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Dirty money and the coronavirus by Paul Danish

oney makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it. Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS News, the short answer is yes... “The belief is that these viruses can stay on surfaces in their fully active states for at least 10 days. That includes cash and all kinds of other surfaces that people normally touch,” Dr. Sanjay Maggirwar, chair of the George Washington University School of Medicine’s department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, told CBS’s MoneyWatch. “So certainly with the coronavirus, cash handling is a concern.”... The Federal Reserve is taking the threat seriously enough. Since Feb. 21, it has delayed processing cash repatriated from Asia for seven to 10 days before putting it back into circulation... Public health docs are advising people to use credit cards and to wash their hands after touching filthy lucre if they have to... Greenbacks get around fast, and tens of millions of people handle them every day... So how I

about sampling the money supply circulating in areas with coronavirus cases and announcing daily how contaminated it is?... And how about money laundering? Yeah it can be done, one site on the web suggested dry-ironing paper money at the highest temperature setting; another said Yankee dollars can be boiled... How about using a microwave to sanitize cash?... A woman in China tried it but ended up with charred bills in less than a minute... But there were numerous references on Google to using a microwave to sanitize kitchen sponges; two minutes will do it, they said... Money to burn in China: Chinese banks are sanitizing bank notes with ultraviolet light — and burning the ones they consider too questionable or too numerous to try cleaning... One website suggested that if it’s too much hassle to launder your bills, you might try quarantining it for a couple of weeks before handling it again... And whatever you do, don’t pick your nose after hitting the enter key on the ATM machine... • • • • The coronavirus is scary because there isn’t a vaccine and there isn’t a cure... A vaccine will be forthcoming in a year or two; the fact that it takes so long to develop vaccines for novel see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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virus diseases that increasingly pop up out of nowhere is a major problem that needs to be addressed pronto... But the real failure of the global health care system is that there aren’t many, if any, good broad-spectrum antiviral drugs. And worse, that the world’s best antibiotics are losing their effectiveness as bacteria develop resistance to them. That matters with coronavirus cases, because a lot of the deaths are caused by patients contracting opportunistic bacterial infections... If anything good comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be a Manhattan Project/ Moonshot program to develop them... And expediting the approval of new ones. • • • • Coronavirus can’t hold a candle to the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, which killed anywhere from 50 to 100 million people worldwide, including more than 800,000 in the U.S. Here’s how the symptoms of an early group of victims, U.S. sailors who were stricken in Philadelphia, were described in the 2004 book The Great Influenza by John M. Barry: “The blood that covered so many of them did not come from wounds... Most of the blood had come from nosebleeds. A few sailors had coughed the blood up. Others had bled from the I

ears. Some coughed so hard that autopsies would later show they had torn apart abdominal muscles and rib cartilage. And many of the men writhed in agony or delirium; nearly all those able to communicate complained of headache, as if someone were hammering a wedge into their skulls just behind the eyes, and body aches so intense they felt like bones breaking. A few were vomiting. Finally the skin of some of the sailors had turned unusual colors...” In terms of total deaths, the Spanish Flu was the deadliest pandemic in human history. It scares the hell out of public health professionals to this day, and explains why they move so quickly to try and control the spread of viral diseases going viral. • • • • About the stock market’s coronavirus fluctuations: Are the Wall Street guys a bunch of hair-triggered neurotics who start hyperventilating every time someone sneezes on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, or are they just a bunch of cynical greed-heads who are deliberately creating panic selling so they can make a killing by shorting the market? Hey, short sellers never let a good panic go to waste... This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Bernie Sanders wants us well

When I get sick or injured, I feel instantly vulnerable. I feel compassion all at once for anyone who’s sick more of the time, or who lives in chronic pain. When someone like a medical provider or stranger shows me kindness, my knees buckle in gratitude. The illusion that I’m unbreakable fades into the truth of our shared humanness. We are all in this together. The fact that the greediest corporations and their leaders see fit to take something that is a human need such as health care, and hold it ransom, charging ever-larger sums, means that health care is held out of reach for more and more of us each day. Sometimes, because we Americans love our children, our partners and our very lives — we agree to pay monstrous sums. We trade a chance at life for a lifetime of debt. We might lose our homes, go hungry. The corporations hold our health and our lives in their greedy fists. So what holds these tyrants in check? A government of and by and for the people is supposed to protect us by making rules to stop greed and protect patients. But Big Pharma and health insurers give staggering sums to members of congress. They’re spending billions in ads against improved Medicare for All and Sen. Bernie Sanders, both of which give me hope. Bernie is a leader committed to improving our wellbeing. True democracy can save us. A leader who wants to restore the heart of our nation to the people and meet our needs can help. But he cannot do it alone. We must all stand together and say that our lives, and life on Earth, matter more than the extreme profits and deep pockets of those holding our future in their tight fists. Take back your health, your life, your country, your power. Stand for the good of all life, of those you’ve never met, of all people. Stand with Bernie Sanders. Sara Wright/Boulder

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On Feb. 27, 2020, the NYT ran the op-ed “No, not Sanders, Not Ever,” by David Brooks. This was followed by another in which Brooks made the case for Bloomberg, and then another advocating for Biden as the establishment’s BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

$10 off any service with ad! (exp. 4/30/20) last chance. It was titled, “Biden’s Rise Gives the Establishment One Last Chance.” The Times put these opinions front and center during primaries. At the same time, Hilary Clinton’s released a caustic personal attack on Sanders. By this and more, I fully know who the DNC has and will promote — their inner-circle, establishment, perceivably centrist candidate. Certainly not Warren or Sanders. So much for the party serving the people. Instead it exercises its private sway over who represents us while ignoring the possibility that independent voters really want more substance, something more than a safe-seeming guy. They’ve miscalculated on this before and they’re doing it again, at our expense. Some people literally cannot survive the neo-liberal incrementalism that the established DNC’s so-called center is all about. Considering the uptick, if you will, of climate catastrophes, none of us can. So there is a big difference between perceptions created about a candidate as being centrist (or, electable) and the policies so-called centrists undertake. Truly, they are less in the center, thereby creating balance, than they are placing their weight on the side of extinction. How centrist is the DNC’s record anymore? Does it serve the real majority, and working people? How proactive on carbon emissions? Why does a ban on further oil and gas operations seem radical when it is our only hope? Why pander to the idea that we cannot afford to repair our healthcare safety net at such a time? How can we afford not to? Frontline communities already are suffering higher illness and death rates because of our inaction. Like floodwaters, the results will overtake us all, in time. Elections are too much like personality contests. They are also elaborate dice-throws about who can beat whom, guesses at probabilities of which man will be the white knight and overturn Trump are red herrings. For increasing numbers, the wolf is at the gate. The urgency right now is to respond to people who are hurting with policies that will actually help. We need real representation, by someone, for this to happen in time. Centrists these days are most often representative of a dangerous status quo, and they are in thinning disguise. Deborah Kay Kelly/Boulder I

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s Rezwan Masud walked toward the waiting train, he heard someone come up behind him. Before he could turn, hands covered his eyes. He was startled, unsure of who it could be. After all, hardly anyone knew he was back in the U.S. Rezwan had taken the train in search of halal meat to make a home-cooked meal in his new house in Boulder. The best place he knew was in Aurora, a few hours journey on public transportation just for a taste of home. On the platform, he finally heard the memorable laugh of Shoeb Iqbual, and it made him smile. He turned to see his friend and fellow Bangladeshi staring back at him. Shoeb chastised him for not telling him he was back — he would have picked him up from the airport, taken him to a welcome home meal at his favorite Indian restaurant, driven him to Boulder, done what he could to help. He’d been back a few weeks already, Rezwan explained, sharing how quickly everything came together after his student visa was finally approved. It was months of waiting in Bangladesh, filled with anxiety, as he deferred the start of his PhD program in comparative politics and political theory at the University of Colorado by a semester, and then another. But all that frustration was now behind him. He was back. Shoeb offered to take him to his favorite Bangladeshi store, promising the best halal meat in the Denver area. Then he took Rezwan to his new house, cooked them food and the two spent hours catching up 10

about all that had taken place in the last year. At first glance, Rezwan and Shoeb have a lot in common. Born only a few years apart, they’re both from Bangladesh, both practicing Muslims, and both immigrated to Colorado in search of opportunity. But in most ways, their stories couldn’t be more different. Whereas Shoeb fled Bangladesh facing political persecution and was held in immigration detention for more than two years, Rezwan first came to Colorado as a Fulbright Scholar studying political science. Shoeb is passionate, a fast talker who easily shares his opinions. Rezwan is more reserved, often waiting to share his thoughts until he’s asked, slow to articulate the depth of his ideas. While Rezwan was confined to Bangladesh, forced to reimagine his future without the U.S. doctorate he’d always expected to receive, Shoeb had quit his job as a wheelchair attendant at the airport and now is a full-time labor-rights activist and MARCH 12, 2020

union organizer. As Rezwan taught political science at a university back home waiting for his visa to come through, Shoeb finally received his permanent residency in the U.S. They were first introduced as part of a research project for a qualitative methods class during Rezwan’s last semester of graduate school at the University of Denver’s Korbel School of International Relations. As part of that research, Shoeb shared his firsthand experience of the asylum process and time in immigration detention, (See News: “Opposite of America,” Feb. 18, 2016.) But now, being in Shoeb’s house, meeting his friends, Rezwan was amazed at how much had changed since he first met his friend. “When I saw that he has a home now, and he has beautifully decorated his room, it was really nice,” Rezwan says. “When I interviewed him and I heard his story, I didn’t imagine [this was possible].” • • • • I

The two met in April 2018, at an anniversary celebration for Casa de Paz, a nonprofit offering short-term housing to recently released detainees and visiting family members near the Aurora Contract Detention Center, operated by the private-prison company GEO Group, Inc. It was the first of many visits Rezwan made to Casa de Paz to research and interview formally detained individuals. In his research notes, he described a warm and welcoming environment that first night, with people from all over the world gathering to celebrate. On a brief tour, he noticed a comment wall describing former detainees’ experiences inside the detention center full of “exaggerations and simplistic generalizations,” he reflected in his class notes. One comment in particular caught his eye. “The dominant party is killing people in Bangladesh.” Rezwan was immediately skeptical. “Seriously,” Rezwan thought to himself. “It was very surprising to me that someone could come this far.” Did someone really travel from Bangladesh to claim asylum? Who was this person claiming such things? Sarah Jackson, the executive director at Casa de Paz, explained that one of their guests was from Bangladesh, and he often participated in the university’s research projects. He’d spent two and a half years in detention before finally winning asylum in early 2017, Jackson told Rezwan. “When I first heard about him, claiming asylum, I thought maybe he did something really wrong in Bangladesh and maybe he was taking BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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advantage of the opportunities of coming to the United States,” Rezwan admits. When Rezwan took the assignment, he assumed he’d be interviewing research subjects from south of the border, using interpreters to communicate between English and Spanish. He never expected to interview someone in his own language, from his own country. Rezwan met Shoeb, or research subject No. 22, later that evening, full of suspicion. Did he really suffer in Bangladesh or on his journey to the U.S. southern border or in detention? Could he be trusted? “Even if one tells lies (not that anyone was lying), can I discard his/ her sufferings?” he wrote in his research. “The experience of that day made me realize they are also human beings with a fallible mind and body that understands pain and sufferings. After this realization, I think I would be more cautious in evaluating the sufferings of human beings. I came home with the earnest desire to listen to 22’s story in detail.” Shoeb was equally surprised to find a fellow Bangledeshi in that context, someone who understood where he was coming from in a completely different way than his fellow detainees. He’d talked to researchers from the university before, but none of them were from South Asia; none of them spoke his language. “There’s no one from Bangladesh or India or Nepal,” he says. “I never expected Rezwan was going to be there.” “It was unbelievable,” Rezwan says of the hour-long interview he had with Shoeb soon after. “I felt similar [about] the stories of other people as well, but his helped me transform my views more because the extent of what BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

should not be the primary consideration.” — Rezwan Masud was happening at my doorstep was something that I was unaware of,” he says. “Maybe it was like a blind spot.” Growing up, Rezwan’s family was not involved in politics. As a government servant, his father’s job security depended on neutrality as shifts in power occurred fairly regularly. Plus, “Being a member of a political party is not a very safe thing,” in Bangladesh he says. “It has its costs and opportunities, but I didn’t want to get involved in that.” From a middle-class family, Rezwan grew up in Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh but ended up in the capital studying political science, choosing to examine the theoretical underpinnings of the political system instead of engaging in it specifically. Shoeb, on the other hand, was deeply connected to local politics, joining the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) as a university student in Noakhali, a Southern district of the country. But the BNP lost power in 2006, quickly becoming “the opposition party,” and Shoeb moved to Singapore and Malaysia for several years. He returned in 2014 in preparation for the parliamentary election, which quickly led to violent protests and mass arrests of BNP members. Shoeb fled Bangladesh soon after, as his business was ransacked, he was chased at gunpoint and his family threatened for his work recruiting new BNP members. Rezwan admits his own naivete surrounding these elections. He knew there were political protests and he knew BNP members and supporters were being arrested. But he thought I

they deserved it for inciting violence, causing undue suffering to common people. He had no idea the reality of Shoeb’s last few years back home in Bangladesh. “For me political violence, protests, arrests — those were statistics,” Rezwan says. “But after interviewing him, I was exposed to a more humane experience... I did not anticipate the level of threat that one could actually feel because of those things. That’s what was actually surprising to me.” What was more shocking for Rezwan was Shoeb’s resilience in the face of so much suffering — not just what he experienced in Bangladesh, but also all along his journey to the U.S. “I had no idea about this,” Rezwan says. “To come to the Texas border, he had been through jungles in Panama, he had been through marshes in Colombia and arrested in Mexico.” “When I saw the American flag, I forgot all my sufferings and miseries. I felt like I was one step away from embracing freedom,” Shoeb told Rezwan in his research interview. But that optimism soon turned to despair, as Shoeb was taken into immigration detention after claiming asylum. In his interview with Rezwan, Shoeb described his treatment in a variety of detention centers like torture — freezing temperatures, breakfast served at 4:30 a.m., being paid $1 a day for working in the kitchen for nine hours. He described sleepless nights spent crying over his situation, missing his family back home, his MARCH 12, 2020

dreams of a better future dashed. His mother passed away at age 49, one month before his release. Overall he spent two and a half years in detention, as his asylum case made its way through immigration and appellate courts. His release was a mixture of hope and uncertainty, his view of America irrevocably altered. “However, I do not hold the same opinion about America and freedom,” he told Rezwan. “Life is not easy here. We are not criminals, but we were treated like criminals. We faced unnecessary harassments. Valuable time of my life was lost. I never spent time in jail before, but the two and half years that I spent inside the detention center changed my perception about the system of this country. There is no humanity. They talk about human rights, reality is totally opposite.” What Shoeb, and the other research subjects, shared about life in detention was equally horrifying for Rezwan, who previously had believed the information on the GEO Group’s website about protecting the dignity of detainees. “The reality is very different,” he says. In his field notes, he often describes tearing up at the stories he heard, finding it difficult to continue with his interviews. But by far, Shoeb’s was the most challenging interview of his research, as it challenged his view of America, his perception of Bangladesh and his own situation. “The interview made me question my positionality,” he wrote in his field diary for class. “It made me realize that I am a privileged person. When I was taking notes and hearing about the description, it made me assess the situation of Bangladesh differently. ... The interview has see WORLDS APART Page 12

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made me understand that when human lives are at stake, political beliefs should not be the primary consideration.” But Rezwan remains politically neutral in his conversations with Shoeb, stopping short of sympathizing with Shoeb’s political causes. Rezwan describes himself as an internationalist, not bound to human affection based on borders and patriotism, and he denies any sort of affection for Shoeb based on the fact they are from the same place. Still, after that first interview, the two exchanged numbers and quickly formed a friendship. They began to talk more often, and Rezwan invited Shoeb to political lectures at his school while Shoeb invited Rezwan to protests outside the detention center. A person isn’t just what he thinks, Rezwan says, easily detaching his friend Shoeb from the political activist Shoeb. • • • • Now that Rezwan is back in Colorado, the two continue to develop a relationship over meals and shared experience, while consistently acknowledging how different their personalities and backgrounds really are. “My life has changed a lot in the last few years, especially after I came to this country. My mom died, I was in jail for so long,” Shoeb says. “But Rezwan came here to study, his mentality is totally different. He’s going to do his PhD, go home, get a good job and have a family. I

“And my plan, I’m going to become a citizen someday, and vote, maybe run for office.” In the meantime, they invite each other to events often — Shoeb, well connected to the couple hundred other Bangladeshis who have recently settled in the metro area, Rezwan, full of academic connections and invites to international lectures. On a day last fall, we met at the library at the University of Denver, Shoeb asking for a tour of Rezwan’s former school. Rezwan is tall and lanky, walking slowly as we talk. Shoeb is portly and animated, fasttalking and bouncing around. People seem to recognize Rezwan, former classmates approaching us just to say hi. Later, while we’re at a nearby restaurant, a friend sees him from her car at a red light, honks and frantically waves. Shoeb is excited to see more of Rezwan’s life, as the two rarely have time to meet up as Rezwan’s studies and Shoeb’s work keeps them both busy. They often talk over the phone on the weekends, however, when they both have a bit more time to catch up. The two say it’s mostly chit chat, void of work or study or anything else that would bring up the stress of daily life. “Plus, I study political science and no one wants to hear about that,” Rezwan adds. Shoeb disagrees, though, and despite their attempts at keeping politics out of the conversation, it often manages to creep back in. “I do like politics a lot, I hope to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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Measure for safe cycling measure moves forward THE STATE LEGISLATURE passed a bill sponsored by two local Democrats March 3 that should make bike riding safer in Colorado. Senate Bill 20-061, sponsored by Rep. KC Becker (D-Boulder) and Sen. Mike Foote (D-Boulder), creates a new traffic offense for not yielding to bicyclists in bike lanes. “Cyclists are being hit and injured at an alarming rate, and it’s time we got involved to ensure their safety,” Becker said in a statement. “If we’re serious about ensuring bike safety, then we need everyone who uses our roads to respect bike lanes.” According to the nonprofit Bicycle Colorado, the bill “eliminates a current gray area regarding who has the right-of-way in

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an intersection between drivers turning and bicyclists going straight when involved in a crash.” Bicycle deaths have risen in recent years, both locally and across the state. But data has helped pinpoint where safety efforts might be most effective. For instance, the City of Boulder found in its Safe Streets Report that the majority of bike crashes occur in a crosswalk and that 28% of all bike crashes occur when a motorist turns left or right and doesn’t see, or at least yield, to a bike in a lane or on a sidewalk. SB 20-061 would make failing to yield to cyclists in such bike lanes a Class A traffic offence, punishable by a $70 penalty.

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ANDREW ROMANOFF EMERGED from a field of nine Democrats, including former Governor John Hickenlooper, to decisively win the statewide caucus on March 7, making him the early frontrunner to challenge Cory Gardner for a U.S. Senate seat in November. Next up is a June Democratic primary — the winner will be the sole Democratic candidate. Romanoff qualified for the primary by garnering more than 30% of the votes (he got 54%), but challengers can make the ballot by securing 10,500 signatures. There was low turnout across the state — likely due to the presidential primary occurring on the Tuesday before, nice weather for recreating and coronavirus fears — but Boulder County reported strong numbers, relatively speaking. Of the 2,143 people that caucused, almost 65% went to Romanoff, the progressive former Colorado speaker of the house.

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hile climate change coverage in mainstream broadcast news has grown in recent years, people of color, women and even scientists are still significantly underrepresented in the conversation, according to a new study from Media Matters in America. “Broadcast news climate coverage suffered in 2019 because programs excluded the voices of those who understand the most about climate change and who are experiencing the worst of its impact,” Allison Fisher, climate and energy program director at Media Matters for America, said in a press release. The study analyzed nightly and Sunday news programs broadcast by the top three U.S. networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — as well as the syndicated Sunday morning political show, Fox News Sunday. The researchers also looked at the publicly funded PBS Newshour as a reference point, which significantly outperformed its corporate counterparts in both quantity and quality of coverage, presenting longer, more in-depth climate change stories. It found that overall climate change coverage increased 68% from 2018 to 2019, yet still only represented 1% of overall coverage. What’s more, in climate change segments across all networks, white men were the overwhelming majority of guests, people featured in video foot-

age and those quoted. Only 10% were people of color, 22% were scientists and 27% were women. In all of 2019, ABC only featured one person of color in its climate change coverage. Women of color were so underrepresented across all networks that the study listed them by name in a single paragraph. “If you don’t see the communities that are most impacted by climate change, if you don’t see, in media, the actual testimonials and realities of those communities then you have a compounded problem of justice,” says Irene Vilar, executive director of Americas for Conservation + the Arts based in Denver and the Americas Latino EcoFestival, now in its 10th year. Vilar also works with the Green Leadership Trust, a cross-organizational effort to increase people of color in leadership in the global environmental movement. The lack of representation highlighted in the Media Matters study is similar to that of the larger environmental movement, Vilar says. Although they represent 36% of the U.S. population, only 12% to 15% of the workforce in environmental NGOs, foundations and government agencies are people of color, according to 2014’s Green 2.0 Report. “In terms of climate, what I’m concerned about the most is the ignorance in the mainstream media about the Caribbean being on the front lines of climate change-driven weather,”

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says Vilar, who is Puerto Rican. “And also the environmental justice issue of that reality: that the Caribbean has contributed the least in the hemisphere to the emissions. And yet they are the ones facing extinction.” Recent research, out of the University of Minnesota, also shows that black and Latino populations tend to bear more of the burden of air pollution than white communities, despite the fact that air pollution is mostly the result of white American consumption. And yet, communities of color are more likely to believe in and feel threatened by looming climate change impacts, according to a 2017 ecoAmerica survey. And more African Americans (82%) and Latinos (81%) believe the government should protect us from climate impacts than whites (66%). All of which suggests these communities should have a seat at the table and the ability to voice their concerns to the broader public. And it’s why the Media Matters study indicates “corporate broadcast news shows should have prominently featured people of color to discuss climate issues” in 2019. “We are the most disproportionately affected and we don’t get a say on how to fashion a viable and sustainable future,” Vilar says. “It’s not just for justice reasons but for the integrity of those solutions, you need to really have those stories be part, those realities be part, of the process.”

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he Music of Cream’s tour manager (his name is Simon), fielded my call to Will Johns a couple of weeks ago, and walked the phone out to the tour bus. The band was on Vancouver Island, prepping for the second night of their almost three-month tour, and Johns was changing strings on his Music Man EVH solid body, the unmistakable sound of clinking metal strands coming up to pitch, the working guitarist’s minute of dotage with his best friend for the night. He asks if it was OK he did that while we chatted. Sure, why not, even if it usually takes two hands to do it, and it doesn’t sound like he’s using a headset. Not trying to bait him or anything, but doesn’t he have a guitar tech? “Yeah, I should have a tech doing it for me, but... I’m not precious, I don’t mind doin’ it myself. And that way I know it’s done right,” he says with a laugh. Strum. Not quite up to pitch. Sounds like they need a stretch. “What’s funny is that Kofi likes to cut the sleeves of his T-shirts, right? And he’s got all this psychedelic shit that he wears, so I’ve got all these little psychedelic sleeve cut-offs which are perfect for stretching the strings. We’re even recycling that little bit of psychedelia.” Kofi, of course, is Kofi Baker, the drummer son of Ginger Baker and Johns’ partner in his ongoing Cream tribute enterprise. Johns is also Eric Clapton’s nephew (he’s the son of famed engineer Andy Johns and Paula BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Boyd, sister of Clapton’s ex-wife Patti). The MoC project started a couple of years ago with a short tour of Australia and New Zealand to commemorate Cream’s 50th anniversary, and has since taken on a rambling inertia all its own. The band, currently a four-piece with bassist Sean McNabb and guitarist Chris Shutters, is performing Disraeli Gears top to bottom, alongside a handful of Clapton songs. The show includes personal stories and video images from those bonkers days of the late ’60s, when Cream was the biggest band in the world, furiously chiseling the blues-rock power trio paradigm into rock history before flaming out in less than three years under the pressures of exhaustion, chemicals and personal antagonisms. (Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were famously at each other’s throats, more or less all the time.) Johns didn’t step into this spotlight merely through family associations, though. A well-respected blues-rock guitarist in his own right, Johns has a number of acclaimed albums to his name, as well as a few British Blues Award nominations for his solo work, so he aims for more than a costumed notefor-note tribute gig. But there’s plenty of resistance for Johns in his home country of England — squeezed between the glittery pop confection that chokes the hit radio airwaves on one flank and the ever-disparaging bluespurist contingent on the other, Johns prefers to take I

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his gig eastward. “Oh yeah, I don’t bother with [touring the U.K.],” he says. “After slogging up the M1 ... for a great many years, for no money — even if some satisfaction — I generally don’t rock with it. I prefer to go to Europe, to countries like the Czech Republic, and Moscow, where I go as part of the The Great British Rhythm and Blues Invasion. Whereas in the U.K., you’re kind up against the ‘blues police,’ sort of like, ‘Who do you think you are? Trying to impress me... you’re not John Lee Hooker.’ That sort of attitude.” The States may be a little easier. Guys like Joe Bonamassa and Gary Clark Jr. are succeeding in the blues arena, drawing big crowds and critical plaudits. And making a living. “And they come over to the U.K. also, and pull some big ticket prices as well,” Johns says. “I think the genre is alive and well, and I feel like I want to put my own stamp on it. Because I think it’s important music, and it’s important all around the world. Places like Moscow and the Czech Republic, and to these people, this kind of music is what’s real.” Johns has been able to bring his dedication and callouses to bear on the music of Cream, striking a balance between representing that long ago trio, and keeping its roots vivid and meaningful. “I think, just naturally, we’re able to interpret the music our way. We’ve come so far with being inspired by our respective parents and uncles and whatnot, but then being serious musicians, I guess that somehow we’ve been able to take what they’ve done and take it a bit further. “But yeah, I’ve had to put what I’m doing a little bit on the back burner. It’s hard to make plans around these sorts of tours, because you’ve got a long run-up. see MUSIC OF CREAM Page 20

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midst of it, Ásgeir says, self-doubt crept in and he lost sight of his first love — music. “I just had this great longing to go back to the place where music isn’t about pressure and stress and all those feelings, just about enjoying it,” he says. “I decided I wanted to do something more simple and something that I’m maybe a bit more familiar with — just going back to my roots.” So he took his acoustic guitar and headed to a summer cabin in the middle of the Icelandic countryside, hoping the escape into solitude would prove that music could be fun again. He also simplified his process, attempting to write entire songs at once, untethered from the technology of the studio; songs that could stand on their own. “I just tried to write whole songs with just an acoustic guitar and a melody so that when we started recording in the studio I knew that I didn’t have to put makeup on the songs,” he says. “They were just good as they were written. That made the whole thing less stressful.” In that way, Bury the Moon is evolutionary. On previous albums, Ásgeir wrote the music, then sent the track to his father, Icelandic poet Einar Georg Einarsson, who had “total artistic freedom to go in any direction he wanted to go,” with the lyrics, Ásgeir says. But this album was different, as Ásgeir was much more intentional about how he wanted it to feel and what he wanted to say. I

“I had ideas of what I wanted to talk about for some of the songs before he wrote the lyrics,” he says. “So I sat down with him and we listened to the demos together and I played him the songs, and I told him what I was feeling.” Growing up, Ásgeir says he was close enough to his dad, but much closer to his mom. She’s the one that insisted he go to music school at a young age, and bought him his first guitar at age 7. From a small rural town, Ásgeir also spent as much time as he could outdoors, while his dad spent most of his time in his room, writing. Despite their differences, Ásgeir was also inspired by his father, starting to write music to his dad’s unpublished poetry around 13 or so. “I just took pages from here and there in the house, and wrote some songs to it,” he says. “I always liked [my dad’s] poetry, especially how it sounded with some music.” Around the same age, Ásgeir began developing his own musical tastes, moving away from the classical stylings of music school and the grunge rock he listened to with his friends and toward folk and electronic music, the mixture of which eventually became his signature sound. With Bury the Moon, Ásgeir achieves what he set out to do — create an album focused around the simplicity of the music without losing its depth. “I feel much better now, I’m more sure of what I’m doing,” he says. “I’m happy with the album and I’m not doubting everything I do.” MARCH 12, 2020

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Kronos Quartet celebrates the spirit of the ’60s

At 47, the path-breaking ensemble continues to look ahead

by Peter Alexander

ronos Quartet, the string quartet known for adventurous programming, from Hendrix to George Crumb and music from around the world, turns 47 this year, and they are looking both ahead and back. David Harrington, Kronos’ founder and first violinist, says, “I’m trying to use what we’ve done as a launching pad for what we will do.” And their latest program, which they will bring to Macky Auditorium March 19, demonstrates that perspective. Titled “Music for Change: The ’60s, the Years that Changed America,” the program is overtly looking back. Indeed, it includes one of the earliest pieces Kronos performed, Steve Reich’s “Pendulum Music” from 1968. But the program also includes new commissions from Kronos, all growing out of a tribute to the turbulent decade of the ’60s. Harrington explains how he planned a program based on that time: “When I’m thinking about the ’60s, I’m thinking about growing up, I’m thinking about the American war in Vietnam, and I’m thinking of things that feel important now as well.” In that context, it is not surprising that “Music for Change” focuses on the music and the people who were leaders for change. In addition to Reich’s piece, the program includes music by Jimi Hendrix, the Everly Brothers, Billie Holiday and Mahalia Jackson, with tributes to Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger and Martin Luther King, Jr. The program opens with Reich’s “Pendulum Music,” in which four microphones swing above speakers, creating feedback with every swing. “It ends in total feedback, the way Hendrix would often end a piece,” Harrington says. And from BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

that, he says, “We start our version of ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ inspired by Hendrix.” Hendrix’s feedback-infused version of the national anthem he played in 1969 at Woodstock was regarded by some critics as an unpatriotic protest, but he didn’t see it that way. A former paratrooper recruit, Hendrix filtered the anthem through his individual style, as a personal homage to the flag. “I think of it as the most patriotic version that there is,” Harrington says. After Kronos’ version of Hendrix will be an arrangement of “House of the Rising Sun,” a folk song collected by folklorist Alan Lomax in Kentucky in 1937. Of the many recordings from the 1950s and ’60s of this popular ballad, Kronos based their arrangement on the version by the Everly Brothers, which Harrington calls “a defining version of that piece.” After that they will play a piece that has become a defining statement about American racism: Abel Meeropol’s “Strange Fruit,” as recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. “It’s hard to know what she was experiencing when she sang it,” Harrington says of Holiday’s performances, which generally closed her concerts in near darkness, with only a single light on her. “Her voice in that song is at the heart of not only our American music, but our defining problem that is so with us,” Harrington says. Two other musicians of the 1960s (and before) will be recognized by collected arrangements: Mahalia Jackson, in “Glorious Mahalia” by Stacy Garrop, featuring the recorded voices of Jackson and broadcaster Studs Terkel, who helped Jackson break the color barrier in I

ON THE BILL: MUSIC FOR CHANGE: ‘THE ‘60S, The Years that Changed America,’ by Kronos Quartet, with special guest Claire McCahan. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19 Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Tickets: 303-492-8008, cupresents.org

broadcasting; and Peter Seeger, in Kronos Quartet & Claire McCahan Celebrate Pete Seeger @ 100, featuring CU music graduate McCahan performing songs inspired by Seeger. “We are celebrating Seeger because his influence on American music and culture is felt even stronger now than during his life,” Harrington says. Closing the program will be Peace Be Till by Zachary James Waters, which incorporates the recorded voice of Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.’s speechwriter. “Jones tells how the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech became the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,” Harrington says. “It’s pretty amazing to be taken behind the scenes to that moment.” One piece not on the program that is always in Harrington’s mind as he thinks about the 1960s is George Crumb’s anti-war quartet “Black Angels,” which later became one of Kronos’ most celebrated recordings. “‘Black Angels’ was completed in 1970, but I’m sure it was being formulated in the late ’60s,” Harrington says. “The very first time I heard that was in 1973. That’s when Hendrix and Schubert and Bartók and all kinds of experimental music were brought together in one piece. It all made sense, and that’s why I started Kronos.” Today, Harrington and Kronos remain committed to a vision of a world of understanding and mutual respect. “All of us in Kronos are dedicated to creating energy out of the performances we play, and hopefully through music we can feel connected to different cultures, backgrounds and religions.” MARCH 12, 2020

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March 13-15, Downtown Nederland, First Street & Guercio Park, Nederland, 303-506-1048.

IT’S QUINTESSENTIAL LOCAL HISTORY: After dying in his native Norway in the late ’80s, Bredo Morstoel — an enthusiastic cryonics advocate — was packed in dry ice and shipped to the United States. His body eventually made its way to his daughter and grandson in Nederland, Colorado, where it has remained, packed in dry ice in a Tuff shed, since the ’90s. Every year since 2001, the town of Nederland celebrates Bredo Morstoel in what is now the world-renowned spectacle of Frozen Dead Guy Days. It’s macabre fun for the whole family with coffin racing, costumed polar plunging, ice turkey bowling, human foosball, craft beer, food vendors and more than 30 bands playing live music over three days. It’s $25 a day to hear some of the best music on the Front Range, but viewing the events is 100% free. (With concerns about the coronavirus, FDGD’s team assures patrons there will be hand sanitizing stations, clear signage, disinfecting materials and ventilating tents available throughout the festival.) —Caitlin Rockett

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STORYBOOK BALLET: STONE SOUP & THE UGLY DUCKLING. March 13-15, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-0028.

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TAROT READINGS AND ARTISAN MARKET.

6 p.m. Friday, March 13, Magic Fairy Gifts, 634 Main St., Longmont.

Every year, Boulder Ballet School brings a familiar tale to life through the art of dance in Storybook Ballet. This year’s Storybook Ballet presents two stories about sharing, community and acceptance. ‘Stone Soup’ is a European folk tale in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys. ‘The Ugly Duckling’ tells the story of a little bird who was treated cruelly by everyone around her, until one day she discovers she has matured into a beautiful swan and finds a new family. Featuring live music performed by the Blue Spruce String Quartet. Tickets at thedairy.org.

On the second Friday of every month, Magic Fairy Gifts in Longmont holds a tarot reading and artisan market event. Tarot readings are done on a donation basis, first come, first served. Readers get busy fast, so come early. Since it’s tough to carry every local artist’s wares in the shop, Magic Fairy Gifts uses this market as a way to give even more artists a chance to showcase their work to the public. Come and meet some new friends, buy a piece of local art and see what the future has in store for you.

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BAROQUE DANCE WORKSHOP (ADULTS AND CHILDREN 12 YEARS AND UP).

12:15 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127. KELLOM TOMLINSON (PUBLIC DOMAIN)

Led by Baroque dance specialist Elena Mullins, the director of Case Western Reserve University’s Baroque Dance Ensemble, this class will provide an introduction to Baroque dance for professional and amateur musicians and dancers, ages 12 and up. Stick around after class for a Baroque Ensemble Family concert at 3 p.m. This onehour program of music and dance of the French baroque is specially designed to entertain young children.There will be some music on historical instruments, with child-friendly introductions. The dance portion will present ‘The Characters of the Dance,’ and children will be guided to use their imaginations as to what sort of person is being depicted. Tickets at seicentobaroque.org.

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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), 1750 13th St., Boulder: Candice Davis: ‘Lifting as We Climb,’ through March 22; ‘Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers,’ through May 25; Margaretta Gilboy: ‘Flying in the Hands of Time: A Retrospective,’ through May 25. BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado Boulder: Paul Gillis: ‘When Kingship Ascends to Heaven,’ through May 1. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder: ‘Maker Made,’ Canyon Gallery, through March 30; Bill Vielehr: The Artist Behind “The Vielehr,” Arapahoe Ramp, through March 22. Bricolage Gallery, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder: ‘The Ties That Bind: Demry Frankenheimer,’ through April 4 Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder: ‘Foreign Born’: Taiko Chandler (Hand-Rudy), Erin Hyunhee Kang (Polly Addison), Taiko Chandler (MacMillan), Roberta Restaino, Danqi Cai, Eriko Tsogo, Hung Liu, Ana Maria Hernando, Dianna Frid (McMahon), through April 5.

WHEN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Colored Women formed in 1896, their founding principle was “Lifting as we Climb.” In the violent days of post-abolition America, these women believed that by elevating their status as community organizers and leaders, black women could elevate everyone in their communities. Minnesotabased artist Candice Davis takes on their slogan for her recent performance art piece at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s easy to call yourself an ally, but Davis’ installation asks viewers if they truly lift as they climb. “It’s important to think about intersectionality with any movements you’re interested in championing because if you’re trying to win rights for women, are you making sure that trans women, black women, disabled women are included in that narrative?” Davis said. Davis’ installation — on view through March 22 — is the first of three exhibitions BMoCA is presenting in 2020 to commemorate the centennial of women being guaranteed the right to vote in the United States. —CR Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver: ‘Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection,’ through July; ‘EYES ON: Anthony McCall,’ through May 31; The Light Show, through Nov. 29. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont: Opening Reception for ‘Press And Fold’: Contemporary Book Arts featuring work by Alicia Mckim, Frank Hamrick, Susan Lowdermilk, Christine Sloman, & Muyuan He. 6 p.m. Friday, March 13. Exhibit on display through April 5. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont: ‘Terry Maker: Because the World is Round,’ through May 17; ‘Front Range Rising,’ permanent exhibit. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons: ‘40 years/40 artifacts’; ‘All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons’; ‘Lyons Newspapers: A History’; and more, lyonsredstonemuseum.com Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Archive 75: Multilayered Stories Told Through

a Boulder Lens,’ through June 15; ‘Our Living Landscape: Exploring Boulder’s Watershed,’ through March 30. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver: ‘Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation,’ through April 5; ‘Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Flora,’ through April 5; ‘Stacey Steers: Edge of Alchemy,’ through April 5. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive: Acrylic paintings by Lisa Lynch; Glass mosaic by Delcia Litt through March 28. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder: ‘Persuasive Prints,’ through March 21; ‘Body Language: Picturing People,’ through June; Mary Mattingly: ‘Last Library,’ through July 18; University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Henderson Building,1035 Broadway, Boulder: ‘Ross Sea; The Last Ocean;’ ‘Genomics: Observing Evolution;’ ‘Fossils: Clues to the Past,’ Paleontology Hall, ongoing exhibit; and more.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Music All about Love — with Kathy Santopietro, Teri Harroun and Mark Stenson. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Dwight Yoakam. 7 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. The Growlers — Natural Affair Tour 2020. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Harr y Tuft & Brad Corrigan (of Dispatch). 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Post Malone — Runaway Tour. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. River Voices: The Confluence of Art & Science. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Salsa Thursdays. 9:45 p.m. Rosetta Hall, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Skean Dubh Celtic Band Concert. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Summer Salt — with Okey Dokey, Breakup Shoes. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events

Jacques Greene. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Aerial Art — Mobile in the Calder Style Class. 4 p.m. Two Hands Paperie, 803 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0124.

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

Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Let It Roll: A Tribute to Little Feat. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Magic Male XXL Show. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Boulder. 7 p.m. 2132 14th St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Music Big Paddy (Irish Rock & Roll) — with Special Guest: Kieran Murphy. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Boulder Comedy Show. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. The CBDs. 7 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-4991829. Con Brio. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Erik Boa Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Famous Men. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. FiskEDM: Live DJ Shooka. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Georgia Boys BBQ Music Series featuring Steve Selinski. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099. see EVENTS Page 30

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‘Swallow,’ March 18-21. ‘Zombi Child,’ 8:45 p.m. March 13.

Century Theatre, 1700 29th St., 303-444-0583:

DENVER: The Bug Theater, 3654 Navajo St., 303-477-5977: ‘Journey to the Edge of Consciousness,’ 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17.

‘1917’ ‘Bloodshot’ ‘The Call of the Wild’’ ‘Emma.’ ‘Greed’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘Hope Gap’ ‘The Hunt’ ‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ ‘The Invisible Man’ ‘I Still Believe’ ‘King Kong,’ Sunday, March 15. ‘Onward’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ ‘The Way Back’ ‘Wendy’

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-444-7328: Boulder Jewish Film Festival, March 12-15. Cat Video Fest 2020, 7 p.m. March 14. ‘Citizen K,’ March 17-21. ‘Lucien Freud: A Self Portrait,’ March 16-17.

International Film Series, University of Colorado Boulder, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., 303-4928662: ‘Laura,’ 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18.

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., 303-595-3456: ‘35 Shots of Rum,’ 7 p.m. Monday, March 16. ‘The Lady From Shanghai,’ 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. ‘Parasite’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ ‘Repulsion,’ March 13-14. ‘Saint Frances’ ‘Swallow’ LONGMONT: Regal Village at the Peaks 12, 1230 S. Hover Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘Bloodshot’ ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Emma.’ ‘Greed’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘I Still Believe’

‘The Invisible Man’ ‘Onward’ ‘The Way Back’ LOUISVILLE: Regal Cinebarre Boulder, 1164 W. Dillon Road, 844-462-7342: ‘1917’ ‘The Call of the Wild’ ‘Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey’ ‘The Hunt’ ‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ ‘Onward’ ‘Parasite’ ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ ‘The Way Back’ NEDERLAND: Backdoor Theater, 243 W. Fourth St., 303-258-0188: ‘Downhill’ WESTMINSTER: Alamo Drafthouse Westminster, 8905 Westminster Boulevard, 303-731-3330: ‘The Brady Bunch’ brunch screening, 1 p.m. Saturday, March 14. ‘The Departed’ St. Patrick’s Day beer dinner, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. ‘Miami Vice,’ 7;30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. ‘Tommy Boy,’ 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13. ‘Whisky Galor,’ 7 p.m. Sunday, March 14.

Lawrence. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Chris Ramey. 5 p.m. BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder, 720-938-7285. Mark Diamond and Nelson Rangell Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Moonlit Wild. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Motown and More: From the Temptations to Lizzo. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through March 14. The Music of Queen. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through March 14. Rogue 2. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Sahara Music Night No. 4: Eye-yoob and the Band. 8:30 p.m. Ali Baba Grill, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-440-1393.

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That Eighties Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Vipers. 8 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856. Events Iliza: The Forever Tour. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Clay Rose Trio. 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Skyline High School Fine Arts Festival. 5:30 p.m. Skyline High School, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 720-494-3741. The Soundpost Sessions: Antonio Lopez. 6:30 p.m. The Well, 470 Main St., Longmont.

The Improv Show. 7:30 p.m. Wesley Foundation, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-588-0550. New York City Dance Alliance. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000. Through March 15. Peak to Peak Charter School 20th Anniversar y Gala. 5:30 p.m. Omni Hotel Broomfield, Lafayette. Stor ybook Ballet: Stone Soup & The Ugly Duckling. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-0028. see EVENTS Page 32

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Tarot Readings and Artisan Market. 6 p.m. Magic Fairy Gifts, 634 Main St., Longmont.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Music 7th Annual St. Patrick’s Day SingAlong. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Americans We: A Panorama of American Music by the Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-478-3044. Blake Shelton: Friends and Heroes 2020. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Boulder Chorale: A World in Harmony. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Bumkin. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Calixto Oviedo & The Afro-Cuban Jazz Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Celtic Obsession. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. A Chance At Normal. 11:30 a.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-518-6420. Clay Rose Trio. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Colin Hay of Men At Work. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Family Concert (adults with children ages 6-12). 3 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127. Free Range Marmot. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Funkiphino. 8 p.m. Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont. High Road Home. 5:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Janine’s Swinging Countr y Folk Concert & Fundraiser. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-554-9215. Lespecial. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Live eTown Radio Show Taping with Steve Poltz & Robyn Hitchcock. 7 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Los Bohemios. 8 p.m. The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Los Lobos. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Manic Focus — with SuperVision, MIDIcinal, LWKY, Flats Stanlie. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Nick of Time – A Tribute to Bonnie Raitt. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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HOSTED BY LOCAL THEATER COMPANY Local Lab 2020 is three days of new American plays. Enjoy four concert-style readings, mix and mingle with festival-goers at parties, meet the artists behind some of the country’s most compelling new theater, and share your feedback through a series of innovative post-show gatherings. This year, Local Theater Company welcomes three internationally celebrated playwrights: Jessica Huang, Josh Koenigsberg and Sandra Delgado. Their plays have been produced or developed at some of the most renowned theaters in the United States including Manhattan Theater Club, Steppenwolf, Atlantic Theater Company and The Old Globe. The members of LocalWRITES, a playwriting program offered to emergingbilingual and English-speaking students at Casey Middle School in Boulder, will also be debuting a play of their own creation. Tickets and a full schedule available at localtheaterco.org/locallab2020.

Jekyll and Hyde. Dr. Henry Jekyll accidentally creates a potion that changes him into a murderous alter ego, Edward Hyde. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through March 29. Local Lab 2020 — presented by Local Theater Company. Boulder’s premier three-day festival of new American plays, parties, and workshops. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. March 13-15. Marvin’s Room. After not speaking for two decades, two sisters are suddenly reunited when one is diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. Vintage Theatre Company, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through April 5. The Merchant of Mumbai. Gambling everything on love and friendship, three compatriots embark on a crazy journey. The BITSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through March 29. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Love conquers all in this imaginative telling of Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 16. The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart’s infamous Italian caper about the differences between the working and ruling classes. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through March 15.

Murder on the Orient Express. A train full of strangers, a mysterious murder, and a sleuth piecing it all together. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17. Ragtime The Musical. This sweeping musical portrait of early-20th-century America tells the story of three families in the pursuit of the American Dream. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 30. The Runner Stumbles — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. A young nun has died under mysterious circumstances in a remote parish in northern Michigan, and her superior, Father Rivard, has been charged with her murder. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through March 14. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. After Adam gets married, his six jealous brothers kidnap six local girls, leading a group of indignant villagers to track them down. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 19. Spring Awakening: A musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. A rock musical set in late 19th-century Germany that tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of teenage sexuality. University Theatre, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Through March 15, cupresents. org. When We Were Young and Unafraid — Firehouse Theater Company. Inside an underground women’s shelter in the early 1970s, three women question their destiny. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through March 14.

R.LUM.R. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

ComedySportz Denver. 7:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder.

Take Down the Door — with Dahlby & Nadine. 8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons.

Double Feature: We Are Stars/Laser Galactic Odyssey. Noon. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

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Irish Dancers. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Art in America: Homer and Remington in Context. 10 a.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Boulder County 4-H Carnival. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6238. Cat Video Fest 2020. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

McTeggart Irish Dancers. 4:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Standup Comedy Showcase. 8 p.m. Endo Brewing Company, 2755 Dagny Way, Suite 101, Lafayette, 720-442-8052.

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Music Aerial Avengers — An Epic Circus Tale of Hope. 2 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Avenue West., Denver, 303-295-1759. Airs & Graces: Song & Dance in the French Baroque. 3 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, City of Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Ásgeir with Khushi. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 646-560-0065. Beartoe, DolphinHawk & Purple Lightning Bolts, Meat and Potatoes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Beatles vs Stones — A Musical Showdown. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Boulder Chorale: A World in Harmony. 4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Liberation and Light — a WWII 75th Remembrance. 3 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, Longmont, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont.

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Pete Davidson & Friends. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. WFIRST: Humanity’s Next Great Leap. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Skyline High School Fine Arts Festival. 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, Skyline High School, 600 East Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 720-494-3741.

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Get Luckyat Hazel’s Saturday, March 14th Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a tasting 1-6pm, free food & cupcakes with a chance to walk away with a piece of emerald jewelry. Food and cupcakes while supplies last, limit one per customer. Must be 21+ to participate.

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MONDAY, MARCH 16 Music Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. The Cheers Tour: Grieves + The Holdup. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Guest Master Class: Justin Bruns, violin. 4 p.m. St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-443-2503. Jason Murray & The Hot Chocolate Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The March Divide. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Drop-In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m.

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MFA Showcase: Rachel Cruea. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Celebration of the winners of the Autumn 2019 Owl Canyon Press Hackathon. 2 p.m. Inkberry Books, Cottonwood Shopping Center,

MONDAY, MARCH 16 World Literature Series: William Faulkner (1897-1992). 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Presented by Annjeanette Wiese, instructor and director of undergraduate studies, humanities program

TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 TaraShea Nesbit — Beheld. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Music Anders Osborne + Jackie Greene. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

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Ben Dixon, Chad Hollister Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Jazzetr y Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Events

Teton Gravity Research: Fire On The Mountain + Shakedown. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Martha Freeman — Born Curious. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera Tosca premiered in 1900. It featured a heroine named Tosca. In 1914, Puccini’s favorite Tosca, a soprano singer named Maria Jeritza, was performing in a production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As she got ready to sing an aria entitled “I Live for Art,” she stumbled and fell. Rather than struggle awkwardly to rise, she pretended that this was all quite natural — called for in the script. She sang the entire piece while lying on the floor. Puccini loved it! Ever since then, most of the singers who have played the role of Tosca have sung “I Live for Art” while prone. I suggest you regard this as an inspirational teaching. What lucky accidents could you make into permanent additions or enhancements?

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus poet Gary Snyder said, “Three-

fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” Personally, I think that many of us, not just philosophers and writers, do the same thing. Are you one of us? Your first assignment during the next four weeks will be to explore whether you do indeed tend to convince yourself that you like the cage you were tricked into entering. Your second assignment: If you find that you are in a cage, do everything you can to stop liking it. Third assignment: Use all your ingenuity, call on all the favors you’re owed, and conjure up the necessary magic so that you can flee the cage.

MAY 21-JUNE 20: “Your body is not a temple,” declared

author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. “It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” I half-agree with him. I’m deeply devoted to regarding the body as an amusement park. It should be a source of endless fun and enjoyment. We have the right — indeed, I’d say a duty — to wield our bodies in ways that immerse us in the mysteries and miracles of pleasure. But here’s where I disagree with Bourdain: I believe the body is also a temple that deserves our reverence and respect and protective tenderness. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to raise your commitment to treating your body as both an amusement park and a holy temple.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Early in his career, Cancerian painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) sold only a few paintings. But eventually his luck improved. Once he was financially successful, he became very generous. He wielded his influence to get jobs for other artists, and mentored many artists, as well. Sometimes he added a few dabs of paint to the finished works of younger, struggling painters, then signed the canvases with his own name so that the works could more easily be sold. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to adopt your own version of Corot’s approach toward those around you who could benefit from your help and support. (P.S. It’s in your selfish interest to do so, although the reasons why may not be clear for a while.)

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Composer Brian Eno has testified that African music underlies and influences much of his work. He exults in the freedom and unpredictability it encourages. Why? Here’s one reason: In African songs, there are often multiple rhythms. And they’re not locked together; they float freely in relationship to each other. Eno says this is different from Western music, whose salient quality is that all the rhythmic elements are contained “in little boxes” — locked into a tyrannically mechanical clockwork pattern. According to my reading of the astrological omens, dear Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to experiment with Eno’s insight. How? Escape mechanical clockwork patterns and activate the “multiple, free-floating rhythm” metaphor in everything you do.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: As you come to the climax of your Season of Good Gaffes and Lucky Bloopers, I’ll remind you of folk singer Pete Seeger’s definition of a “productive mistake.” He said it had these five qualities: “1. made in the service of mission and vision; 2. acknowledged as a mistake; 3. learned from; 4. considered valuable; 5. shared for the benefit of all.” Let’s hope, Libra, that your recent twists and turns fit at least some of these descriptions!

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Would you consider making one more push, Scorpio? Can I coax you to continue your halfconfusing, half-rewarding quest? Are you willing to wander even further out into the frontier and take yet another smart risk and try one additional experiment? I hope so. You may not yet be fully convinced of the value of these forays outside of your comfort zone, but I suspect you will ultimately be glad that you have chosen what’s interesting over what’s convenient. P.S. In the coming weeks, you could permanently expand your reservoir of courage.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: A traditional astrologer might say that you

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Are you interested in enhancing your mastery of togetherness? Are you open to my suggestion that you should seek out practical education about the arts of intimacy? Would you be willing to meditate on how you might bring additional creativity and flair into your close alliances? If you answered yes to those questions, the next six weeks will provide you with ample opportunities to dive in to all that fun work. “Collaboration” and “cooperation” will be words of power for you. “Synergy and symbiosis” should be your tender battle cry.

Sagittarians typically spend less time at home than any other sign of the zodiac. Some of you folks even rebel against the idea that having a stable home is a healthgiving essential. You may feel that you can’t be totally free unless you always have your next jaunt or journey planned, or unless you always have a home-away-fromhome to escape to. I understand and appreciate these quirks about your tribe, but am also committed to coaxing you to boost your homebody quotient. Now would be a perfect time to do that. You’re more open than usual to the joy and power of cultivating a nurturing home.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The more crooked the path, the faster

you’ll get to where you’re going. Every apparent detour will in fact be at least a semi-valuable shortcut. Any obstacle that seems to block your way will inspire you to get smarter and more resourceful, thereby activating lucky breaks that bring unexpected grace. So don’t waste even a minute cursing outbreaks of inconvenience, my dear, because those outbreaks will ultimately save you time and make life easier. (P.S.: During the coming weeks, conventional wisdom will be even more irrelevant than it usually is.)

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When I was a young adult, I was unskilled

and indigent. Many restaurants exploited my feeble prowess at washing pots and pans and dishes, but the meager wage they paid me barely kept me fed and housed. You will perhaps understand why, now that I’m grown up, I am averse to cleaning pots and pans and dishes, including my own. That’s why I pay a helper to do that job. Is there an equivalent theme in your own life? An onerous task or grueling responsibility that oppressed you or still oppresses you? Now is a good time to find a way to declare your independence from it.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: I suspect your fantasy life will be espe-

cially potent in the coming weeks. Your imagination will have an enhanced power to generate visions that could eventually manifest as actual events and situations. On the one hand, that could be dicey, because you can’t afford to over-indulge in fearful speculations and worried agitation. On the other hand, that could be dramatically empowering, because your good new ideas and budding dreams may start generating practical possibilities rather quickly.

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he timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies — some revered, some despised, all worth a second look. And if you haven’t given Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Boston cops and criminals epic The Departed, a second look, then what better day than St. Pat’s? Steeped in Catholic guilt and shifting loyalties, The Departed is a remake of the modern Chinese classic, Andrew Lau’s Infernal Affairs. Set among the crime-infested hallways of the Boston Police Department, and the police-populated dens of Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), The Departed is both a tour de force of performance and cinematic style. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Vera Farmiga shine, but Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson steal the show — relishing every last eraaa,

araaa and Bah-ston ladened syllable. Scorsese re-teams with cinematographer extraordinaire Michael Ballhaus and long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker to fashion an apotheosis of sorts for the gangster genre. How fitting that he made it at Warner Bros., the studio that gave birth to snappy dressed, wise-cracking gangsters. Both the Alamo Drafthouse Westminster and Littleton will be serving dinner during the St. Patrick’s Day screening: cannolis, ham sandwiches, corned beef and cabbage alongside a couple of frosty beverages. What to watch for: In the 1932 film, Scarface, director Howard Hawks populated the frame with Xs and crosses anytime a gangster gets his. It made such an impression on a young Scorsese, he cribbed the technique 70plus years later and it helped earn him an Academy Award. His first, and long overdue.

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That One Restaurant is open and serving Mediterranean, Pakistani and Indian food at 1121 Broadway on the Hill, former site of Terra Thai and, long ago, Chris’ Kettle. Try shawarma, biryani, gyros, tikka masala and more, with plenty of vegan, vegetarian gluten-free options. thatonerestaurant.com. ... James Beard Awards 2020 semifinalist chef Carrie Baird has opened Rose’s Classic Americana, a food stall in Boulder’s Rosetta Hall. Menu items include the huevos rancheros that famously took down Bobby Flay in a Food Network cooking competition.

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THE DENVER DISH From green tea shots to green eggs and ham to traditional Irish fare to pots-of-gold desserts, the Roadhouse Boulder Depot has some fun St. Paddy’s Day food offerings from March 14-17. There’ll be shepherd’s pie, braised Brussels with bacon and apple cider mustard vinaigrette and the “pot de gold crème” — Guinness chocolate mousse topped with Baileys whipped cream, served in a sugar glass with a gold leaf. 2366 Junction Place, Boulder, roadhouseboulderdepot.com.

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n DRINK OF THE WEEK COLORADO BREWERS GUILD

Tour de brew: Collaboration Fest 2020

Colorado craft scratches the seven-year itch

Drink of the Week: Finkel & Garf Brewing Co.’s Dry Hopped Lulo Sour

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020 marks the Colorado Brewers Guild’s (CBG) seventh annual Collaboration Festival — another chance for Centennial State craft breweries to join forces and create one-of-a-kind beers. More than 115 beers, from 175-plus participating breweries, have been announced. As usual, CollabFest 2020 will be held in Denver, this year at the Fillmore Auditorium (a first for the fest). And, like previous years, CollabFest (April 4) will kick off Colorado Craft Beer Week (April 5-11). Capital, you’re saying to yourself, but what kind of beer will I be able to drink at said CollabFest? Well, how about... ...a Pale Ale brewed by the Colorado Brewers Guild staff? 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the CBG, and to celebrate they brewed a pale ale at Joyride Brewing with help from Station 26 Brewing Co., Horse & Dragon Brewing Company, 4 Noses Brewing Company, Epic Brewing Company, Periodic Brewery, Odell Brewing Company, Broken Compass Brewing and Barrels & Bottles Brewery. It’s this year’s welcome beer, and the CBG will be handing it out for all who attend. ...a Coffee Scotch Ale brewed by members of the media? Like last year, and the year before, beer writers of the Centennial State gathered at a chosen brewery to brew a beer for attendees to enjoy. This year, Odyssey Beerwerks played host and whipped up an 11-barrel batch of Scotch Ale brewed with floor malted Marris Otter, Vienna, roasted barley, East Kent Golding hops and aged on freshly roasted coffee beans from Hunter Bay Coffee

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Roasters. Enjoy. ...a Hazy Double IPA from two titans of craft beer? Recently celebrating its 30th anniversary, Odell Brewing Company continues to put out some of the best beer in the market. Currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is the gold standard by which all others are measured. You’d be foolish to pass up any beer one or the other puts out, but together — and with a shared passion for hops — this might be the best beer at the fest. ...a Purple Imperial Coffee Cream Ale brewed by four Latino-owned breweries? Last year Raices Brewing Company, Dos Luces Brewery, Coal Mine Avenue Brewing Company and Jade Mountain Brewing Company banded together to create Suave Fest (the first Latino craft beer festival in the country) and conceived this brew. Surprise is the name of the game here: purple in color, cream in character, dark in flavor. ...a Pale Ale from two of Colorado’s premier purveyors of pale? Founded in 2013, Cannonball Creek Brewing Company has won at least one Great American Beer Festival medal every year since. A feat Bootstrap Brewing’s Steve Kaczeus is quick to point out with admiration. And from friendly competition comes collaboration: Hop Shillelagh Pale Ale (they briefly considered using the portmanteau, Ballstrap, but thought better). Regardless, a pale by any other name from these two will still be a hoppy treat. Tickets to the seventh annual Collaboration Festival (3 p.m., April 4) are currently on sale at collabfest.beer.

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reweries aren’t the only ones who get in on the collaboration game. Restaurants do too, and in Denver’s Washington Park district, Uncle has been serving up steaming hot bowls of slurpable ramen noodles in deep, rich umami-laden broth for years. And when done right, ramen is a symphony of flavor requiring little improvement beyond a standard lager or a glass of iced tea. Therein lies the challenge for Boulder’s Finkel & Garf: Produce a beer to harmonize with Uncle’s ramen bowls while standing tall on its own. The answer: a kettle-soured, dry-hopped sour wheat ale brewed with Pilsen malt, wheat, lulo fruit and Lemondrop hops. At 5% alcohol by volume, their dry-hopped Lulo Sour pours mango-yellow with a loose pile of foam. The nose is a bouquet of fresh tropical citrus, even a touch of green tea. The mouth follows suit: creamy with a slight sour snap to wake up the lips and gums. Citrus cleans everything up, brightening the palate up for the next bite. You can drink it solo, on a nice warm patio, but, as with most collaborations: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Community’s Chris Teigland on comfort food

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ommunity Chef Chris Teigland is easy-going. People notice. “Even at work people are like, ‘You’re never mad,’” Teigland says. “I’m a mellow dude. There’s always a solution, so there’s no need to be frazzled.” For Teigland — a heavy metal guitarist with a theology degree and experience cooking at Michelin-starred and James Beard Award-winning restaurants — food is comfort. It started with his upbringing in Chicago. “Seeing my mom, food was her love language for people,” he says. “My brother, I remember one day he drove with his now wife from college nine hours to come stay for the weekend, and they got in at 1 a.m. and my mom’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll make you some snacks or whatever.’ And it was like 12 courses and she’s just throwing out all this stuff. That definitely got picked up by me. It’s just a way of taking care of people. I want to make sure my team feels like this is a safe place and a good place to go to work, where they’re not going to feel pushed when life sucks.” There was no guarantee Teigland would end up at the helm of the Community kitchen, which is now a bona fide local favorite for its innovated New American comfort food. He was working at a bank in Denver, pursuing that the-

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ology degree online, treading water more or less, when he had a moment of clarity. “I was doing really well at the bank but one day they pulled me in and they were like, ‘Five-year plan, where do you see yourself?’ And I was just like, ‘Shit, I quit,’” he says. It was food that offered him a way out of corporate hell: He started selling burritos at workplaces around Denver for $3. “I was making more money with breakfast burritos than I was, you know, managing people’s investments,” he says. He moved onto a wine bar, then to Chicago for stints at the esteemed Alinea and Hogsalt, before coming back and eventually taking over the kitchen at Community. There, he has struck a balance between his affection for comfort food and the precision and simplicity of fine dining. Take, for instance, a fronting a band have scratched Teigland’s itch for community and creativity. “Having these crazy songs and sets that are an hour long... it’s not that different than running a kitchen, where instead of like a bass player and a drummer, I have a sauté cook and a grill cook, and I have somebody on the flat top and we’re doing all these things in unison,” he says. “At the end of the day, once you see something awesome come out, it’s the same as music. Like I got to hear this really cool song or write this really cool song... or I just created this menu that’s just awesome. It really does seem almost the same to me.”

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eigland grew up playing in bands, mostly metal. It was an important creative outlet, but when life got harried, slowly he drew away from songwriting and guitar-playing, and it took a toll on his well-being. Then, he began to cook. “The less I was playing guitar, the more I was making recipes,” Teigland says. “It kind of met that creative need.” Since entering the food industry, the parallels between running a kitchen and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

plate of crispy potatoes with green chili and cheese. “Every part of me hated it because it was so trashy, and just like this grungy bar food. But then when we ate it, and it’s like crack... you can’t not do it,” Teigland says. “So part of it is making peace with those ideas. It doesn’t always have to be — we call them tweezer chefs, where you plate everything with the little greens everywhere. I do love and appreciate it but at the end of the day, potatoes with chili is really good.” Teigland’s approach to food is the same as his approach to cultivating an enjoyable work environment and a pleasant atmosphere for diners. In so many ways, Community is the most fitting place for Teigland to serve his food. “Take care of people, make really, really good food,” he says. “That’s my way to love this community.” The kitchen lifestyle also meshes with the musicians’. Teigland says you have to alter your schedule so radically that your pool of friends shrinks to those who also work nights and whose weekends are Monday and Tuesday. The lifestyle is a pressure cooker, mashing “ex-cons to high school kids” into friendships. It’s insular, like a gaggle of metalheads can be, and it works better for some than others. “I know there are a lot of issues with mental health in the kitchen, I think everybody, whether they want to admit it or not, struggles with some kind of mental health issue,” Teigland says. “For me [the kitchen] is a good outlet to not be depressed or stressed.” MARCH 12, 2020

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pening in downtown Erie early this summer (tentatively) is Birdhouse, a new restaurant from Community owner Scott Skiba and Chef Chris Teigland. The theme: “Ramen, tacos and rum,” Teigland says. “The new comfort foods. Every time we want to go out to eat, it’s like my wife wants tacos, I want noodles. And it was just like, let’s make a place where we can do both. “It is kind of like a nightmare in a sense,” he adds, laughing. “Trying to design a kitchen, like how are we going to do this? But I think we got it, and I’m super excited about it.” They’re not peanut butter and jelly, but ramen and tacos go together better than you might think, at least from a preparation perspective. They’re both foundational dishes, albeit from opposite sides of the world, and swapping traditional ingredients in one for the other will likely create fun, delicious plates and bowls of food. For instance, Birdhouse will have an al pastor spit, on which they’ll slowroast pork butt. It’s pork belly that ends up in many traditional ramen dishes, but Teigland says they’re experimenting with swapping in pork shoulder, from the same part of the pig as the butt — an economic decision, in part, as they’ll be able to buy that section of meat in bulk. But it also will result in a unique spin on classic ramen. Teigland says there’s no need to ram traditional Japanese and Mexican flavors and forms together just to prove the concept, however. “I like the challenge of making authentic tacos — and some of them will be really fucked up and our own version — and then really authentic ramen too, with probably one bowl that’s really bizarre,” Teigland says. “But I kind of feel like that just pays honor to the people that have been doing this for hundreds of years.” Some of those “bizarre” versions aren’t so much bizarre as they are… delicioussounding: Nashville hot chicken tacos, French onion ramen and, sure, some crossovers like tacos with kim chi, barbecue beef and fried rice. Test some of the flavors out for yourself at one of the Birdhouse’s pop-up dinners at Community ahead of the restaurant’s launch. The next one is March 24, starting at 4 p.m., where ramen will star. Visit eatatcommunity.com or eatatbirdhouse.com for more information. I

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The joy of scratch-made dumplings at Boulder’s Formosa Bakery

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he had me at “dumplings.” I had poked my head into Formosa Bakery, recently opened at 1305 Broadway on the Hill, to check out the pastries. What I discovered was a menu of dim sum treats wrapped in various kinds of dough made by Taiwan native Nancy Kao. On a winter afternoon I tucked into a substantial steamed dumpling — sweet potato dough encasing chopped beef — in a rich miso gravy. I also pounced on steamed buns middled with barbecued pork. On a return trip, I dipped shu mai — steamed dumplings — in soy chile sauce along with some perfect hot, crispy pork and chive potstickers. I have to get back to try the oyster omelet, the duck egg and red bean buns, and the thin Chinese scallion pancakes wrapped around barbecue pork “like a taco,” Nancy Kao says. For 20 years she owned and cooked at Lee Yuan Chinese Restaurant in East Boulder until selling the business and retiring. “I stayed home for about two weeks, but it was a feeling I never had — I had nothing to do. So, I started to look around for a little place and found this shop,” Kao says. She decided to focus on the street food items she had only served as specials and the dim sum goodies that were traditionally dished on weekends for dim sum brunch. Kao makes everything from scratch, including all of the sauces, and won’t use the typical frozen dim sum items. She even plans on producing her own boba for drinks, wrinkling her nose at the packaged tapioca BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

balls others employ. After a few months Kao added a flip side to the menu featuring items her old customers at Lee Yuan were missing, including ChineseAmerican favorites plus specialties like sautéed green beans, sticky rice with chopped pork and daikon, and seriously good-for-you bone broth for her famous beef noodle soup, aromatic with garlic, ginger and spices. The location comes with some challenges. She is virtually a one-woman kitchen with limited table service, and the parking nearby is almost always difficult. Chinese students are regular customers looking for a taste of home, but it remains undiscovered by most diners. Some folks suffering from an overabundance of caution have been avoiding eateries during the current health situation. I urge them to get their dumplings for takeout or delivery. By the way, Formosa really is a bakery with Kao crafting muffins, egg custard tarts in sweet crusts, and sponge cakes in various flavors with whipped cream and fresh fruit toppings. MARK YOUR CULINARY CALENDAR With spring’s arrival, new dinners, classes and tastings are popping up across the region. Boulder private chef Valerio Castellano hosts a March 14 dinner with live music and four paired wines. Guests help with the cleanup at this private event in Lafayette. lvitaly.com … If you love maple syrup as much as I do, sign up for a brunch pop-up focused on maple syrups from Vermont and Washington at Coperta restaurant in Denver on March 21. copertadenver.com. … Also on March 21: Re-enactors will teach a fur trade-era cooking class featuring bannock, fry bread and pemmican cooked over an open fire at the Fort Vasquez I

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Reproducing the CBG molecule in concentrate form in quantity and started testing it more rigorously against different infections. Brown’s lab determined that CBG works as effectively against MRSA as the most potent antibiotic currently available to fight that infection: Vancomycin. Unlike Vancomycin, though, CBG works against MRSA by disturbing the organism’s cell membranes. That presents a slight issue of toxicity to humans, since it might affect our cell membranes as well. And Brown is up-front that they did notice some toxicity to human red-zones. But, he adds, Vancomycin also exhibited this property, and its developers were able to circumvent that issue with relative ease. “Certainly, we wouldn’t be pursuing this if that wasn’t possible.” On top of having an effect against MRSA, they found CBG was also effective at both preventing “biofilms” and eliminating existing ones. Brown explains that biofilms are collective “communities” of different micro-organisms (including bacteria, fungi and proteins) that adhere to surfaces, like contact lenses, catheters, dental equipment and surgical body-part replacement pieces. When introduced into the body, these infections can be particularly tricky to fight, Brown says. CBG,

however, demonstrated a therapeutic window for fighting the infections that those biofilms cause. “CBG proved to be marvelous at tackling pathogenic bacteria,” Brown says. “The findings suggest real therapeutic potential for cannabinoids as antibiotics.” All of that is great news. Between the booming human population of planet Earth, our everevolving bacteria assailants and society’s overuse of antibiotics, the threat of a serious pandemic outbreak is constantly on the rise (and, with coronavirus, is not really just a threat anymore.) That’s why Brown’s research will undoubtedly motivate even more research. The slow cultural (and even slower legal) acceptance of cannabis, has meant that legitimate science around this substance has been effectively stunted for generations. Now, though, that’s starting to change, and in a place like Canada, where recreational cannabis has been legalized at a national level, scientists and interested parties now have the legal leeway to start exploring the medicinal potential of cannabis and its cannabinoids. Brown isn’t naïve about the implications of this discovery, though. He understands that it’s going to be a long time before cannabis-based antibiotics hit the shelves of pharmacies all over the nation. “It’s a really long road to develop a drug,” Brown says. “We’re in the process right now of doing a systematic modification of CBG, to see if we can come up with a better version of CBG, a kind of functionally different structure.” Essentially, they’re using the framework of the natural CBG molecule and rebuilding it to exhibit the highest antibacterial potential while minimizing human toxicity. And that won’t be fast or even necessarily easy — but it is still very exciting. “Nothing’s simple in science or discovery,” Brown says. “But we’re also pretty jazzed about this.”

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he Trump administration’s drug budget is out — $35.7 billion worth of trying the same stuff over and over again and expecting different results. According to the Drug War Chronicle website, $17.1 billion goes to “domestic law enforcement, interdiction and international drug control efforts,” aka the failed war on drugs. But, hey, it’s politically easier to send good money after bad than to admit the magnitude of the failure. Some $18.6 billion is directed toward prevention and treatment, which sort of works sometimes and sometimes doesn’t. Still, it’s money better spent than what’s spent on the enforcement side. “The FY 2021 budget request sends a strong message that, although we’ve seen signs of real progress, the Trump administration will not let up in our efforts to save American lives,” Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) director Jim Carroll said in a statement accompanying the budget release. “Whether it is going after drug traffickers, getting people struggling with addiction the help they need, or stopping drug misuse before it starts, this budget request ensures our partners will have the resources needed to create safer and healthier communities across the nation.” Ho. Freaking. Hum. While most of the treatment and prevention request is directed toward treatment, $2.135 billion is intended

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