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Highroad Tracking Trump’s convoluted immigration policy by Jim Hightower
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acially and ethnically speaking, I’m truly a global human — Irish, Black, Anglo, Native American, Italian... all that and more. My father always said that our family was “Heinz 57,” like the brand of steak sauce supposedly made of 57 zesty ingredients. Good enough for me! A great strength of America is our mixed population, continuously fueled by generations of immigrants coming as refugees. Consider the typical story of 16-year-old Friedrich, who fled his tiny German village, where he faced a dreary future of poverty. Arriving in Manhattan in 1885 with no money and little educa-
tion, he was nonetheless greeted by America’s open immigration policy and welcomed into citizenship. Friedrich soon prospered, eventually opening hotels and taverns. And — God Bless America — only three generations later, Friedrich Trump’s grandson became President of the U.S.A.! Alas, though, Grandbaby Donald would not even have let Friedrich in. Indeed, Donald denigrates and has ruthlessly shut out penniless refugees like his grandfather, though such migrants are now more likely to be named Federico and come from Latin America. Trump
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especially hates a process he calls “chain migration,” whereby American citizens can obtain U.S. residency for their foreign relatives. “They bring their whole family with them,” Trump repeatedly rants. “NOT ACCEPTABLE!” he barked in a recent Twitter tantrum. But — psst — guess who just set aside his immigrant-bashing tantrums long enough to benefit his own family? Yes, The Donald. In August, the Slovenian parents of Trump’s immigrant wife, Melania, quietly became American citizens through the “chain migration” process their son-in-law so loudly denounces as “not acceptable.” In TrumpWorld, integrity and consistency aren’t virtues. All that matters is, “What’s in it for me right now.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 15 , 2018 5
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the anderson files Organized labor; our sanity depends on it by Dave Anderson
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cross the country, roots movement for it. Democratic candidates Castillo also celebrated the passage ran on much more proof several progressive ballot measures, gressive platforms this such as votes in Arkansas and Missouri year as compared to the to raise the minimum wage. Most siglast three election cycles, according to nificant was the passage of Amendment an analysis of candidates for the U.S. 4 in Florida, which will restore voting House and Senate by the group Data rights to about 1.5 million formerly for Progress. incarcerated people, she said. The percentage of candidates who Nevertheless, Castillo warned about endorsed Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for the dangers to democracy posed by the All (single-payer) demagogic inciteor a Medicare buyment of racism and in went from 27 anti-Semitism as Scott percent in 2010 to well as the many Walker’s lead, 58 percent this cases of voter supWisconsin election cycle. pression. She Growing stressed the urgenwent “right to nationwide alarm cy of continuing to work” in both over health care “build a broad the public and costs and access — movement for the private sectors, especially for peotransformative ple with pre-existsocial change we and union ing conditions — need on issues that membership made health care unite people, from dropped by 40 the leading issue health care to envipercent. for voters. In the ronmental protecred states of tions to voting Nebraska, Idaho rights and confront and Utah, voters the enormous powerapproved expanding Medicaid ful interests who dominate our economcoverage. ic and political system.” National Nurses United (NNU) is a The labor movement played an important role in the Democratic Party leading voice for Medicare for All. blue wave. The AFL-CIO reported its NNU Executive Director Bonnie effort included 2.35 million door Castillo, RN, said her union will work knocks, 5 million worksite flyers, more with the growing House Medicare for All caucus to press for legislative action, than 12 million mail pieces, 260,094 while also continuing to build the grass- see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7
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text messages and 69 million “impressions on social media.” Some 800 union members (and counting) won public office across the nation. Tim Walz, a former history teacher at Mankato High School, will become Minnesota’s governor. In Connecticut, Jahana Hayes, a Waterbury social science teacher and 2016 National Teacher of the Year, won an open 5th Congressional District seat on a progressive platform — including Medicare for All and $15 minimum wage — after defeating the establishment candidate in the Democratic primary. Then there’s the sweet news from Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Those three Democratic-leaning Great Lakes states helped Trump win the presidency in the Electoral College in 2016 by 77,744 votes. Meanwhile, Trump lost in the national popular vote by about 3 million. In 2018, the Democrats won big in the three states. The defeat of Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, was joyously celebrated by about 100 people at the rotunda of the Capitol in Madison. They formed a circle for what was literally the 1,999th gathering of the “Solidarity Sing Along,” an hour-long, informal event held every Monday through Friday at noon. John Nichols, the national-affairs correspondent for The Nation, describes Walker as “the anti-labor zealot who in many senses initiated the scorched-earth ‘divide-and-conquer’ politics that Trump took national in 2016.” Walker was elected in 2010 and immediately upon taking office, he introduced Act 10, which basically destroyed collective bargaining for public sector workers, banned dues deduction, and forced unions to recertify every year. Under his lead, the state went “right to work” in both the public and private sectors, and union membership dropped 40 percent. In February 2011, there was a nonviolent uprising with massive marches and civil disobedience that attracted worldwide attention. A recall effort was launched but failed. Walker ran for president in 2016 and compared teachers to “terrorists.” He became good buddies with Trump. This year, he was running for re-election. Trump campaigned for him and said that Walker’s Democratic opponent, former school teacher Tony Evers, wanted “illegal aliens to flood Wisconsin.” Walker mimicked Trump’s attacks on immigrants in a very expensive and nasty campaign. Now Walker is gone. But we can’t be complacent. The Republicans are an
explicitly anti-union party ers and to bargain collectively with his Unfortunately, too many Democrats are employer.” tepid in their support of unions and That was before big business working people. declared war on unions decades ago. Decades ago, Democrats and Now one out of 10 Americans is a Republicans would compete with each union member. That should concern other for the support of unions and everyone. Because numerous studies their members. In the 1930s, President show that unions reduce inequality in Franklin Roosevelt observed: “It is now society and strengthen democracy by beyond partisan controversy that it is a giving the working class majority a voice fundamental individual right of a workin policy debates. AD_BoulderWeekly_11-18.pdf 1 11/13/18 3:26 PM er to associate himself with other workUnion members receive higher
wages and better benefits than the unorganized. A union contract provides great job security and you have protection from arbitrary dismissal. You have a sense of empowerment because you have a say in how your workplace is managed. You are actually happier and are more productive at work. You are more sane. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a more sane society? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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letters Only courage saves democracy Kudos to Dave Anderson for his column, “Fighting Solves Everything?” (Re: The Anderson Files, Oct. 18, 2018), in the equally courageous Boulder Weekly. Kudos for the research involved, but even more, in my opinion, for the courage to write this column. The right-wing extremists Dave writes about are dangerous to our democracy, but especially to the freedom of the press and the courageous journalists that it takes to keep a free press which a democracy requires. It is so easy to say the words democracy, freedom of the press, freedom of speech; but only courage, hard work and perseverance will make it mean anything to you and me. These right-wing groups are training to street fight, not just to frighten Anderson into writing about knitting. They intend to beat you into submission if you disagree with them. I just read the bestseller The Death of Democracy, Hitler’s Rise to Power, by Benjamin Carter Hett. The similarities between that time, the 1920s and ’30s, and 2018 are frightening. The lies, the hatred, the cruelty of Hitler’s speeches, the encouragement of hatred of the press, and violence towards not only journalists but anyone who disagrees, the creation of a private army, his own brown shirts, all are here in Benjamin’s book and in Anderson’s column. If these present-day “brown shirts” had tried marching down any street in the U.S. wearing swastikas while the World War II vets were still alive, those swastikas would have been their lunch, and they know it. They would have thanked you, Dave Anderson. So do I. Gary Cox/Lafayette
Congress still has work to do It’s hard to ignore that this is an election year. Everyone is thinking about what will happen in the next Congress based on what happened during the recent election. Let’s not forget that this current Congress still has three months of work to do. There are critical things on the agenda that need to be accomplished by this Congress. One of those issues is global maternal and child survival. There is a bill that is on the table which could save the lives of 5.6 million children globally. The Reach Every Mother and Child Act (S. 1730) ensures that women and children who are vulnerable of dying from preventable causes have access to available resources. I emphasize preventable because these women and children are dying from lack of vaccines, water, and food; all things which there is an abundance of. The Reach Every Mother and Child Act’s sole purpose is to, “implement policies to 8 November 15 , 2018
end preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths globally.” This implementation would not cost money; instead, it creates a strategy which ensures that every dollar spent on global maternal and child health is saving the most lives. As the world faces a growing refugee crisis with people fleeing their countries looking for better opportunities for their children, we have an opportunity to support a bill that will invest in building strong health infrastructure and stable foundations in other countries so families have what they need to be healthy and survive at home. The Reach Every Mother and Child Act benefits the U.S. by upholding America’s compassion and leadership across the world while contributing to greater national security. Building more stable countries leads to a safer world. Let’s not let our urgency to get to the next senate get in the way of making a difference on issues that this senate needs to address. There are already dozens of Republican Senate and House leaders cosponsoring The Reach Every Mother and Child Act. We need Sen. Cory Gardner to cosponsor this bill immediately. We need to make sure our senator cares about the lives of 5.6 million children, especially when it requires very little effort on his part. Sen. Gardner already knows our saying, “5.6 seconds to cosponsor The Reach Every Mother and Child Act can save 5.6 million lives.” Holley Hickman/Denver
On Trumpism By any standard, Donald Trump is a chauvinist, sexist, racist, capitalist pig. That he has a sizable and avid following willing to overlook his blatant boorishness speaks worlds to the grasp white identity holds still in America’s selfimage. White men and their dutiful wives made America the great nation it rose to be. Brown-skinned people were but riders on the train. Despite it being 82 years since Jesse Owens, in the 1936 Olympics, first shattered the myth of Aryan superiority, with sports now exemplifying successful integration, Donald Trump has been masterful in sensing and manipulating white anxiety over lost standing and influence, particularly as evidenced by the election of Barack Obama. His early embrace of the “birther” movement and his current railings at black athletes protesting racial injustices are rallying cries to his anxious base, and here the Republican Party, ever hungry for power with gerrymandering and voter suppression, has tagged along like a ragged street gang following the neighborhood bully. Overall, it is a disturbing phenomenon. Robert Porath/Boulder Boulder Weekly
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news A RETURN TO LEGACY The reopening of Central City’s Bates Hunter Mine
STORY AND PHOTOS BY SARAH HAAS
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t’s 8 a.m. at Central City’s newly reopened Bates Hunter Mine, the sun just peaking over the valley walls. It’s been over 70 years since gold was last mined here, but as the miner’s begin to arrive at work on a November day in 2018, it feels like they’ve been here all along, like this is where they’re supposed to be. By all appearances today is a normal day, although on the agenda is at least one extraordinary task; after months of removing water from the main shaft, the miners can finally access the 163-foot level, submerged and unseen since an exploratory visit in 2008. And, aside from a few maps that look like a simplistic version of Snakes and Ladders, the crew doesn’t really know what to expect on today’s seminal descent.
“We’re just gonna go down and check it out, gauge the condition of the The newly reopened Bates infrastructure, poke around Hunter Mine in on the landing,” says Matt Central City holds the history and Collins, the mine’s general future of manager and engineer. “It’ll Colorado’s Gold Rush within its be neat to see how close tunnels. these are to our maps.” In hopes of extracting ore by the end of the year, the miners have already been hard at work getting the site in working order: cleaning the shop, retrofitting the water treatment plant and dewatering the mine. For the most part, those tasks will continue to be the bulk of their daily work, but, even with today’s pioneering task added
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Top: The Golden Gilpin Mill Site, just a mile down the road from the Bates Hunter Mine, is currently undergoing renovations to bring it to function. Bottom: Every miner must face the brass board and their own mortality each day before descending into the mine.
to the list, there’s still another hour of routine to attend to. The miners still need at least one more cup of coffee, they still need to gear up and attend the daily safety meeting. Then, last on the list before the descent is the final and solemn rite of passage: to check in at the brass board. There’s a brass board at just about every mine in the world and every morning, every miner must face it before entering the mine. They must take their identifying tags and move one to the line reading “in,” while fastening the other securely to their body. It’s an old-fashioned system addressing the worst-case scenarios of the job: at the end of the day a way to know if a miner is still below or, in case of emergency, to identify a body killed in the course of performing one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Although these days, and in this country, accidents are rare and fatalities rarer still (in the last five years there have been two fatalities in Colorado mines). Nonetheless, there is an ever-present gravity in a daily miner’s task, one that they’re accustomed to confronting at the start and end of each day. “I always think of my wife,” one miner says as he grabs his brass. “But I don’t tell her that because I don’t want her to worry.” With the ID tags attended to, the hard rock gold miners at Bates Hunter are now ready to enter the shaft, ready to travel down hundreds of feet of granite into the dark, one rickety ladder step at a time. Built from aged two-by-fours, the ladders are damp with the moisture in the slowly dewatering mine and are slippery to the touch. They warn against relying on the rungs (“you can trust the wood but not the iron nails”), but there’s no real way to avoid them entirely; best to step on them gingerly, maintain three points of contact and hold on to the side rails as you go down the aged shafts built over 100 years ago. The Bates Hunter Mine (actually a conglomeration of the Bates Mine and the Hunter Mine) is rumored to be the second mine claimed in Central City in 1859, but, according to Dr. David Forsyth, executive director of the Gilpin Historical Society, it hasn’t been historically significant until lately, now that it’s reopened for business, making it the first operational mine in city limits in more than 80 years. For a historian interested in mining history, there might be no better place to be stationed than Central City, the origin site of the Colorado Gold Rush and the notoriously touted “richest square mile on earth.” The town’s origin story is among its most famous, and Forsyth knows it by heart. It begins with a man named John Gregory, a placer miner panning for gold at the foot of Clear Creek. Unsatisfied with the See BATES HUNTER Page 12
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Top: Miners gear up to go down into the mine after the morning safety meeting. Bottom: The Bates Hunter Mine at sunrise.
flakes he collected, he turned his attention uphill, following the water upstream until the gold flakes disappeared from the water, an indication he had passed the mineral’s source. Whether by luck or cunning, this was how he discovered his namesake Gregory Vein, and as soon as weather permitted, he staked the very first few claims. Within weeks, more than 30,000 miners had staked thousands of claims and a haphazard town came to life to support the burgeoning industry. Precarious wooden houses were built on cliffs and ramshackle stores took shape. But mining in those early days wasn’t just difficult and dangerous, it was also expensive. Lacking the necessary funds, the boom town dwindled quickly. By the 1870 census, only a few hundred miners remained. Those who stayed were not interested in getting rich quick but, knowing they needed to attract investors, looked to build the necessary infrastructure for a long-lasting industry. And so they were quick to turn the shanty town into a bona fide society, demolishing the mining shacks and replacing them with the brick-and-mortar buildings that still stand today. To govern the town, they established a regimen of law and order and brought their wives and children to help elevate their culture. And, by 1878, they’d even brought the train to town, having laid tracks all the way from Denver to Central City. But it was too late. By then, new gold lodes had been discovered in the state, in Aspen and Cripple Creek, and money followed the prospector’s promise. Meanwhile, mines in the Central City area were closing faster than they opened and by 1910 only a few remained. Some were operational but most were used as scams for dubious businessmen to draw funds from wealthy European investors, rarely returning investments and usually escaping obligations through declarations of bankruptcy. Somehow, though, both the Bates and Hunter Mines kept producing through the difficult times, even enduring World War I. By 1936 it’d established shafts down to 700 feet but, in that same year, President Roosevelt declared ownership of monetary gold illegal with the Gold Reserve Act, sending gold prices plummeting. Many of the mines, including Bates Hunter, were abandoned and have been more or less untouched since then. “When the mines stopped operating, they left an awful lot of gold in the Earth,” Forsyth says. “When all is said and done, only 10 to 15 percent of the gold was extracted, which means there’s still at least 85 percent of it down there.” Both Forsyth and current mine manager Collins speculate that in other countries with less regulation, the now gambling towns of Central City and Black Hawk would have long ago been demolished to get at the loot. With the spot price of gold hovering around $1,200 per ounce, the area’s lode is valued in the tens of billions of dollars, (the Bates Hunter Mine alone speculatively contains upwards of $2 million), a prize many governments and business owners would pursue without hesitation. But here in the United States, mining regulations have evolved to protect both the environment and workers, making mining a cleaner and safer but ultimately more expensive endeavor. Since the 1970s, federal mining regulations have tightened according to such legislation as the 1972 Clean Water Act, requiring mines like Bates Hunter to build expensive water treatment plants that return high-quality water to See BATES HUNTER Page 14
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watersheds. And, the 1977 Mine Safety and Health Act established safety measures like the necessary Matt Collins presence of a secondary escape route, an unfeasible overlooks retrofit for many smaller mining operations to accomequipment at the Mill site. modate. Despite the costs to the industry, the steps were enacted in response to glaring evidence of the environmental and safety risks posed by mining. Since the end of the gold era in the 1930s, Central City, like many of the other mining towns in Colorado, have been engaged in monumental clean-up acts. One of the largest designated Superfund sites, the Central City, Clear Creek area — a 400-square-mile watershed extending from the Continental Divide east to near Golden — was placed on the original National Priorities List in 1983. Steve Laudeman with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment identifies upwards of 30 specific sites in need of attention within the Superfund site, two of which are located in Central City. “As a whole, we initially looked at the site as a study area, evaluating it so that we might narrow it down to specific sites in need of remediation,” Laudeman says. “At this point, the few sites located in Central City (namely piles of toxic mining debris) are in maintenance mode: with major remediations accomplished we now monitor them on a regular basis. “Our bigger focus now is on restoring the water quality of Clear Creek. As of last year we completed construction of a water treatment facility downstream from Black Hawk that is treating water in hopes of restoring surrounding ecosystems.” When asked if there was a date in which remediation efforts would be completed Laudeman simply says, “No, and I don’t think there ever will be.” But neither Laudeman nor the Colorado Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Mining and Reclamation believe new mining activity poses a threat. If the Bates Hunter Mine operates according to the rules and regulations, they say environmental threats should be stymied. Bates Hunter Mine manager Matt Collins agrees and pushes a little further, saying heightened standards ought to be viewed as a reason to mine domestically, where we know it’s being done right. “We all use gold, as an investment, in our jewelry, in our cell phones. That will not change. So why not mine it here, mine it responsibly, safely and with as little impact on the environment as possible?” Speaking from his desk in the otherwise orderly Bates Hunter Mine, Collins’ area is stacked high with thick books about chemistry, piles of papers, maps and random pieces of small equipment that need attention. Positioned in between the mining operations and the investors that hover above, Collins is a modern day renaissance man, whose job is to know and execute everything from payroll to building a lab in which to test the gold that’ll be mined in the near future. “The regulations are expensive, and were it not for the equipment and infrastructure that this mine already has (estimated at $40 million), the barrier to entry would simply be too high,” he says. “This mine is a dream come true, it’s got an Boulder Weekly
active permit, a lot of potential, a great infrastructure, a neat history and, with the mill site located just a mile down the road in Black Hawk (most industrial gold mills in the United States are shuttered, making processing a costly international endeavor), we might just be able to pull this off.” Above his desk is a long list of tasks that need to be completed in order to make the dream possible. Number one, fix up the mill. Number two, create a report for investors... Number 10, “Dream Big.” “That one comes from the man who made all this possible,” he says, turning to point at a makeshift shrine hanging above a copy machine. “It was the mantra of the guy who bought this place in the 1980s, George Otten [now deceased]. Without him and his foresight, this mine would have been shuttered like the rest of them.” A coin-operated car wash entrepreneur turned miner, Otten comes from an older generation of miners who might best be described as curmudgeons: “His generation was the ones who invented the best practices that got turned into regulations, and they weren’t very fond of the regulations,” Collins says with a laugh. Which is to say that where others saw obstacles, Otten saw opportunity, scooping up both the mine and the mill site and acquiring active permits for both in 1990. In 2004, Otten started to dewater the mine but before he could produce any gold, he met the fate of so many miners of yesteryear: he ran out of money. Shuttering operations in 2008, Otten began to look for financial backers, which he quickly found in the GS Mine Company (a spin-off of BH Mine Company), which not only thought the site promising in terms of extraction, but believed it presented the perfect case study to try a new method of fundraising by way of cryptocurrency. Soon, the company’s “Moria Tokens” will be available to any investor with Bitcoin or Ethereum and will represent ownership of royalties from the Bates Hunter Mine. Advertised as the “first cryptocurrency to provide immediate cash flow,” GS Mine Company aims to attract a lot of newer and smaller investors who wouldn’t otherwise have the capital to invest in gold mining. Must be 21 to participate. Among the first mines in the world to offer its own cryptocurrency, the effectiveness and payouts of the Bates Hunter Mine are yet to be seen. If successful, the currency could help small mining operations overcome the high barriers to entry facing the domestic industry. But scrupulous onlookers, like Dr. Forsyth at the Gilpin History Mining Museum, says the schema seems eerily familiar to the mining scams of the past. From the insider’s vantage point, Collins says he’s withholding judgment, “Heck, I’m optimistic. From where I stand we are building up a robust mining operation here. We have lofty goals and we’re meeting all of them on schedule. But, of course, the real test is if we can get some
gold up out of the mine, which we should know by the end of next quarter. So far, all signs are pointing to yes.” And so, at least for the foreseeable future, the 11 miners at the Bates Hunter Mine will continue to wake up before dawn to get to work by daybreak. They will sip on their coffee, put on their gear, and sit through their safety meetings. Inevitably, they will come face to face with the brass board and take a moment to reflect on life and what they are living for. “I just love it down here,” a miner nicknamed Foo says. “This has got to be the greatest job in the world. You work with your hands, you explore the depths of the Earth, you get to tackle incredibly difficult tasks that most people would call impossible. And, we get to mine gold in a place that’s longing for a return to that history. “Just don’t tell my wife too much about it. She’ll worry.”
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Colorado becomes fifth state to allow ‘X’ gender marker on driver’s licenses by Angela K. Evans
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or Carter Stepanovsky of Lyons, the process of changing their name to reflect their gender identity has been both emotionally and financially exhausting. Plus, it’s simply been cumbersome, an intricate process of dependencies, certain steps required before the next can be achieved. Identifying as transgender non-binary, Stepanovsky (who, as a matter of full disclosure, is also a personal friend) began the process in 2014. Starting with visits to a mental health provider to get a physician-signed letter, they had to buy ads in the paper to publish notice of their intended change, go to court and re-explain themselves to various government officials and employees. After all was said and done, by 2016 Stepanovsky had a new social security card, driver’s license, passport, updated credit cards and bank statements, but one thing still wasn’t right: They still had to designate a gender marker inconsistent with their identity. “My gender marker is still female because I’m non-binary, because it wasn’t an option,” Stepanovsky says. Or at least it wasn’t, until now. On Nov. 8 the Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR), which encompasses the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), announced an emergency rule giving people the option to designate “X” as their gender marker on state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards in lieu of male or female. Colorado follows California, Oregon, Minnesota, Maine and Washington D.C. in offering a non-binary identifier on driver’s licenses. “I feel validated,” says Stepanovsky, who moved to Boulder County in 2002. “It’s really exciting to see my own state recognize my existence.” Saoirse Maloney, who’s from Gold Hill and now lives in Boulder, was assigned male at birth but identifies as non-binary with a feminine self-expression. Maloney has yet to change their gender marker because they’ve always felt female is just as disingenuous as male. Having the third option identifier is a huge opportunity, they say. “It’s a way of being recognized more as my authentic self,” Maloney says. “And not having to pretend to be a trans woman when I’m not.” Prompted, in part, by two legal cases where the courts ruled in favor of individuals seeking to change their gender identity on official documents, the DOR says in its announcement the new rule is necessary for “the preservation of public health, safety and welfare.” The agency has been discussing the change for more than a year. “Part of the reasoning for the emergency rule was to make sure that we were minimizing the Department of Revenue’s legal exposure and to bring our policies [into line] with the recent court cases,” says Lawrence Pacheco, director of communications with the DOR. “But it’s also important that Coloradans have a correct sex identifier on their driver’s license and identification cards that reflects their true lived experience.” The emergency ruling is being hailed by the LGBTQ community and advocates as a significant and Boulder Weekly
necessary step toward inclusion, a validation of identity that has long been missing in statewide systems. “This is a really important recognition from the government,” says Michal Duffy (they/them/theirs), education and program manager at Out Boulder. “It actually is powerful to have that recognition.” Advocates hope the new gender identifier will help track transgender and non-binary individuals, generating the type of population data that could benefit the LGBTQ community. According to a study out of UCLA, about 1.4 million people in the country and an estimated 20,000 adults in Colorado identify as transgender, which includes both people who identify as a different gender than the one assigned at birth as well as non-binary and gender non-conforming folks. Because the LGBTQ population has never before been tracked in any meaningful way — sexual orientation, once again, will not be part of the 2020 census, regardless of requests to do so from four Obama-era federal agencies, including the Justice Department — reliable national data still isn’t available. Roughly half of folks who utilize Out Boulder County’s services are transgender or non-binary, says Duffy, but firm statistics are difficult to track. The organization is currently analyzing data from an LGBTQ assessment survey it completed in October, and Executive Director Mardi Moore is hoping to know more about population sizes in Boulder County relatively soon. “Being counted is important for all kinds of reasons,” Moore says. “Not only does it hurt not to be counted in the census and to have your identity and orientation wiped out, but what hurts in a community way is that resources don’t follow. Boulder County provides funding to us, and some other government agencies, and the more people we know of who are in need of programs and services the better chance we have of securing additional funding for programming.” With an X gender marker, Colorado driver’s licenses and identification cards will still be compliant with the Real ID Act, which dictates minimum security standards for IDs to access federal facilities, enter nuclear power plants and board federally regulated commercial aircraft. The only fee associated with the change comes in getting a new driver’s license card (currently $28), not to actually process the gender marker change in the DMV system. The emergency ruling goes into effect on Nov. 30, when people will be able to access the sex designation change form, including the option to use “X,” on the DMV website, and be able to obtain new licenses and identification cards. In order to qualify, individuals must have their medical or behavioral health care provider sign the form, which has raised concerns within the LGBTQ community. “It [suggests] that this is a diagnosable problem rather than just an example of diversity of our species,” Duffy says. “Ideally we can eventually move away from having that letter, but if that’s the compromise for now, I’ll take that.” Pacheco says the physician-signed form is consis-
tent with current rules for people changing their gender from male to female or female to male, but the emergency rule does not require “an individual to undergo any specific surgery, treatment or behavioral therapy,” he says. “Also, under the emergency rule the medical or behavioral health Carter provider may be licensed outside Stepanovsky of the state of Colorado.” The emergency ruling is effective for 120 days while DOR undergoes a permanent rulemaking process with stakeholder meetings, public comment and a public hearing. “Coloradans are free to submit comments about any provision in the emergency rule or testify at a public hearing on the rule which will be announced at a later date,” Pacheco says, indicating it will most likely take place sometime in December. As the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened transgender protections, freedoms and services, there are also concerns about the dissonance between state and federal gender identifier policies. Pacheco assures nothing done at the federal level will affect the DOR’s process in adding a third gender identifier on state-issued identification. “It might even make it more urgent for us to act to ensure that people here in the state have a sex identifier that reflects their lives,” he says. Stepanovsky, for one, is optimistic, hoping the new DOR policy will trigger a cascade effect, whereby other identifying documents like passports and birth certificates can be changed to reflect non-binary identities. On international passports, listing a sex identifier is required by the U.N.’s International Civil Aviation organization, which sets requirements for travel documents. However, using an X is already acceptable — among others, Canada, Malta, New Zealand and Pakistan allow its use. In the U.S., the issue is currently making its way through courts, with a recent ruling in favor of intersex Fort Collins resident Dana Zzyym. Additionally, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is currently considering a rule to allow intersex as an option on Colorado birth certificates. While opportunities for more progress remain, the DOR’s emergency ruling is a significant development toward broader cultural and systematic recognition and equality. “This feels like a deliberate step for inclusion and visibility, which I feel very grateful for,” Stepanovsky says. “It’s breaking down barriers around otherness.” November 15, 2018 17
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he worlds of food and technology are they attract an eclectic group. From restaurateurs inseparably intertwined. From seedling to farmers, tech entrepreneurs, CU faculty, stuto cellar, from farm to fridge and ranch dents, caregivers and journalists — people of all to restaurant, our food systems and chain ages, from many different industries, all gather to of supply hinge on technology. talk about food and technology. It is a relationship on which we depend — And there is a lot to discuss. and yet, it is far from perfect. There is still a lot At any given FoodTech meetup you’ll likely of room for the worlds of agriculture and techhear about GMOs, perennial grains, crop rotanology to grow together in tion and livestock grazing. You more efficient, sustainable ways. might hear talk of supply chains, That’s why Joe Matta started food transportation, methods of ON THE BILL: FoodTech FoodTech meetups in Boulder. distribution, food tracking and meetup. 6 p.m. Thursday He wants to coalesce a commuquality control. There are discusNov. 15, Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave., nity of people who are passionsions of how horticulture can be Boulder. The next one is ate and involved in both agriculused for therapy, how waterscheduled for Dec. 20. For more info, visit www.meetture and technology in hopes of rights bills can be crafted to up.com/Boulder-FoodTech/ expanding the intersection improve the efficiency of irrigabetween these sectors. tion, and how restaurants can “I want these meetups to be solutions-driven, limit waste using new materials. to start bringing people together, to create a The crossovers between food and technology space for them to be creative and collaborate and are endless, limited only by the imagination. But, then actually come up with interesting ideas,” the discussions at FoodTech meetups don’t just Matta says. focus on macro concepts; much of the discussion It doesn’t matter whether these ideas take the is locally oriented. form of a new startup, a new technology or conMatta describes how, at a recent meeting, a cept, or just a new way of thinking about the local chef and a web designer connected by disrelationship between food and tech, Matta says. cussing digital marketing, as the chef is trying to “My hope is that I can turn this into something get her business off the ground. They exchanged that can push solutions forward with the people information and a new partnership took root. of Boulder.” “It doesn’t have to be a deep ethical conversaMatta moved here a year and a half ago from tion about building robot farmers,” Matta says. Minnesota and started the FoodTech meetups to “It can be just a basic connection between people bridge a gap he recognized between the food and who understand technology and people who tech sectors. understand food.” The meetups are usually held every third Because of the casual nature of these meetThursday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sanitas ups, the groups tend to range in size. Sometimes taphouse — just in time for happy hour. And only a handful of people show; other times, the
meetings push 20 to 25 people, filling every seat in the Sanitas meeting room. While the number of attendees might vary from month to month, what’s consistent, and more important, is the quality of conversation — which is always rich. Matta, himself has great interest in this area. He is a masters student of environmental studies at CU Boulder and a recruiter for Techstars’ Farm to Fork Accelerator, a program aimed to help entrepreneurs, anywhere on the spectrum between agriculture and technology, accelerate their business growth through investments, resources and industry connections. As a recruiter, Matta works to identify highpotential entrepreneurs with good ideas in agtech and bring them into the program. Which, he admits, has made the meetups something of a convenient asset, though that isn’t why he started them. “I actually started the FoodTech meetups before I started working for the Farm to Fork program,” Matta says. “So, it’s kind of just an added benefit now.” To Matta, it’s truly a matter of catalyzing a reaction between the food and technology sectors in Boulder. On the weekend of Nov. 30, Matta is helping Techstars organize a startup weekend — an intensive seminar, focused on food and agriculture, which demonstrates how entrepreneurs jump-start a startup business. If you’re looking for something a little more casual, something a little less intensive, however, drink a beer and kick back at the next FoodTech meetup. For anyone who is interested in environmentalism, or anyone who likes food or technology, it’s a fruitful place to be.
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with the love of her life, moving away from the home she’d made in Brooklyn to start a new chapter in Southern California. As Eckroth surveys the topography of her emotions across When It Fall’s 11 tracks, she stakes out vast new sonic territory, with Lefebvre providing gentle guidance and encouragement along the way. Lefebvre is a musical polyglot, fluent in improvisational jazz, rock and electronic grooves, a seasoned session bassist known for his innovative style. It’s why Davie Bowie recruited him to play bass on his final album, 2016’s Grammy-winning Blackstar. Lefebvre’s worked with trumpeter Chris Botti, mandolinist Chris Thile, electronic duo Empire of the Sun and reggae singer Matisyahu. Currently, Lefebvre plays blues with Tedeschi Trucks Band. While Lefebvre helped shape When It Falls, Eckorth is its primary architect. The album is her experience, in her words, her lyrics a planetary force creating a sort of emotional gravity that pulls you in and grounds you. The two make a formidable musical machine. Eckroth’s experience as a “sideman” on gigs helped shape her equally eclectic musical palette. In addition to her education in jazz, Eckroth has performed as the backing vocalist and keyboardist for Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, and worked as part of the house band for the The Meredith Vieira Show on NBC (“That gig helped me finance my own musical projects,” Eckroth says). In 2017, Eckroth was asked to serve as the assistant music director for the Women’s March in D.C., running rehearsals for artists like Janelle
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Monáe, June Millington, Angelique Kidjo and the Indigo Girls. ON THE BILL: Rachel Now Eckroth is taking When It Falls out on Eckroth — opening for Rufus the road as the opening act for Rufus Wainwright. 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Boulder Theater, Wainwright, who she’s also playing keys for. 2032 14th St., Boulder, boul“I think being a sideman shaped me,” dertheater.com. Eckroth says. “I’ve been getting into just creating sounds, kind of experimenting with pedals and affects and textures. ... I’ve always had my own projects, but I’m always sitting behind a keyboard so I have little bit of a guard between me and the audience. So I don’t know what it’s like to stand up and be the front person — I’ve never done that. But I think the songs stand up for themselves this time around.” When It Falls navigates dark subject matter without becoming morose, thanks to Eckorth’s carefully crafted lyrics and Lefebvre’s textured, ethereal soundscapes. It opens directly with Eckorth’s pain as she questions when she’ll recover from her father’s death in “Walls,” a trance-like cadence leading Eckroth away from her waking pain into her dreams where she can see him again. She and Lefebvre pay homage to Bowie — who died just two days after Eckroth’s father — with a faithful version of “Love Is Lost” from 2013’s The Next Day. “There’s so much on the internet about different explanations of the song’s meaning,” Eckroth says. “For that song specifically, I have my own feelings. My mom thought it was about getting older. Everyone has a different feeling about it.” There’s no question about her feelings in “Dark Waters,” a bare-bones, bluestinged ode to jealousy. Derek Trucks keeps the dark blues vibe going with a searing guitar solo in “Strangest Dream.” Synths take center stage for the new wave sound of “The Wasted Years” as the album begins a gentle spiral toward the psychedelic in “Collecting Bruises” and “Call My Name,” the latter written by Lefebvre and Tyler Greenwell, the drummer for Tedeschi Trucks. When It Falls is Eckroth’s most endearing album yet, an exploration that leaves listeners rejuvenated and eager for more. It feels natural, so natural, in fact, that it’s hard to imagine a return to her jazz beginnings. “I don’t think so,” Eckroth admits. “I like the direction things are going.” Boulder Weekly
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he Infamous Stringdusters have been on tour pretty much nonstop since the start of 2017 and will have soon released two live albums, one that documents performances of songs from their latest studio album of original material, Laws of Gravity, and on Nov. 16, a two-album career-spanning set, Live From Telluride, will arrive. But dobro player Andy Hall feels the group’s current live show will be plenty fresh — even for fans that saw the Infamous Stringdusters over the past year. “I feel like this past year we’ve made sort of a large leap in our live show,” he says. “You know, we’ve always liked the improvised jamming element of our show, but we kind of consciously took it to this next level this [past] year, where we’re stringing three or four songs together at a time without a break in the music through improvised sections and jams. And so now we have this. It’s a little less like play a song, stop, talk to the audience, play a song, stop, talk to the audience. It’s like these longer sections of music that weave through songs and choruses and solos and group improvised sections. So there may be 20 minutes of music before there’s a break. “That takes learning techniques and skills that will allow you to do that,” Hall says. “I feel like it’s changed our show a lot.” The growth in the live show is just the latest part of what is making the Laws of Gravity cycle a landmark period for the Infamous Stringdusters, which includes Hall, fiddle player Jeremy Garrett, bassist Travis Book, guitarist Andy Falco and banjo player Chris Pandolfi. Boulder Weekly
6 MILLION DOLLAR BAND The seventh studio album from the band found the group re-embracing their bluegrass roots, particularly on songs like “Freedom,” “Black Elk” and “A Hard Life Makes A Good Song,” earning critical acclaim and then, at the end of January, something more. Laws of Gravity was named co-winner of the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album with Rhonda Vincent’s All The Rage — Volume 1. Hall considers the Grammy perhaps the biggest honor his group has earned. “It’s known as the biggest award in music,” he says. “I mean, there are smaller organizations that are awesome. For us, we’ve been part of the International Bluegrass Music Association for years. And back 10 years ago we received some awards from them. That’s awesome because that’s getting recognized by your peers that are in that genre. But the Grammys, it’s all of music. You’re recognized sort of in a broader sense. So yeah, it’s really exciting.” Now it’s back to the daily business of being a band and building on the success of the Laws of Gravity album, which got a bit of a boost this past spring with the release of the Laws of Gravity Live album, a compilation of live versions of the songs from the studio album that were recorded during the early months of the touring cycle. The decision to release a live counterpart to the studio album had a lot to do with when and how the Laws of Gravity songs were written. “This album is the first time we’ve ever waited until the album release to play the songs off of the album live. We’ve always sort of written the songs and started playing them in the show before we even record the album,” Hall
says. “So when we started touring on the album and playing those songs live, they quickly kind of took on a life of their own. ... We wanted to sort of get it out there. So even though it was only four months maybe after the (studio) record came out, a lot had happened with those songs.” As touring continues this fall and into 2019, the band is also working on the launch of their new record label, Tape Time Records. Hall says in today’s environment, labels don’t offer better distribution than a band can arrange or funding to make albums. “It’s sort of like, OK, if we can get the distribution and they’re not going to give us any money to make a record, why would we [sign with a label]?” Hall says. But there’s another goal for the label — a way to bring bands together and create a sense of community. “The bigger part of the reason we started this is because in some ways, the jam-grass scene, if you will, I’ll use that word, is kind of a disparate, fractured thing ... Everybody’s kind of just doing their own thing,” he says. “There’s no central place that the art all happens ... So we want to start basically making ways to team up, to pool our resources, to pool our energies and have it maybe be something that artistically can be real interesting. Maybe it means there will be more collaboration [between bands]. Maybe we’ll be able to write with some of these artists and get these records released, or guest on each other’s records or make a compilation, just sort of make one centralized location where some of this stuff can all live together and create together. That’s sort of the exciting part.”
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iolinist Sarah Chang, a 50-50 partner. If you look at the reperthat way, because everything has to celebrated concerto solotoire that we’re playing, we’re doing the make a cohesive line and an arch from ist, comes to Boulder on Brahms sonata and the Franck sonatas, beginning to end. One single note can’t Friday, Nov. 16, for a rare and those are ginormous piano parts. I be out of place because then the whole solo recital, but she would really think of him as my duo partner.” thing falls apart.” rather talk about her dog. Of the three pieces on the program, That sonata is one piece in which “I wish people would ask me more it is the Brahms that most captures Chang says you have to pay attention about my dog,” she says. “He’s the Chang’s heart. “The thing about to both the violin and the piano. “You number one thing in my life, and every- Brahms for me on a personal level is can’t just look at the violin part body always asks me about music.” that I love everything that he wrote,” because it’s only half the puzzle. This She has had her beagle, Chewie, for she says. “Every single note is just so is one of the pieces where I have to Colin Bell about four years and, as anyone learn from the piano score, who follows her Twitter account because you need the knows, he has become the center whole picture.” of her offstage life. While on tour, The Franck “I will geographically tie myself Sonata presents a difON THE BILL: Sarah into the most absurd plane routferent kind of chalChang, violin, and Julio Elizalde, piano. 7:30 p.m. ings just to see him overnight,” lenge, in part because Friday, Nov. 16, Macky she admits. it has been played Auditorium, 1595 Of course it is the music that and recorded by so Pleasant St., Boulder. Tickets: /cupresents.org/ brings her to Boulder, and she many great violinists event/1587/artist/sarahagrees to talk about that, too. “I over the years. That chang. would say 95 percent of what I do history creates an is concerto work with orchestras expectation and a traand conductors. I do very, very dition that can be few recitals — this might be my intimidating for violinists of later first recital in Colorado.” generations. Her program features three “Probably every violinist on works from the late 19th-, earlyEarth has recorded it, myself 20th-century era of great violin included,” Chang says. “With playing: Bartók’s Romanian Folk something that well known, you Dances, Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in have to appreciate everything D minor and the imposing you’ve heard and everything Franck Sonata in A Major. you’ve learned through your col“What I love about this program leagues, but at that moment is that you have the exotic you’re on stage, you have to trust Bartók, which is so unique in its your interpretation and your own way,” she says. “And then musicality.” you have the Brahms which is so Aside from her playing, noble and so beautiful, and then Chang is also known for her love you have the Franck which is just of fashion and the care with a masterpiece and probably one of the beautiful and full of love.” which she selects her concert attire to most well known sonatas for any Brahms’ violin sonatas are not as fit the repertoire she’s playing. “Bartók instrument.” well known as the Violin Concerto or and Brahms are so different, and I can’t Chang is touring with pianist Julio his symphonies, but they have the same change between the two, but that’s Elizalde, and fortunately, she says, they warmth and richness of sound that have OK,” she says. are compatible both on and offstage. made his music popular with audiences. “But Franck I think is very, very dif“We get along great on stage, and what Of the three sonatas, the Third in parferent. It is so floaty and atmospheric I also adore about him is that offstage ticular takes effort and careful preparaand so much of it is about effect, in he’s a load of fun,” she says. That’s tion from the performer. stark contrast to the folksy Romanian important because two people on tour “It doesn’t just play itself,” she says. themes in the Bartók, or the gravitas spend a lot of time together. “It’s one of those things where you need and nobility of the Brahms. “We’ve become really good friends,” to think about every phrase and every “I don’t want my fashion choices to she says. “He’s an awesome partner, and single note. Every note has to come become a distraction, [but] in a prowhat I love about his playing is that he’s from somewhere and has to go to gram like this, an outfit change will not just an accompanist, he’s a solid, another phrase. Brahms is difficult in probably be called for.” Boulder Weekly
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‘IRENA SENDLER: ANGEL OF THE WARSAW GHETTO.’ 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Arts Longmont continues its 28th season of Friday Afternoon Concerts and Art Shows with Irena Sendler: Angel of the Warsaw Ghetto. This one-act theater piece brings to life the work of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker during World War II, who risked her life to save others. She was the leader of the children’s section of Zegota, Council for Aid to Jews and part of the Polish underground. Sendler was responsible for rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Q&A period follows the performance. The accompanying art demonstration is work by multi-media artist Fran Gordon.
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6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, Boulder Downtown Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder.
Robbert Hoeffnagel/ Come celebrate local Wikimedia Commons filmmakers and films at the second annual Nederland International Film Festival. The festival offers two days of offkilter, out-of-the-ordinary and music-focused films that draw from Nederland’s rich history, centered around Caribou Ranch recording studio. Enjoy music documentaries, music videos, Colorado-made films, outdoor adventure films and more, with a chance to chat with a handful of filmmakers in an intimate setting. For more information, visit coloradofests.com/festivals/nederland-film-festival
Say their names: torbakhopper/Wikimedia Commons Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslein. Vicky Gutierrez. Celine Walker. Tonya Harvey. Zakaria Fry. These are just a few of the 22 known transgender people that have been violently killed in 2018. Join others at the Old Courthouse on Pearl Street for Transgender Day of Remembrance to honor the lives lost due to anti-transgender violence. The ceremony will begin with speakers at the Courthouse before a silent march moves to the First United Methodist Church labyrinth for the reading of names.
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Thursday, Nov. 15 Letters to You. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Amanda Lenz — Colorful Colorado Coloring Journal. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Brandon Sanderson — Skyward. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Elly Lonon — Amongst the Liberal Elite. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Friday, Nov. 16 Chris Feld — Rambling Into Madness. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
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So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
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Saturday, Nov. 17 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Mallory Bales — Courageous Love. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
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Paul Soderman & the Boulder Blues Club. 7 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.
Mademoiselle Paradis. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Tab Benoit. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Old School Film School New School Film School. 9 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Typesetter. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Events Colorado International SciFi and Fantasy Film Festival. 5 p.m. Open Media Project, 700 Kalamath St., Denver. Through Nov. 17. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Inventing Tomorrow. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
Photo courtesy of VIVA Theater Viva Theater presents ‘Westward the Woman,’ a rip roaring radio play of the swashbuckling Western movie that starred Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel in 1951. Come relive the wild west with a wagon train of 100 determined women on a perilous 2,000-mile journey across the country, from Chicago to California, to marry the lonely ranchers who await them. Select dates through Nov. 24.
Aloha: Postcards from Polynesia. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 18. Atomic. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Nov. 23. Avenue Q — A CenterStage Theatre Company Production. CenterStage Theatre at Koko Plaza, 901 Front St., Louisville. Through Nov. 18.
The Adventures of Dracula. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 24. Annie Get Your Gun. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 25. Bite-Size. DCPA Off Center, Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver. Through Nov. 18. A Christmas Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Jan. 5.
Out Boulder County Gender Support Group. 7 p.m. Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder. Science of SciFi. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Screenagers Documentary Screening. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Middle School, 1341 Main St., Louisville, 303-880-6030.
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Come From Away. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Nov. 25. Elf, The Musical. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 23. The Humans. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 22. Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 29. Still Life with Iris. MSU Denver Studio Theatre, King Center, Auraria Campus, Denver. Through Nov. 18. Westward the Woman — presented by VIVA Theater. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Nov. 16. Through Nov. 24. The Wolves — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Carson Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18. Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.
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Row 3 (Left to Right): Hey, where’s your truck? T.J. Ingraham and John Michael Sethney of Verde grabbed the awards for Best Food Truck East County and Best New Restaurant in Louisville; (Top) Alexzander North and Sarah Carrillo of Longmont’s The Speakeasy won awards for Best Live Jazz Venue in Longmont as well as Best Place to Dance in Longmont; (Bottom) Kevin and Denise Powers and the crew from InkSmith Tattoo, winners of Best Place to Get a Tattoo in East County; Watch her closely or she might just vanish before your eyes. That’s because Erica Sodos is magic and so much more; Jules Lieb, co-owner of Morning Glory Cafe, which picked up the awards for Best Gluten Free Menu in East County and Best Breakfast in Lafayette. And we know it’s true because Morning Glory was a food sponsor for the party and it was amazing; The obviously well coordinated Joshua Harrington of Chuck & Don’s Pet Food and Supplies, which won Best Pet Store in Erie; The good folks from Trivium Salon, including Rori Bass and Sherri Murgallis. Trivium won awards for Best Day Spa in East County and Best Hair Salon in East County. That’s amazing; And with that we say congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Best of Boulder East County readers’ survey.
S T O F B O U L D E R E A S T C O U N T Y 2 018 Row 1 (Left to Right): Adam Baker and the gang from The Melting Pot celebrate awards for Best Place to Go on a First Date in East County, Best Restaurant Ambiance in Louisville, Best Restaurant Dessert in Louisville and Best Fine Dining in Louisville; Marc and Stacy Gitlin’s Nissi’s not only won three huge awards for best Live Jazz Venue, Best Place to Dance and Best Music Venue in all of East County, they also played host for the evening; The Nice Work Jazz Combo provided stellar entertainment (Pete Lewis pictured); All smiles for BW graphic designer Daisy Bauer and pal Kristin Listecki; Nancy Welch’s By Chance Shoppe won Louisville’s Best Gift Shop; (Left to Right) JoPat Ozambella, Mari (Mrs. BW) Nevar, fearless BW leader, aka owner/publisher, Stewart Sallo with MC/Magician Erica Sodas; Reed Beaupre, president of Big Daddy Bagels (one of our great food sponsors) picked up awards for Best Bagels in Longmont and Lafayette.
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Row 2 (Left to Right): Of course Tara Cluck is dancing. Tara Cluck Dance Center won the Best Dance Studio in Lafayette award; It was a great party and fun for all; Director of Operations Cody Shaklee, General Manager Sarah Ingraham and a whole lot of other good folks from The Post Brewing Co. celebrate their awards for Best Overall Restaurant in East County, Best American Food in East County, Best Gluten Free Menu Longmont, Best Place to Eat Outdoors in East County, Best Place to Go on a First Date in Longmont and Lafayette, Best Restaurant Ambiance in Lafayette and Best Restaurant Service in East County. Wow, these guys might just make it; And last but not least on the second row of photos, Longmont Bicycle Company owner Kristie Shevin hoists the plaque for Best Bicycle Shop in Longmont.
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events Christian Dior draping fabric over model Sylvie, 1948. Courtesy of Christian Dior.
2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25.
‘Dior: From Paris to the World’ surveys 70 years of the House of Dior’s enduring legacy and its global influence. A selection of more than 200 couture dresses, as well as accessories, costume jewelry, photographs, drawings, runway videos and other archival material, will trace the history of the iconic haute couture fashion house, its founder, Christian Dior, and the subsequent artistic directors who carried Dior’s vision into the 21st century.
100 Paintings — by Trine Bumiller. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 4. All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing. Anthrome: A Survey of Jason DeMarte’s Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18. Clas Oldenburg with Coosje Van Bruggen. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 2), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6. Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing. Cut Paper Wildlife Sculptures — By Tiffany Russell. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4.
der. Through May 2019. EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3. EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building - Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3. Florian Hecker: Synopsis Seriation. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 22. Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 13.
DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Opens Nov. 18. Through March 3.
Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Through Dec. 1.
Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boul-
Is It Photography? — Fu Wenjun. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillon Family Gallery,
Making Headlines. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Dec. 8. REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6. Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. So authentic, it hurts — by Amber St Lucia. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25. Someday, Everything — Dave Rowe. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25. Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15. Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Jan. 27. Watercolor — by Nancy Sullo. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4. Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 20. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing.
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Friday, November 16 Music Alex Smith. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Amelie Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Part & Parcel’s Corduroy Classic. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
The Gift To Sing: Rocky Mountain Chorale’s Fall 2018 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523.
Pinchas Zukerman. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Bonnie and the Clydes. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Homevibe & eTown present Ryan Montbleau. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303443-8696.
Chase Atlantic. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
A Human Named David. 7 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 973-420-158.
The Contenders — A House Concert for Adults Only. 7 p.m. Sounds of Simon House Concerts, 1086 East Roggen Way, Superior.
Kate Olson. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
Crescendo 2018: Tune Up. 6 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-0599.
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Denver Philharmonic presents Giants. 7:30 p.m. Antonia Brico Stage, Central Presbyterian Church, Denver.
Lasermau5. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.
Every Time I Die. 7 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
The Last Waltz Revisited featuring Polytoxic, The Denver Horns, 50+ Guest Musicians. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Felonius Smith Trio. 7:30 a.m. Oskar Blues Boulder Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-645-1749.
Local H Pack Up The Cats Tour. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Finn O’Sullivan. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Manic Focus. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
FiskeEDM: Featuring the music of Tipper. 10:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.
MaryLynn Gillaspie & Her Stinking Hot Band. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581.
The Flux Crew. 8 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530.
Maudlyn Monroe. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
G Herbo — with Southside, Queen Key. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
The Motet — with Escort. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Unauthorized Absence. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Events Blood and Black Lace. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Greg Fitzsimmons. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com. Saturday, November 17 Music The 16th Annual CANiversary — with The Lonesome Day, Bonnie & The Clydes, The Gasoline Lollipops. 5 p.m. The Oak Room, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Boulder Symphony presents HOME. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720383-1610. Can’d Aid presents The Vegabonds — with Copper Leaf. 9 p.m. The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 1624 Market St., Denver, 720502-3535.
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Accessing Higher Ground Conference. 8 a.m. Westin Westminster, 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster. Through Nov. 16.
The conference includes a week of workshops, labs and networking focusing on the implementation and benefits of accessible media, inclusive design and Assistive Technology in the university, business, and public setting.
‘The Political Education of Young William Shakespeare’ — Prof. Glyn Parry, Roehampton University. 5:30 p.m. Norlin Library, M549 (British and Irish Studies Room) 1157 18th St., Boulder.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15
Based on brand-new archival discoveries, as recently reported in the British press.
Wind Symphony: November 2018. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Program: Joan Tower: “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No.1”; James Syler: “Love Among the Ruins”; Igor Stravinsky: “Symphonies of Wind Instruments”; Zhou Long: “Concerto for Wind Symphony: Ancient Echoes”
FRIDAY, NOV. 16 CU Night at the Loveland Museum. 5 p.m. Loveland Museum 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland.
Get a sneak peek at The Artist’s Gesture, the inau-
gural Polly and Mark Addison Collection Outreach Exhibition with CU Boulder Art and Art History faculty and CU Art Museum staff.
Middle East Night. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.
Featuring a Middle Eastern fashion show (includes both male and female), Hamsa Dane, belly dance, hip-hop dance, free food and also free admission.
Sarah Chang, violin, and Julio Elizalde, piano. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. She was admitted to Juilliard at age 5. KoreanAmerican violinist Sarah Chang, now an adult, is an enduring talent, an international ambassador for classical music and one of the world’s most influential women.
MONDAY, NOV. 19 Drop In, Fall Break Family Days. 10 a.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), TreeSpace Gallery and CU campus, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Nov. 21.
Visitors can participate in hands-on science and art projects for the whole family to explore how we’re all part of the tree of life.
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7:00 PM
SCIENCE OF SciFi RETREAT TO THE SEA 9:00 PM
LASER QUEEN FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 7:00 PM
INCOMING! 9:00 PM
LIQUID SKY PRETTY LIGHTS 10:30 PM
FiskEDM: FEATURING THE MUSIC OF TIPPER 11:59 PM
LASERMAU5 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18 12:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM
STARS AND PLANETS 3:00 PM
INCOMING 4:30 PM
BELLA GAIA BEAUTIFUL EARTH
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Covenhoven. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Every Time I Die. 7 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Fire & Ice: The Pat Benatar Tribute and Arena Rock Allstars. 7:30 p.m. Marc Gitlin, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Gift To Sing: Rocky Mountain Chorale’s Fall 2018 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder. High On Fire, Municipal Waste. 7 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Homevibe & eTown present Jill Sobule. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696. Lizzy Plotkin, Natalie Spears. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Maynard Mills Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Michele Castro Trio, The 89s, Samba Tonk. 8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons. Multiple Piano Festival. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Auditorium, Skyline High School, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-746-3413. Peak2peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Politicon. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. Polytoxic’s Last Show Ever — with Special Guests [LATE SHOW]. 9:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Rock out with the Joe Cool Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875. Rocky Mountain Chorale Fall 2018 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-494-5025.
Rufus Wainwright — with Rachel Eckroth. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Mollie McGee’s 38th Annual Holiday Market. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-0649. Through Nov. 18.
Stabbing Westward. 7:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Nederland International Film Festival. 10 a.m. Backdoor Theatre, 740 Highway 72 North, Nederland. Through Nov. 18.
Strange Americans. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Supertask, Goopsteppa, Khiva. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Tangled Senses. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Thunksgiving. 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Trans-Siberian Orchestra. 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. William Clark Green. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Women in Song hosted by Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Rotary Holiday Ball 2018. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Firefly Handmade Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Embassy Suites by Hilton, 2601 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Through Nov. 18. ‘Ladies Dressed in Classics and their Amazing Decisions’: Professional storytelling by Kathy Santopietro and Laura Deal — with music by Arlene Patterson and Martha Dicks. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064. Learning Dog Dance: A Dance Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Liquid Nitrogen with Exploration Universe. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Special Saturday Storytime: Drag Queen Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Turkey Shoot Free Throw Contest. 9 a.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Sunday, November 18 Music The Broadway Boomers present Make a Wish!. 4 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Chauncey Crandall Live Music. 4 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. DJC Youth All Stars. 6 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Foxfeather Music. 7 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Homevibe & eTown present Vienna Teng. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. A Human Named David. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 973-420-0158. Mike Massé Band. 7 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. The Music Of Widespread Panic For Kids featuring Thin Air. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Pinchas Zukerman. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Events Double Feature: We Are Stars/Perseus & Andromeda. Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.
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Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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The British Invasion. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
Music African Drumming Fundamentals Class. 6:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Carolyn Kendrick & Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. EnChantMent — with Tina Fields. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.
The CBDs. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-1829. Clare Thérèse. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Dweezil Zappa Guitar Masterclass. 3 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Garden. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Jack Cloonan Band — with Kind Hearted Strangers, Buffalo Commons. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Last Waltz — Revisited. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Lindsey Saunders Music. 7 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234.
Strings and the Box. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Events Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Many Mountains. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Boulder Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-645-1749.
Louis Johnson. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com
Marcel & Janelle. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Turkey Bootcamp. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4752.
Sam Varga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Aerial Day Off Camp. 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Unit 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. How to Watch a Movie: Fundamentals of the Cinematographic Image — with Cynthia Stephens. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday Night Movie: Harry Potter Month. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Nuclear Fusion for Alternative Energy and Space. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Roast Of Ronnie Radke. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Special Monday Storytime: Drag Queen Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Trans Trivia. 4:30 p.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Young Artists at Work: School Day-Off Camp. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Tuesday, November 20 Music Erika Wennerstrom (Heartless Bastards). 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Miles Wilder, Jenny LaJoye, & Substitute Creature. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. OSHUN. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series: Boulder Phil String Quartet. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Events A Finer Future Book Signing and Fundraiser for NCS. 5:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Stella’s Last Weekend. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Strangers on Earth. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Transgender Day of Remembrance. 6 p.m. Boulder Downtown Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, November 21 Music
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Taking a Short-cut on a Dead-end by Kenneth “K.C.” Cline
You know... I’ve been dying, more than I’ve been living I’ve been making more than I’ve been giving You’re telling me I’ve been forgiven, what am I crying for? It’s been hard gravel at full throttle Pedal to the metal, put it to the floor But this lifestyle’s taken it’s toll, no way to roll, anymore I just don’t want to go out this way, I’ve got to turn it around I’ve been... Taking a short-cut on a dead-end Been more of an enemy than my own friend It’s a means with an end Taking a short-cut on a dead-end This lonely street is just what it seems It’s also know as the Boulevard of Broken Dreams It will take it’s toll, it ain’t no way to roll I just don’t want to go out like that I’ve got to turn it around No more... Taking a short-cut on a dead-end Been more of an enemy than my own friend It’s a means with an end If you’re taking a short-cut on a dead-end
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n his landmark study, “From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film,” ON THE BILL: Boy Siegfried Kracauer put forth the theory that cineErased. Century ma is a seismograph for its time, a mass media Theater, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444indicator of the cultural subconscious. In other 0583. words: Cinema knows something we don’t. So, what does cinema know about conversion therapy? Using Kracauer’s theory, the release of The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased — along with the podcast produced in conjunction with the latter, UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America — indicates that even in 2018, we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface. Conversion therapy, the scientifically debunked practice of converting a person’s sexuality through behavioral conditioning and aversion therapy, has plagued the LGBTQ community since the early 20th century. According to a report from The Williams Institute of the University of California Los Angeles School of Law in January 2018, 698,000 LGBTQ adults in the U.S. have received some form of conversion therapy, a practice still legal in all but nine states and the District of Columbia. Most common are camps and facilities sponsored by religious organizations, the kind on display in both Miseducation and Boy Erased. Miseducation and Boy Erased have many similariIn Boy Erased, Nicole Kidman and Russell ties. Both are set in the recent past, and both infer Crowe play the lovthe feeling and tone of a memoir — specifically true ing parents of Jared (Lucas Hedges), who of Boy Erased, which is based on Garrand Conley’s gets sent to conver2016 book of the same name. Both protagonists are sion therapy camp. sent to camps after they are discovered having samesex attractions. Both find that no past trauma led them to this point. And both have their coming-of-age/coming-out story at these camps. Where these two differ is the presence of the parents, non-existent in Miseducation while part and parcel of Boy Erased. Jared (Lucas Hedges) is blessed with two loving parents, Nancy (Nicole Kidman, excellent as always) and Marshall (Russell Crowe), if not slightly misguided. Marshall, a Baptist pastor, is not a tyrant, but he follows strict black-and-white rules simply because they’re the rules now and they’ve always been the rules. His struggle — played exceedingly well by Crowe — shows that when one suddenly loses their conviction, they can easily be led astray. Not true for Nancy, who learns to find her voice alongside her son. Based on how readily Nancy goes along with Marshall’s initial plan, it isn’t a stretch to assume Nancy has always been going along with Marshall’s plan. But now her son’s wellbeing is in jeopardy and Nancy knows that if she’s ever going to find her voice, the time is now. Though the bulk of Boy Erased’s 114-minute runtime takes place at the camp, under the strict leadership of Victor Sykes ( Joel Edgerton, who also wrote the screenplay and directs), the best scenes in Boy Erased revolve around the home. No child is an island, but neither are the parents. If there is a seismograph at the heart of Boy Erased, let it be this: The generations will have to work in harmony if we are to escape mutual destruction. Boulder Weekly
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alk into Great Harvest at any time of the day and the first thing you’ll notice is the aroma winding its way from the ovens in the back of the room, between the shelves of freshly baked loaves of savory and sweet breads, and around the trays of gourmet cookies, pumpkin rolls and other baked delicacies. If you can withstand the near sensory overload and compose yourself enough to order, try the grilled turkey pesto sandwich: slices of grilled turkey breast coated in melted aged provolone, topped with thinly sliced red onions, crisp green leaf lettuce and fresh tomato slices. The accompanying mayo, balsamic vinegar and basil pesto make this sandwich stand apart, nestled between two slices of their freshly baked asiago sourdough. $7.75.
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’m not here to debate whose family stuffing recipe is the best. Clearly, my stuffing is the greatest of all time. That said, this Thanksgiving bread stuffing will also be on our feast table alongside the famous sausage and potato version. Thanksgiving isn’t about being right, but rather welcoming the foods that make guests feel at home for the holiday.
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My maternal grandparents — Nanna and Papa — emigrated from Sicily and settled in Connecticut. My father, his sister and parents escaped from the Nazis in Austria. They all faced discrimination against immigrants in America once they arrived. It’s safe to say that turkey wasn’t on the menu where any of them grew up, but they embraced Thanksgiving as the feast all Americans celebrated. When Nanna was faced with stuffing said turkey, she consulted with a French-Canadian woman named Rose who lived in the same apartment building. Many Quebecois immigrated to New England to see NIBBLES Page 44
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work in the factories. Rose suggested something hearty: Meat and potatoes. Nanna ended up creating an Italian sausage and potato stuffing using the spicy pork sausage Papa made in the family store. I think it is based on the filling for the classic Canadian tourtière pork pies. With fennel seed and pignoli (pine) nuts from Italy, chile flakes originally from South America, plus sausage, sage, celery and fennel — depending on the version, my family stuffing is a globalist’s dream. That singular melding of sausage and mashers is also one of the best things you’ll ever taste, not to mention a little pop of flavor on often bland traditional Thanksgiving menus. The supercomfort food with pizzazz emerges from the roasted bird glistening and tasty. My tradition is to make it the day before so the flavors have time to mingle and marry. I fry the sausage with onion and garlic in a huge cast-iron skillet that I use only a couple of times a year. I peel a variety of spuds — usually white and red boilers, Yukon Golds and Russets — and boil them in a large saucepan I inherited from Nanna. I add the mashers to the sausage along with turkey broth, butter, salt, pepper and sage. The first taste standing in the kitchen is a cherished moment of annual bliss. I make it differently than my mom or other family members made the stuffing. Since I’ve written in the past about the stuffing in the national version of Nibbles, there are folks across the country who also make it as their tradition, often tweaked with other ingredients like roasted green chilies. I should be used to hosting Thanksgiving after all these years but I’m nervous about the coming feast at my house. I got the year off last year when a friend hosted, so I’m a little rusty. It’s like riding a bicycle … except it’s an ancient creaky Schwinn bike with three gears. Besides, I’m supposed to be some kind of Thanksgiving expert. As I do every Thanksgiving Day, on Nov. 22 I will answer last-minute cooking questions 8:30-9 a.m. on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu. org). Call 303-443-4242. We’ll lift a toast to those who came from elsewhere to make a feast here for us.
Italian Sausage and Potato Stuffing 5 to 6 pounds potatoes (approximately), peeled and chunked 3 pounds (approximately) Italian sweet sausage 1 pound (approximately) Italian hot sausage 3 yellow onions, minced 3 or more large cloves garlic, minced 1/2 pound butter (or more) 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, or to taste 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning or ground sage, to taste Turkey or chicken broth, as needed Optional: minced fresh celery; minced fresh fennel; pine nuts; roasted chopped green chilies Boil potatoes in plenty of water until barely tender, not mushy. Drain, place in large pot over low heat, add butter and mash well. Crumble sausage in a frying pan with onions and garlic and cook until pink is gone. Drain the fat. Add sausage to potatoes along with seasonings and stir. Add broth or more butter if too dry. Taste and adjust seasonings. When it’s time, push it into the empty nooks and crannies of the bird and roast as
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The taps at Southern Sun in Boulder change often but one tap is always dedicated to Mountain Sun’s classic craft root beer. After a steak sandwich and a Java Porter, I recently had root beer for dessert, served barely cool to be poured over a side glass of ice. The result is a classy, creamy root beer that is naturally sweet without being cloying and syrupy. It has some spiciness on the palate, a hint of vanilla and a defining aroma of wintergreen.
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“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It’s a sure thing! It’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty.” — Thoughts about gravy from Nora Ephron John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU and is the former spokesperson for National Pie Day. Comments: nibbles@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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THANKSGIVING FOR LOSERS by Ari LeVaux
Despite what the name implies, there is no ham in ham Bourguignon (or hamburger, for that matter), but the first ingredient is at least bacon. It’s followed by deer, wine, onion, wine, vegetables, wine and wine. The winey, greasy steam filled the room, perfuming our hunting clothes with “human” scents. It was getting dangerously close to a party interfering with a full freezer by the time we turned in. I spotted a herd of elk at dawn, tracked them all day, and radioed my friends at 3 p.m. with the news I’d shot my first elk. They came with a sled. Twelve hours later, the elk was in my truck. By morning on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I was home with my meat, a Boulder Weekly
proud graduate of the Loser School of Hunting. If you’re the kind of The Loser School of Hunting is not person who prefers to source your own a prestigious institution. No hunter Thanksgiving meat, begins the season hoping to matriculate, keep the recipe for ham Bourguignon in much less miss, the Thanksgiving feast. your back pocket. The foundational academic principle of Loser School is that if you haven’t filled your freezer yet, you don’t just need meat. You need practice. So you get back out there and do that, hoping to sharpen your skills enough to succeed. It could be your shooting that needs attention, or your ability to be quiet, stay focused and sense the animals before they sense you. It may depend on your willingness to go where fresh tracks take you, even if that’s away from the truck and toward the grizzlies. As hunting season winds down, a loser will cycle through his or her usual hunting buddies until there is nothing left but misfits like us. We find buddies of buddies who still haven’t succeeded, and make plans to bed down with these strangers in tents, motel rooms or cold, mouse-infested cabins. We may still hunt alone, but it’s good to know that somebody knows generally where you are. Sometimes, when the conditions are right on the ridge lines, it can feel like outer space. Once in a while a text floats up with a delicately posed question about how it’s going. Behind these well-intended messages, I visualize the sender, having already filled his freezer and now chilling in his sweatpants by the fire, drinking tea and planning his Thanksgiving side dishes. And I’m gonna be listening to some other hairy dude snoring. But those strangers, hairy or not, dudes or dudettes, can be treasure troves of knowledge. They have different ways of doing all the see LOSER THANKSGIVING Page 48
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things that a hunter must do, like keeping the falling snow off of a scope, keeping your precious water in liquid form, and, of course, cooking burger meat. Every hunter has their ways of cooking burger. I’m not above putting a frozen chunk in a pan and letting it thaw there. With ham Bourguignon, the wine steam helps to thaw it. On my second high country Thanksgiving, the Loser School mess hall was the Silver Dollar Saloon in Ennis, Montana. That was back before I had kids and was a raging wild man, hunting the steep, silent Madison range like a Sasquatch with a rifle. I kept moving to stay warm, and ate hard salami like granola bars. But I was a lonely, meatless Sasquatch on that Thanksgiving. The Silver Dollar had a Thanksgiving buffet, and I filled up a plate and sidled up to the bar, next to a stranger. He was a rancher, wasn’t going to make it home that night by dark, and knew better than to drive at night. Between black ice, deer and fellow motorists, the Thanksgiving dinner was secondary to living another day to crash his snowmobile, which, based on his stories, he did quite often. The tales of survival in the aftermath of some of these mishaps, in subzero temperatures with wet clothes and injuries, were as riveting as anything I’ve read by Jack London. I ate turkey, drank IPA and listened. When he started telling hunting stories, I asked him why he would cut the throat of an animal he just killed. My point being it was already dead. He stared at me like I was from Mars. “You’ve never cut a throat?” he asked. His red, wind-burned face had turned ashen beneath his hat, as if he’d fallen ill just thinking about all of the unbled meat I had been consuming. I already knew that for meat to taste good, a lot of things have to go just right. It has to be a healthy animal, on a good diet, killed with a clean shot, ideally in the cold. How hunters clean, skin and trim the body can all ruin the flavor, as can hanging an animal too long, or letting it get too warm. Back home, I studied throat-cutting and blood-letting, and realized it’s exactly what kosher and halal butchers do, and for many good reasons. Now I go straight for the jugular. If I’m lucky, that is where my shot will hit. My hunted meat has never tasted better. If only there was more pumpkin pie in Loser School.
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A quick and satisfying version of the classic boeuf Bourguignon, made with frozen ground meat. Serves 4. 2 pieces bacon, cut into half-inch wide strips (keep bacon frozen for easy cutting) 1 pound lean ground beef, frozen 3 cups red wine, of a quality you’d happily drink 2 potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes 1 large onion, minced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons butter 1 large carrot, cut into 1-inch lengths 2 stalks celery, cut in 1-inch lengths 4 cups broth and/or stock 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon dried Herbs de Provence 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon soy sauce Place the bacon in a large pan or pot on low/medium heat with a tight cover. Stir to prevent burning and release the grease. When the bacon is nice (about five minutes for thawed bacon) add a hunk of ground meat, frozen or thawed, to the pan. Surround it with potatoes, cut sides flat against the hot pan. When the mass of ground meat develops a brown skin below that you can feel with a spatula (about 10 minutes), add a half cup of wine. Keep covered. When the wine is half evaporated (about 10 minutes) it will have developed a purple crust. Flip it over and flatten it out to push out the water, and make a similar crust on the other side, adding another half cup of wine after the first one dries up, and adding oil if the bacon wasn’t very fatty. When purple crusts on both sides, break the meat as it cooks into stewsized chunks — don’t atomize it like taco filling. Don’t overwork or the chunks will disintegrate. When the pan starts to dry out, add the minced onion and gently stir it in among the browned meat chunks. The onions add so much water it’s like another deglaze. Stir often but gently until the minced onions disappear (about 20 minutes). Add the garlic and butter. When the garlic smells like it’s frying in butter, add the carrots, celery, stock and another cup of wine. Add the garlic powder, black pepper, salt, herbes de Provence and soy sauce. Stir it all together and cook for 25 minutes, or until the carrots are soft. Season with butter, wine, spicy stuff and gratitude. Serve with hot sauce and more wine. Boulder Weekly
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or chefs and eaters alike, no holiday is quite like Thanksgiving. Ditto for drinkers, who break out long-coveted bottles of wine and single-malt whisky to share with friends and family during the marathon meal. And while just about every major food group is represented during these meals, beer often is not. Sure, there is a place on every table for bottles of festival Beaujolais Nouveau and jammy merlots to go along with the bird, but the right brew can pair just as well with roast turkey — or Tofurky if that’s more your speed — stuffing, dumplings, green bean supreme, yams and pie. And when it comes to pairing food and beer, no style is more versatile than saison. Noted for its creamy malt, clean hops and spicy yeast, saison cannot be beat. Just about every brewery tries their hand at this classic — Cellar West Artisan Ales and Funkwerks produce two of best in the state — but the tradition of Thanksgiving cries for the granddaddy of them all: Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont. Brewed in Belgium since 1844, and found in all your quality liquor stores, Saison Dupont is a beautifully effervescent thirst-quenching ale that won’t overtake lighter fare while holding its own against heavy meats and hearty cheese. Even better, its super dry finish is guaranteed to make the next bite all the better. Established in 1821, Rodenbach is another one of those legacy breweries every beer drinker should try at least once. These reddish-brown sour ales are aged in oak foeders, which give the already vinous brew an extra edge of woody tannins. But it is the interplay of malt, Lactobacillus and Brettanomyces that makes Rodenbach Grand Cru one of the best beers in the world. It’s like a chocolate covered cherry, perfect for a salad drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette and dotted with cranberries and walnuts. Drink it before, after and during the meal. Hop heads need not feel left out; bring Avery’s Hog Heaven Imperial Red IPA to the table and see how well it stands up to savory stuffing, creamy mashed potatoes and hearty gravy. Thanks to its smooth, syrupy sweet malt with loads of piney hops, Hog Heaven cuts through fatty foods while complementing flavors of smoke, roast and brine. As an added benefit, those hops hang around awhile, cleaning up your palate the way any red wine should. But let’s say you’re not looking for something to go with dinner, just something to sip on before or after the meal. Something to accompany long conversations about the state of the nation while feigning interest in whatever football game happens to be on. Friend, bring Odell’s Isolation Ale and nothing will get you down. Neither full-bodied nor thin, Isolation Ale is an easy one: balanced roasted malts, bright hops and light carbonation. There is nothing particularly special about Isolation Ale, just the purest expression of something that is quietly, assuredly perfect. Boulder Weekly
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ARIES
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Draper said she wished there were a single word that meant “exciting, frightfully important, irreplaceable, deeply satisfying, basic, and thrilling, all at once.” I wonder if such a word exists in the Chamicuro language spoken by a few Peruvians or the Sarsi tongue spoken by the Tsuu T’ina tribe in Alberta, Canada. In any case, I’m pleased to report that for the next few weeks, many of you Aries people will embody and express that rich blend of qualities. I have coined a new word to capture it: tremblissimo.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: According to my astrological intu-
ition, you’re entering a phase when you will derive special benefit from these five observations by poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. 1. “There are truths that you can only say after having won the right to say them.” 2. “True realism consists in revealing the surprising things that habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.” 3. “What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” 4. “You should always talk well about yourself! The word spreads around, and in the end, no one remembers where it started.” 5. “We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.”
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: Adolescence used to be defined as a
phase that lasted from ages 13 to 19. But scientists writing in the journal The Lancet say that in modern culture, the current span is from ages 10 to 24. Puberty comes earlier now, in part because of shifts in eating habits and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. At the same time, people hold onto their youth longer because they wait a while before diving into events associated with the initiation into adulthood, like getting married, finishing education, and having children. Even if you’re well past 24, Gemini, I suggest you revisit and reignite your juvenile stage in the coming weeks. You need to reconnect with your wild innocence. You’ll benefit from immersing yourself in memories of coming of age. Be 17 or 18 again, but this time armed with all you have learned since.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian baseball pitcher Satchel
Paige had a colorful career characterized by creative showmanship. On some occasions, he commanded his infielders to sit down and loll on the grass behind him, whereupon he struck out three batters in a row — ensuring no balls were hit to the spots vacated by his teammates. Paige’s success came in part because of his wide variety of tricky pitches, described by author Buck O’Neil as “the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin’ ball.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now is an excellent time for you to amp up your charisma and use all your tricky pitches.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: “Everyone tells a story about them-
selves inside their own head,” writes fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss. “Always. All the time. We build ourselves out of that story.” So what’s your story, Leo? The imminent future will be an excellent time to get clear about the dramatic narrative you weave. Be especially alert for demoralizing elements in your tale that may not in fact be true, and that therefore you should purge. I think you’ll be able to draw on extra willpower and creative flair if you make an effort to reframe the story you tell yourself so that it’s more accurate and uplifting.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In describing a man she fell in love
with, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that he was both “catnip and kryptonite to me.” If you’ve spent time around cats, you understand that catnip can be irresistible to them. As for kryptonite: it’s the one substance that weakens the fictional superhero Superman. Is there anything in your life that resembles Gilbert’s paramour? A place or situation or activity or person that’s both catnip and kryptonite? I suspect you now have more ability than usual to neutralize
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its obsessive and debilitating effects on you. That could empower you to make a good decision about the relationship you’ll have with it in the future.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “I had to learn very early not to limit myself due to others’ limited imaginations,” testifies Libran astronaut Mae Jemison. She adds, “I have learned these days never to limit anyone else due to my own limited imagination.” Are those projects on your radar, Libra? I hope so. You now have extra power to resist being shrunk or hobbled by others’ images of you. You also have extra power to help your friends and loved ones grow and thrive as you expand your images of them.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The U.S. is the world’s top exporter
of food. In second place is the Netherlands, which has 0.4 percent as much land as the U.S. How do Dutch farmers accomplish this miraculous feat? In part because of their massive greenhouses, which occupy vast areas of nonurbanized space. Another key factor is their unprecedented productivity, which dovetails with a commitment to maximum sustainability. For instance, they produce 20 tons of potatoes per acre, compared with the global average of nine. And they do it using less water and pesticides. In my long-term outlook for you Scorpios, I see you as having a metaphorical similarity to Dutch farmers. During the next 12 months, you have the potential to make huge impacts with your focused and efficient efforts.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “The world is like a dropped pie
most of the time,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. “Don’t kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.” From what I can tell about the state of your life, Sagittarius, the metaphorical pie has indeed fallen onto the metaphorical floor. But it hasn’t been there so long that it has spoiled. And the floor is fairly clean, so the pie won’t make you sick if you eat it. My advice is to sit down on the floor and eat as much as you want. Then carry on.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Novelist Anita Desai writes, “Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forward in a kind of flood?” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect that the locks she refers to will soon open for you. Events may not exactly flow like a flood, but I’m guessing they will at least surge and billow and gush. That could turn out to be nerve-racking and strenuous, or else fun and interesting. Which way it goes will depend on your receptivity to transformation.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Miracles come to those who risk
defeat in seeking them,” writes author Mark Helprin. “They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.” Those descriptions could fit you well in the coming weeks, but with one caveat. You’ll have no need to take on the melodramatic, almost desperate mood Helprin seems to imply is essential. Just the opposite, in fact. Yes, risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible; but do so in a spirit of exuberance, motivated by the urge to play.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “Never invoke the gods unless
you really want them to appear,” warned author G. K. Chesterton. “It annoys them very much.” My teachers have offered me related advice. Don’t ask the gods to intervene, they say, until you have done all you can through your own efforts. Furthermore, don’t ask the gods for help unless you are prepared to accept their help if it’s different from what you thought it should be. I bring these considerations to your attention, Pisces, because you currently meet all these requirements. So I say go right ahead and seek the gods’ input and assistance.
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage
Dear Dan: I’ve always wanted to tie girls up, but I can never convince a woman to let me. Lately, I’ve been exploring “bondage singles” sites online, but I’m totally new to this. How do I know which ones I can trust? There are hundreds of profiles, but it’s hard for me to believe I can really just answer an ad, meet a girl in a hotel room, and tie her up. It can’t be that simple, can it? —The Internet’s Enticing Dates Dear TIED: It can’t be and it isn’t, TIED, because no woman in her right mind is going to let some man she’s never met before tie her up in a hotel room. That’s not to say it couldn’t happen or hasn’t ever happened, but women stupid enough to take that risk are rare — and it should go without saying that any singles website promising to provide lonely guys with an endless stream of stupid women is a scam. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Justin Gorbey is a bondage practitioner and educator, as well as a professional artist and tattooer. Gorbey ties up a lot of women, as you can see on his Instagram account (@daskinbaku), and he doesn’t think you’re going to find someone on a “bondage singles” site, either. “I would recommend this person step away from the dating sites and step into some educational group meet-ups or ‘munches,’” said Gorbey. “TIED or any new person should focus on groups that match their own desires/interests, and connections will develop organically with time and effort — with a lot of fucking time and effort!” Kink social and education groups organize online but meet up offline — face-to-face, IRL, in meatspace — at munches (educational talks, no actual play) and play parties (actual play, hence the name). To find the kink organization(s) in your area, TIED, Gorbey suggests that you create a profile on FetLife, the biggest social network for kinky people, and start connecting with other like-minded kinksters at munches. “Going to munches will not only give TIED a chance to meet people,” said Gorbey, “they’ll give him a ‘guide’ for how to act — most groups generally go over house safe words/etiquette/rules and consent/risk awareness at the beginning of a munch — and they’ll also give what I call a Boulder Weekly
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‘visual vocabulary’ of what a real-life scene looks like. Porn and fetish fantasy often distort our perceptions of what is plausible or even possible for real people in a real-life scenario. Just watching others play helped me identify the things I found attractive as both a top and a bottom.” There are lots of men and women out there who are interested in bondage, TIED, and the organized kink scene is the best place to find safe and sane play partners. You’ll be able to interact with kinky women at munches and parties, women who will be a lot likelier to let you tie them up after you’ve demonstrated you’re safe and sane yourself. “There are hours of intimacy before and after the moment captured for an Instagram photo,” said Gorbey. “These relationships require trust, vulnerability and communication. These acts require a lot of hard work and commitment, and they expose a person to risk. That’s why the only responsible answer to TIED’s question is to seek education first and play partners second.” Justin Gorbey teaches workshops and intensives on a number of subjects centering on bondage and power exchange dynamics. To see his work and learn about his workshops, follow him on Instagram @daskinbaku. Dear Dan: I’m a monogamous woman in a committed relationship with a nonmonogamous man. I try to be cool about his other relationships, but I’m trying to figure out how to bring some fire back into ours. I miss oral sex, but that’s not on the table because he “doesn’t like” how I taste. I’ve suggested bondage and anal, but he says he’s “too tired.” He can make plans with others to have exciting new experiences, but he doesn’t have any energy for me. I’m at a loss. Counseling is not an option for us because he doesn’t believe in that stuff. Any suggestions? —Seeking Adventurous Monogamishamy Dear SAM: Yes, stop doing his laundry or paying his rent or preparing his meals — stop doing whatever it is you’re doing that your shit boyfriend values and is reluctant to give up, SAM, because it’s clear he doesn’t value you. DTMFA. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter, and visit ITMFA.org.
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weed between the lines
by Sidni West
How to survive Thanksgiving: A definitive guide
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eal talk, Thanksgiving sucks. It’s embarrassing that white people made up a holiday to celebrate the European invasion of North America that resulted in the death and relocation of millions of native people. We’ve tried to rebrand it as a day to reflect on our lives with gratitude, but now it’s just as an excuse for eating until you’re sick then humblebragging on social media by posting a personal highlight reel of everything you’re grateful for. No matter how you slice it, celebrating colonialism makes everyone uncomfortable, especially if it involves a dinner with relatives you only see twice a year for a reason. Here are some tips for surviving:
Don’t go home The best hack for avoiding holiday stress? Care less about your family! Honestly, we have too many holidays where the theme is just “guilt-tripped into spending time with people who have known you the longest but understand you the least.” This is the time for surrounding yourself with people you love, so I refuse to spend half my rent money on a plane ticket home to fight with my racist relatives. If that makes you uncomfortable, all I have to say is have fun regressing because your parents will never let you change. And you run the risk of possibly seeing your high school ex selling meth outside of Target. I plan on staying in town and celebrating danksgiving with friends, which means we’re just going to get stoned and eat warm carbs all afternoon. Basically just like any other day in November, except for the bigger audience I have when feasting. Going to someone else’s home for Thanksgiving and see-
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ing the hell they endure is another option and also the best vacation you could take from your own family issues. Either your friend’s family will be absolutely insane and make you feel lucky to only have a few quirky people in your family, or they’ll be, like, emotionally stable and you’ll experience a functional family holiday for once. Either way, you win.
Get as stoned as possible If you couldn’t get out of spending time with your family this year, then staying sober isn’t an option. The key to surviving this day is a steady and solid buzz. You’re already expected to eat thousands of calories worth of turkey, gravy and a side dish that is literally called “stuffing,” so avoid alcohol because it’s only going to make you more fat and emotional than you already are. Weed is key, but you don’t want to get so stoned that you fall asleep early and miss the drama of witnessing your nephew coming out to your ultra-conservative uncle. You want to be just high enough so you can politely smile while your grandmother berates you for your liberal art degree and the fact that you’re probably going to die alone because you’re 28 and have yet to meet a nice Jewish man. If you’re from the East Coast, you’re probably heralded as the “totally chill cousin who lives in Colorado,” so make sure you bring enough to share because impressing your younger, collegeaged relatives with craft cannabis will be the most validation you’ll receive all day.
Enjoy your food coma How did people ignore their families before smart phones? By sinking into a nice food coma. After all, traveling long distances, smoking weed, watching six hours of football, smoking weed, eating seven pounds of food, then having to participate in an excruciating hour-long conversation about essential oils with your aunt warrants a nap. So eat that turkey, point out your dad’s problematic behavior, announce that you’re thankful for the impending toppling of the patriarchy, and endure some type of emotional or stomach pain at all times. Remember that this is what the holidays feel like. And no matter what, if you don’t offer to help clean up after dinner, you are street garbage.
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t wasn’t a clean sweep, but marijuana initiatives • • • did very well at the polls this year... Michigan’s But wait, there’s more. In addition to the four voters legalized recreational marijuana by a 55.9 state-wide pot legalization ballot questions, there were percent to 44.09 percent margin (2,339,672 Yes a slew of local ones, most of which passed... Ohio votvotes to 1,844,880 No)... Missouri voters legalers in five cities passed local marijuana decriminalizaized medical marijuana. There were three competing tion measures... In Wisconsin, there were advisory legalization initiatives on the state’s ballot; the one referendums on marijuana legalization on the ballots that passed, Amendment 2, got a whopping 66 perof 16 counties, and all of them passed overwhelmingcent approval (or 1,572,592 votes)... In Utah, a slow- ly. Like with 70 percent of the vote overwhelmingly in motion vote count showed voters were approving a Milwaukee County, the state’s largest, and 76 percent medical marijuana overwhelmingly in Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons initiative by a 52.75 Dane County, home percent to 47.25 perof Madison, the state cent margin (462,673 capital... The referenYes to 414,382 No) dums are being read with 82 percent of the as messages to the vote tallied... But state legislature, North Dakota voters which Wisconsin votshot down an initiaers decided would tive to legalize recreagain be controlled by ational marijuana by a Republicans... 40.54 percent to 59.46 percent margin • • • (131,585 Yes to Two pot prohibi192,965 No)... Still, tion dead-enders three outta’ four ain’t named Sessions got all that bad... the “You’re fired!” message last week — • • • one from President Poly Washburn at Trump and the other Marijuana Moment from the voters... The gleefully reported that marijuana ballot measures got day after the voting was over, Trump fired Attorney more votes than: General Jeff (good people don’t smoke marijuana) • Michigan’s winning candidates for governor, Sessions. Meanwhile, down in Texas, voters in the attorney general, and U.S. Senate state’s 32nd congressional district gave long-time • Missouri’s U.S. Senate winner Congressman Pete Sessions the old heave-ho, replac• Utah’s Medicaid expansion ballot question ing him with civil rights lawyer and former NFL line• North Dakota’s statewide Democratic candidates backer Collin Allred. Allred won 52.2 percent to 45.9 • President Trump in Michigan in 2016 percent (142,885 votes to 125,600)... Sessions was • Hillary Clinton in any of the four states in 2016 chairman of the House Rules Committee, which has a Heh. big say in which bills make it to the House floor for a
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vote, and he used his position to block almost all marijuana reform bills that were introduced in the last two years. Allred made marijuana a major issue in his campaign... Jeff Sessions was likely sacked for recusing himself in the Russia probe and not for his anti-marijuana actions (like canceling the Cole memorandum and picking a fight with Cory Gardner), but it’ll be good to see the back of him anyway... in terms of changing federal marijuana policy, getting rid of Pete is probably more important than getting rid of Jeff; expect some movement on marijuana reform legislation in Congress next year... • • • Unfortunately one of the most stalwart and high-profile champions of marijuana legalization in Congress won’t be there to see it... 15-term Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) lost his bid for re-election from California’s 48th district to Democratic businessman Harley Rouda 47.8 percent to 52.2 percent (103,804 to 113,286)... Marijuana probably didn’t play a big role in Rohrabacker’s loss — critics called him Russia’s best friend in Congress. After 15 terms he may have fallen victim to a nasty political reality: In politics, friends come and go; enemies accumulate... Rohrabacher wasn’t the only pro-pot-legalization Republican handed his walking papers last week. The list also includes Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman... Coffman hasn’t been thought of as being in the forefront of the legalization movement, but according to Marijuana Moment, he has “cosponsored numerous marijuanarelated bills over the last seven years,” including one to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substance Act, and another to shield people in states with legal marijuana from federal prosecution if they comply with their states’ laws... the new Congress is probably more pot friendly than the old one, but the loss of the five Republicans may make bi-partisan cooperation on legalization harder to come by.
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