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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Should churches become unholy temples of dark money? 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Bernie’s foreign policy looking better every day 6 GUEST COLUMN: Don’t forget about NAFTA 9 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 28 ARTS & CULTURE: Ars Nova singers open season with the complete choral works of Maurice Duruflé 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 39 POETRY: by David Mason 40 SCREEN: ‘Battle of the sexes’ has unforced errors 41 FILM: CU’s IFS to host Lina Wertmüller retrospective 43 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in Boulder County this week 49 COMMUNITY TABLE: Samm White of Cheese Importers on the saving grace of the Westfalia in a monotonous world 52 DRINK: The battle against Big Beer rages on 57 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: A blunt message from an old stoner 59 CANNABIS CORNER: Marijuana and the geezer mouse 60 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 61 SAVAGE LOVE: It’s bad Boulder Weekly
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Highroad Should churches become unholy temples of dark money? by Jim Hightower
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ou know what’s wrong with American politics? It’s that there just aren’t enough ways for giant corporations and mega-rich political donors to funnel their big bucks into our elections and buy our government. At least that’s what Donald Trump, the Republican Party and a devious group of right-wing political pastors are saying. And, of course, they’ve got a diabolical fix for this “problem.” Their scheme is to turn tax-exempt, far-right churches into gushing sewers of political money, secretly channeling unlimited amounts of cash from corporations and right-wing extremists through the churches into the campaigns of politicians who’ll do their bidding. They don’t admit this, of course, instead wrapping their scheme in the pious rhetoric of religious freedom. Their point of
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attack is “The Johnson Amendment,” a 1954 law passed by LBJ that prohibits tax-exempt charities, including churches, from endorsing candidates, funding campaigns and directly engaging in politics. The Alliance Defending Freedom, an extremist Christian operation pushing repeal of Johnson’s amendment, asserts that banning churches from overt political campaigning let’s the IRS “tell pastors what they can and cannot preach.” Clever, but totally dishonest. First, the issue is not whether the government can tell church groups what to say (it can’t) — but whether taxpayers should subsidize a church group’s electioneering views and activities. Second (and most diabolical), repealing the Johnson ban would turn these churches into Holy Temples of Dark Money. Special-interest funders would rush to these political “charities,” not only because the churches would be super-secret SuperPACs — but churches are tax-exempt, meaning the donors would also be blessed with a tax deduction for their corrupting campaign contributions! Taxpayers would be underwriting the corruption of American politics. How ungodly is that? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 5 , 2017 5
the anderson files Bernie’s foreign policy looking better everyday by Dave Anderson
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ilmmaker Michael Moore says Trump “will take us to war.” He’s afraid that centrist liberals and the mainstream media will support him like they did when Bush invaded Iraq. “Liberals and Democrats,” he regrets, “often are afraid of being accused of being wimps or weak, weak-willed, not strong, not proAmerica. And so they’re so eager to just hop on, so nobody questions their patriotism.” If Moore is right, we are in trouble because there isn’t much of a peace movement anymore. The military industrial complex is stronger than ever. We are involved in several wars right now. The sprawling U.S. empire has more than 800 military bases in over 70 nations. U.S. Special Operations are being deployed in more than a hundred countries. The military is America’s most trusted public institution today. Paradoxically, anti-war feelings are also quite strong and the American people are receptive to a diplomatic and demilitarized foreign policy. When Obama negotiated the Iran nuclear deal and started to establish normal relations with Cuba, he was popular. The military has become much more clever about framing its story and filtering information. Bombings in America’s many wars are secret. Wars are funded by credit card. Americans don’t like soldiers to be killed so drones and private mercenaries are used. Daniel May argues in The Nation that the peace movement has a great deal of difficulty organizing people when there isn’t a big noticeable intervention like the Iraq War to oppose: “A D.C.-based network loosely gathered under the ‘peace and security’ label advances a diplomacy-first approach. The anti-war base organizes
against intervention. Talented organizers and very smart thinkers lead a variety of crucial institutions, but the constituency usually emerges as a political power only in opposition to large-scale interventions. There were and remain important exceptions to this trend: the anti-nuke movement and opposition to military involvement in Central America in the 1980s, and organizing against the Israeli occupation today. But over the past several decades, popular opposition to militarism has generally been confined to those moments that look like what we expect war to look like.” May wants a peace movement that emphasizes the economic, social and political costs to Americans of the gigantic military machine. He says, “we need a movement that can speak to the anger that so many Americans feel toward the corporate powers that dominate our politics. Such a movement would expose how militarism is not immune to that influence but is particularly beholden to it.” May says that younger activists in the new growing movements such as the Movement for Black Lives, for immigrant rights and against Islamophobia see their struggles as intertwined with a fight against militarism and empire. What kind of a foreign policy should progressives advocate? Sen. Bernie Sanders recently offered his views in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. “In my view, the United States must seek partnerships not just between governments, but between peoples,” he said. “A sensible and effective foreign policy recognizes that our safety and welfare is bound up with the safety and
“FOREIGN POLICY MUST
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE OUTRAGEOUS INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY THAT EXISTS GLOBALLY AND IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.” — SEN. BERNIE SANDERS
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guest column Don’t forget about NAFTA by Ken Bonetti
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y now it’s well understood that Trump will do anything to help corporations make money. The current effort to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) presents a perfect opportunity to do just that. Despite calls for transparency and public input, NAFTA talks are being conducted in secret with invited corporate “advisers” in attendance. The public is excluded. That is how we got this job-killing agreement in the first place. The administration’s official objectives for NAFTA are largely copied from Obama’s fast track authority playbook, which was designed to advance corporate interests and ramrod a larger more noxious trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), down our throats. The Trump plan is to load on a passel of new corporate advantages, perks and protections that were originally intended for the defeated TPP. Over 100 corporate organizations have chimed in, insisting that the most corporate-friendly features of NAFTA
be retained, particularly the InvestorState Dispute Settlement (ISDS) arbitration process. ISDS makes it much easier to outsource American jobs by empowering foreign corporations to sue countries in ad-hoc corporate “tribunals,” when a nation’s laws, regulations or court rulings reduce corporate profits, including “future expected profits.” Countries that lose such suits must either repeal the laws or pay unlimited compensation to the victorious corporations. There is no right of appeal. The tribunals can overrule domestic courts and even national constitutions. The threat of suits has a chilling effect on governments’ ability to serve and protect their citizens. Not only do NAFTA tribunals subvert democratic government, they enable corporations to avoid labor, public health and environmental accountability. The tribunals facilitate easy access to vulnerable and poorly protected workers in Mexico, where wages are
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NAFTA TRIBUNALS SUBVERT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT, THEY ENABLE CORPORATIONS TO AVOID LABOR, PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY.
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welfare of others around the world.” Sanders said, “Foreign policy must take into account the outrageous income and wealth inequality that exists globally and in our own country. ... There is no moral or economic justification for the six wealthiest people in the world having as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population — 3.7 billion people. There is no justification for the incredible power and dominance that Wall Street, giant multi-national corporations and international financial institutions have over the affairs of sovereign countries throughout the world.” Sanders denounced America’s war on terror, calling it a “disaster for the American people and for American leadership.” “In addition to draining our resources and distorting our vision, the war on terror has caused us to undermine our own moral standards regarding torture, indefinite detention and the use of force around the world,” Sanders said, “using drone strikes and other airstrikes that often result in high civilian casualties.” Sanders said he disagreed with those in Washington “who continue to argue that ‘benevolent global hegemony’ should be the goal of our foreign policy, that the U.S., by virtue of its extraordinary military power, should stand astride the world and reshape it to its liking. I would argue that the events of the past two decades — particularly the disastrous Iraq War and
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the instability and destruction it has brought to the region — have utterly discredited that vision. “The goal is not for the United States to dominate the world,” he said. “Nor, on the other hand, is our goal to withdraw from the international community and shirk our responsibilities under the banner of ‘America First.’ Our goal should be global engagement based on partnership, rather than dominance.” However, he warned that “Far too often, American intervention and the use of American military power has produced unintended consequences which have caused incalculable harm.” He cited the CIA coups in Iran (1953) and Chile (1973) against democratically elected governments, which led to enormous suffering. He asked, “What would Iran look like today if their democratic government had not been overthrown? What impact did that American-led coup have on the entire region? What consequences are we still living with today?” He proposed American intervention in the global South similar to the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II. He praised the Iran nuclear deal and said the U.S. should work with the U.N. Bernie’s ideas are so sensible that they might catch on. After all, he played a big role in shifting our domestic politics to the left. Perhaps he can do that with foreign policy as well. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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one-sixth of those in the U.S. Sidebars belatedly written into NAFTA, supposedly protecting workers and the environment, have never been enforced. Instead, hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid out by governments that lose suits trying to provide those very same protections. The tribunal system is the central problem with NAFTA, but certainly not the only one. U.S. Drug patent laws are notorious for creating longterm drug monopolies that charge outrageous prices, often to the detriment of millions here and around the world. Trump wants NAFTA to enforce harsh patent provisions that could eventually eliminate affordable medicines, including generic drugs. The tribunals will be key to making this happen.
Ultimately, NAFTA will come before Congress for an up-or-down vote. Our representatives will be the only ones who can stop a bad agreement. There are fairer, more democratic methods to facilitate international trade. Our representatives should support those. We need to hear what Congressman Polis thinks a good trade deal looks like. His vote could be critical to what emerges in the end. We need to hear what Mr. Polis thinks about the tribunals. Give Mr. Polis a call at 303-484-9596 or 970-226-1239 and ask where he stands on NAFTA, the tribunals and drug patents. We need to know. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
letters Cyclists must take better caution
The article “Crash Course” [Re: News, Sept. 28] omits some issues relevant to bicycle riders’ safety in Boulder. A significant fraction of bicycle riders — and not just a few “bad apples” — simply and flagrantly ignore the laws, riding the wrong way on one-way streets, etc. Boulder has long prohibited riding bicycles on sidewalks in the downtown Boulder business district, but the law is largely unknown, not advertised and never enforced. Maybe the law doesn’t even exist anymore. A few years ago I questioned two Boulder police officers who were themselves riding bicycles in the mall; they were aware of the law but told me they had no interest in enforcing it. Boulder bicyclists ought to realize that there are many drivers here from out-of-town or out-of-state where laws often require that bicyclists obey motor vehicle laws when they are on their bikes and obey laws pertaining to pedestrians when they are not (riding on special bike paths excepted). I couldn’t find the law mentioned in the article, that it is OK for a bicyclist to ride across a pedestrian crossing at up to 8 mph. Whether it is legal or not, it is stupid to do so when such practice is totally unexpected by most drivers. It is true that Colorado bike laws are less rigorous than in many other states and communities. They should be changed to better conform to the sensible laws most Americans are familiar with. Whether laws are changed or not, if Boulder bicyclists want to be safe, they should obey motor vehicle laws when riding bicycles on or across roadways and they should walk their bicycles across crosswalks... or at least ride at an urban walking speed of 2 mph. Clark R. Chapman/Nederland
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Is Vivitrol really the best chance to end addiction?
by Kevin Beck
ften misconstrued and exorbitantly priced, Vivitrol stands at the forefront of the pharmacological effort to fight drugs with drugs. Assessing its effectiveness means sifting through competing claims from the manufacturer, patients, clinicians and the generally accepted model of recovery itself. Standing in a small restroom in a building across the parking lot from the Boulder County Jail, Robert, a robust man in his fifties, lowers his jeans a few inches in the back so that a nurse practitioner can access the meat of his right buttock. “Little pinch,” she advises, but she doesn’t really have to; Robert has been through this process several times already, usually with this same provider. And while he doubts the drug’s direct effects on his system, it’s getting him other things he values: a place to stay at the local homeless shelter, a weekly therapy group to attend and food. Vivitrol, manufactured by Irelandbased Alkermes Pharmaceuticals, is a once-a-month injectable form of the opioid-receptor antagonist naltrexone that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006 for the treatment of alcohol abuse. It seems odd that not until four years later was this opioidblocker approved to treat opioid addiction as well, but oddities are hardly unusual where the business of pushing pharmaceuticals meets the business and science of practicing medicine. The cost of a shot of Vivitrol varies across the country and depends on who is administering it, but is in the ballpark of $1,000. With the Affordable Care Act’s provisions becoming reality in January 2014, and with Colorado embracing the attendant Medicaid expansion, a significant number of low-income and homeless Coloradans with long-standing substanceabuse problems acquired health insurance that would pay for the shot. Throughout a 15-year-long, societysearing rise in opioid addiction nation-
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wide, Vivitrol’s use among clinicians for both alcohol and opioids has continued to spread despite a decade of statistically equivocal results — and no real promise of landslide effects to start with. A 2013 article in The Fix pointed out that despite fewer than 1 in 10 heavy drinkers who received Vivitrol in a 2005 clinical trial remaining abstinent from alcohol throughout the six-month trial, and perhaps 1 in 5 people seeing any benefit from the drug, the FDA okayed a label promoting Vivitrol as an abstinence-enhancer, thereby seemingly touting unproven beneficial effects and largely ignoring proven ones such as basic harm reduction (more on this below). A 2015 article in the Washington Post noted that some 40 jails across the U.S. had begun using Vivitrol on opioidaddicted inmates, with positive results. Of course, it was unclear how well these results would translate to post-release sobriety, especially absent other forms of treatment such as therapy and recovery meetings. Then, in June 2017, the New York Times ran a story suggesting that Alkermes, the U.S. headquarters of which is outside Boston, is capitalizing on the opioid crisis and the company’s “shrewd use of political connections” to boost Vivitrol sales and use “despite scant science to prove the drug’s efficacy.” (The irony of a drug company perhaps profiting unethically from another’s unethical product, in this case OxyContin, is presumably selfevident.) Weeks later, the investigative news website ProPublica, echoing elements of the Times’ reporting, noted that Vivitrol’s booming sales were owed in large part to Alkermes’ skirting of typical sales channels; it had, for example, staged clinical trials in Russia and evaded the obstacle of skeptical physicians by focusing its marketing efforts on drug courts, where recipients exert less freedom in certain medical decisions — a kind way of saying that for
many of them, it’s Vivitrol or jail. This alliance with the justice system has helped push the number of people getting Vivitrol nationwide to about 30,000 a month; in the first quarter of 2017, sales of the drug totaled $58 million, a 33 percent increase over 2016. Meanwhile, some Vivitrol users swear by it. Michelle Goranson of Lyons abused alcohol for more than 20 years before her family cajoled her into detox in October 2014. After starting Vivitrol within the week, she stayed on it for 16 months, and is now almost three years clean. Goranson admits that she is a rarity; as far as she knows, no one else in her original cohort of Vivitrol recipients — all of whom are expected to attend a weekly Vivitrol meeting at the detox, which also provides their shots along with pizza and calzones from Black Jack’s — is still sober. She now keeps an oral form of naltrexone on hand for what she calls “risky situations.” People inhabiting the world of substance-abuse treatment and recovery seem divided into those who have never heard of Vivitrol (a shrinking group) and those who have strong opinions about it. Those in the latter category have conflicting views about it, shaped, in some cases, at least as much by their expectations as by their experiences.
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red Michel, M.D. is a psychiatrist by training and the medical director of Mental Health Partners (MHP), the nonprofit that provides mental-health and substance-abuse treatment to residents of Boulder and Broomfield counties. MHP is an ambitious organization, having added the Ryan Wellness Center on Alpine Avenue and a 24/7 walk-in crisis center since the end of 2014. At the beginning of 2015, MHP took over the administration of the detox from the Addiction Recovery Center (ARC). Talk to people who have Boulder Weekly
gotten therapy or services from MHP providers, and you’ll almost certainly hear praise for the outfit’s efforts. MHP now administers about 50 doses of Vivitrol a month, according to Ann Noonan, director of MHP’s Substance Use Disorder Center of Excellence and formerly the director of ARC. Most of the clients are Medicaid recipients who are recruited to the Vivitrol program — and often to Medicaid itself — because of repeatedly landing in detox for alcohol intoxication. The typical length of treatment through MHP, she says, is six to nine months. According to Noonan, Todd Dorfman, an emergency medicine physician at Boulder Community Health, had grown frustrated over the number of emergency admissions for alcohol intoxication involving a comparatively small number of people, some of whom were landing in the hospital dozens of times a year. Dorfman did some research and uncovered Vivitrol, and advanced the idea of using it to those in charge of ARC, including Noonan. Thus Boulder scrambled aboard the Vivitrol train relatively early in its journey around the country’s mental-health delivery system. Today, detox workers dispense literature on Vivitrol to clients identified as likely to be chronic alcohol abusers, such as those who end up in the detox repeatedly. Along with these handouts, clients receive the assurance that Vivitrol may ease or even eradicate alcohol cravings. Once a client agrees, and has Medicaid, the path to the shot is straightforward, and may take less than a week, although most people who leave the detox before getting the shot never return for their maiden dose.
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heavily,” he says. “A harm reduction hypothesis is in play for both scenarios.” But these endorsements by responsible doctors stop notably short of what those in Vivitrol’s parent company would clearly prefer people to think. Alkermes is no different from other drug companies in both wanting to profit from its investment and making strategic use of numbers to maximize Vivitrol’s apparent effectiveness, and it is not difficult to play games with the data to present a rosier-than-reality picture without lying outright. For example, from the results of the same clinical trial in 2005 that led to Vivitrol’s approval for alcohol deterrence, from which The Fix drew its aforementioned conclusions: “Neither the rate of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism risky drinking nor the rate of any drinking was significantly lower with either dose of long-acting naltrexone.” Translation: In this study, Vivitrol didn’t foster abstinence from drinking, and when problem drinkers on Vivitrol drank, they drank as recklessly, by NIAAA criteria, as they would have without the shot. On its website, Alkermes notes that people who had already stopped drinking for a week before getting their first Vivitrol injection were more likely to subsequently stay abstinent, drink less and have fewer days of drinking than people who started Vivitrol with no cessation of drinking — especially compared to those who went on to receive the placebo. This, however, may merely reflect the effects of a higher overall commitment to sobriety. And the results of study at the University of Pennsylvania reported in 2013 revealed that over an eight-week period, 10.3 percent of people on Vivitrol (4 of 39) reported days of abstinence from drinking, compared to 17.1 percent who were on a placebo. That’s a statistically significant difference — in precisely the wrong direction. So how did a drug that generally fails to promote abstinence, but may put a dent in
art of the reason for the controversy of Vivitrol is that it was never supposed to be any more a panacea than it has proven to be, and is not embraced as a quantum leap in addiction treatment by those in the know. Someone coming up with a drug capable of eliminating cravings for mood-altering, physically addictive substances is about as likely at this stage of medical science as someone producing a pill that can prevent all forms of cancer. But this doesn’t mean that useful treatments for addiction and cancer don’t exist. Putting the brakes on magical claims is, then, not only helpful but necessary; it’s the only way that humbler, still helpful ones can be better appreciated. “One of the mistakes we’ve made,” says Noonan, who has worked in the addiction field since the 1980s, “is saying that you’re either a cucumber or a pickle.” That is, people have been slotted into basic on-off categories when it comes to substance use: either they’re alcoholics or they’re not. As a counterexample, Noonan notes the archetypal daily drinker who never misses a day of work or gets in any trouble despite knocking back a six-pack a night. After years of this, such a drinker may have avoided psychosocial problems, but is likely to have suffered organ damage thanks to his or her sheer lifetime exposure to ethanol. Such people might be ideal candidates for a drug that helps them drink less, even if it doesn’t lead them to stop altogether. Apart from the court system, Vivitrol’s burgeoning success relies largely on gardenvariety ignorance much of it within the anti-substance-abuse trenches. Unlike career health professionals such as Michel and Noonan, most everyday professional shepherds of recovery, including those who staff the Boulder detox, lack the critical background to even detect, much less oppose, misleading claims in the lengthy provider information packets that drug companies publish, and are generally not aware of what is actually contained in the studies on which this information is based. By the same token, most people who land in the detox do not have the wherewithal or the desire to explore their own skepticism about Vivitrol. But one man who, in his words, “Gave the stuff a fair
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shake for four months” a year ago was asked by an MHP employee not to discuss what he had read about Vivitrol on the internet with detox clients while he attended open-to-thepublic recovery meetings at the facility. The reason? He might discourage people from getting the shot. This same employee, however, reportedly could not describe Vivitrol’s clinical mechanism of action or provide even circumstantial evidence that it actually worked. “They do give clients the stuff [i.e., Vivitrol brochures],” says the man, who now says that therapy and steady employment have helped keep him sober for five months. “But no one bothers to read it and no one understands that language.” Yet for all MHP’s laudable enthusiasm for getting people on Vivitrol, it is extraordinarily difficult to objectively assess how the program is serving individuals or the community. Even when people have a stable living environment and a phone, it can be hard to keep in touch with them to see how they’re faring. If people getting the shot simply stop showing up at the weekly Vivitrol meeting at the detox, the leaders of those groups have little recourse but to hope for the best while assuming the worst.
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o how has a very expensive drug that may be marginally effective gained a reputation as a veritable savior in some treatment circles? It is clearly not because medical professionals don’t know what they’re talking about, or, in the case of MHP, not because they lack a strong motivation to help people in every possible way. Aggressive, shotgun-style, opportunistic marketing and the drug manufacturer’s careful cultivation of an erroneous perception seem to be a big part of the mix. Alkermes has never claimed that people won’t want to drink if they take Vivitrol. But they are keenly aware that this is how a lot of nonclinical professionals in the substance-abusetreatment sector understand and present the medication, and the company is unlikely to change a strategy that has gained it enormous and ever-rising profits. Critically, however, to judge Vivitrol’s efficacy requires a close and honest look at the very definition of success. The categorical, ongoing avoidance of alcohol and other drugs is vital to most self-described addicts, and represents the stated ideal for most. But when people fail to achieve abstinence the first time they try, or the second, or the 10th, they often give up. This is understandable; for decades, the only real measure of truly kicking a drinking problem has been kicking it completely, because the primary voice of recovery has been 12-step groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve-step meetings are abstinencecentric, as they surely should be. But when people relapse and drink, A.A.’s offering 12 October 5, 2017
them a “white chip,” meant in the best of faith, effectively sends them back to the zero point on the game board of recovery, whether they relapsed after 30 days of sobriety or 30 years. A lot of people, from addicts to judges to medical professionals, are therefore conditioned to view sobriety as an all-ornone phenomenon, and to dismiss statistically meaningful but imperfect assets such as Vivitrol as worthless. As Michel, Noonan and Lee emphasize, some effect is better than no effect. And as expensive as a shot of Vivitrol is, so are a lot of other formal treatments — probably most of them. The $1,000 price tag of Vivitrol may not even buy a single day in inpatient treatment, which is not covered by Medicaid. It is true as well that with a problem that routinely shatters lives and ends them outright, as does substance abuse, it is worth investing a good amount of money and labor to produce some effect, even if that effect does not appear profound or reduce to a neat column of data. Noonan says that as soon as Dorfman’s Vivitrol suggestion was implemented, “We saw amazing results” in terms of how often familiar names were being seen in the ER for acute intoxication. Even if most of them didn’t sober up outright, they were perhaps drinking less, and as a result, placing themselves in less danger of freezing to death and keeping themselves further from mortal harm. If there is one thing everyone seems to agree on, it is that almost no one with a serious and long-standing substance abuse disorder is likely to achieve lasting sobriety through a single intervention. Some blend of individual and group counseling, sobriety meetings, medication and other psychosocial support modalities is almost always in the equation. Goranson from Lyons, who struggles with a mood disorder but maintains an unrelenting proactive stance in seeking the right medication, says: “Vivitrol is not the wonder shot. It is not going to work unless you do everything that goes along with being sober.” She says that her success on the medication was not in fact predicated on the idea that it was a wonder drug. “It gave me the chance to not take the first drink,” she says. “But it’s not the reason, by itself, that I am sober now.” Asked what she would tell a prospective Vivitrol client, she says, “I would tell them it’s an aid, not a solution. It’s a tool, one of many.” Some chronic drinkers, notes Noonan, are not ideal candidates for insight-oriented psychotherapy because of the neurological damage from years of drinking. For these types, Vivitrol might be the one of the last lines of defense against lethal drinking. And in the end, MHP is interested not in how much Vivitrol bolsters its bottom line, but in saving as many lives as available means and funding allow.
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altrexone is a competitive inhibitor of opioid drugs, binding to the same receptors as heroin, morphine and other prescription painkillers (narcotics) without activating them. (Think of the pharmacological equivalent of sticking chewing gum in a lock; you won’t get past the door, but neither will anyone who has a key.) Oral naltrexone has been in circulation since 1984. Vivitrol was conceived as an alternative to the oral form for a simple reason: it would obviate patient compliance issues. For one thing, because it is administered in a clinical setting, the prescribing agency has a record of who received doses and when. Also, people can simply not take (or vomit up) pills that need be taken at least once daily to ensure a therapeutic blood level, or take them for a while but slack off; almost everyone has been medicationnoncompliant at some point. But once a bolus of naltrexone has been shot into your butt muscle, it will gradually find its way into your bloodstream over the ensuing days and weeks, and if you wish to evict it, there’s nothing you can do besides wait for your body to metabolize the dose. The potential of such drugs to limit opioid abuse is obvious; in theory, people won’t shoot up or drink if they don’t believe they will feel any positive effects. But the potential drawbacks are just as clear. Natural opioids (endorphins) also activate the affected receptors, producing a natural painkilling effect as well as some of the euphoria associated with pleasurable activities such as exercise and sex. Correspondingly, the reason Vivitrol is offered to alcohol abusers as well as opioid addicts is that alcohol may exert some of its pleasure-inducing effect through direct and indirect effects on opioid receptors, at least in some people. But no one wants to think that he’s possibly living his days without the ability to fully enjoy perfectly licit pleasures, too. Boulder Weekly
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wildlife with any leghold trap, any instant kill body-gripping design trap, or by poison or snare in the state of Colorado. That’s because these now illegal activities often resulted in the same thing: a killed wild animal. And the intention of this prohibition, relative to CPW’s plans, can be ascertained by examining the activities it bans. As such, leghold traps and snares are included in the prohibition, both of which may be non-lethal in and of themselves, but are included in the ban nonetheless. Which is to say, they are banned from use precisely when they are employed as a part of a process intended to kill a wild animal, which is exactly what CPW’s plans, as approved by the CPW commission, call for. And the exemption from this ban dealing with scientific research makes no mention of allowing such killing. WEG argues that this suite of research exemptions is uniformly non-lethal, which appears to refute CPW’s argument, along with their plans. And in its brief, in the context of the Piceance plan, CPW attempts to refute WEG’s allegations that CPW’s plans violate the 1996 trapping ban and its implementing legislation, by arguing Amendment 14, “clearly and unequivocally states that it ‘shall not apply to the taking of wildlife with firearms, fishing equipment, archery equipment, or other implements in hand as authorized by law.’” However, in the context of the trapping ban, this statement appears to be saying the trapping ban doesn’t prohibit killing lions or bears with hand-held weapons in the act of legal hunting, but in killing those same wild animals in the act of illegal trapping or snaring. This apparent discrepancy may explain why CPW goes to great lengths in its brief addressing the Upper Arkansas River plan, which would use non-lethal snares, stating no lions captured in non-lethal snares will be killed. But that is not true of the Piceance plan. On Oct. 2, WEG filed its final brief in the lawsuit, reiterating and bolstering their aforementioned arguments, attempting to rebuff CPW’s responses, and reaffirming the request to the court to vacate CPW’s predator control plans. The one thing that appears certain: The ruling of this court may set a legal precedent for the future in either allowing or disallowing for the killing of trapped or snared bears and lions in the spring and summer as a means of predator control by CPW. And the photos interwoven with this article attest to the realities of how this potential future would likely look. October 5, 2017 15
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“It’s important to be active and do something,” he says. “You can do all the reports, but you need to do something about it.” Ever since, the tax has allowed the City to continue adding new pieces of land to the greenbelt. By 1973, advocates pushed for a separate department (Open Space and Mountain Parks) focused on purchasing and maintaining natural land, and voters have passed extensions on the tax periodically throughout the decades, most recently in 2013. With these funds, the City has acquired more than 400 properties, totaling the 45,000 acres it manages today. Currently, the greenbelt hosts both recreational and agricultural areas with regulations prioritizing the health of the ecosystems. While the open space program thrives from the continued support of Boulder residents, it suffers challenges from population growth in and around the city. As more and more people use open space, the demand for new recreational opportunities grows. “Things were going on pretty well, but more pressure started five years ago in the recreational community,” Wright says. “It’s been more intense recreation, and if it does damage to our precious lands... that’s the major threat that I see.” Recent data shows that Boulder’s population
On 50th anniversary, founders of Boulder’s open space program look to the future by Sydney Worth gave Boulder one of its first pieces of protected land. By 1967, PLAN had garnered even more support, and citizens passed the sales tax allocating money for land acquisition. Hence the City’s open space program was born. Oakleigh Thorne, another founder of the program, made a significant contribution to the sales tax campaign through his re-publishing of the Olmsted Report. Written around 1920 by Fredrick Olmsted Jr., the document advocated for a greenbelt around Boulder and provided a basis for the creation of the Open Space program. “We should point out that this man thought of this back in 1920,” Thorne says. But it still took decades for the City to implement Olmsted’s suggestions.
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ith the first major storm leaving the high peaks west of Boulder coated in winter’s white, and with season pass sales and preseason gear swaps in full swing, it’s time to wax up the skis and snowboards and turn our attention to sliding down snow-covered mountains for another season. And, once you’ve waxed ’em up, there’s no better way to get in the correct mindset for the winter ahead than indulging in the annual ritual of the ski film. While there will be plenty of options to choose from over the next month, this year’s highlight is Rogue Elements, the latest release from Jackson, Wyoming-based Teton Gravity Research (TGR). Featuring segments from Europe, South America and across the Rocky Mountain West, TGR’s latest installment, presented by REI and supported by Jackson Hole, The North Face, 10 Barrel Brewing, Atomic, Volkl and others, captures powerful forces of nature, with epic storms and intense blizzards complemented by in-your-face action. With the movie’s Boulder premier scheduled for two showings on Thursday, Oct. 5 at the Boulder Theater, supplemented by the addition of a TGR WhiSKI Series on Friday at eTown, — which pairs the film with a VIP High West distillery tasting session and a Q&A with longtime TGR editor Blake Campbell — Boulder Weekly caught up with TGR tour manager Mark Behrendt to learn more:
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BW: What are you looking forward to when you visit Boulder? MB: Boulder is always one of the most fun crowds on our tour — while both shows typically sell out, it’s awesome seeing all of the kids at the early BW: Final words? show, coming to meet the athletes and MB: See you in Boulder! And don’t getting excited with their parents. And wait to get your tickets as we are expectthen the late show takes it up a notch ing both shows to sell out again this year! with the party vibe. It’s definitely one of the most vibrant audiences on our tour, Can’t catch Thursday night’s movie plus coming to Boulder is always a at the Boulder Theater? Don’t worry, perk; maybe we’ll be there’s plenty on the able to sneak out to calendar when it the bike park for a comes to getting your ON THE BILL: Teton few laps before the ski and snowboard Gravity Research’s Rogue Elements. 6:45 p.m. and 9:15 show. This year, we stoke on. p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, Boulder are even more excited TGR WhiSKI Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. For more information because of the addiSeries, Friday, Oct. 6, visit tetongravity.com/tours tion of the TGR eTown Hall. WhiSKI Series, This VIP event where we are pairing hosted by eTown feaa High West whiskey tasting with our tures a High West distillery tasting and film in a more exclusive setting — that Q&A at 7 p.m. and a private showing of Teton Gravity Research’s Rogue event takes place on Friday night at eTown. In addition to the whiskey tast- Elements at 8 p.m. Tickets are $60 and include the tasting, swag bags, lift ticket ing, there will be a Q&A with our offers and more. Info: tetongravity.com/ longtime editor, Blake Campbell, plus tours. swag bags for all attendees including Drop Everything, MSP Films, Yeti tumblers, a souvenir WhiSKI Wednesday, Oct. 18, Boulder Theater. Series whiskey glass, Crested Butte lift Filmmakers at Crested Butte’s MSP tickets and more. filmhouse will showcase their latest release at a Wednesday night event hosted at the BW: What can people expect when Boulder Theater. Info: skimovie.com/tour-2. they come to the show? Swag? Prizes? Line of Descent, Warren Miller Poster signings? What other surprises Productions, Thursday, Nov. 9, do you have in store? Boulder Theater. MB: There will be a ton of prizes Boulder’s very own Warren Miller from our partners — REI gift cards, skis from Atomic and Volkl, a custom TGR/ opens up a four-night stand at the Rogue Elements shotzski, jackets, TGR Boulder Theater. Info: skinet.com/ swag and more. Plus, everyone in atten- warrenmiller/film-tour. Boulder Weekly
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buzz The ambassadors of Mexico Cafe Tacvba brings hope stateside
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t around 11 a.m. local time on Sept. 19, residents of Mexico City methodically filed out of office buildings, homes and restaurants — wherever they happened to be. But it wasn’t just happening in the capitol; orderly evacuations took place around the country, in nearly all 31 states. The simulacrum is part memorial, part training. For 13 years, Mexico’s held this national earthquake drill on Sept. 19, the day 32 years ago when an 8.1 magnitude quake pitched Mexico City into one of the country’s greatest natural disasters, leaving nearly 10,000 people dead (other estimates skew much higher), 30,000 injured and thousands more homeless. What no one knew as they filed out into the sunlight was that in just two hours, history would repeat itself. In the United States, Cafe Tacvba bassist Enrique “Quique” Rangel and his three bandmates were in Marfa, Texas, preparing for a show in Dallas the next day. The beloved Mexican rock band had recently embarked on their longest tour of the U.S. in the band’s 27-year history. The news of the earthquake came immediately. Guitarist Emmanuel del Real was on the phone with his wife when she told him the floor of their home was shaking. After the earth settled, the band was relieved to find their loved ones unharmed, but they knew many Mexicans were just starting a journey of grief. “I know that Mexico City will be another city than the one I left,” Rangel says over the phone from Boston on Oct. 3. “It’s one of the strangest feelings.” Rangel muses for a moment on the universality of this feeling which exists for Mexicans living in the U.S., no matter where they’re from in Mexico; they’re removed from their native land, far away from their families, from their roots, from the soothing saturation of familiar culture. The realities of life have pushed them here — widespread violence from cartels, deepseated governmental corruption, extreme poverty. Like they say: You can’t go home again. “It’s a difficult time for Mexicans living in the States,” Rangel says. “The life that they
have decided to grow here — working — some of them are not very safe in the future they have envisioned, but they are still here. Our music is linked to their past and their roots and it gives them hope and happiness. “These things that you cannot be prepared for, like an earthquake, and the way some of the causalities that have happened in Mexico City, in Morales and Puebla, have empowered the vision of being Mexican and having a link to that culture. Maybe you can only enjoy music if you want, but music is also a way to embrace Courtesy of Cafe Tacvba
our culture and to give hope.” Cafe Tacvba (tah-coo-ba, named after a famous coffeehouse in the band’s old stomping grounds in Mexico City, the ‘u’ turned into a ‘v’ to avoid legal problems) has almost always been emblematic of the past, drawing heavily from Mexico’s rich folklore. They reshaped the landscape of Mexican music — of Latin American music in general — in the early ’90s with a reimagined approach to rock en español. Since the late 1950s, the genre had done little more than dress Western rock sounds with Spanish vocals. But Cafe turned to Mexico’s ancient history for inspiration, both melodically and lyrically. They shunned the notion that rock music had a formula, or that a band should adhere to a standard sound. Their only standard was a devotion to Mexico, and, while it may be a less tangible piece of their success, their accessible personalities have endeared them to Spanish-speakers the world over. see CAFE TACVBA Page 26
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For Cafe, rock ‘n’ roll demands moveRangel says. “Sometimes the best way ment against the grain, a clear defiance of to question the big themes in life is preconceived notions and expectations. playing around them.” They built an empire on a catalog While the album isn’t inherently so eclectic it truly defies categorization. political, it’s not without an index finFor Americans, the best comparisons ger pointed at the widespread corrupmight be indie darlings with cult-like tion of the Mexican government. In followings like Beck, Ween or The fact, that’s just how the album kicks off Aquabats (though without the parody). with the sugar-pop of “1-2-3.” Their breakthrough album, 1994’s “1-2-3, cuéntalos bien y si sigues tal Re, was an exercise in unmitigated vez llegues a 43 (Count them well, and if experimentation. The lead track, “El you do you might reach 43),” an allusion Aparato” (“The Apparatus”), tells a story to the 2014 kidnapping of 43 students of YouTube screenshot of an alien abducthe Ayotzinapa tion. The song Rural Teacher’s switches effortlessly College in Iguala, from playful melodGuerrero. The stuicism using an ocadents — all activists rina (a clay flute hoping to reach a used by Mayans) to demonstration the somber bridges. following day — Traditional sounds were intercepted by blend with a conlocal police and temporary story of a man never seen again. It’s burned, blinded, hospitalbelieved they were turned ized and unable to over to a local gang who ON THE BILL: Cafe recount what happened, burned their bodies and Tacvba — with Flor De Toloache. 8 p.m. and it feels like a nod to dumped the remains in a Monday, Oct. 9, Ogden Mexico’s ancient history river. Only two bodies Theatre, 935 E. Colfax with the otherworldly, have been found to date. Ave., Denver. Tickets are $39.95, $45 at the door. from the Mayan civilizaMany believe the covtion’s storied connection er-up reaches the highest echelons of the Mexican to the extraterrestrial to government, and the tragthe first-ever reported edy remains a dark stain on the adminisalien abduction that supposedly haptration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. pened to a Mexican cab driver in 1953. “I think this is a good time to reconFrom there, Re dives deep into punk sider something: We don’t trust the govrock and cumbia, mariachi and ranchera, ernment with our lives,” Rangel says. “I traversing subject matter as disparate as gay love on the dance floor, Mexico City’s don’t see why we can trust them in the institutions they have built, in the politisubway culture and the neverending jourcal parties that they have. ney a lover makes to be with his beloved. “It’s easy to forget our government It is consistently named one of the best has a stain on their administration; Latin American albums of all time. they can trust that time is going to Their eighth studio album and erase what they did. And suddenly, newest release, Jei Beibi (“Hey Baby,” a something they did wrong is going to linguistic way Cafe found to yet again be covered with dust and lies. Our break the rules), is a testament to the intention with making a statement in a band’s dedication to reinvention. No pop song is to try to sneak that two songs sound alike. [reminder] into the popular culture. If A prime example is the first single, we can sneak that idea into pop cul“Futuro,” a song Rangel penned. ture, then we are going to preserve “This is a philosophical cumbia, the that humiliation and that wound won’t questioning of life by a single person,” he be closed and there’s something more says. “Yo dije que sí/Ella dijo no/Al final to fight back against. I don’t know if we are able to achieve that, but at least no importa, es algo que dios ya decidió we think that people have to keep that (I said yes/She said no/In the end it in mind, somewhere in their minds, in doesn’t matter, it’s something God the collective unconscious.” already decided).” In the face of all this pain, this loss, Hope, Rangel says, exists only “in is there hope? the here and now.” “I change from day to day,” Rangel “El futuro es hoy” — the future is today. says. “These are hard times for me. The video is playful, featuring creepy I’m dialectic; I have hope. I hope my yet sexy versions of Pope Francis, music can help to change the things I Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto don’t want my daughter to live and Donald Trump wearing a miniskirt. through.” “These are very obscure times,” Boulder Weekly
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Looking at time
M. Ward’s thoughts on birthdays, life and death by Sarah Haas
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ne late night last year M. Ward found himself sitting in a smoky blues club watching Chuck Berry perform on the stage. In between songs, Berry walked out into the audience and reached out to pick up a newborn baby and, with the infant in his arms, he began to sing, “everything is old in the world except for the baby.” M. Ward turned Courtesy of M. Ward this moment into the song “Little Baby,” included on his latest album from 2016, More Rain. It goes: “And nothing’s sun isn’t seen/ Except for the baby Little baby, ah little baby/And I say child, be my teacher/ Would ya’ could ya’ baby yeah/ Little baby, ah little baby/And everyone is too big to cry/ Except for the baby/Little baby, ah little baby/And everyone knows how to lie/ Except for the baby/ Little baby, ah little baby... “So I said talk to me baby, talk to me baby, talk to me baby, talk to me baby, tell me everything’s alright.” These days, and this week in particular, it’s hard to not think about music without also confronting our own mortality — whether it’s festivals penetrated by the murderous spray of bullets or the death of musical idols like Tom Petty. It isn’t just the material of music that’s housing our biggest questions and fears, but the phenomenon of music’s indelible relationship with the arc of our lives throughout history. When I spoke with Ward two weeks ago, we didn’t know of the events to come and found ourselves talking instead about his then upcoming birthday on Oct. 4. “Forty-three going on 44, or something like that.” I’d caught Ward suspended in a moment of reflection. His birthday brought him to thinking about the patience he has learned over
the years, with respect both to dealing with life’s endless churning and also to music-making itself. It’s not that he was ever impatient (listen to the cadence and tone of his voice for just a few seconds and this is readily apparent). It’s more that Ward used to react to the world and now he finds himself yielding instead. “I notice that these days I allow things to mature on their own as opposed to trying to force a square peg
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mementos, pulling out the bits that catch his attention and using them as fodder for his songs. Lately he’s been back at work on a new album, the shape of which is yet to be determined. So, instead of sculpting it arbitrarily, he headed back to a place that would naturally lend it form: in his attic studio, the one that he built for himself back in 2003 to record Transfiguration of Vincent, an early work that was raw and personal. Although the process of songwriting is always somewhat mysterious, Ward grounds it in an analog methodology. He does it inch-by-inch, recording directly onto tape that he’ll later go back and rework, digging around for nuggets he likes best and bringing them to the surface. Of course, recording this way comes with technical constraints, ones that Ward says “forces you to leave the string section at home.” But it’s worth it to him because it forces him into a sparseness that calls upon the patience he has learned. The result is Ward’s characteristic sound, as spooky as it is nostalgic. It’s a sound that’s not just familiar to his fans, but to all of us, reminiscent as it is of the sound of our thoughts as they bounce and echo inside of our heads. “Both happiness and sadness are great windows into the dark side of life and the bright side of life,” Ward says. “I think the deeper you can get into those emotions the more images you have to play with and then, and only then, you can build a direct relationship to major chords and minor chords and sevenths and all the variations in between. “All of it, the evil and the good, life and death, gets to exist within one song. That’s what keeps me interested in music and what, even at 43 going on 44, keeps me making records.”
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f Monet’s paintings were music, they would be the choral works of Maurice Duruflé. That’s the view of Thomas Edward Morgan, director of Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers, who open their season Oct. 6 and 7 in Denver and Boulder with an all-Duruflé program, featuring the composer’s entire output for chorus. “Our mailing for this [concert] used a Monet painting of Rouen Cathedral,” Morgan says. “Duruflé was a choir boy at that cathedral, and [his music] is as close as we get in the musical world to how Monet was seeing the world.” Duruflé’s name is probably better known to choral singers than to the general public, largely because his music is very rewarding to sing, but there’s not very much of it. “He was a perfectionist,” Morgan says. “He didn’t release very much material, but all of what he did is just extremely well crafted, and a joy to do.” The anchor of the program will be Duruflé’s best known work, his Requiem, composed in the 1940s. The other choral works on the program are a set of four motets, composed in 1950; the Cum jubilo Mass of 1960, for male choir and organ; and Notre Père (Our Father), an a capella work composed in 1977. In addition to his few choral works, Duruflé, who was regarded as the greatBoulder Weekly
est organist of his generation, wrote a Morgan gives several reasons for number of virtuoso organ pieces. performing Duruflé at this time. “It’s a Organist Joyce Krull will perform his good way to start a season,” he says. “It Variations on the hymn Veni Creator has a broader public appeal and can Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), with draw people in, and there’s a lot of good women from the choir singing the versvocal things for ensembles to focus on es of the original chant between variaat the beginning of the year. tions. Organist Brian de Fresne will play “So much of it is based on chant, the Fugue on the Theme of the Carillon [and] having a choir that can focus on of the Cathedral of Soissons. the forward and backward motion of Although Duruflé chant and how to do lived in the 20th centuthat together is just a ry, his works were never really good ensemble ON THE BILL: what we would call exercise at the beginning Maurice Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works. “modern music.” That is of the year. And the 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, St. partly due to his trainmotets especially require Paul Community of Faith, ing at Rouen Cathedral, precision, both in attacks 1600 Grant St., Denver; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, where he sang the and in the section St. John’s Episcopal Medieval and sound. Building those Church, 1419 Pine St., Renaissance music of musical aspects of the Boulder. Tickets and information: 303-499-3165 the Catholic Church. ensemble is helpful for Consequently, his music the whole year.” is permeated with the With such a restrained and flowing style of restrained aesthetic, Duruflé’s music does Gregorian chant. Or as Morgan explains not have the overt drama of music from it, “Duruflé intermingles so much of the the 19th and 20th centuries. The Gregorian aesthetic [that] it presents a Requiem, for example, has none of the timelessness to the music and is very musical thunder and lightening of simiconnective across centuries. lar works by Berlioz, Verdi and “I don’t remember who this quote Benjamin Britten. came from, but the music is described as “It’s not overtly demonstrative that ‘an eclectic mixture of plainsong [chant], way,” Morgan admits. “But there are Renaissance polyphony, the organ texmoments in both the Requiem and the tures of [earlier French organists] and Men’s Mass (Cum jubilo) that he goes the Impressionistic harmonies of for a very dramatic sound. Debussy and Ravel.’ So I think it The combination of the emotional becomes broadly appealing to people.” expressiveness of the music, not only in Morgan acknowledges that those more dramatic moments but in Duruflé’s music is slightly out of charthe more reflective passages as well, acter for Ars Nova, which is known for with the Impressionistic style is what their exploration of much older music Morgan finds most attractive in and challenging contemporary works. Duruflé’s choral works. ”This is probably the most standard “This is music that captures the repertoire concert we’ve done in many emotion of these texts, and in just these years,” he says. lush, beautiful harmonies.”
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Art that Feeds Harvest Festival. 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, eTown Hall, 1535 Conscious Alliance Spruce St., Boulder. The Harvest Festival, presented by Conscious Alliance and Blackbelly Market, raises awareness for impoverished communities. This fourth iteration of the event will feature cuisine from chefs of the Denver metro area and an open bar, as well as a silent auction. Local band Tennis will also perform. Conscious Alliance is a national nonprofit intent on supporting poverty-stricken communities through youthoriented programs and hunger relief. The nonprofit hopes to use this event to provide 10,000 meals to the families of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. —Sydney Worth
First Person Cinema: Films of Stan Brakhage.
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$27.50
Film historian P. Adam Sitney will present the films of former CU professor and experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage at the University of Colorado Boulder’s First Person Cinema series. The series has been a longstanding CU tradition since 1955, showcasing work from students, faculty and guest artists. Brakhage is wildly considered one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film. The event celebrates the re-issuing of his seminal 1963 book, Metaphors on Vision, an analysis on the nature of the visual experience. —Sydney Worth
Provided by Juliana Todeschi, PFA Media
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
see EVENTS Page 32 Boulder Weekly
Have you ever seen a pigeon playing ping pong? Neither have we, but we have seen a band you should check out. The four gentlemen who make up Pigeons Playing Ping Pong reportedly grew out of a dorm at the University of Maryland about a decade ago. The Baltimore-based band credits their formation to an “unyielding quest for joy and positive energy,” and their music has roots in psychedelia and funk with an experimental electronic edge. With a relentless touring schedule, the band has reportedly performed close to 200 shows a year. This tour will promote their upcoming album, Pizzaz, due out Oct. 20. —Sydney Worth
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Lauren Walker — The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Sakyong Mipham — The Lost Art of Good Conversation. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Friday, October 6
So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Joe Cavanaugh. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 8PM
CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT & REID FARNSWORTH 8PM WILD FAITH 9:30PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 6 8PM
RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS SATURDAY OCTOBER 7
DAVE TAMKIN & BRAD HUFFMAN 8PM J.J. MURPHY 9PM SUNDAY OCTOBER 8 8PM
WOMEN IN SONG
MONDAY OCTOBER 9 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS
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Sunday, October 8 James Iwase presenting The Miracle of Meditation by Ryuho Okawa. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Indigo Moor. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Tuesday, October 10 Jody Day — Living the Life Unexpected. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Wednesday, October 11
Thursday, October 5 Music
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 12
SOPHIE WILSON 8PM CLYDE AND THE MILITAILERS 9:30PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 13 8PM
SELASEE UNPLUGGED Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day THELAUGHINGGOAT.COM 32 October 5 , 2017
The annual Handmade in Colorado Expo returns to Boulder for its ninth year, showcasing Colorado’s best contemporary art and crafts. The Boulder weekend marks the Expo’s third weekend in session after visits to Estes Park in late August and to Denver in late September. More than 90 independent artists, designers and vendors will display their original goods, including everything from glass and paintings to clay, clothing and more. Customers can expect to find handcrafted items only available in Colorado, made by artists who care about interacting directly with their customers. Enjoy selections from experienced artisans and explore goods from vendors who are just emerging in the art scene. Visitors will also enjoy live music from various musicians including Antonio Lopez, The Symbols, Kenny Lee Young, Synth Def and others, at the Boulder Bandshell Amphitheater. Those 21 and over can sample a brew from the Green Beer Festival, also taking place near the Bandshell. This event also coincides with the Boulder County Farmers Market, where visitors can find plenty of tasty treats and locally grown delicacies. Admission is free and families are welcome. —Eliza Radeka
Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder. Santa Fe Brewing Beer Fest After Party Hosted by Meow Wolf. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Tennyson. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Trapt. 7:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. TRVE Brewing’s GABF Kickoff Show. 9 p.m. HiDive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Events
4th Annual Art That Feeds Harvest Celebration. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Art on Tap! Oktoberfest Beer Portrait Night. 6:30 p.m. Rackhouse Pub, 2875 Blake St., Denver. Boulder Tango Festival. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Celebrating Life in Recovery. 7 p.m. Twin Peaks Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 9696 Paschal Drive, Louisville. Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Great American Beer Festival. 5:30 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver. Through Sunday, Oct. 8. Halloween Film Series: Ghostbusters. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Hard Rock’s Great American Beer Festival Exclusive Events. 6 p.m. Hard Rock Cafe Denver, 500 16th St., Suite 120, Denver. The Improv Games: Denver’s Short Form Showdown. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Keep A Light In Your Window: A Documentary about Daddy Bruce Randolph. 7 p.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Martha Graham Dance Company. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Steve Wallis
9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8, Central Park, Downtown Boulder.
Dana Cooper. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 8PM
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Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.
OPEN POETRY READING
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11 8PM
Chelsea Paolini. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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2017 Great American Beer Festival. 12 a.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Through Sunday, Oct. 8.
ESPRESSO!
Bradford Morrow — The Prague Sonata. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
In a world of iPhones’ connectivity to social media and email, we are all in constant connection with one another. In The Lost Art of Good Conversation, Sakyong Mipham uses the basic principles of the Shambhala tradition to help readers to listen and speak more mindfully.
Mason Jar Event Group Fall Cannabis Pairing Dinner. 5 p.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons. Teton Gravity Research: Rogue Elements. 6:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Friday, October 6
Tribute. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Keiko Matsui. 7 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Lori’s Cuisine. 3:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Music
Maya Bennett. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.
Bleachers. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Milky Chance: Blossom Tour. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver.
Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.
Moon Hooch. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Casey Russell & The Soul Shack — with Special Guest Eddie Roberts Of The New Mastersounds. 5 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Morsel + Woodhouse. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.
The Custom Shop Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Native Station and Poets and Wolves. 6:30 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
Eef Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.
Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.
Elder Grown —with Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.
Pears. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Great Avery Boulder Flocktoberfest featuring Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Jazz @ the Dairy Presents: Pathways to Jazz
Peoples Blues of Richmond. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. see EVENTS Page 34
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Ragged Union. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder. Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mtn Blues. 7 p.m. Asher Brewing, 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder.
EVENT
Graduate Counseling Preview This event is specially designed to give you in-depth information about Naropa’s graduate counseling degree programs. The preview also gives a general overview of Naropa’s unique academic environment and student life as well.
Sarah Coit, Mezzo Sopranno. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Oyster Bar, 84 E. First St., Nederland. Ska Brewing GABF After Party featuring The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.
atre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Elliott Brood. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Eric Darius & Adam Hawley. 10 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. An Evening of the Music of Chuck Pyle. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver. Feloniuos Smith Trio. 6:30 p.m. Homenade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont. First Chair Festival. 1 p.m. Denver Performing Arts
Under Construction. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Events 2017 Dracula — Colorado Ballet. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Boulder Tango Festival. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Feral First Friday Film Night. 8 p.m. Feral Mountain Co., 4320 Tennyson St., Denver.
Appropriate. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 14. August: Osage County — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 15. The Country Wife — presented by Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Theatre Depart-
Courtesy of Vintage Theatre via Gloria Shanstrom
First Friday Film Night: Modern America. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
• Somatic Counseling: Body Psychotherapy • Somatic Counseling: Dance/ Movement Therapy • Transpersonal Art Therapy • Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 1:00–5:30 p.m. Nalanda Campus 6287 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO
For more information visit naropa.edu/events Naropa University welcomes participants with disabilities. Persons with questions about accessibility or who require disability accommodations should contact Martha Husick at 303-546-3548 or at admissionsevents@naropa.edu.
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Moon Hooch — with Jackson Whalan & Lavender Fields. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
Meru: The Struggle to Climb Mount Meru. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. My Brilliant Divorce. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 28. Les Liaison Dangereuses — presented by Miners Alley. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Avenue, Golden. Through Oct. 15. The Little Dog Laughed — presented by Vintage Theatre. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 22. Macbeth. Space, Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 29. The Music Man. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 5. My Brilliant Divorce. Avenue Theater Group, 417 E. 17th Ave, Denver. Through Oct. 14. The Mystery of Love and Sex — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Oct. 7.
Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
• Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling (hybrid & on campus)
Maurice Durufle: The Complete Choral Works. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder.
theater
Latin Comedy Jam. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.
• Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology
Louisville Oktoberfest. 2 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, Old Town, 824 Front St., Louisville.
Thriftworks. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
Keep A Light In Your Window: A Documentary about Daddy Bruce Randolph. 7 p.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Naropa University’s MA Clinical Mental Health Program:
Longmont Symphony Opening Night. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont.
Mitchell Green is a Hollywood star on his way to the A-list — if he can only keep that pesky “recurring case of homosexuality” under wraps. Drew Hirschboeck (Mitchell Green), Christian Munck (Alex), Miranda Byers (Ellen) and Jacqueline Garcia (Diane) star in The Little Dog Laughed at Vintage Theatre through Oct. 22.
NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder.
ment. Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theatre, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. Through Oct. 5.
On The Spot. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.
Girls Only — The Secret Comedy Of Women. Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 22.
Ron Funches. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Saturday, October 7 Music
The Hunchback of Notre Dame — presented by The Evergreen Chorale. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Oct. 8.
The Revolutionists — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Grace Gamm Theater, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 8. Richard III — presented by The Upstart Crow Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 22. Rock of Ages. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 11. The Snowy Day. Conservatory Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Nov. 18. Seussical — presented by Peanut Butter Players. Harlequin Center for Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette. Through Oct. 28.
Alwyn Robinson of Leftover Salmon & Jacob Jolliff featuring Joy Harris & Gabriel Mervine of The Motet. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Arrested Development — with DJ A-L. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Beginners. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Big Thomspon Flood. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Boulder Brazilian Band. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder. D.A.R.C. Presents: A Punk Rock Tribute to The Who’s Tommy. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. The Delta Sonics. 10:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Denver Pops Orchestra: Heroes & Villains. 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Dreadnought — with Ford Theatre Reunion, Flight of Sleipnir, Kenaima. 7 p.m. Marquis The-
Complex & Sculpture Park, 1231 Champa St., Denver. Full Moon Crystal Bowl Sound Bath. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, 1939 S. Monroe St., Denver. Girls Rock Denver GABF Party. 6 p.m. Epic Brewing, 3001 Walnut St., Denver. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Jam Key Jam. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Leyla McCalla. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Live Music: The McCall’s. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.
Noah Fulton Beale and The Sanctuary Band. 7:30 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder. Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Purple Rain: The Music of Prince. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Rat’s WoodShack BBQ. 3 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Sammy Mayfield Band. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Sharing the Timeless Joy of Music. 7 p.m. Stewart Auditorium at Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.
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Saturday, October 14, 2017 7:30 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Avenue Join us for a fun, laughter-filled evening with award-winning writer, comedian, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch! Get a first-hand account of his decades-long career as one of Hollywood’s most sought after comedy writers. All proceeds support the life-transforming work of Boulder JFS, which provides older adults, adults with disabilities, their families, and individuals in crisis with services to enhance their quality of life. Tickets are $90 and are on sale now at www.jewishfamilyservice.org/reelhopeboulder. Sponsorships are available. For more information, contact Bonni Raderman at 720.749.3404 or braderman@jewishfamilyservice.org.
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A gathering place for...
Ulrich Gleiter
Gallery 1261 presents The Seasons, a solo exhibition of plein air works by German artist Ulrich Gleiter. Through Oct. 9
live entertainment, special events, great food and drinks
75 — A Celebration of New Works in Fiber. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 22.
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Common Ground. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.
Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 22.
Discovering Generations Of Thy Reincarnated Self — by Kia Neill. Paramita Gallery, 3285 30th St., Boulder. Through Oct. 27.
Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21.
Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.
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Fork, Gun, Cake — by The Corrugated Collective. White Cube Gallery, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Oct. 6. Front Range Contemporary Quilters. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Oct. 27.
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Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.
Upcoming Events & Entertainment
Thursday Oct 5th & Friday Oct 6th
DUSTY DRAPES & THE DUSTERS “Country / Rock”
Sunday Oct 8th
DAKOTA BLONDE
Latin America: Endless Transformation. Redline, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver. Through Oct. 29. Liz Miller. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Oct. 8.
Under Construction. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Women in Music Symposium. 9 a.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E Iliff Ave., Denver. Events
Wednesday Oct 11th
Adventure Film Festival & Street Fair. 12 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
WRECKING TRAINS “Blues” FREE ADMISSION
Friday Oct 13th
SONIC ARCADE
“8Os DANCE PARTY” Friday Oct 20th
KNOT ROCK “70s/80s Soft Rock”
Saturday Oct 21st
THE COMEDY CREW “YOU’LL BUST A GUT” Two Shows: 7pm & 9pm
Give the Gift of a Great Night Out! Nissi’s Gift Cards available @ nissis.com 2675 NORTH PARK DRIVE (SE Corner of 95th & Arapahoe)
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River Paintings Curated by Courtney Stell —Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Nov. 17. Study Of Progression — by Sophia Pilmenstein. Loung Gallery, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
Sheer Mag. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
2017 Dracula — Colorado Ballet. 2 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.
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The Seasons: Ulrich Gleiter Solo Exhibition. Gallery 1261, 1412 Wazee St., Denver. Through Oct. 9.
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Out of India: Drawings and Photographs — Sherry Wiggins. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Nov. 17.
The Agency: “Bits and Pieces.” 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. The Big Fat Dirty Game Show. 7 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Boulder Tango Festival. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Fab Feb Comedy Kickoff! 8 p.m. Jakes Sports & Spirits, 3800 Walnut St., Denver. Horseshoe Craft & Flea Market. 9 a.m. Olinger Howard Chapel parking lot, 4345 W. 46th Ave., Denver. Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver.
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9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Ty Segall’s new self-titled album, the ninth in his career, is actually his second eponymous LP since his 2008 debut. Segall, known for his grunge-rock sound, includes a wide variety of songs in this new album. He starts out strong with the opening track, “Break a Guitar,” and rocks out even harder in “Thank You Mr. K.” But later in his album, with the songs “Freedom,” “Orange Color Queen” and “Talkin,” Segall shows off his softer side. The California native began his musical career performing in various bands in the San Francisco Bay Area before transitioning to a solo career in 2008. Over the years, he has worked with several bands, such as The Freedom Band, The Muggers, Sic Alps and others. The punk band Flat Worms will join Segall for his upcoming Boulder performance. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. and tickets can be purchased for $18-$20 online at foxtheatre. com. —Eliza Radeka
Louisville Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville. Medea. 7 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. 2nd Ave., Suite 1, Denver.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
On The Spot. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.
Brooke Annibale. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.
Pumpkin Harvest Festival. 10 a.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 South Forest St., Denver.
The Caveat. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Ron Funches. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.
Colorado Symphony: Chamber Music Series. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.
Sam Adams Octoberfest. 3 p.m. Larimer Street (Between 14th and 15th streets), Denver.
Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder.
Osktoberfest — with Dick Novanty Duo. 3:30 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.
Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder.
Oyster Bash. 4 p.m. The Oceanaire Seafood Room, 1400 Arapahoe St., Denver.
Sunrise Fall Color Paint Session. 6:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont.
George Winston. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.
Skerryvore. 3:30 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.
Good Vibrations: “Symphony Spotlight” Free Family Concert. 2 p.m. Denver School of the Arts, 7111 Montview Blvd., Denver.
A Tribute to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder.
Louisville Oktoberfest. 10 a.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, Old Town, 824 Front St., Louisville.
Ty Segall. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
The Love Show. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.
Under Construction. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
U. S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017. 11 a.m. Adjacent to the 61st and Peña Station, University of Colorado, Denver. Sunday, October 8 Music Altius Quartet. 3 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.
p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. A Night With Janis Joplin. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.
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events Women in Music Symposium. 2:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Yolk’n Around. 12 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Events 2017 Dracula — Colorado Ballet. 2 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Adventure Film Festival & Street Fair. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Boulder Tango Festival. 5 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. The bRUNch Run. 8:30 a.m. Stapleton Central Park, 8601 E. Martin Luther King Blvd., Denver. Outlaw Yoga. 10:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Events Comedy Open Mic. 8:30 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder. Tuesday Tapping. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder. Tom Walker. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Two Rivers Film and Discussion. 6:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Wednesday, October 11 Music BADBADNOTGOOD. 8:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. GZA with Low Hanging Fruit. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. House of Joy. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder.
Jazz Dinner — with Brant Williams Trio. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Kaustik. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Lucas Swafford. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Misterwives: Connect The Dots Tour. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Musician Guz Meza. 6 p.m. Rosemark at Mayfair Park, 833 Jersey St., Denver. Terror — with Bent Life, Blind Justice, Line Brawl. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Events Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder.
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Naughty Ball: 18th Annual Halloween. 8 p.m. Diamond Cabaret, 1222 Glenarm Place, Denver. Pumpkin Harvest Festival. 10 a.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver. Monday, October 9 Music Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Café Tacvba. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Honor Reading Choir. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Jr Jr. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Less Thank Jake. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Mondaze: Service Industry Night. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Movement Mondays: Freeform/Ecstatic Dance Gathering. 7:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Events The End: Movies and Mortality. 6:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette. Indigenous Peoples’ Day: History, Poetry & Presence. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Tuesday, October 10 Music ’90s TV Dinners. 5 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. BADBADNOTGOOD. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Big Thief. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder. East High School Honors Choir Concert. 11 a.m. Rosemark at Mayfair Park, 833 Jersey St., Denver. Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. The New Recorder Consort. 10:30 a.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder. Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder. Open Mic — with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Worriers with Thin Lips, Cheap Perfume, Lawsuit Models. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.
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IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY EVENTS The City of Boulder has a rich and diverse history thanks to both the Native American and immigrant cultures that have shaped and enriched life in the city. This week, in partnership with multiple organizations, the City celebrates both Immigrant Heritage Week and Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a variety of events throughout town. For more information, visit boulderhumanrights.com
Thursday, Oct. 5. BAPA Celebration of Immigrant Heritage Week 5:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Boulder Asian Pacific Alliance (BAPA) will host an evening of music and dance from local Asian and Pacific Islander communities with performers from a variety of cultures.
Public Art Presentation: Boulder Histories and Immigration 7 p.m. Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall between 13th and 14th Streets. Join Motus Theater, the Boulder County Latino History Project, Colorado historians and educators for cookies and conversation about immigration history with archival images, historical facts and questions projected in large-scale onto the top of the Boulder County Courthouse.
Sunday, Oct. 8. Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples. 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church, Parlor Room, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Presenters Jerilyn DeCoteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and Paula Palmer, Toward Right Relationship Project, Boulder Friends Meeting, will host a participatory workshop for high school students and adults to talk about the European colonization of Turtle Island from the point of view of Native peoples. Please reserve a free seat by emailing PaulaRPalmer@gmail.com.
Monday, Oct. 9 Open House Celebration hosted by Native American Rights Fund (NARF) with the American Indian Youth Leadership Institute 10 a.m.-4 p.m. NARF, 1506 Broadway, Boulder. Celebrate the second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day with Native American cuisine, performances and Indigenous speakers. Learn about our Boulder history and current issues in Indian Country, and show solidarity in the community. Lunch is free starting at 11:30 a.m. and open to the public.
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Motus Theater — Indigenous Peoples Day: History, Poetry and Presence Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. 4:30 p.m. Film screening of Rocks Karma Arrows (Act 1) exploring how Boulder was founded. 6 p.m. Poetry by Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations). 6:30 p.m. Indigenous in Boulder: Indigenous leaders speak about living in Boulder.
White Horse Creek Council Mini Pow Wow, Teach-In and Friendship Dance 4:30 p.m. Boulder Central Park Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Lakota Elder Lee Plenty Wolf will speak about the oral history of Boulder handed down by Indigenous residents and explain the meaning of four Native American dances.
Tuesday, Oct. 10. Open House with City of Boulder Staff 5 p.m. Boulder Municipal Building Lobby, 1777 Broadway. Meet City of Boulder staff working on the implementation of Boulder’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resolution.
Tuesday, Oct.10. Taking Steps Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples in Boulder 6:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Presenters Elicia Goodsoldier (Spirit Lake Dakota, Diné) and Paula Palmer, Toward Right Relationship Project, Boulder Friends Meeting will discuss the documentary Two Rivers and how Boulder moves towards righting the relationship with Native peoples in Boulder.
Wednesday, Oct. 11 Screening of What Was Ours Documentary 6 p.m., Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. An Eastern Shoshone tribal elder and two young Northern Arapaho students leave Wind River Reservation for Chicago’s Field Museum in search of sacred objects taken from their tribes in this visually stunning documentary. Reserve a free seat at museumofboulder.org.
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The fence was down. Out among humid smells and shrill cicadas we walked, the lichened trunks moon-blue, our faces blue and our hands. Led by their bellwether bellies, the sheep had toddled astray. The neighbor farmer’s woods or coyotes might have got them, or the far road. I remember the night, the moon-colored grass we waded through to look for them, the oaks tangled and dark, like starting a story midway. We gazed over seed heads to the barn toppled in the homestead orchard. Then we saw the weather of white wool, a cloud in the blue moving without sound as if charmed by the moon beholding them out of bounds. Time has not tightened the wire or righted the barn. The unpruned orchard rots in its meadow and the story unravels, the sunlight creeping back like a song with nobody left to hear it. Here’s a beautiful poem evoking a vivid memory by David Mason, who teaches at Colorado College and has served his state as poet laureate. There’s not one extra word in this, and every word — with that word’s singular music — is set in the perfect position. This poem is from his forthcoming book, The Sound: New and Selected Poems, (Red Hen Press, 2018). — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 by David Mason, “Mending Time,” from The Sound: New and Selected Poems, (Red Hen Press, forthcoming in 2018). Poem reprinted by permission of David Mason and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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‘Battle of the Sexes’ has unforced errors by Ryan Syrek
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s the Supreme Poohbah of Pastry, Mary Berry, would far more eloquently and pleasantly explain from beneath the tent during The Great British Bake Off: You can have all the right ingredients and still make a gross-tasting cake of shame and disappointment. Battle of the Sexes has every element necessary to deliver a soaring triumph but winds up splatting and splooshing, like a tennis ball backhanded in the rain. From the cringy use of the “Magical Queer” trope to at least a dozen wink-and-nod uses of “getting a trim” in the context of lesbian sex involving a hair stylist, writer Simon Beaufoy serves this real-life collision of the quest for gender equality and sportsing directly into the net. Feel the worst for Emma Stone, whose turn here as Billie Jean King is as nuanced and tender as possible for a role that includes a “you’re so pretty without your glasses” moment. The lead-up to the actual 1973 tennis match that pit an aged former champion men’s tennis player, Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), against King is spastic at best. Instead of choosing a few key themes or pivotal aspects of the main players, Battle of the Sexes yanks hard on every dangling thread possible until the whole sweater unravels. Dammit, Weezer done warned y’all... King’s realization that she is sexually interested in women is wrongly presented in remedial “meet cute” rom-com fashion here. Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough), King’s lover, serves as proof that a same-sex version of the manic pixie dream girl still sucks. Worse still is Cuthbert Tinling (Alan Cumming), a painfully underdeveloped character who only appears to boop King on the nose for stepping outside of heterosexuality. Even Riggs is confusingly depicted; rather than showing how the The 1973 tennis match between self-serving showman vacillated between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) vile and impossibly charismatic, he’s perwas a watershed moment in petually just kind of stupid. pop culture for gender equality. If only the movie had half the It’s impossible to out-and-out hate a importance or energy of the real movie that recounts a legitimately captievent... vating and important moment in history. That said, it is entirely possible for something like what directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have done here to make you long to watch a documentary on the same subject instead. Great “based on a true story” films use an elusive sleight of hand to Jedi-mind-trick audiences into forgetting that they already know how things play out. Sub-par ones, like Battle of the Sexes, remind you of the inevitable conclusion with the percussive grace of a drunken, below-average bucket drummer. The best part of the film involves the “Virginia Slims Tour,” started by King and her agent, Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman), when douchebro tennis executive, Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), kicked King out of pro-tennis for daring to ask for more pay. Not unlike Netflix’s GLOW, a whole movie about that group may have been wildly endearing and given far greater insight into patriarchal problems and authentic concerns about equality. Instead, we get Battle of the Sexes, which dramatizes a complex social struggle mostly though male characters acting like supervillains who far-too-frequently explicitly proclaim how much they “sure do think women are dumb and bad!” There was a good movie to be made of this material. Sadly, this was not it. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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n the 1970s, she was one of the dominant, and ON THE BILL: Behind most provocative, Italian filmmakers. From the White Glasses. Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7:30 behind her trademark white-framed glasses, p.m. Love & Anarchy. Lina Wertmüller saw the world a little differWednesday, Oct. 11, ently and the audiences responded. Her films 7:30 p.m. Swept Away. Thursday, Oct. 12, 7:30 were staples in U.S. art-house theaters, Laraine p.m. Seven Beauties. Newman impersonated her on Saturday Night Live, Friday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. critics Pauline Kael and Molly Haskell took her International Film Series Muenzinger Auditorium, gender politics to task, and Seven Beauties earned her University of Colorado a Best Director nomination at the 1977 Academy Boulder, 1905 Colorado Awards, the first for a female director. Ave., Boulder. internationalfilmseries. Unfortunately, history can be somewhat reduccom tive, and as the years rolled on, Wertmüller’s name slipped into cinephile obscurity. Thankfully, the good people at Kino Lorber Repertory have restored seven of Wertmüller’s best for theatrical screening, and three of them, plus a documentary about Wertmüller, are making their way to CU’s International Film Series. IFS’s Wertmüller series opens with 2017’s Behind the White Glasses, documentarian Valerio Ruiz’s loving portrait of Wertmüller’s life in cinema. White Glasses combines present-day interviews with Wertmüller, critics and collaborators alongside archival footage, effectively supplying viewers with the necessary context to unlock the social and political underpinnings of Wertmüller’s films. It’s with this background and insight that the three films screening — Love & Anarchy (1973), Swept Away (1974) and Seven Beauties (1976) — perfectly demonstrate Wertmüller’s intimate storytelling, her no-holds-barred approach to controversial material and her sheer technical prowess. Has any other director employed the close-up better? First up, Love & Anarchy, a period drama set in a Roman brothel during the reign of Benito Mussolini. Wertmüller’s favorite actor, Giancarlo Gianni, plays Tunin, a freckle-faced farm boy sent to Rome to assassinate Il Duce. His contact, a prostitute named Salomè (Mariangela Melato), allows him room and board in the brothel where he meets and falls for Tripolina (Lina Polito), who throws a kink in his suicide mission. Wertmüller further ratchets up the sexual dynamics and politics for Swept Away, the story of a wealthy woman and a disgruntled servant (Melato and Gianni again) who accidentally end up on a deserted island. Their social roles are reversed and Wertmüller takes the film to places certain to elicit a healthy amount of postscreening discussion. Both Love & Anarchy and Swept Away are great, but Seven Beauties is in a league all by itself. Gianni returns as Pasqualino, a Charlie Chaplin-esque fool who bumbles his way from the burlesque stage into the horrors of World War II concentration camps. A cheerfully vulgar comedy ending in the Holocaust may not sound like good taste, but Wertmüller is not about taste, she is about confrontation. Her films may not progressively tackle sexual politics and gender roles the way an audience in 2017 might want, but they do challenge each viewer to either accept or reject what they are seeing. She wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Boulder Weekly
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he recent news out of Boulder County is pretty grim: Citing lower demand, Broomfield-based Ball Corp. said it will shut down yet another food can production line soon, this time in Arkansas. “Given the overall decline in food can demand, our Springdale (Arkansas) food can operations are no longer sustainable,” said Jim Peterson, a Ball executive, in a press release. Last month, the company announced the upcoming closing of can-making plants in Alabama, California and Texas. In Boulder, we think of Ball Corp. for aerospace activities including many satellites. In the rest of the world, Ball is synonymous with food and beverage cans and bottles. “Ball mason jars” is the generic term for glass canning jars. Is this a sign of the end of canned food as we know it? When natural disasters like the recent spate of hurricanes hit, the canned food shelves still get emptied. Canned beer is making a comeback led by brewers like Oskar Blues, and canned wine and coffee are gaining popularity. However, supermarket chains across the country are planning to cut back those can-lined middle
aisles and convert them to frozen and prepared foods and instore dining areas. Some suggest that eventually canned foods may only be available on Amazon. Shoppers like you are moving toward foods that are “freshly harvested,” “made from scratch,” and not to mention “local” and “organic.” Consumers are rejecting food in cans and bottles because, well, it is “canned.” I also suspect that they no longer own (or don’t know how to use) a can opener. This food snobbishness is not supported by reality. Besides being affordable, time-saving and recyclable with a long shelf life, the great canned foods are as good — or better — than what most of us can prepare at home without huge amounts of time in processing ingredients. A well-stocked pantry makes it easier to cook for yourself or for an unexpected crowd, especially with the festive gauntlet of holiday occasions from Halloween through Jan. 1. I understand that some canned, bottled and shelf-stable foods are really gross. I’m not talking see NIBBLES Page 46
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about easy cheese or even the more upscale Cheez Whiz, Chef Boyardee big beef ravioli or a No. 10 can of Roland pineapple slices in juice. The canned foods I like are not heavily processed, not loaded with sugar, fat and salt, and not finished dishes loaded with additives. Salt-free versions are often available. I’m cheap so I try to avoid the pricey big brand names and use house brands (traditional or organic) and imports. Here are 10 of my essential canopener favorites that should be in your pantry.
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Roasted red bell peppers
Grab a bottle of whole roasted and peeled red bell peppers. Right out of the bottle, slice and serve on meat and cheese board or on a flour tortilla with Mexican cheese for a quesadilla. The peppers can be pureed and added to vegetable broth to make a comfy soup.
Coconut milk
An inexpensive item (especially at Asian supermarkets like H Mart), coconut milk can be used to make a quick chicken curry with added spices including ginger. Add creamy peanut butter to warmed coconut milk for a superb Thai sauce. Use it and frozen mango chunks to make a smoothie.
Seedless raspberry preserves
Use these all-purpose preserves as a warm sauce over Camembert baked in frozen puffed pastry or on a sponge cake topped with mascarpone and raspberries. Add it liberally to sriracha or soy sauce as a finishing barbecue sauce on grilled lamb, turkey or venison.
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Artichokes and hearts
Artichokes are more expensive but delightful for using in salads, on grilled shrimp kebobs, in pasta dishes and coated in egg and panko bread crumbs and baked or fried in olive oil. Roast chicken thighs with canned artichokes, peppers and sun-dried tomatoes works too.
Tart cherry juice
Made from sour, intensely flavored Montmorency cherries which make the best cherry pies, this juice is the very essence of cherry. Simmer apple slices in it to upgrade apple pie. Reduce it by simmering to make an ice cream topping. Also recommended: Canned tart cherries (not in syrup).
Other canned goods to have on hand
Tomatoes: Paste, crushed, pureed, whole and seasoned, these cans are essential for sauces and more. Capers: Great on lox bagels, appetizers and for veal, chicken and tofu piccata Fat-free refried beans: Use for bean dip and thin with broth for bean soup. Crabmeat: Chunk white crabmeat can be used in gumbo, spaghetti dishes and in crab cakes. Unsweetened apple sauce: Great addition to hot cereal and quick breads. Whole pumpkin: Pure pumpkin, not pumpkin pie mix, mixed with chicken broth makes a fine squash bisque.
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he numbers were getting to Samm White. Life helping run the family business, Cheese Importers in Longmont, day in, day out, for 20 years, had begun to grate. “There was a time I was coming in here with horse blinders on, and I wasn’t inspired by any of my products, and it turned into just numbers,” White says. “That was a real wake-up call.” So White, like so many others before him, sought solace on the open road, in the geometric comforts of a ’74 Volkswagen Westfalia he had refurbished — “Doesn’t everybody” dream of that, White asks, five weeks on the road with the family in tow, through amber waves of grain from sea to shining sea.” “It was 55 [mph] top end, 35 going up the passes, and it really made me not want to rush anything in my life,” White says. “I don’t want to fit in as much as I can. I want to be able to enjoy for as long as I can what I’m tak-
ing part in right now. “And then to come back from that and get right into business,” White says. “Two days after I was back, there was a point where ... there was cursing and shaking, like, ‘What am I doing here?’ and that drew me right back in.” It takes a lot to make Cheese Importers work. It’s one of the largest importers, wholesalers and retailers of cheese in the state, and it also operates a bistro modeled after a classic Parisian café or absinthe hall as well as a shop for Euro-tchotchkes and foodstuffs from the practical to the wild. (Where else can you get cheap squid ink pasta and the uniform of an 18thcentury French ballerina?) Cheese Importers — and White along with his sister, Clara, and mother, Linda — serves a large spectrum of people, from chefs to café sippers to amateur cheesemongers, and it serves, primarily, a highly perishable product whose sale can be as influenced by the time of year as a mention on a TV show or its place-
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ment on a shelf. This business wasn’t White’s first choice. Nor was Cheese Importers his father, Lyman’s, first choice when he started the shop in 1976. Lyman and Linda White met on a boat to Europe — Linda was going to study at La Sorbonne, Lyman was draft dodging. “A torrid love affair ensued,” White says of his parents, and when the two came back to the U.S. and settled in Las Vegas, New Mexico, they saw a cultural care for food they’d once known in the States dying with TV dinners. A short stint running a natural bulk grains business petered out in ’71, after which Linda’s uncle, Ben Moskowitz, one of the first people to import cheese to the U.S. from Europe, helped set up what would become Cheese Importers. Eventually, Lyman would offer his see WHITE Page 50
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son a job. “I did a lot of jobs from grease monkey to dishwasher to bus boy, and lift operator up at the resort,” Samm says. “I wanted to work with the business but I wasn’t really interested in having my family be purely business, which is what it felt like it always was. Christmas dinners, always talking about business. So I saw the stresses ... but at age 22 I got married and we got pregnant and talking with my dad, kind of like him and Uncle Ben, [he said], ‘So what are you going to do to make money? We’ve got a position open here, and we’d love to have you,’ and I accepted.” White admits he treated the job as, well, a job, albeit one in the family business. It wasn’t until he “invested in [himself ] as a person” that White began to take on more projects at Cheese Importers. Slowly, he carved out a niche working on the financial side, learning from his father, allowing his parents to tackle big picture ideas and creative pursuits. Lyman, White says, “could pull an idea out the air and make it happen,” and having more time to follow his creativity led Lyman to design and build sailboats, among other pursuits. Lyman and Linda eventually got divorced, but the business continued to do well. Then, in 2010, a careless driver struck and killed Lyman while he and White were out riding their motorcycles. Personal tragedy aside, if it can be put aside, White had a much larger role to play in the business, and he felt an obligation to live up to the standards his father set for the store. “Every day he’s on my shoulder. Every single day,” White says. “I get a little embarrassed or guilty or something about putting my name on it. We have increased sales since my father passed away. We have built a new building. He’d be blown away with where we’re at now. “I need to make sure I own the positive things we’ve created to this point,” he says. That requires context. White says he “spent a lot of time over these last 30 years ... trying to give everybody what they need and that’s just [his] M.O.” The trip, in the VW bus, was intended to restart a conversation with himself, White says, so that he could better communicate with the world. The Westfalia as spiritual vessel was an obvious choice.
“My dad had [one] that was actually the first delivery vehicle for Cheese Importers. And I had ridden in them and spent time in them with a high school girlfriend’s family for a month and a half in the desert. It was a tempered dream I hadn’t really paid attention to,” White says. The dream of hopping in a Westfalia, and the many iterations of the same escape, is as appealing to those who grew up in the ’60s and ’70s as it is to millennials. Just check out Instagram. White says he knows why. “It speaks to something bigger in America,” White says. “People like me are just saying the dollar that meant security and meant that we were going to be OK, which we thought in our 20s, ... I think everybody’s been going, ‘Holy cow, I’ve been workSamm White, co-owner and ing toward this prebuyer for the Cheese tend moment where Importers, with some of the shop’s offerings. everything is OK, and it’s not.’ It’s really about the conversation I had at a gas station or whatever that happens during these travels.” Now the goal for White is to make Cheese Importers a place where people can slow down — go 35 mph on the inclines like his Westfalia. If it’s profitable, great, that means more time for White and his family to take vacation, where he can frame his state of mind to be better while he is in the shop. When he came back from the Westfalia trip and found himself almost instantly battling the same stress as when he left, White took a breath, sat and thought about why the trip had been so cathartic in the first place. “I think it was not really thinking about the cheese shop,” he says. “It was getting out there and fishing and swimming in waterfalls and camping and having parts break and dealing with some other stuff that was not just the same stuff that I’ve dealt with maybe under a different heading for the last 20 years. Life gets a little monotonous sometimes.” Boulder Weekly
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or all intents and purposes, Anheuser-Busch shot first. On May 3, 2017, brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (the BelgianBrazilian company most readily identified with Budweiser) announced it had acquired Wicked Weed Brewing for their “High End” portfolio (a collection of brewers owned and operated in some capacity by AB InBev, hereafter noted as ABI). Wicked Weed, the hip Asheville, North Carolina brewery famous for its creative sours and wild ales, became the 10th craft brewery to join ABI’s High End — Chicago’s Goose Island Brewing being the first in 2011. “Beer lovers — I’m not the one saying it, you just have to go on the internet — were pissed,” says Julia Herz, craft beer program director at the Brewers Association. “That was the tipping point for me, and that was the [sale] that got more press than all of them.” Craft acquisition by Big Beer, whether by ABI, MillerCoors or Constellation Brands, is not a new thing. Yet, there was something about Wicked Weed’s sale that rubbed fellow brewers and beer geeks the wrong way. Something needed to be done, and the Brewers Association (BA), the Boulder-based trade group representing small and independent brewers, had just the trick up its sleeve: an “Independent Craft” seal. “This is a certification mark,” Herz explains. “So all U.S. craft brewers — [BA] members and non — qualify.” To qualify as craft, breweries must produce less than six million barrels of beer a year — one barrel of beer equals 31 gallons, or roughly 3,400 12-ounce beers — and no more than 25 percent of the brewery’s operations can be owned by an alcohol or industry member that’s not a craft brewer. Released on June 27, the BA sent out stickers of the seal — with an upsidedown bottle symbolizing how craft brewers have turned the brewing world on its head — to every brewery meeting BA’s definition. ABI didn’t take it lying down. Just a few days after BA announced the seal, the High End released a four-minute marketing video of their acquired brewers decrying the seal and its emphasis on independence; a tactic that drew more ire than goodwill. “The big guys are really trying to blur the lines,” says Eric Wallace, Left Hand Brewing co-founder and CEO. “They say that craft, as a word, doesn’t matter and that nobody cares about independence. And we have data that would indicate that that’s not true. A lot of brewers feel that in their hearts and souls.” “I don’t begrudge the brewers who choose to sell,” Ryan Scott, co-founder of Odd13 Brewing, says. “I think this is a super-stressful industry with really narrow margins. “I do have a pretty firm stance against Anheuser-Busch in general,” Scott continues. “They are a big company that actively tries to deny access to market for brewers like us.” Scott, who owns Odd13 with wife, Kristin, and his parents, is no stranger to vocalizing his displeasure with ABI’s purchasing strategy. “Insidious,” Scott says. “They don’t want you to know who owns your beer, or who owns the company that makes your beer. They want you to think it’s local.” Sentiments that Left Hand’s Wallace echoes. “The big guys are out there obfuscating and confusing by buying up those who were formerly our brethren and using them as weapons in their arsenal,” Wallace explains. “Whether it’s through their wholesale purchasing of tap handles and venues, or whether it’s squeezing out the independents when they set the shelves in grocery stores. ... They have huge economic power to basically squeeze craft brewers out of their distribution channels.” Boulder Weekly
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ith July’s arrival of Oregon’s pot legalization came legitimization. Pot legitimacy this time around came not through the part-time fig leaf called medical marijuana. Naw, dude. Bud around my way is now available for purchase, carry and consumption for recreational, medicinal, professional or whatever purpose — aka the way I’ve been doing it for decades.
Burning up: A blunt message from an old stoner to new pot smokers Now, purists will tell you that having been a bit stoned for decades is a gift in its own right. To me though, it feels wrong to move beyond the moment’s window without acknowledging cannabis baggage. The threat of criminalization and the consequences of social marginalization have harshed the buzz of countless pot trailblazers. Do the late converts even fathom what that marginalization was like? I mean, could they know just from watching what the maligned stoners went through? Can they really dig our trip? I mean, my first toke came in 1978. I got high throughout the nuance-free Reagan Era. Forget about neighboring Washington’s pot vending machines, my prime weed smoking years came while a huge hunk of America equated weed with rock cocaine and any usage volume got you equated with Cheech and Chong.
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When I was in college, the notion of Mary Jane cafes would have played like smack shooting galleries. It’s not been easy arriving at a point of not resenting the newbies whose future euphoria looks to be just so smooth. No edge at all, and I’m fine with that. Perfectly fine. Good on ya’. Sometimes, though? It’s fun to snicker at those struggling to play catch-up with weed. Look hard enough and you’ll see these ambitious phenoms in the formal media or, more casually, over-sharing via social. Take the Alaska weatherwoman who quit on air, announcing that she would be starting a dispensary and creating an ad for her new firm that went
viral. Clearly, this episode was about a newbie being overwhelmed by pot’s possibilities; no veteran cannabis connoisseur would ever have made such a rookie move. Or that CNN reporter who proudly announced to Anderson Cooper that she got a contact buzz while reporting on Colorado cannabis consumption. Entertaining, but she wasn’t too high to realize that the admission made her credibility soar. These blunt bona fides seem like they’re everywhere. Even my stand-by sports talk bloviators make arch 420 allusions part of their brand, as though they were jock Rihannas or press box Seth Rogens. I can only imagine how much more unearned cachet would be lorded over us if New York didn’t have such ineffectual pot laws. As suggested, I’m as large a vaping advocate as anyone, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s prohibition against allowing “patients” to light up their weed is as unenforceable as it is nosy; prohibiting home cultivation, too, is beyond wrongheaded. I recall being on a business trip in the late 1990s with an employee of a major media company and an executive. The exec was clearly a man on the move, and the employee sought to impress him, so — even though he’d never consumed cannabis in his entire life — the underling totally smoked out when the suit broke out his stash. This was a smart move on a couple of levels as the executive would go on to become our company’s president and his cannabis was muy primo. That old-school room is what the world can feel like now, like the totality of goody-goodydom has sold out their principles. Pot is more visible, more credible, even as it continues splitting rooms. And the cognoscenti want to make sure they’re on the right side of history, for all of the wrong reasons. Experience pays off. This article first appeared at Observer.com Sarah Haas will return next week.
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by Paul Danish
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missed this yarn when it flew by last May, but it’s too good to pass on. Everyone knows that marijuana use can affect your memory. But now researchers in Germany report that it can affect it in a good way. Instead of leaving you dazed, confused and forgetful, it may actually Rama/Wikimedia Commons improve your cognitive functions — provided you are a) a geezer, and b) a mouse. But if you’re a young mouse, it will still leave you dazed and confused. According to a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers at the University of Bonn found that low doses of THC appear to improve the memory and learning abilities of older mice, but not younger ones — raising the intriguing possibility that measured pot use might slow down the brain aging process in humans — or even reverse it. The research team, led by Andreas Zimmer, gave THC to young, mature and elderly mice, aged 2, 12 and 18 months respectively, and then conducted various behavioral tests to see how each group would react. One experiment involved a water maze that required the mice to remember where a safe platform was hidden under water and which direction to take to get there. The performance of the older mice improved when they were high, while the young mice did worse. The young mice also had a
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harder time recognizing another mouse to whom they had previously been exposed when they were stoned. The mature and elderly mice did better when they were stoned. Without THC, the mature and aged mice performed worse on the tests than the young ones did. But after the older animals were given THC, their performances improved to the point where it resembled that of young, untreated mice. Zimmer called the effects “very robust, very profound.” The performance of the younger mice was “in good agreement with the known detrimental effects of THC on cognition in young animals and humans,” the researchers reported. “Together, these results reveal a profound, longlasting improvement of cognitive performance resulting from a low dose of THC treatment in mature and old animals,” According to a write-up of the research in Scientific American, when the research team examined the brains of the treated elderly mice, they found the neurons in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for learning and memory, had sprouted more synaptic spines, the points of contact for communication between neurons. What’s more, the gene-expression pattern in hippocampi of THC-treated elderly mice was radically different from that of untreated geezer mice. “That is something we absolutely did not expect: the old animals [that received] THC looked
most similar to the young untreated control mice,” Zimmer told the magazine. Both animal and human brains have receptors for natural cannabinoids (endocannabinoids) that are produced naturally in the body. Earlier work by Zimmer and others has shown that cannabinoidassociated molecules become more scant in the brains of aged animals. “The idea is that as animals grow old, similar to in humans, the activity of the endogenous cannabinoid system goes down — and that coincides with signs of aging in the brain,” Zimmer said. “So we thought, ‘What if we stimulate the system by supplying [externally produced] cannabinoids?’” According to Ryan McLaughlin, who studies cannabis and stress at Washington State University, endocannabinoids work to maintain order at the cellular level. “We know the endogenous cannabinoid system ... works like an internal regulator; when there’s too much [neuronal] activity, cannabinoids suppress activity to prevent neurotoxicity,” he said. Restoring that protection might help safeguard the brain against cellular stress that contributes to aging. Zimmer’s team has already secured funding from the German government to begin testing the effects of THC in elderly adults with mild cognitive impairments. Needless to say, Zimmer and everyone who commented on the research was at pains to say that a) the results of the study shouldn’t be extrapolated to humans without further study, and that b) the research used low doses of THC; higher doses might produce very different results. Fair enough, but (cheap shot alert) keep this data point in mind: The only age cohort in the United States that still opposes marijuana legalization consists of Americans 65 and older. Who presumably don’t use it. Even in low doses. Maybe they’re just dazed and confused.
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TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity. Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: “If an angel were to tell us something
of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity. Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina — a distance of about 19,000 miles — except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian — a grey area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap.
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VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In my opinion, you’re not quite ready
to launch full-tilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: You’re a good candidate for the fol-
in interesting truths; 3) a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4) a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5) an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power.
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Actress and author Carrie Fisher
wrote three autobiographies. Speed-skating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ohno published his autobiography at age 20. The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.” To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: If you go to the Historical Museum
of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage — and then metaphorically drink it! In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: If a late-night TV talk show called
and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that? It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do. So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question. Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: A Canadian guy named Harold
Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “Intensify” is one of your words of power these days. So are “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.
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Dear Dan: I’m a 22-year-old straight male dating a 23-year-old woman. This is by far the most sexual relationship I’ve been in, which is great, except one part is freaking me out: I recently “caught” my girlfriend masturbating with her roommate’s panties. (She knew I was coming over and wanted me to catch her.) It turns out she has a habit of sneaking her roommate’s worn underwear, masturbating while smelling them (or putting them in her mouth), and then sneaking them back into her roommate’s laundry basket. She has also used her roommate’s vibrator and dryhumped her pillow to orgasm. I got turned on hearing about all this, and she jerked me off with her roommate’s panties. My girlfriend says she gets turned on being “naughty” and most of her fantasies involve being her roommate’s sex slave, me fucking the roommate while my GF is tied up, etc. Our sex life now revolves around the roommate — my GF has stolen a few more pairs of panties and even worn them while I fucked her, and her dirty talk is now almost entirely about her roommate. This turns me on, so I don’t really want it to stop, but my questions are: 1) Is this bad? 2) Is this normal? We’re conditioned to believe women are less kinky and less sexual than men, and I don’t want to buy into that. My girlfriend says she isn’t “that weird.” I don’t know what to think. —There’s No Acronym For This
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of the laundry and worn them a second time!) Your girlfriend should make an honest, respectful, naughty pass at her roommate. And who knows? Maybe her roommate is just as pervy as you two are and would jump at the chance to have a sex slave and full use of her roommate/sex slave’s boyfriend in exchange for a few dirty panties. Or maybe she’d like to move. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
Dear TNAFT: 1) It’s bad. 2) When it comes to human sexuality, TNAFT, variance is the norm. Which means freakiness/naughtiness/ kinkiness is normal — science backs me up on this — and, yes, lots of women have high libidos and lots are kinky. Your e-mail came sandwiched between a question from a woman who needs sex daily (and foolishly married a man with a very low libido) and a question from a woman who is into BDSM (and wisely held out for a GGG guy who’s getting better at bondage but can’t bring himself to inflict the erotic/consensual pain she craves). But “variance is the norm” doesn’t get your girlfriend off the hook — or you, TNAFT. You and your girlfriend are both violating this poor woman’s privacy, potentially her health (unless your girlfriend is sterilizing her roommate’s vibrator after using it), and — perhaps most importantly — her trust. Honoring each other’s privacy and showing mutual respect for each other’s belongings are the social norms that make it possible for unrelated/unfucking adults to share a living space. We trust our roommates not to steal money out of our purses, eat our peanut butter, Boulder Weekly
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NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. Open to Colorado residents either age 21+, or age 18+ with a valid Colorado medical marijuana card in his/ her name. Enter between 9/20/17–10/20/17 by submitting proposed strain name and contact information in contest form available at nativerootsdispensary.com/name. ARV of finalist prize: $250. ARV of grand prize: $159.99. Grand prize not valid at any location within the City of Boulder, CO. Visit nativerootsdispensary.com for additional details and a copy of the Official Rules. Sponsor: RJJ Morrison, LLC d/b/a Native Roots, 3150 Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, CO 80227.
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