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What about our farmers?

By Johnathan Hladik, policy director, Center for Rural Affairs

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arlier this year, in the midst of a trade war with China, President Donald Trump announced a $16 billion agriculture bailout, telling Americans, via Twitter, the biggest beneficiaries would be “our great Patriot Farmers.”

Recent news reports, however, indicate foreign companies are getting a substantial amount of the bailout dollars.

New statistics show JBS, a Brazilian company and the largest meat producer in the world, has received $78 million in government subsidies through the pork bailout program. The company has received one quarter of all subsidies paid through the program, more than any I

other U.S. pork producer. Despite the well-known patterns of corruption that continue to engulf JBS, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has defended the payments.

Each year, our nation’s farmers, especially those operating small and mid-sized family farms, face numerous challenges in their operations. The ongoing trade war with China added another wrinkle to an already challenging year. Every farmer we know would rather have a resolution to the trade war. For now, however, the bailout funds remain an effective option for those seeking to recoup costs.

Instead of backing millions of dollars in bailout funds to a foreign company now under federal investigation for underpaying farmers and using illegal loans to consolidate the market, Secretary Perdue should be supporting the diligent American farmers who have worked for generations to make the agriculture industry what it is today.

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

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Another year, another record and COP25

By Paul Danish

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nother year, another record.

That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere had reached a record high last year.

The globally averaged CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere for 2018 reached 407.8 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 2.3 ppm from 2017’s 405.5 ppm. (By way of comparison, in 1760, before the industrial revolution began, the atmospheric CO2 level was around 280 ppm.)

In 2015, the globally averaged levels of CO2 crossed the 400 ppm benchmark. The WMO called it a “symbolic and significant,” event.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been going up by more than 2 ppm a year for a decade.

So, in 2018, another year, another record.

Here’s another one: The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere varies day to day. Last May, atmospheric CO2 concentrations measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii set a one-day record of of 415.26 ppm, the highest since CO2 measurements began in 1958. And the highest it has been in the 3 to 5 million years since humanoid primates have been around, according to a post from Oil Change International, a climate activist website.

So, another year, another record.

And here’s one from a couple weeks ago: Despite a drop of 209 in the number of drill rigs targeting crude oil since the first of the year (to 668 from 877), during the week of Nov. 22, U.S. crude oil production reached 12.9 million barrels a day, an all-time record (up from 11.7 million barrels a day at the beginning of the year).

Another year, another record.

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website, which tracks global population data, the estimated global population as of Dec. 4 was 7.75 billion, up more than 80 million from last year.

Another year, another record.

Meanwhile at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Madrid, they were setting new records for climate Chicken-Little-ing and political disingenuity.

“The point of no return is no longer over the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling toward us,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned Sunday, Dec. 1.

“Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?” he asked.

But — good news — it is not too late to keep the average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, instead of the 3.2 degrees C we’re currently headed for. All we have to do, according to a U.N. report, is cut CO2 emissions by 7.6 percent every year between 2020 and 2030.

(Which is a five-fold increase over what some 200 signatories of the Paris Climate Accord promised to do and aren’t doing.)

Another year, another record — every year for the next 10, in other words.

But “there is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline, in greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere despite all the commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,” said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.

In 2018, global CO2 emissions from all sources — everything from your tailpipe to cow farts and volcanos — reached 55 billion metric tons (tonnes). It’s expected to rise by another 0.6 percent this year.

Another year, another record.

A 7.6 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions in 2020 means global DECEMBER 5, 2019

“The point of no return is no longer over

the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling towards us.” — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres

emissions will have to be cut by about 4.1 billion tonnes. Cutting 4.1 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions worldwide in 2020 would be the equivalent of eliminating 80 percent of the oil, gas and coal burned by the U.S. in 2019. And then a similar tonnage of CO2 emissions would have to be eliminated every year for the next 10.

It doesn’t matter how many “binding” resolutions are passed at COP25, or how many days Greta Thunberg cuts class. That ain’t gonna happen.

The world’s carbon dioxide output is not going to be cut by 4-plus gigatonnes in 2020. Not while the world’s population is growing by 80-plus million a year, and its motor vehicle fleet is growing by 70-million plus a year, and the People’s Republic of China, which currently burns 9-billion plus tonnes of coal a year, is building another 120 coal-fired power plants.

And, most important, not while most of the world attaches a higher priority to economic growth than environmental protection. The Chinese and Indians know that the price of raising their standards of living to Western levels will be rising sea levels, hotter summers, more

extreme storms and worse. They are willing to pay the price.

There is no chance that world CO2 emissions are going to go down by 2030, and most of the COP25 attendees know it. They know the world is going to get hotter between now and 2100. They also know it is not going to burn up. They also know that future generations will adapt to it (and would probably be outraged at the prospect of having to re-adapt to a cooler one.)

They know that the world will ditch fossil fuels when the alternatives offer superior performance and price, which they are showing every sign of doing, and not before. They know that in the past year attempts to raise the price of fossil fuels caused violent mass protests in France and Iran.

They know that when it comes to The Children, virtually everyone on the planet who has them will put the needs of the ones they have ahead of the needs of those who will be born 100 years from now.

The COP25 climatistas know all of these things. The world might take them more seriously if they were less shrill and more candid.

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Population doesn’t drive poverty

Gary Swing wrote, “More people means more widespread poverty” (Re: Letters, Nov. 21, 2019), which seems intuitively obvious — but it’s not true. According to a World Bank report on poverty, the proportion of the world’s population in extreme poverty (defined as consuming less than US$1.90/day) declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015. Even though world population increased by more than 2 billion people, the number of extremely poor was reduced by almost 1.2 billion.

What happened?

The primary reason extreme poverty declined while the population grew was because China and India, the two most populous nations, liberalized their economies. As the Fraser Institute has documented in its Economic Freedom of the World annual report, the freest economies have the least poverty. Lack of economic freedom — not population — is what drives poverty. Increasing economic freedom increases wealth.

Wealthier societies demand a cleaner environment (instead of being mainly focused on survival without regard for the environment), and increased wealth enables them to pay for expensive pollution control technologies.

Increasing economic freedom is good for people and good for the environment.

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On population growth and poverty

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by Gary Swing (Re: “More people means more widespread poverty,” Letters, Nov. 21, 2019) on relationships between population growth and poverty was well-written and accurate. Here are a few points which also deserve noting. I worked for many years in Thailand, Pakistan and other developing nations and found that, when given an opportunity to space pregnancies safely and with respect, people will readily do so. The world needs to increase resources to assure effective family planning which, at the same time, reduces I

unplanned pregnancies often leading to abortions.

Many nations such as Japan and in Scandinavia and central Europe worry about inadequate numbers of young people in their work forces. In response, they seek to increase their birth rates rather than to encourage people from poorer or war-torn areas to immigrate. Old racial and ethnic attitudes and fears die hard.

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An open letter to Donald Trump

I am not — nor have I ever been — one of your supporters. I am ashamed that my fellow countrymen and women elected you. I write you today only because I believe your presidency, and thus our country, is in peril.

You told people you would be a great uniter... yet your rhetoric is both divisive and disgusting.

You proclaimed that you would make America great again... and that you would pay off the national debt in eight years... yet the deficit grows (you indebt us) at the fastest rate ever.

You promised to drain the swamp... yet the swamp thrives with you at the top.

Day after day bad news envelops your presidency. Week after week you embarrass yourself/us on the national and world stage. I’ll show you my taxes, Mexico will pay for the wall, my son met with the Russians to discuss baby adoptions, sh-thole nations — the list is endless.

Now the news centers on an impeachment inquiry and your promises to a foreign government.

You may very well skirt these events as you have so many others. However I believe your missteps and misdeeds are catching up with you. Things are unraveling. Trouble lies ahead.

Deep down I believe you know your presidency is a sham. The only reason you got elected — and still have supporters — is that there is a news network that tells Americans that they should support a dishonest, immoral, narcissistic, p-ssy-grabbing, see LETTERS Page 9

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founder of a fake university, who has had nary an honest dealing with anyone.

I ask who are the corrupt forces behind such a despicable message?

Meanwhile the sun is setting on the American Empire, just as it has on every other empire through the centuries. Empires rise and they fall, we will be no different. It is not necessarily a bad thing — it happens to all things — the presidential jet, my car, my neighbor’s hot water heater, all of our lives. The same is true of empires. We will not be the “greatest nation on earth” into eternity … or for much longer. We are overstretched, insolvent, entangled around the world, divided and crumbling from within.

You have not demonstrated the substance of character to tackle what ails our country. The problems facing the United States are far too complex for grandiose, repetitious statements with the sound of helicopter blades whirling in the background.

Nor are little red ball caps in rural America the answer.

The wise man admits that he knows little. Instead you grandstand as if you are stuck in reality TV star mode. The problem is that the yetto-be-written story is likely one of pinning the end of the American Empire on an orange-haired donkey.

I don’t like your prospects yet you do have the ability to change the course you are on. It will require you to become someone you have never been before, and in most cases making a 180-degree turn from your present ways. It will require humility.

It will require you to find a place inside of yourself where you feel empathy and where you learn to be of service to others. It is your only hope.

I think you would benefit greatly if you would: 1) Start telling the truth. Doing so will revolutionize your life. Those who are remembered most favorably by history are those who are honorable.

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Reckoning with force How much force can local law enforcement use before it becomes excessive?

by Matt Cortina

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hree officers in the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office grabbed and pulled Lauren Gotthelf out of a holding cell and onto a restraint chair. They believed she had made a suicidal statement — “I’ll just kill myself, I can hang myself,” a deputy claims she said — but Gotthelf, disagreeing that she had said anything to that effect, was not willing to put on a suicide smock, and so the deputies prepared a restraint chair.

After being put in the chair, a deputy immediately grabbed Gotthelf under the chin and lifted up, a maneuver called a hypoglossal hold, as several other deputies positioned themselves around the chair attempting to secure Gotthelf to the seat.

The band across her lap was secured. Deputies also had their hands on her legs and neck, and her hands were tied behind her back. Still, nine times officers told her “sit down,” and a mesh spit bag was secured over her head.

The 10th time she was told to “sit down,” a deputy placed a Taser to her thigh and pulled the trigger.

Gotthelf screamed, her voice muffled because of the hold on her jaw, as a deputy told her, once more, to “sit down,” and that, “It’ll happen again.”

Deputies undid the restraint on her hands and secured her wrists to the armrests of the restraint chair.

“Stop resisting,” one officer repeated. Each time, Gotthelf pleaded, “He’s got my neck.”

Gotthelf was in custody for smoking a cigarette on the Pearl Street Mall and walking her service dog without a leash. She refused to sign a summons for the violations.

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Bodycam footage of the event in the Boulder County Jail made international news. It’s jarring to watch as at least eight deputies surround Gotthelf, a young, slight woman in clear discomfort, and force her into the restraint chair.

But the officers’ use of force was “reasonable” and “in good faith,” according to the Sheriff ’s Office. It was textbook.

“The deputies did not use excessive force against Ms. Gotthelf,” the Sheriff ’s Office wrote in a statement. “They used a deliberate and calculated amount of the minimal amount of force required to reduce violence and ensure safety, in accordance to our Use of Force policy and our Conductive Energy Devices policy.”

As support for their use of force, the Office claims Gotthelf was “disruptive,” “continually made negative, vulgar, and racist comments,” yelled “insults for [45] minutes,” and because of her behavior, “the restraints on the chair could not be secured.”

There is plenty to unpack, as lawyers for the Sheriff ’s Office and its officers, as well as those for Gotthelf, will try to do following a lawsuit Gotthelf filed in federal court, claiming the use of excessive force and violations against the Americans with Disabilities Act. But the event provides an opportunity to look at how use of force guidelines are developed in the first place, how juries are instructed to review cases like Gotthelf ’s and what citizens can do to change the way see FORCE Page 12

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officers serving and protecting their communities use force.

• • • • The Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office outlines its use of force guidelines in its Policy and Procedures manual. Deputies may “use only the amount of physical force that is objectively reasonable to affect an arrest, prevent an escape, defend themselves or another from bodily harm, or preserve the peace.”

It recognizes that there are “infinitely variable” situations that deputies will encounter on the job and that different levels of force may be necessary based on the “size, strength, age and gender” of the deputy and subject involved.

Deputies are trained in de-escalation tactics, reasonable alternatives to force, threat perception and laws regarding the use of force. All uses of force are subject to an internal review.

There are separate guidelines for using lethal and non-lethal force. In Gotthelf ’s case, non-lethal force was used to restrain her to the chair, and the Office’s guidelines say that such force can be used to protect deputies and others from harm, bring an unlawful situation under control, and “effect an arrest or restrain or subdue a resistant person.”

That policy differs from the Boulder Police Department’s use of force guidelines, which prescribes specific amounts of force to be used on different types of resistance. For instance, if Gotthelf was indeed resisting being put in the restraint chair by going limp, that would likely fall under “passive resistance,” for which the use of pain control instruments, like a Taser, would be prohibited.

If Gotthelf was “buck[ing] her body and be[ing] physically resistant,” as the Sheriff ’s Office claims, when deputies were trying to restrain her, the City of Boulder guidelines might consider that action “defensive resistance,” and allow that control holds, like the hypoglossal hold used on Gotthelf, be used.

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charged with protecting them. It’s also problematic because it does not ensure that any one individual law enforcement agency is using the best practices for using force.

Law enforcement agencies develop their use of force guidelines in a variety of ways — they can adopt guidelines from agencies in other jurisdictions, some develop them inhouse with experts and community input and some just keep what’s been on the books for decades. Many use third-party for-profit companies to develop guidelines, such as Lexipol, whose guidelines are used by more than 3,500 agencies across the country. Some agencies even take input from police weapons’ manufacturers.

“The vendors are in the business of selling a particular weapon so they might be incentivized to suggest a weapon is an appropriate way to address situations where the weapon isn’t actually appropriate,” Stoughton says. “If agencies just adopt the manufacturers’ sales pitch as policy, it may be putting officers into the position of using a weapon where it is inappropriate, either because the weapon is too much force or the weapon is insufficient force to deal with that particular situation, or it might be the wrong type of force.”

Stoughton says though it may be effective for agencies to consider use guidelines from manufacturers, they shouldn’t be codified without scrutiny.

“The public, in a representative democracy, has a vested interest in having public policies developed in a collaborative and democratic way, in a way that is best suited to advance the public interest. Vendors and manufacturers do not have the same incentives,” he says.

Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle declined to be interviewed for this story, citing the ongoing litigation and advice from the County Attorney not to provide further comments. He

did, however, provide background on how the Sheriff ’s Office developed its use of force guidelines.

“In general, our use of force policies were developed following other model polices, the Constitution and state law, and are reviewed by the County Attorney’s Office. Use of force events are reviewed by supervisors to ensure policy and law compliance. They are tracked,” Pelle wrote in an email to Boulder Weekly. “Our deputies receive up-to-date and ongoing training regarding liability issues from qualified attorneys and of course are aware of the legal standards that govern the use of force.”

• • • • Use of force guidelines vary between agencies and there’s no law that prescribes consistency. That is, even though some agencies ban the use of Tasers, others limit their use, and still others allow liberal use of the instrument because they are legal federally (and in Colorado), they’re use would not spur repercussions if used in an “objectively reasonable” manner.

That doesn’t mean using a Taser, which has contributed to the death of people in police custody, or other instruments or techniques of force makes for the best policy.

Tasers operate primarily in two modes: the standard mode where two probes are shot into a person, and electricity flows between the probes causing the muscles to spasm and the Tased person to become rigid. It also works in a “drive stun” mode, as in Gotthelf ’s case, where the device is placed directly against the skin and the two electric receptors on the device itself send a localized current, causing pain. It doesn’t, however, limit risk to the person being Tased, nor is it even considered an effective tool in most circumstances.

Take it from the U.S. Department of Justice, which wrote in its 2011 Electronic Control Weapons Guide that drive stun mode should be used primarily to create a safe distance between an officer or subject, or to complete a circuit if a probe is broken.

But, “Using the [drive stun] to achieve pain compliance may have limited effectiveness and, when used repeatedly, may even exacerbate the situation by inducing rage in the subject.”

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“THE FACT THAT SOMEONE IS NONCOMPLIANT IN AND OF ITSELF DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE USE OF FORCE” — SETH STOUGHTON, LAW PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR OF ‘EVALUATING POLICE USES OF FORCE’ individual whose conduct rises to Active Aggression,” which Gotthelf ’s behavior certainly does not, under any policy. It also asks officers to mind a subject’s medical and mental condition, physical limitations, developmental disabilities and the severity of the crime under investigation, all of which might pertain to Gotthelf ’s case.

So three law enforcement agencies operating close to one another have three very different use of force guidelines that might have resulted in three different outcomes in Gotthelf ’s case. That’s par for the course, says Seth Stoughton, a former police officer, now a law professor who wrote the book, Evaluating Police Uses of Force.

Stoughton looked at use of force guidelines at hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the country and found “there is a lot of room for variation.”

“One study looked at over 1,000 different agencies and found over 120 different permutations of one particular part of a use of force policy,” Stoughton says. “That particular part of the policy they were talking about was what’s typically referred to as a force matrix, or force progression, where they say these are all the types of force they can use, categorized in different ways.”

Some agencies consider some forms of resistance or aggression to be more serious and prescribe certain uses of force to overcome those actions. Others don’t list out actions that require a use of force, only offering guidelines. Some agencies allow certain tactics, like a chokehold, others don’t.

“There’s no consistency,” Stoughton says. “Some agencies allow officers to use Tasers, where other agencies don’t.”

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be used on people in mental duress, which certainly would have been the case in Gotthelf ’s episode if Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office deputies believed she was suicidal.

“The Taser should not be used in drive stun mode against someone in mental health crisis because pain compliance techniques are generally less effective on someone who is experiencing that mind-body disconnect,” Stoughton says. “Taser training typically suggests now if you’re using a drive stun on someone who is experiencing mind-body disconnect, it may just infuriate them and make the situation worse.”

In its statement regarding the Gotthelf case, the Sheriff ’s Office wrote that, “If a person is uncooperative and fails to comply with verbal instructions given by deputies, we may use a conductive energy device (e.g. Taser) to gain compliance, with the goal being to use the least amount of force possible to reduce the risk of violence, or the need to get into a physical altercation.”

But Gotthelf ’s lawsuit claims just because it’s policy doesn’t mean it’s right. “[The Sheriff ’s Office’s] policies provide for Tasing detainees who are restrained. Such Tasing violates the clearly established constitutional rights of detainees, including Ms. Gotthelf,” it reads.

“The fact that someone is noncompliant in and of itself does not justify the use of force,” Stoughton says. “The question with force is not, was the subject noncompliant or resisting? The question is, what government interests do their behaviors threaten? Was there a threat they were going to escape? Was there a threat they were going to injure officers, themselves and others?”

• • • • Gotthelf is claiming that her 14th Amendment rights “to be secure in her person from the use of excessive force” were violated. She’s also claiming that the Sheriff ’s Office and its deputies violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because they “knew and/or perceived” Gotthelf had a mental health disability and didn’t accommodate it.

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health issues and suspected suicidal ideation — and instead treated her worse than her non-disabled counterparts in the jail solely because of her disability,” the lawsuit reads.

In cases like these, juries are instructed to view the use of force through the officers’ eyes. That’s intended to prevent jury members from punishing, or rewarding, officers for not knowing information they couldn’t have possibly known at the time.

The key phrase when it comes to use of force cases is “objectively reasonable” — once all the circumstances are laid out, would an average person reasonably use the same amount of force as the officer had?

It creates a lot of room for interpretation, but Stoughton says when these cases are litigated, the facts are pored over.

“The jury has to believe that the officer not only could perceive and did perceive the threat to themselves,” he says. “The jury also has to assess that the belief was reasonable.

An officer can say, ‘I was in fear for my life,’ and the jury can say, ‘OK, we agree, we think you were honestly in fear for your life, but we think that was an incredibly unreasonable overreaction.’ Or the jury can say, ‘Based on the information that was available, it makes sense that the offer was in fear for his life.’

“Two different officers in exactly the same situation might be justified using different kinds of force,” he adds, providing the example of one 6-foot-2, 220-pound officer trying to restrain a person of the same size, and an officer who is 5-foot-1, 110 pounds trying to restrain that same person.

The culmination of this lawsuit could result in changes to the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office use of force guidelines. (It also, very well, could not). But given the temperature of the community after the bodycam footage was released, there is likely an appetite in the Boulder County community to revisit Taser and other use of force policies. Losing a lawsuit might be enough to restrict the use of Tasers, for instance, but failing that, public pressure, communicating with law enforcement and, ultimately, voting for Sheriff could change use of force guidelines with which the community has an issue.

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mong the rolling hills and sprawling neighborhoods of south Fort Collins, a new solar energy installation will not only provide renewable energy, but also a canopy-sanctuary for bees, birds and other pollinators.

Part energy production facility, part ecosystem enrichment program, The Solinator Garden is moving Fort Collins one step closer toward its goal to operate on 100-percent renewable energy by 2030. And Boulder County will soon have a similar facility — one that will be community-driven and agriculturally progressive.

Solar gardens like these don’t just put clean energy production into the hands of a local community. They also have the inverse environmental effect of extractive energy production: They can actually enrich local ecosystems and leave the land healthier and more productive.

The Solinator Garden came to fruition over the past year and a half through a collaboration between the City of Fort Collins, Namasté Solar and Solaris Energy, and opened in mid-November.

It’s still a young project, but the hope is that the Solinator Garden will enrich the plant and animal life of the local area. By providing a garden full of specific pollinator-friendly plants, and seeding the soil beneath the elevated panels with drought-resistant, hyper-local native seed mixes, the project developers are creating a pristine pollinator habitat.

At the same time, the 2,700 panels will be tracking the sun’s progress and feeding 1 megawatt of sustainable solar energy annually into the grid — enough to fuel over 200 homes.

“I guess you could look at it like [the Solinator Garden] is producing a little bit of solar energy for everybody on the City of Fort Collins’ municipal electricity,” explains Kyle Sundman, the project developer at Namasté Solar.

The Solinator Garden was developed, engineered and built by Namasté Solar. The Boulder-born, employeeowned cooperative found the land for the project, secured the lease and the power purchase agreement with the City of Fort Collins.

Namasté “put the puzzle together,” as Sundman puts it. Then, Solaris Energy became the owner and operator toward the end of 2018, when it purchased the project from Namasté.

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“We’re hoping that [solar gardens] will catch on,” says Nick Francis with Solaris. “There’s a lot of open space, and [solar gardens] benefit the individual and they benefit the community.”

In Longmont, a prospective community solar garden takes the concept one step further. With plans to be running by spring 2020, Jack’s Solar Garden on 95th Street will explore the intersection of solar power, pollinator enrichment and food production.

“Were going to use the land underneath our panels to study agrivoltaics; the co-location of agriculture plus solar panels,” explains Byron Kominek, whose family has owned the land since his grandfather, Jack, bought it in 1972.

In partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado State University and the University of Arizona, Jack’s Solar Garden won’t just be generating power and providing pollinators with a sanctuary — it’ll also be growing garden produce. “[The panels] help to moderate the temperature underneath them so you can extend the growing season of crops,” explains Kominek. The panels also act as protection from the elements, he adds; and the humidity that is created by the plants cools the panCOURTESY OF NAMASTÉ SOLAR els and can actually increase their efficiency.

Kominek says the agrivoltaics system will also generate 1.2 megawatts of renewable energy, far more than similar systems around the country.

Jack’s Solar Garden is also partnering with the Audubon Society of the Rockies, which will be planting some 1,800 shrubs, bushes and trees over the next few years, according to Kominek.

“That’ll be really cool, helping to feed the local bees and the birds,” he says. “And then hopefully we’ll have plenty of fruiting plants, so when people come out for tours, they’ll be able to pick a little something as they walk along.”

Perhaps the most direct community benefit Kominek will offer is a program where subscribers can purchase solar panels out at Jack’s and get credits from Xcel Energy to use against their electricity bill. It’ll be almost as if the subscriber had installed the panels on their own home — but instead, they’ll be out in Longmont providing pollinator habitat and helping grow food.

Like the Solinator Garden, Kominek hopes Jack’s Solar Garden can be a model for other local energy producers and farmers alike.

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Skateboards, snowboards and centers of gravity

his is a story about snowboarding. A story about skateboarding and concrete and chairlift rides. A story about halfpipes and rail jams and powder days with friends. But it is also a story about community.

About passion. About grit and gumption. And about keeping it real.

It starts with Raul Pinto, a 45-year-old skateboarder, and a little shop called Satellite, a brick-and-mortar operation in a quiet corner of Boulder that’s surviving the pressure from Amazon and big box retailers.

How they’re making Boulder County a better place to live, even though you’ve probably never heard of Raul or Satellite or any of the people that are part of the community — everyone from little kids, to punk teens, to grizzled backcountry snowboarders — is where the story gets good.

To understand this community and the impact that Satellite is making, you have to start with the right guy. And that guy is Raul Pinto.

Raul is a snowboarder. But, like many ’boarders, he got his start skating.

“I started skating in San Francisco,” recalls Pinto. “It was like how most kids got started back then. You meet a kid in the neighborhood who does it and then you want to try it, too. I fell into the right gang and it was over from there, I was into it. I was super lucky, I met people and they showed me the ropes, like, ‘this is how to grip a skateboard,’ and everything else.”

But a move to Sante Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 14 would end up changing Pinto’s world. “I started snowboarding then,” Pinto says. “And with my background in skating I picked it up really quickly and I was in the right place at the right time.”

Raul Pinto and Satellite are ground zero of Boulder County’s snow and skateboarding culture

By Tom Winter SATELLITE’S RAUL PINTO in the tuning room. In addition to plenty of new items, the shop offers fullservice maintenance for snowboards.

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That “right place, right time” was when the sport was exploding around the world, especially with a variety of disciplines such as Boarder X and halfpipe events. With a gritty, competitive attitude forged on the streets of San Francisco, Pinto ended up on the snowboard World Cup competition circuit traveling the globe for five years as a member of the U.S.’s B team.

“I had great sponsors and great support,” says Pinto. “It was just a cool learning experience.”

However, with the 2000 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake looming at the time, and seeing other athletes above him on the depth chart, Pinto decided to call an end to his time in competition.

“I was seeing a lot of friends drop out [of snowboarding], and I was on track to finish an architecture degree,” recalls Pinto. “I came to Boulder to go to CU and finish my studies and start my career in 1999, and the first month I was here I met JG Marrzota. He was running Brothers Boards at the time, and within a year of meeting JG, the shop was closing, and that planted the seed.”

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The seed in question was Satellite.

Independent retailers have always provided centers of gravity for core sports enthusiasts in Boulder. From long-standing Neptune Mountaineering to long gone Gerry, they’ve historically been an anchor for community and culture. With the closing of Brothers Boards, local skat-

ers and snowboarders lost their home.

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scape and the mountains intersect, has a unique location with the opportunities that come from that.

“We took the leftovers of Brothers Boards, the concept, and then the goal was to make it as inclusive as possible” Pinto says.

“Brothers was kind of a lion’s den, and I always remembered that and at Satellite we always ask ourselves, ‘How do we get more girls in the shop, how do we make it more comfortable for parents?’ Skateboarding is an intimidating thing, and snowboarding is another step financially. My dad had never been skiing or snowboarding and neither had my mom. I was lucky enough to have mentors. I think in the end, if we had set out to just be a massive store that sells a lot of stuff, this would have been over a long time ago. We didn’t even know if we would succeed, I was just excited to have a new clubhouse where we and everyone else could hang out.”

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pressure. One solution to keeping the lights on, according to experts, is to offer the kind of in-store personal experience and expertise that you’ll never find online. The other? To intimately know who your customers are and to support what matters to them.

In this vein, local snowboarders and skaters have a level of advocacy and commitment from Pinto and the Satellite team that’s producing some mind-blowing results, particularly when it comes to on-snow opportunities at Boulder’s local ski area.

“The biggest thing [for snowboarders] is our relationship with Eldora,” Pinto says. “The contest series includes Methodology, Side Hit Séance and the Trick Ditch.

With the Trick Ditch in particular, the USASA (United States of America Snowboard and Snowboard and Freeski Association) approached them to do a banked slalom, but we can’t just do what everyone else is doing in this day and age in snowboarding. We are picking our own line in what we bring to our community and it should be different, and I’m super proud of that.”

Trick Ditch, in which a banked slalom course is coupled with some massive jumps at the base of the run for a combined speed and style event, has resonated strongly. It’s had a BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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maxed-out entry field for the past couple of years, and has been anchored by an all-day party at the base of the mountain — the event is rapidly becoming the must-do participatory event for snowboarders across the state.

But Pinto and Satellite’s efforts aren’t just confined to the snow.

“The biggest thing I’ve been working on in the last five years is the Green Block project,” Pinto says.

The genius of the Green Block project, according to Pinto, is that the program seeks to repurpose unused or underused public spaces and land for skateboarding. A key element of the program is that the stakeholders in the community — local skateboarders — are involved in all facets of the identification, design and build of these mini-parks and other features.

While the larger Satellite community has been strongly engaged, Pinto has taken community involvement one step further, bringing on board students from the same environmental design program at the University of Colorado that he attended to assist with the technical, behind-the-scenes design and development of the parks.

“It’s labor of love,” laughs Pinto.

“A ton of emails and hassling city council to get them to give up public land to let a DIY skate park happen.”

He adds, “I think the coolest thing about Green Block is adapting it to something that is always changing. When I started skateboarding it was changing from vert skating to street skating. Green Block is lookBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

DONUTS? SURE. ing at how kids For Pinto and the are skateboardcrew at Satellite, taking care of the ing now. One of community they the problems serve includes taking with a destinacare of the big and little things, like tion skate park handing out free is that you have donuts on opening to get there. day at Eldora.

Ideally with Green Block, they’d be in multiple places around the city, pocket parks that are more supervised by the neighborhood and more accessible to the younger kids.”

The program also may end up creating “skate parks” that look unlike anything you’ve ever seen, says Pinto.

“We are looking at drainage or overflow areas for flood control or sculpture parks, a totally different direction,” Pinto says. “Boulder is the type of place that could go in this direction.”

In the center of all this momentum is Pinto and Satellite, a small shop that sells stuff, but is also home to so, so much more. It’s less a satellite and more the sun, a center of gravity that remains true to Pinto’s mission to create a home for anyone who wants to slide sideways on snow or ride four wheels on a ramp.

“One of the biggest things is that Satellite has tried to bridge the gap of people coming into the sport and making people feel welcome,” Pinto says. “It’s the hardest part, letting people know this is your local shop, and that you should be coming through these doors to learn not to just buy something.”

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In her first collection of short stories, local author Kristie Betts Letter goes underground

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hen she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.

Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but how to do it with intention, with an eye toward the moments after failure — what do you know now that you didn’t know before?

Failure is just possibility in disguise.

Not long ago, the Peak to Peak Charter School English teacher convinced her boss to let her develop and teach a class on design thinking, a problem-solving methodology that focuses on human needs. Tasked with plainly weird problems, like how to develop an environmentally friendly use for dehydrated orange pulp, her students don’t just think outside the box, they pretend there’s no box at all.

“They have to get comfortable with failure,” Letter tells me one evening after school. “They’ve got to get comfortable with, ‘So I tried this thing and it’s terrible. So I have to do it again, I have to keep trying, and even if it never works, it was an interesting experiment.’

“So we keep doing things,” Letter says, partially referring to her students, partially to humans in general, “which is such a metaphor for being creative in any particular way — but you have to fail all the time. I mean, that’s what we do.”

Humans fail. Simple as that.

But we all know it’s not as simple as that, that failure hurts so much we often bury it to keep others from seeing the ugliness of our blunders.

What would we be, though, without missteps? And what does failure look like from different angles — does it sometimes look like success? Like freedom? Like self-confidence?

Letter explores the quirks and foibles we often call failure in her first collection of short stories, Fire in the Hole, a labor of love forged over the better

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Boulder’s Local Music Shop Since 1971 part of a decade.

The collection opens with “Silver Cornet Band,” set in the newly chartered town of Caribou, Colorado, in the early 1970s. The town, with veins of silver, gold and lead snaking beneath the earth, was prone to lightning strikes, with winds that would sweep you “clean off the mountain.”

Letter uses second person to pull the reader into the story. You are the new bride of an asthmatic Christian cobbler whose only interesting characteristic is his talent on the cornet.

When the wind chaps your husband’s lips so badly he can’t practice his instrument, you, the bored but dutiful wife, turn to the only people in town who understand skin care: prostitutes.

Here, Letter wonders about the “failures” of women; those who become whores, those who marry the first man who COURTESY OF KRISTIE BETTS LETTER offers them a silver ring. Which of these women is good, and which is bad?

“People get so invested in separating themselves,” Letter says, “but if you actually need some really good salve, I don’t know that those distinctions are going to matter much. If you need help, if you need wisdom, the little walls that we build don’t really work so well.”

Letter was born in the admittedly fictional sounding town of Stony Bottom, West Virginia, where her family lived at times with no electricity. The ancient rolling hills of Appalachia make their way into her work as much as the juvenile jagged jebels of Colorado. Her stories often explore the subterranean: old mining towns burning from underneath, a grave plot that’s been unexpectedly occupied by someone other than the person who purchased it, an old cellar that leads a traveler to a hyperfocused beekeeper.

Other times, what’s underneath is not always so literal.

“The surface of a person is one thing, but then there’s always something else beneath it,” Letter says.

Those are the places where we hide our failures, the things we think the world will reject.

While Letter was a graduate student at CU Boulder, she took a class with the chronically underappreciated short story writer Lucia Berlin. Like Berlin, Letter mines her own background to write stories that might very well be autobiographical, but the details are exaggerated or rearranged, names are changed, places are shifted.

In the title story, a woman is tasked by her mother to go and fetch her spinster aunts from a town that is slowly succumbing to a smoldering mine fire. The woman’s father, a devout Catholic, is buried in the town cemetery, despite his wishes to be cremated.

Letter has relatives buried in the abandoned town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a coal mine fire has been burning since 1962.

“We have relatives who are, not by choice, basically being cremated because they’re buried in Centralia,” Letter says.

The story suggests that no matter how deeply we bury something — whether that’s wanton desire, alcoholism or a body — the universe has a way of unearthing what’s beneath the surface.

In her collection, Letter asks us whether our failures are really as bad as we think they are, and what we might learn from them. Were they really failures, or can we skip the negative label and just get straight to the growth?

Reading Fire in the Hole makes you wish Letter had been your teacher in high school.

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Michael Fitzpatrick on getting out of his own head to write the new Fitz and the Tantrums album

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ike many artists before him who felt pressure to follow up a hit song, Michael Fitzpatrick of Fitz and the Tantrums readily admits he struggled with expectations to come up with a song for the band’s next album that could measure up with “HandClap,” the multi-chart hit from the band’s self-titled 2016 album.

“It’s tough because as much as you say, ‘I’m going to put that song out of my head,’ it’s always this quiet little monkey on your back,” Fitzpatrick explains in a phone interview.

“And if you try and set that as the benchmark, you’re almost guaranteed failure because it’s just automatically sucking the oxygen out of the room.”

Fitzpatrick was finally able to eject that back-riding monkey when he thought back to how “HandClap” was written in the first place.

“What I had to finally do was come to the realization that we didn’t try and write ‘HandClap’ when we wrote it,” he says. “When I wrote ‘HandClap’ I was frustrated with my own process and I just sort of tried to put my intellect to the side and just come from more of a visceral, primal place, which is how I achieved that (song). So, definitely after a couple of times of that looming over my head, I finally just had to be like, you know what, you didn’t think about it when you were creating it. You just have to put that out of your head.”

Making the follow-up album to the self-titled release was not quick and easy for Fitzpatrick, the band’s singer and main songwriter. It took more than a year, and Fitzpatrick wrote some 80 songs in order to arrive at the selections that are on the album.

Things didn’t really come together for the album — All The Feels, released in September — until past the halfway mark in the writing process when BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Fitzpatrick got together with fellow singer-songwriter K. Flay and songwriter/ producer Tommy English. They came up with the song “123456.” It was released in March as the first advance single from the new album. (Two more songs have since been released, “Don’t Ever Let Em” and “I Need Help.”)

With “123456,” Fitzpatrick started to see a lyrical thread around which he could build the entire album. “‘123456’ is a very emotional song to me,” Fitzpatrick says. “I’m not sure that everyone gets the depth of the emotion to me, but that was like a song for me that was really about celebrating that moment where you finally gain a little confidence back after kind of a dark period of insecurity and unsuredness.

You wake up finally with a little bit of confidence back in your step and you just want to hold onto that as long as possible. For me, that’s directly tied into my process of making an album. So, when I hear that song, it moves me because it was one of the big turning points of my emotional well-being in making a record.

“I really started to see this theme of self-care, of self-love, of just processing all of these emotions, even the process of creation,” he says. “Then that sort of became my filter for everything and what made the cut or not was: Does this make me feel something? Am I talking about something that matters to me? That really became sort of the I

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If Fitzpatrick explores some weighty topics on the new album, he and his cowriters also continued Fitz and the Tantrums’ tradition of making fun music. That tone was established after Fitzpatrick formed the band in 2008 in Los Angeles with Noelle Scaggs (vocals/percussion), James King (saxophone/multi-instrumentalist), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards), John Wicks (drums) and Ethan Phillips (since replaced on bass

by Joseph Karnes) and has remained a defining feature of the music as the group has evolved from the retro-soul feel of its first album, 2010’s Pickin’ Up The Pieces through the thoroughly modern Top 40 sound of the self-titled third album and “HandClap,” which went top five on a trio of Billboard magazine charts — Adult Top 40, Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs — and took the group’s career to a new level.

The buoyant sound Fitz and the Tantrums have fashioned carries over to the group’s energetic live shows. Now four albums of material in the catalog, Fitzpatrick feels he can put together a strong set list as the band gears up to head out on the road behind All The Feels.

“There’s a smattering of all of the standout songs from all of the last three albums,” he says. “And then it’s always exciting, you’re bringing some of your new babies on stage with you.

So we’re going to be playing a bunch of songs from the new record as well, some that are out and some that won’t even come out until the fall. But we’re going to play them anyway for our fans. We’re going to be playing bigger venues. We’ve got a bigger show that’s even more over the top. I’m really excited to get out there.”

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Nutcrackers, a complete ‘Messiah,’ and everything classical for the holidays

So many events you’d have to scurry like a bunny to attend them all

by Peter Alexander

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rying to get to all of the holiday musical events in Boulder will turn you into a realworld equivalent of Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit: scurrying around, checking your pocket watch, and constantly late for a “very important date.”

A limited number of tickets are still available to the University of Colorado Boulder’s popular Holiday Festival (Dec. 6-8).

This shared extravaganza by CU College of Music student choirs, bands and orchestras is one of Boulder’s most popular holiday events, and all four Macky Auditorium performances commonly sell out. Give CU Presents a call to see what’s left, 303-492-8008, or try a lastminute walk-up purchase at the Macky box office prior to curtain.

By sheer numbers, the most popular holiday event nationwide must be Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet. In cities large and small, audiences never tire of the sugar plum fairy, Dr. Drosselmeyer’s magic nutcracker, and Clara’s dreamworld journey to the land of sweets.

Boulder Ballet’s performances of Nutcracker with the Boulder Philharmonic have already run their course, but all is not lost: Boulder Ballet performs the same production in collaboration with the Longmont Symphony Saturday and Sunday (Dec. 7 and 8) in Vance Brand Civic Auditorium.

Boulder Ballet and the LSO will also present a “gentle” Nutcracker performance for individuals with special needs and their families. The ballet will be abridged, the house lights will be left on, involuntary movement is welcomed, and there will be an EMT onsite for emergencies. Tickets can be purchased from the LSO office at 303-772-5796.

And if you are still scurrying about later in the month, Centennial State Ballet’s annual Nutcracker will be perBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

ON THE BILL: For a full listings of classical holiday concerts, please see Boulder County Events calendar page 35.

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formed in Niwot High School, with a professional orchestra, Dec. 20–22. For tickets, contact CSB at 303-772-1335.

If anything equals Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker in popularity during the Christmas season, it can only be Handel’s Messiah. This great oratorio opens with biblical texts describing the birth of Jesus. The Christmas section of Messiah is ubiquitous in December, while complete performances add two more sections that tell the stories of the Passion and the Resurrection.

Conductor Elliot Moore and the Longmont Symphony will present the complete Messiah with the Longmont Chorale’s Viva Voce singers Dec. 15 at the Westview Presbyterian Church in Longmont. Soprano Ekaterina Kotcherguina, mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan, tenor Charles Moore and bass Joshua South will be the soloists.

Contact the LSO for tickets at 303-772-5796.

The Christmas portions of Messiah will be performed by conductor Gary Lewis with the Boulder Philharmonic and choir as part of Christmas with the Phil, Dec. 22 at Mountain View Methodist Church. Soloists will be soprano Bethany Smith-Jacobs, alto Anna Englander, tenor Javier Abreu and bass Ashraf Sewailam. The concert will also feature the Phil’s concertmaster, Charles Wetherbee, in portions of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons concertos.

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• • • • Those with a taste for folk music will enjoy A Celtic Family Christmas, featuring the married fiddle-playing duo of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.

The Canadian couple take “family programming” literally, bringing their own children onstage to perform along with them. Tickets for their Dec. 17 performance at Macky Auditorium are available: CU Presents, 303-492-8008.

Director Thomas Edward Morgan and Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers will present Northern Lights, their 2019 holiday program. Four performances between Dec. 6 and 13 will be given in Longmont, Denver and Boulder.

Harpist Jon McColley will appear with the singers.

The featured work will be the Renaissance-era double-chorus Missa Hodie Christus natus est by Palestrina.

Works for multiple choirs have become something of a specialty for Ars Nova, but the program will also include standard holiday repertoire in Ars Nova’s own arrangements. Ticket information can be found on Ars Nova’s Web page, at arsnovasingers.org.

Two-hundred singers from the six adult and children’s choirs of the Boulder Chorale will perform The Brightest and Best Holiday Concert, Dec. 14 and 15 at the First United Methodist Church in Boulder. With an emphasis on Americana, the performance under director Vicki Burrichter will feature a bluegrass ensemble and music by Dolly Parton. The performance ends with a traditional audience singalong of traditional Carols. Contact Boulder Chorale at 303-554-7692 for ticket information.

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CLIMB WITH SANTA.

’NOG OFF EGGNOG COMPETITION.

Noon. Saturday, Dec. 7, Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway St., Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

3 p.m. Dec. 5-Dec. 7, Dry Land Distillers, 471 Main St., Unit B (Alley Entrance), Longmont, 720-352-5685.

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After doing his PUBLICDOMAINPICTURES.NET shopping at Neptune, Santa and his elves are going to stick around to belay kids on the store’s new climbing wall. If your little one gets to the top, Santa will have a gift for them and a little something for you, too. TinkerArtStudio will be leading a seasonal crafts session for kids in the cafe — make a wooden block ornament that can be displayed on a tree, window or anywhere in the home. The cafe will also be open for snacks, coffee for parents, and hot chocolate for kiddos. Climb with Santa is recommended for kids age 12 and under.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

HOLIDAY POP-UP VEGAN MARKET IN BOULDER.

10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Shopping 100% vegan is tough, but not at the Pop-Up Vegan Market at Avalon Ballroom. You can find vegan groceries, baked goods, artwork, home goods, jewelry and more at this free holday market. There will be vegan holiday cooking demonstrations by chef Ron Picarski of Eco-Cuisine, chef Mark Reinfeld of Vegan Fusion, health coach Kathy Mallory with New Day Health and Wellness, and Vejje. Migration Taco, Mu Denver, Piante Pizzeria and The Vegetable Express will be dishing out vegan delights all day. Don’t forget to bring your reusable bags and small coolers to take home your goodies.

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

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CREATED BY BOULDER artist Peggy Turchette, the Dairy Arts Center presents ‘We Are What We Wear,’ a walk through the life and career of worldrenowned ballerina Anna Pavlova. Through the painstaking recreation of Pavlova’s career-defining costumes and couture, Turchette will guide viewers through a biographical narrative of Pavlova’s life while providing personal insight into the extraordinary art of one of the 20th century’s most inspiring women. On view through Jan. 12.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Design Trail,’ Arapahoe Ramp, through Dec. 15.

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Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: 5th Annual Holiday Bazaar, Nov. 29 - Dec. 31.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘We Are What We Wear,’ featuring: Jim Ardnt, Erika Diamond, Noah Pica and Winnie van der Riijn, and The Pavlova Project: a brilliantly costumed life, Dec. 6-Jan. 12.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,’ through Feb. 2; ‘Shantell Martin: Words and Lines,’ through Jan. 31; ‘The Light Show,’ through May 2020; ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through January 2020; Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit; ‘Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture,’ through Jan. 5.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History,’ Swift/Smith/ Bohn Family’; ‘125 Years of Distinctive Cameras’; ‘Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse’; ‘The Flood of 2013’; ‘Native American Artifacts,’ and more.

MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31, 2020.

For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict.com/ event/monumental.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Wild: Buffalo in Boulder,’ through Jan. 12; ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through a Boulder Lens,’ through January.

University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June 2020; ‘Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning,’ through Dec. 21.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Feathers and Flora,’ Henderson Building, through Jan. 31; ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; ‘Ground Level Ozone,’ McKenna Gallery, ongoing exhibit; ‘Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,’ ongoing traveling exhibit; and more.

Store Performance, Giveaways, Contests, And More. 1 p.m. Wildwood Guitars, 804 Main St., Louisville, 661-312-1050.

CSED: Hardware Prototyping 101. 5 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Hanson: Wintry Mix. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

CSED: Sew a Circuit. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 Music Big Brooklyn. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Boulder Drum Circle. 7 p.m. The Root Kava Bar, 1641 28th St., Boulder, 707-599-1908.

Caritas Holiday Gala. 6 p.m. 2344 Vineyard Place, Boulder, 303-562-5695.

Christkindl Market Denver. 4 p.m. 16th Street & Arapahoe in Downtown Denver, 1515 Arapahoe, Denver, 303-558-8185. Through Dec. 23.

Clay Rose. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Club 156 Presents: Dog Basketball and Dry Ice Double Album Release Concert.

7:30 p.m. Old Main Chapel CU Boulder, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder.

David Williams presents: Trickster Carousel and John William Davis. 7:30 p.m.

Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Hip Pop for Adults. 6 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2531.

Laine Hardy — with Chris Brandi. 7 p.m.

Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

The Ocean Blue. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and Mark Lavengood Band. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

A Tribute To The Beatles’ White Album. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Welcome Bill Nash Bash! 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Events

Dueling Pianos featuring the Barton Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

2019 ROAM Awards hosted by Travis Rice.

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

Exploring the World through Language, Rhythm, & Percussion. 7 p.m. 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Brad Williams. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through Dec. 7

Fender® And Wildwood Guitars Celebrate Launch Of American Ultra Series with In-

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CSED: 3D Video Game Design with AgentCubes Online. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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CSED: SketchUp for Makers. 4:30 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dairy Magic Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Disney On Ice: Mickey’s Search Party.

7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Jubilee. 5:30 p.m. The St. Vrain, 635 Third Ave., Longmont.

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

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group - Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 Music 2019 9NEWS Parade of Lights. 8 p.m. Civic Center Conservancy, 1560 Broadway, Suite 2250, Denver, 303-861-4633.

see EVENTS Page 30

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The Colorado Chautauqua presents a weekend of holiday festivities in Boulder’s most magical setting!

Friday, December 13 2:00 pm — 7:00 pm

WinterFest Lighting Ceremony, FREE at 5:00 PM

Saturday, December 14 & Sunday, December 15 10:00 am — 7:00 pm

WinterFest Skate Breakfast with Santa Santa’s Cottage (Free!)

Historic Cottage Tours Horse-drawn Carriage Rides Children’s Holiday Concerts Food Trucks And Much More . . .

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Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO 80302 Thank you to WinterFest 2019 sponsors and partners

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Art, Hard Cider & Live Music in North Boulder. 3 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder, 720-938-7285.

theater

As I Lay Dying. 6:30 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

BROKEN LAND’s Farewell Show. 8:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

PUBLIC WORKS THEATRE COMPANY

WALTER JR. lives a protected life nestled in his mom’s magical dessert shop. When the book at the root of the shop’s magic disappears, Walter Jr. heads out into NYC to find the book and save the shop. He meets a cast of remarkable characters on his journey.

Based on the book by Sophie Chen Keller, ‘The Luster of Lost Things’ reflects on the power of kindness.

Public Works Theatre Company proudly presents a free work-in-progress showing of its newest puppet play, ‘The Luster of Lost Things,’ Dec. 7 and 8 at Mary Miller Theater in Lafayette.

Dr. Fresch — with Angelz, Punjahbae, Mixed Messages. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Fire. 7:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400.

First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. NoBo Art District, North Broadway St., Boulder, 303-523-1117.

FiskEDM: Live DJ Melody Monroe. 10 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

GLOW Project Holiday Concert. 10 a.m.

Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder.

Goose — with Envy Alo, Dizgo. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Harmony Holiday. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Valley Christian Church, 7100 South Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-402-9008.

John Gorka. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

‘Love Actually’ in Concert. 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Midnight Gumbo. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856.

Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers. 9 p.m.

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

NoBo Art District Artist Members Holiday Market 2019/First Friday. 5 p.m. NoBo Art Space, 4949 Broadway, Suite E, Boulder, 303-523-1117.

One World Singers presents Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria.’ 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-940-8207.

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

Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Ravin’Wolf. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 720-606-1734.

Robert Rowe Music, Alix Christian. 5 p.m.

NoBo Art District, North Broadway, Boulder.

She Past Away. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Snowed In at the Library. 5 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Constance Harris. 7 p.m. Floorspace Studio, 1510 Zamia Ave., Boulder.

Vintage Trouble, Hollis Brown. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 E. Main St., Longmont. Through Dec. 14.

Looped. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Dec. 15.

A Broadway Christmas Carol — presented by CU Theatre & Dance. University Theatre, CU Boulder Campus. Through Dec. 8.

The Luster of Lost Things ­— presented by Public Works Theatre Company. 2 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette.

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

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Opens Dec. 6. Through Dec. 28.

A Christmas Carol. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 28.

Scrooge Bah Humbug! Jesters Dinner Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens Dec. 6. Through Dec. 29.

A Christmas Carol. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.

The Thanksgiving Play. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 15.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 22.

Tuck Everlasting. Vintage Theatre Productions, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora.

Through Jan. 5.

Hip Hop Nutcracker. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 24.

Twelfth Night. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through Dec. 22.

Mamma Mia! BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Through Feb. 22.

Wash Park. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

‘We Are What We Wear’ Opening Reception. 5 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Wild Heart Dance: ‘The Gift.’ 6:15 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

The Willow & Eyrs Tour. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Winter Music Series: Teresa Storch & Peter Lacis. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night.

7:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Cinderella KIDS. 6:30 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127.

Collective Speakers Series: Marika Anthony-Shaw — Accountable Activism: A New Form of Power. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

CSED Week: Computer Science Education Week. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Denver Ballet Theatre presents ‘The Nutcracker.’ 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-799-6609. Through Dec. 29.

First Friday Art Walk at the Museum and Parade of Lights Open House. 5 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

First Friday Food Lab: Eggnog. 4 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Keller Williams Winter Festival. 5 p.m. City of Longmont Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Shpongle. 8 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Spanish Modern Literature Club/Club de Literatura Moderna en Espanol. 4 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 Music 5 Year Anniversary Bash! Noon. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. see EVENTS Page 32

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FILMS Before the 1990s, animated family films were in the gutter. Deemed too expensive, too labor-intensive, their demise was certain. But then came ‘The Little Mermaid,’ and a decade-long renaissance of handdrawn and computergenerated animation followed. It culminated with 1999’s, ‘The Iron Giant,’ an ‘E.T.’-esque story of an alien metal man landing on Earth and befriending a lonely little boy.

Synthesizing handdrawn animation and CGI, ‘The Iron Giant’ depicts an American past that still feels present while reminding children and adults alike “you are who you choose to be.” The film has developed a cult following, but in ’99, it was a flop. The future of hand-drawn animation wasn’t far behind. Thankfully, a 35mm print of writer/director Brad Bird’s Cold War parable will flicker once more at the International Film Series final 2019 screening. —MJC

‘Bicycle Thieves,’ 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 9.

‘By The Grace of God,’ Dec. 11-14.

‘Dolemite,’ 8:45 p.m, Friday, Dec. 6.

‘Jinpa,’ Dec. 4-7.

‘Linda Ronstadt: Listen to My Voice,’ Dec. 11-14.

‘Moonlight Sonata: Deafness In Three Movements,’ Dec. 4-7.

BOULDER:

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-492-8662:

Boedecker Theatre, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: ‘The Aeronauts,’ Dec. 6-12.

‘The Iron Giant’ on 35mm, 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 8.

DENVER:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 303744-9686: ‘Apollo 11: First Steps’ ‘Superpower Dogs 3D’ ‘Turtle Odyssey’ ‘The Grinch’

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583: ‘21 Bridges’ ‘The Addams Family’ ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘The Evil Dead,’ 9:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 6.

‘The Kingmaker’ ‘Knives and Skin’

LONGMONT:

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., 720-494-4673: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ 7:15 p.m., Dec. 5.

‘Harriet’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Knives Out’ ‘Meet Me in St. Louis,’ Dec 8 & 11.

‘Queen & Slim’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Playmobil: The Movie’ ‘They Shall Not Grow Old,’ 4 & 7 p.m., Dec. 7.

‘Waves’

Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘21 Bridges’ ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Doctor Sleep’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘Gremlins,’ 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 7.

‘Jojo Rabbit’

‘Knives Out’ ‘Midway’ ‘Playing With Fire’ ‘Playmobil: The Movie’ ‘Queen & Slim’ ‘They Shall Not Grow Old,’ 4 & 7 p.m., Dec. 7.

‘The Star,’ Dec. 7-8.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787: Film Night, 6:30 p.m.

LOUISVILLE:

Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘21 Bridges’ ‘A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood’ ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘Dark Waters’ ‘Doctor Sleep’ ‘Downton Abbey’ ‘Ford v Ferrari’ ‘Frozen 2’ ‘The Good Liar’ ‘Harriet’ ‘Joker’ ‘Knives Out’

NEDERLAND:

Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘The Good Liar’

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5th Annual Tree Lighting. 4 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-438-2500.

Jack Hadley Band. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.

Sharone, Something For Tomorrow, Asylum 9, 21 Taras. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

8th Annual Pipe Organ Tour. 12:30 p.m.

University Park United Methodist Church, 2180 S. University Blvd., Denver.

John Denver Holiday Celebration with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Sing It To Me Santa: KALEO. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Annual Holiday Harps. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

John Gorka. 7 p.m., Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont. $25, 303-8273163

Live Local Music. 7 p.m. Denver Open Media, 700 Kalamath St., Denver, 720-222-0160.

Benjamon Henre Gaude. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

May Erlewine. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Christmas with the Children’s Chorale.

1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-892-5600.

MIDIcinal Live Band — with Notorious Conduct, Future Joy, TheBusiness. featuring Tom Davidson (Late Set), JusChill. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Christy Wessler Holiday Sing-Along Concert. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Cosmic Kirtan at Fiske: Indian Constellations, Stories & Chants. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Dragon Smoke — with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Float Like A Buffalo. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Holiday Parade of Lights. 6:30 p.m. Lyons.

Holiday Show! 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

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Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers. 9 p.m.

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

Mike Pederson Smells Like Phish. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Policulture. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra Presents: Ukuleles in Outer Space. 1:30 p.m.

Historic Grant Avenue Community Center, 216 S. Grant St., Denver.

Season of Light + Holiday Music Show.

2:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

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The Skatalites. 9 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Steve Thomas Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ten. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Trace Bundy’s Acoustic Holiday 11th Annual — with Kaki King. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Van Wholen. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 12. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Winter Folly Fundraiser. 5:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Wolf van Elfmand. 11 a.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Events 10th Anniversary Celebration. 5 p.m. Asher Brewing Company, 4699 Nautilus Court South, Boulder, 303-530-1381. see EVENTS Page 34

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Thursday december 5

FunTcase

w/ ubur, deFiniTive, JooF & aabear

Friday december 6

dr. Fresch

w/ angelz, PunJahbae & mixed message

saTurday december 7

dragon smoke

w/ big sam’s Funky naTion & FloaT like a buFFalo

Tuesday december 10

roberT glasPer Trio w/ The Tomorrow PeoPle

wednesday december 11

w/ morsel

Friday december 6

goose d ouT sol

w/ envy alo & dizgo

saTurday december 7

midicinal live band

w/ noTorious conducT, FuTure Joy, Thebusiness & Juschill

wednesday december 11 re: search

michal menerT Trio

lil TJay

FeaT adam deiTch & nick gerlach

w/ aco baby sean, 100Packsavy, ForTy $even & nay renee

Thursday december 12

Thursday december 12

w/ 12am, Foggieraw & Jack Flash

louis FuTon live band w/ The orcasTraTor

souly had

Friday december 13

dead Floyd

Friday december 13

w/ rumPke mounTain boys

w/ moon Frog & richard vagner

saTurday december 14

dirTwire

saTurday december 14

deTox uniT

w/ mickman, navigaTorz (vinJa & sorToF vague) & ThoughT Process

wednesday december 18 re: search

analog son

w/ deaTh by dub & digg

wednesday december 18

colorado winTer miniFesT Thursday december 19

mr. bill gaTes (mr. bill x ill.gaTes)

40 oz To Freedom

w/ bogTroTTer

(sublime TribuTe) w/ uFer & wave 11

Friday december 20

Friday december 20

w/ earThcry (anThony oF PaPadosio), mzg & auTonomix

(roberT walTer, eddie roberTs & adam deiTch) w/ manycolors

Pnuma

saTurday december 28

A home (isn’t just) for the holidays.

FeaT ryan sTasik oF umPhrey’s mcgee w/ marcus rezak’s gaTeway

MAKE SURE EVERY YOUNG PERSON HAS A SAFE PLACE TO LAND THIS SEASON

w/ unTiTled b2b vide (losT dogz)

AT TENTIONHOMES.ORG/DON ATE

Thursday december 5

rob ickes & Trey hensley & mark lavengood band

dumPsTaFunk

w.r.d.

saTurday december 21

doom Flamingo

Frank zaPPa’s birThday ParTy: celebraTing zaPPa’s music

Friday & saTurday January 3-4

sunday december 22

5Th annual winTer sTring Fling

FeaT an all sTar lineuP oF 15+ dJs

w/ PockeT ProTecTion FeaT members oF The revivalisTs & dragondeer

sunday december 29

dual venue!

wednesday January 8 re: search

mysTic grizzly & ToadFace

w/ sTeely dead

winTerFesT

saTurday december 28

honey island swamP band w/ ben miller band

wednesday January 8

rodina

Friday January 10

FeaT Joe TaTTon (The new masTersounds) w/ daniella kaTzir band

w/ melody lines, TelemeTry & kaPTain

wednesday January 15

TnerTle

saTurday January 11

re: search

James murPhy dJ seT

5am Trio, malakai & lusid

Friday January 24

FronT counTry

(lcd soundsysTem / dFa)

everyone’s dead

w/ Flower in The sun : TribuTe To Janis JoPlin

Thursday January 16 w/ whiTewaTer ramble

Friday January 17

the newdeal

saTurday January 25

w/ ben silver oF orchard lounge

w/ The eleganT Plums

maddy o’neal & nobide + the newdeal

everyone orchesTra Thursday January 30

summer camP on The road

saTurday January 18

w/ ben silver oF orchard lounge

sunday January 19

Friday January 31

Joe robinson

emanciPaTor

wednesday January 22

dual venue!

w/ blackbird blackbird, Frameworks, Tor, PlanTrae, Thoma & il:lo

monday February 3

earThgang w/ mick Jenkins

Thursday February 6

Phora

saTurday February 8

marco benevenTo

re: search

moody good w/ eFFin

saTurday January 25

dave waTT’s bday bash

FeaT dave waTTs, Jason hann & ian neville

saTurday February 1

runaway gin

(TribuTe To Phish) w/ sqwerv & ruby hill

saTurday February 15

Tuesday February 11

monday February 17

w/ landon cube & PoorsTacy

roddy rich

sPeed rack chariTy Female barTending comPeTiTion Friday February 21

alo & Tea leaF green Tuesday march 3

iann dior

Friday February 21

PassaFire

sunday February 23

mark guiliana

w/ dandu & chronologue

saTurday February 29

marc e. bassy w/ gianni & kyle

kendall sTreeT comPany & cbdb

wednesday aPril 29

Tuesday march 17

louis cole big band bbno$ TexT cervanTes To 91944 For TickeT giveaways, drink sPecials, discounTed TickeT PromoTions & more

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Airborne. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Christmas Market. 10 p.m. St. Martin de Porres Church, 3300 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-499-7744.

The Trash Pandas The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, December 6 7:00-9:00 PM - NO COVER Happy Hour till 7pm

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tuneupboulder.com

Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

CSED Week: Computer Science Education Week. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED: Capstone! 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED: CodeFest. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Dirt Monkey with DMVU. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

First Saturday Yoga: Favorites. 11 a.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Free Day at the Denver Art Museum. 10 a.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave Parkway, Denver, 720-913-0061.

Gameland Gaming For Peace Festival. 1 p.m. Gameworks Denver, 7950 Northfield Blvd., Denver.

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

THURSDAY DECEMBER 5 7:00 PM

LIVE TALK: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ART, A MATTER OF MIND 8:30 PM

LIQUID SKY: THE POLICE FRIDAY DECEMBER 6 10:00 PM

FISKEDM LIVE DJ MELODY MONROE SATURDAY DECEMBER 7 1:00 PM

WE ARE STARS 2:30 PM

SEASON OF LIGHT 7:00 PM

Holiday Mountain Market. Nederland Community Center, Nederland, 303-258-9721.

Lettuce. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482.

Mother Daughter Bookclub: Savvy by Ingrid Law. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Musical Legends in the Air. 2 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272.

Playback Theatre West Improv Performance. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-666-4361.

Rental Ling Global Melodies recital. 1 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

THURSDAY, DEC. 5 Kristie Betts Letter — Fire in the Hole.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, DEC. 6 Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

SATURDAY, DEC. 7 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Rebecca Lehmann. Noon. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Build a Better Book: Stories for Your Senses (Opening Event). 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

SUNDAY, DEC. 8 BAFS Second Sundays Poetry Workshop.

2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Dir En Grey. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Grupo Chegando Lá & Francisco Marques.

1 p.m. MOJO Taqueria, Boulder.

Santa’s House. 10 a.m. Pi Beta Phi Sorority, 890 11th St., Boulder, 303-604-6650.

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

TLC 38th Annual Tree Fest: Evening Dinner. 5:30 p.m. TLC Learning Center, 611 Korte Parkway, Longmont.

Jeremiah and the Red Eyes, Liz Berube with Eric Dorr. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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We’re 7! Let’s Party Like It’s 1944. 8 p.m.

Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

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

COSMIC KIRTAN CONNECTION 10:00 PM

LASERMAU5 11:30 PM

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Winter Wonder Holiday Market. 10 a.m.

Peak to Peak K-12 Charter School, 800 Merlin Drive, Lafayette, 720-295-0085.

4:30 PM

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INCOMING! HARD-HITTING STORIES OF OUR COSMIC ORIGINS WE ARE STARS

Music

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

The Allman Family Revival. 8 p.m. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

www.colorado.edu/fiske 303-492-5002

Boulder Children’s Chorale & Community Sing-along. 2 and 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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SASHA SAGAN was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. When Sagan became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our treasured occasions, honoring the joy and significance of each experience without relying on religious framework. ‘For Small Creatures Such as We’ is a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together. Sasha Sagan will speak about and sign her new book on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. at Boulder Book Store. Sasha will be in conversation with Saralyn Ward for this special event.

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Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. Mapleton Center YMCA, 2850 Mapleton Ave., Boulder.

Family Science Fun with CU Scientists. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Holiday Make and Take. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Music Brian Setzer. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

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Sasha Sagan — For Small Creatures Such As We. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

MONDAY, DEC. 9 Jackson Crawford — The Wanderer’s Havamal. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, DEC. 10 Christen Alannah Malloy. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Mark Pleiss. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11 Write Your Life in Poetry. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Brockhampton — with slowthai, 100 Gecs. 8 p.m. The Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-577-6884.

Mellowpunk, Nick Boeder, Tom Pevear.

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

Events All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED Week: Computer Science Education Week. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSED: How to Start and Sustain a Robotics Club for Elementary-age Students. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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DEC 6 | COLLECTIVE SPEAKERS MARIKA ANTHONY-SHAW: ACCOUNTABLE ACTIVISM: A NEW FORM OF POWER [COLORADO GIVES DAY FREE EVENT]

DEC 11 | AUTHORS SERIES ELLEN KINGMAN FISHER: HILL’S GOLD CU HOLIDAY FESTIVAL. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 1 & 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

NORTHERN LIGHTS. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13 St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder.

GENTLE ‘NUTCRACKER’ — LONGMONT SYMPHONY — WITH BOULDER BALLET. Abridged version of ‘The Nutcracker’ for individuals with special needs 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7

Resources Beyond Earth: Enabling Future Exploration and the New Space Economy.

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

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 Music Chandler Holt, James and The Rize. 8 p.m.

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

Events Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

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

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont.

‘THE NUTCRACKER’ BALLET — LONGMONT SYMPHONY — WITH BOULDER BALLET. 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont.

BRIGHTEST & BEST HOLIDAY CONCERT — BOULDER CHORALE AND CHILDREN’S CHORALE. 4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 14, and Dec. 15 First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder.

HANDEL’S ‘MESSIAH’ — LONGMONT SYMPHONY — WITH THE LONGMONT CHORALE VIVA VOCE. 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15 Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hoover, Longmont.

GED Preparation Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Anime Club. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Out Boulder Holiday Party 2019. 5:30 p.m.

License No.1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-5777.

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

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Music Ellen Kingman Fisher: Hill’s Gold. 7 p.m.

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

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A CELTIC FAMILY CHRISTMAS — NATALIE MACMASTER AND DONNELL LEAHY. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17 Macky Aud., 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

‘THE NUTCRACKER’ — CENTENNIAL STATE BALLET. 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22 Niwot High School Auditorium, 8989 Niwot Road, Niwot.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE PHIL — BOULDER PHILHARMONIC. 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22 Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder.

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

Robert Glasper Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events Chocolate Rhapsody with Noelle. 4:30 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

12/12

LIVING THE RIGHTEOUS SLACKLIFE

12/20

BIFF GORE: HOLIDAY SOUL

1/16

KELLY CORDES: THE STORIES WE TELL

1/23

DESSA: SENSELESS LOVE

1/24

AN EVENING WITH BUNTPORT THEATER

BY STORIES ON STAGE

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JOE SERTICH: DINOSAURS IN YOUR BACKYARD

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MATCHSTICK PRODUCTIONS: “RETURN TO SEND’ER”

2/7

DAVE SHOWALTER: FREEDOM TO ROAM

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Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

STEAM Storytime: Snap Circuits and Magna Tiles. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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Instrument Of Vibration

by Kevin EM Rodgers

In reverie I drum with open hands all over my naked chest legs stomach, beating into this life a rhythm, percussing the guts beneath my skin...

my body an instrument of vibration.

Every boundary is a membrane each membrane a drum full with organs of oceans beyond sky and the powerful force which waits inside... contains a frequency I hide shakes an inanimate dance to life.

In reverie I drum loud with open palms all over my heart’s cage, to beckon this cadence come alive, percussing my inside song to rise...

no longer hidden

behind a skin...

my body an instrument of vibration.

All his life Kevin EM Rodgers has wondered why he’s alive and if there is a point.

He combines philosophy, science and his own experiences in attempt to make some sense of it all.

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ON THE BILL: ‘The Two Popes’ opens Dec. 13 and is available on Netflix Dec. 20. ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s,’ 6:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Littleton, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Unit 850, 720-588-41097.

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he Two Popes, one of the most anticipated movies of the holiday season, arrives on the silver screen Dec. 13 before heading to Netflix on Dec. 20.

Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, The Two Popes opens in 2005, with the election of Joseph Ratzinger (Anthony Hopkins) as Pope Benedict XVI, and closes in 2013 with the resignation of Ratzinger and the election of Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) as Pope Francis. Using a blend of archival footage and narrative designed to look like documentary, Meirelles captures the energy and urgency of The Two Popes’ core debate: The intersection of change and compromise.

Meirelles stages these rhetorical tête-à-tête as dramatically as action. The progressive Bergoglio understands that the church has failed millions, and wants to open the doors with apologies and admissions of guilt. Ratzinger, a conservative, also wants to apologize, but the sanctity of the church is first and foremost. He will do nothing to discredit her, even if that means turning a deaf ear toward a screaming reality.

Fortuitously, there is another classic of Catholic discourse screening Dec. 13, one that also happens to be available for home viewing from Olive Films: 1945’s The Bells of St. Mary’s starring Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley, the newly appointed priest of the K-12 school, St. Mary’s, and Ingrid Bergman as Mary Benedict, the school’s Sister Superior.

The Bells of St. Mary’s finds Benedict and O’Malley up against a deadline. St. Mary’s is to be condemned and sold to developer Horace P. Bogardus (Henry Travers — Clarence from It’s A Wonderful Life), a man who plans to pave paradise and put up a parking lot for his sparkling-new office tower next-door. But no one occupies Bogardus’ tower, nor does it appear that he built it for anyone other than himself. Benedict and O’Malley hatch a plan: Convince Bogardus to bequeath the building to St. Mary’s. Benedict, ever a woman of habit, turns to prayer.

O’Malley, willing to descend into the particular, knows there are other ways to get what you need.

Much like The Two Popes, The Bells of St. Mary’s is an exercise in casuistry, the Jesuit practice of foregoing principals, and treating problems on a case-by-case basis.

Benedict, both the pope and the sister, use faith and prayer in all situations, even when they hit a wall. The Jesuit Bergoglio and O’Malley are more pliable with their sophistry.

And more effective.

Cinema is an exercise in casuistry: A case-by-case, movie-by-movie exploration of truth and morals. But how best to present this discourse? As an iconoclast addressing the problem directly? Or as a smuggler walking a more circuitous path?

The best cinema blends both, synthesizing image and sound to address both the head and the heart. When it works, it achieves a spiritual component. And The Two Popes and The Bells of St. Mary’s work. Two conflicts, four players. They all seek a shared goal, but it is their willingness to defend their positions that make these films so beautifully Catholic.

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inally... soup weather. All that snow really put us in the mood for a steaming bowl of comfort, which we recently found on the daily specials menu at Southern Sun. Thor’s Soto Ayam is the Sun’s take on this Indonesian chicken noodle soup.

Tender shredded chicken bathes in a light and bright broth that leads with ginger, turmeric, lemongrass and kaffir lime, but finishes with the earthy nuttiness of cumin and coriander. Fat rice noodles replace the traditional glass noodles, providing a springy foil to the delicate texture of basil, cilantro and celery leaves. A soft-boiled egg adds rich umami, while a drizzle of sambal gives appropriate heat. You’ll be feeling as strong as a Norse god in two slurps.

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pared prime rib (and everything else) in the same kitchen for more than 38 years.

Alan Teran was the CEO of the Cork and Cleaver restaurant chain. In September 1981, he bought the business and changed the name to the Boulder Cork. Smailer came aboard shortly thereafter.

“In ’81 we had a really limited menu, seven or eight items including teriyaki steak. We had a salad bar until the early ’90s,” Teran says.

Fast-forward and the Boulder Cork is still at the same location, although the building has been enlarged.

The Cork has survived in part by being a bastion of meat in a city that was rapidly becoming the epicenter of the natural foods industry and a community at the forefront of vegetarian and vegan cuisine. To many Boulder residents then and now, prime rib is exactly what’s wrong with our food system and a threat to the sustainability of the planet.

BOULDER CORK OWNER, Alan Teran, with chef Jim Smailer

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1969, the hippies had invaded Boulder and Richard Nixon was president. Cell phones, the internet and the Paleo diet were decades in the future. Foodies transported back to Boulder would be appalled at the limited dining choices and lack of international eats as the ’60s became the ’70s.

1969 was the year the Boulder Cork — then the Cork and Cleaver— opened in a new building in the middle of nowhere. Seriously. Few businesses and condos had been built yet in the vicinity, and the only thing east and north of its location on 30th Street, then a two-lane road, were cows.

The action was all downtown, where you could still drive down Pearl Street between 11th to 16th streets. Only two other local eateries open in ’69 are still serving diners: Flagstaff House and The Greenbriar Inn. A thousand other restaurants have come and gone in Boulder in the intervening half-century.

What drew locals and visitors to Boulder’s fringe was prime rib: famously fork-tender, well-marbled and juicy rib beef served rare or medium rare.

Prime rib was a hard-to-find menu item locally in 1969... and in 2019. There’s a reason. It’s roast beef, not a cooked-to-order steak, so it’s something of a crapshoot. At the end of the evening, the pricey leftovers can go in sandwiches or roast beef hash, but the next day’s prime rib starts raw.

“We really became known as a prime rib house, and not a steak house. That’s always been the biggest draw.

We sell at least 1,400 portions a month, too,” says Jim Smailer, executive chef of the Boulder Cork. He has pre-

Teran says they knew they couldn’t rely solely on the sizzle. “We realized we couldn’t survive in Boulder just being a steak place,” Teran says.

So, Smailer developed a roster of Southwesternaccented items, including the Cork’s popular chicken enchiladas. Before FedEx existed, Smailer secured fresh fish and seafood from both coasts for his specials. He texts regular customers when limited amounts of stellar bay scallops, Maryland crab and other treats are inhouse. And yes, lots of veggie-centric diners patronize the establishment, ordering crispy polenta, baked stuffed Anaheim chilies and quinoa cakes with greens, beets and avocado, Smailer says.

To local growers, Smailer is an important customer.

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proudly leads tours of the herbs, vegetables and flowers used in his kitchen.

“I learned a long time ago that consistency was essential, and you couldn’t have a high turnover in employees,” Teran says. The Boulder Cork has employees who have been on the staff for 40 years, and many for a decade or more.

That’s comforting for regulars — several generations in some families — who see familiar faces when they return for teriyaki steak and mud pie.

The staff has always included University of Colorado students and the restaurant has had a close association with CU’s athletic department. “We employed the parents when they went to school and now their kids work for us. You have people who were here in college and now their kids are here, so they come back to eat,” Teran says.

“The thing I’m proudest of in my career is that we’ve maintained a fine dining establishment in Boulder all these years,” Smailer says.

Unlike many restaurateurs, Teran has never given into the temptation to float a second Cork. “How could you duplicate this somewhere else?” Teran says.

SHOP FOR LOCAL FOOD GIFTS Fill your pantry and gift baskets and support sustainable local food at the free Winter Market at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Dec. 7-8. This final event of the 2019 Boulder Farmers Market season features many of my favorite farmers and food artisans including Black Cat Farm, FermenTasty, Truffles in Paradise, Izzio Artisan Bakery, Medovina Mead and Il Porcellino Salumi, not to mention dozens of gift makers.

LOCAL FOOD NEWS The Boulder-Denver culinary community is teaming up for the second annual Denver Planned Parenthood Bake Sale Dec. 7 at The Source in Denver. Safta, Oak, Moxie Bread Co., Blackbelly, Cake Crumbs, Work & Class and many others are producing and donating the baked goods from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Arrive early, as the goods sell out quickly. … Learn about the heirloom grain movement with Colorado grain expert Nanna Meyer Dec. 7 at Boulder Public Library followed by a grain dinner at Dry Storage. slowfoodboulder.org …

Daikon, a banh mi sandwich shop, is open at 1805 29th St., and Cheba Hut sandwiches has closed at 1313 College Ave.

TASTE OF THE WEEK Searching for certain traditional baked goods that make the holidays taste like home in your family? Here are a few local sources: Bûche de Noël: Le French Cafe, Boulder Stollen: Babette’s Artisan Bread, Longmont Stollen and springele: Rheinlander Bakery, Arvada Hammantaschen and rugelach: Rosenberg’s Kosher, Denver Lemon ricotta pie and cannoli: Giovanni’s Italian Bakery, Lakewood Pannetone and sfogliatelle, Dolce Sicilia Italian Bakery, Wheat Ridge Russian tea cookies, rum balls and paczki: Royal Bakery, Arvada Kringle and strudel: Taste of Denmark Bakery, Lakewood WORDS TO CHEW ON “You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?” — Nigella Lawson John Lehndorff is looking for a locally baked artisan fruitcake. He hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m.

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he Resource Conservation Division (RCD) strives to lead and promote actions that will help Boulder County reach its goal of Zero Waste “or darn near” by 2025. By providing convenient, cost-effective facilities and programs, RCD helps Boulder County reduce waste generation and disposal, protect the environment, and conserve natural resources.

Boulder County’s Zero Waste goal reflects a commitment to sustainable materials management and resource conservation. The county works to achieve this goal through its policies, programs, education, and infrastructure. Ensuring accessible and affordable waste diversion opportunities to all residents countywide is a long-standing commitment within the county. RCD achieves that goal by helping our community reduce, reuse, recycle (traditional and hard-to-recycle materials), compost, and safely manage hazardous materials. Additionally, the jobs generated from reuse and recycling industries—from used building material outlets to creative reuse start-ups—help strengthen Boulder County’s economy.

RCD manages multiple facilities which include the Boulder County Recycling Center, Hazardous Materials Management Facility, Mountain Transfer Stations in Allenspark and Nederland, and Drop-Off Centers in Boulder, Niwot, and Lyons. Additionally, RCD manages Boulder County’s internal zero waste program, which has received statewide recognition for “Outstanding Government Diversion Program” for achieving a 72% diversion rate from the landfill. This program exemplifies the county’s commitment to walk its talk and lead the way on the path to Zero Waste.

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Of the facilities managed by RCD, impressive diversion rates were achieved in 2018: The Boulder County Recycling Center recovered 89% of the 52,000 tons processed, helping keep valuable materials out of the landfill, and instead, returning them back to markets. The Hazardous Materials Management Facility received over 1 million pounds of hazardous waste, serving 19,136 households within Boulder County, City and County of Broomfield, and the Town of Erie. Approximately 88% of the hazardous waste collected at the facility was diverted through reuse, recycling, or by use for energy recovery. Of the total volume of materials collected at the Mountain Transfer Stations and Drop-Off Centers, 57% was diverted from the landfill.

Additionally, the Mountain Transfer Stations collected 181.5 cubic yards of Styrofoam and the Nederland transfer station, which offers residential mattress recycling, collected 209 mattresses – that’s 11,495 lbs. of mattresses diverted! Along with these achievements, Boulder County was recently recognized by COPIRG and Eco-Cycle, Inc. as the leading county in the state for recycling diversion as a result of RCD’s distinguished programs and services.

Beyond these facilities, RCD offers various educational opportunities and incentives to its residents and businesses, such as the following: • Free tours of the Boulder County Recycling Center • Free seasonal Backyard Compost Workshops • Zero Waste Initiative at the Boulder County Fair

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• Annual Zero Waste Funding opportunities • Zero Waste Business Coupons • Yard and Wood Waste subsidy • Funding for Green Star Schools • Environmental education funding for BVSD and SVVSD • Free “Diversion Days” for rural unincorporated Boulder County communities • Free recycling at County drop off centers and transfer stations RCD manages hauler licensing for Boulder County, which includes collecting annual data from haulers. The county uses this data to track its progress towards zero waste, as well as to measure the greenhouse gas emission impact from keeping material out of the landfill. In 2007, the county implemented a hauler ordinance mandating “pay as you throw” or volume-based pricing in Boulder County, meaning you pay for the incremental size of your curbside refuse bin and then receive compost and recycling in that embedded trash rate, thereby encouraging waste reduction and cost savings for proper disposal of your waste.

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Fun with truffles

Opportunities to enjoy truffles in Boulder County abound this month

by Matt Cortina PASTA WITH BLACK AND WHITE truffles (top) and prime rib with shave white truffles (right) are some of the dishes available on OAK’s truffle-centric menu this weekend.

THE TRUFFLES YOU

might eat at OAK at fourteenth this weekend, or that you might buy from Cured this month, or, if you were fortunate enough to get a reservation, that you might have had expertly prepared at Frasca on Tuesday, Dec. 4, were not foraged by pigs. Pigs damage the delicate root systems on which truffles grow and though their sense of smell makes them fantastic truffle hunters, their reckless appetites spur them to eat the truffles before their handlers have any chance to wrangle them. So notorious are pigs for eating truffles that their use in truffle hunting has been banned in Italy, where famed white truffles grow in its northern Piedmont region.

But they were, or will be, most likely discovered by dogs, gathered by humans, shipped by planes and prepared in Boulder County for our enjoyment. Dogs, after all, have senses of smell 100,000 times greater than ours and trained canines are adept at finding the odoriferous fungi.

We have about three days after its plucked from a tree root to enjoy the truffle at its peak, says OAK at fourteenth Chef Steve Redzikowski, who will highlight the white and black truffle on an à la carte menu this weekend (Dec. 5-7).

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they will do is turn soft, and once they turn soft, you can’t shave them and they lose their fragrance.”

Redzikowski has been working with Washington-based Foods in Season to bring in truffles for the last nine years.

The company specializes in securing and expediently shipping fresh, wild foods around the world, and works with individual truffle hunters in Italy’s Piedmont and France’s Burgundy and Périgord regions to secure fresh truffles. Every week during truffle season — November to midJanuary in Europe — Redzikowski talks with the Foods in Season truffle liaison, who lets him know what’s turning up in the woods, what’s fresh, what’s in bulk.

Medium-sized white truffles had a boom this week, for instance, and they’re coming out of the ground “super clean,” Redzikowski says.

“They’re looking for no blemishes, not a lot of holes in them. If there are holes, then there’s dirt, then you have to clean them out more,” he says.

There are hundreds of truffle varieties, but we typically seek but a few: white, black, Burgundy and Oregon.

White truffles are pungent, flavor-saturated earth gems and they command high prices, almost four times their weight in gold. Black truffles are much more moderately priced, and their flavor is mild, subdued and earthy.

Redzikowksi will use both on the OAK menu, with black truffles from both Périgord and Burgundy. It includes such palate-exploding dishes as 7x wagyu beef tartare with truffle aioli and crispy parsnips; aged Parmigiano Reggiano ice cream with olive oil, frico (cheese crisps) and shaved truffles; and an oak-woodfired Pat LaFrieda dry-aged beef hamburger with aged cheddar and a mountain of shaved truffles.

There is some conventional wisdom that says less is more when it comes to truffles, that the flavor is so robust, particularly for white truffles, that to overdo it with the ingredient would cancel out anything else on the plate.

Not so for Redzikowski, or me, or I’m guessing a fair number of you.

“When I eat something with truffle, I want to be overwhelmed with truffle,” Redzikowski says. “We’re doing radiatore pasta and an extruded Parmesan broth with it and white truffles. The idea is that the [pasta] is just a vehicle for the truffles. In that case, it’s about overpowering. You want a blast in the face of the truffles.”

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— for instance with the 7x wagyu tartare, he’ll use a combination of black and white truffle so the beef doesn’t “just kind of disappear.”

The truffle flavor also doesn’t reach terminal velocity at any point, though it may feel like it could with a mouthful of its unique, savory, umami, musky flavor.

“The more you put on, then you’re going to have more per bite and the more it’s going to impact flavor. That’s why, to me, when you put a dish on, you should charge a little bit more to give [the customer] more. You go a couple places and you get a couple shaves and I’m like, ‘Shoot, I really want to try those truffles,’” he says. “If you’re gonna put ’em on, put ’em on.” À la carte dishes at OAK’s truffle dinners range from $12-$42, a graciously moderate price point for such a heralded ingredient. “You can order one thing or three or seven or everything,” Redzikowski says. “You’re not stuck with having to pay a huge bill. We’re trying to not make it intimidating. A burger is super comforting, or you can go in and ball out and get the prime rib.”

If you can’t make it to OAK this weekend, Cured is taking truffle orders.

They’re due every Wednesday through December with pickups on Friday. They go for $2 per ounce for black truffles from France, and $40 per ounce for white truffles from Italy, with a 20-ounce minimum.

Once you get the truffle or truffles home, there are plenty of simple dishes you can prepare to maximize your culinary investment. Cured suggests giving the black truffles a light amount of cooking to reinforce their strong, earthy flavor, while shaving the white truffles raw is best practice.

Redzikowksi says any dish with a lot of fat will stack up well with either truffle.

A simple mac and cheese will pull the flavor of the truffle into it and give it a cozy home. Or if you’re feeling more adventurous, Redzikowski says he can vouch for homemade seared scallops with a healthy dollop of sour cream or crème fraiche and a sprinkle of toasted hazelnuts.

But also, “a burger with white truffles can’t be beat,” he says.

Truffles aren’t only for food, mind you — find a number of truffle-celebrating cocktails on a quick Google search, from truffle martinis to truffle old fashioneds.

It’s a boom year for truffles, Redzikowski says, particularly the white truffle. Time to celebrate the harvest.

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New in brew: Holiday beers

Ales from Oskar Blues, Sierra Nevada and Upslope

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ike Enstrom Almond Toffee and Hershey’s Kiss cookies, it’s just not the holidays without a few signature ales. Here are four to get you started, but your local liquor store probably has 40. Dollars to donuts says your taproom down the street has a few as well.

Celebrating Black Friday the stout way, Oskar Blues Brewery’s Ten FIDY is already a winter staple. Big and burly, this imperial stout (10.5% alcohol by volume) pours thick black and kicks up a loose, rocky head of milk chocolate colored foam.

Serve the beer cool to the touch, and you’ll detect subtle notes of maple and chocolate in the nose. The mouth is the same but different, with a prickle of hoppy bitterness up front masking a sea of thick, roasted malt. They pack a wallop of alcohol, which warms the throat and softens the mind.

Ten FIDY is a winner, but like any good imperial stout, it comes with a series of variants and this year’s barrel-aged version (clocking in at 12.5% ABV) takes the stout from beverage to after-dinner MICHAEL J. CASEY dessert. It’s a beast of a brew, pouring out thick and black with a thin head of mocha-tinged foam. The nose is of molasses with red fruit (currant, blackberry, ripe cherry) and a hint of bourbon. The mouth is full and creamy with notes of dark chocolate, espresso beans and roasted malts.

There is a hint of vanillin, and an extra dollop of bourbon in the barrel-aged Ten FIDY, but the brew sidesteps the typical fusel aroma and flavor of most barrel-aged ales. That doesn’t mean the alcohol isn’t there; it manages to slip past the tongue and blossoms in the belly like a warming red fire.

Try a snifter of it in lieu of your go-to spirit next time you unwind after a hearty meal.

Ten FIDY is best drunk at night — preferably near a comfy couch or a warm bed — but for something brighter and daytime-oriented, look to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s iconic fresh hop IPA, Celebration. It’s as bright and piney as hiking through a forest frosted with fresh powder.

First brewed in 1981 as a counterpoint to the spiced ales of the season, Celebration utilizes fresh Cascade, Centennial and Chinook hops to produce a vibrant and bright classic American IPA with a solid backbone of bitterness (65 IBUs). And since none of the hops are pulverized or pelletized, these whole cones release a different kind of lemon and resin flavors than the IPAs you are used to. There’s even a slight woodiness to the beer, along with a base of caramel and robust 2-row malt. It’s spectacular, arguably one of the best IPAs you’ll drink all year.

And in the wild department, Upslope Brewing Company release’s their annual Wild Christmas Ale at the Lee Hill brewery, Dec. 5. This year’s version spent eight weeks refermenting on Colorado-grown red plums and a year maturing in oak casks. They’ll have a release party from 5-9 p.m., and you can snag past editions (cranberries, black raspberries and Balaton cherries) alongside this year’s plums.

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In composing this oracle, I have

called on the unruly wisdom of Vivienne Westwood.

She’s the fashion designer who incorporated the punk esthetic into mainstream styles. Here are four quotes by her that will be especially suitable for your use in the coming weeks. 1) “I disagree with everything I used to say.” 2) “The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.” 3) “Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, and things that have nothing to do with reason.” 4) “I’m attracted to people who are really true to themselves and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting.”

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “I’m drowning in the things I never told you.” Famous make-up artist Alexandra Joseph wrote that message to a companion with whom she had a complicated relationship. Are you experiencing a similar sensation, Taurus? If so, I invite you to do something about it! The coming weeks will be a good time to stop drowning. One option is to blurt out to your ally all the feelings and thoughts you’ve been withholding and hiding. A second option is to divulge just some of the feelings and thoughts you’ve been withholding and hiding — and then monitor the results of your partial revelation. A third option is to analyze why you’ve been withholding and hiding. Is it because your ally hasn’t been receptive, or because you’re afraid of being honest? Here’s what I suggest: Start with the third option, then move on to the second.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: I’ve got some borderline sentimental poet-

ry to offer you in this horoscope. It may be too mushy for a mentally crisp person like you. You may worry that I’ve fallen under the sway of sappy versions of love rather than the snappy versions I usually favor. But there is a method in my madness: I suspect you need an emotionally suggestive nudge to fully activate your urge to merge; you require a jolt of sweetness to inspire you to go in quest of the love mojo that’s potentially available to you in abundance. So please allow your heart to be moved by the following passage from poet Rabindranath Tagore: “My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars.

Your world has broken upon me like a flood. The flowers of your garden blossom in my body.”

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Try saying this, and notice how it feels:

“For the next 17 days, I will make ingenious efforts to interpret my problems as interesting opportunities that offer me the chance to liberate myself from my suffering and transform myself into the person I aspire to become.” Now speak the following words and see what thoughts and sensations get triggered: “For the next 17 days, I will have fun imagining that my so-called flaws are signs of potential strengths and talents that I have not yet developed.”

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: An interviewer asked singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen if he needed to feel bothered and agitated in order to stimulate his creativity. Cohen said no. “When I get up in the morning,” he testified, “my real concern is to discover whether I’m in a state of grace.”

Surprised, the interviewer asked, “What do you mean by a state of grace?” Cohen described it as a knack for balance that he called on to ride the chaos around him.

He knew he couldn’t fix or banish the chaos — and it would be arrogant to try. His state of grace was more like skiing skillfully down a hill, gliding along the contours of unpredictable terrain. I’m telling you about Cohen’s definition, Leo, because I think that’s the state of grace you should cultivate right now. I bet it will stimulate your creativity in ways that will surprise and delight you.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Poet Juan Felipe Herrera praises the value of making regular efforts to detox our cluttered minds. He says that one of the best methods for accomplishing this cleansing is to daydream. You give yourself permission to indulge in uncensored,

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unabashed fantasies. You feel no inhibition about envisioning scenes that you may or may not ever carry out in real life. You understand that this free-form play of images is a healing joy, a gift you give yourself. It’s a crafty strategy to make sure you’re not hiding any secrets from yourself. Now is a favorable time to practice this art, Virgo.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In accordance with current astrological

omens, here’s your meditation, as articulated by the blogger named Riverselkie: “Let your life be guided by the things that produce the purest secret happiness, with no thought to what that may look like from the outside. Feed the absurd whims of your soul and create with no audience in mind but yourself. What is poignant to you is what others will be moved by, too. Embrace what you love about yourself and the right people will come.”

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “I swear I became a saint from waiting,” wrote Scorpio poet Odysseus Elytis in his poem “Three Times the Truth.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you may be in a similar situation. And you’ll be wise to welcome the break in the action and abide calmly in the motionless lull. You’ll experiment with the hypothesis that temporary postponement is best not just for you, but for all concerned.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing,” says Sagittarian actress and activist Jane Fonda. This description may not always be applicable to you, but I think it should be during the coming weeks. You’re primed to thrive on a robust commitment to self-transformation. As you proceed in your holy task, keep in mind this other advice from Fonda. 1) “One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.” 2) “It is never too late to master your weaknesses.” 3) “If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.”

4) “The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.”

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: You can’t escape your past completely.

You can’t loosen its hold on you so thoroughly that it will forever allow you to move with limitless freedom into the future. But you definitely have the power to release yourself from at least a part of your past’s grip.

And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do just that: to pay off a portion of your karmic debt and shed worn-out emotional baggage.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Aquarian playwright August Strindberg

didn’t have much interest in people who “regurgitate what they have learned from books.” He was bored by stories that have been told over and over again; was impatient with propaganda disguised as information and by sentimental platitudes masquerading as sage insights. He craved to hear about the unprecedented secrets of each person’s life: the things they know and feel that no one else knows and feels. He was a student of “the natural history of the human heart.” I bring Strindberg’s perspective to your attention, my dear oneof-a-kind Aquarius, because now is a perfect time for you to fully embody it.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “It’s no fun being in love with a shad-

ow,” wrote Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. And yet she indulged profusely in that no-fun activity, and even capitalized on it to create a number of decent, if morose, poems. But in alignment with your astrological omens, Pisces, I’m going to encourage you to fall out of love with shadows. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to channel your passions into solid realities: to focus your ardor and adoration on earthly pleasures and practical concerns and imperfect but interesting people.

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Other people who ride the bus also smoke, but I’m not inclined to make them the same offer. But it makes me sad knowing this guy smokes, and I want to get him to stop. If this idea is crazy, please say so — it will help me move on.

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Boulder brings its A-game to ‘High Times’ 2019 Colorado Cannabis Cup

by Seymour

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fter a permitting brouhaha two years ago, High Times returned to Colorado on Nov. 21 to celebrate the Centennial State’s best cannabis growers and processors at the 2019 Colorado Cannabis Cup. (The U.S. Cannabis Cup used to be held in Denver up until 2016, when the aforementioned permitting obstacle pushed

the legendary pot magazine to hold its national contest in California.

While High Times promised a conciliatory Colorado-only competition in 2016, that failed to materialize for the past two years. So welcome back, High Times.)

Not surprisingly, among the winners in the 14 categories were a cou-

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ple of Boulder companies. We thought we’d take a minute to highlight these community cannabis champions and the products for which they took home honors.

Dank by Pank, a Boulder-based cannabis wholesale cultivator (not open to the public, only to licensed dispensaries), is owned and operated by the original founders of Trill Alternatives.

According to a write-up by Dope Magazine, the Dank team utilizes a 30,000-square-foot facility to “mimic the plant’s natural environment.” Its mission, in the company’s own words, is to “proliferate and preserve the genetics of previously exclusive cannabis genetics.

“Using cutting-edge scientific techniques like gene sequencing and cannbinoid/terpene analysis,’” the company writes on HerbanPlanet. com, “we can better select valuable traits from the cannabis gene pool.

Our seeds are the revolutionary product of the groundbreaking, with modern, research-backed knowledge.”

No wonder they took home three awards at this year’s Colorado Cannabis Cup. In the Indica Flower category, Dank by Pank nabbed a third place honor for its Blackberry Meringue #12. While I’ve never tried Blackberry Meringue #12, the pictures from Dank by Pank show a plant with the beautiful tight leaf structure and frosty buds that are typically seen in the Blackberry strain.

Dank took the top prize in the

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Hybrid Flower category for its Orange Cookies strain, which combines the fruity, herbal punch of the Orange Juice strain with the sweet and earthy aroma of GSC (formerly known as Girl Scout Cookies).

“The flavors of Orange Cookies gives way to deep calming body effects that mingle with a euphoric cerebral buzz to leave you happy and relaxed,” according to Leafly. As an avid indica flower consumer, I can attest to the robust flavor and euphoric high from Orange Cookies. This is a favorite I snatch whenever it’s available at my local dispensary.

Finally, Dank took home second place in the Sativa Flower category for Pank Lemonade, Dank’s cultivar of the Pink Lemonade strain. For consumers seeking a functional high that’s great for all-day hiking or house-cleaning or yard word, Pank Lemonade offers a fruity and tart treat that’ll take the edge off of any repetitive task.

In the Sativa Concentrate category, Boulder’s Kush Masters took second place for its Hawaiian Sunset Live Diamonds. Here’s what Kush Masters has to say about its live diamonds: “Meticulously grown over several weeks, Kush Masters live diamonds are at the pinnacle of the merger of extracts and science. Grown using the principles of crystallization, this type of cannabis extract yields the most pure form of diamonds (THCa) available. With special techniques we

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separate the THCa crystals, which provides the ideal mixture of terpenes and diamonds for our customers. Live diamonds are unrivaled in terms of its high potency and superior flavor.”

THCa, for the record, is believed to offer an assortment of medicinal benefits, with purported anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, neuroprotective and antiemetic properties.

And finally, Kush Master’s scored a third place award in the Non-Solvent Hash category for Cookies n’ Cream Live Rosin.

Solventless cannabis extracts aren’t obtained using butane or propane like in the traditional method of extraction. Instead, in the case of Kush Masters’ non-solvent hash, trichome heads are removed from the cannabis plant via agitation in “an ice cold water washing system. After agitation the final product is collected using a series of fine screens and creates ‘water hash.’ The water hash is then freeze dried to provide even drying and to prevent microbial growth. After the drying process the water hash can be sold as-is or taken a step further by creating ‘Live Rosin’ using only heat and pressure.”

The end result is a concentrate that retains more of the natural cannabis flavor and medicinal properties that consumers are after.

For a full list of 2019 Colorado Cannabis Cup winners, visit hightimes.com/news/the-winners-of-thecannabis-cup-colorado-2019/

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Michael Bloomberg’s awful record on pot

By Paul Danish

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ichael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who a few days ago slithered into the race for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, wants to ban guns, transfats and soft-drinks. Now where do you suppose he stands on marijuana?

Exactly.

As with Joe Biden, if the War on Drugs was a real war, Michael Bloomberg would be a war criminal.

Bloomberg is a howling, knee-slapping, footstomping marijuana prohibitionist.

His current view on legalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational purposes: The “stupidest thing anybody has ever done.”

Last week Kyle Jaeger, a superb hard news journo at the Marijuana Moment website, did a deep dive into Bloomberg’s positions on marijuana. He was down so long he was lucky he didn’t get the bends. Here are some of the putrid pearls he came up with: Bloomberg was mayor of New York from 2002 to 2014. From 2002 to 2012, the New York Police Department made about 440,000 arrests for mari-

juana possession alone, according to a report prepared by the Drug Policy Alliance.

There were more marijuana arrests during Bloomberg’s time as mayor than under Mayors Ed Koch, David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani combined.

There were consistent racial disparities in pot arrests on Bloomberg’s watch — which at the time he evidently approved of. During a fight over two city council bills to rein in the NYPD’s massive use of stop-and-frisk searches that disproportionately targeted blacks and Hispanics, Bloomberg said: “I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It’s exactly the reverse of what they say.”

In January 2019, Bloomberg said the rising rates of drug overdose deaths linked mostly to the opioid epidemic were a reason why pot shouldn’t be legal.

In 2013, he said he doesn’t support marijuana legalization because THC potency has increased and because he thinks drug dealers would just move on to selling other illicit drugs like cocaine.

In 2013, Bloomberg made dismissive remarks about an attempt in the New York Legislature to legalize medical marijuana: “Yeah, right, medical, my foot. Come on. There’s no medical — this is one of the great hoaxes of all times.”

In 2002, he was against legalizing medical marijuana because it was a “slippery slope.”

In 2012, he seemed to look favorably on Singapore’s use of the death penalty against drug dealers: “In lots of places in the Far East, they have signs up, ‘Death to drug dealers.’ Think about the number of people who die from drug use here in this country. And yet we don’t take it seriously enough to dissuade people… Executing a handful of people saves thousands and thousands of lives.”

In 2015, Bloomberg pushed a debunked theory about marijuana use decreasing people’s IQs as a reason for not legalizing pot: “What are we

going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are five and 10 points lower than they would have been? I couldn’t feel more strongly about it, and my girlfriend says it’s no different than alcohol. It is different than alcohol. This is one of the stupider things that’s happening across our country.”

Bloomberg was an exuberant cheerleader for stop-and-frisk policing — right up until a few days before launching his presidential campaign. Then he apologized for supporting it: “I can’t change history.

However today, I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong.”

The latest thing Bloomberg wants to ban is flavored vaping products.

One year before launching his first campaign for mayor, Bloomberg was asked by New York Magazine whether he had ever used marijuana.

“You bet I did — and I enjoyed it,” he responded.

Bloomberg is a nasty, over-controlling petty tyrant who thinks he’s entitled to micro-manage people’s lives. The danger in electing him president is that he’d take it as a mandate to be a nasty, overcontrolling world-class tyrant. With nuclear weapons, of course.

• • • • One more thing: Bloomberg is so clueless about tyranny that he recently denied that China’s Xi Jinping is “not a dictator.”

Not a dictator, huh?

Maybe Bloomberg never heard of the “re-education camps” that the Chinese government is cycling hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs through, or the Chinese “social credit” system that is as intrusive and coercive as anything out of Orwell’s dystopia.

Or over-controlling petty tyrant that he is, maybe Bloomberg is cool with them.

Or maybe, as Nebraska Senator Ben Sass remarked, “This is the kind of stupid you can’t script.”

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