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THIS IS OUR LAND A year after Trump reduced the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, Native voices are stronger than ever

by Emma Murray

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A year after Trump reduced the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, Native voices are louder than ever

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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Have you heard the news?

Poverty is over!

6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 26 OVERTONES: Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ tailored for the Christmas season 27 ARTS & CULTURE: It’s Xmas time at BDT Stage 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 38 WORDS: ‘Death-Bridge Keeper’s OTHER Five Questions (THREE Questions!)’

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Highroad Have you heard the news?

Poverty is over! by Jim Hightower

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omeone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least visit the real world once in their lives.

The three advisors are ivory tower ideologues whose sole professional expertise seems to be twisting reality to fit their boss’s right-wing fantasia. In July, for example, the trio issued a fairy-tale disguised as an official government report on poverty, essentially asserting that our US of A no longer has a poverty problem. Poof, declared these learned ones

from on high — the need for food stamps, Medicaid, public housing and other assistance has virtually disappeared in our land. Jobs abound, they lectured, the economy is pumping out great gobs of new wealth, and bluebirds of happiness are spreading joy everywhere.

You can imagine the comfort that this report has brought to the 45 million Americans now living below the poverty line. That line means they’re trying to make ends meet on only $25,000 a year — not per person, but for a family of four. Let’s see any of Trump’s advisers try to live on that before smugly claiming

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that “poverty is largely over.”

What’s at work here is the political manipulation of statistics to support Trump’s ideological delusion that poor people are losers who’re addicted to safety net programs. As a narcissistic son of privilege, he is out to cut those programs and to impose strict work requirements on families seeking public assistance.

Never mind that most recipients of aid already work, subjected to the hardships of poverty by the low wages of their jobs.

But that‘s the real world, and it doesn’t mesh with Trump & Company’s cruel self-deception that basic humane benefits make poverty “too pleasant.”

They’re imposing a Dickensian governing ethic that is fundamentally obscene... and unAmerican.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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the anderson files Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship by Dave Anderson

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ister Bone Saw. That’s Not exactly. Donald Trump, who what many people happens to be president, is debating it. around the world are Trump admits that MBS might be calling Saudi Arabia’s responsible but argues that America Crown Prince shouldn’t alienate the Saudi regime too Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS). much because he says it’s spending Growing evidence from various sources, $110 billion on U.S. weapons, which including the CIA, indicate that he Trump has variously claimed will genordered the assassierate 450,000, nation of dissident 500,000 or Saudi journalist 600,000 American TRUMP HAS Jamal Khashoggi. jobs.

A SIMPLE It seems that According to a Khashoggi was report

by William MESSAGE: lured into the Hartung of the if you help Saudi consulate in Center for Istanbul, where he International American was tortured and Policy, a capitalists make strangled to death Washington D.C. by a hit squad of think-tank, these a lot of money, 15 Saudi governfigures are vastly you can do ment operatives. exaggerated.

One of them was a Actually, the State whatever you medical examiner Department puts want. who brought a the total at $14.5 bone saw to disbillion, and that member the body. many of the potenAn unnamed tial jobs created State Department official told would be in Saudi Arabia itself.

ABC News that the U.S. government Hartung argues that Saudi Arabia knows who is responsible. “The idea needs the U.S. much more than we that it goes all the way to the top (in need them. Trump has claimed that Saudi Arabia) is blindingly obvious,” other arms suppliers like Russia or China will quickly take any business the State Department official told the turned down by the U.S. But Hartung TV network. “There’s overwhelming says that Saudi armed forces are so consensus that the leadership is involved — no one is debating it within THE ANDERSON FILES from Page 7 the government.”

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dependent on U.S. hardware it would be very onerous for them to change suppliers selling totally incompatible equipment.

“The preponderance of U.S. equipment used by Saudi forces also makes it difficult for another supplier like Russia or China to replace the United States as a major supplier to Riyadh,” Hartung’s report says. “It would take decades for the Kingdom to wean itself from dependence on U.S. equipment, training and support, and new equipment might not be easily interoperable with U.S.-supplied systems.”

So we could easily pressure the Saudis about human rights. But Trump isn’t interested. He has a simple message devoid of the usual high-minded presidential talk of democracy and justice — if you help American capitalists make a lot of money, you can do whatever you want.

Minnesota’s newly elected Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar remarked, “Once again, our president proves that you can’t buy a moral compass. Saudi Arabia proves that you can, on the other hand, buy a president.” Hawaii’s Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said, “Being Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not ‘America First.’”

Even some Republicans expressed dismay. Tennesee’s GOP Senator Bob Corker grumbled, “I never thought I’d see the day when a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.”

Khashoggi started out as a member of the Saudi elite but became a critic and moved to Washington, D.C. He became a permanent resident of the U.S. and a regular Washington Post columnist. In his last column, which was published posthumously, he emphasized the need for a free press and the free exchange of ideas in the Arab world.

“The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events,” Khashoggi wrote. “More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices.

“We suffer from poverty, mismanagement and poor education,” he said.

“Through the creation of an independent international forum, isolated from the influence of nationalist governments spreading hate through propaganda, ordinary people in the Arab world would be able to address the structural problems their societies face.”

In a column in September, Khashoggi urged the crown prince to end the horrific war in Yemen, which was started in March 2015 by a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

The bombing campaign by the on. A report by Martha Mundy of the coalition is responsible for most of World Peace Foundation says that the the deaths. Many thousands of civilcoalition’s bombers constantly target ians have been killed and many more agricultural land and fishing sites, dairy have become homeless. 85,000 chilfarms, food processing factories, and dren are estimated to have died from markets where food is sold. malnutrition and disease since the war The United States is deeply began. involved in this war — providing Many millions of people are on the bombs the coalition is using, refueling brink of a famine, which the United their planes before they drop those Nations says would be the worst in bombs, and assisting with intelligence. more thanAD_BoulderWeekly_11-18.pdf 100 years. The Saudi-led1 11/13/18 The war has strengthened Islamic 3:26 PM coalition is using starvation as a weapterrorists. A 2016 State Department

report found that the conflict between Saudi-led forces and the Houthi insurgents had helped Al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s Yemen branch “deepen their inroads across much of the country.”

After Khashoggi’s murder, questions are being raised about the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia from figures across the political spectrum. It’s about time.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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People still read newspapers According to a recent online article in Editor & Publisher, a Nielsen Scarborough study suggested “that in an average month, 169 million adults read a U.S. newspaper. They may be reading it in one or more iterations — in print, on the web, via a mobile app, courtesy of an e-newsletter or through a social media news feed.” Some 58 percent of people ages 16 and older reported they regularly read newspapers. There are not noteworthy differences across communities in the numbers of people who regularly read newspapers. But 57 percent of suburban residents and 56 percent of urban dwellers are more likely to read their newspapers on handheld devices than 45 percent of rural residents, according to a 2012 article by the Pew Research Center. www.pewinternet.org.

“Print isn’t going away. If you are from Cleveland, then you were probably one of the thousands who wanted a print copy of the Plain Dealer that was released the day after the Cavaliers won the NBA Championship... So why in the digital era would people from all over want the print version? Nostalgia. The print newspaper is memorabilia people can keep forever.” www.advance-ohio.com/ “A newspaper is the center of a community, it’s one of the tent poles of the community, and that’s not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs,” declared Michael Connelly.

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Birther, bother?

Well, it appears our fearless leader has gone full circle.

From “birther” to “birth-blessed-byU.S. Constitution” hater.

Why does Mr. Drumph hate our Constitution?

Enquiring Americans need to know.

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Trolling ghosts of the American soul A few early mornings ago, trolling (as in fishing from a boat) through the AM Conservative talk radio shows, I paused to listen to a caller to a Cheyenne station, after the usual litany of lost traditional American values, praise D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation. My jaw dropped. That anyone could openly today endorse a race war led by the KKK was stunning. I 8 November 29 , 2018

think the radio host was shocked and embarrassed as well and ended the call, but politely and without challenge. As I said, it was stunning that people were still living with the fears and hatred of a century ago. Granted, the modern world is not all peaches and cream, sugar and spice, and mama’s apple pie, but really?

Advocating a race war?

Trolling the ghosts Of the American soul— Aye, there be monsters there.

Robert Porath/Boulder

Trash tsunami The fences along I-25 become festooned with plastic sheeting, bags, cardboard, and all manner of airborne trash snagged and left flapping gaily in the breeze. Square miles of surrounding prairie are sowed liberally with the same debris, augmented with plastic bottles, containers, disposable diapers and even used exam gloves. Plastic streamers also attach themselves to passing cars.

Since moving to Erie in May, I’ve observed this surreal scene twice during high-wind storms, even stopping to photograph the colorful, kinetic mess as it disintegrated into ever smaller pieces.

This is littering on a grand scale. It is abject pollution, a veritable trash tsunami.

The ostensible source is the Front Range Landfill located on WCR 5 in Erie.

The company’s website declares, “The Front Range Landfill is designed, operated, and monitored to protect the environment and ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.” It goes on to make promises of environmental stewardship by stating “With an eye towards the future, we constantly monitor and evaluate new technologies and programs that can enhance our commitment to the environment.”

Really? Direct observation confirms that our community is being bombarded with loose trash that — once dumped — appears to be improperly contained. It is dubious that ordinances green-light mass releases of trash into sensitive prairie ecosystems.

There are no words to express the heartbreak inflicted by bearing witness to such egregious insults against the environment. This is an abysmal and unacceptable situation. I implore the landfill operators to fulfill their custodial duties, clean up the operation and protect the environment surrounding the site. Please be good neighbors and keep the trash on premise.

Robert Carrier/Erie

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On Pittsburgh I have felt so sad today, I cried. I’m not religious, but I am frustrated that another mass killing was against my people. I felt a connection with the Parkland shooting, especially when I learned that the first two high school victims were buried in the Star of David cemetery where my parents, Nat and Selma, and my aunt and uncle, Bee and Sam, are buried.

I don’t remember the emotions I felt when the Newtown, Connecticut, children and adults were murdered but I think about my granddaughter, Alex who is 5, is just a year younger than the 6-year-olds who were slaughtered.

I feel the frustration and anger towards the perpetrators of these and every killing done in the hatred of others and the elected officials who offer their “thoughts and prayers” but do nothing to prevent the next massacre of innocent people.

I spent the day enjoying and playing with my grandchildren. That gave some relief but I feel so helpless that I can only do a very limited act to vote for people who are not using the Second Amendment to justify the “rights” of people to “bear arms” and the First Amendment to justify the right of free speech to promote hatred.

Our president, whom I despise, and the cowardly Congress who justify his cruelty and stupidity, will give condolences, thoughts and prayers, but do nothing to prevent the next victims of hatred and prejudice, whether in bullying, or individual or mass killings.

I am tired of reading of the killings and the evil people behind them. I want a world in which children will never have to ask why people do these horrible things to other people. I want a world that accepts everyone who he or she is. I want a world that is free of bullying, intimidation and violence.

If there is a God, is that too much to ask?

Ken Singer/via internet

On mass shootings In response to the recent killing of 11 Jewish worshipers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 28, I can recall several similar shooting and even bombing mass murder situations in the recent past. Recently, a sniper in Las Vegas killed 60 innocent people attending an event. The reason for the mass murder is unknown. Also, a young white racist killed nine innocent black parishioners in a church in Charleston in an attempt to start a race a war. Soon after this mass murder, a black person, not liking white people, especially white policemen because they had killed a number of young blacks, killed five white Dallas officers and wounded others. About that time a young Muslim man killed 49 Boulder Weekly

mostly Latin gays in Florida because he did not like the U.S. intervention in Iraq and Syria. Also, a Muslim man drove a truck down a sidewalk in New York City killing eight innocent pedestrians as he shouted repeatedly “God is Great.” In Wisconsin a white supremacist killed six innocent Sikhs just because of their skin color. Sikhs are of the same race as whites, but just a different color. A man shot and almost killed Rep. Scalise and wounded four others at a Republican baseball game. Also, a young student tried to kill Rep. Gabby Giffords, but only partially paralyzed her. He killed also six bystanders. Robert Kennedy, former presidential candidate, was killed by a young Palestinian because of his support for Israel. Martin Luther King’s mother and another parishioner were killed in church by a young black man who stated that he “hated Christians” and black pastors. Do not forget the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 169 persons including 15 children from the building day care center.

Supposedly, this mass murder was the result of federal destruction of the Branch Davidian compound.

A number of mass shootings have taken place in American schools. The mass shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a mentally ill young man killed 20 6-year-olds and six teachers. Another mentally ill student shot and killed 31 students at Virginia Tech. The high school in Columbine, Colorado, had a mass shooting in which 12 students were killed and one teacher.

Also, a young white student from the University of Illinois in Urbana, traveled to Northern Illinois University and killed five students in a lecture hall possibly because he failed to take his antipsychosis medicine. Also, a young student shot and killed nine students at a community college in Oregon.

Apparently, he had social and mental problems, which generated the mass murder. This mass killing in Oregon may have possibly been generated in part it is speculated by a mass killing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, when a young man stabbed three men in his apartment and shot three others, possibly because of perceived social and sexual rejection.

Where do these mass killers come from to do their evil deeds? It is apparent that easy access to firearms, especially by persons with hate in their minds and or mental problems, can result in the loss of many lives each time an unstable individual feels the need to use a gun.

We must insist in greater firearm controls across the board.

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THIS IS OUR LAND A year after Trump reduced the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, Native voices are louder than ever

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his story, you don’t tell it in the summertime.

According to Navajo tradition, some tales are meant to be shared on the warm nights that bleed gently into Utah’s blushed sandstone; other stories are saved for when the purple-gray shadows creep up early on winter afternoons. This story, Davis Filfred explained to me one day in May, the one about Bears Ears — this is a winter story.

Later that night, on stage, facing a ballroom packed with white tablecloths and blue-hued ties on the third floor of Denver’s Hyatt Regency, Filfred inhaled deeply, pressing a glass prism to his nose. The delegate from the Navajo Nation 23rd Council — representing the Aneth, Mexican Water, Red Mesa, Teec Nos Pos and Tólikan chapters — leaned into the podium microphone. “Whenever you get something, we inhale its spirit,” he said. That way it can never be taken away. “That’s how we embrace.” Slowly, he drew another inhale.

Only minutes earlier, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet had hugged Filfred as he’d walked across the stage, prism in hand, through the applause of nearly 1,000 people in the room. Filfred — on behalf of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition (BEITC), a multitribe advocacy organization lobbying for the protection of land pro-

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Davis Filfred, a Navajo delegate, says, “I was given the responsibility by my council to protect this. I will stand firmly and do whatever necessary.”

foundly sacred to many indigenous cultures — was being honored as one of Conservation Colorado’s 2018 “Rebels with a Cause.” Willie Grayeyes, a representative from the grassroots Navajo organization Utah Diné Bikéyah, which had spearheaded BEITC, was the award’s other recipient. It was at this event that I first met and talked with Filfred and Grayeyes.

“Because of their hard work,” Sen. Bennet said, introducing the two Navajo men, “President Obama designated Bears Ears as a national monument in December of 2016.

“This historic collaboration between indigenous groups and the federal government began to turn the page on centuries of broken promises,” Sen. Bennet continued, “until Donald Trump broke America’s promise once again, deciding illegally, in my opinion, to slash Bears Ears by 85 percent. If this decision stands, it opens the door to attack national monuments not just in Utah, but here in Colorado and all across America. We cannot let that happen. And that’s why your selection,” he gestured to the Boulder Weekly

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crowd, “of these honorees tonight is so important.”

As Filfred stepped to the podium, the crowd roared, then quickly fell to a hush. It’d been nearly six months since Trump’s highly publicized (and, in the circles that mingled this night at the Hyatt, highly criticized) order to reduce the boundaries of both Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante national monuments in southeast Utah, setting in motion the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history.

Designating Bears Ears as a national monument was one of former-President Obama’s last acts in office. Only 23 days before leaving the White House, he’d invoked the Antiquities Act, a political pathway carved in the U.S.’s early, exploratory 1900s that gives presidents the power to bestow extra protections on vulnerable landscapes containing artifacts of historic, scientific or cultural importance.

Obama’s actions were in response to a proactive group of five Native American tribes — Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute and Ute Mountain Ute, now known as the BEITC — who had, for the first time in U.S. history, spent years setting aside deep historic rifts in order to collaborate on the collection of both scientific data and oral histories that could prove to the federal government the everlasting significance of the region in southeast Utah. They wanted to convey Bears Ears’ need for protection, not only contextualized in each culture’s history, which extends back to time immemorial, but in the land’s modern-day significance, too.

By the time Obama designated Bears Ears, 26 Native American tribes had voiced their support for the monument, as monuments are more sheltered from looting, resource extraction, human development and recreational activities than other federally owned lands.

But almost a year ago, on Dec. 4, 2017, Trump reversed years of the groundbreaking collaboration between multiple indigenous tribes and the federal government with the stroke of a pen, effectively reopening the area to such threats. Bears Ears National Monument was split and shrunk into two sections: Indian Creek and Shash Jáa, roughly 201,397 acres in total (15 percent of its original size), divided and separated by a 50-mile-long, 70-mile-wide channel of now-vulnerable land. Grand-Staircase Escalante and its rugged, pristine terrain that was the last area to be mapped in the contiguous U.S. was carved, too, nearly in half, from 1.8 million acres to just over 1 million.

That same December day, however, two other legal steps were taken. In one building, Utah Republican Representative John Curtis proposed to Congress a bill that would set in motion new plans for the management of the Bears Ears area, one that would balance local energy development and constituents’ ranching needs. In another building, the Navajo Nation, Native American Rights Fund (NARF, representing the Hopi Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe), and the Ute Indian Tribe jointly filed a lawsuit to defend the original boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument — marking the first Boulder Weekly

Willie Grayeyes, a longtime Navajo activist and recent San Juan County commissionerelect, works tirelessly to bring peace to current and future Native generations.

time these Native American tribes have banded together to challenge the federal government, and the first time a presidential act like this is being be challenged in court.

“I’d say that’s perhaps the most fascinating facet of this issue, because a lot of complex and often painful history exists between some of these tribes,” says Rebecca Robinson, who spent the last three years traveling through and collecting stories from people living and working in the region to write the book Voices from Bears Ears. “[It’s] amazing given recent and past history that they were able to come together and say, ‘Look, we still have some conflicts and we have some painful history, but we have this in common and the only way we’re going to be able to protect the sacred landscape is [if ] we band together.’”

Historically, a national monument designation has acted like the first domino in a line of political actions that leads, eventually, to an upgrade to a full-blown national park and even deeper layers of land-use protections. The majority of national parks in southern Utah — Arches, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion — all started as national monuments, according to Mark Squillace, a law professor at the University of Colorado Law School.

But, it seems when the executive baton was passed from Obama to Trump in 2017, traditional public land policy took a dramatic turn off-course. “The Antiquities Act,” Squillace says, “gives the president the authority to reserve national monuments. It doesn’t say anything about his authority to shrink.”

When Trump re-issued his own Dec. 4, 2017 proclamation under the Antiquities Act, it wasn’t a new national park that was kickstarted, but the latest high-profile face-off between the federal government and five sovereign Native American tribes. No one knows where these dominos will lead, or fall.

Time immemorial Forty miles south of Moab and 12 miles east of U.S. 191, past the wind-worn sandstone arches and dilapidated wooden corrals, a small asphalt parking lot is tucked between steep canyon walls. Signs point to what’s now known as Newspaper Rock, a 200-squarefoot slab of Wingate sandstone covered in petroglyphs, or stone etchings, dating back as far as 2,000 years. According to the BLM, the preserved images

are from Archaic, Basketmaker, Fremont, Pueblo, Anasazi and Navajo peoples who passed through, possibly stopping at the natural spring that seeps from the sandy rocks nearby.

Navajo people refer to the slab as Tse’ Hane, “rock that tells a story,” and it serves as a sort-of entryway to Indian Creek, the northernmost pod of the new, divided Bears Ears National Monument. A six-toed foot and a bighorn sheep are etched next to a wheel; a hunter on a horse treads next to a slithering snake. From Newspaper Rock, continue eight more miles north, turn left on a graveled road, and head to a cliff band deep in the valley that modern-day rock climbers refer to as “Sparks Wall.” Another reminder of the area’s history stands in an 800-year-old, multi-story cliff dwelling that’s camouflaged hundreds of feet up from the basin floor; wooden ceiling beams remain intact; pottery shards have been pooled; red pictographs line a wall. In 2016, Obama noted over 100,000 unique sites of historic, cultural and scientific importance, including prehistoric fossils and early human migratory clues, exist within the monument’s original boundaries.

“You have a huge experience of human history out here,” says Lyle Balenquah, a Hopi archeologist and river guide who has watched dozens of seasons come and go in the Bears Ears region. For the past 20 years, Balenquah has been helping the National Park Service (NPS) interpret cultural and paleontological sites and promote indigenous perspectives of U.S. land.

Reducing protection of the area will compromise new and old artifacts and fossils, he worries, as only about 5 percent of the region has been properly surveyed thus far. “We’re talking 12,000 years [of history] or more here, and it’s all important.”

The name Bears Ears comes from twin buttes that rise from the sage-speckled floor of Cedar Mesa, located in the new monument’s southernmost pod, Shash Jáa. From as far as 60 miles away, south or east, one can see the two distinctive buttes rise, looking like a bear about to poke its head up from the horizon. In recent reporting, the area around the Bears Ears Buttes have been described as a Native American version of Eden — their birthplace of humanity. Today the Ute people still graze livestock, hunt and gather in the region. Navajo people still perform prayers and sacred ceremonies. Hopi and Zuni tribes look to this land as evidence of their migration stories and medicinal traditions. As BEITC states on its website, “Protection of the Bears Ears region from irresponsible off-roading and the depletion of irreplaceable cultural resources is important to maintain the cultural connections of many Native peoples.”

Hunter-gatherers first visited the Bears Ears area See BEARS EARS Page 12

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BEARS EARS from Page 11 Bob Wick, courtesy of BLM

about 10,000 years ago, but only 2,000 years ago did Native American tribes start to settle more permanently. Indian Creek was the southern limit of the Fremont culture and the northern limit of the Anasazi and Ancestral Puebloans. In the space stretching between awe-inspiring buttes and free-standing sandstone towers, clans grew corn, squash and beans. After a peak around the year 1200, the early residents steadily declined, leaving behind an abundance of rock art, dwellings, pottery, mokie steps and other evidence of their inhabitance. After that, Navajo groups started to appear, but it seems only to have been on a seasonal or temporary basis.

Since then, their traditions have held this landscape as sacred, and it was in these deep maze-like canyons and remote mesas that many Navajos sought shelter from both Kit Caron’s brutal occupation of Navajo lands and the U.S. Army’s forced relocation to reservations on the New Mexico and Oklahoma borders. In 1818, Navajo war chief Manuelito was born near the Bears Ears buttes, and he later rallied and focused Navajo resistance to the “Long Walk,” another forced relocation effort. It was Manuelito who eventually helped secure the 1868 treaty — the first official acknowledgment of Native American tribal sovereignty — that allowed the Navajo to return to some of their homelands, now the current reservation.

It wasn’t until 1859 that Anglo settlers started to seriously explore the region, mostly looking for ways to monetize the rugged land — promptly upsetting what had been, up until then, a relatively natural order of being. At that point, most of the land east of the Mississippi had been settled and developed, but Utah remained relatively unaltered by Anglos, as it remained a part of Mexico until 1848. Due to conflicts with the early Mormon settlers over issues like polygamy and the separation between church and state, U.S. law didn’t take effect in the area until 1869, making Utah the last place in the continental U.S. where the “public” land out of which they’d forced the Native Americans was opened to private ownership.

San Juan County, stretching about the size of New Jersey from Lake Powell to the Four Corners borders, was finally organized in 1880.

As Utah was granted statehood in 1896, the federal government still owned a vast majority of its land.

So, people in Washington D.C. organized what they called “trust lands” to support state institutions, such as public schools, by leasing and selling off resources and extraction rights on the land. By the early 1900s, San Juan County was largely an agricultural patchwork of fruit orchards and vegetable farms, most of the land still being leased from the federal government. In 1905, the Denver and Rio Grande railroad reached San Juan County, and it became a major shipping point for sheep and cattle.

It wasn’t until 1950 that things really started to change. Oil and gas extraction had finally come the county and brought in thousands of people, increasing the population 763 percent in just 10 years, according to San Juan County records. The New York Times reports Utah has generated more than $1.7 billion in revenue to support its public schools from the trust lands, “mostly by selling off mineral rights and allowing private companies to extract oil or gas.”

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Today, less than 6 percent of San Juan County’s 5,514 square miles is privately owned, and as of 2017, San Juan is the poorest county in Utah. So, when conservative Utah state representatives and some locals heard that 110,000 acres of these trust lands would be included in Obama’s original Bears Ears National Monument, eliminating potential resource sales and shrinking their livelihood, it was time for them to head to the federal government with a plea, too.

Meanwhile, across the country On the southern side of Independence Avenue, across the street from the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C., tribal leaders and select San Juan County officials filed into the main committee hearing room in the Longworth House Office Building on the morning of Jan. 30, 2018 — seven weeks after Trump’s reduction order. They were convening for the second time to discuss the bill Utah Republican Representative John Curtis had proposed to the House Committee on Natural Resources on the same day as Trump’s proclamation. The bill would officially terminate Obama’s proclamation, arguing it was massive federal overreach, and enact a new pathway for the management plans of the two reduced monument-islands, appealing to local ranching and energy needs.

It was the Committee’s second hearing on the bill — a rare occurrence — but objections had been raised during the first hearing, held on Jan. 9, when only one five-minute window of testimony was allocated to the five tribes, whereas three five-minute windows were reserved for Utah Governor Gary Herbert, Koch brother-supported lobbyist Matthew Anderson, and Suzette Morris, a Ute Mountain Ute woman who opposes the Bears Ears National Monument campaign.

At both January hearings, tribal leaders made it clear they oppose Rep. Curtis’ bill. Several lamented they weren’t consulted about the new management plans, and that the name “Shash Jáa” — Navajo for “Bears Ears” — was not only deceptive, but also intrinsically insulting. Years earlier, BEITC had collectively decided upon use of the English translation of “Bears Ears” in order to promote unity among the tribes.

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye testified at the second hearing. “In addition to providing a misleading bill name to suggest that the Navajo Nation supports the bill, [it] also misleadingly states that its purpose is to ‘create the first tribally managed

national monument,’” he said, according to the Sierra Club. “In fact, the miniature monuments created by the bill would be managed by appointees of Trump made in consultation with the Utah congressional delegation and would be composed of only a fraction of tribal members. Incredibly, no tribe would have any input on the tribal members appointed to the management councils, and those individuals would not be required to be elected or appointed representatives of the five tribes’ governments. This bill’s ‘tribal management’ is tribal in name only.”

The transition from intimate involvement in the monument’s first rendition to a complete absence in consulting on the second was unsettling, and tribal leaders accused San Juan County and the Department of the Interior (DOI) of cherry picking Native voices that supported their own views and objectives — a practice not unfamiliar in U.S.-tribal politics.

“How would you like it if Russia or France went around the United States government to negotiate with private citizens?” Tony Small, vice chairman of the Ute Business Committee, asked the committee at the Jan. 30 hearing. “This is an attack on our sovereignty and violates the government-to-government relationship with the Indian tribes.”

Tribes are fiercely proud of their sovereignty, which was negotiated over many painful decades after more than a century of persecution. Pat GonzalesRogers, the executive director of BEITC, explains, “The basis of the government-to-government relationship is the elected leadership of tribal government speaks to the elected leadership of the federal government.”

Thus, when U.S. policy relates to tribes, what is supposed to happen is direct negotiation between the U.S. government and Native tribal government, which should respect both nations’ self-determination and rights. The states tribes may inhabit should theoretically stay on the sidelines. What is happening in Bears Ears “does not seem to be within any kind of fairness, nor does it meet any parameters of what the legal instruction is specific to this,” says Gonzales-Rogers.

In February, Rep. Curtis admitted to constituents in San Juan County that his bill was likely dead, but he was planning to alter it and eventually present it again. A few weeks later, in March, internal agency documents procured and published by the New York Times revealed Utah’s interests in manipulating Bears Ears boundaries had been stirring as early as March 2017, a month before Trump had publicly announced Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke would commence a sweeping review of national monuments.

Emails revealed Republican Senator Orrin Hatch’s office had sent an email to a senior official in the DOI in March 2017 that contained a PDF map depicting “a boundary change for the southeast portion of the Bears Ears monument. ... Adopting this map would ‘resolve all known mineral conflicts,’” the email states, referring to oil and gas sites on the land.

The map was incorporated almost exactly into Trump’s order.

Gonzales-Rogers says, “To have such a differential role to the state of Utah ... really kind of bypasses See BEARS EARS Page 14

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BEARS EARS from Page 12 Bob Wick, courtesy of BLM

through political conscription the duty [the federal government] owes back to the tribes. ... I would think they would have a better dexterity and granular kind of understanding of Indian law and policy.”

Many wonder if Trump’s order was much more than a favor to Sen. Hatch for his support during the 2016 presidential campaign. “They targeted those two monuments (Bears Ears and GrandStaircase Escalante) for a very specific reason, that being Orrin Hatch and the Utah delegation really had Trump’s ear,” Robinson, author of Voices from Bears Ears, says. “I don’t think [Trump] had any particular stake in this issue.”

“Bears Ears was an easy target for him,” CU Law Professor Squillace says. “Not a lot of thought that went into this.”

Thus, when Utah representatives ignored the leagues of tribal claims and lobbied Trump to null the relationship BEITC had built with the federal government, and instead pursued their own plans for manipulating and managing the Bears Ears region without Native American consultation or consent, it was clear the state was reinforcing Trump’s new line of public land policy. The path leads in a direction against which the tribes have been actively lobbying for years: toward more resource extraction and unregulated use of their sacred homeland.

Challenging Trump “You’re talking about the heart of the Navajo people in terms of the spiritual, psychological, physiological, social, [and] the environment,” Grayeyes says as he pours me a glass of water, settling in to tell a story. He grew up on Navajo Mountain herding sheep with his grandmother, and in the early 2010s, when he was appointed as chair of the newly formed Navajo conservation organization, Utah Diné Bikéyah, he helped orchestrate the first-ever Native-directed surveys to capture what relationships between Navajo elders and medicine people still existed with the Bears Ears land. Increased signs of looting, desecration and other environmental threats in the region had put Navajo leadership on high alert in recent years, and the singular ranger that the BLM provided was not enough to protect the tens of thousands of rich archaeological and paleontological sites in the region.

“We gathered all the raw data and analyzed it, and it came out that the interest was still there, still in the hearts and minds of the Navajo people,” he says. “We are still trying to tell [the state and federal government], yes, this Bears Ears region was and still is our church.”

He tells me about the effect seeing artifacts like ceremonial drums in exhibits or on displays can have on a Native person. “Just like mass shootings in Texas, and elsewhere, you think: Why? Why? That type of question is never answered.

“The concern that I have,” continues Grayeyes, also referring to the history of Native American persecution, “is that these conditions, these traumas are still there — spiritual trauma, psychological trauma, social trauma, environmental trauma. … Grave robbery, desecration of you name it, those were uncalled for, and to set those things straight is to have those things properly brought back, in terms of healing ceremonies. Then you could make it right. That way people of our generation would be in peace, you would say.”

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Coalitions of nationwide environmentalists and outdoor recreation enthusiasts have both heavily supported tribal efforts and spearheaded their own resistance to Trump’s actions, too, with major companies like Patagonia advocating for public involvement across the country, even suing Trump themselves.

After the tribes filed their lawsuits against Trump, the administration asked to transfer them to a Utah court, but, arguing that the cases affect more than one state’s residents and have nationwide importance, the tribes filed a motion to keep them in Washington D.C. It wasn’t until Sept. 24, 2018 that presiding Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled both cases would stay in D.C., “and that the Department of the Interior must alert the tribes at least 48 hours before they allow any ground disturbing activities on the disputed lands,” NARF reports, stating this was a win for the Native groups.

On Nov. 16, Utah Diné Bikéyah reported over 200,000 public comments were submitted to the BLM during the public comment period on potential new management plans, asking the agency to halt the Bears Ears planning process. Three days later, a coalition of 11 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting the tribes and environmental groups in their lawsuits, stating Trump’s actions not only inaccurately interpret the Antiquities Act, but also harm states by disrupting partnerships with the federal government to preserve and protect precious archeological, historic and scientific resources.

The Justice Department, however, has stated the law and history are on Trump’s side. “The Antiquities Act does not give presidents unlimited power to put land in national monuments. The monuments must be confined to the smallest area compatible with protecting cultural resources.”

Trump isn’t the first president to reduce a national monument’s boundaries, but it’s been half a century since the last shrinkage. During World War I, President Wilson cut the state of Washington’s Mount Olympus National Monument in half, allegedly to source spruce tree timber to build wartime ships, but its boundaries were later reinstated and the monument was converted into Olympic National Park. While the Antiquities Act is clear in how to proclaim national monuments, Squillace explains it’s silent on how to reduce or revoke them, leaving the future litigation of Trump’s actions in uncharted waters.

Trump is, however, the first president to be challenged for this type of action. “In this case we’re arguing that the delegation [of power] is limited,” says Squillace. “It’s a delegation of authority just to reserve lands, not to take them away. If Congress doesn’t like the decisions that the president makes, Congress can of course reverse those decisions or modify the decisions that are made, but Congress has never basically taken away any significant monument that was declared by a president.

“It’s hard to know exactly what’s going to happen in any litigation,” he continues, “really anything can happen. But I think [there’s] a pretty strong case to make these decisions by Trump illegal.”

Various Native American tribes have strong ties to the Bears Ears region, and they’ve joined forces to protect it.

Utah Diné Bikéyah brought its findings, objectives and goals to the commissioners of San Juan County, the district where Bears Ears lies, in 2013, but it didn’t seem to make a difference. “We had a battle going round and round for a couple years,” Grayeyes says. So, the organization enlisted the help of the Hopi, Zuni, Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes to approach Obama directly — exercising their government-to-government relationships with the federal government as sovereign tribal nations. Obama’s original monument was the first-ever jointly managed national monument involving direct input from Native Americans.

“This is our land,” Filfred tells me. “I know there’s a lot of energy people that just want to get in there.

And we’re saying no. We want this place protected as it is. So the future generation can come and see here, and that’s where I come in, and I was given the responsibility by my council to protect this. I will stand firmly and do whatever necessary.”

The lawsuits filed by the tribes in the U.S. District Court for Washington D.C. against Trump’s actions on Dec. 4, 2017, were consolidated into two cases: one addressing Bears Ears and one addressing GrandStaircase Escalante. By the first week of February 2018, however, NARF reported the revoked lands “were opened to ‘entry, location, selection, sale’ and ‘disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing’ and ‘location, entry and patent under mining laws.’”

And mining claims in the area have indeed been filed, Squillace says, though he can’t point to any particular activity that’s going on that compromises the protection of the lands in the original monument.

“One of the biggest concerns is that, under the general mining law, people might go in with off-road vehicles and try to service their mining claims.”

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Emma Murray

‘Now... we wait’ Amid history’s bleak track record for Native American rights — as the lawsuits fall on the heels of confrontations over the Dakota Access Pipeline, Keystone XL and protections in the Bering Sea — there is hope among Native Americans and environmental groups that policy involving their ancestral lands may again change course.

“I view this as an opportunity for young Native people to be involved, not just for the sake of it, but to actually create an insertion point of succession and planning of what Native leadership is,” BEITC’s Gonsalez-Rogers says. “Whatever we do ... we hold these positions for someone else. They don’t mean anything to us unless we are passing it down. That is, for me, what a lot of the work of Bears Ears is doing: preserving this place and mindset for a generation and a generation after that.”

Voices from Bears Ears author Robinson says she’s seen some optimism on the national front, too. “I think they may have set a really good precedent and created a template for other tribes to protect their ancestral lands,” she says. “Out of all of this mess, what’s most promising is that we see a real ripple effect [that can] change the conservation movement and elevate the voices of historically underrepresented groups who really are the First Peoples of the planet.”

Now that the lawsuit will stay in D.C., all that’s left to do is wait and continue advocacy work on the ground in Utah, says Gonsalez-Rogers. The Trump administration is moving forward with creating new management plans without the cooperation of any tribal leaders, as they’ve all refused to work with the federal government until there’s a court ruling. Cooperating agencies that have elected to be involved in the planning process include San Juan County, Monticello and Blanding cities, the State of Utah, School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, the State of Utah and federal agencies, including the Forest Service, NPS and BLM. In the meantime, unity among the tribes and grassroots organizations continues to grow. In a historic November election, Grayeyes was elected as the second Navajo on the three-person San Juan County Commission. “For the first time, Navajos, who hold a slight majority in the county, will see that reflected in their governing bodies,” the Navajo Times reports. “The San Juan County Board of Education also emerged from the election with a Native majority.”

As Grayeyes prepares for his years ahead in public office, he’s looking forward to uplifting Native voices in all state matters, not just in the context of Bears Ears.

“So different are the Native American perspectives on resources, natural resources. How they understand them, how they interpret them, is totally different from how dominant society, the federal government, state government, county government interprets them. So that is the reason why we continue to stay involved and hopefully the lawsuits that we placed to reinstill or reinstate the initial proclamation would be realized sometime soon down the road,” Grayeyes says.

“So is it rightful for a sitting president to unilaterally quash a standing, established proclamation or policy? That is the question to this day.”

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hen the hail came, it was from the west and it was without warning. The June sky darkened, a cool breeze picked up and very suddenly, to Michael Moss’ horror, sheets of quarter- and dime-sized hail began to thrash his farmland, tearing apart his vegetable crops, mowing into them like machine gun fire. Huddled with his farmhands in the wash station, he watched, helplessly as the fruits of their labor, his livelihood, was mangled and destroyed by the power of Mother Nature.

The squall was over in just 20 minutes. And when it was, Moss had lost almost three acres of vegetables. Eggplants, tomatoes and peppers lay battered and broken beneath a thick blanket of hail pebbles.

“There’s really not anything you can do,” Moss says. “You just have to be resilient and be ready to roll with the punches.”

Moss owns and operates Kilt Farm in Boulder County. He’s a kilt-wearing, Godfearing farmer from Florida, with a passion for growing wholesome, organic food and living close to the land. And he had a rough summer, a rough year, really. It’s one from which it is going to take a long time to recuperate.

“It took a lot of assessing the damage,” he says. “I’m going to have to refinance some debts and work really hard for years to recover from that [hailstorm].”

If it weren’t for Moss’ resilience, the fact that he operates properties spread over several miles,

and the support of his hardworking wife, that 20-minute hailstorm could have very easily been the end for Kilt Farm.

And, it wouldn’t be uncommon in these parts.

Farming in Boulder County is hard — for a lot of reasons outside of natural hazards like hail or drought. Organic market farm producers face a lot of variables and challenges that are out of their control and have nothing to do with competency, skill level or experience. And that all contributes to the county’s somewhat notorious farm failure rate of 80 percent.

That failure rate was first reported in 2016, fostering doubt among some in the community and calling into question Boulder County’s $1 million organic food farming program. But it’s also a somewhat conflated statistic — and one that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Blake Cooper, the agricultural resource manager for Boulder County, says that the farm failure figure, while technically correct, is somewhat exaggerated. The math behind the high percentage failure rate is right, says Cooper, but only if you count individuals, and not the groups of individuals that were farming together as a unit on a single property.

“We had several farms that were, for lack of a better term, a collective or a co-operative, where we had multiple tenants on a single small property,” describes Cooper.

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In theory, it seemed like an elegant way to increase the amount of local food being grown in the area, and, at the same time, support numerous start-up farmers without having to divide and sub-divide Boulder County Open Space and Mountain Park (OSMP) properties.

In practice, however, things proved more complicated than anticipated.

“If you take a 20-acre property and divided it up into 40 little parts, that all sounds good until you figure out something like there’s only one water delivery source,” Cooper explains.

“And how are those 40 farmers going to allocate that? Who gets water on what day? And who doesn’t get to water their crops?”

The co-operative model becomes a logistical impossibility, he says. And one that, in several instances, resulted in these groups of farmers going out of business, together on the same plot of land like sailors going down with a ship.

“Suffice it to say, the groups did not persist for very long and the properties were generally turned over to the best of the survivors,” Cooper says. Survivors like Michael Moss, who outlastSee FARM FAILURES Page 18

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ed the other farmers with whom he was cultural land on their own in Boulder sharing land, and eventually took over County, where the average price for the property after they’d gone under in purchasing a farm is $1.9 million. order to expand Kilt Farm.

That’s simply unrealistic for market “So, in a sense it did accomplish the farmers, who often exist on a financial goal of getting some start-ups actually razor’s edge. in the game,” says Cooper.

In fact, most market farmers in But it also gave rise to the infamous Boulder County are stretched so thin 80 percent farm failure rate. that they have no other choice but to That’s important to recognize supplement their farming income with because many farmers, like Alice Starek, side hustles and outside earnings. who owns and operates The Golden “Many exemplary farms become Hoof farm with her husband, Karel, nonprofits associated with educational thinks that people attributed that num- outreach and derive income from classber, wrongly, to farmes and donations Amelia Ann Photography er incompetence and because the margins inability, as if that 80 are so low for food,” percent failure rate Starek says. “The indicated a deficiency typical business of quality farmers in model for selling the area. local food has you “I don’t think lack maybe showing a of farming knowlprofit in five years if edge is the limiting everything goes well factor, overall,” she — and that profit says. According to will likely be well her, the root causes below a living wage.” are environmental, Some farmers grow Christmas trees, economic and syssome grow medicinal temic. Many of the hemp, horse hay or farmers who went decorative pumpkins; under were capable, The 80 percent farm failure rate isn’t about competency others operate resexperienced and — Boulder’s farmers just taurants, catering entrepreneurial, have a lot of cards stacked against them, says Alice businesses or sell Starek says.

Starek of The Golden Hoof potted plants.

Some, like Moss, farm.

According to the faced severe weather USDA, 82 percent of challenges that cripU.S. farm household income comes pled their businesses — one unlucky from this kind of off-farm work. It’s the hail storm and a farmer’s entire margin only way market farmers can afford to of profit might go on the chopping run their farm and sustain their families block. Drought and flood also pose at the same time. equally catastrophic threats to farmers And, systemically speaking, the marhere. And since the U.S. Department of ket space for farm-grown organic proAgriculture (USDA) doesn’t offer crop duce is extremely narrow. Sure, farmers’ insurance for most organic produce markets are great places to buy some farming, severe and unpredictable weather can make or break these farms. fresh, locally grown organic produce during the summer. But in reality, a Economic factors like the cost of small percentage of food consumed in living and cost of labor also play huge roles in the success of market farmers in Boulder County is produced locally. The niche these producers are filling is slim Boulder County. Living in the area is — and, without a cultural paradigm shift not cheap, and farmers who want to around food and farming, it’s unlikely compensate their farmhands fairly are that it’s getting wider any time soon. faced with some tight budget margins.

With so many factors playing into “The need to hire and keep and the failure of a Boulder County farm, house farm labor is almost becoming a cost-prohibitive barrier to success,” says the touted 80 percent failure rate paints the picture in far-too-broad of brush Cooper. It is a problem that farmers strokes. It is not all (or even mostly) here feel acutely — particularly during about competency — Boulder’s farmers hardship. just have a lot of cards stacked against It can be difficult to find employees that will stick with you, agrees Moss. “It’s them.

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Gil Schaenzle raised awareness — and money for research — about neuroendocrine cancer by running through 50 national parks in honor of her daughter Anna.

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Gil Schaenzle raises money for NET cancer on a nationwide running mission

by Emma Walker

G

il Schaenzle is tough. It’s not her demeanor; she laughs easily and speaks warmly about her family.

But this is a woman who once broke her ankle seven miles into a half-marathon in Yuma, Arizona, hobbled to an aid station, fashioned herself a duct-tape splint, and finished the race.

Any previous hardships in Schaenzle’s life, though, did nothing to prepare her for an almost unthinkable loss: that of her daughter, Anna, who passed away in March 2017 at just 21 years old. Anna had neuroendocrine cancer (NET cancer, for short), and lived just nine months after her diagnosis — the same amount of time, Schaenzle points out, that she carried Anna, and the same number of months it took her to run through 50 national parks after Anna’s death.

The idea to run through dozens of national parks became a way for Schaenzle to cope with the death of her only child, but it didn’t begin that way.

Schaenzle had been a sprinter in high school and ran throughout college, until she developed pain in her knee and eventually needed surgery.

“Of course, back then, [surgery] wasn’t that great,” she remembers. “My surgeon said to go home, throw away all my high heels, and never run again.”

By the time she was in her 50s, the combination of her once-bum knee and an autoimmune disease had taken its toll on her running ambitions. Eager to lose the weight she’d gained, she regularly went for walks in her Evergreen neighborhood. Then, one day, it occurred to her to try jogging a little.

“I think I went about 10 feet before I had to stop,” Schaenzle laughs. The next day, she ran about 20 feet before she was out of breath, and less than a month later, she was running her first 10-kilometer race.

Within two months, she was racing her first half-marathon — Schaenzle doesn’t take things slowly. This, it turned out, was a bit of a problem. After the ankle break in Yuma, she was eager to lace up her shoes again, and ended up re-injuring herself. As she recovered, the national parks idea began to take shape.

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of my mind,” she says of those weeks.

“I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get out of the race circuit for awhile and just get into nature. What if I ran all the national parks?’”

Schaenzle started planning her running mission to pass the time. Soon enough, she was in physical therapy.

“That’s when my daughter was diagnosed with this insidious cancer,” she explains, the optimism draining from her voice. “So of course the plan immediately went to the back burner.”

Anna passed away nine months later, and Schaenzle was inconsolable.

“I couldn’t stop crying,” she says of the dark days after Anna’s death, “but I got another little shoulder-tap, like, ‘You need to do this.’”

She consulted Anna’s surgeon about the possibility of using the running mission to raise money and awareness for NET cancer, and the surgeon put her in touch with the Healing NET Foundation.

Schaenzle put the whole thing together in just two months, and on Nov. 10, 2017 — NET Awareness Day — she embarked on her mission in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park.

Over the next few months, Schaenzle traveled more than 42,000 miles between national parks, where she ran, hiked and kayaked. Along the way, she met countless NET patients, and her efforts have raised more than $12,000 for NET research.

“NET patients go through a lot,” she says, noting that NET cancer is often misdiagnosed. She explains that NET can occur anywhere in the human body, though it’s most commonly found in the torso. (Anna’s cancer was in her adrenal gland.)

Schaenzle compares pancreatic cancer, for example, to NET cancer found in the pancreas: “It’s misdiagnosed because [doctors are] looking for horses, not zebras,” she says. Those two particular types of cancer can occur in the same place, but, she explains, they’re treated differently.

On her national parks runs, she often

wore zebra stripes to raise awareness of such differences, and hopes folks who get a cancer diagnosis that “just doesn’t ring true” for some reason will ask their doctors to check for NET cancer.

Schaenzle was often on the road with her husband, Fred, and she spent plenty of time meeting folks at the beginnings and ends of her runs. When it was just her on the trail, though, she says it felt like time she was spending with Anna.

It only made sense that Schaenzle, a Colorado resident since her teenage years, would finish her journey at Rocky Mountain National Park, where she often took Anna as a little girl. She tears up as she describes that emotional finish along the road near the park entrance station.

“A guy pulled up next to me as I was finishing up my last run,” she remembers, “and asked ‘Are you Anna?’ I told him, ‘No, I’m Gil, Anna’s mom.’” The next thing Schaenzle knew, he was hanging a sign out his car’s window. “‘You did it, Gil and Anna!’ he told me.” Cars behind him started to cheer her on, as well. “It restored my faith in humanity to have all these people interested in Anna’s story,” she says of her months on the road.

One day during Anna’s battle with NET cancer, when she was home after a chemotherapy session, Schaenzle mentioned the national parks run. She wondered if her daughter would be her support crew as she logged miles in each of her planned parks.

To her surprise, Anna shook her head. “She told me, ‘I’m going to run it with you,’” Schaenzle says through tears. “She knew with utter resolve that she was going to do this with me.” Anna couldn’t join her mom on the running mission in the way she’d intended, but, to hear Schaenzle tell it, she was still along for the ride.

Learn more about NET cancer at www.thehealingnet.com, and visit Schaenzle’s blog to read more about her run through the parks.

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he shortened version of the extremely long story,” Charlie Parr begins when I ask about the journey he took to make his new record, Dog, “was that I was clinically diagnosed with depression when I was a teenager. Failed — thankfully — suicide attempts put me in the state hospital a few times. It kind of changed the trajectory of my life in ways I never could have imagined.

“And then it went away.”

The Duluth, Minnesota-based folksinger says he didn’t experience that kind of depression again for decades, not until he was in his late-40s.

“It came back in a really hard way. I had forgotten about it, what it was like.

People have a tendency to make the easy equation that depressed people are sad. It had nothing to do with sadness at all. I wish I felt sadness. I’d be glad to be sad; at least you feel something.

For me it manifested into this harsh and cruel negative space. Feels very blank. That’s much worse than sadness.

I don’t mind being sad; there’s a purposefulness to it. Melancholy creates and blankness destroys.”

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four, going on five years. To cope — or distract — he stays on the road. He’s a 250-shows-a-year kind of musician. It took a broken shoulder this summer to get Parr off the road.

“Leading up to Dog some of this stuff was starting to break loose a bit,” Parr says. “And I was starting to let myself write in a more personal way.

Before, what I wrote was personal but directed at different subjects other than myself. I write about my dad, people I know, I make up composite characters, fictional stories. But Dog was really personal, and writing about it seemed to help a little bit lifting some of the... ” Parr pauses, recalibrates.

“Revisiting depression in my late 40s was different than it was as a teenager. When I was a teenager everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s gonna lift and then you’re gonna have your whole life. You’re gonna be happy.’ But now no one can say that to me. I’m 50 years old — you can’t tell me I’ve got my whole life ahead of me because I don’t. There’s this weird sense of bleakness that came with it that I didn’t have when I was 15 and I have it now. So Dog has some of those kinds of problems hovering around it.”

Parr struggled to make the record.

The recording session for Dog was scheduled and canceled three times. At one point, feeling defiant about his depression, Parr was set on making two records: one solo, since the songs were so personal, and another with a big ensemble of folks on the same tracks to help “lift the heavy mood.” But his own mood wasn’t up to the task.

Finally, it was his close friend, percussionist Mikkel Beckman, who refocused Parr’s attention.

“He reminded me of the way we first started recording. He said we just didn’t talk about it. We didn’t plan it.

We had songs and we went somewhere where someone was recording and we just recorded it and that was the record.”

Finally, with four of his closest musical companions at his side, Parr let go and laid down Dog in a single afternoon.

Recording has never been an easy endeavor for Parr, which might be surprising given his 13-album catalog.

“I think my problem is that I make...” Parr pauses, goes a different route. “I wanna be…” He reconsiders one last time, then goes for it: “I wanna

be part of the community of musicians who create important recordings or landmark records, and I’m not. I’m part of a different community of musicians who are more tuned into just performing and traveling. I’m an attenuate folksinger and I’ve got to get it out of my head that I’m going to be something different than that. It’s a process of selfacceptance I’m trying to work on.”

Parr assures me that this isn’t just low self-esteem talking, that he doesn’t see this as a deficit in his personality.

Quite the opposite. This is radical acceptance.

“There’s not gonna be a single masterpiece in my life,” Parr says. “The masterpiece of my life is just going to be the entire act of traveling around playing these songs.

“I think it was Jerry Garcia that said, ‘Music only happens when people are making music.’ Recordings are the reminiscences of music. They’re not really music. It’s an impression. I’m a real believer in that.”

Even while Parr works on accepting who he is as a musician, the music he makes is self-assured, strong, even when it cries out in pain. Dog is a vulnerable album, but it’s never weak. You can feel Boulder Weekly

Parr’s mood shifting as the album progresses, moving from Parr alone on acoustic guitar in the album opener, “Hobo,” to a washboard-and-harmonica-fueled foot-stomper on the closing track, “Peaceful Valley.” There’s a lot of darkness spread throughout, right to the very end (“Peaceful Valley” is a rollicking, borderline funny, dark tale about a hoarder facing eviction), but the record never veers into abject bleakness.

Like most folks dealing with chronic depression, Parr’s mastered the ancient mental martial arts of gallows humor and self-deprecation.

“When I go down that funeral road/ Baby I’ll be dressed up fine,” Parr sings in “I Ain’t Dead Yet.” “With a brand new suit and tie/ Like I never could afford when I was alive/ Well I ain’t dead yet/ Lemme wear that suit right now/ No one can see it/ When I’m locked in that box/ Underneath the ground.”

Parr steps outside his own head to examine the meaning of life in the title track.

“I’ve been forced down ever since I was just small/ Tied in the hall or chained out of doors/ When a soul is a soul is a soul is a soul.”

“I had this weird revelation a few years back,” Parr says. “I had this dog, Ruby. We’d go for these walks and it occurred to me one day: I can go for a walk anytime I want to but this dog, on the other hand, is subject to my whims, and suddenly it struck me how not fair that was. We started taking walks where I would just follow her where she went.

We did a lot of trespassing. These walks took on a whole other meaning to me personally. I started to see what she’s interested in. She’s stopping to smell something and I wonder what it’s like.

She has a whole encyclopedia in her head of what happened at this spot. I’d never drag her away from a smelling place; it’s like getting to the end of a good book and someone taking it away from you before you can finish.”

Again, Parr dives into the psyche of a canine for “Another Dog,” wondering about the level of control humans demand over everything around them, including their pets.

“That amount of control is a problem,” Parr says. “I want less. I want more understanding and less control.”

Parr’s spent his life looking for understanding. A “weirdo” from Austin, Minnesota — home of Hormel and SPAM, which basically offered the only jobs in town — Parr was a bookish kid who got ridiculed frequently for being put in the hospital for “something that wasn’t real.”

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(and, unsurprisingly, scored high marks). Through it all, his parents remained steadfast in their devotion to their son, never judging him, always supporting.

Parr went on to earn a degree in philosophy, but soon found himself working with a homeless outreach group in Minneapolis. His job was pretty simple: drive around looking for people who looked like they needed help. He’d hand out food and blankets, and refer people to social workers or the VA. “The first time I did it I felt immediately at home in my own skin for once,” Parr says. “You wouldn’t believe the people who live outside in Minnesota, how they have to be incredibly resourceful. If you’re sleeping outside in the winter, the tendency, in my experience, is to make sure your neighbor is warm, make sure the people around you were going to be awake when you wake up the next morning. I saw that time and again and it changed my life. It helped me far more than I ever helped anyone. The thing they did for me was far more valuable than what I did for them.”

Parr’s carried that with him through his life, that vision of resilience in life’s darkest hours. Resiliency is there in everything Parr does. He’s held onto it through his father’s death when Parr was 25, through a marital separation, through his diagnosis with focal dystonia, an uncureable neurological condition that forced Parr to change the way he plays guitar and quit playing banjo altogether.

He’s been resilient through recent suicidal thoughts.

It could be that part of Parr’s resilience comes from his open-book personality. Even when he admits that he hasn’t sought the professional help he knows he’s needed over the past five years, it’s clear Parr’s done some psychological maintenance.

It’s clear because Parr’s alive and having this conversation right now.

“Saying [I was suicidal] made people extremely uncomfortable because I think they think [I’m] looking for help, when I’m just presenting,” Parr says. “It’s like a fish bowl. Suicide is the fish and you can clearly see the fish through the bowl, it’s just what it is. I haven’t been able to find the skill in my words to tell people that I’m not asking you for help, I’m just presenting myself honestly to you. You don’t have to help me. I just want you to accept me and understand that you can see the fish and you can see it anytime you want to because the bowl is clear. The fish is fine. All you have to do is accept that fact, that this is the way I’m built.”

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t’s been 276 years, and people are still talking about Handel’s Messiah.

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But Messiah was not written for Christmas, and only about a third of it has anything to do with Christmas. The rest takes the story through Easter and the Resurrection. The first performances were given in April 1742, during Lent, and most performances in Handel’s lifetime followed that pattern.

Many people consider performances of the entire piece during the Christmas season inappropriate.

Conductor Cynthia Katsarelis is one of those people, but she has found a way to reconcile Messiah’s popularity at Christmas with its content. With the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Chamber Chorale and soloists, she will lead performances Dec. 1 and 2 of what she calls “a Christmas version.”

“We’re doing the Christmas section, plus,” she explains. In addition to the full Part One, which is the Christmas portion of the oratorio, “we use elements from Part Two and Part Three that illuminate why this birth is so important.”

In Handel’s day, the three parts were performed in concert, as three acts of a drama.

“That might be a great way to do it for Easter, but for Christmas it’s possible to tell a coherent, beautiful, majestic and sublime story without going into three acts.”

Katsarelis used three main criteria in selecting musical numbers from parts two and three. The first is to present texts that add to the Christmas story.

“What is significant is to tell the story,” Katsarelis says. “I put things together in parts two and three by scenes, so that it makes a coherent story.”

The scenes are smaller groupings of musical pieces within what Katsarelis characterizes as “basically an opera that’s not staged.” Each scene tells a separate part of the story, through a combination of recitatives, arias, duets and sometimes a concluding chorus.

There is musical continuity within each scene, with momentum that builds from the first musical number to the last.

Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ tailored for the Christmas season

by Peter Alexander cal instruments orchestra, but Katsarelis Another criterion was selecting says they perform “on modern instrupieces that were especially suitable for ments with historically informed sensithe four soloists — soprano Jennifer bilities. It’s scaled to the venue (Boulder’s Bird, alto Leah Creek Biesterfeld, Mountain View Methodist Church). tenor Stephen Soph and baritone “We’ve got a choir of 40,” Katsarelis says, Adam Ewing. “They are so wonderful, “which is about the scale of the original and they’re wonderful together,” Dublin premiere.”

Katsarelis says.

One aspect of this performance Finally, she had to consider the that is absolutely key changes between authentic is that it is a sections. These transiON THE BILL: Pro benefit concert. The tions from one musical Musica Colorado and very first performance in number to the next Boulder Chamber Orchestra present Dublin was a charity happen smoothly when Handel’s Messiah. 7:30 concert for prisoners’ the whole piece is p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, debt relief, the Mercer played as written, but and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, Mountain View Hospital and the when sections are cut, Methodist, 355 Ponca Charitable Infirmary. new junctions occur Place, Boulder.

Later, Handel arranged that may sound awkfor Messiah to be perward. “I have made sure formed annually in that there’s nothing jarring,” Katsarelis says. “I find [the piece] London to benefit the Foundling Hospital, which stills owns a copy of incredibly flexible, and by taking things the score in Handel’s hand. by scenes, it works itself out pretty The Boulder performances will well.” include a food drive for Community She is not the first person to Food Share. Audience members are abridge Messiah in just this way. As a violinist, Katsarelis has played dozens of encouraged to bring non-perishable, packaged food items, such as canned Messiah performances, many of them goods, cereal and pasta to be collected with the second and third portions cut at the performances. down to place the focus on the And in case you are wondering, yes, Christmas story. And in her research, the “Hallelujah” Chorus will be includshe discovered that Leonard Bernstein ed, although it has been moved from did such a performance with the New the end of Part Two to the very end of York Philharmonic in 1956. the performance. That “may be contro“You can go into New York versial” for purists, Katsarelis says, “but Philharmonic digital archives and see it sums up the feelings of the story.” his score,” she says. “I didn’t know Besides, there is no better way to about the Bernstein [performance] before. He and I didn’t necessarily come end the Christmas story than with that blockbuster choral number. “It will to exactly the same conclusions, but knock everybody’s socks off,” Katsarelis close.”

Pro Musica Colorado is not a histori- says. “They must come to hear that.”

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Or how many times you’ve experienced a miracle on a certain street about eight blocks from 42nd. Or if you think life is, in fact, wonderful. The most divisive Christmas movie debate in the history of Christmas, movies and debate is, beyond a bearded, bowl-full-of-jelly-bellied shadow of a doubt, whether A Christmas Story sits atop the heap of holiday classics or is merely cult-flick counterprogramming that no one could love other than ironically.

How you answer that question will likely determine whether you’ll love or loathe A Christmas Story: The Musical. Because, let’s face it, if you already detest the 1983 Hollywood source material then the 2012 Broadway adaptation is just as likely to roast your chestnuts. In contrast, if you wait with candy cane-baited breath every year for the 24-hour A Christmas Story marathon on TV, then prepare to be holly and/or jolly, because A Christmas Story: The Musical remains slavishly faithful to the original’s story beats while marrying them to musical numbers written by the songwriting team responsible for the standout tunes in Dear Evan Hansen and La La Land.

It’s the 1940s in Indiana, and young Ralphie Parker (Ned Swartz or Miles Shaw) wants an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle for Christmas. As only a preteen can be, he’s obsessed with what he sees as the greatest Christmas present ever.

The problem is that his mother ( Joanie Brosseau-Rubald) thinks BB guns are dangerous. She’s sure that if Ralphie gets one he’ll shoot his eye out.

While Ralphie explores, increasingly desperately, all the ways he might get past the “classic mother-BB gun block,” the days leading up to Christmas fly by, each with its own hilarious, true-to-life moments. When Ralphie’s father (Scott Boulder Weekly

ON THE BILL: A Christmas Story: The Musical. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Tickets are $45 and up. Through Jan. 5. bdtstage.com

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Beyette) isn’t battling his frozen Oldsmobile or duking it out with the family’s furnace, he’s entering crossword contests in a thinly veiled effort to bolster his self-esteem. When the Old Man finally wins a “major award,” it arrives in a form that has become one of the most enduring pop culture images of the past 35 years... the Leg Lamp.

Randy (Markus Hollekim or Hayden McDonald), Ralphie’s little brother, refuses to eat and winds up a turtle on his back in his Michelin Man snowsuit. Flick (Trenton Fano or Quin Solley) gets his tongue stuck to the frozen flagpole after Schwartz (Brody Lineweaver or Ayden Edgar) triple dog dares him. Ralphie doesn’t say “fudge” when the lug nuts go flying as he’s helping his dad change a flat tire. The Scut Farkus Affair plays out as expected. Ralphie entreats Santa. The bunny suit makes an appearance, and Ralphie’s family is once again introduced to Chinese turkey.

The biggest departure from the film version is that the adult Ralphie narrating the story as he reminisces is present on stage in the musical version. Wayne Kennedy gets the honor, and his presence — even if just at the periphery of a

scene — enlivens the proceedings immeasurably. He delivers some of the most memorable lines from the movie with just the right mix of reverence and quirky playfulness.

The always dependable BDT Stage has outdone itself with A Christmas Story: The Musical. Perhaps it’s the shorter-than-usual run, but every member of the cast seems abuzz with excitement to be putting on this show.

Whatever eggnog-flavored Kool-Aid director Scott Beyette has his actors drinking, it’s working. The set, in particular, astounds (thank you, Amy Campion). Using just a few movable constructions, the crew quickly and seamlessly transitions from the Parker house to the elementary school to Higbee’s department store and back again. The Parkers even take multiple car rides assisted by the BDT Stage’s rotating stage.

If you’re a fan of A Christmas Story then the BDT Stage’s A Christmas Story: The Musical is sure as sugarplums a must-see. Even if you’d rather shoot your eye out than watch the movie again this year, you may be surprised at just how much you enjoy the musical adaptation. There’s only one way to find out. Fa, ra, ra, ra ra!

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TreeLine Theater company makes debut with ‘Underneath the Lintel’ by Caitlin Rockett

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n the name of efficiency and progress in today’s digital world, we’ve all but lost the library due date ink stamper, innocuous an object as it is. And who cares, really? Date checked-out, date checked-in... that’s all there is to it.

Or is it?

When you think about it, the ink stamper contains all of history, every date that’s ever been or will be (for several thousand years, at least), right there in your hand. The stamper is like a passport, sending books off on journeys, providing a record of where a book has been, and when.

In Underneath the Lintel — the inaugural production by Boulder’s TreeLine Theater — the stamper creates a gateway to the world for an uptight Dutch librarian who has never left his town of Hoofddorp.

After he discovers a travel guide has been returned 113 years past its due date, the Librarian sets off on a journey across the world, across the ages, to find who anonymously returned the book.

“It’s beautifully written,” says TreeLine founder and artistic director Steve Grad. “It has some very powerful themes in it; themes of the necessity for human contact, for intimacy, to leave a legacy behind after we’re gone. It raises the question of the existence of God. And it’s funny. I won’t do anything that doesn’t have some humor in it.”

Grad plays the Librarian in the monodrama. It was roles like that of the older Librarian that Grad found lacking in Boulder’s traditional theater scene (“I was looking for things that would have a nice role for a man my age — a young fella, you know?”). A lifelong actor who cofounded Boulder’s long-lost Theater 13 company, Grad figured the best way to get the roles he wanted was to start a theater group. TreeLine formed this year with funding from the Boulder County Arts Alliance.

For the company’s debut production, Grad asked his friend Amy Kaplan, a veteran writer and video editor, if she’d be interested in directing Underneath the Lintel. The two had worked together on several productions from VIVA, the intergenerational theater troupe of Boulder’s Society for Creative Aging. They worked together on 2016’s The Outgoing Tide, where Grad played a man struggling to maintain control in the throes of Alzheimer’s, and last year’s Parlor Tricks, where Grad played a husband caught between his wife and mistress at the hairdresser.

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ON THE BILL: Underneath The Lintel — presented by TreeLine Theater. Friday, Nov. 30-Sunday, Dec. 9. Dairy Arts Center, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors.

“Steve asked me to direct, and I like him, and I like his sense of humor and that he doesn’t take himself terribly seriously as either a man or an actor,” Kaplan half-jokes.

“I love the humor,” she says of Underneath the Lintel, “because it’s based in character. It’s not lines that were written to be funny. The humor is coming out of this [character’s] personality.”

Personable and gracious, someone who has traditionally spent his winters in Mexico and teaches English through Boulder’s Intercambio organization, Grad’s own personality is quite different from that of the deeply fearful, misanthropic character he plays in Lintel.

Karen Spies Yet Grad effortlessly taps into the Librarian’s curmudgeonly arrogance, reveling the deep insecurity that causes it. Alone on stage, Grad easily fills the space and time with the Librarian’s bumpy journey toward self-actualization.

He and Kaplan have trimmed the play slightly to run at around 80 minutes, giving Grad the space he needs to develop the plot without making the production a marathon for its sole actor. The result is a runtime that’s also pleasing to the audience.

“What makes any artistic experience valuable is the aesthetic value of it,” Grad says.

“Whatever the themes are. I have a degree in Russian literature, believe it or not, and I was thinking about Tolstoy, who later in life had a religious conversion and began writing religious texts. Nobody reads them now, but people are still reading War and Peace, they’re still reading Anna Karenina, they’re still reading his short stories because they have the same message but they’re said with art. They’re said aesthetically.”

Lintel is a gentle reminder that we are each solitary, ordinary people on one unified, extraordinary journey. While the play touches on the existence of God, it doesn’t ask us to believe in God. Rather, it asks us to believe in something — anything — in the face of the reality that we are all tiny specs living on a tiny rock hurtling through an infinite universe. It asks us to believe in ourselves, and, most importantly, to believe in one another.

“Still, we’ll proceed,” the Librarian says over and again throughout the play, a reminder that he must keep going when it seems there’s nowhere to go. It’s a reminder to the audience as well.

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Born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Estas Tonne studied classical music at the local music school. Today he travels the world spreading an inspirational message, like a modern day troubadour, charming audiences with his Gyspy take on classical guitar.

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3rd Law Dance

The “Technological Singularity” describes an imminent explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that surpasses human capacity at an exponential rate. Award-winning choreographer Katie Elliott co-directs Singularity with critically acclaimed composer Paul Fowler, exploring the positive and negative effects of AI on human civilization. This original evening of dance/theater investigates the technological singularity through futurist philosophical texts, a haunting score by Fowler, dynamic multimedia and the signature lush, virtuosic choreography of the 3rd Law Dance/Theater.

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A couple of Boulder natives, Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, have hit the big time with Cam, a horror movie about a webcam girl (Madeline Brewer) who wakes up one day to find her account hijacked by a look-alike imposter.

Based on Mazzei’s experience as a camgirl, and fraught with the unsettling exposure of the internet, Cam is as timely as it is tense. Bought by Netflix following its debut at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Fest this past summer, Cam is currently streaming on the site but will also have a run on the big screen at Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake, Nov. 30 to Dec. 5. Mazzei and Goldhaber are sure to drop in for a Q&A or two.

Check drafthouse.com for more.

Maji Safi Group

Children of all ages will love this funfilled show by Boulder-based nonprofit Maji Safi Group, which provides education about water sanitation and hygeiene practices in Tanzania. This year’s show will feature circus acts

by Fractal Tribe, singing by the High Altitude a cappella group from Boulder High School, dancing by Block 1750, juggling by Zeke and Nathaniel Waxler, and a magic show by Ann Lincoln.

Enjoy some holiday shopping at a market with authentic African art and fabrics as well as donated items from your favorite Boulder businesses.

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events Alyson Hagy — Scribe. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

As the year rolls headlong into the holiday season, you might be thinking you’d like to finally bake that perfect cake from scratch for an upcoming holiday feast. Nicole Hampton can answer all your baking questions — particularly the nuances that come from baking at altitude — regarding sweet and savory treats. See Hampton speak about her new book, ‘Sugar High,’ at Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 29

Sunday, Dec. 2

Day Schildkret — Morning Altars. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Bookstore Historic LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Joe Starita — A Warrior of the People. 2 p.m.

Tattered Cover Bookstore Historic LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Marc Freedman — How to Live Forever. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Mark Barnhouse — Lost Department Stores of Denver. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Julia Mossbridge — The Premonition Code.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Friday, Nov. 30 Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Saturday, Dec. 1

So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Tuesday, Dec. 4 Norse Poetry Night. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Jane Binns. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

Nicole Hampton — Sugar High. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Wednesday, Dec. 5 L. Hunter Lovins — A Finer Future. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Bookstore Historic LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver.

Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Jason Heller and Selena Chambers — Mechanical Animals. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Monday, Dec. 3 The Nobel Lecture Series — Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Stanley H. Mullen — New Essays in Philosophy of Religion. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Joel Gerger — Extreme Conservation. 2 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Thursday, November 29 Music Christopher Bosch. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

G Jones. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Geoff and Christina Union. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Jababa. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Kyle Donovan’s ‘The Songwriter Hour’ featuring Jonny Miller and Monica Marie. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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Monica Marie. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Sandi Siegel. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. 8:30 p.m.

Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Events Brad Williams. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Memoir of War. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Research Rendezvous: National History Day Open House. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, November 30 Music

The Gift of Home 2018 Holiday Home Tour. 5 p.m. Longmont Meals on Wheels, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0540.

Adam Lopez Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Pella Crossing, Longmont.

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TreeLine Theater, Boulder’s newest professional theater company, presents Steve Grad as The Librarian in the awardwinning ‘Underneath the Lintel’

by Glen Berger. In this insightful and bizarre existential scavenger hunt, the discovery of a book 113 years overdue sets an introverted librarian off on a quest to find out who returned it. In the process he discovers his deep human need for contact, intimacy and the desire to bring meaning to an unfulfilled life. Showing at The Dairy Arts Center through Dec. 9. See page 29 for more.

The Humans. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Kanabbis Family Holiday Special. Denvers Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Denver.

Through Dec. 29.

Mary Poppins. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 6.

Santa’s Big Red Sack. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Through Dec. 24.

Scrooge Bah Humbug. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens Nov. 30. Through Dec. 30.

Scrooge! The musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Dec. 31.

A Christmas Carol. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24.

The Christmas Spirit — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Dec. 29.

A Christmas Carol. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.

A Christmas Story: The Musical. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Jan. 5.

A Christmas Carol – The Radio Show. Vintage Theatre, Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Dec. 23.

Elf, The Musical. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through Dec. 23.

Underneath the Lintel — presented by TreeLine Theater. Dairy Center for the Arts, Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 9.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Through March 31.

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8:00pm NO COVER 12/1 RHYTHM ALL STARS

For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu THURSDAY, NOV. 29 Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not.

7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

NEW YEAR’S EVE

5 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Department Atrium, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Early Music Ensemble: Handel in Rome.

6 p.m. Village Center Dining and Community Commons, Breakout Rooms A and B, 500 30th St., Boulder.

CU Symphony Orchestra.

12/22 ROOTS & RHYTHM

Opening Reception: Fall 2018.

Firing Squad Pitch Night: Presented by New Venture Challenge and Deming Center Venture Fund.

7 p.m. Norlin Library, M549, Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

12/15 KELLI SAID

4:30 p.m. Student Recreation Center, Ice Rink Overlook Room, 1855 Peasant St., Boulder.

5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

Peter Duhon vai Wikimedia BFA Exhibition

Dawn Lundy Martin Poetry Reading.

12/8 STEREO COLLISION

FRIDAY, NOV. 30 People of Color Potluck.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Tommy Emmanuel — with Jerry Douglas.

8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1 CU Wizards! ‘There’s Something in the Air.’

Billy Strings. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Carnie Bums. 10 p.m. The Pioneer Inn, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

West African Highlife Ensemble.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

SUNDAY, DEC. 2 Vipassana Holiday Dinner.

11 a.m. Discovery Learning Center Building, 1095 Regent Drive, Boulder.

Japanese Ensemble.

2 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Gamelan Ensemble.

4:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

MONDAY, DEC. 3 Public Talk: CU Boulder College of Music. 2 p.m. Imig

Music, Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

A Transatlantic Advent: Music of Byrd & Billings. 7:30 p.m. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 805 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-746-5628.

Events Comedian Alonzo Bodden. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777.

Extra Gold Album Release. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Dressed to Kill. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Flynn & the Electric Company. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

The Guitar Collective III: Angel Vivaldi, Nita Strauss. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Hotfoot Duo. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Lindsey Saunders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

The Long Run. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Magic Beans, Eminence Ensemble. 8 p.m.

Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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MaryLynn Gillaspie and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Tommy Emmanuel. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

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1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

Dance in Film: a Sans Souci Sampler. 7 p.m. the collective, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette.

Legitimate Front Presented by Foundry Group.

7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

720-600-4875

CU Rockets: The Heroes of Future NASA Missions.

Public Talk: Italian Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

4 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, DEC. 4 Farm to Fashion Show. 6

p.m. Larimer Social, 427 Larimer St., Denver.

The Natural History of the Ponderosa Pine.

7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.

Faculty Tuesdays: Shall We Dance?

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 The Regenerative Earth Summit: Foot + Fiber + Climate.

8 a.m. Sustainable, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder. Through Dec. 6.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble: Emily OndracekPeterson, violin.

7:30 p.m. . Imig Music, Grusin Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

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Lasermau5. 10:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

2251 KEN PRATT BLVD

9:30 a.m. Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry Room 140, 1606 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.

The Simple Parade. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Saturday, December 1 Music The 89s. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685 9th Annual 1940’s White Christmas Ball. 4 p.m. Hyatt Regency Downtown Denver Convention Center, 650 15th St., Denver.

Boombox Cartel. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents The Seasons. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

Charlie Brown goes to the Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 281-960-3501.

Clandestine Amigo. 5:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewery, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Dean Himes — with Rolan & Mark. 7:30 p.m.

Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

Electric Toast, Smooth Money Gesture. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

A Girl Called Sethe. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Handel’s Messiah! — with the Boulder Chamber Chorale. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 720-443-0565.

Homes for the Holidays Tour: a benefit for Historic Boulder, Inc.. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Through Dec. 2.

Jackson Galaxy. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Jayme Stone’s Folklife. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

The Jive Tribe. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Les Amis. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Let it Glow, Let it Glow, Let it Glow! 7 p.m.

Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

Library Concert Series Presents: Holiday Harps with the Studio of Margot Krimmel. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with The Band of Heathens, Stephen Kellogg. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Saturday Sing-Along: Era of Jazz. 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events

The Front Bottoms, Manchester Orchestra.

7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

CSCH Annual Holiday Faire & Open House. 12 p.m. Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, 424 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-406-8609.

Giraffage & Ryan Hemsworth: Open World Tour. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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TROUT STEAK REVIVAL

FEAT BRIDGET LAW W/ OLD SALT UNION, LINDSAY LOU, THE SWEET LILLIES, WE DREAM DAWN (FEAT BRIDGET LAW), BONFIRE DUB & MAGNOLIA NORTH

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29

JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMONS W/ ERIC MCFADDEN AND FRIENDS & TWO FACES WEST

SATURDAY DECEMBER 1

SATURDAY DECEMBER 1

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W/ CONRANK, EAZYBAKED & PHLO

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 7

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FEAT GIANT COUNTRY HORNS W/ WAKE UP & LIVE (BOB MARLEY TRIBUTE)

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 • DUAL VENUE!

KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH’S HOPPY HOLIDAYS FEAT KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH BAND W/ EXMAG, TNERTLE, CASUAL COMMANDER & NOBIDE

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 2

THE MILE HIGH THROWDOWN

FEAT RUNAWAY CIGARS, DREAD SOL, VIOLET’S GUN, PARANOID IMAGE, THE HOODOO, KHANUNDRUM, DELIRIOUS NEBULA, PARADOX, RETENTION, CATCH ME CATATONIC, LIQUID TITANIUM, JAILPOCKET & DYLAN KISHNER BAND

MONDAY DECEMBER 3

THE HANG WITH JESSICA JONES TUESDAY DECEMBER 4

THUMPASAURUS

SUNDAY DECEMBER 9

W/ FAT TUESDAY HOUSE BAND FEAT MEMBERS OF MAGIC BEANS, DYNOHUNTER, ANALOG SON, MAMA MAGNOLIA & DANDU

W/ GYYPS & TRIP CARTER

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5 RE: SEARCH

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TUESDAY DECEMBER 11

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 • DUAL VENUE!

UNITED STATES OF BASS FEAT DJ CRAZE, DADDY KEV, DJ TAYE & DIESELBOY

FRIDAY DECEMBER 14

ILL.GATES LIVE A/V SET SATURDAY DECEMBER 15

THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURY’S FRIDAY DECEMBER 21

JADE CICADA & DETOX UNIT SATURDAY DECEMBER 22

BROTHER ALI

SHADOWS ON THE SUN 15TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR W/ REASON THE CITIZEN

SATURDAY DECEMBER 29

CURREN$Y

MONDAY DECEMBER 31

DEAN WEEN GROUP DUMPSTAPHUNK

FEAT LAPALUX

W/ HUXLEY ANNE, TROPO, MIKEY THUNDER & JORDAN POLOVINA

THURSDAY DECEMBER 6

GRASS FOR THAT ASS PRESENTS

BRAD PARSONS & STARBIRD W/ GRASSFED

FRIDAY DECEMBER 7

TRAVIS THOMPSON

PRESENTS “THE YOUGOOD? TOUR COMING TO DENVER, CO” W/ THEYCALLHIMAP, DOZE & AUDIBLE

MONDAY DECEMBER 10

THE HANG WITH JESSICA JONES

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 RE: SEARCH

FEAT NASTYNASTY & GLADKILL

W/ AVRY, MIKEY THUNDER & JORDAN POLOVINA

FRIDAY DECEMBER 14

LUNAR FIRE

FRIDAY & SATURDAY JANUARY 4-5

W/ CUALLI, MAGNETIK & PRECIOUS HILL

FEAT BEN KAUFMANN & ADAM AIJALA (YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND), LARRY KEEL, NOAM PIKELNY (PUNCH BROTHERS), SIERRA HULL & BRIDGET LAW (ELEPHANT REVIVAL) W/ KITCHEN DWELLERS

W/ LILY FANGZ & WRITE MINDED

STRING MOUNTAIN REVIVAL

FRIDAY JANUARY 11

THINK - TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN

FEAT KIM DAWSON (MATADOR SOUL SOUNDS), JEREMY SALKEN (BIG GIGANTIC) & MORE

SATURDAY DECEMBER 15

XIUHTEZCATL

MONDAY DECEMBER 17

THE HANG WITH JESSICA JONES

FRIDAY JANUARY 18

FEAT ANA SIA & ILL-ESHA

W/ BORAHM LEE KEY-J SET (BREAK SCIENCE & PRETTY LIGHTS LIVE), TOTEM & STILL POINT

SATURDAY JANUARY 19

JOHN MEDESKI’S MAD SKILLET FRIDAY JANUARY 25

EVERYONE ORCHESTRA

FEAT STEVE KIMOCK, BILL PAYNE (LITTLE FEAT), NATALIE CRESSMAN (TREY ANASTASIO BAND), JEREMY SALKEN (BIG GIGANTIC), GEORGE GEKAS (THE REVIVALISTS) & BRIAN MOSS (SPAFFORD) W/ LOS COLOGNES

SATURDAY JANUARY 26

EVERYONE’S DEAD

FEAT STEVE KIMOCK, MATT BUTLER (EVERYONE ORCHESTRA), BILL PAYNE (LITTLE FEAT), GEORGE GEKAS (REVIVALISTS) W/ NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF LITTLE FEAT

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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 RE: SEARCH

W/ LEA LUNA, MIKEY THUNDER & JORDAN POLOVINA

THURSDAY DECEMBER 20

GRASS FOR THAT ASS PRESENTS

TURKEYFOOT

W/ THE CODY SISTERS

FRIDAY & SATURDAY DECEMBER 21-22

JOEY PORTER’S SHADY BUSINESS

FEAT JENN HARTSWICK (TREY ANASTASIO BAND), MICHELANGELO CARUBBA (TURKUAZ), DJ WILLIAMS (KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE), NICK CASSARINO (NTH POWER), NATE EDGAR (NTH POWER), GABE MERVINE & DREW SAYERS (THE MOTET) 12/21: D-VIBES WATERMELON FUNK (OF MARCUS KING BAND) 12/22: ANALOG SON

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CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20 FEAT NIGHTMARES ON WAX (DJ SET)

DETROIT LOVE: CARL CRAIG & MOODYMANN NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS SATURDAY MARCH 2

ACTION BRONSON WHITE BRONCO TOUR W/ MEYHEM LAUREN

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Saving the World

Diane Martonis

Exploring light and shadow, fire and smoke, and the fragile mediums of paper and fabric allows Diane Martonis to discover the uncomfortable realm of impermanence and find comfort in accepting the unknown. Her show, ‘penumbra,’ is showing Nov. 30-Jan. 13 at The Dairy Arts Center.

Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.

Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through Dec. 15.

Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through Jan. 27.

Clas Oldenburg with Coosje Van Bruggen.

Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 2), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Jan. 6.

EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4) 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.

Type/Cast — by Joel Swanson. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillan Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Nov. 30.

Through Jan. 13.

DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver.

Opens Nov. 18. Through March 3.

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

LIQUID SKY COLD PLAY

Eat Well, Play Well. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Jan. 6.

9:00 PM

REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.

EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.

Cut Paper Wildlife Sculptures — by Tiffany Russell. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Jan. 4.

7:00 PM

penumbra — by Diane Martonis. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Nov. 30. Through Jan. 13.

100 Paintings — by Trine Bumiller. Naropa University Nalanda Campus, Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 4.

Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29

Open Space Visions. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Dec. 3.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30

Florian Hecker: Synopsis Seriation. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Through Dec. 22.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Through Dec. 1.

Making Headlines. Firehouse Art Center, Main Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Dec. 8.

Watercolor — by Nancy Sullo. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Jan. 4.

Where the Body Sits and Learns — by Benjamin Rogers. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Nov. 30.

Through Jan. 13 Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Jan. 20.

World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

7:00 PM

INCOMING! 9:00 PM

LASER GAGA 10:30 PM

LASERMAU5 11:59 PM

LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SATURDAY DECEMBER 1 2:30 PM

STARS AND LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 7:00 PM

INCOMING! 9:00 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:30 PM

LIQUID SKY PRETTY LIGHTS 11:59 PM

LASER FLOYD: WELCOME TO THE MACHINE SUNDAY DECEMBER 2 12:00 PM

DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM

STARS AND GALAXIES 3:00 PM

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CSED Week: Getting started with AR/VR with SparkFun. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Producing Professional 360° Virtual Reality Video. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Local Authors’ Holiday Book Sale. Noon.

Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-214-2127.

CSED Week: Make a Glowing Pin with Sewable Electronics. 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

NoBo Holiday Make and Take. 1 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

CSED Week: Robauto BiBli 3.0 Hackathon.

1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED Week: Toys2Life Stories and Software.

1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Escape Room: Sherlock Holmes @ Main. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

First Saturday Yoga: Robots and Twists for CSED Week. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

The Gentle Nutcracker. 1 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Gunbarrel Holiday Market. 11 a.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

4:30 PM

INCOMING!

Local Authors’ Holiday Book Sale. Noon.

Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-214-2127.

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

Mother Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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The Nutcracker Ballet. 4 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Whimsy Market. 10 a.m. Mackintosh Academy, 6717 S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-554-2011.

Sunday, December 2 Music Caroling for Community. 2 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

FLUID: A show for the queers. 7:30 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

A Human Named David. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 973-420-0158.

Jeff and Paige Chanukah Concert. 4 p.m. Levin Hall, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.

Unity Holiday Craft Fair. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Monday, December 3 Music Derek Pedersen, Dafna, Callie Carlucci. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Fleetwood Mac. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Musica Prima — A Multi-Media Concert Experience. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Events CSED Week: Build LEGO Airplanes with PlayWell TEKnologies. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

CSED Week: Code Python on a Raspberry Pi with SparkFun. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Surviving the Holidays During Your Grief. 2 p.m. LifeBridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-2927.

CSED Week: CSED Unplugged with Workbench. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events

CSED Week: Get inspired, get coding and get creative with Sphero EDU. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

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Green Fire — Boulder Rights of Nature Film Series. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED Week: Hour of Code Dance Party Tutorial. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED Week: Weaving Code. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Kepler: The Planet-Hunting Telescope. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

CSED Week: Robot Alley. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Karen Auvinen: Rough Beauty. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Tuesday, December 4 Music Alice In Winterland featuring OneRepublic.

6 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

CSED Week: Robotics Fun with Dash, Sphero SPRK+, Ozobots. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED Week: Simulation and 3D game design with AgentCubes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lego Storytime: Build your best robot ever for CSED Week! 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monty Franklin. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

On Her Shoulders. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

STEAM Storytime: CSED Week Robots! 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Childish Gambino. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

David Booker, RitaRita. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Minus the Bear. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Orchestra Concert. 6 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-319-3287.

Events All Ages Storytime: CSED Robot Storytime!

10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

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

CSED Week: DIY paper circuit holiday cards.

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

CSED Week: Use SketchUp for 3D printing.

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

CSED Week: Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m.

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Lap Babies: CSED Robot Storytime! 10:15 a.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lights Storytime. 6:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Wednesday, December 5 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E 1st St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Blues Night. 10 p.m. The Pioneer Inn, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Bob Barrick. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Face Vocal Band Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Red Fang. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Tengger Cavalry. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Vonce. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events 20th Animation Show of Shows. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

CSED Week: CSED Unplugged with Workbench.

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

CSED Week: Dash and Dot with CU Science Discovery. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Bergman brought Swedish cinema to the world stage while devising new ways to photograph and dramatize the inner life of the soul. When action and movement seduced other filmmakers, Bergman sought the dark corners of desire and inadequacy behind his actors’ eyes. Or was it his desire, his inadequacy he sought?

“Isn’t art always, to a certain extent, therapy for the artist?” he mused.

Yes, but somber tombs of doom and gloom these movies are not. Though they tackle heavy matters — death, old age, mental crack-ups, God’s silence, etc. — they do so with cinematic vim and vigor, with clowns and comedians, with joyous dancing and loads of sharp wit. They are highly entertaining films, some even light at times, and there is no better place to start than 1957’s The Seventh Seal, which will open CU-Boulder’s International Film Series’ Bergman Centennial Retrospective on Dec. 4.

Bergman staple Max von Sydow plays Antonius Block, a knight who returns home from the Crusades only to cross paths with Death (Bengt Ekerot) on Sweden’s rocky shores. To delay the inevitable, Block engages Death in a game of chess while trekking home across a country vastly different than the one he left years before.

Thanks to The Seventh Seal’s success, Bergman had all the cachet he needed to further an already flourishing career. His next film, Wild Strawberries (Dec. 5) once again took up the subject of mortality, this Bergman brought time against the backdrop of an aging professor Swedish cinema to the (Victor Sjöström) returning home to receive a lifeworld stage while devising new ways to time achievement award. photograph and draSimilar to The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries is matize the inner life of a road movie; one that wonders what good is it livthe soul. ing in a world full of suffering. Both films find a joyous answer, but in 1960’s The Virgin Spring (Dec. 6), the answer is not so joyful and certainly not as easy. Here, a young woman is raped and killed, and her father (Sydow) seeks revenge. Is he justified in his actions? Can one respond to immorality morally? Or is any cycle of violence doomed to consume all who inhabit it?

Watching these films chronologically, the French writer Jean-Claude Carrière concluded that Bergman’s main concern is religious guilt, one where the presence of God slips into the shadows and leaves men and women to their own devices.

That is most evident in 1966’s Persona (Dec. 7), a beautiful and layered masterpiece that defies explanation.

While the best movies illuminate, Persona haunts viewers the way a recurring dream permeates waking life. The line separating the two becomes blurred, and all things — life and death, hope and despair, love and sex — become one in the white-hot light of cinema — just the way Bergman wanted it.

CU professor Surajan Ganguly will introduce The Seventh Seal and Persona on Dec. 4 and 7. Michael J. Casey will introduce Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring on Dec. 5 and 6. Persona will be presented via DCP with the other three screenings on 35mm prints.

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inter weekends, when the air is crisp and storm clouds cover the sun, are perfect for brunch. We recently found ourselves in the RiNo District of Denver, wandering around the old warehousesturned-commercial spaces and stumbled upon the Stowaway Kitchen. Created and inspired by the adventures of two travelers, the menu is a mix of cuisine from around the world. The mushroom tartine combined sautéed mushrooms and spinach with beetroot hummus and goat cheese, covering fresh sourdough bread, with a perfectly perched poached egg on top. The whole dish is sprinkled with almond dukkah, a mixture of Arabic spices and crushed almonds, that gives each bite flare. $12.

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We opted for the sampler to try Tibet Kitchen’s take on vegetable, chicken and beef dumplings. In each, the dumpling itself is chewy, just thick enough, and perfectly salted. In the meat dumplings — loaded with chicken or beef, then cilantro, onion, garlic, scallion and ginger — the steam helps keep the filling ultra-moist, and seems to pronounce the bright flavors of cilantro, scallion and ginger. $7.95.

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hen Boulder’s 2018 food season reaches its grand finale this weekend, the celebration will actually take place, appropriately, in Longmont.

The 12th annual Winter Market, Dec. 1 and 2 at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, is the concluding gathering of the Boulder County Farmers Markets for the year.

The huge hall, packed with more than 70 local food growers and producers (besides crafts and gifts), is an impressive sight for foodie eyes and a great place to grab lunch during those two days.

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This is the last chance to stock the larder with local winter vegetables from Aspen Moon Farm, Ela Family Farms, Ollin Farms, Toohey & Sons Organic Farm and other farmers. Besides crafts and gift shopping, it’s a great taste-sampling opportunity with purveyors like Cultura Craft Chocolate, Corner Post Meats, Carmen’s Salsas and Moles, Baba & Pop’s Handmade Pierogi, Chiporro Sauce Company, Hazel Dell Mushrooms, Highland Honey, Hinman’s Bakery, Medovina Meadery and Tungsten Toffee.

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and aromas at the Winter Market, you can’t help but wonder when there will be some kind of permanent, all-year food and farm hall showcasing the best tastes of the area.

My guess is that when a permanent market opens it won’t be in Boulder... simply for lack of affordable real estate with Susan France parking. It makes sense to place it out in East County.

That’s where more of the County’s new restaurants, breweries, food businesses and farms are located. That’s where the local center of culinary gravity is shifting.

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Boulder County is regarded as craft brew heaven, but Stem Ciders is changing the way ale-headed locals think about going out for a drink. Colorado’s first true cider house opened this year in Lafayette. The busy two-acre restaurant (Acreage), production cidery and beer-free taproom is set on a west-facing hillside that gives it a rare panoramic Front Range view. Chef Daniel Asher (River and Woods) and chef Kelly Whitaker (Basta) helm Acreage and dish homey, wood-cooked fare including cast-iron cornbread with honey butter, mussels cooked in cider, grilled potato salad with prosciutto aioli and glazed cider doughnuts.

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During the holiday season you might find yourself playing Scrabble with your relatives and friends. You’ll be happy to know that more weird food words are officially sanctioned since Scrabble updated its official word list for the first time since 2014. Allowed words now include macaron (French cookie), aquafaba (the liquid in canned garbanzo beans), bibimbap (Korean egg-topped rice bowl) and sriracha.

Meanwhile, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has added new foodie words including iftar, the meal eaten by Muslims to break the fast after sunset during Ramadan; zoodles, lowcarb zucchini noodles, available at places like Noodles & Co.; gochujang, a Korean hot chile paste; and mise en place, the French culinary term for having your act together: ingredients prepped, spices measured, before you cook. The dictionary also added some stupid, unnecessary terms like “marg” (short for “margarita”) and “hangry.”

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A tip of the hat to local agricultural pioneer Chuck Waneka. Before he died recently at 97 years old, he saw 83

harvests at 119th Street and Baseline Road where his family has farmed since 1883. ... Lots of folks want your donations for Colorado Gives Day on Dec. 4, but consider directing a few dollars toward local food justice by supporting Boulder Food Rescue, Community Food Share, Emergency Family Assistance Association and the Sister Carmen Center. ... Fate Ale House has closed in Lafayette. ...

Coabana, a Cuban eatery, has closed at 701 Main St. in Louisville.

The ‘American Idol’ of tasty foods

The Good Food Awards honors the nation’s top food artisans who offer exceptional taste and meet environmental and social responsibility standards.

The just-announced roster of 401 finalists is chockablock with great Boulder and Colorado food makers, and it happens to serve as a handy tool for assembling an all-Colorado gift basket. Boulder-based finalists are Cocktailpunk Oak Aromatic Bitters and The Farmer’s Porch Ghost Pepper Heirloom Pumpkin Seeds. Other locally made finalists include Colorado Green Chili Potato Chips (Morgan Handmade Rations), Smoked Buffalo and Pork Jalapeno Cheddar Bratwurst (CharcutNuvo), Somerset Cider (Big B’s), Carmen Estate Washed Geisha (Commonwealth Coffee) and Honey Salted Caramel (Bee Ranch). Details: goodfoodfdn.org

Taste of the week

Far from its starting point at Chautauqua Park, Baseline Road — the 40th parallel — wends its way through Boulder County into Erie, where I found myself meeting an old friend for dinner at Injoy. Open less than a year, the comfortable, modern bistro has a Mediterranean-influenced menu and an entertaining wine list. My tastes of the night were a salad of roasted local beets dished with baby beet greens, orange and feta cheese and a first-class, fresh-ground, medium-rare burger on a brioche bun spread with creamy ricotta.

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drink Profiles in brew: Jeff Joslin of Left Hand Brewing Company Zen and the art of brewing

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or Jeff Joslin, a career in craft beer didn’t come with an aha moment.

“It was more an organic love for beer,” he says.

No one walks the same path, and chatting with Joslin, brewhouse manager at Left Hand Brewing Company, you get the impression that his career in beer is more a product of perspiration than inspiration; one that started with a well-rounded liberal arts education.

“But,” Joslin says with a smile, ”like every English major out there, I started bartending after college.”

Tending bar did the trick for a while, but Joslin knew it wasn’t going to last. As he approached 30, he needed a change. “[I] knew a guy whose brother was in the beer industry in Portland and everything sounded like that would be a good fit,” Joslin recounts. “[Brewing is] handson, it requires creativity, you have to be able to think critically, solve problems; it’s a physical job, but it also requires Michael J. Casey mental aptitude.”

It also requires cleaning, a lot of cleaning. Luckily for Joslin, his attitude was readymade for the position.

“All the cleaning is very Zen,” Joslin says. “If you’re really going to make a life out of it, you kind of have to be comfortable and accept that. ... I enjoy the simplicity of the physical aspect of that.”

It worked. After three years with Rogue Ales in Ashland, Oregon, Joslin relocated to Left Hand to work as one of its brewers. That was five Jeff Joslin of Left Hand years ago. Now as brewhouse manager, Joslin oversees Brewing Company oversees recipe, the hot side of production for Left Hand’s 60–65,000 batch logs and probarrels of beer per year. cesses in the brewhouse.

“I oversee recipes and batch logs and processes through the brewhouse,” Joslin explains. “When it goes to the cellar, it becomes the cellar manager’s responsibility, and together we oversee the entire brew staff.

“All brewers here work both in brewhouse and cellar, unlike a lot of other places, where either you’re only a cellarer or only a brewer,” Joslin continues. “We’ve experimented with both models, and all the brewers, unanimously, prefer the variety.”

That’s not the only area where Left Hand allows for overlap; recipe creation is just as collaborative.

“No one gets into craft beer because they want to make someone else’s beer,” Joslin explains. “They want to own something.”

And with their seven-barrel pilot system, every department at Left Hand has a chance to create something new.

“We’ve done over 100 beers through there,” Joslin says. “We use it for recipe development, and we use it as a creative outlet.”

According to Joslin, Left Hand’s sales team will try their hand at creating a beer in December, with the tasting room staff getting a crack at it in January. Both will be on tap in the tasting room in due time.

With 25 years of good beer under its belt, the employee-owned Left Hand looks to 25 more. Lucky for us drinkers, it’s stacked with beer geeks like Joslin.

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enee Fajardo and her seven children are from Colorado. Really.

“It’s become more difficult as more transplants have moved here,” Fajardo says. “We’ll go ‘We’re from Colorado,’ they’ll go, ‘No, before that.’”

Still, Colorado.

Fajardo’s family lineage goes back through generations of people indigenous to the San Luis Valley of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. As the director of Metropolitan State University’s Journey Through our Heritage team, which connects students to their indigenous, Latino and African American ancestors (the project has broadened to include people of all backgrounds), Fajardo is one of the few people in Colorado documenting the biographical histories of our state’s citizens — and she’s doing it through food.

Fajardo, along with media specialist Carl Ruby, published their first children’s book, Holy Mole Guacamole and Other Tummy Tales, 20 years ago. This month, Fajardo, Ruby and a team of student editors will release Biscochitos for Mis Hijos, the sixth book in the Tummy Tales series, which compiles the stories behind dishes beloved by Colorado families of myriad backgrounds, and recipes on how to make them.

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Food tells a robust story of Coloradans, past and present

by Matt Cortina The goal from the beginning, Fajardo says, was to create books that children of all different backgrounds could relate to, and family recipes proved to be suitable common ground. The recipes and stories in Biscochitos come from renowned storytellers, folklorists, educators, cooks and writers of indigenous, Chicanx, Latinx and other descents, and they’re all illustrated by renowned Chicana artist Arlette Lucero.

“We are a community of people that celebrate our differences as opposed to pounding on each other for being different,” Fajardo says. “Everybody who writes these stories has such a love of their family and their family-old traditions. ... And food is a universal language.”

No food represents cultural melding in Colorado better than the biscochito, the title cookie in Fajardo’s latest book. New Mexico claims it as their state cookie. (Colorado

doesn’t have an official one, though Toll House did a survey recently that found Coloradans apparently prefer chocolate chip cookies with nuts. That’s garbage, it’s the biscochito.) The cookie is the culmination of at least three major ethnic groups merging in Colorado and the San Luis Valley, Fajardo says, and the history of Colorado can’t be told without mentioning it.

In the 15th century, Jews in Spain were ordered to convert to Catholicism. Many obliged, but some didn’t, fleeing to Portugal and then around the world, including the San Luis Valley. These so-called cryptoJews, or what Fajardo calls “the hidden Jews within the fold,” outwardly presented themselves as Catholics but privately practiced Judaism.

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cookie they brought over. (In fact, Fajardo says, non-Jewish Spanish purveyors had started making the cookie with lard in order to out crypto-Jews who wouldn’t eat them. “It sort of has a really dark history,” Fajardo says of biscochitos.) But when crypto-Jews brought the cookie over, the cookie mingled with traditions from indigenous people, non-Jewish Spanish colonials, and people from other Latin American countries to create something unique — a cookie made with lard and butter, flavored with anise and served typically during special occasions.

“That cookie developed here as its own entity,” Fajardo says, “so it’s something that had never existed before.”

Fajardo makes this geo-political, anthropological story digestible for kids by telling a story of how a group of kids steal biscochitos from their older relative and get locked in a bathroom trying to eat them. What’s missing in the story is the historical background, what the cookie says about global migration and the assimilation of cultures into Colorado, but what it does show is how integral food items are to those cultures, and what they actually mean for people who grew up with them.

What’s on display in Biscochitos is what makes food great. We don’t often think about all the blood, sweat and tears that went into our most beloved recipes, we think about our relatives who made them. Whole histories and moral codes are passed down not through words but through food.

For instance, Fajardo says there are many two-spirit people in the indigenous and Chicanx community. One story about Colorado’s other great food item — Pueblo chiles, which came to the San Luis Valley from Oaxaca — features someone’s uncle, who’s gay, wearing a pink polka-dotted apron. The biscochitos story stars Fajardo’s Aunt Mary, “who everyone thought was our uncle because she looked like James Dean.”

“There’s sort of a very subtle way, gentle way of introducing the concept that not only is our food specific and has this rich heritage, but so do our cultural nuances and what we were like as a people and how that’s continued on,” Fajardo says.

Fajardo’s Journey Through our Heritage team at Metro State is not only helping with the book and exploring their own backgrounds, but they’re also exploring the concept of “sacred food,” how certain food items were born out of necessity when communities faced food insecurity, water rights disputes and dwindling natural resources.

But the proof that these books and Fajardo’s program are helping connect young people to their ancestors is evident in her own daughter, Kali, who earned a publishing contract for a collection of stories about indigenous Latina people in Southern Colorado. In another instance, an educator recently told Fajardo that a student came back to tell her that they had become a chef and remembered the stories in Fajardo’s books that the teacher had put before them.

“I’m not saying the books influence them, but they have some part in their concept of who they are as individuals,” Fajardo says.

To get a copy of one or several of the Tummy Tales books, visit West Side Books in Denver, or attend a reading of Bicochitos at the Colorado Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC) gallery, (which is the oldest Hispanic arts co-op in Colorado) on Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m.

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LIBRA

the Arctic tern experiences two summers and enjoys more daylight than any other animal. That’s because it regularly makes a long-distance journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. Let’s designate this hardy traveler as your inspirational creature for the next 11 months. May it help animate you to experiment with brave jaunts that broaden and deepen your views of the world. I don’t necessarily mean you should literally do the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet. Your expansive adventures might take place mostly in inner realms or closer to home.

islands that rise from a shallow lagoon. A network of 443 bridges keeps them all connected. But Venice isn’t the world champion of bridges. The American city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds that title, with 446. I nominate these two places to be your inspirational symbols in the coming weeks. It’s time for you build new metaphorical bridges and take good care of your existing metaphorical bridges.

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TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: When the American Civil War

began in 1861, the United States fractured. Four years later, the union was technically restored when the northern states defeated the southern states. At that time, African American slavery became illegal everywhere for the first time since the country’s birth decades earlier. But there was a catch. The southern states soon enacted laws that mandated racial segregation and ensured that African Americans continued to suffer systematic disadvantages. Is there a comparable issue in your personal life? Did you at sometime in the past try to fix an untenable situation only to have it sneak back in a less severe but still debilitating form? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to finish the reforms; to enforce a thorough and permanent correction.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Does an elusive giant creature with

a long neck inhabit the waters of Loch Ness in northern Scotland? Alleged sightings have been reported since 1933.

Most scientists dismiss the possibility that “Nessie” actually exists, but there are photos, films and videos that provide tantalizing evidence. A government-funded Scottish organization has prepared contingency plans just in case the beast does make an unambiguous appearance. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you prepare yourself for the arrival in your life of intriguing anomalies and fun mysteries. Like Nessie, they’re nothing to worry about, but you’ll be better able to deal gracefully with them if you’re not totally taken by surprise.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Does moss really “eat” rocks, as

Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert attests in her novel The Signature of All Things? Marine chemist Martin Johnson says yes. Moss really does break down and release elements in solid stone. Gilbert adds, “Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.” Furthermore, this hardy plant can grow virtually everywhere: in the tropics and frozen wastes, on tree bark and roofing slate, on sloth fur and snail shells.

I propose that we make moss your personal symbol of power for now, Cancerian. Be as indomitable, resourceful and resilient as moss.

LEO

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These catalytic proteins do an amazing job of converting the food we eat into available energy. Without them, our cells would take forever to turn any particular meal into the power we need to walk, talk and think. I bring this marvel to your attention, Leo, because now is a favorable time to look for and locate metaphorical equivalents of enzymes: influences and resources that will aid and expedite your ability to live the life you want to live.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Every dreamer knows that it

is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground,” writes author Judith Thurman. I’m guessing you will experience this feeling in the coming weeks. What does it mean if you do? It may be your deep psyche’s way of nudging you to find an energizing new sanctuary. Or perhaps it means you should search for fresh ways to feel peaceful and well-grounded. Maybe it’s a prod to push you outside your existing comfort zone so you can expand your comfort zone.

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through this pragmatic phase of your astrological cycle, I have gathered counsel from three productive pragmatists.

First is author Helen Keller. She said she wanted to accomplish great and noble things, but her “chief duty” was “to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

Second, author George Orwell believed that “to see what is in front of one’s nose” requires never-ending diligence.

Finally, author Pearl S. Buck testified that she didn’t wait around until she was in the right mood before beginning her work. Instead, she invoked her willpower to summon the necessary motivation.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Blackjack is a card game popular in gambling casinos. In the eternal struggle to improve the odds of winning big money, some blackjack players work in teams. One teammate secretly counts the cards as they’re dealt and assesses what cards are likely to come up next. Another teammate gets subtle signals from his cardcounting buddy and makes the bets. A casino in Windsor, Ontario pressed charges against one blackjack team, complaining that this tactic was deceptive and dishonest.

But the court decided in the team’s favor, ruling that the players weren’t cheating but simply using smart strategy.

In the spirit of these blackjack teams, Sagittarius, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to better your odds in a “game” of your choice by using strategy that is almost as good as cheating but isn’t actually cheating.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: What has become of the meta-

phorical seeds you planted during the weeks after your last birthday? Have your intentions flourished? Have your dreams blossomed? Have your talents matured? Have your naive questions evolved into more penetrating questions?

Be honest and kind as you answer these inquiries. Be thoughtful and big-hearted as you take inventory of your ability to follow through on your promises to yourself.

If people are quizzical about how much attention you’re giving yourself as you take stock, inform them that your astrologer has told you that December is Love Yourself Better Month.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: If you want to play the drinking game

called Possum, you and your friends climb up into a tree with a case of beer and start drinking. As time goes by, people get so hammered they fall out of the tree. The winner is the last one left in the tree. I hope you won’t engage in this form of recreation anytime soon — nor in any other activity that even vaguely resembles it. The coming weeks should be a time of calling on favors, claiming your rewards, collecting your blessings and graduating to the next level. I trust your policy will be: no trivial pursuits, no wasted efforts, no silly stunts.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In his song “Happy Talk,” Academy

Award-winning lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II offered this advice: “You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Where do you stand in this regard, Pisces? Do you in fact have a vivid, clearly defined dream? And have you developed a strategy for making that dream come true? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to home in on what you really want and hone your scheme for manifesting it. (P.S. Keep in mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s idea: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”)

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SAVAGE

by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: I’m a 30-year-old, Asian American, hetero-flexible cis woman. I’m also newly diagnosed with bipolar II. I’m on medication — the doctor is trying to figure that out — but no talk therapy for right now, as my last therapist wasn’t great and I haven’t managed to find a new one. My question for you is regarding the relationship between bipolar and kink. One of the common symptoms of the manic stage of bipolar is “risky sex.” I equate risk with “likely to blow up one’s personal or professional life” and have always answered “no” to that question when asked by doctors. I’ve had the occasional hookup, but otherwise I’ve consistently had sex in the context of closed, monogamous relationships, i.e., the opposite of risky sex. However, it recently occurred to me that I’m fairly kinky (BDSM, roleplay). Nothing I’d consider a varsity-level kink, but what do I know? I have out-there fantasies that are varsity-level, but I’ve never done them. Am I just bipolar and kinky? Are the two related somehow? Should I be concerned that I’ll go into a manic state and start enacting (or trying to enact) some of the varsity-level fantasies in my head?

P.S. I asked my doctor this via e-mail, but I haven’t heard back yet and have no idea how sex-positive he is. So I thought I’d get a second opinion.

P.P.S. I’m currently manic enough that it’s hard for me to edit, so there may be weird/ confusing shit in my letter. Sorry for that!

—Kinky And Bipolar Dear KAB: “I’d like to congratulate KAB for seeking help and for the work she’s doing to get stable,” said Ellen Forney, author of Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, an awardwinning self-help guide to maintaining stability, and the best-selling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me. “I’d also like to welcome KAB to BIPOLAR! Toot! Toot!

Confetti!”

The specific manic-stage symptom you’re concerned about — engaging in super risky sex — is called “hypersexuality,” and it’s what happens when the extremely poor judgment match meets the supercharged libido gas.

“But it’s only ‘hypersexuality’ when it gets in the way of a reasonably well-functioning life,” said Forney. “Picture masturbating all day instead of going to work, or having relationship-wrecking affairs or unprotected sex with strangers.”

If your diagnosis is correct and you have bipolar II and not bipolar I, KAB, you may be less susceptible to out-ofcontrol hypersexuality.

“Strictly speaking, a bipolar II diagnosis means she cycles between ‘hypoBoulder Weekly

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mania’ (mild mania) and depression,” said Forney, “so her highs aren’t going to be as acute as they would be for someone diagnosed with bipolar I, where hypersexuality can really get dangerous.”

Forney warns that misdiagnoses are not uncommon where bipolar is concerned, so you might want to get your diagnosis confirmed. But your longstanding kinks all by themselves — varsity and otherwise — aren’t necessarily related to your condition, KAB, and so long as they’re safely expressed and explored, you aren’t doing anything unreasonably risky or wrong.

“Kinky sex in itself doesn’t count as symptom-worthy risky sex — no matter what her doctor e-mails back,” said Forney. “Like for anyone else, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with feeling uninhibited enough to pursue varsity-level kinks, so long as they’re not putting her or anyone else in danger. Ultimately, KAB’s goal is to be stable enough to trust her judgment. For now, she might weigh the risks while she’s feeling stable, so she can make some levelheaded decisions about what might or might not be too risky.”

Forney also recommends having a discussion with your partners and friends about what your limits are — a discussion you’ll want to have when you’re not horny or manic or both.

“That way, her partners and friends can help her recognize if she’s crossing her own lines,” said Forney. “And realizing that she’s suddenly tempted to cross her own lines could be a signal to her that she’s getting hypomanic and needs to take steps to stabilize — steps like getting better sleep, adjusting her meds and others I explore in Rock Steady!”

P.S. If your doctor won’t answer your sex questions — or only gives you unhelpful, sex-negative, kink-shaming answers — find yourself a new doctor.

P.P.S. There are letters I have to read three times before I can figure out what the fuck is going on. Your letter was as lucid as it was charming.

P.P.P.S. Therapists across the country are recommending Rock Steady to their patients with mood disorders, and Forney won a Media Partner Award from the National Alliance for Mental Illness for her work on Rock Steady and Marbles. If you haven’t already, KAB, please pick up Forney’s books. You’ll benefit from her insights, her advice and her coping strategies. And thanks to Forney’s art and sense of humor, both books are a delight to read.

Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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weed between the lines

by Sidni West

Weed can’t kill you, but it can get you very high

D

oes anyone remember the news story that went viral back in 2007 about a police officer in Detroit who stole weed from suspects, baked it into brownies with his wife, then called 911 to report himself because he thought they were dying from an overdose?

The dispatcher asked how much he had, and to this day, his response is the still the most hilarious and accurate portrayal of the paranoid anxi-

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ety people experience when they over-consume cannabis: “I don’t know. We made brownies.

And I think we’re dead. Time is going by really, really, really slow.”

Getting stoned is fun, but feeling like you’re way too high is definitely an uncomfortable situation in which to find yourself. Trust me, most of us have been there. It’s easy to do with edibles because of the delayed effects, especially homemade brownies that aren’t dosed as accurately as what you’d buy at a dispensary. It’s probably looked something like this: You eat an edible, barely wait 30 minutes, think to yourself, “this isn’t working. I should probably eat some more,” then an hour later, you’re floating above

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the couch making animal sounds. Or worst-case scenario, you’re having a panic attack.

It’s fine, you’re not going to die. Lucky for that police officer and everyone else that’s ever been there, the number of reported deaths due to cannabis overdose in all of recorded history is zero. Cannabis on its own cannot kill you.

Unlike opioid and alcohol overdoses that can shut down the body’s breathing and blood circulatory systems, cannabis does not have the ability to affect those systems in the same way.

However, overconsumption is a very real thing. There are some things to help ease the effects, but time is the only way to truly “unhigh” yourself, so you mostly have to just wait it out. Even if you have the most baller health insurance and can afford to call the paramedics or check yourself into the emergency room, there’s not much they can do for you.

There are no accepted treatments that stop cannabis overconsumption, so they will likely just make you sit there and wait it out. You can avoid the $700 hospital bill with some way more practical home remedies. Whether you’re smoking a high-THC strain for the first time or not paying attention to the potency of your edibles, here’s some advice if you find yourself in that situation:

Breathe Unless you have a piece of brownie lodged in your throat, oxygen is coming through, so don’t panic because you definitely have the capacity to breathe. If you’re feeling anxious, close your eyes and take big-belly breaths. Try meditative breathing: inhale through your nose for a slow count of four seconds, hold your breath for three seconds, and then exhale for four seconds.

Repeat this cycle for a few minutes.

CBD CBD has been proven to naturally reduce

anxiety and relax our minds. It’s also nature’s antidote to the high THC can produce. CBD works by blocking THC from binding with the cannabinoid receptors in your brain, toning down the effects from THC. CBD comes in many forms, like tinctures, gel tabs, vape cartidges, gummies, topicals and patches, which is great since you’re already too stoned and smoking something, even if it is a CBD-heavy strain, might be too much to handle.

Eat lots of non-medicated food and drink water Unfortunately, you can’t stop your body from digesting edibles that you’ve already eaten, but you can dilute the contents of your stomach by eating and drinking more so that digestion takes longer and releases cannabinoids in smaller amounts. Food can also be comforting and eating gives you something on which to focus.

Terpene therapy Cannabis shares terpene profiles with many other plants and fruits that are commonly enjoyed. By applying counteracting terpenes, you can counteract the process. One of the few things known to diminish extreme highness is limonene, which is a terpene that weakens THC’s effects on the brain. Black pepper possesses another terpene that’s proven to combat weed-based paranoia. Things like lavender, lemon juice and black pepper assist in minimizing the effects of cannabis terpenes on the body.

Chill Whether you’re alone at home or in public with friends, it doesn’t matter because most of what you’re feeling is psychological. Nothing bad is actually going to happen to you. Walk around, get some fresh air, listen to music, hop in the shower, take a nap and remember that you’re not going to be high forever.

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cannabis corner

by Paul Danish

Colorado Christian University’s junk social science

T

he Marijuana Moment website last Monday live-streamed the New Jersey Assembly’s joint senate/house committee hearing on the recreational marijuana legalization bill that’s been hanging fire for a year.

I logged in just in time to hear an opponent of the bill claim that marijuana legalization in Colorado has been a disaster, and that for every dollar gained in tax revenue Coloradans spent about $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization.

It was the second time in as many weeks that I heard someone cite that number. The first time it was William Bennett, who was Reagan’s Education Secretary and George H. W. Bush’s Drug Czar. He did it on a Fox News program.

Colorado collected $247.4 million in marijuana tax revenue in 2017 (more if you count local taxes), so the claim that negative consequences of pot legalization have cost Coloradans $4.50 for every tax dollar collected works out to more than $1.1 billion in 2017 alone. That seems implausible on its face.

So where in God’s name does this dark arithmetic come from? From Colorado Christian University, it turns out.

The school has an associated think tank called the Centennial Institute. Its director, Jeff Hunt, has been waging a one-man jihad (or crusade if you prefer)

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against marijuana for years. Lately he’s been functioning as a Mini-Me for Kevin Sabet, the director of the anti-legalization organization SAM (Smart About Marijuana) and self-declared “quarterback” of the anti-marijuana movement.

Recently the Centennial Institute commissioned a study titled “The economic and social costs of legalized marijuana.”

The study, which was carried out for the Institute by a research firm named QREM, is a dog’s dinner of statistical scraps that run the gamut from misleading to dishonest, irrelevant and embarrassing.

The assertion that “for every dollar gained in tax revenue, Coloradans spend approximately $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization” is the first sentence of the study’s executive summary.

In order to arrive at this conclusion, the study’s authors had to tote up all the supposed costs of legalization they could think of, including some that are pretty silly. Like the $54.8 million cost of stoners’ “physical inactivity” due to marijuana turning them into couch potatoes.

Other “costs” are not so silly, but are much more dishonest. Like the alleged $423.4 million in lost income over a lifetime of the kids who dropped out of high school in 2017 supposedly due to their marijuana use. The latter figure is the single largest “cost” in the

study’s laundry list.

The way these numbers were calculated is questionable, to say the least, but the study has a more fundamental flaw than squishy arithmetic.

The figures, even if accurate, represent the economic and social costs of marijuana use in 2017. But the study’s supposed purpose is to identify the economic and social costs attributable to marijuana legalization, which are different than the overall costs (real, imaginary or theoretical) of marijuana use generally.

Marijuana use in Colorado didn’t begin when pot became legally available at the beginning of 2014.

Coloradans used marijuana illegally for decades before then, and it’s reasonable to assume that if pot was producing stoner sloths and stoner school dropouts in 2017, it was also producing them prior to legalization.

And that means that the only economic and social costs that can be attributed to legalization are those that occurred incrementally after marijuana became commercially available at the beginning of 2014.

But in most cases the Institute’s study doesn’t include cost estimates for the years prior to the beginning of legal sales, so it’s not possible to calculate what costs, if any, are attributable to legalization.

The Centennial Institute might be able to argue plausibly that it has identified some of the economic and social costs associated with marijuana use — legal and illegal — assuming you’re ready to suspend disbelief long enough to accept its social cost estimates, but it has not identified cost increases (or decreases) that can be attributed to legalization.

The kindest thing that can be said about Colorado Christian’s study is that it’s junk social science. Pot prohibitionists have been producing fake studies that purport to show how awful marijuana is since marijuana prohibition began in 1937. Colorado Christian University’s study is in keeping with this contemptible tradition.

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TORA BORA (LA CONFIDENTIAL X X18 PURE PAKISTANI) 31.76% . . . . . . . . . . . . . $39/8TH, $136/HALF, $249/OZ

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