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very decade or so, America’s mass media are surprised to discover that migrant farmworkers are still being miserably paid and despicably treated by the industry that profits from their labor. Stories run, the public is outraged (again), assorted officials pledge action, then ... nothing changes. Several news reports recently have redocumented that the shameful abuse of these hard-working, hard-traveling families continues. A Los Angeles Times report revealed that, even if they receive the legal minimum wage, many farm laborers earn less than $17,500 a year because of the low pay and the seasonal nature of their work. Moreover, they are often “housed”

in shacks, old chicken coops, shipping containers and squalid motels. This year, though, multibilliondollar agribusiness interests from Florida to California are uniting in a push for new assistance — not for workers, but themselves! While they backed Trump for president, many are now expressing shock that he may actually try to fulfill his campaign promise to cut off the flow of undocumented immigrants to their fields. They now admit that these immigrants make up as much as 70 percent of the industry’s workforce, so they’ve rushed to Washington, demanding a special exemption from their president’s planned lockout of Mexican

laborers. In the process, they’ve suddenly recharacterized the very migrants they’ve been so callously mistreating as noble employees who’re essential to the U.S.A.’s food security. BigAg deserves no special break at all, but if Trump and Congress give any help to them, they should be required to pay a living wage, provide decent family housing and health care, and treat all farmworkers with the respect due to people who really are essential to our food security. To help push for basic human justice, connect with the United Farm Workers at ufw.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 22 , 2018 7

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Lessons from rednecks and dumb bunnies by Dave Anderson

It was truly inspiring. Thousands of people sang and danced in West Virginia’s state capitol building in a victory celebration. They chanted: “Who made history? We made history!” For nine days, more than 20,000 teachers and support staff went on strike in all 55 counties. It had been the longest statewide strike in West Virginia’s history. This is a state where public workers can’t legally strike. They are barred by law from collective bargaining. West Virginia has two statewide teachers unions, affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. There’s also the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association, which represents bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians and clerical workers. Everyone voted on whether to go on strike, whether they were a union member or not. Edwinia Howard-Jack, a 12th grade teacher in Buckhannon, was enthusiastic: “The solidarity and feeling of resolve, the fighting spirit and the gracefulness of my fellow teachers was both touching and empowering; I will never forget it. The reminder of who we are as a state, what our ancestors fought and died for on Blair Mountain signified by the wearing of red bandanas, is forever engrained in my memory.” She was referring to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War. In 1921, an army of some 10,000 union coal miners who had enough of inhumane and dangerous working conditions marched on Blair Mountain in Logan County and clashed with 3,000 lawmen and company thugs. For nearly a week, the two sides waged a fierce battle with rifles, machine guns and even bomb-dropping biplanes. About a million rounds were fired and dozens of people were killed. The conflict ended when President Warren Harding sent federal troops in. This battle was only the most dramatic event in a long history of labor militancy. Many teachers wore red bandanas and would ask out-of-state reporters if they really knew what the term “redneck” meant. They would explain that miners wore red bandanas in response to the coal bosses’ contemptuous dismissal of them as “rednecks.” The bandanas signified union membership and a radical attitude. During the recent strike, Governor Jim Justice ridiculed the teachers as “dumb bunnies” and they responded by wearing bunny ears at their rallies. Reporter Sarah Jaffe notes that Justice is “a second-generation coal tycoon and a billionaire who owes his own state millions in back taxes.” The fossil fuel industry dominates the state and the strikers advocated raising taxes on that industry to fund education. The teachers emphasized that one of their major goals was to make education better for every child in West Virginia. They want smaller class sizes and they want to fill the 700 teacher vacancies in the state. Before the strike, the unions worked with churches and food banks to provide day care for the parents who needed it and to provide meals for the many students who get free lunch and breakfast at school. The teachers sometimes delivered the packages of food directly to students’ homes. They won a big victory. West Virginia is ranked 47th among the states in teacher salaries and they won a 5 percent pay raise for themselves and all state workers. They got a freeze in health care premiums and ended a punitive “wellness’” program which invaded their privacy.

But they also forced the Republican-dominated state legislature to kill some toxic bills. They stopped an expansion of charter schools, a measure to eliminate seniority and a so-called “paycheck protection” bill (designed to weaken unions by taking away their right to deduct union dues through payroll collection). There are indications that this is the beginning of something big. Labor lawyer Joe Burns says this is a return to the rebellious roots of public employee unionism: “During the high point of the 1960s and ’70s public sector strike wave — when millions of government workers were involved in work stoppages — unionists had a slogan: ‘There is no illegal strike, just an unsuccessful one.’ Lawmakers could impose draconian penalties, courts could issue injunctions, and the corporate media could fulminate endlessly. But if the strike was strong, if the cause was just, and if community support was robust, harsh penalties were rarely imposed. “...Work stoppages occurred more frequently in states with bans on collective bargaining and striking. With no orderly process for bargaining, workers had no choice but to illegally strike to get their demands met. Faced with such intransigence, policymakers gave in and began recognizing public sector unions.” The conditions have to be right. The West Virginia strikers were successful because they had strong public support and they were able to shut down schools in every county. Faced with this situation, a hostile Republican governor and a Republican-dominated state legislature had to give in. This conflict comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering Janus v AFSCME. Its decision is likely to be a gut punch to public employees and their unions. Burns explains: “In the Janus framework, public employees (and all employees) should deal with employers as individuals. Unions — where they are allowed to exist — are merely collections of individuals instead of instruments of the working class.” The courageous West Virginians have shown us that solidarity and militance is the answer. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

letters On fracking

Thank you for the article on Maya K. van Rossum (Re: “Passing a Green Amendment,” Boulderganic, Jan. 25, 2018), which reminded people to actively resist fracking plans, fast developing here. Thank you also for Joel Dyer’s editorial “For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet,” (Re: Dyertimes, Feb. 25, 2018) illustrating problems with our own elected officials when we attempt to thwart dangerous, toxic industrial projects in our communities. 8 March 22 , 2018

Ms. van Rossum accurately and clearly identified the serious problems in current federal, state and local laws, which offer no real protection against the explosive and poisonous fracking industry for people, the environment or the climate. Her advice for Coloradans to establish constitutional environmental amendments and codify them in their state constitution is timely. Though we’ve attempted to do so twice in the recent past, and both times the process was corrupted, once by a dishonest “environmental” Democratic politician, it’s still important for Colorado to try again.

But people in Boulder County cannot just wait for a statewide initiative to succeed. With the Extraction fracking company already building new wells in Erie near schools and parks; with the 8 North fracking company already submitting plans in Lafayette for wells targeting a school, city park, open space, our recreation center, hundreds of homes, our dog park, the graveyard, a “conservation area” and reservoir and much more, extending from Baseline to Arapahoe; and with Crestone applying for 180 new fracking wells between Lafayette and Longmont on

lands that have numerous farms, ponds, a major creek, a large reservoir, at least eight open space areas and a hospital. So far, our elected politicians, whose duty it is to represent the people, are ignoring or opposing the Boulder County Climate Bill of Rights and the Lafayette Climate Bill of Rights, both made law, and have abandoned the Longmont fracking ban. Boulder County and the City of Lafayette have written regulations, see LETTERS Page 10

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which they claim will offer protections against the dangers of fracking in our communities. The proposed regulations read at a Lafayette City Council meeting recently are essentially the same as the regulations Boulder County wrote. The language of these regulations anticipates fire, explosion, toxic leaks, flares (the burning off of gas in the open air), orally toxic substances, the need to closely monitor toxic gases in our air, and identifies countless other unthinkable horrors which we do not want a couple hundred feet from our homes, farms, schools, hospitals, nor in the midst of our reservoirs, creeks, ponds or open space. Do these “safety” regulations inspire anyone to feel safe in the face of fracking? Sandra Fox/Lafayette

(or the planet for that matter) even just a small chance of survival, we need to let the oceans heal and stop eating fish, as well as all animals, as there is no sustainable way to fish and raise animals for food. Among other environmental nightmares, animal agriculture is leading the way for ocean destruction by causing ocean dead zones, water pollution and ocean acidification. If things continue as business as usual, the United Nations states that by 2050 we will have fishless oceans. I for one do not want to see that. The time is now. Heinrich states, “This is the last generation to save the ocean, we’ve already passed all the other warning points.” Erica Sodos/Westminster

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Thank you, Dennis Duckett, for saying it like it is in your guest column published March 8, 2018 (Re: “Marches and vigils are not going to bring about the change we need,” Opinion). Though I, too, appreciate the effort and intention behind the marches and vigils, the situation in this country is a good example of Einstein’s statement, “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Our political, social, “health care,” educational, big agricultural and military systems, along with our consumerbased economy, keep The People just barely healthy and intelligent enough to work enough (too much) to buy stuff enough or kill people in other countries enough or chronically sick enough and governed enough to support the hoarding of money by just a few “people.” When we create new (aka return to natural humane) thinking from war to warmth, from hoarding to helping, from survival to sustainable, we will have a future for our generation, and many to come. Ronda Lawrence/Boulder

I am writing regarding “The Last of the Beauty” (Re: Boulderganic, Feb. 15, 2018). It was a great article and I applaud Shawn Heinrichs for his creative and powerful work. I too love the ocean and feel deep grief for its demise; therefore we must acknowledge the leading causes of ocean destruction: overfishing and bykill. Ninety to 100 million tons of fish are pulled from our oceans each year to appease human appetites. This equates to 2.7 trillion individual animal lives. Bykill is the plethora of unintended marine life that is caught in all forms of industrial fishing. When boats throw their nets and lines into the ocean, they catch dolphins, sharks, turtles, sea birds and other fish. For each pound of fish caught for human consumption, an additional five pounds of sea life is caught, killed and discarded. Heinrich loves sharks and the article discusses the shark fin trade. While this is a despicable practice, no conversation about the shark’s annihilation is complete without talking about fishing. While it is true that 73 million sharks are killed every year for shark fins, 40 to 50 million sharks are killed every year as bykill! Labels such as “sustainable” don’t really mean anything and just like the word “humane,” the only thing the label does is help the consumer feel better. By eating fish one is supporting an industry that is destroying our oceans and bringing marine life to the brink of extinction. Heinrichs mentions that if and when there are no more fish in the ocean, then two million people will lose their protein source. At some point humans are going to have to face the fact that if we want to give the ocean

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Conscious capitalism

Akin to what comedian John Oliver says about the words “President” and “Trump,” conscious and capitalism are two words that do not belong together. Yet, here we are, having them foisted upon us, having to make sense of the crap sandwiches thrust into our faces. It was much preferable in the old days, when businessmen were evil and nobody had enough time or power to pressure them to be good. Now some people do have enough time and power; ironically this time and power was usually bought via the evil deeds of their parents. Nonetheless, they want to feel good, and Boulder Weekly

letters they are willing to pay for it. So, they fork over some of their ill-gotten cash to hippies and other people that their parents deemed “irresponsible.” Now, through a twist of fate, it is more responsible to be a hippie than a businessman. Some people try to take the middle path, like Buddha. Unlike Buddha, they have never renounced earthly possessions. They want to be both hippies and consumers of endangered species. They think that capitalism and health can coexist. However, health is balance, and there is no balance when one is devouring or being devoured. Nonetheless, they were brought up in the United States where there is no evidence of the Laws of Thermodynamics. They have never seen the equal and opposite reaction to their actions. Those reactions lie half-way around the world in a sweatshop or decimated rainforest. Only in America can two completely opposite ideas coexist so peacefully. Only in America can one hope to save the world on the one hand while destroying it on the other. Only in America can we have something called conscious capitalism rise out of its cradle, raised upon the milk of arrogance and disconnection. Here’s why conscious capitalism does not work: it’s selective. One cannot carve a tiny little ethical corner out of the devouring machine and ignore the rest. For those that hope the good will spread to the whole, they do not realize that the “good” comes from the excess. A rich man gives some of the money obtained from the misery he creates to charity, but that does not wipe away the totality of his actions. The truly ethical person will take a hard look in the mirror. This is hard to do through the rosy blindfold of “conscious capitalism.” John Chavis/Colorado Springs

With every kilowatt-hour of energy Xcel produces from renewables, they pay the cost of production and reap the price of sale. But with every kilowatthour that comes from non-renewables such as coal, the same is true, except there is an additional, externally imposed, cost. Energy produced from greenhouse-gas emitters adds particles to our atmosphere that warm the planet. In turn, the frequency of natural disasters climbs, societies find that water is in shorter and shorter supply, and militaries are forced to cope with the destabilization that ensues. These and other costs are passed onto citizens in forms ranging from air-conditioning bills to taxes. So from Xcel’s perspective, there is at present no clear winner in the energy-production world, but from the perspective of economically rational consumers, there is. The solution to this imposing problem is actually a simple one. Slap a price on the extraction from the Earth of carbon-emitting resources. Not so large a price as to make energy producers squeal in agony as part of some sort of long-awaited retribution for the harm they have done our planet — no, just enough to account for the marginal costs to society of every ton of CO2 or CO2-equivalent emitted. If you are looking for the solution that is designed to shut down all coal plants overnight, this will not be it. But if you are — left, right or center — concerned with the damage being done to our society by the externalities of greenhouse gas emissions, and want a solution that works on a timetable faster than Xcel’s own, then call Senators Gardner and Benner, and Representative Polis, and urge them to get on board. Daniel Palken/Boulder

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Your Feb. 1, 2018 article, “Xcel reveals lowest renewable energy bids to date” (Re: News), is a refreshing reminder that the falling prices of solar and wind production and storage are finally making renewable energy sources economically competitive with coal and natural gas. Of course, “economically competitive” here merely means that the marginal cost of an electric company such as Xcel producing their next kilowatt-hour from renewables is finally achieving parity with their doing so using non-renewables. However, that accounting is strictly in terms of costs and benefits to Xcel, whose primary obligation is to turn the biggest profit from energy production and sale that they possibly can. There is nothing wrong with this system per se, if the incentives are aligned correctly. But here, they are not. Boulder Weekly

Letter writer Rod Brueske writes, “Boulder County [Parks and Open Space] exists because of the generosity of the taxpayers of Boulder County.” (Re: Letters, Jan. 25) No. It doesn’t. Land preserved by the Nature Conservancy exists because of the generosity of its donors, who donate on a voluntary basis. Land preserved by Boulder County exists through brute force — the same type of brute force that’s useful for robbing convenience stores. Generosity has nothing to do with it. Taxes are the price we pay for living in an uncivilized society. A truly civilized society operates on a strictly voluntary basis and never initiates force against peaceful people. In a civilized society, the sole purpose of government is the protection of individual rights. Chuck Wright/Westminster

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Students calling for gun law reforms protested at the state capital on March 14. They will be doing so again on March 24 in what is expected to be a gathering in the tens of thousands. And you’re invited.

Turning anguish into action Youth movement prepares for March for Our Lives Denver

n the one-month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, almost 1 million students from kindergarten to 12th grade participated in more than 3,000 walkout events across the country. They gathered on football fields, capitol building steps and in the streets, joining hands and holding protest signs. They stood in silence for 17 minutes — one for each person killed at the Florida high school — before turning their attention to legislators and leaders to demand gun law reform. It was a sign of the strength and resolve of a youth movement that has risen from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14. “I saw the shooting on the news and my first reaction wasn’t one of shock and horror. There was some of that, but it was more so, ‘Oh, another one,’” says Jaden Rosard, 17, from Boulder. “And that made me realize that no one is going to stand up and so we needed to. We being the young people.” Inspired by the high schoolers from Florida who immediately began organizing after tragedy struck their school, Rosard connected with other young people from around the state to form Never Again Colorado. In a little over a month, the group has put together an organizational structure, held board elections and organized the March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24 at Civic Center Park in Denver. It is one of more than 800 sibling marches planned in every state across the country and around the world, in conjunction with the main event in Washington D.C. Rosard says more than 1,000 young people voted over a 48-hour period to elect the 15 Never Again Colorado board members out of 60 candidates; the youngest member is 12, the oldest 24. There’s a board member from all seven Colorado congressional districts

by Angela K. Evans (Rosard represents CD-2) as well as other positions such as the directors of high school and college outreach and the director of policy affairs, who is helping draft gun control legislation the group plans to release soon. But for now, the focus is the march. The event will start at 2 p.m. with about an hour of speeches before the group — which is estimated to be tens of thousands if not more — will walk around the capitol building. The students are backed by Everytown for Gun Safety, a national gun control advocacy organization, started and (mostly) funded by former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The organization is offering logistical support for the event, but the youth are the ones leading the charge. “It’s a youth movement and that’s partially because we’ve lost faith in the older generation,” Rosard says. “We realized that we needed to be the change we want to see and no one else is going to do it for us.” Hearing the slogan “Never Again” was a little like deja vu for Coni Sanders, whose dad, Dave Sanders, rescued hundreds of students by herding them out of the cafeteria at Columbine High School in 1999. He was later killed by the shooters. “God, we said that too,” she says. “These slogans are great but we’ve got to put some weight behind them.” Almost two decades after her father was killed, Sanders says she’s desperate to see any changes that will move the needle, and she’s joining the youth movement as one of the scheduled speakers in Denver on Joel Dyer

Students participating in a walkout from Fairview High School in Boulder on March 14 to call for changes to gun laws and to honor those murdered in Parkland, Florida.

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March 24. She acknowledges things do feel different this time, however, as this growing youth movement seems to be capturing everyone’s attention. “A lot of us feel like we’ve been at the bottom of a well just screaming because our loved ones are dead and it seems like nobody cares and society just moves on,” Sanders says. “I really feel that over the last 20 years, we have built a foundation for these kids to stand tall on and scream to the hilltop, and people are now willing to hear it. I’ve never been so hopeful and I’m just sorry it took 17 more lives for people to pull their heads out of the sand and be willing to take a stand.” Sanders now runs a mental health private practice that serves approximately 150 people who have commited violent crimes, in addition to traveling around the country advocating for gun law reform. “Working with youth is definitely something that gives me so much hope,” says Sara Grossman, 32, from Denver, and another scheduled speaker. “It makes me feel like right now is really a reckoning for the NRA and for folks who continually vote down gun regulation.” Grossman became personally invested in the gun control debate after her best friend from college, Christopher Andrew Leinonen (Drew), was gunned down at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016. “I’ve found that pushing my anguish into action has definitely been the most helpful way of moving myself through this grief,” Grossman says. Following Leinonen’s funeral, Grossman “spent about a month with my feelings,” then decided to trade in her tech job for advocacy work. Now, she’s the communications director at the Matthew Shepard Foundation in Denver, and she’s also involved in the Dru Project, an LGBTQIA advocacy organization founded in memory of Leinonen. She’s an Everytown survivor fellow, as well, which is how she connected with the Never Again students in Colorado. She’s inspired by what she calls “chutzpah” coming out of the student activists in Parkland and Boulder Weekly

around the country. From the first organizing meeting she attended, the students’ resolve and determination has been inspiring, she says. “I went in there thinking, maybe I can help them, maybe I can give them some sort of advice based on what I’ve been through the last two years after Pulse,” she says. “But, they did not need me in any way, shape or form. In fact they helped me. They’re giving me hope for the future and there is no price point on that. It is so powerful.” Other speakers include a current student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, as well as a survivor from the 2013 shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, which left two students dead, including the shooter. The list of speakers is intentionally void of any politicians. “They are welcome to come join us as citizens; they’re not welcome to come join us as politicians,” Rosard says. “We’re focusing on non-partisanship. This isn’t a Democratic issue, this isn’t a Republican issue, this is an American issue. No one wants to see children get shot at school. No one.” While seeking supporters from both sides of the political aisle, the youth are adamantly opposed to the NRA’s influence in politics, as evidenced by founding Never Again member Cameron Kasky demanding Marco Rubio refuse the organization’s money in the future at a televised town hall the week after the shooting at his high school. “The NRA is absolutely unapologetic about their position and these students came out and they are the same way — absolutely unapologetic about this, not allowing themselves to be bullied,” Sanders says. Rosard, along with others from Never Again Colorado, have been very outspoken about their distrust of Cory Gardner and other Colorado Republicans who take contributions from the NRA. They are also critical of any politician not advocating for change to current gun laws. “If you’re not willing to stand up and say enough is enough, then there [are] millions of young people around the country who can vote for the first time in 2018, and we’ll vote you out,” says Rosard, who will turn 18 in early 2019. “In 2020 there will be [more].” And if there aren’t candidates who support gun control legislation? Rosard says he’s considering running for political office someday, as are several of his friends. The goal is to see “pieces of legislation that would have prevented Sandy Hook, prevented Aurora and prevented Parkland,” pass in Colorado, Rosard says. “We’re not trying to abolish the Second Amendment. People try and say that but we’re not,” he continues. “We’re not trying to take away guns. We’re not trying to say that you can’t have a handgun for personal defense, you can’t have a hunting rifle. We’re saying that weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing other people don’t need to be in the hands of anyone.” The students in Florida have already Boulder Weekly

been successful in getting their state legislature to pass stricter gun laws, which includes raising the purchase age for firearms from 18 to 21, instituting a three-day waiting period and funding school security. It is the first gun control measure to pass in that state in more than two decades, despite strong opposition from the NRA. Still, it doesn’t ban assault weapons or strengthen background checks, which the students were advocating for. “Every day that they spend procrastinating on this are days that this is going to happen again,” Rosard says. “It seems that monthly now, there’s some incident at a school, or a credible threat.

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Students have a reason to be scared, and that’s not acceptable.” On March 20, another shooter injured two classmates at Great Mills High School in Maryland, before dying of gunshot wounds. This latest shooting is only adding fuel to the young activists’ fire, as they mobilize to bring about widespread change. The youth are gearing up for the long haul, focusing their attention after the march on passing legislation and galvanizing young voter turnout in upcoming elections. “People should be able to go to school and focus on their education instead of having to worry about their lives everyday,”

Rosard says. “We’re not going to stop until we get what we want, until we have safety. That could be several years but we’re willing to see it through.” The activists bring their youthful energy to a decades-long cause for gun law reform, but the passion behind the movement is the same; it’s found in remembrance of the friends and families lost to gun violence. “While it is an honor to be on the stage on Saturday, to be Drew’s voice, it’s also really disappointing that I really have to do this, or any of us have to do it,” Grossman says. “This is work born out of tragedy.”

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Boulder City Council to deliberate removing ‘erroneous’ open space designation on Mapleton development site

hen the Mapleton Hill Investment Group submitted plans to the City of Boulder to build a 93-unit senior housing facility on the old Boulder Community Hospital site at the base of Mount Sanitas, the City’s Planning Department noticed that four of the property’s 16 acres were designated open space. Considering the four acres had held a parking lot and a building for decades, Planning Department staff called the designation an “anomaly” and set about the task of going through Boulder history to determine what happened. After pulling old newspaper clippings and minutes from City meetings from the 1970s, and after overlaying maps drawn over the years with current maps, staff determined that, indeed, the four acres shouldn’t be open space. “What we think happened in this case was that the City was interested in preserving everything west of the Silver Lake Ditch. The Silver Lake Ditch was placed in the wrong location, which then led to an incorrect designation on this 311 Mapleton site. That’s what we believe happened,” said Philip Kleisler, planner II with the City of Boulder, at a recent meeting. That “wrong location” for Silver Lake Ditch was a few hundred feet east of its actual location, City staff found, or about the width of the open space parcel. But at least 800 residents who live near or visit the site disagree with the City staff ’s findings. Their argument — as expressed in a written petition, verbal statements at public meetings and a protest website — is that the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), which lists the land as open space, is the definitive guide for land use designations, and that it’s inaccurate to go back and use historical maps to draw boundaries for open space. They claim there were never any disputes about the area’s open space designation until this development project

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by Matt Cortina showed up. Too, the four acres share a western border with a huge swath of open space, and the parking lot provides access to that area, so it’s not like it’s plopped down in the middle of an industrial or residential area. Amid all the evidence City staff produced, critics of their research also say the maps are non-verified and contrast with other historical maps. “Is it an anomaly?” wrote Citizens for Sanitas, the advocacy group against the 311 Mapleton development, to the city. “We believe that the unidentified map copy provided by staff does not meet the criteria of submissible evidence by any governing body.” Nonetheless, City staff has taken steps to fix what they believe is an error. The BVCP states that if “a discrepancy is found to exist within the BVCP that is clearly a drafting error, mapping discrepancy or a clerical mistake, either the City or the County, after a referral request to the other agency, may correct such error.” Now, as the issues over the designation of open space for these four acres moves to its last stand — the Boulder City Council on April 3 — the argument for whether to keep or remove the designation may come down to semantics. The operative word in the BVCP jargon regarding removing open space designations is “clearly.” Is there enough evidence for the Council to determine there was clearly an error in designating the four acres open space? As part of necessary procedures, City staff sent their findings to the Boulder County Land Use department in December for its thoughts and comments. The County office found the City’s claim that the area was erroneously marked open space to be “plausible ... however, County staff has not found evidence that the incorrect ditch mapping is the definitive cause of the [open space] map designation. Therefore, County staff does not conclude that the [open space] designation is clearly a map error.”

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Because the area lies in BVCP Area I, decisions regarding land use are solely up to the City, not the County. So then it went to the City of Boulder’s Open Space Board of Trustees, an organization whose members are appointed by the Council and which makes recommendations to the Council regarding open space issues. It found the open space designation “probably, but not clearly a mapping error.” Part of what muddied the waters for these two entities is the specific type of designation the four acres currently possess — Open Space-Other (OS-O). The OS-O designation, Kleisler says, is “intended to be an aspirational designation, to indicate lands designated prior to 1981 that the City and County are interested in protecting in some way. It doesn’t mean that it’s protected open space or that the city necessarily wants to purchase it or protect it, but it does provide a substantial community benefit in that when we receive a development application or annexation petitions, it does prompt, particularly the Open Space staff, to do a pretty thorough analysis around how the property can provide open space services.” Indeed, the Open Space Board of Trustees (OSBT) ruled unanimously that it doesn’t recommend the City acquire the open space parcel in question, which is owned by the developers, Mapleton Hill Investment Group. They also recommended (as did several Planning Board members) to use the site review process to guarantee things like access to Dakota Ridge Trail and unobstructed sightlines. Claiming they felt uncomfortable making the decision, the OSBT bumped the issue to the Planning Board, which agreed in a 4-to-2 vote that, yes, City staff was right and it was likely a drafting error that caused the designation. “I think it’s strange to apply an open space designation to an area that’s been developed and ... [is] over a building and a road and a parking area that has littleto-no open space value whatsoever,” said Planning Board member Harmon Zuckerman at the decisive meeting. Planning Board Chair Jon Putnam said if the designation was meant to protect something like Dakota Ridge, the area would’ve been drawn differently to better do that. In order to change a land use designation, two bodies in the City need to approve of such a measure, which is why it now falls to City Council.

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There’s another twist in this story to complicate matters further, and which Council discussed at its March 5 meeting: There is a minor zoning change (separate from the open space land use designation) proposed for part of the property. Citing that, some City Council members expressed a desire to consider that change and the open space designation separately in order to eliminate the appearance of impropriety should both approvals be granted — what Councilwoman Mary Young thought might appear as a “rubber stamp.” “This’ll be a real test of people having some trust in us,” added Councilwoman Lisa Morzel, “and being able to separate the issues, look at them [on] their own ... and then come to a decision.” Council members Bob Yates and Jill Adler Grano asked whether changing the OS-O designation will affect the proposed project at all. To this, Director of Planning, Housing and Sustainability Jim Robertson had a round-about answer. “If it remains designated as OS-O, I think both the way the [BVCP] and our regulations are set up would give you [the Council] the discretion to evaluate the project whether it is providing elements or features consistent with the OS-O designation,” Robertson said. Grano told Boulder Weekly this week, “I still do not have a clear answer on this. One of the developers I asked said it would not change the project, and the neighbors I have asked say it would change the project.” “I believe staff had said it would not,” Councilwoman Mirabai Nagle says. “However I sat down with the maps and some really knowledgeable people on the project, [and] I believe it would change the project.” Michael Bosma, who represents the development group, also did not directly answer whether or not the designation will affect the project, but did write in an email: “The claims that this project is building on open space or damaging the fragile ecosystem are categorically false and intentionally misleading.” Bosma added that the project started four years ago, sought community input about the type and scale of development desired and made “three dozen significant material changes to the [developments] designs and plans.” Boulder Weekly

Councilman Aaron Brockett says although it remains to be seen if an open space designation will change the developer’s plans, it will certainly be used as “one of the factors in the [Council and Planning Board’s] decision about whether to approve the project, deny it, or approve it with conditions.” But whether or not the project will change depending on the status of the open space designation should play a factor in the Council’s decision. Nagle says though it’s hard at this point to gauge which way the Council is leaning, the process to consider the OS-O designation will include revisiting the maps and hearing the vast amount of public comments. “I don’t think it would stop them from doing the development. I think it would force them to do some edits,” Nagle says. Kleisler says easements will be implemented to preserve access to the Dakota Ridge Trail, and the developer may preserve the historic nurse’s building on-site.

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“Africa”

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‘Through Their Eyes’ exhibit focuses on human trafficking

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or the past several years, Loren Eiseley’s story “The Star Thrower,” aka “the starfish story,” has made its rounds across the internet. Published in the late 1960s, the story has been retold with varying details for the past few decades. In one of its iterations, it loosely follows a child on a beach filled with washed up starfish. A man comes along and tells the child that he’ll make no difference just throwing one starfish back into the ocean. The child responds that it will make a difference to that one starfish. It’s a story that moved artist Kema Berry. She’s used the narrative before in her exhibits, and she uses the metaphor to drive her work. For Berry, the difference she hopes to make in the world is an effort to curb the human trafficking epidemic affecting nations all over the globe. “I thought, ‘How can I make a difference? What’s my one little starfish?’” she asks. “I can make a noise and get more people on the shore to throw the starfish in with me.” She’s making noise through her exhibit entitled Through Their Eyes, showing at the Dairy Arts Center through April 15. The show features Berry’s work depicting victims of human trafficking — mostly children — staring right at the viewer as their faces and bodies fade into the burlap on which they’re painted. A pamphlet provided by the exhibit cites the 2016 Global Slavery Index that estimates forced labor and human trafficking generates an annual $150 billion profit. More than 45 million people are subjected to modern-day slavery, 168 million are in child labor and close to 5 million women and children are victims of sex trafficking. Through her work, Berry seeks to shed light on varying issues including forced prostitution, sale and exploitation of children, debt bondage, involuntary servitude, removal of organs and servile marriage. Berry’s awareness began indirectly with her journey into clean eating a few years ago. She wanted to better understand the products she was consuming, and steer clear of GMOs and hormone-laced products, which led her to researching

the chain of supply and where her food was actually coming from. She discovered a plethora of information and tragic realizations about the human labor behind many products. “Not just food; in our garments, in our Christmas lights,” Berry says. “Little kid’s fingers are used because they’re smaller, and I can’t look at twinkle lights the same now.” She realized her power as a consumer to buy fair trade instead of from companies exploiting labor, but she wanted to do more. She felt as if there weren’t enough people addressing the severity of the problem. “There are government web sites that are tracking the numbers, but how can you really track a number that’s under the radar? It was 30 million plus and now it’s 40 million plus,” Berry says. “But how do they count those numbers? It’s not foolproof, and it’s probably an underestimation. I became aware, and I thought to utilize my tools that I’ve been given to further awareness.” Figuring out how to visualize the problem of modern-day slavery was Berry’s biggest task. She didn’t want to create art that was exploitative or too difficult to consume — she didn’t want to turn people off from the work. “I wanted to evoke emotive quality to the plight of the people,” she says. “But if you’re making something that you don’t want to see, then a person would turn away from it, as opposed to be drawn into it and moved by it. It leaves more room for us to think more about it versus just passing by and not holding on to it because it’s too painful or too ugly to look at.” For this project she strived to capture the weight of suffering experienced by so many with just a few representative subjects. While her pictures don’t tell specific, individual narratives, the anonymity speaks to the many individual stories that make up the whole. Many of these stories and people have been lost over the years, and Berry wanted to help them find an audience. “We’ll read an article and our hearts will be compelled and we’ll feel saddened for these invisible people out there, but then we’ll forget,” she says. “So I thought of how to get hold of a [viewer] to see longer.” see TRAFFICKING Page 24

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Berry used the eyes as the portal for connection. “The eyes hold the humanness of each of us. And the suffering of those eyes was depicted in order to convey the soul of the people through a plight of one person. Because there are so many, and how can we represent so many?” Berry says. “I thought the eyes are the window to the soul. We connect with eyes, who we are inside, not what we look like on the outside. I wanted to bring that to life.”

Also, by using abstraction and not painting completely realized portraits, Berry invites the audience to wonder about the narratives. This choice serves to capture the elusiveness of their stories, eliciting a desire to hold onto these images, and these people, before they fade away. “We don’t know them personally, but when we view the souls of the many through the eyes of the few, we can see that we’re common and connected,” she says. “We’re all the same.”

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While there’s an immense sadness in the work, some portraits capture the resilience of the soul. Behind the sad eyes and cries for help, a spark of hope perhaps survives. “‘Africa’ is probably my favorite [painting]. This young lady seems to be telling me, ‘I’m going to stand strong and proud and walk tall in spite of the circumstances that I was given,” Berry says. “She’s wanting to stay and be strong through the adversity of her life.” Along with Berry’s images, the exhibit features participatory artwork from the Red Sand Project. The organization provides free bags of ecofriendly red sand and encourages participants to spread the sand on a sidewalk to symbolize the millions of people who fall through the cracks of human trafficking. By taking a photo and posting it to social media with the hashtag #RedSandProject, it’s another avenue for raising awareness. A portion of art sales from Through Their Eyes will also go to support Pathfinder Center, a non-profit organization in North Dakota that provides services, shelter and protection to victims of human trafficking. Berry’s goal with her work is to galvanize her audience. She hopes to con-

tinue connecting with more organizations and finding more ways to promote outreach. “I want to help and be a part of [ending] the epidemic of human trafficking. It’s calling people to help with the starfish,” Berry says. “The more we become aware through all the different media out there the more we can do. You can’t do anything unless you’re aware of it. I’m hopeful that [the U.S.] and other Western countries realize that we can do something if there’s enough of us.”

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With the new Tune-Yards’ album, Merrill Garbus dissects her role in systemic racism by Caitlin Rockett

merica, it’s been said, has entered a new era of racism, one with no racists. We live in a time, in a nation, where discrimination and segregation require no outward hostility — the status quo takes care of that for us. American culture allows a white woman like Miley Cyrus to unapologetically don a gold grill and twerk her way through years of her career, then, with no signal, make a U-turn back to doe-eyed, radio-friendly pop while denouncing the excesses of hip-hop — because she’s “so not that.” (For the record, she scored her 10th top-10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100 with that U-turn.) For what it’s worth, Cyrus isn’t alone. Even the most thoughtful artist can endlessly question what their success is built on, or perhaps more accurately, on whose backs it’s built. Like Cyrus (and yet wholly unlike her), Merrill Garbus, one-half of the art-pop project Tune-Yards, is also guilty of cultural appropriation. Through Tune-Yards, Garbus has bewitched audiences with her powerful, acrobatic voice, often layered against synthesizer-drench polyrhythms and counter-rhythms. It’s a

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lush world she creates, a whimsical aural playground built of ukuleles, horns and pleasingly odd loops. The videos are equally quirky, with animated choreography, glitchy editing and vibrant splashes of color. Responding to Tune-Yard’s 2011 hit “Bizness,” one YouTube commenter wrote, “I feel like I just took a semester of art school.” Trouble is, those layered sounds, that call-and-response technique she employs, those gyrating rhythms, they’re all deeply connected to African music. None of this escapes Garbus. She loves African music, even spent two years studying drumming with Haitian-born musician and teacher Daniel Brevin, and spent weeks in Haiti immersing herself in music. Garbus has always used TuneYards albums to examine what she calls “our inescapable participation in politics.” In 2011’s much lauded album w h o k i l l, Garbus confronts issues of race, body image, sex, power, inequality and privilege in completely unveiled ways. She wonders why she doesn’t have more black friends in the song “Killa,” and grapples with her own privilege in “My Country.” But it wasn’t enough, not nearly, and Garbus knew it.

She and bandmate Nate Brenner set about recording Tune-Yards’ newest album, I can feel you creep into my private life (ICFYCIMPL), in January 2016. The album, released in January 2018, is the most personal work Garbus has ever offered; a raw, deeply critical look at her own role in systemic racism. It’s also dance-floor ready — and the whole thing makes Garbus proud and uncomfortable as all hell. “Whiteness in general is about getting uncomfortable, because whiteness and white supremacy is all about whites being so comfortable,” she says during a phone call. “So yup, I’m uncomfortable for sure.” During the making of ICFYCIMPL, Garbus did the work. She went to activist events specifically geared toward white people. She read books about white fragility and the characteristics of white supremacy culture, and she completed a six-month-long workshop on whiteness at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, where she and Brenner live. “It was rooted in Buddhist principles, so we had teachings about mindfulness practice, about the dharma and particularly how it relates to Boulder Weekly

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social justice,” she says. “That’s something that Buddhist communities in the States would be wise to look at, because if we’re talking about the dharma being accessible to everybody, most Buddhist communities in the States are white, so just looking at that and questioning it. “We did a lot of readings from white people talking about their exportations of whiteness, readings from writers of color talking about their experience in Buddhist communities and a lot of mindfulness work, how these things feel. They usually bring up big emotions like shame and guilt. But we focus on how to use mindfulness practice as a way through those feelings so we don’t get stuck in those kinds of paralyzing emotions.” That mindfulness practice comes in handy when Garbus is on stage performing tracks from the new album because, well, it can feel awkward playing songs about being white (not every song, of course) to a predominantly white audience. It was unnerving, to say the least, the first time Garbus sung “Colonizer” to a live crowd: “I use my white woman’s voice to tell stories of travels with African men/ I comb my white woman’s hair with a comb made especially, generally for me/ I use my white woman’s voice to tell stories, stories/ Colonize it/ Colonize it.” Delivery of such material presents a tricky balancing act. “Me and Nate were talking about it last night; where is the moment in the set where it starts to teeter over into whining instead of self-reflection that continues to propel into action and change,” Garbus says. “What we’re working for, ideally, is liberation for all. As squeamish as I feel includ-

ing myself in that, because I’m coming from a place of severe critique and white guilt in my past, I think this album traces what the next era is for me — transforming that energy into creative work, knowing that my energy can be used toward positivity and liberation for all instead of inward into self-punishing behavior.” ICFYCIMPL uses club-ready beats as a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. Yes, there are tracks like “Colonizer” with a message so clear even the most passive listener can’t miss it, but other tracks like “Heart attack” have lyrics that listeners can easily transpose their own meaning onto — and a beat that just won’t stop. Missing the point completely, one critic said the album “underwhelms and over-explains.” In a day and age where Donald Trump can say there’s blame on “both sides” when a white supremacist runs down a crowd of protesters and kills a woman, we really can’t over-explain white privi-

lege. To say that we can is part of the problem. Garbus knows the new album won’t suit everyone, and she knows she doesn’t answer any questions with it. But that’s the point, isn’t it? “It feels very clear to me that white people are overdue to do some work on themselves and on society, and certainly activists of color have been calling upon white people to do that for decades,” she says. “And still I have a lot of questions: I don’t know how this fits in with trying to be a band, you know, trying to sell tickets and trying to make a living that way. I know that it is what it is. If we lose people along the way I would rather go down talking about what’s coming up for me because I think that’s what my job as an artist is. But also I would rather go down as someone speaking about whiteness and white supremacy as a white person and a white musician than someone who, you know, just rolls with the white supremacist flow.”

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Lady Day sings the blues The life, times and tunes of Billie Holiday by Gary Zeidner

he #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements exist for the sad but simple reason that sexism and racism are all too alive and well in 2018. Of course, as bad as things are, they could always be worse. Just ask a blind woman smiling wryly as her neighbor complains about having to wear reading glasses. Take a moment to think long and hard about what it was like to be an African American woman during the bad old days of the first half of the 20th century. Your grandmother might actually have been a slave, and while slavery had been abolished it was still a segregated world. Separate bathrooms, drinking fountains and schools. Businesses of all kinds refusing to serve people of color. Lynchings and cross burnings. A woman’s only place was barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was still a long way off, not that it was some sort of instant elixir of equality.

Born in 1915 as Eleanora Fagan, Billie Holiday, aka Lady Day, looked around at all of that racist and sexist injustice and gave it a great, big, onefingered salute. She overcame those societal challenges, in addition to the personal ones of poverty and abuse, to become one of the most seminal singer/ songwriters in the history of jazz. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill tells Billie’s story, and it tells it with a heady blend of honesty, ferocity and anguish. At the small but storied jazz club in South Philadelphia, Lady Day (Mary Louise Lee) is deep into her set, her career and her life. It’s March, 1959, a mere four months before Holiday would sing her last. Accompanied on the piano by her longtime bandmate, friend and, of late, nursemaid, Jimmy Powers (Trent Hines), Lady Day alternates telling the tale of her life with singing the songs that made her a legend. Holiday begins Lady Day seemingly happy and relatively sober. She

smiles often as she talks about her mother, nicknamed the Duchess, and croons tunes like “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” and “Pig’s Foot (And a Bottle of Beer.)” Soon enough, though, she’s pounding booze and itching for a fix. You see, for much of her life, Holiday was a heroin addict, a fact that Lady Day unabashedly dramatizes without ever glorifying. The night slinks on, and Holiday gets louder as she gets more loaded. The audience hears about Holiday’s many trials, both figurative and literal. How she was forced to eat in the kitchens of whites-only restaurants even after she’d become famous. About her struggles with hard drugs and harder men. About being sent to prison for a year and a day on a bogus possession charge. Yet through it all Holiday’s strength and resolve shine through. This is a woman less to be pitied than admired. A joint production by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and

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Aurora’s Vintage Theatre, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill owes its resounding success in no small part to its star, Mary Louise Lee. Did Lanie Robertson write an interesting play/ musical memorial? Surely. Does director Betty Hart bring all the pieces — blocking, lighting, costumes, performances — together with aplomb? Certainly. Does Mr. Hines both tickle the ivories and play his supporting role like the pro that he is? Absolutely. But it’s Lee transforming into Holiday, metaphorical warts and all, that propels this Lady Day upwards to sublimity. Watching Lee truly feels like watching Holiday. Her anger, pain and passion are palpable. Playing a drunk well is hard. Credibly playing a junkie on the nod trying to entertain a crowd is damn near impossible. Lee makes Holiday’s progression from sober to stone drunk (and ultimately stoned) as believable as if the water she chugs were really gin and her brief visit “to the doctor” backstage included a spike to a vein. Paired with her acting abilities is Lee’s formidable singing voice. She may not sound terribly much like the singular Lady herself, but her voice is powerful, warm and assured across the more than a dozen numbers that fill the play. Part biography, part musical tribute, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is all amazing.

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LE VOILE DU BONHEUR: AN EVENING OF FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC. 7 P.M. FRIDAY MARCH 23, ETOWN HALL, 1535 SPRUCE ST., BOULDER. Enjoy an evening of French chamber music and drinks at eTown Hall. Featuring 11 musicians from Green Room Artists, the program is centered on Gabriel Fauré’s unknown and unpublished incidental music to the play Le Voile du Bonheur (The Veil of Happiness) for string trio, harp, flute, clarinet, gong and tubaphone. Formed in 2017, Green Room Artists is a collective of chamber musicians based in Boulder. Dedicated to the creation of new ideas, this is a group of professional musicians who push the boundaries of music and art both new and old.

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3 P.M. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, LAFAYETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 775 W. BASELINE ROAD, LAFAYETTE.

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Dr. Del Castillo, a professor of Chicano studies at Metropolitan State University, will be reading from his most recently published book, Quetzales Are Not Extinct. His poetry bridges the realities of being Mexican/AmerIndian/Chicano in the past and present. Eden Nicole is a native of Denver. Her poetry merges inspirations from her three sons, along with her indigenous roots Metropolitan State University and environmental activism. Eden has various works published through Café Cultura, Red Rising Magazine in Canada and has been showcased in the “Cuatro [4]: A Series of Artist Interactions” at the Denver Art Museum.

This week Boulder County gets not one, but two chances to see Americana/folk band The Wildwoods. Nebraska natives, The Wildwoods bring a pioneering sound to Americana Roots music. Their Patrick Neilly photography heartwarming lyrics and vocals are wrapped in a style of music that is like no other. With influences from old-time country masters and contemporary indie/folk sound, The Wildwood’s nostalgic melodies captivate people of all ages. Nominated in 2016 and 2017 by the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards as one of the best Americana/ folk bands in the area, The Wildwoods also had two songs make semi-finals in the International Songwriting competition. If you can’t make the Sunday show up in Lyons, check them out on Saturday, March 22 at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in Boulder.

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Thursday, March 22 Music Dean Himes. 6 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette. Dimond Saints. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Fairview High School Knight of Jazz. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder.

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Journeydeep Music Presents: Loco & Jam. 9 p.m. Club Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver. Lee Hill Series Vol. 15 Release. 5 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company — Lee Hill Tap Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder.

Motown Groove. 9 p.m. Goosetown Tavern, 3242 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Mt. Joy. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Music with Friends — with the Altius Quartet. 6:30 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. The Pickin’ Pear. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Identity Theatrics. 5:30 p.m. The Collective — Community Arts Center, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette.

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Samiya Bashir Reading: Creative Writing Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. Norlin Library, CBIS M549, 1157 18th St., Boulder.

Samiya Bashir’s most recent book of poetry, Field Theories, wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder’s chill, melding blackbody theory with real live black bodies in poems that span lyric, narrative, dramatic and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Department Colloquium — Shane R. Keating. 3 p.m. Engineering Center, ECCR 265, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder

Shane R. Keating, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia, presents “Flavors of Baroclinic Instability in the Global Ocean.”

David O’Sullivan: Reimagining GIScience for relational spaces. 3:30 p.m. Guggenheim Geography, 205, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.

The Department of Geography Colloquium Series presents: David O’Sullivan, University of California, Berkeley.

Star Wars: A New Hope: Live in Concert — with the Colorado Symphony. 7 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Vista Kicks. 8 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. The Wildwoods, Rascal Martinez, Wild Mountain. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Events Artist Gathering. 6 p.m. Anvil Distillery, 117 S. Sunset St., Longmont. Bent Improv. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Bobby Slayton. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Call Me By Your Name. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder. Drop-In Improv Class. 6 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Momma McCracken Comedy Variety Show: Ready Player Mom. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

What does it mean to be the “other” or to mark someone as such? How do we all create the “other” in our everyday choices and what power lies in recognizing our own “other-ness”? This workshop explores these questions in relation to privilege while asking participants to consider re-scripting their commitment to present cultural narratives about identity.

Science and Society Harnessing the Potential of Virtual Reality. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

The Shaun Peace Band — with ’90s Til Dawn. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

Big Pharma: Documentary and Discussion. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette.

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

MerryVille U.S.A Launch Party. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Movie Think and Drink: Advantageous. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Oh Lucy!. 2 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Samiya Bashir will read from her most recent poetry book, Field Theories.

Techstars Startup Weekend Boulder Space. 6 p.m. CU IdeaForge, 2445 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.

Techstars Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan development and basic prototype creation, Techstars Startup Weekends culminate in Sunday night demos and presentations.

SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Pre-Concert Lecture March 24: For RUBBERBANDance. 6:45 p.m. Old Main Chapel, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Join us for a pre-concert lecture before the RUBBERBANDance concert at Macky. Tonight’s featured lecturer is CU Theatre and Dance Department Chair Erika Randall.

RUBBERBANDance: Vic’s Mix. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Embracing Artistic Director Victor Quijada’s unusual journey from the streets of Los Angeles to the barre, Montreal-based RUBBERBANDance uses the spontaneity of hip-hop, the refinement of ballet and the expressiveness of contemporary dance to create fresh, dynamic works.

Our Blood Is Wine. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Progressive Pairings: An Event of Note. 6:30 p.m. Lee Hill Drive Wineries, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. WWI Film Series: War Horse. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Friday, March 23 Music Americousticana at The Hive in Lafayette. 7:30 p.m. East Simpson Coffee Co., 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont,. Brian Payne. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Cashore Marionettes. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder. Chris Dismuke. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Citizen Dan — Steely Dan Tribute. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

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Thursday, March 22 Shawn Dougherty — Wake. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Morning/Mourning. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Monday, March 26 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, March 27 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

At its core, leadership is a daily, ongoing practice, a journey toward becoming your best self and inviting others to do the same. The Courage Way is a guide to leadership that shows how to draw upon courage in all that you do. Author Shelly Francis will speak about the book at the Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m.

Shelly Francis — The Courage Way. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Cotton Club to Cafe Society: The Lush Life of the 1930s & ’40s. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder. Green Druid Album Release. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. The Jet Set. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. John Denver: A Rocky Mountain High Concert Celebration — with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. John Hiatt and the Goners. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver. Kwesi. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Lane 8: Little By Little Tour. 9 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E.Colfax Ave., Denver. Le Voile du Bonheur: An Evening of French Chamber Music. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. The Lil Smokies — with Mt. Joy. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Live Music Night. 7 p.m. Tetra Private Lounge & Garden, 3039 Walnut St., Denver. Lost Dog Ensemble (Tom Waits Tribute). 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Matador! Soul Sounds & Cory Wong (from Vulfpeck) — with Special Guest Antwaun Stanley. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Menagerie: Dog City Disco, Zeta June, Doran Joseph. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Music of India Singing Class. 12 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder. Naomi Rivers in Concert. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Senses Fail — with Reggie and the Full Effect, Have Mercy, Household. 6:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Sima Bina Live Denver: A Persian Folk Music Concert. 7:15 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Sub Focus. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver. Sunshine James. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. 34 March 22 , 2018

Walker Shellist Duo. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont.

Call Me By Your Name. 3:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

The Werks. 5:30 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Denver Home Show. All Day. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver.

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The Heirs of Hogwarts: An Improvised Adventure. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

“ComedySportz” Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. The Big Lebowski. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Bobby Slayton. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

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Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 29. Always Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 1. The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4. The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 15. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St. Longmont. Through April 8. Jotunheim: A Legend of Thor and His Hammer. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 8. Kiss Me, Kate. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through April 15. Leaving Iowa. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through March 25. Oscar Dove: Letters to Sherlock. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Through March 24. Peter Pan. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through March 24. The Producers. Lakewood Cultural Center and Performance Now Theatre Company, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Through April 8. Reefer Madness: The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6.

The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is an epic tale of love, family, sex, money and politics — all set under the hard-earned roof of an Italian family in Brooklyn. When former longshoreman and Marxist union activist Gus decides to die, his kids come home with a raucous parade of lovers and spouses to find that even the house keeps secrets. Now showing at Curious Theater Company through April 15.

Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14. Sleeping Beauty — presented by Denver Children’s Theatre. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through May 4. Wisdom from Everything — presented by Local Theater Company. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through March 25.

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Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13.

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Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through March 24. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Embracing Mistakes. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through May 6.

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L’Estrange Menagerie: A Sexy Circus. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Makeshift Shakespeare. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. On The Spot: Improv in the Style of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Our Blood Is Wine. 1:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Pause. 8 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver. Phantasm. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Thumpin’. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette.

Saturday, March 24 Music 45s Against 45: All ’80s Edition! 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Aretha Franklin Tribute — with the Mary Louise Lee Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. Ashton Lee. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.

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Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

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Large Format Fine Art Prints From Paper Collage — by Kimberly Mcclintock. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28.

Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.

Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 1.

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (homage to Gene R.) — photography by Vandy Vandervort. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28.

Member’s Show. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 22.

Pink Progression. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through March 24.

Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.

Power Of Process, Jefferson County Schools Exhibition. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through April 1.

Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

Through Their Eyes. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

Objects in Perspective. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 15.

Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.

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Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (homage to Gene R.) is a collection of international travel portraits taken by photographer Vandy Vandervort. Vandy reaches beyond the static in her photographic endeavors, exploring filter apps to enhance her images. Her work is inspired by her travels across all 7 continents. Vandervort’s work will be on exhibit in UCAR Gallery II of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) through April 28.

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

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Cashore Marionettes. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver.

Clandestine Amigo. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont.

Hindsight Classic Rock. 8 p.m. Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont.

Crawfish Boil at the Bart — with Defunkt Railroad. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont.

Hops + Handrails Beer Fest & Rail Jam. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

CTV Cypher 2. 8 p.m. La Jaula Sports Bar & Grill, 1750 W. Mississippi Ave., Denver.

International Nawroz Festival. 11 a.m. Evie Dennis Campus (Green Valley Ranch), 4800 Telluride St., Denver.

D-Dot. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Dance Party Time Machine. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver. David Benoit and Marc Antoine. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Dead South — with The Hooten Hallers and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Derek Warwick and Guest. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. Drowning Pool — with Lola Black. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Dying Fetus, Thy Art Is Murder. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Ed Masuga. 8 p.m. Monkey Barrel Bar, 4401 Tejon St., Denver. Edie Carey. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Eilen Jewell. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver. Frozen Flamingo Fundraiser. 7 p.m. The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Godspell. 7 p.m. Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder.

Invisible Audience Presents: Monocle Band. 7:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. John Hiatt and the Goners featuring Sonny Landreth. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Latino/a Poetry Reading. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette. Live Music: Paper Moonshine. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. Matador! Soul Sounds. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Matt Flaherty Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Michele Castro Quartet. 6 p.m. Dazzle, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Mojamomma. 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Moonglade. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Piano Concert — with Essa Kalendareva. 3 p.m. Golden West, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder. Quemando. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Roots & Rhythm Band. 6:30 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder. Boulder Weekly

SNAP! ’90s Dance Party, DJ A-L (The Soul Pros/Future Classic Music). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Soul Sacrifice: A Tribute To Santana. 6 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Star Wars: A New Hope: Live in Concert — with the Colorado Symphony. 2 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Sukh Knight. 9 p.m. The Black Box, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver. The Trade-Ins. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The Wildwoods. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehose,1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Brunch — with Austin Johnson. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart. 3 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Digisaurus, Folly Fields, Mirrors and Lights. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Ed Masuga. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont. Franklin & Friends. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. Hops + Handrails Beer Fest & Rail Jam. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

LPUMC Youth Group Food Drive. 2 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont. Sailor Poon, The Corner Girls, Vic N’ The Narwhals. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Songs for Swans Musical Hike. 7:30 a.m. Sawhill Ponds Trailhead, 7101 Valmont Road, Boulder. Tim Ostdiek. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Wounded Bird. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

events Events The Art of Allowing Improv Workshop. 10 a.m. Rory’s Tavern, 404 N. Broadway, Denver. At the Inkwell: Poetry and Open Mic. 5:30 p.m. BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver. Blue Velvet. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Call Me By Your Name. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Denver Home Show. All Day. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver.

Events “ComedySportz” Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. “Sleightly Impossible:” Comedy Magic Show. 4 p.m. Lumber Baron Mystery Mansion, 2555 W. 37th Ave., Denver. The Art of Allowing Improv Workshop. 10 a.m. Rory’s Tavern, 404 N. Broadway, Denver. Bobby Slayton. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Cal Sheridan, The “C” Word. 8 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Call Me By Your Name. 3:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Camp Little Tooth Dental Program. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Comedy Shows for Police Unity Tour. 9 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette. Denver Home Show. All Day. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. Denver’s Next Improv Star: Season 9. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. The Duel. 10 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. The Magic Within, Psychic Explorations — with Erica Sodos. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Off the Clock Burlesque & Comedy. 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver. On The Spot: Improv in the Style of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Ostara Craft Fair. 9 a.m. The Grid, 445 Broadway, Denver. Our Blood Is Wine. 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Pause. 8 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, 119 Park Avenue West, Denver. The Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam. 6:30 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver. Spring Has Sprung! 1 p.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space, Boulder. Sunday, March 25 Music Ando’s Songwriter Showcase. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Be Our Guest. 10 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band in Longmont. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Boulder Weekly

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Young Marx: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Singer Songwriter Showcase. 6:30 a.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

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Events

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Few Miles South, Ashton Lee, Speak Easy, Deadly Ever After. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Menagerie G.O.A.T. Fashion Show Spring Edition featuring Goldyloxx, Bankaji, Sassfactory and More. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Mondaze: Service Industry Night. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Events 5-Day Spring Break Camp (Ages 5-12). 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 693B S. Broadway, Boulder. Animals of the Wizarding World. 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. BELTZMANIA! An Improv Comedy Show! 6:30 p.m. Rory’s Tavern, 404 N. Broadway, Denver. Call Me By Your Name. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. The Improv Hootenanny: A Weekly Improv Jam. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Life Science on the Int’l Space Station. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Drop-In Improv Class. 6 p.m. The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Taco Tuesday Stand-Up Comedy. 7 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Wednesday, March 28 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Bobby and Andrew Duo. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer on Walnut, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder. Buddy Guy. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. David Luning. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Jackson Cloud Band & Roselit Bone. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver. Layne. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. MoJazz Duo. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Nothing, Nowhere. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

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

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

Young Marx: National Theatre Live Encore. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Patrick Sweany. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Tuesday, March 27 Music The Band Ice Cream, Candace — with Plutinos, Quiet Oaks. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver. Dark Rooms — with Mobley. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Every Time I Die. 8 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Introducing the Band — with Mark Diamond. 7 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 2027 13th St., Boulder. L.A. Salami. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. The Love Sprockets. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Open Jam/Mic Night. 10 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Open Mic — with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont. Open Stage: Hosted by Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Romeo Santos. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Roy Wood$. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. East Moon Asian Bistro, 2144 Main St., Longmont. RE:Search featuring Plantrae and Sixis — with Mikey Thunder, Messenger of Secrets, Jordan Polovina. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Riverbend Reunion, Three Days In The Saddle, The Elliots and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver. Wednesday Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Captain Flashback. 4 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. Events 5-Day Spring Break Camp (Ages 5-12). 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 693B S. Broadway, Boulder. Cynthia Swanson: The Glass Forest. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. NanoDays. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Nasty Bits. 9:30 p.m. Comedy RoomRoom, 2104 Larimer St., Denver. Vazante. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Yoga for Kids. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette. Young Marx: National Theatre Live Encore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Boulder Weekly

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Thoroughbreds is uncloyingly quirky by Ryan Syrek

ftentimes, films determined to be quirky and fun actually come off as little more than overconfident jackassery, a condition now known as Baby Driver-itis. Writer/director Cory Finley’s Thoroughbreds had all the recognized risk factors for the development of Baby Driver-itis, ranging from its “American Psycho meets Heathers” description to marketing that felt like the equivalent of social media videos that begin with “You guys!” Thankfully, the power of a pitch-perfect pairing of actresses and Finley flexing just enough willpower makes Thoroughbreds a deft bit of black comedy that gleefully skewers glossy white teen privilege. The plot is as thin as the unnecessarily sexualized outfits Finley and company insisted on dressing one of its leads in. Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) hates her stepdad, Mark (Paul Sparks). If you ground up the personalities of every fired Trump White House member and molded the chum into a meat person, that meat person would be Mark. So Amanda (Olivia Cooke) — Lily’s former childhood friend who is now a social pariah because she killed her own horse with a knife — suggests they kill Mark dead. They recruit/blackmail the only criminal they know, a sketchy low-level drug dealer named Tim (Anton Yelchin), but things don’t quite go according to plan. Nor do things take long to wrap up in this applaudably lithe, quick little dark ditty. The degree of authenticity in Cooke’s depiction of sociopathy is likely a matter of debate. That being said, for purely entertainment purposes, her drolly chewed dialogue and languid looks are simply divine. Taylor-Joy has a more thankless role, but her transformation from doe-eyed tutor to madly malevolent monarch provides its own kind of delight. Yelchin, in one of his last roles, once more proved that he was an actor uniquely capable of playing either a dreamy goodnik or a sleazy nogoodnik with equal aplomb. Beyond surrendering to the temptation of that age-old cinematic siren song, the one that whispers “oversexualize the hell out of characters that are allegedly like 15 years old,” Finley’s restraint is on full display and is the key to what makes Thoroughbreds work. Not that this is in the same orbit as Get Out, but the film similarly extrapolates wealthy-white-girl privilege, weaponizing it into a deadly form for satire. Due to the key decision to not have Mark be an explicitly physically violent or sexually abusive douche-dragon, just a run-of-the-mill jerkwad, the emphasis stays squarely on the slightly-hyperbolized dangers of entitlement. Finley also wisely refused to tie a bow on the bitter humor, allowing the final scenes to be neither overly sentimental nor flashily profound. Diversity isn’t just a matter of having more women and female heroes. It also means allowing not-men to be villains, antiheroes and, as in the case here, entertainingly sketchy, awful, entitled murderesses. Thoroughbreds probably isn’t quite as sophisticated as it may think itself to be, but it is proof that at least a modicum of self-awareness, impeccable casting and a savvy satirizing of significant social stereotypes can be an engaging endeavor. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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oir: when they first start7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, ed making them, they drafthouse.com/denver/program/ noir-city-denver-2018 didn’t even have a name for them. Born from a literary movement popularized by Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Raymond Chandler and dozens more, film noir — so-called by the French over a decade later — was part style, part substance, part state of mind. Nihilistic in tone and cynical in approach, noir comes at you like a slug from a .38 special, with form and content melding into a familiar and iconic style — often shot in high-contrast black and white and on location, because the filmmakers couldn’t afford the backlots Hollywood built for more glamorous affairs. But noir is just as Hollywood as Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind; it just prefers the seedier side of things. And when those European émigrés fleeing Hitler’s Reich landed in Hollywood, they latched onto Courtesy of the Film Noir Foundation the downbeat truths and bracing cynicism of hardboiled novels. Out went the Hollywood ending and in came a darker state of mind, a state of mind many moviegoers returning home from the war shared. The world was ugly. They knew it, and not even Astaire and Rodgers could dance that ugliness away. And so noir’s heyday traversed the 1940s through the ’50s, from war hot to war cold. Megalomaniacs were in power, the economy boomed for some but not for all, warriors returned home racked by the pain of what they had done “over there” and mankind suddenly had the power to destroy every living thing in an atomic war. A different time? Not so much. That might explain why noir is currently celebrating a renaissance in both programming and appreciation. From TCM’s twice-a-week program, Noir Alley (from which the title of this article was cribbed) to the roving film festival, Noir City, both hosted and helmed by the “Czar of Noir,” Eddie Muller. Since 2003, the Noir City film festival has become a haven for thousands of noiristas basking in the glow of the past while seeing a time that never feels that far away. And this year, for the first time, Noir City makes its way to the Centennial State for a weekend at the Alamo Drafthouse Littleton. Playing March 23–25, Noir City Denver features six films — five of them on 35mm — that exemplify noir both in writing and in style; from genre staple The Prowler to the impossible-to-find-on-home-video British noir, Wicked As They Come; from climatic car chases down the streets of San Francisco (The Lineup) to climactic chases along the Hoover Dam (711 Ocean Drive); from Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas chewing the scenery (I Walk Alone) to Richard Basehart haunting the mean streets of Los Angeles (He Walked By Night), all six films screening Noir City Denver show precisely what noir is and what noir can be. To sweeten the deal, Muller and famed crime novelist James Ellroy will be on hand to introduce each screening and provide concluding comments. The time is ripe for noir; join us, won’t you? Boulder Weekly

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iver and Woods just started lunch service this month, and they’re coming out swinging. Their menu of locally sourced, elevated American comfort food is worth seeking out. The River and Dagwood is a beast — organic turkey and slow-cooked French ham are piled high on four (yes, four) layers of bread, with cranberry mayo, mashed potatoes and mac and cheese built in. It’s served alongside a transcendent sage and balsamic gravy. We know this sounds like “too much,” but it’s not — the mac and cheese and potatoes come off like condiments, and the turkey and ham are savory anchors. Anyway, good luck trying to eat the whole sandwich; you can probably string three lunches out of it if you can’t. $17.

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he Buff churns out what must be thousands of meals during the weekend breakfast and brunch rush. If you’ve never been in, you might wonder if it’s worth what can sometimes be a wait — we’re here to tell you: it is. The service is quick and friendly, the prices are low, the menu is large and the food is fantastic. Take the saddlebags, which are big pancakes loaded with bacon. The pancakes have a thin, crispy exterior and a super-sweet, slightly chewy interior. The bacon serves as more than just a novelty, too, providing crunch, salt and umami. $12.

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he recent addition of French Quarter Brasserie brings a little bit of New Orleans to Pearl Street, with live music, Cajun cooking and lively atmosphere. Though they have to replicate the balconies and brick facades of Bourbon Street, their gumbo tastes like it was shipped in overnight. Robust, spicy sausage imbues rich broth, which is offset by bright onion and citrus. A dynamite spice blend heavy in paprika will have you tasting more than what you can see in the bowl. $10.

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Pastry is put on a pedestal at Othermama’s Bakery.

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ongmont has become a true tasters’ destination. From Skeye Brewery to Anvil Distillery to St. Vrain Cidery, artful, award-winning adult beverages are plentiful. They are so popular that Longmont’s Brewhop Trolley transports locals and tourists between spots, like RTD with cocktail service. And even more tasting rooms are about to open. However, spending hours tasting one beer or rum after another is not fun for everyone. The Brewhop Trolley does offer brunch and dinner tours, but shouldn’t there be a Bakery Bus conveying folks from bakery to bakery leaving buttery flakes in its wake? 44 March 22 , 2018

That’s my question after taking an impromptu tour of Longmont bakeries. I was just going to visit one for tax-deductible “research,” but while I was in the neighborhood I thought I’d go to another bakery. I rolled from there. Some of the city’s grocery store bakeries are quite good, but local, independent bakeries provide tastes, value and aroma-therapy unavailable elsewhere. I like the bakers and supporting sustainable carb-centric businesses, and I love going home with bags of yum. So just imagine: “Next stop: Bacon-stuffed cinnamon rolls!” Until then, devotees must follow their own bliss. Here are some suggested sweet and savory destinations:

La Momo Maes

Cathy Fiegenschuh and her daughters have built a devoted following for the festive cakes they bake in a small house on Kimbark Street. They only have room to offer a limited selection of takeout cupcakes and cookies. The recent opening of the second La Momo Maes in the former Romana Bake House changes everything. The new place has seating, coffee and counters full of banana cream pies, eclairs, kuchen, macaroons and turnovers. The coolest attractions are the cake bars: fully frosted, ready-to-lick slabs in a dozen flavors, including Death by Chocolate. 624 Kimbark St. and 900 S. Hover St., longmontbakery.com.

Othermama’s Bakery

Another new addition is Othermama’s Bakery, opened by mother-daughter team Brenda Lehenbauer and Stacey Courtney in a cute converted cottage. Using batter-splattered recipes passed down through several generations, they make batches of classic cakes, elephant ears, chocolate cream hand pies, caramel cinnamon rolls, pecan Danishes and mini coffee cakes. Homestyle yeasted loaves range from honey buttermilk to cheese jalapeno, plus a true rarity: English muffins. 237 Collyer St., othermamasbakery.com.

Marketplace Bakery

If you’ve eaten a sandwich or toast at a Longmont restaurant in the last decade, chances are you sampled the breads from this under-the-radar bakery owned by Kathy Rosser and Susan Bright. They do sell their hand-shaped loaves and buns to the public at a cramped counter mere feet from the baking area. Besides the popular sourdough, the specialty bread lineup includes cinnamon raisin, green chile boule and pumpernickel brat rolls. Don’t miss Cinnamon Roll Thursday for giant, heavily glazed rolls. 1515 Main St.

Old Fashioned Bavarian Bakery

Longmont’s most widely known destination was opened in 1987 by European-trained baker (and engineer) Michael Vyskocil. Loaves of his certified organic and kosher breads including my toast of choice, Bavarian farmer’s rye, are available in local grocery stores. Do stop by the bakery to contemplate counters Boulder Weekly

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St.); honey wheat bread at Great Harvest Bread Co. (1100 Ken Pratt Blvd.); and bacon-stuffed cinnamon rolls at the Good Eats Grill (1114 Francis St.).

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According to Google, apple pie was the top-searched pie last year in 16 states and Washington D.C. In the South, it was sweet potato pie, but chess pie rules in Tennessee. Colorado’s most-Googled pie is pumpkin. Why pumpkin pie? I mean, the recipe is on the can and most of us only eat it once a year. Colorado does have a pumpkin pie legacy. At one time Colorado produced tons of pie pumpkins that were canned in Longmont. In 1908, more than 10,000 pies were served in Longmont during that year’s Pumpkin Pie Days.

Choosing is the main challenge at this cramped, help-yourself Mexican bakery. With tray and tongs in hand facing a wall of classic goodies, you must prioritize between multi-colored cookies, sugar-coated orejas, pineapplefilled empanadas and cream-centered pastries. What about the doughnuts and conchas, the lightly sweet breads served with coffee, and bolillos for sandwiches? The bakery also sells takeout fare starring menudo, tamales and barbacoa on weekends. 1630 Main St.

Aime’s Love

The name is pronounced “Em-ayz luv” and co-owners Jennifer Walter and Morgan Elizabeth Dalton oversee a welcoming breakfast and lunch café and dedicated gluten-free bakery. That’s hard to find for those with dietary restrictions. Others won’t taste anything missing in the cookie department with macaroons, black and whites, peanut butter and gingerbread cookies with maple frosting. Other treats include tart lemon bars, pistachio muffins and chocolate-dipped bacon. The gluten-free bread roster includes sandwich loaf, focaccia, cinnamon raisin bread and Hawaiian sweet rolls. 331 Main St., aimeslove.com.

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My mythical Bakery Bus would also stop at some non-bakeries. I’d pull over for: lemon meringue, double-crusted rhubarb or pumpkin pie at the Loaf and Ladle (1134 Francis St.); corn and flour tortillas (and occasionally doughnuts) at Las Americas Tortilleria (830 Lashley St.); sugar-dusted beignets at Lucile’s Creole Cafe (518 Kimbark Boulder Weekly

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n one small corner of the 100 acres in Longmont and Niwot that comprise Aspen Moon Farm, there is a tent made of a metal frame and an opaque plastic tarp. Inside, Erin Dreistadt turns on a large heater, which is helping a tabletop of seeds begin their early-season growth. Underneath the table is what Dreistadt calls a makeshift germ chamber, where celery seeds are germinating in a hot, moist and dark environment tenderly created just for them. “It took us three years to figure out how to grow good celery,” Dreistadt says. Then she points to a stack of purple and pink sleeping bags on a tower of crates outside the shed. It turns out growing good celery requires nightly care just short of reading it a bedtime story. “Celery has its own temperature range that it requires, and it’s really hard to get these tiny, little seeds to germinate,” Dreistadt says. Recently when nights dropped below what the seeds could tolerate, Dreistadt “tucked them in with down sleeping bags every night to get the proper temperature.” It’s that attention to detail and care that separates Aspen Moon from conventional crop producers. Dreistadt and her husband, Jason Griffith, are self-proclaimed “shepherds” of the 100 acres they manage in

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Boulder County, only cultivating about 25 of them in order to maintain a healthy greater ecosystem. Espousing biodynamic farming, which incorporates cosmic and holistic considerations to a largely organic and sustainable method of agriculture, Aspen Moon produces a wide variety of rare and conventional crops. In layman’s terms, crops are planted, picked and rotated according to an astrological calendar using animals and techniques that promote the codependence that exists naturally between soil, plant and sky. Dreistadt recognizes that concept might sound foreign to people only exposed to “mainstream” agriculture. “We know that the sky and plants are connected, right? That’s old information, right?” Dreistadt says. “I mean it is one of those things that you could research and go either direction on it. You’ll get a lot of naysayers, but we really love it, and we see the effects. The farmers we’ve learned from, just hearing their stories of how this works, that’s just had a big impact on us. ... People can see and feel and taste the difference in biodynamic food... or some people can. People who want to, I guess.” The proof of the efficacy of their methods is in the proverbial pudding. Take the well-raised celery, a crop so cheap and abundant in traditional grocery

stores that we not only take it for granted, but often settle for less than what it can be. “I love our celery. It’s so delicious, and we’re so proud of it, and it’s funny because people are like, ‘Celery? OK.’ It’s so cheap at the grocery store, but farm celery versus grocery store celery I feel like is so different. Our celery has such good flavor,” Dreistadt says. What you’ll also notice if you visit Aspen Moon’s booths at the Boulder County Farmers Markets is not only the quality of its food, but the diversity of crops. For instance, late last year, Aspen Moon was selling multiple varieties of carrots of all different colors, about as big and veiny as an arm wrestler’s forearm. That’s not just for novelty, Dreistadt says. There’s value in promoting strains of crops long forgotten about. “We’re really drawn to different varieties that aren’t conventional,” she says. “Historically, there is a ton of diversity in crops, and you’re going to get more flavor and different nutrition [from them]. There is a lot of information out there about how the crops that have just been one variety grown over and over and over again, [that have been] selected out for shelf-life or travel, that look the most uniform, often [don’t have] the highest nutrition and the best flavor. We’re kind of looking for the opposite.” see ASPEN MOON Page 48

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Given the abundance and quality of their produce, it’s remarkable to think Aspen Moon started just less than a decade ago. Dreistadt and Griffith began with a small garden on their Longmont property as a way to ensure their kids were eating well. That led to trips to the Farmers Market, where one parent sold produce while the other watched the kids; leaving with a couple hundred bucks on a Saturday was a good day in the early going. But Aspen Moon grew rapidly, thanks in part to Griffith keeping a landscaping job to supplement the farm’s income. Dreistadt says it wasn’t until six or seven years in that the farm started making more than the landscaping business, which is when they switched all their efforts to Aspen Moon. What that move has enabled them to do is dive into different crops and ways to serve the community. Last year was the first time they grew heritage wheat, milling it and selling whole-wheat flour. “There’s a whole movement around local grains,” Dreistadt says. “Wheat is one of our biggest crops historically and still is and fills us up, but it’s not providing the nutrition it used to, and that’s why people are having trouble digesting it these days. It’s just one variety that’s been degraded and degraded. It’s lost its nutritional value. “This heritage [wheat], there’s a ton of different varieties that are being found and brought back, and people are growing them, and people are realizing it feels good, their bodies can digest them. Wheat is so high in protein but nobody knows because wheat on the market isn’t high in protein.” Bringing wheat to market required Aspen Moon to purchase a seed cleaner, which takes the wheat strands and separates the berries from the fronds. That cost, in some ways, is passed on to the consumer, which is added to the cost of the time it took to learn how to grow, harvest and mill the wheat. It’s a tradeoff that Boulder County consumers seem to be willing to make... most of the time, at least. “We still get the customers who gawk at our prices but at the same time, we really try to not out-price our community,” Dreistadt says. “We just have to find that balance. Sometimes ... we have a new crop and it took us a whole bunch of work to make it happen, to get it to market, and we realize we really need to charge a lot because we spent a ton of labor on this, and the community’s like, ‘We really can’t pay that much for that.’” If you want to plant and raise the unique crops Aspen Moon will be growing this year, they will be selling starter plants for folks to grow on their own. For Dreistadt and Griffith, and their team of farm hands, crew leaders and interns, which will grow to about 25 people at peak season, the work is just beginning. It might be easy to mistake the sight of a couple white labs playfully wrangling a small herd of sheep on a misty morning, or a portrait-perfect shot of Longs Peak above a field of early-season salad greens as indicators of an idyllic life. But the work is hard, and it’s only the reward of serving the community that makes it worth it. “It’s hard to feel the romantic side, honestly,” Dreistadt says. “I love what I do and really think that’s part of why we’re so Farmers Market-focused. We need the customers to be telling us they appreciate it. That feeds us to feed them.”

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The “School of Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks. (P.S.: When PhD students get their degrees from Finland’s University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)

who you really are and savor yourself for your unique beauty: You must be honest with yourself. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to practice these high arts.

gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges.” By the way, Fromm said love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts. It’s a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.

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My goal here is to convince you to embark on an orgy of selfcare — to be as sweet and tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I’m OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it’s an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.

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AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

One day, Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song’s lyrics “based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book.” He viewed this as a divinatory

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Millions of you Pisceans live in a fairy tale world. But I suspect that very few of you will be able to read this horoscope and remain completely ensconced in your fairy tale world. That’s because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Europeans used to think that all swans were white. It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called Derbarl Yerrigan, they spied black swans. They were shocked. The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a “black swan” is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works. I suspect you’ll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing! Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Crayola is one of the world’s foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company’s standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo, and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that’s simply called “Pink.” I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it’s also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that’s my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

According to Vice magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can’t vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It’s an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

Booze has played a crucial role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has “fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts and religion.” On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives. Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel or edgy experiments, know your limits.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers and strengthening bonds. You’ll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You’ll stir up interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners. Do you trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

If you want people to know who you really are and savor you for your unique beauty, you must be honest with those people. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. There’s a similar principle at work if you want to know

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ust when everyone was starting to chill out now that weed is legal and the laws surrounding it are becoming more progressive, some Coloradans have set their sights on a higher target: psychedelic mushrooms. Earlier this month, representatives of Colorado Psilocybin met with Denver city officials to kick off a city-wide initiative that aims to have a decriminalization measure on the ballot this November. Decriminalization means eliminating the penalty for small amounts of possession of psilocybin mushrooms. This would allow Denverites the ability to grow, possess, use and give away mushrooms without fear of consequences from city police. You wouldn’t be allowed to sell or buy them from a dispensary quite yet, but it would make room for people who want to experiment with using them for spiritual, therapeutic, medical and recreational use. Colorado decriminalized marijuana long before the drug became legal for medicinal or

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recreational use, so this seems like a promising start for psilocybin advocates. The people behind the initiative believe the case for legalizing psilocybin is just as strong and valid as the case for legalizing cannabis because of the benefits users report. Similar to marijuana, mushrooms are a natural product that can impair your perception, but they are generally considered safe since you cannot become physically addicted or have a fatal overdose from taking too much. In high school, I thought experimenting with mind-altering drugs was the best shortcut to being a happier and more interesting person and you know what? I was right. Psilocybin is a chemical that has psychedelic properties. People who consume mushrooms sometimes experience visual trails behind moving objects, trippy light halos and dancing colors. They have also reported feelings of euphoria, creativity and tranquility. In proper doses, mushrooms encourage introspection and allow users to experience a meaningful high without completely losing control. Studies have shown psilocybin can help people struggling with depression, anxiety, migraines and PTSD. Mushrooms aren’t as popular as other vices like alcohol and weed, but according to research by the National Institutes of Health, about 20 million Americans have experimented with mushrooms in their lifetime. In fact, millenials are enjoying them at about the same rates as the Baby Boomers did in the ’60s.

Getting the measure on the Denver ballot will require collecting 5,000 valid signatures. Another group, the Colorado Psilocybin Initiative, is aiming at a vote from all Coloradans — not just Denverites — in 2019 or 2020. They’re looking to legalize not mushrooms themselves but psilocybin, the active ingredient in mushrooms, which can be synthesized. As of now, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency still considers magic mushrooms a Schedule 1 drug. While legalizing any drug besides marijuana is pretty low on our national to-do list, magic mushroom legalization efforts have already been in the works in two other states. Oregon hopes to legalize them for medicinal use, and California for all adults. Some countries are already way ahead of the U.S. game. For example, in the Netherlands, you can purchase the psychoactive mushroom species in the form of truffles. Just in my short lifetime, I’ve seen marijuana rebranded from a super illegal, black market, highly stigmatized substance to one of the most celebrated alternative health and wellness treatments out there. Will legalizing magic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs be the next big fight? The next big industry for our state?

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Fighting opioids: Give insanity a chance

t’s insane. Trump’s proposed war on opioids, that is. If insanity can be characterized as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, the plan Trump unveiled last Monday to end the nation’s opioid epidemic is as exquisitely perfect an example of this as you could hope to find. In a speech in New Hampshire and broadcast on the White House website, Trump promised to reduce the supply of opioids by “getting tough” on drug dealers, including increasing the use of mandatory minimum sentences and using the death penalty, by building the wall along the southern border to reduce drug smuggling, and by suing drug companies. He promised to reduce demand by getting doctors to write one-third fewer prescriptions for opioids over the next three years; by getting states to join a national database to monitor opioid prescriptions; by developing new, non-addictive pain relievers as substitutes for opioids; and by mounting major media and advertising campaigns to keep people from getting addicted in the first place. He promised to vastly expand access to treatment for addicts. And, of course, he promised to throw more money at the problem, including $10 billion over the next two years (it’s not clear if that is in addition to the $6 billion Congress has already voted to throw at the problem). What Trump’s speech didn’t include was any plausible reason to believe that any of this would make a dime’s worth of difference. The federal government has been trying to rid the U.S. of opioids for more than a century (for 103 years and three months, to be precise, ever since the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act on December 17, 1914).

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During that time, everything that Trump has proposed for stamping out opioid addiction (with the possible exception of suing pharmaceutical companies) has been tried repeatedly — and failed repeatedly. Getting tough? As I’ve mentioned often in this space, since 1965 the war on marijuana has resulted in 25 million arrests. The rest of the story is that during that time there have been an additional 25 million arrests for other illegal drugs — mostly heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines.

The result of “getting tough” was perfectly summed up by Senator Dick Durban (D-Illinois), in a single sentence: “We cannot arrest our way out of the opioid epidemic — we tried that and ended up with an even bigger addiction problem and the world’s largest prison population.” And more than 40,000 fatal overdoses a year. Securing the border? The feds have been trying to stop drug shipments into the country by land, air and sea — the term of art is “interdiction” — for decades.

Estimates of the percentage of opioids seized vary, but anything above 20 percent is optimistic. It’s hard to see how the wall will improve that percentage, since, unlike marijuana, opioids can easily be hidden in shipping containers, more than 26 million of which enter the country annually. Reducing demand with media and advertising campaigns and anti-drug education? The Partnership for a Drug Free America ran $2 billion worth of ads (including the iconic “This is your brain on drugs,” with a fried egg starring as your brain), and the feds spent billions on the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program. Drug use went up. Why, it was almost like the antidrug campaigns were creating interest in drug use where none had existed before. Develop non-addictive anti-pain medications? That one is particularly rich, considering that most of the synthetic opioids, whose over-prescription lies at the root of the current opioid epidemic, were originally touted as “nonaddictive” alternatives to heroin. And so on. So why would Trump propose a new war on drugs that’s defined by the failures of past wars on drugs? Probably because he promised to end the opioid epidemic. Bluster, boorishness and hyperbola aside, the thing that sets Trump apart from other presidents is that he tries really hard to keep his campaign promises — and when it comes to the opioid problem he hasn’t any ideas about what to do it, except the old ones that have historically failed. But as George Santayana observed, those who can’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And then there’s this thought from Marx: History repeats two times, the first as tragedy, the second as farce. Chances are the drug war is about to enter the farce phase.

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play-type things are: play. It’s cops and robbers for grownups with your pants off, DEGRADE, but this game doesn’t end when mom calls you in for dinner, it ends when you come. So long as you suppress your kinks — so long as you’re in flight from the stuff that really arouses you — your boyfriend will never truly know you and you’ll never feel truly connected to him. On the Lovecast, Alana Massey on the misguided Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on TWitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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