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Highroad The essence and true value of real food by Jim Hightower

or most of us, food is not just fodder to get us through the day — it touches us emotionally, culturally... personally. We see this special connection when we gather family and friends for holiday meals. But it’s often in the worst of times that our deep relationship to food reveals itself most powerfully. In August, for example, after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast, the sure signs of people’s resilience came not only from the sound of power tools, but also from the aromas of barbeque wafting across a neighborhood, or a big pot of shrimp gumbo simmering on a butane burner set up on a street corner and dished out free to anyone who needed or wanted some.

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As New York Times reporter Kim Severson wrote about flooded-out Houstonians: “No matter what, cooks are going to cook.” After the hurricane, 134,000 homes in the 10-county area around the Bayou City were destroyed or swamped with muck and polluted water. “The emotional and cultural impact,” Severson wrote, “is most keenly felt at mealtimes. The kitchen is the heartbeat of a home, and by extension, of a community.” So, despite the obstacles, Houstonians cooked — improvising with ice chests, hot plates and crockpots — to create “kitchens” in second-floor bedrooms, outdoor decks or any dry spots they could find. She wrote about 70-year-old Al Marcus. Four feet of bayou water destroyed his kitchen, yet only days later, he had fired up his backyard smoker and cooked 140 pounds of brisket to provide sustenance and a serving of normalcy to the families and volunteers who were stripping waterlogged sheetrock from storm-damaged homes. “What else am I going to do?” Al asked. That’s the true nature of food. Not just another consumer commodity, food is us — socially as well as biologically. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 21 , 2017 5

danish plan UFOs: Undocumented aliens or black projects? by Paul Danish

he best news stories are mysteries, and the queen of journo mysteries is the UFO story. It’s been around since World War II, when pilots reported seeing UFOs they called “foo fighters.” So when it emerged last weekend that 10 years ago the Pentagon stood up a program to investigate UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings by military pilots, the press pricked up its ears. The initial stories appeared in the New York Times and on the Politico website. The online versions came with a video of a November 2004 encounter off the California coast between Navy F/A18 Hornet fighters and a UFO that one of the pilots described as 40 feet long, “Tic Tac” shaped, and making aerial maneuvers that seemed to defy the laws of aerodynamics and physics. By Monday the pilot had been identified as Retired Navy Commander David Fravor, who at the time was the commanding officer of the Black Aces, a Navy strike/fighter squadron — a serious person, in other words. Asked in an interview what he thought it was, he said, “Something not from the Earth.” The program was called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. During most of its existence its director was Luis Elizondo, who resigned last fall in protest “of what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition,” the Times said. “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” he told CNN in an interview Monday. “I don’t know where it’s from,” he said during a second interview on NPR’s Morning Edition. “But we’re pretty sure it’s not here.” The program was run under the Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012, during which time it received $22 million in funding. Specific funding for the program stopped in 2012, but the program’s advocates say it was continued within the Pentagon in cooperation with officials from the CIA and the Navy. The program was started in 2006 on the initiative of then-Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) with the support of late Senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). 6 December 21 , 2017

Reid told the Times that his interest in UFOs came from Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas billionaire. Bigelow, who made his pile from real estate and as owner of the Budget Suites chain of hotels, is also the founder and president of Bigelow Aerospace, which is developing inflatable space habitats. He has said he’s “absolutely convinced” there have been extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth. Most of the $22 million appropriated for the program went to Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program, according to the Times. So what’s going on here — close encounters with undocumented aliens of the little green kind, close encounters with barely documented Congressional pork of the long green kind, or something else? I’m inclined to lean toward “something else.” And “something else” in this case is almost as exotic and mysterious as extraterrestrials. Nearly 18 years ago, the British magazine Air International published an article in its January 2000 issue by Bill Gunston, a highly respected aviation writer. The article was a history of the development of military aircraft engines. It reviewed well-known technology — until it got to the B-2. Here are some excerpts from the article: “I have numerous documents, all published openly in the United States, which purport to explain how the B-2 is even stranger — far, far stranger — than it appears... They deal with such topics as electric field propulsion, and electrogravitics (or anti-gravity), the transient alteration of not only thrust but also a body’s weight. Sci-Fi has nothing on this stuff... “Various snippets appeared suggesting that electrostatic fields could not only do wondrous things in the field of propulsion but could also reduce aerodynamic turbulence (at any mach number), reduce radar cross-section and even virtually eliminate sonic boom… “The first Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber was rolled out on Nov. 22, 1988, and anyone with the slightest interest in the aircraft could not fail to have noticed the unbelievable see DANISH PLAN Page 8

dyertimes Oil and gas setback measure heading for ballot by Joel Dyer

es, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause. As of Wednesday Dec. 20, language for a new ballot measure aimed at putting increased setbacks for oil and gas operations on the November ballot has been sent to the state for approval. This proposed ballot measure is being put forward by a local grassroots organization calling itself Colorado Rising and it would require a 2,500-foot buffer zone between oil and gas operations and occupied buildings such as homes, schools and hospitals, as well as from other vulnerable areas including playgrounds and drinking water supplies. And you were wondering why the oil and gas industry is still spending millions to run all those inaccurate and annoying “fracking is good for your children” commercials. Now you know. This ballot measure really is great news and a real holiday gift for the citizens of Colorado and particularly those in Boulder, Larimer, Broomfield, Adams and Weld counties, where the industry is trying to quickly push hundreds of new wells into our neighborhoods as quickly as possible before people can organize and stop the assault. So you’re probably wondering: Can this set-back measure really gather the signatures and make the ballot this time around? The answer is absolutely. We are in the midst of a full-scale anti-Trump, anti-establishment political party uprising. It’s no fluke that Bernie and his antifracking message won Colorado’s Democratic primary in 2016. And experts predict that come next fall,

more progressives, led by energized younger voters, will be filling out more ballots than ever before in history. It will be a blue wave like no other we have seen. At least that’s true so long as establishment Dems are willing to get out of the way and not sabotage the whole thing... again. That’s not an exaggeration. As this paper has been reporting for years, it has been the establishment Democrats and the Big Green environmental organizations that have actually worked behind the scenes to keep Colorado citizens from getting the right to vote on ballot measures that would protect them from the many harmful impacts of oil and gas extraction. It’s not rocket science, folks. These supposed progressive politicians and environmental organizations have become fat and more concerned with pleasing their corporate and billionaire donors than with protecting our health and environment. But we’re on to them now. Their backroom, sellout strategies can’t stop this ballot measure in a year when we are taking back our government no matter who gets in our way, including the oil and gas industry and its political puppets. Like I said, this time it’s going to be different. This time we are watching and we know who to watch. This time we will be naming names and reporting on exactly who is making the backroom deals to sell you out before it happens instead of after the fact. And yes, that is a threat and a promise. Sharpen your pencils and get ready to sign that petition. Stay energized and no one can stop you this time around. Boulder Weekly

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ike much of the nation, Boulder is experiencing housing affordability challenges. Though Boulder has implemented a variety of affordable housing policies, we continue to lose ground. This is eroding our economic diversity. Income diversity and its preservation is critical to also preserving social and political diversity. Political diversity is critical to a well-functioning democracy. Thus, it is imperative that Boulder broaden and strengthen its affordable housing approach to, at a minimum, retain the economic spectrum of the population that currently lives here and ideally, broaden that spectrum. The good news is that we can achieve durable and increased housing affordability that also respects long-held community values. PLAN (Peoples League For Action Now)-Boulder County has proposed a comprehensive set of polices as a basis for an affordable housing strategy for Boulder. “Affordable housing” for the purpose of this article is housing that is affordable to the range of households from low to middle-income. There are short-term and long-term policy development exercises that can progress concurrently. It’s important that the public sees progress on this issue and we

don’t become mired in multiyear, public fatiguing processes, with few tangible results. Thus, certain policy elements should be applied in phases with short, medium and long-term timelines that can run concurrently. The short-term exercises, if implemented as pilots, can inform the longer-term efforts while concurrently building community support thought testing and demonstration before permanent policies are enacted. Pilots also allow for local context adaptation. This article is an abbreviated view of the PLAN-Boulder County affordable housing proposal and highlights the key elements as follows: 1) Increase the affordable housing percentage of overall housing: The City should develop regulations and policies to ensure that development and redevelopment does not result in a net percentage (of overall housing) loss of housing units, or numerical loss of housing units, that are affordable to low to middle income households. 2) Preserve existing affordable housing: Focus upon mobile home and apartment communities. Forty-eight percent of total existing housing is affordable to middle-income households. But 1,000 of see GUEST COLUMN Page 9

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leading edge, with deep profile coming to a knife-edge almost in line with the upper surface... “What really put the cat among the proverbial pigeons was a feature published in a March 1992 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, entitled “Black world engineers, scientists, encourage using highly classified technology for civil applications.” For the first time in open literature, this article explained how the B-2’s sharp leading edge is charged to “many millions of volts,” while the corresponding negative charge is blown out in the jets from the four engines... “Take-off thrust of the F118-100 at sea level is given as ‘19,000lb (84.5kN) class’ by Northrop Grumman and as ‘17,300lb (77.0kN)’ by the USAF. These are startlingly low figures for an aircraft whose take-off weight is said to be 336,000lb (152,635kg) ... the ratio of thrust to weight is a mere 0.2, an extraordinarily low value for a combat aircraft.

“Everyone who has heard a B-2 take off has been astonished at the quietness... writers have used the words ‘shocking,’ ‘uncanny’ and ‘incredible’ in describing B-2 departures...” I’ve seen some of the articles Gunston alludes to. The anti-gravity claim is hard to swallow, but there have been a number of reports since Gunston’s piece appeared on the drag-cutting qualities of electrostatic fields and plasmas. That alone would be an aviation game-changer of epic proportions. So maybe what Commander Fravor saw was of this Earth after all, not a B-2 but a vehicle using a version of the same putative black technology used on the bomber. And maybe the Pentagon was cool with funding a snipe hunt for otherworldly technologies in order to provide a game-changing technology of its own with a bodyguard of lies. The truth is out there somewhere. Merry Christmas. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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those units annually, are being lost to gentrification, market increases and redevelopment. Preservation of these units is the most cost effective, efficient and least impactful means of maintaining affordability. Within the next 6 months, City Council should conduct an economic analysis of the cost and efficacy of purchasing, or facilitating the purchase by residents, of housing currently affordable to low to middle-income households. There may be an investment the community is willing to make in its economic diversity if only the City will establish the costs and benefits. 3) Most new housing must be permanently affordable: Current housing affordability policy relies upon large numbers of unaffordable housing units being built in order to generate small numbers of permanently affordable units. If you have a housing affordability problem, it makes much more sense to build mostly affordable housing rather than mostly unaffordable housing. 4) Under current policy, just replacing (and making no gains) the aforementioned 1,000 annual affordable unit losses, will require creation of 4,000 new units annually, a 9,680 or 9 percent annual population increase. Three thousand of those units will be market-rate — that is, unaffordable. Over the next 25 years, this would mean the creation of 100,000 (25 years x 4,000) new units just to stay even with the current rate of unit losses. That represents a population increase of 242,000 for a total population of 349,167, which is a 325 percent increase over the current population, making Boulder larger than Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Such dramatic changes have not been sufficiently evaluated or explained to the community. 5) Assign the costs of housing affordability to the drivers of demand for affordable housing: This means increasing the financial contribution from new commercial development. Affordable Housing Commercial Linkage Fees must be increased to an amount representative of the affordable housing demand created by commercial development. 6) Balance potential job growth by converting commercial and industrial zoned areas to a mix of uses, including permanently affordable housing: This will both increase the housing supply and decrease a significant root cause (commercial development) of demand for housing. 7) Subcommunity Plans, Area Plans and Neighborhood Plans: These are plans affecting different scales of granularity within the city and are foundational to achieving results where most people feeling they gain something rather than the all-too-frequent zero-sum outcomes, or perceived pre-determined outcomes. These plans are essential to equitably integrating stakeholder concerns into the planning process for future Boulder Weekly

growth, land use, housing affordability, transportation, carbon reduction and many other policies. These plans can address affordability needs and also result in the preservation of Boulder’s community characteristics, its neighborhoods and quality of life. The plans should serve as the foundation for affordable housing strategies that affect different areas of the city and must include significant citizen direction in their development. 8) Seek regional solutions for housing

affordability: Boulder has long been a regional commercial and employment center. While Boulder can and should carve out a protected portion of the housing market to provide housing affordability, housing all the people in the region dependent on Boulder employment, in Boulder, isn’t realistic. As the most expensive “neighborhood” in the regional community, it also is not realistic to presume that all these people can be affordably housed in Boulder. The region has a role to play. Improved public transportation networks

are critical to regional solutions. PLAN-Boulder County believes that adopting the policies and methods outlined herein offer a community strengthening pathway toward affordable housing solutions the whole community can support. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Leonard May is a member of PLAN (Peoples League for Action Now) – Boulder County is Boulder County’s oldest community grassroots organization.

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Certainly there’s going to be a point where fund equity reaches zero and we can’t pay expenses, which means we can’t pay to put fuel in our cars, which makes it difficult to be an oil and gas inspector.

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Will you be forced to pick up the tab for regulating the oil and gas industry? by Matt Cortina

ou’ve seen the commercials: Good-looking people in vests and their good-looking dogs walking by crystal clear mountain streams, a burly voiceover saying something like, “Taxes from oil and gas development are helping fund schools and improving communities,” or “Colorado has the most regulated industry in the country.” Well, it was disclosed at a state budget committee hearing on Dec. 12 that there may not be enough money to fund well inspectors, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) staff, and dozens of other programs in the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as soon as February 2018. “I guess it depends how bad it gets,” says DNR Budget Director Bill Levine of what will happen if the department runs out of money. “Certainly there’s going to be a point where fund equity reaches zero and we can’t pay expenses, which means we can’t pay to put fuel in our cars, which makes it difficult to be an oil and gas inspector.” No amount of industry-employed soccer moms and waterfalls on TV can make that reality sound good.

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DNR, and by extension the COGCC, is funded in part by a severance tax — a tax on the extraction of natural resources. But because of millions of dollars of refunds to oil and gas producers, the state is actually giving the industry more money than it is collecting from it. In fact, it’s on the hook to pay the industry as much as $72.5 million in the next 18 months. It has already refunded oil and gas producers $6.5 million more than it collected this fiscal year, which started in July. And the state refunded oil and gas operators $126.5 million last fiscal year, which is $7 million more than it collected from the industry. I suspect most people will be shocked, after hearing for years how the state government’s support for the oil and gas industry was based on how much money it provided to state coffers, to learn that, as of now, oil and gas companies are taking more money from the state than they are putting in by way of the severance tax. As a result of this shortfall, several smaller DNR programs already lost funding on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and if lawmakers don’t divert taxpayer money from other parts of the general fund, or find new funding mechanisms, to compensate for the loss in oil and gas severance tax revenue, entire divisions

within DNR such as the COGCC, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and others will start to shut down next spring. Levine says the general fund, which is funded by taxpayers across the state and pays for everything from education to health programs to prisons, is “an obvious source,” to make up the financial shortfall. There may be no other feasible option. State Rep. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette) says he expects “the industry will strongly object” to alternative measures like raising mill levies or taxes, and that those measures likely wouldn’t be enough to keep the DNR’s major divisions and programs running. “Even if they raise the mill levy as high as it can go under current law, it won’t make up for the COGCC operating cost shortfall. So I expect the rest will come from the general fund. That means less money for other budget items like education funding,” Foote says. Education makes up about 40 percent of the state budget, the largest allocation of state general funds. The shortfall is due, in large part, to a new tax deduction given to oil and gas producers in Colorado last year, when the Colorado Supreme Court ruled after 10 years of court battles that oil and gas operators could deduct Boulder Weekly

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from their taxes the capital costs for building oil and gas infrastructure. The state started paying out refunds to any oil and gas producer who could claim an applicable refund within the three-year statute of limitations. That decision appears to have made the state’s effective severance tax rate the lowest in the country — at 1.7 percent in 2015, it was second lowest to only Utah, and with this new deduction worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Levine speculates “that rate will have to come down” when data becomes available. In response to the Supreme Court decision, the state legislature allocated more than $70 million to pay the refunds, and Levine says a “large portion of the refunds,” came from the general fund. The ship was thought to be righted after those payments, and the future seemed bright as revenue projections for the industry’s severance tax collection reached $150 million last fiscal year. (As the severance tax is assessed on the gross income from oil and gas operations, a good year for the industry means more money collected for state programs.) But Levine says he started noticing that, despite increased projections, actual collection figures were much lower than what was forecast. It underscores the volatility that Levine says makes it difficult to project severance tax revenue from year to year. Economists must predict what individual taxpayers (oil and gas companies) might file on their returns and what energy prices will be months ahead of time. Revenue from the tax has gone “up and down by an average of 82 percent from year to year” over the last nine years, Levine says. Add in the unforeseen $72.5 million in outstanding refunds per the Supreme Court case, and you have what is being described in the DNR as a “crash.” “In November, we got a memo about [the] outstanding refunds, and I started screaming, almost literally, saying, ‘Oh my god, we’ve got a real problem here,’” Levine says. “We thought, ‘Well, gee, we paid so many refunds last year,’ we assumed the majority of [refunds] had been paid. That assumption that I made and others Boulder Weekly

made was incorrect,” he says. The funding deficit affects all branches of the DNR. Programs in the department are separated into two tiers; Tier Two programs, which include grantbased initiatives concerning conservation, water efficiency, invasive species management, dam oversight and more, will no longer be funded until the budget is restored, likely not for at least a year and a half. Tier One programs, such as the COGCC and Colorado Parks and Wildlife, will have funding until February, or June at the latest, but then “programs themselves will start to shut down,” Levine says. And there’s no special prioritization given to programs some may deem more critical than others. “Once fund equity zeros, it does not matter what Tier One program you are,” Levine says, “they will all be shut down.” The Department of Local Affairs (DLA), which gets roughly half of severance tax revenue, relies on those funds to build fire stations, restore historic sites, update water services and more. Its budget operates independent of DNR, though it was noted at the recent budget committee hearing meeting that DLA “will adjust future [grant] award cycles accordingly” if severance tax funds don’t meet expectations. Without that revenue, the costs for both DNR and DLA projects will be passed on to local taxpayers in the form of, say, mill levies for fire infrastructure and boating licenses to ensure those on lakes aren’t carrying non-native species. The programs will likely still be able to make payroll, but they won’t be able to fund the projects for which the departments are responsible. For reference, the COGCC has 29 oil and gas well inspectors on staff, and every well is inspected, in theory, every 1.5 years. During incidents, like the recent home explosion in Firestone that killed two people, the COGCC spent over 10,000 hours and half a million dollars in response. It’s unclear in the current climate if such funds could be made available should a similar tragedy occur in the future. It’s worth noting that the COGCC, in particular, also receives funding from the Oil and Gas

Conservation and Environmental Response Fund, but “low oil and gas prices” have hampered revenue, according to DNR documents. The severance tax makes up about half of COGCC’s budget, and 15-20 percent of DNR’s total annual budget. Levine says there are a lot of conversations going on in the statehouse as to how to make up for the loss of revenue, and that among people outside his budget office who are going to make the decisions, there is a sense that “the stakes are high.” Foote plans to introduce a bill next session to remove two deductions the industry is currently allowed to take — a deduction of up to 87.5 percent on property taxes; and an exemption on wells that produce less than 15 barrels per day. Foote says these represent about $250 million in “loopholes,” or lost revenue, per year. Levine says eliminating the property tax offset would “make the revenue stream less volatile” to boot, but adds that, “it’s been briefly pondered before and tends to get shot down pretty quickly. Industry is pretty clearly opposed.” Some local municipalities also oppose eliminating the credit as they can raise property taxes without much friction because the oil and gas producers can write much of it off. Thus, the $11.5 billion general fund seems to be the last best option for the second year in a row. Foote says the “Joint Budget Committee would probably find some way to avoid taking it from education, but that’s not easy,” given the large percentage of general fund money that is used for K-12 and higher education programs. The next highest recipient of general fund money is health care, and then correctional operations. That’s about it. You’d think — considering the tens of millions of dollars the industry spends on marketing to tell us how concerned it is with our health and safety and how Colorado has the nation’s toughest oil and gas regulations — that oil and gas companies would be more interested in ensuring the state has the money to safely regulate their industry rather than finding loopholes to defund that regulation. Guess you can’t believe everything you hear on commercials. December 21, 2017 11

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n Wednesday nights, the basement of Boulder’s Pine Street Church fills to capacity for the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting. Facilitators lead the group in an opening prayer or statement, before members go up one by one to the podium, usually introducing themselves with the phrase, “I’m an alcoholic,” before sharing their thoughts and experiences with the crowd — the largest AA group in Colorado. Denver LifeRing meetings, which serve as an alternative to AA, are much smaller. Around 10 people sit in a circle on the second floor of St. Barnabas Church as meeting coordinator Kathleen Gargan reads the opening statement. The discussion that follows flows freely between members, who don’t pause to introduce themselves. In this circle they are well acquainted with one another. There are no prayers, no mention of God. Historically, AA’s success has been unmatched by other sobriety programs. But more recently, while AA attendance has seen an overall decline, newer programs like LifeRing are attracting increasing numbers in Colorado and throughout the country. Also on the rise — in what has been called a “public health crisis” — is alcohol consumption. The percentage of people who drink at all surged during the 1990s. But since the start of the new millennium, high-risk and problem drinking have spiked as well, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The study classified high-risk drinking as four or more drinks a day for women and five or more drinks a day for men, on a weekly basis. While drinking in general increased 11 percent, this type of high-risk drinking rose by 29.9 percent between 2002 and 2013.

Problem drinking — consuming alcohol to the extent that it causes periodic and serious problems in one’s life, or the inability to stop drinking — also rose substantially, by nearly 50 percent. Despite the high number of new drinkers — the study classifies one in eight adults as an alcoholic — AA continues to lose members while secular programs are starting to grow. Gargan has been sober since 1991 and went to AA meetings for 25 years before switching to LifeRing. Gargan, who identifies as an atheist, eventually grew tired of the religious content she heard at AA meetings. “[AA] really helped me stay sober and I made a lot of really good friends, but it was never very well suited to my worldview,” she says. Since its creation in 1939, AA’s traditional 12 steps have always mentioned God or a higher power. Take step three, for example: “We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” These steps have not been revised since, despite culture’s changing relationship with religion over the years. During the past decade, the number of people who say they are “absolutely certain” God exists has dropped by 8 percent, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. The number of adults who describe themselves as being “religiously affiliated” has shrunk by 6 percent. In an effort to avoid alienating non-religious members and to keep up with the changing religious climate, some AA meetings have replaced all mentions of God with the term “higher power.” But some members, like LifeRing attendee Tom Gerald, couldn’t quite shake the program’s deeply rooted religious undertones. Boulder Weekly

“Although I appreciate the fact that AA was there, and it really did save my that find the higher power to be kind of the internal truth, the authenticity itself,” ass, I never bought the higher power thing, and after about 12 years it became a he says. “So they’re still able to maintain the secular self in the room.” real problem so I sort of drifted away,” he says. “After a bad experience where I Secular or not, the emergence of additional recovery groups marks a shift in a was challenged as being a speaker at a meeting I decided I didn’t need any more realm that has been historically dominated by AA. And these options are increasof this and I just quit.” ingly important considering Colorado’s drinking reputation. According to a 2014 Leaving AA seems to be a growing trend. While membership peaked in study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colorado and other 2001 with 2.2 million members worldwide, 2016 numbers show a 6 percent mountain-region states have the highest rates of alcohol-related deaths in the drop in global attendance and a 10 percent drop in attendance in Canada and country. Pitkin and Summit counties lead the nation in overall drinking, with the U.S. approximately 78 percent of drinking-age adults having at least one drink per Membership at secular programs like LifeRing, on the other hand, is growing. month. Since 2012, the number of worldwide LifeRing meetings has increased by 300 Whether it’s AA, LifeRing or SMART Recovery, those dealing with addicpercent. Gargan has been with LifeRing since 2003 and, anecdotally, has seen tion have more options than ever before when it comes to recovery with meetings attendance increase steadily at her weekly meetings. all over Boulder County and most parts of Colorado. SMART Recovery is another successful treatment program that takes a secular approach to drug and alcohol addiction. Paul Horvath joined a Denver group after being imprisoned for 16 years following a crack cocaine addiction. “NA [Narcotics Anonymous] and AA didn’t work for me because I don’t feel like we’re powerless over our addictions,” he says. “Spirituality and religion is all fine and good for a lot of people in a lot of ways but it really has nothing to do with whether you stick a crack pipe in your mouth or suck a drink down your throat.” Religion aside, Horvath appreciates the way programs like SMART Recovery and LifeRing encourage crosstalk. Unlike AA meetings, where u u u one person speaks at a time and everyone must wait their turn, SMART u u u Recovery meetings take on a roundu u table format. “That’s what makes the group as u lively and dynamic and powerful as it is,” Horvath says. “You can have a backand-forth discussion among a group of Find Out if Regenerative Medicine individuals as opposed to one person talking and everyone else hanging their Boulder Littleton is Right for You! January 16th at 12:00 & 6:30 January 16th at 1:00 & 6:00 head down low.” SAFE • ETHICAL • EFFECTIVE Whether due to its secularity or Longmont Aurora Regenerative medicine is now available locally and can unique meeting format, SMART January 16th at 3:00 January 16th at 12:00 & 7:00 effectively reduce and even eliminate your pain without Recovery has grown rapidly since its surgery or addictive medications. Regenerative medicine Westminster DTC inception in 1994. The number of uses amniotic tissue cells to regenerate and repair tissues in January 9th at 12:00, 3:00 & 6:30 January 9th at 1:00 & 6:00 worldwide meetings has increased from your body that are damaged due to injury, age, disease, and Denver 42 to 2,500, 1,000 of which are held in Lakewood defects. Stem cells have the power to go to these damaged December 30th at 12:00 & 6:30 January 23rd at 1:00 & 6:00 the U.S. From 2014 to the first two areas, generate new cells and rebuild the area. months of 2016, SMART Recovery launched 900 new meetings. Other secular programs available in Colorado include Women for Sobriety, Moderation Management, Secular See Chicago Football Editor and Organizations for Sobriety and more. Former Announcer of the Chicago While the success of recovery Bears Testimonial in the Stem Cell options like these is undeniable, many Institute Documentary AA members see no problem with their on website below! program’s inclusion of a higher power. In fact, one member at the Pine Street Church group in Boulder, who wishes to remain anonymous, interprets the existence of a higher power as a secular notion. “People just kind of find their own path with it and their own relationship with it. I’ve spoken to a few atheists

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Shonda Rhimes on a TV show for FX that adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, which details the migration of black Americans from the South to the Midwest, moving from living among open racists to “more polite” racists. Writer/director Nacho Vigalondo only missed the “People You Should Know By Now” category because nobody watched Colossal. Cheer up, Anne Hathaway, I did! And I found the slightly imperfect, but highly ambitious, kaiju-heavy metaphorical endeavor to be a sign of giant goodness to come. From his first full-length feature, Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes), to his muted alien-invasion/light-horror flick Extraterrestre (Extraterrestrial), to his anthology efforts in The ABCs of Death and V/H/S: Viral, Vigalondo has shown a gleeful insanity and willingness to genre-bend. Like Vigalondo, I almost put Zal Batmanglij into the “People You Should Know By Now” category because he made one of my favorite TV shows of last year and his last name has Batman in it. Actually, The Sound of My Voice, Batmanglij’s first collaboration with Brit Marling — who I also feel guilty about not further including in this piece — made my top 10 list in 2011. So, yeah, you could say me and Batman go way back. The OA, his and Marling’s Netflix TV show, channels the same weird, light-sci-fi goodness that made me love their first movie and also may include the first time performative dance has ever been used in an action sequence.

People you should put on your radar This whole piece only ever-solightly grazes the surface of something that deserves a ton of quality scritches ‘n’ scratches. But this last group even more so is seemingly infinite. Use your favorite Google machine and find tons more talented, passionate creative folks you haven’t yet discovered any time you sit slackjawed in front of whatever streaming service you prefer, conflicted on what to watch next. I just picked three out of this glimmering pool of awesome. Lucrecia Martel, a founding member of “New Argentine Cinema,” has made a bevy of bad-ass short films and crushed each of the full-length endeavors she has put forth. La Ciénaga, which arrived in 2001, was voted “the greatest Latin American film of the decade” in one poll; The Holy Girl, her second feature, made the same list and screened in competition at Cannes; and her third, The Headless Woman, also made the same top 10 list and was insanely well-received at

Cannes. I’m not good at math, but having all three of your films on a “best of the decade” list seems “good.” Her current project, Zama, was just selected as the Argentine entry for Best Foreign Language Film at next year’s Oscars and adapts the existential 1956 novel about a soldier stationed in Paraguay. Divided though we may be as a nation, I know we all join in one shared love for existential explorations of colonial soldiers in Paraguay, right? One of the truest “art for art’s sake” artists in this piece, Martel deserves the attention of all true cinephiles. Sydney Freeland first drew significant attention after Drunktown’s Finest premiered at Sundace in 2014. That film is yet another triptych about Native American identity, including a trans woman who dreams of being included in a “Woman of the Tribe” calendar. I know, how many thousands of nuanced depictions of modern tribal life with complex, non-binary characters must Hollywood churn out, right? Freeland’s digital series, Her Story, was nominated for an Emmy last year and suffered an unprecedented stunning upset when it lost to a show owned by Time Warner and run by dudebro comedians. Her latest film, Diedra & Laney Rob a Train, hit Netflix in March of this year after debuting to raves at Sundance. Train-robbing hijinks and a super-talented lead (Ashleigh Murray) means this one deserves a slot in everyone’s queue, just like whatever Freeland has planned next deserves our attention. In 2009, Destin Daniel Cretton made Short Term 12, a stunningly sophisticated tear-jerker that proved what Brie Larson was capable of doing with the opportunity. It was actually his second film, after I Am Not a Hipster, a title which is also the last thing anyone hears immediately before gentrification. Although Cretton’s latest, The Glass Castle, reteamed him with Larson, it didn’t recapture their earlier magic. Please don’t look at the Rotten Tomatoes score for that one. Why is he on this list? Well, he’s currently working with Ryan Coogler and poet/playwright Chinaka Hodge on Minors, a TV show that explores the same foster-care issues that made Short Term 12 so flippin’ brilliant. He’s also working with Michael B. Jordan on Just Mercy, which adapts the autobiography of civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson. Actually, part of why I included Cretton on this list was his Glass Castle misfire, as heterowhite-boyz get chance after chance despite biff after biff, whereas others don’t. Isn’t that right, Max Landis? This article previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska. Boulder Weekly

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Not another Anita Baker

Ruthie Foster on her long and winding journey with blues music by L. Kent Wolgamott

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t’s fine to call Ruthie Foster a blues artist. She only has seven Blues Music Awards sitting on the shelf at home and has only been nominated for the Best Blues Album Grammy three times. But she’s not really a blues artist. She’s a blues-folkpop-rock-gospeland-even-a-littlecountry artist. “That’s entirely fair to see me that way,” Foster says. “Those are all genres I grew up listening to. Like everybody’s record collection, I have a little bit of everything. I enjoy all those genres of music. That’s why you hear so many different genres, even in my live shows.” Foster says her mix of styles and powerhouse church-rooted singing reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples has been with her since she was a little girl in the tiny town of Gause, Texas. “It comes from growing up in rural Texas, being exposed to a lot of gospel music. That seems to be the root of what my music comes back to,” she says. “Blues, my dad would listen to blues and he’d make me tapes of Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters. And old soul, Sam Cooke and all of those.” A shy kid, Foster wanted to play guitar and piano more than stand in front of people and sing. But by 14, she was a soloist in her uncle’s choir and seemed to be headed toward a career in music. Then, after going to school in Waco, where she picked up some reggae for her musical mix, she made an independent, distinctly non-musical turn that got her out of Texas. “I’d just graduated college,” she says. “I went into the Navy and spent a year away from music. I went into a Boulder Weekly

Music, on which she has released six albums — three of them Grammynominated. Joy Comes Back, her most recent album, is an aberration for Foster. It has only one original composition by Foster — the title cut — and the rest is a compilation of songs she heard and liked that resonated with what she would have written at the time. It begins with helicopter squadron. That’s where I “What Are You picked up a lot of rock. That’s what Listening To?” from the pen of counthe guys there listened to.” try’s Chris Stapleton; includes her The next adventure came after take on the Four Tops’ “Loving You Is Foster got out of the Navy, landed in Sweeter Than Ever,” (a Stevie Wonder New York and began playing in folk co-write); and features a single blues clubs. Atlantic Records got wind of track — Mississippi John Hurt’s the talented singer and offered her a “Richland Woman Blues.” record deal. But the label wanted to “I’d been doing that for years, but groom her to be a ’90s pop star. never recorded it,” Foster says of “They wanted another Anita “Richland Woman Blues.” “I was playBaker,” Foster says. “She was signed to ing my resonator (guitar) and that’s another label and they (Atlantic) what led to (Black Sabbath’s) ‘War wanted an Anita Baker. I used the Pigs.’ I had the resonator and said, ‘I’ve time to get to know a lot of songwritbeen playing around with this version ers. I used the time well, learning to of ‘War Pigs’ (and I) want you (producsit in front of people, er Dan Barrett) to hear maybe just two peoit. I wanted him to ple and entertain hear my twisted verON THE BILL: Ruthie Foster. 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5, them with just my sion of ‘War Pigs,’ 2018, Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. voice and guitar.” slowed down and Yale Ave., Denver. In 1996, after done like Son House. three years, Foster He liked it and we said goodbye to New added drums to it, York and Atlantic and returned home. finished it up. Sabbath fans might call “My mother wasn’t doing good, I it sacrilege. But I know Ozzy’s a blues was homesick for Texas and needed a fan.” little simpler life,” she says. “Music “War Pigs” probably isn’t often in was getting to a point where it had Foster’s live shows with her quartet: “I burned me out. So I came back, joined don’t get a chance to pull that one my church. I’d studied broadcasting in out,” she admits. “I don’t travel with a the Navy and got a job at the local TV resonator yet. But it’s another example station. Then I stumbled into another of the music that’s in my library, in my popular band. We were playing every head.” weekend, every other weekend in Nor do songs from Joy Comes Back Bryan-College Station.” dominate the show of the acclaimed Foster’s mother passed away two live performer. years after her daughter came back. “That’s the joy of having so many Foster decided to pursue music full genres and putting out records that time, recording her first album, are all over the place,” she says. “I’ll Crossover, which was released in 1999. pick a couple from that one. I see Another self-released disc followed in that as more of a singer/songwriter 2001. Then Foster teamed up with record and I want my live show to be Houston independent label Blue Corn more exciting.”

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Amazing, what baking can do ‘Waitress’ is a slice of heaven by Amanda Moutinho

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good baker knows the right ingredients are sacred. When waitress Jenna Hunterson gets asked what’s inside her famous pies, the answer isn’t so easy. “Everyone wants to know what’s inside. And I always tell them. But I feel more than words can say,” she sings. “You wanna know what’s inside? Simple question, so then what’s the answer? My whole life is in here.” And Jenna knows life can be just as disorganized as baking. Spill some flour, drop an egg on the counter, or make a few wrong choices in your personal life; it all can create a mess. Jenna’s “mess” is at the core of the musical Waitress, where she’s stuck working at a diner and in an unhappy marriage. Jenna dreams of a better life, but that dream is disrupted by a positive pregnancy test. Jenna then sets her sights on winning the annual pie contest as a chance for her and her baby to start a new life. But when she starts an affair with her gynecologist, her life gets even more complicated. Based on the 2007 movie of the same name, Waitress opened on Broadway last year and was nominated for four Tony Awards. It achieved a milestone as the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team: Music and lyrics were written by pop singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles, who was joined by a female book writer, director, choreographer, costume designer and musical director. Waitress is not a big Broadway show with sequined ball gowns, big dance numbers or other audiencegrabbing gimmicks. Rather, it is a lovely story told by a talented cast and crew. And it is wonderful. While it might seem cheesy in concept, the show uses baking as a metaphor for life. It’s familiar and inviting. It’s intimate and relates to anyone who desires to be happier. Waitress delivers this message with Boulder Weekly

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Celebrate the season with a show steeped in Irish music, dance and storytelling. Follow the stories of families aboard the RMS Carpathian as they seek a better life in America. The characters delight the audience with foot-stomping jigs and reels, heart-pounding step dancing and haunting harp music. There will be audience sing-alongs, Mummer’s Play and Lord of the Dance. It’s a show that’s sure to get your feet tapping and your hands clapping. Tickets range from $20 to $28.

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Festivus. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 23, The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Free. By Matthew Keefe via Wikimedia Commons

It’s a tale as old as time (well, as old as the Seinfeld episode “The Strike,” from Dec. 18, 1997): In a fit of holiday fury over the last doll at a toy store, Frank Costanza realized there had to be another way, a better way. A new holiday was born — a Festivus for the rest of us. Join the rest of us at The Dickens Tavern and Opera House on this not-sacred-at-all day for the customary Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength and the traditional meal of spaghetti and meatloaf. If you’re not quite ready to tell the world how the special people in your life have failed you, you’re still welcome to belt your heart out during karaoke with DJ Seth Miller. Happy Festivus, Georgie.

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Thursday, December 21 Music Adam Bartczak Republic. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. DJ Goodie. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Drink Drank PUNK. 8:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. eTown Presents: Reed Foehl & Kid Reverie. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Face All Vocal Rock Band — Holiday Show! 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Flag Sabbath Winter Solstice Party. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; Sweater Christmas Party. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Hey Lady! (B-52s Tribute). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Jay Roemer Band. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Khaki. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Paul Soderman & the BBC Reunion Band. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

staff pick The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows.

“The Burden,” courtesy of Animation Show of Shows

Various showings from Wednesday, Dec. 20 — Tuesday, Dec. 26, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. With melting ice caps, the looming threat of nuclear war and an ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor, every day can feel like an exercise in managing a low-grade existential crisis. But if the dread has you down, know you’re not alone and head over to the Bedecked Theater for the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows, presenting 16 inspiring animated shorts from around the world. “Because animation is such a natural medium for dealing with abstract ideas and existential concerns, the Animation Show of Shows has always included a number of thoughtful and engaging films,” founder and curator Ron Diamond said in a statement. “However, more than in previous years, I believe that this year’s program really offers contemporary animation that expresses deeply felt issues in our own country and around the world.” The show represents the work of artists from eight countries, including nine women. These films include Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s Annecy Grand Prix-winning The Burden, a melancholy, funny and moving film that explores the tribulations, hopes and dreams of a group of night-shift employees, uniquely capturing the zeitgeist of our time. At the other end of the spectrum, David OReilly’s playful and profound Everything, based on the work of the late philosopher Alan Watts, explores the interconnectedness of the universe and the multiplicity of perspectives that underlie reality. Find tickets at tickets. thedairy.org/.

Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionoshere St., Unit 6, Longmont. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.

The Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Pickin’ At The Post. 8 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 2027 13th St., Boulder.

Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Rebirth Brass Band. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Snow — with Jesse Manley and His Band. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Wonderbound Studio Junction Box, 1075 Park Ave. West, Denver.

The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle — A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Third Thursdays Singer Songwriter Showcase. 4:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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

Events The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Bingo and Taco Thursday! 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Who Killed Santa? 7:30 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Friday, December 22

Bub Comedy Three Year Anniversary and Sadie Hawkins Showcase. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.

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Candlelight Winter Solstice Yoga. 6:30 p.m. Verve Movement Studio, 333 First Ave., Longmont.

Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont.

Clinton Jackson. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Dealt. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Extravaganza. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. 26 December 21 , 2017

A Winter Solstice Sacred Ceremony. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living Boulder Valley, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette.

The *9s. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Beer & Brass with the Brassaholics. 6 p.m. Open Door Brewing Company, 2030 Ionosphere St., Suite G, Longmont. Billionaire Appetite Christmas Extravaganza. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

FaceMan’s Parade Of Lights — with Tivoli Club Brass Band and Anthony Ruptak and his Midnight Friends. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Fairchildren Reunion Show. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Hazel Miller Christmas Show! 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Jackson Cloud Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Jay Roemer Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. The Jellyroll Bakers. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Julie Stratton. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Last Men On Earth. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder. Mandy Harvey. 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Mikey Thunder. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. My Boy Elroy. 12 a.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Native Station. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.

Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.

Octopus Tree — with Mad Pow, Dr. Zilog, We Are William. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

A Colfax Christmas. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Poolside At The Flamingo. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Come Up Vol.4 : Levitation Jones & Friends (Denver edition). 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Sar Isatum. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Dixie Leadfoot. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Tad Baierlein. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Weekly

events Too Hot To Handel. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Tyler Paul Glasgow’s Second Annual Holiday Extravaganza. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Yolk’n Around. 3:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Events The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.

Brassaholics Quintet. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Suite 112, Nederland. Brunch with Joe Johnson. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. A Charlie Brown Christmas — with Annie Booth Trio. 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dazzle@ Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Crowboy. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Dayton Stone & The Undertones. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Dragondeer. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

driguez & Darren Garvey (Elephant Revival). 6 p.m. Black Buzzard, 1624 Market St., Denver.

Erik Boa and the Constrictors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Jack Hadley Band and Friends. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Festivus. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Jackson Cloud Band. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

The Gones. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Jesse Garland. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

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

JoFoKe. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

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The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Clinton Jackson. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. ComedySportz. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Dealt. 4:20 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Die Hard. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Fate of The Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. L’Estrange Menagerie: A Sexy Circus. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Make-A-Movie Workshop — Claymation Vacation Day Camp. 8 a.m. Digistars Make-AMovie Workshop (Mile Hi Youth Corp office), 6740 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. The Nut House Comedy Show Holiday Special. 7:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. On The Spot: Improv in the Style of Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle — A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Who Killed Santa? 8 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Saturday, December 23 Music Aural Elixir Plays 2 Pianos! 10 p.m. The No Name Bar, Broadway, Boulder. Bass Storm. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Best of the West Prelim #3. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Big Styles presents OVO XMAS. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Boulder Weekly

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Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Faculty Exhibition: 2017. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 23. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28. Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14. Legacy — presented by Gallery 1261 and Denver Public Library. Denver Central Library, Level 7, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Dec. 31. Less Ephemeral — by Marco Pinter. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21. Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum

of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. Marginalia — by Joel Swanson. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21. Marking Presence. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.

Joel Swanson’s Marginalia explores the fundamental but often unnoticed structures of language. Paper, computer screens and monitors all influence practices of writing and reading, yet due to their ubiquity and ostensible “blankness” these technologies are often taken for granted. Through erasure, repetition, and decontextualization, the works in Marginalia aim to highlight how these tools shape our writing, reading and thinking. At Dairy Arts Center through Jan. 21.

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28, 2018. Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February. Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.. Through Jan. 21. Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February.

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John Mieras — Live music. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.

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Living Legends & Hieroglyphics — 11th Annual How the Grouch Stole Xmas Tour — with DJ Fresh. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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The Mighty Twisters. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 380, Boulder.

Join Boulder’s poetry community at Innisfree on Tuesday, Dec. 26 for the weekly open poetry reading at 7 p.m.

Mikey Thunder. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. The Noisy Residents. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tuesday, December 26

RL Cole & The Hell You Say. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Ron Ivory & The Miles Apart Band Holiday Show. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Seventh Annual KlezFest. 7:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Sol Satellite & Chompers — with Lavendar Juicebox. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Talking Trees. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Too Hot To Handel. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Events The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 6 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver. Christmas Carol Karaoke. 6 p.m. Brewability Lab, 12445 E. 39th Ave., Suite 314, Denver. The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Clinton Jackson. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. 28 December 21 , 2017

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. ComedySportz. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Dealt. 3:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Denver Christkindl Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park at 16th Street Mall, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Mentalpause! 8:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. On The Spot: Improv in the Style of Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Revolting Rhymes. 2 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Stand-Up Comedy & Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Who Killed Santa? 7 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Sunday, December 24 Music Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Hom Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Christmas Eve Feast — with Aural Elixir Holiday Music. 5 p.m. Morning Glory Farm Fresh Cafe, 1377 Forest Park Circle, Lafayette. see EVENTS Page 35

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BOULDER WEEKLY WISHES TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT All events take place on Sunday, Dec. 31.

The Polish Ambassador New Years Run.

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8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

New Year’s Eve at St Julien: A Toast to 2017.

Enjoy the sparkling atmosphere inside Hotel Boulderado with a lavish buffet dinner, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, party favors, live music from Dressed in Black and more. Tickets are $145.

You and all of your friends can dance in the new year at Boulder Theater with the Polish Ambassador beginning on Dec. 29. He’ll be joined by The Diplomatic Scandal, Ample Mammal and other guests. Three-day pass is $90. Single day passes are $30-$35.

9 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, stjulien.com Ring in 2017 at St Julien Hotel & Spa, and make it your “new” New Year’s Eve tradition. The festivities begin at 9 p.m. and include two bands — Quemando (salsa) in the ballroom, and Honeycomb (funk) in the hotel lobby; a midnight balloon drop; party favors; salsa dancing lessons; and champagne toast. Light fare will be served, and several cash bars will be available, including the iconic ice bar and luge. Tickets are $90.

New Year’s Eve Dance Party with American Vernacular Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Ring in the New Year with an amazing night of friends, fun, food and dancing to fabulous music in the fine Avalon Ballrooms. A long-time local tradition! Three rooms of music and dancing: Swing, ballroom, salsa, bachata, kizomba, zouk and more! Cash bar benefits the Romanian American Freedom Alliance. Midnight toast. Tickets are $40 advance; $45 door, cash or credit.

New Year’s Eve at the Speakeasy. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Put your glad rags on and celebrate New Year’s Eve at BMoCA’s speakeasy-themed party and benefit! Embrace your 1920s gangster or glamorous flapper as BMoCA is transformed into a juice joint. Featuring live jazz, craft cocktails, late-night burlesque, tarot card readings, mugshot photography, complimentary champagne toast and light bites. New Year’s Eve at The Speakeasy is presented by Friends With Benefits (FWB), BMoCA’s membership affiliate group for young patrons. Proceeds benefit BMoCA’s exhibitions and programs. This event is SOLD OUT (tickets were $35/$30 members).

Amoramora + Flash Mountain Flood — with Banshee Tree. 8 p.m. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Amoramora is a traveling, working, multipurpose rock and jazz fusion quartet from Boulder. Flash Mountain Flood is a five-piece, Boulder-based psychedelic rock n’ roll jam band with a classic feel that is committed to preserving one of America’s greatest music cultures with its unique approach to their live shows and extensive catalogue of original songs. This is an all-ages event. Tickets are $15-$20.

Casino Royale New Year’s Eve 2018 Party. Hotel Boulderado Event Center, 2115 13th St., Boulder. A signature alcoholic punch will flow (for those over 21) for casino night with passed hors d’oeuvres, food stations, a full cash bar and live music by none other than Funkiphino. Play your hand at the blackjack, roulette, poker and craps tables between dances. Casino Night benefits Clinica Family Health, a nonprofit that provides medical, behavioral and dental care for low-income and other underserved communities in Boulder, Broomfield and West Adam counties. Tickets are $75.

With Left Hand Brewing and high energy all-girl rock band, Chaotic Serenity, this will be an evening you won’t want to miss. There are three packages to choose from: A Night In the City (couples package) offers full party access (8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.); hors d’oeuvres and food stations; Left Hand Brewery/distillery tasting; Champagne toast at midnight; late night snack; overnight accommodations; hot buffet breakfast in the morning. The City Lights package provides everything except the accommodations. The Late Party Access lets you in at 10 p.m. Tickets are $40-$65.

FACE and Sonic Arcade 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

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Bring in the New Year at the Dickens Opera House with a special dual performance with FACE and Sonic Arcade. Your ticket includes a reserved seat, party favors and a glass of champagne to toast the new year! Tickets are $51. VIP tickets are $100.

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9 p.m. Oskar Blues Boulder Taproom, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

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7:30 p.m. The Kitchen Upstairs, 1039 Pearl St., Suite B, Boulder.

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10 a.m. and 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

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License No. 1 New Year’s Eve Party 2018 7 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder. Celebrate the New Year in Speakeasy Style at License No. 1! Enjoy light bites throughout the evening; Quench your thirst with signature drink specials all night; Dance the night away with DJ B-Money; Festive party favors, a free photobooth and special souvenir giveaway; Complimentary champagne toast at midnight. Tickets are $45.

The Great Gatsby New Year’s Eve 2018 Party.

Wild New Year’s Dance Party. 7 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont. The VIP option includes: VIP seating in the event room and clubhouse stage area; two drink tickets good for any of our 24 draft selections; wine or well drinks (21 and older); appetizers and food stations; Champagne toast (21 and older) and party favors; late night snacks and access to a beer garden featuring local breweries and a commemorative tasting glass. Tickets are $40.

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New Year’s Eve — with Milestone. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Early show starts at 6:30 p.m. and includes a threecourse dinner and a Champagne toast ($70 per person). The Ring in the New Year Show starts at 10 p.m. and offers the regular dinner menu and a Champagne toast ($30). Milestone is a variety band composed of some of the finest musicians in the state. The band is well known for its impressive musicianship and versatility. See NYE CALENDAR Page 32

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Denver New Years Eve Black Tie Party. 8 p.m. Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver.

New Years’ Eve Dance Party featuring Bonnie and the Clydes — with 300 Days. Music starts at 8:00 p.m. Buffet served 7-9:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 and include light dinner buffet, champagne at midnight and beads! Tickets available in person at the inn or over the phone at 303-443-6461.

Featuring three DJs, live bands (The Henderson Band, Bigwheel, Electrosoul) and Las Vegas-style casino games. There’s an open bar all night at the premium VIP bars. Enjoy a Champagne toast at midnight with a confetti blast, party favors and a complimentary photo booth (free prints). Tickets are $94-$99.

Anders Osborne — with Andy Sydow.

New Year’s Eve with Denver Union Station.

7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

9 p.m. LoDo, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill.

Don’t miss the ultimate NYE experience. Three DJs spinning jams in Denver’s historic Union Station leading up to an extravagantly epic light show on the Great Hall ceiling at midnight. Pre-Event Tickets: $50 per person ($75 at-the-door, if available).

Dinner at 7:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $50 plus fees.

FILM LIVE WITH COLORADO SYMPHONY BRETT MITCHELL, CONDUCTOR MUSIC BY

JOHN WILLIAMS

New Year’s Eve Pary with The Symbols. 10 p.m. 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Resolution NYE 2018.

The Symbols are a female fronted blues/funk/rock trio from Fort Collins, formed in 2010 by guitarist Jasco (Blinddog Smokin’) and vocalist/songwriter/bassist Mer Sal. They write their own music, in addition to re-stylizing popular cover tunes to be different styles than they were intended originally. Their unique sound, charisma and songs are winning hearts through theaters and festivals across the country.

9 p.m. The Curtis Denver, 1405 Curtis St., Denver. Collective 360 invites you to gather together to raise a toast and celebrate the new year with a truly interactive and high-class hotel take over. This 21-and-up event will feature two levels of holiday adorned hallways, three spectacular ballrooms and multiple breakout party rooms, all providing a unique taste of world class music and entertainment. Tickets are $89-99.

BROOMFIELD: New Year’s Eve Dance.

Zoo Year’s Eve.

8:30 p.m. Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church & School, 900 W. Midway Blvd., Broomfield.

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My Morning Jacket Three-Night NYE Run — with The Revolution, tUnE-yArDs, and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe.

$1 from every ticket purchased for My Morning Jacket’s New Year’s Eve run of shows will go to MMJ’s Waterfall Project, which will benefit to the following organizations: The Advancement Project, Emergency Family Assistance Association and Everytown for Gun Safety. Established in 2015, the Project is dedicated to supporting and promoting actions, big and small, for positive change in the world. A one-night pass is $76.

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The evening features fun activities for the entire family and an early New Year’s Eve countdown at 9 p.m. so your little ones can enjoy the holiday and still get home for bed early. Enjoy DJ Frederick, face painting, Magic Rob and a princess meetand-greet. Tickets are $15 for the general public, age 12-64; $10 for children 3-11; $12 for age 65+.

Nativity’s young adult group is hosting a New Year’s Eve dance for all Catholic young adults in the area. Join us for dancing, drinks, light food and joyful celebration! All are welcome. Tickets are $20 online or $25 at the door. Tickets for designated drivers are $15 (via a refund at the door).

8 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield.

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5:30 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver.

7:30 p.m. Westminster Brewing Co & Whistling Hare Distillery, 7655 W. 108th Ave., Westminister. Mingle with friends at Westminster Brewing Co. and Whistling Hare Distillery (two lounges, smoking patio, beer bar and the dance floor) while enjoying tasty food (hors d’oeuvres, multiple buffet courses, and desserts), live music (everything from current dance favorites, R&B, Motown, golden classics and everything in between), six drink tickets to be used at either WBC or WHD, and a Champagne toast at midnight. Admission gets you two special-release drink tickets to be used for any one of three versions of the new barrel-aged 12 Apostles from WBC and

Friday & Saturday january 5-6

bluegraSS generalS

Feat cHriS pandolFi & andy Hall (tHe inFamouS StringduSterS), Sam buSH, keitH moSeley (Sci) & larry keel w/ tHe Swat team 1/5: meadow mountain, watermelon Funk & jaden carlSon band 1/6: grant Farm, caSey ruSSell & tHe Soul SHack & enVy alo

a new 12 Apostles-based whiskey from WHD. Tickets are $62.

DENVER: 16th White Rose Gala. 9 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Champa, Denver.

An Evening of Ballroom Elegance — presented by Denver Ballroom Production. 6 p.m. Denver West Marriott, 1717 Denver West Blvd., Golden. Cocktail reception and photos at 6 p.m. For the night’s special entertainment, all guests must be seated by 7 p.m. and ready for dinner service at 7:30 p.m. Dancing from 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Champagne toast at midnight. This is a black tie affair. Tickets are $125.

Flapper dresses, stylish sequins and fancy fedoras for NYE?!? White Rose Gala is a high-end and elegant charity event where you are enveloped by musical and theatrical performances. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in the classic elegance of art deco of the Roaring ’20s. Be transported to an era of a modern renaissance where style, opulence and grace were the only way to swing.

MORRISON:

New Year’s Eve Fireworks in Denver.

5:10 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.

Downtown Denver. The sky will once again sparkle over downtown at the close of 2017 with the New Year’s Eve Fireworks Downtown. The two spectacular fireworks shows will occur at 9 p.m. and midnight. For the best viewpoints, stand along the 16th Street Mall. Costumed entertainers will interact with crowds between shows,

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New Year’s Eve on the Rocks featuring Migos, Post Malone, Young Thug, Lil Yachty, Dizzy Wright, King Green (of RDGLDGRN).

General Admission Tickets are $175 plus applicable service charges. VIP Tickets are $350 plus applicable service charges. All ages are welcome.

jay roemer band

Feat daVe carroll (trampled by turtleS), dan andree, jarett maSon, caSey cormier w/ tHin air – pickin’ on wideSpread panic (late Set), SHawn nelSon & legal tender

Friday december 22

diSco Floyd

w/ pHour point o & SoundS traVelS

wedneSday december 27 re: SearcH

Feat daily bread & toy box w/ kruSHendo, mikey tHunder & jubee tHurSday december 28 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

cerVanteS’ 15tH anniVerSary celebration

bonFire dub w/ lil SkoopS (late Set) & Steepland String band

1/11: tHe runnikine 1/12: Space orpHan Feat tHe SiSterS oF Soul (kim dawSon, tanya SHylock

Fort knox FiVe

tHurSday & Friday january 11-12

tHe new maSterSoundS & cHriStie cHamberS)

Saturday january 13

octaVe cat

Feat jeSSe miller (lotuS), eli winderman (dopapod), cHarlie patierno & big brazilian cHeeSe Feat micHael kang (Sci), dominic lali (big gigantic), aaron joHnSton & jeSSe murpHy (brazilian girlS)

Friday january 19

jameS brown dance party

Feat memberS oF jameS brown’S band, big gigantic, tHe dap kingS, talib kweli, joHn legend, lauryn Hill, odeSza, pretty ligHtS, bootSy collinS, Snarky puppy & denVer’S micHael jackSon all StarS

Saturday january 20

baSS pHySicS & exmag tHurSday january 25

Summer camp on tHe road Friday january 26

jeFF auStin band Saturday january 27

tHe Funk HunterS

Friday december 29

w/ tHe dirty gemStoneS, pHloetHik & looney ando

wedneSday january 3 re: SearcH

Feat jubee liVe band w/ telemetry, unexotic & mikey tHunder tHurSday january 4 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

tHunder & rain w/ lineage & piStolS in petticoatS Friday & Saturday january 5-6

tHe Swat team

Feat SteVe watkinS (allen Stone/juno wHat), adam deitcH (lettuce/break Science), garrett SayerS (tHe motet) & dan ScHwindt (kyle HollingSwortH band) 1/5: watermelon Funk & jaden carlSon band 1/6: caSey ruSSell & tHe Soul SHack Feat jeFF Franca & enVy alo

wedneSday january 10 re: SearcH

Feat eartHcry (antHony oF papadoSio), cuali, liVing ligHt, mikey tHunder & jubee Friday january 12

motel radio

w/ Strange americanS & tHe Solid ocean

w/ deFunk & truFeelz

Saturday january 13

Friday February 2

cerVanteS’ 15tH anniVerSary celebration

Friday February 9

w/ cHriS karnS, mikey tHunder & ginger perry

orcHard lounge joyner lucaS / dizzy wrigHt

w/ marlon craFt & eli reezy

tHurSday February 15

cHieF keeF

w/ dwayne jr & dj FreSH joneS

Friday February 16

pimpS oF joytime w/ toubab krewe

GOLDEN:

tHurSday december 21 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

Saturday February 24

j boog

w/ jeSSe royal & etana

Sunday marcH 4

ty dolla $ign Saturday marcH 10

dj z-trip

tueSday january 16

nappy rootS

w/ g yamazawa, donny blot, d-Stylz w/ HigH key

tHurSday january 18

oakHurSt

w/ cluStepluck & HawtHorne rootS

Friday january 19

tatanka

w/ bumpin uglieS & apex Vibe

Saturday january 20

jazz iS pHSH Sunday january 21

audio puSH

tHe expendableS

w/ byz, kent waSHington & FlawleSS money

w/ tHrougH tHe rootS & paciFic dub

tHurSday january 25

Sunday marcH 11

w/ mileS oVer mountainS

w/ iSHdarr

w/ leSpecial & tHe elegant plumS

FuturiStic: wHat more could you aSk For? Saturday marcH 24

tHe dance party time macHine tHurSday marcH 29

micHael ScHenker FeSt

Feat micHael ScHenker, gary barden, graHam bonnet & robin mcauley & doogie wHite (micHael ScHenker’S temple oF rock), cHriS glen, ted mckenna & SteVe mann

Friday april 13

baSStrackS

rapidgraSS Friday january 26

cycleS

Saturday january 27 daVe & Scott’S 92nd bday baSH preSentS

daVe wattS & FriendS

Feat daVe wattS (motet), jaSon Hann (Sci), rooSeVelt collier, ian neVille (dumpStapHunk), cHuck joneS (dopapod), todd StoopS (raQ), janS ingber & camille wHo?, gabe merVine (motet) & nick gerlacH w/ big mean Sound macHine

tHurSday February 1

tHe Holdup

Saturday February 3

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Saturday & Sunday december 30-31 dual Venue!

treVor Hall

12/30: SatSang, rob drabkin, tHe copper cHildren & intuit 12/31: caS Haley, a-mac & tHe HeigHt, project 432 & lola riSing

BOULDER WEEKLY WISHES TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT NYE CALENDAR from Page 31

including magicians, mascots, balloon artists, stilt walkers and comedians.

MOUNTAIN TOWNS:

Denver New Years Eve Black Tie Party. 8 p.m. Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver.

Anders Osborne — with Andy Sydow.

New Year’s Eve with Denver Union Station.

7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

9 p.m. LoDo, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver.

7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill.

Dinner at 7:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $50 plus fees.

FILM LIVE WITH COLORADO SYMPHONY BRETT MITCHELL, CONDUCTOR MUSIC BY

JOHN WILLIAMS

New Year’s Eve Pary with The Symbols. 10 p.m. 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Resolution NYE 2018.

BROOMFIELD: New Year’s Eve Dance.

Zoo Year’s Eve.

8:30 p.m. Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church & School, 900 W. Midway Blvd., Broomfield.

THU MAR 22 & SAT MAR 24 1STBANK CENTER, BROOMFIELD, CO ALTITUDETICKETS.COM

My Morning Jacket Three-Night NYE Run — with The Revolution, tUnE-yArDs, and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe.

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8 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield.

“PRESENTATION LICENSED BY

5:30 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver.

Friday & Saturday january 5-6

bluegraSS generalS

a new 12 Apostles-based whiskey from WHD. Tickets are $62.

DENVER: 16th White Rose Gala. 9 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Champa, Denver.

MORRISON:

New Year’s Eve Fireworks in Denver.

5:10 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison.

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New Year’s Eve on the Rocks featuring Migos, Post Malone, Young Thug, Lil Yachty, Dizzy Wright, King Green (of RDGLDGRN).

General Admission Tickets are $175 plus applicable service charges. VIP Tickets are $350 plus applicable service charges. All ages are welcome.

jay roemer band

Feat daVe carroll (trampled by turtleS), dan andree, jarett maSon, caSey cormier w/ tHin air – pickin’ on wideSpread panic (late Set), SHawn nelSon & legal tender

Friday december 22

diSco Floyd

w/ pHour point o & SoundS traVelS

wedneSday december 27 re: SearcH

Feat daily bread & toy box w/ kruSHendo, mikey tHunder & jubee tHurSday december 28 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

cerVanteS’ 15tH anniVerSary celebration

bonFire dub w/ lil SkoopS (late Set) & Steepland String band

1/11: tHe runnikine 1/12: Space orpHan Feat tHe SiSterS oF Soul (kim dawSon, tanya SHylock

Fort knox FiVe

tHurSday & Friday january 11-12

tHe new maSterSoundS & cHriStie cHamberS)

Saturday january 13

octaVe cat

Feat jeSSe miller (lotuS), eli winderman (dopapod), cHarlie patierno & big brazilian cHeeSe Feat micHael kang (Sci), dominic lali (big gigantic), aaron joHnSton & jeSSe murpHy (brazilian girlS)

Friday january 19

jameS brown dance party

Feat memberS oF jameS brown’S band, big gigantic, tHe dap kingS, talib kweli, joHn legend, lauryn Hill, odeSza, pretty ligHtS, bootSy collinS, Snarky puppy & denVer’S micHael jackSon all StarS

Saturday january 20

baSS pHySicS & exmag tHurSday january 25

Summer camp on tHe road Friday january 26

jeFF auStin band Saturday january 27

tHe Funk HunterS

Friday december 29

w/ tHe dirty gemStoneS, pHloetHik & looney ando

wedneSday january 3 re: SearcH

Feat jubee liVe band w/ telemetry, unexotic & mikey tHunder tHurSday january 4 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

tHunder & rain w/ lineage & piStolS in petticoatS Friday & Saturday january 5-6

tHe Swat team

wedneSday january 10 re: SearcH

Feat eartHcry (antHony oF papadoSio), cuali, liVing ligHt, mikey tHunder & jubee Friday january 12

motel radio

w/ Strange americanS & tHe Solid ocean

w/ deFunk & truFeelz

Saturday january 13

Friday February 2

cerVanteS’ 15tH anniVerSary celebration

Friday February 9

w/ cHriS karnS, mikey tHunder & ginger perry

orcHard lounge joyner lucaS / dizzy wrigHt

w/ marlon craFt & eli reezy

tHurSday February 15

cHieF keeF

w/ dwayne jr & dj FreSH joneS

Friday February 16

pimpS oF joytime w/ toubab krewe

GOLDEN:

tHurSday december 21 graSS For tHat aSS preSentS

Saturday February 24

j boog

w/ jeSSe royal & etana

Sunday marcH 4

ty dolla $ign Saturday marcH 10

dj z-trip

tueSday january 16

nappy rootS

w/ g yamazawa, donny blot, d-Stylz w/ HigH key

tHurSday january 18

oakHurSt

w/ cluStepluck & HawtHorne rootS

Friday january 19

tatanka

w/ bumpin uglieS & apex Vibe

Saturday january 20

jazz iS pHSH Sunday january 21

audio puSH

tHe expendableS

w/ byz, kent waSHington & FlawleSS money

w/ tHrougH tHe rootS & paciFic dub

tHurSday january 25

Sunday marcH 11

w/ mileS oVer mountainS

w/ iSHdarr

w/ leSpecial & tHe elegant plumS

FuturiStic: wHat more could you aSk For? Saturday marcH 24

tHe dance party time macHine tHurSday marcH 29

micHael ScHenker FeSt

Feat micHael ScHenker, gary barden, graHam bonnet & robin mcauley & doogie wHite (micHael ScHenker’S temple oF rock), cHriS glen, ted mckenna & SteVe mann

Friday april 13

baSStrackS

rapidgraSS Friday january 26

cycleS

Saturday january 27 daVe & Scott’S 92nd bday baSH preSentS

daVe wattS & FriendS

tHurSday February 1

tHe Holdup

Saturday February 3

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events EVENTS from Page 28

Jazz Christmas Eve Service. 9 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Joan Marcus Spruce St., Boulder.

theater

music@theJ — Klezmania. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.

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

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

Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Feb. 14.

Events

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

The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Candlelight Christmas Eve Service. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Christmas Eve Dinner. 12 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Christmas Eve Services. 10 a.m., 4:30 p.m., and 6:15 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!). Denver Center Theatre Company, 950 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 23. Inspired by Adrienne Shelly’s beloved film, Waitress tells the story of Jenna — a waitress and expert pie maker, who dreams of a way out of her small-town and loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county and the town’s new doctor may offer her a chance at a fresh start, while her fellow waitresses offer their own recipes for happiness. But Jenna must summon the strength and courage to rebuild her own life.

Red. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 7. Resolutions. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Dec. 31. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Center Theatre Company, 950 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24 Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14. Waitress. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 31.

St., Denver.

4593 Broadway, Boulder.

Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver.

Open Jam/Mic Night. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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

The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Open Stage — Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Three Quarter Moon Live: Original Bluegrass and Folk Duo. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Events

The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. 2 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Music

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder.

Events

Happy Hour. 4 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Santa’s Wonderland. 10 a.m. Bass Pro Shops, 7970 Northfield Blvd., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 11:30 a.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Small Business Sunday. 10 a.m. 17th Avenue Event Center, 478 17th Ave., Longmont. Monday, December 25

The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver. Mile High Comedy Wrap Up. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver. Mitch Fatel’s Naughty Holiday Showcase. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. The Nutcracker: Royal Ballet. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Holiday Lights Tour. 6 p.m. Union Station, Wynkoop and 17th streets, Denver.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

NYC Dance-Variety Show: Guilty Pleasures Cabaret. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

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

Taco Tuesday Stand-Up Comedy. 7 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Permanent. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Wednesday, December 27

Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.

Music

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

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

Tuesday, December 26

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.

Music ’90s TV Dinners. 5 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. My Blue Sky: Allman Brothers Band Tribute. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Boulder Weekly

THURSDAY DECEMBER 21

CLOSING AT 5PM NO MUSIC

FRIDAY DECEMBER 22

TAD BAIERLEIN 8PM JASON McINTYRE & MICHAEL O’CONNOR 9PM SATURDAY DECEMBER 23

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

Santa’s Big Red Sack. 4 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location

Jazz Dinner — with Tenia Renee Nelson Trio. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Mmmwhah’s Kirtan Arts. 7 p.m. Alive Studio,

SNOW DAZE 2017 — High School Winter Dance Party (High Schoolers Only). 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Trivia in Longmont — with Quizmaster Entertainment. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

THE NOISY RESIDENTS 8PM TALKING TREES 9PM SUNDAY DECEMBER 24

CLOSING AT 5PM NO MUSIC

MONDAY DECEMBER 25

CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS NO MUSIC TUESDAY DECEMBER 26 8PM

SPiNRaD

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 27

TAYLOR TUKE 8PM THREE QUARTER MOON 9PM

THURSDAY DECEMBER 28 8PM

GRUPO CHEGANDO LÁ and FRANCISCO MARQUES FRIDAY DECEMBER 29 8PM

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987, somewhere in Northern Italy, a young man is about to come of age. Like most 17-year-old boys, the boredom of day-in, day-out routine is about to be replaced by something new, something extraordinary: sex, naturally. And like the multitudes that have come before, this newfound energy will consume every aspect of his being, transforming everything around him into one giant erotic extension. He is Elio (Timothée Chalamet, outstanding), a teenage pianist who spends most of his days listening, transcribing and practicing music; he favors interpretation over faithful recreation. Enter Oliver (Armie Hammer, never better), a 24-year-old American doctoral student who is too good-looking for his own good and too goofy for his good looks. Oliver has come to Italy to assist Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a noted GrecoRoman scholar, in his research. And while Oliver studies Hellenistic sculptures, Elio studies Oliver: his chiseled physique, his distinctly American attitude and plenty more. Lucky for Elio, Oliver reciprocates with a playful touch and a few Wonderfully sensuwell-placed glances that drive the point home. al and delightfully energetic, Call Me Northern Italy in the summer is hot, sweltering By Your Name is hot, and the residents of this dreamy villa walk around a coming-of-age film like no other. with barely a stitch on. Windows and doors are always open and there is a sense that just about anything or anyone could blow in. Enter Mariza (Esther Garrel); she’s Elio’s age and just as sexually inexperienced as he, but the season is ripe for discovery, and flirtation gives way to fornication, hot, sweaty and brief, under the summer moon. And though he enjoys Mariza and her body, Elio still has eyes for Oliver. The two dance around the obvious before giving into their desires. It is Elio’s first time with a man and it unlocks something in him, something primordial. Much like the vibrant Liszt interpretations of Bach that he favors, Elio’s sexual energy drives him to mania; like an itch, he can never quite reach. There is nothing pent up about it, there is just more of it than Elio, or any young man, knows what do with it. Wonderfully sensual and delightfully energetic, Call Me By Your Name is the final installment in director Luca Guadagnino’s unofficial “desire trilogy.” His previous installment, A Bigger Splash, is just as sexy but a tad messier. Those characters show what a lifetime of sexual repression, and sexual indulgence, can amount to. Though A Bigger Splash is an outstanding film, something is missing. That something is tenderness and compassion, which can be found all over Call Me By Your Name. Be it the simple way Elio watches Oliver dance to The Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way,” how Elio scribbles notes to leave on Oliver’s bed, or a fatherly speech, unlike any speech a father has given — in real life or in the movies. Call Me By Your Name is beautiful, wonderful and as warm and life-affirming as the summer sun streaming through the trees at the breakfast table. You just want to sit here one minute longer and bask in its ineffable beauty. Boulder Weekly

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ou can never have too much bacon, which is perhaps why Boulder Beer puts it on the menu twice at its Wilderness Place Pub. A mixture of savory and sweet, three strips of crisp, smoky bacon are drizzled with a brown sugar glaze. This unique dish is served either as an appetizer or a dessert, and if you really want to get fancy, make it a sundae for $2 more. $4.

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lackbelly’s Hosea Rosenberg opened Santo recently as an homage to his hometown (and state) of Taos, New Mexico. To Santo, Rosenberg brings his unique ability to marry electric flavors and textures in classic dishes, as evidenced in the Navajo fry bread. A crisp-shelled, chewy-on-the-inside slab of fry bread is piled high with pork adovada, chorizo, refried beans, crema, slaw and choice of chile (we chose Christmas, because... it’s Christmas.) The fry bread is as good as it sounds; the pork adovada is tender, and its red coating is smoky, chocolaty, deeply fruity and slightly spicy. The chorizo and crema add counterpoints of spice and sweet; while the slaw brings fresh crunch. The chile on top, by the way, is irresistible. There’s much to try at Santo, including blue corn enchiladas, fisherman’s stew and apple and green chile pie. Don’t be afraid to dive into the unique cocktail list, either. $18.

Pozole

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acos, Tequila, Whiskey may be known for its award-winning street tacos and diverse list of cocktails, but the weekend-only pozole is the hidden gem on the menu. The traditional Mexican stew is made verde style with tomatillos, cilantro and green chilies that give it a kick. Each cup is full of tasty hominy and tender shredded chicken. Fresh shredded cabbage and radish sprinkled on top add just a bit of spicy crunch to each bite. And the cotija helps balance the dish. It’s served with a healthy side of “just made chips.” Order a large as your meal or a small as a side, you won’t be disappointed. Served Friday-Sunday. $3.50 small, $5.50 large.

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remember the soulful taste, chew and aroma of the braised ham hock at Jin Chan Zhang in Boulder as if it was yesterday, all the fatty fall-apart meat, sweet soy glaze and bok choy. The square Palermo pizza at Louisville’s Pizza King speaks to me in Sicilian in murmurs of chunky tomato sauce over mozzarella, herbs, olive oil and crispy corner slices. Those were two shining taste highlights of 2017. Other folks track their steps or the birds they’ve seen. Nibbles is my decades’-old public diary of the bitefuls that moved me enough to recommend them to you. Here, in no particular order, are best things I’ve tasted in Boulder and environs among the approximately 365 breakfasts, 365 lunches and 365 dinners of the past 52 weeks. If you visit these places, be sure to say “Hi” for me. Let me know what you think — or suggest bites I should experience in 2018 — at nibbles@boulderweekly.com. • I loved the combo plate at Kalita Grill Greek Cafe in Boulder, especially the shawarma with tzatziki and a side of memorable falafel balls with hummus. • The top single bite of the year was smoked pulled chicken and mac-n-cheese on a house-fried potato chip with hot and tangy sauce at UTurn BBQ in Lafayette. • I found familiar comfort in a messy, classic firecracker roll at Boulder’s Hapa Sushi with shrimp tempura, avocado and cucumber topped with spicy tuna and masago mayo. When I finished it, I wanted another. Still do. • Quick, familiar Indian fare at a café is a regular

treat, but it was a meal months ago at Broomfield’s Hapa Sushi Chef comfortable, modern Jefferson Liu with a Azitra that still makes me firecracker roll. smack my lips; first-class chicken tikka masala in a great creamy tomato sauce and cheese naan used to snag paneer chunks from the saag. • Yes, Taco Tuesday is rampant in Boulder. However, I chose Smoked Prime Rib Thursday at the original Boulder Beer brewpub. I recall thinly sliced beef in genuine au jus piled on a bun with some punchy horseradish cream. That’s ale food. • When I finally get my DNA tested I expect to find a percentage of Ethiopian. Tasting spicy lentil sambussa, yebeg alecha (lamb stew) and carrot salad at Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Restaurant in Lafayette felt like coming home. Pass the injera. • Some bites are worth the drive. That’s true of the mighty bison ribs at Tocabe Native American eateries in Denver and Greenwood Village. The oven-braised, grill-charred meat is great with berry barbecue sauce and nicely fluffy fry bread. • I’m so glad my breakfast roll research took me back to Lucky’s Bake Shop in 2017. Besides the mindblowing pecan sticky buns, the artisan baklava-like pistachio, honey and rose bun made me grin. • Two artisan joys are married in the Gooey Cooie ice cream sandwich at Sweet Cooie’s Ice Cream, a retro scoop shop in Denver. Halved brioche doughnuts are see NIBBLES Page 44

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filled with bright, lemon meringue pie and other super-creamy ice creams. They offer tastes on small metal teaspoons — the better to present the chill flavor. • Sandwiches of another kind caught my attention at Button Rock Bakery in Lyons and Lafayette, as in giant chocolate-coated cookie sandwiches filled with real buttercream frosting. Also recommended: Zesty, sugared gingersnap cookies. • Some pleasures are so simple you wonder why more places don’t serve them. A good example are the zeppoli at Mama Mead’s Pizzeria in Longmont. Small bites of leftover pizza dough are fried and served warm with powdered sugar. Don’t miss: Bialy with cream cheese and smoked salmon, Moxie Bread Co., Louisville; Cinnamon rolls, Walnut Cafe, Boulder and Lafayette; Smoked brisket and cheesey corn, The Rib House, Longmont; Vegetable korma, Tiffins Indian Café, Boulder; Chicken mole enchiladas, Los Carboncitos, Denver; Loroco pupusas, Pupusas stand, corner of 95th Street and South Boulder Road, Louisville; Flu Shot Soup, Taste of Thailand, Denver; Cajun-style smoked gator, Brooks Smokehouse, Aurora; El Cubano sandwich with fried ripe plantains, Frijoles Colorado Cuban Café, Lakewood; Dim sum takeout (rice bundles, BBQ pork buns, custard tarts), Celestial Bakery, Denver; and peach breakfast rolls and plum peek-a-boos, Slice O’ Life, Palisade.

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The 12 Point Distillery will open in 2018 near Ras Kassa’s on South Public Road in Lafayette. ... The post-fire rebuilding process at the famous Rocky Flats Lounge south of Boulder is continuing. There is no ETA yet on Friday fish frys. Reelfish Fish & Chips in

Lafayette is filling the Raymundo regional void Aparicio with nights bakes cinnamon rolls for the featuring fried Walnut Cafe. fresh walleye flown in from Red Lake, Minnesota. ... If you are working in the food industry locally on New Year’s Eve, stop by Basta in Boulder for its annual restaurant worker brunch on New Year’s Day.

Global combo-comfort foods

A recent Nibbles column about an Eastern Colorado cafeteria lunch dish of red chili with cinnamon rolls prompted a reader to ask if it was related to “The Slopper,” the famous Pueblo-created combination of open face cheeseburgers submerged in pork green chile. There is a Nebraska bakery that serves chili in bread bowls made from cinnamon rolls. Both delicacies are reminiscent of the South Australia “floater,” a meat pie overturned in a bowl of steaming pea soup with a splash of tomato sauce on top.

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lastair Brogan calls them an odd couple — he, a hulking Scotsman in a purple polo shirt with the bow of a ship for a jaw line, and Ted Palmer, a brainy Coloradan with an overgrown red and white beard and a sweatshirt. Together, they own Vapor Distillery in Boulder, formerly known as a name that they, or we, maybe, are no longer legally able to repeat due to a copyright dispute. It was actually in that much-publicized name dispute that Palmer and Brogan got into business together. Palmer had the distillery relatively humming, after buying it from a hobby distiller when it was only spitting out what a three-gallon still could produce. In less than 10 years, Palmer built what would become Vapor into an awardwinning producer with spirits that make you double-take — the gin and barrel-aged gin, vodka and coffee liqueur, in particular. But when investors parted ways with Palmer during the distillery’s name-dispute, it was Brogan who came in, looking for a place to make whisky with a 1,000-gallon, world-class, artisanal copper still he 46 December 21 , 2017

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had purchased. That’s right: Brogan bought the ridiculously expensive still before he had a place to put it — and now the two are diving headfirst into one of the final frontiers of American spirits: single-malt whisky. “I’m a big believer in massive life changes, and I’ve done it a couple times: ‘Just fuck it, let’s do this,’” Brogan says. Brogan spent a decade in the Royal Air Force, and thought he’d continue in the military as a survival guide. But when he was told he had to take a tour in the Falkland Islands, and that the survival guide gig would be taken by the time he got back, he left, “literally on a whim.” He joined the family business — fuel transportation — only to “unexpectedly sell it” a few years later. His partners (his cousins) waited a few years and then started up again “and made a shitload of money,” Brogan says, while he cut ties and jumped ship to Boulder. “Yeah, but you’ll surpass them in few years,” Palmer says. “Doesn’t feel like that now,” Brogan

replies, only kind of joking. Palmer spent years in the military as well, serving as a mine field navigator in the U.S. Navy. But he was perhaps more well-known among his crewmates as the guy who made really good wine on board. Palmer has been distilling, crafting and brewing alcohol since he was a kid, watching his grandfather dis-

till liquor on a homemade set in his garage. When Palmer left the Navy, he became head brewmaster at Pyramid Brewing in Seattle, but quickly returned to his original love of craft spirits as soon as laws changed that made distilling startups easier (and far less expensive) to create. Together, Brogan and Palmer make a formidable pair. While Palmer does things like attending wood conventions, literally eating pieces of barrels to see how they’ll age his spirits, Brogan serves as the outspoken ambassador. It’s the combination of passion and knowhow; experience and boldness. And it’ll come together in their first batch of single-malt whisky. Brogan estimates there are only about 40 single-malt whisky producers in the country, which means there is a huge opportunity for Vapor to bend the market its way. There aren’t a lot of factors that separate one singlemalt whisky from another, but one small tweak in any one aspect of the process can produce radically different results. Brogan says Vapor has a few Boulder Weekly

unique advantages. It starts with the still; Vapor’s was made by the foremost still-maker in the world, Richard Forsyth. The shape of the still dramatically impacts what flavors are vaporized and then condensed back into liquid. “When the alcohol vaporizes and goes up, what will happen before it condenses and changes back to liquid is those flavors have got to get all the way up there and then over [from the boiler to the condenser],” Brogan says, pointing to the copper tube that carries vapor from the boiler to the cooling condenser. “If [the tube] was higher, some of those flavors would fall down and break up and become different flavors that try to get up again.” Another factor in single-malt whisky production is when the distiller starts capturing the condensed liquid. When it comes time to take the spirit from the still, first come the heads, which are mostly methanol; then the hearts, which are ethanol (and desired); and then the tails, which are mostly water. The distiller will let the methanol run first, and deciding when to start and stop capturing the liquid impacts the chemical composition, taste and texture of the spirit. The last factor, Brogan says, that impacts whisky-making is the environment. Colorado is one of three regions in the U.S. where the water is good enough for distilling, he says — the Northeast and Northwest are the others. But altitude, weather and pressure systems all affect how the spirits work in and out of the barrels. In Vapor’s East Boulder production facility, there is an indoor barrel-aging room. It’s not climate controlled, and it will certainly impact the flavor and color of the resulting spirits differently than, say, in Kentucky, where high humidity forces wood barrels to expand and contract differently. Too, Vapor’s single-malt whisky will require far less time in the barrel than Scotch whisky, because Scotch whisky is often made in old, used barrels, which require more time to impart color into the liquid. New barrels with a good amount of char on the inside of them, like those used at Vapor, will work in color quickly while not missing out on flavor. Part of the challenge of barrel aging is that no two barrels taste the same. Palmer, the expert, tasted 90 barrels (nearly all of them) from the first single-malt whisky batch and pegged several for special single-barrel bottling and the rest for blending. Working on such a relatively small scale creates a more interesting product, Brogan says, to which American consumers, bred by the craft brewing scene, are receptive. “The movement in craft beer is people going, ‘We don’t fucking want conBoulder Weekly

sistency anymore. We want something different. We want high quality but we want something slightly different and unusual,’” Brogan says. Palmer, meanwhile, says the dream is to grow Vapor enough to capitalize on its capacity. While other small producers may be shunned by distributors because they can’t produce enough product on demand, Vapor has the capacity to fill big orders of high quality spirits quickly, which sets Brogan and Palmer up well for what they think will soon be a rabid appetite for craft spirits.

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Vapor Distillery Chieftain Alastair Brogan with business partner Ted Palmer in Vapor’s barrel-aging room.

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2018 will be like a psychological boot camp that’s designed to beef up your emotional intelligence. Here’s another way to visualize your oncoming adventures: They will constitute a friendly nudge from the cosmos, pushing you to be energetic and ingenious in creating the kind of partnerships you want for the rest of your long life. As you go through your interesting tests and riddles, be on the lookout for glimpses of what your daily experience could be like in five years if you begin now to deepen your commitment to love and collaboration.

where 88 percent of the world’s population resides, this is a quiescent time for the natural world. Less sunlight is available, and plants’ metabolisms slow down as photosynthesis diminishes. Deciduous trees lose their leaves, and even many evergreens approach dormancy. And yet in the midst of this stasis, Cancerian, you are beginning to flourish. Gradually at first, but with increasing urgency, you’re embarking on an unprecedented phase of growth. I foresee that 2018 will be your Year of Blossoming.

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TAURUS

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out into the frontier. I suggest you pack your bag of tricks. Bring gifts with you, too, just in case you must curry favor in the frontiers where the rules are a bit loose. How are your improvisational instincts? Be sure they’re in top shape. How willing are you to summon spontaneity and deal with unpredictability and try impromptu experiments? I hope you’re very willing. This may sound like a lot of work, but I swear it’ll be in a good cause. If you’re well-prepared as you wander in the borderlands, you’ll score sweet secrets and magic cookies. Here’s more good news: Your explorations will position you well to take advantage of the opportunities that’ll become available throughout 2018.

GEMINI

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celebrities who shave their heads. Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Seal, Tyrese Gibson, and Vin Diesel are among them. But in the 20th century, the bare-headed style was rare. One famous case was actor Yul Brynner. By age 30, he’d begun to go bald. In 1951, for his role as the King of Siam in the Broadway play The King and I, he decided to shave off all his hair. From then on, the naked-headed look became his trademark as he plied a successful acting career. So he capitalized on what many in his profession considered a liability. He built his power and success by embracing an apparent disadvantage. I recommend you practice your own version of this strategy in 2018. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to begin.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In fairy tales, characters are often rewarded for their acts of kindness. They may be given magical objects that serve as protection, like cloaks of invisibility or shoes that enable them to flee trouble. Or the blessings they receive may be lifeenhancing, like enchanted cauldrons that provide a never-ending supply of Go to RealAstrology.com to check out delicious food or musical Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO instruments that have the LEO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE power to summon delightJULY 23-AUG. 22: If HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes ful playmates. I bring this you’ve had an unfulfilled are also available by phone at up, Libra, because I suspect curiosity about genealogy 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. that a similar principle will or your ancestors or the be very active in your life riddles of your past, 2018 during 2018. You’ll find will be a favorable time it easier and more natural than usual to express kindness, to investigate. Out-of-touch relatives will be easier empathy, and compassion. If you consistently capitalize to locate than usual. Lost heirlooms, too. You may be on this predilection, life will readily provide you with the able to track down and make use of a neglected legacy. resources you need. Even family secrets could leak into view — both the

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VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Most of us regard our ring fingers as the least important of our digits. What are they good for? Is there any activity for which they’re useful? But our ancestors had a stronger relationship with their fourth fingers. There was a folk belief that a special vein connected the fourth finger on the left hand directly to the heart. That’s why a tradition arose around the wedding ring being worn there. It may have also been a reason why pharmacists regarded their fourth fingers as having an aptitude for discerning useful blends of herbs. I bring this up, Virgo, because I think it’s an apt metaphor for one of 2018’s important themes: A resource you have

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Like all of us, you go through mediocre phases when you’re not functioning at peak efficiency. But I suspect that in 2018 you will experience fewer of these blah times. We will see a lot of you at your best. Even more than usual, you’ll be an interesting catalyst who energizes and ripens collaborative projects. You’ll demonstrate why the sweet bracing brightness needs the deep dark depths, and vice versa. You’ll help allies open doors that they can’t open by themselves. The rest of us thank you in advance!

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The blunt fact is that you can’t be deliv-

ered from the old demoralizing pattern that has repeated and repeated itself — until you forgive yourself completely. For that matter, you probably can’t move on to the next chapter

of your life story until you compensate yourself for at least some of the unnecessary torment you’ve inflicted on yourself. Now here’s the good news: 2018 will be an excellent time to accomplish these healings.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In 2018, one of your primary missions

will be to practice what you preach; to walk your talk; to be ambitious and masterful in all the ways a soulful human can and should be ambitious and masterful. Live up to your hype in the coming months, Capricorn! Do what you have promised! Stop postponing your dreams! Fulfill the noble expectations you have for yourself! Don’t be shy about using exclamation points to express your visions of what’s right and good and just!

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Years ago, when I started my career as

a horoscope writer, my editor counseled me, “Always give priority to the Big Three. Romance, money, and power are what people care about most.” After a few months, he was disgruntled to realize that I wrote about how to cultivate psychological health and nourish spiritual aspirations as much as his Big Three. He would have replaced me if he could have found another astrology writer whose spelling and grammar were as good as mine. But his edict traumatized me a bit. Even today, I worry that I don’t provide you with enough help concerning the Big Three. Fortunately, that’s not relevant now, since I can sincerely declare that 2018 will bring you chances to become more powerful by working hard on your psychological health... and to grow wealthier by cultivating your spiritual aspirations... and to generate more love by being wise and ethical in your quest for money and power.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: What binds you? What keeps you

closed down and locked up? I urge you to ponder those questions, Pisces. Once you get useful answers, the next step will be to meditate on how you can undo the binds. Fantasize and brainstorm about the specific actions you can take to unlock and unclose yourself. This project will be excellent preparation for the opportunities that the coming months will make available to you. I’m happy to announce that 2018 will be your personal Year of Liberation.

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Dear Dan: A man impregnated me about a month into our relationship. He is adamantly against having the kid, as it’s too soon. I really don’t want to have an abortion — I have religious and moral beliefs against it. He states that since one parent doesn’t want the kid, I am wrong for even considering keeping it. Am I wrong? We’re both around 30, and this is my first pregnancy. Do I have the right to continue with the pregnancy? I feel like we’d be great parents. He’s already left me because I wouldn’t make a decision within a week. It’s tearing us apart. —Opposing Opinions On Pregnancy Situation Dear OOOPS: I’m going to sidestep the whole no-abortions-for-religious-and-moral-reasons-but-premarital-sex-is-not-a-problem issue. This pregnancy isn’t tearing you apart, OOOPS, it tore you apart. He already ended things — he left you — which was a shitty thing to do, perhaps, but within his rights. It is absolutely within your rights to continue with the pregnancy — it’s your body, it’s your decision. And while he will be on the hook for this kid financially if you decide to have it, no one can force him to do the work/experience the joy/ clean up the vomit that comes with actually fathering this child. I’m sorry

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you’re in this position, and here’s hoping you have the love and support you need to raise a kid if you decide to keep the baby, and here’s hoping he comes around. Dear Dan: I am a straight woman who just started fucking a hot, younger male coworker. The sexual tension between us was out of control until we stayed late one night and screwed on my desk. Since that night, we’ve hooked up a few more times. We grope each other in the office daily, as the “fear” of getting caught is a real turn-on for me. The problem — there always is one — is that he has a live-in girlfriend. He told me they are in an open relationship, so being with me isn’t cheating. As per their arrangement, he won’t tell her about me, but if she finds out, he won’t lie. How do I know if he’s telling me the truth or if he’s saying these things so I’ll keep sleeping with him? She comes to work events with him, and I feel guilty because she is sweet and obviously adores him. Also, being coworkers adds another layer of issues. I am a well-liked employee who people con-

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sider very professional. He is new to the company and is a bit of a scatterbrain. The sex is amazing in part because he’s too immature for me to consider romantically. I’d love to keep seeing him for sex, but I don’t want to help him hurt someone else. Can I fuck him guilt free? —Not A Heartbreak Helper P.S. I’ve already caught him in some minor lies. For instance, he said one of the rules of the open relationship is no sex in their apartment. Guess where we last fucked? Dear NAHH: If the genders were reversed here — if you were an older, more powerful man fucking a “hot, younger” female coworker — I’d have to find you and set you on fire or something. Because even before we get to the is-he-or-isn’t-he (in an open relationship) issue, the power imbalance makes this not OK. Or it does to some/many/most. But I’m going to let those who object to coworkers fucking — unless both are partners in the firm with equal tenure, power, and salaries — debate that

issue in the comments thread while I address the issue you asked me to address: Can you know for sure whether he’s practicing ENM, aka “ethical non-monogamy.” Short answer: No, nope, you can’t — and the signs don’t look good. I was making notes as I read your letter, NAHH, and wrote, “Has he lied to you about anything?” before I got to your postscript. While some couples have DADT agreements — outside sex is allowed, but they “don’t ask, don’t tell” — the DADT thing makes it hard for their thirds (or fourths or fifths) to verify that the relationship is actually open and they aren’t a party to cheating. So you have to trust the person you’re fucking — and if they’ve given you reason not to trust them (like lying about other stuff ) and/or demonstrated that they aren’t honoring the other rules of their supposedly open relationship (like fucking in the apartment they share), well, then they’ve demonstrated their fundamental untrustworthiness. Basically, NAHH, if he’s lying to her, he’s probably lying to you, too. So you can fuck him — but not without guilt. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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Immigrants: Your social media can and will be used against you

his is a two-part column. This week, a story of the Latino advocacy nonprofit Servicios de la Raza about a recent increase in marijuana-related says he is aware of 12 deportation actions stemming deportations and how immigrants in Colorado from social media that suggested marijuana use, posare unduly affected by the ongoing federal pro- session or distribution by immigrants. In some cases hibition of marijuana. Next week, a look at the he says the pictures indicate only peripheral involveU.S. government’s systematic history of using the war ment with marijuana, offering evidence as loose as a on drugs to perpetuate the oppression of people of selfie taken outside a dispensary, which may be strong color and of immigrant communities. enough to be used for “probable cause” to challenge It all started on Sept. 18, when the Department of one’s immigration status. Homeland Security (DHS) Soto likens immigration staextensivelyreviewed.com published a policy update in tus to a case being tried in a the Federal Register saying courtroom, in which only certain that “social media handles, types of evidence are admissible aliases, associated identifiable by law. Suddenly, what was once information, and search results” considered private and inadmissiwould be included as a part of ble information is now part of the people’s immigration files. The official court record. policy change, implemented on “It’s like now your social Oct. 18, doesn’t just affect media can and will be used immigrants coming into the against you,” Soto says. Soto is intentionally vague in country, but naturalized citioffering up names and details, zens and people with green indicating a sensitivity to the cards. heightened risks of immigrants. DHS announced the redefHe fears shedding light on specific inition of what constitutes the situations would only further damofficial record of an individual’s age their immigration statuses. immigration history, “in an An Instagram post like this could become part “In my experience, as soon as effort of transparency.” It’s the of an official immigration file and be probable cause for deportation proceedings. you go public or file charges, latest development in the department’s broadening use of immigration will find a reason to technology to screen immideny you your visa or your status,” grants and find evidence of criminal activity. he says. “And now, with the social media surveillance, it The constitutionality and legality of the move is in feels totally like ‘big brother’ trying to deport a whole question and is currently being challenged by privacy bunch of people. I’ve got a feeling that what they will and immigrants’ rights attorneys across the country who do is look at the social media of specific groups of doubt social media provides reasonable grounds for eviimmigrants first, like the DACA kids who are protestdence in deportation cases. ing [for their right to stay in this country], so they can But here in Colorado, the legal lines of the policy are deport them first. I worry this will be used to quell anyespecially gray and complex, given the federal prohibition body who is vocal, to keep immigrants silent and invisiof marijuana and the state-wide, constitutionally protectble.” ed right to possess. Soto says the best thing advocates can do for immiSince the implementation of the rule, Eddie Soto grants, specifically those living in states that have legal-

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ized marijuana, is to inform them of the change in rules and how to best prevent social media surveillance from being used against them. Servicios de la Raza has partnered with the Marijuana Industry Group (MIG), a trade association for licensed cannabis businesses, in hopes that they could help. Kristi Kelly, executive director of MIG, says her organization had been actively looking for strategic partnerships to work on the social justice aspects of marijuana reform. “This is a very real, very human issue — lives are being torn apart, families are bing separated,” Kelly says. “Candidly, this is an issue for us that we feel we have a responsibility to try to get the word out. As an educational and policy resource for our industry, MIG sees this as an issue not just of our community, but of our industry.” Together, the organizations came up with a video and informational campaign that advises immigrants to adhere to a policy of abstinence, even avoiding contact with those using marijuana because friends’ social media posts can be included in immigration files, too. The campaign ultimately takes a “better safe than sorry” approach. It was in the process of working with Servicios de La Raza that MIG became aware of three cases involving employees of dispensaries who were found to be in violation of federal law. Kelly tells a story about a MIG member’s employee from another country. Though married to a U.S. citizen, the employee was still within the two-year review period with Immigration and Naturalization Services, so her employment was found to be in violation of her immigration status, and she was subsequently deported. “It’s hard to convey the impact of these deportations,” Kelly says, “because the people are gone. It’s a community left dealing with the loss of someone. It’s inconceivable to me that the federal government was deporting people for something legal in the state in which they reside. But, broadly speaking, drug crimes have always been a common vehicle through which people lose their right to residency in the U.S.” More on the connection between immigration and the war on drugs next week.

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ne of law enforceOakland, California-based start-up, ment’s great frustrahas been field testing its device. tions with legal mariAccording to a list of answers to juana — and antifrequently asked questions posted on legalizers’ perennial the company’s website, the Hound talking points — has been the breathalyzer detects THC particles in absence of a reliable way of detera person’s breath in just minutes “and mining if someone has been driving measures to very low levels — parts while stoned. per trillion.” A marijuana high (and therefore “The reason this capability is so impairment) usually lasts two or three important is that THC stays in breath hours after a user Wikimedia Commons/Scott L. smokes, and maybe a couple of hours longer if someone is using edibles. The problem is that the traditional methods of testing for whether someone has been using marijuana — urine tests, hair tests and even blood tests — don’t account for how long THC has been in a drivers’ system (which can be for a month or more) and therefore don’t reveal if a driver was actually impaired when he or she was pulled approximately two hours, which over. aligns with the actual window of There is no marijuana breathalyzer impairment,” the company says. that allows cops to administer the sort The company also says its device of instant roadside sobriety test typican measure both smoked marijuana cally used to measure impairment and edibles, a capability it calls “truly from alcohol. groundbreaking.” That, however, may be about to “Up to now, we are aware of no change. instrument that could measure both A couple of companies are develtypes of use in breath,” it said. oping breathalyzers for marijuana. What’s more, the device will be One of them, Hound Labs, an able to detect alcohol in addition to

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marijuana, which will make it easy for law enforcement to use. Roadside sobriety testing is not the only market Hound Labs intends to pursue. The company will also target employers wanting to use the device to measure whether workers are impaired on the job instead of whether employees may have smoked (legally) days or weeks earlier but are not impaired at work. The company also intends to develop a consumer product that will let marijuana users measure their breath THC concentration. “In stark contrast to alcohol,” the THC content of marijuana “is largely unregulated, so users generally cannot predict the amount of THC they have smoked,” the company says. “Imagine not knowing whether your 12-ounce drink is 4 percent alcohol (as in a beer) or 40 percent alcohol (as in a martini). “We know now that it would be dangerous to consume an unknown amount of alcohol and simply guess whether you are too impaired to drive legally. Yet that is exactly what marijuana users must do because they can’t easily estimate their THC levels and are unable to accurately predict if they’re impaired,” the company says.

The THC content of most pot sold in Colorado is printed on the label, but the measure is not as accurate as the measure of alcohol content in booze; frequently the THC level is given as a spread — from 7 to 14 percent, for instance. It’s unlikely that THC content of smokable pot can be given more precisely any time soon, since it can vary dramatically from plant to plant and even bud to bud. Hound Labs says its detection technology is proprietary and the website doesn’t contain a description of how it works. However, another company developing a marijuana breathalyzer is somewhat more forthcoming. Cannabix Technologies of Vancouver, British Columbia, says it is developing a device “based upon high-field ion mobility and mass spectrometry.” The company has an “exclusive worldwide [patent] in the areas of breath analysis of controlled substances,” it says. Just how reliable either company’s devices turn out remains to be seen. Devices that measure samples in parts-per-trillion in a roadside setting will have to prove they can be consistently accurate in difficult conditions, which may not be trivial. Still, if an accurate way of measuring drivers’ pot impairment in near-real-time becomes available, it will deprive marijuana prohibitionists of one of their few remaining arguments against legalization. As they say at Anheuser-Busch, Dilly, Dilly.

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icumi (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) AN IRREVERENT AND NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE VIEW OF THE WORLD WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE MISSING HERE? Talk about sending the wrong message: a federal judge has declared Cliven Bundy’s case a mistrial. Let’s recap. So Cliven Bundy doesn’t like being told he can’t graze his cattle on the BLM land in Nevada where his family ranch has been grazing its cattle since land grants were doled out to settlers. We get that. We’d be pissed off too. But there is a big difference between being pissed off and declaring war on the U.S. government, which is how Bundy dealt with the situation. He told the governGage Skimore via Wikimeda COmmons ment to stick it and had a bunch of militia members with all kinds of firepower show up and threaten to shoot any federal employee who dared come on his property or enforce the law. His two sons, Ammon and Ryan, helped out and for some reason, the feds backed down. That emboldened Bundy and his armed rebellion so much his boys and a bunch of guys with guns went to Oregon and literally took over a wildlife refuge and again said they’d shoot anybody that tried to stop them. After a lengthy standoff and one guy getting killed, the Bundy boys were arrested. But in 2016, they were acquitted, despite the fact the whole nation saw them take over the refuge with guns. And now Cliven Bundy is walking away from his armed standoff with the feds. And the lesson boys and girls is that if you don’t like the law, get a bunch of guys with guns and threaten to kill anyone who tries to enforce the law and the feds will let you do whatever you want. Great message. Boulder Weekly

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