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For years, media outlets chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now that decision threatens to destroy them by Daniel Walters
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JeffCo School District suspends field trips to Rocky Flats by Josh Schlossberg
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Bee hive in 130-year-old trunk relocated from Westminster town center by John Loughran
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Three decades deep, Big Head Todd and the Monsters are better than ever by Caitlin Rockett
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Ars Nova present ‘Hidden Masterpieces’ by Peter Alexander
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An occasional vegan tracks tasty plantbased fast food by John Lehndorff
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Debbie and Wayne Anderson of Lyons Fork on a serendipitous life in food by Matt Cortina
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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Exposing our ‘populist’ president as a naked plutocrat 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Coors, Fox, Watergate and Trump... Oh my! 6 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 14 COMMENTARY: It takes a village... of idiots 27 ARTS & CULTURE: The Boulder Jewish Film Festival returns with a simple message 29 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 37 WORDS: by Marcus If 38 FILM: Top picks for BIFF 41 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 49 DRINK: A few winter and spring beer festivals 55 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 57 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Will Denver host the first U.S. cannabis café? 59 CANNABIS CORNER: Koch to Sessions: Dial it back on pot 60 ICUMI: An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world 61 SAVAGE LOVE: Bi and biphobia Boulder Weekly
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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Associate Publisher, Fran Zankowski Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Editor, Joel Dyer Managing Editor, Matt Cortina Senior Editor, Angela K. Evans Arts and Culture Editor, Caitlin Rockett Special Editions Editor, Emma Murray Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Rob Brezsny, Michael J. Casey, Gavin Dahl, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Sarah Haas, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Michael Krumholtz, John Lehndorff, Amanda Moutinho, Carolyn Oxley, Brian Palmer, Noël Phillips, Mollie Putzig, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Ryan Syrek, Mariah Taylor, Gregory Thorson, Christi Turner, Betsy Welch, Tom Winter, Gary Zeidner Interns, Tiffany Bergeron, Veronika Shemigon SALES AND MARKETING Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executive, Julian Bourke Market Development Manager, Kellie Robinson Marketing Manager, Devin Edgley Advertising Coordinator, Olivia Rolf Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Assistant to the Publisher Julia Sallo CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 18-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo Cover art, Jeff Drew February 22, 2018 Volume XXV, Number 29 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2018 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Highroad Exposing our ‘populist’ president as a naked plutocrat by Jim Hightower
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ave you noticed that Donald Trump constantly prefaces his outlandish lies with such phrases as: “To be honest with you,” “To tell the truth,” and “Believe me”? Why? Because like a snake-oil salesman, he constantly needs to convince himself that he’s speaking the truth in order to perform his next lie convincingly. The show must go on... and on. In fact, he already ranks as the lyingest president in U.S. history. And that includes Nixon! Trump’s biggest whopper is that
he’s an honest-toGod “populist,” standing up for America’s hard-hit middle class against Wall Street, corporate lobbyists and moneyed elites. This prevarication has duped many working stiffs into thinking he’s their champion. The huckster doubleddown on this lie in his inaugural address last year, pompously declaring, “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” That’s why a new, straight-talking pamphlet by the watchdog group Public Citizen is so important. It exposes the “people’s champion” as a rank fraud who has pushed, from day one, to further enrich and empower the corporate elites he had denounced as a
For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.
candidate. Public Citizen’s report documents with concise, easy-to-grasp specifics on how Trump-the-faux-populist has systematically sold out the working families whose votes he cynically swiped, handing our government to a kakistocracy of corporate plutocrats. It’s not merely that he’s an irredeemable liar, but that Trump himself is a lie. The Public Citizen exposé is titled “Forgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Middle Class,” and it drives the stake of truth through the heart of his populist pretensions. Don’t just read it — use it like a Thomas Paine pamphlet to spread the truth. To download a free copy, go to CorporatePresidency.org/forgotten. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 22 , 2018 5
the anderson files Coors, Fox, Watergate and Trump... Oh my! by Dave Anderson
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ox News personality Geraldo Rivera recently told network host Sean Hannity that President Nixon would have survived the Watergate scandal if Fox News had been on the air at the time. Hannity was hyperventilating on his radio show about how Trump is being persecuted by the FBI, the Justice Department and Bob Mueller. His guest, Rivera, chimed in with these intriguing remarks: “Nixon never would have been forced to resign if you existed in your current state back in 1972, ’73, ’74. ... It’s too bad for Nixon, because nobody like you existed then. I say that because I believe that our prime responsibility now is to unshackle the 45th president of the United States.” As it turns out, the Nixon White House was attempting to create an entity such as Fox News. In 2011, Gawker uncovered a 1970 document by Nixon aides entitled “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News.” It was a partisan, pro-Republican news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House that would counter the “censorship” of the supposedly liberal mainstream media and deliver prepackaged proNixon news to local television stations. It didn’t get off the ground. But a few years later, Boston investment banker and former ABC Radio president Robert Pauley decided to create a rightwing TV news service, which would sell fully produced video packages to local stations. Pauley had been an enthusiastic supporter of Barry Goldwater and a member of the John Birch Society (a group which claimed that Communists controlled liberal and even moderate politicians as well as the civil rights movement and labor unions). Pauley approached Colorado beer baron Joe Coors for money. Gabe Sherman notes, “Coors represented a new breed of conservative philanthropist — ideologically rigid, religiously fervent, immensely wealthy — who poured millions into bringing about a right-wing revival that braided the strands of Christianity, nationalism and free market economics into a political force.” With millions from Coors, Television News Incorporated (TVN)
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was established. Joe said he was bankrolling the enterprise because, “network news is slanted to the liberal-left side of the spectrum and does not give a balanced view to the American public.” He hired seven experienced print and broadcast journalists. Dick Graf, who had been the news director of WNBC TV in New York, became TVN’s news director. He told Coors, “There will be days when I’ll put pieces on the air that will make your flesh crawl because of your personal beliefs. But I’ll be doing it because of my professional news judgment, and I’ll play them down the middle.” Coors replied, “That’s what we want you to do.” Coors had his political assistant, Jack Wilson, monitor TVN’s content for him. Before TVN went on the air, Wilson gathered numerous story ideas from conservative legislators on Capitol Hill. Graf resisted these suggestions. Soon Wilson and Coors wrote him that his coverage, “requires a more balanced presentation of the news than the service has thus far exhibited.” Wilson sent angry memos. He told Graf that TVN shouldn’t cover a press conference by the American Civil Liberties Union because the ACLU is, “generally recognized as the legal arm of the extreme left if not the Communist Party.” He asked why should Graf interview an associate of Martin Luther King when everyone knew King, “was an avowed communist revolutionary.” Coors was also upset. “Why are you covering Daniel Ellsberg? He’s a traitor to this country,” he yelled at Graf. At a board meeting, Coors said Graf ’s news instincts were “socialistic.” Coors fired Graf and made Wilson the president of TVN. “I hate Dan Rather,” Wilson complained. “I hate all these network people. They’re destroying the country. We have to unify the country. TVN is the moral cement.” Most of the network-trained journalists were purged. They decided to hire a young public relations consultant named Roger Ailes as the news director. He had never been a journalist. He was a Republican political operative best known for transforming the image of Richard Nixon in the 1968 campaign. He had been see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7
letters On the Democratic establishment
I very much appreciate the decisionforming information in Joel Dyer’s editorial (Re: “For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet,” Dyertimes, Feb. 15, 2018) regarding the candidacy of Joe Neguse without agreeing with what seems to be your conclusion that every establishment-wing Democrat listed on his website is an enemy of the people and the planet and should have a target on their backs. I read your paper every week and your underlying editorial belief seems to be that the “establishment” Democrats stole the Presidency from Bernie, and that a blue wave of Democratic wins are a given in 2018 unless the “establishment” Democrats screw it up again by being hypocritical idiots. That very well may be the whole truth, but the stakes are so high in 2018, I would ask that you consider another possibility. Maybe it is complicated, and the imperfect human beings that make up the Democratic party have many drivers, one of which is trying to make government work for people and the planet using the structures of our political system that are very, very flawed, while the democratic institutions those systems are holding up are under assault. Money and power are being consolidated towards authoritarianism in many ways, including by weaponizing information, with salacious distractions, by discrediting any institutional checks on power, and by sowing hatred, blame and divisiveness among the 99 percent. Once the latter are adequately stoked, they can proliferate on their own among good, caring people fueled by anger and fear. These are dire times, and I hope that
while we still can, we each get involved and support primary candidates that align with our every issue and reach for our greatest ideals, and in the general election we wholeheartedly support the candidate that could be responsive to the electorate and provide thoughtful leadership, all the while recognizing the need to change the gerrymandered, moneyed, winner-take-all, Electoral College system to strengthen and defend our democracy. Barbara Bradley/Boulder
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hired him to start Fox News. He gave us horror stories of America-inperpetual-crisis: rising racial conflict, a war on Christmas, unchecked immigration, Benghazi. Now we don’t have to tune in because we have a president who repeats the Fox News horror stories in his tweets every morning. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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percent affordable housing or to provide proportionate funding for such housing. Goldberg supports incentives for developers; incentives for developers were adopted in 2011 to replace “inclusionary housing,” but incentives have not produced any affordable housing since then. 2) Fracking: Both candidates say they are opposed to fracking in the urban area. Waters has specific ideas for new local regulation of underground flow lines and fees for associated water and noise pollution. Goldberg’s softer idea was to negotiate with oil and gas industry representatives; he also stated that fracking problems should be addressed on a state level. 3) Renewable Energy: Waters proposes that the city be a standard bearer for developing new methods of energy use, such as providing infrastructure for electric cars, for a future that will be less dependent on oil and gas. Goldberg could only say that he supports hybrid cars and education to make the city friendly to renewable energy. 4) Land Use: Waters recognizes that urbanization and its impacts on agricultural lands are serious issues arising with Longmont’s growth. He suggests that land use codes need to be updated to correspond with Envision Longmont, our new comprehensive plan, with Planning and Zoning (PZ) leading the way for land use to correspond to a bigger vision of our future. Goldberg merely suggests that PZ hear more from the public about where to preserve agricultural lands. Goldberg’s sojourn on the Planning Commission has been accompanied by little restraint on developers. Gravel mining is being allowed on stream-adjacent lands that are currently zoned agricultural. Conversion of agricultural lands to concrete will increase flooding problems and diminish the quality of the landscapes we have enjoyed. New developments are allowed to be built to butt-up to schools, thus increasing traffic and diminishing safety for students. These are reasons enough to vote for Tim Waters for City Council from Ward 1. Edna Loehman/Longmont
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed discrimination charges, saying that the company had, “intentionally engaged in unlawful employment practices” for 10 years against blacks, women and Hispanics. The confirmation fight went on for 14 months. Ailes would go back to campaign work for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In 1996, Rupert Murdoch
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questions about Coors’ ownership of TVN. They forced him to admit he supported, “the thoughts and ideas” of the far right John Birch Society and had given the organization $6,000. The National Council of Hispanic Citizens and the G.I. Forum (a Chicano veterans group) testified about the racist practices of the Coors company. At the same time, the Equal Employment
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Destroyer For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now that decision threatens to destroy them Story by Daniel Walters, Illustrations by Jeff Drew
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s with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror — and maybe a little bit of relief. That’s the spot that Facebook has put much of the news business in. Last month, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even more posts from their friends and family, and a lot fewer from media outlets. The move isn’t all that surprising. Ever since the 2016 U.S. election, Facebook’s been under siege for creating a habitat where fake news stories flourished. Their executives were dragged before Congress last year to testify about how they sold ads to Russians who wanted to influ10 February 22, 2018
ence the election, and so, in some ways, it’s simply easier for them to get out of the news business altogether. But for the many news outlets that have come to rely on Facebook funneling readers to their sites, the impact of a separation sounds catastrophic. “The End of the Social News Era?” a New York Times headline asked. “Facebook is breaking up with news,” an ad for the new BuzzFeed app proclaimed. When a giant like Facebook takes a step — until recently, the social media site had been sending more traffic to news outlets than Google — the resulting quake can cause an entire industry to crumble. Consumers, meanwhile, have grimaced as their favorite media outlets have stooped to sensational headlines to lure Facebook’s web traffic. They’ve become disillusioned by Boulder Weekly
the flood of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have run rampant on the site. A Knight Foundation/Gallup poll released last month revealed that only one-third of Americans had a positive view of the media. About 57 percent said that websites or apps using algorithms to determine which news stories readers see was a major problem for democracy. Two-thirds believed the media being “dramatic or too sensational in order to attract more readers or viewers” was a major problem. Now, sites that rely on Facebook’s algorithm have watched the floor drop out from under them when the algorithm is changed — all while Facebook has gobbled up chunks of print advertising revenue. It’s all landed many media outlets in a hell of a quandary: It sure seems like Facebook is killing journalism. But can journalism survive without it? “Traffic is such a drug right now,” says Sean Robinson, a 53-year-old investigative reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune. “The industry is hurting so bad that it’s really hard to detox.”
You won’t believe what happens next It’s perhaps the perfect summation of the internet age: a website that started because a college kid wanted to rank which coeds were hottest became a global goliath powerful enough to influence the fate of the news industry itself. When Facebook first launched its “News Feed” in 2006, it ironically didn’t have anything to do with news. At least, not how we think of it. This was the website that still posted a little broken-heart icon when you changed your status from “In a Relationship” to “Single.” The News Feed was intended to be a list of personalized updates from your friends. When Facebook was talking about “news stories,” it meant, in the words of Facebook’s announcement, like “when Mark adds Britney Spears to his Favorites or when your crush is single again.” But in 2009, Facebook introduced its iconic “like” button. Soon, instead of showing posts in chronological order, the News Feed began showing you the popular posts first. And that made all the difference. Facebook didn’t invent going viral — grandmas with AOL accounts were forwarding funny emails and chain letters when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was still in grade school — but its algorithm amplified it. Well-liked posts soared. Unpopular posts simply went unseen. Google had an algorithm too. So did YouTube. Journalists were given a new directive: If you wanted readers to see your stories, you had to play by the algorithm’s rules. Faceless, mystery formulas had replaced the stodgy newspaper editor as the gatekeeper of information. So when the McClatchy Company — a chain Boulder Weekly
that owns 31 daily papers including the Tacoma News Tribune and the Bellingham Herald — launched its reinvention strategy last year, knowing how to get Facebook traffic was central. “Facebook has allowed us to get our journalism out to hundreds of millions more people than it would have otherwise,” says McClatchy’s Vice President of News Tim Grieve, a fast-talking former Politico editor. “It has forced us, and all publishers, to sharpen our game to make sure we’re writing stories that connect with people.” With digital ad rates tied to web traffic, the incentives in the modern media landscape could be especially perverse: Write short, write lots. Pluck heartstrings or stoke fury. In short, be more like Upworthy. A site filled with multi-sentence emotion-baiting headlines, Upworthy begged you to click by promising that you would be shocked, outraged or inspired — but not telling you why. (One example: “His first 4 sentences are interesting. The 5th blew my mind. And made me a little sick.”) By November of 2013, Upworthy was pulling in 88 million unique visitors a month. With Facebook’s help, the formula spread. The McClatchy-owned Bellingham Herald headlined a short crime story about the arrest of a carjacker this way: “Four people, two cars, one gun. What happens next?” A short Herald story asking for tips about a recent spree of indecent exposure was headlined, “She was looking at her phone, but the man wanted her to watch him masturbate.” Even magazines like Time and Newsweek — storied publications that sent photojournalists to war zones — began pumping out articles like, “Does Reese Witherspoon Have 3 Legs on Vanity Fair’s Cover?” and “Trump’s Hair Loss Drug Causes Erectile Dysfunction.” Newsweek’s publisher went beyond clickbait; the magazine was actually buying traffic through pirated video sites, allegedly engaging in ad fraud. On Monday Feb. 5, Newsweek senior writer Matthew Cooper resigned in disgust after several Newsweek editors and reporters who’d written about the publisher’s series of scandals were fired. He heaped contempt on an organization that had installed editors who “recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness” and left him “despondent not only for Newsweek but for the other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall.” Mathew Ingram, who covers digital media for Columbia Journalism Review, says such tactics might increase traffic for a while. But readers hate it. Sleazy tabloid shortcuts gives you a sleazy tabloid reputation. “Short-term you can make a certain amount of money,” Ingram says. “Long-term you’re basically setting fire to your brand.” One strategy throughout the industry is to down-
play the location of a story: readers in other markets are more likely to click if they don’t know it happened thousands of miles away. Robinson, the veteran Tacoma News Tribune reporter, says local cops have complained about crime stories from elsewhere that were being shared on Facebook by local TV stations without context — worrying local readers were being misled into thinking they happened in Tacoma. Grieve, the McClatchy executive, says that he doesn’t ever want to sensationalize a story. But he also says that “internet and social media are noisy places,” and papers have to sell their stories aggressively to be heard over the din. “If you’re writing stories that aren’t getting read,” Grieve says, “you’re not a journalist — you’re keeping a journal.”
Clickbait and switch Plenty of media outlets have tried to build their business on the foundation of the News Feed algorithm. But they quickly got a nasty surprise: That foundation can collapse in an instant. As Facebook’s News Feed became choked with links to Upworthy and its horde of imitators, the social network declared war on clickbait. It tweaked its algorithms, which proved catastrophic for Upworthy. “It keeps changing,” Ingram says, “Even if the algorithm was bad in some way, at least if it’s predictable, you could adapt.” A 2014 Time magazine story estimated that two to three global algorithm tweaks on Facebook were happening every week. Six years ago, for example, KHQ, a TV news station in Spokane, Washington, told readers they’d have “an ENTIRE day here on FB dedicated to positive local news” if the post got liked 500 times. It worked. The post got more than 1,200 likes, and KHQ followed through with a puppy-picture-laden “Feel Good Friday!!!” Under the current Facebook algorithm that tactic could get their entire page demoted. So could using shameless “you-won’t-believe-what-happened-next” style phrases. Much of the time, Facebook and Google don’t announce their shifts up front. Media outlets often have had to reverse-engineer the changes, before issuing new commands to their troops in the field. “Oh, they changed their algorithm again?” Robinson says. “Oh, what is it today, coach? OK, it’s 50-word [headlines] instead of 60?” A pattern emerged. Step 1: Media outlets reinvent themselves for Facebook. Step 2: Facebook makes that reinvention obsolete. Big publishers leaped at the chance to publish “Instant Articles” directly on Facebook, only to find that the algorithm soon charged, rewarding videos more than posts and rendering Instant Articles largely obsolete. So publishers like Mic.com, Mashable and Vice News “pivoted to video,” laying off dozens of journalists in the process. “Then Facebook said they weren’t as interested in video anymore,” Ingram says. “Classic bait and switch.” Which brings us to the latest string of announcements: The News Feed, Zuckerberg announced last month, had skewed too far in the direction of social See FACEBOOK Page 12
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video posts from national media pages and too far away from personal posts from friends and family. They were getting back to their roots. And now, news organizations who’d dumped a lot of money into eye-catching pre-recorded video would suffer the most under the latest algorithm changes, Facebook’s News Feed VP Adam Mosseri told TechCrunch last month, because “video is such a passive experience.” Even before the announcement, news sites had seen their articles get fewer and fewer hits from Facebook. Last year, Google once again became the biggest referrer of news traffic as Facebook referrals decreased. Many sites published tutorials pleading with their readers to manually change their Facebook settings to guarantee the site’s appearance in their news feeds. “Some media outlets saw their [Facebook] traffic decline by as much as 30 to 40 percent,” Ingram says. “Everybody knew something was happening, but we didn’t know what.” It might be easy to mock those who chased the algorithm from one trend to another with little to show for it. But the reality, Ingram says, is that many of them didn’t really have a choice. “You pretty much have to do something with Facebook,” Ingram says. “You have to. It’s like gravity. You can’t avoid it.” Zuckerberg’s comments that stories that sparked “meaningful social interactions” would do the best on Facebook caused some to scoff. “For Facebook, it’s bad if you read or watch content without reacting to it on Facebook. Let that sink in for a moment,” tech journalist Joshua Topolsky wrote at The Outline. “This notion is so corrupt it’s almost comical.” In subsequent announcements, Facebook gave nervous local news outlets some better news: They’d rank local community news outlets higher in the feed than national ones. They were also launching an experiment for a new section called “Today In,” focusing on local news and announcements, beta-testing the concept in cities like Olympia. But in early tests, the site seemed to have trouble determining what’s local. Seattle Times reporter Joe O’Sullivan noted on Twitter that of the five stories featured in a screenshot of Facebook’s Olympia test, “NONE OF THEM ARE OLYMPIA STORIES. ZERO.” The Seattle Times and other outlets say they’re taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the latest algorithm, analyzing how the impact shakes out before making changes. They’ve learned to not get excited.
“It just, more and more, seems like Facebook and news are not super compatible,” says Shan Wang, staff writer at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. At least not for real news. For fake news, Facebook’s been a perfect match.
Faking it There was a time Facebook was positively smug about their impact on the world. After all, they’d seen their platform fan the flames of popular uprisings during the Arab Spring in places like Tunisia, Iran and Egypt. “By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible,” Zuckerberg bragged in a 2012 letter to investors under the header, “we hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.” And Facebook certainly has — though not the way it intended. A BuzzFeed investigation before the 2016 presidential election found that “fake news” stories on Facebook, hoaxes or hyperpartisan falsehoods actually performed better on Facebook than stories from major trusted outlets like the New York Times. That, experts speculated, is another reason why Facebook, despite its massive profits, might be pulling back from its focus on news. “As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it’s being used in unforeseen ways with societal repercussions that were never anticipated,” writes Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, in a recent blog post. The exposure was widespread. A Dartmouth study found about one-fourth of Americans visited at least one fake-news website — and Facebook was the primary vector of misinformation. While researchers didn’t find fake news swung the election — though about 80,000 votes in three states is a pretty small margin to swing — the effect has endured. Donald Trump has played a role. He snatched away the term used to describe hoax websites and wielded it as a blunderbuss against the press, blasting away at any negative reporting as “fake news.” By last May, a Harvard-Harris poll found that almost two-thirds of voters believed that mainstream news outlets were full of fake news stories. The danger of fake news, after all, wasn’t just that we’d be tricked with bogus claims. It was that we’d be pummeled with so many different contradictory stories, with so many different angles, the task of trying to sort truth from fiction Boulder Weekly
just becomes exhausting. engagement. Outrage does. Facebook’s Trending Topics.) So you choose your own truth. Or Facebook’s “Meaningful social interactions” is a hard concept Instead, to determine the quality of news sites, algorithm chooses it for you. for algorithms to grasp. Facebook is rolling out a two-question survey about Every time you like a comment, chat or click on “It’s like getting algorithms to filter out porn,” whether users recognized certain media outlets, and Facebook, the site uses that to figure out what you Ingram says. “You and I know it when we see it. [But] whether they found them trustworthy. The problem, actually want to see: It inflates your own bubble, proalgorithms are constantly filtering out photos of as many tech writers pointed out, is that a lot of tecting you from facts or opinions with which you women breastfeeding.” Facebook users, like Trump, consider the Washington might disagree. Facebook hasn’t wanted to push beyond the algoPost and the New York Times to be “fake news.” And when it does expose you to views from the rithm and play the censor. In fact, it’s gone in the The other problem? There are a lot fewer trustother side, it’s most likely going to be the worst exam- opposite direction. After Facebook was accused of worthy news sources out there. And Facebook bears ples, the trolls eager to make people mad online, or suppressing conservative news sites in its Trending some of the blame for that, too. the infuriating op-ed that all your friends are sharing. Topics section in 2016, it fired its human editors. A version of this article first appeared in the That’s partly why many of the 3,000 Facebook ads (Today, conspiracy theories continue to show up in Inlander. that Russian trolls bought to influence the election weren’t aimed at promoting Trump directly. They were aimed at inflaming division in American life by focusing on such issues as race and religion. In all, Russian Facebook posts reached 126 million Americans. Facebook has tried to address the fake news problem — hiring fact checkers to examine stories, slapping “disputed” tags on suspect claims, putting counterpoints in related article boxes — but with mixed results. The recent Knight Foundation/ Gallup poll, meanwhile, found that those surveyed believed that the broader array of news sources actually made it harder to stay well-informed. And those who grew up soaking in the brine of social media aren’t necessariu u u ly better at sorting truth from fiction. Far from it. u u u “Overall, young people’s ability to u u reason about the information on the internet can be summed up in one word: u bleak,” Stanford researchers concluded in a 2016 study of over 7,800 students. More than 80 percent of middle schoolAurora Find Out if Regenerative Medicine Boulder ers surveyed didn’t know the difference February 27th at 12:00 & 7:00 March 13th at 12:00 & 6:30 between sponsored content and a news is Right for You! Castle Rock Longmont article. March 20th at 12:00 & 7:00 March 13th at 3:00 SAFE • ETHICAL • EFFECTIVE It’s why groups like Media Literacy DTC Denver Regenerative medicine is now available locally and can April 3rd at 1:00 & 6:00 February 27th at 12:00 & 6:30 Now have successfully pushed legislaeffectively reduce and even eliminate your pain without Englewood tures in states like Washington to put Lakewood surgery or addictive medications. Regenerative medicine March 6th at 1:00 & 6:00 March 20th at 12:00, 3:00 & 6:30 media literacy programs in schools. uses amniotic tissue cells to regenerate and repair tissues in Englewood Littleton That includes teaching students how March 6th at 1:00 & 6:30 your body that are damaged due to injury, age, disease, and February 27th at 1:00 & 6:00 information was being manipulated defects. Stem cells have the power to go to these damaged Westminster behind the scenes, says the organization’s March 6th at 1:00 & 6:30 areas, generate new cells and rebuild the area. president Erin McNeill. “With Facebook, for example, why am I seeing this story on the top of the page?” she asks. “Is it because it’s the See Chicago Football Editor and most important story, or is it because of Former Announcer of the Chicago another reason?” Bears Testimonial in the Stem Cell But Facebook’s new algorithm Institute Documentary threatens to make existing fake news on website below! problems even worse, Ingram says. By focusing on friends and family, it could strengthen the filter bubble even further. Rewarding “engagement” can just as easily incentivize the worst aspects of the internet. You know what’s really good at getting engagement? Hoaxes. Conspiracy theories. Idiots who start fights in comments sections. Nuance doesn’t get
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It takes a village... of idiots by Joel Dyer
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try to “sell our journalism aggressively” because social media is such a “noisy place.” We understand that trying to shout louder than everyone else in a really noisy place only accomplishes one thing: the
place simply gets noisier. On the previous pages, the executive from the McClatchy newspaper chain says, “If you’re writing stories that aren’t getting read, you’re not a journalist — you’re keeping a journal.” And to that I say, what a complete idiot. By that news executive’s measure, a 3,000-word expose on the corrupting power of PAC money (read: anti-clickbait) is less an example of journalism than a titillating 500word piece about an Olympic skater’s costume fail titled,
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“She showed us more than she bargained for.” Seriously, this guy is a perfect example of the industry’s visionless executives who have hastened the demise of the mainstream news industry at least as much as Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial platform. The news industry isn’t failing because of unpredictable changes to algorithms. It’s failing because it has replaced its responsibility to our democracy with a clickbaiting-for-dollars business model while simultaneously gutting its editorial staffs. Zuckerberg may have handed the mainstream news industry the gun, but it’s the thoughtless executives at the top who have put it to their head and pulled the trigger. But there’s plenty of blame to go around for how we got here. If you get your “news” primarily from Facebook... there’s a good chance you’re helping to drive our democracy to the brink. It’s not that you’re a bad person, it’s just that your opinions about what’s best for our country have likely been shaped by a good deal of inaccurate or completely false information. I’m not saying you are unintelligent. Anyone who believes that they are not susceptible to the power of sustained exposure to propaganda is simply ignorant of how our brains work. If you’ve been trapped in a selfaffirming Facebook feedback loop, red or blue, you are a victim. But even so, it appears that it was Facebook’s victims from all across the political spectrum who made our country susceptible to the Russian attack that has imperiled our nation and given us President Donald J. Trump. Thanks to Vladimir Putin, we now know the dark side of Facebook news. The short version: Russia uses the platform to feed our worst prejudices, left and right. It gives us false information in the form of news we want to believe and then it encourages folks from both sides to show up for a protest or rally at the same street corner at the same time. And when all hell breaks loose as a result, Russia’s fake news has created a real news story of violence and strife that then helps tear our country apart. I’ve got to say, it’s nothing short of genius. But it’s also our own fault for trusting the flow of critical news information into our lives to a soulless platform designed to generate profit by telling college students which coeds are the hottest. What the hell is wrong with us? Are we really this lazy and undiscerning? Does it take a village of idiots to destroy a democracy? Apparently so. It is the news industry’s decision to overhype every hateful, ignorant word out of Trump’s mouth in its effort to chase the magic algorithms that have made it nearly impossible for folks to tell the difference between their “real news” and Facebook’s ocean of “fake news.” What we need is more “responsible” news, otherwise it all starts to look the same. If the McClatchy guy is right, then to save our democracy we need way less “journalism” and far more journalists keeping journals. But we also need an electorate that’s able to tell the difference and willing to seek out the latter. We all have to try harder. Boulder Weekly
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JeffCo School District suspends field trips to Rocky Flats by Josh Schlossberg
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tudents attending Jefferson County Public Schools aren’t likely to be going on any field trips to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, 4,883 acres of open space surrounding the former nuclear weapons facility site 10 miles south of Boulder. On Feb. 8, JeffCo Superintendent Jason Glass sent a memo to school staff stating that, “out of an abundance of caution for our students, I am hereby directing staff to schedule no visits to the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge without requesting prior approval from my office.” While the Refuge is already open to guided tours, by the summer of 2019 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) intends to begin construction of a visitor center and 20 miles of trails fully accessible to the public. The memo came on the heels of a Jan. 10 meeting between Glass and the Rocky Flats Technical Group, a collection of experts — including University of Colorado Boulder Professor Emeritus of Biology Dr. Harvey Nichols, chemist Anne Fenerty, Gale Biggs, Ph.D., and Jon Lipsky, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who led the 1989 raid on Rocky Flats — focusing on the public health implications of opening the Refuge to recreation. “There are enough safety concerns because it is an unremediated plot of land, that I applaud the school district for taking a cautious approach concerning the issue,” says Elizabeth Panzer, who lives in an Arvada housing development just outside the Refuge and whose three sons attend JeffCo schools. Long involved with school politics, Boulder Weekly
her concerns with Rocky Flats arose after her middle son, now 14, was diagnosed with a “very rare heart cancer.” She became even more worried when a neighbor succumbed to a similar heart cancer. JeffCo joins Boulder Valley, St. Vrain, Adams 12, Adams County and Westminster school districts, all of which have opted out of school-sponsored trips to the Refuge over the last year. The decisions follow in the wake of years of advocacy from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, Rocky Flats Right to Know, Rocky Flats Downwinders, Candelas Glows and Keep Kids Off Rocky Flats, which has an ongoing petition on Change.org. While Glass’ memo amounts to a virtual ban on Rocky Flats visits, it made no definitive statements about the risks of visiting the site, saying there are “compelling points and evidence that have been provided by all sides of this debate” and that it is outside the “professional capacity of the school district to make any sort of definitive scientific judgment on this matter.” Colorado Public Department of Health and Environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the USFWS all admit that Refuge lands are contaminated with plutonium from the manufacture of nuclear weapons, yet at levels low enough to ensure the safety of visitors — with less than a one in a million risk of developing cancer. Critics, on the other hand, contend that there is no safe level of exposure to plutonium and the drawbacks of visiting the Refuge far outweigh the benefits.
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Hive in 130-year-old trunk relocated from Westminster town center by John Loughran
Chad Street, a Longmont arborist and bee keeper, helps Westminster save bees residing in cottonwoods that are being removed to make way for the new town center and mall.
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n a gray January morning, Chad Street stands in the dry Allen Ditch along 88th Street in front of what will soon become the new Westminster town center and mall. He pokes his head inside a foot-wide cavity in the standing trunk of a 130-year-old cottonwood, home to as many as 40,000 feral
black bees. “That should be the one main entrance,” he says. “You can see the comb. They should be super, super calm. Above 40 to 50 degrees, and they’ll start flying.” Street rolls up a section of black screen material and carefully pushes it into the cavity. He then opens up the 3-by-3-foot screen and begins to staple it around the perimeter of the hollow opening. Cranes swing overhead, construction vehicles sound warnings and steel workers pound beyond the construction fence while traffic whizzes past — all oblivious to the rescue efforts underway. Street, arborist and owner of Longmont-based Bees and Trees, was called in by City of Westminster Forester John Kasza to save the bees residing in the hollow stump, slated for removal in order to create an alleyway into the mall. The 10,000-pound stump, which stands about 12 feet high with a girth of 8 feet, is part of a row of old cottonwoods that have been growing along the ditch for the past 130 years. When the city purchased the property five years ago, the original plan was to clear out all of the mature cottonwoods, Kasza says. See BEES IN TREES Page 18
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“This is going to become the downtown Westminster never had,” he explains. Looking up at the dark branches extending into the gray sky, Kasza says he believes there are additional hives and wildlife up in the hollows of the remaining cottonwoods. “In the next tree over, we have a hawk’s nest,” he says. So, as the old mall comes down to make way for the new, Kasza says the City has taken extra effort to try to save the trees and hives “just to be good stewards of the land and animals.” Street and fellow arborist Dennis Shea proceed to cut off the protruding branches on opposite sides of the broad stump to reduce its weight and girth. The bees “won’t like the sound (of the chain saws) and the fact that we’re cutting into their home,” Street says. One section of the tree after another falls heavily to the ground and rolls into the ditch. Meanwhile, the bees and Street, who says he’s probably been stung 1,000 times (about 100 times each season) remain nonplussed. “Generally, if you’re calm, they’re calm,” he says. According to Street, the feral bees inside are most likely German black bees that escaped managed hives and became naturalized over time. “German black bees were the first honeybees that had been brought to North America,” he says. Although there are about 900 native bee varieties found in Colorado, “No honey bees — European honey bees — are native to North America,” he says. “The darker the bee, the more natural it is.” As Shea continues taking wedgeshaped cuts out of the high side of the stump, Street, standing in the ditch, makes several small cuts with the tip of his chain saw blade probing into the center of the hollow trunk. He esti-
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think I’m in Raleigh-Durham.” It’s 11 a.m. in North Carolina, but Todd Park Mohr sounds a little tired over the phone. No judgment, though: It’s February, and Big Head Todd and the Monsters have been on the road since early October, a few breaks tossed in around the holidays. But Mohr and company — Rob Squires on bass, Brian Nevin on drums and Jeremy Lawton on keys — are old salts when it comes to touring. It’s in their blood. It’s what they do. It’s how they’ve traversed three decades as a cohesive unit, and how they’ve maintained a loyal following the whole way. It all started in the late ’80s with the original trio — Mohr, Squires and Nevin — knocking on the doors of bars and clubs up and down the Front Range looking for gigs. They’d land a gig, make enough money for a little grub and a little gas, then hop in their ’77 mustard-yellow Plymouth van, lovingly dubbed “the Colonel,” and head to the next town. The guys met as teenagers in jazz band at Columbine High School and quickly formed a bond over a shared love of classic rock, blues and R&B. The bond was so strong that Mohr transferred from Colorado State University to join his pals at University of Colorado Boulder so they could keep making music together in college. The band was savvy and hard working from the get-go. They built their following by playing college towns over and over, crashing on couchBoulder Weekly
Big Head Todd and the Monsters will play their 20th show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre this summer, a major perk of being hometown heroes.
es, and ultimately snagging bigger venues each time they’d pass through. Fast forward to 1993 and the boys landed a deal with Giant Records and released their third album, Sister Sweetly, which they recorded at the famed Paisley Park, Prince’s production complex in Minnesota. “One of the funny things about Paisley Park is that in order to work there we needed to sign agreements that we wouldn’t talk to or make eye contact with Prince,” Mohr says. “But NASA/Mark Sowa because we were there every day, I would run into him every day. I’d be playing pinball and he’d pass through the room often when I was playing pinball. This went on for about three months and I never once acknowledged him. I like to think that he thought I was cool because I never acknowledged him.” While we’ll never know if Prince thought Mohr was cool, the album was definitely hip. Sister Sweetly went platinum — right in the sweet spot between the twilight days of hair metal while grunge was still in utero — spawning three Top 25 singles on the Billboard charts. But it wasn’t all sunshine and lollipops as the band found commercial success. The boys felt stifled by the demands of the label, and their discontent was visible. Mohr declined to make a video for the band’s biggest hit, “Bittersweet,” and refused, despite the label’s insistence, to co-write songs with artists he simply didn’t respect. see BIG HEAD TODD Page 22
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The band survived the sale of Giant Records to Warner Bros. just a few years later, weathering a period of extreme creative incompatibility with their new overlords before they were finally, mercifully released from their contract. From then on, Big Head Todd and the Monsters called the shots. They took control of their own marketing and distribution just as the internet began to blossom, and they got back to doing what they do best: touring. “I think the music business has a lot of positive in it and some negatives,” Mohr says. “The way that the music business used to be ... there were mid-level careers because labels were interested in growing bands, realizing that bands just didn’t appear on day one. So these days it’s like there’s no middle class; there’s giant bands and small groups. I would say that’s the bad news. The good news is that there are a lot of small groups that have kind of boutique audiences and I think it’s very viable to have a career like that these days, a smaller career.” While Big Head Todd and the Monsters don’t really fit in with the smallcareer crowd, they’ve certainly developed a cult-like following, if that’s anything like a boutique audience. This year they’ll play their 20th show at Red Rocks Amphitheater, a major benefit of being one of the crown jewels of Colorado’s music scene. The guys do a lot of what Mohr calls “fan-friendly things,” like cruises to Europe and the Caribbean. Connecting with their fans is the lifeblood of Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and the guys don’t take it for granted for even a moment. Today the band’s touring on their 11th studio album, New World Arisin’, a record that makes good on the pioneering promise of its title. Yes, the hallmark blues sound fans know and love is there, but Mohr didn’t shy away from making a record that’s as eclectic as his own taste in music. There’s country rock, a little punk, some funk for good measure, and even a straightforward pop song, with no piece of the puzzle feeling forced into place. Conflict is a recurring theme on the album, with songs like “Glow,” “Wipeout Turn” and “Under Your Wings” examining the ever-raw sensation of love lost, but the message is bigger than that. In general, Mohr says he’s been fixated on the concept of conflict for some time now. “I guess it comes from a couple different sources,” he says. “I’ve gone though a couple divorces, so on a personal level it sort of sent me scrambling to understand how our own conflicts arise, but also ... it seems the world is trapped in conflict. It seems to be repeating itself over and over again. I think it’s not well understood, the relationship between pleasure and conflict. I feel like pleasure is basically winning as far as the brain is concerned. You can’t have a culture of pleasure and expect a life of culture that can make responsible decisions. You just want to win and punch back and that prolongs the problem.” His examination of conflict seems to have landed Mohr in a good place these days. He’s married again, with a 1-year-old daughter and a stepson. He’s a selfproclaimed family man, and he’s blissfully content to spend time at home watching his daughter learn to walk and talk. And as for the band, well, that’s never been better either. “We’ve been part of each other’s lives our whole lives practically, since high school. It’s a marvelous thing to have common goals, to work together, to listen to each other and to achieve those goals together.” It would seem the best is yet to come. Boulder Weekly
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he young composer Orlando di it would have to (16th-century audiLasso wanted to impress Duke ences), because they hadn’t heard what Albrecht V of Bavaria. we’ve heard. To me, it just sounds really The year was approximate- fresh, especially for music of this era. ly 1555, Lasso was in his 20s It’s so original that it’s really interesting and Albrecht was one of the most to do.” important and powerful patrons of If the Lasso is hidden by being music in Europe. Lasso decided to rarely performed, another piece on the write a set of choral pieces — motets program has been completely hidden — on the mystical Christian texts since the 16th century. The motet known as the Prophetiae Sibyllarum Benedicite Omnia by Vecchi was uncov(Sybylline Prophecies) and write in the ered by Eric Harbeson, a CU music most advanced musical Courtesy of Ars Nova Singers techniques of the time: harmonically complex and highly chromatic. It was a way of saying, “Look what I can do!” Because the pieces are difficult, they have not been performed often. This makes them perfect for a concert called “Hidden Masterpieces of the Renaissance,” to be presented by conductor Thomas Edward Morgan and the Ars Nova singers, with the male quintet Solis as guests. The concert will be sung a capella, with no instrumental ON THE BILL: Hidden accompaniment. In addition to music Masterpieces of the Renaissance: Ars Nova Singers, by Lasso, the “hidden masterpieces” Thomas Edward Morgan direcwill include pieces by John Taverner, tor, with Solis. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Johannes Ockeghem, Orazio Vecchi, Feb. 23. Heart of Longmont United Methodist Church, 350 William Byrd and other 16th-century 11th Ave., Longmont. composers. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24. St. “It’s really a significant work in the John Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. history of music,” Morgan says of 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb 25. St. Paul’s Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum. “It’s one Community of Faith, 1600 Grant of the most analyzed Renaissance piecSt., Denver. es in terms of what the possibilities of chromaticism were, and has been described as 16th-century atonality. It’s librarian and member of Ars Nova, in fascinating to see how [far Lasso] was his research on Vecchi’s manuscripts. able to take chromaticism. “He edited a collection of Vecchi’s “It’s a demonstration of being able motets from original sources, and he to move in ways that followed the hasn’t been able to find any evidence of rules, but in a way that other people Benedicite Omnia outside of the original didn’t. It was really to demonstrate his sources,” Morgan says. “It doesn’t exist craft.” anywhere else. We’re fairly confident Fascinating as it is, Lasso’s music that is a piece that hasn’t been heard in doesn’t have the same impact it had 400 years.” when it was written. “You can do all Several pieces have remained the research to recreate the sound, but unknown because they call for an you can’t recreate the listener,” Morgan unusually large number of voices. “It’s explains. “With all its chromaticism, fun to have a group that is able to [it] doesn’t sound as shocking to us as undertake pieces that have multiple Boulder Weekly
voices, because they’re rarely performed,” Morgan says. “I find that music very interesting to listen to, because it creates really rich textures that you don’t get out of four- or fivepart motets.” The largest piece on “Hidden Masterpieces” will be Deo Gratias by Ockeghem, a canon for 36 voices. “That’s a fun piece to do,” Morgan says. “It will end up being one (singer) on each part, since we’re doing the program with 40 or 41 voices.” Another larger piece that Morgan is delighted to present is Lasso’s motet Mira Loquor for two choruses of five voices each. “I found this in my research, and this particular motet is really fascinating,” he says. “It’s a dialogue between St. Bernard and a questioner. One group asks questions like, ‘Bernard, do you not live?’ And the other choir responds, ‘I live.’ ‘Are you silent, or do you speak?’ ‘Both!’ So it goes back and forth between the groups.” Presented as guests on the concert, Solis will perform two works by Vecchi, as well as sacred works by Carlo Gesualdo and Cristóbal de Morales. Made up of a counter-tenor, two tenors, a baritone and bass, Solis has focused on performing the sacred motets by Vecchi, who is better known for his secular madrigals, and other works of the Renaissance. Morgan says, “I think we crafted a program that has a great deal of variety to it. The Lasso pieces, being very chromatic, are spare and the sound changes measure to measure, [whereas] the Ockeghem canon is one measure of harmony that evolves through the whole group. There’s a real contrast between that sharp focus and the full sound of the other pieces.” Morgan suggests that more important than the variety is how the music can transport us beyond our everyday lives. “It’s an opportunity to hear music that is not widely known in the modern world,” he says. February 22 , 2018 25
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nence as early as the silent era. Like Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators (March 13, 4 p.m.), Shalom Bollywood is a lighter story that focuses on the power of images, which is something Hitler’s Hollywood (March 11, 1 p.m.) also does, but from a much darker side of the spectrum. “I’m trying to balance light and dark,” Bernheimer says. “It’s a combination of both wanting variety and also wanting to have some things to talk about throughout the course of the festival.” And there will be plenty to discuss throughout the festival, especially surrounding the topic of inclusion. “That is a deeply embedded mission for the Jewish Community Center,” Bernheimer explains. “Any people who have had the history of persecution we’ve had could not be other than a bastion against any form of prejudice.” BJFF kicks off at the Boulder Jewish Community Center on March 8 with Keep the Change, a New York romanticcomedy starring actors on the autism spectrum. In conjunction with the screening, Bernheimer will highlight dozens of agencies in the community offering resources to anyone living with disabilities. “We’re going into the community to honor that work,” Bernheimer says. “One of the things I hope is that there are some people who come who aren’t plugged into the wonderful resources and see where they might fit.” Where people fit in the community also gets to the heart of another theme found in this year’s festival: Orthodox World in Focus.
Spanning several movies in the festival, Bernheimer sees Orthodox World in Focus as the perfect opportunity to discuss “the other.” “We’re very interested in the other because the Jews have been the other throughout history,” Bernheimer explains. “Even within our own community, we have a group we don’t understand very well necessarily. ... We may have misconceptions or myths or even negative feelings.” To assist with selecting potential speakers for Orthodox World in Focus, Bernheimer recruited Yehudis Fishman, a prominent Orthodox teacher in the community, to provide “a cultural context that invites contemplation.” “I feel that orthodoxy, or traditional practice, is something that’s survived and even thrived through different cultures,” Fishman says. “I think that’s part of the fascination people have.” As Fishman points out, these movies convey traditional practices through a modern medium. She singles out BJFF’s closing night movie, The Wedding Plan, and particularly how writer/director Rama Burshtein conveys orthodox religious beliefs to a younger generation. “I think part of [Burshtein’s] motivation is to try to show the meaningfulness and relevance of what otherwise people would think are old-fashioned traditions and don’t have anything to say to the new generation of Jews,” Fishman says. Be they old or new, each generation can learn something from a movie, even if it’s just a healthy dose of empathy. “That’s always our goal: to foster understanding,” Bernheimer says. “And film is a great, non-threatening way to experience other cultures.”
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Saturday March 3rd
MY BLUE SKY “5TH ANNIVERSARY” SHOW “Allman Brothers tribute”
Sunday March 4th
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Wednesday March 7th
BOURBON & BLUES WITH DEBORAH STAFFORD & THE STATE OF AFFAIRS “Blues”
Thursday March 8th
LUCKY ME! UNPLUGGED Friday March 9th
CITIZEN DAN “STRAIGHT-UP STEELY DAN” “Steely Dan tribute”
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THE JERSEYS “Classic Oldies”
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The Practice of Love and Rage as Tools for Liberation
Lama Rod Owens Introduction by Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Jules Lieb, Owner, Morning Glory Cafe
Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, CO 80301
The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for Buddhist Studies and American Culture & Values & Naropa University’s MA Resilient Leadership/ BA Environmental Studies programs are pleased to host an evening lecture with Lama Rod Owens.
General Public: $25 Naropa Students, Alumni & Faculty: Free
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Rod is the Guiding Teacher for the Radical Dharma Boston Collective, a teacher with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), a visiting teacher with Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Brooklyn Zen Center.
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Matisyahu. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. see EVENTS Page 30
FIRST ANNUAL LYONS CHILL FEST. 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, LaVern M. Johnson Park, 600 Park Drive, Lyons. Chris Hau via Wikimedia Commons
Lyons has just the winter party to lift those February blues. The newly opened ice rink in LaVern M. Johnson Park will be the center of the First Annual Lyons Chill Fest, with free ice skating and rentals, live music, libations, hot coco, snacks and fun activities for the whole family. Local nonprofits and businesses will host booths and activities, and don’t miss the Lyons Polar Bear Club’s “Polar Plunge,” taking place in the adjacent North St. Vrain. For the price of a quick survey, the Lyons Chamber of Commerce will be giving away $5 vouchers. The vouchers are valid at any participating Lyons business and will be redeemable for the remainder of the weekend.
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TRUTH BE TOLD: GRAND STORY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP.
MOUNTAIN MYTHS, A WORLD PREMIER BY MICHAEL UDOW.
7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, Courtesy of Michael Udow 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont.
Who doesn’t love a Pixaby good story? Truth Be Told, Boulder’s beloved story slam, has gathered up the winners from all the slams of 2017 and invited them to face off in the Fifth Annual AllStar Grand Slam Championship at the Dairy Arts Center’s Gordon Gamm Theater. Here’s how it works: Storytellers are given a theme around which to work their story. Stories have to clock in at five minutes tops, and all stories must be true — and told by heart, no notes allowed. What’s different about the Grand Slam is that this time it’s not you telling the stories, it’s the winners from 2017. Your job is to just come, listen and enjoy! The theme for the night is blue.
The Longmont Symphony will present the world premiere performance of Mountain Myths, composed by Longmont resident Michael Udow. Udow was the 2014-15 Composer-in-Residence with the Colorado Chamber Orchestra. He has composed operas, film scores, orchestral and wind ensemble works as well as numerous chamber music and solo compositions. The evening also features Denver-based cellist Matthew Zalkind performing Tchaikovsky’s epic Fourth Symphony, and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1. There will be a free pre-concert talk with conductor Elliot Moore at 6:30 p.m. in the commons area. Adult tickets: $25; senior (60+)/active military: $22; student (12-18 years): $5; child (11 and under): free.
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Thursday, February 22
LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
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3/2 TROUBLE IN THE HEARTLAND 3/3 DIXIE LEADFOOT 3/9 SONIC ARCADE 3/10 WENDY WOO 3/16 Richie Law 3/17
Thumpin’ St. Patrick’s Dance Party!
CU BOULDER EVENTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Can I Make a Podcast?
CU Boulder Surplus Property Auction.
4:30 p.m. Hellems Arts and Sciences, 111, 1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
9 a.m. Distribution Center, 3300 Walnut St., Boulder.
Join the creators of The Elderland Chronicles, Sawyer Macres and Ryan Hoenig for a discussion about production, acting, editing, music, and other aspects of podcasting!
Think! Talk: Sexual Consent and Non-Physical Coercion. 7 p.m. Hellems Arts and Sciences, Hellems 199, 1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. This talk will present and defend a general account of coercion and use that account to help answer the questions raised by cases of non-physical coercion.
Favorite Eclipses of the Past, Present, and the Future. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Join Dr. Doug Duncan as he dramatizes how the total eclipse of 1919 was utilized to prove that Einstein was indeed correct that space can bend in the way we now know produces the extraordinary objects known as black holes. Another talk will be given at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23. Arrive half an hour early.
CU Guitar Festival Winners: Silvui Ciulei, guitar, and Stephen Lochbaum, guitar. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. The winners of the 2017 CU International Guitar Festival Competition, Silvui Ciulei and Stephen Lochbaum, return to Grusin Music Hall for an encore performance.
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Kevin Dooley & Wilson Harwood. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. LTJ Bukem. 11 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.
Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionoshere St., Suite 6, Longmont.
Join us as Jeff and Paige bring “science and nature to life with kid-delighting songs and stories.” The 1 p.m. show is usually less crowded, so if that’s not naptime for you, please consider attending at that time.
Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.
CU on the Weekend: Plants That Unmask Criminals.
Soul Night. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.
1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder. In this lecture, David Norris will describe the many uses of forensic botany in solving crimes.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 An Evening with Dr. Mae Jemison. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Don’t miss astronaut, engineer, entrepreneur, physician and educator, Dr. Mae Jemison, as she comes to CU Boulder to share her perspective on leadership and engages the audience with a question and answer session.
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4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
1 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 1020 18th St., Boulder.
Ethnomusicologist Charlotte Heth presents a lecture celebrating music that promotes excellence, variety, artistry and enrichment. In her talk Professor Heth recognizes cultural values, tolerance and courage in what some have called our “post-fact” society, drawing on examples from musics of the world with an emphasis on American Indian music.
Be moved by dance works that lilt, groove and tumble across a spectrum of styles in this studentproduced and CU Dance Connection-curated series.
Harmony & Brad Live Music. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130 (east side of building), Longmont.
11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
Guest Master Class: Danny Gurwin, voice and acting.
7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. See calendar. colorado.edu for more dates and times through Feb. 25.
Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette.
Mardi Gras Music Night — with Gumbo le Funque. 7:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder.
Distinguished Music Lecture: Charlotte Heth, UCLA.
Danny Gurwin, award-winning director, musical theatre singer and actor and Head of Musical Theatre at the University of Arizona, Tucson, will present a master class for voice students at CU Boulder.
Arthur Lee Land. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.
Jeff & Paige Fun-Filled Concerts for Families.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Open Space: Curated by CU Dance Connection.
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CU Boulder Property Services will hold a public auction of surplus property and equipment including computers, furniture, lab equipment, athletics equipment and more. Items are available for preview beginning at 8 a.m. The auction will begin at 9 a.m.
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Richard Jessor Distinguished Lecture on Health and Society featuring Sir Michael Marmot. 5 p.m. Old Main Chapel, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder. Sir Michael Marmot will present “Social justice, social determinants, and health equity.”
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.
TobyMac’s Hits Deep Tour 2018. 7 p.m. Denver Coliseum, 4600 Humboldt St., Denver. U Rock Live Band Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Wuki. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Events 2018 Boulder Film Festival Opening NightBorg vs McEnroe. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Becks. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. See Dairy Arts Center website for more showings. Between Land and Sea. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. See Dairy Arts Center website for more showings. Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. An Evening in Verona — A Romeo and Juliet Gala. 6 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Flight Performing Arts Dance Class. 10:15 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Holly Arnold Kinney presents Sissy Bear at The Fort. 6 p.m. Denver Women’s Press Club, 1325 Logan St., Denver. Joey Diaz. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. Friday, February 23 Music 2 Dog Tuesday CD Release — with Special Guests The Wendy Clark Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. AJ Fullerton. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. see EVENTS Page 32
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Many mothers want to be the primary caregiver for their children while creating a path that fuels their passions, leaving them fulfilled and confident. Sara Blanchard will speak about and sign her new book, Flex Mom: The Secrets of Happy Stay-At-Home Moms, on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Boulder Book Store.
Ben Guihan. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Kim Tomsic — The 11:11 Wish. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Friday, February 23
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Alex Smith. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Tuesday, February 27
Phoebe Nix and Open Music Night. 8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Saturday, February 24 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Monday, February 26 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Sara Blanchard — Flex Mom. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, February 28 CU MFA Showcase. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Meredith Ann Fuller — Quarry. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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CineCHEF 2018. 5 p.m. Rembrandt Yard Art Gallery, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder. Grant Gordy & Ross Martin. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Groovealicious. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.
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Husky Burnette & Mad Dog. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. J Boog — with Jesse Royal, Etana. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Jon Ridnell Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Julie Stratton. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Lionel Young Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Magic Music Band — Reunion Concert. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. The Pillars of African-American Art Song. 7 p.m. Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, 2401 Welton St., Denver. Rabblefish. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder. Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock. 6 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Suite E, Boulder. Rockabilly Night — with The Von Hodads. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. CineCHEF 2018: Denver vs. Boulder. 5 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder.
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theater Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24. Be More Chill. 7 p.m. CenterStage Theatre at Koko Plaza, 901 Front St., Louisville. Through March 4. Everyman. University Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Through March 4. Fun Home. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 4. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St. Longmont. Through April 8. Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15.
When death comes calling, how will you measure your time on Earth? Everyman is a visceral retelling of a 15th-century morality that begs the world to consider the value of compassion and charity over material possessions and individualism. Show at University Theatre through March 4.
Peter Pan. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through March 24. The Pied Piper of Hamelin — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 3.
The Wyatts. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.
Password: Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.
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Soulz of the Rockies: A History of Hip Hop in Colorado. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
BIFF — Longmont. 5 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, Boulder. Boulder International Film Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
Style. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont.
BIFF Teen Opening Night and Short Film Competition. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
Sunshine James. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder.
Centennial State Ballet. 3 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder.
The Symbols. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Darjeeling Limited Film Screening & FTI Beer Release. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder.
Wind Symphony & Symphonic Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
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Honkeytonk Heartbreak Ball — with The Wyatts. 6:30 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.
Inclusion: A Weekend of Hip Hop — Block Party. 10 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Saturday, February 24 Music 300 Suns’ Fourth Anniversary Party. 12 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Allie Chipkin. 8:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. see EVENTS Page 34
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Endless Places, Present showcases Wopo Holup’s topographical drawings in a posthumous exhibition that illustrates her explorations of vast cartographies. Many of these drawings were created in her studio in Lyons. Showing at BMoCA through May 28.
Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13.
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Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Divided: Race and Identity in Modern America. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through March 24. Drawn to the Figure. Arts Longmont Gallery, West End Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. Through Feb. 24. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22 7:00 PM
LIVE FACULTY TALK: FAVORITE ECLIPSES OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE 9:00 PM
LASER OUTKAST FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 7:00 PM
LIVE FACULTY TALK: FAVORITE ECLIPSES OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE 9:00 PM
LASER GAGA 10:30 PM
LIQUID SKY: CLASSIC RAP 11:59 PM
LASER FLOYD: WELCOME TO THE MACHINE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 1:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
BACK TO THE MOON FOR GOOD 7:00 PM
BELLA GAIA - BEAUTIFUL EARTH 9:00 PM
LASER QUEEN 10:30 PM
LASER OUTKAST 11:59 PM
LASER FLOYD: THE WALL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 12:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 3:00 PM
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BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY
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1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2. Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 6. Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Original Abstract Oil And Mixed Media Paintings — by Kathy Friesz. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory,
Power Of Process, Jefferson County Schools Exhibition. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 1. The Sound of Red. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. They Still Live. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 4. Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Works Of Mixed Media, Digital, Ink And Paint — by Mark Ludy. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2.
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The Bakersfield Band. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents “Beethoven’s Egmont.” 7:30 p.m. Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder. Clay Kirkland’s “Beat the Reaper” XII. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. The Complete Unknowns. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Coop and the Chicken Pluckers. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont Daybreaker Boulder — Bathrobes, Bubbles & Bass. 9 a.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Denver Pops “Myths, Legends, and Tales.” 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Derek Warwick and Guest. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. The Heartstring Hunters. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Jackson Cloud Band. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder. Kerry Pastine & The Crime Scene. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Live Dead & Company Webcast. 5:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland. Longmont Symphony: A Longmont World Premiere. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. Matisyahu. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. The Prairie Scholars — West Texas Soul Music. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock. 5:30 p.m.
UTurn BBQ, 599 Crossing Drive, Lafayette.
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Robert Plant. 8 p.m. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver.
BIFF — Longmont. 11 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, Boulder.
Shambhala Gala. 7 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder.
Bluegrass Pick. Noon. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
Shot in the Dark. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont.
Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette.
Boulder International Film Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
The Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.
Brunch — with Sandy Colfax. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.
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Chandler Holt Live Music. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130 (east side of building), Longmont.
Boulder International Film Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. BIFF Animation Workshop. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Film Screening: The Mayors of Shiprock. 6 p.m. Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1241 Ceres Drive, Lafayette. Inclusion: A Weekend of Hip Hop — Dance Performance. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. NIA 52 Moves. 12 p.m. Longmong Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Wizard of Oz. 11 a.m. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette. Sunday, February 25 Music When One Door Closes. Another Opens Fundraiser. 2 p.m. Open Door Brewing in Prospect New Town, 2030 Ionosphere St., Suite G, Longmont. Alejandro Ziegler Quartet. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Ando Make Songwriter Showcase. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave.,
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Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder. Parent Child Filmmaking Workshop. 9 a.m. Alfalfas Community Room Boulder, 1651 Broadway, Boulder. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? National
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Top picks for BIFF
Four docs and two dramas to see at this year’s fest by Michael J. Casey
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oulder audiences love a good documentary. And from Feb. 22–25, the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) returns to help Boulderites scratch the educational itch with a lineup that holds a little something for everyone. Of the 34 features screening at this year’s festival, 23 are documentaries, including BIFF’s closing night movie, a work in progress from Boulder-based photographer James Balog. Two Trains Runnin’ What does Balog’s latest hold in store for audiences? is a retrospective Hard to say at this point, but if past results are any indidoc about college friends in search cator, then Balog’s latest is sure to capture the city’s of their heros Skip hearts and minds. James and Sun House. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and jump to the end; there’s an awful lot of good in between that would be a shame to miss. Namely, the best movie screening at BIFF: Faces Places (Feb. 23, 10 a.m., Boulder Theater). Yes, this column has droned on long enough about Agnès Varda and JR’s remarkable road trip/art project, but now Boulder audiences have their chance to see this masterpiece on the big screen and experience this Oscar-nominated doc’s charming and life-affirming sensibility first-hand. Moving from the French countryside to the Deep South, Two Trains Runnin’ (Feb. 23, 7:15 p.m., Boulder Theater) is a retrospective documentary about a group of college friends who loved the Delta blues so much they packed up and went in search of their heroes: Skip James and Sun House. The year was 1964, and tracking down two retired musicians from the ’30s was neither an easy nor a welcome task. As the title alludes, there are two narratives at work, the first a recollection of three college buddies working their way through the South, trying to track down their musical idols; the second, the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-’60s. One part memoir, one part history lesFollow Russian son, Two Trains Runnin’ uses archival footage, animarefugee André tion and contemporary interviews to further explore the Tchelistcheff as he shapes the Califorintersection of popular art and the Civil Rights nia wine scene in Movement. Andre: The Voice of Wine. Heading west, we find ourselves basking in the Golden State’s sunshine with a man who saw eternity in a glass of wine, Andre: The Voice of Wine (Feb. 24, 12:15 p.m., First Presbyterian Church). Directed by Mark Tchelistcheff, the grandnephew of the doc’s subject, Andre recounts the life and work of André Tchelistcheff, one of California’s most influential winemakers. After fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, Tchelistcheff found success in the vineyards of France until Georges de Latour of Beaulieu Vineyards (BV) recruited the Russian refugee to shepherd his Napa Valley vineyards in post-prohibition Boulder Weekly
film California. For the next 56 years, Tchelistcheff would not only shape ON THE BILL: The Boulder Californian winemaking techniques, he International Film Festival, Feb. would change the course of wine history 22–25, Multiple venues in Boulder with 1976’s Judgment of Paris — where and Longmont, for times and more information, please visit www.biff1. a California cabernet and a chardonnay com. beat out a Bordeaux and a Burgundy in a blind taste test. From those sun-dappled vineyards, we move to Montana and much darker territory with Dark Money (Feb. 25, 2:45 p.m., Boulder Theater). It’s politics, after all, how uplifting could it be? Directed by Kimberly Reed — who will appear in-person following Sunday’s screening — Dark Money looks at how Montana dealt with the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allows unlimited election donations from completely anonymous donors. Established in 1988, Citizens United is a pro-corporation advocacy Take a look at how Montana dealt group and its shadowy tactics have shaped elections, with the Supreme big and small, ever since. This might seem like rote Court’s Citizens United decision in news to those who keep close eyes on politics, but Dark Money. there are several similarities between Montana and Colorado that makes this doc particularly prescient for local audiences. Dark Money — like Andre, Two Trains Runnin’ and Faces Places — is a wonderful way to learn about the world around us, but these docs are not the only way. Often times, the truth is best conveyed through the lens of a scripted movie, as can be seen in Sally Potter’s The Party (Feb. 23, 2:15 p.m., Boulder Theater). Set in modern-day London and shot in stark black and white, The Party is a rip-roaring collection of backstabbers trying to outdo each other with their own selfishness and entitlement. And it’s a comedy! Racing along at 71 minutes, The Party — both a reference to the dinner party and the political party host Kristin Scott Thomas has recently been elected to — features some of Europe’s finest actors: Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Bruno Ganz and Cherry Jones, spraying truth, vitriol and comedic pettiness. It’s the kind of movie you watch and secretly hope is a fantasy, but deep The Insult is a film down you know it’s as real as the nose on your face. that will stick with you long after its So it goes for The Insult (Feb. 24, 2:30 p.m., First over. Presbyterian Church), Lebanon’s entry for this year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar. Directed by Ziad Doueiri and set in Beirut, The Insult begins with an anti-Palestinian Christian accidentally spilling water on a Muslim construction foreman. No apology is given and though the foreman tries to fix the drainpipe, a sudden aggressive outburst elicits a foul and offensive slur. Both men, harboring deep anger, pain and resentment, dig their heels in and slurs become hate, hate becomes violence and the legal system must intervene. From here, The Insult gives way to a stunning courtroom drama, one that peers beneath the veneer of bigotry and hate, to the horrors of the past. We have all been wronged, the movie posits, but who has been wronged more? It’s a sneaky film; one that builds piece by piece until its larger objective becomes clear and you can’t help but fall under its spell. Not every movie sticks to the ribs, but The Insult is like peanut butter; you’ll carry this one around for some time. Hell, it might even make you see the world from both sides. What a wonderful thought. Boulder Weekly
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he chickens of Bresse, France, are famed. Their iconic blue feet, white body and red comb resemble the French flag, and their meat, grown on thin skeletons in ideal terroir is renowned. So too was French chef Paul Bocuse who passed away last month and who knew, certainly, how to cook one of these chickens. Brasserie Ten Ten pays homage to both of these French culinary icons with its poulet de Bresse Bocuse. It starts not with Bresse chicken but with a Boulder Natural Farm’s product that makes you say “I had no idea chicken could be this good.” To that goes wild mushrooms, spinach, brandy creme, toasted bread crumbs and herbs de Provence. $19.95.
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are “vegan without your having to change anything besides requesting no cheese.” The less-than-inspiring lineup includes Taco Bell’s bean burrito (pico de gallo replacing dairy products); Burger King’s French toast sticks with syrup (no butter); Subway’s veggie delight sub (no cheese or mayo); and various cheese-less veggie pizzas (Domino’s and Pizza Hut). At KFC, the vegan fare runs the gamut from corn on the cob (no butter) and green beans to baked beans, potato wedges and house salads (with non-creamy dressing). In Finland, you can now order a McVegan “burger,” but U.S. McDonald’s patrons choose from black coffee, apple slices, a side salad, and fruit and maple oatmeal (no cream). The list starts with a false assumption that the lack of animal ingredients is the sole factor vegans consider when choosing a place to eat. What about the chain’s record on sustainability, transparency and humane treatment of farm workers and animals? Do they have drivethru windows that encourage pollution? Besides, do vegBoulder Weekly
ans really want to eat at a chain eatery surrounded by people chomping cheeseburgers? Colorado’s many homegrown fastcasual chains do a much better job on many levels than these national chains at serving the needs of vegan and vegetarian diners. At Snarf ’s Sandwiches, all of the vegetarian sandwiches (except for my favorite, eggplant Parmesan) can be served vegan by holding the cheese on the avocado-layered vegetarian or portabello toasted subs. I’m also a fan of the Greek-accented artichoke and feta sub piled with all the veggies. Eating vegan is even easier at Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, where plates, wraps, salads and gyros can be made with falafel or marinated portabello mushrooms plus hummus, baba ghanoush, tabbouleh, salad and tahini. I love the warm, fresh pita and the extracrunchy falafel. The already veggie-friendly Motomaki (an offshoot of Hapa Sushi) recently added two new vegan dishes that can be served as a giant noriwrapped roll or a bowl. The Mean Green includes edamame poke, blanched spinach and other veggies. I’m especially fond of the new Crispy Eggplant, a zesty, filling combination of panko-breaded eggplant, avocado, grilled asparagus, sesame bean sprouts, spicy sprouts, jalapeño, cilantro and yakiniku sauce. You can also make your own vegan roll or bowl combining rice, tofu, avocado, various vegetables, kimchi, crispy onion, mango salsa, Japanese dressings and other ingredients. The mother of all Colorado fast casual operations, Chipotle Mexican Grill, upped its game when it added vegan sofritas: organic tofu braised with chipotle and roasted poblano chilies and spices. It’s such a great flavor you don’t ponder the absence of meat, cheese and sour cream. Build-your-own salads, bowls, burritos or tacos can involve beans, rice, fajita veggies, salsas, guacamole, and, of course, corn chips. Noodles and Company, another longtime local standard-bearer, has always had a wide selection of plantbased dishes. The vegan roster includes Japanese pan noodle and, minus the cheese, penne rosa, whole grain Tuscan fresca and spaghetti with marinara. Red Robin isn’t fast or fast-casual but the chain is notable because you can order a reputable gourmet veggie burger with the classic toppings — hold the sauce and cheese — plus regular or sweet potato fries or, best of all, “bottomless” (and butter-less) steamed broccoli. A final reality check: Vegetarian and vegan fare is much more available now, Boulder Weekly
but according to Datassential, 90 percent of American restaurant menus still include chicken, beef and/or pork dishes. (Did I miss your favorite Boulder County vegan fast food or fast casual dish? Let me know at: nibbles@boulderweekly. com.)
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Debbie and Wayne Anderson of Lyons Fork on a serendipitous life in food by Matt Cortina It was only the latest instance in a long life of serendipity for Debbie and Wayne. It was a perfectly timed meeting that led the two, who had never owned a restaurant, to purchase the building that would become Lyons Fork in the first place. They were living in Lyons and had recently become jobless. But they bumped into the owner of the historic building on the corner of Main and Highway 36, and “next thing you know the ball’s rolling down the street,” Debbie says. “The building itself, the location, to me it’s always been the best spot in town,” Wayne says. “It would be like, that sucks they’re not doing anything with it. We just met the owner at the right time and everything fell into place quickly. It wasn’t so much about owning a restaurant as much as, how cool is that place? What could we do with that place?” And the place is cool. Lyons was founded in 1880, and the building was erected in 1881, originally platted as a saloon. It comes with it’s own legend of a shoot-out and the bullet hole to prove it. It had been a half-hearted restaurant with irregular hours before the Andersons took over, but in a short time, they made it into one of the premier
dining destinations in Boulder County, anchored by a homespun atmosphere, local ingredients and craft beer and spirits. The dip in the floor was fortuitous, but it was almost like the building preserving itself. The business, however, needed some help after the flood, and in the six months they were closed, Debbie doesn’t remember how they made ends meet. Eventually, word got around and members of the community rallied to help raise funds for the cleanup and purchase of new equipment and food. It was an affirmation that the risk they’d taken was appreciated in the community. Debbie says there were conventional jobs they could’ve taken besides buying a building and opening a restaurant, but the “safe” play isn’t in either of their natures. “It seems like I’ve always been in entrepreneur mode,” Wayne says. “I don’t know why I do that to myself.” Probably because the risks have paid off so far. Wayne moved from Georgia to Boulder in 1990, then to Lyons in 1996. He climbed the ladder at Oskar Blues as the company rapidly grew. He also see LYONS FORK Page 46
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moonlighted as a caretaker on a 120-acre farm, despite having never worked on a farm before. “Greenhorn, man,” Wayne says. “He almost burned down a couple houses,” Debbie says. “Pissed off a few neighbors more than once,” Wayne adds. Yet, again, it worked out. Nowadays, the Andersons have been able to grow produce on the farm that makes its way into the restaurant. They also raise pigs, which sometimes end up on their menu one way or another. Debbie hadn’t worked on a farm either when she met Wayne. She grew up in Texas and moved to San Diego because she fell in love with the area on a visit and “figured you’re only young once.” She eventually got a job overseeing distribution in Southern California for Stone Brewing. Isn’t it serendipitous then that as Oskar Blues transformed the industry by canning craft beer, the company happened to send Wayne out to meet Debbie to discuss Stone distributing Oskar Blues’ beer? “She had a great sales pitch,” Wayne says. “I bought the whole thing.” “Well, I’m the one who bought the farm,” Debbie says. Thus, Debbie moved to Lyons. They had two kids, and eventually came across the Lyons Fork opportunity. But given their lives of constant reinvention, it was only a matter of time before they had their hands in another pursuit. Three years after opening the restaurant, the Andersons became one-fourth owners of Spirit Hound Distillers in Lyons. After that, “I had to cut you off,” Debbie says to Wayne. “No more babies. Any babies.” But again, it worked out. The flood inundated much of the Spirit Hound facility, but they had been previously required to purchase flood insurance on the property. Little of their product was ruined, and they were partly reimbursed for damages. And as fortune would have it, the pigs on the Anderson farm like to eat the spent whiskey grain from Spirit Hound, as well as the refuse from the Fork and other restaurants in Lyons. It’s been said that people shouldn’t work with family. And certainly one would assume that extends to the Andersons, whose pursuits in entrepreneurship come with a unique set of risks and stressors. But they’ve at least started to carve out a groove that enables them to work together efficiently. “We’ve been trying to figure that one out for the last 10 years,” Wayne says. “One hard thing being in business together is you don’t get to go home from work. We go home and talk about the stresses of work, so we’ve been trying hard to not do that as much.” Wayne says he spends much of his time at Spirit Hound, while Debbie operates Lyons Fork. “She’s the boss, and she calls me when something’s broken or she needs me,” Wayne says. “That’s the way we’re trying to go,” Debbie says. “We’re not there yet.” And so it’s natural to wonder what the next big venture the Andersons will undertake. Wayne says they’re in a good spot now — an acclaimed restaurant, a growing distillery and a manageable farm, their kids able to walk down a dirt road to school. But for all that talk, the evidence suggests stasis is not their style. “You never know,” Debbie says. “We’re not necessarily looking for stuff,” Wayne adds, “but the way she and I are, you know, we’ll have an idea and next thing you know, we’ll be doing it.” Boulder Weekly
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wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.
TAURUS
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late in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.
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Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space JUNE 21-JULY 22: walk. When they opened “There is no such thing the hatch and slipped as a failed experiment,” outside, they found the said inventor Buckminster wedding ring floating in Fuller, “only experiments the blackness of space. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out with unexpected outDuke was able to grab Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO comes.” That’s an excellent it and bring it in. I susguideline for you to keep HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE pect that in the coming in mind during the comHOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes weeks, you will recover a ing weeks. You’re entering are also available by phone at lost or missing item in an a phase of your astrologi1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. equally unlikely location, cal cycle when questions Virgo. Or perhaps your are more important than retrieval will be of a more answers, when explorations are more essential than discovmetaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity. eries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive conLIBRA cept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: According to British philosopher success as you wander and ramble. Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: During World War II, British code- embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes secrets of self-mastery. shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe SCORPIO your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that OCT. 23-NOV. 21: During the next four weeks, there have different meanings from what they appear to mean. are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex. The astrological knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more are circulating — thus saving you from unnecessary and health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, irrelevant turmoil. mind and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: In April 1972, three American and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are. astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day SAGITTARIUS jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The little voices in your head may drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: When you’re playing poker, a
advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Paleontologist Jack Horner says that
developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus — a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Be stubborn about your goals but
flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s t-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In her novel The Round House,
writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.
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by Sidni West
Will Denver host the first U.S. cannabis cafe?
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wo years ago, in an on-brand move to always be the first at everything when it comes to progressing the cannabis industry, Denver voters passed Initiative 300, the first piece of consumption-based marijuana legislation in the country. The measure created a fouryear pilot program that will permit certain businesses to allow patrons to consume weed on their premises. Now, all eyes are on Denver as city officials are preparing to launch the nation’s first legal cannabis club. The first social use permit application was filed by the owners of the Coffee Joint, located in an industrial area on the west side of Denver. Initiative 300 does not allow clubs to sell marijuana products, but the Coffee Joint plans to charge an entry fee to the space where customers are
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allowed to vape and eat edibles. Amsterdam used to be the weed capital of the world, and you had to travel there if you wanted to legally get stoned in public. It’s interesting that it has taken this long for Colorado to embrace the Dutch coffee shop model, especially considering that marijuana tourism is booming. Still, state laws essentially confine consumption to private residences. Thousands of tourists visit Colorado every year to legally buy pot, but using it in most hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs is forbidden under both public consumption and general smoking laws, leaving them with nowhere to smoke. Some Airbnb’s in the area advertise themselves as 420-friendly, but many rental spaces and HOA-regulated condos forbid smoking or any federally illegal drug activity. As of now, Denver has only received two permit applications, because while 300 comes across as progressive in theory, many proponents fear it’s too restrictive in practice. Smoking any substance indoors is still strictly prohibited by the state, so indoor venues will only allow vaping and edibles. Under the current plan, a permit would cost $1,000 and the business must first obtain a letter of approval from a neighborhood or local business group. Permits would also allow pot smoke in specified outdoor areas, like rooftop patios, but cannabis consumption will remain illegal in public spaces, like sidewalks. The problem is that too many locations are ineligible because they are within 1,000 feet from schools, child care centers, city pools and recreational
facilities, and drug and alcohol treatment centers. This discourages many budding entrepreneurs since it would push them to the edge of the city, away from heavily trafficked tourist areas. Additionally, the state liquor board prohibits marijuana use at any place with a liquor license, making it impossible for most bars and restaurants to apply. Dispensaries have never been able to allow consumption on their property, which is just as confusing as the fact that these new pot clubs aren’t allowed to sell marijuana products, making it a challenge to figure out how to make a weed cafe lucrative. Instead, the clubs will practice a bring-your-own policy and charge for the space. Before 300 passed, some businesses and tour companies discovered loopholes in consumption laws by creating mobile smoking lounges inside party buses or creating private, invite-only events focusing on consumption for tourists. But because those fall within a legal gray area, those operations feel slightly sketchy at best and do nothing to contribute to a positive model of coffee shop culture. Cannabis cafes are, in some ways, the final frontier in the mainstreaming of legalization, because they take marijuana out of people’s homes and into public life. With public-consumption tickets dramatically increasing, as well as the amount of tourists increasingly frustrated with the lack of options where they can actually consume all of the legal pot they purchase, something has to be done. While operating within its tight restrictions is not ideal for most businesses, 300 could offer many solutions if done right.
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Kochs to Sessions: Dial it back on pot
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ou don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan warbled in the ’60s, but sometimes you do. Like when Chris Bianchi, who is a real weatherman (he’s a meteorologist for WeatherNation, not a ’60s rad) wrote a piece for Westword about what the Koch Brothers are saying about Jeff Sessions’ repeal of the Cole Memorandum, and about the war on drugs generally. Yeah, those Koch Brothers, the ones the local anti-fracking crowd routinely conflates with Beelzebub and Mephistopheles. Actually, the Brothers Koch are fierce libertarians, as is Mark Holden, the general counsel and senior vice president of Koch Industries. Last month Holden penned a statement that “shares the Koch perspective” on Sessions’ decision. It was posted on the Koch website (news. kochind.com) under the headline “Keep local marijuana laws from going up in smoke.” The Cole memo, which was issued by the Obama Justice Department, de-prioritized enforcement of federal marijuana laws against users and businesses who followed state law in states that had legalized pot. Sessions repealed it in early January. The Justice Department and the attorney general are entrusted with “enormous responsibility” when it comes to protecting constitutional rights, Holden wrote, and “this includes the fair and equal application of the law for all citizens, especially as it pertains to the 10th Amendment, which gives states the right to enact and enforce their own laws.” “That Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican appointee in a Republican administration, is undoing a Democratic appointee’s work from a
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Democratic administration is irrelevant,” he said. “Republicans and Democrats alike have criticized the decision... Koch backs policies that respect individual states’ 10th Amendment rights — especially considering the tremendous progress on criminal justice reform made in statehouses across the country... ” The 10th Amendment doesn’t get a lot of attention these days. It reads as follows: “The powers not
delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Sates, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Constitution doesn’t explicitly give the federal government the power to ban or regulate marijuana or any other drug. (The federal marijuana ban and the whole drug war are justified by an increasingly questionable stretch of the commerce clause.) Nor does the Constitution explicitly ban the states from regulating marijuana. Holden is arguing this
means the states have the power to write and enforce their own laws as far as pot is concerned. Beyond its defense of state’s rights with regard to marijuana, the statement makes it clear the Kochs don’t have much use for the war on drugs generally: “Resources spent fighting a misguided war on drugs should instead go toward programs for those reentering society, including rehabilitation, treatment and job training. Instead of prosecuting non-violent drug offenders for doing what has already been legalized in half a dozen states and decriminalized in several others, the administration would be better suited working with members of Congress to reform outdated sentencing laws... ” This is a big deal, and not just because the Kochs are among the Republican Party’s largest financial supporters. (They’ve said their political action committees intend to spend up to $400 million during the coming election cycle.) Their support for marijuana legalization is part of their broader effort to bring about sentencing reform on both the state and federal level, an issue Holden devotes a substantial amount of his time to, and out of a concern about the over-regulation and over-criminalization of American life. Marijuana legalization is going to be an issue in this fall’s election. Democrats have figured out that supporting legalization can help them and it’s probably dawning on a lot of Republicans that opposing it isn’t going to win them many voters. The Koch statement offers Republican candidates an ideological path to climb down from the Party’s increasingly indefensible anti-legalization position, if they have the wit to take it.
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icumi (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) AN IRREVERENT AND NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE VIEW OF THE WORLD
IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S US Conservatives with Twitter accounts were outraged this week when they lost hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of followers during a purge of bots by the social media company. The move comes after special counsel Robert S. Mueller issued indictments for several Russian nationals for meddling in the U.S. election by fomenting angst on social media sites. Right-wing users instantly claimed Twitter was trying to silence conservative voices. Voices like “Hillary could’ve prevented Parkland, Sandy Hook shootings… possibly 9/11,” and “Alexander Hamilton and Jesus gave me the right to carry AR-15s, SNOWFLAKE!”
When told that they only lost followers with Russian IP addresses and a history of bot-like posts, one conservative Twitter user was quoted as saying, “What, next yer gonna tell me my friends only like me because I won the lottery? And that there’s other food besides beef to eat for dinner even though that’s EXACTLY what the commercial from 15 years ago said? And that by widening pre-existing schisms in the political beliefs of Americans through the use of inflammatory social media postings, a foreign power that is a decades-old enemy was able to subvert our collective trust in democracy and the free press? SNOWFLAKE!” When reached for comment, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson said, “You know that thing about ‘all men are created equal’ that I wrote? Yeah, I, uh, take that back. Y’all are on your own now.” Wikimedia Commons
OK... WELL SO WHAT IF THEY’RE FAKE? Alright, so we all knew that a bunch of the accounts on Twitter weren’t actually real people. In fact, some researchers estimate that up to 15 percent of Twitter accounts are bots. So you would think that when Twitter — in its way-the-hell-too-late effort to protect our democracy from Russia — decided to block and otherwise get rid of these fake, non-human accounts, that everybody would have been grateful. But Conservatives and Trump supporters have gone nuts claiming that Twitter should leave the bots in place. And you always wondered who bought all those blow-up dolls instead of getting a real girlfriend. But that’s another Trump-follower subject we’ll explore another day. What is truly disturbing about this reaction among “conservatives” (quotes because we can’t help but think George Will is not in this group) is that even though they know these blocked bots are controlled by Russians who want to undermine our democracy, they still don’t care. When we said Trump’s supporters were completely unshakable in their allegiance to the man, we never considered that they would stick by him even if he’s proven to be a Russian controlled puppet put in place by Moscow with the intent of destroying our country. Who are these people? 60 February 22 , 2018
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Dear Dan: I’m a 27-year-old woman whose boyfriend recently broke up with her. Along with the usual feelings of grief and heartbreak, I’m feeling a lot of guilt about how I handled our sex life, which was one of the main issues in our breakup. My now exboyfriend was interested in BDSM and a kink-oriented lifestyle, and I experimented with that for him. I attended several play parties, went to a five-day-long kink camp with him, and tried out many of his BDSM fantasies. The problem became that, hard as I tried, I just wasn’t very interested in that lifestyle and parts of it made me very uncomfortable. I was game to do the lighter stuff (spanking, bondage), but just couldn’t get behind the more extreme things. I disappointed him because I “went along with it” only to decide I wasn’t into it and that I unfairly represented my interest in his lifestyle. Did I do something wrong? What should I have done? —Basically A Little Kinky
ing others needlessly or maliciously; we should be thoughtful and conscientious about other people’s feelings. We should also remember that no one is clairvoyant and that someone can hurt us without intending to. But there’s no intimate human connection, sexual or otherwise, that doesn’t leave us open to hurting or
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Dear HOPEFUL: If “someone might get hurt” is the standard you’re going to apply to all future relationships — if it’s a deal breaker — then you shouldn’t date or fuck anyone else ever again, HOPEFUL, because there’s always a chance someone is going to get hurt. The fact that hurt is always a possibility is no excuse for hurt-
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Dear Dan: I’m a 28-year-old bi-curious female, and I ended a three-year straight LTR a month ago. It’s been tough — my ex is a great guy, and causing him pain has been a loss on top of my own loss, but I know I did the right thing. Among other things, our sex life was bland and we had infrequent sex at best. Now I want to experiment, explore nonmonogamy and have crazy and fulfilling sex with whoever tickles my fancy. I met a new guy two weeks ago, and the sex is incredible. We also immediately clicked and became friends. The problem? I suspect he wants a romantic relationship. He says he’s open to my terms — open/fuckbuddy situation — but things have quickly become relationship-ish. I like him, but I can’t realistically picture us being a good LTR match. I’m hoping we can figure out something in between — something like a sexual friendship where we enjoy and support each other and experiment together without tying ourselves down — but I have found very little evidence of such undefined relationships working without someone getting hurt. I am sick of hurting people! Any advice? —Hoping Open Peaceful Experiences Feel Unlike Loss
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Dear BALK: All you’re guilty of doing, BALK, is exactly what kinksters everywhere hope their vanilla partners will do. You gave it a try — you were good, giving and game enough to explore BDSM with and for him — and sometimes that works, e.g. someone who always thought of themselves as vanilla goes to a play party or a five-day-long kink camp and suddenly realizes, hey, I’m pretty kinky, too! But it doesn’t always work. Since the alternative to “went along with it” was “never gave it a chance,” BALK, your ex-boyfriend should be giving you credit for trying, not grief for supposedly misleading him.
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