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Highroad What’s in Trump’s food-box? by Jim Hightower

ven Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous way to slap poor people. But Donald Trump and two of his slap-happy cabinet officials did imagine it — and then did it. They slipped a malicious, punishthe-poor provision into the food stamp budget Trump sent to Congress. Instead of providing a small monthly allowance for destitute families to spend on foods of their choice, the

Trump provision would take away half of the allowance and substitute a monthly box of peanut butter, canned goods and other packaged edibles chosen for them. It’s bureaucratic, patronizing, demeaning... and stupid, but Trump Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue, hailed it as a “bold, innovative” idea. Sonny has also disdainfully said that food stamp recipients are hooked on a culture of dependency — so maybe a diet of peanut butter will cure them of that. Then came Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, a Tea Party extremist who bizarrely tried putting a luxury spin on the government-issued box of grub by comparing it to Blue Apron, an

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upscale grocery delivery system. But, Mick — get a clue — Blue Apron patrons get to choose what’s in their box — and it ain’t peanut butter — it’s locally sourced, fresh food. As the leading Democrat opposing the Trump mob’s food-stamp gut job says in dismay, “My God, these people are awful... really just not nice people.” This is Jim Hightower saying: Less nice is their real intention to kill the food stamp program entirely. Trump’s budget calls for slashing 30 percent of the funding this year. As watchdogs at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities put it, “That’s the real battle.” The food-box silliness is a distraction to let them pull off the big theft. To help stop them, go to www.cbpp. org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 1 , 2018 7

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few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged that the FBI had been warned — twice — that Cruz was both a wacko and a ticking time bomb that might shoot up a school. The Broward County Sheriff ’s Office had allegedly received at least 45 complaints over the years about Cruz or his brother, as well as a number of warnings that he might go crazy and shoot up a school. An investigator for the Florida Department of Children and Families who evaluated Cruz for possibly suicidal behavior — he allegedly cut himself, tried to swallow gasoline, and announced he wanted to buy a gun — concluded that he was “not currently a threat to himself or to others” and did not need to be committed for mandatory mental health treatment. Neither the Sheriff ’s deputy stationed at the school nor the three Sheriff ’s deputies who responded to the school while the carnage was taking place appeared to immediately enter the building to try to stop it. In the immediate aftermath of the shootings, Broward County Sheriff Scott

Israel had the temerity to tell the public, “If you see something, say something.” Which begs a question: Why? Freaking? Bother? Law enforcement systematically blew off the warnings it received about Cruz and ignored the obvious red flags raised by the 45 complaints it got about his conduct. The calls to the FBI were routed not to FBI agents in a Florida field office but to a call center the Bureau had set up in West Virginia so that real agents, who supposedly had more important things to do, wouldn’t be bothered by having to answer the phone and deal with distraught citizens. The calls to the Broward County Sheriff that resulted in visits to the Cruz house — for complaints about “a mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance” and “missing person” — resulted in “no written report” being filed, let alone an arrest being made. This sort of non-response by law enforcement makes a case for citizens owning guns for defense of themselves and their families that’s far more compelling than anything the NRA could say or do. But how can this be? A call in 2016 from a Cruz neighsee DANISH Page 9

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bor sheds some light on that. The caller, a woman named Joelle Guarino, warned the Sheriff ’s Office of an Instagram post from Cruz in which he said he “planned to shoot up the school.” Guarino told CNN she had begged the Sheriff ’s Office to intervene. She said she was told there was nothing deputies could do until Cruz actually did something. Think about that: She was told there was nothing deputies could do until Cruz actually did something. The awful truth is the problem wasn’t law enforcement incompetence, although self-evidently there was some of that involved. The central problem was (and is) that doing nothing until Cruz actually did something is the way American law enforcement and the criminal justice system is set up to function — and it was functioning in the way it was intended to. The primary mission of American law enforcement is to catch and punish (or correct, if you prefer) criminals after they have committed a crime. Its primary mission is not to prevent crimes from occurring, although sometimes its able to, except to the extent that apprehending criminals prevents them from committing subsequent crimes and that catching law breakers has a deterrent effect on other potential law breakers. And, God help us, this is as it should be and as it must be — assuming you want the U.S.A. to remain a free country. If law enforcement had the power to arrest people who haven’t broken the law because they might commit crimes in the future, it would be the end of freedom as we know it, and the dawn of the sort of dystopias George Orwell and Phillip K. Dick described in their novels, replete with thought police. So the criminal justice system allows time bombs like Cruz to keep on ticking until they blow up — out of an abundance of caution, ironically enough. The truth is law enforcement’s ability to prevent crimes before they happen is limited, and, thankfully, that isn’t going to change anytime soon. So what’s to be done to prevent school shootings short of turning the country into a police state? Getting law enforcement to treat citizen tips more seriously would help. They have foiled a number of potential school shootings thus far, but don’t expect miracles to become routine. Calling the cops after a shooter opens fire demonstrably doesn’t work. The best you can hope for is having people in the building, officers or armed Boulder Weekly

faculty, who can nip the crime in the bud, hopefully before the perps open fire, but failing that, can minimize the damage by killing them. Gun control advocates think they can prevent school shootings by banning guns generally and assault rifles in particular. They’re as crazy as Cruz. The idea that school shootings can

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The true costs of the muni needs to be fully understood and a centerpiece of Boulder’s new communications and engagement tactics. Engagement tactics strikes me as a poor substitute for transparency. People are interested in the truth, and engaging them with propaganda will only fool half of us as the elections have demonstrated. I was invited to join the new community working group, I signed up, and haven’t heard back. So let me continue to communicate with you the public, and engage you with the sad facts of the muni. The lost undergrounding is a true cost of the muni. As part of a franchise, Xcel offers to spend about one percent of the City revenues on undergrounding. In Boulder’s case, it amounted to about $1.2 million per year. Since the City gave up the franchise to pursue the muni, the city no longer can access those funds. There is no specific tax associated with the undergrounding, it is just part of Xcel’s operating budget. Those funds are specifically reserved for those cities with a franchise. Those funds are lost specifically, directly and sadly, because of the muni. They must be added to the true costs of the muni. Now for a perspective on what the daily cost of the muni really is,

including undergrounding: the average daily cost of the muni for the last seven years is over $10,500 per day. The average daily cost for just 2018 based on the city’s estimate is over $16,100 per day. The three-month delay in the muni, to work out the details of separation costs and assets, will cost the “exploration” over $1.5 million; just a fraction of the $27 million spent by the “exploration.” Worse, the deceptive spreadsheet provided by the city forgets over $500 million in probable costs. Patrick Murphy/Boulder

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On Tuesday, Feb. 6, I wore beachwear while addressing the Boulder City Council — not your ordinary beachwear, but what the beaches are wearing. It is estimated that 10 percent of the trash found along the coast are plastic straws. I had, therefore, attached dozens of straws to my jacket. Within our children’s lifetimes, there may be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Wildlife are now dying of starvation but with full bellies. Full of plastic. On Feb. 6, I asked the City Council to continue its efforts in helping turn the tide of plastic pollution. But we all can make a difference. We all can help. One simple action is to not use plastic straws. Over 500 million straws are thrown away in the U.S. every day. That’s enough to encircle the Earth two and a half times. It’s even making the moon dizzy. The alternatives to plastic straws include: paper, metal and compostable. Please note that “compostable” straws need to be processed in special facilities. You cannot put them into your backyard compost bin, for example, and expect them to break down. If compostable straws are not correctly processed, they can do as much damage as plastic straws. Another thing that the reader can do is to support the group “SUCK THE STRAWS OUT.” They organized several years ago with the intent of getting rid of plastic straws in Boulder and beyond. About 48 years ago, there was a rock concert in upstate New York. It was called Woodstock. Many of the participants were braless. Let’s celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock by going strawless. It will make a difference. Kristen Marshall/Boulder Boulder Weekly

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Spineless politicos and the devolution of the NRA by Joel Dyer

chool shootings, theater shootings, concert shootings, post-office shootings, nightclub shootings, restaurant shootings, work-place shootings. The U.S. has had hundreds of mass murders in the last couple of decades, and I think it’s safe to say that debating the legality of bump stocks is not going to bring this ongoing slaughter of innocents to an end. In other words, anybody spending their time talking about bump stocks and other periphery gun issues in the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in Florida has no real interest in preventing such tragedies in the future. Bump stocks are to our gun problem what lighting farts is to global warming. Wasting our time debating such matters while more people die every day is callous, disingenuous and manipulative. No one has ever been killed by a bump stock that wasn’t attached to the back-end of a semi-automatic assault rifle, which leads me to think our politicians are concentrating on the wrong end of the gun problem. There are currently four proposed pieces of gun legislation in the U.S. Senate and two in the House. One deals with bump stocks, another with raising the legal age to buy an assault rifle, and so on and so forth. Only one suggests making owning semi-automatic assault rifles a crime. You can guess which proposal is gaining the least traction. That’s right, it’s that last one, the only one that might make any difference at all, that is going nowhere fast. So why is that? Believe it or not, the best explanation I’ve heard came out of Senator Marco Rubio’s mouth while he was being grilled by the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that occurred on Valentine’s Day in Parkland, Florida. When asked if he would promise not to take any more money from the National Rifle Association (NRA), Rubio said it isn’t the NRA’s money that gives the pro-gun lobbyist its influence, it’s the millions of people who call themselves 12 March 1, 2018

its members who make it so powerful. Rubio is right. (Make a note: I’m not likely to ever say that again, and no, the Florida senator didn’t commit to refusing the NRA’s blood money in the future.) No one actually knows how many members the NRA has because the organization refuses to say. It regularly throws around the number 5 million so we can safely assume the real number is well below that. But whatever the actual membership, the NRA does represent enough pro-gun voters to get the attention of politicians like Rubio who believe they need the group’s endorsement and its members’ votes to get elected. But the question for Republicans at this point is does an NRA endorsement actually help or hinder their chances for reelection? One reason for this quandary is that the NRA has evolved, or more accurately, devolved into something that hardly resembles its original incarnation. When I was a kid in Oklahoma in the 1960s, every sixth grader was required to learn gun safety from the NRA. All of us had to take a course, which included target shooting, and at the end we got our official NRA cards. The organization was truly what I think of as a gun-safety association back then, as opposed to the crazed right-wing political outfit bordering on hate group we see today. The NRA has changed. It has morphed into the standard bearer of the far right, whose views are primarily shaped by the conspiracy theories put out by Fox News, Brietbart, right-wing talk radio and the like. Have you heard the NRA’s top dog Wayne LaPierre open his mouth lately? He makes Joe McCarthy seem like a choirboy. Not only has the NRA allegedly taken millions from a Russian oligarch — which could explain the group’s sudden reverence for all things Trump — the whole org stinks with paranoid conspiracy theories filled with innuendos of some coming war wherein good white Christian Nationalists will need their AKs to fight off a corrupt federal government made up of commies and a

despicable dearth of straight white men. I hope and pray that there are still millions of NRA members who signed up for that old gun-safety organization and who simply haven’t gotten around to pulling their names from the membership roles of the modern day hate group the NRA has become. If that’s the case, and I truly believe it is, then now would be a great time for all those legitimate hunters and skeet shooters and collectors to turn away from this new incarnation of the NRA. Enjoying guns should not carry with it the burden of belonging to a far right hate group. I believe these good and thoughtful gun owners are one of the keys to protecting our children going forward. I believe they understand that adding another 700,000 guns into our schools is not a responsible way to combat the current problem. Responsible gun owners are not anyone’s enemy. In fact, they are a large part of the solution because it is their coming refusal to be part of this new radical-right NRA that in the end will weaken the organization’s stranglehold over the Republican Party and our political system. It’s coming, just watch. Unfortunately, weak-willed politicians and the NRA are not our only hindrance to solving our gun problem. As a common sense measure, we must pass laws — right now — that will stop the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic assault weapons outside of our needs for national defense. We also must recreate an integrative, federal and state mental health care system equal in size but more effective than the one Ronald Reagan dismantled in the 1980s. We cannot hope to prevent mass shootings so long as the mentally ill among us have easy access to weapons and no access to mental health care. I admit these solutions are challenging and will take time to implement — all except one, that is. We can do something immediately about these politicians who are willing to trade the lives of our children for another term in office.

And no, I don’t think I’m being overly simplistic or cruel. If a bunch of high school shooting survivors in Florida can call BS on the political class when it comes to guns, then it’s about time we all grow a backbone and do the same thing. Elected officials who are talking about bump stocks and oversized clips and increasing age limits to purchase assault rifles as opposed to doing everything within their power to ban the sale of all such weapons, are accomplices in the ongoing murder of our children. At this point, after hundreds of these shootings, after the slaughter of children from Sandy Hook to Parkland, every politician who is still willing to be bribed by the NRA’s money and its promise of votes in exchange for advocating to keep these rapid-fire weapons on the market is as guilty of murder as the deranged SOB who pulls the trigger. These gutless, self-serving politicians who put the NRA’s interest ahead of the rest of us for no other reason than their desire to win their next election are covered in the blood of our children and everyone else who has been gunned down by these weapons of mass murder. All of us, gun owners or not, have a moral responsibility to vote them from office. We must not continue to divide ourselves along the NRA’s politically flawed line that says everyone who owns a gun is on one side and everyone who doesn’t is on the other. The polls tell us there are literally hundreds of millions of people — gun-owners and non-gunowners alike — in this country who think the NRA and its comparatively small membership are wrong on assault weapons. If we speak as one at the ballot box on this issue, it may not stop all the killings but it will darn sure help. It has in other countries that have found the will to do so. If we vote loud enough, even our spineless, child-sacrificing politicians can be made to listen. Lord help them if they won’t. Boulder Weekly

Should Colorado teachers bear arms? by Matt Cortina

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ast summer, about a dozen Colorado teachers met at the Weld County Sheriff ’s Department shooting range to take part in a three-day firearm training course. They learned about the psychology of school shooters, took target practice and learned how to administer medical care. The course website provided a gear list, which included a gun (ideally a 9-mm semi-automatic), three full-capacity magazines, a holster, a magazine pouch, a gun belt, and ear and eye protection. This year, in the wake of a school shooting that killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, there are 50 teachers registered to take the class, and the potential for more. In 2017, Laura Carno brought the course, FASTER (Faculty/ Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response), to Colorado with the help of the conservative think-tank Independence Institute. In the last five years, Carno says 1,300 school officials have been through the program in Ohio, where it originated. With President Trump saying multiple times recently that arming teachers is a viable approach to preventing school shootings, programs like FASTER may likely serve as early models for training that Legion of educators. Colorado being a state that allows the concealed carriage of guns makes it a prime test case for the practice. The negative response since Trump’s first suggestion of arming teachers has been clear: many teachers just don’t want the responsibility of a) carrying a gun, b) carrying it in school, and c) having to discharge it in the event of a school shooting. Many local (including Boulder County,) state and national teacher and school organizations have come out against it. Amy Baca-Oehlert, high school counselor and Colorado Education Association vice president, sums up this position well: “Violence met with violence results in more tragedy and is not the kind of vigilance we want for our students. It is the wrong conversation to be having in order to solve the problem of school safety at its source,” she says. “Arming school employees will not keep students and educators safe. More guns is not the answer.” But as evidenced by the FASTER program, there are teachers who are interested in carrying guns. In Colorado, the school board must vote to allow members of the staff to carry concealed weapons on K-12 campuses. Carno says this requirement ensures Boulder Weekly

that firearms are only given to qualified school staff of the districts’ choosing. As another check, FASTER enrollees must already own a concealed carry permit from the state. Carno adds that if there is a commonality in the people who have attended FASTER classes, it’s that “their temperament tends to be focused on saving lives.” They also, she says, often outperform their instructors (largely current and former law enforcement and military members) in target shooting. But Boulder Valley Education Association President Tina Mueh says there is no way to judge how a teacher with a firearm would react in an emergency situation even with their experience, training and firearm accuracy. “I don’t think we could come up with a process that would screen for the right characteristics of someone who should be able to have guns around kids and adults in a school. It would be impossible,” Mueh says. The “screening” process also provides schools an opportunity to tell law enforcement which staff members are armed, Carno says, so in the case of a school shooting, they won’t be identified as the harmful actor. Carno says, “Law enforcement sees the armed staff as an extension of their own force.” But Scott Pribble, chief information officer for University of Colorado Boulder Police, says armed teachers could prevent trained law enforcement from doing their jobs. “The difficulty with people other than the active shooter having a weapon is that we don’t know if that person is a good guy or a bad guy,” Pribble says. “So when we come in looking for the person that’s doing the harm within the building, we see a person with a weapon, we have to assume automatically [they could be the shooter]. It doesn’t mean we’re going to shoot them, but we have to go through the process that we know who they are. That’s something that could slow us down in an active shooter situation.” The investigation of a shooting at a Walmart in Thornton last year was slowed because people drew concealed weapons and police had to identify the shooter on surveillance tape, according to Thornton police. It took five hours to find the shooter. Pribble says CU Police go through regular train-

ing sessions, including some live-action scenarios with local law enforcement. That type of situational training is something Carno says FASTER covers in their classes — specifically how to use lethal versus non-lethal force and how to recognize shooters from non-shooters — but she declined to share how, saying, “We don’t want potential bad guys to know.” Slow law enforcement response times and inaction is one reason people give for arming teachers. Police and investigators received tips about the shooters at Stoneman Douglas and Sandy Hook, yet the massacres still occurred. A police officer was on the scene at Stoneman Douglas and did nothing. Hanover School District 28, a rural district outside Colorado Springs, recently approved a measure to arm teachers, citing up to 30-minute response times from law enforcement. And though response times for law enforcement are quicker in most areas than the eight minutes Trump cited recently (Pribble says his team can be anywhere on campus in 90 seconds), the truth is, with assault rifles, shooters can kill dozens of people in seconds, before a 9-1-1 call is even placed. All things considered, there is little evidence available to suggest that arming teachers will successfully deter school shooters. Carno says there has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that the FASTER program has worked in Ohio. Though many argue arming teachers may actually lead to more deaths, Mueh says districts must also consider that many teachers just won’t feel safe if their colleagues are armed. “While I trust my colleagues in the classroom to do their jobs, and I totally honor the professionalism of everybody, it is a totally different question about who I trust to carry a gun around our kids and around our colleagues, frankly,” says Mueh. Yet with concealed carry laws, we’re already around civilians with guns. Students and faculty are allowed to carry concealed weapons on the CU campus, and Pribble says not knowing who is carrying a weapon complicates the police force’s job. Responding to calls about a potential gun on campus is typically more harrowing, Pribble says, whether or not the person is legally able to carry a gun. “Anytime there’s a weapon involved it does increase the danger with that call,” he says. March 1, 2018 13

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week after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, two nonprofit gun-control organizations placed a two-page ad in The New York Times identifying 276 members of Congress who’ve taken money from the National Rifle Association (NRA). Among those names were all four Republicans in Colorado’s House delegation, as well as Sen. Cory Gardner. At the state level, however, the NRA’s influence is less direct, but equally powerful. According to filings made with the Secretary of State’s office, the NRA hasn’t made a direct monetary contribution to any member of the Colorado General Assembly since 2010. But of course, the NRA is still present in Colorado politics. The group’s federal political action committee — bluntly named the Political Victory Fund (PVF) — made contributions from 2012 to 2016 to Colorado’s Senate Majority Fund (“dedicated to retaining a Republican majority in the Colorado Senate,” according to its website). PVF also gave to the NRA Committee to Restore Coloradans’ Rights, which most often received contributions from the NRA’s lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action. In 2016, PVF contributed nearly $75,000 to its own independent expenditure committee in Colorado, aptly named the NRA Political Victory Fund IE Committee. These “IE” committees can spend in support or opposition of any candidate (or group of candidates), but can’t consult or coordinate with the candidate. In Colorado, IE committees must file with the Secretary of State’s office “detailing candidates, ballot measure numbers, or policy positions” it supports or opposes. Any spending must be reported within two business days after it takes place.

This independent money can be used in a number of ways. For example, a $24,268.30 donation accepted by the NRA-PVF IE committee on Oct. 28, 2016 was slated for use in electioneering communication, i.e., radio, TV, cable or satellite ads. A much smaller donation accepted the next day, just over $1,700, wasn’t specifically earmarked, which means it could have gone to ground operations like door-to-door campaigns, vote-guide mailers or something else. Perhaps the best example of this kind of indirect funding in Colorado was the NRA’s role in bankrolling the successful 2013 recall (the first successful recall in Colorado’s history) that ousted two Democratic lawmakers from the General Assembly, former Senate president John Morse and Senator Angela Giron. The lawmakers had made the politically unfortunate choice to sponsor and push gun-control legislation, which Gov. Hickenlooper signed into law in early 2013, requiring universal background checks for gun sales, making buyers pay for their own background checks and limiting ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. Pro-gun citizen action groups formed in response to the newly minted legislation. The now seemingly defunct (if the website is any indicator) Basic Freedom Defense Fund (BFDF) mounted the campaign to recall Sen. Morse, while the Pueblo Freedom and Rights (PFR) led the campaign to recall Sen. Giron. According to reporting by the

Pueblo-based digital magazine The Pulp, PFR founder Victor Head met board members of BFDF, including founder Tim Knight, on firearm-enthusiast website AR-15.com. While initially not connected beyond their desire to unseat the two senators, the two groups began to work closely together after both organizations faced lawsuits looking to invalidate the signatures they’d obtained to initiate recall elections. Keith Coniglio, a board member of BFDF, made a post in a forum on AR-15.com on Aug. 8, 2013 stating, “The NRA finally came through in a big way, helping [BFDF] immensely with a ridiculously large (think ‘fivedigit’ — and then probably double the number you think) legal bill. The statewide [National Shooting Sports Foundation] also helped out by providing office space for us to use as a HQ and Americans for Prosperity [Koch Brothers] are helping by running the phone bank and handling the walking effort.” BFDF ultimately contributed more than $2,000 to PFR, according to state contribution filings. While the BFDF website is all but nonoperational now, The Pulp reported in 2013 that the organization’s website stated they provided “overall monetary, legal, organizational, outreach and media support to several issue committees targeting key offenders for such recall. Any donations given to the BFDF go towards the recall committees under the BFDF umbrella.” The NRA’s involvement in the recall process, while roundabout, was really no secret. In May 2013, CNN obtained an NRA mailer addressed to a “Second Amendment Supporter” that read: “Your NRA is coordinating a recall effort with the Basic Freedom Defense Fund to put Senator Morse on the ballot for a special election and vote him out of office.” The mailer then instructed the recipient to find and sign the petition “to recall Senator Morse.” After the successful recall election in 2013, Sens. Morse and Giron were replaced by Republican candidates, turning the once Democratic-held Senate in the Republican’s favor. We may not always see the NRA’s influence in our state’s politics, but it’s always there Boulder Weekly

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Local, state and federal lawmakers consider gun safety policies in wake of Parkland shooting by Angela K. Evans

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t’s been more than two weeks since a gunman took the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. And, as in times following previous mass shootings, gun safety advocates are calling for stricter laws as legislators around the country debate the limits of the Second Amendment. But something feels different this time, says Colorado Sen. Michael Merrifield (D-El Paso). “It feels like people are more, and finally, fed up. And the fact that young people this time are coming forward and really demanding action is different from the past times,” he says. Merrifield currently has a bill calling for a ban on multi-use trigger activators (bump stocks), like the device used to maximize casualties in the October 2017 Las Vegas shooting, where 58 people were killed. The bill — which is widely expected to fail in the Republicancontrolled Senate — was recently postponed by several weeks. Despite the setback, Merrifield is “cautiously hopeful” the bill will pass this session. While Colorado Democrats don’t have any other proposed measures on the books restricting gun owners, they have made yet another concerted effort to stonewall any attempts by state Republicans to loosen gun laws. For the past five years or so, Colorado legislators have introduced a number of bills to expand gun rights, attempting to roll back measures put in place after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, where 12 people died. And each year, these bills have failed to pass, with 2018 proving no different. As gun safety advocates rallied outside the capital and filled the gallery at the state house, three different Republican House bills died in a committee meeting after hours of debate last week. A proposed bill that would have allowed concealed weapons at schools drew the most attention. It was proposed (again) by Rep. Patrick Neville, a Republican from Castle Rock and a surBoulder Weekly

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vivor of the 1999 Columbine shooting. “I am tired of just talking about solutions, my bill would have done something to actually protect kids and deter future violence,” Neville said in a statement. “Proposals to stop gun violence must be realistic to be effective, and it’s so disappointing to watch Democrats bow to their special interest groups and defeat viable options to help protect society.” In the Senate, a bill that would allow the concealed carry of handguns without a permit, subject to current laws prohibiting concealed carry on school grounds, is still under consideration although a similar measure failed to pass last year. Gun safety advocates are also pushing for a statewide assault weapons ban, similar to what’s in place in seven other states and the District of Columbia. Others argue for a “red flag law,” essentially a gun restraining order whereby law enforcement can temporarily confiscate guns from people a judge deems dangerous, usually after someone reports them. Six states have some version of the law, with Rhode Island’s governor signing a redflag executive order on Monday, Feb. 26, the first state to do so since the Parkland shooting. The NRA opposes such measures, saying they don’t allow for “proper due process.” A similar law is “quietly being considered” in the halls of the U.S. Congress, according to Politico, as pressure grows on federal lawmakers to pass some sort of gun safety legislation. Other ideas being

considered at the federal level include incentives for local and state governments to report criminal history records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, strengthening and/or expanding the national background check system altogether and raising the purchase age for AR-15s (the weapon used in Parkland) from 18 to 21. The last one is unlikely to pass as it’s facing strong opposition from the NRA, which opposes any federal legislation banning assault weapons or bump stocks. While Democrats and Republicans alike have said they want to prevent another shooting like Parkland, it remains to be seen if they can put aside their differences to pass any legislation. As federal and state lawmakers are tied up in partisan politics, local jurisdictions are stepping forward with their own policies on firearms. Denver has had an assault weapon ban in place for decades but recently amended it to be even stricter when it comes to bump stocks. And last week, City Council member Jill Adler Grano proposed instituting a similar ban in Boulder. “When the federal government or the states aren’t doing the right thing, I think it’s up to the cities to do it and to make a stand,” Grano says. “While it doesn’t move the needle significantly just in Boulder, if other cities across the nation took note and did the same thing, it certainly would.” City Attorney Tom Carr, other council members and stakeholders are currently preparing for a special public meeting in April. Comments will be allowed so the meeting is expected to last several hours. “I’m confident that we’ll do something,” Grano says. “I just don’t know the details of it quite yet. I have things I’d like to see, but again, it will be up to the majority [of Council] and a lot of that will be influenced by the community.” There’s no question the public has once more become engaged with the gun issue following the Parkland tragedy. The question is, will anything change this time? At least one politician seems to think so. “It just feels a little different this time,” says Merrifield. Time will tell.

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n Feb. 14, the nation once again watched in horror as news of another school shooting spread. By the end of the day 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in Parkland, Florida, were dead. In Colorado, Maria Redondo and Dustin Zwiebel were both at work when they first heard about the shooting at their alma mater. Redondo, who graduated from MSD in 2008, was at her bar, Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House, in Lafayette. Although her phone was full of text messages from high school friends, she thought it was about organizing her class’s upcoming 10-year reunion. It wasn’t until a patron walked in talking about a school shooting in Coral Springs, Florida — Parkland to be exact — that she turned on the TV to watch. “Immediately my heart sank. It was heart-breaking,” she says. “I couldn’t do anything but shake and wonder if my friends’ siblings, cousins, my teachers were OK.” Unfortunately her classmates’ cousins — Meadow Pollack and Joaquin Oliver — were two of the victims. As was Coach Aaron Fies, someone Redondo remembers as just the kind of person who would jump in front of students to protect them. “Everyone at Douglas, Jim Darling/Moms Demand Action - Colorado I consider them friends,” Redondo says. “We’re all family there. That’s just what it is.” Zwiebel, class of 2006, got a text message from his high school best friend as he walked into work as a 911 dispatcher at Jefferson County. He sat at his desk, watching the tragedy unfold on TV. “To see something this tragic happen to such an amazing community was surreal. I don’t think it’s still set in,” Zwiebel says. “I’m distracting myself by doing everything I can to support them.” Since Feb. 14, Zwiebel, Redondo and approximately 70 other MSD alumni living in Colorado have joined a growing network of former students organizing events and fundraisers for their hometown community. The national alumni Facebook group, which launched the night of the shooting, has grown to more than 11,000 members. “It’s a very big school with a small school feel,” Redondo says of MSD, which has roughly 3,000 students. “The spirit of that school is just unparalleled. There’s so much pride in being an Eagle.” The Colorado chapter of MSD alumni, many of whom were not connected prior to the tragedy, held a candle-light vigil on the steps of the state capital on Wednesday, Feb. 21. They are supporting local students organizing a Denver March for Our Lives rally to coincide with national marches around the country at the end of the month. They met for a Sunday hike at Red Rocks, where they shot a short video to send to current students at MSD to show their support. And they are organizing their first fundraiser for victim relief at Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House on March 9. “All our efforts are immediately for fundraising for the victims,” Zwiebel says. While both Redondo and Zwiebel express support for the MSD students calling for gun safety legislation in Washington D.C. and at statehouses across the country, the event on March 9 is not about policy or activism. It’s simply to raise funds, and 100 percent of sales that night will go toward victim relief efforts at MSD, whether that’s counseling, building repairs or anything else. “We really want to help the community get back on their feet and help the students get back into school,” says Redondo, who is still looking for businesses or corporations to match donations. She’s also collecting silent auction items from local businesses. Many of the breweries she works with have already donated the beer. “Once they heard of my connection there,” she says, “I think it made it a little more real than just another shooting.” Boulder Weekly

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orkers from other countries are needed to grow American crops. So say many American farm owners, at least. And many further argue it’s because Americans can’t, or won’t, do farm work. They have evidence. A much-publicized report from New American Economy found that out of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans living in North Carolina, only a very small portion applied to available farm jobs in or next to their county of residence. With 6,500 jobs offered by the North Carolina Growers Association in 2011, only 268 of the 500,000 unemployed North Carolinians applied. Only 163 people showed up for the first day of work, and only seven finished the growing season. And so farmers around the country rely on the H-2A visa program to bring in temporary workers from other countries to get through growing seasons. “In all the time we’ve used the H-2A program, we’ve had two of 200 foreign workers not complete a contract,” says Bruce Talbott, a farm owner in Palisade. “During that same time, we’ve had only two

Americans complete contracts, and that is only because we have moved them into equipment operation jobs. ... Americans just do not want this intensive work for a time-limited harvest season.” Talbott is one of several Colorado farmers who met Sen. Michael Bennet late February to try to reform the country’s migrant worker program, hoping that legislation is written to make it easier to bring in foreign workers for harvest seasons and utilize their skills once they’re here. And these local farmers are hoping there is a window to address these changes as the debate over immigration policy gets a national spotlight. Robert Sakata, president of the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) and owner of Sakata Farms in Brighton, says he was hoping changes would be made to the program ahead of the 2018 growing season. However, given the slow legislative process, farmers are now operating with uncertainty about how much help they’ll be able to get this year. The lack of help in recent years has led to some CFVGA farms, which Sakata says include farms from largescale operations to indoor grow facilities, no longer being financially viable. “There are definitely those farmers making the decision not to continue because of the challenges with labor,” Sakata says. He adds that the labor force, largely from Mexico and Central America, is eager to work during the American harvest season, when it is too hot to

farm south of the U.S. growing region. This means farmers with experience and skill would come to the U.S., but only if the process were easier, Sakata says. “These people are very highly skilled that want to work,” he says. “When you harvest cabbage, grocery stores want each one to be two pounds. When you grab that head of cabbage you have to have a sense if it’s going to meet that requirement.” Sakata says CFVGA is asking for several changes to the H-2A program, which could be enveloped in another visa program, the H-2C program. They want no cap on the number of migrant farmers they can bring in, flexibility with where those farmers can work (workers can only be brought in to work on specific projects), a change to the requirement to provide housing to instead allow housing vouchers, and an adjustment to the required wage rates for migrant workers to factor in the costs of transportation and housing, which farmers are required to pay. The tentative H2-C proposal makes payment for housing and transportation optional, sets a wage at no less than the state or local minimum wage and allows farm workers in certain industries (including hydroponic and dairy workers) to stay year-round. You can see the fine line any adjustment to the program will have to walk — farmers can’t find qualified domestic workers, but they claim costs of housing (particularly in Boulder County, Sakata says) and transportation are too cumbersome to bring in foreign work-

ers. But lowering wages or amending housing options, as CFVGA and others are requesting, would also lower the quality of life for migrant workers and their families. Would a migrant worker net any money at Boulder County’s minimum wage of $10.20 per hour if they had to pay for transportation to and from the U.S. and housing while they’re here? Should the farmer who needs these workers to stay in business be required to subsidize those costs? Adrian Card, the Colorado State University agricultural extension agent for Boulder County, says housing costs are “prohibitive” for farmers to house workers, which creates “a limiting factor to [County] growers who might want to use that program in the future.” One major critique of both the New American Economy study and the H-2A system is that wages are so low, and the work can be so grueling, that more domestic workers would be willing to work on farms if wages were higher, to say nothing of improving the lives of the so-called required help of migrant workers with higher wages. There are groups that have worked to fill in quality of life gaps for families of migrant farm workers. In Longmont, Casa de la Esperanza is home to 32 families and includes an educational center for the 100-plus children who live on site. Changes to the visa program may likely come as part of an immigration bill, which has an uncertain timetable to say the least.

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Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But most artists’ legacies are more complex than the signature they leave on the world of art. While French impressionist Edgar Degas is known mainly for his images of delicate dancers, there was much more to the man behind the canvas. An exploration of the artist is the focus of the latest exhibit, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, now showing through May 20 at Denver Art Museum (DAM). Degas died in 1917 at the age of 83, and his artistic career lasted more than half a century. Passion for Perfection gives viewers a look into that prolific career, featuring Degas’ drawings, sculptures, prints, inspirations and paintings. It follows his early beginnings, after he traded the pursuit of a law degree for a paint brush, all the way to his final days. Curator Timothy Standring wanted the DAM show to cast new light on the renowned artist. “We put speed bumps throughout the exhibition. We start off with what you know, then we subvert everybody and then show you what you don’t know,” Standring says. “And that should help everybody understand that it’s not entirely about dancing, but it’s about art-making.” Degas was a man of contradictions and while he exhibited with other impressionists, he also wanted to claim himself as an independent. He craved fame, but also coveted the time spent see DEGAS Page 22

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alone in his studio. He trained as an academic painter, yet his work is far from stiff. And he constantly blurred the lines between media, never committing himself to one approach. This resulted in an interesting personality. “He was the sort of dinner guest that you’d love to invite because he was so intellectually acute, and had a really fabulous critical sensibility, but at the same time he would insult everybody,” Standring says. “Then the next morning he might run into you and say, ‘I was so happy to see you at dinner last night,’ even after he completely destroyed that same person.” More so than the personality, Passion for Perfection highlights the process of the artist. For Degas, the craft was just as important as the final subject. Standring calls Degas an “artist’s artist,” as the painter left information on the canvas for others to analyze. “That’s the content of Degas’ work: process,” he says. “To the broader public, [some of his work] might look unfinished. But in my mind he stopped judiciously instead of over-laboring the work itself. And by showing his process, that’s what Degas wanted to communicate.” An example Standring cites is “At the Cafe.” In the painting, two women sit next to each other, and while the figures are clear, they are surrounded by abstract brush strokes that lack formal composition. “They’re having a discussion in a cafe, and he’s captured that intimacy between the two women stunningly well, and yet it’s quite abstract in the foreground and in the background,” Standring says. “Are they sitting at a counter? Are they in a cafe? Are they outside? Are there flowers in the foreground? Just that sensibility of grazing touches of the brushes across the surface, is to me, highly stimulating.” Degas limited his paintings to only a few topics — mainly landscapes, horses, public scenes, nudes and dancers. By keeping his range tight, he was able to hone his craft. Throughout his preferred themes, he frequently repeated poses, allowing him to focus on process and technique rather than the subject matter. “He stuck to the repetition of various motifs. That gave him the opportunity to redo these different works, as he wished, to his own satisfaction,” Standring says. Notably, Degas was drawn to motion. This was clear in his love of dancers, as well as his fascination with horses. Degas was a problem-solver, and capturing the fleeting nature of movement was one of his lifelong quests. His work also leaned toward abstraction. He played with bold compositional aspects, particularly how he set characters in the frame. In “Dance Examination,” for example, Degas lumps three figures in one corner and frames the fourth figure in empty space. Compositions like this were audacious for the time period. While Degas never completely left representation, he was ahead of his time, with Picasso and others following soon after. In the last gallery of the DAM exhibition, Degas is described as “Poetic and Boulder Weekly

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ohn Linnell of They Might Be Giants says one of the group’s key goals has always been to not repeat themselves and bring something new to virtually every song he and his partner in the band, John Flansburgh, write and record. But he admits that 35-plus years into the group’s career, it gets harder and harder to meet that goal. “I mean, it’s easier said than done, obviously,” Linnell says over the phone. “It’s a big challenge. But we take it seriously. We’re not just blowing Shervin Lainez smoke. I think we feel like in a way that is the job, say something new. We’ve already written all these songs. There’s absolutely no call to write the same songs over again. One of the reasons it gets harder and harder ON THE BILL: They is we’ve written so many songs. And Might Be Giants. 7 p.m. then the other reason is it’s always Sunday, March 11, Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., been hard and we’re getting older, so Boulder. Sold out. foxwe maybe have to work harder to theater.com. reach the same goal. ... I’m not mak ing any claims about whether or not we’re successful. But that is something we do take seriously and we feel that’s our job, to try to come up with a new thing to say, a new idea.” The challenge to stay fresh musically isn’t stopping the two Johns in their quest to create new material. In fact, they’re relaunching their signadrummer Marty Beller joined in 2004. ture Dial-A-Song programming — posting a new Along with the albums, Linnell and Flansburgh song and music video on their webpage each week as have contributed many songs to television, film and part of a weekly radio show segment that is broadcast other projects, while a good number of other songs around the country. have been used only on Dial-A-Song, which debuted What’s more, on Jan. 19, fans got 15 new songs in 1985, ran until 2008, was reactivated in 2015 and via the new studio album, I Like Fun. early 2016 before shutting down again, and is being Linnell says he and Flansburgh have a stack of re-launched to coincide with the new album. songs ready to keep Dial-A-Song up and running for They Might Be Giants enjoyed a few brushes with a good part of 2018. mainstream success in their first decade. “Birdhouse in “We don’t have enough (songs) yet to fill the Your Soul,” from the group’s platinum-certified third

album, 1989’s Flood, was a top-five modern rock hit, while “Ana Ng,” “Twisting” and “The Statue Got Me High” also charted in the modern rock top 25. More recently, the group has found considerable success with its children’s albums, beginning with the 2004 release No!. Three of the children’s albums have gone gold. The group’s music has been distinctive from the start — a catchy and at times quirky brand of wideranging pop accompanied by clever and sometimes brainy lyrics. That general blueprint remains intact on I Like Fun, an excellent effort that evokes both the early and more recent They Might Be Giants sound. “McCafferty’s Bib,” “The Greatest” and “I Like Fun” — three of the album’s quirkier tunes — found Linnell and Flansburgh returning to their early mode of recording, where songs were mainly studio creations using a variety of interesting instruments and sonics. On other songs, such as the bouncy piano-driven “I Left My Body,” the ultra-hooky surfy rocker “An Insult to the Fact Checkers” and the punchy power pop-ish “All Time What,” the approach is more in line with the post-1992 full band-oriented albums, which gives these songs a more muscular sound that is entirely suitable for these tunes. Linnell feels he, Flansburgh and the other band members — met the goal of not repeating themselves musically on I Like Fun. “I would say most of the songs on the album are, they don’t to me sound like retreads of stuff we’ve already done,” Linnell says. For the tour in support of the new album, the five members of They Might Be Giants will be joined by trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist Curt Ramm. The show will feature fan favorites, some deep tracks that haven’t been played much on earlier tours and a healthy selection of songs from I Like Fun. Linnell knows emphasizing the new material is a bit of a risk, but he hopes the show will please hardcore and casual fans alike. “It’s a challenge for people to go see their favorite band and be subjected to a whole bunch of new material that maybe they’re not that into,” he says. “So we have to make the case, basically. We’re trying to make the argument that the new stuff is good.”

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you’ve ever heard Ira Glass talk about his relationship with the radio, you’ve heard him tell a story of being in love with it practically from the womb. A lot of radio greats tell that story. But that isn’t Jad Abumrad’s story. The creator of Radiolab — and more recently its Supreme Court-centric spin-off, More Perfect — went to Oberlin College for creative writing and music composition, but out of college, by his account, he was “kind of failing at both.” “My girlfriend at the time, who is now my wife, said, ‘Try radio. It’s kind of like both, but neither,’” Abumrad says from his office at WNYC, the place that’s been his professional home for more than 15 years now. He had zero experience, zero sense of what radio could be, and no designs to be a journalist. But it seemed like the profession came looking for him. First he covered news, learning the ropes at WBAI on Wall Street (where he worked with “a bunch of leftover lefties from previous eras, right in the middle of financial hell”), then doing some small freelance work for NPR before finally wandering into the old offices of WNYC, where fate would then gently direct him toward his Radiolab-partner-in-crime, Robert Krulwich. In the beginning, Radiolab was “kind of a lark,” this experimental three-hour block of science stories and oddities every Sunday night. And because it was something that

no one, including Abumrad, thought would be around for very long, Abumrad set about doing odd jobs around the station to sort of justify his existence. One of those odd jobs was making promotional spots with each of the personalities who’d signed on to help out with WNYC’s financial independence campaign. Krulwich was the last promo Abumrad made. “And he was just so weird. He was a complete kook,” Abumrad says. “I remember I handed him this really boring thing to read and he refused to read it, and so he sat down and rewrote some weird promo involving oil tycoons and alien cults or something and I was like, who is this guy?” They found out they’d both gone to Oberlin, they’d both worked at WBAI, and they’d both — kind of, sort of — worked at NPR, just 25 years apart. They started having breakfast once a month for a year or so, Krulwich offering advice about Radiolab (Krulwich was working in television at the time), before he finally asked if Abumrad wanted to do some work together on the show. It started with early Sunday morning experiments Abumrad would work into the show — a three-hour show, mind you — just five- and 10-minute bits that grew until Krulwich was there for 20 minutes, half an hour and then suddenly he was there all the time. “Like everything with Radiolab, it was kind of long and slow and ambling, but in the end it kind of made sense.” Boulder Weekly

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And then Abumrad wandered off the reservation. “Something Robert and I share: there’s always a sense of OK, we did that, that worked, now let’s fuck it up, let’s try something we don’t know how to do,” he says. “I was deep in the throes of that feeling in 2012 because we were doing a lot of these quasi-science stories and I remember having this thought that if I have to sound-design another fucking neuron snapping I’m going to throw myself out the window. I was really restless, so I just decided let’s do an experiment.” A self-proclaimed Supreme Court idiot, Abumrad decided he’d learn more — it certainly sounded pretty interesting (and confusing) when Nina Totenberg reported on it. He gave the Radiolab team an assignment: go make one or two phone calls on a handful of current Supreme Court cases and see what comes up. What came up was Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, a custody battle over a two-year-old girl between her white adoptive parents and her Cherokee biological father that dovetailed into massive questions about Native American sovereignty. “How do you get from there to here? How do you get from this little girl to these 500 sovereign nations? How does that work?” Abumrad says. “The story behind it is fascinating; it touched on history, it touched on politics, it touched on law. I was really struck by how this is everything you want as a storyteller: You want some tiny-sized human drama, and what could be more tiny and precious and human than a 2-year-old girl and two sets of parents that are deeply in love with her and at war over her future — what’s more human than that? And inside of that is this massive set of ideas. It’s kind of this Whitman-esque universe in a blade of grass sort of thing.” It struck Abumrad that every Supreme Court case has this inherent humanity and infinite reach. “It’s this tiny little case of a person just living their life and they run smack into this massive thing.” The experiment with court cases and legal foundations went on in an ad hoc way on Radiolab for a couple of years right around the time This American Life was launching its first spin-off (the wildly engrossing Serial, which was not to be outdone by its captivating successor, S-Town). It seemed like the time for “half-assing” it was over, and More Perfect was born in 2016. The show runs on a crew of 10, three of them legal counselors to help the editorial team avoid saying “anything stupid.” Their editorial meetings cover the big cases that are coming up in the next term, but also the big trends that are happening in the Supreme Court — the swings left and right, even the relationships between justices — and the cases that are moving through the lower courts. “I’m always thinking to myself, what of these actually takes me out of the court? At the end of the day I don’t actually care about the court, I don’t care about the justices,” Abumrad says. “To me, this is just the place where people come to argue about America, the arguments that can take us out of the court and back in time, that can take us into people’s lives, take us to places where I’m genuinely conflicted and don’t know how to feel.” And over and over More Perfect delivers stories that are Boulder Weekly

more mesmerizing and multi-faceted than anyone could believe possible from American legal proceedings. They tell the story of this nation, of its quirks and foibles and missteps and triumphs and flat-out failures. On more than one occasion it’s brought me to tears. It is, without a doubt, more edifying than anything any (at least most) high school or college civics class could ever hope to achieve, and it does it all by focusing on humanity more than the law. But make no mistake; the law is there, fully explained and developed in a way that even the layest of the lay can comprehend, supported by history lessons that remind us history is not really a thing of the past, particularly where the law is involved. It lives and breathes and directs our day-to-day lives and influences what is yet to come. Episodes often touch on multiple court cases in the pursuit of teasing apart a broader issue, like the constitutionality of affirmative action, what “cruel and unusual” really means, the line between free speech and hate speech, or how the Commerce Clause affects nearly every law in the nation. In the first of two episodes called “American Pendulum,” the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States details the Supreme Court’s shocking — at least by today’s standards — decision to uphold Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of JapaneseAmerican citizens during World War II. The episode aired in the earliest days of President Trump’s Executive Order 13769. You probably call it the Muslim ban. “Korematsu could very easily feel like history,” Abumrad says. “Like, oh, that was stupid, back when we were stupid. But as we’re making that story the Muslim ban is happening and Japanese-Americans are mobilizing to fight the Muslim ban because they see in the Muslim ban something that stems directly from their experience. This shit that you thought was gone isn’t gone.” This kind of historical amnesia is an American epidemic, a sickness brought on by the fever of constant forward-thinking that only a country as young as America can have. “American Pendulum II” examines racism, looking back on Dred Scott v. Sandford, the case in which Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney wrote in his decision that black men “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The episode captures the families of Justice Taney and Dred Scott meeting for the first time, all the while Confederate statues around the nation were coming down. “This stuff is never gone. There’s a way that whatever it is that’s happening in this country, which to me feels bigger than Trump, is... is... ” Abumrad pauses and searches for the words. “It’s somehow like a kind of uranium that we’re all drawing power from and also getting poisoned from and it makes the stories we want to tell all that more urgent and interesting because we’re all so desperate to understand what’s happening now.” The third season of More Perfect will continue to make sense of the confusion, to inoculate Americans with slivers of the past in order to protect us from repeating those mistakes. Abumrad says the show is taking on a whole new approach that won’t sound “at all like what we’ve done before.” Of course he can’t say anymore now, but the reveal is sure to be worth the wait.

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7 p.m. Sunday, March 4, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

7 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

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More than three Courtesy of Los Lobos decades have passed since Los Lobos released their debut album, Just Another Band from East L.A. Since then they’ve repeatedly shown they are anything but “just another band.” Los Lobos were a Grammy Award-winning band (Best Mexican-American/ Tejano Music Performance) by the time they recorded their major label debut, How Will The Wolf Survive? in 1984. Their music is influenced by rock ‘n’ roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. Tickets are $27.50-$35.

Paul Magnanti Paul Magnanti, or Paul Mags as many know him in the outdoor community, is an active outdoor enthusiast. Mags has done the “Triple Crown” of backpacking, walking the entire lengths of the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, in addition to other treks over the years. Join Mags at Chautauqua for a talk about the environment and geography along the U.S./Mexican border, as well as the historical and cultural trends of the region. Enjoy photos of Mag’s journey along the border through out the discussion. Tickets are $9 for members, $12 for non-members.

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Thursday, March 1 Music

CU BOULDER EVENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 1 A Film by Dragan Kujundzic: Selfie with Sokurov. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 125, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Dragan Kujundzic is a professor of Jewish, Germanic and Slavic studies at the University of Florida. He will introduce and discuss his documentary.

A Closer Look: Accidents and Outliers. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. A Closer Look offers live talks by knowledgeable Fiske Planetarium presenters about special topics in astronomy and space science in an accessible way.

Guest Recital: Pamela Z. 7 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Experimental Studio, 1125 18th St., Boulder. Pamela Z, explorer of sound and creator of new paths, was the CU distinguished alumna in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, among other honors.

Boasting a “cantina-classical” (The Washington Post) voice and delightfully eclectic compositions inspired by ancient cultures and her own MexicanAmerican heritage, Lila Downs is a singular performer.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 Boulder Phil: “Reach for the Stars” Community Concert. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Join Michael Butterman and the Boulder Phil for this free family-friendly concert. Featuring a space exploration theme, the concert will also include an instrument petting zoo.

Saturday, March 3 Music Lecture: Freeing the Caged Bird: Technique and Musicality. 9 a.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 1020 18th St., Boulder. Barbara Lister-Sink, founder of the Lister-Sink Institute and distinguished professor of music at Salem College, presents an interactive workshop on well-coordinated keyboard technique and its relationship to musicality.

Lila Downs. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Find Your Muse: The Music of Rachmaninoff and MUSE. 7:30 p.m. King Center, Concert Hall, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. Goddess Grass: An Evening Celebrating Women in Bluegrass featuring The Sweet Lillies and Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Honeytree Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

4:15 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, 100, 1125 18th St., Boulder.

Intuit. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Robots could save lives during emergencies, but those situations could also end in disasters if robots are overtrusted. Join Ayanna Howard, professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as she examines human-robot interactions in the real world and the characteristics intentionally embedded in robot design to improve trust.

1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

Dragan Kujundzic, professor of Jewish, Germanic and Slavic studies at the University of Florida, will introduce and discuss his documentary.

DJ E Rose. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder.

Roboticist Ayanna Howard, Ph.D.: Are We Trusting Robots Too Much?

Astronaut Jack Fischer Presentation and Q&A.

5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 125, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Dinner with David Thomas Bailey Trio. 5 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Head for the Hills, Front Country. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

A Film by Dragan Kujundzic: Windows to Europe.

Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette.

Monday, March 5

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Jack D. Fischer was selected by NASA in July 2009 as an astronaut. Having grown up in nearby Louisville, Colorado, Fischer served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station of the Expedition 51/52. During his 2017 mission, he logged 136 days in space with two spacewalks. Space is limited, please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/ y7h9crvg

Bittersweet Highway at Quinlan Cafe. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver.

Tuesday, March 6 Anderson Cooper.

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Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Lost Boys featuring Mimosa & Bogl. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Mura Masa. 9 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax, Denver. Open Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Open Door Brewing Co., 2030 Ionoshere St., Suite 6, Longmont. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Events BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Brian Posehn. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Anderson Cooper, an award-winning journalist and host of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, will speak at Macky Auditorium on March 6. The Distinguished Speakers Board, a CU Boulder student-led organization, is hosting the event.

Comedian CP. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver.

Russian Film Series: The Office Romance (Part One).

7 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 1B90, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. One of the most famous comedies by Eldar Riazanov. Office Romance was a Soviet hit movie in 1978, having 58.4 million views, and still remains one of the most popular Soviet-era films in Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Wednesday, March 7 NIBUMBU: A Conscious Breathwork Experience. 6 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Conscious Breathwork is a powerful healing modality that is also used to access expanded states of consciousness. This journey will be unique in that it will be accompanied by live music and visuals to enhance the experience.

Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Fake Network News: A Fully Improvised Show. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Hollywood Favorite: Dunkirk. 7:30 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. Qi + Art. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Rat Film. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. The Unknown Girl. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. WWI Film Series: The African Queen. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Friday, March 2 Music 12th Planet: Hoverboard Go-Kart Race Against the Artist + Live Performance. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Parking Lot @ Sweatshop Dance, 937 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. see EVENTS Page 34

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1pm & 4pm Fix-A-Frozen-Flat

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• Dunk your hands in a cooler of ice for 1 minute and see how quickly you can fix a flat tire on a bike wheel! • Free to enter, register there, win prizes!

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1pm-2pm Costumed Polar Plunge

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 4pm-1am Royal Blue Ball

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ReAnimate Yourself Tent (Guercio Field)

A night of dancing, live music, spirits, costumes and celebration. • Live Music with Flash Mountain Flood, Electric Toast & Buttery Friends, & Dead Floyd • Silent Disco from 10:30 pm–1 am • Bredo’s Brew cryogenically crafted by Grossen Bart Brewery • Fun, Festive, Spirited Cocktails • Cold As Ice Queen and Grandpa Look Alike Costume Contest at 8pm / $100 prize packages awarded to Best Dressed Queen & Grandpa Royalty • Grandpa’s Gift Shop

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 EVENT VIEWING & ACCESS TO OUTDOOR BEER, BAR & FOOD GARDEN FREE! $20 WRISTBAND FOR ENTRANCE INTO ALL THREE LIVE MUSIC TENTS SAT/SUN/ purchase at any tent entrance (Sunday only $10)

8am-11am FDGD Pancake Breakfast

Community Center (Half-mile North on Hwy. 72)

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1st St. east of the Visitor Center

Nederland’s 1st. St. transforms into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy street performers and participate in brain freezing and frozen t-shirt contests, icy turkey bowling and more!

11am-10pm Bacon Bourbon & Brews Tent Located on 2nd Street

• C raft breweries, local distilleries, bacon vendors and live music (see music schedule)

11am-10pm Brain Freeze Tent Open First Street

• Craft Beer and Spirited Cocktails at the Colorado High Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop

11am-1am ReAnimate Yourself Tent Guercio Field

• Bredo’s Brew cryogenically crafted by Grossen Bart Brewery plus Upslope and Lumpy Ridge beers / cocktails at the Colorado High Ice Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop

11am-5pm Viewing of “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” documentary

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center Caribou Shopping Center, 20 Lakeview Dr. Unit 107

• Watch award-winning “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” short film; shows approx. every 30 minutes

Noon Parade of Coffin Racers & Hearses

Parade starts at the Teen Center and goes up (west on) 1st St.

Register for the Polar Plunge, Coffin Races & Parade. Waiver pick-up for ALL FDGD events. All event participants must sign a waiver and get waiver wristband.

• Parade participants must check in and lineup at the Teen Center.

11am- 8pm Grandpa’s Mall Crawl

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Noon-5 pm Snowy Human Foosball • It’s like Foosball with real people

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• Jump into the icy tub time machine • Entry Fee: $10 • Best costume wins an Eldora Midweek 2018/19 Season Ski Pass! • Waiver required to participate • $5 of each registration goes to support TEENS, Inc.’s Outdoor Leadership Program

2pm-3:30pm Coffin Races Guercio Field

• Teams race with a coffin and ‘corpse’ in tow through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, drills, and other racers • Prizes awarded for best time team, runner up time team, best theme/spirit, and most notable snafu on course • Waiver required to participate

3pm & 5pm Pioneer Inn’s Frozen T-shirt Contest In front of the Pioneer Inn on 1st St.

• Try and slip into something frozen… faster than everyone else • $10 entry fee; register at the event • Waiver required to participate

3pm-4pm Brain Freeze Contest

In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on 1st St.

• Contestants race against each other downing frozen slushies for fabulous prizes • $5 entry fee; register at the event • Waiver required to participate

3pm-5pm Icy Turkey Bowling

Across from Brain Freeze Tent on 1st St.

• Test your poultry bowling skills in the Icy Turkey Bowling Contest… you’re welcome to BYOFF (bring your own frozen fowl) • $5 entry fee; register at the event • Waiver required to participate

SUNDAY, MARCH 11 8am-11am FDGD Pancake Breakfast

Community Center (Half-mile North on Hwy. 72)

Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes! • $8 Adult, $5 Senior, $4 Under 12

Sponsored by and supporting Nederland Area Seniors

11am-5pm Viewing of “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” documentary

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center Caribou Shopping Center, 20 Lakeview Dr. Unit 107

• Watch award-winning “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” short film; shows approx. every 30 minutes

11am-5pm Live vultures and other decomposers Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (Caribou Shopping Center)

Noon-6pm Grandpa’s Mall Crawl

Downtown Nederland (on 1st St. east of the Visitor Center)

Nederland’s 1st. St. transforms into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy street performers and participate in brain freezing, frozen t-shirt contests, icy turkey bowling, fix a frozen flat, and more!

Noon-9pm ReAnimate Yourself Tent Guercio Field

• Grossen Bart Brewery, Upslope, Lumpy Ridge craft beers / cocktails at the Colorado High Ice Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop

11am-10pm Brain Freeze Tent Open First Street

1pm Fix-A-Frozen-Flat

On the Clock Tower patio at 112 E 2nd St. • Dunk your hands in a cooler of ice for 1 minute and see how quickly you can fix a flat tire on a bike wheel! • Free to enter, register there, win prizes!

3pm Pioneer Inn’s Frozen T-shirt Contest In front of the Pioneer Inn on 1st St.

• Try and slip into something frozen… faster than everyone else • $10 entry fee; register at the event • Waiver required to participate

1pm-1:30pm Bring Out Your Beards!

On 1st St. across from the Brain Freeze Tent

Sunday Beard competition with the Boulder Facial Hair Club

1pm-3pm Ice Carving Competition with Bongo Love and Friends Next to the 3B Tent

View some of Colorado’s most talented ice carvers create works of art right before your eyes and vote for your favorite before it melts

1pm-3pm Icy Turkey Bowling

Across from Brain Freeze Tent on 1st St.

2pm-3pm Brain Freeze Contest

In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on 1st St.

• Contestants race against each other downing frozen slushies for fabulous prizes • $5 entry fee; register at the event • Waiver required to participate

• Craft Beer and Spirited Cocktails at the Colorado High Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop

3pm-4pm Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest

11am-10pm Bacon Bourbon & Brews Tent

• Contestants race to eat the most “oysters” • Register in bar • $7 entry fee

• C raft breweries, local distilleries, bacon vendors and live music (see music schedule)

3pm The Newly Dead Game

Located on 2nd Street

Noon-2pm Nemo and Iffy Salmon Toss Stage Stop, Rollinsville

• Farthest flung fish wins the prize • Famous bloodies and PBR on sale • $5 entry fee • Waiver required to participate

1-3 pm Snowy Human Foosball

Rocky Mountain Oyster Bar & Grill • $7 entry fee

Caribou Shopping Center, 20 Lakeview Dr. Unit 107

Buried or cremated? How well do you know your partner? Find out at the Newly Dead Game.

3-4pm Frozen Dead Poet Society Open Readings

On soap box on First Street across from Brain Freeze Tent

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4:30-6PM FLASH MOUNTAIN FLOOD 6:30-8PM ELECTRIC TOAST & BUTTERY FRIENDS 8:30-10PM DEAD FLOYD 10:30-MIDNIGHT SILENT DISCO FEATURING SASSFACTORY, GANGSTERISH & STEEZIFY

BRAINFREEZER TENT 11AM-NOON THE FARMER SISTERS 12:30PM-2PM NEW FAMILY DOG 2:30PM-4PM DANA KYLE STOKES 4:30PM-6PM KRONEN 6:30PM-8PM FOXFEATHER 8:30PM-10PM THE BONGO LOVE EXPERIENCE

BACON, BOURBON & BREWS TENT 11AM-NOON PEAK2PEAK 12:30PM-2PM THE ALCAPONES 2:30PM-4PM TRIBE (NOLA SET) 4:30PM-6PM GYPSY CATTLE DRIVE 6:30PM-8PM WHISKEY BLANKET 8:30PM-10PM INSTANT KARMA

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 REANIMATE YOURSELF TENT 12:30PM-2PM 300 DAYS 2PM-3:30PM SPENCER FOREMAN & ELIJAH MOORE 4:30PM-5:30PM WHISKEY BLANKET 6PM-7:30PM THE GIFT OF GAB (OF BLACKALICIOUS)

BRAINFREEZER TENT 12:30PM-1:30PM THE FREAKY STYLIES 2PM-3:30PM MARSHMELLOW HEADBAND 4PM-5:30PM SMOOTH MONEY GESTURE 6PM-7:30PM NED AND THE DIRT

BACON, BOURBON & BREWS TENT 12:30PM-1:30PM INTUIT 2PM-3:30PM CHAIN STATION 4PM-5:30PM SMOOTH MONEY GESTURE 6PM-7:30PM NED AND THE DIRT

5pm-6pm Frozen Dead Poet Society Open Readings

Guercio Field

• Bring your poems, musings and odes to Grandpa

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On a soap box on 1st St. across from the Brain Freeze Tent

• It’s like Foosball with real people • Spectacular Prizes • Waiver required to participate • Portion of proceeds goes to Nederland Food Pantry

Bring poems, musings and Odes to Grandpa.

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Spilled Ink: an Open Mic for Youth invites younger poets, storytellers, musicians and comedians to take the stage at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe on Sunday, March 4 at 3:30 p.m. Kids, tweens and teens only!

Thursday, March 1 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY MARCH 1 8PM

SHANNA IN A DRESS / PAMELA MACHALA / THERESA PETERSON / DAVE TAMKIN FRIDAY MARCH 2 8PM

RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS SATURDAY MARCH 3 8PM

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SUNDAY MARCH 4

KATIE TALL 8PM STEPHEN THURSTON BAND 9PM MONDAY MARCH 5

CU BOULDER COLLEGIATE CHAPTER 8PM ULTRA VIOLET 9:30PM TUESDAY MARCH 6 8PM

KIND HEARTED STRANGERS 8PM COLIN ROBISON & THE HEAVY HEARTS 9PM WEDNESDAY MARCH 7 8PM

CAROLINE COTTER & MICHAEL THOMAS HOWARD w/ BEN RAZNICK THURSDAY MARCH 8 8PM

PAPER MOONSHINE FRIDAY MARCH 9 8PM

DANGO ROSE & ROSH & THE BLIND CAFE ORCHESTRA

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Peace Corps Storytelling Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Spilled Ink: Open Mic for Youth. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

David Philipps — Wild Horse Country. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Monday, March 5

Friday, March 2

Linor Goralik — Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Phoebe Nix and Open Music Night. 8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Tuesday, March 6

Saturday, March 3 Writing as Radical Self-Care: A Writing Workshop with Jen Cross. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Sunday, March 4

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. Ramona Ausubel — Awayland. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, March 7 Carter Wilson — Mister Tender’s Girl. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Antonio Lopez Trio. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Denver Philharmonic: “Smilin’ Isles.” 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.

theater Always Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 1.

Donavon Frankenreiter. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Be More Chill. 7 p.m. CenterStage Theatre at Koko Plaza, 901 Front St., Louisville. Through March 4.

Dorothy. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Book Handlers. 8 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through April 17.

DU Lamont Steel Drum Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.

The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4.

Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 5 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont.

Everyman. University Theatre, University Theatre. 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder. Through March 4.

eTown Presents: Sun Jr. — with Bella Duro. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. An Evening with Pete Muller and Friends. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette. Goatz! 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Happy Hour Chamber Concerts. 6 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Jazz Violinist Christian Howes. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder. The Jellyroll Bakers. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. John Mieras. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

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Fun Home. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through March 4. The Great Leap. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Ricketson Theatre, 950 13th St., Denver. Through March 11. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St. Longmont. Through April 8. Jotunheim: A Legend of Thor and His Hammer. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 8. Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15. Oscar Dove: Letters to Sherlock. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through March 24.

Oscar Dove, a close friend of the famed detective, Sherlock Holmes, has been summoned to a remote ranch in an unforgiving part of Alberta, Canada. When he arrives, Dove discovers his host is missing, and a raging blizzard has trapped them all in the house with an odd assortment of suspicious characters. ‘Oscar Dove: Letters to Sherlock’ is showing at the Theater Company of Lafayette March 2-24. 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. Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6. Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14.

Peter Pan. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main

Kerry Pastine & The Crime Scene — with Mojomama. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Masontown. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Music in the Lobby. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder. NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder. Ravin Wolf. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Ravin’wolf Acoustic Jam Rock-Blues. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont. Springsteen Tribute in Longmont. 8 p.m. The Wild Game Entertainment Experience, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont. Stomp The Landing. 8 p.m. Rackhouse, 2875 Blake St., Denver. The Strange Parade in Longmont. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

T and the Twisters. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 — with Olga Kern. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Events Banff Mountain Film Festival. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. see EVENTS Page 36

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events

arts Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27.

FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS

Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20.

8:00pm NO COVER 3/2 TROUBLE IN THE HEARTLAND 3/3 DIXIE LEADFOOT

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. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Boulder

3/10 WENDY WOO 3/16 Richie Law 3/17

Thumpin’ St. Patrick’s Dance Party!

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Becky Shaw. 7:30 p.m. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Brian Posehn. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. First Friday Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. The Jerk. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Sans Souci. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Tilt Academy Awards Party. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville. The Unknown Girl. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Wild Heart Dance: The Last Land Before Sky. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Saturday, March 3 Music Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Cisco’s Kids & Soul Sacrifice. 8 p.m. The Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 6. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1. 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, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through March 2. Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum,

100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28. 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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Boulder Philharmonic Sensory-Friendly Concert. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

2251 KEN PRATT BLVD

Degas: A Passion for Perfection showcases prolific French artist Edgar Degas’ works from 1855 to 1906. More than 100 works consisting of paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, and sculptures in bronze are on view at the Denver Art Museum through May 20. See page 21 for more on the exhibit.

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13.

LIVE MUSIC

3/9 SONIC ARCADE

Degas, “Four Ballet Dancers on Stage,” Courtesy of Denver Art Museum

Community Crawfish Boil. 5 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons. The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Dorothy. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Doug & Rutherford. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder.

The George Nelson Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Events

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

Aerial Arts Parent’s Night Out. 6 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Boulder.

Jazz Violinist Christian Howes. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.

Art Show & Fundraiser. 4 p.m. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont.

Johnny Johnston — Colorado Blues. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmon.

Ballet Petit – The Sleeping Beauty. 2 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

Kyle Hollingsworth Band — Kyle’s 50th Birthday & Album Release Party. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Banff Mountain Film Festival. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver.

Lila Downs. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Lionel Young Duo. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Live Music: Davy Allard & the Honkabilly Heroes. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons. Michelle Roderick Trio. 7 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Longmont. music@theJ — The Music and Culture of Sephardic Spain. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder. Native Station. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont. Pickin on Ween. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Rajdulari. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Stomp Street Heist. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder. Taylor Shae Band. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont.

Becky Shaw. 7:30 p.m. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Mile High Beer Festival. 1 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver. Rocky Mountain STEAM Fest 2018. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Wild Heart Dance: The Last Land Before Sky. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Sunday, March 4 Music 3OH!3. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Boulder Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Boulder Philharmonic Community Concert: “Reach for the Stars.” 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Coping with Life’s Problems. 9:30 a.m. Living Waters Meeting at the YWCA, 2222 14th St., Boulder.

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events Dikki Du and the Zydeco Crew. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Led Zeppelin Tribute. 1 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Los Lobos. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 — with Olga Kern. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Events Becky Shaw. 2 p.m. Coal Creek Theater, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Suite 64, Boulder.

Oscar Shorts: Animation. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Paul Mags: Hiking the Mexico/U.S. Border. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Pro Tips for Easily Improving your YouTube Videos. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder. Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.

Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Leftover Salmon & Paul Thorn. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

Neil Hilborn. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Caroline Cotter Album Release — with Michael Howard and Ben Raznick. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Shoes and Brews, 63 S. Pratt Parkway, Suite B, Longmont.

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

Wednesday, March 7

Harmony Youth Choir. 4 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder.

Music

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Reggae Night at the Boulder House. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Events Oscar Shorts: Animation. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Oscar Shorts: Animation. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Rocky Mountain STEAM Fest 2018. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Tosca: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Wild Heart Dance: The Last Land Before Sky. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Monday, March 5 Music

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Monday Open Mic. 8 p.m. Sko Lounge, 1325 Broadway St., Suite 205, Boulder. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Oscar Shorts: Animation. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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Tuesday, March 6 Music Euchre in Longmont — Win Free Beer! 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Glenn Miller Orchestra. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Introducing the Band with Mark Diamond. 7 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 2027 13th St., Boulder. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Open Mic — with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Open Stage — Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Events Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Drop-In Improv Class. 6 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

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When I Was by Ira G. Liss

When I was a rock I knew patience and slowly, my sharp edges became smooth While tree I knew squirrels, sparrows and mites steady friends wind and sky As butterfly how I ached to leave my coccoon, my self-made sheltered transformation struggled out exhausted on a twig flight was easy fragrant flowers shared their nectar my joyful sustenance Today, I am human. Often, I notice, it’s not easy being human. I’m still learning how. (If you know, please tell me.)

Ira G. Liss is a musician, entertainer, wedding officiant and hosts his own live, monthly variety, art, talk show.

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Confronting a selfish world with ‘Loveless’ by Michael J. Casey

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Loveless. Various show times at the Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver. Visit landmarktheaters. com for details.

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ou can’t live your life in lovelessness,” the ex-wife tells her new boyfriend. We agree, that’s certainly true. But we also know there is a touch more excuse in her rationale than reason. Like the Joneses down the street, she has left one marriage for another. Why? Maybe it’s love, maybe it’s sex or maybe it’s just something new. Lovelessness, we question as we watch the children carry out cardboard boxes of stuffed animals, or selfishness? For filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, the answer lies in the latter. Set in 2012, Loveless revolves around the divorce of Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin), a middleclass couple of 13 years who couldn’t hate each other more. Stuck in the middle is Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), their only child and the reason neither left a long time ago. That won’t stop them now. They even discuss sending Alyosha to an orphanage rather than compromise on custody. A happy marriage this is not. Yet, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Boris is coached by a co-worker on how to quickly divorce and start a new family so he Zhenya and Boris are caught up in won’t be terminated by his fundamentalist Christian their own drama, employer. Equally excited to start her second relationwhile their son, Alyosha, is left ship, Zhenya spends so much time at her boyfriend’s behind. house that when she finds out Alyosha is missing, she realizes he’s been missing for two days. And where is Boris? At his pregnant girlfriend’s apartment — she’s in her third trimester and already grinding his gears. Yes, Zhenya and Boris are aggravating protagonists, repulsive even, but Zvyagintsev isn’t interested in simply throwing them under the bus. His aim is much more systemic. In one of the movie’s most telling scenes, a woman exits a restaurant bathroom and is told how beautiful she is by a stranger. She smiles and the man asks for her number. She gives it, and her name, before walking back to her table and to her date. Apparently, infidelity is Russia’s worst kept secret. Who then are the loveless? Alyosha, the son Zhenya and Boris never wanted and don’t know what to do with? Yes, he certainly is loveless, forgotten and unwanted, but so too are the other children — constantly off-screen and seemingly forgotten by a generation of adults so self-absorbed they can’t be bothered to watch out for them, let alone raise them. It’s a blunt point, but considering Loveless hits U.S. theaters mere weeks after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, it’s a timely one as well. Once again, adults stood by while children were slaughtered, and once again those same adults refuse to make changes to ensure the safety of future children. We will never know what the future holds, but we will always know how we got there. Who knows what the next generation has in store for us, but we’ll certainly be able to look at these moments and know why they really don’t like us: Because we didn’t protect them from predators any more than we stopped the mentally ill from getting their hands on an AR-15. We’re giving them plenty of reasons to hate us.

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The Spicy Pig

Audrey Jane’s Pizza Garage 2675 13th St., Boulder, thepizzagarage.com

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Seeds Library Cafe Boulder Main Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, seedsboulder.com

here was once a time when all you could expect from a library in terms of food was some vending machine chips, a can of V8 and a water fountain. But Boulder County Farmers Market runs the shop at Seeds Library Cafe in the main branch of the Boulder Public Library, and that’s a good thing. Their winter offering of sausage toast is a refreshing find amidst the stacks. Hunks of Cure Farm sausage are piled with winter slaw, pickled crimini mushrooms, sunchoke pesto, watercress and apple mustard atop a crusty country bread slice. You’d think it’d be too much, but it balances out well: the sausage and mushrooms are robust and earthy, the pesto is spicy, the apple mustard is sweet (and worthy of its own jar) and the slaw provides some structure. $9.99.

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udrey Jane and her pizza garage tout the “only New York slice of Pizza in Colorado.” We’ll let you decide if that’s true or not, but it certainly is a New York kind of statement. The pizza lives up to the hype, fortunately. It’s got a tasty, halfcharred, half-chewy crust that proves Audrey Jane knows what she’s doing. On the Spicy Pig, there’s tomato sauce, mozzarella, Italian sausage, roasted (non-spicy) jalapenos, a fair amount of garlic and some pretty mind-blowing pepperoni. What screams as most authentic, though, is the mouth-watering orange oil that forms at some point in the folding and eating process. So if you read the shop’s tagline as a challenge, go ahead and debate the pizza’s authenticity, but we think it’s an excellent East Coast-style pie no matter how you slice it. $20.

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he world keeps turning and The Sink stays its excellent self. The hot chicken and waffles plays into the Nashville trend with a crunch-coated chicken breast doused in high-vinegar sauce and hot spices. It’s placed atop two crispy and light and waffles and mingled with pickled slaw, ranch and dill-covered half-sours. It’s another example of the elevated pub grub you’ve come to expect from the masters at The Sink. $13.95.

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elf-proclaimed “food for enthusiasts,” every dish at Zeal is fresh, organic and relatively simple — but in the best possible way. Take its signature Mighty Bowl for example. Warm and hearty quinoa is served with a savory al dente chickpea and steamed greens combination that is all together healthy, tangy, and just a tad crunchy, and the highlight of the dish. The warm elements are topped with fresh mixed greens, shredded carrots, beets, raw lentil sprouts and sesame seeds, lightly dressed in whatever flavor profile you choose (we picked tahini.) The meal goes down fast, especially when paired with one of Zeal’s fresh-squeezed juices or a tasting flight. $10.

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HERE MAY HAVE been a time when Colorado wasn’t a blip on the national culinary radar — certainly not Boulder or Aurora — but no longer. The state’s food attractions are popping up nationally for major awards and on foodie TV shows like the current Coloradocentric season of Top Chef. Congratulations go to the local folks honored on the just-announced semi-finalists’ list for the 2018 James Beard Awards, the national Oscars of dining. Whether they make it onto the list of five finalists in March (or win the category in May), the nod acknowledges significant culinary achievement. Andy Clark, owner of Louisville’s Moxie Bread Co., is nominated in the Outstanding Baker category. It is the bakery’s first Beard appearance and a huge accolade for a tiny place baking buttery pastries and crusty loaves. “I hope we were nominated for our belief in local heirloom grains and being a community-oriented bakery. The staff pours its heart and soul into it. Honestly, I’m living my dream every day here. Everything else is gravy,” Clark said. Perennial nominee Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder is nominated for the third time in the Outstanding Restaurant category. Last year Frasca ended up as a finalist. “We are super excited to be nominated, but what is even more exciting is to see all the great Colorado peers on the ballot,” said Bobby Stuckey, master sommelier and co-owner of Frasca. American Airlines recently hired Stuckey to over-

see its entire wine program. The Beard semi-finalist roster includes Annette. The eatery in Aurora’s new Stanley Marketplace food hall is nominated among 27 others for Best New Restaurant. Annette’s chef, Caroline Glover, is listed in the Best Chef: Southwest category along with Dana Rodriguez (Work & Class, Denver) and Alex Seidel (Fruition, Mercantile Dining & Provision, Denver). Both Rodriguez and Seidel have been nominated before. Finally, The Little Nell in Aspen is nominated for the Outstanding Wine Program award, and Todd Leopold of the Denver craft distillery, Leopold Bros., gets the nod in the Outstanding Wine, Beer, or Spirits Professional category. This year’s semi-finalist list includes 40 percent women, up from 27 percent in 2017. The James Beard Foundation asked its voters for the first time to look at “the values of respect, transparency, diversity, sus-

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tainability and equality” in the nominees before deciding. It’s about time. The #MeToo movement has had an impact. Before the nomination process started, the James Beard Foundation had a recommendation: “If you have concerns about a chef, restaurateur or beverage professional, or about the culture around a restaurant or restaurant group, leave the person or business out of your nominations.” One well-deserved award has already been announced. Beard’s 2018 Humanitarian of the Year award goes to chef José Andrés for his World Central Kitchen, which has served over 3 million meals so far in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria and shines a spotlight on stilldeplorable conditions there. Meanwhile, Denver’s Il Porcellino was named the 2018 Charcuterie Master Grand Champion in New York last week over the best creators of sausages, patés, hams and salumi in the U.S. “I’m just humbled beyond words. It’s nice to be recognized nationally for what we’re doing,” said Bill Miner, founder of Il Porcellino. Colorado also has 19 restaurants with four-diamond ratings in AAA’s just-announced 2018 listings including Frasca and the Flagstaff House in Boulder, Mizuna and Rioja in Denver, and Mirabelle at Beaver Creek.

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Several Nibbles readers offered comments on my Feb. 22 column on the boom in fast food and fastcasual vegan food options. I asked for additions to my list: The reuben challenge “You missed the best Boulder option of all, the see NIBBLES Page 44

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100-percent vegan Native Foods in 29th St. Mall. My favorite item is the Reuben sandwich. I challenge any carni-phile to taste the difference between it and a beef reuben.” ‘Food-not food’ “I still enjoy Falafel King. Thank goodness for Illegal Pete’s (veggie burrito bowl), Wahoo’s Fish Tacos (cheese enchiladas, veggie bowl), and Noodles & Co. Panera provides vegetarian options, but not vegan. (I always wind up getting cheese.) We’re lucky for the salad and food bars at Whole Foods, Alfalfa’s and Sprouts. Another fun find is the veggie food at A Cup of Peace. ... I’ve come to call what you can get at (in)convenience stores and fast-food joints as ‘Food-Not Food.’ It’s something to consume but it’s not genuine food.” ‘Carnivore Snark’ “Yes, you missed plenty ... as you have done before, you can’t seem to resist slipping in carnivore snark — ‘yummy animal proteins.’ I guess you want to make sure you are viewed as ‘manly’ — which, by the way, is not related to eating meat.” More suggestions? Nibbles@boulderweekly.com

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food program, the Generic FLagstaff House Gourmet Show, was recently named a was followed by four-diamond Radio Nibbles, destination by AAA. which has been on the air for 20 years. Several generations of Boulder County food businesses have been there for KGNU during good times and years when we weren’t sure the station would survive. Local restaurants, coffee roasters, breweries and bakeries have donated food, provided underwriting, fed hundreds of volunteers and provided thank-you gifts during our necessary membership drives. We’ve delivered chocolate mousse and apple pie to homes and gathered folks for grand buffets and wine dinners at Arugula. As KGNU celebrates 40 years on the air, I just wanted to say thank you to all of them for feeding the station and the community.

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ave you heard the legend of the only American bullfight? It was the summer of 1895. The town of Gillett, Colorado, about 10 miles south of Cripple Creek, was booming thanks to the gold rush. A casino owner, Joe Wolfe, thought he could write Gillett in the history books by bringing in bulls from Mexico and staging a bullfight. On the big day, as many as 50,000 people showed up to watch the bullfight, but what they got instead was a dog and pony show. Citing the potential for animal cruelty, the state governor sent out officials to monitor the event. Wolfe, however, prepaid fines for the matadors and expedited them through a makeshift courthouse nearby. It was an inauspicious precursor as the event was bungled terribly. The bulls were ordinary farm animals and not ready to fight. The bullfighters were trained neither in the ritual of fighting nor in how to humanely kill the animals. It was a rough watch. The crowd waned, the remaining days of bullfights were canceled, Wolfe lost a ton of money and now Gillett is a ghost town. Bryan Dayton and Amos Watts, weeks away from the opening of

Corrida owners Bryan Dayton and Amos Watts on using Spanish cuisine to elevate beef by Matt Cortina

their new Spanish-style steakhouse Corrida (Spanish for, loosely, bullfighting), recount this story not to make light of what happened that day, or of bullfighting in general, but as a metaphor for how the United States has treated Spanish cuisine and beef in general; that is, with haste and with disrespect. “I’ve seen a bullfight, and it is horrible,” Dayton says. “We ran with the bulls in Pamplona and saw the bullfight the night before, and it was brutal. But once we got through it, once the bull gets killed, every part of the bull gets used. It all goes somewhere, whether it’s for eating or leather, and the bull has a great life until that last 15 minutes.” Dayton says naming the restaurant Corrida has gotten them “into a bit of trouble” even before the restaurant’s doors open on the top floor of the building at the old Daily Camera site. And certainly there are ethical questions about bullfighting, about whether it’s OK to make a show out of the death of a living being. Spanish culture answers for this, Dayton says. “You go to Washington D.C. and you get those pieces of paper with all the presidents’ heads on them,” he says. “When you go to

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gift shops in Spain, instead of having all the presidents’ heads of Spain, they have all the cows from different regions. They have big billboards with the toro, and big, big bulls everywhere. The culture of it is more of a natural process than what we do with cows [in the U.S.].” Given the rabid appetite Americans have for beef, 98 percent of cows are slaughtered at 24 months or younger, Dayton says. Many producers fatten cows with grain in the last six months to create more beef. Watts says although they can secure grass-finished beef and cows as old as 30 months in the U.S., Spanish cows are largely allowed to graze longer. That improves both the quality of the cows’ lives and the quality of the beef. “They put it all the way up to 36 months,” Watts says. “It’s all grassfed and the marbling is really nice because of how they treat the cow. ... In Spain, they are really proud of all the beef.” If you’ve had older beef, or premium beef like 7X or wagyu, you know the difference in quality of meat that comes from cows that were well cared for. A carpaccio prepared from high quality beef can be a shock to the palate; Dayton says beef from a six-yearold cow he had in Spain tasted like whole milk and oreo cookies. The potential for beef and Spanish cuisine has Dayton and Watts on the precipice of a national awakening to Spanish food. Chef José Andrés, the Spanish-American chef who is largely credited with bringing small plate dining to the U.S., is bringing Spanishstyle steakhouses to several American cities, and more farmers are becoming receptive to allowing their cattle to graze longer and grow older in the Spanish style. Though Spanish cuisine is relatively uncharted territory for them, this is not the first foray into restaurants for Dayton and Watts. Dayton ran the cocktail program at Frasca for five years before opening OAK at Fourteenth eight years ago. Watts met OAK chef Steve Redzikowski while working at a restaurant in Northern California. When OAK expanded to Acorn, Redzikowski recommended Watts to jump onboard, and when the opportunity to launch a restaurant at the new Walnut penthouse fell to Dayton, Watts was the choice to helm the kitchen. Dayton wanted to create a steakhouse, but not an American restaurant, which he says can sometimes lazily fall back on influences from around the world. So noting the beef culture in Spain, Dayton and Watts began to Boulder Weekly

develop a menu that spans Spain’s many culinary regions and upturns common American perceptions of Spanish cuisine. “We learned right away that you can’t call it a Spanish steakhouse because everyone thinks we’re going to have swords of meat,” says Watts. “Everybody is like, ‘Are you opening a tapas restaurant?’” Dayton adds. “And yeah, there are lots of tapas bars in Spain, but everybody’s under the notion that’s all Spain is. No, there are actual restaurants.” Watts says the misperceptions about Spanish cuisine extend to its reputation in the world. There are plenty of Michelin-starred Spanish restaurants and chefs, and the country’s unique blend of cultures has led to the creation of unique cuisine, techniques and chefs that couldn’t have been developed elsewhere. “You have a lot to pull from,” Watts says. “You have North African cuisine, Moorish spices and stuff like that. In San Sebastian, you have Southern France and kind of like Italian cuisine. We’ve done a lot of reading, research. A lot of recipe testing... I was afraid we were going to get colon cancer this summer.” Dayton, once named by GQ as the most inspired bartender in the U.S., will implement a Spanish wine list, a sherry menu and a selection of gin and tonic, all areas that have little exploration in the U.S., certainly not in Boulder County: Sherry runs the gamut from dry and floral to juicy and acidic to pancake syrup, Dayton says; Watts says they encountered 85 different tonics on their trip to Spain. All of this — from convincing Boulder diners that it’s OK to eat beef once in a while to everything that Spanish cuisine entails — will require education. “We’ll have some creative ways to talk about the menu and then if someone wants to jump on the bus and go on a field trip for these long-winded discussions about beef, we’ll go there,” Dayton says. “I don’t want it to be a job to come to the restaurant either,” Watts adds. “I hated school.” So when Corrida opens, tentatively in mid-March, there will be stories told, from the relative environmental benefits of ranch-to-table cattle farming in Spain to how to marry sherry with prawns and chorizo. And the idea is that if you hear about the first bullfight in Colorado, or talk about what corrida means, you’ll value the steak on your plate a little more than if you hadn’t.

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baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying ... or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago ... or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you ... or transform your relationship with an old wound ... or all of the above.

Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs LIBRA through the eastern United SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: States. Hikers can wind Go to RealAstrology.com to check out In the coming weeks, their way through forests Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO you could reach several and wilderness areas from HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE odd personal bests. For Mount Katahdin in Maine HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes instance, your ability to to Springer Mountain in are also available by phone at distinguish between flowGeorgia. Along the way 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. ery bullshit and inventive they may encounter black truth-telling will be at bears, bobcats, porcupines a peak. Your “imperfecand wild boars. These tions” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses. metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you SCORPIO take advantage! OCT. 23-NOV. 21: French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the your close allies? If for some reason these developments are strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you. become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived. VIRGO

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: The Committee to Fanatically

Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps — to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment and abundant slack.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20: No one can be somewhat pregnant.

You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “You can’t find intimacy — you can’t find home — when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns — places where people once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and half-forgotten history.

You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the

works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quicklyshifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: It’s the Productive Paradox Phase

of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1) You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2) You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3) If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4) A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5) Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: As you make appointments in

the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat.

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Dear Dan: I recently stumbled on an Instagram account of a young woman who’s a “knife play” enthusiast. I consider myself sex-positive, but I must say I was disturbed by the images. I was also shocked that I didn’t know this was a thing! But of course it’s a thing cuz everything is a thing, right? I don’t want to outlaw it, and everyone has a right to their kinks, I guess, but I’m so wigged out! I guess I don’t have a question here besides wondering what you think about it. Ick! —Can’t Understand This Dear CUT: Everything is, indeed, a thing, CUT, and intimidating things like knives — objects that symbolize power, danger, and control — are far likelier to become things (fetishized objects) than nonthreatening things like waffle irons or useless things like moderate Republicans. As for what I think about knife play, well, it’s definitely not for me. But if someone wants to incorporate knife play into their sex life safely, responsibly and consensually, and package it in a manner that doesn’t violate Instagram’s terms of service, I don’t have a problem with it. Dear Dan: I’m a 52-year-old woman who has been in an open relationship with my partner for 2.5 years. Great sex, intense connection, best friends! Early on he expressed a desire for me to play with his ass. At first I did, but I was never comfortable

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with it. I’m not into anal myself and doing anal with him turns me off. Over the course of the 2.5 years he’s become very frustrated. I tell him to go find a woman or a man who enjoys ass as much as he does and play with them. We are in an open relationship, after all. He claims he has no time to date anyone else. We are at a crossroad in our relationship. He’s suggesting that I play with his ass or we go our separate ways. It’s ludicrous to me that it has come to this. Any words of wisdom? —Ass Play Or Else Dear APOE: Your “best friend” is a petulant, manipulative asshole. DTMFA. Dear Dan: About three years ago my wife declared an end to sex. (We are in our late sixties.) However, she insists on “taking one for the team” once a month. She makes it clear she derives no enjoyment from sex, but I cannot refuse to participate without a huge fight. I find that I have developed a sexual attraction to other men my age. Every man I encounter in gay bathhouses considers oral sex safe, and no one wants to use a condom. Most of these guys seem very experienced

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and are not worried about STDs from oral sex. Should I be worried? —Concerned Older Man Enquires Dear COME: You can get all sorts of things from giving and receiving oral sex: gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, etc. My advice: stop having sex with your wife so long as you’re seeking out men in bathhouses. I suspect your wife is only fucking you once a month to keep you from straying (which you’re already doing) because she believes — incorrectly — that if you aren’t getting sex at home, COME, you’ll leave her to go get sex. That’s obviously not the case — you’re getting sex elsewhere without her knowledge (or her consent and putting her at risk in the process) and you aren’t leaving. Tell her you’re also done with straight sex (the “straight” can be silent), have one last huge fight, and then go suck some dick. Dear Dan: The idea of spanking my wife really captures my sexual imagination. I don’t want to inflict a lot of pain, but seeing her over my lap with a bit of pink on her ass is the hottest thing in the world to

me. My wife indulged me once — it was incredibly hot for me, but she found it degrading and refuses to do it again. By her own admission, I treat her with respect in our day-to-day lives. I would be ecstatic even if we only did this rarely, say, once a month. Again, no dice from the wife — it’s degrading, end of discussion. Otherwise, our sex life is fantastic. I believe that Dear Prudence would side with my wife: if you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. My view is that it’s a small inconvenience that brings your husband an incredible amount of joy, so of course you should do it! What are your thoughts? —Wife Is So Hot Over The Knee Dear WISHOTK: If I were your wife, WISHOTK, your argument would carry the day — but I’m not your wife. Your wife is your wife and she gave spanking a try, found it degrading in a non-sexy way, and doesn’t want to do it again. And that’s the not-the-least-bitpink end of it. Being treated with respect by our romantic partners — literally the bare-ass minimum — doesn’t obligate us to indulge our partners in sex acts we find unpleasant, degrading, or disgusting. So you’ll have to settle for that otherwise fantastic sex life. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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by Sidni West

I don’t always fly with pot, but when I do...

s a travel writer, I’ve spent what feels like literal years of my life going through airport security. I’ve flown with marijuana on nearly every domestic flight and not once have I ever had an issue. It’s technically illegal to transport weed across state lines, even if both states have legalized it, since the federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 (most harmful) substance. But there is enough leniency and gray area that allows many people to confidently pack weed in their carry-ons every day. Before you decide to do your personal take on a red-eye flight, here are a few basic things to keep in mind:

TSA’s special purpose The Transportation Security Administration is focused on terrorism, meaning they’re looking for guns, explosives and anything else that could possibly take down a plane. With millions of people coming through Denver International Airport, they are not specifically focusing their resources on busting people for small amounts of pot. According to the TSA website, “[Our] screening procedures are focused on security and are designed to detect potential threats to aviation and passengers. Accordingly, TSA security officers do not search for marijuana or other illegal drugs, but in the event a sub-

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stance that appears to be marijuana is observed during security screening, TSA will refer the matter to a law enforcement officer.” In response to a tweet asking about their policy on Feb. 26, @AskTSA stated “While we have no regulations on transporting marijuana, possession is a crime under federal law. Our officers aren’t searching for illegal narcotics, but they have to report them to law enforcement when discovered.” Supposedly at DIA, if TSA finds weed on a passenger, they contact Denver Police officers who then determine if the amount found was for the passenger’s personal use or large enough to be considered illegal trafficking. If the former, the passenger is informed of the airport’s policy and given the option to throw it away in the trash with other banned items or return the product home. Here’s DIA’s senior public information officer Heath Montgomery’s two cents on dime-bag traffic: “Generally, the airport has a policy that prohibits the possession, consumption, etc. of any marijuana products on airport property. When a person is found to have marijuana on them (an amount legal under Colorado law) at the TSA checkpoints, a Denver Police officer typically explains the airport’s rules and asks the passenger to dispose of the marijuana. “To date,” he continues, “every single person who has been contacted about this has voluntarily complied with our request and either taken it home or thrown it away. In all of 2015, the number of people contacted at the TSA checkpoints about marijuana possession was only 29. That was out of 54 million passengers. The

numbers have been so small that the police no longer track these contacts.”

Use common sense First of all, keep it domestic. Don’t risk getting locked up abroad by bringing it on international flights. While I can’t encourage anyone else to break the law, I can tell you what I do when I fly with pot. I keep everything in almost plain sight. Going out of your way to hide things in jars of peanut butter is sketchy and suspicious. I usually put all of my flower, edibles and vape pens together in a little dopp kit and throw that in my backpack. I don’t fly with much. I keep it to a personal amount, like no more than an eighth of bud and a small assortment of edibles. A larger amount might call attention, which means a higher chance of having to throw it away. If I were to bring a suitcase full of weed, they might assume I intended to distribute it and that’s called drug trafficking. If I’m traveling with vape cartridges or oil, I make sure I have less than 3 ounces because TSA has strict rules about liquids. Also, don’t even bother trying to bring a marijuana drink or elixir since the TSA is highly concerned with water bottles. Edibles are the easiest to transport since they’re so inconspicuous. I see a lot of tourists buy regular candy bars or bags of gummy bears to hide their edibles in different wrappers, but I think even that is extra. While it’s remarkably easy to fly with weed, there are still plenty of situations where it can get you in trouble with the law. So make sure you’ve thought it all through for yourself.

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A good news, bad news week for pot

t’s been a good news, bad news week marijuana-wise. Start with the bad news. On Monday, a federal judge in New York tossed out a lawsuit that had challenged the Drug Enforcement Administration’s refusal to remove marijuana from its list of Schedule I Controlled Substances, a classification that is supposedly reserved for drugs that are both dangerous and have no recognized medical use. Had the suit succeeded, marijuana would have been effectively legalized at the federal level. The plaintiffs in the suit included a former NFL player and a 12-year-old girl who used pot to treat her chronic epilepsy. Their suit charges that marijuana’s Schedule I classification was unconstitutional on several grounds, including that marijuana has been used medicinally for centuries, that voters or lawmakers in 29 states have legalized marijuana in some form for medical or recreational purposes and that laws against marijuana use have been enforced in ways that unconstitutionally discriminate against blacks and Hispanics. Their complaint also pointed to historical reports that Thomas Jefferson smoked marijuana to control his migraines and that James Madison credited “sweet hemp” for giving him “insight to create a new and democratic nation.” Federal District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein dismissed the lawsuit on grounds that the plaintiffs had not first petitioned the DEA to change marijuana’s classification. It’s a long-established principle of federal law that when plaintiffs in a suit are challenging the actions of a federal agency, they have to exhaust the administrative remedies within the agency before they can sue in federal court. In his ruling, Judge Hellerstein did say that his decision was “not based on the merits of the plaintiffs claims,” but on grounds that the plaintiffs should have first petitioned the DEA. The ruling conveniently ignores the fact that in

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rejecting previous challenges to marijuana’s Schedule I status, the DEA has cavalierly ignored evidence of marijuana’s medical uses and the relative safety of marijuana compared to other Schedule I drugs. It also ignored the fact that in at least one case the DEA deliberately refused to rule for several years in an obvious abuse of process, which is one of the reasons why plaintiffs sued in federal court in the first place. For 80 years the federal judiciary has been nothing if not consistent in how it’s treated suits challenging the constitutionality of the war on drugs generally and the war on marijuana in particular — it regularly blows them off on grounds that it’s up to Congress and the federal bureaucracy to make drug policy, no matter how unjust, viciously oppressive,

discriminatory and intellectually corrupt their work product has been. Hellerstein’s decision is in keeping with that grand tradition. • • • • Now for the good news. Also on Monday, a Denver coffee shop received a permit to allow marijuana use by its patrons. According to the Denver Post, the permit is the nation’s first license to a business to allow marijuana use on its premises. (Well, the first in the lower 48 anyway. In Anchorage, Alaska, the Alaska Cannabis Club operates places where stoners can come and smoke.) Under the permit, the coffee shop, named The Coffee Joint, which is already open at 1130 Yuma Court in Denver just east of I-25, can allow customers aged 21 or older to vape or consume edibles they bring to the shop. The Coffee Joint patrons won’t be allowed to smoke pot or anything else in the shop despite its name, because of Denver’s anti-smoking ordinance. Nor will they be able to buy marijuana products in the shop; they have to bring their own — which they can buy at a dispensary next door that’s partially owned by The Coffee Joint’s owners. Inhalations and ingestions are expected to begin within a couple of weeks. The sort of convoluted rules The Coffee Joint will have to operate under are similar to some that were imposed on bars in some places after the end of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s. In Utah, for instance, you could only drink booze in a “club,” which you could join for a nominal fee when you walked in the door and you had to bring your own booze. Still, despite the nuisanced regs, the opening of the first marijuana coffee shop is an important step in the process of regulating marijuana like alcohol — and definitely good news.

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