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Highroad How America’s middle class rose, and fell by Jim Hightower

rom 1776 forward, the “common yeoman” — America’s middle class — has been hailed as the virtuous heart and backbone of our nation. How ironic, since it took 150 years before we actually created a broad middle class. Before the 1930s, most Americans were poor, or near poor. And, yes, “created” is the correct term for how our middle class came to be, pushed by two historic forces of social transformation. First, the devastation of the Great Depression created a grassroots rebellion of laborers, farmers and others against the careless moneyed class that caused the 1929 crash. These forces produced FDR and his New Deal of union rights, Social Security and other tools that empowered ordinary Americans

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to begin rising up from poverty. Second, the government’s national mobilization for World War II created an explosion of new jobs and opportunities for millions, opening people’s eyes, boosting confidence and raising expectations. A post-war rise in unionism, passage of the GI Bill, a housing program and other progressive actions led to a doubling of the median family income in only 30 years, creating a middle class that included nearly 60 percent of Americans by the late 1970s. Then — phfffft — Washington’s commitment to a middle class suddenly fizzled in the 1980s as Republicans and many Democrats switched from supporting egalitarianism to backing the elitism of their corporate donors. Ever since, they’ve steadily disempowered workers and enthroned the rich, thus imposing today’s abominable, un-American culture of inequality across our land. Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today’s economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it. That is the momentous struggle that calls us to action in this political year. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 1 , 2018 5

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ast Week Governor Hickenlooper gave a speech at the City Club of Denver, during which he said this about Denver being short listed for Amazon’s second headquarters (aka HQ2): If they pick another location, “I’m not going to cry.” He continued, “There will be a sense of relief if they choose somewhere else, because there are a lot of challenges and a lot of hard work we will be avoiding,” he added. Within 24 hours a robust campaign of clarifyin’, splainin’ and walkin’ back was underway. “... I think Amazon is clearly the kind of company that’s based on innovation,” Gov. Hick said. “As we face the challenges of growth, which we are right now, they’d be a great partner to us... “If I was Jeff Bezos, I would look at those comments and say, ‘That’s just the kind of city we are looking for,’” he added brightly. Is the Greater Denver Co-Prosperity Sphere really just the kind of city Jeff Bezos is looking for? Could be. Maybe he’s the kind of guy who enjoys drinking pre-shaken sodas and getting run into by shopping carts in the check-out line. (Hey, he just bought Whole Foods.) Anyway, what’s going on here is that the governor has committed a Kinsley Gaffe. A Kinsley Gaffe, named after

Washington pundit Michael Kinsley, occurs “when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” And wow, did Governor Hick ever blurt out an inconvenient truth when he said an Amazon decision to locate 50,000 employees earning salaries that average $100,000 a year in Denver would come with “challenges.” Boy howdy. According to a story in last Sunday’s Denver Post, there’s currently a housing “deficit” — the difference between the demand for housing from buyers and renters and the supply of available housing — of about 32,000 units in the Denver metro area. And this is without taking Amazon into account. If half of Amazon’s HQ2 employees were to come from out of state — it could easily be more but let’s use 50 percent as a working number — the demand for housing in the area will increase by 25,000 units. The result will be that the region’s already mile-high home prices and rents will take off like a Blue Origin rocket, while developers crank out new subdivisions that turn two-hour-plus commutes on the region’s already traffic choked and crumbling roads into the new normal. Speaking of traffic, a typical American household generates 10 vehicle trips per day, which means that if Amazon picks Denver, an additional see DANISH PLAN Page 9

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hen it comes to the issue of climate change there are only four kinds of people: ignorant, evil, hypocritical

and sincere. When it comes to putting an initiative on the ballot to protect human health and the environment from the dangers of oil and gas extraction (including fracking), it is very important to be able to identify these four groups. So let’s take a closer look. The “ignorant” group is pretty easy to spot and understand. They make no bones about the fact that they simply don’t believe that climate change is a real thing. As long as they still have to wear a coat in winter they will never believe. They may be wrong, but at least they believe the words coming out of their mouths. I’m not mad at these ignorant people. They are a pretty small group and for whatever reason, likely their education, they just can’t hear or grasp the science. The “evil” group of folks is a bit more deserving of our anger. These are the men and women who know with certainty that climate change is real and caused by humans but they publically claim that this is not true in order to justify the continuation of their profit-driven actions that are causing the world to warm. This group consists of lots of different folks from politicians to oil industry employees to investment bankers, hedge fund managers and investors along with the occasional scientist for hire. This group gets to wear the evil moniker because they are simply willing to sell their children’s and grand children’s future for a few more dollars today. For most of us, such a position is simply inconceivable. Don’t let your kids play with these people. Now let’s jump ahead to our “sincere” group because like the “ignorant” category these people are pretty easy to understand. They believe that global warming is the biggest threat to the future of humankind; they understand that humans are largely responsible for the Earth’s warming; and they believe that we have to take action to stop our march over the climate-change cliff. No, they aren’t all perfect. They don’t all drive electric cars and some of them cook with Boulder Weekly

natural gas. But all of them grasp the problem and desire to do what is necessary to fix it. Which brings us to perhaps the most complicated group, the “hypocritical” folks. This is, in my opinion, the most damaging and dangerous group of people when it comes to climate change. These are the people who know that global warming is real; are even outspoken and very public about their belief in its threat, but yet, behind the scenes, undermine efforts to fight global warming because their commitment to their political party or environmental group or personal friends, family or bank account are the more important driver of their actions than their knowledge of the problem. You know this group. Anybody who has been fighting against fracking in Colorado this decade knows this group all too well. It’s the Democratic politicians like Hickenlooper or Udall or Polis and way too many others at all levels of government who preach environmentalism while cozying up to the oil and gas industry. Publically, they feign support for common sense regulations like larger, safer setbacks or community control that would stop oil and gas extraction in our neighborhoods. But when the door closes they tell potential funders not to support such initiatives because they might hurt the Party’s chances in the next election. Hogwash. The only thing such support might hurt are these politicians’ campaign coffers and relationships with oil industry donors. They take money from the pipeline industry, the natural gas industry, the Liquid Natural Gas export industry and wealthy donors strategically invested in all the above. Some of these politicians have even been invested in oil and gas extraction while claiming to be fighting fracking. They also take money from so called “environmental” organizations that are themselves largely funded by fracking supporting donors whose primary purpose for giving is the funding of Democratic politicians, not fighting global warming. Sure these groups hide their support for fracking behind terms like “clean energy,” which translates to natural gas see DYERTIIMES Page 8

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with a few renewables thrown in to greenwash the whole thing. But in the end, these big greens are funded by people like Michael Bloomberg who says fracking is the greatest invention since the light bulb. Far too many of these groups exist indebted to the nation’s largest donors to the Democratic Party. The environmental component of big greens may do some good at times, but it is always subordinate to the whims of those who support establishment Democratic candidates. Want an easy way to spot the hypo-

crite group in our state? Just watch to see who doesn’t step up with an early, fullthroated endorsement of the 2,500-foot setback initiative that will soon be gathering signatures in an effort to put it on the ballot this fall. Listen for those who say they would like to support the initiative if only it were weakened somehow — something like a smaller setback or maybe by taking out the wording that protects our water. Or my personal favorite: “We’re just afraid the timing isn’t right. This initiative might hurt

Democrats’ chances in the coming election.” Hypocrites. The world is dying now. Donald Trump is a billion-dollar-aday ad campaign that single-handedly will cause the largest blue turnout in Colorado history. All the “fracking is good for your babies” ads the industry can run, plus all the money they give to Republican candidates will do nothing to stop the coming blue wave. Anyone who offers that the setback initiative could hurt Democrats in the fall is politically

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it Freedom 1.0. But there’s also a Freedom 2.0, the type of freedom that’s measured in terms of opportunity and access — access to everything from jobs, housing, restaurants, orchestras, plays, universities, new neighbors, new ideas, new starts, new ways of life, and the excitement and ferment generated by

the mix. When freedom is measured in these terms, more people can mean more freedom. The most troubling thing about the pursuit of Amazon by Governor Hickenlooper and his booster pals is that while they chase after all the bennies that come with Freedom 2, they don’t give a tinker’s damn about what

impact their pursuit might have on Freedom 1. Governor Hick is smart enough to know it’ll be bad. I think that’s the real reason he won’t cry if Amazon doesn’t pick Denver. And why I won’t either. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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pair of gray wolves stand on a ridge looking out across an endless alpine expanse of forested valleys that fall from peaks into rivers, searching for a place to live that can provide all that they need — a place, if the experts are right, like Western Colorado. Unfortunately, such a vision is but fantasy in our state. For aside from the rare wolves who end up here by accident — disappearing almost as they appear — Colorado is without a population of wolves. Powerful pack animals living in groups similar to families or tribes, wolves once coursed across nearly all of North America until hunted to near extinction by the mid1900s. And although wolf populations still exist in some states, they are absent in Colorado. But that may be about to change. The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project (RMWP), a coalition of conservationists, are mobilizing support to reintroduce wolves to Colorado. In the process, they’re spending time educating the public and reaching out to traditional opponents of wolves to explain the lessons learned in the Northern Rockies where wolves have made a comeback while living alongside people in rural areas. Advocates assert hunters and ranchers can coexist with wolves without substantial disruption, and they offer convincing evidence to support their claims. “Rocky Mountain Wolf Project will give you a way to act,” said Mike Phillips to a full house at Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstore in December 2017. Phillips is the former project leader of the Yellowstone Wolf Restoration Project. The event coincided with the release of Nate Blakeslee’s book, American Wolf, and was a joint effort with RMWP and the Defenders of Wildlife to help give Coloradans a powerful voice in reintroducing wolves to their state. Blakeslee’s book takes as its protagonist a famous Yellowstone wolf known as O-Six and is composed of intimate vignettes drawn from thousands of observational notes about the wolf ’s life. In 2012, O-Six was killed by a hunter in Wyoming after wolves were taken off the Endangered Species List (ESL) in that state. O-Six was mourned internationally. The recent book event blended literature and activism to such a degree that the crowd

was howling at the event’s close, beckoning their wild brethren to return. But not everyone is howling with joy over the idea that wolves may return to Colorado. There is a contingent of opponents to wolf reintroduction headed by the Utahbased lobbying group Big Game Forever (BGF). And at the center of the debate sits the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (CPW). In Colorado, BGF is led by its director, Denny Behrens, also President Trump’s Colorado Sportsmen coalition chair. BGF believes wolves deserve no federal protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and opposes reintroduction.

According to Michael Robinson, BGF has been a leading voice in seeking to destroy the ESA, particularly regarding wolves. Robinson works with RMWP and the Center of Biological Diversity and authored the book Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. “I don’t hate the wolf,” Behrens says. “It’s an awesome creature but it’s like any other predator. It has to be managed. If not, it’s going to continue doing what it’s doing, and it’s causing havoc in certain states.” BGF was founded by Don Peay, former See WOLVES Page 12

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owner of Petroleum Environmental damaging mule deer populations in Management, Inc. Peay has called pub- Colorado. As has been previously lic ownership of lands socialism, led the reported by Boulder Weekly in its Off Trump campaign’s Sportsmen Target series, loss of habitat due to oil Coalition and founded Sportsmen for and gas operations and residential Fish and Wildlife (SFW) in 2010. sprawl are more likely the primary SFW is a Utah conservation group causes limiting mule deer populations with connections to the oil and gas as opposed to predation. industry that in 2011 was paid BGF also believes wolves are $100,000 by the state of Utah to lobby already establishing themselves in the federal government to de-list Colorado via naturally occurring recolwolves. Because SFW’s tax structure onization. This is the position CPW didn’t allow such lobbying, Peay found- also takes. BGF wants wolves coned BGF, which can apparently accomtrolled like some want public lands modate such political activity. Peay did controlled: by the states. not respond to requests for comment. Robinson says BGF’s speculation Robinson says BGF was the driving that wolves are here on their own is force behind a 2011 Congressional obviously a tactical effort to reduce the budget agreement rider that removed growing public interest in an actual protections and de-listed Courtesy of CPW wolves in Montana, Idaho, north central Utah, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. That de-listing was the first time Congress stepped in and made a decision on an endangered species that the ESA specified was to be made by biologists within a government agency. BGF works ostensibly on behalf of the livestock and big game industries. Between 2012-2017, its lobbying in the nation’s capital was effective means of restorThe above photos funded by $2.1 million ing wolves to Colorado, were captured by a trail cam in coming from Utah taxsuch as RMWP’s advocatColorado. To date, payers. BGF’s political ing for wolf reintroduction. all known wolves passing through activity includes not only Essentially if wolves the state like this working to de-list wolves are reintroduced in one have been shot, poisoned or from the ESA, but also to Colorado that would mean or hit by cars. prevent listing the sage more wolves for BGF and grouse, a species that has the taxpayers of Utah to gotten in the way of the oil and gas try to “manage” and “control.” industry of late. And in support of their claim that Consistent with BGF, Behrens wolves are recolonizing Colorado withbelieves Trump will help BGF remove out anyone’s help, CPW cites a recent wolves from the Endangered Species increase in unconfirmed sightings and list in states such as Colorado where trail cam photos as evidence. BW they’re still federally protected. And obtained the photos in question via an he’s probably right as Trump’s camopen records request and they do paign platform states, “Excessive preda- appear to be of a wolf according to tor populations, wolves and coyotes in Doug Smith, Yellowstone Wolf Project particular, have caused once abundant lead. But CPW denied BW’s open big game herds to decline.” records request for the location the But there is no evidence in support photos were taken stating they are proof this claim and plenty to disprove it. hibited from doing so because release This argument is rhetorically similar to would reveal a private landowner’s the scientifically debunked claims that identity. CPW also didn’t respond to have been made by CPW stating black requests for comment on this article bear and mountain lion predation is and instead referred BW to its website. 12 February 1, 2018

In defense of its position not to support wolf reintroduction in Colorado, CPW has previously stated the agency can’t afford to manage wolves and that the presence of wolves in Colorado may be in conflict with the livestock industry and big game management objectives. “I don’t doubt that CPW is cynically suggesting that wolves are recolonizing based on information that provides no reason to believe there’s any reproduction of wolves in the state of Colorado,” Robinson says. “It seems to me very deliberate to try and sway public opinion away from effective means to ensure that this important animal would return.” While it’s a known fact wolves have

run the gauntlet through Wyoming and Utah into Colorado, across that invisible borderline, all such wolves have been killed by bullets, cars or illegal poisoning. Nevertheless, BGF and CPW both assert wolves are returning to Colorado on their own and need no assistance in doing so. But because of the evidence above, RMWP and their allies don’t believe that such rare journeys into our state will ever ensure that wolves are successfully re-established. Wolf advocates cite the ecological phenomenon known as trophic cascade as one justification for reintroducing the predator. The idea is that as wolves return in significant numbers, they will prevent elk and deer from over-browsing riparian areas, particularly willow and aspen stands. By spreading elk and deer out across the landscape, wolves allow willow and aspen to rebound and their roots hold soil, halting erosion. The resultant taller willows are fit for beavers to build dams, which in turn hold and purify water, thus a nat-

urally occurring hydrological cycle is restored. And when this occurs, songbirds have been known to return in greater abundance and diversity and the ecosystem overall is aided, all because of wolves. Delia Malone, RMWP member and Sierra Club wildlife team chair, argues wolves cause trophic cascade, saying they have a right to be in Colorado because they are part of the natural community. While BGF claims that wolves reduce big game hunting opportunities, evidence from Idaho contradicts these beliefs. Greg Hill, project coordinator for the Wood River Wolf Project in Idaho, cites Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) statistics showing elk hunter harvest numbers have only gone up since wolf reintroduction in the late 1990s. And according to a 2017 Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) news release, “Idaho big game hunters have been on a roll in recent years with a top-10, all-time deer harvest in 2016, an alltime record whitetail harvest in 2015, and a top-five, all-time elk harvest in 2015.” IDFG statistics also boast a robust population of 786 wolves in 2015. Wolves can also be hunted and trapped in Idaho. According to Jonathan Proctor, Rockies and Plains program director for Defenders of Wildlife, in the Northern Rockies wolves make elk act like they always have and it benefits everybody, including hunters. But it’s not just hunting impacts that concern critics of reintroduction. BGF’s Behrens also worries if wolves come back there will be conflicts with livestock and pets. But in many areas where wolves exist, far more livestock are killed by disease and other nonwolf causes than by wolves. Conflicts do occur, however, which is why organizations like Wood River are proactively working to prevent wolf depredation of livestock using nonlethal methods. According to Hill, Wood River conducts workshops with ranchers and shepherds teaching proper nonlethal coexistence strategies for livestock and wolves and has a book on the subject in Boulder Weekly

news the works in both English and Spanish as many shepherds in the Northern and Southern Rockies are Peruvian or Basque. Hill adds that in their project area, losses of sheep are 90 percent less than in similar areas lacking their efforts, and this success comes without one wolf being lethally removed under their watch. Hill says between 1990-2015, sheep losses in Idaho dropped by approximately 60 percent, a gradual decline that has occurred since wolf reintroduction. Hill thinks this may be because wolves control coyote populations and since coyotes are the primary predator of sheep, the presence of wolves may actually have reduced sheep loss to predation. Hill adds this number is lower in Idaho than in Colorado where there are no wolves. And, according to USDA statistics, in 2010 total sheep loss from predation in Idaho was 43 percent lower than in Colorado. Of note to sportsmen and others, wolves may also take a bite out of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD,) a fatal neurological disease affecting deer and elk in many parts of the country including Colorado, where it affects about half of the deer herds and onethird of the elk herds. Because they are coursing predators, honing in on the weak and sick, wolves may be able to see animals that are in the earlier stages of the disease; killing and eating them may cause the decline of CWD prevalence in the wild. “Wolves are seeing a lot that we don’t see,” says Margaret Wild, chief wildlife veterinarian in the Biological Resources Division for the National Park Service (NPS) and chief author of a study hypothesizing wolves might limit CWD. Wild says one of the best ways to target deer or elk infected with CWD may not be by using human eyes but with the eyes of a wolf who has evolved over eons to know the most susceptible deer or elk to prey on. “And if you can do that over time then the disease will slowly fade out,” Wild says, which may prove critical because there is no cure or vaccination for CWD. Wild thinks wolves may already be limiting CWD prevalence in locations where they boast significant numbers, saying that by killing the first one or two infected animals in a location, the disease could be kept from establishing and becoming common enough that researchers can actually detect it. And in this respect Wild says wolves may be acting as good stewards. Wild adds that CWD isn’t transmissible to wolves and in her opinion wolf digestion of CWD would lead to a reduction in its infectivity and the Boulder Weekly

disease further dilutes when it goes into the environment. The biologist says that when thinking about reintroduction, Colorado citizens and officials should consider that viable populations of wolves may actually decrease the prevalence of CWD. Any wolf reintroduction effort in Colorado must be approved by citizen initiative or the state legislature, but wolf advocates believe doing so is worth the effort as re-establishing wolves in

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Hill says the wolf is a symbol of freedom synonymous with the freedom of our public lands and believes the two should go hand-in-hand. A 2013 poll found 70 percent of Coloradans favor bringing wolves back to the state so perhaps it’s not too much to say the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado is the democratic thing to do. And considering the ongoing assault on our environment, Colorado needs wolves now more than ever.

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sources of energy. According to analysts at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, the prices for wind plus storage in Xcel’s report are lower than the operating cost at all Colorado coal plants and the median solar plus storage bid is lower than the operating costs at 74 percent of coal-powered plants. “That’s incredibly exciting and shows that the move to renewables is accelerating mainly because of price,” says Rebecca Cantwell, the executive director of Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (COSEIA). “We’re thrilled; we think that it clearly shows the inflection point that even solar plus storage makes sense in a variety of applications on a pure cost basis alone.” Not only do the low storage bids support the concept of closing down coal plants, but they also could decrease the need for other fossil fuel based energy sources — like natural gas — as well. “The storage component is what enables these renewables to be brought online without their intermittency being a huge problem for the grid. The storage helps firm everything up so that when the wind slows down, the clouds go over the sun, that you don’t have to bring up a gas plant,” Boulder councilman Sam Weaver says. “That’s another game-changer: the amount of fossil fuel backup that’s necessary probably goes down as the amount of storage on the grid goes up.” These low bids are also seen as a win for Boulder and other cities around the state currently working to achieve 100-percent-renewable energy goals. They’re also a good sign for Boulder’s continuing effort to create a municipal electric utility. “These prices bode well for the muni,” says Weaver, one of municipalization’s strongest supporters. “When we originally started talking about it, we were talking about using a little bit of natural gas to firm up wind and firm up solar. ... But today with the prices being what they are, we could potentially leave most of the gas out completely and be focused on using storage plus renewables.” While the low bids are exciting, several questions still remain. First, the report does not provide a lot of detail about the proposed projects and it’s unclear what amount of storage is being included in the low bids. “The actual cost will depend on how much storage, what kind of batteries, what’s the interconnection look like,” Cantwell says. “A lot of the technical issues could affect the prices down the road.” A more detailed report on the proposed bids is expected this spring. Plus, both Weaver and Glustrom question how these cost savings will be passed along to consumers, if at all. As part of the deal to increase renewable energy, Xcel agreed not to pass the cost of closing the coal plants to its customers. At the same time, the utility currently has a 2 percent annual rate increase proposal before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC), with a decision expected later this year. “Given these bid prices, we should be having a robust conversation about bringing our rates down,” Glustrom says. But because of the politics at play at the PUC, she doesn’t expect that to happen. Additionally, the prices could be affected by both the federal tax reform bill passed late last year and President’s Trump’s approval of tariffs on imported solar panels and cells on Jan. 22. “The reason that so many people can afford to go solar is that prices have fallen and solar is becoming more and more affordable,” Cantwell says. “To slap tariffs on solar panels at this point would just make them more expensive, make fewer people able to go solar and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.” COSEIA estimates 2,000 solar jobs could be lost in Colorado alone because of the tariffs. Other industry groups estimate the tariffs will affect 23,000 solar jobs nationwide this year. But it remains to be seen if Trump’s tax cuts will benefit renewable energy companies. If so, it could counteract the solar tariffs, and keep the bid prices more or less the same. “They are going to offset each other in complex ways,” Glustrom says. Companies are currently refreshing their prices, taking into account both the tax cuts and solar tariffs, and a new report is expected in March. Regardless of how the renewable energy bids shift to accommodate these federal policies, it’s clear that wind and solar technology, combined with plummeting storage prices, are not only the cleanest forms of energy, but could soon become the most cost-effective as well. “We’re going to see some shifts, [but] there will be thousands of megawatts of extremely low-cost wind, solar and storage, ready to go in Colorado,” Glustrom says. “That’s the bottom line.” A public meeting will be held at the PUC, 1560 Broadway, Suite 250, Denver, on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 4 p.m. to discuss coal plant retirements, payment plans and replacement options. Boulder Weekly

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ravis Rice is a professional snowboarder, but on Sept. 19, he leaned over the side of his GunBoat 48 catamaran and dipped a one-liter stainless steel bottle, stamped with the Adventure Scientists logo, into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He let the salty water stream in before pulling it back on deck. It was the 13th water sample he and his partner, big-wave pro-surfing legend Ian Walsh, had collected their 19-day, 2,500-nautical-mile sailing and surfing expedition. They were in the second week of their journey, which traced an old Polynesian route from Tahiti to Hawaii. The 22 ocean samples they’d end up collecting (one every 100 miles or so) would later be shipped to a lab in Maine, where Adventure Scientists partner Andy Barros would conduct a laboratory analysis of microplastic pollution. “It was a special expedition,” says Katie Christiansen, the Adventure Scientists’ Global Microplastics Initiative project manager. “They were going to be traveling this [area] that we had not had samples collected from before.” The two pro-athletes had always wanted to explore the remote waters between Tahiti and Hawaii — the kind that swell crisp turquoise in beachy surf dreams. So when the Boulder-based ROAM media company asked Rice and Walsh if they wanted to document the expedition, and if they’d be willing to partner with Adventure Scientists to collect data along the way, it was a “natural marriage,” says Chris Jerard, Boulder Weekly

ROAM’s founder and CEO. Both Christiansen and Jerard recognized the power in pairing the visual impact and social reach of ROAM’s imagery with the scientific weight of Adventure Scientists’ data. The partnership fell right into step with Aristotle’s proclamation: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” ROAM reaches over 1 million people through social media, while Adventure Scientists conducts worldclass research about environmental challenges. In adding a scientific-purpose to art, and social-networking to science, it was more than a win-win. It was a way to amplify each other’s missions beyond the scope of what they could achieve alone. By partnering with Adventure Scientists, Jerard says ROAM was able to fulfill a special part of the company’s mission. “At this time in our history, and with everything that’s happening with our planet, we at ROAM feel like we have a responsibility and an obligation to call attention to the fact that if you’re going to play in these spaces, try to think about what else is going on in this environment.” And without ROAM, Christiansen explains, Adventure Scientists wouldn’t have been able to communicate their findings to as many people, or to such diverse communities. The Bozemanbased nonprofit takes advantage of the unique geographic terrain that adventurers travel by partnering with outdoor athletes, professional or amateur. But informing the public is a crucial part of what they hope to achieve — to draw

the data beyond their spreadsheets. For the past four years, the Global Microplastics Initiative has amassed one of the largest and most diverse water sample datasets in order to expose the extent of microplastic pollution around the globe. Microplastics, pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters in diameter, “pose serious threats to ecosystems,” says Christiansen. “They originate most often from the degradation of some larger synthetic or plastic object.” She points to a synthetic fleece sweater as an example. “The problem is that over time those products experience wear,” which you can see, for example, pulling the lint trap from a dryer. “Those [materials] break down and they become these small, most of the time invisible to the eye, pieces of plastic.” Eventually microplastics snake through sewers, or directly through trash in the rain, down to the ocean. When microplastics arrive in the sea, plankton eat them because they look like algae. A baby fish will eat a thousand plankton (and microplastics) for breakfast, then a bigger fish eats that fish for lunch, and we eat the biggest fish for dinner — the one that’s accumulated the most microplastic in its system. “Scientists have shown [the consumption of microplastics] can affect fish mortality, their ability to reproduce, their hormones,” Christiansen says. “The effect on humans is unknown, but quite frankly, I’m not interested in consuming something that, in fish, is shown to affect their ability to reproduce or their ability to live a long life.” That 13th sample that Rice pulled out from the untouched Pacific contained one translucent microfiber. In total, 73 percent of the water they collected contained microplastics — the extent of human impact on even the most pristine corners of the Earth as clear as the ocean itself.

Travis Rice takes a water sample for Adventure Scientists in a remote area of the Pacific in the mini-documentary Lines to Hawaii.

Originally, Rice and Walsh livestreamed their expedition from ROAM’s social media platforms. This immediately began attracting attention, says Jerard. In December, ROAM released a 15-minute documentary, Lines to Hawaii, chronicling the sail-surf-water sample expedition. Live-streaming updates from the catamaran out to the rest of the world was relatively groundbreaking. “We say ROAM is the voice of the next generation of adventure,” Jerard explains. Until ROAM’s debut merely nine months ago, “there was not a media outlet that moved at the speed of social,” meaning no one else was consistently producing original live adventure content. This matters, considering 80 percent of audiences would rather watch a brand’s live video than read a blog, according to a Live Stream research team. Within a few months, ROAM’s social reach surpassed 1 million. To date, Lines to Hawaii has 1.2 million views. “You can see in the [social media] comments that [the microplastics initiative] was an important concept for the people that follow them — to know that their idols care about this,” Christiansen says. “They do a great job of both expressing the reality and the severity of the problem we face. But also showing that we don’t have to just sit and be depressed about it; we can participate in solving a problem, so there’s optimism in that as well. “And how does change happen?” she asks. “In part it happens when people realize there’s a problem that maybe they didn’t know about.” February 1 , 2018 17

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Above: A photo from Tya Anthony’s SKINs. Right: Sculptures from Michael Brohman. These pieces and more are part of the Dairy’s exhibit Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America, showing now through March 4.

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n 2012, the world shook with the news that Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed African American boy, was shot and killed. He wasn’t the first unarmed African American killed and/or murdered, and the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland proved Martin certainly wouldn’t be the last. Frustrated by the growing list of deaths and continued police brutality in the country, artist Michael Dixon turned to the canvas to make sense of this complex and disconcerting problem. “My work really deals with racial identity in this country,” Dixon says. “I’m thinking about these killings and how to process that. [Moreover], I’m thinking about blackness and the value of black bodies in America, or lack thereof.” The end result is a series entitled The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, a collection of self-portraits in which Dixon uses props that carry loaded imagery. These include a monkey mask and a Sambo doll. “This particular doll I have is old and it’s broken, but it’s smiling. It’s an American caricature of blackness,” Dixon says. “I use that doll very intentionally because it becomes this metaphor for blackness.” He uses self-portraiture and these symbols as a way to insert himself into the broader narrative of what’s happening in America. “There’s a part of this particular work that is very intuitive. When I go into it, I don’t have all the answers per se, but I’m including myself in the conversation,” he says. Dixon also struggles to navigate these complex see DIVIDED Page 20

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issues as a biracial man. With a white mother and an African American father, Dixon uses his art to express his layered identity. “The law of the land tells me I’m black. History tells me I’m black. I identify as black or biracial,” he says. “The overarching thread throughout my work is talking about this space of being biracial — not quite fitting in a white context, and not quite fitting in a black context. My work really explores this kind of middle space, where you’re constantly negotiating your identity.” As a light-skinned black man, Dixon says he’s sometimes mistaken for white. And throughout the years, depending on his hairstyle — shaved, afro, dreadlocks — he’s received different treatment from society. “In my experience, what happens is,when people think you’re white, they tend to say racist shit assuming that you’re on board,” he says. “It’s hurtful because a large part of my identity is wrapped up in being a black person of color. But I do think my lightness has aided me in terms of when I get pulled over by cops and situations like that. If I were darker those kinds of encounters could have been very different. “My lightness allows me to have this ambiguity that allows me to walk through the world and mostly go where I want,” he continues. “The detriment is, depending on people assuming who I am, I become hurt by what people say or assume. While my body is maybe protected, my emotional state may not be protected.” Dixon says he’s lost faith in the judicial system and justice in general, as 20 February 1 , 2018

he’s followed continued police brutality. He wants his work to show that he’s involved in the conversation, even if he can’t solve the underlying problems. “I don’t proclaim to have any answers, but hopefully the work will ask some questions,” he says. Dixon’s self-portraits are currently displayed as part of the exhibit Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America, a collection of work exploring similar themes, including sculptures by Michael Brohman. A college-level art teacher for over two decades, some of Brohman’s inspiration for his work comes from the conversations he hears from his students, specifically in how students view others who are different from them. “Even now with so much awareness around these problems, because it doesn’t necessarily happen to them, [some students] don’t see it. They don’t acknowledge it. They’re not aware or they’re indifferent to the fact that discrimination, racism, harassment, disenfranchisement happens to other groups of people,” Brohman says. “They think it just doesn’t exist.” Through sculpture, Brohman looks at the systemic and institutional roots of racism. Many of his works feature columns, which he says represent systems of government and public edifices that society exalts. He questions these establishments and who controls them — statistically mostly white men. In “Tipping Point,” two columns tilt to the side suggesting a collapse is imminent. In “Cutting Through History,” a column stands tall but its bottom shows a significant portion hacked away. In

Michael Dixon uses loaded imagery in his work to effect bold messages about race and identity in America in his series, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.

“Power,” a column is surrounded by baby dolls. At the top of the column sits a white baby, oblivious to the others around him, a black baby climbs the column, reaching out and gripping to the ledge where the white baby sits, while another group of black babies attempt to climb to the top or maybe push the column down all together. Brohman says his works focus on moments in time. He presents a frozen narrative, and invites the viewer to complete the story — how do they want it to end? Or how don’t they want it to end? “Does the white baby turn around and push the other baby off? Does it kick the others off the pedestal?” he asks. “Do the other ones push the column down, destroying the system? Or do they work together to get to the top and share the pedestal? Those are all the unanswered questions.” As a Caucasian artist featured in Divided, Brohman is quick to acknowledge his privilege, something he wishes more people would do and then use to contribute to the dialogue. “I’m very aware of not trying to represent myself as knowing how other people who have faced discrimination feel,” he says. “I’m not trying to put myself in their position. I’m looking at how the systems of government and Boulder Weekly

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law enable one group to be in power and/or enable one group to have more control over others.” Brohman’s art boils down to one simple desire. “Is [my art] solving the great problem? No,” he says. “Is it making more of an awareness, more of an understanding, more empathy that may enact a little bit of change and get people involved somehow? Hopefully. I just want people to give a damn. “I want people to look at the work and look at it positively or negatively,” he continues. “To see how they are an active participant of our system and how they enact change or keep the system from changing.” For some, the concept of change is loaded. The title for Dixon’s series, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, came from reading historical texts and speeches from black leaders. “Frederick Douglass was giving these speeches in the late 1800s, W. E. B. Du Bois in the early 1900s, Malcolm X and MLK were in the ’50s and ’60s — and a lot of the themes they’re talking about could have been written today,” he says. “It was really horrifying Boulder Weekly

and interesting that these themes are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago, or over 100 years ago.” Also throughout his research, Dixon read books like The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, who looks at the connection between slavery, Jim Crow laws and mass incarceration. While many may think the tragedies of racism are problems of the past, its roots are so systematically embedded that Dixon questions if the world is different at all. “In my mind, historically you’ve always had this minority of wealthy

elite, the 1-percenters if you will, and this whole idea of whiteness and race used as something to divide and conquer the people who are not wealthy, which is most of us,” Dixon says. “So the fact that you have impoverished white people holding onto the concept of race and somehow that elevates them, it’s like the oldest trick in the book that’s played over and over again... “My feelings about America today, we can argue that it’s much better for a lot of people — and it’s definitely better,” he continues. “But in a lot of ways it’s exactly the same.” Dixon hopes his work, and exhibits like Divided create the opportunity for honest conversation, both about the historical and contemporary world. Dialogue serves as an agent for change. “So it’s always my intention with my work to create opportunity for conversations to happen around race and identity,” he says. “If we can’t have honest conversations, we can’t move forward.”

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ometime in 2016, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar found out that the original name for “The Wild Ones,” a song from English rock band Suede’s 1994 Dog Man Star, was originally called “Ken.” Next thing listeners knew, Bejar released an album by that Ted Bois name in 2017, filled with 13 songs that sound nothing like its namesake. “I guess I just liked the title of their original demo,” Bejar says. “Compared to ‘The Wild Ones,’ [‘Ken’] felt so small and brittle and kind of banal. When there’s such a huge gap between things it’s kind of fun for me to fill in that space with my own ideas, hidden stories, mysteries.” The creation of the two “Kens” couldn’t more different either: while Suede bore their iconic glam ballad out of lonely and drug-fueled animosity, Bejar birthed his at home in the comfortable suburbs of Vancouver, hanging out with his daughter and two pesky cats. In fact, it turns out Bejar knew next to nothing about the real origins of the song — that’s not the point. Instead, he describes the inspiration as a physical takeover; he found out about the working title and his imagination ran wild with romanticized ideas about the melancholic grayness of 1990s England and about a country reeling in the aftermath of industrial failure. Provocative enough for a title, he thought. Bejar admits he’s always struggled to summarize his songs and has been downright bad at determining the “true essence” of what he’d written. More recently, he’s gone from being bad at it to attacking the very notion of it, choosing titles that are “intentionally incongruous or that seemed overly officious.” “They were just the top of the song. Boulder Weekly

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he circus is coming back to town, and this time they’re bringing a fiddler. The circus is the acrobatic troupe Cirque de la Symphonie, returning to perform with the Boulder Philharmonic in a program titled Cirque Goes to the Movies. And the fiddler is Janice Martin, “The World’s Only Acrobatic Aerial Violinist,” who will play the theme from Cinema Paradiso and two movements of “Winter” from Vivaldi’s Seasons while performing an aerial act above the stage. A company of acrobats, dancers, aerialists, jugglers and other cirque artists, Cirque de la Symphonie has performed three times before with the Boulder Phil. The current production of Cirque Goes to the Movies features acts performing to film music played live by the orchestra. Selections will be from movies including Superman, Star Wars, Titanic, West Side Story and Mission: Impossible. The Boulder Phil, under music director Michael Butterman, will also present concert performances of music from Gone With the Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean and other films. Previous Cirque performances have featured classical selections, giving the audience an entertaining introduction to some of the best orchestral music. This year it will all be film music, but Butterman is clear that this is not a step down in quality. For example, there are several pieces by John Williams, one of the top contemporary film composers, including music

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Billy Raffoul, Ghost Tapes. 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets are $25-$99 see EVENTS Page 28

WINTER OLYMPICS FILM SERIES: ‘MIRACLE’ 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. IMdB

For three weeks in February, the Longmont Museum is fueling your Winter Olympics fever by showing three funloving winter sports movies, kicking off with Miracle on Thursday, Feb. 1. Miracle chronicles the inspiring story of the 1980 U.S. hockey team, a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning for a distraction from world events. With the world watching, the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels’ now famous question: “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” All movies in the film series are specially paired with a signature cocktail, and galleries are open (5-9 p.m.) to enjoy for free with your film ticket.

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KGNU AND CFCZ’S ANNUAL MARDI GRAS DANCE BENEFIT FEATURING JESSE LÉGE-ED POLLARD BAND 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Public Domain KGNU Community Radio and Colorado Friends of Cajun/ Zydeco Music and Dance celebrate Mardi Gras with an evening of revelry, music and dancing with The Jesse Lege-Ed Poullard Band on Saturday, Feb. 3. Oskar Blues will provide tantalizing Cajun fare for purchase. Wine and beer will be available as well complimentary king cake. In the spirit of Mardi Gras, there will be a costume contest with prizes — the more outrageous the better! This event benefits KGNU Community Radio, which has been broadcasting across the Front Range for 40 years. Tickets are available at KGNU.org. Cost: $25.00 at KGNU.org until midnight Friday, Feb. 2; $30 at door; $15 with valid student ID.

‘TRANS/ACTIONS,’ BY K. WOODZICK AND AYLA SULLIVAN Noon. Sunday, Feb. 4, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Max Nicholas Brian ColeTrans/Actions is a docu-transTakanikos: www.maxcoleical that explores how to make takanikos.com/ the theater industry more inclusive of gender diversity through interviews, blog posts, online dating messages, poetry, song and dance. Ayla Sullivan, the communications coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at University of Colorado Boulder, and Denver’s current reigning Youth Poet Laureate and Naropa University MFA Contemporary Performance candidate K. Woodzick, are collaborating to dramatize the narratives of trans and gender non-conforming theater artists in order to distill them into a script, titled Trans/Actions, which Woodzick will be directing at the inaugural Theatre Made in Boulder Festival. There will be roughly 20 local transgender and gender non-conforming performers featured in the cast. Suggested ticket donation is $10, and all proceeds go to Trans Lifeline. Tickets: http://bit.ly/2BnGu7c

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Bonfils Blood Drive.

Norlin Library, First Floor (near the east entrance) 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder. More dates through May 3. Check calendar.colorado.edu for more showings.

9 a.m. Student Recreation Center, Ice Overlook Room, 1855 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Thursday, Feb. 9.

A collaborative exhibit from the Sculpture and Post-Studio Practices Seminar and the University Libraries’ Special Collections, Archives and Preservation Department. Exploring ephemera, record-keeping and the artists’ archive.

Poet Fred Moten — “I Wanted to Write a Poem.”

Staff Council sponsored Bonfils Blood Drive Feb. 6-8.

4 p.m. Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Russian Enrichment Event: Iceskating at Boulder WinterSkate.

A talk, titled “I Wanted to Write a Poem,” with acclaimed poet Fred Moten.

4 p.m. Boulder WinterSkate, 1780 13th St., Boulder. For more information, contact elena.kostoglodova@colorado.edu

German TV hour: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War). 5 p.m. Hale Science, 236, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder. Come join the German Club in watching the threepart TV miniseries: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War) tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II.

Katharine Jefferts Schori: The Measure, Dimension, and Intersectionality of Truth. 5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder. A calculus for right understanding and right behavior? An exploration of the dynamic nature of truth and the pertinent questions it raises about race, rights, reality and relationship.

Author, Author! The Whys and Hows of Nonfiction Book Writing. 9 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, 102, 1125 18th St., Boulder. Do you dream of getting published? Hear the inside story from five writers whose books span the realms of science, history, adventure, the natural environment and human endurance. Learn how to hone your topic, find a literary agent, craft a book proposal, secure a publisher and see your project to a successful conclusion.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 The Carpentries: Training for efficient and reproducible research. 1:30 p.m. Norlin Library, N410, 1157 18th St., Boulder. To provide scalable and distributed training, Data Carpentry develops and teaches domain-specific hands-on workshops in data organization, management, and analysis. This is a grassroots training effort developed by practitioners for practitioners, who identify core skills and collaboratively develop lessons.

Geoffrey Bowker: How the West Was Won by Data. 3 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, 100, 1125 18th St., Boulder.

Geoffrey Bowker will explore four Poet Fred Moten overlapping talks at Norlin epochs in data Library on Feb. 6. history which cumulatively have led to our current frenzy of data collection: the era of censuses and field surveys; the rise of statistics; the development of the control society to its culmination in the cybernetic revolution and the current era of data science.

Guest Master Class: Meta Weiss, cello. 4:30 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 1020 18th St., Boulder. Catapult: A BFA dance concert. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. More dates through February 4. Check calendar.colorado. edu for more showings. Four emerging BFA choreographers use original dance to share their knowledge of archetypes, science, philosophy and the natural world.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Boulder Phil — Cirque Goes to the Movies.

Living Together: How Marine Animals Treat Enemies and Friends. 7 p.m. Paleontology Hall, Paleontology Hall, CU Museum of Natural History Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Dr. Jingchun Li, lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder, invertebrate curator of the CU Museum of Natural History, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

AMRC Recreate Your Roots: Latin Music Workshop. 7:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. The Recreate Your Roots festival presents Steve Mullins and Brenda Romero in a Latin Music Workshop. Recreate Your Roots brings people together to celebrate American folk music in workshops, classes and free concerts (Jan. 22-26 and Feb. 5-7).

Faculty Tuesdays: Hsiao-Ling Lin and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin performs with College of Music friends and colleagues. This program explores the chamber works of nationalism by Grieg, Lutosławski and Dvorák.

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

AMRC Recreate Your Roots: Dom Flemons and Anna & Elizabeth in Concert.

See more about the Boulder Phil’s presentation of Cirque Goes to the Movies on page 25.

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

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As part of the Recreate Your Roots festival, join us for a free evening concert with Dom Flemons and Anna & Elizabeth.

Takács Quartet. 4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. More dates through April 30. Check calendar. colorado.edu for more showings. The Grammy Award-winning string quartet has been moving audiences and selling out concerts for three decades at CU Boulder.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Music Lecture: Tales of Appalachia.

We are the Wake: A new play by Ayla Sullivan, 2016-17 New Play Festival Winner. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Loft Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. On a journey to New York’s Hart Island to visit loved ones buried in unmarked mass graves, four women discover secrets, lost souls ... and themselves.

2 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 1020 18th St., Boulder. Tales of Appalachia and Black String Bands see EVENTS Page 30

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Radha Marcum. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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

Friday, February 2 Phoebe Nix and Open Music Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Sunday, February 4 Spilled Ink — Open Mic for Youth. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Tuesday, February 6 Education Abroad - Long Table. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Wednesday, February 7 Book Talk — Sherman Alexie’s Memoir. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Spilled Ink, an Open Mic for Youth is an opportunity for younger poets, storytellers, musicians and comedians to take the stage at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe. Organized by participants of StoryCraft’s Spilled Ink workshop in creative writing for the zine and open mic, this event will feature their work as well as the poetry, flash fiction, true tales of derring-do (or don’t), music and stand-up. Got zines? Bring them! Kids, tweens, and teens only.

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Thursday, February 1 Music Euforquestra and Mama Magnolia. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionosphere St., Suite 6, Longmont. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Events Bingo! 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Brendan Schaub. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. The LSC Social Dance. 5:45 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Opening Reception: Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present Selections from the Continental Divide and River Drawings. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Please Stand By. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Friday, February 2 Music Aya Maguire. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Break Science. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. The Brutez: Evo-Lution Of Dance + Fitness. 7 p.m. Memorial Building, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Deborah Stafford & the State of Affairs. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 5 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont. Evans Choir. 7:30 p.m. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver. Fruition — with Rayland Baxter. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Girls on Top! 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Guilty Pleasures. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Howie Day. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Intuit — with Bonnie and the Clydes and Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Jack Hadley Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Jerry Rash Trio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Lionel Young Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

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Witherward. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Events Attack the Block. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont.

Fun Home. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Avenue, Golden. Through March 4.

eTown Comedy Live! 8 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Guards at The Taj. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through Feb. 18. How to Screw Up Your Life! Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Feb. 10. Mulan. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 10.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Opens Feb. 3. Through March 3. Steel Magnolias. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont.

First Friday Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Jim Norton. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Please Stand By. 2:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Saturday, February 3 Music Alchemy of Music Presents: Bonfire Dub. 7 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Boulder Philharmonic: Cirque Goes to the Movies. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Ed Poullard (fiddle) 90-minute Workshop at KGNU. 11:30 a.m. KGNU Community Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder.

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Michelle Roderick Band. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Native Station and Stray Suns. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont. The Neil Diamond Tribute: Super Diamond. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. NoBo Art District Member Winter Show Opening Reception. 6 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder. Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Pulse Of Nature Live At The Fiske Planetarium — with Special Guest Fareed Haque. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

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Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13. Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27.

Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13.

Original Abstract Oil And Mixed Media Paintings — by Kathy Friesz. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.

Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4.

The Sound of Red. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4.

Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through March 24.

They Still Live. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4.

Drawn to the Figure. Arts Longmont Gallery, West End Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 24. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1.

thINK! Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Feb. 4. Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Works Of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink And Paint — by Mark Ludy. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.

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Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (Feb. 2 – 4). 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Reverend Horton Heat. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. South To Cedars. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Workshop — with Paloma Gomez. 6:30 p.m. Flamenco Denver Studio, 1934 S. Broadway, Denver. Wreak Havoc Can Release Party. 3 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. ZZ Ward. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Events Adobe After Effects Hands-On Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder. Jim Norton. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Please Stand By. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 32 February 1 , 2018

Rebels on Pointe. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament. 6 p.m. Rackhouse, 2875 Blake St., Denver. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Stand-Up Comedy and Bottomless Margaritas. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Vintage Valentines Make and Take. 10:30 a.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder. Sunday, February 4 Music Alex Snyder. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blue Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Nick Crook. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Weekly

events Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (Feb. 2 – 4). 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Reverend Horton Heat. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Seaway. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Events Anime Club. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Elite Dance Academy Performance. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

Place, Boulder. Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Song of Granite. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Wednesday, February 7 Music Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder. Beni Brosh. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

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

New Family Dog. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Song of Granite. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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

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

Ryan Hutchens. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Trivia in Longmont — with Quizmaster Entertainment. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Events Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of Anastasia Lin. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder. Song of Granite. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Superbowl Party. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Monday, February 5 Music Adult Ukulele: Drink Beer and Play the Uke. 5 p.m. The Uke School: Boulder, 3217 Walnut St., Boulder. Destroyer. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Kiltro, Cole Naylor, Bellhoss, Jenny LaJoye. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Events Getting Started with Adobe After Effects. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Song of Granite. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Tuesday, February 6 Music Cashmere Cat and MØ. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Electronic Tuesdays 7 Year Anniversary. 8 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder. Open Mic — with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Open Stage: Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Wake Up and Live: A Bob Marley Tribute — with Policulture. 7 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Events Clowning Around. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Second Annual Mardi Gras Beer Dinner. 6 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Boulder Weekly

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Gleti, After Al-Gharra by Natasha Andreil

I am the siren that beached mariners everywhere, the daughter of waves and of memory. The one who coaxed Samson out of his power. The last of the nubile and ancient. I open my arms and life begins. I smile and honey wells from my virgin lips. When I cry you hear bells of earthquakes, volcanoes eating at continental plates. I am the daughter of burlesque and virtue, the daughter of burning nights and chastity, the daughter of new moons and snow. At the touch of my finger stars change their course. When my husband loves me the earth is eclipsed in darkness until I baptize it in light. And when I throw back the locks of my hair, the universe humbles itself in awe. I am today and tomorrow. I am majesty crowned on the throne of the inky spots of the universe. With a glance fields are transformed into wheat and emerald suns; and I am the wheat and emerald suns. I am the first harvest and I am your last.

Natasha Andreil lives with her husband in Lafayette and is the Editor-in-Chief/ Founder of Stasia Press.

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film Libraries: More than a building full of books

‘Ex Libris’ and the state of the human condition by Michael J. Casey

ocated on Fifth Avenue, nestled between 40th and 42nd streets, the New York ON THE BILL: Ex Libris Public Library is as inspiring as it is — The New York Public Library. 6 p.m. Saturday, imposing. Opened in 1911, and guarded Feb. 3, International Film by two marble lions named Patience and Series, Muenzinger Fortitude, this beautiful beaux-arts building funcAuditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder. tions both as the NYPL’s main branch and a internationalfilmseries.com shining beacon of public learning in the Big Apple. Here, locals and tourists can come to see the Rose Reading Room, glimpse a Gutenberg Bible, listen in on an interview with a poet laureate or simply enjoy a cup of coffee in the marble lobby. For many, this house of knowledge is a place of worship, a hallowed hall that wraps seekers and dreamers within the bosom of knowledge. But the extent of the NYPL doesn’t stop there. Spanning 88 neighborhood branches and four research centers across three boroughs — Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx — the NYPL is home to more than 53 million items. (Brooklyn and Queens use their own library system.) From books to brochures, paintings to pictures, maps to movies, sculptures to surveys and everything in between, if you can conceive it, the NYPL probably has it. That is what makes Ex Libris — The New York Public Library, the latest from legendary documentarian Fredrick Wiseman, both a treat and a charge. Here is a look at a magnificent public institution that makes you want to leap out of your seat and join the cause faster than any other call-to-action documentary in recent memory. And not to stop anyone or march against anything, but simply to support and to engage. “When we’re talking about philanthropy in the 21st century, inequality is the elephant in the room,” an unidentified NYPL board member tells an advancement team. Why is he unidentified? Why is everyone in this three-hour-and-17-minute documentary unidentified? Because who he is is not the point. The point is what he has to say: “I believe that education, the access to information, is the fundamental solution, over time, to inequality. And I think its power cannot be underestimated.” There are no title cards and no names to identify who we see or their position at the NYPL. Street signs and building facades are all we are given to orient ourselves geographically in the city. And you know what? It doesn’t matter. The mere presence of Wiseman’s camera is all the commentary we need. And what we see are not just people reading quietly in massive halls, but performances ranging from slam poetry to fundraising. Each one underlines one of the NYPL’s many missions: Transform the branches from wonderful but passive repository spaces to education centers. This is the genius behind Wiseman’s approach to Ex Libris: it’s the message that matters, not the messenger, and certainly not the reception. His mission is to show that this public institution is open to anyone, from those who want to understand the world around them to those who want to participate in it. Within these halls of knowledge, all are welcome.

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rtisanal toast made headlines back in 2014, as the San Francisco craze spread throughout the country. But perhaps unlike other fads, this one has stuck around. At Huckleberry, the sprawling toast menu provides a hearty alternative to the usual coffee shop bakery fare. In this iteration, hummus is heavily gooped on a thick piece of premium wheat toast. Shredded carrots and arugula sit atop, with a lemon tahini dressing that adds just a bit of tanginess to balance out the heat from sprinkled chili flakes. And it pairs surprisingly well with a hot cup of Huckleberry’s washed Kershe Inche Ethiopian blend. $7.50.

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don’t have any energy to waste, personally and environmentally. I figure if I’m lighting the oven to cook some chicken or a meaty kabocha squash, it’s wrong not to roast something else at the same time. So I fill the racks and bake a couple of potatoes, ricotta corn bread, oven tomato sauce or eggplant slices. It means dinner for days and great leftovers for lunch. More often than not, I also bake a couple of apples even if I don’t know when I’m going to eat them. Raw apples do taste great (depending on the variety), but roasting does something transformational that boiling, steaming and microwaving can’t duplicate. With higher heat, the apple sugars caramelize, the apple flavors concentrate and the juice makes its own sauce. It’s like apple pie without the crust and the apple’s low-calorie, vegan, gluten- and dairy-free and high-fiber advan-

tages remain intact. Sometimes I roast them sweet with walnuts and cinnamon sugar, and sometimes savory, stuffed with breakfast sausage and green chilies. Occasionally I just add them to the same roasting pan with chicken thighs, carrots and potatoes to create instant apple sauce chunks. Baked apples have been a comfort food since there were apples and ovens. A recipe from 1782’s The Practice of Modern Cookery creates a classy sweet shell around the fruit as it bakes: “Core (the apples) as the last, and fill them with a good marrow cream; baste the outside with the whites of eggs, to make as much fine sugar stick to it as possible; bake them in a slow oven upon the dish you intend for the table and serve them hot or cold.” If you’ve never made them you only need to know one thing: Baked apples are very, very hard to screw up. It’s a simple, forgiving dish, even if you forget you put the fruit in the oven. I did that and two hours later enjoyed sweet, chewy apple leather see NIBBLES Page 42

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along with a pan that was really hard to clean. To make baked apples, you place cored apples on a glass or metal baking or pie pan, add a little water or other liquid, and bake at 350 degrees. Do not cover. Bake for 60 minutes or so until the apples are tender. There are as many baked apple variations as there are apple varieties, cooking liquids, fillings and even wrappings. No Red Delicious!: To make a good baked apple, chose an apple that tastes good, preferably local and organic. Absolutely avoid Red Delicious and other related varieties that are mealy textured and relatively flavorless compared to other apples available in Boulder in the winter. Golden Delicious aren’t much better. On the crisp and tart side are Granny Smith and Pink Lady apples. The crispness means they will need longer in the oven to soften up. On the opposite end are McIntosh, which are so soft they turn into instant applesauce. The best for the Goldilocks spot for taste, sweetness and texture is probably the uber-popular Honey Crisp. Core curriculum: To prepare the apples, wash and core them. If you don’t have an apple corer or a small melon baller to scoop out the core, carve it out with a small paring knife. Peeling the apples is not recommended because they will fall apart as they bake. Filling the middle: On the sweet side, apples can be filled with: caramels; walnuts, cinnamon and brown sugar; chopped dates, coconut and vanilla extract; fresh lemon zest and juice with candied ginger; and sugar, butter and pumpkin pie spice. Savory fillings can include breakfast sausage; extra sharp Cheddar cheese; and smoked rib meat and barbecue sauce. Do you wrap?: To turn a baked apple into a dumpling or mini-pie, take a cooled baked apple with your choice of fillings and wrap the whole fruit in bread dough, pie crust or buttered filo dough sheets. Be sure to cut vents in the top if you completely cover the apple. Bake until beautiful. You can also wrap baked apple slices in oatmeal rai-

sin cookie dough and bake. Poaching versus baking: Place raw filled or unfilled apples on a pie plate or baking plate and add a liquid to help cook the apple and create a sauce. I’ve added water and juices like pineapple and pomegranate, and some Port wine for the Cheddar-filled version. Grade B maple syrup or wildflower honey is never a bad idea. Adding a little Calvados or apple brandy amplifies the apple-iness. À la mode: Serve warm or chilled with its own sauce, nonfat Greek yogurt, or mascarpone cheese. So, I’ll have to disagree with Ben Franklin when he wrote, “It’s indeed bad to eat apples. It’s better to turn them all into cider.” In fact, it’s better to bake them.

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“At our Next Door restaurants, which are designed to be more affordable, you have to baby-step [those customers] into real food. They’re used to eating cheeseburgers all the time, and we want people to eat more healthily and more sustainably. That does mean a salad in January. I would love to pretend that isn’t the case, but it is.” — Kimbal Musk of Boulder’s The Kitchen, at fastcompany.com John Lehndorff is a nationally known apple pie expert. He hosts Radio Nibbles every week on KGNU: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles Boulder Weekly

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n other communities, one might knock on a neighbor’s door to borrow some butter or sugar. Maybe some milk. But in Boulder County, you’re as likely to get a request for scoby. Scoby, or symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, is the living ingredient that turns tea into kombucha. And Boulder’s Upstart Kombucha co-founder Caleb Hanson has been in the position — and maybe it’s safe to assume a common position in Boulder — of having to reach out to a neighbor to salvage a home-brewed kombucha batch.

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been homebrewing beer and kombucha for several years. Today, Upstart operates out of a facility in East Boulder with four 800-gallon tanks. The facility is climate controlled to 75 to 78 degrees to keep batches from going funky. The same starter, or “mother,” Hanson used on that fateful homebrew batch is the one that has fed thousands of batches since. But the techniques Hanson says the three learned early on are still in play today, even if the scale has changed. “When we started, we were doing five-gallon batches. At one point I built a hotbox in my basement where I could control the temperature, and we had 20ish five-gallon batches going at once. The whole house smelled like kombucha,” Hanson says. Upstart produces four mainstay kombuchas — mint green, rose bud, lemon ginger and berry black — and throw in occasional seasonal offerings, like chai spice. The kombucha is intentionally more approachable than perhaps other offerings — brews are relatively low in acidity, flavors were honed to appeal to consumers that don’t drink kombucha everyday, and there’s no scoby floating in it. In a burgeoning beverage category, Upstart is trying to carve a niche as the “gulpable” kombucha, one that you could switch out a beer or soda for, and that promises moderate health benefits — the three initially became kombucha drinkers after consuming the tea after runs. Hanson says it had immediate benefits.

Upstart Kombucha’s Boulder roots and national aspirations by Matt Cortina “We were making a bunch of batches, and we didn’t have enough starter or scoby,” Hanson says. “My wife came in — she had been up the road — and said, ‘One of the neighbors has a bunch of scoby that he’s looking to get rid of. He’s got too much of it.’” Thus, the origin story of Upstart Kombucha reads like a bad joke: How many Boulderites does it take to make a batch of homemade kombucha? The punchline: One software engineer to build a fermentation chamber in his basement, two software engineers to brew it, and one neighbor (let’s assume a software engineer) to provide his leftover scoby. But it was out of those trial-and-error episodes that Hanson cofounded Upstart in 2013 with Josh Garner and Brian McKinney, of whom all were working in tech, but had 44 February 1 , 2018

“Especially after a Upstart CEO Scott long run or hard run, Perlmeter oversees you feel really spent. bottling at the kombucha producer’s Your stomach is upset East Boulder facility. and you need to eat something but you don’t really want to,” Hanson says. “There’s something about [kombucha] that just kind of calms your system down and gets you to the point where you’re ready to move on with your day. “We have one woman who was training for the Leadville 100 who would stop in at mile 30 of her run, get a drink and keep running,” he says. I can’t vouch for nor endorse any health claims, but I can say that kombucha was first introduced to me years ago — as it may have been to you — as hangover tea, and more often than not, it worked liked literal magic. But pigeonholing kombucha as a niche drink is exactly the tide Hanson says Upstart is trying to beat back against. The three founders took the leap from homebrewing into professional brewing because they saw an opportunity for the drink to expand its boundaries. They weren’t alone. “We knew we were smart enough to see the opportunity, but we also knew we weren’t the only ones to see it,” Hanson says, adding that it was validating, and not threatening, to see other companies launch when they did. “If you’re getting into an industry and no one else sees the opportunity you see, you’re probably wrong,” Hanson says. There is another benefit to competition: because few people outside select communities in California, the Pacific Northwest and Boulder County know Boulder Weekly

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Upstart also shirks the idea that brewing kombucha is an art. There’s a time for creativity — in developing flavors and marketing the tea — but the process of brewing is science. And the brewing process requires a lot of attention to detail. Because Upstart brews with all its ingredients (as opposed to adding in juice after the tea-brewing process), they have to be cognizant of how flavors change while brewing, how they change at different quantities and how they hold up after the brewing is complete. They’re constantly experimenting, with six batches at any given time in a set-up that’s similar to their old homebrewing rigs. When a flavor hits, it’s tested on family and friends, then given a shot in their small taproom and then, if it’s a hit, it’s bottled. Hanson says he’s not concerned about business being siphoned by a wave of people fermenting and brewing kombucha and other foods at home, and that as former homebrewers themselves, the Upstart founders are eager to encourage and help people create their own tea. “If we can help them do it right, they become word-of-mouth advocates for the category,” Hanson says. “Our goal is to help them make good kombucha at home. We actually did a few classes just teaching people so they’re going to end up with a safe, delicious end product.” And if anyone runs out of scoby, can they knock on their neighborhood kombucha brewer’s door? “We actually hook people up with starter all the time if they’re interested in it,” Hanson says.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In all of history, humans have

mined about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavating hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to access.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Stories have the power to either

dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Author Anaïs Nin said, “There are two

ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Are you more inclined right now

to favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s

another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

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ordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In March 1996, a man burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the DJ play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: In 1989, a man spent $4 on a paint-

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In his “Crazy Lake Experiment” docu-

mented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?

SAGITTARIUS

sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

ing at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers

to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, dis-

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly intro-

duced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When I was in my early 20s, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Would you like to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.

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Dear Dan: I am a 38-year-old lesbian, very femme, very out. I have a coworker I can’t figure out. We’ve worked together for a year and gotten very close. I by Dan Savage never want to put out the wrong signals to coworkers, and I err on the side of keeping under you at work and you’re not an a safe but friendly distance. This is differwife — a coworker who was “not [his] imminent promotion away from ent. We are each other’s confidants at work. boss” — and people jumped down my becoming her supervisor and your comWe stare at each other across the office, we throat for entertaining the idea because pany doesn’t incentivize workplace text until late at night, and © Rachel Robinson it is NEVER EVER romances by banning them, ask your we go for weekend dog NEVER EVER OK to coworker out on a date — an unambigwalks. Her texts aren’t sleep with a coworker uous ask for a date, not an appointment overtly flirty, but they are and/or a coworker’s to meet up at the dog park. And this is intimate and feel more spouse. And now here I important: Before she can respond to than friendly. I’ve never am responding to a quesyour ask, WORKING, invite her to say had a “straight” girl act like tion from a lesbian who “no” if the answer is no or “straight” if this toward me. Is she into wants to sleep with a the identity is straight. Good luck! me? Or just needy? Is it all coworker. Farewell to my in my head? mentions, as the kids say. Dear Dan: I’m a 40-year-old lesbian —Workplace Here we go, in Alabama, and I work with a woman I Obsession Roiling WORKING... find impossible to resist. The catch is she’s Knowing-If-Nervous Gal Your straight-identi66, straight and has two children. I love fied workmate could be her deeply, she loves me, but we don’t have Dear WORKING: Five weeks ago, straight, or she could be a lesbian (lots a letter writer jumped down my throat of lesbians come out later in life), or she sex. She has given me a pass to sleep with for giving advice to lesbians despite not could be bisexual (most bisexual women whoever I like, but I’m one of those weirdos being a lesbian myself. Questions from are closeted, and others are perceived to who requires an emotional connection to sleep with someone. The odd thing is that lesbians have been pouring in ever since be straight despite their best efforts to she vacillates between heavily making out identify as bisexual) — and lots of late— lesbians apparently don’t like being with me every time we are alone together in-lifers and/or closeted folks don’t told who they may or may not ask for advice. Three weeks ago, I responded to come out until some hot same-sex pros- and saying, “No, I can’t, I’m straight!” Why does she do everything but sex if she’s pect works up the nerve to ask them a man whose coworker asked him if he straight? might want to sleep with the coworker’s out. If your coworker isn’t currently

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by Sidni West

The high-functioning stoner

ccording to a 2017 survey that polled 600 marijuana users, nearly half (48 percent) have gone to work high. Of those participants, 39 percent claimed they are stoned on the job at least once a week and 17 percent said at least once a month. Three out of four reported that they perform better at their jobs while high. Depending on your job, smoking before work can either be a genius lifehack or one of the most irresponsible decisions you could make. EMTs shouldn’t be hotboxing an ambulance, but if you’re a mid-level office drone whose sobriety level doesn’t jeopardize the safety of others, you’re probably fine to blaze during work hours. Being high in public, especially around your boss and coworkers, requires a certain finesse. Some people will never be high-functioning stoners, and that’s OK. If you’re the type of person who can barely keep their eyes open, has uncontrollable giggle fits and is terrified that everyone is onto them, this advice probably isn’t for you. But if you think you can get lit, crush your to-do list and function like a normal human, here’s how to do it right:

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Strategize What’s on your agenda for the day? Let that determine when and how much you indulge. Meetings all morning? Consider eating a low dose of edibles to make sitting in on that conference call feel less like you’re waiting to die. Getting stoned helps you tune out the annoying coworkers that never stop talking about how busy they are and helps you laugh at your supervisor’s lame joke like it’s the first time you’ve ever heard it. Need to spark your creativity? Microdosing was made for work. Try using a vape pen on a lower heat setting throughout the day. Just figure out your schedule and be practical. Don’t do a huge dab or rip a bong that puts you in a catatonic state right before walking into a oneon-one annual performance review with your boss.

Hide your high It’s a dead giveaway when you walk in with your sunglasses on and your hoody up as you dump the mountain of snacks you just snagged from the vending machines onto your desk. Get to work on time and make sure you have the essentials: eye drops, gum and febreeze (or whatever holistic alternative you use to mask the skunk smell). Avoiding eye contact and small talk can be critical. Now is not the time to over analyze your co-worker’s tone. Don’t be paranoid. You’re fine. Sometimes I just sit down at my desk, put my headphones on and start typing really fast, like DON’T BOTHER ME I’M OBVIOUSLY IN MY ZONE!

Identify your allies If you work in an office with other high-functioning stoners, this could take months to figure out. Eventually, they will come out of the woodwork. And suddenly, your art director wants to “have a creative brainstorming sesh” with you.

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Will marijuana go the way of pizza?

t’s a stoner’s dream. Send out for pizza and then send out for pot. It could be a dream come true in some Colorado cities by next fall. According to the Denver Post’s Cannabist website, a bill has been introduced in the legislature to set up a test program for home delivery from dispensaries. The bill — sponsored by Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont), Rep. Jovan Melton, (D-Aurora) and Sen. Tim Neville, (R-Littleton) — would authorize the State of Colorado to sign memorandums of understanding with up to three Colorado cities to allow marijuana delivery within them during a trial run beginning Sept. 1, 2018. It would allow the state to issue a total of 15 licenses to dispensaries in the three jurisdictions. The state licensing authority would be required to report back to the legislature by March 1, 2020 on how home delivery worked out. If approved, the bill would allow a statelicensed delivery provider to pick up medical or recreational marijuana products from a licensed dispensary and deliver the products to medical marijuana card holders or adults 21 years old or older at a physical address. No P.O. boxes allowed. Recipients would have to show an ID of course. The delivery license holders would have to follow a clutch of training, security and tracking regulations, health and safety standards, and limits on the amount of product in a delivery vehicle at any given time. While the specifics of the regulations aren’t included in the bill — drafting them will be left to state regulators — the bill specifies the sorts of things that the regulations can cover. The end product is likely to resemble a regulatory scheme for home delivery adopted by

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Oregon a year ago. According to the Post, under the Oregon scheme: • Marijuana can be delivered to homes and apartments but not to “transient” dwellings like hotels, dormitories or bed and breakfasts. • Deliveries are limited to between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.; the delivery person has to verify the identification of the person who placed the order and pot can’t be delivered to someone who’s visibly intoxicated. • No more than $3,000 of product can be carried by the courier at any given time, and the products must be stored in a lock-box with a manifest created for each delivery. • The retailer is also required to keep the information on delivery transactions, including the name of the purchaser, for a year. The regulations are obviously intended to keep delivery marijuana from being diverted to minors or to the illegal market for sale in other states. They seem over-wrought to me, but that’s probably the price of getting a bill passed when a lot of legislators still harbor cannabis phobias and need reassurance. Like Colorado’s governor, for example. Colorado’s bill is taking a similar approach to Oregon’s in response to concerns Governor Hickenlooper voiced last year when marijuana home delivery was proposed unsuccessfully in the legislature as an amendment to another bill. This year’s bill is a stand-alone measure with a regulatory scheme that’s intended to address Governor Hick’s misgivings. “We’re not breaking new ground in Colorado on this,” Singer told the Post. “This time we let another state be the guinea pig, and we haven’t seen the negative effects from regulated delivery.” Oregon has granted licenses to deliver to 235 of its 520 retail dispensaries, but home delivery has yet to catch on. In December, delivered sales amounted to only $102,000 of the $46 million in marijuana and marijuana products sold that month. Home delivery started in Nevada almost simultaneously with legalization last year and is just getting underway in California. Colorado already allows home delivery of booze, so allowing home delivery of pot would be consistent with Amendment 64’s goal of regulating marijuana like alcohol. It certainly would be a help to shut-ins and people who live in towns that allow sales but who may be miles from the nearest dispensary. However, the real significance of passing a home delivery bill is that it would be one more step toward making marijuana use as normal as cracking a beer or, well, sending out for pizza.

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So-called internet “personality,” professional gambler and reigning world douchebag champion Dan Blizerian took to Twitter this week to share his deep and meaningful thoughts on the #MeToo movement. “This #metoo shit is getting out of control, guys getting their lives ruined over touching a girl’s back or hitting on someone. Fuck this country is getting soft.” We would fire back at Blizerian, but the omnipresent DJ and producer Diplo saved us all the trouble and obliterated Blizerian for us — shots fired via tweet,

Recently we sat next to a service dog and its owner on a flight home to Denver International Airport. The dog was cute as could be, cuddly, quiet. Didn’t bark or relieve itself. Really it just slept the whole time, much like we wanted to. But recently, we found ourselves wondering how we would react to a different species of service pets on a plane. In case you are unfamiliar, there are more service animals than just (the most popular) dog. You can have a service pig, a service kangaroo, even a service boa constrictor, apparently. None of which would be a pleasant flight mate. Just rewatch Snakes on a Plane if you question us. But what about a peacock? The internet is ablaze this week with the news that United Airlines officials at Newark International Airport refused to board an emotional support peacock. Oh, the nerve! But this may just be the first service peacock the world has seen! Can we at least give him credit for that? His name is Dexter, and he lives in New York. Dexter has his own Instagram. Dexter plays pinball. Dexter gets walked throughout Brooklyn on a leash. He celebrates birthdays. He takes selfies. He poses with his nude owner... Dexter, you dirty dog. Oh wait, if you were a dog, you’d have been let on the plane. Boulder Weekly

of course. “wow i wonder why a person who has kicked a woman in the face, broken another’s leg, and has to pay models to hang out with him would feel nervous about this movement?” Pretty good from a guy who thought making a song with Justin Bieber rapping was a good idea. To clarify Diplo’s response, Blizerian was banned from a Miami nightclub for kicking a women in the head, broke a woman’s foot by throwing her off a roof and missing the pool, and is most widely known for using his trust fund to facilitate a lavish, perpetually

college-type lifestyle. For anyone else who thinks the #MeToo movement has gone too far, let us say this: If you think Aziz Ansari’s career is ruined, think again. If you think Louis C.K. will never work again, you’re delusional. Now, Matt Lauer is a different story. Maybe. We all know the difference between Matt Lauer and Aziz Ansari and we don’t have to be OK with any of it. We assure you more women have experienced the kind of harassment that Ansari dished out, and we assure you we don’t give a damn what the human personification of an inflamed hemorrhoid like Blizerian thinks.

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