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NEWS:

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BOULDERGANIC:

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ARTS & CULTURE:

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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Welcome to the new ‘Trump Tower’ he’s building for you 6 THE ANDERSON PLAN: The pendulum swings 6 GUEST COLUMN: Standing up to Trump at COP23; 8 GUEST COLUMN: A national park fee increase: The $70 land grab 9 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 25 OVERTONES: Boulder Symphony presents music inspired by Shakespeare 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 39 WORDS: ‘Colorado Goddamn’ by Simone Liggins 40 SCREEN: ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ eventually arrives at ‘fine’ 41 FILM: Laughter and tears in ‘Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri’ 43 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County this week 52 DRINK: Session IPA: A surprising brew to get you through the holidays 57 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Let’s talk about sex, baby 59 CANNABIS CORNER: ‘Marijuana Won Tuesday’s Election’ 60 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 61 SAVAGE LOVE: Quickies

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Highroad Welcome to the new ‘Trump Tower’ he’s building for you

by Jim Hightower

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f you’ve ever been to any of the cities graced with a Trump hotel, casino, resort, etc., you know that The Donald splashes his name in giant, gaudy letters across every structure he owns, preferably in gold.

Now, he’s taken ownership of a massive new structure, and he might not want his name on this one. It’s Trump’s towering re-do of America’s tax law — and it’s truly golden.

For the super-rich, that is, revealing in hard numbers whom his presidency really serves: Not just the 1 percent, but the one-tenth of 1 percenters who are multimillionaires... like — guess who? — him.

First and foremost, the Trump tax plan slashes the payments that giant corporations make to support our nation.

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

He claims that this will let corporate elites raise the wages of workers and create jobs, winking at the fact that, of course, the elites will pocket every dime of his tax giveaways. And — shhhh — he doesn’t mention a little secret gotcha: One-third of his corporate benefits go to foreign owners of American corporations.

Meanwhile, Trump’s luxurious new tax structure eliminates many benefits for middle-class families, such as tax deductions for medical expenses, college tuition and interest paid on student loans. He wants modest-income families to pay more, so he can eliminate current taxes on his own überrich family, including killing the alternative income tax paid by the rich and the estate tax (which applies only to the immense fortunes of a handful of America’s richest families).

Did I mention that the gilded tax structure proposed by this self-described business genius would hang an additional $1.5 trillion debt around our children’s necks? No surprise, for Trump’s grandiose luxury projects were often built with other people’s money, advancing himself before he slips away, leaving others to grapple with the bankruptcy.

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the anderson files The pendulum swings

by Dave Anderson

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year after Trump was ed in 25 elections across 13 different elected president, we states. DSA members won races in 11 finally have something to states, including red and purple states smile about. This like Montana, Tennessee and Iowa. month’s elections In Virginia, DSA member Lee brought a tidal wave of victories for Carter unseated the Virginia House Democrats and progressives in guberGOP Majority Whip Jackson Miller in natorial, state legislative, county and a nine-point victory. Carter is a city races across the country. The next 30-year-old IT specialist and Marine governors of New Jersey and Virginia veteran from Manassas. He ran openly are Democrats. Many women, ethnic as a socialist. minorities and LGBTQ+ folks were Near the end of the campaign, elected. Montana now has its first Miller sent out mailers comparing black mayor and New Jersey has its Carter to Joe Stalin and Mao Zedong. first Sikh mayor.

Carter preferred to talk about what he In Virginia, Danica Roem became would do as a state legislator rather America’s first openly transgender state than philosophizing about socialism. representative. She is a 33-year-old He advocates a state-level single payer former journalist health care system who campaigned and a ban on corabout traffic probporate campaign lems, jobs and contributions in schools. She Virginia and a defeated Robert limit on individual [DEMOCRATIC G. Marshall, a contributions.

SOCIALISTS OF 13-term incumVirginia currently AMERICA] MEMBERS bent who authored has no limit on several anti-trans campaign contriWERE ELECTED bills and who said butions.

AROUND THE he was the state’s Nevertheless, COUNTRY. “chief homoCarter was quite phobe.” willing to discuss In his democratic Philadelphia, Larry vision of socialism Krasner was elected district when asked. He said he wanted to attorney. He is a civil rights and crimi- bring democracy into the workplace by nal defense lawyer who has defended supporting unions and worker-owned the city’s poor as well as Occupy Philly co-ops. and Black Lives Matter protesters.

He told The New Republic, “If He has sued the Philadelphia Police you’re to the left of Barry Goldwater, Department at least 75 times. His Republicans are going to call you a campaign pledges were to stop mass socialist anyway, so you may as well just incarceration, end bail and civil asset own the label. The issues that I care forfeiture, and to resist the Trump about and the issues that the administration.

Democratic Socialists of America are Maine became the first state where working on are the issues that the voters defied their Republican goverDemocratic Party’s voter base cares nor’s refusal to expand Medicaid. The about.” ballot initiative passed by an almost 20 Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter -point margin. Now an estimated Patrick Wilson wrote that Carter was 70,000 low-income residents will get “the kind of rogue candidate that gives health care coverage. an apparatus like the Democratic Party One of the most intriguing develof Virginia a fit.” Carter did get the opments is the rise of the Democratic support of the local Democratic Party Socialists of America (DSA). It is not and grassroots groups like labor unions, a political party. This month, 15 DSA Planned Parenthood, Indivisible, members were elected around the Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution and country. They ran in non-partisan races the Metro D.C. chapter of DSA. Wilson said that the state party and as Democrats. This is in addition to 20 elected members already in see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7 office. On Nov. 7, DSA was represent-

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guest column Standing Up to Trump at COP23 by Michaela Mujica-Steiner

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resident Donald Trump’s attempt at pushing a fossil fuel agenda at this year’s 23rd United Nations climate talks (COP23), includes coal, oil, nuclear and natural gas. The only official White House event at COP23, held this past Monday evening, titled “The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Climate Mitigation” was attended by a small handful of bureaucrats and hundreds of everyday people from across the world. However, the majority of those attending were not in support of Trump’s agenda, but in protest of it. As I stood in the security line waiting to get into the event room, which only housed a little over 200 people, my heart was beating fast; I’m just an ordinary young person born, raised and still living in Boulder. What role did I have in standing up to the Trump administration at their single event at this global climate summit?

Good thing I’m not alone here.

Seven out of 10 Americans support urgent climate action and staying in the Paris Agreement. I came here with SustainUS, a delegation of 15 young people from around the country, who led the action against Trump’s dirty fossil fuel agenda on Monday evening.

This year we formed the People’s Delegation, where indigenous peoples, youth, advocates and frontline communities have united to create a larger collective to counter the Trump

Administration’s fossil fuel agenda and hold U.S. states, cities, businesses and the public accountable to real and just climate solutions.

Monday evening was a moment I’ll remember for the rest of my life, and one that, I hope, becomes a defining point throughout history when the people declared “No More” to being bullied by corporate elites for profit.

Representing the interests of everyday Americans, we the people, stood in our full dignity and power, filling the U.S.backed event with at least 100 voices.

About 20 minutes into the fossil fuel panel, stacked with representatives from Peabody Coal and the Trump administration, two-thirds of the entire room stood up all at once and broke into a beautiful rendition of “God Bless the USA.” Voices filled the cold room, “So you claim to be an American/ But we see right through your greed/ It’s killing across the world, for that coal money./ So we proudly stand up to keep it in the ground/ Cause the people of the world unite, and we are here to stay.”

Midway through the song, I looked back at the administration’s baffled faces, as I quickly unfurled a banner that read “We the People” with the words “fossil fuel CEOs” crossed out at the top of it. My voice was shaking, but I still sang truth to power because the urgency of this climate crisis requires it.

After singing for about 10 minutes, see COP23 Page 7

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establishment abandoned Carter when he wouldn’t tone down his anti-corporate message, particularly his opposition to Dominion Energy’s plans for a natural gas pipeline.

“The Democratic Party establishment,” Wilson noted, “is aligned with Dominion Energy, a regulated monopoly, and supportive of Dominion’s desire to build the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline across Virginia. Like their GOP counterparts, the Democrats are recipients of the cash

Virginia’s top corporate political contributor pumps into the system, and the Democratic Party of Virginia received $125,000 in 2016, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.”

David Sirota of International Business Times asked Carter about the advice that Democratic Party strategists give to candidates who compete in a suburban district like Carter’s. They are told they should be corporate-friendly “moderates.” Carter replied: “My district, even though it is a

suburb of Washington D.C., it’s the suburb where most of the blue-collar workers live. It’s one of the more affordable places. We have a lot of people that are in the building trades. We have a lot of carpenters, painters, electricians, and so on and so forth, that live here and work throughout the rest of the D.C. area.

“It’s also one of the more diverse places in Virginia. Our population is about 13 percent African-American, about 23 percent Hispanic and

Latino.”

Carter said that a lot of candidates are “playing it safe” but that isn’t working anymore. “That’s the big takeaway I got from all of 2016. The center doesn’t hold. We had Bernie Sanders on the left. We had Donald Trump on the right. Things are completely different. The parties are due for a realignment, and who knows how that’s going to shake out.”

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security escorted us out. Everyone left, leaving the event audience area nearly empty, only occupied by a handful of journalists and White House guests, the panelists speaking to themselves.

Walking out of the event doors into a crowd of over 200 people, I started to tear up.

While we came together in a momentous action to declare “no more” to the efforts of the U.S. government to obstruct climate action, our work doesn’t stop here. Wealthy fossil fuel CEOs are still wreaking havoc at home and abroad. While it’s clear that the Trump administration has isolated itself in the global context, our state politicians must do more to fight climate change. As I’ve seen fracking come into my community, I’ve watched local politicians such as Gov. Hickenlooper continue to be in bed with fossil fuel executives. While these high-level talks happen at a global level, the destruction of the communities I care about continue to be destroyed by fracking. Gov. Hickenlooper must follow through on his commitment to stay in the Paris agreement by banning fracking and supporting a just transition away from fossil fuels, especially for those who work in the fossil fuel industry. By continuing to ignore the realities of burning and drilling for dirty energy, Gov. Hickenlooper is succumbing to the interests of the 1 percent, not the people. By increasing fracking, Colorado isn’t taking the proper steps that would keep temperatures below 1.5 degrees warming, necessary for meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. This threatens not just the future of our entire generation, but continues to put wealth in the hands of a select few fossil fuel CEOs who will never stand for the interests of everyday Americans from all walks of life.

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guest column A national park fee increase: The $70 land grab by Birch Malotky

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n Oct. 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a proposed entrance fee of $70 at 17 of its 59 national parks. Touted as a remedy to the NPS’s massive maintenance backlog, the additional revenue is meant to address aging infrastructure in the parks, including roads, bridges, campgrounds, waterlines, bathrooms and other visitor services.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke claims it “will help ensure [our most popular parks] are protected and preserved in perpetuity.” More likely, the proposal is the next move in a systematic effort by a hostile administration to further undermine and dismantle America’s public lands system.

The fee increase is not only unlikely to significantly reduce the maintenance backlog, it hardly seems designed to do so. As many have pointed out, the estimated $70 million per year additional revenue pales in comparison to the staggering $11-$12 billion of deferred maintenance the NPS reports, $2.27 billion of which is deemed critical. It also pales in comparison to $400 million President Trump has proposed to cut from the NPS budget.

Additionally, under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, 80 percent of revenue from entrance fees must stay in the park at which it was collected, meaning that the advantages of the fee increase would go primarily to the parks named on the proposal.

However, the 17 parks targeted are neither the 17 most visited parks, nor the 17 parks with the highest tallies for deferred maintenance. Amazingly, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, the most visited national park (by a factor of two), and the national park with the fifth highest deferred maintenance costs, is currently free to enter, and not on the list for Zinke’s fee hike.

Moreover, the proposal focuses only on national parks, which comprise just 59 of the 417 areas managed by the NPS. Of the 20 NPS areas with the greatest deferred maintenance, 10 are not national parks at all. If the intent of Zinke’s proposal is truly to address infrastructural needs in our most popular parks, these oversights are inexplicable.

If, however, Zinke is trying to create circumstances under which an administration hostile to public lands could claim that the federal government and the American people cannot properly or

sufficiently steward its national parks, this proposal is one way to go about it.

As many have pointed out, a $70 day-use fee is likely to be prohibitively expensive for many visitors. David Smith, superintendent for Joshua Tree National Park, says for “a lot of people that $25 [entrance fee is] a major commitment,” reporting that “a lot of them try to turn around desperately so they ... can go in somewhere in the park where there’s not a fee station.” Now imagine if that fee was nearly tripled.

Pricing people out while continuing to not address critical infrastructural needs erodes support for the parks and creates a situation where deficit-conscious politicians may begin to call for increased profits, or the cutting of losses.

Maybe some parks are opened to resource extraction, maybe others are sold off. Congressman Jared Polis said of the proposal, “This is a direct attempt to cut people off from our public lands. ...

Making [national parks] more expensive is the first part of an overriding agenda to privatize public lands.”

The Trump administration has already launched attacks against Forest Service lands, BLM lands and National Monuments, making them harder to defend and easier to exploit for their resources. Undermining the national parks is simply the final piece in an agenda that has consistently defunded and deregulated public lands, and is even trying to revoke their protection entirely.

This particular attack may have come more subtly and slowly, because of the broad bipartisan support the parks enjoy, but we cannot be fooled. Zinke urges us to “have the vision to look at the future of our parks and take action in order to ensure [their protection].”

We need to have the vision to see this proposal for what it is: at best, an inadequate measure that would price people out of access to land they hold the rights to, and at worst, a slow poison designed to sabotage what many still refer to as “America’s Best Idea.” And then we need to take action.

A public comment period on the proposed fee increase will be open until Nov. 23, 2017, on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment website: parkplanning.nps.gov/proposedpeakseasonfeerates. Written comments can be sent to 1849 C Street, NW, Mail Stop: 2346 Washington D.C., 20240.

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After reading the opinions of Paul Danish and George Newell in last week’s paper, I was reminded of two sayings: Keep your eye on the ball and follow the money. I think Paul Danish’s article (Re: “Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0,” Danish Plan, Nov. 8, 2017) made an excellent point and it begged the question: If we are in a social media misinformation Cold War with Russia, what side is Donald Trump on? Actions such as calling for Russia to hack his campaign opponent’s email and denying the evidence of Russian interference from the intelligence community can answer that question. If our president’s social media communications are providing aid and comfort to the other side or if at the very least he does not understand or value political virtues like civil discourse, the importance of the loyal opposition and the art of political negotiation, then it is imperative that we act to save our democracy.

Everything else is a distraction, including Democratic infighting.

Bitter Bernie supporters calling the DNC corrupt are divisive and it plays into the hands of corporate power more than “Russian misdirection.” Serious mistakes were made, and the DNC is learning from them. Let’s remember that both Democratic candidates are worthy public servants whose policies were only separated by how much could be promised and realistically delivered (and maybe if you preferred, the policies “mansplained”). The actions of a Russian oligarchy are not a distraction away from corporate media and money harming the public good. They shed light on powerful white men abusing government and the information age to enrich their global corporations and consolidate power. Let’s try not to be manipulated by those with the most money and privilege and focus on empowering everyone to strengthen our democracy.

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The muni boondoggle continues

I am so sorry that the muni vote continues the waste of precious time and money. So $17 million and five more years of this boondoggle continue. Great news for all those depending on a muni paycheck, bad news for actual carbon reduction.

I guess we just stay calm and carry on. I will continue to comment at city council and in the papers.

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My suggestion is that everyone bypass the muni and get solar installed or get Windsource now and not wait for the muni to end. The muni will end when the true costs are finally tallied.

The muni supporters have done nothing but criticize Xcel and ignore the muni deceits and failures. They are just blinded by propaganda and have led about half our neighbors down that same dark tunnel.

I am lucky to have a sunny roof, and I got solar installed by Solar City in 2011 for no money down and monthly payments that actually save me a buck or two. I suggest you shop around and find some company that will do the same if you, like me, don’t have the money for an outright purchase. What was great was that all the permitting and installation was done by them, and the panels and system are guaranteed for 20 years (until 2031 in my case). If you don’t have a sunny roof or live in an apartment, check out Xcel’s Windsource.

I live alone and I average 12 kWh per day over the year. That means I could cover all of my electricity with Windsource for $65.70 per year or $5.48 per month. Based on 2012 demographics for Boulder, the average family household in Boulder is about 2.3 individuals, so the average household might have to pay about $12.60 per month or $151.11 per year. There are about 41,400 households in Boulder, so that would be about $6.26 million to have all of those households on 100 percent Windsource. But of course some of those households, like mine, already have solar and wouldn’t need to buy Windsource, and since Xcel is already a little over 20 percent renewables, you would only have to cover 80 percent of your electric use to be 100 percent renewables.

So, for the cost of a good cup of coffee and a donut per person per month we could all be 100 percent renewable with just the current carbon tax that is already collected but is mostly going into the general fund rather than being used for carbon reduction.

The muni is either winning slowly, or more accurately losing slowly. In either case, it is “exactly the same thing as losing.”

City Council, are you listening? For the rest of you, please forward this to the City Council (council@bouldercolorado.gov). Maybe it just takes a little repeating to sink in.

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Prying open the third eye

Ketamine’s long, strange trip to becoming the next revolution in mental health medication by Caitlin Rockett Susan France

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his summer, Cameron McArthur sat in a clinic in Denver, an infusion pump slowly introducing ketamine to his bloodstream. As the drug worked its way through his veins to his brain, Cameron experienced a sensation of unfurling, “like a time lapse video of a flower blossoming,” he says. As minutes passed, his eyes closed, geometric shapes formed with machine-like precision.

They moved in a perfect symphony of motion, silently relaying information — about Cameron, about life — back and forth.

There was no fear, only a sense of openness Cameron had never known.

The 43-year-old is fairly reserved until he’s asked to describe his first ketamine treatment, and then it’s as though by simply talking about the experience he’s expanding again, a flower in bloom.

Before his treatment earlier this year, years of depression and anxiety from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had slowly consumed Cameron. Nothing lifted the fog; no medicine, no exercise, no amount of meditation allowed light to pierce the darkness.

So his therapist suggested ketamine infusions.

“All of this stuff that you knew was there and that you didn’t know was there presents itself simultaneously,” Cameron says. “I don’t care if it was something trivial like getting new tires on the car 10 November 16, 2017

next week or the deepest level of pain and confusion that brought you there, it’s addressed in a way that’s the equivalent...” He pauses.

“I would say it’s like you are interacting with a higher intelligence.”

Like prying open the third eye?

“Exactly,” he says. “It’s a universal consciousness that you’re connecting to, but at the same time it’s intimately personal.”

He knows how this might sound, but he doesn’t care.

“It was... profound.”

Ketamine’s use as a sort of end-ofthe-line treatment for people suffering from treatment-resistant forms of depression (including PTSD, bipolar disorder, post-partum depression and, after some recent research, obsessive compulsive disorder) has been gaining notoriety in the U.S. for the past 17 years or so. Treatment centers have popped up from coast to coast, including here on the Front Range.

When patients have found no relief using everything else modern medicine has to offer, mental health professionals are beginning to point them toward ketamine.

It’s not a new drug by any means.

With some help from a pharmaceutical consultant, a chemistry professor at Wayne State University in Michigan first synthesized ketamine in 1962. It quickly proved to be a better alternative to PCP (yes, angel dust) as a dissociative anesthetic, and in 1970 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it for medical use. It was soon used to anesthetize wounded soldiers during the Vietnam War, and became a go-to drug in operating rooms across the country.

It didn’t take long for psychonaunts to discover ketamine and incorporate it into America’s growing psychedelic drug culture. As a dissociative drug, ketamine distorts perceptions of sight and sound

and creates a sense of being detached from the body and its surroundings. At high doses the effects become aggressive, leaving the user immobilized, confused and susceptible to amnesia.

In the 1990s, ketamine found its way to the rave scene, where it became known as Special K. Despite its decadesold, government-approved use as a human anesthetic, rumors ran rampant that ketamine was a horse or cat tranquilizer. Ask a few people on Pearl Street Mall about ketamine and chances are someone will bring up horses.

In 2000, a research group led by Robert M. Berman of Columbia University blazed a new path for ketamine. They conducted the first placebocontrolled, double-blind trial to measure ketamine’s ability to improve symptoms of depression. The test was small, just seven subjects hooked up to either an IV of lowdose ketamine (far lower than use for anesthesia) or saline solution, but the results were compelling.

“Subjects with depression evidenced significant improvement in depressive symptoms within 72 hours after ketamine but not the placebo infusion,” the team wrote.

A team led in 2006 by Carlos Zarate of the National Institute of Mental Health was able to replicate Berman’s work.

The takeaway here is that relief in three days is significantly faster than the four to six weeks it takes to see improvement from the current gold standard treatments in depression, those wellknown and well-worn SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors).

When someone is experiencing suicidal thoughts, the difference between a few days and a couple of weeks becomes even more significant.

“I would actually argue that we know

more about ketamine than we do about SSRIs,” says Steven Levine, cofounder of Ketamine Treatment Centers, a network of clinics around the U.S., including the center in Denver where Cameron McArthur received his treatment. “We actually have no idea about how SSRIs work. We don’t have a clue.

The party line about chemical imbalance and SSRIs restoring that balance of neurotransmitters is — pardon my language — bullshit. Everybody in the field who knows better knows that.”

More diplomatically, a lot of what we think we know about antidepressants is speculative. Despite years of use and years of study, scientists still don’t know if low levels of neurotransmitters like serotonin cause depression, or if raising those levels resolves it. To Levine’s point, we simply don’t know enough about brain chemistry to say what’s balanced or unbalanced.

Here’s what we do know about the brain: up until a couple of decades ago it was believed that the human brain only developed new neurons — those nerve cells that carry messages throughout the body — to a point in our early 20s and after that we only lost them. Now we know our brains make neurons throughout our lifespan (a phenomenon called neural plasticity), albeit slower than it did before our 20s.

We now know that depression is a neurodegenerative condition. If left untreated, depression can lessen the number and quality of neurons, but with treatment the connections can be repaired. Part of what drives the repair of neural connections is a group of proteins called neurotropic factors. One of the main proteins is BDNF, or brain derived neurotropic factor. Things like exercise and SSRIs increase BDNF, as does ketamine, only much faster.

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neurotransmitters in the brain and body.

People are most familiar with serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine, but glutamate is the most abundant. Recent research has shown that depressed people with systemic inflammation have high levels of glutamate in regions of the brain that affect motivation. Big Pharma is currently fixated on ketamine’s ability to target glutamate and lessen its production.

And finally we know that ketamine activates a pathway called the mammalian target of rapamycin, which produces those neuron-building proteins like BDNF. “In the case of ketamine, all of this happens very quickly, within hours,” Levine says. “It has this really beneficial effect on the plasticity of the synapses, the spaces between cells where information is transmitted.”

Even before we knew all of that, Berman’s work in 2000 set the stage for ketamine’s use as an antidepressant and gave physicians a set of guidelines — like how many milligrams of ketamine to deliver intravenously per kilogram of body weight over what period of time — that are still standard practice today.

But “standard” is a thorny word to use when talking about ketamine treatment. For starters, doctors administering ketamine for depression are engaging in off-label use of the drug. Sounds shady, but it’s not. In the FDA’s words, once the Administration approves a drug for a specific use — anesthesia in the case of ketamine — “healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient.”

Why? Because “you may have tried all approved treatments without seeing any benefits.”

Ultimately, humans are one organism made of many systems, and so a medicine used in, say, cardiology, is going to have some effects on other systems, and so it can potentially be leveraged therapeutically for other systems.

While the FDA lays out guidelines for how to deliver a drug for best results for its approved purpose, they don’t provide guidance for delivery in off-label uses.

This is where some questions arise about ketamine’s use for depression.

Ketamine can be delivered in four ways: intravenously, intramuscularly, intranasally and sublingually.

“The biggest difference among them is what is most bioavailable, what’s most absorbed,” explains Levine.

“Intravenous is 100 percent bioavailable. Intramuscular is about 90 percent.

With nasal and oral there is tremendous variability, and that can be within one person over time and certainly from person to person. Those are more difficult to control and difficult to know how much medicine people are getting.”

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Ketamine Treatment Centers only administer intravenous ketamine. But other physicians, like psychiatrist William Van Derveer of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center of Boulder, sees marked improvement in his patients via intramuscular shots of ketamine.

“There are definitely differences [between methods of delivery,]” he says.

“I think there are settings and situations and people where one would be better than the other. I have seen people do really well on intranasal ketamine but also seen people not get any benefit at all. So far I’m not ready to say this is

better or this is worse, it’s just a different tool for a different situation.”

Van Derveer has been involved in a long-term study of another pyschotropic drug, MDMA, and its use in psychotherapy for PTSD, which Boulder Weekly covered in March of this year. (The rave scene also commandeered MDMA, but the drug used in Van Derveer’s research is free of adulterants, unlike “molly” or “ecstasy.”) Part of the protocol for the MDMA research involved more than a dozen non-MDMA sessions — just regular talk therapy.

“I think if I gave somebody MDMA

without psychotherapy it would maybe make them feel better for a few hours or a day, maybe, but I don’t think it would last like the results that we saw,” he says.

He sees the same necessity in ketamine-assisted treatment.

“When it goes well that’s what you see — people being able to access things that they really wouldn’t touch in ordinary states of consciousness.

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have to be dominated by the physical inputs from their body.

“For example, in PTSD you oftentimes have a huge body component to it, where there’s a lot of tension, fear, fight or flight chemicals going on. So the ketamine can help for a brief period of time, help people disconnect and gain a different perspective, but you have to do integration work to make that real in your life.”

Van Derveer’s clinic is currently looking to set up intravenous ketamine delivery in the near future, and they have partnered with other clinics to collect informal data about how ketamine affects their patients.

Which brings us to another problem with ketamine: the limited size of research trials thus far.

“We only have what we call phase II studies on ketamine,” Van Derveer says.

“So we’ve got double-blind, randomized controlled trials, which is good, but small, on the order of 20 to 30 participants. If someone wants to take a drug to the market to get FDA indication [for a specific use], they have to go through phase III trials, which require hundreds of participants. So a multi-center, phase III, randomized trial is the gold standard for establishing FDA approval. That never happened for ketamine with depression because 2001 (at the time of Berman’s research) was I think 35 years after it came to the market as an anesthetic. It was way off patent by that time, so nobody stands to gain the profit that you would get from getting FDA indication.”

However, in what comes as no surprise to anyone in America, Big Pharma is finding a way to take ketamine all the way to the bank. Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson and Johnson, is moving into phase III trials with a nasal spray spin-off of ketamine called esketamine.

Van Derveer uses SSRIs Celexa and Lexapro as examples.

“Celexa is what in organic chemistry they call a racemic mixture,” he says. “So if you take the molecule and put it in front of a mirror you see the mirror image looking back at you. One is called the left-handed and one is the righthanded molecule. Celexa is 50 percent right-handed and 50 percent left-handed. Lexapro is only the left-handed version of Celexa.

“I don’t know why you are allowed to make a profit and bring another patent to market when you’ve already shown the previous drug, which was just a mixture of the left- and right-handed molecules, was effective, why you get another turn to, if you ask me, profiteer off of people,” he says. “The only difference is that you took off the right-handed part and you’re calling it a new drug and put a new name on it. That what’s happen-

ing with ketamine. The ketamine that I use, that all people use, is 50 percent left- and right-handed and esketamine is a left-handed version of ketamine.”

He laughs from frustration.

“It’s great because you can make a ton of money doing it.”

Even at that, Van Derveer and Levine hope that more regulation will come as the FDA begins to consider ketamine’s potential to combat depression.

Not so much regulation that ketamine becomes difficult to access for the millions of people who might benefit from it, but enough to keep people from being able to take ketamine out of the clinical setting and into their homes — which is a distinct possibility with Jansson’s nasal spray in the pipeline.

While ketamine isn’t addictive in the same way opioids are, dependence can still arise. Excessive prolonged use of ketamine can damage the bladder. Rampant non-medical use in the U.K. and Asia has led to surges in bladder removal.

Early ketamine researcher Marcia Moorse, who explored self-injection in the ’70s, wandered into a field in a ketamine-induced stupor and froze to death.

It’s a fine line to walk between accessibility and safety, as the opioid epidemic has shown us.

Ketamine treatments are currently fairly pricey, between $300 and $400 per session on average, but some clinics will charge $700 or more. Most insurance companies don’t currently cover ketamine treatment, but Levine has been working to change that. He’s had meetings with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as officials at the Deptartment of Veteran’s Affairs. Kaiser Permanente, which has a large presence in Colorado, already provides coverage for ketamine treatment to members at eight locations in Northern California. This might be a first step in getting other branches of Kaiser to follow suit.

Ketamine isn’t the panacea of mental health treatment, but it’s the first real breakthrough the field’s had in years.

And while the experience is mildly hallucinogenic — there’s no way around describing it as such — that’s not really how Cameron McArthur sees it.

“Anyone who undergoes this treatment, it is not a physical sensation that will last for a long period of time. This is an emotional journey. A month out you’re going to have realizations from your treatment from when you breached the vail. There is another side,” he says.

“Six months down the road you’re going to have more realizations than you had when you were underneath the ketamine.

“The devil is in the details. It’s nuanced, massive... profound.”

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Off Target 10: Is dividing by five hiding the real culprit?

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n Nov. 6, 2017, WildEarth Guardians (WEG) and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to a hold on their lawsuit against the USDAWildlife Services (WS), among others. The agreement to stay the proceedings was signed by the two environmental organizations and WS in regards to a lawsuit filed in U.S. district court on April 12. The lawsuit in question pertained to the predator control plans put forward by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), which are intended to boost mule deer population growth.

The agreement requires WS to prepare a new draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for its predator damage management work in Colorado

by Dec. 15. The controversial management work being done by WS is to trap and kill black bears and mountain lions within CPW’s predator control areas, as reported previously by Boulder Weekly in this series of articles. Once the draft EA is completed, it will be submitted for public review and comment for 45 days. Subsequent to the comment period, WS will complete a final EA and issue a resulting decision, which could go a couple of ways. WS could reach either a finding of no significant impact, which would allow the killing of the animals to proceed or it could reach a finding of significance, which would require the preparation of a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by Aug. 1, 2018, according to court documents.

Should the two environmental groups be dissatisfied with the outcome of the EA or EIS, they would be allowed to reopen their lawsuit if they could show good cause.

This is good news for the animals. According to Gail Keirn, WS public affairs specialist, until all condi14 November 16, 2017

tions are met, the Service has agreed “not to undertake, impacts mentioned in authorize the use of, and/or fund black bear or mounWS’s original final EA, Despite the obvious tain lion hunting and/or trapping and/or killing to which was completed in impacts of oil and increase ungulate [deer, elk, etc.] populations in January. gas extraction in Colorado’s Piceance Colorado or to study the effects of those actions on Instead, both CPW Basin, mountain lions ungulate populations in Colorado, including but not and WS state that condiand bears are being blamed for drops in limited to participation in the [CPW’s] Piceance Basin tions in the Piceance the deer population Predator Control Plan and the Upper Arkansas River Basin are similar to other in the area.

Predator Control Plan.”

Western Colorado mule “We’re thrilled that Colorado wildlife are getting a deer populations, and break from Wildlife Service’s deadly work,” said their predator control work “will likely be applicable to Collette Adkins, an attorney with CBD in a press declining or below objective deer herds in the western release. “The additional analysis spurred by our lawsuit third of the state,” according to both WS’s final EA will reveal that Wildlife Services’ and CPW’s program narrative. wildlife killing is scientifically This suggests CPW and WS may unsound, ineffective and cruel.” be planning to use their lion- and WEG and CBD have been bear-killing predator control plans CPW/KPC HAVE MADE IT arguing all along that the best in the Piceance Basin, where the IMPOSSIBLE FOR HUNTERS available science reveals loss of cumulative activities of the oil and habitat from oil and gas extracgas industry are a primary impact AND OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS tion is the driving factor causing on deer populations, as a faulty TO IDENTIFY THE OIL mule deer to struggle, not predajustification for establishing an AND GAS INDUSTRY AS tion from bears and lions. And in agency policy of killing even more the Piceance Basin, where there is lions and bears in other areas of IMPACTING MULE DEER significant oil and gas extraction, Colorado in the name of boosting POPULATIONS MORE THAN processing facilities, and transpormule deer numbers.

PREDATION. tation infrastructure, that asserBut as previously reported in tion is particularly salient. this series, the assumptions In a draft program narrative underlying these actions, namely for CPW’s Piceance Basin predathat killing lions and bears will tor control plan, circulated amongst CPW staff improve deer populations, do not appear to be and obtained by BW, Darby Finley, CPW terresbased in science, according to prominent wildlife trial biologist, says that conditions on summer ranges biologists. Instead, they seem to be more driven by in the Piceance Basin, including CPW’s predator con- the perceptions of hunters, outdoor enthusiasts and/ or perhaps some other agenda of CPW, whose own trol area, “are unique given the current level of fragresearch says oil and gas extraction impacts mule mentation due to oil and gas development and not deer populations. So even if lions and bears are killed necessarily comparable to other Western Colorado in the effort to increase deer populations, it may not mule deer populations.” But Neither CPW nor WS work so long as oil and gas extraction continues. The integrated Finley’s specific comment on oil and gas science actually creates a quandary for Colorado’s impacts — the only comment the scientist made on hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts who have the draft — into the final program narrative approved been specifically targeted by the oil and gas indusby the CPW Commission. Nor were oil and gas

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try’s pro-fracking advertising campaigns. For now, they support both growing the deer populations and oil and gas extraction. But who knows how their positions may shift when they come to realize oil and gas extraction is likely amongst the primary causes shrinking their all-important deer herds.

Meanwhile, CPW representatives are traveling the state attempting to generate support for their upcoming attempt to reintroduce a funding bill that failed in the 2017 Colorado legislative session. And among the major expenditures CPW is listing as reason for needing to increase its revenues is the Mule Deer Strategy. Both the Piceance Basin and Upper Arkansas River Predator Control Plans are part of the Strategy.

In order to arrive at its Mule Deer Strategy, CPW traveled the state to gather feedback via meetings and surveys from various stakeholders including hunters and landowners. According to internal CPW documents obtained through an open records request by BW, just prior to the outreach meetings, which were conducted Wikimedia Commons

by Keystone Policy Center (KPC), CPW staff held an internal meeting to discuss its outreach effort. At this meeting, CPW established that it would put the focus on predation as opposed to other possible impacts to deer populations. When KPC later presented its survey results, sure enough the stakeholders appeared to be most concerned with predation.

But there was a likely reason for the stakeholders listing lions and bears as their top priority and not the oil and gas industry.

In these outreach meetings, KPC emphasized that respondents should consider impacts to mule deer that CPW could most effectively address.

Notably, CPW can adjust hunting quotas and potentially contract WS to kill predators to attempt to influence deer demography, but the agency has no regulatory authority when it comes to oil and gas extraction unless it was to fight for it. And this is reflected in the choices CPW/KPC gave the 169 stakeholders in the seven outreach meetings across the state. Not only were those taking the survey asked to consider issues specifically related to whether or not CPW could effectively address them, but the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction were broken out into numerous discrete categories dealing with problems such as declining habitat quality, habitat loss, weather, highway mortality and barriers to migration. In Boulder Weekly

other words, predation came in as the biggest perceived problem for mule deer because oil and gas extraction wasn’t a single choice on the survey, even though CPW’s own scientific research has shown its serious impacts to deer populations.

And because the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction were fragmented in the survey, predation emerged as the primary suspect of mule deer population decline, according to respondents, at 20 percent. But the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction, which were specifically identified by respondents numerous times, when combined into one category as they exist in reality, drastically outweigh predation’s perceived impacts on mule deer decline.

According to those same respondents, areas of concern where oil and gas industry impacts were specifically mentioned include: declining habitat quality 17 percent, habitat loss 15 percent, weather 12 percent, highway mortality 7 percent, and barriers to migration 5 percent. Had oil and gas industry impacts not been broken into no less than five categories, it would have come in at 56 percent, or nearly three times as important to the decline of mule deer populations as predation according to stakeholders.

Essentially, CPW/KPC have made it impossible for hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to identify the oil and gas industry as impacting mule deer populations more than predation.

Critics of the predator control plans can, and have, argued that it appears CPW is working unusually hard to convince Colorado’s hunters and outdoor enthusiasts that oil and gas extraction is not the primary culprit when it comes to deer population declines. It is also particularly ironic to blame lions and bears and kill them when such extraordinary actions may not increase deer numbers so long as habitat loss from suburban and exurban development, along with the cumulative impacts from oil and gas extraction on public and private lands continue to occur.

Neither CPW nor Department of Natural Resources leadership responded to questions for this article.

Just a reminder: CPW is also the target of another separate and pending state lawsuit challenging the legality of these same predator control plans. That suit was also filed by WildEarth Guardians and alleges CPW’s plans are a violation of Amendment 14 of the Colorado Constitution. However, Judge Robert McGahey Jr., who is deciding this case, has yet to rule.

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hen Elizabeth Black was a kid growing up in Hawaii, she spent Elizabeth her days running without shoes Black tends to the seedling between the banyan trees, somenursery in her times as large as city blocks, letbackyard.

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“We were let loose in the morning and you didn’t have to show up back at home until dinnertime,” Black says. “We had all these routes through peoples’ backyards, and there were certain places you just went and had adventures. So there were all these great trees that you knew about and you’d go and climb different trees and get fruit from different places and play these elaborate games.”

The tree has been an enduring symbol in Black’s life — from the big trunks and wide, low-lying banyan canopies of her childhood, to the native species in the Grand Canyon she used as firewood as a young adult while running river trips, to the variety of species she plants on her Boulder property today.

“They’re just sort of a constant companion,” Black says.

And she wants to share that friendship with you. Black, to date, has given away more than 5,000 trees she’s grown on her own property in North Boulder. The trees are of different varieties and are completely free for the taking — you may have seen her sign off Broadway and Violet, or spotted her ad online.

Trees, as we know from elementary school, provide a number of physical benefits to the Earth and our lives. And, indeed, Black says she started giving trees away after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and thinking “growing trees is something I can do” to help.

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Seeds are cultivat“I think part of our problem is that we’re so dised in a small seed bed before being connected from the Earth. This is a really big probtransplanted into lem,” Black says. “You know, if people just had to dig planters. Once 2 or 3 years old, in the dirt a little bit more, it would be helpful.” the seedlings are Black gets people working in the dirt by giving given away. away seedlings that are about 2-3 years old. She first germinates seeds in a small bed over the winter, before transferring them to a small planter and then to a slightly larger planter when they grow big enough. In her backyard, she has a small Christmas tree farm (yes, she allows the cutting of 100 trees per year), a small garden from which she sells produce, the makeshift free tree nursery and an art studio — Black is an accomplished visual artist. A friendly cat guards the premises.

But growing anything in Colorado is tough, Black says, and she had to learn hard lessons on her way to being able to successfully produce the roughly 1,000 trees she gives away each year.

“I just killed an awful lot of things. I killed so many plants,” Black says about the time when she first started growing things in Colorado several decades ago.

“People come here and say, ‘Yeah, I’m a gardener, and I’ve gardened for so many years in Pennsylvania or California.’ Well, big whoop, this is Colorado. It’s really different here. Yeah, I had gardens in California and Oregon, and I came here and I just killed things, you know?”

To blame for the difficulty is bad soil and a tough climate that shortens the growing season and often imperils fruits and seeds due to late and early frosts.

Black says climate change, ironically, has actually helped moderate the climate in Colorado, but it still presents many challenges.

For instance, a late frost prevented Black from collecting redbud seeds to plant.

Black collects and forages for seeds throughout Boulder to plant during the fall — her enterprise is so local that most trees don’t do well even for homeowners in the foothills, many of whom are eager to plant after fires and floods.

Black has no goal in mind for how many trees she hopes to give away, but she hopes, at least, the seedlings she doles out actually turn into trees. A 50-50 success rate would be a win.

“Generally the trees I give away are fairly tough,” Black says. “They’re easy to plant because they’re little. You can actually do it yourself, which is the point. I think that’s important that you do it yourself.”

Black typically has a big tree giveaway in May each year with smaller tree giveaways throughout the summer. For more information and dates of giveaways, visit neighborhoodchristmastreefarm.com.

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Ganzeer draws from the past to create the future

by Angela K. Evans

Context is everything

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anzeer spends most of his time these days sitting at the orange desk in his apartment overlooking Denver’s Cheesman Park. He’s working on a graphic novel, The Solar Grid, which takes place over several thousand years “after the flood,” or AF. Most of the world’s population has migrated to Mars, and Earth has become both a solar factory to power the new world and a landfill to hold all its trash. But a resistance is growing among those left behind, a fictional uprising rooted in the artist’s own experience of revolution.

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Ganzeer, a pseudonym, means bicycle chain in Arabic, a metaphor for how the artist hopes his work functions in social spaces — not the source of the motion, but the connection that makes progress possible.

“I don’t come up with anything on my own as much as I attempt to connect different ideas together that hopefully enable things to move forward, move it past the certain point that it’s stuck in,” he says.

Although he had gallery exhibits both in Cairo and Europe before the Arab Spring, Ganzeer rose to prominence during the Egyptian Revolution

as his street art, along with that of others, drew international attention. His work has largely been labeled protest art or activist art, but it’s a title Ganzeer rejects. Some have called it “contingency art,” which may be more accurate.

The streets were eerily empty in downtown Cairo on Jan. 25, 2011, Ganzeer says. He left a friend’s house with a backpack filled with art supplies, intrigued by the social media reports of a large protest march headed for the Ministry of Interior. As the crowd entered Tahrir Square and clashed with riot police, many bystanders, including Ganzeer, got involved.

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Clockwise from top left: Ganzeer’s process of writing a graphic novel involves multiple handdrawn drafts (and notebooks); A page from Chapter 3 of The Solar Grid; Ganzeer’s “Tank vs.

Biker” in Cairo became a symbol of the Egyptian Revolution.

“If you were not in Tahrir Square you would not know there was a revolution in the making,” Ganzeer says. “I felt like there needed to be some kind of evidence on the street that something was happening.”

He climbed a billboard featuring an advertisement for then-president Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party in the center of the square and, in white spray paint, wrote what everyone around him was chanting: “Down with Mubarak.” It was a simple but powerful act that elicited cheers from the crowd and created evidence of the event that endured well beyond that day.

From that moment on, Ganzeer threw himself into documenting the revolution through his art. He took the protest out of the square, painting murals around the city.

“I’m not really a protester, because I go to a protest and I feel a little useBoulder Weekly

less,” Ganzeer says. “But when you paint a mural, you create something, and you leave it and it’s still there and people who pass react and it may leave a seed in someone’s head to think about something differently.”

He painted murals of martyrs all over the city and a zombie military officer on top of a pile of skulls. He enlisted volunteer help to put up his famous stencil of a tank facing off with a boy on a bicycle carrying a tray of bread in a popular underpass.

“The idea was to more communicate with the people who do not agree with you as opposed to the people who already agree with you,” Ganzeer says.

“If I had wanted to do that then I would have just stayed in the square and done art in the square.”

It’s a philosophy he’s brought with him to the U.S., where he’s living more or less in exile, although that’s an idea

he’s still grappling with three years later.

“It’s hard for me to accept that because it’s not something I planned,” he says. “I suppose when you say this person is an artist in exile or an activist in exile there is an impression that person is still active in that context but from a distance. But I’m not.”

He moved to New York City in May 2014; a previously planned visit on a tourist visa turned into a new life as the atmosphere in Egypt became even more hostile toward those speaking out against the military and its leader, and now president of the country, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Almost immediately, Ganzeer began working on an exhibit for the Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea.

“I didn’t like that after being involved in the revolution, that all of a sudden in the museum/gallery context they wanted me to do what I was doing

in the streets of Cairo,” Ganzeer says. “I don’t need to persuade a museumgoer in New York to believe in the Egyptian Revolution or that Mubarak or the military should not be in control.”

Instead, he took on police brutality and “dark milestones in U.S. history” for his All American exhibition. A man in a business suit, masked and ballgagged with the words “Great American Mask of Freedom since 1776 and Still Going Strong,” is reminiscent of a popular image he produced in Egypt, which eventually led to his brief arrest. A mock NYPD recruitment poster features a stencil of Eric Garner being strangled on the ground, the contact info “NYPDKILLS.com” and “212-KILLPEOPLE” listed underneath. “Honest money” features U.S. currency with images of beheaded see GANZEER Page 22

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American Indians and slaves in chains.

“A lot of people who came to that exhibition were in shock,” Ganzeer says.

“I thought I was stating the obvious.”

He could have shown his work in “some underground anarchist kind of art space,” to a crowd of activists that already agreed with him, he says, but what would be the point?

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“There’s no reason why that approach has to be limited to street art,” he continues. “If you can do it on the street you can do it in any medium, if you can be subversive about what you’re doing.”

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Above: Part of the “Honest Money” series.

Left: Ganzeer took the Egyptian Revolution out of Tahrir Square and into the streets with his murals.

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It’s something Ganzeer calls concept pop, a blend of the cultural imagery associated with pop art and conceptual art, which esteems ideas more than aesthetics. It challenges both the high-brow world of art galleries and traditional activist art that “is too on the nose.” It speaks to a particular time and place, whether that’s in Cairo during the revolution, or Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, where Ganzeer lived before moving to Denver a few months ago.

There may be more gallery shows in the future, but for now Ganzeer is singularly focused on The Solar Grid, which he is releasing chapter by chapter with plans to finish by mid-2019.

The novel raises questions of race, nationality and social class, of who gets to go and who stays behind. It “raises questions about hyper-industrialism and hyper-consumerism and interplanetary relationships that is kind of an allegory for international dynamics,” the artist says. “Everything I’m thinking about is making its way into the graphic novel but in a science-fiction context.”

Creating a graphic novel is a laborious process, involving multiple drafts

before he begins the final drawings.

Ganzeer works methodically page by page, balancing imagery with plot across each spread. He doesn’t employ digital drawing, rather sketching each frame by hand. He then scans the pages, inserting text and adjusting tones on the computer screen. It’s time-consuming and often lonely work, the artist admits.

A recent Tweet features a meme of a man stretching his arms in front of snow-capped mountains, to which Ganzeer adds, “I left the house today.”

“In the Cairo context I would have to try really hard to be alone to work on stuff and it would be difficult to pull off because everyone was dropping by or calling,” he says. “I was dragged into the Caironess of things, whereas here I’m just at home, at my table, drawing, not really talking to anyone.”

Still, Egypt is never far away and he’s currently working on a section of the novel that takes place in Cairo.

“I want to go back,” he says. “It’s lovely here, but I want to go home.”

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Boulder Symphony presents music inspired by Shakespeare

Two standard works and a world premiere are on the program

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evin Patrick Hughes had some tough choices to make.

The conductor of the Boulder Symphony wanted to do a concert celebrating music inspired by Shakespeare, but there is so much to choose from. How to choose just one concert’s worth?

In the end he settled on two familiar 19th-century scores — Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture — and one new work, a setting of Sonnet 54 commissioned from CU graduate Elizabeth Comninellis. The three works make up the program for “Shakespeare’s Potion,” to be performed Saturday, Nov. 18.

“We didn’t want to do a five-hour academy,” Hughes says, laughing.

“We were trying to look at masterpieces, music that was monumental in highlighting Shakespeare as a storyteller.”

Both the Mendelssohn and the Tchaikovsky scores marked important milestones in the composers’ careers. Mendelssohn wrote the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he was 17.

It was not his first great work — he had written his Octet for Strings at 16 — but it was performed a year later at his first public performance. That concert launched his career, and established the Overture in the orchestral repertoire.

The Overture was so popular that 17 years later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia asked Mendelssohn to write music to accompany a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He wrote orchestral interludes, choruses, songs, and music to accompany spoken texts, including the famous Wedding March.

The music of both the Overture and the later incidental pieces all flow from Shakespeare’s words and capture the fleeting, magical quality of the play with its elves and transformations. “It’s Boulder Weekly

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This concert, like all that Hughes Romeo and Juliet with Balakirev’s input, does with the Boulder Symphony, fits but later he went back and revised it to into the orchestra’s individual identity. make it more his own work.

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on’t read into the title, “So, You’re a Poet,” just see it for what it is.

There’s no question mark, no other words. It’s not meant to be intimidating, judgmental or provocative.

“It’s a rhetorical, merely,” says Thomas Peters, emcee and host of the “So, You’re a Poet” poetry series and owner of the Beat Book Shop. “It’s a reply. It’s totally non-judgmental. It’s casual, colloquial.”

Thirty years ago, Peters was a fresh graduate of Naropa University with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and poetics. Back then the scene was bustling, but even so it was hard to make a living out of verse. For a short time Peters drove limos and worked at bars to pay the bills, but when people would ask him, “What do you do?,” he would say he wrote poetry. Then, a funny thing would happen: no matter who he was talking to they would always reply: “So, you’re a poet.”

The namesake reading launched in November 1987 as a project of the young Peters and his proclivity for doing what he loved, which often meant working with writers and working for free. Uninterested in money, he

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elected a life of authenticity instead — “pure and simple” — and for Peters that meant literature, books and poetry.

Decades later you’ll find him, almost every day, among the stacks of books in his underground Beat Book Store on Pearl Street, a repository not just of Boulder’s beat culture but of beat culture the world over. In the pages of the books, Peters sees a latent potential that, if the book is to find the right mind at the right time, could change a person’s life.

The poetry reading serves a different purpose, though: to lift the words off the page, or so says Joe Rickey, a participant of the reading since its beginning. He talks about performance poetry as being akin to stand up-comedy, saying, “After all, poets have always been the wits of the culture.”

“In that the ‘So, You’re a Poet’ series brings poetry out of books, off the streets, and to people it is demotic,” he says, stopping to spell it out like a poet, savoring every letter, “D-E-M-O-TI-C. Demotic verse doesn’t always make it to the hallowed halls of academe, but there is so much life in there. Poetry is alive when you really start listening.”

Of course, you can write poetry and never read to an audience and, as Peters

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says, still be the best poet that ever lived. In fact, he originally set up the reading to hear poets read out loud things that he liked to read to himself, all alone in a room, just his eyes and the words on the page. But the performance aspect of the reading is as essential as it is notable and is inseparable from Boulder’s poetic culture that the series has helped to spawn and sustain.

“Poetry happens while you are paying attention to it only,” says local poetic staple Marcus If. “And due to the nature of read poetry, as an audience member you can’t take it home, you can’t memorize it on the spot. You can’t take a photograph of the reading of the poem. All you have left at the end of the night is the feeling of it.”

“So, You’re a Poet” acts as an admission of sorts that change isn’t just possible but inevitable. Yet, even as poetry escapes to the ether, some part of it magically endures.

Reed Bye, professor emeritus of Creative Writing at Naropa, worries about what is lost as Boulder’s priorities change away from culture and toward economy. “‘So, You’re a Poet’ has survived increased rents and changing priorities,” he says. “It’s got an aspect to it that is simple, basic and very human, one that can get easily excluded (or literally paved over) by the speed and pace of economically driven existence.”

One need only look out the window of The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, the cafe where the reading has been held since 2006, to find out what he means. Now, the streets are lined with new brick buildings, see POETRY Page 28

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perfectly straight and lined with new he is notably absent from what is retail stores. It’s difficult to imagine religiosity. the reading’s former long-time host “We want people to be great at cafe, Penny Lane, sitting across the what they do but don’t want to control street, bubbling over with creative rev- how people do that,” he says. olutions and free-form poetry.

Peters thinks “So, You’re a Poet” is But Peters isn’t worried. The scene the longest running “weekly, open, is as strong as it’s ever been. That’s continuous poetry reading in the because “you don’t need funds, all you world” (and would like to know if you need is a room,” he says. “Poetry is the know otherwise). That means that in most anti-technological 30 years it hasn’t pursuit I can think of. missed a single week All you need is a sideand there are always ON THE BILL: ”So, walk and a stone, a open slots for anyone You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. paper and a pencil. to read, even if there is every Monday night at The Laughing Goat, 1709 Poetry is easy and free.” a featured writer.

Pearl St., Boulder. It is free What’s not easy is That means that and open to the public. the staying power it over the years new and takes to host the emerging writers have meeting, every shared the stage with Monday night for 30 years. Peters, the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Anne though, shrugs it off, saying such Waldman, Jack Collom, Amiri Baraka, commitment is a quality that everyThurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), one should have. Certainly it’s one Ernesto Cardenal, Diane di Prima and that he has and it’s one the poetic more. community in Boulder shares.

As tempting as it is to focus on the Attendance at the reading may vary, famous minds who have graced the anywhere from half a dozen to 100, series’ humble stage, all those combut one thing’s for sure — poets menting on the reading are eager to always show up. redirect attention to the courage of the Local poet and professor of young poets who serve as a weekly English Jonathan Montgomery likreminder of the power of poetry. ens it to church. “Tom Peters is the “Poetry is a valuable way to encounpreacher and I but one among the ter your own mind,” says Reed Bye, “an congregation,” he says in regard to important experience in language. ‘So, his forthcoming article about the You’re a Poet’ is the gesture of not anniversary for Boulderpoetrytribe. keeping that a secret. And that’s the com. Indeed Peters is pious, dedicat- most important thing I can think to do ed to the poetics that he loves, but with 30 years of Mondays.”

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Satisfaction, The International Rolling Stones Show 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. $22.

Are you a Rolling Stones fan? Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy a performance by Satisfaction, known around the globe for being the most authentic Rolling Stones tribute show out there. This show is entering its 16th year in production and has performed more than 3,000 times for clients ranging from the nation’s top casinos to worldrenowned music halls. In fact, the production was the first ever Rolling Stones show to debut on the Las Vegas strip. It has also been featured in Rolling Stone magazine and hundreds of media outlets, where the show is known as the greatest show honoring the legendary. Don’t miss this blast from the past!

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The Mulligan Brothers

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7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. $20.

9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. $12.

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After touring throughout the U.S. and Europe for the past three years, American folk rock group the Mulligan Brothers will grace Boulder with new music and a new group member as well. Originally an all-male group from Mobile, Alabama, the Mulligan Brothers gained a sister last year, fiddler Melody Duncan. After completing their U.S. tour, the Mulligan Brothers will head to the studio later this year to start work on their fourth album. Previous albums include The Mulligan Brothers, Via Portland and Live From The Netherlands, where they played shows at the famous Paradiso in Amsterdam. Don’t miss the chance to see this well-traveled and well-versed group.

— Eliza Radeka

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Eufórquestra — think euphoria plus orchestra — is bringing its funky, rhythmic energy to The Caribou Room Nov. 18. The band has been influenced by music from all over the world and has a sound that can be described as a mix of funk and groove. This unique sounds comes from the roots of soul, reggae and dub to create an explosive sound that has been captivating audiences for more than a decade. The group has produced five full-length records and with over 1,000 performances completed, shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. They are joined

by The Workshy, an eclectic six-piece funk/jazz/blues group from Denver.

— Eliza Radeka

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Left to Right: BW’s own Devin Edgley, who made it all go smoothly; Aaron Nakamichi of Motomaki made sure everybody ate well; The Speakeasy’s Carla Wright picked up the prize for Longmont’s “Best Jazz Venue;” BW staffers Allen Carmichael and Kellie Robinson were all smiles; Ozo Coffee picked up so many awards we don’t have space to name them all but they were well represented by (L to R) Joe B., Les Helbak and Maria Sibley; Mari Nevar (Mrs. Boulder Weekly) hanging with the evening’s emcee Erica Sodos; Moxie Bread Co.’s Rick Hickerson holds up the hardware for East County’s “Best Bakery “and Louisville’s “Best Sandwich.”

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Left to right: Picking up the award for Longmont’s “Best Yoga” are Full Circle’s Erik Schnackenberg (C), Erica Lee (L), Gabrielle Michalik (R) and Brie (front and center); Richie Fiscus of Jax Outdoor Gear picked up awards ranging from “Best Men’s Clothing” in East County to Lafayette’s “Best Shoe Store;” (L to R) BW owner, publisher, columnist and sage Stewart Sallo, Mrs. BW sage Mari Nevar, Best of’s always effervescent emcee Erica Sodos and BW editor Joel Dyer; Winner “Best BW Staffers” (well, they would have won if we’d voted on it) Emma Murray and Olivia Rolf; And winner of the “Making Everybody Happy” award went to Ryan Wibby and Robin Brower, who represented our beer sponsor extraordinaire, Wibby Brewing.

Left to Right: Emcee Erica Sodos should really be called the Magician of Ceremonies; Marc Gitlin and Stacy Davenport-Gitlin of Nissi’s, winner of three awards for East County’s “Best “Music Venue,” “Live Jazz Venue” and “Place to Dance;” If you read BW you need to thank these two folks who make sure you can find it, Elizabeth Ouslie and Cal Winn; Soultree Yoga’s Melissa Ulev (C), Meghan Stockdale (R) and Shanin Weisberg (L) picked up East County’s “Best Yoga” award; Cami Malone and Alec Parker of Eats & Sweets chow down between picking up awards for Lafayette’s “Best Sandwich,” “Ice Cream” and “Restaurant Dessert;” Trivium Salon is East County’s “Best New Business” award winner and owner Rori Bass and company turned out in force to pick up their prize.

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Left to Right: BW’s own Devin Edgley, who made it all go smoothly; Aaron Nakamichi of Motomaki made sure everybody ate well; The Speakeasy’s Carla Wright picked up the prize for Longmont’s “Best Jazz Venue;” BW staffers Allen Carmichael and Kellie Robinson were all smiles; Ozo Coffee picked up so many awards we don’t have space to name them all but they were well represented by (L to R) Joe B., Les Helbak and Maria Sibley; Mari Nevar (Mrs. Boulder Weekly) hanging with the evening’s emcee Erica Sodos; Moxie Bread Co.’s Rick Hickerson holds up the hardware for East County’s “Best Bakery “and Louisville’s “Best Sandwich.”

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To view all of the images from the party, visit AliveStudios.Com, click Client Proofing and enter code = “best.”

Left to right: Picking up the award for Longmont’s “Best Yoga” are Full Circle’s Erik Schnackenberg (C), Erica Lee (L), Gabrielle Michalik (R) and Brie (front and center); Richie Fiscus of Jax Outdoor Gear picked up awards ranging from “Best Men’s Clothing” in East County to Lafayette’s “Best Shoe Store;” (L to R) BW owner, publisher, columnist and sage Stewart Sallo, Mrs. BW sage Mari Nevar, Best of’s always effervescent emcee Erica Sodos and BW editor Joel Dyer; Winner “Best BW Staffers” (well, they would have won if we’d voted on it) Emma Murray and Olivia Rolf; And winner of the “Making Everybody Happy” award went to Ryan Wibby and Robin Brower, who represented our beer sponsor extraordinaire, Wibby Brewing.

Left to Right: Emcee Erica Sodos should really be called the Magician of Ceremonies; Marc Gitlin and Stacy Davenport-Gitlin of Nissi’s, winner of three awards for East County’s “Best “Music Venue,” “Live Jazz Venue” and “Place to Dance;” If you read BW you need to thank these two folks who make sure you can find it, Elizabeth Ouslie and Cal Winn; Soultree Yoga’s Melissa Ulev (C), Meghan Stockdale (R) and Shanin Weisberg (L) picked up East County’s “Best Yoga” award; Cami Malone and Alec Parker of Eats & Sweets chow down between picking up awards for Lafayette’s “Best Sandwich,” “Ice Cream” and “Restaurant Dessert;” Trivium Salon is East County’s “Best New Business” award winner and owner Rori Bass and company turned out in force to pick up their prize.

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Extravaganza. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Thursday, November 16 Music Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville.

Cindy Wilson (of the B-52s). 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

The Disco Biscuits’ Fan Appreciation Show.

9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Eddie Palmieri Sextet: 80th Birthday Celebration. 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Electro Acoustic & Mobile Device Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. King Center Recital Hall, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. eTown Presents: The Real Deal Starring Texas Legends Reverend Horton Heat & Dale Watson. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

House Night. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.

Kenny Lee and The Young Souls. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

LA Witch. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Lynxgiving Benefit for Las Vegas. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Melkbelly. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Mikey Thunder. 9 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Pickin’ on Nirvana with Pickin’ on the ’90’s and Special Guests. 8 p.m.

Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Ponder the Albatross. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Thanksgiving Food Drive. 9 a.m. Discover Health and Wellness Denver, 1231 S. Parker Road, Unit 100, Denver.

Third Thursday Improv. 7 p.m. Wesley Foundation, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Warren Miller’s Line of Descent. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Friday, November 17 Music The 13th Annual Last Waltz Revisited featuring Polytoxic, The Denver Horns and Guests. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

man, Jr. (Ween), Michael Travis (SCI) and Conducted by Matt Butler with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Friday Lunch with the Denver Jazz Ladies.

11 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Happy Hour Chamber Concerts. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

Happy Hour with Gumbo Le Funque. 5:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Harmony and Brad. 6 p.m. Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd, Longmont.

Jyemo Club with Special Guests. 9 p.m.

Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Machinedrum. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Tr a n s A w a r e n e s s W e e k This week, Out Boulder County has organized multiple events for the Third Annual Trans Awareness Week. The majority of the events offer educational opportunities for allies to learn from trans-identifying people.

Other events are specifically for trans people to celebrate and remember the trans community. Out Boulder encourages anyone who wishes to help their transgender friends and family members to show up and educate themselves to be a more effective ally. Learn more at Out Boulder’s website.

Tuesday, Nov. 14

Screening of Major! Followed by a discussion with community leaders. 6:30 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Purchase ticket for entry.

Wednesday, Nov. 15

Sharing Transgender Stories Q&A Panel.

7 p.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont. RSVP to Facebook event, RSVP to Facebook event, facebook.com/pg/OutBoulderPride/events/.

Thursday, Nov. 16

Boulder County Gender Support. 7 p.m.

Out Boulder, 2132 14 St., Boulder.

Friday, Nov. 17

Stand-Up Comedy Night to honor Jordan Wieleba. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets at tickets. thedairy.org/.

Saturday, Nov. 18

Name Change Clinic. 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. RSVP to Facebook events, facebook.com/pg/OutBoulderPride/events/.

Sunday, Nov. 19

Trans-giving Community Dinner (for trans-identifying people). 6 p.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont. RSVP via Google Doc on Out Boulder’s website.

Monday, Nov. 20

Transgender Day of Remembrance/Dia de Recuerdo Transgénero. 6 p.m. Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl between 13th and 14th.

Powerman 5000. 9 p.m.

Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Rock Out For Homeless Youth! 7 p.m. Platt Middle School Auditorium, 6069 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Arch Enemy, Trivium, While She Sleeps and Fit for an Autopsy. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Roska. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes.

7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.

Satisfaction, The International Rolling Stones Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette.

Events All Hail the Nerds Comedy Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont.

Cameron Esposito. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder.

Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder.

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Michael “Chip” Chipman. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

The Mighty Twisters at License No 1. 9:15 p.m.

License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder.

The Mulligan Brothers.

7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

O Beautiful. 7:30 p.m.

The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

The Pharcyde. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Quemando. 8:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues, 303 Main St, Lyons.

Rachel Ann Harding.

6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 — with Natasha Paremski.

7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

Reverend Horton Heat. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Sawyer Organ Concert — with Bryan Dunnewald. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

Beaujolais Release Concert & Tasting. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

Silent Disco Vinyl Release featuring St. Vincent Masseduction. 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 4255 Colfax Ave., Denver.

Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m.

Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 10, Boulder.

Sodown. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

DU Lamont Guest Artist — Amir Eldan, cello. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E Iliff Ave., Denver.

Soil & Flaw. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Super Diamond. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Too Many Humans (Album Release). 9 p.m.

Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Edgar Allan Poe is Dead and so is My Cat. 8 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Eddie Palmieri Sextet: 80th Birthday Celebration. 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

VIBeRATION. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Mistletoe Market. 6 p.m. Halcyon, 245 Columbine St., Denver.

Erik Boa Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Aerial Street View. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy

Everyone Orchestra featuring Claude Cole-

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events events Cameron Esposito. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

ComedySportz Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Dog Dance. 7 p.m. Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Avenue, Suite 101, Boulder.

Edgar Allan Poe is Dead and so is My Cat. 8 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Fate of The Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E Colfax Ave., Denver.

Heirs of Hogwarts: An Improvised Adventure. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Multiple Piano Festival. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont.

Waterparks: The Made In America Tour. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Orgone. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Aerial Street View. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Oskar Blues 15th CANiversary with The White Buffalo. 6 p.m. The Oak Room at Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

The Pharcyde. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Rat’s WoodShack BBQ. 3 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24.

Longmont Comedy Brew Tour. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont.

Becky’s New Car. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 19.

Stand-Up Comedy: A Tribute to Jordan Wieleba. 8:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Christine Fisk

Saturday, November 18 Music Alex Heffron Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

And The Kids. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Baio. 11 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

The Miracle Worker tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller.

The classic play dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge.

Being Kindness... Tonight! 7 p.m.

Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder.

Bhakti Shakti Kirtan. 7 p.m. Full Circle Yoga, 519 Main St., Longmont.

Broken Land. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Dubbest. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Eufórquestra — with The Workshy. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

Flamenco Denver presents its 2017 Fall Recital. 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe, Denver.

Beau Jest — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through Dec. 10.

Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Feb. 14.

RESPECT: An Aretha Franklin Show starring The Mary Louise Lee Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Reverend Horton Heat. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Iamtheshotgun — with Doomsday for the Destroyer, The Common Good. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Ryan Dart (Album Release). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Joe Stevens. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont.

Live Music: David Booker Trio. 7:30 p.m.

Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra presents A Special Tribute to Buddy Rich. 4 p.m. Historic Grant Avenue, 216 Grant Ave., Denver.

Michael Turner featuring Christie Buchele.

7 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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Boulder 5th Annual Beard and Mustache Competition. 5 p.m. The Dickens, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Brent Gill. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Body Of An American. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 9.

DISASTER! — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Dec. 2.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Begins Nov. 17. Through Dec. 23 The Rape of the Sabine Women — presented by Local Theater Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Nov. 19.

Return to the Twilight Zone, a Parody — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through November 18.

Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14, 2018.

Smart People. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, Through Nov. 19.

The Snowy Day. Conservatory Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Nov. 18.

A Year with Frog and Toad. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 19.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 8PM

BRAZIL NIGHT

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17 8PM

THE CONSTELLATION COLLECTIVE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18

BEN PROVENCIAL 8PM SKEAN DUBH 9PM SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19

ASHLEY HEATH WITH SPECIAL GUEST RYAN BURNS 8PM HOPE GRIFFIN TRIO 9PM MONDAY NOVEMBER 20 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS 30 YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE MONDAYS

“SO, YOU’RE A POET”

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21 8PM

George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Jackson Cloud Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch, and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S Downing St., Denver.

theater

L’Estrange Menagerie: A Sexy Circus. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Working Together: An Improvised Sitcom. 10 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Events

Soft Opening Early DJ. 8 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.

Songwriters in the Round. 6:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Taylor Shae Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Trout Steak Revival — Denver Album Release Show with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Tunes for Barrett Funky Fall Fest — with Holy Funk N Chicks. 6 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver.

Cameron Esposito. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

ComedySportz Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Holiday Artisan Market. 9 a.m. Cook Park Recreation Center, 7100 Cherry Creek S. Drive, Denver.

Holiday Gift Market Adoption Fundraiser. 10 a.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

Kids’ Screenwriting Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Writing Studio, 777 Pearl St., Boulder.

Mollie McGee’s 37th Annual Holiday Market. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Off the Clock Burlesque & Comedy. 11 p.m.

The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. see EVENTS Page 36

DAVID RYLE

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23

CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24

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arts

Courtesy of BMoCA/Bruce Price

Sinner in Gingham now showing at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, features a grouping of paintings, objects and works on paper by Denver-based artist Bruce Price.

The paintings featured in this exhibition all employ gingham fabric, a checked cotton linen common to household decorations and clothing. Pictured: Mound, 2009, Acrylic on Canvas, 20” x 49”

Artistry And Craftsmanship: Ruskin Pottery, Enamels, and Buttons. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Britain’s Golden Age. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Canaletto: Masterwork Restored. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Depth & Detail: Carved Bamboo from China, Japan & Korea. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018.

Faculty Exhibition: 2017. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 23.

From The Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Grand Gestures: Dance, Drama, Masquerade.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14.

Legacy — presented by Gallery 1261 and Denver Public Library. Denver Central Library, Level 7, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Dec. 31.

Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21.

Neo-Cubism: A New Perspective — by Roger Reutimann & William Stoehr. Dairy Center for the Arts, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Dec. 3.

Out of India: Drawings and Photographs — Sherry Wiggins. Boulder Museum of Contemporary

Art, 1750 13th St. Through Nov. 17.

Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feburary 2018.

River Paintings Curated by Courtney Stell — Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.. Through Nov. 17.

Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.. Through Jan. 21.

Spiritual Dimensions. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, MacMillan Family Lobby, and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Dec. 3.

Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February 2018.

EVENTS from Page 35

On The Spot. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Surprise Guest and More! 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Funk You. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

Barbara Jo Kammer (Album Release). 5 p.m.

Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Hayes Carll. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Stand-Up Comedy & Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Blood on the Tracks: Bob Dylan’s Complete Album Live Tribute. 7:30 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Hope Griffin Trio. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons.

Warren Miller’s Line of Descent. 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Sunday, November 19 Music AztroGrizz — with Stilz Unique, Hitmann, a

words Thursday, November 16 Dr. Karlene Stange — The Spiritual Nature of Animals. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Saturday, November 18 Mallory Bales — Intention. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Monday, November 20 So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tuesday, November 21 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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Boogie Down! 11 a.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver.

An Evening of New Jazz Compositions. 7 p.m. La Cour Restaurant, 1643 S. Broadway, Denver.

Jami Lunde Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Jazz Dinner with Dave Honig. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Jewish Melodies from Around the World. 2 p.m. Denver Public Library Central Branch, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Boulder Book Store

Karlene Stange’s spiritual journey began as she drove her pickup loaded with medical supplies to attend to animals throughout southwestern Colorado as an ambulatory vet. The Spiritual Nature of Animals chronicles her amazing exploration through the teachings of various religious and cultural traditions, as well as her encounters with the Rocky Mountain terrain and the quirky characters, both animal and human, who inhabit it. See her speak at Boulder Book Store on Nov. 16.

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events Joyce Manor & Wavves — with Culture Abuse. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

The Nut House Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m.

Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

Oceans Ate Alaska with invent, animate, Dayseeker, Afterlife. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Natasha Paremski. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

Make-A-Movie Workshop - Claymation Vacation Day Camp. 8 a.m. Digistars MakeA-Movie Workshop (Mile Hi Youth Corp office), 6740 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

Movie Night: Star Wars IV — A New Hope. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Refugee First Thanksgiving 2017. 5 p.m.

Assumption Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 4610 E .Alameda Ave., Denver.

Shop ‘Til You Drop. 5:30 p.m. Faith Community

Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont.

Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder.

Tuesday, November 21 Music Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

In The Company Of Serpents, Goya. 8 p.m.

Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Kastle. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Ophelia’s Open Mic with Soul Daddy and His Band. 8 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Pale Waves. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Regina Carter’s Simply Ella. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. see EVENTS Page 38

Reverend Horton Heat (solo) & Dale Watson (solo). 4 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Spinphony. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette.

Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

The Wailin’ Jennys. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Events Boulder Ballet Nutcracker Storytime. 2 p.m.

Barnes & Noble Boulder, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder.

Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder.

Mmmwhah’s Sunday Art Workshop: Figure Drawing Series. 4 p.m. Silver Sage, 1650 Yellow Pine, 1650 Yellow Pine, Boulder.

Mollie McGee’s 37th Annual Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Switch on the Holidays. 5 p.m. 13th and Pearl St., Boulder.

SALLYMANDER: An Improv Graduate Show.

7 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Monday, November 20 Music Freddie Gibbs. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Free Throw. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Jacob Green. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Open Mic with Jam and Jiggatones! 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont.

The Wailin’ Jenny’s Second Show Added! 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Events Black & Blu — Comedy / Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

The End: Movies and Mortality. 6:30 p.m.

Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette.

From the Ashes Film Screening and Climate Conversation. 5 p.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Improv Hootenanny. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

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UPCOMING SHOW

Friday, Dec 29 – 7:30-10:30 pm Nissi’s – Lafayette SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE AT https://nissis.com/shows/

CALL NOW to book the band for your Holiday Party!

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Boulder County’s Definitive Guide to

events Boulder Weekly staff pick BARBARA JO KAMMER CD RELEASE PARTY AT OSKAR BLUES

Local Events

5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons. Free.

Kyle Bussery, Flat Nine Design

Join top cover artist Barbara Jo Kammer as she releases her debut CD, One Song at a Time, at Oskar Blues. The 62-year-old singer/ songwriter is also celebrating her 10 year anniversary of sobriety, a feat that inspired the production of her first CD. She works as a music therapist and with other women, helping them overcome addiction with her 12-step program. She calls this debut album her biggest life accomplishment since her recovery from addiction. In fact, she even sees this solo album as a record of her recovery experience.

She takes the name of her album from her own life mantra — to live one day at a time.

Don’t miss an opportunity to enjoy Kammer’s classic bluegrass Americana sound in celebration of an amazing life accomplishment. KC Groves, a Detroit Music Award -winner and Kammer’s band The Happy Little Trees Band will open the show, followed by some selections from Kammer’s new CD and other classic country and folk favorites.

— Eliza Radeka

see EVENTS Page 37

COLORADO’S PrEmIER ANTIQUE & VINTaGE JEWELRY STORE

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

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont.

Events

Flaural. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Broadway Cabaret Dance. 4 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.

Make-A-Movie Workshop — Claymation Vacation Day Camp. 8 a.m. 6740 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Nutcracker Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.

Wednesday, November 22 Music Ana Gabriel. 8 p.m.

Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver.

Brian Hornbuckle Band. 9 p.m. Lincoln’s Roadhouse, 1201 S. Pearl St., Denver.

Casey James Prestwood and The Burning Angels. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

David Williams. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

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Jarabe de Palo. 9 p.m. La Rumba, 99 W. Ninth Ave., Denver.

Mmmwhah’s Kirtan Arts. 7 p.m. Alive Studio, 4593 Broadway, Boulder.

Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St..

SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@boulderweekly.com.

Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Citizen with Sorority Noise, Great Grandpa.

7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

942 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302 303.938.8851 Tues. – Sat. 10 to 5:30

Gryffin. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Dearling Presents a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Spilling the Void EP Release Party — with Beak Nasty. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 East 13th Ave., Denver.

Stomping Grounds (Thanksgiving Edition). 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Events Holiday Roast. 8 p.m.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Nutcracker Storytime. 11:30 a.m.

Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont.

Pumpkin Patch. 6 p.m. Sipping N Painting Highland, 4995 Lowell Blvd., Denver.

Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder.

Thanksgiving Eve. 6:30 p.m. Lola Coastal Mexican, 1575 Boulder St., Denver.

Trivia in Longmont with Quizmaster Entertainment. 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Boulder Weekly

Colorado Goddamn (A Letter to Nina Simone)

by Simone Liggins

Thursday November 16

shakewell & Nobide w/ Chewy&baCh & ParTygoers

Friday November 17

everyoNe orChesTra

Dear Nina, Two years in, milady, and all Boulder has taught me is that keeping up with the Joneses still keeps one oblivious to the Jenkinses, Garcias, Wangs, and Hadads.

Nina, Claiming to be receptive and ready for waking, they dance gleefully to HipHop in the bars but won’t crack a smile at me in the streets. They stare but won’t speak. I’m always always asked if I’m new.

FeaT Claude ColemaN Jr (weeN), miChael Travis (sCi), ChuCk garvery (moe.), Joel CummiNs (umPhrey’s mCgee) mike remPel (loTus), ZdeNek gubb (Twiddle), Josh sChwarTZ & shira elias (TurkuaZ) & maTT briCker (euForquesTra) w/ rasTasaurus

saTurday November 18

TrouT sTeak revival w/ ChaiN sTaTioN &

Nina, Some actually thought saying how much they like chicken and how they “appreciate Black not cracking” would be suitable while ringing up their booze.

When that’s followed by stating the weed’s too dark so they don’t want it but “no offense” to me, the ire becomes an ulcer.

The mulligaN broThers

Nina, The Flatirons shield the fakery, the sheltered privilege they just love getting done by—hard. Like the bronze men they secretly ride, the plump mahogany women they quietly dive into their dreams.

Nina, They only mention you because nothing about my personality fits Boulder’s media-based view of me, down to the French name they can both speak & spell— it confuses and pisses them off something swell! They MUST associate me with some kind of Blackness. Thoughts of Simone Biles and Manuel were only a blink during Summer Olympics—because they can always name the athletes. This is the first reason why Simone Weil and de Beauvoir are never mentioned. The second is because most of their un-informed minds don’t do philosophy like that. And by “that” I mean moral thought penned by women.

Sincerely, S.

FeaT mammoTh waTer, dog CiTy disCo, high deserT & highway 50

wedNesday November 22 re: searCh

FeaT laTe NighT radio – viNyl resToraTioN w/ suPervisioN (laTe seT), borham lee Trio (blT) oF PreTTy lighTs live & break sCieNCe saTurday November 25

moNxx

TribuTe To Nola FuNk, soul, r & b FeaT The musiC oF The meTers, alleN ToussaiNT & more w/ house baNd: Casey russell (magiC beaNs), will Trask (greaT ameriCaN Taxi), Clark smiTh (dyNohuNTer) & seaN daNduraNd

& deoN wilsoN

Friday deCember 1

PhuTurePrimiTive

FaT Tuesdays

saTurday deCember 2

Thursday November 30 grass For ThaT ass PreseNTs

FeaT roberT merCurio &

w/ aCousTiC miNiNg ComPaNy & boTTleroCkeT hurriCaNe

& midiCiNal

dragoN smoke sTaNToN moore (galaCTiC), ivaN Neville (dumPsTaPhuNk) & eriC liNdell w/ greeN is beauTiFul – TribuTe To blue NoTe guiTarisT graNT greeN FeaT eddie roberTs (New masTersouNds) & alaN evaNs (soulive)

Friday & saTurday deCember 8-9

The del mCCoury baNd w/ The TraveliN’ mCCourys

shwayZe

w/ dylaN moNTayNe, dallas garCia, JooN bug & wriTe miNded

aZiZi gibsoN

w/ J-kruPT, FoxgaNg, meelo v, CoNTi & ChiCiTyChiNo

saTurday & suNday deCember 30-31

Trevor hall 12/30: saTsaNg 12/31: Cas haley

Friday & saTurday JaNuary 5-6

bluegrass geNerals FeaT Chris PaNdolFi & aNdy hall (The iNFamous sTriNgdusTers), sam bush, keiTh moseley (sCi) & larry keel

Thursday & Friday JaNuary 11-12 CervaNTes’ 15Th aNNiversary CelebraTioN

The New masTersouNds 1/11: The ruNNikiNe 1/12: The sisTers oF soul & ChrisTie Chambers)

kiNd CouNTy Friday deCember 1

oliver FraNCis

w/ slouCh & dNa PiCasso

saTurday deCember 2

whiTewaTer ramble suNday deCember 3

The mile high rioT

FeaT oCToPus Tree, meeTiNg house, sovereigN suPerior, disiNheriTed, ParTial PieCes, whaT youNg meN do, baCkseaT viNyl, The aPosTled kNash, liquid TiTaNium, The solid oCeaN & maNiC assaulT

Tuesday deCember 5

suN-dried vibes wedNesday deCember 6 re: searCh

FeaT JeFFrey Paradise (Poolside) w/ CaPyaC, mikey ThuNder & Jubee Friday & saTurday deCember 8-9

Joey PorTer’s shady busiNess

FeaT Joey PorTer (The moTeT), roberT “sPuT” searighT (sNarky PuPPy), moNoNeoN (PriNCe), dJ williams (kdTu), JeNNiFer harTswiCk (Trey baNd), drew sayers (The moTeT) & Corey Frye (The maiN squeeZe) w/ Cbdb

wedNesday deCember 13 re: searCh

FeaT esseks & ChamPagNe driP w/ liNear symmeTry, The ParTy PeoPle & Jubee Thursday deCember 14 grass For ThaT ass PreseNTs

TaNgled & dark – emily Clark & FrieNds (FeaT dave waTTs, Todd smallie, beN Thomas, sarah Clarke, seTh FreemaN, bill mCkay & miChelle sarah) Pay TribuTe To boNNie raiTT

Friday & saTurday deCember 15-16

sTeve kimoCk & FrieNds

saTurday JaNuary 13

FeaT JeFF ChimeNTi, JohN kimoCk, aNdy hess & leslie meNdelsoN

FeaT Jesse miller (loTus),

meNagerie awards baNqueT

oCTave CaT

eli wiNdermaN (doPaPod), Charlie PaTierNo & braZiliaN Cheese FeaT miChael kaNg (sCi), domiNiC lali (big gigaNTiC), aaroN JohNsToN

saTurday JaNuary 27

Boulder Weekly

moNday NighT meNagerie

Tuesday November 28

& Jesse murPhy (braZiliaN girls)

Simone Liggins is currently earning her MFA in Creative Writing and her literary “ancestors” and various influences include but are not limited to: Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia Butler, Lenore Kandel, Laurell K. Hamilton, The Beatles, Lady Gaga and Jimi Hendrix.

w/ ProJeCT 432

moNday November 20

aZTrogriZZ

(kim dawsoN, TaNya shyloCk

Nina, This answers your Why, Queen, the “what would happen now that” the King of Love is Dead.

Jyemo Club

w/ sTilZ uNiqe, hiTmaNN

saTurday deCember 16

Nina, Every now and then, some individuals declare their ally status by organizing gatherings for open discourse on the tension. I usually attend them to survey their efforts. Their numbers aren’t hearty, but I’ve been hoping the numbers actually have heart.

Friday November 17

w/ syNoid, swayd, bloodhouNd & NJoy

Friday deCember 15

Nina, Yes, the Little Girl is nearly always Blue. Where’s her tender blue boy, too?

PiCkiN’ oN NirvaNa

w/ PiCkiN’ oN The 90’s & shaky haNd sTriNg baNd

suNday November 19

w/ aNdreilieN, soulaCybiN

Nina, A foul one really tried me, began by claiming mental malady then encouraged me to describe my intelligence as “nigger” once he declared his as “cracker.” When I only referred to myself as Goddess, he pressed for permission to say it, kept repeating how it would be that way. I was firm with my “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t” without losing my sanity. He held his along with his tongue.

Thursday November 16 grass For ThaT ass PreseNTs

The FuNk huNTers

moNday deCember 18

FeaT Flash mouNTaiN Flood hosTed by doraN JosePh

Tuesday deCember 19

rival (N*o*v*a*)

w/ boogie lighTs & mammoTh waTer

Friday deCember 22

disCo Floyd

w/ Phour PoiNT o & souNds Travels

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screen Branagh cuts a great fastidious investigator, a delightfully stuffed jerkwad who is as frequently admirable as he is casually irritating in the latest adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express.

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hether you find the latest adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express, “deliberate” or “boring” hinges entirely on the delight you personally glean from a mustachioed know-it-all and the grisly death of Johnny Depp. Jam-packed with talented performers — each fed the tiniest morsel of screen time — and laden with enough cinematography tomfoolery to visually liven up a confined setting, this is essentially a lavish episode of Masterpiece Theatre that only truly earns the second word in that description.

Director Kenneth Branagh plays Hercule Poirot, a curmudgeonly dick with a

Slow-mo Poirot

‘Murder on the Orient Express’ eventually arrives at ‘fine’ Ryan Syrek

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eTown Presents: Full Concert

The Real Deal Starring Texas Legends

16 Reverend Horton Heat & Dale Watson

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Fundraiser and Movie:

iEmpathize Presents: The Empathy and Impact Benefit

Featuring a screening of our full-length documentary, Be Relentless, and highlighting the Empower Youth Program

eTown Presents: Full Concert

Joshua Davis & Hunter Stone

Joshua Davis writes songs that blend the roots of American music with gritty rock n’ roll and vintage soul.

Community Event: Sunday Funday with Maji Safi Group!

3-4:30PM Magician Ann Lincoln & performances by young talents

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multi-tiered mustache who is world-renowned for solving crimes via his general hatred of other people. He winds up stuck on a train with Edward Ratchett (Depp), a poorly-made-wax-figure of a mobster who sells forged art. In the dead of night, Ratchett gets murdified by being stabbed a bunch, about twice for every Pirates of the Caribbean sequel. Poirot is left with a trainload of suspects, all of whom are endowed with a rich, deep, one-sentence personality.

The most interesting suspects include Pilar Estravados (Penélope Cruz), a religious whacko who mouthbarfs about sin a lot; Countess Elena Andrenyi (Lucy Boynton), who loves her some sedatives; Princess Dragomiroff ( Judi Dench) and Hildegarde Schmidt (Olivia Colman), a grumpy old bench and her irrelevant servant; Gerhard Hardman (Willem Dafoe), a racist professor who looks a lot like Willem Dafoe; Caroline Hubbard (Michelle Pfeiffer), a slinky cougar who carefully chews each word a dozen times while speaking; Hector MacQueen ( Josh Gad), a boozy oaf who kept Ratchett’s books; Miss Mary Debenham (Daisy Ridley), a former governess who nakedly wants to thwack Poirot between the eyes; and Dr. Arbuthnot (Leslie Odom Jr.), who is far too patient with racist white caricatures.

Murder on the Orient Express has been told and retold an astounding amount of times for a tale with less “twists and turns” and more minor jostles. The “who” that “dunit” isn’t a jaw-dropping revelation so much as it forces Poirot to meditate on his previously rigid stance of moral certitude. To that end, Branagh cuts a great fastidious investigator, a delightfully stuffed jerkwad who is as frequently admirable as he is casually irritating. Everyone else tries real hard with the 2-3 lines of dialogue they are doled, a frustrating side-effect of having stacked a cast with heavy hitters and asked them to bunt.

The whole thing is as advertised: a cozy murder mystery solved over tea during which two people slightly raise their voices by the end. It’s befuddling the nostalgic magics that have enchanted Christie’s largely unremarkable plot to allow it such a doggedly persistent existence. Nothing is unpleasant or bad here, nor is anything palpably entertaining. It is a competent tale competently told by exceptional performers given exceptionally little to do. Then again, if comic book fanatics are now routinely fed feasts, then Anglophiles, moms who love Sue Grafton and people comfortable with the fact that the British call cookies “biscuits” deserve their noms now and again too.

This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Laughter and tears in ‘Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri’

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion ... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut

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mother’s daughter has been slain.

Worse, the teenager was raped while she died. Worse yet, months have passed and there have been no convictions, no arrests and no leads.

What’s a mother to do? Make her private hell public and drag the bastards down with her, that’s what.

And she does. Mildred (played with exquisite perfection by Frances McDormand) purchases three decrepit billboards located along an unused road and places her message in stark red and black: “Raped while dying.” “And still no arrests?” “How come, Chief Willoughby?” Naturally, Ebbing Police Chief Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson, also excellent) takes umbrage with the billboards but has little recourse; a girl lies in the ground, and he can offer no resolution. Yes, it seems silly to point fingers, but when the pain is this much, what can one do?

One thing is certain: we are solidly in Martin McDonagh territory: a land of deep pain, tragic loss and dark, dark humor.

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri is the third feature from the famed Irish playwright and his second set in the United States. Like most Irish writFrances McDorers, McDonagh has a keen ear for dialogue, particularly man plays anguished how people rely on vulgarity while grasping for clarity mother Mildred — something much more prevalent these days. And with exquisite perfection in this though McDonagh could have crafted a timeless story, film from Martin he instead roots it so firmly in the present that the conMcDonagh. flicts in Three Billboards practically pulse off the screen with furious indignation.

Take Willoughby’s screw-up lackey, Dixon (Sam Rockwell, magnificently repugnant); sure, he’s a drunk and a racist — though he’s quick to assault a white guy and a girl for that matter — but he’s hardly an outlier, and he certainly doesn’t come from a vacuum. Every time he cocks his fist, he probably pictures his father.

And every time he tips back the bottle, he tries to wipe out that feeling. Dixon has swallowed personal history within his public pain and the world will suffer the consequences.

The same goes for Mildred’s abusive ex-husband ( John Hawkes) whose shadow cuts a dark path across the lives of Mildred and their son, Robbie (Lucas Hedges).

Robbie is young, and there is hope that the cycle may be broken with him. But in the meantime, he’s just trying to make it through a day without thinking about the sister that isn’t there.

It’s a mean old world, there’s no doubt. Mildred’s billboards may have stirred Ebbing’s pot but this kettle was bound to boil over eventually. Fire is a recurring motif, and at times it feels like the whole damn movie is going to go up in flames.

It doesn’t. McDonagh and McDormand keep Three Billboards’ feet firmly on the ground, cracking wise the whole time. Thank heavens. If they couldn’t, it would be downright unbearable.

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Every day we thank our lucky stars for the Rayback Collective. Nowhere else in Boulder County can we get such a diverse array of hand-crafted foods. The ingenuity that the food truck model inspires is on display in What the Fork’s Korean fried chicken and waffles. Three double-fried hunks of chicken are placed atop one half of a crispy waffle and topped with a hearty helping of chorizo gravy. The chicken’s crust is extracrunchy, with a lighter and airier feel due to the double frying. The meat on the inside is downright succulent — juicy and savory.

The waffle isn’t overly sweet and gives the dish both a foundation and a rich butter flavor. And the chorizo gravy on top isn’t as rich as it sounds, so it balances well — the gravy has little chunks of the spicy meat, but overall provides more savory notes and welcomed moisture. $11.

Chicken pot pie is one of the least sexy dishes in the food game today. Not only does it call to mind frozen food aisle nightmares, but the very nature of eating an entire pie for, say, lunch is antithetical to the current food scene’s steadfast conviction to quality over quantity. Truth be told, the pretzeled chicken pot pie is rich in both quantity and quality. It starts with the billowing pretzel crust. It acts almost as a reverse soup bowl, with it’s crackly shell and pull-apart bread serving as an ideal companion to the pie’s contents. The pie contains beautiful cubes of Red Bird Farms’ chicken, celery, carrots, potatoes and a pretty irresistible gravy. It’s a dish probably best reserved for the cold weather of winter, but it’s a pie certainly worth breaking rules for. $16.

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Your Butcher Frank 900 Coffman St., Suite A, Longmont, yourbutcherfrank.com This is the sandwich to end all sandwiches.

Your Butcher Frank’s knows what they’re doing with their famous Italian sub. Hot ham, cotto, pepperoni and provolone are truly, honestly, legitimately piled high and topped with fresh lettuce, tomato, onions and black olives.

Mayo and Italian dressing add more liquid than you’d think you’d need but you’d be wrong.

Because this is a perfect sub. The long, chewy hoagie roll soaks up all the goodness and provides the necessary backbone for Frank’s sandwich fillings to shine. It’s not too spicy, not too soggy and certainly not too dry. And with everything sliced in the shop seconds before it graces your sandwich, it’s all fresh. And maybe the best part about it is the price: $7.49.

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Ali Baba Grill 3033 28th St., Boulder, alibabagrill.com Ali Baba Grill made their way up from Denver with an outpost on 28th Street earlier this year. We’re happy to report there’s a lot of quality food being served at this Lebanese and Persian restaurant.

We took a beginner’s course with the meat lover’s kabob platter, which includes rice, hummus and grilled skewers of chicken, lamb and kobideh. The meats each have a beautiful thick bark, wellspiced and charred. Beneath their skin are tender meats; the lamb chunks and kobideh (ground beef and lamb with spices) are especially well-made. A simple but powerful hummus with olive oil provides a clean injection of creaminess when necessary. $14.95.

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E very November for 30 years or so I’ve written about the big day and shared my family’s recipe for Italian sausage and potato stuffing.

Every Thanksgiving Day for the last decade I’ve left the turkey at home and gone on the air at KGNU’s Boulder studios to provide answers to listeners’ cooking crises and provide reassurance and humor on the biggest day of cooking on the American calendar. I know the November magazine covers and Instagram-ed images from food bloggers perpetuate the myth of Thanksgiving perfection.

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Avoid cooking crises by obeying the 12 Commandments of Thanksgiving

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ing and cooking for a Thanksgiving gathering.

Everybody has horror stories. I’ve undercooked a turkey and overcooked several. I’ve burned side dishes that just needed to be warmed. Nobody ever wants to make the gravy because almost nobody makes it any more except on Thanksgiving Day. Here’s a secret: follow these 12 prime directives, wear loose pants, be of good cheer and you may have a Thanksgiving you can actually enjoy.

First Commandment: Do not put off ’til Thanksgiving Day what you can do today. Seriously, shop early and make the side dishes and pies ahead of time and thou, as host, will have time for a nap on Nov. 23.

Second Commandment: Thou shall fill a bag before thou stuffest thy face. The 33rd annual Let’s Bag Hunger Food Drive (Nov. 10-14 at King Soopers stores in Boulder, Lafayette and Louisville) will stocks pantries at more than 40 local nonprofits serving our neighbors. Fill a bag with nut butter, stew, cereal, baby formula, canned fruit, beans, tuna see NIBBLES Page 46

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Third Commandment: Thou shall survive the feast if you follow these three simple words: Delegate. Delegate.

Delegate. As feast host you must manage your eager volunteers who are just happy they don’t have to host. They will ask if they can help. Let them bring pie, wine and post-feast assistance. Give away control and hugs.

Fourth Commandment: Thou shall not spoil the mood. Should any of those in attendance start muttering about weight control, limiting carbs or Fitbit goals speak thusly to this person’s face: “No pie for you!” Then make them sit at the kids’ table.

Fifth Commandment: Thou shall be prepared, the motto of a true host.

Have backup supplies (including extra butter and wine) that can save the day.

For instance, frozen puff pastry dough that can rise to the occasion as a quick dessert (with bottled caramel sauce and sliced honeycrisp apples) or an appetizer (wrapped around a Colorado Camembert wheel, baked until bubbly and served with cranberry relish).

Sixth Commandment: Thou shall respect thy bird. Before roasting, rub it all over with a mixture of freshly ground kosher salt and black pepper.

Add garlic slices, fresh sage and rosemary, and butter or bacon fat under the skin next to the turkey breast. Top with a foil canopy and baste occasionally. For the final 20 minutes or so, remove the foil, crank the oven to 400 degrees to brown it a bit, but don’t overdo it. Take it out when the leg thigh joint registers about 165 degrees.

Seventh Commandment: Thou shall always let it be. The roasted turkey must stand on the counter for 30 minutes in the pan once it emerges from the oven. The precious flavorpacked roasting fluids get drawn back into the bird, making a moister and easier-to-slice turkey. Always remove the wishbone first to make a wish and because it makes carving the breast easier. Thou shall thankest me later.

Eighth Commandment: After all thy many labors to reach the magic moment, thou shall never serve cold turkey to warm guests. Moisten sliced turkey with hot broth on a pre-warmed serving plate under a foil canopy to preserve heat and moisture.

Ninth Commandment: Thou shall make broth from the organs in that icky bag inside the turkey carcass. Pull out the neck and heart and put them in a saucepan of water with a carrot, some celery, onion and a sage leaf or two and simmer for hours. You will need it — and those great pan juices — to make gravy.

10th Commandment: Even though thou fear the firewalk through the valley of gravy-making, ye shall persist.

Thou shall melt butter and add flour to maketh a roux. Thou shall slowly stir in the fresh, hot broth and roasting pan juices until the perfect consistency is achieved and tweak the seasoning with salt and pepper. Thou shall add gravymaking to thy resume.

11th Commandment: Yea, verily, I say unto you: Toast your ancestors but honor your leftovers. Stockpile Tupperware and quart freezer bags and pack up the goodies for later enjoyment. Almost everything you serve including cranberry sauce, gravy, casseroles and pies can be frozen. One weeknight in mid-December you will spy these packages and whisper a heartfelt prayer of thanks. It is a mortal sin to waste that turkey carcass. Make soup and broth.

12th Commandment: In the 11th hour, the host shall rest. Thou shall appoint several from the assembled flock to forego bringing wine, green bean casserole or kombucha and “volunteer” for the cleaning crew whose work begins as the feast winds down.

They can also pack up the leftovers.

Thou shall kick back and enjoy a libation and a slice of pie.

P.S. If you want the recipe to my turkey stuffing, Google “Lehndorff stuffing” and you’ll see more than a few variations. If you have a cooking question, I’ll be on the air 8:30-9:30 a.m.

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Someday I hope we’ll have a yearround farmers’ market in Boulder and I won’t need to make this annual announcement: The final Boulder County Farmers Market of the season is Saturday in Boulder and Longmont.

The Winter Market, which includes gifts and artisans, is Dec. 2-3 at Longmont’s Boulder County Fairgrounds. ... The annual Keep Calm and Eat More Latkes event is 11 a.m.1 p.m. Dec. 9 at McGuckin Hardware.

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“My friend, Charlie, a Republican, is a pie conservative, and he doesn’t believe in cream pies. The only real pies, he says, are of berries and other fruit, but he thinks that no one makes fruit pies very well anymore.” — Sue Hubbell John Lehndorff is the former director of the Great American Pie Festival and chief judge at the National Pie Championships.

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ou’ve had a croissant. When you had it, though, did you really consider it? Did you consider how it is that it’s lighter than a dry honeycomb but richer than a butter bog? Or that the unique process of rolling and baking dough with fat comes with about 100 opportunities to drive the proverbial car off the cliff? Or that when you do it at altitude, 100 turns to 200? Or that as the dough rises, the butter fat melts, most of its water turns to steam, and in a process still unresolved by the sciences, air pockets are formed both in the dough and the liquid fat that create wormholes through the dough and stress the browning crust enough to fracture, while the remaining water releases through the pastry’s capillaries and pores?

Did you consider that to have your hands on a perfect unbaked croissant is to have your hands on something as divinely crafted as the soft and stretched skin of a chubby piglet, and that to touch it once baked is to have your hands on the simple indulgence of a chicharrón?

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If you’ve had Jeb Breakell’s croissants at Emmerson, you’ve given it some thought. In a world where reheated croissants stock the shelves of nearly half of the patisseries in France — France — Breakell’s croissant is provocative. It asks really uncomfortable questions, like, “Am I as committed to my craft as Breakell is to his?” and, “If we hadn’t gotten a croissant right until now, what other foods are we missing in Boulder?”

It’s a croissant that challenges complacency. Are you doing enough to get by? Are you committed to perfecting the croissant of your life? Is Boulder committed to finding the equivalently perfect bao bun, carbonara and Dover sole?

Or are we just brushing Pillsbury flakes from our laps?

• • • • I meet Breakell one morning in Emmerson’s café. He’s talking about the challenge of baking in Boulder’s dry, high-altitude climate after moving this year from New York City, where he’d

spent most of his career.

“It’s incredible how much the recipes do change and how depressed I was originally. I thought it’d be, ‘Here guys, here’s the best chocolate chip cookie in the world,’ and it was like...” Breakell mimics a deflating balloon. “I had to take a walk around the block and come back in.”

To illustrate the point, Breakell grabs a chocolate chip cookie from the marble pastry counter, sets it on a plate and brings it back to the table. It’s a really good cookie. Maybe the best, I don’t know. But you wouldn’t know from tasting it that it took dozens of iterations to make that cookie taste and feel exactly as it had at sea level. To do otherwise would be to fail. And, Breakell says, “I have the biggest fear of failure. That’s why I thrive — because I’m constantly afraid of failing.”

In cooking, at least. Breakell grew up the “poor rich kid” of schoolteachers

in the wealthy community of Jeb Breakell is Greenwich, the pastry chef at Emmerson Connecticut. At in Boulder. His 14, he got his food is very good. first job in a German bakery in town selling cookies behind the counter three days a week. It was his first taste of the culinary world, and his first taste of success.

“I never got good grades in my life,” Breakell says. “Terrible student, class clown, troublemaker... real piece of shit.

In cooking, I thrived in it. It made me happy, kept me busy, kept me out of trouble.”

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With interest in the subject, Breakell found he could keep his nose in a book and his body in the classroom. A broader pursuit into pastry, it turned out, agreed with Breakell’s constitution.

“I’ve always loved not so much the science, but the [precision] of pastry,” he says. “How exact everything needs to be. I’m very anal, OCD-borderline. I like to have things a certain way, and that relates to baking and pastry a lot.”

I tell Breakell that the precision of baking is the reason why a lot of people hate it. In cooking, with its tendency to encourage spontaneity, a little finesse can turn variable ingredients, flights of fancy and diner requests into workable dishes. Baking is less forgiving.

“But I was always drawn to the measuring of things,” Breakell counters.

“For me, somehow it makes me feel more comfortable.”

Breakell’s affinity for orderliness also applied to his places of work. After culinary school, Breakell spent two years each in the kitchens of threeMichelin-starred Eleven Madison Park and Per Se. And despite the demands of those kitchens, Breakell was able to learn. He had never done a quenelle before entering Eleven Madison Park, but by the time he left, two years and “nine million” quenelles later, with the stakes higher nowhere else in the pastry world on each iteration, he was an expert. He loved it.

“Amazing. Like, just so intense. I loved that. I thrived in that,” Breakell says of working in Per Se. “Everything’s spotless, sparkling. Thomas Keller walks in, runs his finger across the top of a doorway to check for dust is the type of cleanliness we’re talking about.”

• • • • Thomas Keller doesn’t have the time or interest to run his finger across the kitchen doorways of Boulder and Denver to check for dust. Nor do we have Pete Wells to rip Per Se in the New York Times, and then have Keller basically agree and say they had been complacent.

But Breakell’s food makes you wonder: shouldn’t we? Or, can’t we? This is the “Foodiest Little City in America,” isn’t it? But throw in Denver and we’re the size of San Francisco; population is no excuse to perpetuate the issues — a need for bolder restaurant concepts, more ethnic cuisine and a food media to support it — that keep Colorado from being compared to food havens from Portland to Nashville to Columbus, Ohio.

Maybe it’s us.

“Our croissant is flaky and crispy on

the outside,” Breakell says. “Maybe people aren’t used to that. [They say,] ‘Why is that? Is this a stale croissant?’ ...

People are just trained to enjoy certain things.

“Or the flan, for instance. The original menu opened with shiro miso flan with sake-poached pears and bonito caramel and yogurt. There’s a version of it on the menu, but we took off the bonito caramel because people were like, ‘It tastes like fish.’ Well... it is fish.”

The bonito caramel was a top-fiver for me. It’s hard to describe; I’m no Pete Wells, after all. But it turns out caramel and tuna, under Breakell’s steady hand, take to each other like prosciutto and melon or Johnny Cash and June Carter.

Maybe we’re just building up to it.

Hosea Rosenberg’s got venison loin with chokecherry sauce and wild boar empanadas at his new New Mexican joint. The Kitchen is taking its Boulder roots global. Frasca’s as good as ever. Maybe the culture just needs nurturing.

“The more people we have dining here, the more we can ... try different things,” Breakell says. “I think everything’s very approachable right now.

The black olive shortbread would be probably the strangest unusual treat in there at the moment, but people that have had it like it. I would like that case to have everything look like black olive shortbread.”

• • • • The only accomplishment I get Breakell to claim is that he once saw Lionel Ritchie in a clothing store in L.A. “If you have time to reflect on your career, your career slips away,” Breakell says.

But you can see his accomplishments for yourself. Try his grapefruit and fennel plate, which Breakell lovingly compares to a light display at a Phish concert. It’s joyful, bright and alive, and he builds it with the cool control of an engineer turning knobs on a board — tweezing frozen fennel fronds onto mounds of sorbet, and delicately arranging candied glass to look like light refractions in an arena.

“There’s 900 things on the plate.

There’s also only four things on the plate,” says Michael Gibney, chef and a partner at Emmerson.

Everything that Breakell’s deceptively simple croissant hides, the magnificent grapefruit and fennel plate shows. This juxtaposition shows the breadth of Breakell’s ability and the depth of his training.

In that gap, exists what can be.

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Churchill, mulling the question over, replies simply: “Practice.”

Yes, practice certainly helps during the marathon that is the holidays but so will the right drink. Better to leave the wine and whiskey out of the equation or, at least, keep them at bay until the final leg, and instead reach for a session IPA. The India pale ale (IPA) is far and away the favorite of many craft beer drinkers.

Known for hoppy characteristics ranging from oily to bright, IPAs go with just about anything and attracts just about everyone. But there is a catch: alcohol. And as the craft beer drinking scene grows older — we’re not pointing any fingers here — the ability to pound 6.5, 7.5, 8.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) beers diminishes greatly. Hence the IPA renaissance comes in the form of the session IPA. Clocking in at a low ABV, somewhere between 3 to 5 percent, these beers are designed to be consumed over long periods of time, are light-bodied and have just enough hops to give the sensation of something more.

Though the marketing tag of “session” beers in America is a recent revelation — 1982, according to Jennifer Talley’s book Session Beers — there is nothing new about them. Our classic notion of session ales date back to 18th-century England, where factory workers had drinking breaks called, you guessed it, sessions. On these breaks, they would drink lower alcohol beer so they could return to work pleased, but not schnockered.

And with the right brew by your side, you too can spend Thanksgiving pleased.

Oskar Blue’s Pinner (4.9 percent ABV) has been around since 2014 and can be found all over town. Pinner, a slang term for a small joint rolled tight, has an overall dank quality, in both aromatics and taste. Just don’t bogart; pass it around.

Small is the name of the game with sessions, and Cannonball Creek Brewing Company brings politics, and a Great American Beer Festival gold medal, to the table with Trump Hands Session IPA (4.6 percent). Yep, that’s a dig at 45’s diminutive paws but there is little to mock here. Blending German and American hops gives this light-bodied ale a delightful backend of bitterness. No wonder it took home gold in 2016.

That was then and this is now, and the 2017 GABF silver medal session IPA belongs to Twisted Pine Brewing Company for their Patio Pounder (4.7 percent).

With a nose of grapefruit and a mouth of tropical fruit, fresh citrus and hops, this is what beer should taste like, ABVs be damned.

Some beers you can drink all day, but the Patio Pounder is one you can enjoy well into the night and maybe into the morning. Just make sure to eat something.

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Let’s talk about sex, baby

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Stanford University surin self-reported surveys, reminding that vey analysis recently the study is not double-blind and caufound that people who tioning that correlation is not the same smoke cannabis regularly as causation. Needless to say, more have more sex than peoresearch is needed. ple who don’t. Twenty percent more to Nonetheless, the findings seem to be exact. To get an accurate picture of make sense to many out there, like me, the drug’s effect on intercourse frewho use cannabis, have sex and somequency, assistant pro- Wikimedia commons fessors of urology at Stanford Dr. Michael Eisenberg and Dr. Andrew Sun used data held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, surveying the lifestyles of more than 50,000 Americans, to analyze cannabis’ association with sexual frequency.

Many in the popular media have been quick to claim the findings as a confirmation of what we’ve known all along — that cannabis is a nat- Théodore Géricault, Three Lovers. ural aphrodisiac, heightening senses, curtailing inhibitimes do both at the same time. While tions and doing what it takes to get science takes its time to determine you in the mood. cold-hard truths (like it should), I can’t Others disagree and point to conhelp but wonder if this isn’t the sort of tradictory studies that suggest marijua- insight that can be mined from the na can act as a depressant and has been depths of one’s own personal experifound to correlate with increased erecence — especially seeing as how having tile dysfunction and decreased sperm sex and getting high both exist in a count in men. privileged relationship with the self.

Still others criticize the analysis It’s often said that America, as a itself, highlighting the inherent biases generalization, is a prude society. That,

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especially in comparison to our European counterparts, we have a surprisingly low level of tolerance for lewd behaviors. But I’d argue it’s not that we’re prude, just that we’re hush-hush.

I’d bargain most of us swear, watch porn, take drugs and have sex. It’s just that we don’t tend to talk about it much, and when we do, it’s tinged with a bit of shame.

When I was growing up, I was sexually modest, but I talked about sex all the time. In large part, that’s because I was reared by a liberated woman of the ’60s, one who also worked as a women’s health nurse.

It was normal household conversation to talk about bodies and sex. By the time I was a teenager, my brain was lined like my bookshelves with philosophies of eroticism contained in titles like The Joy of Sex and Our Bodies, Ourselves and from authors like Adrienne Rich and Anaïs Nin. Intellectually speaking I was versed in all of it, from anatomy to fetishism, in all its perverse glory.

Among my teenage friends, my household quickly became known as a safe haven where girls could come with questions, especially when things went

wrong — when a tampon got stuck way up inside, when a condom broke or when a sexual encounter just didn’t feel quite right.

The older I got the more grateful I became that I was raised in a home that emphasizes people, specifically women, taking full ownership of their bodies, not just in theory but in practice. Still, I often lament how underground it all had to be and how underground it has remained. But from where I stand today, I do see a cultural loosening. Sex and cannabis both seem to be having a “coming out” moment in popular culture, and that this would happen concurrently does not come as a surprise.

The freeing of cannabis from prohibition is having subtle affects on our society’s culture, sometimes in ways too subtle to recognize and grasp. That’s because the big change is in the little things.

In my experience, cannabis can help with that. It’s not that cannabis makes us have more sex; it’s that it has a way of making us slow down. It opens up swaths of time where before there were only to-do lists. When I am high I find myself looking into the eyes of my lover because somehow that seems like the most important thing to do with my time.

Whether or not cannabis causes people to have more sex or to enjoy it more, we don’t definitively know. But for me, at least, cannabis causes me to think that the erotic parts of my life are just as important as all the rest and that they ought to be just as socially acceptable too.

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cannabis corner

by Paul Danish

‘Marijuana Won Tuesday’s Election’

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he Cannabis News headline on the election results wrap-up piece summarized the situation succinctly: “Marijuana Won Tuesday’s Election.”

Writer Tom Angell, founder of the nonprofit Marijuana Majority and editor of the cannabis news portal Marijuana Moment, pointed to the outcomes of the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, and to local races in Philadelphia, Detroit and Athens, Ohio, as results that will have “huge implications” for the marijuana legalization movement.

Let’s start with the local races.

In Philadelphia, Lawrence Krasner, an outspoken advocate of non-enforcement of laws against marijuana use, was elected district attorney. “One of the things we see in other jurisdictions is that where marijuana is readily available there’s a 25 percent reduction in opiate/opiod overdose deaths,” he said. “So if Philadelphia is looking at 500 opiate/ opiod overdose deaths a year, a district attorney, by choosing not to enforce against marijuana usage, can potentially save 125 lives. That’s what a district attorney should exercise his or her discretion to do.” Krasner beat his Republican opponent by a 3-to-1 margin.

In Detroit, voters strongly approved

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two measures that will allow medical marijuana businesses to operate in more areas of the city and stay open longer.

Recreational marijuana legalization is likely to be petitioned onto the Michigan ballot next November, and the Detroit results are seen as good news for the state initiative.

In Athens, Ohio, home of Ohio University, voters approved a city ordinance to completely eliminate fines and court costs for possessing and cultivating up to 200 grams (about 7 ounces) of marijuana. The vote was 77 percent to 22 percent in favor.

The results in Virginia and New Jersey were even more significant.

In Virginia, Democratic GovernorElect Ralph Northam had made marijuana decriminalization a centerpiece of his campaign, emphasizing the dispro-

portionate number of black Virginians who are arrested on marijuana charges in the state. Blacks are 2.8 times more likely to be busted for pot than whites in Virginia.

“We need to change sentencing laws that disproportionately hurt people of color,” he wrote on a blog post. “One of the best ways to do this is to decriminalize marijuana.”

However New Jersey was the state where legalization scored its biggest win, with the election of Democrat Phil Murphy over Republican Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno by a margin of 56 percent to 42 percent.

Murphy explicitly promised to sign a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in New Jersey if elected, something outgoing governor Chris Christie said would happen over his dead body.

Christie was term-limited, but he will be leaving office about as popular as a dead skunk in the middle of Thunder Road (he had a 14 percent approval rating in a poll released on Election Day).

Guadagno’s stand on marijuana was that she favored decriminalization but not legalization, a stand that didn’t win her many votes on either side of the issue. But her biggest problem was that as Lieutenant Governor she was chained to Christie’s record, including his zero-tolerance pot prohibitionist views.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester) says his goal is to have a legalization bill passed and on Murphy’s desk within 100 days of him taking office (on Jan. 16, 2018).

This is a big deal. It means New Jersey is on track to become the first state to legalize marijuana through an act of its state legislature as opposed to a vote of the people. That should give a big boost to legalization efforts in other states which, like New Jersey, don’t allow citizen-originated ballot initiatives.

In states like New York and Pennsylvania, for instance.

New Jersey is right across the river (the Hudson) from New York City. It is also right across the river (the Delaware) from Philadelphia.

Marijuana legalization in New Jersey will put major pressure on New York and Pennsylvania to follow suit, both because of the loss of tax revenue and the vastly increased difficulty in enforcing pot prohibition when legal marijuana is available across a river from each state’s largest city.

New York and Pennsylvania are unlikely to legalize in 2018 — mostly because of opposition from their governors — but legalization in New Jersey makes it a virtual certainty that marijuana legalization will be a front-andcenter issue in their 2018 state elections.

Both Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo favor decriminalization but not legalization. Cuomo is up for re-election next year. It’ll be interesting to see how far he gets using Guadagno’s playbook.

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ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “Many people go fishing all their

lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: I predict that during the next ten

months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1) All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions!

So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2) Be very clear about the qualities you

do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3) Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

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may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no... a tender revelation or a radical revolution ... a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon -- but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide!

I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER JUNE

21-JULY

22:

According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go

on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: I predict that starting today and during

the next 10 months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: This may be the most miscellaneous

horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days.

Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1) If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2) You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3) Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4) Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5) If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The next 10 months will be an ideal time to

revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “Everything that can be invented has been

invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”

— Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.” — 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” — filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Of all the signs in the zodiac, you

Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In the game of basketball, if a player

is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool.

Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose

recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture lowcost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

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I was honored to appear with Esther Perel at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, BC, a few weeks ago to discuss her new book, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Questions were submitted on cards before the show — some for me, some for Esther, some for both of us — and we got to as many as we could during the event.

Here are some of the questions (mostly for me) that we didn’t get to.

Dear Dan: I’ve never slept with anyone. My current boyfriend has had sex with many, many partners. He knows I’m a virgin, but I’m worried. Any tips on how I can avoid performing like the amateur gay man that I am?

Give yourself permission to be bad at it — awful at it, inept and halting and awkward. And remind yourself going in (and out and in and out) that whatever happens, this isn’t the last time you’ll ever have sex. Some people are good at sex right out of the gate, but most people need a little practice before they catch a groove. But nothing guarantees a bad first experience (or bad millionth experience) quite as effectively as faking it. Faking is always a bad idea — faking orgasms, faking interest, faking confidence — so don’t fake. Just be.

SAVAGE

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made you uncomfortable (which is why you’re asking me about it), and here’s how you shut it down if he ever asks again: “I could ask her who’s better in bed or I could go fuck your brother myself and report back.”

Dear Dan: What do I do if my wife doesn’t want an open relationship and I do?

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Your wife probably and perhaps reasonably fears that opening up your marriage could result in you leaving her for some woman you’re fucking. But if you’re unwilling to go without sex for the rest of your life, you’re going to wind up leaving your wife in order to meet some woman you can fuck. So the thing she fears might happen if you open the relationship up is definitely going to happen if you don’t.

We haven’t had sex in 11 years, but we are still in love and have two young children.

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Dear Dan: Have you ever thought about moving to Vancouver?

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