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The unnatural disasters pushing farmers off the land by Jim Hightower

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s a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but you have to start with a large fortune.”

Farmers tend to be optimistic pessimists. The odds are against them — the bankers, bugs, monopolists, weather and sorry politicians. Yet they keep at it, battling the odds to nurture the seeds that bring us an abundance of foods. Coping with natural disasters is to be expected, but it’s the unnatural disasters of rigged economic policies and unrestrained corporate profiteering that slam the door on good, efficient family farmers.

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meting prices, farmers are producing more, getting less... and going broke.

For example, it costs dairy farmers on average $1.92 to produce a gallon of milk, but monopolistic buyers pay them only a-buck-32 per gallon. No surprise then that since 2000, half of America’s dairy farmers have been squeezed out of business. Overall, farmers’ profits have fallen by almost half in the last five years, so farm debt, bankruptcies and suicides are rising again toward the calamitous levels of the 1980s farm crisis.

A central cause of today’s spreading farm depression is the increasing monopolization of all things farmers must buy (from seeds to machinery) MARCH 28, 2019

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and monopolization of the markets that buy from them. Just four biotech giants, for example, control 63 percent of all commercial seeds sold in the world; four meat processors control 84 percent of the U.S. beef market, and four global traders control 90 percent of the entire world’s grain sales.

This monopolistic structure is robbing farmers, ransacking rural vitality, and ripping off consumers.

Yet, Congress and Trump are coddling the robbers, ransackers and ripoff artists. To help counter their insanity, join forces with the grassroots power of FarmAid at www.

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After Mueller – how Trump might get even

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ow that the two-year, $25 million Mueller investigation has determined that the Trump-Russian collusion narrative was, at best, a bunch of delusional bullshit, the most interesting question going forward is how might Trump and his allies go about getting even.

(The one certainty is that forgiveness and reconciliation are not on the table.)

One obvious way is to start with an investigation of the Steele Dossier, its construction out of Russiansourced disinformation, the role of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in funding its creation, its use by the FBI in obtaining warrants from the FISA court for surveillance of Trump campaign officials, and whether a coterie in the FBI’s senior leadership used it in a conspiracy to drive Trump from office.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already indicated he intends to pursue such an investigation. As well he should.

Mueller doesn’t seem to have paid much mind to the possibility of Russian-Clinton collusion even though the provenance of the Steele Dossier suggests as much. At the very least, Mueller should have had it dusted for Putin’s fingerprints. It’s not clear he even did that much.

A less-obvious Trump counterattack would be to sue selected media outlets for libel.

Granted, it’s widely assumed that ever since the 1964 Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v.

Sullivan it has been impossible for public figures to sue a publication or broadcaster for libel. Uh, not exactly.

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prove the libel was published or broadcast with deliberate malice, meaning that the media outlet knew in advance that the charge was false, or that the outlet acted with reckless disregard of the truth in spreading it.

It’s a high standard, but given the execrable conduct of the press for the last two years, Trump may be able to meet it.

Since he was elected, media outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc. have subjected Trump to a non-stop, 24/7 deluge of “hatred, ridicule, and contempt,” which is the dictionary definition of defamation (aka libel). The issue isn’t whether the speech directed at Trump fits the definition of libel. It does. The issue is a) whether the libel was true, and b) whether it was produced and disseminated with malice.

So here’s how a Media v. Trump libel case might play out.

A media outlet’s main defense in a libel case is truth.

As a matter of law, accusing someone of being an ax murder is libelous, whether he did it or not. But if it happens that the guy who sued you for saying he was an ax murderer actually was an ax murderer, well he can’t make you pay for damaging his reputation by saying so in print.

(Prior to the American Revolution, he could, because back then truth wasn’t allowed as a defense in libel cases.) On the other hand, if he wasn’t an ax murderer and you said he was, he can tear into your bank account with a chainsaw.

And if it turns out that you falsely called him an ax murderer without making any real effort to confirm the charges, because you didn’t like him very much, then he can claim you acted with malice and ask the court to hit you with punitive (like triple) damages for being an asshole.

Back to Trump. Since Mueller found that the Russian collusion narsee DANISH PLAN Page 9

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Venezuela on the verge of war

Over the past two weeks, Boulder Weekly has done a fine service in providing readers with a long column by Giselle Cesin (Re: “An insider’s view of the Venezuelan crisis,” News, March 7, 2019) and a follow-up letter

by Ron Forthover (Re: “U.S. imperial plans regarding Venezuela,” Guest Column, March 21, 2019) both of which described the suffering of Venezuelans. Last week, four panelists hosted by the U.N. Association of Boulder offered further insights, one of whom rightly sobbed as she talked about the consequences to hospital patients, including infants, when electricity fails and medicines are lacking.

However, each panelist blamed Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro for this crisis. And each implied that outside intervention will be required.

How might the world avoid largescale bloodshed without relying on people such as John Bolton and Elliott Abrams? Keep in mind that Abrams was convicted of crimes during the Iran-Contra scandal and has been cited as a key architect of the Iraq war.

It may be useful to recall that “hawks” such as these initiated the successful coup in Iran in 1953 where control of oil was similarly a motivating factor.

The overthrow of duly elected President Mohammad Mosaddegh by the CIA and British secret services, followed by installing the Shah, eventually led to the current Iranian revolution and its on-going tragic consequences.

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Versailles Treaty-like punishments, which led to the rise of Hitler, must not be pursued. Sanctions will only increase suffering. Nor should gunboat diplomacy be undertaken.

At the end of World War II, the U.S. wisely created the Marshall Plan to respond to Europe’s destruction and suffering. A mini-Marshall Plan for Venezuela is now in order, supported by the U.S. but not led by the U.S. and its “coalition of the willing.” Far better would be leadership from UNICEF, The World Health Organization and other U.N. Agencies, supplemented by support from respected non-governmental international aid groups. A good beginning would be to remove economic sanctions, which are a form of financial warfare.

In addition to securing food, medicine, clean water and other essentials, Venezuela needs help to diversify its economy rather than depending almost entirely on fossil fuels. Its agricultural sector and factory systems need strengthening. Its financial system is in shambles. Most importantly, it requires basic reforms so that the wealth of its nation is no longer funneled into the pockets of corporate and other elites.

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rative was false, a media outlet that accused Trump of collusion with Russia or outright treason might have a hard time using truth as a defense.

If it couldn’t use truth as a defense, it would try to show that while it got the story wrong, it wasn’t acting maliciously.

Good luck with that. It wouldn’t pass the smirk test.

The media outlet’s next lines of defense would probably be that 1)

its anti-Trump narrative fell under its “right of reply” (another defense in libel cases) to Trump attacking it for fake news, and 2) that since Trump routinely lies, calling him a pathological liar isn’t actionable libel.

Trump’s side would respond to this by claiming that 1) the media started it, and Trump was the one exercising the right of reply by calling out the media for fake news, and 2)

Trump’s chronic misstatements and hyperbola amount to no more than “harmless puffery,” the legal concept that keeps advertisers from getting sued for claiming their products deliver the Brightest Smile, the Fastest Relief, the Greenest Lawn etc. when they don’t.

And so on.

A Trump-media libel trial would be a delicious media circus of epic proportions; it would be the reality

TV show of the century.

OK, Trump probably couldn’t win a libel case against the anti-Trump media, but I suspect he wouldn’t be laughed out of court either. And that just might prompt some flicker of self-reflection among the country’s increasingly vicious, and classless, chattering classes.

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fear from Governor Polis. Remember the 300,000 ballot-proposal petition signatures he destroyed?

My idea to require oil and gas drillers to own the properties where they operate remains primary to my interest. This wouldn’t change pipeline rules, though a certain house explosion in Firestone loudly recommends additional oversight for every underground device and conveyance. It is high time for oil exploration including reworking and re-fracturing to be conducted on parcels owned by the operating entity.

That way this entity is “in title” and can be on the hook for environmental problems discovered in the future.

Currently these activities are carried out under leases granting use of “so much of the surface” as is “necessary” to the drilling, etc. In real property practices one may draft a lease stating the lessee must faithfully follow all laws. Good luck with that in Colorado. If counties (and, where necessary, municipalities) would zone with strict delineation of uses by right, then industrial activities on agricultural and even (Heaven forbid!) residential tracts could be specifically referred to in leases.

One may point out, considering that environmental enforcement has declined by 85 percent under the current national administration, holding oil and gas feet to the CERCLA fire may seem like a (pardon) pipe dream.

But it only took a handful of Superfund cases to straighten out the chemical industry, so why not consider a better way? Then, when operations cease, let’s see these guys try to sell those properties. Then everyone would know how much impairment has actually occurred.

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How Trump’s wall is threatening both culture and environment

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he road to Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park is as flat as the rest of Texas and lined with palm trees — the tall, slender kind that arc elegantly against clear blue skies. “These are Washingtonia palms,” Patti Rubio says, one hand on the wheel, the other taping the window with her knuckle.

“Some people, they’ll be like: ‘I know I’m home when I see the palms!’ But man, I see them, and the indigenous woman in me cries.”

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droops, unless she’s particularly enraged — then she snaps into a focused scowl, like she is right now.

Rubio works at the National Butterfly Center, a swath of privately protected land down the road from the state park. We’ve come to Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park so she can show me what makes this region of Texas, the very southeast tip, so special: its rare birds, the millions of butterflies, and the most contentious section of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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points to a dirt pull-out, semi-hidden and shaded by the trees. Border Patrol, she says, that’s where they like to idle in their cars, though on this February morning, it’s empty. A few minutes later we pass a large stable, where Border Patrol keeps their horses, and a few minutes after that, we slow to a stop at the entrance of the state park.

Both Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park and the National Butterfly Center protect tracts of rare ecosystems along the banks of the Rio Grande River. Until two years ago, state park employees were likely the only uniformed people you’d encounter on a birding expedition or a stroll on the trails. But since the 2016 elections, Border Patrol agents are now seen with increasing frequency, as both wildlife sanctuaries extend to the edge of the water in what happens to be the busiest sector of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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SECTIONS of the border wall have already been completed in the Rio Grande Valley.

Congress recently authorized funding to complete unfinished sections.

2018 between the cities of McAllen and Reynosa, north and south of the wildlife refuges, respectively.

The militarization of the Rio Grande Valley — everpresent helicopters, patrolling agents, limited access to public and private land — has further intensified since March 2018, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was authorized to build sections of physical barriers between McAllen and Reyonsa, on the edge of the river’s floodplain, which is anywhere between one and two miles inland and just a few hundred yards south of both sanctuaries’ visitor centers. If the wall is built, as much as 70 percent of the protected land will soon become a “no man’s land” sandwiched between the wall and the actual border line, inaccessible to private or public parties.

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folks trying to stop the wall’s construction, particularly the segments that will cut straight through these sensitive ecological areas. It feels like the Rio Grande Valley’s final frontier, in many ways; less than 5 percent of the region’s native ecosystem remains.

“Honestly, I’m exhausted,” Rubio says of her resistance-organizing efforts. “That’s the story of our lives down here, we can’t afford to stop.”

She explains their fight to preserve what’s left of the native ecosystem isn’t only about the health of the south-Texas flora and fauna; it’s also about preserving the value of their heritage and culture.

Hundreds of thousands of folks in the Rio Grande Valley, like Rubio, have generational roots running far deeper than the roots of Washingtonia palms; these people THIS 900-YEAR-old have been landscaped and pruned, a protected natuCypress tree sits just uprooted and manipulated just as ral highway of 200 yards south of an already-built section of much as the fertile river delta. sorts for the ocethe border wall. If the Though this area has been called lot to find mates wall is completed, access to this tree will the Rio Grande Valley for the past and food, but be completely cut off, 100 years and folks today (including last year, the endangering its life and the surrounding Rubio) identify proudly as “valley president waived habitat. kids,” it’s not, by any definition, a 23 environmenvalley — it’s the final 150 miles of tal laws in order the Rio Grande River before it spills to expedite coninto the Gulf of Mexico, a flat, sedistruction. ment-rich riparian zone that’s been “Wildlife has no chance,” Rubio home to hundreds of flora and fauna says. “Animals will either die of dehyspecies for centuries. dration or they’ll die of starvation.

A 900-year-old Montezuma They’re not going to be able to migrate Cypress tree, for example, is rooted to find a mate, they’re not going to be within the floodplain, now just 200 able to move safely... every living yards south of a section of wall that’s space needs space — [and] just like already been built. Endangered anius, every living thing needs space.” mals like the ocelot and plants like Before Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley the star cactus have no more habitat State Park became a state park, the in the U.S. (and in some cases, the land belonged to the Bentsen Family, world) than what remains protected whose patriarch, Lloyd Bentsen right now in the Rio Grande river (father of the famed Texas Senator of delta. But if DHS plans move forward the same name) moved to Texas as outlined in federal documents and from South Dakota in 1918 on the bolstered by President Trump’s recent hunt for ranching, energy develop“national emergency” announcement and real estate opportunities. ment, the delta will be the next site At that time, the majority of folks in for border wall construction. the region were a mix of descenThe wall is scheduled to be built dants from Spanish settlements, on top of an earthen levee system Mexican migrants and members of that already exists, tracing the norththe indigenous Carrizo/Comecrudo ern edge of the river’s floodplain, in tribe. compliance with a 1970 U.S.-Mexico The elder Bentsen was part of a treaty that prevents barrier construccohort of Anglo ranchers that introtion within flood zones. The levees duced the term “valley” to the region were originally intended to help create as a branding mechanism — they 12

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wanted to draw more wealth and development to the area and launched a campaign eventually known as the “Magic Valley Movement.”

They gave the Valley a makeover. Native Sabal palms, shorter and with thicker fronds, were uprooted; the Washingtonia palms lined the streets instead. Grasses were planted. Roads were widened.

Cheap labor, cheap land and cheap water were advertised perks. Within a decade, land ownership flipped from majority Latino to majority Anglo.

“They brought in an outside non-native plant to exploit people, and that’s what hurts,” Rubio explains. “Sometimes I look at Washingtonians, and the only thing I see is people that were taken advantage of. It does hurt because my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my mother, they worked in the field and they weren’t given what they should have been given as far as respect, breaks, money.”

The Sabal palms were too short, too stocky for Anglo landscaping preferences. The thorn bush forests native to the delta are never treated with romantic flair like other Western landscapes. Often, Rubio feels like American society is pressuring her to get a makeover, too. Her brown skin, her glossy voluminous hair — many of her physical characteristics aren’t appreciated in a lot of mainstream American media. She sees that reflected in the world around her, too. “When I was little,” Rubio tells me, “I put Clorox in water in a sink, and I tried to bleach my skin, because I thought I was ugly because I was brown.” When her submerged forearms started to burn, she thought, “Oh good, it’s working. I’m gonna be pretty.”

She continues, “There’s this feeling of being inferior because I’m a woman of color, and the thing is, I’m not inferior, and because I’m a woman of color does not mean anything less than the person to the left or the right of me, and it just so happens the universe decided, ‘Guess what? You’re going to be this lovely shade of brown,’ and that’s just so it’s not the same old thing. That’s all it is.”

But when you aren’t taught to see value or beauty in your natural self, nor value or beauty in the natural

landscape of your home, where do you cultivate a sense of value, or even an understanding of who you are in the context of where you live?

Neither of us know.

Rubio and I enter Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park (on foot, no private cars are allowed) and pay the $5 admission fee. We hop in a 12-person minibus outside the visitor center, driven by a state park employee who will point out the birds and plants along the way.

First, though, we have to drive up and over the earthen levee in order to access the vast majority of the park, and the richest birding spots. Two Border Patrol trucks are idling on the levee as we drive by, their exhaust pipes emitting visible grayish fumes.

“Looks like they really care about the environment,” I say, and Rubio snorts. The state park employee can’t help but smile either. I ask the driver what’ll happen when border wall construction starts here. He declines to comment. Construction equipment and surveyors were seen in the wildlife refuge plots adjacent to the park and the National Butterfly Center at the beginning of February, just two weeks prior to this visit.

At this time, we’re all still in the throes of the longest government shutdown in history, so tensions everywhere in the Valley are high — it’s a largely democratic pocket of Texas and the majority of elected officials and folks native and nonnative alike who live here year-round are outwardly opposed to even the general concept of a border wall.

Rubio, like many, grew up walking back and forth across the river with her family, going out to dinner, attending church, shopping and going to the doctor in Mexico. While the militarization has made that life no longer possible, animals still depend on the ability to move freely north and south of the river, across invisible lines.

Despite the high rate of apprehended, undocumented immigrants and a poverty rate three times the national average, McAllen has consistently ranked as one of the safest cities of its size in the nation. Many folks rely on the millions of dollars of ecotourism the region generates each year. The wall would present eco-

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nomic and social changes to which look at this,” she says, pulling over. many locals would have difficulty As she sifts through the flood of adjusting. Because many of them are messages — we’d had no cell service poor and most of them are brown, in the park — I watch Rubio’s Rubio believes the federal governshoulders, buoyed by our time in the ment isn’t paying those in the Rio park, round and fold again. Her lips Grande Valley the same attention or purse into a scowl. She’s helping care other more privileged commuplan an upcoming protest. “I gotta nities might receive. After helping get back home and deal with this,” support and organize the Standing she says — it’s not just flora and Rock camp in North Dakota in 2016, fauna that find peace in protected Rubio sees similar power structures at nature areas. play, now in her own A few days later, hometown. on Feb. 14, the fedHARMONYONPLANETEARTH/ WIKIMEDIA COMMONS As we wind eral government around the state park reopened with a in the van, we’re surbipartisan congresrounded by mesquite sional package that, and ebony trees, thick at face value, might tamaulipan thornhave seemed like a scrub is sprinkled in win for locals like between. We pass Rubio. While the egg-yolk yellow bill does include Altamira orioles; $1.375 billion for 55 green jays call out additional miles of their cheh cheh cheh; new border wall, it large, proud and explicitly prohibits pheasant-like chachaconstruction on the lacas squawk; a javelilevees in Bentsenna (a rodent that Rio Grande Valley looks like a wiryState Park and the haired pig and is as large as a mediumNational Butterfly Center. sized dog) waddles across a grass clearBut it doesn’t feel like a win for ing. If you want an idea of what Texas Rubio. As construction and clear-cutonce looked like, before the Spanish ting on the southern side of the earthcolonizers, before the Anglo ranchers, en levee is still a possibility, it’s only a this is perhaps the best, last place left matter of time before the impacts of to see it. fragmentation take a toll on the rest of Truth is, if the wall goes up, the the remaining ecosystem. The park will most likely close. The 900-year-old Montezuma Cypress National Butterfly Center, too. With so won’t be protected. much of both sanctuaries’ land on The day after the government the southern side of the levee, the reopened, the president declared a fragmentation of the ecosystem will “national emergency,” which would be devastating. While environmentalthen eliminate any congressional and human-rights groups have filed protection of the state park and butlawsuits against the federal administerfly sanctuary. Though Congress tration, no legal action has been voted to deny the emergency with a taken on behalf of local people. bill, the president vetoed the bill on The only solace Rubio finds now March 14 and continues to push for is in nature. While the Washingtonias the wall’s construction across the Rio distress her, she’s had no choice but Grande Valley. to adapt to life under their shadow.

Three days after the president’s “The only thing that brings me comnational emergency declaration, fort is knowing that nature is at least Rubio joined a few dozen folks at the benefiting [from the palms], and as base of the 900-year-old tree. They we take away habitat, some are truly carried in jugs of water, soaking its going to depend on that one tree to base. For a photo, they held up a reproduce, to have their nest, to have banner that read: “Roots break walls.” their clutch.”

Rubio told me the slogan “has meanWe leave the park and drive back ing behind many things, like culture, herout to South Bentsen Palm Drive. itage and the environmental part. [You Rubio’s phone immediately starts know] how we see plants growing ringing and vibrating. “Sorry, gotta through concrete? That’s us.”

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ith the announcement of President Trump’s 2020 budget came proposals to significantly alter how, and even if, people pay off student debt with the help of the federal government. Although Congress has ignored Trump’s similar proposals in the past, the student debt crisis has continued to deepen, reaching a high of $1.5 trillion in 2018.

However, several states have already created guardrails for student loans, and Colorado is joining the fight for higher education affordability.

In Colorado alone, over 760,000 people have student debt, adding up to $26 billion. To battle this crisis, a bill (SB 19-057) sponsored by Colorado Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg (D-Boulder) and Sen. Tammy Story (D-Golden), was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on March 15, promoting the disbursement of important information regarding student loan forgiveness and repayment programs in Colorado.

“We are in a student debt crisis across the country. This impacts Colorado because student debt is such a heavy weight,” Story says.

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Department of Personnel to annually send information to state employees about available programs. Over 50 federal student loan forgiveness and repayment programs are currently authorized under federal law, and those who qualify will be notified through a single email or a letter. And that contact could be the first step in helping borrowers pay off their student loans fast and efficiently.

Although it’s difficult to overcome the price of higher education, the lack of information borrowers receive from loan providers intensifies this crisis, which is also damaging state economies. This massive debt burden is causing a variety of negative economic impacts such as an increasing number of millennials being unable to purchase homes.

According to the American Community Survey in 2015, “If a person’s household student debt increases from $50,000 to $100,000, with all other things held the same, the likelihood of owning a home will decrease 15 percentage points.”

Despite such consequences, an extremely small number of people actually utilize these programs.

Currently, only 1 percent of those who qualify for some form of relief in

Colorado — such as teachers in state colleges and universities, nonprofit workers and active military — use them.

“If there are no resources, it can be daunting,” says Nellie Moran, Fenberg’s policy and communications advisor. “Many don’t realize they qualify for it.”

After working two jobs while in undergraduate and pharmacy school, Jeni Burckart’s $118,000 in unsubsidized federal loans increased to $128,000 because of interest. In order to receive a specialization in critical care, Burckart had one year of residency that ultimately grew her balance to $132,000, even while making payments above the monthly minimum.

“In my first year of full-time pharmacist salary, I paid over $14,000 in interest on my student loans and I couldn’t deduct any of it,” Burckart explains, “I just got so frustrated.”

Now she’s the senior director of health care for Tuition.io, a consumer student loan management system. Its software allows borrowers to see all of their loans, indicating how long it will take to pay them off with current monthly payments. The company is also developing a tool that helps people find what loan forgiveness programs they qualify for or what they can do to become qualified. Similar to the intentions of Fenberg’s and Story’s SB19-057, an increase of information can help borrowers choose the best plan to pay off their debt as fast as possible.

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expressed their concerns over future debt and are determined to help change the loan system. Rudy Joon, a student intern at New Era Colorado, is one of many who have helped advocate for SB19-057 and other bills concerning student debt both at the state Capitol and on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

“This bill is important to me because I am interested in working for the nonprofit sector after college and knowing that this program could be in place will offer me security with my student debt,” Joon says.

Having students involved in the debt crisis debate helps make the case for how big this issue really is. And it seems to have worked.

Fenberg has sponsored other bills to help with the student debt crisis, including Senate Bill 19-002, which would require the state to regulate student loan debt, like every other type of debt in Colorado. If passed, it will provide parameters around the licensing process and provide significant oversight of lenders. The Financial Services Authority would create an ombudsman in the state attorney general’s office to provide students with a resource to navigate issues with student debt when they arise.

“Given that over 760,000 Coloradans are burdened by student debt,” Fenberg says, “my goal is to ensure that as many people as possible are aware, and enrolled, in programs that can help alleviate the financial strain of debt.”

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Colorado Oil and Gas Association before the Colorado Supreme Court in its successful effort to overturn the fracking moratorium and ban that had been passed by voters ven as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasioin Fort Collins and Longmont, respectively. Bernhardt Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Ed Markey has also provided services to the Independent (D-MA) were introducing the Green New Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), Noble Deal with hopes of directly engaging the Energy, private investors attempting to build the conthreat of fossil fuel-driven climate change, troversial Cadiz Water Project in California and the President Donald Trump was nominating former conservative, pro-Trump trophy-hunting group Safari lobbyist and native Coloradan David Bernhardt to Club International, among others. lead the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Since becoming deputy secretary, Bernhardt has which oversees our public lands and wildlife. These reportedly acted as the “mastermind” behind many of two actions could not be more at odds.

Interior’s initiatives designed to attain Trump’s verBernhardt, who was appointed sion of energy independence, which WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR deputy secretary of the Interior in the president refers to as “energy August 2017, has been nominated to dominance.” As an example, the replace previous Interior Secretary Western Values Project claims that Ryan Zinke, who quit his cabinet immediately after his 2017 confirmapost amid multiple ethics investigation, Bernhardt was tasked with distions. Bernhardt has been serving as mantling the 11-state Greater Sageacting secretary since Zinke’s resignaGrouse Conservation Agreement. tion in December 2018. Colorado The 2015 agreement implemented Senators Michael Bennet (D) and some protections from extraction Cory Gardner (R) both voted to conindustries on 9 million acres of public firm Bernhardt as Deputy in 2017. lands in the West. Oil and gas corpoGardner will soon be voting in comrations have taken advantage of the mittee on whether to send DOI’s 2018 rollback of the agreeDAVID BERNHARDT Bernhardt’s nomination as secretary ment. This is important because as to a full confirmation vote of the Senate. If the vote the health of sage-grouse populations go, so goes reaches the Senate floor, Bennet will be voting on the health of hundreds of other species sharing the the matter. The initial committee hearing and vote bird’s habitat, including mule deer. (Environmental are scheduled for Thursday, March 28. groups filed a lawsuit in federal court on March 27 Bennet recently stated he doesn’t support suing Bernhardt and the BLM for “gutting” the Bernhardt to be the new secretary, while Gardner sage-grouse plans and violating federal law in the has voiced his support for Bernhardt and is schedprocess.) uled to introduce him at the committee hearing.

According to a recent report by the Center for Neither Bennet nor Gardner responded to requests American Progress, the “Trump administration is for comment for this article. selling Western wildlife corridors to the oil and gas industry,” despite Bernhardt having publicly A RECORD OF CONFLICTS claimed that the DOI is committed to sportsmen’s Prior to joining the DOI, Bernhardt worked for interests at various events and on social media. the politically powerful, Denver-based law and lob- Since Trump became president, the BLM has bying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck offered more than 3,400 oil and gas leases in the (BHFS). While at the firm, Bernhardt represented Intermountain West — nearly one in five have been fossil fuel extraction and mining companies, along in areas identified by the states as an important with companies working to push private water proj- migration corridor or wintering grounds for elk, ects in the arid West. As part of this work, mule deer or pronghorn. “The proportion of oil and Bernhardt often found himself lobbying at the gas leases offered by the Trump administration in DOI. For many critics, his nomination is controver- priority wildlife habitat has been particularly high sial because several of his former clients, as well as in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, and, to a his former employer, have benefitted and stand to lesser degree, Nevada,” according to the report. benefit in the future from Interior policies that have In disharmony with these actions, the 2019 serious consequences for the environment, public Colorado College Conservation in the West Poll lands and wildlife.

(CC poll) found that 54 percent of Colorado voters Prior to becoming deputy secretary, Bernhardt, via think allowing increased oil and gas production on BHFS, was on the legal team that represented the 80 percent of the critical habitat that Western states

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identified in 2015 as necessary to restore the threatened sage-grouse is a bad policy. And even more clearly, according to the same poll, there is near unanimous support including among members of both major political parties for the conservation of migration corridors across all Western states, with 92 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of Independents and 82 percent of Republicans in support. The poll notes people considering themselves to be sportsmen support this conservation effort by 86 percent.

On March 23, The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal radio program reported on a June 2017 conference meeting wherein senior executives of the IPAA (former clients of Bernhardt’s while he was with BHFS) appear to have boasted of their “unprecedented access” to people within the Trump administration, referring to then-Deputy Secretary Bernhardt. The IPAA President and CEO is also reported to have recalled Bernhardt’s role as point man on an IPAA legal team that was assembled to challenge federal endangered species rules.

But it’s not just oil and gas getting its way under Bernhardt and Trump.

On Feb. 14, in a DOI news release titled, “The War on Coal is Over: Interior Announces Historic Coal Projects in Utah,” Bernhardt, along with congressional members from Utah, championed jobs and revenue without ever mentioning coal’s disastrous impact on the environment or climate change. Again, exposing the lack of popular support for Bernhardt’s pro-coal position, the CC poll found only 8 percent of Western voters believe coal extraction should be encouraged, while a large majority of all voters support increasing wind and solar power.

In response to questions about climate change, in his 2017 deputy secretary confirmation hearing, Bernhardt told senators that his task, if confirmed, would be to “take the science as we find it, put it in the paradigm of the administration’s policy perspective, which is we’re not going to sacrifice jobs for this, and then look at the legal rubric and say, how do we apply the law there.” Bernhardt added he would follow Trump’s policy perspective, which he contends is the will of the American people because Trump was elected president.

DAMN THE SCIENCE, THE PRESS AND THE POLLS In light of scientific consensus assuring global catastrophe unless swift action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Bernhardt’s statement appears misguided at best. Juxtaposing his statement with the aforementioned Green New Deal resolution, which specifically targets creating jobs while reducing emissions, may reflect the sociopolitical crux of our time.

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increase greenhouse gas emissions, to have pushed policy on behalf of his Deputy Secretary Bernhardt has former client, Westlands Water found time to go after the press and District. According to the Times, four the public’s right to know. He has months after his confirmation, proposed revising the Freedom of Bernhardt held several meetings with Information Act (FOIA), drawing a an Interior official with the legal strong rebuke from The Reporters authority to initiate a process to revise Committee for Freedom of the Press, protections for the delta smelt and which said many provisions of winter-run chinook salmon. The legal Bernhardt’s proposed new rule are protections for both species stand in flatly inconsistent or incompatible the way of Westlands’ business venwith FOIA, “and would harm jourtures. Bernhardt reportedly told the nalists’ ability to gather and report official to begin the process of changinformation to the public about the ing the protections for the fish, “and actions of the Department and its to finish as quickly as possible.” personnel.”

Bernhardt said he received “verbal Press oversight is clearance” from a DOI WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/U.S. SENATE critical considering that ethics lawyer to do so. even Congress has had The Times cited an ethcause to question ics specialist who said Bernhardt’s transparency.

Bernhardt’s action is On Feb. 7, Rep. Raúl worthy of investigation.

Grijalva (D-NM) and TJ In response, Bernhardt Cox (D-CA) of the told the Times, “I don’t House Natural Resources believe for a minute that committee, requested I’m doing things to Bernhardt provide all calbenefit Westlands. I’m endars containing infordoing things to benefit mation of his daily briefAmerica.”

SEN. MICHAEL BENNET ing materials or travel Again, this response briefings, as well as, “the date, time, is similar to others Bernhardt has attendee(s), location, and topic(s) of dis- made, wherein he reframes an action cussion for any and all meetings attend- with dubious environmental impacts ed by Bernhardt after July 24, 2017.” In and possible conflicts of interest as their letter of request, the lawmakers justified because it was taken on assert that versions of Bernhardt’s pubbehalf of the Trump administration’s lished schedule, obtained through policies, and since Trump was elected, FOIA requests, contained omissions, those policies must therefore be the which raises questions about the intent will of the American people. But not to hide or manipulate federal records to all agree with this strained logic or avoid full disclosure. The letter further other positions Bernhardt has staked states that an additional 100 hours of out.

Bernhardt’s scheduled time at Interior On Feb. 12, Craig Holman, govfailed to include either a description of ernment affairs lobbyist in the the meeting topic or the non-DOI Congress Watch division of the group attendees, including internal and exterPublic Citizen, sent a letter to the nal meetings, calls, events and briefings. Office of the Inspector General (OIG) At best, such omissions create the and Interior Designated Agency appearance of impropriety, which is a Ethics Official (DAEO), Scott de la serious problem in its own right even Vega, who was appointed to his posiif no actual impropriety exists. Now, tion by Bernhardt in April 2018, on the eve of Bernhardt’s Senate com- claiming Bernhardt is in violation of Trump’s executive order preventing mittee hearing, Interior has finally appointees from participating for two released 26,792 pages to Grijalva’s years after their appointment in the House committee. It is unclear if the same areas they previously lobbied. public will know what is in those Holman cites the aforementioned documents before the confirmation Times exposé, which he says provides vote.

And Bernhardt’s problems may be very specific, concrete information more than just appearances. A Feb. 12 that is hard to ignore. Holman believes the DAEO has authorized New York Times article revealed that Bernhardt to work on issues of potenafter being confirmed to his current position at the DOI, Bernhardt seems tial conflict, and that they are justifyI

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ing it by trying to declare that a speannounced a six-figure ad spend to cific action now is not the exact same oppose Berhardt’s confirmation. action that Bernhardt was lobbying At this point, it seems unlikely that for previously. “But come on,” Gardner can or will change his mind Holman says, “rolling back the on supporting Bernhardt. It has always Endangered Species Act for the delta been a mutually supportive relationsmelt to provide water for the ship. Bernhardt has personally chipped Westlands Water District? That’s in thousands of dollars to Gardner’s exactly what he was lobbying on.” campaigns in the past and BHFS is And according to a report from the the third largest contributor over Center for American Progress, the Gardner’s entire political career, having method for keeping potential given him $69,061 so far, according to Bernhardt conflicts of interest out of the Center for Responsive Politics, public view was put in place by the which also lists Anadarko Petroleum, president. According to Trump’s ethics Koch Industries and Noble Energy as executive order, the president, or his major Gardner contributors. designee, can grant waivers for As for Bennet, who is weighing a Bernhardt to work on run for president, it is WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/U.S. SENATE matters affecting lobbyunclear why he has, at ing clients held within least for the moment, the past two years withflipped on Bernhardt, out listing the factors or especially when he and publicly reporting on his staff have yet to whether Bernhardt has respond to specific even received such waivquestions regarding his ers. Such actions have 2017 vote to confirm basically created a black Bernhardt to one of the hole free from ethical most powerful positions oversight. Neither the overseeing our public SEN. CORY GARDNER DAEO nor OIG lands and wildlife at responded to requests for comment. his first confirmation hearing.

In a recent interview in the Wall Bennet voted for Bernhardt even Street Journal, Bernhardt said the after the lobbyist’s critics had Interior Secretary’s job is one of “ballabeled him an enemy of public ance,” adding, “you have to harmolands. Some critical of Bennet’s envinize.” But some things currently occur- ronmental record and his vote in ring at the DOI seem so discordant 2017 point out the Democrat has that critics believe voting to affirm the received over $175,954 in contribunomination of Bernhardt could have tions from Bernhardt’s former law negative consequences not only on and lobbying firm, BHFS. Though it’s public lands and wildlife but also on impossible to gauge the influence of those senators who cast such a vote. such factors, it’s certainly worth According to the Global Strategy weighing in one’s political decisions.

Group’s recently released poll of likely Whether or not he’s confirmed by general election voters in Colorado in the Senate as interior secretary, 2020, supporting Bernhardt is a nega- Bernhardt will likely continue followtive. According to the poll, 57 percent ing Trump’s directives, which also of respondents oppose Bernhardt’s appear to coincide with the interests confirmation as interior secretary after of many of Bernhardt’s former — and hearing a series of messages against BHFS’ current — fossil fuel and minhis confirmation, while 29 percent ing corporation clients. There is no support it. While such a push poll reason to assume he will not initiate admittedly provides slanted results, it policies that continue to increase will likely be used as a roadmap in the greenhouse gas emissions while auceffort to defeat Republican Senator tioning off wildlife migration corridors and sage-grouse breeding areas Cory Gardner in the 2020 election. to coal, gas, oil and other mining When the same poll asked if Sen. industries. In the end, Bernhardt’s Gardner votes to confirm Bernhardt whether the respondent would vote to commitment to Trump’s policies will create irreparable and negative re-elect or replace Gardner in 2020, impacts to America’s public lands and 62 percent said they would vote to wildlife while accelerating climate replace him. This at a time when the change that threatens us all.

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WHEN YOU’RE IN THE RING

By Anthony Galliano MONICA AND JOHN spar at Front Range Boxing Academy in Boulder.

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he other guy lands another stinging jab on Israel.

Then, a flattening smack when his glove slams into Israel’s head. Israel crouches low and pulls his gloves tight in front of his face, cheeks and lips bulging from the clench of his mouthguard. The boxers’ teammates and coaches are huddled at opposite corners of the ring tonight at Front Range Boxing Academy in Boulder. The coaches shout instructions, and the timer blares, counting down to the end of the threeminute round.

The timer flashes the orange light, the 30-second bell tolls.

Inside the Front Range Boxing Academy, you feel like you’re in a giant tin can. The air is stale.

Everything, each punch, echoes sharply against corrugated metal walls, reverberating through the tunneling space filled with speed bags, heavy bags, weight-lifting machines. The Boxing Academy is located just off the highway, and you probably wouldn’t even notice it, except it’s this rusty yellow smudge on the green landscape. But that doesn’t matter when you’re in the ring.

Israel’s coach, John Dykeman, yells over the flattening smack of another, then another, and another punch, “Quit backing away, dammit!” The problem is that with each punch, Israel surrenders just a little. He steps away and gives the other guy more space to throw a punch, making the other guy’s punch all the more powerful.

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So Israel rushes forward, arm arched back, and cannonballs his glove into the guy’s stomach.

“There you go,” John says. “Stay in, stay tight.”

Every couple of weeks or so John and his boxers from the Longmont Athletic Club drive down to Boulder and spar with the Boxing Academy’s team.

Sparring isn’t a match. The aim is not to defeat your opponent. This is mutual training, an opportunity for each boxer to practice and sharpen their skills in the ring.

Israel tumbles onto the ropes. John and his boxers back away.

During the day, Israel is a software engineer at a data storage company. He’s a young guy, maybe mid-20s, lean but hard-wearing. His life is packed with deadlines and squinting at a computer screen.

The way he describes it, his life is too mind-heavy.

There’s too much of sitting on a swivel desk chair in an office. Israel was an athlete in high school, but stopped working out in college. Then began his office life, and he got pretty out of shape. Growing up, he’d always shared a love of the sweat science with his father, so to lose a little weight, Israel started boxing. And soon he found that it emptied his head of all the work stuff. For nearly three years now, this has been his release.

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with Vaseline. Some spectators are exhilarated by the honest ferocity of the sport. Others call it barbarism.

But when you’re in the ring, it’s something more than all of that.

Maybe you’re Israel, pent up in an office all day. Or maybe you’re one of the many people who’ve written a letter to the Boxing Academy, framed and hanging on the entrance wall, explaining that you started boxing to lose some weight or get more active, but you gained self-esteem, confidence, empowerment. And your life has changed.

The other guy pounds enough space between them again, and throws jab after jab after jab — then the timer blares and flashes red, and the fighting stops. Israel and the other guy hug and plod over to their corners. John waits for Israel with his arms crossed over his black sweatsuit, somber and focused, standing there without saying a word. The other boxers shift in their mesh boots and look at John the same way you look at a reverend or maybe a fortune-teller. John’s short, salt-and-pepper hair is gelled smooth and tidy, and his goatee is something you notice.

“Don’t back out. Period,” Johns says. “No more.” Israel slips under the ropes and nods.

John, 50 now, has boxed since age 10 and trained amateur and professional boxers for decades. He’s also a studied nutritionist who has published several books. Before this, he owned Unleashed Fitness & Training Center, a chain of gyms in San Diego, but after the 2008 stock market crash, he lost three of his four gyms. John’s girlfriend lived in Colorado at the time; her father owns the Longmont Athletic Club. She encouraged John to move and make a new start. “My girlfriend said, ‘Are you happy?’ And I said, ‘No, you know, half my boxers are gone,’” John recalls. “I was depressed.” So he moved to Colorado and joined the staff of the Longmont Athletic Club, where he’s established a flourishing boxing program.

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DAVE GAUDETTE, owner of Front Range Boxing Academy, with two of his boxers.

the ring like that. His training emphasizes “multiple facets,” drawing especially on his work as a nutritionist. It’s not the kind of singularly focused sports training that strengthens athletes in one way and leaves them vulnerable in others. “It’s really just the approach, it’s the facts, it’s the fundamentals of what we have to do as human beings,” he says. John has formulated a tiered eating plan for each of his boxers, beginning with an optimal diet. And when you ask them if all of this — the diet, more sleep, the vigorous pugilist lifestyle — has improved their lives outside the ring, they’ll tell you yes. “This isn’t just about learning how to box. It’s learning how to approach life,” John says. “It’s learning how to be excellent every day.”

Monica is the only woman on John’s team, the only woman here tonight, and she waits calmly for her turn to get in the ring. She only started boxing about two years ago.

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Monica flew home to see her mother, who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Despite the four years the doctors said she had left, her mother passed away on that visit.

After the funeral, Monica returned to CSU and failed most of her classes. She had no family in Colorado, and few friends. Monica joined a grief group. She joined a trail-building group too, constructing hiking and city trails. She needed something to do, some task or purpose to let her move past her grief.

She continued with the grief group, but left the trail-building group after sharing her mother’s death with the crew leader, who asked if Monica ever receives phone calls with no one on the other line, as that might be her dead mother.

“I was sad for six months and then I emerged from that and I was like, ‘Wow, I am furious,’” she says.

Monica changed majors and decided to fight. An avid fan of televised boxing, she looked for the nearest place to get in the ring herself, and that’s how Monica met John. At first, she thought it might be weird to join a team of men, but they welcomed her enthusiastically. Sure, the other box-

ers call her “sweetie,” but she thinks it’s endearing.

When Monica gets in the ring tonight, before the round begins, you see her up there across from a man and you’re a little nervous. You see this woman in a baggy gray tank top, her leg twitching just a little as she presses her boots down on the mat and stares into her opponent. Your nerves keep wracking until the timer blares and the green light flashes and the round starts. And when you see her throw those punches, the fierce way she endures up there, well, you know there’s just nothing to worry about.

When Monica gets out of the ring she’s glossy with sweat, and says she has a slight headache. She has a bit of a weak chin, meaning her head is a little sensitive. “But it was totally worth it,” she says. It’s not just her mother’s death that she’s coping with up there. Monica has also struggled with thoughts of suicide much of her life. But in the ring, she’s absorbed only by survival. “It’s such a highstress situation that you don’t have room for that in your mind,” she says.

“It’s like tranquility.”

Dave Gaudette owns the Front Range Boxing Academy, and coaches the other team tonight. Leaning against a post on the other side of the ring, he looks like a guy who once had a body cast out of molten iron, but now he’s grizzled and a little tired and doesn’t punch like he used to.

Dave first started training and boxing as an amateur in New England. He won the New Hampshire Amateur Lightweight Championship title in 1969, and was the Southern New England Amateur Junior Welterweight Champion in 1971.

Then he moved to Colorado and tried to turn pro, but at the time there was no boxing commission or professional fighting, and few promoters. So Dave became a “bohemian graduate student” in philosophy. He worked odd jobs for years before opening Front Range Boxing Academy in 1994.

Tonight, for the first time in three months, Henry spars on Dave’s team.

Henry’s a student at CU Boulder, but he’s been on hiatus to get his life together. Picture Dave as a young man — that’s how Henry looks. And

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tonight, pacing back and forth, looking up at the boxers in the ring, looking down at the floor, Henry’s buzzing. He asks Dave if he can get in the ring, and Dave clears his throat to yell over to John in a raspy northeastern drawl. John surveys his boxers and tells his biggest guy, Brandon, to get ready.

Once the green light flashes, the boxers don’t shuffle on their feet.

Henry, he doesn’t try to size the other guy up. You get the feeling that it doesn’t really matter what the other guy can do. Not to Henry, anyway.

The timer blares, and Henry lunges at Brandon and bashes his head, bashes him with arms like cudgels until Brandon shrinks up under the hail storm of punches, and Dave yells, “Henry, you’re going too fucking hard, man!” and the round stops.

“Relax,” Dave says. “Don’t try to take his head off.”

Henry nods and says sorry to Dave and Brandon. But when the round resumes, it’s like Henry goes into a trance the second the timer blares. He bashes Brandon with the same wild intensity, and Dave stops the round again and says that’s enough. He pulls Henry out of the ring and tells him, “You don’t realize your own strength.”

After sparring finishes for the night, Henry introduces himself to Brandon. They haven’t met before, and Henry apologizes again. The two of them shake hands and agree to spar again next time. Many of these guys will tell you it’s good fun to fight your friends, and then go out for a beer. “Henry has gifts,” Dave says. “He’s genetically gifted. He grew up in a tough neighborhood, and he learned how to scrap.” But Henry needs to learn how to control and focus his power. He needs to learn the skill and technique that will make that power effective in a 12-round bout.

When you’re in the ring, in some way you’re really trying to figure out how to live. The fight just provides the context for people to test and demonstrate their power. Boxers learn when to duck, when to punch back.

They learn how long they can sustain themselves. Henry, he fights like a guy who wants to pummel the world.

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needs to know she’s going to survive.

Israel is in there to experience some adventure before slogging back to the office. You always bring your whole life into the ring.

“Sometimes they’re in here fighting their fathers or their mothers,” Dave says, lounging on a wooden stool while everyone changes out of their boxing garb. He points to his head and says, “I mean up here.”

Dave says prizefighters are the nicest people he’s known. After people get out of the ring, they go back to the world with a sense of peace. “It makes it much easier not to fight.

Number one, you don’t have anything to prove, because you prove it in here.

And you don’t have the instinct,” Dave says. “The instinct is at least temporarily sublimated. For me, it was sublimated completely.”

Before Henry leaves for the night Dave tells him, “If you just stick to your aggression, you can’t learn the other kind of stuff you need.”

“Yes, coach,” Henry says. “See you tomorrow.”

Dave says goodnight and leaves it at that, even if it doesn’t seem like Henry appreciates the wisdom yet.

But Dave says he will learn eventually. A lot of fighters get in the ring and just try to pummel the world.

Eventually, though, someone else comes along and levels them. Then they understand that they have to grow. Other people get in the ring, and they don’t think they can do anything. These people often reveal power that had been unknown to them.

“It makes the proud humble, and the humble proud,” Dave says.

Monica won’t fight for the rest of her life. She says she doesn’t want her brain to turn to juice. “But for the rest of my life,” she says, “I’m going to know if I work really hard at something, I could probably do it.”

Everyone tells a different story. They all have their own purpose for being here. But the ring is always the same place. With the timer counting down and every punch echoing huge, with blood and sweat, you’re in there to claim your life. And when you’re finished, well, it’s like John says: “Once you get through that, you get out of that ring and you’re like, ‘Holy shit, life is easy.’”

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IN THE NAME OF RATINGS

How the entertainment business glamorizes drug lords and leaves victims behind

by Giselle Cesin

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n 1994, nearly 26 years ago, if anyone had told Pablo Escobar’s family — as they were desperately trying to flee Colombia after Pablo’s death — that they were going to become part of pop culture, they would have never believed it. The family of the infamous drug lord begged for asylum in several countries without luck. From neighboring countries in South America to as far away as Mozambique, the name Escobar carried a stigma that threatened to keep the family from settling down anywhere. Finally, Argentina accepted their asylum request, but only if they changed their identities.

It makes sense that the Escobars struggled in the wake of Pablo’s violent life and death.

Society condemns drug trafficking. Some of the world’s most atrocious crimes have been committed within the cartel’s underworld. Yet society can’t get enough of these narco stories, from TV shows, to movies and documentaries, drug lords are everywhere in pop culture.

Where there is blood and unthinkable violence, some see glitz and glam.

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love and admiration for his father: “Your dad was a badass”; “Long live the boss”; “He made mistakes, but he was a loving family man who helped so many people”; “I wish I could have met him”; “I want to be like him”; “Love Pablo.”

The list goes on.

Pablo Escobar’s death meant that his widow, Maria Victoria Henao, his son, Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, and his daughter, Manuela Escobar Henao, needed to erase their past to create a future. They started a new life in Argentina as María Isabel Santos Caballero, Sebastián Marroquín Santos and Juana Manuela Marroquín Santos. In 1999, Maria and Juan Pablo were arrested on money laundering charges in Argentina and the world found out about their whereabouts. They were released 15 months later because prosecutors could not find any evidence against them.

Once again, the family managed to stay under the radar until 2009 when Juan Pablo released Sins of my Father, a documentary that shows both Juan Pablo and his mother publicly speaking about their lives for the first time. But more significantly, Juan Pablo went to Colombia to meet the sons — and to ask for forgiveness BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

— of two of his father’s most famous victims: presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan and Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla.

For Juan Pablo, an architect and public speaker, it was not an easy decision. It meant leaving behind a life of anonymity to expose himself and his family to the media again. A risky choice, but “it was either that or to die in absolute silence,” he says over the phone from his home today in Argentina.

“I went public to ask for forgiveness in a time in Colombia where people were talking about war. No one trusted my intentions at first. They thought I was crazy. Now they know I am not.”

Perhaps part of the reason Juan Pablo was able to return to Colombia, and the spotlight, was that since 2006, the genre of narco telenovelas changed entertainment in Colombia and around the world. Drug trafficking and the violence related to it was considered taboo for decades. Now it is entertainment.

The genre spread from productions in Colombia and Mexico until it made the crossover to the United States in 2015 with Netflix’s Narcos. But before Narcos became one of the most “binge-watched” shows in the history of the platform, there was Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord, a Colombian show that aired in 2012 on Caracol TV, one of the country’s biggest networks.

The show was a smashing success.

It broke ratings in Colombia and internationally.

The producers, Camilo Cano and Juana Uribe, were personally affected by Pablo Escobar’s violence. Cano’s father, Guillermo Cano, publisher of the newspaper El Espectador, was murdered by Escobar’s associates in 1986. Escobar’s cartel kidnaped Uribe’s mother, and her uncle, presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, was killed at the drug lord’s orders in 1989.

Even though the show was written and produced by victims of Escobar’s violence, the final product was highly criticized and marked an unexpected turn in talking about drug trafficking; for the first time, the image of Pablo Escobar was romanticized to the point that the audience identified more with him than with the victims.

The narco-trafficking genre wasn’t “exploited” as entertainment before, according to Juan Pablo Escobar, until the “narco-telenovelas” found their way into prime time on Colombian television.

With the first two broadcast shows, Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso (Without Boobs BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

There Is No Paradise) and El Cartel de Los Sapos (The Cartel of Snitches), the media and the entertainment business realized they had a very lucrative market.

But it was Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord that Juan Pablo says projected his dad’s “fake idol” image out to the world.

“Although victims wrote the show, you didn’t know whether Pablo Escobar was successful, charming or evil,” says Juan Pablo. “It is shocking how these shows

pop-culture personality,” Juan Pablo says.

“The thing is, my dad was no Andy Warhol.”

It’s true that Pablo Escobar earned respect and appreciation from people in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia. He turned one of the city’s most impoverished communities into a decent neighborhood, built sports facilities, and provided food and medicine for poor communities. But that’s only half the story: He has

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can embellish history, creating fake idols.”

The impact goes further for Juan Pablo, who describes a new generation of “ultra-fanatics” of his father. Some have even tattooed the infamous drug lord’s face on their bodies.

“There is an irresponsible avalanche of misinformation around my dad because of these shows,” Juan Pablo says. “From quotes he never said to false myths that only portray him as a hero.”

The myth of Pablo Escobar as a legend, someone worthy of adoration, has grown out of proportion according to his son because of mass media in Colombia and around the world.

“In the last few years, the media and entertainment business turned him into a JUAN PABLO ESCOBAR AS a child with his father, Pablo. Juan Pablo travels around the world today talking to young people about the dangers of drug trafficking.

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been credited with the detonation of 195 bombs, organizing 623 attacks and, perhaps most famously, bombing a commercial airplane with 111 passengers on board. Overall, 5,500 people died related to the violence of Escobar’s cartel between 1989 and 1993, according to official police records.

It might be hard to understand how Colombian society let the narco-trafficking genre become their No. 1 choice of television entertainment considering that, in the last 60 years, the country has seen 262,197 deaths related to violent groups like cartels, according to the Historic Memorial National Center of Bogotá. For Juan Pablo, the reason is due to the “double standards” of the media.

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right after they will air a telenovela praising the life of narco lords,” Juan Pablo says.

Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, a politician and senator in Colombia, condemns the way the media has turned such a delicate topic into a money-making entertainment machine. Lara was 8 years old when his dad, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, the former Minister of Justice of Colombia, was slain for standing against Escobar and his cartel in 1984. Lara is horrified by the extent of the narco culture in society.

For Lara, the main problem with these shows is that violence, criminality and corruption cannot be taken lightly.

“Characters such as Pablo Escobar cannot be humanized,” Lara says, because it gives a sense of normalcy to heinous crimes. “I think in Germany it would be unthinkable to do a TV show where they humanized Hitler.”

Lara compares the “normalization” of the crime and violence of the narco world in TV shows with the philosophical concept of “banality of evil,” introduced by philosopher Hannah Ardent in her 1963 report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Ardent, a Holocaust survivor, argued that Eichmann’s crimes were committed daily, not because he was inherently evil, but because he was a member of the Nazi party and was following orders without remorse. She used the word “banal” to explain that for Eichmann, the crimes committed against Jews were ordinary because it was happening every day in all the Nazi territories.

For Lara, when producers take the history of a criminal like Pablo Escobar and adapt it for a TV show, they end up banalizing the harm; episode by episode, society starts to see the violence from drug lords and their cartels as something normal.

“In a fictional show, even if it includes historical facts, like in Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord, the writers needed to entertain the audience by showing the charming, successful and family side of Escobar, minimizing the extent of his crimes,” Lara says.

Following the same idea, Juan Pablo believes that to reconstruct such a complicated and traumatic story, it has to be without fiction, without glamorizing his dad’s crimes.

“The victims deserve the absolute truth,” he says. “It is the only way to try to repair the damage caused.”

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lence, but in the end they want to sell a product. In the case of Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord, Lara was approached by the producers, Cano and Uribe, and after reading the script he told them he didn’t support their project.

“You can’t banalize evil like that, especially people who were victims themselves,” Lara says.

Juan Pablo is shocked and worried by the flourishing number of Pablo Escobar fans around the world, from a Russian guy who sent him a photo proudly showing how he tattooed his entire back with Pablo’s face, to youngsters asking Juan Pablo how to get into the drug trafficking business.

“I receive fan mail and thousands of comments on social media from people asking me how to become narcos,” Juan Pablo says. “Even from Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan. I don’t even know how they got access to these shows there. It’s out of control.”

Kenneth Dowler, a professor from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada who teaches courses on crime, gangs and justice, says that the fascination with gangsters and drug lords is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the gangster genre has been prominent since the 1930s with James Cagney films like The Public Enemy (1931). In 1934, after a few particularly risque films, the “Hays Code” set out some guidelines for the motion pic-

ture industry. From then on, gangsters would either have to die or be imprisoned at the end of the film. Basically, according to Dowler, they wanted to show the idea that crime doesn’t pay.

Like the older Italian mafia films, more recent series on drug lords romanticize the characters and glamorize the misdeeds of the protagonist, according to Dowler. In series that are based on true stories, they minimize the harms of their crimes on society because the producers want the audience to relate to the lead character in some way, even if they are criminals who commit unthinkable violence.

“Producers don’t show the true consequences of the crimes committed by the protagonists because they need the audience to relate to them,” Dowler says.

“They can’t show them as entirely evil, so they make them cartoonish in a way.

Indeed, they show murder and violence, but minimizing the harms to society.”

Andrés López López is on both sides of the spectrum, from being a drug lord himself to winning an Emmy as a producer and writer of a narco series. López was a high-ranking member of the Cartel del Norte del Valle in Colombia. The

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A FAN OF PABLO ESCOBAR shows off a tattoo of the drug lord on his back. Juan Pablo Escobar encounters such “super fans” often at his talks.

group gained power after Pablo Joshua Mintz, a Mexican television Escobar’s death, allegedly smuggling 60 executive and producer, is the mind percent of the total amount of cocaine to behind two of the biggest narco-telenovethe United States in the ’90s. las in history, El Señor de Los Cielos Nowadays, López lives in Miami and (Lord of the Skies), and La Reina del Sur has since paid his debt to society after he (The Queen of the South). Mintz’ produccut a deal with the Drug Enforcement tions morphed Mexico’s well-known Agency in the early 2000s. From a bunk cheesy soap operas into elaborate series bed in a Florida prison, López wrote a that mixed fiction with historical facts book that later became the second-ever about the drug business and violence in narco TV show in Colombia, The Snitch the country.

Cartel. The show was so successful that Controversy has erupted from these it later became a film, and López wrote productions. Last year, Mauricio more books and collaborated with the Ochmann, the actor who played one of production of other fictional narco telethe most notorious fictional drug lords of novelas.

El Senor de Los Cielos, announced he López says that by telling these stowas not going to play the character anyries they are not look- COURTESY OF RODRIGO LARA RESTREPO more because chiling to teach society a dren of all ages were lesson, but to entertelling him how much tain. That is the reathey idolized his charson why violent proacter, El Chema. tagonists are romantiFor Mintz, it is not cized in these shows. the media that cre“If you make a ates social realities, character too evil, the but the other way audience will hate around. them, and the show “I don’t think that will be a failure,” he because there are says. “The entertainmore TV shows about ment business is narcos, there is going meant to be enjoyed to be more drug trafby the audience.” ficking,” he says.“It is RODRIGO LARA Beyond high ratlike saying that children will jump from RESTREPO, a ings and profits, balconies thinking they can fly after senator in Colombia, is the Dowler believes narco watching Batman.” son of the late movies and series proIt is “relatively rare,” according to Rodrigo Lara vide no real benefit to Dowler, the professor who studies Bonilla, who was slain by Escobar’s society because these crime in Canada, that people who are cartel in 1984. series don’t fully fascinated with gangsters will become explore violence and gangsters themselves. People like social costs, nor do they explore the eco- watching true crime entertainment because it provides an escape from a nomic issues that go along with having somewhat mundane existence — the national economies rely heavily on drug viewer can vicariously live out the fantasy trafficking and the corruption that goes of being powerful and wealthy, Dowler with it. Furthermore, these productions don’t show how the everyday person who says, even through illegal means. It is, in a way, a dark version of the American lives close to the cartels has to deal with dream. the outcomes of drug violence.

Most criminals, Dowler says, live dayFor López, it’s crystal clear that the to-day escaping justice, in and out of jail, protagonists of these shows are antiwith traumatic consequences for their heroes.

“We are not trying to tell the audience family members in most cases. It’s a lifestyle that most people wouldn’t want to to follow their examples,” he says. “In fact, we show how they all have bad end- live, but narco shows have driven popular culture to minimize these facts. ings.”

Juan Pablo is not against telling his Still, the narco genre in popular culfather’s story — he has, in fact, made ture should not be considered an educational tool for society, according to López. money off of it, producing two documen“It is not up to Netflix or producers to taries and writing two books. He is critical of shows that tell a glamorized version of educate society. We as parents are in a complicated and traumatic story. He charge of teaching our kids,” he says. insists he reveals the real story so history “Plus, there are other shows and content to do so.”

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won’t repeat itself — so there won’t be another Pablo Escobar. According to Juan Pablo, that is the reason his two documentaries are not on the Netflix platform, and also why Netflix declined his help in creating the first two seasons of Narcos that focused on his father.

“If I had wanted to tell the side of the story that involved parties, excess and wealth, they will be showing my documentaries right now,” he says.

There was a time when Juan Pablo had a $4 million tag on his head just because he was Pablo’s son. His sister, Manuela, lost partial hearing after a bomb exploded outside of the family home. His dad’s last years were spent hiding and escaping death, his family caught in the middle.

Juan Pablo says that living in hiding, especially in those final years, was not done in mansions surrounded by beautiful women. It was scary and precarious.

“I remember once when I was hiding with my dad in a rural house, and we couldn’t buy food, and we had $4 million in cash with us,” Juan Pablo says. “Yet we were starving.”

Today Juan Pablo travels around the world promoting his books and talking about the violent realities of his father’s life. Still, his father’s “rockstar” persona precedes him. Once on a book signing in Lithuania, he was greeted by people screaming, “The flesh,” referring to him as being the flesh of the “Almighty Escobar.”

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ANDRÉS LÓPEZ LÓPEZ is a former high-ranking member of a drug cartel who won an Emmy for his work on a narco series.

But there is one story that gives Juan Pablo hope his books and documentaries are having a positive impact on society. While at a book signing in Argentina, a 13-yearold boy told Juan Pablo that his dad drove him 250 miles to meet him. The kid had brought copies of Juan Pablo’s books, worn and highlighted with notes.

The boy said he became a fan of Pablo Escobar after watching the Colombian show about the drug lord with his grandmother.

Then the boy gave Juan Pablo a letter.

“He said that after watching the show, he wanted to be like my dad, he wanted to be a bandit,” Juan Pablo says. “Then he read my books, and he no longer wanted to be a drug lord but a journalist.”

While Juan Pablo gets paid for many of his conferences, he gives just as many free ones to communities with at-risk youth, especially in Mexican cities that are overcome with cartel violence. He claims to have reached out to more than 100,000 at-risk Mexican teenagers to tell them why he decided not to be a criminal.

“Being an architect is not as profitable as being a narco, but I live a tranquil life,” Juan Pablo says. “In the end, my dad, with all the money in the world, couldn’t buy peace.”

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Lara Restrepo is glad he never had the chance to see any of these billboards; he is disturbed by how mass media has irresponsibly used Escobar’s image to create a money-making brand. The audience gets mesmerized by a man who caused irreparable damage to society, while Lara lives through the outrage of seeing his father’s murderer immortalized.

The Narcos boom even created a phenomenon of “narco tours” in Medellín, Colombia. People from all over the world travel to Escobar’s hometown to visit the infamous Hacienda Nápoles, the wellknown compound the drug lord turned into a zoo; La Catedral, the prison he built for himself; his grave, and other key sites. Even one of Escobar’s former hitmen, today a YouTube sensation, gives tours, and Escobar’s brother Roberto worked as a tour guide too. There was no focus on the victims, only celebration of Pablo.

The narco tours outraged the City of Medellín to the point that the mayor closed Roberto Escobar’s museum — he was charging $35 per visit, per person — and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

demolished Escobar’s last residence, Monaco Building.

The City also began offering tours to focus on

JUAN PABLO signs autographs at one of his speaking engagements.

the victims’ stories.

The Narcos’ effect even made it to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s trial in New York this January. One of the world’s most notorious drug lords and the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, El Chapo became well-known for his many prison breaks, his ruthless war against rivals and for being, like Pablo Escobar, a benefactor of the poor. The trial was heavily guarded; still, writers from Narcos were there, taking notes for future episodes.

During the trial, the actor who plays the drug lord on the Netflix show, Alejandro Edda, waited in line and entered the trial as part of the public. Once inside, he approached Guzmán’s lawyers and told them who he was. The real El Chapo acknowledged Edda and nodded, giving him his approval.

Edda said the reason he went was to study Guzmán’s mannerisms for the upcoming season of the show. He left the trial after his brief, “surreal” encounter with El Chapo, “shaking.” The next day, it was not the gruesome details of the tortures and killings ordered by Guzmán that made headlines, but how El Chapo met El Chapo.

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The work lies ahead

Kenyan-born folk singer J.S. Ondara grapples with life in America

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he last time J.S. Ondara was in Colorado, he opened for Lindsey Buckingham, of Fleetwood Mac fame, finding himself not only in the middle of a country he had always dreamed about, but performing alongside someone he never fathomed meeting.

“It was very surreal and bizarre, but in some way,” says the 26-year-old Kenyan-born American folk singer, “that’s what my life has turned into recently: It’s just this bizarre thing that I don’t know what you make of.”

Ondara’s first release, Tales of America, begins back in Kenya with a dream. “It’s just some unreasonable, dumb vision by a kid, which somehow found its way into fruition,” he says of the record’s genesis. “So I think it’s destiny in a way.”

Ondara grew up in Nairobi listening to rock songs, building his English vocabulary with help from Axl Rose, Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke, struggling to fully comprehend the meaning behind the words. It wasn’t until high school when he was introduced to American folk, strangely enough because he lost a bet, arguing that Guns N’ Roses wrote “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” not this Bob Dylan his friend was going on about.

“Discovering folk music happened quite accidentally,” he says.

“Discovering the music of Dylan that way and [then] falling into this rabbit hole of folk music that I’m still digging myself into further every day, really.”

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“It’s such a universal thing, whether you were in America or Kenya or anywhere else. I was just flabbergasted that I wasn’t aware of that music before.”

With this discovery came a dream, to write and record in America himself, contributing to the vast collection of folk music with an album titled Tales of America. Just as Dylan told the story of the ’60s, Ondara would tell the story of his generation. Ondara applied for school in the U.S., he applied for jobs, trying anything and everything to get a visa, all to no avail. Then one morning, about six years ago, his sister came into his room and said, “You’re going to America,” he remembers. Turns out an aunt had submitted a bunch of BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

family members’ names into a green card lottery and Ondara was the only one selected.

“I tried everything else and I failed,” he says. “At this moment when I didn’t know what to do next, this green card finds me.”

He moved to Minnesota where some relatives lived (also the birthplace of Dylan) at age 20. Once there, Ondara taught himself to play the guitar, something he never had access to as a kid growing up in Kenya. And he continued on what he calls the “lonely journey” toward music, something he didn’t really share with close family and friends.

JOSH CHEUSE “It was almost a taboo in a way, I just couldn’t be open about it,” he says. Still, he was persistent and started playing open mics in Minneapolis, eventually landing a record deal for Tales of America.

Recently he was on the phone with an aunt trying to explain to her that it really was him singing online. She assumed he was lip-syncing, he says.

While the album got its start with a dream in Kenya, its content is focused on Ondara’s life in the U.S., starting with possibility, hope and prospect in “American Dream.” He then weaves his way through the immigrant experience, making it clear he believes in the American dream despite its complexities with songs like “Saying Goodbye” and “Days of Insanity.” But that faith soon turns to disillusionment as the reality of life in America is much more complicated than the idea of it.

“She said there was milk/ Well she said there was honey/ Instead there was bills/ And not enough money” he sings a capella in “Turkish Bandana” before closing the song in a high, sweeping falsetto, admitting his fear of the police living as a black man in America.

Ondara doesn’t wallow in that despair, however. By the end of the record, “I’m finding peace in some way with America,” he says, “with what it is realizing that, oh, this is a very troubled place. It’s great, but it can be a lot better.”

The closing song, “God Bless America,” is both a statement and a prayer, confessing the worst, hoping it makes us better in the end.

“As fond as I am of the American dream and of America for granting me this opportunity to become a folk singer and a storyteller, I’m also very, very conscious of the fact that the country is going through lots of troubles at the moment and the work lies ahead,” he says.

“I’m trying to see if there’s this little part I can play in influencing things towards a better place, towards a more positive place.”

Both in Ondara’s story and music, it appears as though the American dream is alive and well.

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ry to describe a sunset without using colors; think about how it feels, how the air smells, perhaps about the sounds that arise at dusk. Now image how you would draw a sunset if you couldn’t see — if you’d never been able to see. Even harder: Imagine teaching someone who can’t see how to draw a sunset.

Ann Cunningham has made a career out of doing just that, teaching art for the past 20 years at the Colorado Center for the Blind (CCB), and though her retirement is on the horizon, Cunningham is hopeful that the art program will continue to thrive.

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by Marysia Lopez Cunningham had an exhibit of her slate carvings at Naropa University, when she began to wonder if someone who was blind could essentially “see” her artwork through touch. From there, Cunningham started conducting her own research on the subject, reaching out to experts in the field, organizing art exhibits specifically for the visually impaired with help from several grants. Eventually she found herself at CCB. “Initially, I thought it was going to be a sad place,” Cunningham says. “But I was wrong. It was a happy place, and everyone was so welcoming.”

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He asked Cunningham to make the stairs again, paying special attention to each step, then close her eyes and do it again — then, she could teach him.

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A mandatory part outside the classof the art program at room. When one stuCCB is a 23-week dent placed sharp drawing class. In this grooves between the class, students first trees of her landlearn to interpret picscape, Cunningham tures by using a was initially confused touch book that until she realized the Cunningham created grooves were meant with the help of to represent the sunDeborah Kent, a proshine beaming down lific author of chilbetween the trees. dren’s novels of all Some may wongenres. In 1996, der why teaching art Kent wrote a collecto the visually tion of biographies of impaired is important famous people who at a place like CCB, were blind called where students go to Extraordinary People learn everyday with Disabilities. essentials such as The ridged outreading Braille and lines and texture of traveling with a cane.

Above: Art student , Christina Laty, in class. the pictures in “A whole lot of what Below: Monique Melton, coordiCunninghams’s touch rehab is about at the center nator of enrichment courses, sortbook allow students, is building confidence,” ing through drawings by the students in their tactile drawing some of whom have Cunningham explains. “We class. been blind their entire try to send everybody out lives, to dissect the with the confidence that image in front of them through touch. After they can learn anything.” learning to interpret the picture plane, Teaching the students at CCB how to Cunningham can then teach them about interpret a picture and ultimately make their complex concepts such as perspective. own works of art is a way for them to tackle From there, as Cunningham puts it, “there something they likely previously thought is no limit.” they could never do, thereby giving them She fondly recalls one class project the confidence needed to take on new during which the students were asked to challenges. Additionally, there’s the added recreate the landscape they had explored benefit of introducing the students to a creMARCH 28, 2019

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After 20 years of teaching art at CCB, Cunningham has seen how much these classes help build her students’ selfesteem. Understandably, she was nervous about the future of the art program once she decided to retire later this year. But when it came time for Cunningham to look for another teacher that would continue the program, she had to look no further than the walls of her own classroom.

Cunningham’s former student Jenny became blind in 2013 and enrolled as a CCB student two years later. Shortly after Jenny graduated from the program, Cunningham was able to take various art courses with Jenny and train her to teach art. This was all possible with the assistance of an Arts in Society grant. Now, Jenny teaches ceramics every Friday at CCB, completely on her own.

Currently, Cunningham is busy trying to raise money to create more touch books for blind art students, which help her teach them about different art concepts.

“I really wanted to be able to leave the center and know the program is going to go on,” she says. “I’m feeling very, very good about that right now. I don’t see it going away.”

If you’d like to see the artwork of the students at CCB, their work is on display every fall semester at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton. If you’d like to donate to CCB, a leader in independence training for people who are blind, please visit cocenter.org.

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Ayla Nereo — with Elijah Ray, Amber Lily.

7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Ayla Nereo builds layers of vocal melodies into lush loop-pedal harmonies, weaving syncopated threads of guitar, kalimba, piano and percussion into her live performances. Joining Nereo is fellow Hawaiian Elijah Ray and Boulderbased songbird Amber Lily. see EVENTS Page 38

events FRONT DERANGED IMPROV COMEDY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

The Front deRanged Improv Comedy Troupe is celebrating six years of funny, and they want you to celebrate with them. Their show features fun, off-the-cuff humor that relies on audience suggestions, so really, you’re pretty necessary. This is a show for adults, so leave the kids with the babysitter. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 the day of the show, jesterstheatre.com.

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SPRINGBREAK CHOREOFEST 2019.

6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 31, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

‘TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY OF THE DEEP NORTH.’ 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

SPRINGbreak ChoreoFest is an incubator for modern and contemporary dance choreography for emerging and seasoned artists.

Beginning on Wednesday, March 27 and running through March 31, dancers and choreographers will work together to create a new dance work-in-progress. All choreography must be created within this week, though ideas and movement sequences may be preconceived and brought in to workshop. Performed in the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center, this is open to the public. Tickets are $25, $20 for seniors and students, thedairy.org.

In ‘Traces of the Trade,’ producer/director Katrina Browne tells the story of her forefathers, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Viewers will be surprised to learn that Browne’s ancestors were Northerners. The film follows Browne and nine fellow family members on a remarkable journey that brings them face to face with the history and legacy of New England’s hidden enterprise. There will be a potluck supper beginning at 5:30, then a screening of the film followed by a conversation led by Rev. Pedro Silva, associate minister of First Congregational Church Boulder.

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Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Mesa de Português. 4 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Doug Walsh — Tailwinds Past Florence 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY MARCH 28 BOULDER ARTS WEEK

CAROLYN HUNTER 8PM THE ABBEY ELMORE BAND 9PM FRIDAY MARCH 29

Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

SUNDAY, MARCH 31 Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Katie Arnold — Running Home.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m.

Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

LEHUA M. TAITANO is a queer Chamorro writer and interdisciplinary artist from Guam. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, ‘Inside Me an Island’ (WordTech Editions) and ‘A Bell Made of Stones’ (TinFish Press). Her work explores what it means to be a queer, mixed-race, indigenous islander living in diaspora.

Peace Corps Storytelling Night.

5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

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

Tirzah Firestone — Wounds into Wisdom.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 Lehua Taitano. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstor & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

MFA Showcase: Riley Bartlett. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Laurie Halse Anderson — SHOUT. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

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The Abbey Elmore Band, Carolyn Hunter.

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

Clandestine Amigo Duo. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-7761914.

The Cream Cheese Accident, Consider the Source. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

John Kadlecik’s West Philly Fade Away featuring John Kadlecik (Furthur), Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

The Last Revel. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Live Music Thursdays. 6 p.m. On Point Distillery, 802 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303284-3683.

Prateek Kuhad. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

All movies show at the Dairy Arts Center’s Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, thedairy.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28 ‘The Gospel of Eureka.’ 4:30 p.m.

‘Styx.’ 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 ‘The Gospel of Eureka.’ 2:30

p.m. and 7 p.m.

‘Styx.’ 4:30 p.m.

‘Winter’s Bone.’ 8:45 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30 ‘The Gospel of Eureka.’ 7:15 p.m.

‘Styx.’ 8:45 p.m.

SUNDAY, MARCH 31 ‘Don Quixote Royal Ballet.’

1 p.m.

‘Never Look Away.’ 4:30 p.m.

The CBDs. 7:30 p.m. Full Cycle Bikes, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-499-1829.

Mary Poppins Spring Break Camp. 9 a.m.

Kinesis Dance, 5603 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 6, Boulder, 720-515-6268.

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Rob Sonic. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-449-4885.

Swing Night — with Chez Coucou. 8 p.m.

The Waterloo, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303522-6162.

Prairie Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm, Boulder.

Events

Thursday Cinema Local Filmmakers’ Showcase ‘Mondo Hollywood’ (120 min.).

6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

FRIDAY APRIL 5

RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS 8PM Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day

Birding Through the Seasons Slide Program. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Family Viewing ‘The Russians are Coming!

The Russians are Coming!’ 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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1 p.m.

‘Cold War.’ 4:30 p.m.

‘Joseph Pulitzer Voice of the People.’ 7 p.m.

‘Gunga Din.’ 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont.

Natalie Kramer: Merging Science and Sport. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4407666.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 2 ‘Never Look Away.’ 6:30 p.m.

Opera, 554 S. Broadway, Denver, 720-456-7041.

RYAN HUTCHENS 8PM SAM WEBER 9PM STEVE ITTERLY 8PM THE MOONLIT WILD 9PM

MONDAY, APRIL 1 ‘Never Look Away.’ 6:30 p.m.

Front deRanged Improv Comedy Sixth Anniversary Show. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980.

The Return Of Spring — Whispering Radio Artists Bob ‘Chaz’ Baker and Adam Andrews. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Music

Casey James Prestwood and the Burning Angels. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Cellissimo Concert. 6:30 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-499-9119.

Colorado Americana — with South To Cedars, Sugar Britches and The Wyatts.

8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Cosmic Collective, Estella Dawn.

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

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz and Swing. 7:30 p.m.

Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House, 985 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-875-7514.

Ghost Light. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Antonio Sanchez and Migration. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Grateful Dawg Sessions. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Brother and The Hayes. 8 p.m. Syntax Physic

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theater 1984. Benchmark Theatre Company, 40West Arts, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through April 13.

The Basque Things in Life. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through April 14.

Between Us. Denver Center for Performing Arts Off Center, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 26.

Chicano Power 1969: Fire in the Streets & War of the Flowers. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

Through March 31.

The Diary of Anne Frank. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17.

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

Every Brilliant Thing. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora.

Through April 14.

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A LANDMARK IN AMERICAN drama, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Our Town’ tells the story of a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. We follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through 12 years of life changes. Miner’s Alley Playhouse in Golden presents ‘Our Town,’ through April 28.

Denver. Through March 31.

Seven Revels — presented by Royal Players Guild. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Through March 31.

Silent Sky — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen.

Through April 7.

Sin Street Social Club. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Through May 19.

Everything was Stolen. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Through March 30.

Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

Skeleton Crew. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver.

Through April 13.

Hello, Dolly! Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theater, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through April 7.

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

Three Billy Goats Gruff — presented

by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre.

Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 27.

Our Town. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden.

Through April 28.

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

Potted Potter. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave.,

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport

Xanadu. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through March 31.

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Ímar. 7 p.m. Planet Bluegrass Wildflower Pavilion, 500 W. Main St., Lyons.

JD McPherson — with JP Harris. 9 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Johnny Johnston. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214770-9847.

Lost Dog Ensemble (Tom Waits Tribute) Performs Mule Variations. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

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

One Painting at a Time: Dennis Scholl. 1 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880.

Pacific Dub. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Shawn Cunnane and Art Opening for Michael P. Herrick. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Spring Swing. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

The Symbols. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Tenbucksixer. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Events Alice in Wonderland: A Circus Adventure.

7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-919-4171.

Boulder International Film Festival shorts program. Noon. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Godfrey. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. More performance times at denver.improv.com.

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Hendershot. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Open Wall. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Joe Cool Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-6004875.

‘Son of Frankenstein.’ 7 p.m. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

The John Bunzli Band. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214770-9847.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

Kansas. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Music Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234.

Bob Nanna, Mark Rose. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

The Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents ‘Symphonic Arrangements.’ 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

Ayla Nereo — with Elijah Ray, Amber Lily.

7 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Chonda Pierce — Still Laughing. 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

King Buffalo. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Lamb Of God Oratorio. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Laser Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Led. 9 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.

7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

No Kicks. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Peak2Peak. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

The Cosmic Collective and Carmen Sandim Trio. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Robyn Hitchcock. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

David Booker Trio. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

Switchfoot, Tyson Motsenbocker. 7 p.m.

Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Delta Sonics Duo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Diana Ross Tribute: The Mary Louise Lee Band. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

El Javi Trio. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Eli Pafumi, Ethan Mindlin Jones, Lucas Wolf. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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Teenage Bottlerocket. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Tim O’Brien — with Masontown. 6:30 p.m.

The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Walker & Royce. 7:30 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. see EVENTS Page 42

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Through April 14.

All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through May 26.

Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver.

Through May 26.

Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder.

Through May 27.

Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies.

CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.

THE MIRROR, BY ALI COWEL

‘AN ACT OF SELECTION,’ co-curated by Kevin Hoth, features the photography of Dan Baumbach, Leslee Broersma, Christopher Carruth, Ali Cowel, Teri Havens, Kevin Hoth, Rebecca Stumpf and Preston Utley. This is one of three exhibits the Dairy Arts Center is presenting for Month of Photography. ‘An Act of Selection’ examines unreal photo manipulations. Now showing through April 14.

Entropy — Angela Faris Belt. Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 19.

Everyday Magic: Mixed Media Paintings by Arthur Secunda. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through April 6.

First Reruns — Photographs from ’90s TV Shows, by George Lange. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison and MacMillan Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14.

Frédérique Daubal: Vibrant Femmes. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St.,

Boulder. Through April 14.

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

Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through April 21.

Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20.

Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder.

Through May 5.

Month of Photography: Noah Mclaurine and Leah Schretenthaler. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through April 7.

Our Planet — Art Exhibition on the Environment in a Changing Climate. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery I & Gallery ll, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through May. Water Flow: Under the Colorado River. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 26.

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Zeppephilia — Pure Zeppelin Live. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Events Dance with a Doc. 10 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Double Feature: ‘Incoming!’/’Solar Superstorms.’ 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. More shows at colorado.edu/fiske.

Film Screening of ‘Pioneers.’ 5 p.m.

Museum of Boulder at the Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

‘Gone With The Wind.’ 7 p.m. New Trojan Movie House, 513 Main St., Longmont.

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

Killthascene’s 2019 Underground Hip-Hop Showcase. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516.

Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology | open-mic / pop-up. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720885-1234.

Trace Jory, The Outside Voices. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

String Fever Concert: Boulder Arts Week.

1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events

P!NK: Beautiful Trauma World Tour. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Animation Station Pop-Up Studio. 10 a.m.

Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

Collaboratory: Nirvamlet, the last chord.

7:30 p.m. Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder.

The Vagina Monologues. 8 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Colorado Blues Society IBC Challenge.

1 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Demetri Martin — Wandering Mind Tour. 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Double Feature: Bella Gaia / Solar Superstorms. 3 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. More shows at colorado.edu/fiske.

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Lowfaith. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Mom and Baby Classes. 11:15 a.m. Birth Center of Boulder, 2800 Folsom St., Boulder, 720-608-0176.

Spring Fling Stop and Shop. 10 a.m. The Bridge at Longmont, 2444 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-774-8255.

Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Laura Jane Grace and The Devouring Mothers. 6:30 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Synesthesia Chamber Music. 4 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Spring Awakening — Bears in our Backyard. 1 p.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder.

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Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

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Grant and Tone. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Nimesh Patel. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More performances at comedyworks.com.

SPRINGbreak ChoreoFest 2019. 6:30 p.m.

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Pick Up a Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968.

The Riverside, Seth Brand. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731.

Smino – Hoopti Tour. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drop In Aerial Foundations. 5:45 p.m.

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E.Sterling Cr. Ste 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.

Tesla. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

The Vagina Monologues. 2 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787.

Music

MONDAY, APRIL 1

Guest Master Class: Redmond O’Toole, classical guitar. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Music Ann Marie. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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CU INFO. THURSDAY, MARCH 28

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

Free Screening of Emmy Award-Winning Film: Chasing Coral. 12:30 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.

CBIS Talk: The Wall in the North (of England) or Shakespeare and “the office of wall” — Dr. Adam N. McKeown, Tulane University. 5 p.m. Norlin Library, M549 (British and Irish Studies Room), 1157 18th St., Boulder

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Thursday March 28

John KadleciK’s WesT Philly Fade aWay

FeaT John KadleciK (FurThur), Marc BroWnsTein & aron Magner (disco BiscuiTs), MiKe greenField (loTus) & JaMie shields (The neW deal) W/ luKe The KniFe & Friends

Friday March 29

dance ParTy TiMe Machine

FeaT Marc BroWnsTein & allen aucoin (disco BiscuiTs), MiKe greenField (loTus), JaMie shields (The neW deal), JeFF Franca (Thievery corPoraTion) & ryan JalBerT (The MoTeT) W/ MeMBers oF analog son, yaMn & Tiger ParTy

Thursday March 28

young nudy

W/ draKo, ransTeez, scrogginsallday, KyTae, lil saTanaa & gunna gunna

Friday March 29

The Big Wu W/ The WorKshy

saTurday March 30

The dirTy geMs

W/ nadasound, MiKey Thunder, PaTricK sKyler & BloTTer Bunch

sunday March 31

The sPring KicK-oFF

FeaT delirious neBula, The Weird, unPaid overTiMe, Bodango, TrouBle Bound, sTay gyPsy, Feens ,shWarMa & cool accenT

Monday aPril 1

ann Marie

saTurday March 30

W/ young B & lyric croFT

W/ KingFriday The 13Th

Tuesday aPril 2

ghosT lighT Thursday aPril 4

ThouxanBanFauni

W/ Warhol.s.s., ghoulavelli, slouch, aBhK, hyFy & TahaThaKidd

Friday aPril 5

chali 2na + cuT cheMisT

sTeve’n’seagulls W/ clusTerPlucK

Wednesday aPril 3 re: search

liTTle PeoPle

W/ Marley carroll (laTe seT), guggenz, MiKey Thunder & Jordan Polovina

Thursday aPril 4

(one collaBoraTive seT) W/ Jordan Polovina, Thin air creW, oTis & J.o.B.

W/ Thin air – PicKin’ on WidesPread Panic

sold ouT!

Friday aPril 5

Jazz is Phsh

earl sWeaTshirT & Friends

roBerT WalTer’s 20Th congress & euForquesTra

Friday aPril 12

saTurday aPril 6

Thursday aPril 11

W/ BByMuTha & liv.e

shoreline MaFia saTurday aPril 13

Krs-one

W/ reve Kalell, arKus, sToneWall Blvd, resonaTe & old soul era

Wednesday aPril 17

daBaBy

W/ sTunna 4 vegas, Mi$FiTs & Treco

Friday aPril 19

JeFF ausTin

W/ larry Keel, laney lou and The Bird dogs

saTurday aPril 20

MeThod Man & redMan

W/ cunninlynguisTs, devin The dude & ProxiMiTy

Thursday aPril 25

on The cineMa aT The cineMa live!

FeaT TiM heidecKer & gregg TurKingTon

Friday & saTurday aPril 26-27

Bluegrass generals

FeaT chris PandolFi & andy hall (inFaMous sTringdusTers), WilliaM aPosTol, MiMi naJa (FruiTion), MiKe devol (greensKy Bluegrass) 4/26: The Billy Failing Band FeaT Billy Failing, silas herMan & eric Thorin 4/27: TurKeyFooT

Tuesday aPril 30

sage Francis & B. dolan ePic Beard Men W/ vocKah redu

Thursday May 2

daily Bread

W/ suPervision, Mux Mool & guggenz

saTurday May 4

sTarT MaKing sense W/ WaKe uP & live

Friday May 10 - dual venue!

The uniFied Field FeaT BreaK science

W/ Kll sMTh, ill-ésha, MoonTricKs, Janover, Melody lines & loWPro. oFFicial sonic BlooM Pre-ParTy

saTurday May 11

cory henry’s The revival FeaT Taron locKeTT & isaiah sharKey

Friday May 17 dual venue!

WooKieFooT & MiKe love

W/ elder groWn

MicKey avalon & dirT nasTy W/ PdF, nevv & luvsicK

Wednesday aPril 10

FeaT exMag

(W/ nicK gerlach oF Michal MenerT) W/ lWKy, Plaid haWaii (laTe seT), MiKey Thunder & Jordan Polovina

Thursday aPril 11

Joey PorTer’s viTal organ & Phour.o (laTe seT)

W/ dave halchaK & Friends (FeaT MeMBers oF duBsKin, a-Mac & The heighT & rasTasaurus)

Friday aPril 12

dave WaTTs & Friends FeaT Todd sTooPs, garreTT sayers, KiM daWson, ausTin zalaTel, gaBriel Mervine & dJ WilliaMs W/ Michelle sarah Band & BooT gun

saTurday aPril 13

K+laB

W/ casio caTs, TorTuga & caT ParTy

Monday aPril 15

draKe Bell

W/ BluPrinT, sadBoiz & Wes luna

Tuesday aPril 16

aaron KaMM & The 1 droPs

W/ green Buddha & Kaleid

Wednesday aPril 17 re: search

PsyMBionic

W/ greaT dane (laTe seT), aniMaTed earTh, MiKey Thunder & Jordan Polovina

Thursday aPril 18

JeFF ausTin Band

W/ old salT union & ghosT ToWn driFTers

Friday aPril 19

escorT

saTurday aPril 20 early shoW!

Mod sun

W/ rdgldgrn & squid gang

Tuesday aPril 23

reggae Tuesdays

duBBesT

W/ duB haiKu, MounTainus

Wednesday aPril 24 re: search

J.i.d.

Musicology Colloquium: Michael Callahan, Michigan State University. 2 p.m. Imig Music, C113 Conference Room, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Student Recitals: Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral musicians. 5 p.m. Imig Music, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Trivia Night. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), The Connection, first floor UMC ,1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Engineering Exploration. 6 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder Campus, Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Practicum Lecture Series: Micol Hebron. 6 p.m.

Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Building Auditorium 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 2019 Transportation Expo. 2 p.m. Balch Fieldhouse, 1995 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

AIA Lecture: The Lives of Ancient Maya Commoners: How Could We Have Been So Wrong?

7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall,1035 Broadway, Boulder.

What is space weather and why should I care?

7:30 p.m. LASP Space Technology Building, Room 299 (2nd floor auditorium), 1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder.

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J.S. Ondara. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Snark Attack. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Julia Michaels. 7 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

Let the Beat Speak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Music Entrepreneur Club. 2 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-7775840.

Ten Fé. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

West Coast Swing dance lessons. 5:30 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 310-614-6853.

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. 7 p.m.

Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100..

Comedy Open Mic. 7 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Ave., Unit 180, Boulder, 303-9976134.

Count Me In Boulder Volunteer Training.

6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

W/ daniel rodriguez Band (oF elePhanT revival)

Friday aPril 26

Murs

Wednesday May 1 re: search

TruFeelz & FunKsTaTiK

W/ ryan viser (laTe seT), MiKey Thunder & Jordan Polovina

Thursday May 2

leilani WolFgraMM TexT cervanTes To 91944 For TicKeT giveaWays, drinK sPecials, discounTed TicKeT ProMoTions & More W/ saBa, MereBa & deanTe hiTchcocK

The Use of Museum Specimens in Research: three case studies. 1 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.

Thursday aPril 25

W/ locKsMiTh, coJo & azTrogrizz

sunday June 9

MONDAY, APRIL 1

Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

saTurday June 1

The crysTal MeThod

Lamb Of God Oratorio. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

dMvu

W/ liTTle snaKe, noTorious conducT (laTe seT), MiKey Thunder & Jordan Polovina

dave Bruzza’s unsaFe aT any sPeed

saTurday June 8

SATURDAY MARCH 30

Boulder Conversations with Nii Armah Sowah.

5:30 p.m. Museum of Boulder at the Tebo Center 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

re: search

W/ yaK aTTacK, analog son, a-Mac & The heighT, grahaM good & The PainTers on The PaTio: PicK & hoWl, Modern WhisKey MarKeT silenT disco: dozier, ooMah (oF evanoFF) & TroPical WaFFle

nle choPPa

CU Women’s Club Lacrosse: Mile High Invitational. Noon. Kittredge Field, 2605 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder. More dates through March 31.

Max 15 Msg/Mo. Msg & data rates May apply text stop to opt out for our privacy terMs & service go to http://cervantesMasterpiece.ticketfly.coM/files/2014/03/cervantes-privacy-docuMent.pdf

Drop-In Tech Help. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Out Boulder County Gender Support Group — Longmont. 6:30 a.m. Out Boulder County, 630 Main St., Longmont, 303-499-5777.

Russian Film Series. 7 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 1610 Pleasant St., 1B90, Boulder.

Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Emergence: a Mmmwhah! Ensemble Experience. 6 p.m. Healing Spirits Living Arts Center, 3825 Iris Ave., Unit 300, Boulder.

MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Ryan Hutchens, Sam Weber. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731.

Unplugged Drop-In Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m.

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Events Seventh Annual High West Oyster Fest. 6 p.m. EXDO, 1399 35th St., Denver, 303-4685443.

Free Comedy Show at Winery. 7:45 p.m.

The Infinite Monkey Theorem, 3200 Larimer St., Denver, 303-736-8376.

Ghost Towns of the American West. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Holocaust Remembrance Week- Free Movie: Three Siblings. 6:15 p.m. Hillel at CU, 2795 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-775-8005.

Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North. 5:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

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BOULDER Environmental / Nature / Outdoors

Film Festival At the Dairy Arts Center July 10-13, 2019

APRIL

General Admission $8 Student $7 FILM 3003: THE CINEMA OF JOHN CARPENTER

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IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

An AmAzing new germAn movie from the director of “BArBArA” And “Phoenix” WheN A mAN fleeS fRANce AfTeR The NAZI INvASIoN, he ASSumeS The IDeNTITy of A DeAD AuThoR WhoSe PAPeRS he PoSSeSSeS

moN-TueS 4/1-2 7:30 Pm mueNZINGeR

IcelandIc comedy from the dIrector of “of horses and men”

The Third film in John CarpenTer’s “apoCalypse Trilogy” inCludes many referenCes To h.p. loveCrafT and sTephen King WHIlE ON THE SEARcH FOR A MISSING NOvElIST, AN INSURANcE INvESTIGATOR SUFFERS FROM DISTURbING NIGHTMARES

HAllA DEclARES WAR ON THE AlUMINUM INDUSTRy bUT FAcES ADDITIONAl cHAllENGES WHEN HER ADOPTION OF A UkRAINIAN ORPHAN IS APPROvED

$8 GA / $7 STUDENT

MUENZINGER

WEDNESDAY 4/3 7:30 PM

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MUENZINGER

THUR-FRI-SAT 4/4-5-6

7:30 PM

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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH DaviD Bowie’s first starring role in a major motion picture A HUMANOId ALIEN cOMES TO EARTH TO PROcURE WATER FOR HIS dyING PLANET, bUT bEcOMES A WEALTHy cAPITALIST HOOkEd ON TV ANd GIN ANd TONIcS INSTEAd

SUNdAy 4/7 2:00 PM ONLy $8 GA / $7 STUdENT

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IN MEMORIAM: SCREENWRITER WILLIAM GOLDMAN

WORD OF GOD

MISERY

A DAnish “ROYAL TEnEnBAUMs”

Rob ReineR diRects Kathy bates to oscaR gold

LATE 1980S DENMARk: A FAMILy’S PATRIARch TRIES TO RULE hIS UNRULy ROOST ONLy TO FIND ThAT LIFE AND DEATh hAPPEN WhEN yOU’RE bUSy MAkING OThER PLANS

TUE-WED 4/9-10 7:30 PM $8 GA / $7 STUDENT

MUENZINGER

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

Democracy’s template for how to stop an out-of-control presiDent

MIKE REISS IN PERSON

SPRINGFIELD CONFIDENTIAL AN AFTERNOON WITH SHOWRUNNER FOR THE SIMPSONS

WhEN A FAMoUS NovElIST IS REScUED bY AN AvID FAN, hE FINDS hIMSElF AT ThE MERcY oF hER FIERcElY DEMANDING ADMIRATIoN

THE TRuE SToRY of Two REPoRTERS wHo foLLowED THE MoNEY AND uNcovERED THE wATERGATE ScANDAL

FRIDAY 4/12 7:30 PM

SATuRDAY 4/13 7:00 PM

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE

from the filmmakers of embrace of the serpent

POWERFUL AND MESMERIZING IMAGES THAT BEG TO BE SEEN ON THE BIG SCREEN THE SuRPRISING TRuE STORy OF THE RISE OF THE COLOMBIAN DRuG BuSINESS BEFORE ESCOBAR

TuESDAy-WEDNESDAy 4/16-17 7:30 PM $8 GA / $7 STuDENT MuENZINGER

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Join us for four days of environmental, nature, and outdoors films, discussions, and other artistic celebrations of our natural world.

Listen to, speak with, scientists, educators, community leaders and special guests.

IN MEMORIAM: NICOL AS ROEG

WOMAN AT WAR

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IN MEMORIAM ARETHA FRANKLIN

STAFF PIC K

THE BLUES BROTHERS

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

ArethA FrAnklin, rAy ChArles, JAmes Brown, And more titAns oF musiC Are All here

Andrew LLoyd webber And Tim rice’s incompArAbLe rock operA, fiLmed enTireLy in isrAeL

JOHN BELUSHI aND DaN aYkROYD STaR IN THIS JOHN LaNDIS cOMEDY aBOUT TwO BROTHERS TRYING TO SavE THE caTHOLIc HOME IN wHIcH THEY wERE RaISED

RETEllING THE SToRY of THE CHRIST THRoUGH THE MUSICAl STYlINGS of THE 1970S

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the lady FRoM shaNGhaI

One Of the mOst celebrated films Of the 20th century a nEwSPaPER moGUl’S lIfE IS ExamInEd afTER hIS fInal woRd SEndS a joURnalIST down a PERSonal RabbIT holE

Rita HaywoRtH sHines in tHis gRipping film noiR

Charlton heston and Janet leigh are embroiled in a story of murder, kidnapping, and poliCe Corruption

a seaMaN becoMes INvolved IN a coMPlex MuRdeR Plot wheN he Is hIRed to woRk oN a yacht

The exPlosIon of a caR boMb on The Us/MexIco boRdeR leads To an InvesTIGaTIon ThaT exPoses a coRRUPT aMeRIcan PolIce caPTaIn

A hollYwooD DIrEctor EMErGEs froM sEMI-ExIlE wIth PlANs to coMPlEtE work oN AN INNovAtIvE MotIoN PIcturE

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Stanley KubricK’S cloSeSt aSSiStant joinS uS tonight - in the fleSh!

Leon VitaLi, the star of “fiLMWorKer”, got his start With BarrY LYnDon, anD joins us for an encore engageMent

ThE STORY OF LEON VITALI, WhO LEFT hIS PROMISING AcTING cAREER TO bEcOME STANLEY KUbRIcK’S DEVOTED RIGhT-hAND MAN

thE ADAPtAtION Of thAckERAY’s NOvEL fOLLOws A LIkEABLE IRIshMAN As hE chANGEs INtO A cONNIvING, MANIPuLAtIvE ROGuE

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Once upon a time in war-torn Europe...

Past is present in ‘Transit’

by Michael J. Casey

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aris, modern day: The cleanses are coming.

Staying one step ahead, the passenger (Franz Rogowski) flees Paris, stowing away on a train bound for Marseilles. There he picks up the name, “Georg.” Georg is known, even revered for his political writing, but he is no longer keen on the occupation. Now he is a refugee fleeing fascism and nothing more. His objective, like everyone’s trapped in this seaside purgatory: Secure a visa and transit papers. He needs both to make it out of Europe alive.

Georg meets a young African boy, Driss (Lilien Batman). They play soccer in the alley, and Driss opens up to the stranger. Georg takes a liking to the boy and follows him home to meet the mother. She is an illegal, as is the boy. As is Georg. As is practically everyone in Marseille. The streets are virtually deserted, filled not by the sounds of chattering crowds, but by police sirens and the heavy boots of oppression. They are constantly around the corner, down the hallway, or at the door. Who are “they?” It doesn’t matter. What matON THE BILL: Transit. April ters is that they are in control and you are not.

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It’s not a pretty picture, but life is often ugly. So it International Film Series, was in the 1940s, and so it could be today as Muenzinger Auditorium, Christian Petzold shows in his latest film, Transit.

1905 Colorado Ave., Obscuring crucial details while using past tense voiceBoulder. over narration to describe mundane information, Petzold crafts a Kafka-esque ghost story, one haunted by a woman who restlessly wanders in the background until her turn comes to stand in the spotlight.

She is Marie (Paula Beers), and she is one of many either waiting for passage or for the hammer to come down. Whichever comes first.

Like Georg, these supporting players are stuck. Some try to break free, never letting go of hope. Others have given up completely; woodenly standing in place as they deliver their lines while Georg moves to help them. He might be able to save two, but he can’t save them all. Though he may be the hero of the piece, Georg is no savior.

Set in contemporary France, albeit an alternate reality, Transit’s roots stretch back to 1944 — when German writer Anna Seghers penned the source novel. That, and a focus on letters of transit, might be why the movie is drawing comparisons to Casablanca. But Transit is no melodrama crafted on a Warner Bros. backlot. There are no sweeping romantics here, no swell of studio orchestras and no Dooley Wilson twinkling away on an upright piano. Victor Lazlo is dead, Isla has forgotten Paris, Rick doesn’t have a café to hide in and Captain Renault is just another bureaucrat with a stamp. It’s just Major Strasser and a lot of faces that wandered out of a Jean-Paul Sartre play.

And that, along with gorgeous cinematography from Hans Fromm, exquisite writing and phenomenal performances, are more than enough reasons to see Transit. There will be plenty of other times for escapist entertainment, but not today. Today calls for Transit.

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Designed to look like a rustic mountain cabin, Beatrice and Woodsley serves classic dishes with modern flare, like their andouille sausage and prawns. Grilled with fresh corn and tender herb dumplings, plump prawns and spicy sausage are covered in soothing, earthy hiuitlacoche (whee-tlaKO-cheh) madeira sauce. Filling, comforting and just a bit messy. $27.

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La Choza 4457 Broadway and 1203 13th St., Boulder, lachozaboulder.com

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We chose from their sizeable breakfast burrito menu recently, picking out the steak and eggs. The steak was tender and flavorful, potatoes and cheese filled the rest of the burrito out, and the tortilla was perfectly pressed and lightly charred. And you can’t beat the price, either. $3.50.

urry ‘N’ Kebob makes comfort food, simple as that. You may have never had some of their dishes from North India and Bangladesh, but it sure feels cozy and familiar to dig into their curries, tandoori dishes, vegetarian/vegan fare and, of course, their irresistible naan. We opted for the chicken makhni on a recent trip. It’s a curry similar to masala — cream (or coconut milk) and tomato sauce with spices, garlic and ginger — except the makhni gets a savory pick-meup with the addition of tender chicken thighs, the most flavorful part of the bird. The curry is thick with shredded tandoori-grilled thighs, and the spice is just right. $12.

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Get off your assets and master new food thrills and skills

By JOHN LEHNDORFF

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spent most of the past year working as a prep cook for a Boulder caterer. When I walked into the kitchen I was no rookie. I was a dining critic, cooking teacher and food expert. I had worked in Boulder restaurants, albeit 40 years ago. I figured: “I may be old but I have killer skills, dude.”

I was right about the old part, although experience and brains never hurt. My skills were not nearly as good as advertised. My ego had to swallow its pride and go back to class.

I survived, I graduated, and now I’m a much better cook. I re-learned the value of organization and have my mise in place. I can cook a great meal rapidly. I cook healthier, cheaper and less wastefully. My life is better, but only because I was forced by circumstance.

Don’t be like John. Get up off your balance ball and step away from your standup desk and upgrade your food skills. Wouldn’t it be cool if you knew how to make mozzarella, use your dusty kitchen knives, pull an espresso, grow hops and make kouign-amann by summer’s end?

(At the very least, learn how to taste wine to save your mind. In Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine, a neuroscientist details why conscious wine-tasting stimulates your brain so much more than, say, figuring values for pi or listening to Mozart. Plus, wine has nutrients.)

Boulder County is home to first-class food-teaching establishments. If you are a) intimidated, b) unwilling to commit more than an hour, and c) cheap, consider signing I

up for the one-hour lunch and dinnertime classes for $18.71 at The Kitchen Company cooking school during Longmont Restaurant Week. Subjects include making fresh mozzarella, 10-minute homemade bread and fresh pasta… and you get to eat. By the way, Longmont Restaurant Week, March 29 to April 7, offers fixed price meals at dozens of local eateries. kitchencolongmont.com.

ZEN AND THE ART OF GYOZA AND RAVIOLI Food Lab in Boulder has a full roster of cooking classes featuring dim sum (May 3) (including steamed pork buns, gyoza and egg rolls) and a fresh pasta workshop (April 10) (including ricotta-filled ravioli), plus kids’ cooking camps. foodlabboulder.com.

OVERCOMING KNIFEOPHOBIA The single best thing you can do to improve your kitchen life for the rest of your life is to learn how to use and sharpen knives. The Kitchen Company, Food Lab and Colorado Free University all offer knife classes. Sur La Table at 29th Street offers essential knife skills (April 6) as well as a class in laminated French pastries (April 14) — that’s croissant, palmiers, turnovers and kouignamann — and popular kids’ summer cooking camps. surlatable.com.

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TEMPER, TEMPER AND THEN TASTY Tasting a lot of chocolate is a required part of the curriculum at Boulder’s Piece, Love & Chocolate. The candy shop’s cocoa-focused technique classes include: Camp Cupcake (April 12), Tasty Truffles Part II: Advanced Truffles and Chocolate Tempering (April 28) and Tasty Truffles & Ganache Techniques (May 12). pieceloveandchocolate.com.

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COOKING FOR THE HEALTH OF IT Fresh Thymes Eatery dishes healthsensitive fare and its Fresh Thymes Marketplace focuses on cooking workshops, including making bone broth, maintaining optimal gut health, and cooking spring greens. freshthymes.com/classes.

GROW CASCADE HOPS FOR YOUR HOMEBREW Longmont’s cool Brewmented shop and brewery focuses on fermented beverages, including beer, wine, mead, kombucha and cider. Besides its Learn to Brew Beer classes, the lineup includes a class on growing hops at home (April 6). Attendees go home with Cascade, Chinook or Tettnanger hops rhizomes to plant. brewmented.com.

5-YEAR-OLD FIELD-TO-FORK CHEF Boulder’s Growing Gardens offers summer classes including a field-to-fork cooking camp for 5- to 11-year-old chefs, and a family pasta-making class and meal (April 28) with Pastificio’s Claudia Bouvier. growinggardens.org.

TO BE, OR NO BEES? We are in the midst of a pollination crisis. We need more well-trained beekeepers. Growing Gardens’ beekeeper classes include Understanding the Bees (April 8).

The Butterfly Pavilion has Beekeeping Bootcamp classes April through October. butterflies.org. Longmont’s Beehave offers a Beekeeping is NOT for Dummies workshop in April. sites.google.com/view/beehavementoring/home.

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BECOME A LATTE IMPRESSIONIST The barista skills hands-on workshop (April 6) at Ozo Coffee Lab & Training Center in Boulder teaches you how to craft espresso beverages, steam milk properly, choose the right beans, use espresso I

machines and grinders… and be the Michelangelo of milk foam. ozocoffee.com/ classes.

YUMMY CHEESE AND BABY GOATS! The Art of Cheese (next door to Haystack Mountain Creamery) offers professional cheesemaking workshops and classes for curd lovers, including those on mozzarella, ricotta and burrata (April 28), farm-to-table cheesemaking with Longmont farm tour and baby goats (April 5), and a rookie cheesemaking bootcamp (April 12). theartofcheese.com.

BREXIT TEA FOR DUCHESS OF BEDFORDSHIRE A native Brit instructs one in serving teatime blackberry almond torte, real scones, ginger shortbread, tint sandwiches and proper English tea (May 19, June 19) through Denver’s Colorado Free University. freeuregistration.com.

TALK LIKE A WINE MASTER Denver’s International Wine Guild offers a wide range of classes including the basics of wine tasting: Wine Components (April 20). Other nerdier classes: Wine History 1: 8000 BC to 1500 AD. internationalwineguild.com.

TASTE OF THE WEEK I grew up with volkornbrot in the fridge.

It was dark, dense, heavy and threatening bread — my Vienna-born Dad loved to pair the toasted all-grain slices with stinky cheese. I avoided that rye bread at all costs unless I was desperate. When my taste buds finally grew up I started loving crustier, chewier and healthier loaves. I’m happy to see a new, local, heavy bread in grocery stores. Baked at Izzio Artisan Bakery in Louisville, the 100 percent Rye Bread is a tiny loaf jammed with rye kernels sweetened with a little molasses, plus pumpkin, sunflower and caraway seeds. The eight ultrathin slices are 60 high-fiber, vegan, glutenfree calories each. This bread requires serious, lengthy toasting to bring out all its wonderful, earthy, chewy grain taste. You can have your bread and feel righteous about it, too. Izzio also bakes Ancient Grain Bread with spelt.

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How about these apples?

Arcana Cider and Beer Director Jordan Burghardt on cultivating a culture of craft cider

by Matt Cortina

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hree years ago, Jordan Burghardt left his post as beer director at The Kitchen to help build a beverage program from scratch at Arcana, which was getting ready to open. At the time, Burghardt knew plenty about beer and wine. But the restaurant’s focus from the onset was to highlight the roots of American cuisine, and that meant Burghardt had to learn about one quintessentially American beverage that has since grown rapidly in popularity: cider.

“Arcana was looking to do American heritage cuisine. Something that goes hand in hand with that is cider. It was one of the first beverages being made here in the U.S. Johnny Appleseed and all that,” Burghardt says. “When we started three years ago, cider was looked at more as an alternative to beer, as a gluten-free option. There were a lot of products that weren’t good, like apple juice, more or less. Not complex or interesting, and often regarded as sweet. That’s not the case anymore. Cider is a fermented fruit beverage so it should be treated the same as wine. It’s been fun to grow [our cider program] and find producers treating it as such.”

Burghardt set about creating Arcana’s cider program by doing research — tasting a lot of cider from distributors and reading about the methods of production, apple varieties and regions of production in books and online. What he found early on is that wine distributors often had one or two ciders, mostly from Spain or France, that they tend to find by happenstance on trips overseas. Those cider imports still find their way onto Arcana’s cider list, but now the majority of the two dozen ciders available on tap or in cans/bottles are produced domestically — indicative of how quickly the U.S. cider scene has been rebuilt.

Burghardt says the apple trees used for cider grow well in cooler regions — the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast and Michigan — and Arcana’s cider list includes several selections from top producers in Vermont, Oregon and Pennsylvania. One challenge with the state of cider in the U.S., though, is that a lot of what Burghardt deems to be the really good stuff is produced in such small batches that it’s hard for any restaurant, let alone one hundreds or thousands of miles away from the cidery, to get their hands on it.

The problem is not unique to Arcana.

“You see, in Washington, D.C., there’s now a cider bar, there’s one in New York City, there’s one in San Francisco. Full-on cider bars with 100-plus selections. When those areas have things like that, it helps educate the public, and people get excited about cider, but it means demand is higher than supply,” Burghardt says.

Fortunately, several cideries have recently popped up in or near Boulder County: St. Vrain Cidery, Stem Ciders, Wild Cider, Colorado Cider Company,

ARCANA, in Boulder, dedicates three taps to cider and has an extensive list of domestic and imported ciders as well.

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Waldschänke Ciders and Haykin Family Cider. (On Thursday, March 28, Arcana is hosting a diner featuring Haykin, which culls its fruit from small farms around the state.)

In fact, there’s reason to believe Colorado, and Boulder County, could become an epicenter for the new age of cider production, the promising debuts of our cideries notwithstanding. Historically, Boulder County has been fertile ground for apple orchards — you can still see the remnants of many of these orchards driving around — and a CU project is attempting to catalog the varieties that have proved hardy enough to survive years of neglect and the Colorado climate. The Boulder Apple Tree Project asks anyone interested to help catalog these trees, which can come in thousands of varieties.

That diversity is good for cider.

Burghardt says apples are one of the most biologically diverse crops, and trees that produce bitter, sour or tannic apples that might be tough to eat, actually make for good cider. (Johnny Appleseed wasn’t planting trees for snacking apples, he was planting cider orchards, after all).

Burghardt says there are different approaches to dealing with the unique flavors of those different apple varieties.

“The English method of making cider is that it needs to be blended. There’s a list of apples that are aromatic, a list of apples that are tannic, a list of apples that are acidic, some that give body and mouthfeel, and you blend within there to achieve the perfect cider,” Burghardt says. “Then there are cider-makers who lean toward single-varietals to see what those flavors can showcase.”

Burghardt says there are further differences in how cider is fermented — Spanish ciders tend to be funkier and yeastier, while American ciders tend toward crisp, clean and carbonated. The flavors that emanate out of those techniques span “a pretty wide gamut,” Burghardt says.

Although cider-making is being treated with the same attention to detail as winemaking, there may be a compulsion to consider terroir in cider — the unique taste and feel created by a specific region and climate. But, Burghardt says, apple trees don’t interact with soil and weather as sensitively as grapevines, so the effects of a cider’s origin are muted, compared to wine.

When it comes to serving though, Arcana treats cider like wine (as opposed to beer, or a whole other entity). Burghardt says he’s seen regulars who typically order high-end wines switch to delicate French ciders, often as an aperitif that mimics Champagne, for instance.

Burghardt says although cider has boomed in relatively quick fashion, it’s not a trend. The quality is too high.

“I don’t think it will go away, but I think it’ll eventually level out,” Burghardt says. “I feel like the craft beer boom, there are still a ton of breweries, but it’s not growing as quickly. Cider’s going to continue to grow for a while. People are going get excited about it and want to try new ciders.”

Visit arcanarestaurant.com to view the restaurant’s cider list, or to reserve a spot (space permitting) for the March 28 cider diner.

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Profiles in brew: Eric Blythe of Collision Brewing Company Brewing as a family affair

by Michael J. Casey

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you’re looking for Longmont’s newest brewery, you COLLISION won’t find it operating out of a small garage in an BREWING industrial part of town or along Old Town’s main drag.

COMPANY, 1436 Skyway Drive, To get there, you’ll probably have to drive (roughly five miles Longmont, collisioneast of Old Town), and that’s fitting considering Collision brewco.com Brewing Company is one of the few themed brewery/restaurants around, and the theme here is cars.

With a taillight for its logo, antique gas pumps out front and a lineup of brews with kinetic names, Collision Brewing is delightfully committed top to bottom. As owner Eric Blythe — a wiry man in his early 30s, with “BEER” tattooed on his knuckles — explains, the car theme comes from a shared passion between him and his father.

Blythe is also passionate about Longmont. The initial idea for Collision hatched about five years ago with Blythe looking at what was available in the surrounding area.

As luck would have it, they found a perfect spot on Skyway Drive; ideal considering the family still owns and operates Nicolos Pizza over on Pace Street.

“We’ve been in this community forever,” Blythe says proudly. “We’re local. We’ve been local, and we’re staying local.”

And with a one-stop-shop mentality, Collision makes for an ideal family-dining destination. At least it’s a destination now. From Collision’s patio, Blythe points north across the highway to the newly built Smucker’s plant. That’ll be 500 jobs, he says, before turning west, where apartment complexes and condos are going up at a rapid pace.

“We’re in the middle of nowhere, but we’re in the middle of everything,” Blythe says with a smile.

As Longmont grows, so will Collision. The nearly 10,000-square-foot facility sports a large dining room, a medium-sized sports bar, a banquet room and two full bars with 28 taps between them. Feeding 18 of those taps is a seven-barrel brewing system helmed by older brother Jason Blythe. And once they start canning and distributing their beer — in April by Blythe’s estimation — they can expand into the undeveloped space in the back that’ll handle a 30-barrel system. But for now, Blythe is using the area to work on his hot rods.

Collision’s lineup is as varied as it is good; ranging from a fresh and fruity Pedal to the Peach kettle sour, perfect for the coming seasons, to Pony Porter, an English-style chocolaty brown ale with a historically accurate dollop of sour hiding between the malts.

“He’s been brewing 11 years,” Blythe says of his brother. “He’s got plenty of recipes.”

Their flagship: Red Rambler, a Belgian red ale, combines fruit and wood with a refreshingly herbaceous quality. It’s not your usual flagship beer, but it is bound to stand out once the Blythes start getting it on liquor store shelves around town.

But don’t skip a chance to visit Collision, sample their wares and dive into their Mexican street corn nachos. Most breweries are alike, but the Blythes have crafted their own thing.

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus businessman Chuck Feeney made a huge fortune as the entrepreneur who codeveloped duty-free shopping. But at age 87, he lives frugally, having given away $8 billion to philanthropic causes. He doesn’t even own a house or car. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to follow his lead in the coming weeks. Be unreasonably generous and exorbitantly helpful. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. While it’s true that now is an extra favorable time to bestow blessings on everyone, you shouldn’t go overboard. Make sure your giving is artful, not careless or compulsive.

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Inuktitut language spoken by the indigenous people of Eastern Canada. Here are some key phrases to get you underway. 1. UllusiuKattagit inosek: Celebrate your life! 2. Pitsialagigavit, piggogutivagit!: Because you’re doing amazing things, I’m proud of you! 3.

Nalligijauvutit: You are loved! 4. Kajusitsiatuinnagit: Keep it up! APRIL FOOL! I lied. Now isn’t really a better time than any other to learn the Inuktitut language. But it is an important time to talk to yourself using phrases like those I mentioned. You need to be extra kind and super positive toward yourself.

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Station in Antarctica, you’ll get a chance to become a member of the 300 Club. To be eligible, you wait till the temperature ouside drops to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it does, you spend 20 minutes in a sauna heated to 200 degrees. Then you exit into the snow and ice wearing nothing but white rubber boots, and run a few hundred feet to a ceremonial pole and back. In so doing, you expose your naked body to a swing of 300 degrees. According to my astrological analysis, now is an ideal time to pull off this feat. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not really urging you to join the 300 Club. On the other hand, I do think it’s a favorable phase to go to extremes for an authentically good cause.

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Forever after, mosquito bites won’t itch you. Now would be an excellent time for you to launch such a project.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should do that. On the contrary. You should scrupulously avoid irritations and aggravations, especially little ones.

Instead, immerse yourself in comfort and ease. Be as free from vexation as you have ever been!

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: If allowed to do what comes naturally, two rabbits and their immediate descendants will produce 1,300 new rabbits in 12 months’ time. In five years, their offspring would amount to 94 million.

I suspect that you will approach this level of fertility in the next four weeks, at least in a metaphorical sense.

APRIL FOOL! I stretched the truth a bit. There’s no way you will produce more than a hundred good new ideas and productions and gifts. At the most, you’ll generate a mere 50.

JUNE 21-JULY 22: When he was 20 years old, Greek military leader Alexander the Great began to conquer the world. By age 30, he ruled the vast territory between Greece and northwest India. Never shy about extolling his own glory, he named 70 cities after himself. I offer his example as a model for you. Now is a favorable time to name clouds after yourself, as well as groves of trees, stretches of highway, buses, fire hydrants, parking spaces, and rocks. APRIL FOOL. I got a bit carried away. It’s true that now is a good time to assert your authority, extend your clout, and put your unique stamp on every situation. But I don’t recommend that you name entire cities after yourself.

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exotic religion. How about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which believes that true spiritual devotion requires an appreciation of satire? Or how about Discordianism, which worships the goddess of chaos and disorder? Then there’s the United Church of Bacon, whose members exult in the flavor of their favorite food. (Here’s a list of more: tinyurl.com/ WeirdReligions.) APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t entirely truthful.

It’s accurate to say that now is a great time to reinvigorate and transform your spiritual practice. But it’s better if you figure that out by yourself. There’s no need to get your ideas from a bizarre cult.

bear that’s chasing you. You just have to run faster than the slowest person the bear is chasing. OK? So don’t worry! APRIL FOOL! What I just said wasn’t your real horoscope. I hope you know me well enough to understand that I would never advise you to save your own ass by betraying or sacrificing someone else. It’s also important to note that the bear I mentioned is entirely metaphorical in nature. So please ignore what I said earlier. However, I do want you to know that there are effective ways to elude the symbolic bear that are also honorable. To discover them, meditate on calming down the beastly bear-like qualities in yourself.

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cheese sandwiches engage in more sexual escapades than those who don’t gorge on grilled cheese sandwiches. So I advise you to eat a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, because then you will have more sex than usual. And that’s important, because you are now in a phase when you will reap huge healing benefits from having as much sex as possible. APRIL FOOL! I lied when I implied that eating more grilled cheese

yourself as a bland nerd with no vivid qualities, or a shy wallflower with no strong opinions, or a polite wimp who prefers to avoid adventure. Please don’t even consider doing anything that’s too interesting or controversial.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, I hope you’ll do the opposite of what I suggested. I think it’s time to express your deep authentic self with aggressive clarity. Be brave and candid and enterprising.

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APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. It’s true that you could get major health benefits by taking a sabbatical from civilization. But there’s no need to be so drastic about it.

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Comedian Corina Lucas absolutely killed it before our sold-out crowd, singer-songwriter Elisabeth Pixley-Fink performed an amazing set, and two lovely couples competed in our first (and most likely last) Mama Bird Cupcake Eating Contest. I wasn’t able to get to all of the audiencesubmitted questions, so I’m going to power through as many as I can in this week’s column.

Question: How do you handle it if your partner constantly apologizes during sex? “Sorry, sorry, sorry...”

Answer: With sensitivity, tact and compassion — and if none of that shit works, try duct tape.

Q: Should I continue to have casual sex with someone I’m in love with?

A: If it’s casual for them and not casual for you, and they’ve made it clear it will never be anything other than casual for them, you’re going to get hurt — which I suspect you know. Now, if you think the

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pain of going without sex with them will be greater than the pain you’ll feel when they inevitably meet someone else and move on, by all means keep fucking them. (Spoiler: the pain of the latter > the pain of the former.)

Q: Best tricks for a quick female orgasm & how to keep yourself from overthinking it?

A: My female friends swear by a little legal weed, where available (or a little illegal weed, where necessary), and a nice, big, powerful vibrator.

Q: My five-year relationship ended abruptly. Is there a time frame for getting over it?

A: Studies vary. Some have found it takes the average person 11 weeks, some have found it takes half the length of the relationship itself, some have found it takes longer if it was a marriage that ended. But don’t wait until you’re completely over it to get out there — because getting out there can help you get over it.

Q: Besides a fiber-rich diet, what are your tips for a newbie to anal play? Size is a BIG factor and it’s creating a HUGE mental block whenever anything goes near my hole.

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Q: What is the formula for getting comfortable farting in front of a partner?

A: Same as comedy: tragedy + time.

Q: In the era of online dating, how do you navigate the people who think the grass will always be greener and have difficulty committing to truly building a relationship?

A: The expression “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence” has its roots in a Latin proverb first translated into English in 1545 — which means the sentiment predates dating apps by, oh, roughly half a millennium. But the “paradox of choice,” or the idea that people have a hard time choosing when presented with too many options, has certainly complicated modern dating. But too many options beats too few, in my opinion, and it certainly beats no options at all, e.g., deserted islands, compulsory heterosexuality, unhappy arranged marriages, etc.

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Q: Any advice for a 22-year-old woman who meets only sad boys who need a mom?

A: Your handwriting is such that I thought you wrote “sub boys,” and I was going to respond, “Enjoy.” But then I reread your question: sad boys, not sub boys. OK, if you’re meeting only one type of person or all the people you’re meeting have a certain character flaw, either you’re seeking that type of person out — consciously or subconsciously — or you’re projecting your own shit onto that person. This is a case where the best people to ask for a gut/reality check are your actual friends, not your friendly sex-advice columnist.

Q: Will you be my sperm donor?

A: Well, that depends. Are you male, between the ages of 25 and 55, and (my entirely subjective notion about what is) hot? Then sure!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Savage Love Live in Portland! Savage Love Live is coming to Seattle, Denver, San Francisco (with Stormy Daniels!), Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis (also with Stormy Daniels!), Toronto and Somerville.

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Q&A with Vangst founder Karson Humiston

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’ve been working in the cannabis BOULDER WEEKLY: WHO SHOULD space for a year now, so I get a lot of CONSIDER WORKING IN THE questions about how to get involved.

CANNABIS INDUSTRY? It’s not just about getting stoned all Karson Humiston: People who have day. It’s a rapidly growing industry the most success are ones with experithat offers financial incentives, creative ence in startups and fast-growing comexpression and personal freedom RENEE COTSIS (MATTIO) to the right candidates. As the industry expands and more states open up, companies need talent to fill the surge of new jobs — an estimated 340,000 of them nationwide by 2020. By 2025, the global legal cannabis market is expected to reach $146.4 billion.

Due to the newness of the industry and the complication of cannabis still being federally illegal, it’s been a challenge for companies to recruit and fill both temporary and full-time positions. Karson Humiston, a 25-year-old entrepreneur living in Denver, saw the opportunity to found Vangst in 2016, which has been the cannabis industry’s leading recruiting platform ever since. Think of it like the LinkedIn for cannabis. Vangst has panies. If you think about it, this entire connected more than 10,000 people with industry is a startup, so therefore every jobs at over 650 cannabis businesses company is a startup. Candidates that around the U.S. The company recently are used to coming from massive raised $12.5 million from some of the top Fortune 500 companies with thousands tech and cannabis investors, and of employees and all these systems in Humiston was featured on the 2018 place don’t have an edge in this indusForbes 30 under 30 list. I decided to chat try. If you take a job in this industry, with her about some of the trends in the you’re likely to be with a company that’s industry. (Note: this interview has been just getting started, which requires you edited for length and clarity.) to wear a ton of different hats and be

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You couple that with an industry that’s changing every single minute, it creates an environment where you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work multiple roles. People at Vangst would never say, “That’s not in my job description,” because everybody does everything. Everyone is wearing a ton of different hats but we’re all working toward the same goal. I think that people that are coming in and want to help build a company and build the industry are the ones who succeed versus people who come in and treat this like another job.

BW: SHOULD COLORADANS WITH CANNABIS EXPERIENCE CONSIDER MOVING EAST? KH: If you think about it, there are a limited amount of candidates who have experience growing large-scale commercial-compliant legal cannabis. So if you’re opening up a facility in a place like Maryland and you need a director of cultivation, where are you going to go? So candidates with experience in this industry have really good opportunities once more states open their cannabis markets. We’ve seen people go from budtender to assistant manager to store manager in Colorado and then get their salary offered double to them to move to the East Coast and bring their dispensary management experience and industry

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BW: DO YOU SEE YOURSELF HAVING AN INFLUENCE IN THE INDUSTRY? KH: We’ve worked with more than 10,000 people and 650 companies and have built great relationships along the way. I think we’ve done that helping companies set up best hiring practices from day one, such as prioritizing diversity and inclusion. We believe we have the opportunity to make this one of the most inclusive industries in the world because it’s starting from nothing, versus industries that have been around for hundreds of years. In 15, 20 years from now, we think all the industries will be trying to mimic the cannabis industry because of the success that comes with prioritizing diverse hiring practices. Having a lot of different perspectives at the table makes a huge difference and our clients get to experience that.

BW: WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE? KH: Right now we’re in Colorado and California and we’d like to open in 10 additional markets. By 2021, we want to be able to say we’ve placed 100,000 people in cannabis jobs. Also, we’re hiring. We have over a dozen open positions from recruiting to sales to marketing to content to engineering, so anyone interested in joining a great company should check out the career page on vangst.com

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Two weeks ago it looked like passage of legalization bills was imminent in the New Mexico and New Jersey legislatures.

It didn’t happen in either state.

In New Mexico, a House-passed legalization bill was killed in the state Senate Judiciary Committee.

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In New Jersey, a legalization bill Democratic Governor Phil Murphy and the Democratic leadership in the state legislature had spent months haggling over was finally

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According to Kyle Jaeger at Marijuana Moment, two different vote counts in the New Jersey Senate showed that as of Monday, 23 state senators, a majority, planned to vote no. One count showed only eight firm yes votes with nine uncommitted; the other showed 18 yes votes.

“History is rarely made on the first try,” said Murphy, who had made marijuana legalization a big part of his successful election campaign in 2017. “Certainly I’m disappointed but we are not defeated. We all remain committed to passing this bill and making our state a national model for justice and opportunity because ultimately this is the right thing to do for New Jersey, and we know the people of New Jersey are on our side.”

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Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), the country’s leading pot prohibitionist organization, may have had the more accurate take on what happened — he called the decision to pull the bill a “huge victory for us.”

“They told us legalization was inevitable, and this action proves them wrong,” he said in a press release.

So what went wrong?

For one thing, Murphy and the legislative leadership seems to have made an amateur’s mistake; they negotiated the legalization bill without involving most of the legislature’s rank-and-file members.

Chances are this was resented by the members who were left out and had no ownership in the measure.

Beyond that, legislative politics are different than the sort of electoral politics that legalization organizations like the Marijuana Policy Project, NORML and the Drug Policy Alliance have successfully used to pass legalization ballot initiatives.

Those organizations have proved themselves adept at working precincts; Sabet’s side has a better understanding of how to practice the micro-politics of, uh, smoke-filled rooms.

This is troubling, because most future legalization battles will be fought out in state legislatures, not in initiative campaigns.

Pro-legalization forces better learn the art of lobbying and fast, or there could be several more defeats this year — starting with New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo’s legalization bill is running into resistance. Passage of legalization measures in Connecticut and Rhode Island shouldn’t be taken for granted either.

There are two other things prolegalization groups need to do.

The first is to start engaging and challenging the prohibitionist narrative again. Guys like Sabet are still telling the same old lies, but there are a lot of people in government who haven’t heard them before, and if they are not answered they stick.

The other thing the legalization movement has to do is to start identifying the prohibitionist dead-enders in state legislatures and challenging them in both primaries and general elections. This means finding prolegalization candidates, raising money, recruiting volunteers, organizing get-out-the-vote drives, and so on.

A poll taken in New Jersey last month found 62 percent of adults supported legalizing marijuana. With that sort of support it’s a near certainty that some of the anti-legalization hardliners in the state legislature can be knocked off if legalization supporters have the wit, will and tenacity to go after them.

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