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AOC thinks white supremacy is behind climate change... By Paul Danish

couple weeks ago Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) claimed that climate change is linked to, wait for it, white supremacy. She also claimed that the way we can combat climate change is by “honoring indigenous wis-

dom.” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez spoke at a rally for Bernie Sanders held during a Climate Change Summit at Drake University in Des Moines. Here’s her full quote: “The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend is I

by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy. “The way that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality, that means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage — no ifs, ands, or buts. And what that also means... is directly, consciously, combating white supremacy in the United States of America.” She also took a shot at “consultants” who encourage climate activists to focus on the technical solutions to climate change instead of social justice. “Just worry about solar panels, leave the social justice stuff behind,” she said of their advice. “Race makes everything complicated.” My first reaction to this was that it was just another, and particularly outlandish, example of a latter-day Marxist trying to hijack environmentalism and create an alibi for the damage that was inflicted on the global environment by see DANISH PLAN Page 6

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socialist-governed countries before the collapse of the Soviet Union. (And is still being inflicted. China burned 4.24 billion tons of coal in 2017, about six times more than the U.S.) But then the Gentlewoman from New York may have a point. Just about every discovery and technology associated with increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations was discovered or invented by an American or European white guy. Here are a few of the more prominent suspects: James Watt, English white guy, 1776 — Invents the steam engine (perfects the steam engine actually; the first steam-powered water pump was invented by Thomas Newcomen, another English white guy, in 1712). Steam power swiftly becomes the primary motive power of the first century of the industrial revolution — and turns coal into the primary fuel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Nicholas Joseph Cugnot, French white guy, 1769 — Successfully demonstrates the first steam-powered selfpropelled road vehicle, or more plainly, the first automobile. Richard Trevithick, English white guy, 1804 — Demonstrates the first self-propelled railway steam locomotive, revolutionizing land transportation and creating a new use for coal, and a new way to move it. Robert Fulton, American white guy, 1807 — Uses Watt’s engine to power the first commercially successful steam boat, revolutionizing maritime transportation and increasing the demand for coal. Michael Faraday, English white guy, 1831 — invents the electric generator, the invention that makes possible most of civilization’s subsequent defining technologies, including one invented independently by Thomas Edison, an American white guy, and Joseph Swan, a British white guy, 1879 — The incandescent lamp, which lights up the night and transforms the way humans live — and creates a huge demand for coalgenerated electricity. Nikolaus Otto, Gottlieb Diamler and Wilhelm Mayback, German white guys, 1876 — invent the first modern, four-stroke internal combustion engine, the power plant that would become the prime mover for the automobile industry. Thanks to Otto, Diamler and Mayback, Americans today use more than 142 billion gallons (or 3.4 billion 6

barrels) of gasoline a year. Rudolf Diesel, German white guy, 1893 — patents the compressed ignition or “diesel” engine, which today powers most of the world’s over-theroad truck and heavy construction equipment. The U.S. trucking industry currently consumes about 39 billion gallons (more than 925 million barrels) of diesel fuel a year. Ransom Olds, American white guy, 1901 — Olds does not invent the automobile. He invents the automobile assembly line, which he patented in 1901 and used to produce Oldsmobiles. Twelve years later, Henry Ford, another American white guy, adopts the concept to produce the Model T. Today, thanks to assembly line mass production, there are about 1.25 billion cars and trucks in the world, with the number growing by about 80 million a year, which is roughly the number by which the world’s population grows per year. Wilbur and Orville Wright, American white guys, 1903 — Invent and demonstrate the world’s first heavier-than-air airplane. The first flight was 120 feet long. Today there are more than 29,000 jet airliners in service world-wide. They carry more than 4.6 billion passengers annually. In 2017, 7,309 U.S. jet airliners used nearly 18 billion gallons of jet fuel. And so on. In other words, a lot of the inventions and discoveries of white guys directly contributed to the massive increase of CO2 in the atmosphere — while incidentally creating the modern world. Ocasio-Cortez might argue that the real villans of white supremacy aren’t the inventors, but the capitalists that spread the inventions. But socialists also embraced the white guys’ inventions and spread them just as aggressively as the capitalists. Socialism, especially in its communist incarnation, has left a trail of collapsed economies, eco-catastrophes and more than 80 million politically motivated murders in the 102 years since the Russian Revolution. Socialism was invented by Karl Marx, a German white guy, Fredrick Engels, a British white guy, and Vladimir Lenin, a Russian white guy. The Gentlewoman from New York, who self-identifies as a socialist, seems cool with that. Just sayin‘. This opinion does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Kudos to Terrapin

Regarding the latest column by “Seymour”(Re: “Can the marijuana industry lead the way on a living wage?” Weed Between the Lines, Nov. 14, 2019): I commend Chris Woods, owner of the cannabis chain Terrapin Care Station, for taking the principled step of imposing a $15 internal minimum wage for all the company’s workers. As a cannabis user and weed store regular myself, I base my consumer decisions in part on both the labor and environmental practices of different businesses. Terrapin continues to impress. The fact is, a sub-$15 wage is unacceptable for workers around the country, and especially in Boulder County; it’s unlivable and demeaning. The long-term health of a democracy has a lot to do with how we treat the less privileged among us. Adam Hurter/Nederland

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Ignore the doomsday-handwringers trying to make you think that the sky will fall if Elizabeth Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire tax is implemented. Fear not Coloradans, households with a net worth of less than $50 million are not affected. That’s 99%-plus of us. Polls show that introducing a wealth tax is an issue that a majority of Americans agree upon. The formula is simple. The tax I

calls for a 2% annual tax on households with a net worth between $50 million and $1 billion and a 3% annual tax on households with a net worth over $1 billion. In accounting, your net worth is everything you own of significance (your assets) minus what you owe in debts (your liabilities). Assets include cash and investments, vacation homes, overseas tax shelters, yachts or anything else of value you own. Is it not too much to ask, that households that benefit to such an extent under our nation’s rule of law, to pay an extra 2 cents on the dollar on their wealth over $50 million to support out democratic ideals, and us, the 99%? Edward Zitt/Longmont

Alternatives to building on open space

A recent letter (Re: “Build on open space?” Letters, Nov. 14, 2019) advocated building on “just 1/2% of open space” to make Boulder more affordable. That is a little over 1 square mile. Boulder has about 4,000 people per square mile. Apparently the letter writer is a member of the “We don’t need no stinkin‘ regulations!” brigade, criticizing Ballot Issue IF for government regulations. But without regulations, market see LETTERS Page 7

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rate housing is built, and we probably end up with less than 1,000 rich people on the open space sacrificed. A far better way is to make use of the enormous wasted space in town. For instance, building apartments on top of businesses and government buildings. This would have other benefits — such as cops living in schools deterring or quickly stopping shooters. In addition, I’m convinced we are going to have to move to a much shorter workweek with the same pay. Technology is automating work very quickly. With a short workweek, most people will not need cars. This will mean a lot of garages could be converted to apartments. Brett O’Sullivan/Lafayette

More people means more widespread poverty

The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is choosing not to reproduce. A carbon footprint study of people in the wealthier nations of North America, Europe and Japan concluded that having one less child would reduce carbon emissions 20.2 times as much as living car-free, 39.9 times as much as switching to renewable energy and 71.5 times as much as eating a plant-based diet. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction of animal species due to human ecological impact. Humanity has killed off about 60% of the global wildlife population of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish since 1970. During that time, the human population increased from 3.7 billion to 7.7 billion. About 83% of all wildlife mammals have died off since the dawn of agriculture. Farmed poultry now accounts for 70% of birds worldwide. Mammal life is now 60% livestock, 36% people and 4% wildlife. Climate change is a consequence of ecological overshoot. Too many people consume and pollute too much. If the average person on Earth consumed as wastefully as the average resident of the United States does today, the Earth could not sustain a human population of more than 1.5 billion people. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Meanwhile, 815 million people suffer from chronic hunger. The number of people that is “sustainable” depends upon the average standard of living. More people means more widespread poverty. Sustaining life on Earth means reducing both human birth rates and per capita ecological footprints. Gary Swing/Denver

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bout 4.2% of bridges on the northern Front Range are deemed “structurally deficient” by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). That’s 76 oft-traversed bridges, including several in Boulder County, that are still safe to cross, but are in urgent need of repair. Many of those structurally deficient bridges — there are about 47,000 nationwide — have been identified and tagged for renovation, even if it takes decades and billions of dollars to get the work done. The work to fix just the bridges in the most dire situations in Boulder, Larimer, Jefferson, Eagle and Summit counties will cost $121.9 million, according to ARTBA, and the Colorado Department of Transportation predicts $1.95 billion will be needed over 10 years to keep 95% of bridges as “not structurally deficient.” There is currently a $419 million funding gap for that work. Now, new research from Colorado State University suggests that climate change may further imperil thousands of these bridges and others that are currently in good shape. Hussam Mahmoud and Susan Palu took a survey of 80,000 simply supported steel girder bridges — a design comprised of two or more longitudinal beams supported by piers across the country — across the country. It is by far the most common design type of bridges built in the U.S. since World War II. About 60% of the nation’s interstate highway bridges are in this girder category. This type of bridge has expansion joints that allow the structure to expand or contract as air heats or cools. It’s been known for a while that these expansion joints can get gummed up with I

debris, which prevents the bridge from expanding normally in hotter temperatures. So Mahmoud and Palu looked at forecast data over the next 100 years and figured that higher average temperatures that were not accounted for when the bridges were built could lead to additional, potentially catastrophic, stress. The study, which was published Oct. 23 in the journal PLOS ONE, was the first to look at the impact of climate change induced temperature changes on bridges with expansion joints. In short, the warmer the weather, the more these bridges need to expand. If expansion joints are jammed with debris and average temperatures continue to rise due to climate change, more bridges are at risk of failing. Complicating matters is the fact that the season during which and the region where the bridges were built impacts how future temperature rises might affect their integrity. If a bridge was built in a cold climate in winter, when joints were most constricted, it will be stressed by more in future hot summer than a bridge that was built in a warm climate. So Mahmoud and Palu determined best- and worst-case scenarios for each bridge they studied, supposing a bridge was built in winter (worst-case), spring, fall and summer (best-case). What they determined is that girder bridges in the northern U.S., including the northern Rockies and Plains, Pacific Northwest and Midwest are at the greatest risk of failure. In areas like the Dakotas, predicted temperature rises of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years (according to the International Panel on Climate Change) would see BRIDGES Page 10

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”GIRDER” of the century.” BRIDGES repreAbout 26% of sented by gray dots bridges along over potential temperature changes in the Front Range the next 100 years. and in eastern Colorado have been identified as being vulnerable to climate change impacts if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate. Of course addressing the issues presented by the CSU researchers and the EPA would come at a cost, but the latter group suggests that the cost to repair bridges that succumb to climate change-induced damage would reach close to $200 billion over the next 90 years. Alternatively, taxpayers — who largely front the bill for infrastructure — could shed $57 billion from that bill if expansive greenhouse gas emission reductions are enforced. Recent efforts to create funding mechanisms for transportation in Colorado have failed. For example, if voters had passed Prop CC in November, it would have given $200 million in extra tax revenue to transportation projects. CSU is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop carbon fiber reinforced polymer to bolster some cracked bridges, which could eliminate the need to tear down and rebuild them. CSU is also helping develop a system that would allow engineers to determine priority in repairing cracks and other impediments. Such a system doesn’t currently exist, leaving engineers, researchers and the governments that oversee them, guessing at how best to address these growing infrastructure needs.

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t’s a double-edged sword,” Jorge Rafael Zaldivar Mendieta told his wife, Christina Zaldivar, before going into a routine Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-in on Nov. 13. If he went in, he was afraid they could detain him despite a pending challenge to his removal order. “But if I don’t go in there,” WHINEY DUNCAN

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review, immigration advocates argue. “ICE has needlessly detained yet another individual who is not a flight risk, not a danger to our community and who is just exercising their right to have a court review the legality of their deportation,” the family’s attorney, Laura Lichter from Lichter Immigration, said in a press release. “Just because they can deport him, doesn’t mean they should. There is no harm to letting Mr. Zaldivar remain with his family while his case makes its way through the review process.” ICE did not respond to requests for comment. Currently, Jorge is being held at the detention center as his lawyers were able to prevent his immediate deportation through a court order. Christina says that the family’s petition for his release until his case can be reviewed has so far gone unanswered. On Sunday, Nov. 17, a group of family, friends and advocates gathered outside of the detention center for a vigil. When it came time for visiting hours, Christina took her kids and grandson inside to talk to their dad. “At first they told us if you get here early enough, everybody can go in,” she says. But once they got there, the family was told only five people were allowed. So Christina decided their grandson, who is only three, would stay with her. After 10 minutes or so, another official came out and said five was too many, only four people could visit Jorge. “It’s heartbreaking because who do you tell they’re not important enough to see him? As a mom, how do you tell them they can’t go back there?” In the end, Christina’s oldest daughter offered to stay out and wait until next week, hoping that Jorge will still be in the U.S. “My kids shouldn’t have to make these decisions,” Christina says through tears. “We don’t deserve this.” I

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he phone call is a bit staticky at first, then it cuts out all together. “I think it’s probably my phone, you know we live off in the middle of nowhere,” says Dina Elder, a resident of Gold Hill for the last 25 years, when we reconnect after several attempts. She has to stay standing in the same place, though, otherwise the connection gets fuzzy again. The situation seems apropos for the purposes of this article — a story about the small mountain community’s resiliency and sustainability efforts. Founded in 1859, the historic mining town west of Boulder has a rich history — the oldest continuously operating school in the state is there, for instance. But Gold Hill, like other Boulder County mountain communities, is also increasingly vulnerable — small, spread-out, remote and often exposed to extreme weather, intensified in recent years by cliBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

mate change. Ever since the 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire threatened to destroy the town and the 2013 flood washed out roads below it, effectively cutting residents off from the rest of the Front Range, Gold Hill has been searching for solutions. Rising temperatures along with Colorado’s drought have increased fire risk in the area, which along with severe wind events and winter storms, can easily threaten the above-ground power lines. Already, it’s not unusual for residents to lose power at times. This can be detrimental given there is no municipal water and electric pumps power the area’s wells. Electricity generated down the mountain also powers heat, food storage, communication systems and more. “They are always going to be geographically isolated, but the problem is these issues are more exacerbated by climate change,” says Susie I

THE Strife, sustainabiliFOURMILE ty coordinator for CANYON FIRE Boulder County. threatened to destroy the “The idea is really town of Gold to become a lot Hill in 2010. more resilient in the face of these climate impacts that we know we’re headed towards and are experiencing already.” To help with these efforts, Gold Hill was awarded a grant for $65,000 as part of the Renewable and Clean Energy Challenge, through the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) at the end of October. The state-wide program is part of a larger effort to reach Colorado’s 100% renewable energy goal by 2040. For Gold Hill, the money — mostly from the state, with matching funds from Boulder County— will be used to develop a resilient and renewable energy plan see GOLD HILL Page 16

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for the community based on the recommendations laid out in a recent report prepared by Adaptation Services Group (ASG). Based in Boulder, ASG works exclusively with local governments to understand climate risks and what should be done about them. “Everything is so interconnected,” says Elder, a member of the Gold Hill Sustainability Advisory Board, an informal, unelected board associated with the town meeting. “Energy plays a big role in having access to water, food, warmth, so this is a good place to start.” The ASG report lays out the variety of issues facing Gold Hill, as well as adaptation measures the community can implement to be more prepared. That plan includes local solar generation plus storage, a selfsufficient system that could run for hours, even days, if connection to the power grid was cut off. There’s even the possibility that in the not-toodistant future, Gold Hill could run off 100% renewable energy, says the report’s author and ASG founder Seth Portner. “It’s in that sort of thinking stage,” he says, “but it wouldn’t be that hard.” The vision isn’t to build a typical solar garden, though, as it would do little in the face of large-scale natural disasters. Something like micro-grids with battery back-up to provide local energy services during power outages might make more sense, explains Marcus Moench, also from the Sustainability Advisory Board. But

no decisions have THE TOWN OF GOLD been made as to HILL as seen what the final from Horsfall solution will look hill. like, and the first step will be community outreach and engagement so that all of Gold Hill is involved. “The design process is what’s really critical because that’ll help define what the community really needs, what is affordable and how to do that, and that’s where we don’t want cut-and-paste solutions,” Moench says. “We would really want to make sure that it addresses what the community sees as its highest priority needs.” Elder agrees: “It’s important that this be community-led in the sense that we want to develop something that is really going to work up here.” Whatever the final result, Strife says, the hope is to create a framework other mountain and rural communities in Boulder County, and across the state, can use in their own resiliency efforts. Since the grant award was announced she says, a community on the Western Slope has already inquired about what Gold Hill is planning. “We know this project can have applications outside of Boulder County,” she says. “How [can we] help these mountain communities create more resilient power systems and also more social cohesion so that they can face the shock and stressors of climate change?”

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Learning from a once-a-century avalanche cycle How last winter’s historic avalanche season may benefit backcountry snow enthusiasts

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or Brian Lazar and many of his co-workers at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), the first two weeks of March 2019 was a grueling stretch of frantic avalanche forecast work only interrupted by short sprints of sleep. The days were long and the storms kept coming, the snow kept sliding. “It was really intense,” Lazar, the deputy director of CAIC, recalls. “We were not only seeing some of the biggest avalanches that we’ve ever seen in the state, but the sheer scale of the cycle was historic too.” The CAIC recorded over 1,000 avalanches in the state over those two weeks alone, but that number doesn’t tell the full story, Lazar says. “The only thing we know for certain is that that’s a dramatic undercount,” Lazar says. “There were a lot more than that. A lot more avalanches that occurred that weren’t witnessed or reported.” An avalanche cycle is the period of time when a sequence of natural avalanches occur. Often, a cycle is kick-started by a storm and usually ends within a few days. This extraordinary avalanche cycle in March triggered a cascade of information — one that will not end for many years. There’s a lot that scientists can learn from such a cycle to inform their forecasts. Which is why researchers from CAIC, the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) and the U.S. Forest Service’s National Avalanche Center (NAC) spent much of the summer exploring that destruction. They scoured the vegetative ruin left in avalanche paths, cutting discs off of downed tree trunks, taking cross-sections and coring into those that had survived the slides. They want to see what the trees can tell them about the March 2019 avalanche cycle. “The biggest question we’re trying to determine is really, how often does a cycle like that one occur?” says Erich Pietzsch, a physical scientist at NOROCK.

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Pietzsch says when a tree is struck by a snow slide, its bark is often scarred and its ring pattern changes. Some trees will grow more wood (bigger rings) on the downhill side of the trunk after an avalanche, to support its growth. Clues like these can help scientists to develop what they call an “avalanche chronology.” “That allows us to try and date these avalanche events,” Pietzsch says. They can then catalogue how big

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TOP: A SLIDE SITE NEAR Marble, Colorado. BOTTOM: Scientists are using tree rings to identify past avalanche cycles.

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION... different years were along that particular avalanche path. By taking hundreds of samples from many different avalanche paths, they will be able to put March of 2019 into historical context. Over 800 samples were collected this summer, Pietzsch says, but that’s just the start. There are hundreds more still to be gathered and processed, and then comes the timeconsuming part: lab analysis. The samples are all being sent to the NOROCK lab in Bozeman, Montana, where they’ll be analyzed and the data will be indexed. While the results of that forensic tree-ring research might not be published for some time, scientists have other ways of gauging just how rare last year’s slurry of snow slides was, according to Pietzsch. By comparing old photos of avalanche chutes to images of how they look today, scientists can juxtapose two events separated by decades. And Pietzsch says they’ve found one rather telling photo of an avalanche path in Frisco. “There is an image from 1899 which shows what we would call a similar ‘trim line’ to what we see now,” he says. “So [that suggests] the last time it looked anything close to what we see now was 120 years ago.” That’s just one avalanche path, in one part of the state. But it indicates that at least in Frisco, last March might have been a 100-yearslide-cycle — a natural event that only occurs once a century. Needless to say, years like that are intense for the forecasters at CAIC. It was the first time Colorado’s avalanche hazard rating was ever set to “extreme,” and Lazar and his team were on high alert for the entirety of that two-week period. Backcountry users like skiers, snowboarders, hikers and snowmobilers rely on CAIC data and analysis to make informed decisions about where and where not to travel based on avalanche conditions. It’s a helpful tool that keeps adventurers across the state safe, but one of the

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most important duties at CAIC is to make sure that the state’s highways and roads are safe for public travel, which is a 24/7 job. “The highways don’t shut down at night,” Lazar says matter-of-factly. And neither does CAIC. That’s why the information gathered from last winter is so important to forecasters like Lazar: it better informs them for future events. A high-watermark season like that helps them understand the “ingredients” that need to be present to unleash such a devastating cycle: the slab layering, the temperature changes, the storm sequences and loading events. By unraveling those variables CAIC can fine-tune its predictive equations to be even more accurate. And the more accurate their predictions are, the safer Colorado’s backcountry adventurers, roads and infrastructure are too. Also important for infrastructure and transportation planning is to understand how these avalanche paths have changed since last year, says Pietzsch. Some run-out zones were left bald and treeless after last March, which could make some roadways or structures more vulnerable to snow slides than they have been in the past. A big cycle like last winter’s also helps raise avalanche awareness among the public, Lazar says. The avalanche cycle of March 2019 was so widely publicized and visible that word about avalanche danger and safety spread fast among both technical backcountry enthusiasts and casual winter tourists. There’s still a lot to be learned about what happened last March. According to both Lazar and Pietzsch, it will take scientists and forecasters a long time to sift through the wreckage and analyze all of the information they glean from it. Nevertheless, that historic avalanche cycle may have better prepared this state for future avalanche events — thanks largely to the work being done at CAIC, and the research they’re doing in partnership with NOROCK and NAC.

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Gruver is stuck in New Orleans rush hour traffic, on the phone and wolfing down some dinner, crinkling food wrapper rustling and the occasional car honk in the background. Gruver, along with compadres guitarist Tori Pater and production manager/promoter Gayor Geller, are staging The Last Waltz Revisited again this year, at the Boulder Theater (Friday, Nov. 22) and the Fillmore Auditorium (Wednesday, Nov. 27), and even if Gruver has been a New Orleans resident for years, this production remains both a labor of love and an enduring gift to the Denver area’s music scene. Staged originally at the tiny Dulcinea’s in Denver in May of 2005 as a one-off, hosted by Pater and Gruver’s band Polytoxic, the event now routinely sells out the 3,000-capacity Fillmore and the more intimate Boulder Theater every year, having taken on a life of its own. Polytoxic as an ongoing franchise is well in the rearview mirror (although they still get together for gigs, each billed ironically as ‘the last Polytoxic show’), but The Last Waltz Revisited lives on. “It really leans on the local scene,” Gruver says, emphasizing the last word. “That’s kind of the way Polytoxic started; we became kind of the I

band that everyone would show up at the gig with an instrument and jam with us. We loved including everybody.” At press time, the roster of musicians has extended to 79 or 80 (it’ll probably be more by show time), dwarfing the original Band farewell concert staged and famously committed to film by Martin Scorcese in November 1976. Standard concert preview protocol calls for a quick read of some of the names involved, but that would run counter to the event’s resolutely anti-headliner ethic. The event is a benefit for the Denver Rescue Mission, which is what matters, and the star of the event is the music, not the top-billed artist. “It’s purposely not an ‘all-star’ concert,” insists Gruver. “That was by design. This being our 15th year, we do have some bigger names that we went out and got. I’m fortunate enough to be a touring musician, so I know some people out there that I pulled in, and Tori’s the same way, but for the most part our strength has always been the fact that we built this, starting at Dulcinea’s, with nothing but local musicians. “It’s become bigger than me, or Tori, or Gayor, or any of the musicians. What we created has become such a tradition, it really has nothing to do with us anymore.”

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Well, it still has a little to do with the three principals. We couldn’t help but wonder how a gig like this, largely a pre-determined setlist but one also subject to some change, gets staged. Rehearsals, song/artist alignment. The fans and the tradition and the songs and the cause are the heart and soul, sure, but these things don’t happen by themselves. Seriously… how do you manage 30-plus songs and 80 musicians? (And in Gruver’s case… remotely.) “Google docs!” laughs Gruver. “A whole spider web of Google docs. Lots of spreadsheets. “It takes about a year … we have this rule that after the show, we’re not allowed to talk about [next year’s show] until Jan. 2. But inevitably, we’re on the phone with each other the day after Thanksgiving. After 15 years, a lot of the infrastructure is already there and set in place. There’s a process, but still a lot of communication and a lot of emails back and forth. “We’ve got what we call the ‘core band,’ bass and drums usually. We have six of those doing six or seven songs apiece, they show up and do a five- or six-hour rehearsal, and then the horns show up and we run through all the songs with the horn section. And really, we’ve been doing this so BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

long, it’s usually just one run-through of the songs and we’ve got it.” What about the struggling player with some chops, maybe new to the area, looking to gain a little exposure and network with some old hands — how do fresh faces get themselves on this stage? “I tell you, what’s worked for a good handful of musicians is people sending me a Facebook message, saying something like, ‘Hey, I see what you’re doing, and I want to be part of it.’ On a couple of occasions it’s worked out really well. Other occasions they did one show and we realized it just wasn’t there.” The Last Waltz, of course, the original, occupies a unique place in the American rock cinema pantheon — indisputably one of most essential concert films of its era (maybe any era), even if the event itself was somewhat fraught and later besmirched by the bitterness expressed by most of The Band not named Robbie Robertson. Levon Helm was especially critical in his autobiography, calling it a ripoff, and critics have pointed to it as the closing of an era, premature by some estimation, and the seduction of Robbie Robertson into a career of Hollywood and big-music-industry schmoozing. Gruver noted that for all the gripes, from critics and some of the participants, it still played a vital role. “As much as people want to bash it, it made a lot of people’s careers, and really helped some people — some of them would have had big careers anyway — but I think about Dr. John, for example, who was well known locally, but that “Such a Night” really helped propel his career. And Bobby Charles, he had a couple of hits. They brought a lot of people to the table.” But if it’s possible to separate Robertson the man from the songs, it’s worth noting that The Band’s output represents a foundational model, paradoxically both detailed and warmly organic, for much of the No Depression/alt-Americana that followed in the ’90s and early aughts. We asked Gruver if he thought that their influence is duly recognized as such. “I don’t think it is, consciously,” Gruver says. “I think everyone recognizes in a way that they don’t even know they recognize it. And it’s so ironic, since none of them, except for Levon, were even American. I loved that irony. Writing songs about the South… ‘Acadian Driftwood’ being a really good example.” Gruver opened a School of Rock in New Orleans about a year and a half ago, in addition to his full-time gig as a member of the New Orleans Suspects (who also do a Last Waltz tribute show, which includes Reggie Scanlon, formerly of the BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Radiators). He isn’t reluctant to compare the Denver and New Orleans music scenes. “I moved to Denver for the music scene,” he says. “People thought I was crazy. I’d say, ‘You don’t know!’ Between Kansas City and Salt Lake, there’s nothin’. Eight or nine hours in either direction to either city, you have to stop in Denver. And, people love music. Younger demographic. People have money, there’s every size venue… It’s very underrated. “The Denver scene, what The Last Waltz represents, is very communal, and very supportive. Which is very unique; in a lot of cities it

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The misunderstanding of Hobo Johnson The Sacramento artist on surviving the court of public opinion and writing a musical about cockroaches

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atching the video for “Peach tough after ‘Peach Scone.’ It was really, Scone,” the one that really difficult to, like, get such a mass Sacramento-based band amount of criticism; like, before no one Hobo Johnson and The criticizes because no one fucking cared, LoveMakers submitted for the you know? And then out of nowhere it 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Concert, it’s easy to just felt really personal. ... It was like mischaracterize frontman Frank Lopes. they’re just attacking my character.” Brandishing a cigarette and a microIn his music and in interviews, Lopes phone in his left hand, the 20-something has been open about his struggle with Lopes, with a cherubic face and a halo of anxiety, about his mother leaving when fuzzy curls, drops an F-bomb half a JADE EHLERS second in, gives a stream-of-consciousness shout-out to Bob Boilen, introduces himself and his band and then launches into an anxious spoken word narrative of unrequited love. Hi, what’s your name? How are you? How’s your life?/ Oh, you got a man? Are you in love? If so, what type?/ Is it just platonic, strictly just as friends/ Or the type that ties you two together ’til tomorrow’s end?/ If it is, disregard every time I call you pretty/ Though it’s meant sincerely, it’s just my imagination drifting. Lopes delivers the song through alternating grimaces and grins as he shifts between the pain of loving someone he can’t be with and the genuine pleasure of being her friend. He runs his fingers through his unruly mane, his eyes moist from effort, pain, frustration... the effect is intoxicating and uneasy, like watching fire destroy a building. “I love the thought of being with you,” he was young, about his father’s bad he bellows in the chorus. “Or maybe it’s temper, about his run-ins with the law, the thought of not being so alone.” about getting kicked out of his dad’s The band didn’t win the contest, but house when he was 19, about living in the video went viral and the internet prohis ’94 Toyota Corolla and showering at a ceeded to perform the requisite vivisec24 Hour Fitness before going to work at a tion of Lopes. pizza shop (that’s where the hobo part Some saw his lyrics as self-deprecat- comes from). ing, introspective and sincere while othSure, Lopes is a mess, but he’s not ers interpreted the words as a textbook the poster child for toxic masculinity run example of toxic masculinity, with one amok. He’s a 24-year-old man grappling young music critic at The State Hornet with the aftermath of a dysfunctional accusing Lopes of “making himself out to childhood. On his two full-length albums be the victim in some twisted parody of (The Rise of Hobo Johnson and The Fall friendzone edgelording.” of Hobo Johnson), songs make carica“Yeah, dude,” Lopes sighs over the tures of his personality, pieces blown out phone on a day off from the band’s North of proportion and mocked. He lays bare American tour. “At first it was really, really his ugliest tendencies and wonders if he BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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can change while knowing he has to in order to move forward. He yearns for love in that way young people do, like it’s the thing that will save him from himself, except he knows it won’t. His lyrics — in his off-kilter, rhythm-bending delivery — are raw but self-aware. And as for “Peach Scone,” it’s about an internal struggle to accept the love we’re offered, even when we hope against hope that love would take a different form. And yeah, internal struggles are ugly. That’s part of what makes the song so unsettling. “I’ve gotten a lot better,” Lopes says of the criticism. “I don’t even really go on social media, just for the benefit of my mental health.” It helps that so many fans — many of them Gen Z’s, if the YouTube comment section is any indication — have rallied behind his work. Not least among them nonGen Z Bob Boilen, who invited the band to perform at the Tiny Desk despite not winning the contest. Lopes says he’s doing pretty well these days, eating several times a day and drinking plenty of water. And sleeping on a tour bus is a marked improvement from sleeping in the backseat of his Corolla. He’s got plans for the follow-ups to his first two albums, and he’s working on a musical -— the term rock opera is a bit too grandiose — about the eventual demise of humanity and ascension of cockroaches. He wants to write short stories and score films. We’re in the middle of talking about how neither of us has been able to finish Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace when a press representative comes on the line to tell us our 15 minutes are up. Lopes sounds genuinely surprised to have our conversation cut short. Maybe Lopes has me fooled. Maybe he’s a 4chan incel alpha male and this watery-eyed Big Mood is a calculated ruse. But I don’t think so. Not for a second. And if I’m wrong, I won’t feel so bad: He’s got Bob Boilen fooled too. NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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or writer/director/editor Trey Edward Shults, making movies is a family affair. It doesn’t matter if he’s shooting in his parent’s home in Spring, Texas, for 2015’s Krisha, or in the neon glow of Southern Florida for his latest, Waves. “I try to keep the same atmosphere as the first one,” Shults explains. “That was friends and family at my Mom’s house for a week, and we loved each other, and it was one of the best weeks of my life. “I’m just trying to foster that,” Shults says. “I’m just trying to be really casual and make everyone in the crew, all the cast, feel comfortable, happy and fun.” Made for $30,000 and populated primarily with Shults’ family, Krisha was a stunning debut, one that connected Shults with entertainment company A24. Next came 2017’s psychological horror flick It Comes At Night — a story of a family trying to stay sane and survive an apocalyptic plague. Now comes Waves, Shults’ most complex work to date, and his best. Waves follows an affluent family of four through the ebbs and flows of power dynamics — first the father, Ronald Williams (Sterling K. Brown), then the son, Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), finally the daughter, Emily (Taylor Russell). “This one has been brewing for a very, very long time,” Shults says. “At first it was just music and images, that was it. And teens. And high school. And that was all I had. Over the better part of a decade, or so, it was always building and building.” Shults builds Waves with aesthetic layers of suffocating immersion, and hurtles his characters toward tragedy both emotionally and visually. Working with cinematographer Drew Daniels, Waves changes the aspect ratio of the frame (from 1:85 to 2:40 to 1:33) at key moments in the movie’s narrative to create either tension or release. “Tyler’s [frame] is closing in on him,” Shults says. “And Emily’s is opening up.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Daniels, who has worked with Shults since Krisha “is my biggest collaborator,” Shults says. “We go through the script, talk about everything: The intention, the overall arc of the entire story, but also scene-to-scene, moment-to-moment. ... To where it’s like a second skin, and we know it so well. “We know why we’re shooting it this way, why we’re in this ratio, why we’re using this lens, everything.” The result is the visual equivalent to a sharp intake of breath and a jagged exhale. It’s effective, but it wouldn’t be nearly as immersive if not for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score — a composite of ambient sounds and composed music to echo the visual’s subjective qualities. “The score became the spirit of the movie at times and the spirit that links brother and sister in the two halves,” Shults says, explaining that the goal was to give the feeling of internal sound — as if what the audience hears is emanating from inside the characters. “Trent and Atticus would take sounds from the world and manipulate them and use them musically, to where it feels like we’re hearing it through the [character’s] heads.” But Shults is quick to point out that image and sound are tools — emotional extensions of the characters — which are I

palpable thanks to his collaboration with actors, notably Harrison, whom he worked with on It Comes At Night. “We already have trust, we already love each other,” Shults says. “We’re trying to build each other up and make something great.” And as the other actors came on, Shults expanded what he started with Harrison to bring each actor in on the creative process. “We talk about a lot of the scenes beforehand and analyze and collaborate. I’ll do sessions with the actors, and I’ll go off and do some more writing and then send it to them,” Shults says. “On the day, it can change from doing it almost exactly as it is in the script to ad-libbing within what the scene is, to doing the scene and then improvising.” Shults points to a scene where father and son arm wrestle in a diner for bragging rights. “The scene was done, and I just kept rolling and let them play,” Shults says. “I just try to keep it fun and collaborative.” Shults’ trust in collaboration shows. Waves is an emotionally rich, aesthetically dense piece of work with all parts working in unison. It’s one of the year’s best movies, and it opens nationwide Dec. 6. NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY’S COWBOY CHRISTMAS. 7 P.M. SUNDAY, NOV. 24, BOULDER THEATER, 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER, 303-447-0095.

Michael Martin Murphey’s musical journey has taken many unpredictable paths over the past 50 years. Topping the pop, country, Western and bluegrass charts, Murphey has never been one to rest on his laurels. Murphey’s original songs have been recorded by The Monkees, Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett, Dolly Parton, Billy Ray Cyrus and many others. Murphey’s Cowboy Christmas show offers a combination of poetry, music and stories that’ll warm your soul like a mug of hot chocolate on a winter evening.

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7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

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IN THIS TALK from Chautauqua’s Collective Speakers Series, Gabi Moskowitz, editor-inchief of the nationally acclaimed budget cooking blog BrokeAss Gourmet, explores the therapeutic benefits of getting your hands dirty in the kitchen, from baking pies to making “angry” pasta through depression and heartbreak. Life is messy and it’s hard to be truly prepared, but Moskowitz believes there’s no problem you can’t cook your way out of. Her show demonstrates how the process can be heartening, hilarious and fun. It’s one part live cooking show and one part interview injected with as much comedy and heart as possible. Tickets are $15 at chautauqua.com.

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NEDERLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 24, Backdoor Theatre, Nederland Community Center, 750 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-588-4995.

HEAD TO NED this weekend for the second annual Nederland International Film Festival. The fest will feature off-kilter, out-of-the-ordinary and inventive films along with a focus on music film that draws from Nederland’s rich history centered around Caribou Ranch, where some of the contemporary memory’s greatest musicians produced records. Enjoy a full day of programming that is as unique as the town of Nederland. Tickets are $10-$25 at coloradofests. com/tickets.

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Performing throughout the country, Kristin Rebecca wins over audiences with her multi-faceted approach to pop- and Americana-influenced contemporary folk Courtesy Kristina Rebecca music. While bringing colorful musical narratives to life with her emotionally rich voice, the Maryland based singer-songwriter alternates between the acoustic guitar and the folk harp. Her lyrics take listeners on timeless narratives, often with a winking sense of humor, sharing personal expressions, wider observations, narrative commentary and thoughtful reflections. Tickets are $15 at museperformancespace.com.

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Row 3, left to right: 1) Davin Helden picks up Liquid Mechanics’ award for Best Beer Selection in Lafayette. 2) Sean and Rebecca Gafner, owners of Longmont restaurants The Roost, Smokin’ Bowls and Jefes, are joined by the whole gang to pick up Smokin’ Bowls’ award for Best New Restaurant in Longmont and Jefes’ awards for Best Margarita in East County and Best Mexican Food in Longmont. 3) The man runnin’ the show, Stewart Sallo. 4) Executive Chef Keenan Huber picks up Tangerine’s awards for Best Brunch in East County, Best Breakfast in Lafayette and Best Pancakes/Waffles in Longmont. Dude looks hungry. 5) Sporting their award for Best Tattoo in East County are Denice and Kevin Powers (owners) and Ivana Olivas of InkSmith.

S T O F B O U L D E R E A S T C O U N T Y 2 019 Row 1, left to right: 1) The best tickets in town. 2) Full Circle Yoga owner John Espinosa and friend picked up the award for Best Yoga Studio in Longmont. And he plays a mean guitar. 3) A big room full of happy people at Boulder Weekly’s 2019 Best of Boulder East County party at Nissi’s. 4) Verde’s John Sethney and pal picked up the Best Food Truck in East County award. 5) Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar, enjoying time with her friend JP Ozambela. 6) Juan Carmona, the lead tech from Longmont Mac Repair, holds the award for East County’s Best Computer Repair.

Row 2, left to right: 1) Boulder Weekly Founder/CEO Stewart Sallo enjoys a moment with U.S. Bank’s Antoine Mouchati. 2) The great folks from The Natural Funeral in Lafayette — including Seth Viddal, Karen van Vuuren and Daniel Ziskin — won the awards for Best New Business in East Boulder County and Best Independent Business in Lafayette. 3) Emcee extraordinaire Erica Sodas was magic as always. 4) Daniel Walker and Tim Mowrey of Igadi, winner of Lafayette’s Best MMJ Dispensary. 5) Fantastic music came compliments of Nelson Rangell’s jazz band.

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MRS. EDA BAGEL “ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING” “Cabaret”

Friday November 22

LAST MEN ON EARTH “Arena Rock”

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

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‘FRANCESCA WOODMAN: Portrait of a Reputation’ presents an early episode in the artistic life of Boulder-born artist Francesca Woodman (1958-81). Featuring more than 40 unique, vintage prints, as well as notes, letters, postcards and other ephemera related to the artist’s burgeoning career, this exhibition details Woodman’s creative coming-ofage primarily during the years 1975-79. Now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver through April 5.

BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: ‘Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me,’ through Nov. 24; Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Street Wise,’ Canyon Gallery, through Dec. 1; ‘Design Trail,’ Arapahoe Ramp, through Dec. 15. Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘Found In Translation: Assemblages by Grace Kisa,’ through Nov. 23. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Grounded’ featuring: Sonja Hinrichsen, Kathleen Probst, & ReCalling Re/Call, through Dec. 1. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2; ‘Shantell Martin: Words and Lines,’ through Jan. 31; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’ Swift/Smith/ Bohn Family’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January; ‘Boulder Through the Decades,’ through Dec. 2. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning,’ through Dec. 21. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

Saturday November 23

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“Colorado Legends”

Tuesday November 26

BOURBON & BLUES RANDALL DUBIS BAND “Blues”

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Wednesday November 27

NELSON RAGELL “Contemporary Jazz”

Friday November 29

CITIZEN DAN “STRAIGHT-UP STEELY DAN” “Tribute”

Saturday November 30

THUMPIN’

“Dance Classics”

Sunday December 1

TIMOTHY P AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN STOCKING STUFFERS “Americana/Folk”

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Music The Afro Cuban Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Benmark Duo, Moose Wylson, Young Pine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Elephante — with PLS&TY, Disco Lines. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Ensiferum. 6:30 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Francisco Marques. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tuesday December 3

Giuseppe Ottaviani. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

“No Eagles; just other Rock Classics”

Guest Master Class: Carol Wincenc, flute. 3:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

THE LONG RUN PRESENTS ALTER EAGLES Wednesday December 4

BOURBON & BLUES DEBORAH STAFFORD & THE STATE OF AFFAIRS “Blues”

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Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531. LVDY: Live in Concert. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Matt Flaherty. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Mt. Joy. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Pickin’ on Hip Hop featuring The Sweet Lillies — with Special Guest Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident). 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Silicon Flatirons — Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Scott Drake, ViewRay, Inc. 5:30 p.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, UC Boulder Campus, Boulder. The Supervillains. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tow’rs. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. WILD, Johnny Gates. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Wind Symphony: Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Clyne. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Events Camp Christmas. 2 p.m. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100, denvercenter.org. Through Jan. 5. Dance For Parkinson’s Program. 11:30 a.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-506-3568. Dancing, Movement, Music, Community and Chocolate! 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 608-332-4355.

Discovery Days: Art. 9 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374, longmontcolorado.gov/departments/ departments-e-m/museum/education/discoverydays. Eda Bagel: One More Time, with Feeling. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Greg Fitzsimmons. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Nov. 23. Guardian Storage Winter Coat and Sock Drive. 8 a.m. Guardian Storage in your area, Longmont. Through Nov. 30. Logan Lecture with Anthony McCall. 6 p.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Q&A with Artist Gretchen Marie Schaefer. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Rachel Bloom: What Am I Going To Do with My Life Now? Tour. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Storm Podcast Live Show! 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Winter Gift Market. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Through Nov. 23. see EVENTS Page 31

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Music Beaujolais Nouveau 2019 Release Party. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

IN ‘WHAT NEED HAVE We For Such as We,’ poet Amanda Auerbach quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet, moved by the world and her own responses to it, to being a person infected by a poetic voice that, like a virus, has a startling and terrifying life of its own. See Auerbach read from her debut collection of poems at Innisfree on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m.

Briffaut (Album Release), Down Time, Inaiah Lujan. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Bruce Rabeler. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-2064. Canyon Sounds. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Elephante. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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Elisa Zanotti DJ. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Famous Men. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Flatirons Jazz Orchestra: Big Band Swing Dance. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Funk Sessions — with Emerald Quintet featuring Skerik, Stanton Moore & More. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. FY5 Band. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-6664361. Gatecreeper, Exhumed — with Necrot and Judiciary. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. I Had No Time To Hate: Rocky MountainChorale Fall 2019 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. Through Nov. 23. Jeffrey Foucault. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. King Diamond. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Laser Journey. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Last Men On Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Last Waltz Revisited 15th Anniversary. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Lauren Joy. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856. Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Mojazz Trio — Live Music. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Music & Movement. 10 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Nick Boeder, Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Planet of the Drums (AK1200, Dara, Dieselboy, and Messinian) — with Reid Speed, Nvrsoft, Fury, Saltee and Slim_R_I. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 21

TUESDAY, NOV. 26

Steven Macramalla — Unleash the Dragon Within: Transform Your Life with the Kung-Fu Animals of Ch’ien-Lung. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Ethan Mindlin Jones. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

FRIDAY, NOV. 22 SATURDAY, NOV. 23 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Amanda Auerbach. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21 7:00 PM

THE SUMMER OF 69: THE LASTING IMPRESSION OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM 8:30 PM

Shredders. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Soundpost Sessions: Chandler Holt CD Release — with Eric Wiggs & Amy Shelley. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525. Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through Nov. 24. Winter Music Series featuring Tim Ostdiek & David Ford. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Events Christkindl Market Denver. 4 p.m. 16th Street & Arapahoe in Downtown Denver, 1515 Arapahoe, Denver, 303-558-8185. Through Dec. 23. Double Feature: Solar Superstorms & Black Holes. 8:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Drinks ‘n’ Dance Film: a Sans Souci Sampler. 7 p.m. The Collective Community Arts Center, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1261. Fourth Friday Fandom: Sailor Moon. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Open Mic Soapbox. 6 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Reformation Dance Company Presents ‘Witch.’ 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 307-214-0198.

Trae Crowder’s (the Liberal Redneck) Wellred Comedy. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Through Nov. 23.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Music Billy Shaddox Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Black Star Gang featuring Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli, DJ Premier — with Brother Ali, Evidence, The Reminders. 8:30 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. Chris Daniels & The Kings. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Crick Wooder. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Donna the Buffalo — with We Dream Dawn. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. Drumming with Horses. Noon. Medicine Horse Program, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908.

LIQUID SKY GRATEFUL DEAD ON THE DOME FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 7:00 PM

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA + HOLIDAY MUSIC SHOW 8:30 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: SOLAR SUPERSTORMS & BLACK HOLES 10:00 PM

LASER JOURNEY 11:30 PM

LIQUID SKY THE WALL SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 1:30 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY & INCOMING! 3:00 PM

Ekali. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

SEASON OF LIGHT + HOLIDAY MUSIC SHOW

Flamenco Denver: Fall Recital. 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-296-0219.

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA + HOLIDAY MUSIC SHOW

Funk You — with The Green House Band, RADO. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)

see EVENTS Page 32

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

4:30 PM

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive www.colorado.edu/fiske 303-492-5002 I

EVENTS from Page 31

Ghostland Observatory. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482. Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The Invasion. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-6524186.

theater COURTESY JANE SHEPARD

‘DUDE, ITS BOULDER!,’ Viva Theater’s sell-out stage event, returns in a new production featuring 100 years of Boulder history. Award-winning playwright Jane Shepard brings a funny, touching and irreverent take on our city featuring 10 decades, 75 characters and live music. Showing at the Dairy Arts Center Nov. 22 through Nov. 30.

Issues. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

NOV 22 | COLLECTIVE SPEAKERS FOOD THERAPY WITH GABI MOSKOWITZ DEC 4 | CONCERT ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY

12/6

12/11

MARIKA ANTHONYSHAW [FORMERLY OF ARCADE FIRE]: ACCOUNTABLE ACTIVISM: A NEW FORM OF POWER ELLEN KINGMAN FISHER: HILL’S GOLD

12/12

LIVING THE RIGHTEOUS SLACKLIFE

12/19

SHEL

12/20

BIFF GORE: HOLIDAY SOUL

1/16

KELLY CORDES: THE STORIES WE TELL

1/23

DESSA: SENSELESS LOVE

1/24

AN EVENING WITH BUNTPORT THEATER BY STORIES ON STAGE

1/27

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Kalani Pe’a. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Limbwrecker, Glacial Tomb, Berated, Whammer. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Jackson Cloud Odyssey. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875. Lusine. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Multiple Piano Festival. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Auditorium, Skyline High School, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. Organist Gail Archer. 3 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787. Paul Mullikin Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Roots & Rhythm. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Roots Rising! featuring Matt Andersen, Gaby Moreno & Liz Vice. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4470095. Events Annual Vintage Jewelry Sale. 9 a.m. Denver Woman’s Press Clubhouse, 1325 Logan St., Denver. Through Nov. 24. Boulder Holiday Market. 10 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-272-7467. Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Dairy Comedy in the Boe, featuring David Rodriguez. 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Drag Queen Story Hour. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop In Tech Help. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pumpkin Volcanoes. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mark your calendars for a weekend of holiday festivities including outdoor ice skating, FREE Santa’s Cottage, holiday lighting ceremony, and more!

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

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Music The Annie Oakley, Pam and Dan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Addams Family. Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 1 and Jan. 3-26. A Broadway Christmas Carol — presented by CU Theatre & Dance. University Theatre, CU Boulder Campus. Through Dec. 8.

Jesus Christ Superstar. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Opens Nov. 26. Through Dec. 1. Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22.

Calendar Girls — presented by Firehouse Theater. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream — presented by The Upstart Crow. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 1.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens Nov. 21.

The Necromancer’s Stone. The BITSY Stage. 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 23.

A Doll’s House/A Doll’s House Part 2. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Nov. 24. Dude, It’s Boulder! — presented by VIVA Theater. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Nov. 22. Through Nov. 30. Hip Hop Nutcracker. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Opens Nov. 23. Through Dec. 24.

Looped. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Dec. 15. The Thanksgiving Play. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 15. Tuck Everlasting. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Opens Nov. 22. Through Jan. 5. Twelfth Night. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Benefit Concert. 3 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Season of Light and Holiday Music Show. 3 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Chris Dismuke. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Soundbridge Music Artist Mixer. 2 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Hovvdy. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Events

Lisa Prank. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

CU Night at Zoo Lights. 5:30 p.m. Denver Zoo, Boulder, 720-337-1400.

LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Double Feature: ‘CAPCOM Go! The Apollo Story’ and ‘Incoming! Hard Hitting Stories of Our Cosmic Origins.’ 1:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Ravin Wolf. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Sawyer Memorial Organ Concert. 3 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

Jon Boogz and Lil Buck: Movement Art Is. 2 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. see EVENTS Page 34

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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FILMS DISNEY Few movies have been as anticipated as the sequel to 2013’s surprise smash ‘Frozen.’ Lucky for any girl sporting Elsa’s Arendelle aqua dress or parent who’s heard “Let It Go” 17 times too many, ‘Frozen 2’ does not disappoint. The songs from husband and wife team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez soar: Elsa’s showstopper, “Into the Unknown,” once again highlights the wickedly talented Idina Menzel, while Christoph (Jonathan Groff) gets a “Bohemian Rhapsody”-esque ballad with a dash of Peter Cetera. But the best number belongs to “Some Things Never Change,” with the entire cast getting in on the fun. The animation is more refined, more realistic, and the story isn’t a simple rehash of the first installment. Complete with an ecological bent and a not-sosublte dig at the underlying intention of those who pontificate about the value of walls, Anna and Elsa must uncover and confront Arendelle’s unsavory past in hopes of saving the present. All while Olaf muses about the transience of being, and an adorable little fire sprite whips-up mischief. Not a bad showing for a piece of pop entertainment designed for the whole family. Bring Kleenex. —MJC

BOULDER:

Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘Earth,’ Nov. 20-23. ‘Edie,’ Nov. 27-30. ‘The Golden Glove,’ 8:45 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. ‘Greener Grass,’ Nov. 20-23. ‘Light From Light,’ Nov. 26-27. ‘The Report,’ Nov. 22-28.

Open Range Competition Teams Summer Day Camps Classes & Private Lessons

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

High Altitude Archery 455 Weaver Park Rd #500 Longmont, CO 80501 720-491-3309

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘21 Bridges’ ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘Dark Waters,’ opens Nov. 26. ‘Doctor Sleep’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Joker’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Music Bones Jugs, The Merr y Travelers, Dewclaw. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Cher: Here We Go Again Tour. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Midday Music Meditations @ Meadows. Noon. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, 303-449-3464: ‘The Art of Home: A Wind River Story,’ 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21.

LONGMONT:

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342:

‘21 Bridges’ ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘Doctor Sleep’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Friendsgiving,’ Nov. 24-25. ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Knives Out,’ opens Nov. 26. ‘Midway’ ‘Playing With Fire’

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘21 Bridges’ ‘Abominable’ ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘Doctor Sleep’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Joker’ ‘Knives Out,’ opens Nov. 26. ‘Last Christmas’ ‘Midway’ ‘Playing With Fire’

NEDERLAND:

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Arsenic & Old Lace,’ 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. Nederland Film Festival, Saturday, Nov. 23.

EVENTS from Page 32

GriefShare Course. 6:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.

‘Knives Out,’ opens Nov. 26. ‘Last Christmas’ ‘Midway’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’

Monolord — with Blackwater Holylight. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Events All Ages Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Boulder’s Local Music Shop Since 1971 Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Legit Knits. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Spanish/English Stor ytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. SXSW 2020 Community Meet Up. 6 p.m. WeWork, 2755 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Teen Movie Night. 7 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000.

Nutcracker Stor ytime with the Centennial State Ballet. 11 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1174. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777. Podcast Workshop with Local Podcaster, Dave Gonzales: Recording and Producing a Podcast. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. REI Workshop: Winter Camping. 2 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Young Artists at Work School Day-off Camp: Mythical Beasts and Monsters. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Chill Collins, Mad Dog Blues Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Boulder Bach Festival. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Bourbon & Blues — with the Randall Dubis Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Hobo Johnson. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Lucas Wolf, Mellowpunk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Open Mic — with Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. TDE Presents ScHoolboy Q: CrasH Tour — with NAV. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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GetUrGoat. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Greyson Chance. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. The Last Waltz — Revisited. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Pigface. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Events

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

Around the World Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Flaural. 7 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

All Ages Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dance Stor ytime! 10:15 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Plus: Eastman, Deering, Ohana, KoAloha, Danelectro

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Events

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

10% Off All Ohana Ukuleles 10% Off All Danelectro Guitars Discounts on Other Select Inventory

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Anime-niacs: Anime Club for Adults. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

BoulderReads Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Special Deals on Select Martin Guitars and Deering Banjos

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Music

Music

Fri. Nov. 29 thru Sun. Dec. 1

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

Shop Local Weekend Sale!

Musical Stor ytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. STEAM Stor ytime: Newspaper Basketball Challenge. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Friday November 22

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Friday November 22

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wedNesday November 27

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w/ GrymeTyme & JordaN PoloviNa

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w/ aN-TeN-Nae + GoviNda + aTyya

Tuesday december 3

Freddie Gibbs

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Thursday december 5

FuNTcase

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Friday december 6

dr. Fresch

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midiciNal live baNd

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saTurday december 7

michal meNerT Trio

draGoN smoke

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lil TJay

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louis FuToN live baNd w/ The orcasTraTor

Friday december 13

dirTwire

w/ mooN FroG & richard vaGNer

saTurday december 14

deTox uNiT

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wedNesday december 18 re: search

mr. bill GaTes (mr. bill x ill.GaTes) w/ boGTroTTer

Friday december 20

PNuma

w/ earThcry (aNThoNy oF PaPadosio), mzG & auToNomix

suNday december 29

doom FlamiNGo

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Friday & saTurday JaNuary 3-4 dual veNue!

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Thursday december 12

souly had

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Friday december 13

dead Floyd

w/ rumPke mouNTaiN boys

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w/ deaTh by dub & diGG

wedNesday december 18

colorado wiNTer miNiFesT Thursday december 19

40 oz To Freedom (sublime TribuTe) w/ uFer & wave 11

Friday december 20

w.r.d.

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saTurday december 21

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suNday december 22

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saTurday december 28

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Thursday JaNuary 16

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Friday JaNuary 31

w/ beN silver oF orchard louNGe

dual veNue!

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the Newdeal

suNday JaNuary 19

Joe robiNsoN

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wedNesday JaNuary 22

moNday February 3

moody Good

w/ mick JeNkiNs

saTurday February 1

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Thursday February 6

Phora

saTurday February 8

re: search w/ eFFiN

ruNaway GiN

(TribuTe To Phish) w/ sQwerv & ruby hill

marco beNeveNTo

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saTurday december 14

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here there was once was a Beau Jo’s in Boulder, now there’s an Oregano’s. The latter runs with a similar concept to the building’s former tenant — big, ol’ pizzas served in a fun atmosphere — but there are some key differences. Oregano’s, for instance, hangs its hat on its deep-dish ’za. The pan pizza has a thick, sturdy crust that’s lighter and flakier than it looks. The star is the balance of bright tomato chunks and uber-rich Wisconsin mozzarella cheese. $15.99.

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Got rituals? An anthem, stuffing, pie and toasts for a feast that can’t be beat

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rom the first fingerpicked acoustic guitar licks, the tune sounds just like Thanksgiving to me: “You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant. “You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant. “Walk right in, it’s around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track.” “Alice’s Restaurant” will be heard Nov. 28 in many homes in Boulder and across the United States. Arlo Guthrie’s song is now as much a part of Thanksgiving Day as turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie. That was not the case when song debuted in 1967 in a nation polarized by the Vietnam War. The old people at the time — not yet labelled The Greatest Generation — were upset with the song’s middle-finger attitude and such colorful lyrics as: “I wanna kill! I wanna see blood and gore and guts.” “Father stabbers!” “We was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things.” Millennials should note there’s a good chance your sweet old grandfather knows the words to “Alice’s Restaurant” by heart.

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Ironically, this anti-establishment anthem has become a holiday tradition on hundreds of mainstream corporate radio stations that normally don’t air a lot of 16-minute anti-war talking blues. (For instance, KBCO, 97.3 FM airs it at noon on Nov. 28.) I have listened to it every year since it came out, typically while cooking. For the past decade or more, my Thanksgiving Day morning has included helping stressed folks with their cooking crises. I was basting the bird one Thanksgiving morning when the on-air host at KGNU called with a gravy-making question from a distressed listener. I helped, and the next year — and almost every year since — I’ve come into the studio to talk turkey, mashers and pie and share Thanksgiving memories. From 8:30-9 a.m. on Nov. 28, I’ll be there on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu. org). Questions: 303-443-4242. When we go around the feast table this year for the traditional expressions of gratitude, I will offer thanks to the immigrants — yours and mine — who got us here today. Without the immigrant wave from Sicily that included my grandparents, Michael and Vincenza Mazzola, I wouldn’t be see NIBBLES Page 42

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making my family’s famous turkey stuffing. Inspired by a French-Canadian neighbor’s recipe, Nanna made it from mashed potatoes and Papa’s excellent hot Italian sausage. Having escaped the Nazis, my father was extremely enthusiastic about American Thanksgiving and the good food that came with it. If you want to try my stuffing, simply Google “Lehndorff Stuffing” and you’ll see more than a few variations on the recipe since one of my rituals has been to pass along that story year after year. I’m grateful there are many families locally and across the nation who make the stuffing for Thanksgiving and call it their own. As a food writer and lover, I will raise a toast to all the local farm workers, cooks, waitresses, dishwashers, grocery store clerks and truckers as well as artisan coffee roasters, brewers, distillers, bakers and chocolatiers whose labor makes eating here so satisfying. Finally, as someone who could have been drafted and sent to Vietnam to kill or die in the mid-’70s, I’ll also lift a toast to Arlo Guthrie. The 72-year-old musician will conclude a 52-year tradition of Thanksgiving concerts with “Alice” Nov. 30 at Carnegie Hall, but the song will go on. Unlikely traditions from “Alice’s Restaurant” to my stuffing started by chance and became annual traditions. These rituals and flavors are essential to connect family, friends and neighbors as time inexorably sprints forward. Maybe this is the year you’ll start a Thanksgiving tradition that will still be observed a half-century from now. May your table be full for a feast that can’t be beat. AN HEIRLOOM WHEAT PIE CONTEST Slow Food Boulder County hosts a notable new pie contest Nov. 23 at Louisville’s Moxie Bread Co. Contestants must use freshly milled heirloom wheat flour available free from Moxie Bread Co., Dry Storage or Pastificio. Bakers are also encouraged to use local produce in their entries in the professional, amateur adult and amateur kids categories. Slices will be sold after the contest. Free registration: slowfoodboulder.org/ shop.

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WORDS TO CHEW ON “At Steak ‘n Shake I learned that if you add ‘Bless their hearts’ after their names, you can say whatever you want about them. ... In a week it would be Thanksgiving, and we would each sit with our respective families, counting our blessings and blessing the hearts of family members as only family does best. Oh, bless us all, yes, bless us, please, bless us and bless our crummy little hearts.” — Richard Newman Read John Lehndorff’s pie-focused page at Facebook.com/uspie. I

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Imagine! and Zolo partner to provide free Thanksgiving dinner service for people with disabilities and their families

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t its best, the restaurant industry provides places where communities come together and memories are made. For all the things the restaurant industry can be — agents of societal change, regional employment hubs, shrines to culinary artists — at the end of that day, it’s a business of hospitality and service. Nowhere else will that be clearer than at Zolo Southwestern Grill this Thanksgiving. For the last 14 years, without much fanfare from Big Red F (of which Zolo is a cornerstone), the waiters, bartenders, hosts, cooks and chefs at Zolo have been serving families of people with developmental disabilities a free meal. It’s a collaboration with Imagine!, a group that has provided resources and services to families with people with developmental disabilities in Boulder and Broomfield counties for more than 50 years. “For a significant portion of [these families], I

it would be very difficult to have this kind of meal,” says Fred Hobbs, of Imagine!. The chance to sit down for Thanksgiving with our friends and family, and enjoy whatever culinary traditions we’ve come to enjoy, is one many of us probably take for granted. For many of the families Imagine! serves, the opportunity to sit down for any meal can often be a challenge. “We all know the holidays can add stress, and something like a Thanksgiving dinner, there’s a lot going on there,” Hobbs says. “What our families need and want most of all is a little time for themselves because depending on the individual disability, it can be something where you are taking care of someone 24 hours, 7 days a week. To get that respite, to get that break, is such a huge benefit for them. Something that allows them to, maybe for this see IMAGINE Page 46

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brief moment, not have to worry about some of these challenges and enjoy Thanksgiving like so many of our families.” The meal is traditional, turkey and the fixings, with a little bit of Zolo’s southwestern flair added in. But the food is almost beside the point. It’s the community and the Zolo staff’s commitment to service that makes this event so special. “The staff who work it, they give up their time, but I think it adds to the family atmosphere overall, because it’s no lon-

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ger your standard transactional restaurant experience. These folks are there because they want to be there. They want to be part of making someone’s Thanksgiving a little more special,” Hobbs says. “It’s almost this cumulative, snowballing effect — everybody is there for the right reason. They’re incredibly generous to give up the holiday and to do it so many times.” Big Red F owner Dave Query really doesn’t want praise heaped on him for hosting the event, but it’s worth noting the event started when he, serving on the Imagine! board, worked with the group to further address one of its key tenets: to provide opportunities to those with developmental disabilities that everyone else in the community enjoys. “[Query] recognized that this time of year can be tough for a lot of people but for people with disabilities and their families. There are challenges all the time, financial, physical, emotional challenges,” Hobbs says. “And I think he just wanted to do something where maybe one day that family didn’t have to worry about anything and celebrate.” The meal at Zolo is also one of the few opportunities, Hobbs says, for these families to enjoy a meal out at a restaurant. Whether it’s a lack of funds, or transportation, or time, or if there is concern that the family will somehow disturb the restaurant or its diners, families with people with disabilities don’t often get to just drop in for a bite at a local restaurant. “The way disability manifests itself, there are behavioral challenges that make going out in public a challenge. This is a group that’s already understanding and are aware of what those challenges mean,” Hobbs says. This year, the Imagine!/Zolo Thanksgiving meal will include 250 people, which includes families with people with disabilities of all ages. So cherished is the opportunity that signups for the dinner reached capacity three hours after they were made available. This is what service and hospitality look like. For everything that the restaurant industry can be, it doesn’t get any better than this. BOULDER WEEKLY

Know your brew: Saison

Farmhouse ale fit for the Thanksgiving table

by Michael J. Casey

any will bring wine. Some may even bring a nice bottle of single malt. But you, faithful reader, plan to bring beer to Thanksgiving. And not just any beer, but the king of food beers: Saison. Technically speaking, saison isn’t a style. At least not in the way we think of pilsner or pale ale. Saison — sometimes called “farmhouse ale” or “rustic ale” — is more a concept connected by an underlying thread. Like the great Hollywood noir movies of the 1940s and ’50s, the moniker was applied a posteriori — and stuck with unpredictable precision. A style was born. The origins of saison (French for “season”) harken back to the pre-Industrial Revolution days of northeastern France, Belgium’s Wallonia and Germany’s Franconia. These pockets somehow eschewed the consistency and commercialization that came from factory production and relied on the local environment for cuisine. These were the days of farmhouses with a brewery on one side and a bakery on the other. Anything from barley, wheat, oats and spelt were used — all of which were sent back to the animals once the grains were spent. Cool ships (large flat bottom vats) were used to cool the wort and wild yeast did most of the fermenting, though it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for brewers to toss a ball of dough into the wort for good measure. Beers like these were designed for local consumption: sometimes with dinner, sometimes for dinner. They were typically lower in alcohol, slightly sour and thirst quenchingly crisp. Boulder’s Adamant Brewing & Blending makes a Grisette that approximates these beers, try it while noshing hors d’oeuvres. Like all commercial products, the saisons of today are somewhat standardized, even if they vary from producer to producer. They can range from straw yellow to honey orange in color, can highlight bright citrus or barnyard funk, and feature any number of cereal grains (barley, wheat, corn, rye, etc.) in the malt. Most will come with a large pillow of foam and feature between 20 to 40 international bittering units (IBUs). European saisons weigh in around 5 to 6.5% alcohol by volume, while American saisons can climb into the 9% range. But what connects them all is the yeast: funky, phenolic and highly attenuated. It’s what gives saison a vinous taste, spicy aroma and refreshing minerality. Those three are what make saison the versatile food beer. The best of the bunch is Saison Dupont from Tourpes, Belgium and you can find it at all the best liquor stores. Same with Tank 7 from Missouri’s Boulevard Brewing Co., which pops with grapefruit in the nose, creamy malt in the mouth and black pepper in the back. Others to seek: Cellar West Artisan Ales’ Prophet of Bloom, Great Divide Brewing Co.’s Colette, Ratio Beerworks’ Dear You, Funkwerks’ Saison, Endo Brewing Co.’s French Pedaler and 12Degree Brewing’s Soleil Saison. It doesn’t matter which one you bring, saison will work great with roast turkey, buttery mashed potatoes and tart cranberry dressing. You might even want to try it with pie, should there be any left.

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “Beware of what disturbs the heart,”

said Ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the prophet Mohammed. “If something unsettles your heart, then abandon it.” My wise Aries friend Artemisia has a different perspective. She advises, “Pay close attention to what disturbs the heart. Whatever has the power to unsettle your heart will show you a key lesson you must learn, a crucial task you’d be smart to undertake.” Here’s my synthesis of Ibn Mas’ud and Artemisia: Do your very best to fix the problem revealed by your unsettled heart. Learn all you can in the process. Then, even if the fix isn’t totally perfect, move on. Graduate from the problem for good.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus social critic Bertrand Russell won

the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. He’s regarded as the founder of analytic philosophy and one of the 20th century’s premier intellectuals. But he went through a rough patch in 1940. He was adjudged “morally unfit” to accept his appointment as a professor at the City College of New York. The lawsuit that banned him from the job described him as being “libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac and irreverent.” Why? Simply because of his liberated opinions about sexuality, which he had conscientiously articulated in his book Marriage and Morals. In our modern era, we’re more likely to welcome libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac and irreverent ideas if they’re expressed respectfully, as Russell did. With that as a subtext, I invite you to update and deepen your relationship with your own sexuality in the coming weeks.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In her poem “What the Light Teaches,”

Anne Michaels describes herself arriving at a lover’s house soaked with rain, “dripping with new memory.” She’s ready for “one past to grow out of another.” In other words, she’s eager to leave behind the story that she and her lover have lived together up until now — and begin a new story. A similar blessing will be available for you in the coming weeks, Gemini: a chance for you and an intimate partner or close ally to launch a new chapter of your history together.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Some scientists deride astrology despite being ignorant about it. For example, they complain, “The miniscule gravitational forces beaming from the planets can’t possibly have any effect on our personal lives.” But the truth is that most astrologers don’t believe the planets exert influence on us with gravity or any other invisible force. Instead, we analyze planetary movements as evidence of a hidden order in the universe. It’s comparable to the way weather forecasters use a barometer to read atmospheric pressure but know that barometers don’t cause changes in atmospheric pressure. I hope this inspires you, Cancerian, as you develop constructive critiques of situations in your own sphere. Don’t rely on naive assumption and unwarranted biases. Make sure you have the correct facts before you proceed. If you do, you could generate remarkable transformations in the coming weeks.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: As you glide into the Season of Love, I’d love you to soak up wise counsel from the author bell hooks. (She doesn’t capitalize her name.) “Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high,” she cautions. “They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.” I trust you won’t do that, Leo. Here’s more from hooks: “Dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love — which is to transform us.” Are you ready to be transformed by love, Leo?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Burrow down as deep as you dare, Virgo. Give yourself pep talks as you descend toward the gritty core of every matter. Feel your way into the underground, where the roots meet the foundations. It’s time for you to explore the mysteries that are usually

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beneath your conscious awareness. You have a mandate to reacquaint yourself with where you came from and how you got to where you are now.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: It’s natural and healthy to feel both the

longing to connect and the longing to be independent. Each of those urges deserves an honored place in your heart. But you may sometimes experience them as being contradictory; their opposing pulls may rouse tension. I bring this to your attention because I suspect that the coming weeks will be a test of your ability to not just abide in this tension, but to learn from and thrive on it. For inspiration, read these words by Jeanette Winterson. “What should I do about the wild heart that wants to be free and the tame heart that wants to come home? I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at night. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to be with you.”

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The Louvre Museum in Paris displays

38,000 objects throughout its 18 acres of floor space. Among its most treasured 13th century artworks is “The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels,” a huge painting by Italian painter Cimabue. When a museum representative first acquired it in the 19th century, its price was five francs, or less than a dollar. I urge you to be on the lookout for bargains like that in the coming weeks. Something that could be valuable in the future may be undervalued now.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian performance artist Marina Abramović observes that Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus and Moses “all went to the desert as nobodies and came back as somebodies.” She herself spent a year in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert near Lake Disappointment, leading her to exclaim that the desert is “the most incredible place, because there is nothing there except yourself, and yourself is a big deal.” From what I can tell, Sagittarius, you’re just returning from your own metaphorical version of the desert, which is very good news. Welcome back! I can’t wait to see what marvels you spawn.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Upcoming events may bedevil your mind. They may mess with your certainties and agitate your self-doubts. But if you want my view about those possibilities, they’re cause for celebration. According to my analysis of the astrological indicators, you will benefit from having your mind bedeviled and your certainties messed with and your self-doubts agitated. You may ultimately even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to gently but firmly kick your ass in just the right way so you’ll become alert to opportunities you have been ignoring or blind to.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Every writer I’ve ever known says that a

key practice to becoming a good writer is to read a lot of books. So what are we to make of the fact that one of the 20th century’s most celebrated novelists didn’t hew to that principle? In 1936, three years before the publication of his last book, Aquarian-born James Joyce confessed that he had “not read a novel in any language for many years.” Here’s my take on the subject: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Aquarians have the potential to succeed despite not playing by conventional rules. And I suspect your power to do that is even greater than usual these days.

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Dear MILF: Your significant others aren’t questions, MILF, they’re people — and you don’t intend to leave your Dear Dan: I’m a 33-year-old woman person, and your online girlfriend in a nine-year LTR with another woman. doesn’t intend to leave hers. So if you Our relationship hasn’t been great in the want to spare your chronically ill partner intimacy department for a long time. the anxiety of worrying you might leave We’ve talked it to death, with no real sigher for this other person, nificant change. I started ROMAN ROBINSON then you’ll keep the online talking to a woman online a GF a secret. But you need few states over who is marto ask yourself — and ried and in a similar situayour online GF needs to tion with her husband. ask herself — if this online Things are great between relationship/emotional us, but neither of us enviaffair is making you a betsions a future where we ter, more contented and would leave our partner. more emotionally available My partner is chronically ill partner to your IRL partand I support her financialner. If it’s making you a ly, and my online GF and better partner to the perher husband have young son you’re actually/technichildren. I’m wondering if cally/physically with, then you know anything about sustainability in great. But if it’s a distraction that’s causa relationship with someone online. I’ll ing you to neglect or resent your IRL admit that sometimes it’s torture to not be partner, MILF, then you’ll have to end it. able to be with her in real life. But then If it’s harming your IRL relationship and there’s the question of our significant othyou don’t end it, then you’re engaging in ers. Is it OK to keep this secret if things

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shitty, dishonest, slo-mo sabotage. As for the sustainability of online relationships, there are people out there who’ve maintained online connections — intense friendships, romantic and/or sexual relationships — for as long as people have been able to get online. Sometimes online relationships run their course and come to an end, just like offline relationships and sometimes the online platforms they began on. (There are people out there who are still involved with people they met on Friendster and Myspace.) But offline or on, MILF, there are always challenges and never guarantees. Dear Dan: My husband and I are visiting Italy right now. We decided to try out the local hospitality and have had two bad hookups. Both of us knew early on in the encounters that we weren’t enjoying it, but we didn’t know how to extricate ourselves. What is the proper way to end a failed hookup with minimum insult/hurt to the third person? —Texans Seeking Amore Dear TSA: 1) The unvarnished truth: “We’re sorry, but we aren’t really feeling it.” 2) The little white lie: “Oh, my goodness. I think the clams we ate earlier

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The dumbest thing you’ve ever read about marijuana arrests by Seymour

e honest: Who’s had a wicked case of green tongue after a smoke sesh? No one. Literally no one ever, because green tongue isn’t a thing that happens when you smoke marijuana. Cotton mouth? Sure. Bloodshot eyes? Yes. The munchies, paranoia, the inability to remember why you started talking

about how Buffy the Vampire Slayer should have ended at season five, despite the sing-a-long glory that is “Once More, With Feeling” in season six? These are things that science has proven marijuana can cause. One thing science has never

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shown is that marijuana use causes a green film on the tongue. Because that’s honestly just dumb. Who the hell would think that? Some really unhip, badly misinformed police officers, that’s who. Pennsylvania’s York Daily Record just published a 2,500-word story on police officers across the United States using green tongue “as one of several signs to justify probable cause and make arrests in criminal cases.” That’s right, folks. It’s 2019, recreational pot is legal in 11 states and this kind of Reefer Madness jackassery still happens. The Daily Record analyzed more than 1,300 DUI cases from York County in 2018 and found “at least 28 that mentioned phrases such as ‘green coating,’ ‘green film’ and ‘green tint.’” In defense of officers who’ve done this, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration once upon a time did list “green coating of tongue” as one of the characteristics of a marijuana DUI — but that was in a 2004 “Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheet” by NHTSA. The one from 2017 makes no mention of verdant tongues. Seems like some pretty out-of-date training, if that’s the case. And that’s the best-case scenario. Worst-case scenario is that these cops know pot doesn’t cause your tongue to turn green and they’re just arresting people because they can. The worst part about this whole thing

is that it’s nothing new. In 2010, Washington state-based criminal defense lawyer Steve Graham wrote a blog piece about the bull crap behind green tongue observations. “After completing certain training, an officer can become a Drug Recognition Expert or ‘DRE,’” Graham wrote. “The problem is that people are catching on that the so-called drug recognition ‘experts’ really are basing their opinions on many things we do not really recognize as science. Take for example, the green tongue phenomenon.” He wrote about a couple of courts in Washington and one in Utah that had all ruled green tongue was indicative of absolutely nothing as far as science was concerned. And that’s great that courts seemed to be taking notice, but Graham pointed out the obvious problem remaining: “Is there any system of accountability for the DREs out there? Is anyone keeping track of all the times the DREs got it wrong?” The answer would seem to be no. In fact, the Daily Record reported that the 2018 Drug Recognition Expert Course instructor guide still teaches officers to look for a “greenish coating” on the tongue, and it claims this nonsense is backed up by two peer-reviewed articles. Not shockingly, the Daily Record handily illustrates how these articles fail to provide any substantiated evidence for the phenomenon. So, there you have it: reefer madness is alive and well.

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Pot legalization moves in the House By Paul Danish

es, it’s finally happening. On Nov. 20, the House Judiciary Committee was due to take up a bill that would legalize marijuana at the federal level. The legislation, which is sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), would remove marijuana from the PUBLIC DOMAIN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

federal Controlled Substances Act, where it is currently listed as a Schedule I controlled substance, along with heroin. It would also levy a 5% federal tax on marijuana sales and use the revenue to fund programs like job training and legal aid in communities that have been hit hardest by pot prohibition, many of which are black and Hispanic. The bill would also expunge the records of many of those with federal pot convictions, provide for resentencing of others, block federal agencies from denying public benefits or security clearances as a result of marijuana use, and protect immigrants from being denied citizenship

over pot. A committee press release quotes Nadler as saying: “Our marijuana laws disproportionately harm individuals and communities of color, leading to convictions that damage job prospects, access to housing, and the ability to vote. Recognizing this, many states have legalized marijuana. It’s now time for us to remove the criminal prohibitions against marijuana at the federal level. That’s why I introduced the MORE Act, legislation which would assist communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of these laws.” Nadler also said he’s optimistic about the bill passing in the committee and ultimately moving to the House floor. One reason for his optimism is that he’s been talking with other committee chairs and requesting that they waive jurisdiction of the reform legislation to expedite the process. He said he “didn’t anticipate that to be a big problem” despite the fact that the bill, dubbed the MORE Act (or Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act), has been referred to seven additional committees. “We are looking forward to moving this to the floor at an appropriate time when we’ve done some more educational work and have the votes,” he said. A number of cosponsors of the bill weighed in with comments as well, including this gem by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee): “The MORE Act is the Acapulco Gold of marijuana law reform legislation.” Acapulco Gold was one of the first marijuana varieties to be singled out by users in the 1960s from just plain pot, and it acquired leg-

endary status. And, yeah, Cohen is old enough to remember the ’60s. Barely. He also said the MORE Act “will remove a stain on people’s records but really a stain on the United States of America.” “More than 650K people are arrested for marijuana offenses ever year,” he tweeted. “The failed War on Drugs is a stain on our country, and we must work to undo the damage it caused. The#MoreAct would legalize #marijuana & require resentencing and expungement of old convictions. #WeDeserveMORE.” The MORE Act is expected to pass out of the committee and ultimately pass on the House floor; a Pew Research poll taken earlier this year found two-thirds of Americans and 78 percent of Democrats believe marijuana should be legalized, so there isn’t much political downside for most House members in voting for the bill. The bill’s prospects in the Republicancontrolled Senate are another matter. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated in the past that he does not favor legalization and could block consideration if he chooses to. On the other hand, passage of the bill in the House would put pressure on the Senate to do something, if for no other reason than to keep marijuana legalization from becoming an issue in the 2020 congressional elections. In that case the most likely “something” to do would be to take up Sen. Cory Gardner’s STATES Act (Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act) that would exempt states that legalize marijuana from existing federal anti-pot laws. Politics is the art of the possible. The MORE Act would be the better solution, because it rids federal law of marijuana prohibition, but the STATES Act is probably the more possible one.

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