costello to the humility of Jesus Christ and the Dali Lama. That is why Scorsese’s latest film, Silence, feels like a work weighted by a lifetime of observation, doubt and faith. And not simply because Scorsese has spent the past 28 years trying to bring Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel to the screen — the Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda also adapted the novel in 1971 — but because Silence is an older man’s film. It is slower than his more famous gangster pictures, considerably less jagged in the editing and far more painterly than even The Last Temptation of Christ — a movie indebted heavily to the canvasses of Rembrandt and Hieronymus Bosch. More than anything else, Silence is a meditation, an acknowledgment that when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child and I understood as a child. Now I am older, and it’s time to put Almost 30 years in the making, Silence is away childish things. a meditation on doubt and faith by famed director Martin Scorsese. Set in 17th century Japan, Silence follows two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garrpe (Adam Driver) as they go in search of Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), their former mentor who has apostatized — renounced the faith publicly — and is living according to Japanese customs. Ferreira is not the only one to do so; the Japanese have been rounding up believers and torturing them until they renounce Christianity, which they do by stepping on an image of Jesus. Some of these apostates, like Ferreira and Kichijiro (Yosuke Kubozuka) — a guide for Rodrigues and Garrpe and a thorn in their sides — will be set free, while others will continue to be tortured and killed. This renouncing of one’s faith — or what one believes to be faith — forms the crux of Silence’s nearly three-hour running time, and though the movie has plenty of conflicts, its deliberate pacing might be off-putting for many viewers. But Silence is not a movie designed to entertain, it is designed to provoke. One of the movie’s central scenes involves a Christian Japanese peasant who is faced with stepping on the image of Jesus to spare his life. The inquisitor conducting the ceremony calmly assures the man by saying, “It’s only a picture.” Maybe, but that picture means something to the man and he cannot bring himself to step, no matter the cost. The same can be said of Scorsese, a man who considered taking up the cloth before settling on a life in movies. For some, Silence is only a movie. For Scorsese, it’s everything. You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets, you do it at home and if your name is Martin Scorsese, you do it with a camera. Boulder Weekly
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great bar has a great history. This isn’t conjecture, just a simple matter of fact. Think: McSorely’s of New York, The Union Oyster House in Boston or Marge’s Still in Chicago — and those are just stateside. Right here in Boulder we have West End Tavern. The building that now houses the bar was home to the Boulder police station back in 1906, but since that’s as far back as city records go, there’s no knowing exactly when the building was constructed. About half a century later the Spaghetti Factory moved in, then the Red Cross, but since the building lies in the flood plain, the city thought perhaps it best move the Red Cross to higher ground. And finally, in 1987, Steve “Beaver” Goren and Marc “Minnie” Minion purchased the building and opened West End Tavern. The actual bar — that magnificent wooden work of art to your right as you walk in the front door — was purchased from Miss Kittie’s Saloon in Bayaud, Nebraska. Best estimates place the bar’s creation in Omaha, Nebraska, in the late 1800s. Even the tables have a story. The Hayman fire in 2002 destroyed more than 70,000 acres of old growth pine forest, which was then salvaged for use in a number of capacities, one of which led to the construction of the tables in the dining room at West End. And while I can’t be sure, I’m fairly certain there’s some hidden history in that bar that I’m just not acquainted with. Maybe you’ve made some history of your own at West End. That’s what happens at great bars; you go in for a drink and some laughs and you leave with a story you’ll tell for the rest of your life. A recent trip to West End led to some history-
following heated contract negotiations. The Martins, former members of the street railway employees union, vowed to feed the strikers. True to their word, they fed the “poor boys” sandwiches. While the traditional, Louisiana-born version of a po’ boy includes fried seafood, West End opts for a healthier sandwich by blackening the shrimp. No complaints here, and frankly, it gives the sandwich a deeper flavor profile. Giant shrimp are set atop a bed of slaw and spicy tartar sauce and locked in the gentle embrace of a crusty French roll. That’s it. There’s little more this classic needs to satisfy. The magic of a po’ boy done right is simple, but crucial: the slaw must be crisp and fresh, the tartar sauce must be spicy, and the bread — the true star of the show — must be chewy. On these simple points, West End delivers. Drop a little hot sauce on that sandwich and you’ve got yourself a taste of history. West End Tavern. 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.
What happens at great bars Talkin’ history and makin’ memories at West End Tavern making for me, sitting with my editor and an old friend of his, drinking barrel-aged beer and talking about Boulder’s more sordid stories. For reasons unbeknownst to us, we each decided to order a blackened shrimp po’ boy (though one of us may have substituted a salad for the fries in a fit of post-holiday nutritional conscience). Perhaps subconsciously we wanted a sandwich with a history as great as the bar. Po’ boy sandwiches are, as their name bluntly implies, an entrée meant for the working class. Simple and filling, that’s the goal. They were created and popularized in 1929 by Bennie and Clovis Martin, who ran a coffee stand and restaurant in New Orleans. That year streetcar motormen and conductors in New Orleans went on strike
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about restaurants and food sources. Too much incorrect information is on the eateries’ own websites, menus and social media sites. I’m all in when a rant is deserved about bad service, but mainly I see too many nice comments about cafes on Yelp that are obviously penned by relatives and friends, and nasty ones from nearby competitors. Don’t get me started about the bad grammar. How can I respect your analysis of the appetizer when you misspell foie gras? It’s important because the media landscape has changed and in many cases now the only information about a given eatery is the crowd-sourced Yelp restaurant listings. Once upon a time before the dawn of the internet, the way you found a good place to eat was to: a) ask your friends, and b) read restaurant reviews. Between 2000 and 2008 I reviewed more than 400 restaurants as the dining critic for the late Rocky Mountain News. I was as anonymous as possible with a credit card under the name “Michael Mazzola,” and I paid for everything. I ate at places two or three times and sometimes sampled eight entrees, eight starters and as many desserts before writing. Yes, getting paid to eat was the fun part, except when I encountered a bad meal. The challenge was always penning a story that helped readers decide whether a place deserved their hard-earned dollars. The one thing I never forgot was that I wasn’t a film critic reviewing a movie that would leave town in a week. I was critiquing someone’s family business. What does this have to do with you? I want to encourage you to be a really useful Yelper, to offer accurate, fair comments. Don’t be cruel. Don’t be like the person who left this comment about a local dining establishment: “Please fact check me, I was slightly inebriated when the server gave the monologue.” Also, try to avoid endless examples of your rapier-like wit and ability to use too many words: “(The restaurant) is like a soulless, sexy prom date who proudly giggles as her hair bounces atop her shoulders. Or the flexy football player who has no idea he is without a measurable intellect.” I’m also not sure the following comment adds to our knowledge about this spot: “This restaurant is small and cramped. My friend chose this as a place to grab dinner. He didn’t want to disappoint the Yelp Elite, and I would say that he definitely chose well.” (I hadn’t realized there was a Yelp Elite. Do you need to pay extra for that designation?) Also, comments about your scoring system are generally not useful but details of the meal are: “They’ve been open for four days so there is no possible way to get 5 stars!” “Would call (it) a 4.5 and I give no 5 stars!” While I’m giving out unsolicited advice, please do not hold meals hostage while you shoot another photo of plates for Instagram, particularly when hot food is getting cold. Finally, try to stay on topic on Yelp, avoid politics and don’t whine about things over which the restaurant has no control, like the weather. (For a Colorado view of what happens when good Yelpers go bad, be sure to check out the 2015 “You’re Not Yelping” episode of South Park.) There are only a handful of professional restaurant critics left working for local newspapers and magazines and thousands of eateries in Boulder, Denver and environs deserving attention. Among the sources of local dining information that I consult are Eater (eater.com/denver), Zagat (zagat.com/Denver) and Dining Out (diningout.com/denverboulder). So we’re all depending on you now. Finally, I encourage restaurants to respond to horrible comments on Yelp. It’s almost a necessity to correct the incorrect information with a response because the comments live on forever in the perpetual matrix. I discourage restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, servers and busboys from attacking diners or competitors in social media. It’s not hospitable, and isn’t that the point? It always comes back to bite you in the future. Comments? Nibbles@boulderweekly.com. see NIBBLES Page 46
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The original location of Old Chicago has closed after 40 years at 1102 Pearl St. When it first opened it was one of the only places in Boulder where you could find an array of beers from across the country and the planet. ... Denny’s has closed at 2905 Baseline Road, leaving nighthawks with one fewer Boulder spot to get pancakes at 3 a.m. ... Madera Grill has closed at 817 Main St. in Louisville. ... The genuinely unique Post Oak Hall is open at 6195 W. 44th Ave. in Wheat Ridge, but only on Saturdays. They serve Houston-style po’ boy sandwiches with chow chow, fruit kolaches, Helliemae’s candies and the justifiably famous salted caramel banana pudding. ... Coming soon: Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House, 7916 Niwot Road, Niwot; Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Restaurant, 802 S. Public Road, Lafayette.
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Recently, Boulder’s Glacier Ice Cream asked for new ideas on Facebook for their line of adult beverage-based flavors. I immediately flashed back to a remarkable ice cream shake made with porter I’d tasted at a bluegrass festival years ago. My cool idea was vanilla ice cream flavored with a heavy ale with caramel ribbons. Glacier liked the idea and just started selling my flavor: The Post’s Big Rosie Porter with Salted Caramel Ice Cream. It’s a thoroughly adult flavor I would have hated as a child. The salty bitterness of the porter-infused caramel pops out first, but then mellows into a nice creamy finish. And, just for the record, all I got was a delicious quart of my flavor. The various alcoholic flavors are only available by the pint with an ID at the Glacier Ice Cream shops in Boulder.
Words to Chew On
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Light, electricity, and magnetism
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APRIL 20-MAY 20: “The thornbush is the old obstacle in
the road,” wrote Franz Kafka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions. Did Kafka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, instead, take matters into your own hands — douse the thornbush with gasoline and throw a match into it? Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the whole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: The fictional character Scott Pilgrim
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little more than one ounce. expressing your deepest, rawAnd yet it’s more genetically est, hottest inclinations. In similar to elephants than this spirit, I offer the folto true shrews. In its home lowing four rallying cries: 1. habitat of southern Africa, “Don’t be addicted to looking Go to RealAstrology.com to check out it’s known as the sengi. I cool, baby!” — my friend Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO propose we regard it as one Luther. 2. Creative power HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE of your spirit animals in arises when you conquer your HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes 2017. Its playful place in tendency to stay detached. are also available by phone at your life will symbolize the — paraphrased from poet 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. fact that you, too, will have Marianne Moore. 3. If you secret connections to big, want to be original, have the strong influences; you, too, courage to be an amateur. will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t — araphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the beginner’s resemble you. mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” — Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: “When I look back, I see my former selves, numerous as the trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an experience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about shaping your relationships with all the people you used to be.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “’Life experience’ does not amount
to very much and could be learned from novels alone . . . without any help from life.” So said Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti, who was born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship and wrote in German. Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am presenting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of reality — and firsthand “life experience” alone won’t be enough to ensure that.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: I am rooting for you to be flagrantly
unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “There is a desperation for unknown
things,” wrote poet Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst from time to time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make you sexier and smarter than ever — especially if you regard it as a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: I hope you will seek out a wide range
of intoxicating experiences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these highs will NOT be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, singing, yoga, lucid perceptions and vivid conversations.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: I thought of you when I read a tweet
by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy as long as you are?
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as arctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In the course of a lifetime, a single bird may travel as far as 1.25 million miles — the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius. May the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid water and start new lives abroad? No one knows. Law enforcement officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve? In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them.
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he announcement that Trump plans to nominate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to Attorney General startled many with a stake in marijuana and drug law reform. With a long legacy of opposing cannabis, Sessions’ confirmation could be a return to a fullfledged war on drugs, replete with human casualties. At a Senate hearing in April, Sessions said, “We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized” and that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.” If these statements translate into Wikimedia Commons policy they will certainly stymie if not reverse the progress made under state-level legalization and decriminalization. Many stakeholders and advocates are quick to hedge these fears, pointing to the economic success of legal marijuana markets and to Trump’s assumed proclivity for upholding the right of states to self-legislate. But if history is any lesson, Sessions’ moral opposition to cannabis is but one of his dangerous positions when it comes to marijuana reform. He also displays racist tendencies and anti-immigrant positions. Put them all together and you have the perfect storm for another full-fledged drug war. Sessions’ first brush with national politics came in 1986 when President Reagan nominated him, then a prosecutor in Alabama, for a federal judgeship. Ultimately, he was not confirmed amid accusations of racism. Prosecutor Thomas Figures, who had worked in Sessions’ Alabama office, claimed the nominee had commented that he was OK with Ku Klux Klan members “until I learned they smoked pot.” Sessions later said his comment about the KKK was a joke, but the damage had already been done. More recently the Senator has been building a
reputation with his extreme opposition to immigration. As the leading opponent of the 2007 amnesty bill and 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill, he is widely credited for killing both efforts. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest where he promotes limits to illegal and legal immigration, the erection of fences and walls along the U.S. southern border and regularly contests Obama’s immigration executive actions. Not surprisingly, after becoming the first and only senator to endorse Trump during the 2015 primary campaign, Sessions was enlisted to write Trump’s immigration and trade policies. Historically, whether by correlation or causation, precisely such a mix of morality-based policy, racist sentiments and anti-immigration politics are the three pillars of the war on drugs or, perhaps more accurately, a war on people, specifically black, brown and poor people. One need not look any further than 1986 when Reagan reinvigorated Nixon’s anti-drug effort saying: “Drugs are bad, and we’re going after them. As I’ve said before, we’ve taken down the surrender flag and run up the battle flag. And we’re going to win the war on drugs.” Here, as with Sessions’ comments on marijuana, the villain appears to be the drug itself. But if the resulting policy targeted that subject, the resulting war would likely have had far less casualties. Instead, drug traffickers and dealers, closely followed by users, are the central villains. Reagan’s Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 not only funded the war on drugs but created mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses, widely criticized for promoting significant racial disparities in the enforcement of drug laws, specifically because of the differences in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine. Possession of crack, which is cheaper, results in a
harsher sentence; the majority of crack users are lower income and the majority of people arrested for its sale or possession are black. The war on drugs also resulted in anti-immigrant sentiments and an increased concentration of enforcement along the Mexico border. Used to justify armed U.S. military presence in Mexico and other drug-producing countries, the war on drugs started an era of violence in the name of suppressing drug cartels and other forms of trafficking. The result of these efforts were that people, mostly black, Latino and poor, were piling up dead or in prisons. Despite similar use across races, black and Latino communities were and still are arrested, prosecuted and jailed at a much higher rate than white users. The legacy of this effort is stagnant levels of drug trafficking and use, despite a ballooning prison population that grew 900 percent between 1971 and today. Bit by bit, states have been creating laws to work around the failed war on drugs and the attorney general has played a crucial role in tolerating that activity. But if and when Sessions is confirmed, that delicate truce is likely to be upended. Not only will it be within his power to recommend the federal government sue states that are out of compliance with U.S. drug law, but he can also establish enforcement priorities that would likely lead to a renewed targeting of supply chain. In legal markets this would mean legal prosecution of growers, sellers etc., but in illegal domestic and international markets this would be a return to none other than the criminalization of the pusher. If Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General, there is more to fear than the loss of marijuana economies or individual freedoms. His moral objection to drugs, racist tendencies and anti-immigrant positions suggest a return to draconian laws that unequally target, punish and harm the poorest and most vulnerable people and communities among us. “I think one of [Obama’s] great failures, it’s obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said in April. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’”
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he Orange County Register, not one of the liberal trumpets in the mainstream media orchestra, recently took it upon itself to estimate the value of California’s illegally grown marijuana crop. These sorts of estimates have been made in the past, and have usually concluded that pot was the state’s most valuable agricultural crop. But the number the Register came up with was genuinely jawdropping. The paper concluded that the value of the state’s illegal marijuana crop is $23.3 billion, which is more than the value of the state’s next five largest categories of agricultural commodities combined. The paper obtained the value of the state’s five largest categories of legal ag output from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and made its own estimate of the size and value of the state’s pot crop. Here’s the batting order: 1. Marijuana: $23.3 billion. 2. Milk: $6.28 billion. 3. Almonds: $5.33 billion. 4. Grapes: $4.95 billion. 5. Cattle, calves: $3.39 billion. 6. Lettuce: $2.25 billion. The combined value of the five legal commodities is $22.2 billion. The most interesting part of the story is how the Register arrived at the $23.3 billion figure for the value of the marijuana crop. The paper started by looking at how many marijuana plants had been seized by law enforcement in California in 2015 — 2.6 million. The paper then
turned to an estimate from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that law enforcement seizures of illegal drugs account for only 10 to 20 percent of drugs produced. This led it to estimate that that 13.2 million pot plants were grown in the state in 2015, based on a 20 percent seizure rate. It then estimated that the amount of usable marijuana from each plant averaged one pound. Plants grown outdoors can produce more than a pound and plants grown indoors usually produce less, so the one-pound average is plausible. (More than a third of the plants seized in the state in 2015 were grown outdoors on public land.) Finally, it assumed that the price of illegally grown pot was $1,765 a pound, or about $110 an ounce. It’s not clear where the $1,765 a pound figure came from. Phillip Smith, who runs the website Drug War Chronicle, thinks the estimate is probably optimistic, “especially for outdoor grown marijuana, which fetches a lower price than indoor, especially for large producers moving multi-dozen or hundred-
pound loads.” Phillips points out there are a number of uncertainties in the Register’s estimate. “Maybe law enforcement in California is damned good at sniffing out pot crops and seizes a higher proportion of the crop than the rule of thumb would suggest,” he says. “Still, even if the cops seized 40 percent of the crop and farmers only got $1,000 a pound, the crop would still be valued at $8 billion and still be at the top of the farm revenue heap.” I wonder if there’s another factor that could throw the Register’s calculation off that Phillips didn’t consider: Maybe law enforcement overstates the number of plants it seizes — sort of like the inflated body counts the military used to put out during the Vietnam War. The Register found California has led the nation each of the last five years in the number of plants seized. The 2.6 million plants reported seized in California in 2015 compares with 1.64 million seized in the other 49 states. The state with the second largest number of seizures in 2015 was Kentucky, with 571,340 plants seized. If the 4.26 million plants seized nationally represent 20 percent of all pot grown illegally nationwide, then the amount of domestically produced illegal marijuana comes to 11,500 tons. Estimates over the years of how much marijuana is consumed annually in the U.S. have been all over the board. The one I’ve thought was most plausible was around 20,000 tons from all sources — legal and illegally grown, and imported. If that estimate is close, then an estimate of 11,500 tons of illegally grown domestic product is in the ballpark.
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Finding a new house, in a new city, while trying to manage a new job can be a bitch. Not to mention the increasing anxiety brought on by the possibility of your new neighbors — who they might be, what they might believe, and how they might behave at the annual block party. Now just imagine if you decide to move in next door (or maybe a few blocks away) from the guy your new boss is replacing, the boss who also actually hired you and asked you to find the new house, in the new city so you can manage the new job he has for you. Can you say awkward? This is apparently the fate awaiting Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Presidentelect Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are reportedly moving into the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington D.C., a mere few blocks away from where the outgoing First Family are slated to move Jan. 21, or thereabouts. While Barack and Michelle Obama are the first President and First Lady to stay in D.C. post-White House since Woodrow Wilson in 1921, Ivanka is the first, First Daughter to move in next door to a former president. We’re almost sure about that. Although the First Daughter has not been appointed a position in her father’s administration, DT has repeatedly said he’d like it if both Ivanka and Jared become a formal part of his team. With the two families being neighbors, at least until the Obama’s youngest daughter Sasha finishes high school, we’re hoping E! finds their new reality show. All of this leaves us with only a few questions: 1) Will Ivanka ask Sasha to babysit her three small children for state dinners, White House parties and other such festivities? 2) Will Ivanka knock on Michelle’s door when she’s in need of a cup of sugar? 3) Will Barack ever steam open Ivanka’s mail “just to see” what something says? 4) Who’s going to be the first neighbor to prank the other? A little TPing? Or maybe ding-dong ditching? Or even lighting some of Bo’s poop on fire? 5) And lastly, how do we get an invite to the block party?
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3000 Center Green Dr., Suite 230, Boulder • By appointment only M-F • Online appointments at www.holoshealth.org or call 720.273.3568