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hanksgiving… let’s eat!

America’s most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Indians enjoyed together in the fall of 1621.

Only half of the Mayflower Pilgrims who’d arrived at Plymouth Rock the previous December survived their first year in the New World (new, of course, only to those undocumented immigrants from England, not to the

local citizens). Still, to celebrate and offer thanks for their survival, the newcomers planned a communal meal following the fall harvest. And in appreciation for being taught by the Wampanoag people how to raise corn and gather the region’s seafood, they invited Massasoit, the tribal leader, to join them. He did… surprising the hosts by arriving with 90 members of his community! But the Wampanoag party didn’t come empty handed, bringing much of the fare for what became a three-day banquet featuring venison, duck, geese, wild furkees (Wampanoag for gobblers), eels, mussels, lobster, gooseberries, plums, cornmeal pudding, popcorn balls (who knew!), barley beer and fortified wine. And you thought you over-ate at Thanksgiving!

But this was not the first precursor of our annual November Food-aPalooza. Texans assert that it began near El Paso in 1598, when the Manso and

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Piro tribes roasted ducks, geese and fish over an open fire to give sustenance to a lost and bedraggled group of Spanish colonizers. Meanwhile, Floridians insist that the firstest-of-all Thanksgivings was in 1565, when the Timucuan people shared a stew of salt pork and garbanzo beans with Spanish settlers at St. Augustine.

These interesting tidbits raise an equally interesting question for us to ponder this Thanksgiving: What would have happened to those Pilgrims and Spanish settlers if the Native Americans had Donnie Trump around to build “a big beautiful wall?”

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The confab is called the Conference of Parties 21 (or COP21), the parties being the 195 nations who have signed on to the UN Framework on Climate Change adopted at an international conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The agreement came into “full force” (whatever that means) in 1994. The most tangible thing to have come out of it appears to be the annual COP meetings.

The French government has announced that 138 world leaders are expected for the opening day of the conference. Wow. Hey, these guys are serious about producing something meaningful this time (unlike the work product of the twenty previous COP Conferences).

Why to that end, the UN has already extracted pledges of greenhouse gas reductions from scads of countries — 146 of them to be precise. Wow squared.

The UN is so thrilled by these pledges that it has even coined an official name for them with its very own acronym: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs. (Needless to say, the most important word in the name is “intended.” You don’t have to be a climate change skeptic to be skeptical about the meaning of “intended” here. Hint: Like the value of X in algebra, it varies.)

What’s more, the French government has taken no kiddin’ around steps to ensure that those pesky Islamic terrorists don’t disrupt the proceedings. It has announced that it is deploying 30,000 troops and police to protect the 40,000 delegates, experts, journalists, observers and hangers-on expected to attend COP21.

It has also announced that it’s banning a protest march that was expected to attract 50,000 to 200,000 eurogreens on grounds that it would be too difficult to protect. (It may have a point there. The Islamic State has been raking in about $1 million a day from oil sales, so the prospect of shooting up a column of easily panicked green kafirs could appeal to it.)

Anyway, given all these preparations and precautions, we can undoubtedly expect the conference to be a thumping success. Especially if we are willing to ignore these five recent inconvenient headlines: “Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record, Report Says,” New York Times, November 10 The story reported that global atmospheric CO2 concentrations breached 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time last spring and that the annual average is expected to pass 400 ppm in 2016. Most atmospheric scientists maintain that exceeding the 400 ppm limit will lead to average global temperature increases in excess of 2 degrees Celsius or 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit. see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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How do so many Republicans get elected to the US House of Representatives when they don’t have the numbers going into elections? I think Jared Polis has shown us how. Just pretend you’re a Democrat and then after you’re in office switch to voting with the GOP. Bingo. There you are.

Thanks Jared for showing us how it’s done.

By the way, the liberal progressive voice that elected you in a very expensive race stands for open-minded participatory democracy. We do not want private, clandestine, corporate-favoring trade agreements. We do not want closed borders, especially after a 2 year vetting process shows this recent group of refugees to be mostly women and children who are safe, needy and in great danger if they return to their homeland. We also want to work for peace. Thanks for

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the world’s finest coffee. eventually voting for the negotiated treaty with Iran only after sustained pressure by the people who voted for you. We really shouldn’t have to work so hard to get our representative to actually represent us.

Maybe you should pick up a copy of the Democratic Party Platform before voting with the Republicans on the next major issue. It might be edifying.

Sally Terwilliger/Boulder

Prepare for the worst

Most people live comfortably in communities in which there is a high level of agreement. In what the radicals at the University of Missouri, Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street or the SDS students forty-five years ago would call narrow-mindedness. Rather than agreement, these radicals seek to create

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danish plan “World only half way to meeting emissions target with current pledges,” The Guardian, November 6 It seems that someone at the UN added up all the INDCs it had received and concluded they amounted to only half of what was needed to keep global temperatures from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius — even if all 146 parties perform as they say they intend to.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the 146 to double down on their pledges.

“China Burns Much More Coal Than Reported, Complicating Climate Talks,” New York Times, November 3 It turns out that China has been burning about 600 millions tons more coal a year than it has let on until now. To put that figure in perspective, that oversight alone represents about 70 percent of the total amount of coal used in the U.S. Total Chinese coal consumption is about four times greater than that of the U.S. “Coal is dead? No one told China,” Mining.Com, November 11 According to a study by Greenpeace, China has issued permits for the construction of 155 new coalfired power plants so far this year.

“Climate talks in Paris: India to stay firm on use of coal,” The Indian Express, November 19 Ajay Mathur, the director general of India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency and a key member of India’s COP21 negotiating team, told The Indian Express

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that India would not agree “to any proposal that will restrict our ability to generate energy from coal or inhibit our efforts to ensure energy access to all our people in an accelerated manner.”

And so on.

What the foregoing means is that COP21 is apt to end like COP15 (the one held in Copenhagen) did — with a final communiqué filled with lots of words, music, happy talk and empty pledges signifying nothing.

The reason the COPs end in copouts is that the solutions that are proposed at them are flatly unacceptable to the major parties­— and the delegates know it going in.

The Chinese and Indians are not going to curtail their use of coal, let alone quit using it, if doing so curtails their industrialization and pursuit of a First World lifestyle — which they obviously believe it would. Nor are the rest of the Second and Third Worlds.

China, India and the rest of the Third World are not choosing the fossil fuel path out of ignorance. They understand the choice they are making and the trade-offs it entails. If a warmer world is the price of their economic growth and modernization, it’s a price they are willing to pay in a heartbeat.

Until the First World pays a decent respect to that choice and to why they have chosen to make it, COP conferences are a waste of time.

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disputes or crisis situations that stimulate cognitive dissonance, re-clarification of values and questioning of entrenched beliefs and positions. For them, any and all of our beliefs, no matter how cherished, are open to and, in fact, require scrutiny, re-valuation and re-thinking. In contrast, tyranny and terrorism impose certainty; yet, they have the same effect, to radicalize people. How our leaders interpret and respond to political or social movements and events not just informs and influences, but also re-educates us and reconstructs our world. As the November 2016 election approaches the attacks on our society, economy and politics will intensify. As we think about the candidates for President we need to think about not just whose tax plan is most appealing or whose personality is more pleasing? Ask: Who can handle riots and chaos at home and tyranny and terror abroad?

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One of the frequently mentioned arguments in favor of supporting Hillary rather than Bernie at the Colorado Democratic caucuses March 1 is that she’s supposedly more “electable” than he is against the GOP nominee. The corporate-owned media bends over backwards to maintain and strengthen this perception in the minds of voters. Recently an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed the following percentages: Bernie topping Trump 50-41, better than Hillary’s 50-42, and Bernie topping Rubio 46-42, better than Hillary’s 47-44. On the same night that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported this on her show, the NBC Nightly News reported only the fact that Hillary was beating both Trump and Rubio, without a word about Bernie’s slightly better showing. Now the latest McCatchy-Marist poll shows Bernie beating Trump 53-41 and Bush 51-41.

Millennials are going crazy for Bernie on social media, while Green Party members, Socialists and Independents are re-registering in droves as Dems to be able to caucus for him on March 1. Republicans unable to stomach their party’s nominee would also be

more likely to jump ship for Bernie than for Hillary. (Check out “Republicans for Bernie Sanders” on Facebook.) And please remember that even though one can register to vote right up until election day, December 31 is the deadline for changing one’s party affiliation.

Bernie is the only candidate who will consistently work for us, not for big money interests. I’ve been voting for decades, and there hasn’t been a candidate like him in my lifetime.

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Skip the turkey

While President Obama is pardoning two turkeys for Thanksgiving, every one of us can exercise that same presidential power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance that spares a turkey’s life.

And here are some good reasons: •You can brag about pardoning a turkey ­— like Obama.

•You truly are what you eat. Who wants to be a “butterball”?

•Fruits and vegetables don’t have to carry government warning labels.

•You won’t sweat the environment and food-resources devastation guilt trip.

•You won’t spend a sleepless night wondering how the turkey lived and died.

•Your body will appreciate a holiday from saturated fat, cholesterol, and hormones.

•You won’t have to call Poultry Hotline to keep your family out of the emergency room.

Seriously, this Thanksgiving, let’s give thanks for our good fortune, health and happiness with a life-affirming, crueltyfree feast of vegetables, fruits, and grains.

Our own dinner will feature a soy or wheat-based roast, mashed potatoes, stuffed squash, candied yams, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. An Internet search on “vegetarian Thanksgiving” is getting us more recipes and other useful information than we could possibly use.

Stanley Silver/Boulder

Fear not

When Christians are advised to fear Muslims, Muslims are advised to fear Christians ( like this is a new development ) and of course, the NRA advises us all to fear everyone, the only possible winner is the arms manufacturing business.

Perhaps the time has come to do something else besides cower in fear and enhance the bottom line of sociopathic extremist gun runners who really don’t care about anyone’s God... or lack thereof.

One would hope we can learn from our mistakes.

Education beats fear-based indoctrination every time.

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orld leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming … or will they fail in this task?

Letters to the Future, a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States, set out to find authors, artists, scientists and others willing to get creative and draft letters to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of the Paris talks — and what came after.

Some participants were optimistic about what is to come — some not so much. We hereby present some of their visions of the future.

MY ENDLESS SKY

by Stephen K. Robinson

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ear Future Robinsons: Back around the turn of the century, flying to space was a rare human privilege, a dream come true, the stuff of movies (look it up), and an almost impossible ambition for children the world around.

But I was one of those fortunates. And what I saw from the cold, thick, protective windows of the Space Shuttle is something that, despite my 40 years of dreaming (I was never a young astronaut), I never remotely imagined.

Not that I was new to imagining things. As you may know, I was somehow born with a passion for the 12 November 26, 2015

sky, for flight and for the mysteries of the atmosphere.

I built and flew death-defying gliders, learned to fly properly, earned university degrees in the science of flight and then spent the rest of my life exploring Earth’s atmosphere from below it, within it and above it. My hunger was never satisfied, and my love of flight never waned at all, Courtesy of NASA even though it tried to kill me many times.

As I learned to fly in gliders, then small aircraft, then military jets, I always had the secure feeling that the atmosphere was the infinite “long delirious burning blue” of Magee’s poem, even though of all people, I well knew about space and its nearness. It seemed impossible to believe that with just a little more power and a little more bravery, I couldn’t continue to climb higher and higher on “laughter-silvered wings.” My life was a celebration of the infinite gift of sky, atmosphere and flight.

But what I saw in the first minutes of entering space, following that violent, life-changing rocketride, shocked me.

If you look at Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, you can see it “on edge” — gazing towards the horizon, with the black of space above and the gentle curve of the yes-it’s-round planet below. And what you see is the most exquisite, luminous, delicate glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like an ethereal eggshell. “That’s it?!” I thought. The entire sky — MY endless sky — was only a paper-thin, blue wrap-

ping of the planet, and looking as tentative as frost.

And this is the truth. Our Earth’s atmosphere is fragile and shockingly tiny — maybe 4 percent of the planet’s volume. Of all the life we know about, only one species has the responsibility to protect that precious blue planet-wrap. I hope we did, and I hope you do.

Your ancestor, Stephen K. Robinson After 36 years as an astronaut — with a tenure that included four shuttle missions and three spacewalks — Robinson retired from NASA in 2012. He is now a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis.

SORRY ABOUT THAT

by T.C. Boyle

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ear Rats of the Future: Congratulations on your bipedalism: it’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And great on losing that tail too (just as we lost ours). No need for that awkward (and let’s face it: ugly) kind of balancing tool when you walk upright, plus it makes fitting into your blue jeans a whole lot easier. Do you wear blue jeans — or their equivalent? No need, really, I suppose, since you’ve no doubt retained your body hair.

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Well, good for you.

Sorry about the plastics. And the radiation. And the pesticides. I really regret that you won’t be hearing any birdsong anytime soon, either, but at least you’ve got that wonderful musical cawing of the crows to keep your mornings bright. And, of course, I do expect that as you’ve grown in stature and brainpower you’ve learned to deal with the feral cats, your one-time nemesis, but at best occupying a kind of ratty niche in your era of ascendancy. As for the big cats — the really scary ones, tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar — they must be as remote to you as the mammoths were to us. It goes without saying that with the extinction of the bears (polar bears: they were a pretty silly development anyway, and of no use to anybody beyond maybe trophy hunters) and any other large carnivores, there’s nothing much left to threaten you as you feed and breed and find your place as the dominant mammals on earth. (I do expect that the hyenas would have been something of a nasty holdout, but as you developed weapons, I’m sure you would have dispatched them eventually).

Apologies too about the oceans, and I know this must have been particularly hard on you since you’ve always been a seafaring race, but since you’re primarily vegetarian, I don’t imagine that the extinction of fish would have much affected you. And if, out of some nostalgia for the sea that can’t be fully satisfied by whatever hardtack may have survived us, try jellyfish.

They’ll be about the only thing out there now, but I’m told they can be quite palatable, if not exactly mouthwatering, when prepared with sage and onions. Do you have sage and onions? But forgive me: of course you do. You’re an agrarian tribe at heart, though in our day we certainly did introduce you to city life, didn’t we? Bright lights, big city, right? At least you don’t have to worry about abattoirs, piggeries, feed lots, bovine intestinal gases and the like — or, for that matter, the ozone layer, which would have been long gone by the time you started walking on two legs.

Does that bother you? The UV rays, I mean? But no, you’re a nocturnal tribe anyway, right?

Anyway, I just want to wish you all the best in your endeavors on this big blind rock hurtling through space. My advice? Stay out of the laboratory.

Live simply. And, whatever you do, please — I beg you — don’t start up a stock exchange.

With Best Wishes, T.C. Boyle P.S. In writing you this missive, I am, I suppose, being guardedly optimistic that you will have figured out how to decode this ape language I’m employing here — especially given the vast libraries we left you when the last of us breathed his last.

A novelist and short story writer, T.C. Boyle has published 14 novels and more than 100 short stories.

INCREDIBLE PEOPLE

by Annie Leonard

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t’s hard to imagine writing to the granddaughter of my own daughter, but if you’re anything like her —

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age to make sure you too have all the joys and gifts of the natural world — hiking in forests, swimming in clean water, breathing fresh air. If you need to be a little stubborn to make sure things stay that way, so be it.

Onwards!

Annie Currently the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Leonard made the 2007 film, The Story of Stuff, which chronicles the life of material goods and has been viewed more than 40 million times. She also wrote the 2010 New York Times bestseller by the same name. strong, smart, occasionally a little stubborn — then I have no doubt the world is in good hands.

By now your school should have taught you about climate change, and how humans helped to bring it about with our big cars, big homes, big appetites and an endless desire for more stuff. But what the teachers and textbooks may not have passed on are the stories of incredible people that helped make sure the planet remained beautiful and livable for you.

These are stories of everyday people doing courageous things, because they couldn’t stand by and watch communities poisoned by pollution, the Arctic melt, or California die of fire and drought.

They couldn’t bear to think of New Orleans under water again, or New York lost to a superstorm.

Right now, as politicians weigh up options and opinion polls, people are organizing and uprising.

It’s amazing to see and be a part of.

In the year that led up to the 2015 meeting of global leaders on climate change in Paris, kayakers took to the water to stop oil rigs. Nurses, musicians, grannies, preachers and even beekeepers, took to the streets. The message was loud and clear: “We want clean, safe, renewable energy now!”

Were it not for this glorious rainbow of people power, I don’t know whether President Obama would have stepped up and canceled oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic or the sale of 10 billion tons of American coal, that were set to tip the planet towards climate chaos. But he did. This paved the way for an era of unprecedented innovation, as entrepreneurs and academics fine-tuned the best ways to harness the unlimited power of our wind, waves and sun, and make it available to everyone. We’ve just seen the first ever oceanic crossing by a solar plane and I can only imagine what incredible inventions have grown in your time from the seeds planted in this energy revolution we’re experiencing right now.

I want to tell you about this because there was a time we didn’t think any of it was possible. And there may be times when you face similar challenges.

Generations before you have taken acts of great cour-

SEIZE THE MOMENT

by Bill McKibben

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ear Descendants: The first thing to say is, sorry.

We were the last generation to know the world before full-on climate change made it a treacherous place. That we didn’t get sooner to work slowing it down is our great shame, and you live with the unavoidable consequences.

That said, I hope that we made at least some difference. There were many milestones in the fight — Rio, Kyoto, the debacle at Copenhagen. By the time the great Paris climate conference of 2015 rolled around, many of us were Steve Liptay inclined to cynicism.

And our cynicism was well-taken. The delegates to that convention, representing governments that were still unwilling to take more than baby steps, didn’t really grasp the nettle. They looked for easy, around-the-edges fixes, ones that wouldn’t unduly alarm their patrons in the fossil fuel industry.

But so many others seized the moment that Paris offered to do the truly important thing: Organize.

There were meetings and marches, disruptions and disobedience. And we came out of it more committed than ever to taking on the real power that be.

The real changes flowed in the months and years past Paris, when people made sure that their institutions pulled money from oil and coal stocks, and when they literally sat down in the way of the coal trains and the oil pipelines. People did the work governments wouldn’t — and as they weakened the fossil fuel industry, political leaders grew ever so slowly bolder.

We learned a lot that year about where power lay: less in the words of weak treaties than in the zeitgeist we could create with our passion, our spirit, and our creativity. Would that we had done it sooner!

An author, educator and environmentalist, McKibben is co-founder of 350.org, a planet-wide grassroots climate change movement. He has written more than a dozen books.

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THIS ABUNDANT LIFE

by Geraldine Brooks

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just flushed my toilet with drinking water. I know: you don’t believe me: “Nobody could ever have been that stupid, that wasteful.” But we are. We use air conditioners all the time, even in mild climates where they aren’t a bit necessary. We cool our homes so we need to wear sweaters indoors in summer, and heat them so we have to wear T-shirts in mid-winter. We let one person drive around all alone in a huge thing called an SUV. We make Randi Baird perfectly good things — plates, cups, knives — then we use them just once, and throw them away. They’re still there, in your time. Dig them up. They’ll still be useable.

Maybe you have dug them up. Maybe you’re making use of them now.

Maybe you’re frugal and ingenious in ways we in the wealthy world have not yet chosen to be. There’s an old teaching from a rabbi called Nachman who lived in a town called Bratslav centuries ago: “If you believe it is possible to destroy, believe it is possible to repair.” Some of us believe that. We’re trying to spread the message.

Friends are working on genetic editing that will bring back the heath hen, a bird that went extinct almost 80 years ago. The last member of the species died in the woods just a few miles from my home.

Did we succeed? Do you have heath hens, booming their mating calls across the sand plains that sustain them? If you do, it means that this idea of repair caught on in time, and that their habitat was restored, instead of being sold for yet more beachside mansions.

It means that enough great minds turned away from the easy temptations of a career moving money from one rich person’s account to another’s, and instead became engineers and scientists dedicated to repairing and preserving this small blue marble, spinning in the velvet void.

We send out probes, looking for signs of life on other worlds. A possible spec of mold is exciting — press conference! News flash! Imagine if they found, say, a sparrow. President addresses the nation! And yet we fail to take note of the beauty of sparrows, their subtle hues and swift grace. We’re profligate and reckless with all this abundant life, teeming and vivid, that sustains and inspires us.

We destroyed. You believed it was possible to repair.

Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author. Her 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She became a United States citizen in 2002.

ROCK, ICE, AIR AND WATER

by Pam Houston

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ear Future Inhabitants of the Earth: I was speaking with an environmental scientist friend of mine not too long ago and he said he felt extremely grim 14 November 26, 2015

about the fate of the earth in the hundred-year frame, but quite optimistic about it in the five-hundred year frame. “There won’t be many people left,” he said, “but the ones who are here will have learned a lot.” I have been taking comfort, since then, in his words.

If you are reading this letter, you are one of the learners, and I am grateful to you in advance. And I’m sorry. For my generation. For our ignorance, our short sightedness, our capacity for denial, our unwillingness or inability to stand up to the oil and gas companies who have bought our wilderness, our airwaves, our governments. It must seem to you that we were dense beyond comprehension, but some of us knew, for decades, that our carbon-driven period would be looked back on as the most barbaric, the most irresponsible age in history.

Part of me wishes there was a way for me to know what the earth is like in your time, and part of me is afraid to know how far Adam Karsten down we took this magnificent sphere, this miracle of rock and ice and air and water.

Should I tell you about the polar bears, great white creatures that hunted seals among the icebergs; should I tell you about the orcas? To be in a kayak, with a pod of orcas coming towards you, to see the big male’s fin rise in its impossible geometry, 6 feet high and black as night, to hear the blast of whale breath, to smell its fishy tang — I tell you, it was enough to make a person believe she had lead a satisfying life.

I know it is too much to wish for you: polar bears and orcas. But maybe you still have elk bugling at dawn on a September morning, and red tail hawks crying to their mates from the tops of ponderosa pines.

Whatever wonders you have, you will owe to those about to gather in Paris to talk about ways we might reimagine ourselves as one strand in the fabric that is this biosphere, rather than its mindless devourer.

E.O. Wilson says as long as there are microbes, the Earth can recover — another small measure of comfort. Even now, evidence of the Earth’s ability to heal herself is all around us — a daily astonishment.

What a joy it would be to live in a time when the healing was allowed to outrun the destruction. More than anything else that is what I wish for you.

With hope, Pam Houston Author of short stories, novels and essays, Houston wrote the acclaimed Cowboys Are My Weakness, winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award.

OUR BEST ACHIEVEMENT

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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ear Great-Great-Grandchildren: I’ve been worried about you for a long time. For years it’s seemed like all I could say to you was, “Sorry, we torched the planet and now you have to live like saints.” Not a happy message. But recently I’ve seen signs that we

might give you a better result. At this moment the issue is still in doubt. But a good path leading from me to you can be discerned.

It was crucial that we recognized the problem, because otherwise we wouldn’t have acted as we did.

A stupendous effort by the global scientific community alerted us to the fact that our civilization, by dumping carbon into the air, and disrupting biosphere processes in many other ways, we were creating a toxic combination that was going to wreak havoc on all Earth’s living creatures, including us. When we learned that, we tried to change.

Our damaging impact was caused by a combination of the sheer number of people, the types of technologies we used, and how much we consumed.

We had to change in each area, and we did. We invented cleaner technologies to replace dirtier ones; this turned out to be the easiest part. When it came to population growth, we saw that wherever women had full education and strong legal rights, population growth stopped and the number of humans stabilized; thus justice was both good in itself and good for the planet.

The third aspect of the problem, our consumption levels, depended on our values, which are always encoded in our economic system. Capitalism was wrecking the biosphere and people’s lives to the perceived benefit of very few; so we changed it. We charged ourselves the proper price for burning carbon; we enacted a progressive tax on all capital assets as well as incomes. With that money newly released to positive work, we paid ourselves a living wage to do ecological restoration, to feed ourselves, and to maintain the biosphere we knew you were going to need.

Those changes taken all together mean you live in a post-capitalist world: congratulations. I’m sure you are happier for it. Creating that new economic system was how we managed to dodge disaster and give you a healthy Earth. It was our best achievement, and because of it, we can look you in the eye and say, “Enjoy it, care for it, pass it on.”

A writer of speculative science fiction and winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards, Robinson has published 19 novels including the award-winning Mars trilogy.

WILD THINGS

by Alexis Bonogofsky

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ear Future Montanans: I have asked that you not open this note until 2115. There is a place I want you to go to read this letter, the place where I wrote it.

It is a river valley in southeast Montana that thousands of people fought to protect from a massive coal mine in my time. We won. For centuries before me people cherished and protected this land you are sitting on and I have no doubt they are still doing so in your time. I know this because people will always come for what is underneath the ground in the Tongue River country. Our fights do not have an end; they are passed down from one generation to the next.

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Although you are a hundred years and thousands of miles away from the 2015 Paris climate summit, what happened there was consequential to your life.

The climate treaty that emerged was historic but it did not save us.

Decades of political timidity and inaction put things into motion that could not be undone. The treaty did not save the glaciers in Glacier National Park (have they renamed it yet?) or the wildlife that could not adapt or the people that live on the coasts.

I never put much faith in the idea that pieces of paper produced by governments create change. I have faith in the land. I have faith in people. I know promises made by politicians only have meaning when the people make them have meaning.

If you are living in a world where we have managed to mitigate the most severe impacts of climate change it isn’t because governments agreed to reduce climate emissions at Paris; it is because while world leaders were negotiating in board rooms, citizens were shutting down coal plants, stopping coal mines, protecting their homelands and taking control. It is because we took what they gave us, said it wasn’t enough, and demanded more the next year, the year after and the year after.

We mourned deeply for what we knew we had already lost and yet had the courage to move forward. It was our only option. Only you know how we did.

Be still for a moment, the wild things might let you see them.

A young Montana goat rancher, writer and climate change activist, Bonogofsky is featured in the new documentary This Changes Everything, based on Naomi Klein’s book of the same name.

that’s what I feared, a universe in which our species had disappeared, taking along with it many other life forms that had once flourished on earth. I’d lie awake mourning all those life forms, but — call me anthropocentric — most especially the humans. A universe emptied of humans, with all of our fancies and follies, seemed to me an immeasurably reduced universe.

So at least you exist — only under what conditions I can’t begin to imag-

ine. I don’t know whether you’re reading this on earth and, if you are, whether you’re huddled inside an artificial environment to protect yourself from deadly radiation. Or perhaps you’ve colonized another planet or built a system of space stations, using your human ingenuity to adapt to an alien environment for which evolution didn’t naturally equip you. Perhaps you only know about what it was like to welcome each changing season on earth — smell the

fecund moist earth of spring, feel the silky sultriness of summer nights, listen to the silence of snow falling heavily in the forest — by reading the writings of us ancients.

Wherever you are, struggling with whatever hostile conditions constraining the choices that we took for granted, you must look back at your ancestors — us — with outraged incredulity.

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MORAL MONSTERS

by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

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ear Descendants: If you are reading this, then you must exist, and so my greatest fears haven’t been realized. We didn’t manage to eradicate our kind from the universe. In my darkest hours, routinely arriving at 4 in the morning, Boulder Weekly

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How could we not have cared about you at all, you wonder? You are our kith and kin. Didn’t we consider that you deserved the same rights to flourish as we presumed for ourselves?

It’s ironic, because we often looked back at our ancestors with outraged incredulity, wondering how they couldn’t have seen, say, that slavery or misogyny were wrong.

Were they moral monsters, we’d wonder?

Do you wonder exactly the same about us?

Well, we weren’t monsters. Really, we weren’t. We were human, all too human.

And being human we tended to prioritize our own lives, our own self-interest, over those of others. It’s not that other selves meant nothing at all to us. But our own selves always meant so much more.

And here’s another feature of our evolution-shaped human nature that, through no malice at all, conspired to doom you. (You understand, I’m not justifying our behavior, just trying to explain it to you.) We discounted the future. The future seemed so hazy, so uncertain, while the present … well, it was present. The now was vividly pressing on us, always, real and fully formed.

Our psychology evolved out of a past when human life was “nasty, brutish, and short.” And because we weren’t able to overcome that psychology, to think in ways larger and more generous, the future we’ve bequeathed you is at least as precarious as the past out of which we emerged. I fear it is unimaginably nasty.

You just weren’t very real to us, you others who didn’t even enjoy the privilege of existing. How could your claims, so ghostly as to be ungraspable, constrain our choices, reign in our desires? And we were so inventive in our technologies, which pelted us with more and more things to want, amusements to distract us from what we should have been thinking about — which was you.

And now it’s we who no longer exist. Perhaps you’d just as soon forget about our existence, as we forgot about yours. If only you could, I imagine you thinking.

If only you could blot us out of your consciousness just as thoroughly as we blotted you out of ours.

If there are still storytellers among you — if that’s a human capacity that you can still indulge — then do a better job then we did in making the lives of others felt—each and every life, when its time comes, a towering importance.

May you flourish. May you forgive us.

A philosopher and novelist, Goldstein won a MacArthur “Genius” grant and was recently presented the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

I’M FIGHTING FOR YOU

by Rhea Suh

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ear Grandchildren: I can only imagine the wonderful world you are growing up in. I think of that world — your future — almost every day. I think about how to make sure it is a place where all your hopes and dreams can come true.

A long time ago, my parents traveled across the world from Korea to the United States in search of a brighter future for me and my sisters. Today, I am writing you from Paris, a city that I have traveled across the world to get to, in order to make sure the world does the same for you. I’m fighting for you, for everyone in your generation across the world, to ensure Rebecca Greenfield that you have more than a fighting chance at that bright future. A world without the dangers of global climate change is the world that you will inherit.

What is climate change? Never heard of it? I’m so very glad if you haven’t. Let me try to explain. I warn you though, this can be kind of scary.

When we first started building up our cities, roads and towns in what was called the Industrial Revolution, we burned all sorts of fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.

While these things helped us heat our homes, drive our cars, and expand our cities, we didn’t realize that they also clouded our air, dirtied our water, and made us sick.

More than that, the burning of all those fuels made our planet sick. All the other animals and plants that we share this world with were getting sick too. The planet became warmer, which created a mixed up chaos of terrible hurricanes, tornadoes, raging wildfires, drought and increased hunger, growing rates of asthma and lung 16 November 26, 2015

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ello? People of the future … Anyone there? It’s your forebears checking in with you from generations ago. We were the stewards of the Earth in 2015 — a dicey time for the planet, humankind, and life itself. And … well, how’d we do?

Anyone still there? Hello.

A gutsy, innovative, and tenacious environmental movement arose around the globe back then to try lifting common sense to the highest levels of industry and government. We had made great progress in developing a grassroots consciousness about the suicidal consequences for us (as well as those of you future earthlings) if we didn’t act pronto to stop the reckless industrial pollution that was causing climate change. Our message was straightforward: When you realize you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is stop digging.

Unfortunately, our grassroots majority was confronted by an elite alliance of narcissistic corporate greedheads and political boneheads. They were determined to deny environmental reality in order to grab more shortterm wealth and power for themselves. Centuries before this, some Native American cultures adopted a wise ethos of deciding to take a particular action only after contemplating its impact on the seventh generation of their descendants. In 2015, however, the ethos of the dominant powers was to look no further into the future than the three-month forecast of corporate profits.

As I write this letter to the future, delegations from the nations of our world are gathering to consider a global agreement on steps we can finally take to rein in the looming disaster of global warming. But at this convocation and beyond, will we have the courage for boldness, for choosing people and the planet over short-term profits for the few?

The people’s movement is urging the delegates in advance to remember that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it’s conformity — just going along with the flow. After all, even a dead fish can go with the flow, and if the delegates don’t dare to swim against the corporate current, we’re all dead.

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So my dear grandchildren, we faced a choice. We could keep doing what we had been doing, or we could make the choice to take a stand for our future — your future and the planet’s future — by creating the framework to begin to move away from this scary legacy.

The wind turbines and solar panels that power your world, electric cars, highspeed trains and solar airplanes weren’t so commonplace in my time. They required a revolution in how we think about energy, about our relationship to the world, about our faith in our own capacity to innovate and change.

What took us so long? Sigh. It’s a long story, but like many of the children’s books you grew up with, it was a story of greed, short-sightedness and wizards with too much gold. But against these challenges, sometimes with great bravery, people — young and old from every nation — stood up and demanded that we take the steps to curb this terrible scourge.

I hope you will know this to be true. I hope you will remember that many years ago, your grandma and many others across the world stood up and demanded that we make the world a better place. I hope you know that it was a difficult path, just like my parents so many years ago. And I hope you know we did it thinking of you and the future you now inherit.

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or the first time in more than 20 tions.” years of United Nations negotiaThere is a deep sense of frustration that tions, the 2015 Paris Climate arises from young people, scared about their Conference (COP21) aims to futures and worried that everything they achieve a legally binding and unilove will be lost. But Mendell is hopeful versal agreement on climate, with the goal of that the decentralized Climate Strike will keeping global warming below 2 degrees allow them to help shape a better world.

Celsius and taking monumental steps toward The idea for the strike came at the global governance on climate change.

Global Youth Summit in Germany earlier Although past conferences have produced this year. Youth leaders from the internaseveral significant agreements, the actual tional community planned the strike, hoping contributions have been stymied by the people all over the world would show their absence of binding agreements. With the solidarity by skipping school on Nov. 30. stakes for this year’s conference mounting, This key action, the strike or walk-out, is an COP21 is emerging as a landmark event in invitation for students to boycott class to the climate crisis as 195 global leaders meet put pressure on the leaders, both globally to define and protect internationally shared and locally. resources.

As the day of the strike approaches, the Youth participating in the Climate March in New York in 2014. Youth are orgaHistorically, the UN’s Conference on tough rhetoric about striking is easing as nizing the Nov. 30 Climate Strike through a global network of young activists.

Climate Change is heavily attended by organizers focus less on the walkout and environmental activists and marked by emphasize alternative actions that students numerous demonstrations, and this year’s may find more inviting. Local Climate The action is being organized by the Climate Strike conference was shaping up similarly. In October, Strike activity is being expanded to include ribbon youth network and Earth Guardians, a youth-led thousands of people broadcast plans to take part in installations, in-class climate discussions and options nonprofit based in Boulder. what they hoped would be the largest demonstrato support ongoing environmental campaigns, like the Earth Guardian’s Campaign Director Russell tion in environmental history in Paris, termed the youth-led campaign asking schools to divest their Mendell feels the strike has added importance in Climate Games, and emulating the 2014 People’s light of the scaleback in demonstrations, saying that investment funds from fossil fuels. In Boulder, there is Climate March in New York City. confirmed strike activity at Fairview, Watershed the local aspect of the strike will create a vital conBut the situation created by the attacks in Paris on nection between Paris and communities around the School, Waldorf and the University of Colorado that Nov. 13 led the French government to ban climate will link to global activity on social media. world. marches and demonstrations, unless they are orgaRegardless of the type of action, Mendell says “Nationally, really what we are trying to do is connized in enclosed and secured places. With the ban, educational institutions like universities and schools trol the way that the narrative goes for these talks,” planned demonstrations are crumbling and global citi- Mendell says. “We are hoping to inject a sense of are a key place to start transforming society.

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John Birchak Photography

ADVENTURE Now you see it, now you don’t Local photographer captures Tibet’s vanishing culture

by Caitlin Rockett John Birchak traveled to Tibet to photograph a culture he fears may soon vanish completely because of Chinese occupation. Here, a Tibetan nomad stands at his camp on the Western Tibetan Plateau. Centuries-old farming methods have essentially been outlawed, and nomads are being forced into urban settlements during the winter.

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When Birchak and fellow photograohn Birchak’s eyes well with tears pher Philip Borges decided to travel to as he speaks about his first days in Tibet, Birchak says they spent a year Tibet — three days in the sacred trying to find a guide that could take city of Lhasa, often spent watchthem into the far western plateau where ing Buddhist devotees walk wellnomadic herders have grazed livestock worn paths around and around and for generations. around monasteries on Barkhor Street.

“It took a long time to find someone “During those three days it was absobecause China controls the guides,” lutely bliss to be in the old Barkhor,” Birchak explains. “You have to have an Birchak says. “There are all these street official Chinese tourism license. We vendors out in front of the buildings, and wanted to find a guide that was every morning and every evening there Buddhist, that had direct ties to nomads was this beautiful stream of people doing — family ties — and who was a bona their daily kora, their daily walk, saying fide guide, could speak Tibetan, their prayers. You just had to step into Mandarin and English.

For months and this stream…” he pauses as the tears months and months we were just findform, then he asks forgiveness.

Left: A monk at the Samye Monastery — the oldest in Tibet — is joyous as John Birchak snaps a photograph.

Right: A young nomadic mother holds her son, adorned, as aling Chinese guides.

We just wanted to “I’m sorry,” he says, “it’s just that a ways, in all of her valubles. find someone who was living that cullot of this doesn’t exist anymore.” ture of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet.”

This is why Birchak traveled to And finally they found Lumbum Shaman.

Tibet in 2010 — to document a vanishing way of life. Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, fled Lumbum has been a guide since he was about 15 The photographs Birchak took in Tibet — monks the country and has since been in exile in northern years old, according to Birchak, and taught himself and nuns, nomadic herdsmen, college students — India.

English over the years while taking Westerners on each tell a story about Tibetan culture as it is today, Just south-west of China, Tibet has much to offer, treks through Tibet. hovering, many believe, on the very brink of existence from its strategic border with India to its abundance of Birchak says Lumbum’s earnest personality and in the face of more than 60 years of Chinese occupanatural resources — gold, silver, copper, zinc, molybdegenuine concern allowed locals to open up about their tion. More than two dozen of Birchak’s photographs num, uranium, lithium and, perhaps most importantly, personal lives without getting into politically sensitive from his time in Tibet are currently on display at water. The Chinese government maintains that Tibet subjects.

As the travelers moved farther west where Naropa University’s Paramita Campus until Dec. 11. has been an integral part of China for around 800 the villages grow smaller and smaller until there are On Dec. 5, Birchak will speak about his time in Tibet years. However, Tibet acted as an independent state none — only yak hair tents and livestock — it was and the threats to Tibetan culture. for more than two millennia, and at the time of Lumbum who helped Birchak learn the personal stoBefore Birchak will speak about his travels in Chinese occupation had its own national flag, currency, ries behind the vanishing nomadic way of life.

Tibet, he prefaces the conversation by saying he in no stamps, passports and army. The Tibetan government “We were careful of what we photographed. Every way wants to make a statement about the Chinese signed international treaties, and maintained diplomatpeople. His only desire, he says, is to relate what he ic relations with neighboring countries. person we met, we never brought up anything political. saw and heard during his time there.

And yet China came and staked its claim on the As we got into more remote areas, the nomads and But his experience aligns with that of countless region. Tibet has been divided, its parts renamed and monks were comfortable with Lumbum and they other first-hand observations. incorporated into Chinese provinces. Today when would offer information, but we didn’t probe for it,” The systematic dismantling of Tibet began in China refers to Tibet, it only names the so-called Birchak says. “One of the things that told us they truly 1950 when the newly established Communist regime Tibet Autonomous Region, which is actually govsee TIBET Page 24 in China invaded the Buddhist state. By 1959, the erned by China.

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A 12-year-old Tibetan girl helping her mother bring in grass for the family horse.

Heavy rains were flooding the region at the time, and the horse’s hooves were becoming dangerously soft as it waded into the water each day to graze.

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trusted us, they would open up their clothes and show us a button of the Dalai Lama. In the western regions that will get you arrested.”

Speaking through Lumbum, Birchak and Burges were able to learn about the Chinese boarding schools that nomadic children are required to attend. One night the Westerners camped outside a small village where one of these boarding schools is located. Children were visiting with their grandparents, singing traditional Tibetan folk songs. But when the adults stopped singing, Birchak says they were shocked by what they heard.

“The children were singing in Chinese, Chinese military songs [to the tune of the Tibetan folk song],” Birchak says. “The adults asked, ‘What are you singing?’ and the children said, ‘That’s what they teach us in ON THE BILL: Tibet: A Vanishing Culture. school.’ That was one of their first insights Photography by John into what the children are being taught.”

Birchak. On display until Dec. 11, Naropa University The nomads also spoke about the grazing Paramita Campus, 3285 30th restrictions the Chinese have implemented.

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Final reception and discusDespite the centuries-old nomadic practice of sion, noon-4 p.m. Dec. 5. moving herds each season in order to better John will speak from 2-3 p.m. preserve the land, the Chinese government has forced nomads to keep their herds in fenced-in areas year after year. The Chinese claim their restrictions are intended to protect the land — much of which is succumbing to desertification — from overgrazing. “[The nomads were] telling us the land area that’s fenced is too small to graze enough animals to live,” Birchak says. “They won’t be able to make enough yak butter and milk and wool. They are good stewards of the land… they know how to protect it. They aren’t going to overgraze it and kill it off.”

Indeed, many scientists (including Chinese researchers, such as Lei Dongjun) have concluded that climate change, not nomadic practices, is the root cause for desertification on the Tibetan Plateau.

The Western photographers learned of nomads working on Chinese road crews for half the pay a Chinese worker makes for the same job, and they saw “relocation centers,” what Birchak calls a “grid of cookie cutter houses … tiny, like studio apartments” where nomads are forced to stay during the winter months.

“The nomads don’t know how to deal with this emotionally,” he says. “Now these nomads are having drug problems, drinking problems, prostitution, family disputes — it’s happening so rapidly.”

Birchak says he hopes that his photography will help more people see and appreciate the traditional Tibetan way of life. He calls Edward Curtis, the photographer famed for his shots of Native Americans, his inspiration.

“I felt like Edward Curtis going up there,” Birchak says. “I was at that same edge, that same transitional period. They have living knowledge, many are living in traditional means, they knew the old folk songs, they spoke the language. That’s when I was there.”

Birchak pauses, tears in his eyes.

“They are now being influenced by all these other things that are not their culture. In one generation, the Chinese will transform all of the Tibetan children into Chinese citizens.”

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Boulder Ballet debuts new sets in its production of ‘The Nutcracker’

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itting down to watch a performance of The Nutcracker whisks you off into a land of graceful ballerinas wearing intricate costumes dancing to music in the magical Land of the Sweets. As all the elements come together, it’s easy to forget the intensive labor it takes to make such a show come to fruition.

After more than a year and a half of work, the Boulder Ballet will reveal all new sets for its production of The Nutcracker this year. Replacing 20-year-old sets, the new, personalized pieces will debut at the company’s shows at Macky Auditorium Nov. 27-29 and then again at Vance Brand Civic Auditorium Dec. 5-6.

Performances will be accompanied by the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Longmont Symphony, respectively.

At first, Boulder Ballet’s Executive Director Wrenn Combs thought it’d be a short process to procure new sets when she started with the company in September 2013.

“When I started here I noticed a line item in the funds for new sets, and I started inquiring, and people said, ‘Oh yeah, we’re going to do new sets!’

But nothing was happening. … We weren’t getting anywhere fast,” Combs says.

Eventually, Boulder Ballet’s creative team selected designer Susan Crabtree, who teaches scenic design at various universities and whose clients include the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre Company and the University of Colorado. They had their first meeting with Crabtree in July 2014. New to the set design process, Combs figured after a couple meetings and some see NUTCRACKER Page 28

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magic, the sets would be ready in a let company, that’s one of the things ON THE BILL: The Nutcracker Ballet snap. that’s the most important element. ... I Friday-Saturday, Nov. 27-28, Macky “When we all sat down, just to get worked very diligently with the Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343, ext. 2. to know each other, I was saying, ‘OK, Boulder Ballet to try to help them creSaturday-Sunday, Dec. 5-6, Vance when are we going to get a timeline ate their signature work of The Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain and when are we going to get a budNutcracker. It doesn’t look like anyone View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Tickets available at Boulderballet.org. get?’ and they looked at me and else’s Nutcracker. It is nobody else’s. It’s laughed and said, ‘No no. This is a littheirs.” tle bit more organic than that,’” she Creating the sets for such a wellsays. known show can be intimiAll photos from Boulder Ballet Throughout the year and a half dating, but the creative team process, everyone met several times to wanted a fresh approach. iron out all the details — and there Combs says the team liked were a lot of them. What seem like Crabtree because she wanted simple choices actually require careful surprises, not tired clichés like consideration. A single prop on stage candy canes and cupcakes in could garner a dozen questions: Would the Land of the Sweets. it block a dancer’s entrance? How “She said that’s overdone, would stage hands get the prop on and and that’s what everyone off stage, and in what direction would expects with The Nutcracker. it enter and She wanted to do the unexexit? How pected,” Combs says. would the Part of the inspiration for prop look Boulder Ballet’s new sets from the came from Grimm’s Fairy Tales audience’s and Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman’s original perspective Nutcracker story. Crabtree also blended a variety of from the different architectural references and motifs, and front row to included what she calls “fanciful elements” the last row? throughout the show.

Was there One of the main focuses in enough room designing the new sets was creating a cohesive flow that leads the audifor it to be ence from scene to scene. Toys sitstored? ting lifeless on a bookshelf in one Other concerns include sizing, scene come to life in the next. In lighting, theater dimensions and another scene, the audience sees making the sets versatile and the forest that Clara visits in her adaptable to various theaters. dream through the windows.

Sketches were made and then “We wanted there to be contimodels, alongside several more nuity between the scenes. I think, meetings, one of which lasted more especially in our production, it than eight hours.

“We have literally taken it from Top to bottom: Painting the new sets took months of seemed to be very disjointed,” Combs says. “Clara fell asleep in big, to the minutia, back out again,” work; A photo of the previous production’s set; The her bed, then she’s in the living Combs says. “When we were look- new sets came to fruition after several meetings. room, then she’s in a forest, and ing at the models, and going scene how do we get there? Yes it’s a dream, but how do we take by scene by scene, we spent three and a half hours just going the audience through that progression? And that’s what we’ve over the details of the parlor.” tried to do.

Painting the sets took three artists nine weeks to get a “Susan [Crabtree] really wanted it to be almost like a majority of the work done, but there was still more work book, where you move from each scene to the next like you’d that Crabtree subsequently completed. She says there’s an turn a page.” astonishing amount of scenery, estimating 8-9,000 square Beyond the sets, this year’s production also features new feet. costumes and new choreography.

The creation and building process might have been labo“That’s why we say, ‘See it again for the first time,’” rious, but Combs says it’s worth it in the end. Having its own sets allows Boulder Ballet to create a more personalized expe- Combs says.

Excitement and anticipation have been percolating up to rience — an advantage not all companies have. the big reveal, Combs says. The Nutcracker is an iconic show “Most ballet companies don’t have sets made for them,” and the new sets serve as a milestone for Boulder Ballet.

Combs says. “They rent them, so you’re getting generic sets.

Combs hopes everyone involved with the production will The fact that this has been done with Boulder Ballet … is return in future years and keep the legacy alive. very unique.”

“I just want people to understand how special this is, and Crabtree says she was able to realize the elements of it’s a community effort,” Combs says. “How cool would it be the storyline that were important to Boulder Ballet, for our dancers that are in high school to bring their children including Clara’s dream state and Drosselmeyer’s magic. back? That’s what makes this special. It’s been a labor of love “Now they have a set that completely supports their storyline. It’s their own signature production,” she says. “In a bal- for everyone.”

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Cowboy Christmas lassos in the holiday spirit at eTown Hall

by Lauren Archuletta

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orget Santa and reindeers, Rolling Stone’s Best New Songwriter of Murphey’s events have always Cowboy Christmas is riding the Year back in 1972, Murphey prides incorporated frontier imagery, though it into town. On Monday, Nov. himself on the Western music he crewas only recently that he added pictures 30, legendary country singer ates for Cowboy Christmas and beyond. on screens to accompany the music. and songwriter Michael His albums appear in the Crossroads Although the eTown Hall event is conMartin Murphey is bringing what he Music Archive at Texas Tech sidered a concert rather than a ball, calls the “only legitimate American University, a collection he himself has Murphey says the dancing is an imporChristmas” concert to eTown Hall. been working tirelessly to create. tant component of his show.

Murphey says his Christmas doesn’t “It’s taken me quite a while, but in the “Cowboy Christmas gives kids a feature Santa Claus and Rudolph the last four years I was able to create what is place to dance, and that’s not someRed-Nosed Reindeer, but rather cownow the largest archive of West Texas thing they get to do outside of nightboy poetry and traditional Christmas music in the world,” Murphey says. clubs anymore, really,” Murphey says. carols as recorded on his “The audience always has fun T. Purifoy Cowboy Christmas albums. and that’s what’s important.”

“America is the most Murphey says his message Christmas-loving country, and and music selection is what the majority of Christmas makes his Cowboy Christmas songs were actually written by stand out from other holiday Americans,” Murphey says. events, and he says he enjoys “When you look at interpretaeducating his audiences each tions of Christmas in the U.S., year. though, the event has been “People don’t know that turned into a very Victorian Americans have written more English sort of thing.”

Christmas carols than any For more than 20 years, other country,” Murphey says.

Murphey has taken his “The song ‘We Three Kings’ Americana tradition from city was written by a clergyman to city to celebrate Christmas from Boston and was about in true cowboy style. The bringing peace to the world. inspiration for Murphey’s This is why I consider Cowboy Christmas dates back my Cowboy to 1885, when the first Christmas to be the ON THE BILL: Michael Murphey’s Cowboy Cowboys’ Christmas Ball was only legitimately true Christmas, 7 p.m., American Christmas, held in Anson, Texas.

Monday, Nov. 30, eTown because this is what “I like that the Cowboys’ Hall,135 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696 we’re singing and Christmas Ball was really talking about.” about the attitude at the time, Murphey’s people just getting together to Cowboy Christmas is dance and celebrate,” Murphey kicking off its two-month says. “There was even a poem Get ready to dance and sing along at Michael Martin Murphey’s family-friendly and Christmas-loving country show. tour in Colorado, with first written about the first one. A stops in Colorado Springs and journalist named Larry Grand Junction. Although Chittenden was inspired by Murphey calls Texas home, he still feels what he saw and wrote the famous ‘The Now in its 21st year, Cowboy particularly connected to Colorado after Cowboy’s Christmas Ball,’ which ended Christmas alternates between a dance living on a ranch in Beulah for a numup in the London Times.” and a concert and is always a familyber of years.

The official Cowboys’ Christmas friendly and alcohol-free event. When Despite performing the same Ball has continued annually in Anson it comes down to it, Murphey says, Christmas carols and cowboy poetry for the past two centuries, and Christmas is about the birth of Jesus for more than two decades, Murphey Murphey says that attending it in perChrist, and his Cowboy Christmas is says he has no intention of stopping son really inspired him to take his event produced in a pastoral manner to conCowboy Christmas anytime soon and and his songwriting to the next level. vey the message. still enjoys seeing the audience come “I first had the opportunity to per“We’re not cramming religion down to life each November and form at the Cowboys’ Christmas Ball in people’s throats, and we don’t get December. the early ’90s,” Murphey says. “I was so involved with politics, either,” Murphey “Producing Cowboy Christmas is fired up after that first ball that I was says. “Politics is just issues, and Cowboy the most rewarding thing in the entire inspired to record the first Cowboy Christmas is a celebration whether you world for me,” Murphey says. “Ever Christmas album, and I’ve performed believe that the story of Jesus is just since I started, it’s been a great ride for every year since.” folklore or the truth as written in the me and everyone else involved.”

As a former Grammy nominee and Bible.”

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Happiness and cheer

The Ars Nova Singers celebrate the season with a variety of music styles

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appiness and Cheer,” the 2015 edition of Ars Nova Singers’ annual holiday concert, will offer music from Gregorian chant to A Charlie Brown Christmas.

And at least five centuries of music in

Christmas,” Morgan says. “In the past I arranged ‘Christmas Time is Here,’ which also features our guest oboist, so we decided to call the whole concert ‘Happiness and Cheer’ in honor of A Charlie Brown Christmas.” between.

Of 20 pieces on the program, several are worth Ars Nova — the name means “New Art” and is noting. One of the earliest pieces, the Gregorian taken from a style of music that was new in the 14th chant “O Emmanuel,” has been arranged by the century — has been performing music from both ends Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds. “The way he has of the historical spectrum for 30 years. the pitches of the Gregorian chant echoed in the “We’ve prided ourselves Courtesy of Ars Nova Singers choir makes it sound like on the fact that we do early it’s in a very large, revermusic as well as contempoberant cathedral,” Morgan rary music,” says Thomas says.

Edward Morgan, the The Renaissance set group’s founding director. includes “Beata es Virgo “Our Christmas concert, Maria” (Blessed is the when we reach our widest Virgin Mary) by Philippe Verdelot, who is better audiences, is meant to give known in history as one of them a range of what we the creators of the do.”

Renaissance madrigal. “It’s Chronologically, that a setting for seven voice range runs from the 13thJoin the Ars Nova Singers for holiday tunes from Greparts, which makes a really century “Song of the Nuns gorian chant to A Charlie Brown Christmas. rich sound,” Morgan says. of Chester,” through “Those kinds of pieces are music of the Middle Ages particularly appealing to and Renaissance, to 20thme, because I like to explore the sonic spaces they century Christmas pieces by Rachmaninoff, Poulenc and Holst, and ending with music and arrangecreate.” ments by Morgan. Almost all will be new to the Rachmaninoff ’s “Cherubic Hymn” from the audience.

Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom will recall Ars Nova’s There will be four performances of the program, recent performance of Rachmaninoff ’s Vespers. Like in Englewood (Dec. 12), Denver (Dec. 13) and that piece, the “Cherubic Hymn” will call on bass Boulder (Dec. 17-18). Ars Nova will sing unaccompa- singers who have learned the technique of singing nied under Morgan’s direction, with oboist James “undertones,” pitches an octave lower than normal.

Brody appearing as a guest artist for a portion of the Used by Russian choirs and some Asian chant tradiprogram. tions, the lower octave gives a deep resonance to the The most unexpected piece might be “Christmas sound.

Time is Here” from Vince Guaraldi’s score for A Brody will perform a singular piece with Ars Charlie Brown Christmas, now a staple of the holiday Nova, the final movement of the Concerto per la beata season. “It’s the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Virgine (Concerto for the blessed Virgin) by the

Belgian composer Vic Nees — literally a concerto for oboe with an eight-voice choir in place of orchestra.

“Ten years ago we did another movement, (but) we’ve never done the whole piece,” Morgan says.

“This movement has a buoyancy, and Nees writes so exquisitely for both the choir and the oboe (that) the combination together is wonderful.”

After intermission, Ars Nova will perform the Bach chorale Ach, mein herzliebes Jesulein (Ah, my heart’s beloved little Jesus) in an “interpretation” by Edwin London. Not really an arrangement, London’s “interpretation” is a technique for singing a chorale in a way that creates a uniquely haunting and atmospheric sound.

“You take the pitches of a Bach chorale and stretch them out across the entire ensemble,” Morgan explains. “One person described it as watching the colors run on a watercolor painting.

We’ve never done it with this particular chorale, which is from the Christmas Oratorio, but whenever we do it we get audience response that is quite powerful.”

Near the end of the concert, Ars Nova will sing Morgan’s arrangement of the Czech “Rocking” carol (“Little Jesus, sweetly sleep”), which was requested by one of Ars Nova’s supporters. “Every year at our annual fundraiser, I auction off a custom Christmas carol arrangement,” Morgan says.

“By the early fall they tell me what their carol is, I compose the arrangement and put it together with the choir for the Christmas program. About Christmas Eve I deliver a signed copy of the score and a recording of their carol, which makes for a unique gift for somebody!”

As varied as the program is, Morgan is quick to point out that there’s still a lot of Christmas music for audiences to discover. “There’s just an extraordinary amount of music written for this time of year,” he says.“We’ve just barely scratched the surface on what’s out there.”

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Music Alex Culbreth. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Thanksgiving Day Joy Sing. 10 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

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Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

A Ballerina’s Tale. 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Community Food Share 5K Turkey Trot. 9 a.m. Potts Track Field at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Friday-Sunday, Nov. 27-29, Downtown Estes Park, 970-577-9900.

With a belly full of turkey, there’s no better time to start celebrating the holiday season. And a great place to do just that is at the Catch the Glow parade in Estes Park.

There will be festive music, dancers, floats and, most importantly, plenty of twinkly lights.

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The Sunset Series: DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Nov. 28-Dec. 5, The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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After 25 years, Leftover Salmon is now a staple in the jam band scene; their name being synonymous with bluegrass greatness. With their genesis in Boulder in 1989, the band has seen quite a few lineup changes, none of which have affected their signature slam-grass form of aggressive bluegrass that originally gained them recognition. Today, the band and its members are seen as some of the designers of the jamgrass scene. Come witness, for the first or the 50th time, the feet-stomping and high-energy performance of Leftover Salmon. ­— Nicole McNulty

Courtesy of Society for Whether you fancy hookahsmoking caterpillars, un-birthdays Creative Aging or sly disappearing felines, this intergenerational performance of Lewis Caroll’s fanciful social satire is sure to satisfy and enchant. This Columbia Workshop production will be performed by VIVA Theatre, the theater troupe of the Society for Creative Aging and in partnership with the Boulder International Fringe Festival.

The perfromance features a cast of 30, ages 9 to 92, and is complemented by live sound effects and music. As the 150th anniversary celebration of a story that has spellbound audiences with its far-fetched tales of other lands, it will be entertaining for all ages. Come fall down the rabbit hole and recall the delightful antics of a spellbinding classic. ­— Nicole McNulty

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Burger Night with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m.

Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Citizen Dan. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Delta Sonics. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Digg Live at Oskar Blues. 9:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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The Farmer Sisters. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

Friday Afternoon Club. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Funk DMT. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

The Heartstring Hunters. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

Jackson Cloud. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

The Joe O’Bryan Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Johnny O Band. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Leftover Salmon. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Molly Kollier, Many Mountains. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Nacho Men. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

New Speedway Boogie (Dead Tribute). 10 p.m.

The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355.

Nolan Mcinnis. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Oisin’s Minstrels. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Psychodillo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Randall Dubis Band. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720890-3993.

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

Wildwood Roots. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Events A Ballerina’s Tale. 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Entertainment. 10:30 a.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Mr. Holmes. 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Teens, Trivia, and Tea. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Saturday, November 28 Music Ben Gallagher, Ben Hanna, Brian Esau. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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arts Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.

Lauren Kearns

Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31.

Oil Paintings by Theresa Beckemeyer. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Through Jan. 30.

Donald Fodness: #food$pool. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Nov. 29.

Firehouse Artisan Market. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Through Nov. 29.

Uncommon Clay, at the Muse Gallery, explores the world of clay through fantastic and functional means.

Photography by Glenn Randall. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Through Jan. 30.

Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Dec. 20.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10.

Good Penmanship — Elizabeth Morrisette.

Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 29.

Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17.

Holiday Art Market. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Dec. 31.

Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3.

Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 28.

Uncommon Clay: Functional to Fantastic.

Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-6787869. Through Dec. 23

Photo Exhibition by John Birchak. Paramita Naropa Gallery, 3285 30th St., Boulder, 928-9782799. Through Dec. 12.

Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.

Benefit for Cody Wales’ Mom with Todd Smallie, members of Drunken Hearts, Magic Beans, Genetics. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Boulder Blues Quartet. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Brian Rezac. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

The Casino Effect. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Chando, Space Race, Ty Beat. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

The Clarks. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. see EVENTS Page 36

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A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Dec. 27.

A Tuna Christmas. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 20.

The Addams Family. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Feb. 27.

Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23.

Upstart Crow tackles Irish mythology in their latest production Deirdre of the Sorrows, now playing at The Dairy.

Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge — presented by The Upstart Crow. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 5.

Through Nov. 29.

FAITH — presented by LOCAL Theater Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 3.

The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239, Through Dec. 27.

Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21.

Lion King. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239,

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THE PAMLICO SOUND Monday, Nov 30 • 7:30pm

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CLOSED FOR PRIVATE PARTY Saturday, Dec 5 • 8pm

B-NORMOUS PRODUCTIONS WINTER SHOWCASE Monday, Dec 7 • 7:30pm

MOVIE NIGHT & TAP TAKEOVER: “STAR WARS V” w/ OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Wednesday, Dec 9 • 8pm

COMEDY NIGHT w/ BEN KRONBERG Thursday, Dec 10

Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill (Southside Bar), 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5437339.

James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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Saturday, Dec 19 • 9pm

THIN AIR BURLESQUE Sunday, Dec 20 • 6pm

FLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SHOW Monday, Dec 21 • 7:30pm

MOVIE NIGHT: “A CHRISTMAS STORY” Wednesday, Dec 23 • 8pm

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COMEDY NIGHT 2nd & 4th Wednesday of every month

Tuesday, Dec. 1

Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

KC and Oklahoma Jake. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Leftover Salmon. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Longmont Jammers. 1 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Mojo Mama. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-4913578.

Prohibition Six Speakeasy Night. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Tallgrass. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tyler T. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Woodpotter. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Events Best of NYICFF: Party Mix. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

St. Nick on the Bricks. 11 a.m. Visitor Information Center, 1301 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-417-1365.

Star Wars Party. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Tuesday, Dec. 2 Graham Hancock — Magicians of the Gods.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Dave Smith Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Lee Johnson. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Michael Bellmont. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

New Family Dog. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Porch Song. 4:30 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Rusty 44. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pikes Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-823-6685.

Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Music Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508873-9185.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Matt Human Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Events Holiday Make and Take. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, December 2 Music

The Whale Tales. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Flash Mountain Flood. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Events

Home for the Bewildered. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness. 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Holiday Craft Fair at Unity. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-4421411.

Sunday, November 29

Monday, November 30

Music

Music

Aural Elixir. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Interstate Stash Express. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tuesday, December 1

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman with Supercollider. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Holiday Tea with Jazzed Holiday Tunes. 12 p.m.

Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Corey Rezner. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

Graham Hancock heads to the Boulder Book Store with Magicians of the Gods, a follow-up to his book Fingerprints of the Gods.

Weston Smith. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Teddy Bear Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Bluegrass Pick with Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Monday, Nov. 30

John McKay. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Monday, Dec 14 • 7:30pm

Friday, Dec 18 • 8pm

Small Business Saturday and Indies First. 10 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Sympathy For The Devil. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

MOVIE NIGHT & TAP TAKEOVER: “STAR WARS VI” w/ AVERY BREWING

Saturday, Nov. 2i

Jeff Finlin. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Friday, Dec 11

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Foxfeather. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

RADIATE Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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An Evening of Extraordinary Music with Chris and Daya. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project. 7:30 p.m.

Naropa’s Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-245-4622.

Jessica Eppler Solo Piano Album Release. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Luke Redfield. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Martian Acres. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

New Latitude. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events

Michael Martin Murphey’s Cowboy Christmas.

7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303443-8696.

All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Strum And Blow. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Grandma. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Movimientos/Suite Flamenca. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

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Performed with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and 28 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder Tickets: 303-449-1343, x2 boulderphil.org/site/concerts/nov-27-29-thenutcracker-ballet Performed with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View, Longmont Tickets: 303-772-5796 longmontsymphony.org/html/Nutcracker_Concerts.html

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Choirs, orchestra, ensembles and faculty from the CU College of Music present their annual festival of music for the holidays.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder Limited tickets available: 303-492-8008 cupresents.org/events/holiday-festival-2015

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Time for a New Church The operating system on your computer gets updated regularly. Do you have the newest cell phone with all of its upgrades? Do you at least feel like you need to get it?

Church, Religion, Spirituality – do they need upgrades? After a couple thousand years maybe there is more to say about God, life after death, the Bible, Divine providence and spiritual health and growth.

At the New Church you will hear about the spiritual layer of meaning within the Bible, the good news about the nature of God’s love, mind opening teachings about the afterlife and how we should treat one another, and be encouraged to look for what is good in all people of all faith traditions.

If you are ready for some new insights into these beautiful ancient stories and teachings, we have a place for you.

You are invited for worship any Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

1 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday, Dec. 13 and 16 The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder Tickets: 303-444-7328 tickets.thedairy.org/online/

The 23-voice choir from South Africa will perform both African gospel and classic Christmas songs. The performance will be preceded by a pre-concert lecture

by CU asst. professor of ethnomusicology Austin Okigbo in Room 102, Macky Auditorium.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder Tickets: 303-492-8008 cupresents.org/events/soweto-gospel-choir

All My Heart This Night Rejoices

Music of the season performed by the Boulder Chorale and Boulder Children’s Chorus, Vicki Burrichter, director.

7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder Tickets: 303-554-7692 boulderchorale.org/concerts/purchase-tickets/

Happiness and Cheer: Christmas with Ars Nova

Ars Nova Singers, Thomas Edward Morgan, conductor, with James Brody on oboe.

2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Blvd., Englewood 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St., Denver 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 17 and 18, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1119 Pine St., Boulder Tickets: 303-499-3165 arsnovasingers.org/concerts/

Candlelight Concert

Longmont Symphony Orchestra, David Rutherford, conductor.

The LSO Presents its annual Candlelight Concert of classical music for the Christmas season, this year with music by Bach, Handel, De Lalande and Corigliano, and a suite of carols arranged by Leroy Anderson 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15 Westview Presbyterian Church, 15th and Hover, Longmont Tickets: 303-772-5796 tix2.centerstageticketing.com/sites/longmontsymphony/

Gift of Music

Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor, with Jennifer Kampani, soprano, and Cobus Du Toit, flute.

The program, titled “A gift of music for the King and Queen,” will include music by Schubert and J.S. Bach as well as music for the holidays.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, Broomfield Auditorium, Community Park Road., Broomfield Tickets: 303-583-1278 boulderchamberorchestra.com/individualtickets

Christmas with the Phil

Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and soloists, Gary Lewis, conductor.

Music for the holidays, including the Christmas section of Handel’s beloved Messiah 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21, Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree Tickets: 303-449-1343, x2 boulderbachfestival.org/tickets/

Three Tenors Christmas Concert “On Screen”

Medleys of popular Christmas songs recorded in Vienna by the Three Tenors: Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti.

1 pm. Sunday and Wednesday, Dec. 20 and 23 The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder Tickets: 303-444-7328 tickets.thedairy.org/online/

Symphonic Ball

Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor.

The Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents a Europeanstyle New Year’s Eve concert, complete with the “Emperor Waltz” of Johann Strauss., Jr., a Brahms Hungarian rhapsody and a youth pianist playing the Grieg Piano Concerto.

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31 Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood Tickets: 303-987-7845 lakewood.showare.com/ordertickets.asp?p=113

The Nutcracker “On Screen”

The Royal Ballet, production by Peter Wright

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American Life in Poetry: Column 556

by Marge Saiser

Marge Saiser is a Nebraskan who has written a number of deeply moving poems about love. Here’s one for our holiday season. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate Thanksgiving for Two The adults we call our children will not be arriving with their children in tow for Thanksgiving.

We must make our feast ourselves, slice our half-ham, indulge, fill our plates, potatoes and green beans carried to our table near the window.

We are the feast, plenty of years, arguments. I’m thinking the whole bundle of it rolls out like a white tablecloth. We wanted to be good company for one another.

Little did we know that first picnic how this would go. Your hair was thick, mine long and easy; we climbed a bluff to look over a storybook plain. We chose our spot as high as we could, to see the river and the checkerboard fields.

What we didn’t see was this day, in our pajamas if we want to,

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wrinkled hands strong, wine in juice glasses, toasting whatever’s next, the decades of side-by-side, our great good luck.

We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2014 by Marjorie Saiser, “Thanksgiving for Two,” (2014). Poem reprinted by permission of Marjorie Saiser. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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film No music, no life ‘All Things Must Pass’; even Tower Records

by Michael J. Casey

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ower Records was once the place ON THE BILL: All Things where many gathered to hear great Must Pass: The Rise and Fall new music, tell their friends about a of Tower Records, Dec. 2-5, The Boedecker Theater, record they just heard and, most Dairy Center for the Arts, importantly, to purchase it. Tower Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Records was the place where Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl worked the register while Elton John perused the racks, buying everything in triplicate — one for each house. Here, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll was a reality. No art was created in these aisles, but it was sold. In a Tower Records, the American Dream became reality, not in blood, sweat and tears, but in dollars and cents.

This intersection of community and commerce provides the basis for All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records, a loving documentary from Colin Hanks about the life and death of Tower Records. Hanks — known as an actor, but here proves to be an engaging interviewer — has crafted a lament for the retail outlet. The box store didn’t just excel in the business practice of “stack ’em deep and sell More than a store, Tower Records was a community of ’em cheap,” but it music lovers, and now it’s the subject of a documentary. proved to be a sacred space for music lovers to congregate. As Bruce Springsteen puts it: “Everybody in a record store is a little bit of your friend, for 20 minutes or so.”

Tower Records started in Sacramento in 1960 when Russ Solomon broke from his father’s drug store to sell LPs. The rise of rock ‘n’ roll made Tower profitable, but what made it mythical was the love that Solomon and his staff brought. That adoration for the music kept Tower going, and kept Tower expanding — from the West Coast, to Japan, to the East Coast, on to England and then South America.

Like many retailers, Tower grew faster than it could support, and while those with a love for the product operated the initial stores, the same could not be said for those that came later. And like all these stories always seem to go, the suits and the banks came in and spoiled the party.

Of course, it took more than the suits and bankers to bring down Tower Records, and Hanks spends a fair amount of All Things’ run time trying to understand how Tower could have a billion dollars in sales in 1999 and file for bankruptcy in 2006. The answers are typical: online streaming, bad business practices, too much too soon, etc. But as the talking heads interviews reveal, the music business and the retail business seemed to make every wrong turn in the process. These decisions not only sank Tower, they crippled the record industry.

The fall of Tower Records is sadly familiar, but what gives All Things Must Pass its teeth is Hanks’ doggedness to understand the confluence of events necessary to sink an empire. The record stores are gone, as are most of the video stores, and the bookstores are sure to follow as more consumers move online, but what exactly is lost in the process? It wasn’t just a store that was lost, but a little bit of the American way of life.

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Sherpa’s Adventurers

Comfort food

825 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7151

Sherpa’s Adventurers Restaurant & Bar is comfort food in a comfortable setting

by Matt Cortina

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herpa’s Adventurers in Boulder feels a little bit like home — not necessarily your own home, but a home.

It’s located in an old building on the far west end of Walnut. To the west of Sherpa’s is a woodsy, over-priced parking lot (you don’t have to park there to go to Sherpa’s) and then a foliage-filled view into the foothills. You’re far enough from the bustle of Broadway and the foot traffic of Pearl so it’s quiet and feels more secluded than it is.

There’s Susan France also a white picket fence out front that welcomes diners into a semi-roofed courtyard and beckons the visitor to the front door.

Inside, Sherpa’s looks like it simply put restaurant fixtures into the living and dining rooms of an old home — they likely did just that. To the left is a wooden staircase that leads to a newly finished upstairs banquet room. To the right is a small front parlor that Sherpa’s refers to as the traveler’s library and lounge. In that room are bookcases filled with travel books, maps and guides for adventures, specifically those to the Himalayas. The walls are covered with photos of past trips to Mt. Everest and other high points in the region in and around Nepal.

It makes for an inspiring, and awe-inspiring, drink

at the simple wooden bar in the library. Beers are cheap and include a Sherpa Ale, brewed for the restaurant by Odell Brewing Co. Through the library, there are door-less passageways to other small rooms. The light inside is homey, the smells are familiar and warm, and the servers are welcoming to regulars and first-timers alike.

We sat against a window in a small, tuckedaway room in the back of the house. On the table, under a glass covering, was a detailed map of a segment of the Himalayas, a subtle and fun way Sherpa’s reminds the diner that an adventure is always within reach.

Sherpa’s food is an enticing juxtaposition, then. At once, it brings cuisine from far away to Boulder, but manages to effect comfort and familiarity even if you haven’t eaten there much or at all. Take for instance, a spread that includes dal soup, fresh and charred naan bread and tomato chutney. The dal, made of primarily lentils, is soothing, like pea soup on a cold day. It has a robust kick of black pepper to keep your taste buds awake. The naan is billowy and warm, with thin, blackened edges of bubbles, and when it’s torn and dipped in either the dal or the spicy chutney, it’s a full indulgence of coziness.

Or consider the house specialties of Thupka and

the Sherpa Stew. The former is a bowl of thick, round, long noodles in a rich-tasting, thin tomato broth. There are fresh vegetables that retain just enough crunch and flavor to make each bite interesting, but that are so well developed in the dish as a whole that it makes for easy-scarfing.

The Sherpa Stew is a more robust bowl of dumplings, choice of meat, fresh vegetables and spices in a similar broth. It’s a winter-warmer, straight from the high peaks of Nepal and Tibet.

We also had samosas — they were thicker and more browned than typical, but perfectly-seasoned with deep Indian spices. There was also a plate of tofu aloo — two-inch rectangles of tofu and chunks of potato swimming in a thick, bright tomato sauce that was devoured in minutes.

Sherpa’s bone-in chicken cooked in the tandoor was smoky with a thick, tough skin, but moist on the inside. The meat fell right off the bone with minimal effort.

Sherpa’s menu is rife with the mixture of comfort and adventure; from lamb curry to yak vindaloo.

Whether or not your visit inspires you to take that trip to the Himalayas, Sherpa’s success in Boulder for over 20 years is proof that their restaurant will at least inspire you to come back to eat.

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around Boulder County YOU KNOW… LATKES AT THE HARDWARE STORE

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In order to get everyone stoked for Hanukkah this year, McGuckin Hardware in Boulder will be dishing out latkes on Nov. 27 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

The latkes are made from the recipe of Jim Cohen, executive chef and owner of Empire Lounge and Restaurant and Pizzeria da Lupo.

Unfortunately, Cohen suffered a stroke in September, but the annual latke bake will go on, and McGuckin’s is raising money to help him pay for medical and rehabilitation costs. Cohen’s daughter, Hannah, is a McGuckin’s employee and will lead the latke-baking charge.

For more information, visit mcguckin.com or stop by on Friday to get all up in that potato pancake action and then buy a whole bunch of hammers and power sanders.

TRY STUDENT BEER Up at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, students are taking brewing to the next level. And the young scholars enrolled in CSU’s Brewing Science and Technology class want to share their class projects with you. Good news: it’s beer.

On Thursday, Nov. 19 from 4-6 p.m., head up to the Odell Brewing Co. tap room for the ceremonial tapping (think of it as the best minigraduation ceremony ever) of the Polar Ale – Alt Man Winter. The Polar Ale is a variation on a Düsseldorf Altbier, and was brewed at Odell on Halloween this year with the help of the brewery’s cofounder, Doug Odell.

The students in the class are mostly members of the CSU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition’s Fermentation Science and Technology program. It’s a mouthful, but if beer pro-

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duction is part of the curriculum, it’s worth it.

“The classes are super-interesting and a lot of fun while also being very difficult and detail-oriented,” said James Macdonald, a fermentation science major in the brewing class, in a press release. “I can tell the instructors have a real passion for educating, and the classes reflect their care.

“Being a homebrewer, I had thought I knew a lot about the brewing process. How wrong I was,” said Macdonald.

For more information on the CSU program, visit chhs.colostate.edu, or stop by Odell and chat up some beer scholars.

BOULDER BEER RELEASE Speaking of new beer releases, Boulder Beer Company drops its latest brew this month, the Killer Penguin. What say you about the new brew, Boulder Beer?

“This limited, small-batch release is dark garnet red in color with a candied-fruit like aroma and flavor. At 10 percent ABV, Killer Penguin is a big barleywine that comes across very smooth and extremely balanced — the perfect beer to share among friends.”

Terrific. The Killer Penguin will be available in their taproom and at select liquor stores and beer-serving establishments across the state.

HOLIDAY TEATIME The Hotel Boulderado is getting set to host a series of afternoon teas this holiday season.

A selection of tea will be served out on their mezzanine as live music plays for all tea-sipping patrons. The Boulderado’s traditional English teas will be “served loose-leaf in china pots, accompanied by a delightful array of tea sandwiches, cakes and pastries.”

There will be seatings every 15 minutes from 12-1:45 p.m. Adult tickets are $32, which include tax and gratuity, except for the “Nutcracker Tea” events on Dec. 12 and 13, which tack an additional $10 donation to the Boulder Ballet.

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French onion soup is an in-season, underrated and homespun dish for the cold season

by Ari LeVaux

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nions are in season right tile and tear-jerking cellular fluids are now, but we don’t squeal for released with the clean, smooth cut of a them as we do for the likes sharp blade. of tomatoes and corn.

My friend George, a renaissance man Onions are the stepsisters of and veteran of many batches of French the kitchen, perennially improving meals onion soup of his own, told me that he and sending their glamorous siblings to took Ducasse’s sharp knife principle one the table with the support of deep, rich step further during a recent session. flavors. Indispensable to any pantry, “[It’s] equally important to use a onions add their flavor to untold dishes, thin-bladed knife as well as a very sharp but few meals are built around the onion. knife. I have a very sharp, large French No glory is theirs. French onion soup is a chef ’s knife — but the blade is thick and notable exception. it tends to squeeze out the onion juices Legend has it King Louis XV inventas it makes its way through. After ed the soup when he arrived at a hunting enough tears yesterday, I traded it out cabin and found only onions, wine and for my incredibly sharp, thin-bladed butter in the cupboard. But it so happens cimeter, which is generally used for cutthat the average peasant’s larder would ting large chunks of meat and has a have been stocked with such ingredients long, upturned blade. That thing went as well, and perhaps not much more, on through the onions like butter and proLet the onion star in French onion soup, a favorite of chefs and home cooks alike. an average winter day. To this day, French duced far less juice and tears.” onion soup is that rare bird among reciDucasse’s recipe involves thin-slicing pes that probably won’t require a trip to the store. the onions, which is probably going to jerk some tears lines of foie gras, but it is nonetheless a fitting last And if you are out of onions, much less butter or no matter how sharp or thin your blade is. But if you meal for the champion of French cuisine, which is wine, then a shopping trip is probably warranted anyfollow the method put forward by the Englishman largely based in peasant cookery — and you can’t get way.

Nigel Slater in his brilliant recipe, “Onion Soup more bucolic than onion soup. The intense flavor and French onion soup is a popular dish among chefs, Without Tears,” (which appeared in his 2005 book warmth of onion soup is especially appealing as chilly perhaps out of respect to the understated importance The Kitchen Diaries) there won’t be any crying weather sets in. And autumn is a sad time, when it involved.

He slices the onions in half, and roasts them of onions. It is a low-key celebration of an esteemed feels OK to cry. in the oven that way. colleague in the kitchen, and every cook has a differBut excessive crying over French onion soup isn’t A related choice the aspiring maker of French ent way of making it. In this column, I will explore necessary, according to Alain Ducasse, who lists onion soup must face is whether to caramelize the how some of the world’s best cooks prepare it. among his many restaurants the Louis XV in Monte onions on the stovetop or in the oven. Many great French onion soup is reportedly the last meal Julia Carlo. Ducasse says keeping your knife sharp will Child ate before she died. This wasn’t by design. reduce the number of tears you shed when making see ONION Page 48 Child had stated more opulent intentions along the French onion soup, because fewer of the onion’s vola-

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chefs, including Child and Ducasse, use the stovetop, while Slater and a small minority of like-minded cooks prefer the oven.

The bottom line is that the onion must be cut, at least once, preferably with a sharp and thin knife. And it must be slowly browned in butter, either on the stovetop or in the oven. Then it is cooked in wine and stock.

I lean towards oven-browning, if for no other reason than the onions are less likely to burn if (when) the cook Wikimedia Commons spaces out on the job. Another reason is they turn absurdly delicious, so tasty that you might add an extra onion to the oven pan to account for munching as you go.

Place the halved onions (cut lengthwise, from root to tip) cutside down in a baking pan, adding three tablespoons of butter per pound of onions, and bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Then, reduce the oven temperature to 200 degrees, stirring gently, on occasion, for a good while, until the onions are tender, Get the onions out of the ground and onto the soft and browned. Deglaze with stovetop. shots of white wine whenever the pan gets dry.

The onion halves, ready to fall apart into sheets, are as sweet as ripe fruit, awash with umami and soft earthy pungency. Transfer the onions and associated juices to a saucepan, along with a cup of white wine per pound of onions. Bring to a low boil, stirring often so the onions fall apart in the bubbles.

Lower the heat to a simmer and let the wine reduce into a thickening sauce.

Before it starts to burn, add a quart and a half of stock per initial pound of onions — either animal bone or mushroom stock. Add more if you want to stretch it, but the rich onion broth can only be stretched so thin before it loses its authority.

Simmer for about 20 minutes. Season with nutmeg, salt and black pepper.

It’s often served under a floating cap of melted cheesy bread. I think this finish, though delicious, makes the soup less about the onion, and more about the cheesy crouton.

Julia liked to serve French onion soup country style, with a poached egg on top.

That, to me, is the right kind of decadence and richness that doesn’t distract from the placid, warming vibe of the onion. But if you want to serve it with a cheesy crust, I won’t shed any tears.

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by David White

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livier Bernard knows Bordeaux.

Born there in 1960, Bernard has spent his entire life in the region — and worked in the wine industry since 1978 when he opened a small wine shop. In 1983, he took over the operations at Domaine de Chevalier after his family purchased the historic estate in PessacLéognan. And he has been president of the Union des Grands Cru, the promotional body for Bordeaux’s top producers, since 2012.

So it’s telling that Bernard’s estate in Sauternes, Clos des Lunes, focuses almost exclusively on dry wines.

Sauternes, of course, is the famous sub-region in Bordeaux where botrytis cinerea — the fungus known as “noble rot” — attacks grapes almost every year, leaving them desiccated, shriveled and covered with fuzzy mold. Out of these beastly grapes comes the world’s most famous sweet wine.

Why would one of Bordeaux’s most passionate ambassadors make dry wine in Sauternes?

Soil and climate play a role, to be sure. But the market, no doubt, plays a larger one. Sadly, Sauternes is out of fashion.

Over the past 40 years, U.S. imports of Sauternes have declined almost 70 percent. Between 2004 and 2013, according to Liv-ex, auction prices on wines from the region’s top châteaux dropped Wikimedia Commons between 19 and 37 percent. In part, this drop is explained by changing preferences. Most of today’s wine enthusiasts just don’t take sweet wines seriously.

Changing dining culture has also impacted sales. Structured, leisurely dinners were once more common and always ended with dessert wines like Sauternes or port. Today, such indulgences are rare, and drawn-out Sauternes is lagging in popularity, which meals are more likely to end with means you can get it for cheap. coffee than sweet wine.

Consumers have also moved beyond Bordeaux. Everyone still recognizes the region’s significance, obviously, but for all intents and purposes, today’s consumers have unlimited choices — and are responding accordingly. The average upscale supermarket carries more than 1,500 wine selections from across the globe. Those who do drink sweet wine have plenty to choose from.

To survive, many producers in Sauternes have turned to dry whites, though most major estates have always produced at least a bit of dry wine. Producers have also worked to convince consumers that their wines needn’t be pigeon-holed as dessert.

Some producers have tried to up the region’s cool factor. Earlier this year, for example, three producers teamed up with Perrier, the bottled water company, to create a wine for French nightclubs. It’s designed to be mixed with sparkling water and served over ice. Other producers, targeting the same audience, have packaged their wines in 100-milliliter vials.

The move towards dry wine makes sense. It’s what the market is demanding and, as Olivier Bernard explained in a recent conversation, “all great sweet wine in the world once had the potential to be a great dry wine.” The push to highlight the versatility of Sauternes also makes sense. Food is more varied and exotic than ever before — and sweet wines often make the most sense. The move to sell wine through gimmickry, though, seems at odds with the tradition that distinguishes Sauternes.

Few regions can match Sauternes’ history. And no wines of such consequence are a better deal. Savvy consumers can purchase half bottles from virtually every top producer — many with a decade or more of age — for less than $30. Wines from other regions of such significance cost multiples more.

David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, one of the world’s most popular wine blogs. His columns are housed at GrapeCollective.com.

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ARIES

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In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, they can provide the grounding you need. They will steady your nerves and bolster your courage.

SCORPIO

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

The Pekingese is a breed of dog that has been around for over 2,000 years. In ancient China, it was beloved by Buddhist monks and emperors’ families. Here’s the legend of its origin: A tiny marmoset and huge lion fell in love with each other, but the contrast in their sizes made union impossible. Then the gods intervened, using magic to make them the same size. Out of the creatures’ consummated passion, the first Pekingese was born. I think this myth can serve as inspiration for you, Taurus. Amazingly, you may soon find a way to blend and even synergize two elements that are ostensibly quite different. Who knows? You may even get some divine help.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Author Virginia Woolf wrote this message to a dear ally: “I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you.

The luster of your presence bewitches me . . . the whole thing is splendid and voluptuous and absurd.” I hope you will have good reason to whisper sweet things like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. You’re in the Season of Togetherness, which is a favorable time to seek and cultivate interesting kinds of intimacy. If there is no one to whom you can sincerely deliver a memo like Woolf ’s, search for such a person.

CANCER

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

I suspect your body has been unusually healthy and vigorous lately. Is that true? If so, figure out why. Have you been taking better care of yourself? Have there been lucky accidents or serendipitous innovations on which you’ve been capitalizing? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine. Now I’ll make a similar observation about your psychological well-being. It also seems to have been extra strong recently. Why? Has your attitude improved in such a way as to generate more positive emotions? Have there been fluky breakthroughs that unleashed unexpected surges of hope and good cheer? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypersons, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success.

So trust your rookie instincts. Feed your innocent curiosity.

Ride your raw enthusiasm.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Some people are so attached to wearing a favorite ring on one of their fingers that they never take it off. They love the beauty and endearment it evokes. In rare cases, years go by and their ring finger grows thicker. Blood flow is constricted. Discomfort sets in. And they can’t remove their precious jewelry with the lubrication provided by a little olive oil or soap and water. They need the assistance of a jeweler who uses a small saw and a protective sheath to cut away the ring.

I suspect this may be an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life, Cancerian. Is it? Do you wonder if you should free yourself from a pretty or sentimental constriction that you have outgrown? If so, get help.

Whether or not you are literally a student enrolled in school, I suspect you will soon be given a final exam. It may not happen in a classroom or require you to write responses to questions. The exam will more likely be administered by life in the course of your daily challenges.

The material you’ll be tested on will mostly include the lessons you have been studying since your last birthday.

But there will also be at least one section that deals with a subject you’ve been wrestling with since early in your life — and maybe even a riddle from before you were born.

Since you have free will, Capricorn, you can refuse to take the exam. But I hope you won’t. The more enthusiastic you are about accepting its challenge, the more likely it is that you’ll do well.

LEO

AQUARIUS

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” wrote Leo author Aldous Huxley. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the coming weeks you are less likely to take things for granted than you have been in a long time. Happily, it’s not because your familiar pleasures and sources of stability are in jeopardy. Rather, it’s because you have become more deeply connected to the core of your life energy.

You have a vivid appreciation of what sustains you. Your assignment: Be alert for the eternal as it wells up out of the mundane.

For $70,000 per night, you can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for your big party. The price includes the right to rename the streets while you’re there. You can also create a temporary currency with a likeness of you on the bills, have a giant rendition of your favorite image carved into the snow on a mountainside, and preside over a festive medieval-style parade. Given your current astrological omens, I suggest you consider the possibility. If that’s too extravagant, I hope you will at least gather your legion of best friends for the Blowout Bash of the Decade. It’s time, in my opinion, to explore the mysteries of vivid and vigorous conviviality.

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In their quest to collect nectar, honeybees are attuned to the importance of proper timing. Even if flowering plants are abundant, the quality and quantity of the nectar that’s available vary with the weather, season and hour of the day. For example, dandelions may offer their peak blessings at 9 a.m., cornflowers in late morning and clover in mid-afternoon. I urge you to be equally sensitive to the sources where you can obtain nourishment, Virgo. Arrange your schedule so you consistently seek to gather what you need at the right time and place.

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PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Are you available to benefit from a thunderbolt healing?

Would you consider wading into a maelstrom if you knew it was a breakthrough in disguise? Do you have enough faith to harvest an epiphany that begins as an uproar? Weirdly lucky phenomena like these are on tap if you have the courage to ask for overdue transformations. Your blind spots and sore places are being targeted by life’s fierce tenderness. All you have to do is say, “Yes, I’m ready.”

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Dear Dan: A couple of months ago, I got candida (a fungal infection) under my foreskin. I went to the doctor, picked up some cream, and used the cream as directed.

The infection went away for about a week and then returned. I got this idea that maybe the cream didn’t work the first time because it’s so naturally moist under the foreskin. So I used the cream a second time — but this time, after each application I would “air out” my penis, i.e., pull back the foreskin and leave the head exposed to the open air for a little while. The candida cleared up, apparently for good. What surprised me, though, was that I really enjoyed this twice-a-day airing out. I’ve continued doing it. I have no idea why I find this enjoyable. I’m not masturbating while I’m doing it. I just use that flap on the front of my underwear to help keep the foreskin back and leave my glans exposed for about 15 to 20 minutes. (This is likely the first time in history that anyone has actually used that flap on the front of men’s underwear.) I’m wondering if, by airing out my cock in this way, there’s any risk of causing damage. From reading the allknowing internet, it seems that this amount shouldn’t cause any problems, but I’d like to get an expert opinion. I have noticed a slight decrease in sensitivity, but that has been a positive thing, as I’ve

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always been quite sensitive. This airing out of my penis seems to accomplish a slight desensitizing that I find beneficial. Can I continue to do it?

— Apparently Into Retraction Dear AIR: “This shouldn’t be a problem,” says Dr. Stephen King, a urologist and one of my go-to guys on all things dick. “It sounds like he found a unique solution to a couple of issues: infections and sensitivity.”

So you can continue airing out your cock with Dr. King’s blessing — and congratulations on coming up with a successful foreskin hack, AIR. But Dr. King wouldn’t recommend your foreskin hack to uncircumcised/intact dudes with a very particular medical condition. (I’m using “hack” here in the “life hack” sense, obviously — perhaps a poor choice of slang, considering that humanity has been needlessly hacking away at foreskins for millennia.)

“The only time keeping a foreskin pulled back for a prolonged period of time becomes a problem is when someone has phimosis,” Dr. King says. An

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adult with phimosis either can’t retract their foreskin over the head of their penis or has a very difficult time doing so — a condition an adult may develop as the result of an infection or some other trauma that scarred the foreskin.

“In patients who are elderly or demented, the foreskin can get stuck in the retracted position,” said Dr. King, “trapping blood in the head of the penis like a tourniquet, causing severe pain — we call this ‘paraphimosis.’” Paraphimosis is some serious shit — gangrene can set in, and the head of the penis might have to come off.

“I don’t think this is an issue for AIR,” Dr. King says, “so he can continue as desired. Just tell him to be careful with that zipper!”

Dear Dan: Gay 20-year-old boy here.

I want some ideas on what kind of anal toys are best for beginners like myself. I’ve already used my fingers, but I want to move up to an actual toy before moving on to an actual boy. A recommendation from you would be great!

— Boy Undertaking Tushy Toys

Dear BUTT: They’re not glamorous or groundbreaking, BUTT, but the old reliable butt plug is still the best bet for anal-play newbies — gay, straight or bi. They look like tiny lava lamps, they fit neatly in butts, and anal sphincters hold them firmly in place — freeing up your hands for other things, from jacking yourself off to swiping left or right to writing advice columns.

Dear Dan: My girlfriend of six months hooked up with one of my buds.

They were both drunk at a party, and I was out of town for a sports thing. I wasn’t angry when she “confessed.” I thought it was hot and said we should maybe have a threesome with the dude.

I’m not interested in being with a guy, but I’d be down with a M/M/F threesome. So now my girlfriend is furious with me for not being angry. She literally just texted to say she’s not sure she can stay with me because she doesn’t want to be with a guy who wouldn’t care if she slept around on him. What the fuck am I supposed to say to that?

— The Wronged Party Dear TWP: “Bye.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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Mainstream cannabis comes to Colorado

Celebrities bring big money and big names to a capped marijuana industry

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n Nov. 9, Colorado’s weed scene gained The scrupulous strategic planning preceding the its capstone endorsement — Snoop launch signifies that Leafs’ Colorado retail is only the Dogg launched his very own line of first in a bigger, national or international effort. In marijuana products including flower, February 2015, Snoop Dogg was listed as the managchocolate bars, shatter, wax, drops and ing member of a Los Angeles-based VC fund called other candies.

Casa Verde Capital, L.P. The fund has raised about Although there is talk of other celebrities launch- $25 million to invest in new agriculture, wellness and ing high-end cannabis product lines in Colorado — research. from Freddie Gibbs to Willie Nelson to Bob Marley’s In September 2015, Snoop launched a website family — the first cannabis launch and surrounding called Merry Jane that heralds itself as “the definimedia storm goes to Snoop tive cannabis resource on Wikimedia Commons Dogg. Ever since he came culture, news, food and onto the hip-hop scene in style dedicated to express1992 as a featured artist on ing a new cannabis menDr. Dre’s The Chronic, tality.” The website also Snoop Dogg has been an happens to be the perfect advocate and unofficial place to push content and marketing for Leafs by spokesperson for marijuana, Snoop. and his place amongst its Behind savvy business emerging industry seems moves and launch parties natural. lie implications for “Since I’ve been at the Colorado’s weed economy. forefront of this movement The influx of venture capfor over 20 years now, I’m ital to the emerging a master of marijuana,” industry will provide both said Snoop at the brand short-term and long-term launch event. “Leafs By fiscal advantages for the Snoop is truly the first state in terms of job cremainstream cannabis brand in the world, and I am ation, revenue and tax On Nov. 9, Snoop Dogg launched Leafs, a line of proud to be a pioneer.” income. But the big cannabis products, bringing a new wave of money as The frontier he enters money from mainstream Colorado weed goes mainstream. with Leafs’ launch is a brands trickling into the complicated landscape of a new industry rife with state clashes with the regulations in place to encoureconomic and regulatory inconsistencies. For most age slow growth and ensure that the money and entrepreneurs, the money, resilience and network accountability stays local. required to succeed are not enough to outweigh the Because Snoop is not a Colorado resident, he risk of a cannabis business. But for Snoop, a celebrity cannot grow or sell cannabis in Colorado. Requiring with lots of brand equity and money to leverage, the that marijuana businesses be owned and operated by road is paved with green.

Coloradans is meant to act as a control on the indus-

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try — to keep supply in balance with the unpredictable demand of the new market.

Instead, Snoop is partnering with LivWell, a chain of 10 medical and recreational dispensaries across the state, to grow all of the flower for Leafs indefinitely. LivWell’s short history is rife with controversy, including an incident in which they allegedly gave out infused samples in place of plain chocolates and a lawsuit, filed in October, accusing the company of using harmful pesticides in their grow operations. LivWell has yet to be penalized for either incident.

And, for two years, a Denver moratorium aimed at controlling industry growth has allowed only existing medical marijuana businesses to open recreational dispensaries, grow houses or edible manufacturers.

That was set to expire Jan. 1, a prospect that has had eager entrepreneurs and investors lining up. But talk of extending the moratorium for two more years has recently put a damper on such plans.

The extension is backed by many established industry businesses that lobbied to keep new competition from joining the scene.

Michael Elliott, executive director of The Marijuana Industry Group, said in a press release that current industry players support expansion of the industry based on market demand. “The marijuana industry has helped spark an economic boom in Denver but at this point it appears the number of businesses is in line with market demand.”

But the reality of the moratorium is that as new startups are kept out of the emerging industry, established businesses like LivWell will continue to grow as they align themselves with the new wave of mainstream marijuana trickling into the state. You can keep out the little guys with moratoriums and regulations, but they are no match for the brand equity contributed by a celebrity endorsement and the 25 million dollars of venture capital funding that the star brings with him.

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By now we have all heard Donald Trump’s most recent fact-free claim about thousands of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in the streets of Jersey City even as the towers were coming down. Needless to say that never happened, but we think his critics are being too hard on the Donald. It was a simple mistake that anyone could have made. He just got his dates wrong… along with a couple of other small details.

Flickr Donald really did see people celebrating in the streets near the Jersey Shore after a tragic event, but it was in 1991, not 2001. Well, truth be told, they weren’t really celebrating per se, they were just laughing really hard after it was announced that Trump was having to file for bankruptcy after spending a billion or so too much to build his flagship casino in New Jersey.

So Trump’s not so good with numbers, a billion too much here, a decade off there. Cut the man some slack. So he’s not a rocket scientist. It was just a simple, innocent, racist, hateful, lying mistake.

Oh, and they weren’t Muslims, they were just an earlier generation of tanned Snooky, JWoww and The Situation wannabes. Anyone could have screwed that up, they all look alike when they’re not pure white.

And what difference does it really make? Italians are still foreigners, so hating on them has to be worth a couple of percentage points in the polls. This whole thing has simply been blown out of proportion.

KEEP THE CHANGE, YOU FILTHY ANIMAL

As a general rule, when faced with a $4,000 ethics fine, one should not attempt to pay said fine in pennies and nickels. We’d call that fueling the fire.

But Carlos Hernandez, mayor of Hialeah, Florida, apparently felt that the fiery dispute he’s been having with his local ethics commission needed stoking. So he hauled in 28 buckets of coins, a total of 360,000 pennies and nickels, to pay his fine.

Hilarious, no?

Extra hilarious considering Hernandez was fined back in July for making false statements to the public (not once, but twice) about tens of thousands of dollars of income he earned from a private loan.

The loan, by the way, was made to a jeweler who is now jailed for operating a pyramid scheme.

Hernandez was a Hialeah councilman at the time of the Great Interest Rate Heist of 2011.

This guy’s a hoot, right?

Sadly, and humorlessly, the Hialeah ethics commission didn’t find the Great Coin Payment Stunt of 2015 very funny and doubled Hernandez’s fine, saying the mayor intentionally broke the rules because he knew the panel only accepts checks… and money orders. Because people still use those. Apparently.

Oh, and Hernandez managed to get himself sued by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.

With a grin that could only be described as shit-eating, Hernandez told a local NBC affiliate station he thought the 360,000 coins were a legitimate way to pay.

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