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Highroad How magical is The Donald? by Jim Hightower

onald Trump, the amazing wunderkind of global luxury living — and now our nation’s phantasmagoric, fast-charging president — is proving to be a legislative magician. In his campaign, Trump’s number one promise was that he would “immediately” repeal the entirety of Obamacare, then — hocus-pocus and abracadabra! — simultaneously replace it with “great health care for a fraction of the price.” Wow — that’s why his White House media operation calls him

“President Action, President Impact.” But — oops — it seems that the Amazing Donald has abruptly learned that what magicians do is not magic, they just perform illusions. In other words, it’s fakery. So, Trump is now caught in the spotlight of reality, unable to produce a workable plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, as he had so glibly promised. In fact, the GOP replacement scheme he’s been backing would leave millions of people with no health care coverage, while reducing the benefits and jacking-up insurance payments for millions of others. Frustrated, President Action recently whined to a meeting of state governors that, “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Of course, by “nobody,” he meant that he didn’t know, therefore no one could’ve known, since

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he knows everything. But wait — in a truly amazing magical act, The Donald has now pulled a rabbit out of his hat! His new Trumpcare plan, he brags, will guarantee that every American will have access to health coverage. Before you erupt in applause, however, notice the trick word he’s using: “Access.” That doesn’t mean you’ll get coverage, you’ll just get access to coverage — if you can afford it. It’s the same as promising that everyone will get “access” to owning a private jet and living in a fabulous Florida golf resort, just like Trump. See, he truly is magical! This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 9, 2017 7

the anderson files Not-so-innocent hyperbole by Dave Anderson

nly 11 percent of the media coverage of the 2016 presidential primaries dealt with the candidates’ policy positions, leadership abilities and professional histories according to a study by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Instead, there were stories of personality conflicts, gossip, scandals, campaign strategy and polls. Politics has been treated as entertainment for a long time but Donald Trump made things worse. As a celebrity and TV star, he developed the skills to manipulate the media. His business career taught him to “play to people’s fantasies,” as he (or rather his ghostwriter) wrote in The Art of the Deal. He added, “People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and it’s a very effective form of promotion.” The Trump circus continues to dominate the news with everybody discussing his latest outrageous insults, lies and conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, the Republicans quietly plan to turn back the clock several decades now that they control the presidency, the Congress, 32 state legislatures and 33 governorships. Many noticed this and a resistance was born. It was organized spontaneously on social media. On the day after Trump’s inauguration, about 5 million Americans turned out for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and the sister marches in over 600 other cities. This was one of the biggest protests in U.S. history. Less than a week later, huge crowds marched again opposing Trump’s Muslim ban. When people from the banned countries were being detained at airports, lawyers and protesters showed up. Widespread protest has continued at the offices of Republican members of Congress and at town hall meetings. Can we keep up the pressure? It is difficult to sustain a sense of outrage and indignation over four years. Right after the election, progressive economist Max Sawicky tweeted, “With a Democratic win, we’d be listing stuff to hold them to. Now we have to list things we don’t want destroyed.” But Trump wasn’t the usual 8 March 9, 2017

rightwing Republican. He tapped into a populist fever. He promised to bring back jobs, rebuild the middle class and end stupid trade policies. He presented a classic rightwing populism that directed his supporters’ anger at (some of ) the rich and powerful and a violent criminal underclass who are ruining the country. He claimed that his solutions — tax cuts for the rich, decimation of business regulations, Obamacare repeal — would bring back the American dream. Actually these solutions would make the lives of ordinary Americans even worse. We progressives have to resist, but we need to be pushing a strong alternative. The ideas and programs are already there: Medicare for all, tuitionfree college, expanded Social Security benefits, progressive taxation and a Green New Deal that will start a “just transition” from fossil fuel jobs to jobs in renewables. That was Bernie’s message in the primaries. Hillary had a similar if milder bunch of proposals. But in the general election she figured she would emphasize the perfectly sensible notion that Trump was spectacularly unfit to be president. She calculated that people would prefer a good manager with a “steady hand” who would continue the Obama status quo. There are furious debates over why Trump became president. The Clinton campaign was criticized for not campaigning much in the Rust Belt, and the Republicans for engaging in voter suppression of racial minorities in many parts of the country. Hillary won the election by three million votes but lost in the Electoral College. You can cite many more factors. But where do we go from here? Longtime union organizer Marshall Ganz argued that progressives need to start at the grassroots. In an interview on Talking Points Memo, he said, “Conservatives successfully created a more or less coherent network of organizations linked to local, state and national politics, which is a traditional form of effective political organization in the U.S.” They organized in evangelical churches, the religious schools that Betsy DeVos helped sponsor, the gun clubs, the NRA, the Koch brothsee THE ANDERSON FILES Page 10

guest column Has the business community co-opted Boulder’s non-profits? by Jeffrey Flynn

ew commercial development in Boulder helps finance Affordable Housing (AH) through a charge called a linkage fee for each square foot of development. At a recent meeting, Councilman Weaver attempted to convince fellow council members to adopt a linkage fee of $15 a square foot to support our AH goals. Instead, Council voted to charge a linkage fee of just $12 a square foot. Prior to this, a financial analysis by a hired consultant determined that the impacts to AH from commercial development in Boulder actually required a linkage fee approaching $100 a square foot on average. As a member of a working group appointed by the city, we discussed the consultant’s results over a period of months before they were presented to Council. At the last meeting, staff and the consultant determined that a $15 per square foot linkage fee for AH was an amount that would have no limiting effect on new commercial development. Staff then recommended that council pass this $15 linkage fee to support AH. At the public hearing on this issue, the head of the Chamber of Commerce spoke and recommended $12 a square foot linkage fee. Where that number

came from, no one knows. The $12 wasn’t anywhere in the calculations done by the very skilled and knowledgeable consultants. Of course, the faithful five on Council, who always seem to back developers, couldn’t wait to throw their hands up in the air to support this magical $12 per square foot number, much like eager children do in the classroom when seeking their teacher’s approval. Mayor Jones joined them in their vote after attempting to get a linkage fee of $30 a square foot, something actually closer to the true cost needed for AH. When it was obvious the higher number would not pass, she voted with Yates, Burton, Brockett, Shoemaker and Applebaum, which was understandable. What was not understandable, however, was that Boulder’s nonprofits attended the public hearing and supported the Chamber’s lower number of $12. Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) gets a large portion of its funding for AH from linkage fees. So why would BHP and the Human Services Alliance, a consortium of Boulder’s human service nonprofits, argue against additional monies that would help fulfill their mission? It is reminiscent of see GUEST COLUMN Page 10

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Unfortunately, I was able to relate all too closely to Danish’s article [Re: “Cannonball River slobs,” March 2]. During my “hippie years” (early to mid ’70s), I spent a fair amount of time hiking and camping in the foothills, and I was constantly appalled and disgusted at the filthy campsites left behind by backto-the-land freaks who wanted to live “close to nature” — soft drink cans, beer bottles, food packaging, disposable diapers, etc. I myself was scrupulous to leave behind as little evidence as possible that I had ever been anywhere. Then, ironically, I turned to the back see LETTERS Page 11

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the people with serious medical conditions who want to do away with Obamacare. Or blue collar workers who voted for a billionaire president who stacks his cabinet with fellow billionaires. This extra $3 a square foot would create, as Councilman Weaver pointed out, an additional 250 units of AH over 10 years for Boulder’s families. Since a $15 per square foot linkage fee would not have any effect on commercial development, as staff had determined, what was really going on with BHP and the Human Service Alliance arguing against the interests of themselves and their beneficiaries? California’s Mountain View, for instance, charges a $19 per square foot linkage fee. Palo Alto just raised their linkage fee to $60 a square foot. One cannot help but wonder if Boulder’s nonprofits somehow feel coerced to support the business community on this and other issues to safeguard busi-

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ness community donations to them. If such is the case, then the business community has co-opted Boulder’s human service nonprofits, corrupting their mission. To say that it was unseemly for these nonprofits to attend a public hearing and request a lower linkage fee would be an understatement. Perhaps the next time the business community arrives at their doorsteps, Boulder’s human service nonprofits will take a deep breath and do what is best for the people they represent, which by the way isn’t maximizing the profits of Boulder’s commercial developers. At the same time, hopefully the Chamber and other business organizations will think twice before putting undue pressure on our nonprofits whose mission is difficult enough as it is. Jeffrey Flynn lives in Boulder. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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who already agree with them, but don’t have much incentive to actually go out and build a base by persuading and engaging and converting those who don’t. If you are organizing a union, you have to do that, because that’s how you win. Now ignoring all these red and purple states is like pretending you don’t need them to win, but you do.” It isn’t easy. We need to resist. But we will win if we present an alternative moral vision of how we can create a better society. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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of the same issue and found, in ICUMI, a defense of the protestors on the basis that they had been arrested and hauled off without being given any chance to clean up their campsites or even retrieve their personal belongings — hence the number of abandoned vehicles and pets, which nobody would have been likely to leave behind if they’d had a chance to take them. I couldn’t help wondering how much, if any, communication there had been between Danish and the editors (presumably Dyer) before they wrote their respective views. Two equally persuasive and opposite perceptions of the same event. As a former hippie (and a bit of an anarchist — and in some opinions a bit of a slob), I’m inclined to side with the protesters. But still, good writing from Danish, whom I am too often inclined to dismiss as your token rightwinger. Anthony Lee/Lafayette

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He went on to become a very hardworking brick mason and law-abiding citizen raising 12 children with the help of his Polish wife Mary and the rest, as they say, is history. Just as Cleveland is a city of neighborhoods so is the United States a country of immigrants. In fact, all the major cities of America, at one time, served as incubators for immigrants to not only become accustomed to the ways of this country but also to intermingle with each other — some-

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Trump. Scientists think these behaviors — and many more — may be caused by a parasite infecting 30 to 50 percent of the world’s population, including 60 million in the U.S., sometimes transmitted by domestic cats. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan — that’s a single celled organism, for you nonscience geeks — and one of the world’s most common parasites found inside hundreds of species of warm-blooded animals. Toxo is the reason pregnant women shouldn’t change cat litter, as they might pick up the parasite from feces and potentially pass the infection on to their babies, which could cause blindness, brain damage or other serious health problems. Here’s where it gets really weird. Scientists have uncovered a science fictionlike link between the infection and your chances of getting into a car crash, how snazzy a dresser you are, and what turns you on in the bedroom. There are actually dozens of human behaviors — some benign, others disturbing — that may be Toxoinduced. If you’re squeamish, you might want to stop reading, right meow. For the rest of you, it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. Dr. Stefanie Johnson is an assistant professor at CU’s Leeds School of Business. She and her husband, Dr. Pieter Johnson, have teamed up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at CU’s Johnson Laboratory to study how Toxoplasma gondii spreads among wild animals, how it infects humans and what behaviors it may be influencing. “We are definitely underestimating the potential of Toxoplasma to affect behavior,” Johnson says. For instance, multiple studies have shown a significantly increased risk of traffic accidents involving people with toxoplasmosis (the human form of Toxo infection), reduced reaction times being the likely culprit. Toxo has also been linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, with nearly half of OCD-afflicted subjects testing positive for the infection, according to one study. Even stranger, some Toxo-generated behaviors are thought to affect women and men differently. According to a series of studies, infected females seem to get the better deal, becoming more outgoing, trusting and generous. Men, on the other hand, become more introverted, suspicious and messier. Toxo-masculinity, anyone? Male, female or otherwise, Johnson says that infected subjects are more likely to engage in risk-taking behaviors, which could be a problem in dangerous professions such as construction or the military. However, as Johnson reminds us, “risk isn’t always bad.” To the contrary, some of her research suggests that entre-

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preneurs are more likely to have toxoplasmosis, the parasite possibly giving them the courage they need to launch new businesses. “We like to believe that we’re in control of our own behavior. That’s the fundamental characteristic of human beings, volition,” Johnson says. “No one would want to believe that the things that they do could actually be affected by something other than their inner desires.” But before you drop Fluffy off at the shelter, here are a few things to keep in mind. First of all, if your cat stays indoors it probably doesn’t have the parasite, typically contracted by eating rodents and birds. Second, healthy immune systems are so good at fighting this particular invader that the vast majority of human infections cause no symptoms. That being said, those with HIV or other immunocompromised persons may be at risk. Further, Johnson — a cat owner, herself — points out that cats aren’t the only vector. In fact, she says that her husband, Dr. Pieter Johnson, has a theory that a large number of Toxo infections may actually come from eating undercooked meat, such as deer. Eating raw seafood, drinking contaminated water or milk, or not washing your vegetables can also spread the love. By the way, Toxo is also an STD. Speaking of sex, if you’re a man, toxoplasmosis might actually make you more attractive. In one study, 109 women were shown photos of 89 men — 18 of the guys testing positive for Toxo. Sure enough, the infected males were repeatedly rated as more “dominant” and “masculine” than their uninfected peers. It’s thought that a boost in testosterone may be the cause. In another study, infected subjects were drawn to sex acts involving violence, bondage and fetishism,

along with some other kinks you’ll have to look up yourself. Overall, folks harboring the parasite were more turned on by their own “fear, danger, and sexual submission.” At this point you might be wondering what Toxo’s evolutionary game plan could possibly be. After all, how in the world could tricking people into crashing their cars and tying one another other to bedposts help disperse the parasite? It’s certainly not uncommon for microbes to affect the behavior of their hosts. Rabies compels animals to bite to broadcast the virus. Our gut bacteria may influence our mood. Even the flu is suspected of making people more social. Perhaps the answer here lies in the so-called “fatal attraction” behavior found in Toxo-infected rodents. Rats and mice testing positive for the parasite tend to find the smell of cat urine irresistible, drawing them to the felines they typically flee, basically serving themselves up on a platter to their killers. While present inside many species of warmblooded animals, Toxo can only reproduce in the gut of a cat. Therefore, a self-sacrificing host is the easiest way for the parasite to complete its life cycle. But what does this have to do with us? Well, it just so happens that chimpanzees are a favorite food of leopards and lions, suggesting that early humankind may once have been on the menu as well. Let’s not forget that lions and tigers prey upon scores of people in Africa and Asia every year, while here in the western U.S. mountain lions may stalk the occasional hiker. Makes you wonder what that Lion King song “Circle of Life” was really about. March 9, 2017 13

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s a species, humans buy into trending ideas regularly — sometimes for our benefit but equally often to our detriment; just think about diet fads and pyramid schemes. Ideas shape our emotions and ideals, actions and beliefs, habits and opinions. Ideas act as catalysts for change, and if they are good, according to one philosopher, they can act as the medicine to heal our cultural wounds. There’s no shortage of panicinducing news today, with shifting political landscapes, mass migrations and a rapidly changing climate, leading many to believe that humanity needs to rethink its fundamental systems — like farming, energy and banking. If you are one of those people, you may be interested in the ideas of modern philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck. Although sometimes viewed as radical in his views, many see Pinchbeck’s ideas as grounded in logic and founded on evidence — even if that evidence is a self-evident and subjective experience. Pinchbeck was born and raised in New York City. Son of the famous writer Joyce Johnson (most notorious for her relationship with Jack Kerouac, and the memoirs she published thereafter), he was exposed to an artistic atmosphere at a young age and was surrounded by some of the Beat Generation’s best. Now, he is one of the most prominent and controversial philosophers of our time; prominent in that he is a famous author, and controversial in that he is an educator for psychedelic substances and advocate for radical social change. His hypothesis that the mystical realities people experience under the influence of psychedelics have a flavor of validity flies in the face of scientific materialism, to which he admits to having once been an adherent. It was not until he started doing research for his book, Breaking Open The Head, which dealt with psychedelic shamanism (the technique of using psychotropic plants to reach new levels of awareness in the mind) that his materialistic outlook on life changed. “I assumed that consciousness was purely a material phenomenon of the brain, and therefore when we died, there couldn’t be anything beyond that,” Pinchbeck says. “What changed my view on that was the research I did for Breaking Open The Head —

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tion to a higher status, be it social or religious And just as tribal members had to endure their trials to move forON THE BILL: Daniel ward, so does humanity. Pinchbeck — How “Either we’re not soon is Now? 7:30p.m. Tuesday, March 14, going to make it as a Boulder Bookstore, species, or we’re going to 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, reach a higher state of 303-447-2074. consciousness, collectively,” Pinchbeck says. For Pinchbeck, the rites of passage in some tribal societies include a series of heavy ordeals designed to help an individual become more ecologically aware. Western society has banished these initiations, and replaced them with a materialistic and consumerist paradigm that forces people to work from an extremely narrow-minded point of view. “So people are trapped in a very limited, egoic sense of consciousness and subjectivity,” he explains. “They don’t really feel such a deep connection to a larger whole, so they pursue very limited personal ambitions.” And so it goes. With the majority of the population feeling no responsibility for a larger whole, the whole starts to crumble. “We are over-consuming resources. We are supporting this very individualized vision. And it’s not working out. It can’t continue,” he says. Pinchbeck’s solution is to come up with a new model, which he calls a regenerative society. It’s selfexplanatory: In order to save the planet and change the corrupt systems we are a part of, the systems need to be redesigned. “It requires a rethink and redesign of our technical systems, like energy and industry and farming, and then also of our social systems,” he says. “But then also this requires a profound shift in our consciousness, our subjectivity, our sense of what our meaning is.” Of course, this regeneration won’t be easy. But if people approach it in the way that tribal societies approach their initiatory process, Pinchbeck believes we can pick up the pieces of the planet and solve the puzzle of planetary disintegration before it’s too late. In other words, humanity must look at regeneration as mandatory. “Having an initiation,” he says, “It’s like having a mission, like a purpose, like a vision for the future.”

Philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck comes to Boulder to offer a cure for our cultural wounds by Preston Bryant

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having many psychic experiences, like telepathic experiences, foreshadowings, synchronicities, shamans being able to access information that they couldn’t have possibly known.” These profound experiences sent Pinchbeck on an investigation that would pave the way for the future of his career. “I began to recognize that consciousness was maybe not just locked into the individual brain, but somehow we could communicate non-locally,” he says. Some of the other books Pinchbeck has written include The Return Of Quetzalcoatl and Notes From The Edge Of Time. He is also the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, and co-founder of the web magazines Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net. His latest project is a book titled How Soon Is Now?, which was released on Feb. 1. How Soon Is Now? has a few different theses — one of which Pinchbeck is particularly adamant about emphasizing. According to him, the current global warming crisis mirrors the rite of passage or initiation process many people in tribal communities go through in order to prove their worthiness of eleva-

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fter years of requests from the wind energy industry, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will now be able to issue wind energy companies 30-year “incidental take permits” for eagles, a license of sorts that protects these companies against federal prosecution for the accidental death or injury of these large predators. While the concept may be off-putting, wildlife managers say the new permits offer greater protection to bald and golden eagles as wind energy development expands. The new permitting process — which extends the previous five-year permit terms — allows the USFWS to design site surveys for each proposed wind energy development, depending on its unique location and other characteristics, and to set the appropriate eagle take limit. These project-specific limits are based on updated 2016 research on bald and golden eagle populations, including estimated population size, survival rates and growth rates for both eagle species. The research and methodology yielded conservative estimates for limits while still maintaining or improving existing populations. The USFWS national raptor coordinator, Brian Millsap, played a key role in finalizing the new permit. “By using those conservative values, you’re hedging your bets that you’re not overestimating population sizes or overestimating survival,” he says. In the Front Range, where USFWS and Colorado Parks and Wildlife counted 124 to 150 nesting bald eagle pairs last year, raptor conservation groups say the new USFWS permit is a good step for bald and golden eagle protection in the face of growing wind energy development. “It is the best possible compromise in all this,” says Michael Tincher, rehabilitation coordinator at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program (RMRP) in Fort Collins. “With energy development, especially in Colorado, you’re not going to stop it. You can rant and rave all you want. And I’m a defender of wildlife — that’s my job. The best you can do is be involved and push for wise energy development.” According to the Colorado Energy Office, wind is the most prevalent form of renewable energy in the state, producing more than 14 percent of Colorado’s electricity in 2015. In 2016, Colorado ranked seventh in the U.S. in terms of total installed wind energy generation, with more than 1,880 wind turbines across the state. Tincher added that although eagles, and raptors in general, are understudied in Colorado, bald eagle populations here are rising, and the northern Front Range is seeing an increase in the nesting population. Like others, his greater concern is with golden eagles, whose numbers have been decreasing in recent years. “Bald eagles will tolerate a certain level of human disturbance,” Tincher says. “Golden eagles won’t. What we’re seeing is a trend downward in the golden eagle population.” Boulder Weekly

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9:30 at night, and my boss and I are trying to start a campfire in 3 feet of snow. Rumor at the saloon was that something had been stalking and abducting people in the woods, but right now, all we want is a little comfort and maybe some cocoa. We’re ready to break out the lighter fluid when three figures emerge from the shadows and, within seconds, beat us bloody with keen weapons and psionic fire. We are bound and dragged into the woods. Over the next 10 minutes, they tie us to a tree and torture us — not for information, just for sick pleasure. Eventually, blinded, burned and beaten, we are left to call for help, a trap to lure more torture victims. None come. Finally, they drag us off again, break our legs and abandon us to the hollow groan of an approaching horde of shambling zombies. We’re doomed and miserable — but hey, everybody needs a hobby. If the zombies and pyrokinetic torture-cultists didn’t give it away, this was a game. I was at Beaver Ranch, a wooded community park in Conifer, half an hour southwest of Denver. Around 150 people from around the country had rolled up in their post-apocalyptic finest: thrashed-out trenchcoats, chainmail made from soda can tabs, and at least one foam sword inscribed with “LIMBS ARE A PRIVILEGE.” We were there to do battle with hordes of undead and other nasties in the fictional Colorado outpost town of DedStop. We were there to play a game of survival, adventure and horror called Dystopia Rising. Dystopia Rising, or DR, is a live-action role-playing (LARP) game system that takes place at campsites in 16 states, with more

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chapters set to open this year. It’s all one game. The estimated 6,000 active players in third-quarter 2016 regularly travel from state to state, growing their characters, trading resources and building ties that can be carried to any site. Each of those 6,000 players spends weekends portraying a character of their own design, weaving a massive story that could not Dustin Glatz have been planned or predicted. They all have their own triumphs and tragedies, unique war stories and the scars to prove it. I spent several weekends in 2016 playing a character named Lucas, a hardboiled bodyguard and a perpetually anxious psion — he has a few reality-warping tricks, like those cultists. And this is his story. It was late March, at the Masterson family’s annual thaw party just outside DedStop, on a warm, sunny day. It would be Lucas’ first day of real work in a long time — he’d been hired as muscle for a small trade caravan, the House of Auniks, planning to set up a base of operations in DedStop. Auniks was trying to build his name and fortune. He traveled with his bodyguard, Vadric Lecain, the charismatic psion

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Char V’elevo, a farmer named Juniper, and a few others. Not long after they arrived, Juniper noticed something wrong with the water — nothing was growing in the area. She and Auniks approached the Mayor, Razor Rio Elway, to form a posse to look at the water pump. Lucas didn’t know the details — he was muscle, not brains — but someone said something about zombies. They found the Zed swarming by the waterside, all shamblers — that is, basic “slow” zombies that do nothing but shamble and claw at people. The posse broke through, then formed a perimeter in the rough terrain as more dead moved in. A Sawbones — think impromptu battlefield medic — Quint, went down during the fight. Char dragged him off to the side and shocked him back to life with a quick jolt of psionic power. Lucas wiped the last five minutes of the guy’s memory, and Char fed him a line about being hit on the head. That memory loss caught the attention of the doctors who attended to him after the fight. A few more people were “hit on the head” that day, and more people grew nervous. Nobody figured it out at the time, but Lucas felt like it was too close a call. He argued with Char, insisting that anything short of imminent death wasn’t worth risking their secret. DedStop was known for a group of violently antipsionic zealots, so if they came into town as known psions, the House of Auniks would have no chance to gain a foothold. Lucas arrived in DedStop on a Saturday afternoon in April, delayed by heavy snow. As he walked up the road, he saw the lower tent city, half-covered in snow fallen over the course of the morning, largely undisturbed. He quickly found his comrades at the Playhouse, the saloon that served as the heart of town. The House of Auniks caravan had made the ride up the night before. Being Lucas’ first trade meet, he didn’t know or trust much of anyone outside of the House. The paranoia crept in slowly, but he managed to keep busy through the afternoon — mostly by hunting Zed. That night, after a supply run, Auniks and Lucas tired of sitting around the saloon and followed a group up to the cabins and their fire pit. That’s when they were captured by cultists, tortured and left out for zombies to chew on. While he and Auniks were being tortured, he realized his first priority was his boss’ safety and sanity — having Auniks incapacitated would make escaping that much harder. He started insulting the cultists’ torture technique. When the cultists gave up on using them as bait for torture victims and left them out for the shamblers, escape wasn’t an option. The Zed started gnawing on Auniks first, and Lucas flipped. He started screaming “Chew on someone your own size” at the Zed, trying to draw them off of Auniks. And, mostly, it worked. He kept shouting taunts as he grew closer and closer to bleeding out. Lucas and Auniks survived. Some survivors at the saloon heard them screaming and came to help. They were down to seconds before they bled out, but between the doctors and a priest of The Cure — his rendition of “Friday, I’m in Love” was good — they were walking again shortly. In the course of fixing 24 March 9, 2017

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Lucas’ battered limbs, that priest converted Lucas into a music-worshipper — a member of the King’s Court — though another priest would perform the baptism. In May, the residents of Dedstop (Dedites) found out that someone had stolen those cultists’ holy book. The culprits were a religious group called the Final Knights, who believe that the nuclear apocalypse was actually a Revelations-flavored apocalypse, and since everyone’s already in Hell, the only rational course of action is to seek power and spread suffering. The book itself was supposedly full of unspeakable knowledge, including rituals to grant psionic powers. And in any case, the Knights’ reputation was for torture and slavery, so many Dedites felt justified in attacking them. We marched with shields to the front, light fighters flanking, and guns and medics to the rear. The Knights were in the middle of some kind of sermon, their leader preaching from the book. We caught them off guard, but their gunners ripped through the shield wall with ease. A sniper took Lucas down, but an ally forced some powerful hooch down Lucas’ throat, bringing him back into battle. He tried covering the busy medics. Another sniper shot picked him off. A Sawbones — Quint, again — dragged him away to the group’s last defensive line, stabilized him. But the Dedite fighters were routed, and the Knights were on him. Lucas roared, staggering toward the advancing line, limply trying to swing when a third sniper shot took him down. The Knights executed him without hesitation. At least, he thought, Quint got away. As the survivors fled, Char surveyed the battlefield, devastation writ large upon his face. In the dark of the Grave Mind, the corpse-absorbing collective consciousness of the undead horde, Lucas heard singing. Absent any light, he moved toward the sound, finding Remis Whoreson of Bravo, another casualty of the battle. He heard the song waver and told Remis to hold on. But Remis felt his death was a wasted moment, a major personal failing. Though defiant, he was filled with regret. Then the rough voice of the Grave Mind began to whisper to Lucas, accusing him of dying for nothing. But Lucas knew this was a lie. He began to whisper a hymn. The Grave Mind kept talking. Lucas sang louder, voice growing to a declaration of his life. “And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t

true,” he declared, light suddenly flooding his vision. He and Remis emerged from the morgue, into a waiting crowd. Lucas cried and embraced his friends, happy to be back among the living. Come June, Lucas traveled south to a town called Briarwood. Their mayor had traveled to DedStop in May, seeking able-bodied fighters. Miners had drilled holes into the Grave Mind, releasing swarms of Zed, trapping civilians and cutting the town off from supplies. On Sunday, as the Dedites were preparing to leave, someone saw a slave caravan, bound east with several Briarwood residents in tow. The Dedites marched en masse to meet them. They tried to negotiate a price, but the head slaver said the Briarwood slaves were bought already. One of the slaves began to whistle “America the Beautiful,” and a guard attacked him. The Dedites rushed to intervene, but the slaver revealed himself: he was a Toybox, a powerful psionic Zed capable of manifesting its memories of life as illusions. Its guards, fast-running Zed, shrieked, and a horde of undead emerged from the woods. The Zed were relentless, appearing from the thick undergrowth and charging the rescue party back into town, then farther to waiting caravans. It took until late July for the Dedites to return home, a trail of Zed behind them and a saloon full of other malefactors ahead. Cleaning up that mess took until late into the night. But there was nothing for it; most of the next day was blocked out for the Freedom Month celebration, a tradition for the rowdy redneck Merican Strain. Given the massive size of the McCoy clan — mostly Mericans — it was a big deal. With the business of survival being largely allconsuming, town-wide celebrations were rare. But the McCoys set up a massive feast, with food and hooch to spare. During the afternoon, a jam band formed, centered on Sheriff Morgan McCoy and a newcomer named Little Ray on guitars. Little Ray was looking to be baptized into the Court, so Lucas, drunk on the spirit, began to consider going into the priesthood. Conversation in DedStop tended to be the hows of survival. Freedom Month became a rare opportunity to think about the whys. Lucas didn’t make it to DedStop in August and was mostly away for September. But in August, two priests of the King’s Court came to town: Flame Rider! and Mori. While Lucas was overjoyed to have new members of his faith, it felt like a clear message that he wasn’t needed as a priest. August was a messy month for DedStop, being election season. In July, the survivors elected a town council with little fanfare: Char, a Yorker named Mercy, Ezekiel “Wheelbarra” McCoy, and Dr. Rue West from the general store. But repeated attempts to rig the August vote for mayor derailed things, and Razor Rio Elway kept the position. Even worse, someone had been casually threatening violence around town. Char organized a hit mob, but he failed to get a bounty and was tried for murder. He later came out as a psion, further burning good faith. The widespread backlash fueled his shift into a zealot. Lucas feared for the safety of his secret more and more as Char took bigger risks. The rising odds of see DYSTOPIA Page 25

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Char becoming a threat to the town made Lucas realize something. If Char truly went off the deep end, Lucas needed to be strong enough to stop him. Lucas’ role in DedStop was violence. Arriving on a Saturday in October, Lucas felt as if a weight had been lifted. With his fate out of his hands, he was better able to deal with more short-term concerns. Char had transformed into a more pronounced manifestation of his theology the night before, with a third arm, a metallic plate growing from his face and an increased aloofness. Lucas took the metamorphosis in stride. It changed none of his plans. Lucas also talked with another character who recently discovered their psionic capabilities. The character was afraid of the power, of being unable to stop their anger from manifesting as psionic fire. Lucas encouraged them to take a more meditative, diffusive response to their anger, rather than just let it fly. Ultimately, the character listened and felt less afraid. In November, everything went wrong. During a big Friday night Zed attack, a mutant beast wandered into camp. They’d been hanging around town since midsummer — they could send out some kind of pulse that hurt psions. It snuck up on Lucas and dropped him, right in the middle of the fight. He was dragged to the hospital and patched up, but he had a strange reaction to something the doctor gave him, and he got massively drunk. He staggered out to search for Char, and found him talking to a large group. They agreed to move to safety, when the beast struck again, dropping Char and Lucas right in the middle of a crowd. Meanwhile, Char’s zealotry fixed him as the town scapegoat, and some kind of coalition had formed to push him off the town council. In response — or maybe as a pre-emptive strike, Lucas was never really clear on the specifics — Char wanted to lead a coup and overthrow what he perceived as political power working against the needs of the people. Lucas railed against infighting as a pointless waste of time and life, still drunk and convinced he’d be killed in his sleep anyway. He walked away from his friends, off to look for trouble. But while Lucas was on his self-destruction trip, Char was assassinated. The attackers used a smoke bomb, and there were no witnesses. Though Char had lost face, many still came to hold a vigil and await his return. Lucas had failed his friend, never mind all those who assured him there was nothing he could have done. Char came out of a morgue frightened and exhausted. He claimed a political rival, likely Dr. Rue, must have paid for the hit, but there was no proof — even Char hadn’t seen his killer. Lucas set off in search of clues and a way to buy time until they had hard evidence. Char, at least, would not retaliate against that trade meet. Nobody got to sleep before 3 a.m. Lucas spent Saturday seeking work to fund his investigation, mostly as a mercenary. He helped put down an impressive 16 raiders over two raids that day, almost dying more than once. Even then, he was waiting for betrayal. That night, Lucas drank himself stupid at a holy party held by worshippers of the Light of Hedon, a faith built around the pre-fall seven deadly sins. As an act of prayer, the revelers shared stories of their sordid past exploits. The Hedons’ conviction that pleasure was king when death could come at any moment suited Lucas’ bleak mood. Rumor came through camp of inbound raiders capable of possessing psions — and possibly others. Even from the bottom of the bottle, Lucas’ conscience rang clear. If nothing else, he refused to be a risk to the rest of the town. He sought Folsom, the Court priest who’d baptized him. Folsom agreed to beat him into helplessness, too weak to hurt anyone should the worst happen. But, over the following hours, nothing came. Lucas left DedStop in the early morning, alone. 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we came away with not only It Takes Two but also Passport to Paris, Billboard Dad and Holiday in Sun. While not my finest film-snob moment, it was a movie night with a best friend I’ll never forget. When lamenting my fondest rental story to the store’s owner Bruce Shamma, he brushes off my embarrassment and tells me not to worry about it. “I’ve learned long ago not to snicker at what people rent,” he says. “I wouldn’t have it in here if I didn’t want to rent it!” Browsing the shelves of Video Station, there are very few titles they don’t want to rent. And my memories are only a few of the myriad that Boulderites have amassed over the 35-year life of this comprehensive neighborhood video store. Serving as an essential piece of Boulder’s cultural landscape, Video Station sent ripples of disappointment through the community by closing up shop on March 6. While hardly surprising due to the current modern reliance on video streaming services, it was still a sad reality to cope with. “To all our loyal customers: We are

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sorry to announce we will be closing permanently,” reads the sign posted on Video Station’s door. “We have loved renting to you all these years, but unfortunately the economics of brick and mortar retail finally won out. ... To all the customers, new and old, we sincerely say thank you.” Scott Woodland and partner Ivory Curtis opened The Video Station in 1982. Just another video store in those days, it served as a thorough collection of everything and anything a movie lover wanted, going a few steps deeper than your average Blockbuster. More than just the big name movies and box office hits, it also welcomed the fringe titles, with a focus on niche genres including international, foreign, experimental, cult, silent and more. Shamma took over the store in 2002. Sitting in his office, in front of

movie posters from On the Waterfront and Django Unchained, he says he wanted to continue the legacy of carrying it all — from the eclectic to the esoteric. “[The original owners] were completists to the same degree that I am. … Boulder is a wonderful advanced thinking place, where people have good taste and a lot of knowledge, especially about cultural things,” he says. “I just wanted to make sure I had those interesting obscure titles that I knew my clientele would always rent. I never reached that point where I thought, ‘I’d love to have that in the collection, but no one’s going to get it.”’ Video Station has a grand total of around 43,000 titles, which Shamma plans to hold on to for now. It’s more options than most video streamers and the sheer number of titles was one of the keys to the store’s long-time sucBoulder Weekly

cess. While many movies stick out over the years, staff guesses as to the most popular include The Big Lebowski or Lost in Translation. But some loose consensus puts Harold and Maude as the most-rented and most-purchased in the store’s history. In the past, the store has garnered national attention such as in 2016 when the Wall Street Journal wrote the story “Revenge of the Video Store” about the local fight against online streaming. This isn’t the first dying industry Shamma’s made a living in. He worked at Tower Records in San Francisco in the ’80s and then went on to own a record store for a decade. Before buying Video Station, he was the head buyer for the Virgin Megastore in Denver. “It’s my second time around,” he says. “That was tough too. It’s exactly the same.” But it was a different era in 2002, when Shamma took over. “It was the heyday of video rental,” he says. “Lines out the door, multiple lines on weekends. Always busy to some degree, no matter day or night.” He started to notice a steady decline in 2009. By then, multiple services were offering the joys of film on online platforms. “At the beginning, when the decline started, I thought it would be manageable. It’ll go down a bit but then it will plateau. Well, I’m still waiting for the plateau,” Shamma says with a laugh. Even up until a few weeks ago, Shamma remained optimistic, analyzing sales every day and comparing them to the past. While he says they still were signing up new members all the time, the flow wasn’t steady enough. “It’s just the way the world is turning now, which is that the internet makes things so easy and convenient that it can be tough for people to decide against it,” he says. “I chock it all up to Netflix and streaming, the ease of just staying at home and pushing buttons.” When Shamma announced the closing of the store in late February, floods of support came in from the community. Even in the final days, Shamma says he’s in no way bitter, but instead grateful for all the support he’s receiving. “Because of my loyal customers, I’ll think about them and dream about them for the rest of my life I’m sure. I’ve got so many nice notes and emails,” he says. “And people are coming in just hanging out for a while.” Everyone at Video Station expresses love toward their regulars who kept them in business for so long, says Robin Hyden, Shamma’s wife, who spoke with me on the store’s final day in business. “It was just amazing. It made everything more bearable. We’re just going to miss being with these guys, and my husband will miss working with them too. Sorry,” Hayden says, tears flowing. “Someone gave me Kleenex,” she says reaching into her back pocket. “Yeah... sad day.” Video Station’s crew includes some of the first Boulder Weekly

people Shamma hired when he took over and a couple who were here even before. “Everybody cares about movies here; nobody’s here to just make a buck,” Shamma says. “The sharing of knowledge, the friendship, it’s invaluable.” Several of the staffers like David Shugert hail from CU and all feel fortunate to have nabbed a coveted position behind the counter. In the mid ’90s, Shugert was studying film and journalism with hopes of becoming a film critic, which he eventually did by writing reviews for Video Station’s newsletter. He

’90s DeShane was attending CU and working the register, but then left to pursue acting, writing and directing. “We were all going to school, making films, and working at the Video Station was part of that,” DeShane says. “It was just a great library and repository of information that fed us, that fed our souls and our imagination.” Because who can forget one of the best perks of being an employee? “Free movies, free movies, free movies. Oh, and Susan France the free movies,” Shugert says. During his tenure, Shugert would grab stacks of films over the weekend, from just a couple new releases to upwards of 10 titles when needing to brush up on some classics or strange offerings. When asked if any titles pop out over the years, his answer is a little surprising. “Mighty Joe Young, the 1998 version with Bill Paxton and Charlize Theron. It was PG, and we could play it in the store,” Shugert says. “I think I played it a few days in a row, unknowingly, and a former employee was like, ‘Didn’t you just play that?’” One of Gordon’s memories includes a car smashing into the front window of the store in the late ’90s and the following clean up of broken bookshelves and DVDs scattered on the floor. She also started at the rental store part time, remembers monthly meetings from the Customers say splitting his hours between there and early days on the job. goodbye to Target. “We had movie quizzes where the Shamma, owner of Video Station “Even when I was a kid growing up owner, Scott Woodland, would describe in California, I would rent a lot of vidthe movie and we would have to come eos. I always thought it would be cool to up with the title,” she says. “There work at a place like this,” he says. “They’ve seen a lot would always be that threat if you didn’t do well on of employees come and go, but the turnover is probayour movie quiz.” bly not nearly as high as a place like Target.” “The movie quizzes! I forgot about that,” Shugert Joyce Gordon can attest to the low turnover rate, interjects. celebrating her 20th anniversary with the store last Reminiscing about private rituals and inside jokes, month. She cites the synergy between the team mem- the team agrees there are some stories just too sacred bers as the magic of the store. Each comes with a dif- to share. ferent background, a different expertise, but the same “No, we can’t talk about that,” Gordon says, with passion for film. other staffers nodding in agreement. “I’ve loved film since I was a child growing up in She describes her two decades behind the counter Chicago, going to the Clark Theater with my grandas totally rich. Even though she’s had more “profesma,” Gordon says. “All of the ladies would come in sional” jobs, she says, this one was special. hair rollers, smoking cigarettes in the movie theater. “This has been my most valuable experience, That’s how old I am!” because with each transaction you get to see a slice of Not only did movie fans work the cash registers, life,” Gordon says. “To be able to relate to the vast quite a few moviemakers did as well. Video Station variety of customers is so enriching and such a chalemployed many young talents, including Derek lenge and so wonderful. Not to mention the movie Cianfrance, who went on to direct films including selection, the great wealth of titles we have.” Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines. She goes on to compliment the trove, listing her “[Cianfrance] used to work here when I was first favorite genres until a customer and her daughter stop hired,” Gordon says. “He was working on his student by her register. With flowers and a card for the staff, project at the time, and I used to tease him that he the customer expresses her thanks and well wishes, would have to give me extra special thanks [in his film and Gordon comes from behind the counter for hugs credits] because I was filling in for his shifts.” and final goodbyes. The store has served as inspiration for many, see VIDEO STATION Page 28 including former employee Brock DeShane. In the March 9, 2017 27

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With returning patrons and the same faces at the registers, the Video Station experience surpasses mere movie renting. “I’ll miss the long-term customers,” Shugert says. “Those who’ve been coming here for a while. I looked forward to that every week. It’s like family almost.” And with two decades at the Video Station, Shugert says he’s also seen more than one of his favorite customers pass away. He recalls an older couple who would frequent the store, the husband John, an ex-policeman from New York and the wife Billie, who Shugert had only spoken with on the phone yet still cultivated a relationship with. “I got to know her,” Shugert says. “She would remember my birthday, and she’d send me cards, which was so sweet.” Shugert remembers one day running into the couple near the store’s old location. “It was after John had a heart operation, and I hadn’t seen him in a bit. I was walking out of Safeway, when we were on 28th. I saw him, and with him was this smaller woman. The second she talked, I knew who she was, and I gave her a big hug... I get a little teary just thinking about it,” he says, and then pauses. “She passed away first, she was about 70, and then he went a couple years later. But yeah... it’s just connections like that.” For decades, Video Station retained that reputation of bringing people together. “There’s a real neighborhood feel,” says staffer Noah Arnold, who came on at the store in 2002. “Everybody knows everybody. It’s like Cheers but with movies. “I’ve seen more people reunite here than I’ve seen any place else, where it’s just sort of random,” he continues. “Like, ‘Oh my god, you rent movies too! We haven’t seen each other in years.’ I always thought that was great. As much as we rent movies, it’s also a place to hang out.” In the scary reality of the modern world, community hangouts are fast becoming scarce. As the world becomes more automated and local treasures fall to the giants, one can only wonder what is lost in the ether. “If you want to talk to a human being you’re out of luck now,” Shamma says. “How do you browse if you just want to look at possibilities without something in mind already? What if you want to see 200 new releases within inches of each other? Or how about holding it up to the guy at the counter, ‘What do you think of this one? Has anyone seen this one? Any good feedback?’ Now, it’s just an algorithm telling you. What’s the pleasure in that?” And for some, those electronic formulas are far from replacing the real thing. “The algorithms don’t work for me. I’m insulted by some of the stuff Amazon says I’m supposed to like. I’m just like, ‘Are you fucking kidding me?’” Hyden says. “I’m the generation that goes to record stores and goes to bookstores and places like this still. It’s hard adjusting to the world. “Beautiful things have to end sometimes, at least that’s what I’m told,” she continues. “I’m always like, ‘Why can’t the crappy corporations end?’” Hyden, who met Shamma when they worked at Tower Records together, now works at the Chez Artiste as a manager and projectionist. She knows all too well about the threat of technology and corporations. “I found something I was really good at, splicing and manipulating film. Then it went away,” she says. “I really don’t like computers, I feel like my soul’s being sucked out, and now I do it all on computer. It’s a hard world for our generation. “When people would ask, ‘So what do you guys do now?’, [Shamma and I] always used to say, ‘Oh, we own another dying technology,’” she says with a laugh. “But who knows? Maybe one day it’ll be cool again.” There aren’t many future plans among the employees. For the next few weeks, they’ll be boxing up the collection and moving it out. While the end looms, the staff leaves in good spirits. “[Video Station in 1997] was the last interview I had, so I’m a little rusty,” Shugert jokes. “So we’ll see what I can do after this!” In the wake of its closing, the store leaves behind a community of movie lovers who will surely miss their friendly neighborhood video store. “It’s a true legacy for Boulder, and I think it’s the sort of place that will be legend,” DeShane says. “But it lives on. That’s what happens with art. It lives on in people, and people spread that. So closing the doors doesn’t close the door on the inspiration it had or the legacy it leaves.” As a fitting goodbye for a place and group of people with no idea what the future holds, the Video Station looked to wise time traveler Doc Brown for their final tweet on their last day: “This is the end of the line folks, ‘Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’” Boulder Weekly

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here is some glory, although than 150 albums and bearing the not much, in being informally enduring reverence of many of the regarded as the greatest sidemusicians he’s played with (Reznor man guitarist of the last 40 once called him “the most awesome years. musician in the world”), Belew found But in the case of Adrian Belew, himself without steady big-stage work who could at the very least be nominat- in 2013, having (more or less) amicably ed in that glory-impoverished category, walked away from a Nine Inch Nails even that wouldn’t be a slam dunk. Not reunion project and being politely uninthat the Twang Bar King himself hasn’t vited from Fripp’s resurrection of the the chops or seismic fury to qualify — current incarnation of King Crimson. few guitarists have danced on the elecSo the Twang Bar King returned to his tric guitar’s sonic event horizon as Power Trio, the group he founded with feverishly as Belew — but the guy just Eric and Julie Slick (Tobias Ralph sits doesn’t dress the part. behind the drum kit Sonic foil to Zappa’s these days), a sibling gnarled machinations, rhythm section he met ON THE BILL: Adrian right-brained anarchy in 2006 at Paul Green’s Belew Power Trio with Saul Zonana. Tuesday, March 14. to Robert Fripp’s leftSchool of Rock, and 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 brain fretboard calculus, immersed himself in 14th St., Boulder, 303-786summoner of dystopian Flux, his mobile app 7030. Tickets: $25-32.50. grey-tone flourishes containing songs, halfbeside Trent Reznor, songs, bits of sonic incising scar tissue noise and other audible across the Talking Heads in the heat of morsels that were either too incomplete their proto-tribal Eno days, Belew has for stage/album material, or simply costumed some of the most challenging experimental fragments better left unand cortex-gripping recorded music of contextualized. The companion app, the last few decades in fearless and sub- Flux:FX, is a mobile audio manipulalime alien-landscape chroma. tion application for iOS, and both have At heart, of course, Belew is a pop been warmly received in the mobile app star, or at least bears the soul of a pop space. star, a tuneful abstractionist who strays For longtime fans, the unvarnished Belew is both an epiphany and curiosifrom his Beatles-roots instincts far ty, the guitarist being a virtuoso musienough to plant his flag of discovery cian in dimensions typically not before returning to terra firma. Those embraced in that prehistoric guitarwho had followed his career up to that driven trio setting, yet possessing both point grinned at the inside-joke irony the presence and catalog to fill a setlist of his fluke semi-hit “Oh Daddy,” from with plenty left over. Nods to the past 1989’s Mr. Music Head, which featured are not entirely excluded from his sets, the frustrated lamentations of his of course; he played in a series of Bowie daughter that Dad was a touring pop tribute shows this past winter, and he musician that hadn’t yet scored a seldom gets off a PT stage without an George-Michael-sized chart smash. affirming rendition of “Elephant Talk,” And despite having played on more

usually delivered in a manner that coaxes one to wonder if the thing ever really needed Fripp in the first place. Part cranium-cracking fury, part damaged pop, part modal prog, the PT gig is and will probably remain Belew’s nutritional mainstay, and that’s just fine. It’s all the noise and thunder that a club stage can handle. And it’s also worth mentioning that Belew returned to his curious animal-trib roots recently, having scored the Pixar short Piper, the tender, animated short film used as a lead-in to Finding Dory, a kind of circle-closing project for a guy who has celebrated rhinos, elephants and big electric cats in his earlier years. Piper won an Oscar just a few weeks ago. See it; it’s wonderful. There, daughter. A hit. For our money, though, we miss The Bears, his between-Crimson episodes side project that he started in the late ’80s with some old friends from Cincinnati. In some respects, this was the heart of Belew’s tuneful giddiness, the lead singer in a two-guitar rock band, gentle on the guitar effects and largely bereft of pyrotechnics or doomsday sonic overtones. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” went one line from their debut album, “he knows what’s best for you…” How would that sound these days? Hands raised at the mike, Belew would greet the audience on that tour with a friendly “grrrr...,” which was promptly returned in kind. In some ways, it was the only way we could reply to Belew; the rest of the time, the Twang Bar King speaks in foreign tongues, and all we can do is listen, and absorb, and gape a little bit at the most awesome musician in the world. Boulder Weekly

arts & culture Better living through cinema The Boulder Jewish Film Festival returns for a fifth go-round

rom March 9 to 19, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival will screen over 20 different films of various lengths with subjects of inclusion, diversity and heart. In previous iterations, BJFF provided sold-out audiences a chance to experience something different. But in 2017, the significance of a Jewish film festival takes on a new meaning in a world where Jewish cemeteries are vandalized and Jewish schools and community centers are the targets of bomb threats — a terrifying reality the Boulder Jewish Community Center has experienced first-hand.

ON THE BILL: Boulder Jewish Film Festival. March 9-19. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303- 4407826. Gala Opening. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007, Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Hollywood, The Last Laugh, to Argentina, Wild Tales, and Israel, Wedding Doll. Even the local documentary, Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana will receive a special screening with filmmakers Judy Krieth and Robin Truesdale appearing in person. BW spoke with Krieth and Truesdale last year when Forgotten Jewels was still a work in progress, but even then, Krieth and Truesdale’s passion for telling this personal story of survival was apparent. “Films give us the opportunity to examine our lives, to talk about politics, to talk about sociology, to talk about interpersonal relationships,” Berheimer says. “All of these [films], whether it’s historical or whether it’s contemporary, they all allow us to reflect on life.” And at BJFF, that discussion is part and parcel of the festival. “One of the qualities of our film festival is that there is a talkback after every screening,” Berheimer explains. “I’ve been doing this now for 14 years ... and I never show anything that doesn’t get a conversation afterward. ... It’s a bonding experience; it’s bonding with other people in the room.” That experience will stay with viewers long after the screens have Israel’s Wedding gone dark. Doll tells the story of “The messages of tolHagit, a divorcee who works in a toilet erance and inclusivity paper factory. and diversity are very important in our films and certainly in Jewish values,” Berheimer says. “We are a value-based organization.” Berheimer continues. “That doesn’t mean they’re exclusively Jewish, but certainly a celebration of diversity, and certainly no place for hate. All of these values are very built in.” The Boulder Jewish Film Festival runs March 9–19 at The Dairy Arts Center with the gala opening film, On the Map, at the Boulder Jewish Community Center. Information, show times and tickets can be found at boulderjcc.org and thedairy.org.

by Michael J. Casey

The Boulder JCC is just one of many institutions that have been threatened since January 20. But just because anti-Semitism, along with many other forms of religious persecution and xenophobia, is on the rise in America doesn’t mean that one should hide in terror. On the contrary, what is necessary at a time like this is more communal moments of inclusion and acceptance and the BJFF is just the place to start. “People aren’t threatened by movies,” BJFF founding director Kathryn Bernheimer tells Boulder Weekly. “In other words, you don’t have to know Hebrew, you don’t have to know the prayers, you don’t have to believe in God, you don’t have to be Jewish. ... Everybody goes to a movie and everybody can talk about a movie. So it’s a very low barrier. It’s not threatening, it’s very wide open to anyone.” Over 11 days, BJFF will screen 21 features and four shorts ranging from narratives to documentary from Boulder Weekly

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Thursday, March 9

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Music

Rose Hill Drive — Fox 25th Anniversary Show. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Adult Ukulele and Songwriting Bootcamp. 7 p.m. City of Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Hazel Miller and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boulder Jewish Film Festival. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-641-2056.

Low Pressure Dub System at Conor’s Reggae Night! 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Megan Gafford Hemisphere Storytelling Presentation Exhibition Event. 2 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Open Mic Night Hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St.,

Frozen Dead Guy Days

Susan France

March 10-13, Downtown Nederland, 200 East St., Nederland, 303-931-9017 It’s that time of year again, when Boulder County celebrates its favorite frozen dead dead guy: Bredo Morstoel, the cryogenically frozen Norwegian dude who resides in suspended animation in the hills of Nederland. Returning for its 16th year, Frozen Dead Guy Days is the three-day festival that commemorates the bizarre story and celebrates Nederland’s quirky culture. The festival features 34 live bands, food and drink, and a variety of whacky events including Coffin Racing, Polar Plunge, Snowy Human Foosball, and costume contests all throughout the main streets of town. Visit frozendeadguydays.org for tickets and registration. — Billy Singleton

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Events

A Healing Music Concert and Kirtan. 7:30 p.m. 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 573-569-0370.

Party

Sean Flynn Live. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

Megan Gafford: Hemisphere Opening Reception. 5 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. see EVENTS Page 34

Think

Dream

The Secret Project to Think Wrong and Change the World

An American in Paris

7 p.m. Thursday, March 9, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. While reliable, our tendency to follow established habit and patterns in our thinking can be creatively stifling. Join award-winning designer and entrepreneur John Bielenberg in a discussion of his problem-solving system Project M, designed to help us think out of the box in business and life. Based on the idea of “thinking wrong,” Bielenberg’s alternative approach bypasses neurological and cognitive biases to affect positive change in the world. — Billy Singleton

Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 19.

Courtesy of DCPA/Matthew Murphy

Paris will always be known as the city of love, with romance around every corner. But An American in Paris ups the ante with the classic music of George and Ira Gershwin. The show opened on Broadway in 2015, and it was nominated for 11 Tonys, taking home four. It follows an American soldier’s exploits abroad, which of course include a mysterious French girl. The pair longs for new beginnings in the aftermath of a country ravaged by war.

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Two Way Street Release — Wibby/4 Noses Collaboration. 4 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

TODD SNIDER

Mar 17

w/ Rorey Carroll

Mar 24

MIGHTY MYSTIC & THE HARD ROOTS MOVEMENT w/ Hosanna

Mar 31

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Apr 1

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w/ DJ Mbanza

Apr EUFORQUESTRA w/ Electric Toast 7 Apr 8

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w/ Miles Over Mountains

Up Down Circus — Juggling & Ground Skills Class. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.

Friday, March 10 The Acoustic Mountain Blues Duo Ravin’Wolf. 6 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-606-1734. The Alcapones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. ArtWalk Mardi Gras 2017. 6 p.m. Instant Imprints, 372 Main St., Longmont, 303-774-9260. The CBDs. 7 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-499-1829. Deborah Stafford’s Big Swing Band. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303499-2985. Eric Adrian Gonzales. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. The Greyboy Allstars — Fox 25th Anniversary Show. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Lake Street Dive. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. piKziL. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Rachel Ann Harding. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Roscoe Wyatt. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events

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Stop by The Dairy for the regional premiere of the epic poem Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, complete with a live-band.

Views & Brews: Julie and Julia. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Music

The Boulder International Film Festival, The Last Man on the Moon. 2:30 p.m. Golden West, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-444-3967. Cindy Brandle Dance Company Revealed. 7:30

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An Act of God. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 12. An American in Paris. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 19. Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage — presented by The Catamounts. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 18. Disenchanted. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 6. Two Degrees. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 12. The Unsinkable Molly Brown. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through April 2.

p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom, Boulder, 303-4433934.

Dance Nia. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Boulder-2-Nablus Delegation Illumination Celebration. 7 p.m. Oddfellows Hall, 1543 Pearl St., Boulder, 256-759-7298.

Murder at the Ballet. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-772-1335. Storybook Ballet 2017: The Wizard of Oz. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, March 11 Music Artist’s Opening Reception — Julie Stratton. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Boulder Bach Festival Young Artist Competition. 9 a.m. Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 720-507-5052. Boulder Blind Cafe. 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Matthew Stone

Brahms Requiem. 7:30 p.m. Longmont United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, 720432-9341. Bridges and Brews. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. The Custom Shop. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Global Soul Experience LIVE. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 916-873-4856. Great American Taxi. 7 a.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Greyboy Allstars — Fox 25th Anniversary Show. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Live Music. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Masontown with Bonnie & Taylor. 7:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. The Mighty Twisters. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Daniel Pinchbeck is an educator for psychedelic substances and advocate for radical social change. Hear him speak about his ideas at Boulder Book Store on March 14.

Mitchel Evan Live. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910. Ragged Union with Cody Sisters, Jackson Earles. 8 p.m. Rogers Hall, 400 High St., Lyons. ShwizZ. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Monday, March 13

Dava Sobel — The Glass Universe. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Marjorie Power. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303495-3303.

Tuesday, March 14

Friday, March 10

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Courtney Morgan Reading and Book Signing Party. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Daniel Pinchbeck — How Soon is Now. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Taarka. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Tom Weiser Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. TroyBoi. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Events Boulder County 4-H Carnival. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6238. Cindy Brandle Dance Company Revealed. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., see EVENTS Page 36

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Boulder, 303-440-7826. Hops + Handrails. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Hops + Handrails Official Afterparty. 7:30 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303776-4594. Kevin and the Storytellers — Stories on Stage. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Kissing Point (Revisited). 10 a.m. ATLAS Institute, Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577. McTeggart Irish Dancers. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

arts Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7. Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 24. Bobbie Benson. Community Art Program Gallery,

Courtesy of The Dairy

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

Mathias Kessler: Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29. Matt Angiono. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through March 31. Meetings in Isolation — Anna Olsson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through April 30. Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.

Storybook Ballet 2017: The Wizard of Oz. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Ninel Senatorova. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through March 31.

Summer Camps Fair 2017. 10 a.m. East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, Boulder, 303-473-1400.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20.

Sunday, March 12 Music Amelia White. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 615-626-2601.

Celebrate Month of Photography with Michelle Robinson at The Dairy, through April 9.

Boulder Children’s Chorale “Around the World” Concert. 4 p.m. Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Celtic Concert — Moors & Meadows, Lochs & Glens. 3 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-651-7664. HAPPY HOUR JAZZ. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-9772. Hayes Grier. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Haymarket Squares. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder. Shine Potions Present: Jeff & Paige. 4 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Events Cindy Brandle Dance Company Revealed. 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Community Purim Carnival. 10:30 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Dance Nia on Sunday mornings at LRC. 11 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Kissing Point (Revisited). 10 a.m. ATLAS Institute, Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577. Many Mountains, Fred Coletta. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Storybook Ballet 2017: The Wizard of Oz. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade. 12 p.m. Conor O’neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Monday, March 13 Music “Circling the Waves” Michiko Theurer, Violinist and Artist. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Blue Grass Mondays. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing-820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Events

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Mark Bueno: Ghost Lights. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through March 24.

NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through March 31. Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31. Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 26. Dylan Gebbia Richards: Eclipse. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29. Home: American Photography at the CU Art Museum. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 15. Impossible Humans: The International Collection. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303-4447888. Video Production Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303800-4647. Tuesday, March 14 Music

Signature — Bug. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9. Shockwave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 28. Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 9. Stop/Look/See — James Milmoe. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 26. Then, Now, Next. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. Transmission — Michelle Robinson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through April 9. Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

Wednesday, March 15 Music Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Atlas Genius, Night Riots. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Drop-In Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Formula 5. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The MoJazz Duo… Special Wednesday Night Treat. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit 1, Boulder, 303-442-4130.

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108.

Salsa Level 1. 6 p.m. Art Underground, 901 Front St., Louisville, 720-675-9656. Treebouse!/Roots Of Rebellion. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720849-8458.

Sonic Octane Music Video Shoot. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. Events

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Jose Antonio Vargas “My Life as an Undocumented American.” 7 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU, 1667 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8833.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940.

Swing Dancing. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Video Production Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303800-4647.

Video Production Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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My Blue Shirt by Gary Whited

American Life in Poetry: Column 621: The next time you open your closet, this poem will give you reason to pay a little more attention to what’s hanging inside. Gary Whited is from Massachusettsand his most recent book is Having Listened, (Homebound Publications, 2013). — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www. poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright© 2013 by Gary Whited, “My Blue Shirt,” from Having Listened, (Homebound Publications, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of Gary Whited and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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Your Boulder Phil Goes to D.C.!

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hangs in the closet of this small room, collar open, sleeves empty, tail wrinkled. Nothing fills the shirt but air and my faint scent. It waits, all seven buttons undone, button holes slack, the soft fabric with its square white pattern, all of it waiting for a body. It would take any body, though it knows, in its shirt way of knowing, only mine has my shape in its wrinkles, my bend in the elbows. Outside this room birds hunt for food, young leaves drink in morning sunlight, people pass on their way to breakfast. Yet here, in this closet, the blue shirt needs nothing, expects nothing, knows only its shirt knowledge, that I am now learning — how to be private and patient, how to be unbuttoned, how to carry the scent of what has worn me, and to know myself by the wrinkles.

Nature & Music Saturday, March 25, 7:30 PM at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder Come see the program selected to open the SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.! Your Boulder Phil presents a world premiere by “composer-adventurer” Stephen Lias inspired by our own Rocky Mountain National Park and choreographed to nature photography from the park. -H΍ 0LGNL΍ȇV PDQGROLQ FRQFHUWR evokes the Appalachians with hues of bluegrass and Americana. Prairie dogs star in the cinematic Ghosts of the Grasslands, and Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring is brought to life in unforgettable fashion by Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance.

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acrilege though it may be to fellow comic aficionados, facts are still facts: As a character, Wolverine kind of sucks. Moody and hairy, the murderhappy brute is all pouting and brooding; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a stabbier Morrissey. Logan is the R-rated, uber-super-duper-serious mope-fest Wolverine fans have longed to see on the big screen, punctuating long weepy looks from Hugh Jackman with curse words and decapitations. Some of it works, but other parts betray the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhat preposterous self-importance with abject silliness. In fact, the final hour contains so many unintentionally laughable beats, anyone claiming Loganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatness has to be wearing Wolverine Underoos. Jackman is back as James â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loganâ&#x20AC;? Howlett, aka Wolverine, for a record 7,937th time. Patrick Stewart also returns as Professor Xavier, who now curses like a Reddit user exposed to substantive feminism. The year is 2029, and Professor X has some kind of dementia, which is less than ideal for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful psychic. Logan keeps him in a hideout south of the border, feeding him nonspecified â&#x20AC;&#x153;brain be betterâ&#x20AC;? pills, until a woman shows up and asks Logan to protect a young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) on a journey to North Dakota. To be fair, North Dakota is terrifying. Logan tries to refuse but then remembers this is a movie about his legacy and that he is required to groan and slouch towards redemption. Much like the movie Shane, a man must overcome the dark deeds of his past in order to leave something good behind. You know the movie is inspired by Shane because writer/director James Mangold actually has the characters watch the movie Shane while Professor X explains the importance of Shane before someone later extensively quotes Shane. This would be like if someone in Stranger Things stopped to read a chapter of a Stephen King book aloud while Winona Ryder talked about how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening to them. Logan is a film at unresolvable war with itself. Mangoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pensive character study is trapped inside a movie that necessitates bonkers action sequences, which then necessitates a physical villain and not merely a â&#x20AC;&#x153;man vs. himself â&#x20AC;? trope. The solution to that need is hilariously literal and is only outpaced in stupidity by the fake urgency of Logan protecting a horde of kids who could easily whup his ass. Logan cries a lot though. Because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all sensitive and shit. This apparently equates to â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best performance in a superhero movie ever,â&#x20AC;? according to people who likely also appreciate the acting in erectile dysfunction commercials. Watching Loganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claws disembowel slack-jawed dimwits and seeing Laura turn into a bladed Tasmanian devil is gleeful, bloody fun that interrupts hours of over-emoting. Ultimately, this is just more of the same, tired ode to the burden of hyper-masculinity and is nowhere near the tragic dirge Mangold believed himself to be composing. If this really is Jackman riding Wolverine off into the sunset, I kind of feel sorry for the sunset. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Brakhage Center symposium presents an array of multicultural works by Michael J. Casey

any filmmakers have strode the halON THE BILL: Brakhage lowed halls of the University of Symposium. March 11-12, Colorado Boulder: Derek CU Campus, ATLAS 100, Cianfrance, Dalton Trumbo and 303.492-7394. Alex Cox are just a few, but if there is one name that towers over the rest it is the godfather of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1933, Brakhage gained notoriety and attention with works like Mothlight (1963), Dog Star Man (1964) and The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971) among hundreds From “A Depression in the Bay of Bengal” more. Brakhage taught off and on at CU from the ’70s to his death in 2003, and the net he cast was wide. Caught in that net was CU professor Suranjan Ganguly, who has been doing his part to keep Brakhage’s innovations and legacy alive with his monthly celebration of his friend’s work, Celebrating Stan, and the yearly symposium that honors work in Brakhage’s field, the Brakhage Center symposium. When Ganguly took over directing duties of the Brakhage Center in 2015, his goal was to diversify the works featured at the Brakhage Center and this year’s program may mark the first truly multicultural Brakhage Center symposium thanks to the inclusion of the work of Mark LaPore. LaPore, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 53, was a filmmaker who’s work not only combined experimental film, ethnographic documentary, diarist travel film and lyrical autobiography, but spanned the globe from New York to Thailand, Massachusetts to Burma, Poland to Sudan, England to Sri Lanka and Italy to India. These films: Kolkata, A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, The Five Bad Elements, The Glass System and The Sleepers have been described by curator Mark McElhatten as “unique, a form of visual anthropology but equally about the mystery of being, and film as consciousness.” They are not easy to track down for home viewing, which makes this tribute all the more exciting for Boulder cinephiles. Filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh, Jonathan Schwartz and Phil Solomon will all be on hand to screen and talk about LaPore’s work alongside their own. The LaPore Tribute takes place on Saturday, March 11 starting at 2 p.m. Thanks to the LaPore’s cinematic connection with India, this year’s multicultural theme continues in strength with the Sunday program, a session of contemporary avant-garde Indian cinema curated by Shai Heredia. Heredia is traveling from India exclusively for this event and she will present the work of Ayisha Abraham, Natasha Mendonca, Iram Ghufran, Payal Kapadia, Prantik Basu, Kush Badhwar and Priya Sen. Much like the films of LaPore, these films are nearly impossible to come by through normal means, which makes this year’s Brakhage Center symposium all the more essential. No Brakhage Center symposium would be complete without a nod to the man himself. The symposium will open at 11:30 a.m. with Ganguly hosting Celebrating Stan: A Brakhage Screening. Ganguly has also finished editing a printed collection of Brakhage interviews — aptly titled Stan Brakhage Interviews — and will be selling and signing his books fresh off the University Press of Mississippi starting at 5:30 p.m. The 13th annual Brakhage Center symposium is free and open to the public. Boulder Weekly

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izza is a celebration food if ever there was one; it’s warm and gooey, just like your festive feelings; it’s handheld, it’s customizable and it’s easily shared with many people. That’s a party food, folks. But pizza can also be a touchy subject when only two people want to order a pie, and each have different tastes: Should the crust be thick or thin — or gluten free? Does pineapple belong on pizza? White, pesto or classic tomato sauce? What kind of cheese? Beau Jo’s is the kind of place that makes it possible for folks to find a pretty excellent compromise between wants, even two really exhausted hikers who accidentally logged an extra mile in their planned 8-mile hike and aren’t exactly getting along at the moment. This was my situation on Sunday. My hiking partner and I knew we wanted to celebrate surviving that surprise extra mile with some pizza from Beau Jo’s, birthplace of Colorado-style pizza. Beau Jo’s shtick is their crust, this fresh-made dough, sweetened with locally sourced honey. There are two ways to enjoy Beau Jo’s crust: the prairie pie, and the infamous mountain pie. The prairie crust is traditional in its depth, while the mountain crust is a force to be reckoned with.

Beau Jo’s perfects the art of the crust After the cooks roll and toss the dough, they braid the edge to create what they call “the containment system.” If you’d argue that the crust of a slice of pizza is perhaps your favorite part of the pie — and who doesn’t love to dunk the crust in some garlic butter sauce or marinara? — the mountain pie is your ticket to Crustlandia. Drizzle some of the honey at the table on your crust and you’ve basically got dessert baked right into your pizza. Still, there’s no wrong choice in crust at Beau Jo’s, because they’re both made from the same delicious handmade dough. You can still drizzle a bit of honey

on the end of your prairie crust and no one is going to judge you. If they do, they’re unhappy in life and you should give them a hug and invite them on a hike. After a surprise 9-mile hike, my hiking buddy and I wanted everything on the menu, and our intent was to get a mountain pie, because carbohydrates are heaven. But after some hemming and hawing, we decided to munch on some garlic bread and 86 a few carbs in the pie by choosing a prairie crust. We’d had enough mountain for one day. But wait — we each wanted a different pie, and the pies we wanted had different sauces. No worries, our server told us, we’ve got you covered. So we ordered a half New Era — basilpesto sauce, roasted garlic, mushrooms, spinach, broccoli florets, red onions, smoked provolone and grated parmesan cheeses — and a half L’il Italy — roasted garlic and olive oil sauce, pepperoni, roma tomatoes, more mushrooms, black olives, more smoked provolone and grated parmesan cheeses, fresh basil and Italian seasonings. We ate the whole pie, listening to the psychedelic sounds of Caravan, Steely Dan and Tangerine Dream. Beau Jo’s is a shining beacon of hope in a dark world of mediocre, greasy pizza. Beau Jo’s. 2690 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-554-5312.

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nic” so it became another convenient American dish that we tossed with every topping imaginable, or whatever was in the refrigerator. In that spirit I got a copy of The Book of Ramen (Turtleback Books) by Ron Konzak when it was published in 1993 and promptly placed it in the novelty cookbook box along with more recent additions like Cooking with Coolio. I had kept the book in that box but never opened it until recently when I’ve been thinning the tonnage of food books and paraphernalia I’ve accumulated. Consider this a cautionary tale of not judging a cookbook by its cover which modestly touts “Lowcost gourmet meals using instant ramen noodles.” It’s not a joke but it is funny and thoughtful. Konzak dedicates the book “to the Japanese Buddhist monks of Nippozan Myohoji” and offers this nerdy tidbit: “After selecting a package of ramen at random and carefully boiling and taking it apart, I found that the package contained 80 strands of noodles about 16 inches long.” He also contemplates the flavor packet and possible replacements such as miso broth. The 75 mainly vegetarian recipes include Kitsune Ramen and stir-fried Yaki Ramen, as well as Ramen Borscht, Chinese Cold Noodle Salad, Rambalaya, Armenian Pilaf, Arabic Noodles with Rice and Hot Cold Szechuan Noodles. Ramen also stars as

a raw ingredient. The Herbed Cream of Carrot Soup is thickened with pulverized noodles. There are even ramenbased desserts ranging from Noodles with Prunes and Orange Pineapple Cream Ramen to deep-fried Ramen on a Stick. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered the “other” ramen thanks to Tampopo, one of the greatest and wackiest food films of all time. The 1985 Japanese Western comedy concerns two truck drivers who help a restaurant owner become a master at making real ramen. Wheat noodles are submerged in a meat or fish broth often topped with pork, seaweed and green onions and the soup is consumed according to a specific slurping ritual which is honored and parodied in a classic Tampopo scene. Now that real ramen is easy to find in Boulder, the restored 30th-anniversary version of Tampopo makes a rare return to the big screen. The Flatirons Food Film Festival showing on March 12 at CU Boulder’s Muenzinger Auditorium includes a ramen sampling courtesy of Black Cat Bistro and Rama Ramen and an exhibit of cool Japanese culinary knives. An after-showing slurp session takes place at Boulder’s My Ramen & Izakaya. Tickets: http:// tinyurl.com/FFFFramen The following recipe adapted from The Book of Ramen is named after Welsh rarebit or “rabbit,” the cheddarbeer sauce typically served over toast. It is also known as ring tum tiddy. Seriously.

Ramen Rarebit

1 package ramen noodles 1/2 cup (or so) ale or stout 1/2 to 3/4 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese 1 1/2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon flour 1/3 teaspoon dry mustard 1/3 teaspoon curry powder 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Salt and pepper to taste In a small saucepan boil noodles in 2 cups of water for about six minutes. When noodles are done, put in strainer, rinse with cold water, shake and drain thoroughly until dry. Mix flour, mustard, curry powder and Worcestershire sauce into cold ale or stout and slowly bring to a boil, stirring often to keep it from sticking. When thickened, add cheese and stir, cooking until melted. Thin as needed with water or beer and season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour over drained noodles in a bowl. The Book of Ramen recommends serving the dish with steamed asparagus or broccoli for dipping in the cheese sauce. There is also a beverage pairing tip: “Consume with the unused portion of ale or stout, of course.”

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APRIL 20-MAY 20: “I’ve always belonged to what isn’t

where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

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seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

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are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex — and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

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of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for 10 decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes. Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your

intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

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you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “The noble art of music is the greatest

treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile or apathetic.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Either you learn to live with para-

dox and ambiguity or you’ll be 6 years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity — as well as conundrums, incongruity, and anomalies — there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers 6 percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

PISCES

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n Feb. 23, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke about greater enforcement of federal marijuana laws, insinuating a connection between recreational marijuana and opioids. “I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people,” he said at a press briefing. In one way he is Wikimedia Commons/ Patrick Ireland right — the opioid epidemic is a severe medical and public health crisis. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S. With 52,404 lethal drug overdoses in 2015, it is now responsible for more deaths than car accidents per year. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic with 20,101 overdose mortalities related to prescription pain relievers and another 12,990 related to heroin. And, for every one death, there are 825 people addicted to the drug. But Spicer’s statement made many addiction experts cringe, since there is no evidence that marijuana use leads to opiate abuse. “To say smoking pot leads to opiate use is not an accurate statement,” says Dr. Lewis Nelson of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. “It is an accurate statement to say that many people who use opioids have used pot in the past, right? But many people who work on Wall St. have used pot in the past — pot use is just so common. “This is the re-emergence of the age-old question of gateway drugs. Do many people who use opioids also use pot? The answer is sure. But then the counter ques-

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tion is: Do many people who use opioids also drink milk?” One could make the argument, as absurd as it may be, that drinking milk leads to opiate abuse. Given how frequent milk drinking is, it is statistically likely that many who use opioids have at one point also consumed the dairy drink. Marijuana isn’t causative, it’s just associated because it’s so frequently used. If anything, emerging evidence indicates the opposite relationship: That opiate abuse is lower in states that have legalized marijuana. In 2014 the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA) published a widely circulated report that found that states with medical marijuana laws had a 24.8 percent lower average annual opioid overdose death rate compared to states without such laws. In 2010, that translated to about 1,729 fewer deaths than expected. The results of the study were significant enough to prompt the authors to say that if the relationship between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality could be substantiated in further work, then: “the enactment of laws to allow for the use of medical cannabis may be advocated as part of a comprehensive package of policies to reduce the population risk of opioid analgesics.” Before offering his opinion about marijuana as alternative pain treatment, Dr. Nelson wanted to correct what he believes to be a misconception — while opioids successfully treat acute pain, they don’t work well for chronic pain. Regardless, doctors have been prescribing

opiates for both purposes thinking that to overtreat was preferable to undertreatment, without fully taking into account the associated risk of addiction. “We are giving people a prescription that has very little benefit and lots of risk,” he says. “Marijuana probably doesn’t work very well for chronic pain either, but we don’t really know that yet because it has not been well studied. “But let’s just assume they both work equally well or equally badly. If we could take every opioid user and put them on marijuana it would be a much safer world, right? Because nobody dies of marijuana and the addiction that you get from marijuana is quite different than what you get from opioids — there is very little withdrawal phenomenon.” It should be noted that whether or not marijuana is addictive at all is a contentious issue in and of itself. The federal government maintains that it is, while many emerging studies indicate otherwise. From a clinical standpoint, it is commonly accepted that a person may be psychologically dependent on marijuana, but not physically addicted. Regardless, Dr. Nelson says treating pain with marijuana would be preferable to treating it with opioids. To send the point home he offers an extreme, but salient rhetorical: “If a toddler was going to accidentally consume a drug in your medicine cabinet, would you rather it be opioids or marijuana? Neither is desirable, but given this worst case scenario, what would you choose?” For Spicer to causally make a link between marijuana and opioids was as reckless as letting the toddler into the medicine cabinet. Commingling these two serious and distinct subjects without giving the time or space for the conversation either deserves undermines both. Of course we can draw comparisons and differences and consider how the drugs might be used together or pitted against one another. But among these scare tactics and hypotheticals, let’s remember that despite being grouped together as federally illegal Schedule I substances, marijuana and opioids are totally different and have likewise distinct places in our social fabric.

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epresentative Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-Cal.) bill to keep the federal government from enforcing the anti-marijuana provisions of the Controlled Substances Act in states that have legalized medical and/or recreational pot is short, sweet and to the point. Rohrabacher’s bill, titled the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2017, adds a one-sentence amendment to the Controlled Substances Act that reads as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of this subchapter related to marihuana shall not apply to any person acting in compliance with State laws relating to the production, possession, distribution, dispensation, administration, or delivery of marijuana.” Bang dead. The bill enjoys the support of a dozen co-sponsors and, according to a recent Quinnipiac Poll, 71 percent of the American people. The bill essentially writes the Obama administration’s policy of letting the states do their own thing on pot into law and makes marijuana regulation the responsibility of the states. And, unusual for an act of Congress, it does so with an economy of words (38, to be precise). However, the Rohrabacher bill does have one short-coming. Unlike the 21st Amendment, which repealed national prohibition while allowing it to continue on the state level if the states wanted it, the Rohrabacher bill leaves the draconic anti-mariuana provisions of the Controlled Substances Act on the books, including those listing marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance like heroin, and making possession of any amount of marijuana a federal felony. It just says those provisions can be enforced in states that have legal medical or recreational pot. As a purely political matter, Rohrabacher’s decision to leave the anti-pot provisions of the

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Controlled Substances Act in place could be a feature, not a bug, because it would make it possible for members of Congress from socially conservative districts to vote for the bill on states’ rights grounds without having to cast a vote for federal marijuana legalization. But this could, theoretically at least, result in abuses, like federal agents looking benignly on while someone purchases a couple of joints at a dispensary in Colorado and then busting them for felony possession of a Schedule I controlled substance when they set foot in Oklahoma. Granted, charging someone with felony possession under federal law is unlikely, but with reefer madness throw-backs like Sessions in charge of the Justice Department, that shouldn’t be taken for granted. But another bill to end federal marijuana prohibition has also been introduced in the House of Representatives: The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017, sponsored by Representative Thomas Garrett (R-VA), which does

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in fact remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act. Like Rohrabacher’s bill, Garrett’s bill, which his office says is identical to one introduced in the Senate by Bernie Sanders in 2015, stops the federal government from busting people for pot unless they try to import it into states where it is still illegal. But it also scrubs most mentions of marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, starting by removing “marihuana” and “tetrahydrocannabinols” from Schedule I of the act and not reclassifying them under any other section. Most of the language of the bill is devoted to mopping up references to “marihuana” (the act uses the old, reefer madness spelling) throughout the law. According to a press release from Garrett’s office, the bill would “take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list — joining other industries such as alcohol and tobacco.” Garrett’s is obviously the better of the two bills, although it will probably be tougher to pass. Not that either one has much of a chance of passing this year. The important thing about the two bills is that they were introduced at all. For decades, Congress has contemptibly turned a deaf ear to calls for marijuana reform on the federal level. The fact that serious bills are being introduced that tackle the issue directly is in itself a major step forward. Just as important is the fact that both Rohrabacher and Garrett have an “R” after their names. Republicans don’t have a monopoly on opposing marijuana legalization, but they are one of the last two demographics that still consistently muster majorities against it in national polls (the other is geezer-Americans). Most of the co-sponsors of Rohrabacher’s and Garrett’s bills are Democrats. But the fact that the bills were introduced by Republicans means marijuana legalization is emerging as a bipartisan issue with members of the party of just-say-no taking the lead — sort of like Nixon going to China. That’s huge.

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Answer: Airline security Question: What has been the most used and powerful weapon of terrorist’s attacking the U.S.A? Answer: Airplanes Question: So what does Donald Trump — our current real-life president who seems hell-bent on outstupiding the former fake-wrestling champion

president from the film Idiocracy, think we should do to stop terrorism? Answer: Cut funding for airport security and the Coast Guard so we can build a wall on our southern border with Mexico. That’s right, President Dick Head is about to spend $40 billion of taxpayer’s money to build a wall that will make no

one safer from anyone. But instead of Mexico paying for the wall as he promised, the big orange feces blimp is going to take the money away from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the U.S. Coast Guard and who knows where else to pay for it. Consider this very real headline from this week’s news: “TSA stops passenger in Raleigh-Durham from boarding plane with two loaded guns.” Now think what that headline could have been. “Commercial jet kills thousands of innocent victims while president builds his stupid effing wall with airline security’s funding.” It makes about as much sense as selling all the guns belonging to the U.S. military in order to buy more bullets. In truth, it makes about as much sense as irrigating the nation’s crops with Gatorade while we all starve. If only this were a bad comedy we could just turn off.

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This is a dangerous world. But fortunately, our government spy agencies have figured out a bunch of ways to keep us safe. They collect all of our emails and phone calls. That’s right. They collect and store every single one from every single person, but they promise not to ever look at them unless they get a valid warrant from some secret court that the public can’t know the location or activity of. Feel safe yet? Don’t worry, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. WikiLeaks has now released documents showing us how the CIA can now spy on us by watching us through our TVs, computers and entertainment systems in our cars. Wow, how safe is that? Not only can they spy on us everywhere — can’t wear those holey underwear anymore — they can help us drive. That’s right, the new docs show how they can hack our cars and take control of our steering, breaks and stuff like that. Just think how they could have helped Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings. You remember him, right? He’s the reporter who was critical of mass surveillance by our government. Just 12 hours before he died he told friends he was onto a gargantuan story about such matters and that the government was watching him and that his life was in danger. And then coming back from a secret meeting with his source in the middle of the night on an empty road, his car suddenly accelerated for no reason and made a hard turn into a tree, killing him. Boy, if only the CIA could have hacked his car and steered it straight for him. We would sure have liked to have heard the story he was working on. 60 March 9, 2017

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