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Danish Plan: Ostracism: A better option than impeachment Letters: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views Endorsements: BW’s 2019 Vote Guide endorsements, condensed Overtones: Pro Musica brings musical and spiritual insights to Bach’s Mass in B Major Boulder County Events: What to do and where to go Words: ‘open book (start on page one, or anywhere?)’ by Jethro McClellan Film: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ has a little too much fun with dark times Tasting Menu: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County Drink: Know your brew: Vienna lager Astrology: by Rob Brezsny Savage Love: Cheaters club Weed Between the Lines: Songs in the key of weed Cannabis Corner: Early storm hammers Colorado’s pot supply

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Ostracism: A better option than impeachment by Paul Danish

ongress shouldn’t decide whether Trump remains in office. The American people should. It’s time to get rid of the toxic process of impeachment and replace it with a straight-forward removal process that doesn’t require Congress to fabricate “high crimes and misdemeanors” (whatever that means) as a pretext for removing a president. Impeachment should be replaced with a straightforward, voter-controlled removal process that requires no reason whatsoever for giving a president the boot, other than the fact that you want his sorry ass out of office. Fortunately, just such a process has been around for I

2,500 years. It’s called “ostracism.” Ostracism is another one of those ingenious contributions to democratic government invented by the Athenian democracy. Fifth-century B.C. Athenians chose their leaders by lot instead of by ballot, but they removed them by ballot — with a process called ostracism. An ostracized Athenian was not just removed from office, if he happened to hold one. He was expelled from the country for 10 years. Any Athenian citizen could be ostracized, but in practice ostracism was reserved for political figures who were getting too big for their tunics and needed to be taken down a peg or two. Here’s how it worked, as explained by Wikipedia’s extensive article on the subject: Each year, a meeting of the Athenian assembly — consisting of all free, adult male citizens (no women, children or slaves) — was asked if it wanted to hold an see DANISH PLAN Page 6

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ostracism that year. If the answer was yes, the ostracism was held two months later. No one was targeted for ostracism at this time. The only question before the assembly was whether an ostracism would be held. The actual process of ostracism was simple. There was no indictment, trial or even debate in the assembly. Instead citizens scratched the name of the person they wanted to remove on a pottery shard and deposited it in an urn. (Pottery shards, according to the Wikipedia entry, were sort of the scratch paper of fifth-century B.C. Athens. The Greek word for the shards, ostraka, is the source of the English word ostracism.) The presiding officials sorted the names into separate piles. The guy with the most ostraka in his pile won the one-way ticket out of town, provided, according to Plutarch, that at least a total of 6,000 people voted. Other historians say there had to be 6,000 votes cast for the “winning” ostracee. The ostracized person had 10 days in which to get his affairs in order and get out of Athens. The penalty for being caught in town after that was death, as was the penalty for returning to Athens early. The ostracized man could go anywhere he wanted. The Athenians didn’t care where the ostracee landed, even if it was a rival city, only that he was gone. However, getting ostracized wasn’t the end of the world for the ostracized. The ejected party retained his Athenian citizenship. His property was not confiscated, and he could continue to derive revenue from it. He could write letters back to Athens or communicate through surrogates. And at the end of the 10 years he could return with no hard feelings and even get involved in politics again (and possibly get ostracized a second time). Ostracisms occurred rarely — there were only about a dozen known ones during the fifth-century B.C., but they included some big names: Xanthippus, who was the father of Pericles, Aristides (aka Aristides the Just), and Themistocles, who served as Athenian Strategos or supreme military commander during the Second Persian War and was the

victor in the decisive naval battle at Salamis. How might a modern version of ostracism work? Since there’s no American popular assembly, there would have to be another way of determining whether the country wanted an ostracism in a particular year. For instance, the federal government could pay the country’s leading pollsters to include an ostracism question in every poll they take during the first three months of the year. If the results in a majority of the polls show majority support for an ostracism, it would take place two months later. An ostracism question on the ballot might read something like this: “(Fill in the blank with the name of any American citizen over the age of 18. Vote only for one.) “_________________ shall be expelled from the States and Territories of the United States for 10 years, provided the number of ballots cast in this election equals or exceeds 50% of the voting age population of the United States.” There would be no need to nominate “candidates” to be ostracized, since every American citizen over the age of 18 would be a “candidate.” You could fill in the name of anyone from Trump to Nancy Pelosi to the ref who made a bad call at last week’s Broncos game. Whoever gets the most votes gets the old heave-ho. Just be sure to spell his or her name correctly. OK, the whole thing might sound crazy, but it addresses a deadly serious problem. Impeachment results in undoing the results of an election. Unless there is an obvious crime involved, undoing the results of an election is better done by the voters. This isn’t a particularly radical idea. A lot of state constitutions provide for recall of state and local elected officials, including Colorado’s. Ostracism would just be a recall on steroids, in which the voters say, in so many words, outta sight, outta mind, outta here.

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WE ARE BOULDER COUNTY! America’s exploding population predicament

Yes, millions of refugees worldwide desperately want to immigrate to Europe, Canada and America. Yes, they face horrific challenges in their countries. And yes, our hearts break at the wrongs in the world. At the same time, in a recent editorial in the Boulder Weekly, you published a piece on refugee resettlement in Colorado (Re: “Immigrationspeak,” by Professor Andrew Moss, Guest Column, Oct. 3, 2019). No one in Colorado or America asked for those refugees and most dislike the cost of educating them, housing, medical and welfare care — as they lack education, language and skills. Bad? Good? In-between? Let’s examine what Americans face if we continue immigration-driven “exponential growth” not only in Colorado but in America. First of all, America absorbs over 1 million legal immigrants annually. According to the Pew Research Center, we allow 500,000 undocumented immigrants to cross our southern border and/or overstay visas annually. That’s a whopping 1.5 million more people added annually. They, in turn, birth 900,000 babies annually. Additionally, with 330 million people living in America, we add another 1 million (net gain) ourselves, annually. That totals over 3.1 million added people to the U.S. annually. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the U.S. jumping from 300 million in 2006 to 440 million by 2050. That’s an increase of 140 million people. Do we want that number to land on America’s future generations? Can we survive those numbers as to water, energy and resources? Can we survive the environmental onslaught as to “catastrophic climate destabilization?” Whether it’s Colorado or other states, we cannot continue endless immigration. Colorado expects to jump from 5.7 million to over 10 million within 31 years. Can we sustain those numbers? Can we survive the gridlock and air pollution? Can I-70 take us to the mountains for skiing or camping? Will we enjoy enough water, oil and resources to maintain our standard of living and our consumption as well as waste? At this point, no one will address this issue. I’ve tried for 40 years, but to no avail. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

As a six-continent world bicycle traveler, I witnessed firsthand the consequences of exponential population growth around the planet. At 1.4 billion people, China seethes with humanity and copes with unsolvable environmental degradation, while India, at 1.25 billion, limps into the 21st century with entrenched poverty, illiteracy, horrendous environmental chaos and appalling civilizational despair. At the same time, legal and illegal immigration drive America’s population juggernaut toward 440 million people. What will that look like? Answer: With the addition of 140 million more people, net gain, we will double the populations of our 35 most populated cities. For example, New York City, at 8.3 million, will jump to 16.6 million. Los Angeles at 11 million will hit 22 million. Florida at 18 million will jump to 36 million people. Exponential population growth, much like a cancer cell, grows until it kills its host. What does that mean for the United States? Currently, we face enormous scarcity issues with water in seven states, led off by California, Arizona and into Florida. As California adds its projected 20 million more people by mid-century — at some point no viable solutions exist. California and America face irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems. Beyond America, the rest of the world will add 3 billion more people by 2050 according to the United Nations report on world population projections. Africa alone expects to explode from 1.1 billion today to 2 billion in 2050 and 4 billion by the end of the century. What do such enormous and unsustainable populations do? They migrate. They flood into Europe, Canada and America. When you consider the fact that adding another 140 million people will drive us into massive carbon footprint exhaust into the biosphere — we face “catastrophic climate destabilization” on a level not known since the dinosaurs vanished. I could present “ecological footprint,” “water footprint,” “resource footprint,” “species extinction rates” and more information that would depress the most optimistic person as see LETTERS Page 8

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to what’s headed toward their children. Because once America reaches 440 million people, everyone becomes a victim with few workable solutions. Thus, let the American and Colorado citizens demand, with their knowledge of what’s coming, a national discussion-debate with our leaders. Let’s engage our top food, farming, resource experts, environmentalists, animal extinction experts, climate professionals and other experts who understand our predicament. They need to be interviewed on 60 Minutes, NPR, PBS and every network regularly to educate the American people. Those experts might offer solutions now before, at some point in the future, when no solutions will solve our dilemma. In fact, by reading this commentary, what kind of a world would you like to hand over to your kids? Because if you fail to act, fail to speak up — your kids face an extremely unpleasant “Tragedy of the Commons” in their future. Frosty Wooldridge/Louisville

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I like Junie Joseph. OK, it’s because she is African American; but not only that: Junie stands in the gap between homelessness and affordable housing. She supports inclusive leadership and progressive government. Junie is running for City Council. She is running in a diverse field of highly qualified candidates. Boulder talks a great game about the value of diversity. But unless you grew up playing tennis with a Boulder voter chances are you are not getting their vote. I saw that play itself out when Angelique Espinosa ran for state delegate. And tell me what African American did you grow up playing tennis with? Exactly. So that metric affect shuts most minorities out ipso facto. We are lucky to have two highly I

qualified, highly motivated African American women running for City Council this cycle. But like Coke and Pepsi, when one makes a comment it gets assigned to the both of them. I don’t know how many times, while mixing it up at Boulder dinner parties I’ve had to say, “Junie never said single family homes are racist.” In fact, I am not even sure if that was Nikki [McCord]’s point. Junie is an international. She was born in Haiti and has had extensive travel for both for work and for pleasure. But her principles are American principles. She stands on housing for all, exclusive leadership and progressive government. She has seen how cities the worldwide work and how they do not work for their citizens. Lucky for Boulder that she stands ready to put her knowledge to work in our community. And she should be supported. So I say: “Stand Too,” Boulder. Take a good look at Junie Joseph, and stop confusing her with Nikki McCord (also a very qualified candidate). Put your liberalism where your vote is. Vote Junie Joseph in the next election for City Council, Boulder’s local international. Kenneth Flowe/via internet

Vote for sensible, sustainable development

Boulder’s Blue Line, Open Space Tax and urban growth boundary are great concepts and policies that have contained our geographical growth, protected the mountain vista and undeveloped land. However, we are simultaneously disallowing in-fill compact development. The outcome is predictable — Boulder can take in very few more people and the city becomes unaffordable to middle- and lower-income families. I don’t think our city is “full.” Just like the United States, we can take in more people — not an unlimited number, but at least our fair share to relieve some pressure off the job and housing imbalance. Boulder’s population has been growing at an annual rate of about 0.7% in the past decade. With this rate, the city can take in fewer than 25% more people by 2050, half of what’s required to accommodate the projected 52% population growth in the state. Some argue that we should just get the jobs and peoBOULDER WEEKLY

ple to move elsewhere in the state. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. Jobs tend to be created where the talent pool is and where the connections are. As a university town where talented and well-connected people congregate, it’s an idea and job incubator. Many companies started here and the founders and early employees are reluctant to leave town. As the companies grow, they hire rank and file employees who can’t afford to live here and are forced to commute from surrounding towns. It doesn’t have to be this way. According to a 2014 survey done by the City, half of the in-commuters are willing to live in a townhouse in Boulder. If we allow in-fill compact and sustainable development, we will be able to create more affordable housing units for some of the incommuters. We will not only be allowing people to live close to where they work, we will also be reducing per-capita greenhouse gas emissions at the same time by cutting down the commute time and reducing materials and energy usage through smaller homes and shared walls. Ballot Measure 2I (middleincome housing) may be able to help 100 families with $10 million of city loan. However, currently 60,000 commute to work from outside of Boulder every day. So the bill can help 0.33% of in-commuters assuming each family has two of them. It’s a drop in the bucket for what we need. The real solution for the middle-income housing problem is to allow compact and sustainable in-fill development in the city. Please vote for Boulder Progressives candidates (Aaron Brockett, Benita Duran, Junie Joseph, Mark McIntyre and Rachel Friend) for five of the six open seats in the Boulder City Council. That will create a 5-4 (or 6-3) majority to support sensible compact and sustainable development through collaborations with the minority. On the other hand, PLAN Boulder and others are asking people to continue voting for no/slowgrowth candidates, which may result in a 9-0 no/slow growth City Council. It’ll set us back for at least another two to four years before we can take steps to address the middlehousing issue and get us off our

unsustainable path of continued urban sprawl. Ning Mosberger-Tang/Boulder

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Many people are unaware that Colorado is one of the few states where voting rights have been restored. This spring a new voting reform became law, which restores the voting rights of people on parole. A person sentenced to parole is considered to have completed their full term of imprisonment according to the state constitution. Colorado is now unique in restoration of disenfranchised citizens as voters. When canvassing petitions, there are a number of people who claim that they cannot vote. They believe that they are blocked by laws. While they certainly have an opinion, they do not vote. This is a false assumption in Colorado. States control voting rules, not the federal government. Colorado is different. A former felon in Kentucky needs a pardon from the governor there to vote. If that person moves to Colorado, they may register to vote and exercise that right in any election. No special permissions or paperwork is needed. Colorado voters can be people with a past criminal conviction; people currently in jail, but awaiting trial; people on probation; people currently in jail for a misdemeanor offense only. People convicted of crimes that are not felonies have no issue with voting. They can even vote from jail. A voter with a local address who is in jail will be a simple address change for the county clerk. It is up to the voter to inform the Secretary of State as to address changes. When the sentence of a felony conviction in Colorado comes to end, the felon may resume being a voter, or begin if they were not registered before. The sentence and obligation to the court is over and rights are restored. If any of this information impacts you or a family member or friend, be excited about voting. Your vote could make a profound difference. There have been many close elections and your opinion mattered. Let it be counted. Be a citizen, not a serf. Paul Tiger/via internet

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very year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed, and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Or “curiouser and curiouser” as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume, Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass, which includes a full list of the top 25 censored stories and much, much more about the never-ending struggle to bring vitally important hidden truths to light.

In the forward, “Down the Rabbit Hole of ‘Media Literacy’ by Decree,” Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, highlights the absurdity of “so many well-organized, well-funded efforts to root out so-called ‘fake news,’ which — as we’ll see below — have significantly impacted the kinds of journalists and outlets who have historically produced the stories that make Project Censored’s list in the first place. “The self-appointed curators, often wielding proprietary algorithms, summarily dispense with facts and ideas that they determine to be false — or maybe just dangerous to their agendas,” Attkisson notes. “Thanks to them, we will hardly have to do any of our own thinking. They’ll take care of it for us.” Does that seem hyperbolic? Well, read on, dear reader, read on. In Project Censored’s number 2 censored story this year, you’ll discover Facebook partnering with a NATO-sponsored think tank to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference” — a think tank the funders of which include the U.S. military, the United Arab Emirates, weapons contractors and oil companies — the board of which includes Henry Kissinger, the world’s most famous war criminal. Who better to tell you who to believe? Or better yet, decide who you’ll never even hear from? Through the looking glass. Yes, indeed. In the beginning, Project Censored’s founder, Carl Jensen, was partly motivated by the way that the early reporting on the Watergate Scandal never crossed over from being a crime story to a political story until after the 1972 election coverage. It wasn’t censorship in the classic sense practiced by church and state since time immemorial. But it was an example of something even more insidious because no clear-cut act of censorship or

appears in the center or at the periphery makes all the difference in the world.” But Project Censored was never just about the individual stories, it was about the patterns of marginalization and suppression that could be seen through the lens of connecting them. In his introduction, Roth says, “Identifying these unifying themes is one significant way to gauge the systemic blind spots, third rails, and ‘no go’ zones in corporate news coverage.” He identifies several such patterns, which are stronger and more vivid in the full list of Project Censored’s Top 25 stories, but still illuminating in terms of the Top 10 Stories: numbers 1 and 2 deal with press freedoms, stories 2, 4 and 9 deal with corporate misconduct, stories 2 and 10 deal with technology, stories 3 and 4 deal with the environment, stories 5, 6 and 8 deal with gender inequalities, and stories 6, 7 and 8 deal with criminal justice, prisons and detention. As you can see, these patterns overlap. Stories 2, 4, 6 and 8 are all part of at least two others. And there may well be other patterns you discover for yourself. These patterns don’t just connect issues and problems that those in power would rather neglect. They also connect people, communities and potential solutions, which those in power would rather see stay disconnected. So don’t just read the following as a list of stories “out there.” Read it as an opportunity to connect.

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By Paul Rosenberg, senior editor, ‘Random Lengths News’ all-powerful censor was needed to produce the same result of a public left in the dark. Jensen defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting or selfcensorship — that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in its society.” And the most obvious way to start fighting it was to highlight the suppressed information in the form of the stories that didn’t get widely told. Thus Project Censored and its annual list of censored stories was born. Jensen’s conception of censorship may be lightyears away from how most media figures think of things. But while introducing this year’s list of stories, the volume’s co-editor Andy Lee Roth quotes media legend Walter Lippmann echoing the same sensitivity in his 1920 book, Liberty and the News: “Whether one aspect of the news or another OCTOBER 24, 2019

1) Justice Department’s Secret FISA Rules for Targeting Journalists

The federal government can secretly monitor American journalists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to two 2015 memos from then-Attorney General Eric Holder. The memos were obtained by The Knight First WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which was reported on by The Intercept — the parent company of which provides funding for both organizations — but was virtually ignored by the corporate media. The secret rules “apply to media entities or journalists who are thought to be agents of a foreign government, or, in some cases, are of interest under BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

the broader standard that they possess foreign intelligence information,” The Intercept reported. Project Censored cited three “concerning” questions the memos raise: First, how many times have FISA court orders been used to target journalists, and are any currently under investigation? Second, why did the Justice Department keep these rules secret when it updated its “media guidelines” in 2015? And, third, is the Justice Department using FISA court orders — along with the FBI’s similar rules for targeting journalists with National Security Letters (NSLs) — to “get around the stricter ‘media guidelines’”? The corporate media virtually ignored these revelations when they occurred. The subsequent media interest in FISA warrants targeting Trump campaign adviser Carter Page “has done nothing at all to raise awareness of the threats posed by FISA warrants that target journalists and news organizations,” Project Censored observed. It ended with a quote from Krishnan, summarizing the stakes: “National security surveillance authorities confer extraordinary powers. The government’s failure to share more information about them damages journalists’ ability to protect their sources, and jeopardizes the news gathering process.”

In September, Facebook announced it would also partner with two Cold War-era U.S. government-funded propaganda organizations: the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. In October 2018, Jonathan Sigrist, writing for Global Research, described one of the greatest Facebook account and page purges in its troubled history: “559 pages and 251 personal accounts were instantly removed from the platform... This is but one of similar yet smaller purges that have been unfolding in front of our eyes over the last year, all in the name of fighting ‘fake news’ and so called ‘Russian propaganda.’”

3) Indigenous Groups from Amazon 2) Think Tank Partnerships Establish Propose Creation of Largest Facebook as a Tool of U.S. Foreign Protected Area on Earth When news of unprecedented wildfires in the Policy Amazon grabbed headlines in late August, most

In the name of fighting “fake news” to protect American democracy from “foreign influences,” Facebook formed a set of partnerships with three expert foreign influencers in 2018, augmenting its bias toward censorship of left/progressive voices. In May 2018, Facebook announced its partnership with the Atlantic SCREENSHOT Council, a NATO-sponsored D.C. think tank to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.” “It’s funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force, along with NATO, various foreign powers and major Western corporations, including weapons contractors and oil companies (including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell),” noted Adam Johnson, writing for the media watch group FAIR. It went on to note that the major news outlets covering the story said nothing about any of the above conflicts of interest. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Americans were ill-prepared to understand the story, in part because of systemic exclusion of indigenous voices and viewpoints, highlighted in Project Censored’s number 3 WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/PUBLIC DOMAIN, AWSOMOMEN story — the proposed creation of an Amazonian protected zone the size of Mexico, presented to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity in November 2018. The proposal, which Jonathan Watts, writing for The Guardian, described as “a 200m-hectare sanctuary for people, wildlife and climate stability that would stretch across borders from the Andes to the Atlantic,” was advanced by an alliance of some 500 indigenous groups from nine countries, known as COICA — the Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin, who called it “a sacred corridor of life and culture.” “We have come from the forest and we worry about what is happening,” declared Tuntiak Katan, I

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vice president of COICA, quoted in The Guardian. “This space is the world’s last great sanctuary for biodiversity. It is there because we are there. Other places have been destroyed.” The Guardian went on to note: “The organisation does not recognise national boundaries, which were put in place by colonial settlers and their descendants without the consent of indigenous people who have lived in the Amazon for millennia. Katan said the group was willing to talk to anyone who was ready to protect not just biodiversity but the territorial rights of forest communities.” In contrast, The Guardian explained: “Colombia previously outlined a similar tripleA (Andes, Amazon and Atlantic) protection project that it planned to put forward with the support of Ecuador at next month’s climate talks. But the election of new rightwing leaders in Colombia and Brazil has thrown into doubt what would have been a major contribution by South American nations to reduce emissions.”

4) U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Set to Unleash 120 Billion Tons of New Carbon Emissions Three months after the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have just 12 years to limit catastrophic climate change, Oil Change International JOEL DYER released a report that went virtually ignored, warning that the United States was headed in exactly the wrong direction. The report, Drilling Towards Disaster, warned that rather than cutting down carbon emissions, as required to avert catastrophe, the United States under Donald Trump was dramatically increasing fossil fuel production, with the United States on target to account for 60% of increased carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, expanding extraction at least four times more than any other country. References to the report “have been limited to independent media outlets,” Project Censored noted. “Corporate news outlets have not reported on the report’s release or its findings, including its prediction of 120 billion tons of new carbon pollution or its five-point checklist to overhaul fossil fuel production in the U.S.” see PROJECT CENSORED Page 12

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5) Modern Slavery in the United States, Around the World

An estimated 403,000 people in the United States were living in conditions of “modern slavery” in 2016, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, or GSI, about 1% of the global total. The GSI defines “modern slavery” broadly to include forced labor and forced marriage. Because forced marriage accounts for 15 million people, more than a third of the global total, it’s not surprising that females form a majority of the victims (71%). The highest levels were found in North Korea, where an estimated 2.6 million people — 10% of the population — are victims of modern slavery. The GSI is produced by the Walk Free Foundation, whose founder, Andrew Forrest, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/PUBLIC DOMAIN called the U.S. figure “a truly staggering statistic, (which) is only possible through a tolerance of exploitation.” “Walk Free’s methodology includes extrapolation using national surveys, databases of information of those who were assisted in trafficking cases, and reports from other agencies like the UN’s International Labour Organization,” explained The Guardian, to compile its figures. There are problems with this, according to others working in the field, The Guardian noted. There’s no universal legal definition, and tabulation difficulties abound. But the GSI addresses this as an issue for governments to work on and offers specific proposals. “The GSI noted that forced labor occurred ‘in many contexts’ in the U.S., including in agriculture, among traveling sales crews, and — as recent legal cases against GEO Group, Inc. have revealed — as the result of compulsory prison labor in privately owned and operated detention facilities contracted by the Department of Homeland Security,” Project Censored noted. Newly restrictive immigration policies have further increased the vulnerability of undocumented per12

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6) Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking Criminalized for SelfDefense On Jan. 7, outgoing Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who had been sentenced to life in prison in 2004, at age 16, for killing a man who bought her for sex and raped her. Brown’s case gained prominence via the supWIKIMEDIA COMMONS/NEWELL port of A-list CONVERS WYETH PAINTING celebrities and Haslam cited “the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life.” But despite public impressions, Brown’s case was far from unique. “There are thousands of Cyntoia Browns in prison,” organizer Mariame Kaba, co-founder of Survived and Punished, told Democracy Now! the next day. “We should really pay attention to the fact that we should be fighting for all of those to be free,” Kaba said. “When you look at women’s prisons, the overwhelming majority, up to 90 percent of the people in there, have had histories of sexual and physical violence prior to ending up in prison.” “In contrast to the spate of news coverage from establishment outlets, which focused on Brown’s biography OCTOBER 24, 2019

and the details of her case,” Project Censored wrote, “independent news organizations, including The Guardian, Democracy Now!, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, stood out for reporting that cases like Brown’s are all too common.” Later in January, Kellie Murphy’s Rolling Stone story quoted Alisa Bierria, another Survived and Punished co-founder, and highlighted several other cases prominent in alternative media coverage. In May, Mother Jones reported on the legislative progress that Survived and Punished and its allies had achieved in advancing state and federal legislation. “Corporate news organizations provided considerable coverage of Cyntoia Brown’s clemency,” Project Censored noted. “However, many of these reports treated Brown’s case in isolation, emphasizing her biography or the advocacy on her behalf by celebrities such as Rihanna, Drake, LeBron James and Kim Kardashian West.” It went on to cite examples from the New York Times and NBC News that did take a broader view, but failed to focus on sex trafficking or sexual violence.

7) Flawed Investigations of Sexual Assaults in Children’s Immigrant Shelters “Over the past six months, ProPublica has gathered hundreds of police reports detailing allegations I

of sexual assaults in immigrant children’s shelters,” ProPublica reported in November 2018. “[The shelters] have received $4.5 billion for housing and other services since the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/ America in 2014 HOLLYLOTH [and the reports reveal that] both staff and other residents sometimes acted as predators.” “Again and again, the reports show, the police were quickly — and with little investigation — closing the cases, often within days, or even hours,” ProPublica stated. In the case of Alex, a 13-year-old from Honduras used to highlight systemic problems, the police investigation lasted 72 minutes, and resulted in a three sentence report. There was surveillance video showing two older teenagers grabbing him, throwing him to the floor and dragging him into a bedroom. But ProPublica reported, “An examination of Alex’s case shows that almost every agency charged with helping Alex — with finding out the full extent of what happened in that room — had instead failed him.” “Because immigrant children in detention are frequently moved, even when an investigator wanted to pursue a case, the child could be moved out of the investigating agency’s jurisdiction in a just few weeks, often without warning,” Project Censored noted. “When children are released, parents or relatives may be reluctant to seek justice, avoiding contact with law enforcement because they are undocumented or living with someone who is.”

8) U.S. Women Face Prison Sentences for Miscarriages

“There has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, candidate Donald Trump said in early 2016, which led to a wave of denials from anti-abortion activists and politicians, who claimed it was not their position. These women were victims, too, they argued: That had always been their position. But that wasn’t true, as Rewire News BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

reported at the time. Women were already in prison, not for abortions, but for miscarriages alleged to be covert abortions. And that could become much more widespread due to actions WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/ taken by the BARNELLBE Trump Administration, according to a 2019 Ms. Magazine blog post by Naomi Randolph on the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, especially if the decision is overturned. “Pregnant women could face a higher risk of criminal charges for miscarriages or stillbirths, due to lawmakers in numerous states enacting laws that recognize fetuses as people, separate from the mother,” Project Censored explained, adding: One example that Randolph provided is in Alabama, where voters recently passed a measure that “endows ‘fetus’ with ‘personhood’ rights for the first time, potentially making any action that impacts a fetus a criminal behavior with potential for prosecution.” Collectively, these laws have resulted in hundreds of American women facing prosecution for the outcome of their pregnancies. In fact, a 2015 joint ProPublica/ AL.com investigation, found that “at least 479 new and expecting mothers have been prosecuted across Alabama since 2006,” under an earlier child endangerment law, passed with methlab explosions in mind, which the “personhood movement” got repurposed to target stillbirths, miscarriages and suspected self-abortions.

such as HIV/ Aids, malaria and tuberculosis but had failed to focus on other serious ailments. ... In particular, the foundation called for an infants’ vaccine for cholera and a single-dose oral cure for syphilis.” WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/USMC

It’s not all bad news. “The foundation’s report also highlighted 45 best and innovative practices that could ‘help raise the level of standard practice’ and ‘achieve greater access to medicine,’” Project Censored noted. “The report highlights examples such as the development of a childfriendly chewable tablet for roundworm and whipworm, which infect an estimated 795 million people,” The Guardian reported. “Johnson &

Johnson has pledged to donate 200 million doses a year until 2020.” The possibilities underscore why attention is vital. Attention makes a difference, Project Censored pointed out: “In an effort to mobilize investors to pressure pharmaceutical companies to make more medicines available to developing countries, the foundation presentsee PROJECT CENSORED Page 14

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“The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firms have failed to develop two-thirds of the 139 urgently needed treatments in developing countries,” Julia Kollewe reported for The Guardian in November 2018, according to a report by Access to Medicine Foundation, which “found that most firms focus on infectious diseases

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“The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major antigovernment protests in the U.S.,” Nafeez Ahmed reported for Motherboard in October 2018, drawing on “scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings.” Specifically, “The social media posts of American citizens who don’t like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest U.S. military-funded research,” which in turn “is part of a wider

effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the U.S. military’s role and influence on domestic intelligence.” The Pentagon had previously funded Big Data research into predicting mass population behavior, “specifically the JOEL DYER outbreak of conflict, terrorism, and civil unrest,” especially in the wake of the Arab Spring, via a program known as “Embers.” But such attention wasn’t solely focused abroad, Ahmed noted, calling attention to a U.S. Armybacked study on civil unrest within the U.S. homeland titled “Social Network Structure as a Predictor of Social Behavior: The Case of Protest in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.” Ahmed discussed two specific patents which contribute to “a sophisticated technology suite capable of locating the ‘home’ position of users to within 10 kilometers for millions of Twitter accounts, and predicting thousands of incidents of civil unrest from microblogging streams on Tumblr.” Project Censored made no mention of any coverage of this story by the corporate media.

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ed the findings of its reports to 81 global investors at events in London, New York, and Tokyo. As of April 2019, Access to Medicine reported that, since the release of the 2018 Access to Medicine Index in November 2018, 90 major investors had pledged support of its research and signed its investor statement.” But attention has been sorely lacking in the corporate media. “With the exception of a November 2018 article by Reuters, news of the Access to Medicine Index’s findings appear to have gone unreported in the corporate press,” Project Censored concluded.

10) Pentagon Aims to Surveil Social Media to Predict Domestic Protests

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It’s why the City is urging residents and the community to take action and plant trees to replace those being killed, and to protect existing trees. It’s why the City has planted more than 2,500 trees on public property since 2013, and why it’s provided more than 3,900 trees to residents for planting on private property. Having an assorted mix of tree species around the City and throughout Boulder County means the urban canopy is less vulnerable to any one stressor. “A diversity of tree species is going to help make the urban forest more resilient long-term,” Alexander says. White pines are good options because they grow fast, they grow large (so they sequester a lot of carbon) and they aren’t at risk from EAB. But that doesn’t mean pines are totally safe in Boulder. They can also come under stress from increasingly erratic and extreme weather events. Things like droughts, dramatic temperature swings, heavy snows and high winds are becoming more common with climate destabilization and can all take a serious toll on a tree. The forestry division’s webpage lists a handful of tree blights and pests that affect trees, such as drippy blight of red oaks, thousand cankers disease of walnut, pine wilt nematode of pine trees, Douglas-fir tussock moth and mountain pine beetle. I

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et’s face it: Astro vans and Prius sedans are not the first adventure rigs of choice when it comes to Boulder’s outdoor crowd — a group that gravitates toward Toyota trucks or tricked-out Sprinter vans that sometimes cost north of $50,000. But what if your daily driver — even if it is a Prius — could be just as comfortable, cozy and ready-to-roll as a truck or a camper van? When Boulder resident Tim Nickles tried to answer this “what if ” question, he stumbled upon a new career. Nickles, an Alaskan native, landed in Boulder years ago as a University of Colorado Boulder grad student studying biochemistry. He never dreamed of being a car-camping innovator. All he really wanted was a quick way to leave the Front Range crowds on a Friday afternoon for his weekend cycling adventures, plus a system that would allow him to sleep at trailheads and other locations without searching for a place to pitch a tent or squishing himself in the backseat of a car. The idea to build a collapsable tent that could BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

be attached to a car’s roof — Priuses, SUVs and vans alike — would end up changing his life. To be fair, Nickles wasn’t the first to think about camping on top of a vehicle. His initial inspiration came around 2016, from a buddy in Chamonix, France, who had a hardshell rooftop tent secured on top of his Toyota. “I thought it was a great and inexpensive way to turn a Toyota into a camper,” says Nickels. So, back at home, he went to work on his own Astro van. When he’d first started building out his van, he focused on creating an adventure rig that could haul his bikes and other outdoor equipment while also providing a sleeping space. After his trip to Europe, he realized he could sleep on top of his van and free up the valuable inside space for more gear, while also making it more comfortable for his head to hit the pillow. “I went to buy a rooftop tent and discovered they were hard to get and expensive,” Nickles says. When he failed to find one that fit both his needs and his budget, he decided to take matters into his I

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own hands. Car-top tents typically cost more than $4,000, says Nickles, and they lack some key features he’d seen in Europe. The enthusiastic mountain biker, at this point sincerely committed to finding a solution for his needs, realized he could move forward in one of two ways: He’d have to find someone who could make a rooftop tent at a price he could afford, or he’d have to figure out how to make one on his own. Nickles first looked to existing manufacturers with an eye to improve what was already on the market. Thoughts of making a career out of this were still far from his mind; he only wanted his own tent, designed to work for his own needs. “The first prototype began with a company that was making a version of a hardshell rooftop tent,” he says. “I came in and said, ‘I want you to change some features.’” The initial conversations were enlightening. see ROOFNEST Page 20

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Nickles, who had dabbled in sourcing bike equipment from China, learned that if he wanted a tent designed by and for himself, he’d have to take a risk, as factories weren’t interested in working with him unless there was cash to be made. With his design in hand and a minimum product order requirement (12 units), but no customers aside from himself, Nickles ended up maxing out two credit cards on his first order from the factory. This, he says, was “terrifying.” Terrifying or not, he was able to unload all 12 of the tents via word of mouth, Craigslist ads and posting about them on Facebook. He named them “Roofnests,” and quickly established an eponymous company. It was a process that he describes as rewarding, but also incredibly stressful, as he TIM NICKLES admits that he never thought was completely Roofnest would become a busibroke at the ness, but his rooftime, and top campers just although the keep selling. first tents were functional, they lacked some of the key design and convenience elements that Nickles knew he’d need for his newly founded company to survive. “The [2016] manufacturing was not super evolved,” Nickles recalls. He was relying on an existing rooftop-tent manufacturer based in China to produce the Roofnests to his specifications. “The first production run involved some tweaking [of a pre-existing design], but if I was really going to make it my own, I knew I had to start with a manufacturer who didn’t have their whole production process worked out and their own way of doing things — someone who could adapt to what I wanted.” It took Nickles three production runs to develop a relationship with the factory that produces Roofnests today, which are a far cry from the

first generation that debuted in 2016. Since then, Nickles has upgraded more than just the tents. He’s built a small company that employs five people besides himself. The company now offers five different roof-tent models, ranging in price from $2,795 to $3,495. All offerings, from the wedge-shaped Sparrow Eye to the aluminum clamshell Falcon, can bolt directly onto the crossbars of any existing roof rack. With weights TOM WINTER varying between 120 and 150 pounds, and an aerodynamic shape that clocks in at less than 12 inches high, the impact on gas mileage or an increase in wind noise is much less than you’d expect: Nickles claims that on long trips, the mile-per-gallon penalty for a vehicle with a Roofnest is less than one mile per gallon. Nickles laughs when recalling his early efforts. “In the beginning, I was not really thinking I would start a company. I was thinking that I could make and sell 10 to 20 of these things and that this would be something cool to do. I never thought it would become a whole new career.” After selling the initial 12 units, he ordered 10 more, “because that’s what I could afford,” he says. But the demand, however unforeseen, never slowed. “This year we are going to sell 900 tents!” It’s a level of growth that’s impressive, but one that also reflects a growing interest in camping across the country. According to Kampgrounds of America (KOA)’s 2018 North American Camping Report, 2.6 million more households went camping in 2017 than in years prior, with representation across all ethnicities. Still, if you compare the sale of Roofnests to actual tents or even to camper vans, 900 units isn’t a lot. And, admittedly, Roofnests are not for everyone. Yet they seem to resonate with consumers across the Rocky Mountain West who are pas-

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sionate about getting outdoors, but don’t want the hassle and expense of owning a dedicated camper van or don’t have the time to backpack into remote wilderness area with a tent on their back. Roofnests are a solution for car-campers and other outdoor types who use their vehicles as a base camp, and if you’ve ever slept in the back of your Subaru wagon at the base of a crag on a weekend climbing mission, the comfort and convenience of a Roofnest will be instantly obvious when compared to the cramped confines of sleeping with your seats folded down. During a product demonstration that Nickles hosts in his driveway, he unhooks the latches around the Roofnest’s hardshell top, and the tent automatically pops up and open of its own accord. A few moments later, we scamper up the lightweight ladder and lay inside. A cushy mattress invites us to stretch out (there’s three of us with plenty of room to spare) and the tent — the Sparrow EYE model — feels light and airy, thanks to windows on three sides. When we’re done hanging out, it takes less than five minutes to pack up, secure the tent and have it ready for the road. While it might be faster to hit the highway after sleeping in the back of my station wagon, there’s absolutely no doubt that the Roofnest offers more comfort and convenience. I’m already thinking about which model will look best on my Audi. This reaction isn’t unique to me. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

“Incredibly easy to set up,” says Outside Magazine editor Bryan Rogala. “By the second night with the Roofnest, I was sold,” says Action Sport Network’s Mattie Schuler. “I could easily see the game-changing capabilities of a rooftop tent.” Ever the tinkerer, Nickles continues to tweak different tent concepts. The majority of the Roofnest product line features a fiberglass-reinforced ABS shell construction — meaning it’s lightweight, yet strong enough to mount your own bike or ski rack on top of the hardshell, with supportive struts that allow the shell to pop up and open while the bikes or skis stay on top. His newest concept, however, is the Falcon, a burly, wedge-style offering that features an aluminum clamshell that comes with the option for a set of preinstalled crossbars that can carry bikes, kayaks, skis and anything else. The genius of Nickles and the Roofnest concept is that the tents are a simple and easy-to-use solution for us average adventurers and weekend warriors: the ones who just need a cozy basecamp for our adventures, from a quick overnight trip to catch the sunrise on Sugarloaf, to a full weekend of car camping when mountain biking in Fruita. And that makes Nickles happy. “It’s nice to know that we’re making it easier for people to get outdoors,” he says. “That was always my objective.” I

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n a locally published review last winter of their LP Instinct, the generally sympathetic reviewer predicted that this year — 2019 — was going to be the Big Year for SunSquabi, a milestone that would put the Boulder-based EDM/funk trio over the top. Which may or not be true, at least as much as an earlier review elsewhere of their headlining set at the Fillmore two years ago similarly enthused. The point isn’t so much that critics, especially those positively disposed to their subjects, are prone to slipping into fortune-boosting prognostication; it’s more that there seems to be some kind of assumption that there’s a finish line or threshold someplace in the business of live music past which the toil, the travel, the pressure, the reach for new audiences and new markets just dissolves away and an artist or band can just... y’know... kinda fly free with the angels. Or something. Everyone loves the underdog, and for SunSquabi, who have been crafting their Ableton-meets-funk-band chops for years as I

ON THE BILL: openers and club-gig SunSquabi — with draws, there is an Nobide. 8 p.m. Thursday, undeniable satisfacOct. 31, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. tion to watching a forTickets are $20-$80, boulmula grow and condertheater.com nect with a wider audience. Good reviewers are always conscious of the hard work that leads up to breakthrough moments. But are there really milestones at all? Gigs. Tours. Whole years? Kevin Donohue was chilling after a studio session last week (the band is working on a new double LP) when we posed some of these questions to the SunSquabi guitarist/producer. Props to a guy who can formulate some coherent thoughts of the Meaning of it All after a session of making a hell of a lot noise in the studio. “I think we kind of go into every year with that attitude that we’re going to grow out and so far, for seven or eight years, so far it’s been working pretty well. Always having the mentality see SUNSQUABI Page 24

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that this is going to be a big year for us, and we’re looking at 2020 the same way,” Donohue says. “But yeah, I hear someone tell us that every year, that this going to be The Year. And I’m like, the year for what?” You’ve already headlined Red Rocks. In 2018. What about that? “Sure, sure. I would say, even before that, the very first time we played there, it was like, ‘OK, you’ve played Red Rocks... whaddya do now?’ This world of things is just so expansive and so infinite in that way, and we’re just really lucky to have a lot of people out there supporting us and pushing us... I feel like everything we’ve worked for at this point is a good foundation, and it’s exciting. I’m looking forward to what happens next.” We want to talk about “maturity.” Sometimes bands find their sound, sometimes the sound finds them. We throw that out: You’re immersed in what you’re doing now — it’s someone else’s job to find out how different/better/more mature you are now than, say, five years ago. You don’t have the bandwidth, with everything else you’re doing, to go back and listen to old work... Donohue cut us off. “It’s funny you say that. That’s exactly what I was doing last night.” Ha! “I think when I hear people say that the sound has matured, it’s just a reflection of us spending so much more time and learning different techniques and pushing ourselves to do something we haven’t done before.” Not repeat yourself. “Right. Right. “In the same way, I’ve always been influenced by older progressive rock kind of stuff. Yes, King Crimson. We’re all big Return to Forever fans.” I

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‘A space of awe and wonder’

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.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor is one of the great works in the European musical tradition. Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor of the Pro Musical Colorado Chamber Orchestra describes it as “a cathedral in both sound and spirit.” She will conduct the Mass in B Minor Friday and Saturday (Oct. 25 and 26) in Denver and Boulder. In addition to Pro Musica, ON THE BILL: Pro Musica the performances will seeking sanctuary. The Colorado Chamber feature St. Martin’s sanctuary is a physical Orchestra: J.S. Bach: Chamber Choir, directplace in a cathedral, but it Mass in B minor. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, ed by Tim Kreuger, and has other connotations, as Montview Boulevard four soloists: soprano a place of rest for the soul, Presbyterian Church, Denver; Jennifer Bird, tenor as a place to seek refuge 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Derek Chester, mezzoMountain View United from the storms. Methodist, Boulder. Tickets at soprano Julie Simson, “I think that the Mass in promusicacolorado.org and baritone Jeffery B Minor is very much like a Seppala. sanctuary. You enter into it “It’s certainly a and you’re transported to a bucket-list piece, for different place, a space of both me and Tim Kreuger,” Katsarelis awe and wonder.” says. “We’ve talked about this for years, The structure and composition history and it was time. There’s something about of the Mass in B Minor are both compliBach and particularly the choral mastercated. The final work as we know it today pieces and the B-minor Mass in particular comprises the five main sections of the that is so universal and so touches the Catholic Mass — Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, spirit and the soul, and connects us to Sanctus and Agnus Dei — in 27 separate our humanity.” movements for orchestra, choir and soloKatsarelis relates that perception of ists. Bach composed the first two portions the Mass to an underlying theme for the of the Mass, Kyrie and Gloria, in 1733 current season of three concerts: Social and presented them to the Catholic court conscience and the human condition. The of Saxony in Dresden. second concert (Feb. 1 and 2) is titled Those two movements were used in “Diverse Voices” and will feature music both Catholic and Lutheran church servicby African-American composers William es, but the remainder of the Mass, which Grant Still and Gabriela Frank. In March Bach composed in the final years of his they will present “Composing Climate,” life as he was going blind, was exclusive featuring Gwyneth Walker’s Earth and to Catholic services. Some of the music Sky, which has texts from Native was newly composed, but other moveAmerican leaders Chief Joseph and Chief ments were reworkings of music from Seattle, alongside words by Henry David earlier Cantatas and other works. Thoreau. Bach’s reasons for completing the Speaking of the Mass, Katsarelis Catholic Mass are not known. As a says, “This is a time when, in our comLutheran working for a Lutheran congremon life, we think about sanctuary — gation, he had no obvious motivation to sanctuary cities and asylum seekers complete a Catholic liturgical work. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Various motivations have been suggested, but none is considered definitive. It is remarkable that a piece written over so many years with many different sources and many different musical styles would emerge as a unified work universally regarded as one of Bach’s crowning achievements. Whole books have been written on the ways Bach created a sense of unity in the Mass, but Katsarelis points to two aspects of the piece, specifically. The first is structure: “There are the movements that contrast from the fast and exciting and the more reflective, but they all build up to a central movement, which is the crucifixion — and then coming away from that and celebrating,” she says. The other unifying element is tempo: “Bach pulled together incredibly contrasting music that seems to have a unified pulse,” she says. “The sense of pulse is one element that can tie it together, and one that the audience can feel. They can feel the peaks and the valleys along the journey.” One factor that deepens the impact and significance of the Mass in B Minor is how the music reinforces the theological meaning of the text, which Bach knew intimately. “One thing that brings out the theology is when Bach writes a piece that only has a couple of words, as opposed to movements that get through lots and lots of text,” Katsarelis says. As a conductor, one thing Katsarelis contributes to the performance, she says, is a “sense of the marriage of musical architecture with spiritual architecture.” Even more important than what she brings as conductor, however, is what the entire ensemble — players and singers and soloists — can bring. “That synergy is really special and I love working with these people,” she says. OCTOBER 24, 2019

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lame Broiled, the newest offering she knows before demanding her stylist together as two children who can’t underfrom Local Theater Company, give her braids, telling her friend, “There’s stand why they aren’t allowed to play wastes no time. no patent on who can wear them.” A together anymore. Saxton Jay Walker’s “Buckle up, please,” a projecmixed race family visits the place where eyes well with tears as a game show host tion instructs. Images of American Emmett Till was lynched and one of the who realizes that he’s lost himself to socihistory come and go, from colonial days, to children wonders why people would do ety’s bigotry. Gary Norman likewise taps store fronts advertising “Negro Sales,” to such things to one another. into a deep well of pain as he wonders Emmett Till’s beaten and bloated face, to “‘Cause some people ugly,” his sister how — as a 53-year-old gay man in Lyndon Johnson signing MICHAEL ENSMINGER Alabama — he can ever the Civil Rights Act, to the truly be himself. death of Eric Garner, to a Nate Bertone’s set news article announcing design turns the Carsen Trump’s impeachment Theater into an urban Pee inquiry. Wee’s Playhouse, a kind “Buckle the fuck up.” of fun house version of This play’s not messreality. Bernadette Sefic ing around — it’s got 80 (aka Slime Kid) added minutes and a load of original tagging that uncomfortable stuff to talk rewards the observant about. Get in, sit down, with “Easter eggs” of symshut up and hold on. bolism and poetry. Penned by Broadway But the mirrors in this actor and freshly minted fun house aren’t warped. Denverite Rodney Hicks, Flame Broiled is an uninterFlame Broiled. or the ugly rupted look in a polished play uses 15 razor-sharp mirror. vignettes to dissect the “It’s a challenge to the ON THE BILL: malignant tumor that is audience to recognize that every person responds nonchalantly. ‘Flame Broiled. or the ugly play’ — American prejudice. With does have a bias of some sort,” says And that’s the point: presented by Local humor as his guiding light, Nick Chase, associate artistic director for “You’ve got to get through the Theater Company. Oct Hicks dives deep into the Local. “I think that’s the call to action this ugly to get to the joy,” Hicks 24-Nov. 17. Dairy Arts Center, Carsen American psyche, illumiplay leaves me with, is to recognize that recently told John Moore of Theater, 2590 Walnut nating not just the obvious the onus is on me to take responsibility DCPA News. St., Boulder. Tickets ways we alienate and belitfor those biases and to do the difficult Inspired by George C. are $20-$40, thedairy. tle one another, but the work. I think for a Boulder theater audiWolfe’s 1986 sketch play The org. ence it’s going to be exciting and chalsubtle ways we hold bias Colored Museum, Flame lenging because there are a lot of prowithout truly understanding Broiled turns over a lot of — or caring. gressive minded people here, there are a stones in quick succession. lot of people who are very engaged. But Flame Broiled is a play about race, “The unique thing about Rodney’s writyes, but Hicks — a gay black man — there’s a sense that people don’t know ing is I sort of think of it as poetry,” says doesn’t ignore the intersections between how to improve themselves, and while I Local’s founding artistic director Pesha gender, culture and sexuality. As the title think this play doesn’t give you the map, Rudnick. “Each relationship and each cirsuggests, it’s ugly, like when a college cumstance in these vignettes are immediate. it at least allows you to re-engage with that question.” educated and otherwise “woke” black They’re fast, they’re furious, they’re raw.” Local will host two post-show events woman demands that a gender nonconAnd they’re wickedly funny, thanks in immediately following Sunday matinees forming white person identify with the part to a stellar cast of just four actors (Nov. 3 and Nov. 10 at 3:30 p.m.) featurgender they were assigned at birth, or (two black, two white) who take on the ing authorities on race, bias and privilege. when a white college student calls a roles of more than 30 characters. On Nov. 7 and 14, join the cast, creative black friend the n-word in a desperate Emma Messenger and Illasiea Gray team and fellow audience members for and misguided attempt to be cool. A are ripe with righteous indignation in sepcasual conversation, small bites and white woman at a hair salon condescend- arate vignettes set in a hair salon, but drinks at Embassy Suites at 9 p.m. ingly muses on every black stereotype they find equally righteous innocence BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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COLLECTIVE SPEAKERS SERIES — PARKER MOLLOY: UNBREAK THE INTERNET.

7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

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7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Join the team at eTown for the launch of Green Screens, an environmental documentary and community engagement series that will further the discussion and action around climate and environmental issues. The first night features a screening of ‘The Human Element,’ a riveting and visually rich drama blending art and science. The film follows renowned environmental photographer James Balog as he highlights Americans on the front lines of climate change, inspiring us to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world. Co-producer Daniel Wright will introduce the film. The screening will be followed by an interactive panel discussion featuring experts from the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) and others. For more information, visit etown.org/events. Tickets are $10.

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ing Re/Call, through Dec. 1. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2; ‘Shantell Martin: Words and Lines,’ through Jan. 31; ‘Eyes On: Erika Harrsch,’ Hamilton Building, through Nov. 17; ‘Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz,’ through Nov. 17; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020; Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: Annual Dia de Los Muertos exhibition: ‘Ancestors,’ through Nov. 3. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5. ‘Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead,’ through Nov. 4.

LAND AFFECTS ALL OF US. The place where we settle, grow, and become who we are shapes us in unexpected and often unbelievable ways. Artists, in particular, have always been drawn to the grandeur of the land and have been able to interpret and scrutinize it with honed detail in many different forms. With ‘Grounded,’ the Dairy Art Center focuses on three distinct approaches to artists reacting to their landscape. Now showing through Dec. 1.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’ Swift/Smith/Bohn Family’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more. MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/event/monumental. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January; ‘Boulder Through the Decades,’ through Dec. 2.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada: ‘Colorado Abstract +10: A History and a Survey,’ through Nov. 17.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: Adriana Corral: ‘Unearthed/Desenterrado;’ Gretchen Marie Schaefer: ‘Folding and Thrusting,’ through Jan. 19.

NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder: ‘Photography by Mark Shegda’ and ‘Pastel Paintings by Teri Hoyer,’ through Oct. 26.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: ‘Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me,’ through Nov. 24;

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Object: Color,’ through September; ‘Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Gina Adams,’ through Nov. 2; ‘Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning,’ through Dec. 21.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Street Wise,’ Canyon Gallery, through Dec. 1; NCAR Traveling Climate Exhibit: ‘Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes,’ through Nov. 14; ‘Design Trail,’ Arapahoe Ramp, through Dec. 15.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘Found In Translation: Assemblages by Grace Kisa,’ through Nov. 23. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Grounded’ featuring: Sonja Hinrichsen, Kathleen Probst, & ReCall-

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Music Austen Murray’s Birthday Soiree. 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Cass McCombs. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023. Clandestine Amigo. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Clay Rose. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Live in Concert. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. 32

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Desert Hearts. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Penelope Isles. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Ryan Dart/Old 40. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Liquid Stranger. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Smooth Hound Smith — with special guest Andrew Sturtz. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Living History: A Concert in the Wildlife Hall. 5:30 and 8 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000.

Thompson Latin Jazz Ensemble: October 2019. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Naked Folk II. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-2064.

Tubby Love & Amber Lily and Tierro Band featuring Bridget Law — with Buddha Bomb and DJ Treaphort. 8:15 p.m. Cer-

O.T. Genasis. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. I

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Events GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Guardian Storage Winter Coat and Sock Drive. 8 a.m. Guardian Storage in your area, Longmont. Through Nov. 30. Jimmy O. Yang. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Oct. 26. Opening Reception for Haptic Visions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group - Boulder. 7 p.m. Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder. Pumpkin Painting Party. 4 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. The Sklar Brothers. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Oct. 26. Teen Sci-Fi Society: Little Shop of Horrors + Craft. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Music Anji Kat & Christopher Cesta, David Miner. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Blue Moon Bluegrass. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Carmen Sandim CD release residency. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Cat Power. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Elton Dan and The Rocket Band. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757. Famous Men. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Georgia Boys BBQ Fall Music Series. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Ghost Tour — Paranormal With The Public. 11:59 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Gramatik. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Haeger & Hoffman. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars,

On March 31, 2019, Colorado lost one of its great champions of cinema: Brit Withey. Withey, who died in a one-car crash, was the artistic director of the Denver Film Festival, and his tastes leaned toward the dark and daring. If you entered the evening’s showing and saw Withey waiting in the wings to introduce the movie, you knew you were in for an adventure. He will be missed, and this year’s Denver Film Festival (Oct. 31-Nov. 10), will pay tribute to Withey on Wednesday, Oct. 30, with three of his favorite films at the Sie Film Center: ‘American Movie,’ ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ and ‘Frownland.’ A fitting lineup for the man who kept the flame alive for documentaries, independents and Westerns. —MJC

BOULDER:

‘One Piece: Stampede,’ Oct 26 and 29. ‘Spirited Away,’ Oct. 27-30. ‘Western Stars’ ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662: ‘Crosscurrent,’ 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29. ‘The Great Buddah+,’ 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28. ‘Kaili Blues,’ 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30.

DENVER:

Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., 720-420-0030: ‘This is Moto,’ 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘Before You Know It,’ Oct. 30-Nov. 2. ‘Gauguin in Tahiti,’ Oct. 27-28. ‘Honeyland,’ Oct. 23-26. ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,’ Oct. 23-26. ‘Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sounds,’ Oct. 30-Nov. 2. ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ 8:45 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25. San Souci Festival of Dance in Cinema: Locals Only Night, 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28.

LONGMONT:

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3011: ‘The Public,’ 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24.

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘The Addams Family’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Gemini Man’ ‘IT Chapter Two’ ‘Joker’ ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Zombieland: Double Tap’

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘Abominable’ ‘Ad Astra’ ‘The Addams Family’ ‘Countdown’ ‘The Current War: Director’s Cut’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Joker’ ‘Judy’ ‘The Lighthouse ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood — Extended Cut’

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., 720-494-4673: ‘Urban Cowboy,’ 7:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31. Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘Countdown’ ‘The Current War: Directors Cut’ ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ ‘Spirited Away,’ Oct. 27-30. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’

NEDERLAND:

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Ad Astra,’ Oct. 25-26.

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words HEAD TO INKBERRY BOOKS on Friday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. for a presentation by David Loy, author of ‘Ecodharma — Buddhist Teachings on the Ecological Crisis.’ This landmark work is simultaneously a manifesto, a blueprint, a call to action and a deep comfort for troubling times. Loy masterfully lays out the principles and perspectives of Ecodharma — a Buddhist response to our ecological predicament, introducing a new term for a new development of the Buddhist tradition.

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

MONDAY, OCT. 28 World Literature Series Fall — Kirino Natsuo. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 Ron Meyer. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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David Loy — Ecodharma Buddhist Teachings on the Ecological Crisis. 7 p.m. Inkberry Books, Cottonwood Shopping Center, 7960 Niwot Road, Suite B-3, Niwot.

Sue Thoele — Meditations for Wisdom, Balance & Power. 7 p.m. Inkberry Books, Cottonwood Shopping Center, 7960 Niwot Road, Suite B-3, Niwot.

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

Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

SATURDAY, OCT. 26

Teen Authors Panel featuring Colleen AF Venable, Sara Faring and Jennifer Mathieu. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania

Sasha Sagan — For Small Creatures Such As We. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30 Sofie Engstrom von Alten — Dino Does Yoga. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Matthew Mayfield. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver, 303-468-5443.

The Mighty Twisters Eighth Halloween Bash. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Fourth Friday Fandom: Fanzines. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303335-4821.

John McCutcheon. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.

Music Trivia Night and Costume Contest. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St.., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Lacunae: An MFA dance concert. 7:30 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. More performances through Oct. 27, calendar. colorado.edu

1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-2064. Hi-Dive Tribute Bash featuring the music of Devo, Oingo Boingo, The Cars, Fear, New Found Glory. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Last Men on Earth. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Laurie & Lorrie Duo. 6 p.m. Upslope, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 303-449-3529. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4401002. LPAI Big Band, Jazz, and Swing Night. 6 p.m. The Fox Hill Club, 1400 Colorado 119, Longmont, 303-775-0493. Luttrell. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Many Mountains. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Mat Kerekes — with Motherfolk and Teamonade. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. 36

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The Soundpost Sessions: Megan Burtt & Kyle Donovan. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. Events Arts Caravan’s Circus Variety Show ‘Wicked’ Dv8. 8 p.m. Deviant Spirits Distillery (Dv8), 2480 49th St., Unit E, Boulder, 720-3381730. Back Alley Ghost Tours. 6 p.m. Historic Downtown Longmont, Third Avenue - Fifth Avenue, Longmont, 720-453-4733. Convergence 2019. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson, 119 Park Avenue West., Denver. Demetri Martin. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Drag Nation “Haus of Mirrors” — Tracks Halloween 2019: Funhouse. 9 p.m. EXDO I

Munchies, Monsters & Murals. 5 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Boulder, 303-492-6161. Nite @ the Rec: Halloween Theme. 7 p.m. Recreation Center, 900 West Via Appia, Louisville. Superhero Costume Ball. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303875-8066. Trick or Treat Street. 9 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver, 303-433-7444. Through Oct. 27. Tricks or Treats Family Overnight (Grades K-8 with Adult). 6 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000. see EVENTS Page 38

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Share your love of art, photography and LOCAL trees with Boulder!

FALL GARDEN CLEANUP

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The workshops will cover the following fall-specific topics: • Cleaning up the vegetable garden • Getting perennials ready for winter • Winterize your backyard compost pile • Preparing for spring composting *soil saver compost bins will be available at cost for $55 (exact cash or check only).

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Saturday, Oct. 12: Lafayette Library, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14: Boulder County Parks & Open Space, 6 – 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21: Boulder County Recycling Center, 6 – 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28: Erie Community Center, 6 – 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2: Louisville Library, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Enter the Treedom of Expression Local Tree Art Contest today! Prizes include: GoPro Hero6 Black camera, gift cards for the Tree Farm, Hapa Sushi, OZO Coffee, Sweet Cow Ice Cream, Gateway, Guiry’s, Boulder Rec Centers, Downtown Boulder and more. Contest open to all Boulder County youth and adults.

Choose how you enter Boulder Parks & Rec’s LOCAL tree art contest . . . Post your best original art or photo of LOCAL Fall Color, a Favorite Tree, Tree Illustration or Tree Coloring page to one of our social media sites. Enter once or multiple times. You could win one of many great prizes! Home owner trivia question: Q: What’s the best way to add color, interest, beauty, and value to your property? A: Plant a Tree this Autumn

Learn More Here: BoulderForestry.org

Please also visit: playboulder.org/tree-trust

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

theater

IN OSCAR WILDE’S ‘The Importance of Being Ernest,’ two bachelors create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. Coal Creek Theatre presents ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’ through Nov. 9. The Addams Family. Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 1 and Jan. 3-26 Carrie the Musical. Longmont Theater Company, 513 E. Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 26. A Doll’s House/A Doll’s House Part 2. Denver Center Theatre Company, Ricketson Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Nov. 24. Fever Dream Festival — presented by Benchmark Theatre Company. 40West Arts, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Flame Broiled (or the ugly play). — presented by Local Theater Company. Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17. Ghosted: A Paranormal Mystery. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Through Oct. 27. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Candlelight

Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 17. I do! I do! Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 27. The Importance of Being Earnest. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through Nov. 9. Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22. Mrs. Warren’s Profession — presented by Germinal Stage. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Nov. 9. The Necromancer’s Stone. The BITSY Stage. 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 23. Pippin. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through Nov. 9. The Realistic Joneses — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. Diary Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.

EVENTS from Page 36

WOW!’s Halloween Party. 5:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Coop and the Chicken Pluckers. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

Curiosity Concert: Perfectly Imperfect. 3:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400.

Music The Anchor. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Broncos Trick-Or-Treat Party. 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Empower Field At Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., Denver. Collapsing Stars, Finn O’Sullivan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Family Concert for All Ages. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-383-1610. J.S. Bach B Minor Mass. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-563-9769. Laser Floyd : Dark Side of the Rainbow in see EVENTS Page 40

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Open Range Competition Teams Summer Day Camps Classes & Private Lessons

Target & Hunting Full Service Retail Pro Shop & Service Recurve & Compound

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EVENTS from Page 38

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

Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Definitely Mary Ann. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Boos & Brews Halloween 5K. 11 a.m. Avery Brewing Company, 4910 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Longmont Sustainability Awards. 6 p.m. Oak Room, Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 720-252-3962.

Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Los Bohemios in Concert. 7 p.m. Ceraso Gallery, 1294 Doric Drive, Lafayette, 720-940-6398.

Deck the Mall. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 720-272-7467.

The Magic Beans. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Mason Jennings. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

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Family Day: “Zombie” Plants and more. 10 a.m. Museum of Natural History, Henderson, Boulder.

Phour Point O + Steely Dead. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Family Play Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Pre-Halloween Metal Show — with Cönaxx and Paradox. 8 p.m. Dog House Music, 525 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-710-5201.

Free Halloween Parade. 9:30 a.m. Main Street, 471 Main St., Longmont.

Shawn James — with Sam Houston & BLK Odyssy, Ponder The Albatross. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Shook Twins: A Halloween Tribute to Dirty Dancing — with Mama Magnolia. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Guitar, bass, ukulele, lap steel and violin/viola lessons

Solsatallite, Kayla Marque. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Experienced teachers

Start Making Sense (Talking Heads Tribute) — with Graham Good & The Painters. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

All styles of music

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

Beginner to advanced students

Strong Voices. 5 p.m. UCC Longmont, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, 303-473-8337. Events

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28th Annual Denver Witches’ Ball. 6 p.m. Highlands Masonic Events Center, 3550 Federal Blvd., Denver, 303-969-9021. Accessing Digital Library Books, Movies and Magazines. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ah! Tissue Box Monsters! 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Exotica Erotica Ball. 9 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-272-7467.

Old Salt Union. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Salasee and the Fafa Family. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

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Digging the Sugar Beet. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8688.

Bella Morte: Halloween Pole and Aerial Dance Show. 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dickens I

Halloween Spooktacular! 10 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-1822. Halloween Wonder Walk. 4 p.m. Shining Mountain Waldorf School, 999 Violet Ave., Boulder, 303-444-7697. Haunt in the ‘Mont 2019. 5 p.m. Downtown, Longmont. Haunt in the ‘Mont at the Cidery. 11 a.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910. Haunted Treats with Sticky Fingers Cooking. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Laser Halloween Spooktacular and Freaky Moons. 2:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Laser Metal Hallowscream. 11:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Longmont Farmers Market Artisan Show. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Lucha Libre & Laughs: What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Odd Fellows Murder Mystery Dinner & Halloween Ball. 6 p.m. Longmont Odd Fellows Lodge, 434 Main St., Longmont. Parade Halloween! 10 a.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 505 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-2211. The Seven Undeadly Sins: An Erotic BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Haunted House Experience. 9 p.m. Wesley Foundation Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Spooktacular Saturday. 4 p.m. Locust Cider, 5446 Conestoga Court, Boulder, 303-356-8151.

Rocky Horror Picture Show. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Spooky Village. 1 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 South Hover Road, Longmont, 720-438-2500.

Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Stories in the Dark by the Boulder Valley Spellbinders. 1 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4850.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 Music David Tyler Fox, Joe Kaplow, Alright Alright. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. J. Wail Live Band. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Gold Panning. 12 p.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332. Haunted Library. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Music 1st Gen Presents: Boulder Room. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Maya Bennett & Friends. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events ‘Mis Pininos’/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmic Explosions Near and Far. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Legit Knits. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Midday Music Meditations @ Meadows. Noon. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

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Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Com Truise. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Devendra Banhart. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Easy Riders, Wounded Bird. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events

Start your weekend FEELING GOOD the last Saturday of every month!

Code for Boulder. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Mad Scientist Day: Halloween Candy Experiments. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

WHEN & WHERE:

Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

10:00-11:15am 6/29 • The Green @ The Boulder Civic Area* 7/27 • The Green @ The Boulder Civic Area* 8/31 • South Boulder Rec Center (lakeside) 9/28 • The Green @ The Boulder Civic Area* 10/26 • The Green @ The Boulder Civic Area*

Wobblers and Walkers. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. I

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‘IN THE LIBRARY’ BY JOHN F. PETO VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Thursday OcTOber 24

O.T. Genasis Friday OcTOber 25

sOnic blOssOm

FeaT blueTech, spOOnbill, dynOhunTer, The librarian, lapa, JanOver, K+lab, phlO & paTricK sKyler

saTurday OcTOber 26

sTarT maKinG sense (TalKinG heads TribuTe) w/ Graham GOOd & The painTers

sunday OcTOber 27

berner

w/ dJ hOllywOOd, anOnymOus & rmean

wednesday OcTOber 30

Thursday OcTOber 24

Tubby lOve & amber lily and TierrO band FeaT bridGeT law w/ buddha bOmb & dJ TreaphOrT

saTurday OcTOber 26

shawn James

w/ sam hOusTOn & blK Odyssy and pOnder The albaTrOss

sunday OcTOber 27

universal lanGuaGe

w/ indiGenOus peOples & blOTTer bunch

Thursday OcTOber 31

draGOndeer

re: search

w/ dOG ciTy discO & whaT yOunG men dO

w/ sayer, liTTle snaKe & secreT recipe

The cOpper children

bleep blOOp

Thursday OcTOber 31

James brOwn dance parTy

FeaT adam smirnOFF, eric benny blOOm, adam deiTch (leTTuce), adam chase (The chase brOThers), JenniFer harTswicK (Tab), shareiF hObley (JOhn leGend) & elizabeTh lea (Tedeschi TrucKs)

Friday nOvember 1

muzzy bearr

w/ shOOKa, pandasaywhaT & eXO

sunday nOvember 3

danny brOwn

w/ ashniKKO & zelOOperz

wednesday nOvember 6

Friday nOvember 1

w/ Kessel run, cOle williams band (FeaT members OF pimps OF JOyTime) & zimma

saTurday nOvember 2

bumpin uGlies

w/ prOJecT 432 & beTaray

sunday nOvember 3

$nOT

w/ GuapbOi velO & chunniTm’s yunG Kell, nevv

Tuesday nOvember 5

maXO Kream

w/ Q da FOOl & slayTer

re: search

wednesday nOvember 6

w/ KapTain (laTe seT) & JOrdan pOlOvina

w/ alec KinG

cOFresi & vibe sTreeT

ryan caraveO

Thursday nOvember 7

(yheTi X TOadFace X mT. analOGue) FeaT OTTO vOn schirach w/ superTas

Friday nOvember 8

The TriFiniTy Friday nOvember 8

sKizzy mars

w/ yOshi FlOwer & zaia

saTurday nOvember 9

parT & parcel’s cOrdurOy classic

w/ Flash mOunTain FlOOd & mOrsel

saTurday nOvember 9

mOOnTricKs

w/ chewy&bach, F-eTher & waXcaT

sunday nOvember 10

w/ sTrinGs and The bOX, Grace clarK band

JaydayOunGan

w/ Tha ape X hailey bOp & dJ hardaway X dJ dOminO

wednesday nOvember 13

TObe nwiGwe Friday nOvember 15

sunday nOvember 10

rainbOw Girls Tuesday nOvember 12

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Thursday nOvember 14

Oliver Francis

w/ smrTdeaTh, marcO XO, slOuch & superare

saTurday nOvember 16

w/ calenraps, OTis, bObby mercer, summer’s sOn & phil maurO

cOllie buddz w/ Keznamdi

Friday nOvember 15

daX

head FOr The hills

w/ adrian eaGle

wednesday nOvember 20

Thursday nOvember 21

mysTiKal

Friday nOvember 22

planeT OF The drums

(aK1200, dara, dieselbOy & messinian) w/ nvrsOFT, reid speed, Fury, salTee & slim_r_i

wednesday nOvember 27 re: search

eOTO

w/ bOrahm lee, nichOlas Gerlach & JOrdan pOlOvina

saTurday nOvember 30

w/ vince & silas herman re: search

sweaTer beaTs

w/ JacKlndn & JOrdan pOlOvina

Thursday nOvember 21 FeaT The sweeT lillies

Friday nOvember 22

The FunK sessiOns w/ emerald QuinTeT FeaT sKeriK & sTanTOn mOOre

saTurday nOvember 23

FunK yOu

an-Ten-nae & GOvinda Tuesday december 3

sainT Jhn

Freddie Gibbs

w/ cOusin sTizz & cOnway The machine

Thursday december 5

FunTcase

w/ ubur, deFiniTive, JOOF & aabear

Friday december 6

dr. Fresch

w/ anGelz, punJahbae & miXed messaGes

saTurday december 7

draGOn smOKe

w/ biG sam’s FunKy naTiOn & FlOaT liKe a buFFalO

pen paper poem

picKin On hip hOp

w/ The Green hOuse band & radO

w/ aTyya & sKinny limbs

during regular library business hours i read myself as a single-volume trilogy:

saTurday nOvember 16

sunday nOvember 17

hillTOp hOOds

some days — if by days you mean libraries (i’m my own library) — i file myself under fiction; some days, anthologies

w/ rdGldGrn & Tunnel visiOn

JyemO club & pinK hawKs w/ Green buddha

by Jethro McClellan

ThaT 1 Guy

anders OsbOrne FeaT scOTT meTzGer (Jrad) w/ rOss James & The cOunTerpOinT

open book (start on page one, or anywhere?)

wednesday nOvember 27 w/ KOdie shane

wednesday december 4

re: search

hullabalOO & ahee w/ GrymeTyme & JOrdan pOlOvina

Thursday december 5

rOb icKes & Trey hensley & marK lavenGOOd band Friday december 6

GOOse

Born in Boston, Jethro McClellan spent a few of his early years in Taos. In 1981, he relocated to Boulder and began creative writing; in 1991, via both Naropa and Penny Lane, he became part of the Boulder poetry scene. In 2018, he took one or two tentative steps toward being a real poet. Boulder Weekly accepts poetry and flash fiction submissions of 450 words/35 lines or fewer and accompanied by a one-sentence bio of the author. Send to: poetry@boulderweekly.com

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loy Thai serves modern Thai food that’s balanced in both taste and texture. The chefs mind the details on every plate, from the noodle dishes to the curries, fried rice entrees and more. We had the sriracha noodles on a recent visit — thin rice noodles are tossed with egg, charred vegetables, choice of meat (pork in this case) and Aloy’s homemade sriracha sauce. The noodles are tender and the veggies are crunchy; the pork is salty and savory, and the sriracha sauce is sweet and spicy. $15.

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he ChopHouse isn’t just for steaks. If you’re looking for a steakhouse experience but want to actually eat something a little more casual, we suggest the ChopHouse’s Pub Burger. A half-pound of tender beef is loaded with peppered bacon, white cheddar, beefsteak tomato, lettuce, pickled red onion and the ChopHouse’s signature pub sauce. The combination of white cheddar and beef is so satisfying it borders on indulgent, and the lightly spiced pepper and tangy pickled red onion keep it balanced. Eat it with your choice of several sides — we opted for a classic baked potato. $17.

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he breakfast burritos at South Boulder’s Cafe Mexicali are big, delicious and quickly made. They’re built on a foundation of eggs, potatoes, cheese and salsa, and the choice of meat changes throughout the week. We chose a bacon burrito, the meat of the day coming in big, savory and salty chunks. Packed in with a moderately spicy green chile, it’s a heck of a way to start the day. $4.29.

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The nicest people you know are guilty of restaurant robbery

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WE are shoplifters. Ask local chefs and they will relate horror stories of serious thievery by their own diners. They are not talking about pocketing extra napkins and ketchup packets.

A life-sized Xena the Warrior Princess cardboard cutout walks out the door. Pressed tin wall ornaments, a 4-foot-tall aluminum rooster and French press coffee makers go missing at local eateries. Owners of upscale restaurants report the disappearance of expensive Limoges bread and butter plates, huge pepper grinders, margarita glasses and tons of tiny spoons. Is it worse than the customer who absconds with an entire tip jar full of money? People actually take home freshly planted herbs,

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soap dispensers, toilet paper and actual hand towels (from classier bathrooms). Take something like that at a houseware store and you likely would be grabbed by security and charged with shoplifting — arrested, cuffed and charged. The severity of the customer pilferage problem is common knowledge in the dining industry. It popped into mainstream consciousness recently when a noted, respected local restaurateur offered a plea and public broadside aimed directly at, well, you and me and people just like us. “There is no part of the menu price build of a restaurant or a bar that includes our guests stealing our shit. ... When that copper mule mug or that Mother of Pearl caviar spoon or that Limoges bread and butter plate finds the inside of a purse or sport coat pocket and walks out our front door, it is stone-cold stealing see NIBBLES Page 48

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— like the shoplifting kind of stealing.” That fed-up voice is chef Dave Query, owner of Boulder’s Big Red F group (Zolo Grill, The Post, Jax Fish House, Centro, etc.), who has watched stuff disappear at his restaurants for decades. I asked other chefs if anything ever got stolen from their restaurants. They eagerly shared: Chef Hosea Rosenberg (Blackbelly, Santo): “When we opened Blackbelly we had little salt dishes with tiny beautiful spoons so people could scoop the salt. Twenty-four were gone in the first month. My wife and I go down to New Mexico to grab decor for Santo. We hang these little pressed tin ornaments in the bathrooms, and have resorted to gluing them to the walls, as they always just walk out the door. We have really cool glassware for margaritas at Santo and some customers literally tell us they are going to steal them. We had a guy steal the entire 3-gallon tip jar at the butcher shop full of money.” Chef Alex Schuler (Tangerine): “We originally bought nice demi-tasse spoons for espresso at Arugula restaurant. They matched our silverware. They went missing so fast that, after buying a couple of rounds of them, we switched to a much cheaper version and the missing spoons number went down. They were cool-looking spoons and easy for the customer to take. When people pay top dollar for a meal, some of them feel entitled to take something ‘small.’ It is theft, but somehow they convince themselves it’s not.” Jim Pittenger (Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, Denver). “You mean like the time someone stole our full-size Xena the Warrior Princess cardboard cutout? It was ballsy because Xena was in our office upstairs, so they had to steal her by going into the kitchen and climbing the stairway and snag her in plain sight, and then escape through the front door.” The comments from restaurant people just kept on coming: • “I buy 300 logo-ed Belgian tulip beer glasses every quarter. My staff at most breaks two a week. You can guess what happens to the others. We had someone try to steal a half-full mimosa tower. I had to chase him two blocks running at full speed to get it back.” • “Four-foot aluminum roosters to beer signs in the bathroom to French presses to salt and pepper shakers. Even freshly planted mums.” • “Silver bullet ramekins are a hot

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street item in my restaurant.” • “It’s terrible to snag anything; my only comment is sometimes people who can’t frequent a place they like will take something as a memento to remember the experience.” • “Tiki mugs, cut-crystal old-fashioned glasses, bitters bottles, bar tools, art from the walls, soap dispensers, sandwich boards (sidewalk), teapots...” The theft epidemic also affects innocent patrons like a friend — a lovely grandmother — who tells of a recent experience at a Boulder coffee house. As she got her iced coffee the young barista told her: “Don’t take it personally but please don’t steal our glass. Every time we get a new batch with our name on them they just disappear.” In the interest of transparency, I admit to owning a few forks and ashtrays I lifted. I used to steal menus when I was a dining critic but that was for research. Even chefs are not totally without some guilt as one confessed anonymously: “There may have been a restaurant that was serving Moscow Mules in these really cool copper cups. And it may have been during my friend’s wedding, and we may have all been very drunk. And we may have taken about six as a group because we wanted to have a set.” Dave Query gets the final word: “We love our guests and would give them the shirt off our backs in the name of hospitality, but for the love of Johnny Cash and a proper back flip into a summer river, don’t steal our stuff.” LOCAL FOOD NEWS Do you make a lousy latte? Correct this life skills flaw as Ozo Coffee Roasters in Boulder hosts a class Nov. 16 in Fundamental Barista Skills. ozocoffee.com/classes. ... Coming attractions: Conveyor-belt sushi at Sushi-Rama, 8181 Arista Place, Broomfield, from chef Jeff Osaka who recently acquired Louisville’s Empire Restaurant. ... Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine is adding Sunday Vinyl, a serious wine bar next to the Union Station train platform in Denver. WORDS TO CHEW ON “Always remember: If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know?” — Julia Child

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Sustainable? Prove it. 2019 Good Food 100 Restaurants list, which includes several Boulder County spots, seeks to celebrate food makers doing it the right way

by Matt Cortina

or as many strides as the food industry has made toward sustainability — toward supporting farmers who raise food in environmentally friendly ways and treat employees fairly — one thing has been lacking: accountability. Awareness of sustainability is certainly at an all-time SARA BRITO, COURTESY GOOD FOOD 100 high, but without accountability, without making sure that those who claim they’re being responsible are actually doing so, the term has become stretched and adopted by myriad food producers to market themselves and not to fundamentally change the way we grow, cultivate and eat food. Enter Good Food 100 Restaurants. Now in its third year, Good Food 100 celebrates the chefs and restaurants that are proving their commitment to sustainable food systems. And its using quantifiable metrics to show just how these restaurants are walking the walk. “Our goal is to promote transparency and empower people to be aware of where their food is coming from while recognizing the chefs and restaurants who are consciously committed to building a better food system,” said Sara Brito, co-founder and president of Good Food Media see GOOD FOOD 100 Page 52

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Network, which oversees the Good Food 100 Restaurants list, in a statement. “Every menu choice and good food purchase that chefs and restaurants make affects each link in our food chain as well as state, regional and national economies.” Boulder County is well-represented on this year’s list. Basta, Blackbelly, the Boulder Valley School District School Food Project, Corrida, Flagstaff House, Fresh Thymes, Next Door, Santo, Snooze, The Kitchen and the University of Colorado Boulder Campus Dining Services all made the list. Nearby notable restaurants on the list include Annette, Cart-Driver, Euclid Hall, Root Down and Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe. Restaurant owners and chefs apply to be included on the list (for no fee) and supply Good Foods 100 with purchase orders, verified by a third party, to indicate how much of their food is “good” food. What’s “good” food? “Good food is about more than just taste,” the organization states. “Good food is good for every link in the food chain: the environment; plants and animals; farmers, ranchers and fishermen; purveyors; restaurants; and eaters.” Food purchases are broken out into six categories: bread, flour, legumes and grains; dairy and eggs; fish and seafood; meat and poultry; fruits and vegetables; and other, including oils, condiments, spices and more. Within those categories, Good Food 100 looks to see that certain criteria are met. For instance, it asks that bread, flour, legumes and grains are certified organic and raised via sustainable agricultural practices. It looks to ensure that meat, poultry, dairy and eggs are raised without the use of antibiotics or hormones, cages or confinement. And it looks for fish and seafood that is wild-caught or sustainably farmed and includes only species in good standing on Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch list, the industry standard for sustainable seafood. Restaurants can get up to six links — a link for each food category where sustainable standards are met. All the Boulder County restaurants and BVSD received either five or six links. Another component of the Good Food 100 Restaurants list is an industry impact analysis done by CU’s Leeds School of Business that quantifies the costs and benefits of sourcing good food. The research found that the $66.3 million spent on good food raised in the U.S. and purchased by the participating restaurants had a $213.5-million impact on the broader national good food economy. Of the six food categories, restaurants reported the highest number of good food purchases in the seafood and meat categories. The culled data also includes statistics about business and labor practices. For instance, greater than 93% of participating restaurants said recycling and using ecofriendly paper products “were a part of their sustainable practices.” Three out of four restaurants composted, cleaned with eco-friendly products and tracked food waste. And 78% said they offer access to health insurance to their employees. The drawback to the Good Food 100 Restaurants list is that it requires restaurants to participate — it can’t track the broader trends throughout the industry because it doesn’t have access to purchase orders from every restaurant. But the hope is that if a restaurant claims to be sustainable and committed to good environmental and business practices, then it will seek out a Good Food 100 certification, and that consumers who care about what the list celebrates will seek out restaurants that have its seal of approval. It’s broad culture change Good Food 100 is after, which happens with growing participation in coming years and more partnerships with industry leaders like the James Beard Foundation, which is new in 2019. “Be it food waste, climate change, worker welfare, our food system needs an overhaul starting from production all the way to consumption,” Brito said. “The time to act is now, and we are proud to be a part of this cultural and culinary conversation.” For the full list, go to goodfood100restaurants.org. 52

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Know your brew: Vienna lager

Austria’s autumnal lager finds life in the New World

by Michael J. Casey

aybe it’s the popularity of German culture, the appeal of lederhosen and dirndls, or the allure of drinking under massive tents, but Oktoberfest’s signature beer, märzen, is having a moment. And not for nothing, the beer’s great: Clean and malty, sweet with a touch of bitterness. But märzen isn’t the only autumnal lager out there. Looking for something similar but different? Look no further than märzen’s Austrian brother: Vienna lager. Introduced in 1841, Vienna lager was developed by Anton Dreher, owner of the Schwechat Brewery near Vienna. Dreher was a close friend of Gabriel Sedlmayr, whose Spaten Brewery developed märzen, and the two were committed to brewing their beers using modern techBOSTON BEER COMPANY niques. Specifically: malts kilned over hot air rather than direct heat. Where the two diverged was in the malt bill: Sedlmayr used Munich malts in his märzen, which imparted a bready characteristic, and Dreher used Vienna malts, which have subtle but noticeably different characteristics: biscuit instead of bread, toffee instead of caramel. Further differentiating the two, Dreher’s Vienna lager was slightly lighter (5% alcohol by volume) than Sedlmayr’s marzen (6%). Both beers were revolutionary, but during the height of the AustroHungarian Empire (1867-1918), Vienna lager was king. When the Empire collapsed, so too did the brew — vanishing even from its home city. If not for Jim Koch of the Boston Beer Company, the style may have evaporated with it. As the story goes, Koch was tired of working as a consultant and decided to go into beer. Brewing was in his heritage, and using a family recipe from 1860, Koch reintroduced Vienna lager to a post-Prohibition America with Samuel Adams Boston Lager in 1984. According to Koch, little about the recipe has changed, though it has been Americanized: two-row pale and Caramel 60 malts, hopped with Hallertau Mittelfrüh and Tettnanger. The results: the flavor of warm biscuits with a dollop of candied sugar, and just a hint of herbaceous hops. You’ve probably drunk tons of the stuff without giving it a second thought — arguably Vienna lager’s greatest asset. It’s easy to drink, not too heavy and not too light, has a touch of sweetness for people who don’t like bitter beers, but enough bitterness for those needing a little backbone. There’s another fork in the Vienna lager road, this one dating back to 1864 with Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria accepting the role of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico. If Vienna lager was one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s greatest assets, exporting it south of the border seemed natural. Nowadays, Mexican lagers are all the rage. If you’re looking for a Vienna lager in Boulder County, keep an eye out for Beerito from Oskar Blues Brewery, Sexi-Mexi from Twisted Pine Brewing Company and The Post Brewing Co.’s El Corn. Should Vienna lager have a resurgence, it will likely be served next to a bowl of spicy green chili rather than hearty goulash. Yet, it pairs beautifully with both. What the world has divided, beer will unite. Zum Wohl.

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Pragmatic Programmer, a book that helps them develop and refine their code. One popular technique the book offers is “rubber duck deprogramming.” Programmers place a toy rubber duck in front of them, and describe to it the problems they’re having. As they explain each line of code to their very good listener, they may discover what’s amiss. I recommend a similar approach to you as you embark on metaphorically debugging your own program, Gemini. If a rubber duck isn’t available, call on your favorite statue or stuffed animal, or even a photo of a catalytic teacher or relative or spirit.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Read the following passage from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” I admire the romantic artistry of Gaston’s dramatic gesture. I applaud his imaginative desire to express his love in a carefully chosen sanctuary filled with beauty. I praise his intense devotion to playful extravagance. But I don’t recommend you do anything quite so extreme in behalf of love during the coming weeks. Being twenty percent as extreme might be just right, though.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” rapper Drake disparages tranquility and harmony. “I listen to heavy metal for meditation, no silence,” he brags. “My body isn’t much of a sacred temple, with vodka and wine, and sleep at the opposite times,” he declares. Is there a method in his madness? It’s revealed in these lyrics: “All that peace and that unity: all that weak sh-- will ruin me.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to practice the exact opposite of Drake’s approach. It’s time to treat yourself to an intense and extended phase of self-care.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: It’s a favorable time to refresh your relationships with your basic sources and to make connections with new basic sources. To spur your creative thought on these matters, I offer the following questions

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to meditate on. 1. If you weren’t living where you do now, what other place might you like to call home? 2. If you didn’t have the name you actually go by, what other name would you choose? 3. If you had an urge to expand the circle of allies that supports and stimulates you, whom would you seek out? 4. If you wanted to add new foods and herbs that would nurture your physical health and new experiences that would nurture your mental health, what would they be?

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Mushrooms have spores, not seeds.

They’re tiny. If you could stack 2,500 of them, they’d be an inch high. On the other hand, they are numerous. A ripe mushroom may release up to 16 million spores. And each spore is so light-weight, the wind can pick it up and fling it long distances. I’ll encourage you to express your power and influence like a mushroom in the coming days: subtle and airy but abundant; light and fine, but relentless and bountiful.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. I invite you to consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio — even though you’re the least likely sign in all the zodiac to do so. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Maybe you’ll be more receptive to my suggestion if I reframe the task. Are you familiar with the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind”? You wipe away your assumptions and see everything as if it were the first time you were in its presence.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Is it always a bad thing to be lost? To wander in the unknown without a map? I’d like to propose a good version of being lost. It requires you to be willing to give up your certainties, to relinquish your grip on the comforting dogmas that have structured your world — but to do so gladly, with a spirit of cheerful expectancy and curiosity. It doesn’t require you to be a macho hero who feels no fear or confusion. Rather, you have faith that life will provide blessings that weren’t possible until you got lost.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Worrying is the most natural and sponta-

neous of all human functions,” wrote science educator Lewis Thomas. “Let’s acknowledge this, perhaps even learn to do it better.” I agree with him! And I think it’s an ideal time for you to learn how to worry more effectively, more potently, and with greater artistry. What might that look like? First, you wouldn’t feel shame or guilt about worrying. You wouldn’t regard it as a failing. Rather, you would raise your worrying to a higher power. You’d wield it as a savvy tool to discern which situations truly need your concerned energy and which don’t.

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Dear CPOS: You’ve cheated on everyone you’ve ever been with, and your girlfriend has presumably cheated on everyone she’s ever been with. (That’s what you meant by “she has as scandalous a past as I do,” right?) But instead of embracing the cheats and sluts you both know yourselves to be and thanking your fucky stars for bringing you together, CPOS, you felt obligated to disavow your past behaviors — some of which sound legitimately terrible — and slut-shame yourselves and each other. And for what? You are still the people you were before you started theatrically cringing about how you met. She doesn’t trust you not to cheat on her, and I don’t see why she should. You don’t trust her not to cheat on you, and I don’t see why you should. So why promise not to cheat? Why waste time and emotional energy policing each other for evidence of what you both know to be true: You’re going to cheat on each other. That you can trust in. So instead of making promises you can’t keep and then having meltdowns and stealing each other’s phones and breaking up and getting back together, CPOS, make a promise you can keep. Not to be faithful but to be considerate. And discreet. Promise not

to do anything that makes her feel like she isn’t your top priority even if you do fuck around occasionally, and ask her to make the same promise to you. Then you can move forward as honest sluts and not lying cheats. Dear Dan: I am in love with a happily married woman. I was the “other man” almost 20 years ago, before she was married but when she was living with the man she’s with now. We fell madly in love, but we didn’t end up together. In the intervening years, we both married and had children. We’ve reconnected a couple times over the years and it became a sexual relationship again. Here’s the tricky part: My then-wife was an undocumented immigrant. My marriage was unhappy, but for my child’s sake I couldn’t leave my wife, for fear of his mother getting deported. This year, she got her green card and we divorced. Then I reconnected with my ex again. We desperately want to get married, but she is scared to end her marriage. She’s in a relatively happy marriage, and divorce will be a bombshell. She worries about the shock and destabilizing effect on her children, who are still young. And she fears that nothing short of admitting she’s in love with someone else could end her otherwise happy marriage,

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Songs in the key of weed by Seymour

don’t know about you, but I’ve found myself home on a Saturday night, chilling with my cat, listening to Hamilton, smoking a joint and wondering, “If marijuana could sing, what would it sound like?” Just kidding. I’ve never once asked myself what pot sounds like, because plants don’t make

noise. But they do produce electrical currents that humans have learned to measure and manipulate, and someone made a machine a few years ago that apparently translates the electrical currents plants make into sounds. And so — you can probably see where this is going — Snoop Dogg had a hand in creating the first song composed from pot sounds.

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According to Variety, Snoop Dogg’s cannabisfocused digital media company Merry Jane partnered with eOne Music “to release the first-ever commercially available song composed from sounds extracted from a cannabis plant.” The song, called “Sticky Situation,” because of course it is, didn’t feature Snoop, but R&B singer Anders and rapper Rich The Kid collaborating with producer FrancisGotHeat. The two-and-a-half-minute track was created by hooking a strain called Sticky Situation up to a thingamajig called a MIDI Sprout. The song debuted on the anniversary of Canada’s federal legalization of marijuana, which isn’t quite so random when you know that Anders and Francis are from Toronto. Merry Jane’s Chief Strategy Officer, Kai Henry, told The Fader that MIDI Sprout “extracted ‘vibrations and bio-rhythmic sounds from our own Sticky Situation strain to create this song.’” MIDI Sprout’s website is a little more scientific, explaining that “probes” are used to “measure changes in electrical currents across the surface of a plant’s leaf. Our technology converts these fluctuations into note and control messages that can be read by synthesizers and computers to generate music and even video.” The technology isn’t all that new. MIDI

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Sprout was first displayed as an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art circa 2012. The humans behind MIDI Sprout launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 to manufacture a larger number of devices that “inspired a global movement of ‘plant musicians,’” according to the MIDI Sprout website, “whose calming creations were especially suited for wellness practices like yoga and meditation.” There’s also an iOS app and another Kickstarter for the second generation MIDI Sprout dubbed, Plant Wave. None of which answers the question: What does marijuana sound like? If you’re using MIDI Sprout, apparently whatever you want. FrancisGotHeat, the producer behind “Sticky Situation,” told Variety that you can choose “different sounds and different MIDI signals,” like the sound of a grand piano or horns. So while the signals might be a little unpredictable — you’re not going to hook up a pot plant and hear a song in the traditional sense of the word — you can manipulate the signals to produce sounds in, say, the key of C, in the style of a Moog synthesizer, or the style of a plucked guitar string, or in the style of a drum. You can then record those sounds and rearrange them in a track to make a song like “Sticky Situation,” which is much more structured than the “music” that various artists and regular folks had been making with the MIDI Sprout. So... millions of marginalized people around the United States are still languishing in the justice system for nonviolent marijuana offenses, but at least we know now that we can run the electrical currents of a pot plant through a plugin to make music. Cool.

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Early storm hammers Colorado’s pot supply by Paul Danish

os Suenos Farms, the largest marijuana producer in Colorado, is an outdoor grower,which means it is subject to the whims of Mother Nature. And on Oct. 10, Mother Nature dinged Los Suenos Farms good and hard. A storm dumped several inches of snow on the Pueblo-based operation and subjected it to eight hours of sub-freezing temperatures. As a result Los Suenos lost about half its crop. According to a story in Marijuana Business Daily, the loss will reverberate throughout the state’s entire recreational marijuana industry, reducing the amount of marijuana available to both retailers and processors and pushing up wholesale pot processors. Los Suenos has 36 acres of outdoor production, in addition to indoor production in greenhouses and hoop houses. “It was going to be a huge, bumper year,” said Los Suenos founder Bob DeGabrielle. “Unfortunately you can’t do anything about Mother Nature.” Company workers were able to cut down about 20,000 of the 40,000 plants growing outdoors before the storm hit. Company employees kept harvesting even after the snow started, but the company didn’t have the storage space to accommodate emergency cropping, which limited what could be saved. Workers tried covering plants with blankets, but 50-mph winds blew them off. The crew also ran hot water into the fields to keep the root mass warm. “This is definitely going to affect the entire state’s supply,” Joshua Haupt told Marijuana Business Daily. Haupt is chief revenue officer for Denver-based Medicine Man Technologies, which is currently in the process of acquiring Los Suenos Farms for $11.9 million.

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As a result of the storm losses, the cost of material for THC extraction is likely to increase, as well as the cost of bottom-shelf flower used for pre-rolls and budget ounces at the retail level, according to Marijuana Business Daily. Fortunately for Los Suenos, the company can salvage some of the biomass of the crop still in the fields for extraction. The flower on the frozen plants is unsuitable for sale as flower, but it can be sold along with the rest of the biomass to THC extractors. Ironically, the presence of the un-harvested flower in the biomass boosts its THC content — to 18% to 24% THC from 6% to 8% in a normal year — and thus its price. • • • • Back during alcohol prohibition, some clandestine booze producers added cheap and legally available methyl alcohol (also known as wood alcohol) to their product as a way of stretching it and their profits. Unfortunately methyl alcohol is poisonous. The resulting blended product, sometimes called rotgut, can

permanently blind or kill you. Now it turns out that similar activity may be behind the recent surge in vaping-associated lung damage and deaths. According to a recent Associated Press story, Utah health authorities discovered last year that more than 50 people in the Salt Lake City area had been poisoned by a vape called “Yolo!!” (as in, You Only Live Once). The vape was supposed to contain only CBD and was sold legally. But analysis showed it contained the synthetic marijuana compound that’s commonly known as Spice or K2 — and no CBD. It took authorities more than a year to locate the person behind Yolo!!, who turned out to be a woman named Janell Thompson in Carlsbad, California. She had started a legitimate tobacco vaping business in 2010, but eventually moved on to selling vapes containing illegally produced synthetic pot. She was finally busted for selling vapes containing another synthetic in North Carolina. The vapes, sold under the Black Magic and Black Diamond labels, had sickened 40 people in the state, including high school students and military personnel. Thompson is facing federal drug trafficking charges that could land her in prison for 40 years. The important point here, which the AP story failed to mention, is that the authorities have hard evidence of the cause of vaping illnesses, and it involves neither CBD, nor THC, nor even nicotine, but illegal synthetic marijuana compounds known to be dangerous. That’s an important detail given that authorities in several states have already banned or are considering bans on vapes containing CBD and THC without any evidence that they contributed to the vape illnesses, which they almost certainly didn’t.

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