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newspaper photograph last June portrayed three guys in suits and ties shoveling dirt. They were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and the chairman of Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics conglomerate.

Walker, who was up for re-election, was giving away a whopping $4 billion from his state’s taxpayers to lure Foxconn. Still, Trump hailed the deal as “the eighth wonder of the world.” Less than a year later, though — oops — it turns out the three had been shoveling BS. In January, Foxconn quietly backed away from its promise of all those factory jobs, declaring that “the global market environment... has changed. ... In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.” Having already pocketed much of Walker’s bribe money, Foxconn was downsizing its project from a massproduction blue-collar factory to some sort of high-tech R&D operation. It turns out that the Taiwanese giant

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hile Venezuela’s alarming humanitarian and political crisis has rightly grabbed our attention, another disturbing event in Latin America has been forgotten. That event was the New Year’s Day inauguration in Brazil of former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro as president. His ascension marked the most drastic political change in the country since military rule ended more than three decades ago. Bolsonaro is a fervent supporter of the “glorious” military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. It was “20 years of order and progress,” he said. He is enthusiastic about torture and has threatened to murder and imprison his opponents. He is known for bigoted comments about the poor, minorities, the LGBT community and assertive women. He told a female legislator that she was too ugly to rape. He also said he would rather find out that his son had died in a car crash than learn that his son is gay. Bolsonaro told his inaugural crowd, “I come before the nation today, a day in which the people have rid themselves of socialism, the inversion of values, statism and political correctness.” He said Brazil is like “a patient whose ... whole body needs amputating.” He could reverse a generation of progress instituted by the Workers’ Party. Bolsonaro wants to open up protected indigenous territories in the

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business and foreign investors.” He got a warm reception. This is a big change. It was only a few years ago that progressive governments were in power throughout Latin America. Beginning in the 1990s, there was a “Pink Tide” of self-proclaimed socialist and democratically elected governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Peru. They weren’t communist (or red) but a more moderate version of the left (therefore pink). Last October, the democratic socialist magazine Dissent hosted a conference entitled “The Future of the Left in the Americas.” Historian Patrick Iber writes that the “Pink Tide” governments were quite diverse. He says, “One point of debate at the conference was how to define the left, given that some governments that describe themselves as on the left engage in authoritarian practices, are overseeing large increases in poverty rates, or have incorporated criminal enterprises into the state.” Iber notes, “To many international observers, there seemed to be a more radical, self-described ‘Bolivarian’ wing represented by Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and possibly Argentina, with a more social democratic left in Brazil, Uruguay and Chile.” He says that division is somewhat simplistic and that it can be confusing to categorize one of the groups as more left-wing. “...(W)hat mattered more,” he stresses, “was that in most of the Bolivarian countries the old party sys-

tems had collapsed, leading to the quick creation of new hegemonic parties that used charismatic leadership to hold coalitions together. This more confrontational style polarized electorates. It put a primacy on loyalty, and often on lashing out at enemies, many real and some imagined. The social democratic countries operated within more conventional limits of democratic politics, with all of the inevitable roadblocks and disappointments that come with sharing power.” All of the left-wing governments benefited from one of the biggest commodities booms in modern times. Latin America exports primary products and imports finished products. Iber says, “In the early 2000s, rapid growth in India and China drove up the price of primary products, from oil to lithium to soybeans. This gave governments the ability to spend money on social welfare and development, satisfying — at least in part — the needs of their political bases without making fundamental structural changes to their economies or their position in the global system of trade.” In 2012, the commodities boom ended, mostly due to a slowdown in the Chinese economy. The governments had to cut social spending and had a hard time staying in power. There was a right-wing backlash by the economic elite. Now with the rise of far-rightists such as Bolsonaro and Trump, Latin America faces the possible return of fascist rule. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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ust a few miles into Weld County, east of County Line Road, there’s a group of oldgrowth cottonwood trees along Boulder Creek in the middle of several quarry ponds surrounded by a meadow of hay. It’s nearperfect conditions for migrating bald eagles to roost for the winter, a place they can feed, forage and shelter during the short days and cold nights.

A TOTAL OF 13 EAGLES (eight pictured here) were seen on Dec. 2, 2018 at middle Boulder Creek communal roost. But when there is heavy machinery and traffic in the area, numbers dwindle to zero.

Volunteer researchers with the group Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies (FRBNES) observed as many as 23 traveling bald eagles in 2017 roosting at the site, known as the middle Boulder Creek communal bald eagle roost. Within the last year or so, however, numbers have dwindled. Some winter days researchers see a few, maybe a dozen or so. But if there is any heavy machinery, lights, noise or drill rigs in the area, the count is generally zero. There are a few tanks near the trees, a pipeline going in up the creek, and rigs have been plugging wells nearby. “What we see is when those rigs are around, there are no eagles there,” says Dana Bove, a retired federal geologist who now spends his time observing and see EAGLES Page 10

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documenting bald eagles in Boulder and Weld counties with FRNBES. And this kind of disturbance in the area is only likely to worsen, Bove says, with Crestone Peak Resources’ plan to put in 22 wells about one-third of a mile to the east of the historic winter roost. The company’s application was approved by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) in September 2018, although work has yet to begin at the site. It wasn’t so long ago that spotting a bald eagle in Colorado was a rare event. Although populations in the 1800s are said to have reached 100,000 or more across the U.S., by the 1970s, there were fewer than 450 nesting pairs, resulting in U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) listing bald eagles as an endangered species in 1978. Only recently bald eagle populations have rebounded, causing the U.S. FWS to officially delist the bird in 2007. Other federal protections, like the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA) and Migratory Bird Act, however, still protect the bird. Along with killing, capturing, selling or purchasing of bald eagles or their parts, it is federally illegal to agitate the birds to the extent that it interferes with their “normal breeding, feeding or sheltering behavior.” Colorado also has state laws that prohibit the direct killing or harassment of bald eagles, or destroying their nests. And in 2008, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) developed guidelines for buffer zones and seasonal closures around nests and wintering bald eagles in order to protect the bird. The

hope is that these recommendations, which aren’t enforceable by law, may prevent reactions in eagles “as subtle as elevated pulse rate or as obvious as vigorous defense or abandonment” of roosts or nests, according to the recommendations. In order to prevent the impacts of such disturbance, which may not be immediately evident, CPW suggests a half-mile buffer when there’s a clear line of sight between development and the roost, with no human encroachment from Nov. 15 to March 15. When it comes to oil and gas development, a roost within the halfmile buffer is supposed to trigger a wildlife consultation with CPW as part of a company’s application to the COGCC, but that didn’t happen in the case of the proposed Crestone well pad, known as Dream Weaver. According to FRNBES maps, the middle Boulder Creek communal bald eagle roost is one-third of a mile from Dream Weaver, and Bove has been submitting maps and data from the roost to CPW for several years. “We feel that the best way to protect and try to conserve [bald eagles] is by supplying rigorous scientific information and data,” he says. “We’ll give our information to CPW, we’ll give it to whomever can utilize it.” There are also a few other roost areas nearby, although outside the buffer. According to CPW, when the COGCC considered the Dream

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A MALE BALD EAGLE flies back to its nest with a Crestone well pad in the background in Weld County.

Weaver application, the buffer for this particular roost was not accurately drawn on the map the agency uses. “It has since been corrected,” CPW Area Wildlife Manager Kristin Cannon says via email. Brandon Marette, northeast region energy liaison with CPW, says CPW updates its wildlife maps every month or so. He reviews every application for drilling that comes through the COGCC, comparing the proposals to CPW’s maps of sensitive habitat. He says in 2018, he reviewed 744 location assessments for oil and gas development, notwithstanding another 301 for other energy projects like solar, wind, etc. Still, for whatever reason, the buffers weren’t accurate when it came to reviewing the Dream Weaver pad, and the COGCC approved Crestone’s application without a wildlife consultation in September 2018. According to Travis Duncan, spokesman from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), which oversees both CPW and the COGCC, the site was approved “in accordance with COGCC rules, and will not be suspended or revoked,” despite the mapping mistake. “The permits were issued following public comment periods during which none were received,” Duncan’s email continues. “COGCC continues to work with the operator to determine what voluntary measures they will take to avoid or minimize impacts to the birds.” Bove says neither he, nor FRNBES, was aware of Crestone’s application until after it was approved, despite several requests to CPW and COGCC asking about it. Given the amount of time the group spends in the area, and the collaborative work they do with CPW, Bove says, he just figured someone would tell him about the application in time to comment. “Our group is spending all this time working in that area and CPW and COGCC know that. How are you supposed to be made aware of something like that?” he says. Regardless, he found out about it too late, after the public comment period had ended and the pad had been approved. And for months FRNBES has been trying to get the site reconsidered in order to protect migrating eagles, who use the roost in the winter. “The information wasn’t there, but it is there now, and COGCC is still BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

leaving it entirely up to Crestone to voluntarily come up with their plan of action,” Bove says. “The way I see it is oil and gas gets their way. They run the game out there ... in terms of wildlife, they run the damn game.” Bridget Ford, a community relations advisor with Crestone, says via email that when the company was made aware of the eagles near the Dream Weaver site, representatives met with the Town of Frederick, CPW

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by the middle of next year so it should only be an issue relative to this roost through next winter,” Cannon with CPW says. “We will meet with them sometime around late summer or early fall to discuss mitigation for next winter. For the long term, we generally ask all companies to restrict maintenance work on wells to protect nests and roosts to outside of our recommended buffers.” And given that CPW’s recommendations aren’t enforceable, there’s not much more the agency can do than ask, which, Bove worries, may not be enough to help the birds. “As defined under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, what we’re seeing in terms of behavioral changes with these birds are consistent with the take of eagles,” Bove says. According to the GBEPA, “take” includes disturbing the birds, which is further defined as anything that causes injury or interferes with normal breeding, feeding or sheltering behavior that could impact productivity or result in nest abandonment. “COGCC’s continued upholding of Dream Weaver approval completely ignores CPW’s recommended restrictions, which state that such a project will likely disturb federally protected eagles, and thus by ignoring CPW’s recommendations, the state of Colorado and COGCC is sanctioning

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A WORK OVER RIG WORKS near the middle communal roost in Oct. 2018. Another work over rig was working in this area in late December 2017 and January 2018, which correlated with declines in eagle counts, according to FRNBES.

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a likely violation of a federal law,” Bove continues. Although the more restrictive BGEPA laws are enforceable by U.S. FWS, Bove says the law is toothless. When he’s contacted law enforcement in the past about encroaching development’s threat to eagles and their nests, the response has been limited. So the question for Bove and the researchers at FRNBES remains: Will Crestone’s voluntary efforts to mitigate impact be enough to protect the birds? “The middle roost is already oftendisturbed, and rather than making for more disturbance, it should be even further protected,” Bove says. “The noise and the lights are going to be the major issue.” Recent studies show that anthropogenic noise, emitted from the oil and gas compressors, have caused increased stress hormones in nearby bird populations, resulting in PTSDlike symptoms. Such stress adversely affects reproduction and survival rates. The noise also jeopardizes birds’ hearing, and their ability to detect danger. In early December 2018, FRNBES noticed an uptick of bald eagles at the roost consistent with winter traveling patterns. On Dec. 2 there were as many as 13 different eagle sightings in the roost at dusk. Several days later, there were almost none, coinciding with heavy equipment and lights along the roads. One afternoon while a FRNBES researcher was observing, a couple of heavy equipment trucks drove down the road north of the roost and about five minutes later, all four BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

IN A FRNBES MAP, bald eagle roosts are outlined in blue, the easternmost of which is about onethird of a mile from the proposed Dream Weaver pad in red.

eagles at the site began “vocalizing” before leaving and flying north. “They’re operating towards the end of the day with lights right near this roost area and you can see what happens to the count,” Bove says. “That [Dream Weaver] pad doesn’t belong there. ... They just need to move that thing farther away within CPW’s restricted buffer areas.” Not only is the winter roost a concern for Bove, he says there is also a pair of nesting eagles closeby that uses the cottonwood trees at the roost site year-round. “Maybe this roost isn’t active in the summer, but this pair uses these perches to hunt and hang out all year long,” he says. “You see them there all the time.” Through their lawyer, FRNBES is formally requesting that the COGCC reconsider the permit, and look at alternative sites outside the half-mile buffer, with appropriate consultation with CPW. Whether or not the COGCC considers this request remains to be seen, but so far the Department of Natural Resources has been adamant that the Dream Weaver permit will not be reconsidered. Which raises a major question, according to Bove: “Is COGCC willing to take on the liability of going against their own cohorts who are saying that you could likely disturb eagles that are federally protected?” I

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n his 2001 book Who Owns the Sky, entrepreneur Peter Barnes suggests that any system designed to tax heat-trapping pollution must redistribute the revenue equally among the affected citizens. France provides a recent example of what can happen when climate taxes are perceived as unfair, with the “yellow vest” protests against a proposed fuel tax increase now ongoing for more than three months. Although the events in France may seem distant and unconnected to climate policy in the United States, the two countries have actually been waging an ideological battle that has intensified since the 2016 elections, with direct impacts on Boulder. During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, which was negotiated and signed by 195 countries in 2015. The goal of the agreement was to prevent the global average temperature from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Less than six months after taking office, Trump made good on his promise, announcing in June 2017 that the United States was pulling out. Immediately following the announcement, French president Emmanuel Macron posted 14

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a video on social media urging climate scientists in the U.S. to come work in France and “Make our planet great again,” an obvious jab at Trump’s campaign slogan. “My initial reaction was that Macron’s speech was a political stunt, and I was surprised when they followed it up with a real funded call,” says Ben Sanderson, a research scientist who spent 10 years working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder. “In the context of a U.S. administration, which was outright skeptical about science, and climate science in particular, the French government was literally calling out to climate scientists to begin a new career in France.” After visiting Boulder while finishing his doctorate at Oxford University, Sanderson joined NCAR in 2008 and quickly climbed the ranks as a research scientist. The primary focus of his work is to assess the risks of possible societal responses to climate change, given the uncertainties in models of the cliBOULDER WEEKLY

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vast majority of people believe in climate science, a modest attempt to tax carbon has caused the near downfall of a government.” —Ben Sanderson, climate scientist

mate system. Early in 2017, he published a paper with coauthor Reto Knutti evaluating the potential impact of an eight-year delay in efforts to mitigate climate change. They found that such a delay in the U.S. would probably make the goals of the Paris Agreement unachievable, particularly if it was accompanied by cuts to renewable energy research or if it set a precedent that other countries followed. “For me, a central reason to be doing climate science is to do research which can inform decisions,” Sanderson explains. “That means highlighting the future consequences and risks to society associated with today’s emissions policies. I felt like that was work which could not be done under the present administration.” By the end of 2017, Macron’s “Make our planet great again” program announced the first selection of 18 scientists to receive four-year grants worth $1.8 million each and move their research programs to France. Thirteen of those scientists were based in the U.S., four of them in Boulder and a fifth in Golden. Sanderson was selected to join a research center in Toulouse, where he could continue working at the intersection of climate science and policy. He and his wife, who was also a climate scientist at NCAR, moved to France last July with their young son. They had no idea what was about to unfold in response to Macron’s policies. Starting in mid-November 2018, and continuing every weekend since, protests known as the gilets jaune movement have rocked major cities across France. Named for the “yellow vests” worn by demonstrators, the protests were a response to increased fuel taxes proposed by Macron to discourage fossil fuel use. Rather than supporting efforts to mitigate climate change, the fuel

taxes were widely seen as a way to fund tax cuts for big businesses, which the government had enacted earlier in the year. The resulting shift in taxes was perceived as unfair to the working class, and the outcome was a populist backlash against Macron. “The gilets jaune movement started a few months after our arrival and put Macron’s climate policies in the stark context of reality,” Sanderson says. “Even in France, a country where the vast majority of people believe in climate science, a modest attempt to tax carbon has caused the near downfall of a government.” A system to avoid these pitfalls was proposed by Barnes in his 2001 book. The basic idea is that any tax on fossil fuels will ultimately lead to higher prices for everyone. To offset the increased expenses, revenue from the tax should be divided equally among all citizens and refunded through an annual dividend payment. Those who avoid the extra tax by reducing their energy consumption would come out ahead, while others who live less efficient lifestyles would have to pay for the consequences. By redistributing the tax revenue back to the people, the system would shift power to individuals and avoid questions about fairness that have plagued the French fuel tax. “It’s been a grounding exercise, making us realize that the conflict and societal disagreement which have rocked the U.S. over the last few years have been mirrored elsewhere,” Sanderson says. Hopefully, additional research will help France, and the rest of the world, identify the best way to make the planet great again. Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

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undreds of volcanoes could be hiding beneath almost 2,000 meters of solid Antarctic ice, an area twice the size of Texas, according to data collected by a magnetic sensor on an aircraft of Antarctica’s subglacial topography. If these volcanoes begin to erupt, they could accelerate the human-caused melting of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) that is already worrying scientists. The ice sheet could even melt entirely, raising seal levels up to 3.2 meters, flooding coastal cities around the globe. WAIS is part of the greater Antarctic ice sheet — the largest single mass of ice on Earth — and one of the planet’s two polar ice caps. Warmer ocean temperatures threaten the entire ice sheet, making it vulnerable to collapse. John Behrendt, a geophysicist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at CU-Boulder, hypothesizes as many as 1,000 volcanic centers exist under the WAIS. Behrendt has identified these volcanic “anomalies” given volcanic rock has a strong magnetic attraction. Of the 1,000 or so anomalies, 400 are consistent with the physical form of volcanoes, he says. Rising ocean temperatures, due to human-induced climate change, is melting the “tongues” of the glaciers that lead from the WAIS into the sea, says Wesley Le Masurier, volcanologist at CU. This is causing those parts of the glaciers to come unglued from the bedrock. The fear is that if this happens, and if there is actually a group of volcanoes under the WAIS, it would release the pressure of the overlying ice on the volcanoes, raising the risk of eruption and accelerating melting.

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Volcanic eruptions in Iceland and elsewhere in Antarctica have already increased due to the melting of the glaciers, according to multiple studies. University of Minnesota geologist Maximilian Van Wyk de Vries concludes in one study that deglaciation caused the rapid “emptying” of Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus active volcano’s magma chamber plumbing system, causing a rise in eruption rates. “It’s an indirect relationship to climate change,” Le Masurier says. But Le Masurier isn’t convinced all of the anomalies Behrendt found indicate the presence of volcanoes. “There is a pretty good indication that there are some volcanoes down there,” he says. “But what I question is whether there’s as much as Behrendt

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thinks there are.” Van Wyk de Vries also believes in the existence of a subglacial volcanic province in the WAIS. The geologist led a study where he identified 130 volcanoes below the ice sheet. To identify these volcanoes, Van Wyk de Vries looked to see whether he could find signs of volcanic cones in the overlying topography of the ice sheet. He then compared what he found with Behrendt’s magnetic data, and is “almost certain” there are a total of 138 probable volcanoes. Some scientists doubt these findings. A group led by Stefan Vogel, a scientist at the University of Tasmania, studied samples from under the surface of a glacier recovered from boreholes previously drilled to the base of the WAIS. Of 500 rocks examined, only two were identified as magma erupted from a volcano known as basaltic pebbles. Le Masurier explains that if there

were hundreds of subglacial volcanoes, more basaltic pebbles would have been present in the sediments recovered. Le Masurier says older non-volcanic rocks could give a signal similar to the magnetic anomalies Behrendt found. But Van Wyk de Vries claims there might be a different explanation. Volcanic rock is more challenging to pull out from drilled boreholes than sediments, sandstones and mudstones. So, the rocks recovered from the WAIS could be loose sediment. Behrendt adds that they did not drill deep enough into the bedrock to get past loose sediment. Regardless of whether there are 100 or 1,000 subglacial volcanoes under the WAIS, they could still influence the melting of the ice sheet. And ice sheet melting could cause sea levels to rise approximately three meters, which Behrendt says is “terrible news for a lot of cities right on the coast.”

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n Jan. 6, Jeff Kassel and Jake Lobel looked out over the crowd at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. The electronic dance music producing duo known as MTNMen had just wrapped up their set, opening for iconic electro producer Steve Aoki — a pretty amazing feat for a couple of University of Colorado students. “It was a pretty unreal experience,” says Kassel, a marketing entrepreneurship major at CU. “It was the first time that we got to perform a live set instead of on computers for such a large crowd.” In their four years playing together as MTNMen, Kassel and Lobel have since seen their names posted on local billboards and printed on flyers all over town promoting their shows at local venues such as the Fox and Boulder Theater. They’ve crossed state and international lines to perform and dropped original singles that have gotten over 230,000 plays on Soundcloud and almost 30,000 on Spotify. But their story starts long before CU, when the two were just second graders at Tarbut V’Torah Community Day School in Newport Beach. While they went to different middle and high schools, their shared interest in board sports, both on land and in water, kept them close; however, communication inevitably diminished over the years. It was not until they both were accepted to

up with 75 different potential names and writing them out on paper, they decided to get some outside opinions. “We had people cross out and circle names that they thought sucked or that they liked and MTNMen was one that the majority of people seemed to be drawn to,” Lobel says. “At first I didn’t particularly like the name myself, but once people started saying how they could really visualize the big letters being on a line up, it really stuck with us as a name that could represent us well.” It was the beginning of an odyssey. “When we were freshmen, there

weren’t that many people our age at CU who were DJing like we were and that were also so accessible, so we were getting all these requests from fraternities to come perform at these huge parties and we had no competition,” Kassel explains. “And when we realized that we weren’t fighting to be heard and people actually wanted us, we started devoting more time to it.” Devoting more time to music paied off for Kassel and Lobel — literally. They started making commission off of their shows in no time and eventually were able to pay for their bills with no additional help from other jobs. “I think we honestly realized our potential to make this a real thing when we made our first $5,000,” Kassel says. “That’s when we thought, OK, we can pursue this as something that pays the bills and also gives you such a high when you are doing it. It’s so much fun to make music, play it on big speakers and see people react to your expression in a positive way. Making that a job is a dream.” Money is not the only marker of success for these two young artists. Their devotion and ingenuity when it comes to making music has been steadily rewarded with bigger opportunities and better connections. They started out playing shows in front of 400-person audiences. Next thing they knew, they were lighting up the stage at CU’s annual

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Local DJing duo MTNMen perform around the globe

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CU in 2015 that their expedition into music began. They would proceed to kick off freshman year as roommates in a Sewall dorm room with just a couple homemade beats and a DJ deck that Kassel brought with him. “Jake tried all the stuff I brought with me to school, and he was good at it and he liked it,” Kassel explains. “Things just naturally took off from there.” Once the two artists realized the strength in their dynamic and how it allowed them to maximize their musical abilities in a way that resonated with other people, they figured they should put a name on their talent. After coming FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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WelcomeFest on Ferrand Field, overlooking the majestic Flatirons and a crowd of 2,000 people. Now they can say that their sound has traveled across land and sea as they have performed multiple times in Mexico, different states all over the country and have even made it as far as Ibiza, Spain. “It’s like dominoes — you gotta just keep knocking them down one after the other,” Kassel says. Despite their airtight friendship, making music as a team creates the potential for disagreements along the way. Each has their own taste and preference for music. “I’m more a fan of more indie instrumental vibes, while Jeff likes hard dubstep and dirty beats,” Lobel explains. “But then we’re on the same page about a lot of other things, like we both prefer singers on our tracks and think that it’s more artistic when lyrics are involved. It’s all about finding a balance.” By choosing to overcome their differences to find a happy medium, they are able to incorporate their own styles in their melodies. This resilience is evident in the evolution of MNTMen’s music. When they first started, they were fully committed to creating dubstep; however, three years later, they are changing the direction of their craft and attempting to embody an “indie future base” feeling instead. “We used to be the ‘DJ kids’ that we wanted to be, going crazy on stage and playing all these shows and having fun,” says Kassel. “But after being able to get real life experience by living in Los Angeles together for three months over this past summer and solely focusing on music, we were able to get more into the artistic and musical aspect of things and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

also see how other successful artists got to where they are now by using super original beats to create something no one has heard before.” Their new song, featuring fellow SoCal musician Griff Clawson, is set to be released on Feb. 27 and represents a huge milestone for the duo. Clawson attended the same elementary school with Kassel and Lobel when they were younger. They reconnected after the singer direct messaged MTNMen on Instagram inquiring about the potential for a musical collaboration. After being full time DJs over the summer, the two learned more about working with live instrumentation and have been able to incorporate that into their new work. They are replacing synthesizers with live percussion instruments to generate a more acoustic feel. Lobel and Kassel say this new track is the most important in their catalog because all the lyrics are inspired by their actual lives. They point to the “surfing vibes” that they incorporated in the new track, a musical nod to their shared passion. Lobel and Kassel seem to be most adamant about staying true to themselves during this learning experience. They want to go through the motions of producing a track that depicts the essence of their souls and the magnitude of their personalities. “Our overall goal is to be recognized for the qualities of our personality that we try to put in our music,” Kassel says. “We hope that it translates to the audience as something enjoyable and relatable, yet something that screams authenticity and originality — something that we can call our own.” I

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ON THE BILL: “Classical Evolution” — Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra with music directors Max Wolpert and Cynthia Katsarelis; Jory Vinikour on harpsichord. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, First Baptist Church of Denver, 1373 Grant St., Denver. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder. 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, Longmont. Tickets: app. arts-people.com/index. php?show=90559

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he next concert by the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra will look backward, and forward, and outward. The program, titled “Classical Evolution,” will be presented in Denver on Friday, Feb. 22, and Boulder on Saturday, Feb. 23, and, in a new venture for Pro Musica, in Longmont on Sunday, Feb. 24. The concert will feature works by J.S. Bach and Joseph Haydn, and the world premiere of a new work by Boulder-based fiddler/composer Max Wolpert. Music director Cynthia Katsarelis will conduct the concert, which will feature harpsichordist Jory Vinikour as soloist. Bach’s piece on the program, the D minor Harpsichord Concerto, looks back in the sense that it probably derived from an earlier, but now lost, concerto for violin. Haydn’s Classical-era Symphony No. 22 (“The Philosopher”) looks back by starting with a movement in an earlier style from the Baroque period, and forward in the later movements by anticipating styles of the composer’s later symphonies. And Wolpert’s Baroque in Mirror, a concerto for harpsichord and small orchestra, looks back to some revered folk performers and composers from Baroque times, outward to music of different traditions, and forward by bringing them into a contemporary setting. “The idea was to look at the Baroque period from the other side,” Wolpert says. “I’m a fiddle player, and a lot of our legendary figures were around at that time.

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So we’re looking at figures from the traditional music world, and paying homage to their music.” The first movement was inspired by Daniel Dow, a Scottish fiddle player of the 18th century, and the third by John Perry, a blind harpist from Wales of the 18th and 19th centuries. The second movement, however, had a more serious source. “It was going to be a tribute to Abraham Caceres, a Jewish composer from Amsterdam,” Wolpert says. “The day I sat down to write was the day of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. Hearing that, the movement became a piece in mourning.” As a fiddle player, Wolpert admits that he had quite a bit of help from Vinikour learning to write for the harpsichord. “There was quite a bit of ping-ponging back and forth,” is how Vinikour describes the process. “I think I got where Max was coming from, [and] I had some ideas how to use the harpsichord. But the harpsichord is really just one part of the texture. It’s not a traditional concerto pitting one solo instrument against everybody else.” Vinikour says that Bach’s D-minor Harpsichord Concerto — the best known piece on the program — stands apart from the composer’s other keyboard concertos. “There are complex passages, chordal writing [and] multi-voice writing, where in the other concerti we are looking at very simple writing,” he says. “In the D minor Concerto, Bach uses much of his

arsenal as keyboard virtuoso. The harpsichord never stops, even when the orchestra takes over, so it’s a very challenging work.” The final work on the program is by a composer that Katsarelis especially loves, and whose music Pro Musica has performed often. “It’s completely impossible to do too many Haydn symphonies,” she says. For this concert Katsarelis selected one of Haydn’s earlier symphonies, No. 22 in E-flat major, composed in 1764. It was named “The Philosopher” by an Italian copyist in the 1790s, probably because the slow first movement features a somber dialogue between French horns and two English horns over a steady “walking” bass line in the strings. The slow tempo and the dialogue between instruments evoke a deep conversation. The movement also harkens back to earlier styles, with the steady bass line and the Baroque sounding texture between the voices. Finally, the movement’s philosophical quality comes from the unusual use of English horns instead of oboes, which creates a darker and more reflective sound. But after this subdued opening, the remainder of the symphony goes very quickly and in a very jolly mood. “After the Socratic dialogues of the first movement, it’s off the to pub,” Katsarelis says. “As it should be!”

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hen head flight attendant Jan Save a few simple projections, the Brown told her crew on chairs are the only set to speak of. (Not United flight 232 what was coincidentally, they are identical to the about to happen, she said it ones in which the audience is seated.) clearly and calmly: Soon, in Scenes change with a gentle swirl of chomaybe half an hour, the plane was going reography; a move from the main cabin to to make an emergency landing. It would the cockpit stirs up all nine actors, their be violent. There would be fire and chairs bobbing up and down at chest smoke. Visibility would be low at best. height to mimic the motion of the plane, And, if they survived, the crew would need some actors moving to the periphery, the to help other survivors evacuate the remaining settling back into their seats in wreckage. a new position for the next scene. It was a beautiful summer MICHAEL ENSMINGER day, July 19, 1989, clear and hot — perfect by many firsthand accounts. United flight 232 had taken off from Stapleton International Airport no more than an hour earlier, around 2 p.m., headed first to Chicago and then to Philadelphia. But a malfunction most United engineers thought was impossible left the plane with no controls over Sioux City, Iowa, and the 296 people ON THE BILL: United Flight 232 — presented on board facing death. Often seated by The Catamounts. Dairy It’s a story many around not much more Arts Center, Carsen Theater, the Front Range have a perthan a foot away 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 9. Tickets are sonal connection with. There from audience $20, $18 for students/ were more than a dozen peomembers, the cast seniors. ple from Boulder County makes direct eye aboard the plane, including contact as they tell Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick of local bluemostly first-person stories from the crew grass outfit Hot Rize. Wernick, his wife, and passengers. There’s a workaholic his son and 182 other passengers surmom bargaining with God to be a more vived the crash, but 111 didn’t, five of attentive mother and wife if He’ll just let them from Boulder, dozens of others from her live through this. There’s 9-year-old the surrounding area. Yisroel Brownstein, an unaccompanied The deep community connection minor, who teaches the adult passenger makes telling the story of United flight 232 beside him the prayer his father taught both compelling and complex, a delicate him. There’s a Vietnam vet who’s surbalance local theater company The vived that hell, plus a car accident, so he Catamounts achieves in its presentation expects to walk away from this crash, but of United Flight 232. not before he helps as many others walk Originally commissioned by The House away as possible. Then there are the Theatre of Chicago, United Flight 232 is a flight attendants, all women, who, despite stripped-down theatrical telling of the plane individually finding privacy to pray for crash that relies on light and movement to their lives, never falter in front of their convey a story of grisly tragedy. With the passengers. audience seated in a circle around them, The cast works as a singular entity at just nine actors fill the rolls of 21 people times, collectively introducing characters who were either aboard the flight or combefore the characters introduce themmunicated with the flight crew that day. selves. It’s a gesture that suggests they FEBRUARY 21, 2019

are all the same — we are all the same, and we’re all in this together. The bare-bones approach of United Flight 232 results in an intimate experience that places the audience in the cabin of that ill-fated DC-10 jet. In the compact space of the Carsen Theater, it’s easy to see tears forming, in both the eyes of other audience members and in the cast. Staying true to playwright Vanessa Stalling’s original script (adapted from a book by Laurence Gonzales) was paramount for director Amanda Berg Wilson, co-founder and artistic director of The Catamounts. In Wilson’s conversations with Stalling, the playwright was adamant that United Flight 232 not be directed “like a drama with a capital D.” “It’s about common humanity more than ‘these people were heroes,’” Wilson says. That’s what sticks with flight attendant Susan White, who was 25 at the time of the crash. Today, White lives in Golden with her fiancé, a pilot. She sat in the audience, unannounced, for the preview showing of United Flight 232. “It shows such an important role that strangers played helping each other,” White says. “It’s so heartwarming to know in a crisis like that, that people do come together and help each other. I had to hold back tears a few times.” White went back to work five-and-ahalf months after the crash. Reliving the story over and over again as she worked with new flight crews, White says she had a breakdown about a year in and went back to therapy. It hasn’t always been easy, but she’s happy. She still talks to Jan Brown, the chief flight attendant on 232, who went on to advocate for increased safety measures for children on commercial flights. In just a few days White will fly out to Hawaii. She’s still a flight attendant. Director Amanda Berg Wilson welcomes any survivors of United flight 232 to contact The Catamounts if they would like to see the play or discuss their experiBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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very audience member experiences every play — or movie, or performance art piece, or symphony, or puppet show — through their unique lens. A 72-year-old, African-American lesbian from Atlanta will have a wildly different perspective on a theatrical production than a prepubescent Chinese girl, whose worldview will, in turn, differ markedly from that of a twentysomething, MAGAhatted, Idaho white boy bravely attempt-

Radical truth

and blog posts about The Whistleblower being nothing more than a white-maleprivilege wet dream. The play opens with Eli and his agent, Dan (Landon G. Woodson), pitching a TV series called The Whistleblower to a producer named Richard (Bill Christ). Richard loves the idea of a show in which the main character infiltrates a new company or organization each week, uncovers all its dirty secrets, and then blows the whistle on them. He’s no sooner agreed to champion and fund the project when Eli, totally unexpectedly and somewhat mysteriously, declines Richard’s golden ticket offer after realizing in a moment of clarity that being a successful TV writer isn’t actually what he wants to do with his life. How does Eli think he should spend his life instead? He’s existentially uncertain, but he does know that it starts with radical honesty. Eli walks out of the pitch session and heads straight home to break up with his actress girlfriend, Allison (Meredith Forlenza). He then embarks on a journey to drop some unfiltered truth bombs on his parents (Bill Christ in a second roll and Leslie O’Carroll), his oldest friend, Jed (Landon G. Woodson in his second roll), Jed’s girlfriend (Meredith Forlenza in her second roll), and ultimately Eli’s long lost love, the one that got away, Eleanor (Allison Jean White). Along the way, Eli reconnects with Max (Ben Beckley), a once-driven, now

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by Gary Zeidner ing his first keg stand. Point of view is everything and never more so than with regard to the Denver Center Theatre Company’s latest, a dark comedy called The Whistleblower. How much you enjoy The Whistleblower will vary in inverse proportion to how politically correct you fancy yourself to be. Those who consider themselves less politically correct will marvel at playwright Itamar Moses’ aware and uproarious study of the effect radical truth has on protagonist Eli (Karl Miller) and his friends and family, the targets of his truth-telling. The more politically correct in the crowd will be too busy composing angry tweets BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

dropped-out paranoiac. As Eli and Max wax philosophical in Max’s boat, the “Barbaric Yawp,” the Denver Center’s Space Theatre’s stage fills with fog. As the Space Theatre is a theatre in the round performance space, the fog ends up lapping at the edges where stage meets seats, creating a mesmerizingly realistic illusion of rolling waves. Hats off to set designer Lisa M. Orzolek and production manager Kate Coltun. Far from being a one-dimensional wish-fulfillment about a white guy proclaiming what he perceives as immutable truth to the somnambulant masses, The Whistleblower challenges its audience to question Eli’s sanity and motivations. Is Eli enlightened or opportunistic, sane or swinging by a thread? Conveying that uncertainty, that ambiguity, takes a skilled actor, and Miller doesn’t disappoint. He convinces as much when Eli is calmly dismantling his loved ones’ preconceived notions about their places in the universe as he does when Eli is clearly staring into the abyss, and the abyss isn’t blinking. Seeing Bill Christ on stage once again at the Denver Center is the purest of pleasures. He and O’Carroll couldn’t be more relaxed in their roles, to great comic effect. Woodson, Forlenza and White show exeptional range as they step in and out of their different characters. Call it the Electric PC Acid Test. Call it a dark lark. Call it what you will, but whether you’re in need of a belly laugh or your daily outrage fix, The Whistleblower has some truth to lay on you. FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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Amy Ray Band (of Indigo Girls). 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

You may know Amy Ray as one-half of folk-rock duo the Indigo Girls, but Ray is a powerhouse on her own. Recorded at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville, North Carolina, ‘Holler’ is Ray’s sixth and most recent solo studio album. The album’s 14 original tracks were inspired by traditional country, southern rock, mountain music, gospel and bluegrass.

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events SEVENTH ANNUAL FRONT RANGE FILM FESTIVAL.

HAVANA NIGHTS.

10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, La Vita Bella Event Space, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.

6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, PEDRO SZEKELY VIA Need a break from winter but WIKIMEDIA can’t head south? Just head to COMMONS Firehouse Art Center for Havana Nights, an event that explores Cuban culture from a variety of artistic expressions. From 6-10 p.m., people can enjoy both contemporary and retro renditions of Afro-Cuban music performed by “Ole Caribbean” DJ, learn a new dance, and unravel the myth of Buena Vista Social Club. Spanish tapas, sangria, mojitos and other accoutrements will be provided. Tickets are $15. —Lenah Reda

The seventh-annual Front Range Film Festival is a celebration of the independent artists who made some of the best short films of the year. Showcases are divided up into seven blocks that feature repertoires of films from local and international artists such as Once Is Enough — a film about a standup comedian addressing his own struggles with determination in a comical, yet emotionally impactful way. Tickets range from $11.25-$27. At a subsequent Oscar Watch Party on Sunday at 6 p.m., food, drinks, a red carpet and mini Oscar statues will be provided along with live streams of the show. —Lenah Reda COYAU / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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HIPPY BLUEGRASS CHURCH.

10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. On Sunday, Feb. 24, eTown and Hot Rize’s Nick Forster will hold the firstever Hippie Bluegrass Church service at eTown Hall. This free, all-ages event will feature a live bluegrass band and a projection of song lyrics to facilitate a community sing-a-long environment. Start the day gathering with friends and other music lovers to sing songs like “I’ll Fly Away,” “A Beautiful Life,” “I Saw the Light,” “Angel Band” and other staples from the genre.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 21 Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Kait Walsh. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tara Conklin — The Last Romantics. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Trace Redell — The Sound of Things to Come. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Mark Mayer — Aerialists: Stories. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, FEB. 22 Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, FEB. 23 Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Dacia Arnold — Apparent Power. 4 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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MMMWHAH! is launching a monthly series of poetry jams on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m. Share poetry, create poetry and encourage your poetry to breathe into the music, art and movement realms. Bring a short poem or two, excerpts from longer poems, musical instruments, art supplies, voices and yourself. Potluck finger foods/beverages welcome, but not required. Suggested donations of $10-$20. No one turned away due to lack of funds.

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Mindy Nettifee. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Bouder.

MONDAY, FEB. 25 Mesa de Portugues. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. World Literature. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Graeme Davis — More Deadly Than The Male. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover,1628 16th St. , Denver. So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

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Marisa Aragon Ware — Where’s Buddha. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Active Minds Leture — A Story of Contrast. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Avi — The End of the World and Beyond. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Writers’ Group. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Chelsea Flagg — Tinsey Cover. 6 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Rebecca Yaros — The Last Lecture. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27 Fiction Bookclub — Ninth Hour. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Lisa Dion — Aggression in Play Therapy. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Deborah J. Haynes — Beginning Again. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store,1628 16th St., Denver.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Music

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Homevibe & eTown present Singer/songwriter

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Clay Rose. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Conan. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Derek Pedersen. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Dueling Pianos. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. El Ten Eleven. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Jonny Johnson, Jason Brandt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More performances at comedyworks.com. “Capernaum.” 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Don Coen Artist Talk. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Scott Jurek: A Way Thru. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Views & Brews American Landscape Film Series: “North by Northwest.” 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Moral Injury-Moral Stress: Searching for Meaning Amidst Suffering. 7 p.m. Atonement, 685 Inca Parkway, Boulder, 720-304-6918.

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Paul Soderman and the Boulder Blues Club. 7 p.m. Dan King, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

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

phAb6 (phoffman and Anders Beck) featuring Jay Cobb Anderson, Tyler Thompson, Andrew Altman, Holly Bowling — with The Drunken Hearts. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Swing Night with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m. The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-522-6162. Events 2019 EFPalooza Film Festival. 8 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-5977. Adam Ray. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th

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Chin Up, Kid. 7 p.m. Seventh Circle Music Collective, 2935 W. Seventh Ave., Denver.

Daniel Nahmod Live In Concert. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Drew & Ellie Holcomb — The You And Me Tour. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Flaming Lips — with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Giulia Millanta, Creekbed. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Here Come The Mummies — with Sixty Minute Men. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. In The Whale. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Laurie and Lorrie. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewery, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 303-449-3529. LazyLightning420 featuring Erik of Trampled By Turtles. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Listening Room. 6 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Company, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-668-4278. Lucas Wolf. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Maddy O’Neal and Freddy Todd — with Megan Hamilton and Ginger Perry. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Pillars of African-American Art Songs at Blair-Caldwell African-American Research Library. 7 p.m. Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, 2401 Welton St., Denver, 720-865-2401. Pro Musica Colorado — with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. 7:30 p.m. First Baptist Church of Denver, 1373 Grant St., Denver, 720-443-0565. Sambadendé. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 877-303-0900.

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arts All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26. Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

FOR A LIMITED TIME, the CU Museum of Natural History Boulder will feature a special selection of blackware pottery created by internationally renowned ceramic artist Maria Martinez (1887-1980), known as Poveka in the Tewa language. This intimate assemblage of fine art pottery highlights examples of Martinez’s distinctive black-on-black designs that evolved through her eight decades of pottery making at San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. Showing through Sept. 8.

Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. Assemblage/Mixed Media/Sculpture — by Michelle Lamb. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 1. Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, Second floor southwest, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through March 16.

DIOR: From Paris to the World. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Through March 17. Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019. Everyday Magic: Mixed Media Paintings by Arthur Secunda. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Opens Feb. 23. Through April 6.

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

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

Creativity in Action — by Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel. Nalanda and Cube galleries, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 15.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder. Through May 27. Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12.

Sheela Bringi. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Events Backcountry Film Festival. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway St. Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866. “How We Grow.” 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. “Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki.” 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. More show times at thedairy.org. Studio Project Exhibition Opening: We Can Make You Put Your Phone Down. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Music 6 Million Dollar Band — The Ultimate ’80s Experience. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Ars Nova Singers present Brumel’s “Earthquake” Mass. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165.

The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18.

Dean Lewis. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Drumming with Horses. Noon. Medicine Horse Program, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908. Jazz at The Wesley. 7 p.m. Wesley Community Center/Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band), Nick Cassarino Duo. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through April 21. Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20. Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5.

March 1.

Mixed Media — by Tabitha Aaron. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through

Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 1. Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Neyla Pekarek’s Rattlesnake Kate in Concert. 4 p.m. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Oliver Tree’s Ugly is Beautiful Tour. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-2961003. Pro Musica Colorado — with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 720-443-0565. The Roots. 8 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Events

Coal Creek Silent Disco. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Dance with a Doc: Free Saturday Morning Dance Gatherings. 10 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 720-971-1972.

The New Wizard Oil Combination. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

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STARS AND PLANETS 7:00 PM

BEARS AND AURORA OF ALASKA 9:00 PM

BELLA GAIA: BEAUTIFUL EARTH 10:30 PM

Ballerina by Degas Tea Party. 3 p.m. Pinnacle Performing Arts Center, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-945-4388. Chili Chili Bang Bang Chili Cookoff. 2 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. Comedy Tour. 6 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing Co., 657 South Taylor Ave., Louisville, 303-6658888. Harry Potter Inspired Beer Festival. 5:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383. Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival. 6:30 p.m. Historic Grant Avenue, 216 S. Grant St., Denver, 303-733-8940. see EVENTS Page 28

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Touch: Breaking the barrier between art and viewer. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March. 3.

KGNU & CFCZs Annual Mardi Gras Dance Party featuring Zydeco Masters Preston Frank and Ed Poullard — with the Creole Dance Band. 6 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-515-4522.

Nat King Cole & Me: An Evening with Gregory Porter. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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Roberta Restaino — Giardino Surreale: Recoding Natural History. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through March 2.

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Longmont Symphony: Sounds of America. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0401.

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A MIDWINTER NIGHT’S SCREAM, An Evening of One-Act Plays by American Playwrights Paying Homage to Edvard Munch, is a play festival that brings audiences into the world of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” This is the festivals ninth season. ‘A Midwinter Night’s Scream’ is sure to make you laugh, jump at screams and find similarities between you and an odd assortment of characters. Performance dates are: Feb. 22-March 3; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

Anna Karenina. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Feb. 24. Blessed Assurance. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through March 9. The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17.

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Flight 232 — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 9.

The Moors. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Opens Feb. 22. Through May 18.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Vintage Theater, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through March 24.

Nunsense. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through March 3.

Into the Woods — presented by CU Theater & Dance. University Theatre, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Mach 3.

The Rembrandt —presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 3.

Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 14.

The Rembrandt Room. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through March 9.

Lost in Yonkers. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 3.

Rock of Aging — presented by Firehouse Theater. The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through March 16.

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through March 31.

A Midwinter Night’s Scream. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Opens Feb. 22. Through March 3.

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THE FREMONTS 8PM ELMR 9PM

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

Oscars Cocktail Party, A Colorado Festival Production. 5 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24

Winter Tequila Festival. 4 p.m. Blake Street Tavern, 2301 Blake St., Denver, 303-675-0505.

Tour of Spain Wine Dinner. 5:30 p.m. Sugarbeet, 101 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-651-3330.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Music

21st Century Style. 2 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 720-443-0565.

Aurora — with Talos. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

African Singing Community Fiesta. 3 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-219-3005.

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

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Disenchanted!. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 31.

Ars Nova presents Brumel’s “Earthquake” Mass. 4 p.m. Saint Paul Community of Faith, 1600 Grant St., Denver, 303-499-3165. Between The Buried And Me. 7 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Bryce Vine. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Christie Lenée Trio. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Longmont Concert Band: American Folk Songs and more. 4 p.m. Silver Creek High School, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-916-5161. The Music of The Beatles for Kids. 11 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Pro Musica Colorado — with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. 2 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 720-443-0565. Y La Bamba. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Events Elastic Indoor Jumprope. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Ella Mai. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 866-459-9233. Glenn Miller Orchestra. 5:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Legit Knits @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Outer Reaches of Inner Space. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Women of the West and Beyond. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Music Amy Ray Band (of Indigo Girls). 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Coleman Dickson, David Booker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. DaniLeigh. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Frankie and the Witch Fingers. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Glenn Miller Orchestra. 5:30 p.m. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Njomza. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Nothing More. 6:30 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Peter Murphy Celebrates 40 Years of Bauhaus. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Sly & Robbie & The Taxi Gang — with Bitty McLean and special guests (Reggae Tuesdays). 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Welles. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Events M.C. Richards: The Fire Within — Screening and discussion with the producer and director. 6 p.m. Longmont Senior Citizen Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120; NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. see EVENTS Page 30

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H. W. Brands: The West and the Growing Pains of Democracy. 6:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 1B50, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Project Europe: A New History of the European Union — with Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

LASC Latin American and Latinx Film Series: “Mosquita y Mari” (2012) screening. 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Monthly Bard’s Book Club — “Romeo and Juliet.” 6 p.m. Colorado Shakespeare Festival offices, Conference room on 2nd floor 1301 Grandview Ave., Boulder. This is a paid event that requires registration. Yiddish, English, or Maybe Both: The Evolution of an “Yidea.” 7 p.m. University Club, Chancellor’s Silver & Gold Room, 972 Broadway, Boulder.

FRIDAY, FEB. 22 Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on Citizenship and Naturalization. 10 a.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder. English + Media and Technology. 10 a.m. Norlin Library, M549, Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

SATURDAY, FEB. 23 Pop Music Video and the Cuban Nation — with music professor Susan Thomas. 1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

Mattias Karlsson: National Conservatives and Traditional Conservatives: A Call for Unity. 5:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 250, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Concert Band. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, FEB. 25 Data Defense: the European Approach to Protecting Personal Data. 12:30 p.m. Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), W313, 1725 Euclid Ave., Boulder. Visiting Artist Lecture: Marie Herwald Hermann. 6:30 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Building Auditorium 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Faculty Tuesdays Featuring Mutsumi Moteki and Tamara Goldstein, piano; and Abigail Nims, mezzo soprano: Fantasies and Meditations. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26 Continuing the Conversation on Cultural Appropriation and Appreciation Workshop — with Ashmi Desai, PhD, of CU Dialogues, CU Engage and the CU Boulder School of Education. 5:15 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St. Boulder.

EVENTS from Page 28

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Becoming American. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder at the Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. DU Center for Sustainability Event. 9:30 a.m. University of Denver Library, 2150 E. Evans Ave., Denver, 859-967-9590. Teen Creations: Stabby Valentines. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4845. Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Christopher Bosch, Dafna, Ryan Dart. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Hot Flash Heat Wave. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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by Alex R. Encomienda Sinclair speaks childish antics in her room, She’s dressed in cotton whites with smiles and laughs. Sue Anne speaks coy and calm with blushing cheeks, For when she sighs, those words seep soft and slow, Two sisters in the garden of their childhood, Once wombed and peaceful in their mother’s body. I wish to tell them tall tales from the bedside, To be the father told about in books, But autumn passes like the light of day; The sisters leave their paintings on my heart. Collected with the trinkets dressed in webs And all these drawings from their tiny hands, I cherish all these years of childhood craze Beneath this autumn sun so come what may.

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‘To die with something to live for’ Hayao Miyazaki’s wit and witticism in ‘Never-Ending Man’

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n Sept. 1, 2013, Hayao Miyazaki, the imaginative creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away and The Wind Rises, announced his retirement. Cameras flashed, and reporters asked questions. This wasn’t the first time the 72-year-old animator claimed he was stepping away from the game. But, as Miyazaki told the room, “This time I mean it.” Well, maybe not. While some welcome retirement with open arms, Miyazaki’s mind would not sit still. And after two years on idle, the Japanese filmmaker decided to get back in the game. Yes, it takes years to animate a movie, and at his age, he might not live to see its completion. But that’s not his goal. Instead, he would like “to die with something to live for.” Never-Ending Man documents Miyazaki’s return while also addressing his premature retirement. Along with fellow animator Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli became Japan’s preeminent animation studio with a creative output to rival Disney. But, when Miyazaki decided to step away, he could not find a proper replacement and production ground to a halt. A few films trickled out in the subsequent years — the phenomenal The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the haunting When Marnie Was There and the serene The Red Turtle (a co-production with Wild Bunch). Still, the future of the studio remained uncertain. Then came an offer ON THE BILL: Never-Ending Man: too good to turn down: animate a short Hayao Miyazaki. Feb. 21–23, Dairy film for a museum, Miyazaki’s first with Arts Center, The Boedecker computer-generated imagery. Why CGI? Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, Because, “I can’t draw a caterpillar with 303-440-7825, thedairy.org a pencil,” the old man says with a smile. Making the short, Boro the Caterpillar, provides Never-Ending Man director Kaku Arakawa a framework. Shot using consumer-grade digital cameras — which gives the movie an intimate feel despite an ungainly appearance — and running a brief 70 minutes, Never-Ending Man feels like a beefy DVD special feature. For diehard Miyazaki fans, Never-Ending Man is manna, offering a privileged look at how the master sets about his day — from his spare and empty kitchen, where he makes coffee and converses, to his drawing desk, cluttered with paper, pencils and the ubiquitous ashtray. But the real value of Never-Ending Man is the ability to spend time with Miyazaki, a man who does not take his position in Japanese animation lightly. He is a tough leader, always pushing young animators to try harder and aim higher. Movements are not mechanical, he tells them, and each one has a motivation. Understanding that motivation is the foundation of Miyazaki’s humanism and, in one crucial scene in Never-Ending Man, he wields it like a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting to the heart of a very sticky matter. Rare is a pleasure as great as watching a master at work. And though there is a little bit of an old dog learning new tricks in Never-Ending Man, the real delight of the movie is the chance to see Miyazaki hunched over his desk, pencil lightly gracing the page, life and personality emerging from just a few strokes of graphite and color. The doctor is in. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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by BOULDER WEEKLY staff Veggie Bibimbap

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Korea House 2750 Glenwood Drive, Boulder.

Green curry chicken

Busaba 133 S. McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, busabaco.com

here’s something comforting about warm and spicy Thai food on these cold winter days, especially as a lunch treat. Busaba, in Louisville, serves up a classic Thai menu full of curries, noodles, soups and appetizers. We recently opted for a medium-spiced green curry chicken to warm up from the snow flurries outside. The coconut green curry sauce was both tangy and spicy, with hints of lemongrass and basil. Al dente Thai eggplant, green peas, bell peppers and carrots, along with moist chicken breast, were drenched in the curry, making it almost soup-like. The standout of the dish were the bamboo shoots, which added just a bit of crunch. Served with white rice, this classic Thai dish is irresistible. $9.25 for lunch.

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orea House is the perfect destination on a cold day. It’s like a trip to grandma’s house, complete with endless knickknacks on every shelf and corner. Korea House offers a pan-Asian menu, but we think it best to go to the heart of the operation and order bibimbap, a dish that’s almost as famously Korean as the kimchi served with it. Warm and filling yet somehow light and healthy, Korea House serves a classic version of this dish, with crunchy warm veggies laid out separately in a wheel of color atop a bed of rice. A raw egg on top adds umami and a pleasant, creamy texture — a perfect complement to the slightly crispy rice. Side dishes of traditional cabbage kimchi and cubed radish kimchi offer some spice. $11.50.

ew beers deliver as consistently as Asher Brewing’s fantastic Treehugger Organic Amber. It’s malty, with strong caramel flavor, but it’s also crisp, light and easily drinkable. Made with Crystal and Munich malts and organic German hops, the purity of the ingredients comes through to create a clean-drinking beer. It’s got the right dryness and it’s not too sweet, but it gives the palate just enough toffee to crave more. Prices vary.

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he new-ish Beleza Coffee Bar near Ideal Market is stellar. Their menu is unique and diverse, their coffee is fresh and served in myriad ways (pourover, French press, drip, buttered, cold brew), and their staff, despite perpetually making multiple drinks, always finds a way to say hello and have a little conversation. We opted for the yerba mate latte on a recent trip, and the mixture of hot steamed milk (soy in this case) and Guayaki mate was perfectly proportioned. $4.

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A taste for transparency

Organization recognizes great restaurants that are doing good

By JOHN LEHNDORFF

merica turns its hungry eyes to you, Boulder and Denver... yet again. America has looked to us in the past for leadership on issues of culinary integrity. Think about the craft brew renaissance that launched and headquartered here. Consider the nascent natural foods industry that blossomed in Colorado, along with the healthfocused fast-casual dining boom. Now, the critical issue is transparency in the food we eat, especially at restaurants and other eating destinations. Hooray for sustainability! We heart local produce. It feels good to support restaurants that seem to be doing the right thing. But, there is a problem: How do you define “transparency?” There has been no way to tell if a bistro/ trattoria is walking the talk or just sharing feel-good, farm-totable buzzwords on a chalkboard menu. That’s what was bothering Boulder’s Sara Geiben Brito two years ago when she co-founded Good Food 100. She wanted to recognize restaurants for more than chefs, wine lists, ambience and service. “It’s hard to know where you want to go with sustainability if you don’t know where you are today. We were frustrated with the lack of data and metrics,” Brito says. Denver’s nonprofit Good Food 100 publishes an annual

PIZZAIOLO JOSE RODRIGUEZ, left, prepares food in Basta’s wood-fired oven. ABOVE, BANGS ISLAND MUSSELS gnocco with a lemongrass broth, are a speciality of Boulder’s Basta, a Good Food 100 listee.

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list of chefs, restaurants and food companies making a direct impact by purchasing locally and sustainably, and following practices to control food waste. “They choose to use their dollars for the right things and support the local farmers and their own employees,” Brito says. The Good Food 100 is notable because it applies to fast casual spots, college dining programs, grocers and caterers, not just fine dining establishments. Our food system won’t improve unless the establishments that feed most of us most of the time shift to a more sustainable path. “We vote every time we decide where to eat, where to spend our dining dollars,” Brito says.

BOULDER’S DISRUPTIVE EARLY ADOPTERS

As it turned out, Boulder and Denver are perfect places to launch a dining revolution... or at least a reinvention. Of the 125 U.S. eateries on the 2018 Good Food 100 list, 40 are Colorado restaurants. The 12 Boulder restaurants and food operations earning the honors are Basta, Blackbelly, Salt, Santo, Snooze, The Kitchen, PMG, Wild Standard, Fresh Thymes, Next Door, the Boulder Valley School District School Food Project, Fortuna Chocolate and CU’s Boulder Campus Dining Services. “There is a tradition here of challenging conventional ways of doing business. I think some of it is that ‘Wild West’ mentality and activist spirit in Colorado chefs,” Brito says.

Unlike New York, San Francisco or Chicago, the state’s culinary culture is very young. “When you are a new food culture, you can say we’re going to change the rules,” Brito says. The Boulder/Denver dining scene is also unusually collaborative. “There is such a community spirit. They want everyone to succeed. I think it started in the brewing community and the chefs in Colorado took their cue,” she says. The decision to stage the nation’s premier food sustainability event, Slow Food Nations, for the third year in a row in Denver, July 20-21, supports Brito’s view that Colorado is an epicenter of good food activity and pushing back against oldschool practices.

MAKING JAMES BEARD TRANSPARENT

When the stodgy James Beard Foundation went looking for help with transparency it found the ideal partner in the Good Food 100. The national organization is best known for presenting the annual James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the dining world.

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“We are excited about the connection to James Beard’s network of chefs. The collaboration provides a national stamp of credibility for the program,” Brito says. Long known for its focus on upscale fine dining, the organization now wants to build a bigger tent, welcoming more diverse eateries and dealing with environmental and labor issues. Brito hopes that the connection with the James Beard foundation sends a signal to restaurateurs that transparency is not a niche interest. ”It’s a mainstream concern,” especially with younger diners. “Millennials want to literally and figuratively eat their values,” Brito says.

FOOD FOR THE GENERAL GOOD

The application for consideration in the Good Food 100 list is not a fun questionnaire to fill out; it’s more like doing corporate taxes with dozens of detailed questions. “In the first year we focused on sustainability. In year two, the #MeToo movement hit. We added questions around labor practices and food justice issues, questions like, ‘Do you provide tipped and non-tipped employees with health insurance?’” Brito says. The idea isn’t to penalize restaurants but to support those doing the right thing. There is no cost to apply. The 2019 deadline is May 31. goodfood100restaurants.org

LOCAL FOOD NEWS

How We Grow, a documentary about a group of young farmers in the Roaring Fork Valley, shows Feb. 22, Chautauqua

Community House. chautauqua.com. ... Sign up for a season of veggies from 13 local farms including Monroe, Aspen Moon and Red Wagon Feb. 25 at the Boulder County Farmers Market CSA Fair at Sanitas Brewing. Sign up at the event and get a free beer. ... Plan ahead: Colorado Jewish Food Fest, April 7, Boulder JCC. boulderjcc.org. ... Only 45 cooking days until the Boulder County Farmers Market opens for the season in Boulder and Longmont.

TASTE OF THE WEEK

Nobody expects a slider with cabbage pancake buns, but that’s the beauty of the “burgers” at Osaka’s in Boulder. The classy fillings range from chicken and sliced pork to fried cod filet and three mushrooms in butter ponzu sauce. My favorite is the brunch-worthy sukiyaki beef version with onions, asparagus, sweet soy sauce and a fried egg between cabbage buns. The cabbage or gluten-free kale buns — repurposed okonomiyaki — don’t crumble. I think the shredded cabbage functions like re-bar in the pancake to maintain structural integrity.

WORDS TO CHEW ON

“This whole idea of farm-to-table today is just absurd. Throughout history, food has been grown on a farm and brought to a table. So, is farm-to-table really new? That’s just the absurdity of some of the definitions.” — Chef Thomas Keller

John Lehndorff is a former James Beard Foundation Awards judge and voter. He hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU. Podcasts: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles.

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WEEKLY EVENTS Tuesday 5pm–9pm Prime Rib Night Wednesday 3pm–close $5 Burgers Night You can have a small draft beer addition for $5 more. We Also have a $9 Veggie Burger deal featuring the Beyond Meat Burger Thursday Ladies Night $5 specialty cocktails(change every week), 3$ house red/white/rose wines, $1-off draughts beers. Live music Featuring Andy Eppler and accompanied by other musicians Every Evening we feature 2 for $40. 2 specialty entrees (change daily) and comes with two drinks (small draught beer, house wines, or well cocktail) $40 a couple.

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ew methods of coping with winter are superior to sipping a grapefruit martini. Composed of grapefruit, mint, vodka and sugar, it isn’t your typical martini. In fact, by most martini standards, this drink would be disqualified on multiple counts. I didn’t create or name it, but I am enthused by it. The combination packs a bright pizzazz that’s in short supply these days; if flavors were colors, this would be neon. The grapefruit’s bitterness softens the vodka flavor, while the mint sprinkles the experience with a diverse bouquet of aromatic components, adding a feeling of lightness to the drink. Some of the minty aromas and flavors combine with those of the grapefruit and vodka, creating altogether new ones. In different ways, grapefruit and vodka are both in season in wintertime: grapefruit because it’s ripe and fresh, vodka because it’s a known remedy for the winter blues. The other key ingredient in this drink is mint, which can be a wildcard in winter. Fresh is preferable, but dried will do, providing it’s dried on the stem with leaves intact. I

When I made my wife her first grapefruit martini, she took a sip, and then regarded it with a mixture of awe and concern, as if it was a road she wanted to walk down, but shouldn’t. (She did). For people who don’t normally love the taste of vodka, mint and grapefruit do a masterful job at morphing its flavor. Everyone else: add more vodka. I learned of the grapefruit martini at a local farm where I play hockey. There, the drink is as holy as hockey itself in the pantheon of winter delights. But alas, the vodka martini has also become a source of tension on the farm, thanks to that elusive mint. The farm had a stash of properly dried mint, demand for which spiked with the rise in popularity of the grapefruit martini, pitting the martini drinkers against the tea drinkers. One enterprising farmhand tackled the shortage by purchasing several living mint plants from the supermarket — in the produce section, they come with their attached roots immersed in a plug of soil — and potting them on a window sill. But

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the harvesting pressure on those freshly potted sprigs was too much. Leaves were picked as soon as they appeared, leaving a denuded miniature forest of skinny green trunks. On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where I’m currently on a short sabbatical, mint is called hierbabuena, which translates to “good herb.” The name is a nod to its many culinary and medicinal uses, which include antiseptic and antibiotic properties, as well as being generally

good for the tummy. As I sat in a wicker chair one evening, enjoying a sea breeze and the faint scent of chopped onions, I sipped a local drink called limonada de hierbabuena, or mint lemonade, and was hit with a spray of déjà vu that took me back to my refreshing wintry home, and the grapefruit martinis I drink there. Like the grapefruit martini, the mint lemonade is citrus-based, with mint dominating the flavor. It’s a powerful

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In December 1915, the California

city of San Diego was suffering from a drought. City officials hired a professional “moisture accelerator” named Charles Hatfield, who promised to make it rain. Soon Hatfield was shooting explosions of a secret blend of chemicals into the sky from the top of a tower. The results were quick. A deluge began in early January of 1916 and persisted for weeks. Thirty inches of rain fell, causing floods that damaged the local infrastructure. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Aries: when you ask for what you want and need, specify exactly how much you want and need. Don’t make an open-ended request that could bring you too much of a good thing.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges are brothers born to parents who were also actors. When they were growing up, they already had aspirations to follow in their mom’s and dad’s footsteps. From an early age, they summoned a resourceful approach to attracting an audience. Now and then they would start a pretend fight in a store’s parking lot. When a big enough crowd had gathered to observe their shenanigans, they would suddenly break off from their faux struggle, grab their guitars from their truck and begin playing music. In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll be equally ingenious as you brainstorm about ways to expand your outreach.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: According to Edward Barnard’s

book New York City Trees, a quarter of the city is shaded by its 5.2 million trees. In other words, one of the most densely populated, frantically active places on the planet has a rich collection of oxygen-generating greenery. There’s even a virgin forest at the upper tip of Manhattan, as well as five botanical gardens and the 843-acre Central Park. Let’s use all this bounty-amidstthe-bustle as a symbol of what you should strive to foster in the coming weeks: refreshing lushness and grace interspersed throughout your busy, hustling rhythm.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: As a poet myself, I regard good

poetry as highly useful. It can nudge us free of our habitual thoughts and provoke us to see the world in ways we’ve never imagined. On the other hand, it’s not useful in the same way that food and water and sleep are. Most people don’t get sick if they are deprived of poetry. But I want to bring your attention to a poem that is serving a very practical purpose in addition to its inspirational function. Simon Armitage’s poem “In Praise of Air” is on display in an outdoor plaza at Sheffield University. The material it’s printed on is designed to literally remove a potent pollutant from the atmosphere. And what does this have to do with you? I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have an extra capacity to generate blessings that are like Armitage’s poem: useful in both practical and inspirational ways.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: In 1979, psychologist Dorothy Tennov

published her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. She defined her newly coined word “limerence” as a state of adoration that may generate intense, euphoric and obsessive feelings for another person. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Leos are most likely to be visited by this disposition throughout 2019. And you’ll be especially prone to it in the coming weeks. Will that be a good thing or a disruptive thing? It all depends on how determined you are to regard it as a blessing, have fun with it and enjoy it regardless of whether or not your feelings are reciprocated. I advise you to enjoy the hell out of it!

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Sixteenth-century Italian artist Daniele da Volterra wasn’t very famous for his own painting and sculpture. The work for which we remember him today is the alterations he made to Michelangelo’s giant fresco The Last Judgment, which spreads across an entire wall in the Sistine Chapel. After Michelangelo died, the Catholic Church hired da Volterra to “fix” the scandalous aspects of the people depicted in the master’s work. He painted clothes and leaves over the originals’ genitalia and derrieres. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that we make da Volterra your anti-role model for the coming weeks. Don’t be like him. Don’t engage in cover-ups, censorship or camouflage. Instead, specialize in the opposite: revelations, unmaskings and expositions.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: What is the quality of your access to

life’s basic necessities? How well do you fulfill your need for good food and drink, effective exercise, deep sleep, thorough relaxation, mental stimulation, soulful intimacy, a sense of meaningfulness, nourishing beauty and rich feelings? I bring these questions to your attention, Scorpio, because the rest of 2019 will be an excellent time for you to fine-tune and expand your relationships with these fundamental blessings. And now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Michael Jackson’s 1982 song

“Beat It” climbed to no. 3 on the record-sales charts in Australia. On the other hand, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 1984 parody of Jackson’s tune, “Eat It,” reached no. 1 on the same charts. Let’s use this twist as a metaphor that’s a good fit for your life in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may find that a stand-in or substitute or imitation will be more successful than the original. And that will be auspicious!

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The Space Needle in Seattle,

Washington is 605-feet high and 138-feet wide: a tall and narrow tower. Near the top is a round restaurant that makes one complete rotation every 47 minutes. Although this part of the structure weighs 125 tons, for many years its motion was propelled by a mere 1.5 horsepower motor. I think you will have a comparable power at your disposal in the coming weeks: an ability to cause major movement with a compact output of energy.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In 1941, the Ford automobile company created a “biological car.” Among its components were “bioplastics” composed of soybeans, hemp, flax, wood pulp and cotton. It weighed a thousand pounds less than a comparable car made of metal. This breakthrough possibility never fully matured, however. It was overshadowed by newly abundant plastics made from petrochemicals. I suspect that you Aquarians are at a phase with a resemblance to the biological car. Your good idea is promising but unripe. I hope you’ll spend the coming weeks devoting practical energy to developing it. (P.S.: There’s a difference between you and your personal equivalent of the biological car: little competition.)

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Cartographers of Old Europe sometimes drew pictures of strange beasts in the uncharted regions of their maps. These were warnings to travelers that such areas might harbor unknown risks, like dangerous animals. One famous map of the Indian Ocean shows an image of a sea monster lurking, as if waiting to prey on sailors traveling through its territory. If I were going to create a map of the frontier you’re now headed for, Pisces, I would fill it with mythic beasts of a more benevolent variety, like magic unicorns, good fairies and wise centaurs.

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and licks your balls while they’re deep-throating your cock is giving you a blowjob with extra lobster — and invited readers to send in their own. It was my readers, after all, who came up with the winning definitions for pegging (“a woman fucking a man in the ass with a strap-on dildo”) and santorum (“the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex”). What follows are the best reader-suggested definitions for “with extra lobster:” — “With extra lobster” sounds to me like going down on someone — regardless of sex — when it’s a little more odoriferous than you would like because they haven’t bathed in a while. For example: “Things were getting hot and heavy with my Tinder date last night, and then I started to go down and was surprised with extra lobster.” — I think I have a good candidate for your “with extra lobster” definition! It could be applied to a man who has an exceptionally large and dangling foreskin (“His penis comes with extra lobster!”) or a woman whose labia protrudes (“I love pussy with extra lobster!”). — When I first started dating my wife, she kept her lady parts waxed clean, and they looked a bit like a lobster claw, even

being slightly red if the waxing was recent. We nicknamed her vagina and surrounding area “The Lobster,” or “Lobby” for short. So I would suggest that “with extra lobster” should mean anytime you get some extra lobster in on the act — from normal lesbian sex (two lobsters!), to a standard-issue male fantasy threesome (two lobsters and one cock), to a surprise second go-around after you thought the sex was over. The area surrounding the vagina already has a name: the vulva. While most people are familiar with the labia majora and minora parts of the vulva, aka “the lips,” fewer know the name for the area between the labia minora. The spot where the opening to the vaginal canal can be found — also part of the vulva — is called the “vaginal vestibule.” According to my thesaurus, lobby is a synonym for vestibule. So this proposed definition of “with extra lobster” is pretty apt. Now, some will quibble with the lobby-ish implication that a vagina is a space that needs to be entered. One can have a good time — great sex with lots of extra lobster — without anyone being penetrated, i.e., without anyone entering the lobby. — “Extra lobster” should be the name for those cock-extender things. Example: “My husband has a small penis. And you know what? The sex is great! He gives

great head, and isn’t afraid to strap-on some extra lobster now and then.” — As a vegan, Dan, I strongly object to “with extra lobster.” It reinforces the speciest notion that it is permissible to consume lobsters, sentient life-forms that feel pain, and associating a sex act with the violence of meat consumption further desensitizes us to acts of sexual violence. Fuck off. — “With extra lobster” should refer to any intimate pleasure where your expectations are greatly exceeded! I’m a gay man in my 60s, and my husband and I have been together for decade. I also have a friend with benefits. One night we were camping and I blurted out, “I would like to cuddle with you.” What happened next was 12 courses — at least — with extra lobster! We’ve managed to rekindle this energy every couple of years over the past 25! And with that sorted and settled, a bonus neologism to close the column... — This isn’t a definition for “with extra lobster,” but I wanted to share it. I live in Uganda and many of the streets are lined with stalls that sell BBQ chicken. If you know to ask for the special chicken, they’ll often sell you weed. “Special chicken” has become my favorite euphemism for weed! On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Eric Leue from the Free Speech Coalition: savagelovecast.com

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Cannabis history is black history by Sidni West

lack history happens every day, so delegating its celebration to the shortest month of the year is pretty symbolic of how much we respect black culture in the U.S. (Yes, I know it has to do with Fredrick Douglass’ birthday, don’t @ me). Cannabis history has long been connected with our country’s institutionalized racism, and it started long before Nixon’s failed War on Drugs. Similar to the rest of this country, the hemp industry was built by slave labor. According to writer and cannabis activist D.M. Blunted, “Just before the Revolutionary War broke out, Kentucky was becoming populated with settlers from Virginia, bringing with them hemp seeds and enslaved West Africans. It soon made Kentucky the largest producer of hemp and one of the states with the largest slave populations. Like cotton and tobacco, hemp was a back-breaking crop to produce that paid owners well and continued to fuel the greedy demand for free labor. Kentucky became set as the nation’s leader in hemp for a hundred years until the demand fell during the Civil War in 1861.

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“After the South fell to never rise again, Kentucky became the only state with a relevant hemp industry,” Blunted continues in a post on the platform Medium. “That, of course, relied on scamming newly freed black people with sharecropping.” Cannabis, the kind that gets you stoned, entered the U.S. through two groups: Mexican citizens escaping the violence of the Mexican Revolution, and people immigrating from the Caribbean into New Orleans. According to the academic paper “High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis,” in the 1930s, Harry Anslinger became our country’s first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was the asshole who said things like “this was a drug black men used to seduce white women” that “promotes interracial mixing, interracial relationships.” Cannabis was officially outlawed in 1937, partly due to the racists in the country who shared these sentiments with Anslinger. That was only the beginning of racially charged prohibition policies. In 1971, Nixon announced his War on Drugs, a policy designed to disproportionately target black communities, and it created an industrial prison complex fueled by arresting hundreds of thousands of black people for cannabis possession. A study by the ACLU found that in 2010 more than half of all U.S. drug arrests were for cannabis possession only — and despite consuming cannabis at the same rate as white people, black people were nearly four times more likely to be arrested. Since the criminalization of cannabis has proven to be a weapon explicitly used against people of color, it is important to recognize the difference between equality and equity when talking about

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healing these communities. Restorative justice is in order, and solutions range from some jurisdictions offering no-charge expungements for those with cannabis related arrests (like the one in Boulder County) to equity programs that include no-interest loans, technical assistance, business incubation and allocating half of new cannabis business permits to equity businesses. As the cannabis industry grows, we need to prioritize support and inclusion for black entrepreneurs. Despite a playing field that’s anything but level, there are some black-owned cannabis businesses that are thriving. Still, it’s not enough to make up for the centuries of injustice around cannabis that have destroyed entire communities and laid the groundwork for the social and economic oppression that continue to haunt the modern cannabis industry. Acknowledging the past and implementing social justice programs as a concrete way to support future generations is just the start, but we still have a long way to go. If your idea of honoring black history involves getting stoned to Wiz Khalifa and tweeting out a few Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, you’re doing it wrong. “The best way to celebrate Black History Month is to acknowledge the plights, tribulations, and triumphs of the Black people around you, all 365 days a year,” Blunted writes. “It’s listening to us when we say, we need more support and y’all giving it. It’s hiring black people for their voices instead of taking them for free and acting like you’re doing them a favor. It’s stepping outside of your comfort zone and speaking out for our rights. Overall these are all simple examples, that you can apply to your life as easily as buying black in the month of June.”

Not so fast there, Alex Berenson by Paul Danish

n case you haven’t noticed, there’s been an increasing under-current of anti-marijuana legalization propaganda oozing into the mainstream media lately. It’s probably a coordinated campaign, with some of the usual suspects involved, guys like Kevin Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, Former Drug PUBLIC DOMAIN Czar William Bennett, and some kind-of libertarian Fox News types like Tucker Carlson who ought to know better. But there’s a new face as well: Alex Berenson, a former New York Times investigative reporter. Berenson has knocked out a book titled Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence. According to Simon & Schuster’s promo blurb for the book, the gist of Berenson’s argument is that there is a “link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug. “Most of all, THC — the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug’s high — can cause psychotic episodes. ... Psychosis brings violence, and cannabislinked violence is spreading. “With the U.S. already gripped by one drug epidemic, this book will make readers reconsider if marijuana use is worth the risk.” The book has received a lot of media attention, but

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as German Lopez concludes in a long, critical review on Vox, “it’s essentially Reefer Madness 2.0.” Lopez says that while the book is “a compelling read written by an experienced journalist, it is essentially an exercise in cherry-picking data and presenting correlation as causation. Observation and anecdotes, not rigorous scientific analysis, are at the core of the book’s claim that legal marijuana will cause — and, in fact, is causing — a huge rise in psychosis and violence in America. “The book largely focuses on grisly anecdotes of violent crimes committed under the influence of marijuana, the kind of ‘reefer madness’ stories authorities and the media leaned on when they first prohibited cannabis in the 20th century,” Lopez writes, citing Berenson’s claim that legal pot is already leading to a “black tide of psychosis” and a “red tide of violence.” Lopez isn’t the only one to call out Berenson’s latterday Reefer Madness. Last week a group of 75 academics and clinicians released an open letter blasting his methodology and rhetoric. “In one of his book’s most disturbing passages,” the letter says, “Berenson suggests that one of the reasons that police so disproportionately arrest black people (nearly four times as often as whites) for marijuana use is that marijuana makes young black people mentally ill and violent. “He writes: ‘Yes, marijuana arrests disproptionately

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fall on minorities, especially the black community. But marijuana harms also disproportionately fall on the black community... Given marijuana’s connection with mental illness and violence, it is reasonable to wonder whether the drug is partly responsible for those differentials.’” The letter adds that, “Conveniently, Berenson ignores the fact that black and white people use marijuana at the same rates, and that the reason for the higher rate of arrests is over-policing of communities of color, based on prohibition...” and that Berenson’s allegation regarding black mental illness “reeks of the crack baby and super-predator myths of the ’90s...” It also reeks of the 1930s racist claims by William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, like that “marijuanacrazed negroes” were raping white women. The letter makes two other points about Berenson’s book that should be obvious but apparently aren’t. First, Berenson “ignores most of the harms of prohibition,” focusing mostly on the harms of marijuana use. “None would argue that marijuana use is risk-free,” the letter said. “However, weighed against the harms of prohibition, including the criminalization of millions of people, overwhelmingly black and brown, and the devastating collateral consequences of criminal justice system involvement, legalization is the less harmful approach.” Second, “the vast majority of people who use marijuana do not develop psychosis or schizophrenia, nor do they engage in violence...” The last point lies at the heart of the argument against alcohol prohibition as well as pot prohibition. Although an enormous amount of violent behavior is tied to alcohol abuse, the vast majority of alcohol users don’t become addicts, go nuts, or become violent, or even drive impaired. In other words, the conduct of a minority of users is used as grounds to criminalize the behavior of the majority. That was the basis of alcohol prohibition in 1917 and marijuana prohibition in 1937. And now pot prohibitionists are trying it one more time.

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