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Highroad How can we stop banksters from robbing us?

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n an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel/I see lots of funny men/Some’ll rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen.”

The fountain pens are doing the serious stealing these days. For example, while you would get hard time in prison for robbing a bank at gunpoint, bankers who rob customers with a flick of their fountain pens (or a click of

their computer mouse) get multimillion-dollar payouts. They usually escape their crimes unpunished... but not unscathed. After all, it’s their constant, egregious, gluttonous thievery that has made “banker” a four-letter word in America, synonymous with immoral, self-serving behavior.

For example, Wells Fargo, our country’s biggest consumer bank, has gotten away with paying some fines for stealing millions of dollars from customers in its notorious “fake accounts” scheme — but it has not escaped the wrath of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. This feisty order of nuns, which holds a block of Wells Fargo stock, has been embarrassed and are infuriated by the rank immorality of their bank’s executives. They are pushing a shareholders’ proposal demanding a full accounting of the “root causes” of

the malicious fraud perpetrated on vulnerable depositors. Unsurprisingly, the bank’s aloof and arrogant board of directors, which had silently presided over the fraud for years, opposes any such meaningful probe.

Such recalcitrance only intensifies the public’s outrage and cynicism toward out-of-control banksters. But the giant worries less about its public image than it does about the reality an in-depth investigation would expose — namely that our nation’s dominant banks have not only become too big to fail and too big to jail, but too big to manage and control. To stop that thievery, they must be broken up.

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learned a new word this week, the mere mention of which may cause the heads of anti-frackers to blow up all over Boulder County.

The word is “petrolithium.”

First, some background.

If you’re into replacing oil and gas with renewable energy, the three most terrifying words you can hear are “batteries not included.”

Most renewable energy comes in the form of electricity generated by wind and solar cells. The single biggest barrier to these technologies becoming the primary source of U.S. electric power is the absence of suitable batteries to store their output for times when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing — which is more than half the time.

Without massive battery storage, wind and solar electricity is unlikely to ever account for more than a quarter to a third of U.S. electricity production.

Without better, cheaper batteries, electric vehicles won’t replace America’s 200 million gasoline- and diesel-powered ones. Nor will electricity replace natural gas for heating tens of millions of American homes and businesses.

The good news is that batteries are getting better. The bad news is that there’s a nasty bottleneck ahead: The availability of lithium.

The best commercially available batteries are made with lithium — including those used in Tesla cars and virtually all cell phones, laptops and

tablet computers.

And the world’s current lithium production methods aren’t going to come remotely close to meeting demand.

Tesla’s giga factory in Nevada, which is just beginning to ramp up battery production, is projected to use as much as 17 percent of the world’s existing lithium supply.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs project demand for lithium will triple by 2025 to 570,000 tons. Credit Suisse analysts forecast that demand for lithium will potentially reach as high as 125 percent of total capacity by the end of the decade.

Lithium is currently selling for $10,000 a metric ton or about $4.50 cents a pound. One reason it’s so expensive is that the two current ways of producing it — solar evaporation from salt brines in Bolivian and Chilean deserts, and hard rock mining — are inefficient and time-consuming.

The solar evaporation method, for instance, takes at least 18 months and recovers less than 50 percent of the lithium in place.

If the bank analysts are right about demand, lithium isn’t going to get any cheaper unless there is a major breakthrough in how its produced.

And that’s where petrolithium comes in. Petrolithium is lithium present in the waste water from oil and natural gas production, and it turns out see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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I am writing in regards to your article [Re: DyerTimes; “You might as well cut off our hands,” Feb. 7]. While I agree that harsh actions should not have to be taken in instances of “peaceful protests,” I do not agree with Joel Dyer’s case in that the “harsh punishments” should be taken away even though people’s safety is at risk.

Dyer is against Senator Sonnenberg’s bill proposal to update an existing law on tampering with oil and gas equipment. The current law states, “Any person who in any manner knowingly destroys, breaks, removes, or oth-

erwise tampers with or attempts to destroy, break, remove, or otherwise tamper with any equipment associated with oil or gas gathering operations commits a class 2 misdemeanor.” The new bill removes the last five words and changes the law to: “Any person who in any manner knowingly destroys, breaks, removes, or otherwise tampers with or attempts to destroy, break, remove, or otherwise tamper with any equipment associated with oil or gas gathering operations or places another in danger of death or serious bodily injury commits a class 6 felony.”

According to the Colorado Legislative Council Staff, persons convicted of a felony may be required to pay a fine, either in lieu of or in addition to a one year to 18-month prison sentence. Fines range from $1,000 to $100,000 for a class 6 felony, and from $5,000 to $1,000,000 for a class 2 felony. If convicted of a class 2 misdesee LETTERS Page 8

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there’s a lot of it. This includes water that’s produced with oil and gas, water that’s used to frack the wells, and, in the Canadian oil sands, water that’s recovered from steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAG-D) heavy oil production.

Now, a Canadian company called MGX Minerals says it has developed a process that can competitively recover lithium from the waste.

The process combines technologies developed by MGX and two other Canadian companies it’s partnering with — PurLucid Treatment Solutions, Inc. of Calgary and David Bromley Engineering, Ltd. of Vancouver. The process starts by removing oil, colloids and several metals from lithium-bearing brines, using a technique called “nanoflotation” followed by an advanced form of ultra-filtration, which is similar to reverse osmosis. Removing the oil from the waste stream is a key step; up until now its presence has prevented the recovery of lithium from the waste water. The de-oiled liquid is then flash frozen and evaporated under reduced pressure conditions to yield a precipitate with high concentrations of lithium carbonate.

The whole process can be done in a day, compared with the 18 months required to produce lithium with solar evaporation. Clean water is produced as Boulder Weekly

a co-product.

MGX CEO Jared Lazerson, claims the process “may prove to be one of the most important developments in the energy industry since the commercial development of shale oil. In addition to the potential environmental benefits of producing reusable water, the extraction of lithium from oil production water now ties the future of big oil to the new energy industry.

“It is an amazing twist of fate that the largest existing production of lithium brine on a daily basis is coming from oil wells. Millions and millions of barrels of lithium brine bearing water are being produced every day in North America,” he added.

It’s also an amazing twist of fate that the anti-frackers’ attempt to shut down oil and natural gas production will, if it succeeds, also shut down access to the largest and most accessible source of the material that will make a renewable energy economy possible.

It will be fascinating to see what they decide to do if petrolithium production turns into a game-changing reality: Give up their anti-fracking crusade, which will be a crusade against both oil and lithium, or carry on regardless. Bet it’s the latter.

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meanor, a person may be sentenced three to 12 months and/or required to pay $250 to $1000.

Dyer begins his article by stating that environmental activists are upping their game against the oil and gas industry and the people in that area of work are starting to take notice. The oil and gas companies have tried many times to rid themselves of protesters, but have been unsuccessful. So instead, a new bill is being pushed by Sen. Sonnenberg. Dyer calls it the “if you can’t beat them, put them in prison” approach.

What first needs to be understood is the danger alone in being on a hydraulically fracturing, or fracking, site. My sister worked for the oil and gas company Baker Hughes, and before even stepping foot near an oil site, she had to do at least 40 hours of initial safety training. And even that wasn’t the end of it. She did countless hours to ensure that the safety of herself, and of others was not at stake.

When in the field, you are working with pressures between 5,000 and 11,000 pounds per square inch, which could easily take off your head. Some sites also contain hydrogen sulfide gas, which paralyzes you, and then kills you. But these “peaceful protesters” do not know and understand this. They simply walk into a fracking site completely blinded by their own motives, and forget to account for where they are at and what they are tampering with. By “monkeywrenching a gathering system,” you are deliberately sabotaging equipment on site. And by doing so things can go terribly wrong and the consequences can be fatal.

These protesters are completely ignorant of the fact that it is dangerous to be tampering with equipment on an oil and gas site. In Weld County, Colorado, a trained worker was just doing his job next to a high pressure water line and it ended up rupturing when they tried thawing it in 10 degree weather. The pressure in that pipe was estimated between 2,500 and 3,500 pounds per square inch. The ice dislodged so fast from the pipe that it killed him and injured two others instantly. In a matter of seconds, something can blow up in your face... literally. Even when this man had proper safety training, something still went wrong and it cost him his life.

It is an issue when these protesters just walk onto a site, with no safety training. But it becomes a bigger issue when these protesters start to mess with equipment and refuse to leave,

despite the consequences. Not only are they putting themselves in danger, but also the people working in the field.

And that is fine if they are willing to risk their lives for a cause they believe in, but not when it starts to put the lives of others, especially people who are just doing their job, in danger. But I do question if these protesters know what they are risking their lives for.

These protesters are willing to go so far as to get a class 2 misdemeanor, yet do they know all the facts? Sources show that “a large portion of the public is unaware of or has little information about fracking.”

Dyer also states that the new bill is “clearly not about saving lives.” But that is exactly what the bill is pushing for. The protesters refuse to leave even when the consequence is a class 2 misdemeanor, and with them tampering with machinery and putting lives in danger, something has to be done to make the protesters take it down a notch. Dyer says, “Supposedly, we need it (the bill) because, one would assume, we’ve seen so many death-causing incidents attributable to such tampering.

But that would be wrong because we have seen no such deadly acts of sabotage — none, zero, never.”

First off, “death-causing incidents” are nothing to joke about and should not be taken lightly. And secondly, just because an incident has not caused a death of a protester, does not mean that an incident that resulted in death has not happened. In 2012, the oil and gas industry had a fatality rate of about 25 per 100,000 workers, and between the years 2007 and 2011, there were 19 oil and gas field fatalities in Colorado. The point isn’t that a protester hasn’t been hurt, but it is very likely that something fatal could happen if they continue to intrude on the oil site.

I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the concept of fracking. I am not stating my opinion on whether I think it is right or not. The view on fracking has many variables that play an important role in the risk and benefit perceptions. For example: “unwanted proximity, trust in regulators and the oil and gas industry, and the perceived importance of the oil and gas industry.” What I am saying is that this bill is being enforced to deter these “peaceful protesters” from putting themselves and others in danger. In this case, it may be necessary to up the consequences in order to keep people safe.

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this bag.” Marc gives me a wink.

Leslie Ogeda leads us back to the module where the class is held.

She’s a program specialist for the jail through Community Justice Services. She helps inmates into what’s called the “phases” program, which guides inmates through the process of changing their behaviors. There are classes in art, graphic design, mindfulness, job skills, money management and victim impact.

There are parenting classes and yoga classes and classes based around addiction. And there’s Marc’s animal behavior class.

The program carries inmates from their initial decision to change their lives, through their first year after release. During that period, they have access to mental health care, and assistance with housing and food stamps. It can take months for an inmate to be accepted into this program. They’re required to finish a 25-hour independent study book, and even then the program might be too full to take them.

There are dozens of volunteers like Marc who lead classes at the jail. It’s an impressive operation.

Kyle’s not going to be able to join us today, Leslie tells Marc as we walk down a series of hallways between locked doors. She says Kyle had an altercation yesterday.

A buzzer goes off. We walk through another door.

Marc is visibly disappointed, worried even. He’d mentioned earlier that Kyle had drawn a picture of a sloth especially for today’s class. Much has been made of Kyle Warner’s talent. He picked up all his artistic skill

A unique program at Boulder County Jail has inmates learning from nature

by Caitlin Rockett

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arc Bekoff, as my grandmother would say, is a card. He’s the definition of good-natured with an easy smile.

He’s quick to lovingly tease, has gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, a silver cuff around the cartilage of his left ear, socks with the PETA logo barely visible above his Converse high-tops.

An original hippie to be sure.

We’re stuffing backpacks and saddlebags into shabby blue lockers in the waiting room at the Boulder County Jail.

“Remember to leave your knives and brass knuckles in the locker,” he cracks — but seriously. Leave those here.

He’s done this hundreds of times over the last 16 years — more than 700, he guesses. Marc’s retired after 32 years at CU as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. Not one to let his zeal fade into oblivion, he comes here once a week to teach an animal behavior class to inmates in the jail’s educational and life skills programming. His is the only class of its kind for inmates anywhere in the world, save for one class in Italy — and that one’s modeled off of Marc’s class.

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over a decade in correcMarc Bekoff tional facilities, Marc says, teaches the only and he currently teaches an animal behavior class offered to art class at the jail. He’s inmates in the been given a booth at this country at the Boulder County Jail. year’s Denver Comic Con, and Marc worries a setback like this could end all that.

Leslie assures him everything will be OK, and Marc seems relived. He’ll ask about it again later, doublechecking that everything really is OK. Marc is rooting for Kyle, but then again, Marc is rooting for all the inmates. Frankly, Marc is rooting for the whole world.

We pass a series of cell blocks, each block clearly visible through panes of glass, each virtually the same — cells grouped in twos in an upper and lower level — until we reach our block.

Everything is either bright or dull. Day-Glo orange shoes pop against khaki uniforms. Fluorescent lighting aggressively highlights off-white walls.

This is Transitions.

Home sweet home.

• • • • On the floor is a mural of a phoenix, its red feathers set ablaze with a yellow outline. Underneath it reads, “Reborn from the ashes of our past to find our future... ” On the main floor half a dozen tables are set up.

Men mill about, getting ready for class. One of them, Brian Tyler, is the first to say hello, his voice low and soothing.

He’s tall, 6 feet or more, with a sleeve of tattoos crawling up his right arm onto his neck.

Brian’s eager to share some drawings, particularly a series of pencil sketches of a toddler with inquisitive brown eyes; no strand of hair, no eyelash ignored.

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At the bottom is Kyle Warner’s signature.

The girl is Brian’s daughter, RaeAnn. He shows me the photographs Kyle used for reference, and the brilliance of Kyle’s talent rushes into sharp focus. They’re more facsimiles than drawings.

Then there’s the sloth, as promised, hanging upsidedown from a branch with a look of pure bliss across its face. Marc tells me Kyle loves sloths. It’s hard to blame him; there’s a hint of wisdom in their goofy grins, like they’ve got it all figured out. Whether they know it all or absolutely nothing, they look carefree.

It’s the innocence, the purity of animals that’s so soothing — like Kyle Warner/Photo by Susan France watching a child sleep. Suddenly the world doesn’t seem so cruel.

It’s unfortunate Kyle’s not here to talk about how the sloth makes him feel.

Marc’s class is as much about human nature as it is about animal behavior. It’s part of Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots program, which launched in 1991 with 16 teenagers in Tanzania. Goodall — a close friend and occasional collaborator of Marc’s who visited Boulder County Jail in 2015 — wanted to connect humans with nature, with culture, with other humans. The program has spread throughout the world — some 120 countries to date. It’s offered at refugee camps, senior centers, elementary schools and, thanks to Marc, a couple of jails. Through Roots and Shoots, people learn about animals and write letters to those in other programs across the globe, discovering what it means to be a human animal.

That’s the meat and potatoes of Marc’s work and personal convictions — humans are animals. Most of his books deal with what’s known as compassionate conservation, the idea that every living thing on Earth has real value — even rats and cockroaches, the least appreciated of the “nonhuman animals,” so to speak. From this perspective, it’s easy to understand why the idea of placing humanity above all else on Earth is paramount to condemning the planet to certain doom.

During his classes at the jail, Marc shows movies — lots of National Geographic and Discovery — about animal behavior and conservation. The inmates can talk or write or draw. It’s intentionally informal.

Marc’s message is simple: We should be proud to be animals, and we have so much to learn from the behavior of other animals.

“Nonhuman animals have evolved these mechanisms for thwarting aggression, these threat signals,” Marc explains.

The bottom line, he says, is that animals in the wild can’t risk getting hurt, so they often employ appeasement tactics to diffuse aggression — like grooming one another or, as is the case with female bonobos, using sex to dispel tension. Maybe it’s less salacious than that; a lick or perhaps flattening the ears to show submission, but animals are cooperative, by and large.

And why should we be any different?

“We are not inherently warring animals,” Marc says.

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He lets the group take it from there.

• • • • In today’s class there’s no video, just conversations.

Brian is an open book. He’s unafraid to share his thoughts and emotions. It’s like candor brings him one step closer to salvation, one step closer to being reunited with his daughter, one step closer to freedom and the life he knows he can lead.

He’s been incarcerated in one way or another, in one place or another, for 27 years of his life. He’s in his mid 40s.

He brings up secure attachment, and how many of Kyle Warner/Photo by Susan France

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the men in jail come from broken, abusive homes.

Sometimes the most reliable member of a family was the pet. And sometimes family was forged in the streets.

“That attachment that [people] have with animals or the attachment they have with other people, say gang members... when they go to the street they are looking for something that they are not getting at home,” Brian admits.

“I think that being able to recognize the behaviors and the attachments that we have with animals and seeing the attachments that we have with ourselves and the connection between us and our families and between us and our loved ones, it’s very difficult but it’s very freeing.”

In the front of the room, Aaron Waddell speaks up.

He’s been in and out of Boulder County Jail since 1989 — since he was 18 years old. He’s right around Brian’s age. Once, some years ago, he and he his wife were in the jail at the same time.

“That’s the worst thing in the world: to see your wife pass you by in the hallway and you can’t say a damn thing to her.” He pauses. Clears his throat. Takes a deep breath. “Anyway, she had certain mental problems, too.

She had PTSD, she’s bipolar, all clinically diagnosed with those things, plus being in jail for the first time totally wrecked her. We have two cats. We don’t have any children ... she was so attached to those cats it was unbelievable. Those were our kids. They were out there and we didn’t know what was happening to them. It drove her crazy. It drove her to the point where she took offers from the DA that were out of this world, that most people wouldn’t ever have taken.”

The conversation turns to masculinity, how it binds men to behaviors that lead them here — behaviors that keep them here and bring them back once they’re free.

They think about it all day, surrounded by other men who share their story.

Predators in the wild rarely kill to assert dominance, Marc reminds them — they kill to survive.

Richard Platt (“Richie”) speaks up from the back of the room. His dad died two weeks ago, and Richie is still processing. He’s bipolar. His mother went to prison when he was just 13. He’s a drug addict, and his time in Boulder County Jail is the result of a drug-fueled altercation with his father, who Richie calls his best friend.

Richie lost custody of his 8-year-old son a couple of years ago because of drug addiction and mental health issues. Since 2008, he’s spent about eight months outside of a correctional facility of some sort.

“I was a wreck when my dad died, but I didn’t feel like I had to be a ‘man’ when my dad died,” he says. “I had support from these guys. It was cool to see that. I can see the stereotypes from my childhood, what was drilled into our heads when we were younger... but once you break through those roles, we’re just people. ... Women and boys ... it’s not that different. We all have the same emotions. It’s just about connecting. I think everything with these guys is connected, whether Left and middle: Drawings by it be drug abuse, BCJ inmate Kyle Warner.

Right: Inmate Brian Tyler home life — it stands with teacher Marc could be anything.

Bekoff. Warner used pictures of Tyler’s daughter to create We don’t feel cona collage of sketches. nected to society.

That’s what it boils down to.”

And that’s what Marc hopes to change.

It’s a long road with lots of unknowns. The men in the phases program are all pre-sentencing. Some of them could be out in months, while others may go on to prison. As frightening as being locked up can be, most of them express fear about those first days, weeks, months and even years after release. But this time things may be different; these men have never had support like this program provides waiting for them on the outside.

Before I leave, Brian shares a letter with me.

“I wrote this in the creative writing class and this has to do with my daughter,” he says. “I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for in your summary about what we’re doing...”

In the letter he tells his toddler that he was frightened when her mother told Brian she was pregnant. He wondered if he could be the man to guide her and teach her better than he was taught.

“So now I get on my knees and pray to the Lord and ask him for the strength to be that man. As I’m praying I hear a voice and it says, ‘All you have to do is be the best you can be. That’s all you have to do, leave the rest to me! Trust unconditionally she will love you as I do, my son. Don’t let go of this gift I give to you. I hear your prayers and I have answered you.’”

Outside the jail my eyes adjust to the sunlight and I think of a poem by Pablo Neruda: “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

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W

hat’s the first thought that pops into your head when you hear the term “toxic masculinity”?

Perhaps it’s one of many mass shootings perpetrated by deranged young men, ranging from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, to the Aurora theater, to the 2014 Isla Vista killings where six people were murdered and 14 injured.

Or maybe it’s Donald Trump, the subject of many articles and opinion pieces linking him to the phrase, including a recent one by Erin Gloria Ryan, senior editor for The Daily Beast, who writes that “the President’s budget, like everything he talks about, play[s] into his conception of over-the-top manliness.”

However, many of those exploring the concept of toxic masculinity believe the most common traits aren’t necessarily the extremes of physical violence or the abuse of political power, but, as a recent piece in Salon puts it, everyday behaviors “geared towards dominance and control.”

On March 15, as part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Dialogue and Healing Series, Jimmy McLeod, outreach coordinator and career counselor, and Mario Flores, assistant coordinator and success advisor of the First Generation Scholarship Program with the Cultural Unity and Engagement Center, facilitated a session called

“Examining Toxic Masculinity.”

The purpose of the session, according to McLeod, was to approach the “societal privilege of being perceived as masculine from a more critical lens.” (“Stop Apologizing,” the next installment in the Dialogue and Healing Series, will be held on April 19 followed by “Communicating Across the Political Divide” on April 25.)

Wikimedia Commons/Anonymous “Toxic masculinity is a symptom of male privilege,” Flores says. “Because of this, men don’t often see their behaviors as toxic. It takes self-reflection and self-understanding to unpack one’s behaviors and develop the consciousness to present their masculinity in a more healthy manner.”

After a brief introduction by McLeod and Flores, the 14 attendees — only three of whom were men — broke up into small groups and approached one of six stations, each featuring a large piece of paper including a prompt, such as, “____ taught me that to be a man, you have to ____.”

The participants took a few minutes to write down words and phrases in response to the prompts, rotated to the next several stations, and once back at their original spots, shared the findings with the group.

“What is the most toxic element of (your) masculinity?” elicited dozens of answers including, “bro culture,” “shaming of weakness,” “objectifying male gaze”

directed at women, “bottom shaming” among homosexuals and “violence.”

When asked to define “masculinity,” participants identified positive traits such as “provider,” “protective” and “supportive,” as well as negatives ones like “arrogance,” “don’t express feelings” and “superficial.”

The idea that masculinity should only apply to men, cisgender or otherwise, was identified as one of many “obstructions to the concept of masculinity.”

“Too often we observe gender as binary, meaning one’s gender identity is either masculine or feminine,” McLeod explains.

To the contrary, McLeod’s definition of healthy masculinity is the ability to “exist safely and confidently along the gender identity spectrum, without fear of persecution or judgment from outside societal entities.”

Haylie Petrick attended the session to inform her current work as a pre-health advisor at CU Boulder and her future role as a physician. What stood out to her most is how outside influences, such as parents, teachers and significant others, may play a role in fostering certain behavior traits in an individual.

The session inspired Petrick to “reflect on my own behavior and how my actions and words may be promoting or deterring toxic masculinity.”

Bryan Day, board member of Rocky Mountain MRA, a men’s rights group with members throughout the Denver metro-area and Boulder, thinks the term toxic masculinity is a “poor label” for the behaviors exhibited by some men.

While acknowledging that there is “such a thing, probably, as men who are toxic,” Day feels the discussion can easily come across as a condemnation of masculinity — and, therefore, men in general — even when that’s not the intention.

Day says the critique also frequently comes from members of the upper middle class “criticizing people with less privilege,” often low-income men who, See TOXIC MASCULINITY Page 14

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because of their economic and social struggles, may have developed certain behavior traits as a kind of protective armor.

He fears this approach not only isn’t helpful, it may actually be making things worse. “If someone is being told from above that they’re garbage, that foments resentment,” he says. “It doesn’t promote understanding at all.”

He thinks compassion is necessary for getting to the bottom of why some men behave the way they do, since certain antisocial behaviors are often an “emotional response to a lot of the burdens that are placed on men.”

Day’s beliefs align with at least one participant’s description of toxic masculinity, specifically, the idea of “being held to an insurmountable idea of ‘man.’”

For instance, Flores points out that a lot of the negative aspects of traditionally masculine behavior are “presented to men through media, such as music and movies.”

Similarly, McLeod notes that an effort to “fit in” with certain male-dominated spaces, such as some sports teams, can result in “problematic language and ideology within that space that enforces toxic masculinity.”

“Behaviors that drift outside of the rugged, tough male are called out,” Flores says. “At that point, a male-identified person can either realign their behaviors or be ostracized.”

If pressure to be “one of the guys” can foster toxic behaviors, what about efforts to catch the eye of that special someone?

Indeed, “aggressive,” “protector” and “tough guy” were among participants’ responses to the question, “Elements of masculinity identified by folks who are not male identified?”

It turns out that a “high percentage [of heterosexual women are] buying those stereotypes ... following along what mainstream media conditions them to want in a partner,” says Chris DeCicco, co-founder of Evolve Dating Gurus, a Boulder-based dating service.

While Evolve’s work caters to “conscious, heart-centered” people, DeCicco admits that many women are “turned on by a man who’s a leader, somebody who can take charge, somebody who gets things done, can rally the troops, you could say dominant or alpha.”

“But then that goes into the area of toxic masculinity, how far somebody takes that role,” he says, stressing that it’s up to men to be accountable for their own behavior.

While it would not only be unfair but also foolish to blame women for the

worst traits of masculinity — some of which cause women untold suffering — could sexual pressures be at least one factor in the equation?

Petrick believes that some women are “likely to be attracted to a man who embodies her ideals surrounding masculinity, whether those are healthy or toxic. If any of those behaviors are toxic then she is only reinforcing those behaviors.”

In fact, a review of recent science brings up numerous studies concluding that, during the most fertile days of their menstrual cycle, many heterosexual women prefer “aggressive” men who show “competitiveness” and “dominance,” translating those particular traits into markers of genetic fitness.

According to Day, that’s a reason “why men are so competitive ... there’s no guarantee that a man will have kids if he doesn’t provide for someone enough that they feel safety.”

Eventually, an investigation into the concept of toxic masculinity begs the question: What about toxic femininity?

Petrick sees toxic femininity as the “exact opposite of the characteristics of toxic masculinity,” including such traits as being “overly emotional and/or submissive.”

In her book, Talking the Walk, the Grassroots Language of Feminism, author Marilyn Casselman defines toxic femininity as “debilitating exaggerations of overdone female appearance and behavior.”

Casselman’s argument is that some of the negative traits displayed by women are the result of male influence.

“Femininity is just another item in the long list of women’s attributes that have been colonized by the male,” she writes, attributes which can include “passive traits and sexual availability.”

Does this suggest that certain negative traits defined as “toxic femininity” often, though not exclusively, found in women, and certain negative traits labeled “toxic masculinity” often, though not exclusively, found in men, are the result of a kind of positive feedback loop?

What if the tendency of men to aspire to the masculine stereotype of the aggressive breadwinner and women to conform to the feminine stereotype of passive eye-candy, are merely instincts left over from when survival was humanity’s primary concern?

If so, then is making an effort to fix our own “toxic” behaviors, and stop encouraging them in others, the antidote?

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there: PART III DEPORTATION IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY Editor’s note — We first met and reported on the Guerrero family in January 2015. Luis was being held in detention while his wife Sofia and their four children — Andy, Jenny, Melody and Lucy — struggled to get by in his absence. Shortly thereafter we reported that Luis had been suddenly deported to Mexico without any prior notice to his family. That is where our previous reporting stopped.

Eventually, Sofia had little choice but to take her three youngest children, all U.S. citizens, to Mexico in an effort to keep the family together. Her oldest child, Andy, remained in the U.S. to finish high school and hopefully attend college. Needless to say, it’s been a very difficult transition for them.

Last year, we sent Angela K. Evans to a small town north of Mexico City to reconnect with the Guerrero family. She has also stayed in touch with Andy, who still lives in Colorado.

This is the conclusion of our three part series. To read the first two installments visit boulderweekly.com.

than a year. Since returning from summer break in Mexico in August 2015, he doesn’t trust himself to visit them. He’s afraid he won’t want to leave them again and all the hard work he’s put into school will be lost.

He returned to Aurora that August to finish high school and moved into a spare room in a friend’s house. The family was supportive, encouraging him in school, not asking for rent. But Andy remained on edge, constantly afraid it wasn’t going to work out, like it hadn’t so many times before.

“That was a fear that I had everyday,” he says.

Andy finally had a comfortable place to live, but it didn’t mean it felt like home.

He went back to his job at Best Buy, working 40 hours a week in addition to his schoolwork.

He tried his best to enjoy his senior year, attending sports events when he could and dancing at his prom. But there was also a lot he couldn’t do. He had

that felt clouded by the fact they couldn’t be there with him in person.

Instead of visiting them in Mexico, he spent the summer of 2016 preparing for his move to Grand Junction and working at Elitch Gardens in Denver.

The job was a constant reminder of the summer days he had spent with his family at the amusement park.

Before the park would open, he’d test the roller coasters, thinking back to the fun he’d had with his family on their favorites like Shipwreck Falls.

“My dad would scream every time we would get on it. My mom just loved it,” he says. “And I would get on it [at work] and memories would just come pouring into my head.”

As the summer came to a close, Andy knew it was time to leave Denver, start school and finally achieve the dream he had worked so hard for. It was a dream he always shared with his dad. Since childhood, Luis had promised Andy that if he went to college, he’d be the one to personally help him move.

“He told me that he was going to drop me off no matter where it was,” Andy says.

“I could have even gone to the other side of the country and he would have taken me and left me right at the door.”

Andy never lost hope that his dad would be there when moving day arrived. He held onto it through the months Luis was held at the detention facility in Aurora. He never let go of it even after his family had been in Mexico for a year. Even in the face of such insurmountable obstacles, he believed that somehow his dad would be the one to drop him off at school.

“But it didn’t happen. As the days got closer, I was just like, ‘It’s not happening,’” Andy says. “That day was really emotional. Basically, I had achieved my goal but he wasn’t the one who took me.”

Instead, the program director from Boy’s Hope,

by Angela K. Evans

I

meet Andy in downtown Denver at a Starbucks close to the bus station. It’s a brisk fall day and we’re both eager to get out of the wind. He’s just arrived after traveling all day via Greyhound from Grand Junction, where he recently started attending Colorado Mesa University.

He asks about his parents and younger sisters, immediately tearing up when I show him photos of my recent visit to see them in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico.

Taking off his glasses to wipe his eyes, he chuckles, embarrassed by his own emotion. It’s the first of many pauses he takes to compose himself during our conversation.

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to quit the wrestling team. He didn’t go to parties or out to eat with his friends.

“Even to this day, I don’t go out much,” he says.

“If [my family] is there [in Mexico] living a strict life, not going out, then I don’t want to be here partying.”

The separation from his family and his austere lifestyle made for a difficult ending to high school, but before he knew it, it was over.

He had graduation and scholarship ceremonies to attend, celebratory events that felt empty without his family by his side. It was hard watching as his friends and classmates celebrated with their loved ones.

He talked to his parents on the phone, but even

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along with her husband, helped Andy move, driving 20 years, wondering if she took advice from the right in Ixmiquilpan without many of the benefits of her him to Grand Junction, helping him set up his dorm people, chose to do the right thing.

U.S.-citizenship. (All of the children were born in the room, unpack his new life.

Neither Sofia nor Luis had ever tried to apply for U.S.) “They acted like my parents,” he says. “I’m really residency in the U.S. Although she had a work visa Nine-year-old Melody has already struggled to thankful for that.” for 10 years, she remained in the U.S. past its expiraadjust to school in Mexico, despite her diligent efforts.

When they left, Andy tried to call his parents in tion, afraid if she returned to Mexico to renew it, the She’s a dedicated student, waking up on the weekends Ixmiquilpan but the call never went through. He was authorities wouldn’t let her back. Maybe that was a and doing her homework before anyone else is even on his own. mistake, Sofia admits. up.

“It was tough,” he says. “I just had to go in with a “This is where we made mistakes because we During my visit last August, I offer to play a game different mentality: that this is going to be great. I’m never take information from the right people,” she with her. She jumps at the chance, pulling out an old going to get this done.” says.

Jenga set, several pieces missing, others half-chewed At first, Andy talked to his mom Sofia almost Regardless, neither she nor Luis found it difficult by the pet rottweiler they had to leave behind in every other day, but it has become increasingly less to work. And they say they always paid their taxes, or Aurora. Too young for social media, she talks about since she started her job at the hotel and he started at least since 1996 when the federal Individual the friends she misses from her school back home, college. Plus, conversations with his family tend to Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) program was wondering what they’re learning in school or if they’ve make Andy emotional. “There’s just times that Angela K. Evans joined the soccer team like she had hoped to I don’t want to talk too much, I don’t want to do. say too much that I’ll end up crying,” he says.

At some point, she asks, “Who are you vot“So that’s the thing.” ing for?”

Regardless, he’s adjusting to college life, The question catches me off guard, the finding camaraderie in the Latino Student U.S. election seems a world away from her new Alliance, and the Newman House, a group of life in Ixmiquilpan. But for a family relocated Catholics on campus. This spring he became an by deportation, the next election is never that RA in the dorms, and he may have found a way far away. for his sister Jenny to come back to the states “I was outside, stealing the neighbor’s and live with a friend in an off-campus apartinternet to try and download games and this ment close to the dorms. But the logistics of came up,” she says, showing me her phone getting her into high school with their parents screen with a “Punch the Trump” game open. still in Mexico are daunting. Ideally, he’d like all The goal is simple: tap the screen as fast as you his sisters live with him in Colorado. can to punch Donald Trump in the face until you’ve beaten him.

It’s a tall order for the 18-year-old.

“I just typed in fun games and this is the “Whenever I have something settled then I first thing that came up,” she says. would want to bring them back,” he says, trailIt’s still a few months before the U.S. elecing off, recognizing the problems in such a tion and her family’s saga seems more pertistatement. nent than ever in the midst of the increasing • • • • anti-immigration rhetoric in the U.S. In many ways, Jenny is like any other • • • • 15-year-old born in the U.S. Her cell phone is constantly buzzing either with messages from There’s an estimated 11 million undocufriends in Colorado or group texts from friends mented immigrants in the United States, the in Ixmiquilpan. Sometimes Andy calls, other vast majority of them from Mexico, like Luis times she listens to music. If there’s internet, and Sofia. Most of these people have lived in she’s looking at Facebook and Snapchat, eager the U.S. for more than a decade, leaving behind their country of origin, families, culture to see what people are doing while she’s at home with launched, giving nonresidents and homes in hopes of building a better future her family. an identifying number to fill Melody, Lucy and Jenny Guerrero, despite being here. They’ve had to choose between their two She bought the phone herself, after starting a job out IRS forms. A new report U.S. citizens, face a future lives — lives divided by the often-invisible at a lively restaurant on the plaza in Ixmiquilpan. from the Institute on in a country that doesn’t feel like home. border between Mexico and the U.S. Sometimes she cooks, mostly she serves. After that Taxation and Economic Like Luis, many have been forced to she cleans, closing up around 2 or 3 in the morning Policy estimates Colorado choose between dying parents in Mexico and when everything is done. She laughs and jokes around receives $139.5 million per with her coworkers, calling them her brothers as they young children in the U.S. They’ve left spouses year in taxes from undocutease her relentlessly. behind and risked their lives to walk across the mounmented residents. This includes income and property Jenny waits for either her mom or dad to pick her tains, deserts and the river that separate the two countaxes, as well as sales and excise taxes. Nationally, this up in the middle of the night, sitting on any number tries. Some have come for economic reasons, drawn by number is $11.74 billion in state and local taxes each of benches or short stone walls in the plaza, mostly employers who offer work without documentation, year. thinking about home in Colorado. who pay more than they could ever expect to make in “I’ve worked there for so long and I didn’t need “There are a lot of memories we have [as a family] papers,” Luis says. “For so long, I paid taxes and [the Mexico. Others have left behind dangerous, often vioand some just make you want to go back,” Jenny says. lent circumstances, drawn by the promise of safety U.S.] never gave me anything back.”

Her parents had more free time when they lived in and security embodied in the United States’ reputa“It’s the law, of course we paid,” Sofia adds. “They Aurora, and she misses going to the movies together tion. They have often fled poverty for a chance at a wanted money and they took our money.” or playing games in the backyard. She’s obviously conbetter life, only to be met with growing hostility north And they both used the ITIN numbers to start flicted about her choice to leave behind her life in of the border. their own businesses. To this day, Sofia doubts the Colorado and join her dad in Mexico after his deporAs the U.S. political climate has become increasway she encouraged Luis to start his subcontracting tation. ingly polarized, the most marginalized communities business just a few months before he was detained by “We’re more united as a family,” Jenny says. “But it ICE in 2014. are the ones caught in the wake. Since the 1980s, the was a bad decision to come here.” federal government has tried to enact comprehensive “Maybe I was wrong,” she says. “Maybe if he Sofia adds, “She ( Jenny) didn’t want to stay (in immigration reform that both slows the flow of hadn’t started his own company, maybe they wouldn’t Colorado), but now she wants to go back.” migrants from the south while acknowledging the have detained him.”

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George W. Bush was elected at the turn of the century with a platform of immigration reform that he never saw come to fruition, in large part because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His successor, Barack Obama, deported more unauthorized immigrants than any other president in history, roughly 2.5 million, relying largely on an immigration detention system that housed up to 450,000 people each year, according to some estimates. And although members of Congress attempted comprehensive immigration reform several times in the last eight years, the measures failed each time, despite some bipartisan support.

“Things happen everyday with immigration and yet no one knows about it. It’s something that is going on under the carpet and nobody really knows about it,” Andy says, struggling to understand what his U.S. citizenship means in the context of his family’s experience.

Listening to the annals of freedom and democracy in U.S. history class, Andy hasn’t been able to reconcile what the history books tell him our country is and what he’s experienced our country to be.

“From my perspective, it’s all fake,” he says. “You say it to say it, but you really don’t walk the walk. If you’re going to say something [like that] then you have to really mean it.

This is what we’re doing, this is an example, this is why we can say we are the best country. ... We say it but there’s nothing that proves it’s actually going on.”

In many ways, Andy blames the federal government for the situation his family is in, failing to provide a pathway to legal residency or citizenship for so many people that have contributed to U.S. society over decades of living here.

“If you want people to be here legally, why don’t you make it easier so we wouldn’t be going through these things or seeing children who are citizens seeing their families ripped apart,” he says.

For him, his citizenship has become nothing more than a piece of paper, one that can fold, rip or even be thrown away.

He puts more stock in the character of his father, the values of his family and the morality of seeing the world with compassion and empathy than he does in his citizenship. A piece of paper is less important than going with his family to pass out tamales to the homeless in Denver.

• • • • Andy voted for the first time in the 2016 election, turning 18 the summer before. For him the choice was obvious

given Donald Trump’s remarks and policy proposDespite a close relationship, Andy (left, als concerning undocumentin Denver) and his mom ed immigrants and firstSofia (right, at work in Ixmiquilpan) find it generation Latinos, people increasingly difficult to like him and his family. stay in touch.

Still, the rhetoric of the Trump campaign exposed what Andy had seen his whole life.

“It’s going to be horrible if he wins,” Andy told me last fall, before Trump’s victory. “But if he wins, then that’s when we’re really going to know what we are. It will show our true face, our true colors.”

Despite the fact that Obama’s immigration policies drew years of criticism, Donald Trump was elected with the most severe anti-immigrant platform of any candidate in modern history. Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2017, he’s enacted sweeping executive orders targeting the vast undocumented community. He’s proposed doubling the daily capacity of immigration detention from 41,000 to a possible 80,000 people a day, guaranteeing the private corporations that run many of the immigration detention centers profits for years to come. Such an increase could translate to locking up nearly 750,000 immigrants a year.

The U.S. government is already investing a record amount of tax-payer dollars on immigration enforcement, almost $20 billion for fiscal year 2017 (which ends September 30). In March, the Trump administration asked for an additional $3 billion this year to begin funding new detention facilities, hire more immigration enforcement agents and begin construction of the infamous border wall. It’s expected his 2018 budget will ask for even more funds for his policies that criminalize undocumented immigrants and call for mass deportation.

As the new president continues to dig his heals in, millions more people will find themselves in the same position as the Guerrero family, forced from a better life in the U.S. to a far more challenging one in Mexico. It’s a life both here and there, an existence separated by a border that in many ways was ignored for centuries, despite it’s recent spotlight.

The border has become more about decisions than a political boundary to be navigated. Where will a family live? Which members will live in what country? Does the risk of prison outweigh the pain of poverty and the reality that opportunity may never knock at your children’s door?

No one should be forced to make such choices, but millions more people may have to unless we come to our senses, and soon.

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f you’re keeping track at home, the current administration’s list of budget priorities ranks “the president playing golf ” a few small light years ahead of “finding ways to prevent or reverse catastrophic climate change.” This is good news for: A) wealthy mega-corporations run by the soulless and B) people who love disaster movies and dystopian futures. If you fall into the first category, I look forward to being ground into the human biopaste you use to run your pollution factories! If you fall into the second, do I have a list for you.

For this countdown, I have ixnayed non-earthly environmental disasters (no asteroids), nay-sayed incidents not brought on or sped up by humanity (no volcanoes or earthquakes) and poo-pooed diseasebased dangers (no zombies or contagions). Thus, the following are the top 10 movies that have plots hinging upon or content greatly influenced by climate change. Because all that will be left after we scorch the earth and choke the air are listicles. It’s like Shelley’s “Ozymandias” but with more clickbait.

10.) Geostorm Geostorm doesn’t come out for approximately seven months, but I don’t care. In fact, the only question I had was whether to rank this at number one.

This is a movie about space satellites used to prevent climate change catastrophes that go bonkers, unleashing every kind of disaster that doesn’t currently hold a cabinet position in Trump’s America. The only thing that stands between us and the tsunami-fire-earthquake-hurricane-tornado is Gerard Butler. I’ll take those odds, dammit.

9.) An Inconvenient Truth Movies about climate change either need to be so crazytown stupid they are escapist nonsense (see Storm,

mental reform are secretly aliens hellbent on our destruction would be the single most believable and morally consistent explanation.

7.) Soylent Green I like to think that, wherever his essence is now, Charlton Heston is aware that I just included one of his movies on a list centered on a subject that has been unfairly turned into a profoundly liberal issue. Filmed in the 1970s, Soylent Green is oddly prescient; set in 2022, it foretells of temperatures that never drop below 90 degrees, food riots and secret cannibalism, all of which are already happening.

Cronuts are made of people. All joking aside, the movie is pretty much a hyperbolic cautionary tale that has become increasingly less hyperbolic with every passing year.

Geo) or super hyperserious and vigiIn Snowpiercer, humanity lant about substantive reform. Al is forced upon a neverGore’s 2006 PowerPoint warningstopping train to escape the ice age ravaging the turned-prophecy didn’t result in the Earth. concrete changes he desperately 6.) Snowpiercer wanted, but it did turn him into the You want Captain America to eat a unofficial Earth Day mascot for a time. He has a followbaby? Huh? Do you? Because that’s where this cliup movie that’s already on the festival circuit, which is mate change thing is headed. Adorably bearded, nonsomehow not titled I Told You Stupid Assholes This Was threatening muscle man Chris Evans is going to conGoing to Happen. That’s a presidential amount of restraint sume a human child if we don’t fix things, according right there. to this fascinatingly weird sci-fi treat. Set entirely on a train that can’t stop moving because of a new ice age, 8.) The Arrival it has heartbreaking character beats, insanely cool No, not the weepfest for which Amy Adams got action in tight quarters and Tilda Swinton, because screwed out of an Oscar nod in favor of anointing we’ve all voted and Tilda Swinton gets to survive, no Emma Stone before (gasp) she dared get a wrinkle. matter what happens to the rest of us.

This 1996 gem features a pre-tiger blood, ante-winning Charlie Sheen who figures out that backward-knee5.) Children of Men having aliens are up to no good. Specifically, they are Nobody can get pregnant in this neo-classic from using climate change to kill off humans and make writer/director Alfonso Cuaron, and it’s likely not just Earth more livable for themselves. Honestly, discoverSee COUNTDOWN Page 24 ing that the people actively working against environ-

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because governmental oversight of women’s health is Why is it that natural already a profound nightmare. The reasons are never disasters always go for the landmarks? explicitly laid bare, but pollution and overpopulation are certainly alluded to as potential culprits. As Clive Owen struggles to protect the first potential birth in years, audiences are reminded about the fragility of life and the imperative nature of inter-dependence. I mean, they are reminded about that while the film is playing and then go back to voting against their own sustained self-interests.

4.) WALL-E The nearly dialogue-free first half of WALL-E is a beautiful homage to silent films and a likely glimpse into the dumpster we are making out of Mother Earth.

A robot with a single, trash-smashing purpose displays more humanity than most humans, as he shows it is possible to fall in love, have an intergalactic adventure and still give a shit about plants. Much was made of the depiction of people as morbidly obese when their caricatured appearance was actually a cartoonish representation of amoral gluttony and an unwillingness to consider implications of their actions more than a statement about body shaming. The only shame that’s definitively intended is about our collective planetary neglect.

3.) Beasts of the Southern Wild Maybe the prettiest movie about climate change ever made, Beasts warns us that if we don’t stop what we’re doing, we’ll melt the ice caps and free long-dormant monster pigs that will trample us unless Quvenzhané Wallis asks them nicely not to. This singular coming-of-age/hero’s journey is a lyrical reminder of the connected nature of all life and a celebration of the glorious communities and vibrant pockets of nature we are callously extinguishing. Optimistic and scary, heartwarming and tear-jerking, this is only sitting at number 3 because I’m trying not to put it at the top of every single list I make.

2.) Mad Max: Fury Road Earth is a scorched shithole where gasoline is a near-vanished commodity and where a major community of people is run by a pasty, pudgy megalomaniac who treats women like absolute garbage as he spreads lies about how important he is.

That’s also the description of Mad Max: Fury Road. The reason this installment is on the list is not only because it’s easily the best in the series but because of its focus on “who killed the world” and the disappearing “green place,” which the protagonists seek like sinners cast out of Eden. The value of water, the absence of flora and fauna and the blatant finger pointing at the toxic masculinity and near-sighted behaviors that set all that into motion makes this the most bad-ass climate change action movie ever made.

1.) Day After Tomorrow Is this a bad movie? Yes it is. Does Jake Gyllenhaal fight wolves in it? You bet your double-voweled aass he does. Dennis Quaid snowshoes over a mall that’s covered in ice, teenagers literally “run from the cold” and Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) drinks himself to death with a nice liquor in the most fastidious and British way imaginable. Sure it’s a mess in terms of its science, plot, acting and any other definable metric of quality. It tops this list because it is unqualified apocalyptic daydreaming and nonsense. Given the state of things, that’s kinda the best we can hope for, right?

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by Sarah Haas Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

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rom where I now sit typing, I’m looking out on a landscaped row of lodgepole pines punctuated by a volunteer cottonwood. Cottonwoods in the semi-arid prairie always indicate water and this one is no different. Twenty feet from our irrigation ditch, it drinks from the same well we do, and in that way the tree is part of our family and I love it as such.

My dog and I spend many hours sitting under its branches, glad to spend a leisurely moment in such good company. Over the years, I’ve learned to just sit and listen and enjoy what comes, but the other day I found myself talking to it, as if it were an old friend. I felt compelled to tell it a story about the time I went looking for the tallest tree in the world, a giant redwood hidden in the dense temperate rainforest of northern California.

Like all things larger than life, I found out about Something like a the tree as if it were a hero’s journey: the search for rumor, from a friend-of-aHyperion, the friend who’d read about it in world’s tallest tree. a book, Richard Preston’s The Wild Trees. He told me about what he’d read, about a small but dedicated group of scientists and explorers who researched the coastal redwoods. This band of men, inspired by the grandiosity and mystery of the forest, worked to unlock its secrets, but also ultimately to revel in its wonder.

The tallest tree in the world was found in 2006 by two of these men, Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor, a pair best described by how deeply and sincerely they love the redwood forest. Many speak of them as explorers, as those who “discovered” the world’s superlative trees, but it’s doubtful they see themselves or their accomplishments that way. The few articles and books about them suggest they would reject any ethic asserting man’s dominion over the natural world. In naming the trees they identified, they weren’t claiming them so much as they were offering titles of respect, reminders of the humility of their quest.

The name they reserved for the tallest tree, Hyperion, was that of one of the 12 Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (sky) in Greek mythology.

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vation, the movement of the sun, moon and stars.

Hyperion is relatively young for a redwood — trees Gaining this comprehension was his defining rite of that can live to be 2,000 years old. Even so it has outpassage, from seeker of the heavenly bodies to their lived our country and the doctrine of manifest destiny father, their guide and protector. that justified the endless expansion of the American I like to imagine Atkins and Taylor similarly, frontier. I once asked my friend if he’d ever visited the standing at the foot of the newly named Hyperion, Statue of Liberty, a fixed part of his seascape vista and looking up toward a crown so high it eventually disa 305 foot tall symbol of the human quest for freeappeared into the sky, mingling with what they could dom. He hadn’t, because it never called to him, he only imagine must be heaven. Like new fathers, they said, not like Hyperion did. offered a feeble promise to protect it from the very Born an offshoot of another tree, Hyperion grew world that felled so many of its family. But in their on its steep hillside, patiently drinking from nearby gesture of love and admiration, naming and Sarah Haas announcing Hyperion to the world, they unknowingly condemned it, as curious adventurers around the world took their cue and set out to find it for themselves.

People like me: A Colorado girl raised half in the mountains and half on the plains, so intoxicated by the dream-like story of Hyperion that I eagerly borrowed it as my North Star. Deep down, I knew the quest was not authentically mine, but at 30 years old I was restlessly awaiting the call to my hero’s journey and this was close enough. Or people like my friend-of-a-friend, the one who first told me Hyperion’s story, a New Yorker who grew up in the city’s curated landscapes of concrete, steel and bombastic ambition.

There was something about the tree’s slow and deliberate rise to 386 feet that stirred a sense of reverence in him. He longed to find it and to learn from its 600 years of life.

Naively, I said we should try to find Hyperion. He laughed dismissively and told me it would be harder than I thought — in an effort to protect the tree, its location was kept a closely guarded secret. Maybe so, I said, but most people I know can’t help themselves. The thing with secrets is that we keep them so that someday we can admit our most important inner truths, confess them and be rewarded for sharing a part of our deepest selves.

It wasn’t that I doubted the good intentions of the original seekers. Au contraire, I admired their work ethic, that of professionals heeding a noble calling. But inevitably, when we put our being totally into our work, we want a little to spill out, too, to leave a little mark that we had been rivers until it was tall enough to there, done that and that our lives were richer for it. drink from the sky, its needles Not Hyperion.

As much as I knew it would be hard, not only to find lapping at clouds carried in by the location of the tree but to identify it from one of coastal breezes. Like all redthousands in a forest, I also knew that people would woods, its roots are sensitive and leave their mark. shallow, but protected from forest Even so, if we had looked for the tree 10 years ailments and critters by a thick layer of ferns and ago, the search would have more closely resembled mosses. Hyperion’s most significant defense against Atkins’s and Taylor’s, an old-fashioned adventure, people was accidental — that steep hillside it called taken step-by-step, bushwhacking into the dense home made it difficult to get to, difficult to cut down. unknown forest. But in the modern world the journey Luckily, for most of Hyperion’s life that last line of was all but won or lost on the internet. And on the defense didn’t really matter, as the only people around internet, secrets certainly aren’t safe. In a couple of were small groups of native American coastal tribes, months of casual research, my partner and I gained an like the Yoruk, who still revere the powerful trees. encyclopedic knowledge of the trees and found Their traditional stories teach that the redwoods are enough intel to confidently put an X on the map. As sacred living beings; useful, sure, but respected as soon as the ink dried on the paper, we packed our guardians over their sacred places. Soon enough, ideas bags and headed for the fabled forest. of holiness were muted by the buzz of saws when Before ever stepping foot in California, we non-native settlers came to the area and started logthought we knew a lot. Like, even at 600 years, ging in the mid-1800s. The trees seemed an inex28 April 13, 2017

haustible cache of lumber and fueled the growth of a massive industry. Today, less than 5 percent of the old-growth redwoods remain, including Hyperion.

Ironically, it is the busted and dilapidated mining towns that now serve as gateways to the redwood forest, lingering reminders of the delicate balance between humans and the natural world. And it wasn’t until we arrived in one such town, Orick, that I truly grasped the stakes of our two-person expedition. Up until this point, we had been seeking the frontiers of our own potential, but we hadn’t yet admitted or accepted that in stepping into the forest we too were affecting it, we too were inextricably linked to its demise. Suddenly our quest seemed too casual, and as such, unjustified. Who were we to bother this tree? And yet we continued on.

It was in Orick that we got the first sign of our impending success. We stopped at the National Park station to get our permits when a friendly ranger offered to introduce us to the terrain, unfolding a map and highlighting various attractions — scenic vistas, popular trails and then, in a gesture as grandiose as it was banal, he plunked his finger down on the coordinates we had identified as Hyperion. “And this,” he said, casually as if rambling off items on a grocery list, “this is where the tallest tree in the world is.” My partner and I exchanged a wayward glance but held our tongues.

Humans just can’t help themselves, I thought.

Crossing the threshold into the forest, the deficiencies of learning about the world through the internet were immediately self-evident. We arrived in August, the height of the dry season, and the vibrant reds and greens I had seen in pictures were hidden in thick layers of dust. In my dreams I imagined the forest to smell like damp earth, but a wildfire that raged just a few miles to the south filled the air with an oppressive smoke. I thought we’d feel alone, but we were one of dozens of cars on the road, trying to squeeze our way into crowded parking lots so we could get on the trails.

To be among the redwoods is a disorienting experience. The massive trunks outsize one’s largest expectations, and hundreds of feet above human heads tree crowns sway in winds that can only be felt at the height of the troposphere. Absorbing our surroundings, we walked mostly in silence, slowly and deliberately.

Maybe it was the light trickling through the trees as it would through a stained glass window, or the creaking of trunks like church bells, but in the middle of the forest it occurred to me our souls must be made of wood. How else could it resonate so deeply with the forest?

Suddenly and totally, my ambition seemed naked and misplaced. To seek the tallest tree in the forest was a fool’s errand and I most definitely the fool.

Having come all this way to look for one tall tree was an act of pride. Now that I was here it seemed all there was to do was surrender to the simple act of being there.

Alas, it would have been even more foolish not to continue, to halt our pursuit and leave the tree in what was at best an imagined peace. I knew we must continue on toward Hyperion because we had crossed the point where we could take it back, remove man’s Boulder Weekly

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We took our time but, faithfully, we followed our course until we came across a neon pink metal spike sticking like the sorest of thumbs out of the otherwise pristine forest floor, clearly marking a short and well-worn trail up a steep slope ending at the base of a mammoth tree. Hyperion.

It was nothing but godly in its stature but, like all immortal Greek gods, marked with signs of its vulnerability. The ground around the tree was barren, paths worn around the circumference of its wide trunk, ferns and vegetation dying if not dead, moss rubbed off all nearby surfaces. The rich, red bark of the tree was peeling off, clearly the work of restless human hands, anxious to reach out and touch the tree they sought.

We walked a little further up and sat down, knowing that we were part of the destruction, one of the many hammer strikes that drove that damn pink stake into the ground. I knew then that I didn’t deserve to sit in its shade and wipe sweat from my brow, but I also knew it was inevitable. I knew because sitting there under the mighty tree, Hyperion spoke to me about life and more remarkably, I was humble enough to actually listen.

Trees are people and forests are humanity, it said. Our destinies are intertwined.

You are doomed to love me and I am destined to let you, until our dying day.

In the days that followed we made our way out of the redwoods and back down the coast to San Francisco. When we became overwhelmed by the magnanimity of our experience, we didn’t know what else to do but hold hands.

And now, back in Colorado, I make a point to spend time with trees, although noticeably smaller and more tortured in their search for water and life. But you know what? It’s enough just to sit below an ordinary tree, to take it up on its standing offer for shade and company.

Although there has been no formal press release, it is widely rumored in online treeseeking communities that trees taller than Hyperion have since been discovered, but kept under wraps in an effort for protection. Whether or not there is truth to these rumors, it is worth noting that the heights of trees are always in flux. Nothing is ever the same.

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assistant concertmaster and several principal players in the wind section of the Boulder Phil.

Today blind auditions are just about universal in American orchestras. The Code of Ethical Audition Practices that professional orchestras follow prohibits discrimination of the basis of sex, and screened auditions are often required in union contracts between orchestras and musicians.

• • • • Women composers have enjoyed some notable success recently. In December the Metropolitan Opera produced L’Amour de Loin by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho to great acclaim — the first opera by a woman at the Met in 113 years. The Santa Fe Opera premiered Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain in 2015, and Opera Colorado premiered Lori Laitman’s Scarlet Letter in 2016. But such widely publicized events do not tell the whole story.

For one thing, composers do not have the advantage of auditioning anonymously. Music directors and board committees know whose music they are choosing.

“We’re completely at the mercy of the people who do the programming,” Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon explains. “We have no control over our careers, basically, especially in the orchestral realm.”

Missy Mazzoli, a 2016 composer in residence with the Boulder Philharmonic, points out that women composers may not know when discrimination occurs.

“It operates on different levels, a lot of which I would

some good news, some bad news

by Peter Alexander

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ometimes a cliché is true.

For example, for women entering the field of classical music, there’s some good news and some bad news.

First the good: Professional orchestras are filled with women today. This is now a viable career for the most talented women instrumentalists.

The bad news is that the picture is not nearly as rosy for women composers, who are not well represented on orchestral programs. And women conductors are no better off than composers.

The growing numbers of women in professional orchestras can be traced to a single innovation that began around 1970: “blind auditions” where competing candidates for open orchestral jobs play behind a screen. The selection committee does not know if it is hearing a man or a woman. The rapid change in the makeup of orchestras — casually visible and backed up by the numbers — is compelling evidence of the opposition women orchestral players faced before blind auditions.

Violinist Elizabeth Baker, a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1987 until today, has experienced auditions from both sides of the screen.

She does not doubt the importance of blind auditions.

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“The screened rounds were the main reason why women were able to advance and realize positions in major symphony orchestras,” she says.

There is scientific research to support that belief.

In an article titled “Orchestrating Impartiality,” published in 2000 in The American Economic Review, researchers Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse concluded that “the screen increases — by 50 percent — the probability that a woman will be advanced from certain preliminary rounds and increases by severalfold the likelihood that a woman will be selected in the final round.” Their conclusion is backed up by 25 pages of charts, graphs and statistical studies.

The real numbers are striking. According to the most recent information from the League of American Orchestras, the percentage of women instrumentalists has gone from 38.2 percent in 1978, the earliest year that these records were kept, to nearly 50 percent today. Some individual orchestras have up to 60 percent women.

The numbers are similar locally. Based on the rosters on their websites, approximately 44 percent of the Colorado Symphony and 58 percent of the Boulder Philharmonic is female. Significantly, the concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony is a woman, as are the

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be the last person to be aware of,” she says. “I’m not behind closed doors where people are making decisions, but I think the numbers speak for themselves.”

What the numbers say depends on which ones do the speaking. In the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, the period that still forms the largest part of the classical repertoire, women were discouraged, when not actually prevented, from being composers.

That is no longer the case, so while there is little music by women from the core of the classical repertoire, there is a great deal of newer music.

Statistics kept by the Baltimore Symphony reflect the discrepancy.

They show that only 1.8 percent of all works performed by major orchestras in 2014–15 were by women. But when limited to works performed by living composers, that number jumped to 14.8 percent.

Still, that remains a smaller share of the repertoire than the growing numbers of women composers would suggest. Kristin Kuster, a composer from Boulder who teaches at the University of Michigan, observes, “We are seeing a gradual increase in the number of female composers applying to our undergraduate and graduate programs” at Michigan.

Local figures hover around the national averages.

In the 11 seasons under conductor Michael Butterman (including the current season), the Boulder Philharmonic has played six pieces by six different female composers. That is approximately 3.2 percent of all the repertoire programmed on major concert performances, slightly above the 2014–15 single-season national average. Among living composers, it is 15 percent, almost exactly the national average.

For the Colorado Music Festival (CMF), it is more difficult to calculate percentages, because there are so many different genres and ways of listing programs.

During Michael Christie’s 13 years with the festival, 2001–13, the CMF programmed nine works by seven women. Looking only at festival orchestra concerts that have full program listings in the record, three women make up 1.3 percent of all composers and 9.4 percent of living composers in the Christie era, below the national averages. But for the CMF Chamber Orchestra in the same period, the figures are above the national average: five women represent 2.5 percent and 17.9, percent respectively.

Since Christie left, the only works by women were Hannah Lash’s “Click” Commission winner in 2016, and an upcoming piece by Betsy Jolas.

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val seasons 2011-17. The winners are selected by the public.

In those five years, there have been 14 men and three women candidates. Of these, the voters selected three men and two women — Kuster in 2013 and Lash in 2016. At 40 percent, this is a far higher rate than women have been programmed locally or nationally. Since there were two women candidates in 2013, voters have actually chosen a female composer every time one was available. This is a very small sample, but it suggests that audiences are more willing than program committees and music directors to choose female composers.

• • • • The most prominent musicians at orchestral concerts are the soloists and conductors. For soloists, the rise of women in orchestral positions has been paralleled by women with solo careers, particularly violinists. The rosters of three of the largest artists management companies in New York — Columbia Artists, IMG and Opus 3 — together list 37 violinists, of which 16, or 43.2 percent, are women. Female pianists fare less well, with 13 out of 59, or 22 percent.

But it is as conductors that women appear least successful. In this area, management rosters may underrepresent women. The management companies represent 153 conductors and only 11 women, or 7.2 percent of the total, whereas the numbers of women in actual orchestral conducting positions are higher.

The League of American Orchestras reports that among all conductors at league orchestras — including both music directors and assistants — 14.6 percent are women, almost exactly the same rate at which women are included in orchestral programs. At the highest level, 9.2 percent of all music directors are women.

However, the discouraging fact is that both numbers have changed very little over the past 10 years of league records, and over the same period there has

been only one female music director in the top 24 U.S. orchestras by budget, Marin Alsop at the Baltimore Symphony.

Whatever numbers you look at, women are underrepresented at the top levels of the orchestral world. When asked about this, women refer over and over again to the same issues that face women in leadership positions in business and other fields: It is more difficult for women to be taken seriously as strong leaders.

JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Symphony and one of the senior women conductors today, explains it this way: “Probably the greatest factor is that [symphony] boards are run by people who believe very strongly in the status quo. And that JoAnn Falletta (right) and means board members Jennifer Higdon (left) have trusted generally in an both persevered against sexism in the classical music older man, and I think scene. that has lasted for decades.”

Beverly Everett, music director in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Bemidji, Minnesota, remembers one position that she considered. “I had a friend who knew some of the people on the board, and they told him flat out that they would not consider a woman,” she says.

Happily, it is not usually the musicians who have a problem with women conductors.

“Most people just want somebody competent on the podium, period. If you’re an iguana and you do what you do well, they’ll take it. They don’t have the time to care,” says Laura Jackson, music director of the Reno Philharmonic.

In a society that labels women as being less assertive, some develop strategies to overcome such stereotypes. For example, Falletta had to learn at the outset not to be apologetic. “There can be a subtle sense of apology in what women say,” she says.

Jorge Mester, a conductor who was Falletta’s teacher and mentor when she was younger, puts it more bluntly.

“It’s the teaching that little girls are given about being subservient,” he explains. “I said to her, ‘JoAnn, do you want to be a nice Catholic girl, or do you want to be a conductor?’”

In other words, women have to step outside the “traditional” social role to exert leadership, but if they are too assertive they run the risk of being perceived as shrill, or worse.

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make a point passionately without being seen as angry, where you can be not seen as brittle and mean,” Jackson says.

Another challenge women face in business is dress.

“For any performer male or female, the way you look is very important,” Jackson says. “With a woman there are many extra layers to getting that right.

If a man walks in and his shirt is a little wrinkled, he’s a disheveled genius. If a woman looks like that, she’s incompetent.”

“Concert dress is something men may not even think about,” Falletta adds. “With a woman, it seems to be more laden with social importance.”

Women like Falletta, Jackson and Everett have shown that women can be successful orchestral conductors.

But is it a career path becoming more open to women generally? The evidence is mixed. As noted, the numbers recorded by the League of American Orchestras have been static for at least 10 years. And individual experience varies widely.

Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor of the Colorado Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, is the only female orchestral conductor on the Front Range.

“When I was at the Peabody Conservatory, the conducting class was 50-50, male-female,” she observes. “At each new level of my career, there were fewer women. In top masterclasses and summer programs there would be fewer women, and now there are many music director searches where no women are auditioned.”

As it happens, that has been exactly the case in the most recent high-profile searches in this area.

In 2010, the Colorado Symphony had eight guest conductors, all European males, and hired Andrew Litton from that field. Six years later, Brett Mitchell was hired to replace Litton, without any other candidates appearing with the orchestra.

In 2014, the CMF featured four official candidates to replace Michael Christie, all male. The two or three other names that were informally discussed were also male. The Longmont Symphony is currently searching for a new conductor, and once again all the finalists are male.

On the other side of the coin, Jackson believes more women are coming into the field.

“In the past three years, it’s like the floodgates are opening,” she says. “I think we are on the cusp. I think that I have probably done my last music director audition where I am the only woman.”

She sees some situations where being a woman may even be an advantage.

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“For an orchestra that needs a big change, when they see your resumé and see your picture, you are automatically that change, that clean slate,” she says.

“That can put you in a category where people will ask, ‘Why not?’

“I think it’s going to be less and less of an issue.”

Falletta believes that the publicity around recent high-profile women conductors helps. The Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki, chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic who also led Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin at the

Metropolitan Opera, is one example.

Another is Alsop, who in 2013 became the first woman to conduct the BBC’s “Last Night of the Proms” in London.

“Once it’s happened on a high level, people are more open to it,” Falletta says. “All of us tend to look to orchestras that are bigger than us as models. As they start to have more women on the podium, I think smaller orchestras will do the same.”

In the end, it all comes down to fairness, and the opportunity of talented women to pursue the career of their

choice. But Higdon has her own perspective on the whole issue, that opening doors to women is good for classical music generally.

“Young people don’t come to classical concerts because it looks so un-hip,” she says. “One reason is because there are so few women represented. They are used to women being part of the scene from popular music and hip-hop and everything else they listen to.

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overtones A constant kick in the ass

Instead of capitalizing on an anniversary, Anthrax just keeps on thrashin’

ON THE BILL: Anthrax. 6 p.m. Friday, April 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St., Denver, 303837-0360.

by Alan Sculley

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ith a studio album, For All Kings, having arrived last year, Anthrax is following up a fall tour opening for Slayer with a current run of dates with Killswitch Enagage, giving the group another chance to promote its newest material.

Anthrax, though, could have also used these shows to mark another milestone in the long-running band’s influential career. The band reached its 35th anni- Jimmy Hubbard versary last year and could have justified continuing the celebration into 2017.

Many veteran bands these days are using anniversaries as themes for tours, building shows around celebrations of certain longevity milestones or the anniversary of the release of a key album. Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, though, says linking the fall tour to the 35th anniversary of the band was never something he considered.

Instead, the group celebrated the anniversary date itself last July privately.

Other than noting the milestone on social media, that was all the mileage Anthrax wanted from this milestone.

And, Ian says, don’t expect that approach to change, even for a 50th anniversary, if Anthrax is still together then.

“We’ll do the same thing,” Ian says.

“We’ll go out to dinner and have some drinks. I really don’t know it translates into playing live. It doesn’t really mean anything to me. If someone figures out a way, how to celebrate a band anniversary in a live show, then I’m open to ideas. But one doesn’t have anything to do with the other.”

Besides, Ian says, Anthrax always celebrates its history in a sense by playing songs from across its career at its concerts.

That will be the case on the tour with Killswitch Engage, even with a new album to promote.

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“There will be at least three things off of For All Kings in the set and then the rest, whatever,” Ian says. “It may be a revolving door of so-called greatest hits.”

Anthrax has plenty of musical ground it can cover in its set.

Formed in 1981 in New York City, Anthrax has become known, alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer, as one of the “Big Four” architects of modern thrashy metal. A series of stadium

shows a few years ago featuring all four groups helped to reinforce Anthrax’s place in heavy metal.

And while Anthrax has not achieved the same levels of success of the other “Big Four” bands — the group’s total album sales are around 2.5 million — its catalog includes several albums, such as 1985’s Spreading The Disease, 1987’s Among The Living, The Sound Of White Noise and 2011’s Worship Music, that earned considerable acclaim.

Anthrax has continued to be a vital force on the metal scene despite having its share of disruptions over its 35-year history. There have been several periods of internal turmoil, and the group has cycled through several singers and lead guitarists. The current lineup includes long-standing members Ian, drummer Charlie Benante and bassist Frank Bello, vocalist Joey Belladonna (who is on his third stint with the band) and lead guitarist Jonathan Donais.

Belladonna’s return in 2010

seemed to reignite Anthrax.

Considered by many as the definitive Anthrax vocalist, he came on board in time to do the “Big Four” concerts, and the renewed chemistry between Belladonna and the other band members was apparent on the acclaimed Worship Music album.

For All Kings is shaping up to be another one of Anthrax’s best records.

Reviews for the album have been enthusiastic, and new songs like “Evil Twin,” “You Gotta Believe” and “Breathing Lightning” do a great job of merging the aggression one expects from Anthrax with a strong element of melody.

Ian says it was clear from the outset of the For All Kings project that the band had good creative momentum happening.

“We were just working the same way we always work and the songs just felt great. Of course, that in itself is inspiring,” Ian says. “There was just an energy with the material that just felt great and was a constant kick in the ass and a constant wind at our back, let’s say. We were pushing the ball downhill instead of uphill.”

The band was also very unified in its objectives for the new album, and an unselfish attitude was a hallmark of the album-making process this time around.

“I think everybody was on the same page knowing that it really came down to whatever serves the song best, that’s what needed to happen,” Ian says. “It didn’t matter who came up with what and whose idea was whose. All that matters is at the end of the day it’s going to say Anthrax on the album cover. Let’s make sure the 10 or 11 or however many songs end up on the record, that those make up the best record that we can [make] in the time we’ve been given to make this album. And we really kind of stayed focused on that.”

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IFS to screen three films by Robert Bresson

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by Michael J. Casey

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hen the French writers for Cahiers du cinema coined the term “auteur” in the late ’50s, they envisioned an author of motion pictures — a director who exerted their will, their psychology, over every aspect of the films they made. These directors, almost all of them male, were ushered from the screening rooms and into cinema’s pantheon for future generations to come and study their ability with actors, their techniques with the camera and their control of the sound: John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and so on. Students and wannabe filmmakers poured over every frame of the films these auteurs turned out looking for secrets and hints. Great as these men were, they were all products of a studio system, one they navigated with impressive panache. Another director who could be labeled a true auteur — one whose films are immediately recognizable with a single image, a single cut — is the much beloved, but often overlooked French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

Born in central France in 1907, Bresson took to films like a priest to the altar, with the same unrelenting devotion.

He only made 13 films in the span of 40 years, but they are more than enough. All contain vast oceans to be explored and all resolutely and firmly express Bresson’s overriding theories and beliefs in cinematography — a word he used because he felt “cinema” simply wasn’t enough.

It is this cinematography that makes Bresson films essential. With the International Film Series (IFS) screening three of his overlooked gems, here is a chance to familiarize yourself with the cinematography of Bresson.

In each of these movies, Bresson presents his stories without adornment, without excess and without window dressings. He wanted his films to be felt first, understood second. In a 1963 interview with Georges Sadoul, Bresson perfectly summed up his approach by casually proclaiming something along the lines of: You have to strip the wires if you want the current to flow.

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And strip the wires he did for his 1962 film The Trial of Joan of Arc. Running a swift 65 minutes, Bresson not only pares the story down to the bare bones of the trial, he also refused to manufacture a period piece that looked like his cameras were magically transported back to 1431.

Instead, Bresson’s Joan is a modern woman fighting for her beliefs from under the thumb of a crushing patriarchy.

The Trial of Joan of Arc was not well received when it was released, but time has been kind to the film, as it has been to Bresson’s 1943 debut, Angels of Sin. Made following a yearlong stint in a prisoner-of-war camp and working from a script penned by a French Resistance Dominican priest and the famed dramatist Jean Giraudoux, Angels of Sin is set in a nunnery that rehabilitates female prisoners. Though the style Bresson uses — particularly his use of dissolves to abbreviate time — seems familiar today, it was experimental in 1943 ON THE BILL: The Trial and would help lay of Joan of Arc. 7:30 p.m. the groundwork for Sunday, April 16; Angles of the French New Sin. 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 17; Ladies of the Park.

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Bresson’s sophoMuenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., more effort, Ladies of Boulder, 303- 492-1531, interthe Park, would mark nationalfilmseries.com. the first and final time he would work with the equally magnificent filmmaker Jean Cocteau, with Cocteau adapting an episode from Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist. This story of a man tricked into marrying a prostitute was also not well received when released in 1945, but when the movie played at a retrospective 10 years later, the audience flocked to see it. Cocteau was quoted saying the film “won its case in the appeals courts.”

Unlike the films of another Catholic director, Alfred Hitchcock, the films of Bresson lack glitz, glam, grade-A celebrities and substantial budgets. They don’t need them.

They are undeniably profound and giving, and they are best viewed in close succession with one another, which makes IFS’ three screenings all the more exciting.

Bresson is pure intoxication, and for those familiar with his more well-known works (Pickpocket, A Man Escaped and The Diary of a Country Priest), these three films will be like manna from above. For the uninitiated, here is a chance to fall in love with Bresson’s white-hot passion. And, as an added bonus, all three films will be projected from 35mm prints with Angels and Ladies introduced by University of Colorado Boulder film professor David Gatten.

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Building the Wall.

Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through April 19.

Written by Pulitzer prize-, Tony-award winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, Building the Wall imagines life in the wake of Trump’s realized immigration policies, portraying a dystopian future where the private prison industry wins and humanity looses. Explore what could happen in a world where fear wins, and hope that it’s not too late for the world as we know it. Each production will be followed by a talkback featuring special guests from Denver’s activist, immigration rights, and social justice communities.

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Moovers and Shakers.

5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

For the fifth year in a row, The Dairy Arts Center is inviting six local mixologists to participate in their Moovers and Shakers competition. Bartenders from Basta, Blackbelly, Frasca, Mateo, Oak at Fourteenth and River & Woods will all take their shot at being named the best. Last year Basta took home first prize with Frasca in second.

All proceeds for the event go to The Dairy, celebrating its silver anniversary as a hub for the arts. Event open to 21 and over.

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BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 13, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. see EVENTS Page 40

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Mamma Mia! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through April 16.

ABBA lovers and musical theater geeks unite with Mamma Mia!. After opening in London in 1999, Mamma Mia! remains a musical theater staple nearly 20 years later. Now it’s back with a brand new tour telling the story of young couple preparing for their wedding in Greece. When the bride wants her father to walk her down the aisle, her mother is confronted with the lovers of her past — a story filled with hijinks and the disco-dancing tunes of ABBA. Whether you’re a fan or a newcomer, take a chance on Mamma Mia!

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Thursday, April 13 Music Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears. 9 p.m.

The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4470095.

Elli Gauthier & Kyra. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910. eTown on the Road: Damien Jurado & Lera Lynn. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY APRIL 13

SAM BURNS 8PM BO DEPEÑA TRIO 9PM FRIDAY APRIL 14

TENNESSEE STIFFS 8PM CLYDE AND THE MILLTAILERS 9PM SATURDAY APRIL 15

ANDY PALMER 8PM AMBIANCE DUO 9PM SUNDAY APRIL 16

BRIAN ALLISON 8PM STEVE ITTERLY 9PM MONDAY APRIL 17 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS

AN OPEN POETRY READING TUESDAY APRIL 18

Hazel Miller and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Reggae Night. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Sam Burns. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Wired: An Electro-acoustic Series. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 585319-8005.

Events 2017 GiddyUP! Film Tour. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827.

The Art of the Video Interview. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8004647.

Cultural Cul-de-sac: Tales from Tribal Nations.

5 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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

Maundy Thursday. 7 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Tobin Sorenson’s 1977 Season in the Alps with Rick Accomazzo. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 Broadway, Suite A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Trivia & Comedy. 7 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 19 8PM

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

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Author David Owen follows the water in the Colorado River in his new book Where the Water Goes. Stop by the Boulder Book Store on April 13th to hear more from Owen.

Thursday, April 13 David Owen — Where the Water Goes.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Ed Elmendorf, Tim Wirth and James Wurst.

4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Anna Shoemaker. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Saturday, April 15 Vi Khi Nao, Elizabeth Hall and Caroline Swanee Swanson. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Tuesday, April 18 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

John Scalzi — The Collapsing Empire.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, April 19

Monday, April 17

CU MFA Showcase: James Ashby. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Jessamyn Stanley — Ever Body Yoga.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Setting Fires: Dances Made to Be Veiwed in the Dark — presented by Control Group Productions. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827.

BILL SCORZARI 8PM ALLIE CHIPKIN 9PM JOSHUA POWELL & THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY 10PM JAZZETRY NIGHT! FEAT. VON DISCO

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Friday, April 14 Music Alfredo Muro Solo. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581.

B Normous Presents The Chris Dismuke Band.

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

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

BETC’s new show Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who mapped the night sky during the early 19th century when astronomy was exclusively a man’s study. Now playing at The Dairy through April 30.

Chris Dismuke Band with The Campfire Vendetta. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

A Skull in Connemara. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044. Through April 30.

Mamma Mia! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through April 16.

FamilySong Music Class. 11 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-6418901.

Disenchanted. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 6.

Lloyd’s Cowboy and Country Show. 6:30 p.m.

Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720204-6064.

Disgraced. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through May 7.

Silent Sky — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through April 30.

Manic Focus with Bass Physics & More. 8 p.m. see EVENTS Page 42

Jesus Christ Superstar. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through April 16.

Travelers of the Lost Dimension. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 21.

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Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

46th Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Art Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 7.

The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. ChuBURGER, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

2017 Boulder Valley School District: The Art of Students and Teachers Exhibition. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 30.

Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life. 7 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530.

Tennessee Stiffs Acoustic Duo with Clyde and The Milltailers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Basquiat Before Basquiat East 12th Street, 1979-1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

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Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31.

Colorado Mosaic Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through June 2.

The Travelin’ McCourys with Members of Leftover Salmon and Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m.

The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095.

You Knew Me When Live Music. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303258-6910.

Events Good Friday. 12 p.m.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

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.

Linda Scholes, Carpe Diem, Jeffco Teacher Solo Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 7.

Stop by The Dairy to see the art of local students and art teachers from the Boulder Valley School District, like this painting by Eve Boyd from Boulder High, now showing through April 30.

Sat 04.15 Oriental Theater $27 advance

Meetings in Isolation — Anna Olsson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through April 30.

Naomi Scheck: Hewn, Jeffco Alumni Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 7.

Once Removed: Photography by Evan Anderman. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 19.

The Well’s Good Friday Service. 6 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-5835189.

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Mathias Kessler: Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29.

Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22.

Setting Fires: Dances Made to Be Viewed in the Dark — presented by Control Group Productions. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827.

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Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 24.

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

Shade. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 16.

Stations of the Cross. 6 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Then, Now, Next. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31.

Saturday, April 15 Music

Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

Ambiance Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-322-9550.

What Unfolds. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through April 29.

Chris Daniels. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Clouds & Mountains and Jacob Metcalf. 7 p.m.

Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720204-6064.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Isobar. 9 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 540-239-7861.

Kung Fu — The Fez Tour. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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The Prairie Scholars and Native Station. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Sextones. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Tome Petty Project with Adrienne O’. 7 p.m.

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

Ugandan Kids Choir. 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Wick-It The Instigator. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Events Boulder Phil Musical Hike: The Pines of Boulder. 9:30 a.m. Shanahan Ridge SoBo, 1915 Lehigh St., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Couldn’t Finish the Last Two. 5 p.m. Dabble Paint and Sip Studio, 2330 Main St., Unit E, Longmont, 303-827-3523.

Diagonal Highway Cleanup for Earth Month. 9 a.m. Ocean First, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4447234.

Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Easter Egg Hunt and Festival. 10 a.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-7753485.

Life on Earth Day. 10 a.m. Corner of 15th and Broadway on the CU Campus, 1030 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-492-1666.

Meetings of the Minds: Neurodiversity Where

We Live, Work and Play. 5 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Mount Sanitas Family Easter Hike. 4 p.m. Mount Sanitas/Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

Saturday Dance Series. 9:30 a.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020b 21st St., Boulder, 401-4502006.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720379-8299.

Setting Fires: Dances Made to Be Veiwed in the Dark — presented by Control Group Productions. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827.

WRH Between Lines: How to Tame an Elephant.

7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827. see EVENTS Page 44

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KATIE STJERNHOLM, JONATHON HILLER {Colorado} A short film featuring 90-year old ice-skating legend Yvonne Dowlen. @ 7:15 PM Pursuit of Beauty | 5 min | doc.

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An intimate look at how one local artist is harnessing inspiration from Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks. @ 7:30 PM Sneak Peak & Q&A CO cannabis documentary featuring a local Hemp farmer and Cannabis Baker @ 8:30 PM After Party KCP Art Bar (364 Main St) DJ, dancing and 4/20 celebration

4/21 @ 5:30 PM Happy Hour @ 7:00 PM A Season of Predators | 58 min | doc.

JASON D.B. KAUFMANN {Idaho} Explores creative approaches to reduce human-predator conflict. @ 8:00 PM Panel Discussion How a local rancher, hunter and environmentalists found common ground on wolves. Curated by Defenders of Wildlife & the Sierra Club @ 9:00 PM Rangers of the Reef | 14 min | doc.

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ZAK EMERSON {UK} The Mermaid & The Salesman | 4 min | exp.

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ARKUS {Dubai} Jumaa & Hakim | 10 min | doc.

ALAWI SHAREEF {Dubai} The Expedition | 19 min | exp.

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Feral | 17 min | sci-fi DAVID LIBAN {Colorado}

4/22 @ 5:30 PM Happy Hour @ 6:30 PM Seven Falls Indian Dancers @ 7:00 PM Beyond Standing Rock | 70 min | doc.

BRIAN MALONE {Colorado} The struggle for Native American rights against the backdrop of Trump.

@ 9:00 PM My Friend’s Rubber Ducky | 74 min | com.

JOSH HYDE {Colorado} In a tipsy fit, Joseph kidnaps an old friend who owes him $5,000. @ 10:30 PM After Party Hefes Tacos & Tequila (246 Main St)

4/23 @ 10:30 AM Film Maker Brunch @ 12:00 PM Sonic Sea | 60 min | doc.

BRADY VALASHINAS {UK} Encore: A film about protecting life in our waters from the destructive effects of oceanic noise pollution.

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Voice Over Boot Camp with Rachel Alena. 10 a.m. Boulder Writing Studio, 777 Pearl St., Suite 211, Boulder.

Sunday, April 16 Music Brian Parton in Rollinsville. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-944-6854.

Cory Henry Presents: The Revival. 4:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Country and Bluegrass Easter Service. 9:30 a.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-1128.

Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Easter Services Longmont. 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. St. Vrain Memorial Building, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-775-3485.

The Well’s Easter Service. 10 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-583-5189.

Easter Service — Musical Production. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

Great Vigil of Easter (Children’s Service). 4 p.m.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

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

Principal Great Vigil of Easter. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder,

WRH Between Lines: How to Tame an Elephant.

7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-947-2827.

Monday, April 17 Music Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Events Beginning Tap Dance. 6 p.m. Viriditas Dance Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 720561-5967.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Tuesday, April 18 Music Bill Scorzari, Allie Chipkin and Joshua Powell and The Great Train Robbery. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

FamilySong Music Class. 10 a.m. The Art Underground, 901 Front St., Louisville, 303-641-8901.

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

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m.

SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Out of the Bach’s — Boulder Bassoon Quartet.

12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-507-5052.

Events Anime Club. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Beginning Digital Video Editing. 6:30 p.m.

Arapahoe Campus, 6600 E. Arapahoe, Boulder, 720-561-5967.

Wednesday, April 19 Music Beth Quist & Friends. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Concert Band and Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m.

Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Drop-In Acoustic Jam — Every Wednesday.

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

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

The Railsplitters + Front Country. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

Events Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130.

Getting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Leslie Irvine: My Dog Always Eats First — Understanding Homeless People and their Pets. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Peter and the Starcatcher. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, University Theatre Building, Boulder, 303492-8181.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 626: A front porch is very much like a stage, and this poem by Marilyn Nelson is like watching a little play. The poet, who has published books of poetry and prose for young and old alike, lives in Connecticut and her most recent book is My Seneca Village (Namelos, 2015). — 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 ©1990 by Marilyn Nelson, “Daughters 1900,” from The Homeplace, (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1990). Poem reprinted by permission of Marilyn Nelson 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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ave you every wondered why memories from your high school and college years always seem the clearest? The fondest? Back in the day, music sounded better, beer tasted crisper, energy was boundless and you, and only you, really understood how the world worked and what it all meant.

Psychologists have a term for this experience: Reminiscence Bump — the tendency for our minds to hold on to a greater number of memories from adolescence and early adulthood than any other period in our lives. As we get older, life becomes muddled and foggy, bogged down by the constantly growing to-do lists that must be handled. You’re always behind, you’re always prepping for the next whatever.

Nothing is enough.

But not back then. Back then, life was eternally in the present; there was nothing to hold you back and there was nothing the future couldn’t be. Capturing that reckless abandon isn’t an easy task, but the new Polish movie All These Sleepless Nights does, telling one man’s story as an early adulthood memoir set in the present tense.

Directed by Michal Marczak, All These Sleepless Nights is a little like a Terrence Malick movie without the spiriAll These Sleepless Nights captures growing up tual overtones and a little like a post adolescence, during early adulthood.

Gaspar Noé movie without the misogyny. The movie is one long dance, of images and of youth. The camera follows Krzysztof (Krzysztof Baginski), a young man on the edge of adulthood as he dances and drinks his way from house party to house party through Warsaw’s thriving electronic dance music scene.

The people Krzysztof meets on his journey are exactly the same. Rarely without a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, they dance the night into the morning where sunken eyes peer through haze and smoke and wonder what it all means. They are hardly seen eating, seemingly living on a diet of vodka and 128 beats per minute. And if the night becomes too much, there is always a line of cocaine waiting to straighten them back out and get them ready for more.

In between those nights, there are women — first Eva (Eva Lebuef ) and then Natalia (Natalia Atmanska). But neither woman is an object Krzysztof momentarily picks up before casting off. Eva and Natalia are more like individual satellites, reflecting Krzysztof ’s light as he reflects theirs, both momentarily caught in the other’s orbit. They circle each other for a spell before breaking free and hurdling off once again into the darkness of the unknown.

Therein lies the mystery and pleasure of youth. In the moment, everything seems significant, everything seems important, everything seems eternal. It’s only upon reflection that these kids realize: Maybe it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

There is a brief moment at the end of All These Sleepless Nights where Krzysztof poses these kinds of questions to his friends, but no one listens. They are too lost in their own world, their own orbits, to give a damn about anyone else. That neither frustrates nor angers Krzysztof, he’s too busy being lost in his own.

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t’s a little more than 1,000 miles to the ocean nearest Boulder County (my research indicates that Los Angeles is the winner, edging out Texas by a few dozen miles and a couple of hours by car, but damn it, Jim, I’m a writer, not a geographer), but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying seafood.

Over the years, the cuisine writers of Boulder Weekly have said it again and again: Just because Colorado’s landlocked doesn’t mean you can’t find good seafood.

Go ahead, I’ll wait for you to make a joke about Rocky Mountain oysters.

There, now that we’ve gotten that out of our systems, let’s get back to business.

There are the staples of Boulder County’s seafood scene, but you can find great seafood in Boulder in unexpected places. Take Avery Brewing for example.

First thing’s first: Avery’s got an ever-changing menu. You may wander in looking for rabbit and waffles and find it gone. (P.S., Avery: Would you bring that back and maybe send us an email?

We’ve had a hankering to try it since we first saw it on the menu back in 2015, but we were lured in by the Meat, Meat, Meat platter and missed our chance. Thanks!) On my most recent trip to Avery, my dining companion and I saw beerand-butter soaked mussels on the menu and

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Remember that Avery is a pub. These mussels are topped with a serving of fresh cut French fries, which, by the way, are perfect for dunking in that sea of garlicy beerbutter.

As we pulled open the shells, my colleague mused that there is something very primal about pulling the meat from a mollusk. It gives you great satisfaction; you’ve got to work a bit for your food. We look around the room and notice that at least half a dozen other tables are happily prying apart shells and dunking fries in the butter bath.

It’s a decadent dish that leaves little need for another nosh when you’re done.

So head to Avery real quick and get yourself an order of the meatiest mussels you’ve likely had in awhile — who knows when they’ll switch things up.

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was rounding the corner near the shelves of Colorado-made spirits and wines a few weeks ago when I saw something that stopped me in my tracks: Haystack chèvre made in Longmont. I’d never seen that in a Colorado liquor store before.

The white refrigerator case at Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder stacked with cheeses, condiments, pickles and crackers had only been open for a month, Brian Johnson says, the store’s Event Planner and Grocery Department manager. (Heck, until now, there were no groceries to manage in Colorado liquor stores).

“We’re trying to offer a little something for everyone. I’m from Minnesota so we have summer sausage and cheese curds as well as French pâté,” he says. Johnson spent 20 years working in restaurants including Boulder’s Basta and was happy to get food back together with the booze.

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wonder what the hubbub’s about since and Liquor Mart have added coolers they assume you can buy chips, dip and and shelves with cheese, salami and beer together. Flash back with me to a chocolate. time when Colorado wine and beer Nobody will be doing their grocery shops weren’t allowed to sell anything shopping from bananas to toilet paper edible except lemons, limes, Bloody at a liquor store and nobody disputes Mary mix and maraschino cherries. It’s that it is better for all concerned if we not hard to remember because it was consume alcohol with food. only a few months ago.

Among the many recent changes in Competitive eating at what Colorado’s famously convoluted alcohol cost? laws is a rule allowing liquor stores to A man choked to death April 2 have 20 percent of their sales from gro- during the “Tex-Ass” doughnut-eating ceries. That’s why you’ll see milk, choc- contest at Denver’s Voodoo Doughnuts Susan France olate milk and packages of sliced artisan salumi in a reach-in cooler next door to some 12-packs. Johnson says he is adding more chocolate, jerky, Marcona almonds, trail mixes, spices, pasta and olives and eventually beer brats, bangers and knockwurst. “We are carrying brands that are not necessarily available at the supermarket,” he says. That said, Hazel’s is within blocks of Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s.

The change has been in place for a while. I hadn’t noticed because, like a lot of small liquor stores, the one I frequent in in which participants try to consume a half-pound yeasted doughnut in 80 secLouisville can’t devote valuable floor onds. It made me wonder whether the space to selling bacon instead of charm has worn off of competitive eatBordeaux. Some stores only have chips ing or, as I like to call it, intentionally and dips, others like Superior Liquor

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damaging yourself with food. I judge pie contests but I’ve never had any use for pie-eating contests. They are an insult to good pie. However, compulsive eating challenges still abound at Boulder-area eateries and bars: eatfeats. com/calendar/Boulder.html.

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Back in the mid-’90s when there were two Chipotle Mexican Grill locations, it would have been hard to imagine a recent Eater.com headline: “Can new tortillas save Chipotle’s soul?” The Colorado-born burrito-andbowl chain’s new tortillas are made with only a handful of simple ingredients. ...

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“Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.” — Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950) John Lehndorff writes a food and music blog at johnlehndorff.wordpress.com and hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, kgnu. org). Questions, comments, quibbles: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

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here is something charming about running out. A few blocks where my associate and I live is a diner that has every possible photo of Elvis Presley plastered on its walls. There is one box TV in the corner that is always tuned to cable news, the place is always full, the food is always good and they don’t take credit cards. Business hours are 5 a.m. till whenever they run out of food. Sometimes that’s a little after lunch; sometimes it’s well before 11 a.m. I don’t know why, but I like that business model. It’s as if the restaurant is saying, “We bought what we bought, and we ain’t bought no more.”

That’s certainly the case with one of Boulder’s newest and smallest breweries, Kettle and Spoke. Opened by Paul Sink and Patrick Mulcahy in December 2016, Kettle and Spoke benefitted from an expansion Green Guru Gear undertook when it acquired the Seattle-based Alchemy Bikes in May of 2016. (Green Guru specializes in biking and outdoor equipment made from recycled materials.) As Sink tells Boulder Weekly, Green Guru expanded its operation into the adjacent unit at its 47th Street location and had a little bit of space left over that the company let Sink and Mulcahy have for their brewery.

“It’s been a dream of mine and my partner’s for a long time,” Sink says.

When Kettle and Spoke first opened, it had one barrel to work with, three taps to pour the goods and four stools to accommodate customers.

Now it’s a two-barrel system, but Sink and Mulcahy still have a hard time keeping up with Boulder’s thirsty demands. The brewery is typically open Thursday through Sunday for a few hours, but had to close up shop this past Sunday for lack of beer — a solid indication that the stuff ’s tasty.

And it is. Kettle and Spoke offers a contained but attractive array of ales to dive into. The Mosaic Ale (6% ABV) delivers a hefty dose of hop on the nose, but none in the mouth. Instead, it is clean, refreshing and very drinkable.

With a huge hop nose and a clean, smooth taste, the Mosaic Ale is a bit of both worlds, as is the Pineapple New England IPA (7%). New England IPAs are all the rage these days, and Kettle and Spoke’s version is on the smokier side, which tamps down the juiciness of the pineapple but the malic acid of the fruit keeps this beer clean.

The brawniest of the bunch, the Double Black IPA (8.5%), is also one of the brewery’s best with a nice roast on the nose, sort of like a stout, and a good heft without being overly hoppy.

Not even six months new, Kettle and Spoke has potential in the glass, but not a whole lot of room to grow — even another barstool might be asking too much. Sink says that renting a production facility might be in the cards, but it’s too early in the game; they’re still just talking about it at this point. In the meantime, Kettle and Spoke is only a bike ride away, just make sure to check Facebook to see if it’s open first.

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Before visiting Sicily for LIBRA the first time, American Go to RealAstrology.com to check out SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: poet Billy Collins learned Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO For over a century, the to speak Italian. In his HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE Ringsaker Lutheran poem “By a Swimming HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes Church in Buxton, North Pool Outside Siracusa,” are also available by phone at Dakota hosted rites of he describes how the new passage, including 362 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. language is changing his baptisms, 50 marriages, perspective. If he were and 97 funerals. It closed thinking in English, he in 2002, a victim of the area’s shrinking population. I might say that the gin he’s drinking while sitting alone in invite you to consider the possibility that this can serve as the evening light “has softened my mood.” But the newly a useful metaphor for you, Libra. Is there a place that has Italianized part of his mind would prefer to say that the been a sanctuary for you, but has begun to lose its magic? gin “has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain with Is there a traditional power spot from which the power has greater gentleness” and “has extended permission to my been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a mundane mind to feel a friendship with the vast sky.” Your assignhang-out? If so, mourn for a while, then go in search of a ment in the coming week, Aries, is to Italianize your view vibrant replacement. of the world. Infuse your thoughts with expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If you’re Italian, celebrate and SCORPIO amplify your Italianness.

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Most people throw away lemon rinds, walnut shells and pomegranate skins. But some resourceful TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: It’s closing time. You have finished types find uses for these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a deodorizer, cleaner and skin tonic, as well as a toiling in the shadow of an old sacred cow. You’ve climaxed zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut shells work your relationship with ill-fitting ideas that you borrowed well in facial scrubs and pet bedding. When made into a from mediocre and inappropriate teachers once upon a powder, pomegranate peels have a variety of applications time. And you can finally give up your quest for a supposed for skin care. I suggest you look for metaphorically similar Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first place. things, Scorpio. You’re typically inclined to dismiss the It’s time to move on to the next chapter of your life story, surfaces and discard the packaging and ignore the outer Taurus! You have been authorized to graduate from any layers, but I urge you to consider the possibility that right influence, attachment, and attraction that wouldn’t serve now they may have value. your greater good in the future. Does this mean you’ll soon be ready to embrace more freedom than you have in years?

SAGITTARIUS I’m betting on it.

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You’re growing too fast, but that’s fine as long as you don’t make people around you feel they’re GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: The heaviest butterfly on the planet moving too slowly. You know too much, but that won’t be a problem as long as you don’t act snooty. And you’re almost is the female Queen Victorian Birdwing. It tips the scales too attractive for your own good, but that won’t hurt you at two grams. The female Queen Alexandra Birdwing is as long as you overflow with spontaneous generosity. What the butterfly with the longest wingspan: over 12 inches.

I’m trying to convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are These two creatures remind me of you these days. Like likely to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile than them, you’re freakishly beautiful. You’re a marvelous and confusing. And that should provide you with plenty of slack somewhat vertiginous spectacle. The tasks you’re workwhen dealing with cautious folks who are a bit rattled by ing on are graceful and elegant, yet also big and weighty. your lust for life.

Because of your intensity, you may not look flight-worthy, but you’re actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your sorties CAPRICORN are dazzling and influential. Though your acrobatic zigzags DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Until recently, scientists believed the seem improbable, they’re effective. number of trees on the planet was about 400 billion. But research published in the journal Nature says that’s wrong.

CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: Picasso had mixed feelings about his There are actually three trillion trees on earth — almost eight times more than was previously thought. In a similar fellow painter Marc Chagall, who was born under the sign way, I suspect you have also underestimated certain resourcof Cancer. “I’m not crazy about his roosters and donkeys es that are personally available to you, Capricorn. Now is and flying violinists, and all the folklore,” Picasso said, a good time to correct your undervaluation. Summon the referring to the subject matter of Chagall’s compositions. audacity to recognize the potential abundance you have at But he also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters your disposal. Then make plans to tap into it with a greater “who understands what color really is,” adding, “There’s sense of purpose. never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, AQUARIUS you will be the recipient of mixed messages like these.

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The poet John Keats identified a Praise and disapproval may come your way. Recognition quality he called “negative capability.” He defined it as and neglect. Kudos and apathy. Please don’t dwell on the the power to calmly accept “uncertainties, mysteries, and criticism and downplay the applause. In fact, do the reverse! doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

I would extend the meaning to include three other things LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is the not to be irritably reached for: artificial clarity, premature resolution and simplistic answers. Now is an excellent time title of an old gospel song, and now it’s the metaphorical to learn more about this fine art, Aquarius. theme of your horoscope. I advise you to climb a tall peak — even if it’s just a magic mountain in your imagination PISCES — and deliver the spicy monologue that has been mariFEB. 19-MARCH 20: Are you ready for a riddle that’s nating within you. It would be great if you could gather a more enjoyable than the kind you’re used to? I’m not sure sympathetic audience for your revelations, but that’s not if you are. You may be too jaded to embrace this unusual mandatory to achieve the necessary catharsis. You simply gift. You could assume it’s another one of the crazyneed to be gazing at the big picture as you declare your making cosmic jokes that have sometimes tormented big, ripe truths. you in the past. But I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope you’ll welcome the riddle in the liberating spirit in which VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: If you were a snake, it would be a it’s offered. If you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as it teases you in ways you didn’t know you wanted to be fine time to molt your skin. If you were a river, it would be teased. You’ll feel a delightful itch or a soothing burn in a perfect moment to overflow your banks in a spring flood. your secret self, like a funny-bone feeling that titillates If you were an office worker, it would be an excellent phase your immortal soul. P.S.: To take full advantage of the to trade in your claustrophobic cubicle for a spacious new blessed riddle, you may have to expand your understandniche. In other words, Virgo, you’re primed to outgrow at ing of what’s good for you. least one of your containers. The boundaries you knew you would have to transgress some day are finally ready to be transgressed. Even now, your attention span is expanding

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Dear Dan: My BF and I have been dating for two years. He’s 21; I’m 20 (and female). When I noticed my boyfriend wanted his ass played with and liked being submissive, I couldn’t help but wonder if something more was going on. I snooped through his browser history (not my proudest moment) and found he was looking at pictures of naked men. Then I saw he posted an ad on Craigslist under “men seeking men.” He responded to one person, saying he wasn’t sure if he was straight or bi, but he had a car and could drive over! The guy responded saying how about tonight, and my BF never responded to him. I confronted him. He explained it was just a fantasy he had, he’s totally straight, and he was never planning on going through with it.

After the dust settled, he told me he never wanted to lose me. We then went to a sex shop and bought a strap-on dildo for me to use on him, which we both really enjoy. He bought me a diamond bracelet as an apology and promised never to fuck up again. A couple months have passed, and things are great, but I still feel bothered. He loves my tits, ass and pussy. He eats me out and initiates sex as often as I do. Just cuddling with me gets him hard. Which is why I’m even more perplexed. He doesn’t like to talk about the Craigslist incident and gets upset when I bring it up. Should I leave it alone?

Is my boyfriend secretly gay?

— Confused And Curious

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Dear CAC: Let’s review the facts: Your boyfriend digs your tits, cuddling you makes him hard, and he loves eating your pussy. You also discovered an ad your boyfriend posted to Craigslist where he said he wasn’t sure if he was bi or straight, a discovery that created a crisis in your relationship, a crisis that was resolved with a strap-on dildo and a diamond bracelet.

Your boyfriend isn’t “secretly gay,” CAC, he’s “actually bisexual.” You know, like he said he was — or said he might be (but totally is) — in that e-mail exchange you found.

At this point, I’m required to tell you that bisexuals are just as capable of honoring monogamous commitments as monosexuals, i.e., gays, lesbians, and breeders. But since the data shows that monosexuals are bad at monogamy — the data says bisexuals are too — I’m not sure why I’m required to say that or how it’s supposed to be comforting. But even if your boyfriend never has sex with a man, CAC, even if it takes him years to drop the “totally straight” line,

you should go ahead and accept the fact that your boyfriend is bisexual. Pretend to be shocked when he finally comes out to you — there might be a necklace in it for you — and then get busy setting up your first MMF threesome.

Dear Dan: My girlfriend and I have been together for about 18 months. We’re both 29 and are in the process of creating a future together: We live together, we have a great social life, we adopted a dog. We’re compatible, and I do love her. However, our sex life could be a whole lot better. I like sex to be kinky, and she likes it vanilla. She is adamant about monogamy, while I want to be monogamish. I feel strongly that this is who I am sexually and my sexual desires are not something I can change.

My girlfriend thinks I’m searching for something I’ll never find and says I need to work through it. Because we are so compatible in every other aspect of our relationship, should I keep trying to work past the unsatisfying sex?

— Needs Advice, Want Threesomes Dear NAWT: Divorce courts are

filled to bursting with couples who made the same mistake you and your girlfriend are currently making — a mistake that gets harder to unmake with every dog you adopt or lease you sign.

You’re not sexually compatible, NAWT — and sexual incompatibility is a perfectly legitimate reason to end an otherwise good relationship. The importance of sexual compatibility in sexually exclusive relationships (the kind your girlfriend wants) cannot be stressed enough.

Sexual compatibility is important in open and/or monogamish relationships too, of course, but there are workarounds in an open relationship.

The gaslight bar is set so low these days that I’m going to go ahead and accuse your girlfriend of gaslighting you: There are people out there who have the kind of relationship you would like to have — it’s a lie that no one has a GGG partner or a successful monogamish relationship — and I have it on good authority that many of these people are straight. You’ll never find everything you want, NAWT, since no one gets everything they want. But you’re too young to settle for the girlfriend you’ve got.

You’ve already made the dog mistake. Get out before you make the child mistake.

Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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n March 25, some Twitter users found democracy, existing as a protection against precisely that many marijuana-related search terms such exercises of authority. And, in modern democrawere being blocked by the platform’s cy, which is afforded an unprecedented freedom of search engine. In addition to marijuana, information and speech by way of the internet, the users found that sex-related terms, like oppression of anything by anyone not only seems out“porn” and “balls,” as well as other drug terms, like dated, but an outright threat to the freedom of choice “LSD,” were also blocked. and speech in the 21st century.

Activist and marijuana journalist Tom Angell Every year, in honor of National Library Week quickly responded with a petition on (April 9 to 15), the American Library Wkimedia Commons/Ralf change.org asking Twitter to “stop censor- Roletschek Association (ALA) releases its State of ing searches for ‘marijuana’ tweets.” By America’s Libraries Report that includes Tuesday morning, searches for marijuana a list of the top 10 most challenged were re-enabled. Except for an announcebooks — a “challenge” being an attempt ment earlier in the month stating they to remove or restrict materials from a would be testing out new “sensitive conlibrary or curriculum, based upon the tent filters,” Twitter has been quiet about objections of a person or group. the 72-hour occurrence.

The ALA, an otherwise apolitical People who sell medical and recreorganization, is unabashed when it comes to its staunch anti-censorship ational cannabis in states where it’s legal stance, saying in a recently released have become accustomed to seeing their video that “each request to remove a social media pages go dark unexpectedly. book eliminates the voices of storySelling or using cannabis for any reason is tellers and dismisses the needs of still federally illegal and companies like readers who find themselves in those Facebook, Google, Instagram and Apple pages. Most threats are unsuccessful, remain cautious of being held liable for thanks to the teachers, librarians, cannabis content users post or promote. authors and even kids who rise up The conundrum of how best to naviagainst censorship in libraries, and gate the controversial issue is not relegated their words have power. These resilto the online world. For example, in 2013 Colorado passed a law restricting the visiient readers know that banned books bility of weed-themed magazines, but it benefit our worldview, our empathy was quickly overturned in a rule by state and our democracy.” marijuana regulators, which was subsequently upheld It is important to note that while censorship by by a federal judge. Why? Because it is unconstitutional the government is unconstitutional, censorship by for the government to engage in censorship. individuals or groups of private citizens is a protected The word censor came about in the 1530s. There act of free speech, thus the right of someone to “chalwere two appointed “censors,” Roman magistrates lenge” a book. But there is a big difference between who oversaw public morals through a suppression of the application of that protection to a private individany words, images and ideas deemed offensive. ual and to a private entity, especially the likes of Roughly, 487 years later, free speech is a tenet of Twitter, Google or Facebook. The arguments of social

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media as public utility have their practical limits, but in that they offer an increasingly essential vehicle for free speech, they ought to at least adhere to constitutional protections against censorship.

Interestingly, the increasing threat of fake news seems to be pointing our progress in the opposite direction as these companies begin to introduce ways to integrate “fact checking” into internet services. I admit it’s tempting to put the onus of verification on the internet itself, so that the reader need not be bothered with critical thought or investigation. But isn’t there an inherent danger in outsourcing truth to “higher authorities?”

Propaganda — the OG fake news — originated in 18th century Italy with the institution of the congregatio de propaganda fide, a committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work i.e., the repression of free speech in a coordinated effort of church and state. From their perspective, truth as verified by an authority prevented the liberal exchange of ideas that threatened the cohesiveness of its congregation. Back then, verified truth and censorship were tools of oppression. Is it any different now?

In his 2012 article “On Censorship” for the New Yorker, Salman Rushdie writes, “When censorship intrudes on art, it becomes the subject; the art becomes ‘censored art,’ and that is how the world sees and understands it … The assumption of guilt replaces the assumption of innocence.”

So when, even if just for a moment, Twitter disallows its users from using certain words, it infuses them with moral judgement. It is not just an act of censorship, but also of moralistic prohibition — an imposition on freedom by way of authoritarian decree.

I think here is where we take a note from our friendly neighborhood librarians and not only refuse to be censored, but to celebrate that refusal by invoking our right to speak freely, and continuing to insist on the democratic ideal that it is precisely those freedoms that can guide us toward truth.

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hat country has the highest per-capita number of marijuana users?

According to a recent story in U.S. News & World Report, that honor belongs to Israel, sometimes called start-up nation for the large number of new enterprises it generates.

The magazine says 27 percent of Israelis ages 18-65 have used marijuana in the last year. Israel’s Susan France population is roughly 8.5 million, which means approximately 2.3 million Israelis smoked pot last year.

No other country is even close.

Second place goes to Iceland, with 18 percent inhaling in the past year, and third place goes to the U.S., with 16 percent.

Nigeria is in fourth place with 14.3 percent and Canada, which is on track to legalize recreational pot nationwide sometime in the next year, is in fifth with 12.7 percent.

(U.S. News apparently got its information from the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the country’s largest.)

The main thrust of the U.S. News piece was a discussion of how Israel became the world’s leader in marijuana research while touching on the country’s approach to legalization, which seems to be everything short of full legalization.

Israel has legalized medical marijuana. There are currently about 25,000 people in the country with medical marijuana licenses and the number is expect-

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Last month, the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal to decriminalize public consumption of cannabis.

The proposal still has to be approved by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, but that is highly likely given the cabinet’s approval. Under the plan, people caught smoking pot in public a first time would face a fine of approximately $270, but not criminal charges. Fines would rise with subsequent offenses, but criminal charges would kick in only with a fourth offense.

Growing and selling for recreational use would remain illegal.

According to a recent piece in the New York Times, unofficial policy has amounted to de facto decriminalization in recent years. There were fewer than 200 arrests in 2015.

When it comes to marijuana research, Israel is also the world’s leader, and Israeli chemist 86-year-old Raphael Mechoulam is the high priest. In 1964 he discovered tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and he later co-discovered the endocannabinoid system in the human body, the body’s largest receptor system. He also found that the brain produces its own cannabinoids; he named the first one Anandamide, from the Sanskrit word for bliss or joy.

According to Michael Dor, senior medical adviser at the Israel Ministry of Health’s medical marijuana unit, there are currently more than 110 clinical trials involving marijuana underway in Israel, more than

any other country.

The Israeli company Breath of Life is about to open a one-million-square-foot grow-house and research center. The facility will be among the largest medical marijuana grows and research centers in the world.

Last week, Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced the creation of The Multidisciplinary Centre on Cannabinoid Research, which will bring together 27 cannabis researchers at the university specializing in agriculture, chemistry, drug delivery, pharmacology and chemical development, including Mechoulam, of course. It will also draw on other university specialists in nanotechnology and brain science.

Given the foregoing, how is it then that Israel didn’t move to full legalization long ago?

Israel has a multi-party system, and all Israeli governments have been multi-party coalitions. Most have had religious parties in their coalitions, and some of those probably would have objected. No prime minister would risk bringing down his or her government over marijuana, especially if the 27 percent of the population who are stoners doesn’t vote on the issue.

Also, international tourism plays a big role in Israel’s economy, and much of it is religiously motivated. A lot of pilgrims may find pot dispensaries in the Holy Land off-putting.

Given what is delicately called “the security situation” — the fact that Israel has had to deal with the unrelenting prospect of surprise attack since its founding — a lot of Israelis may harbor more anxieties about the security implications of legal pot than, say, citizens of countries with more strategic depth and fewer hostile neighbors.

Still, Israel tends to follow the U.S.’s lead on social and cultural issues. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if it legalizes sometime in the next two or three years, especially if more states with substantial Jewish populations do so.

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FINALLY, THE MYSTERY OF SHOELACES IS SOLVED The list of grievances that any human on this planet must face on a day-to-day basis is disheartening: poverty, war, inequality, disease, environmental decay, shoe laces coming untied. I mean, how horrible is that feeling of walking around, living your best life, and then with one glance down you see that epic bunny ears knot you tied this morning has come undone. It’s chaos, utter chaos.

But thankfully, mechanical engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have decided to take on that most pressing issue — the failure of the shoelace knot — and study it ad nauseam. (Who

WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN REALLY FRIENDLY SKIES About 48 hours after United Airlines “re-accommodated” a paying passenger on one of its flights to make room for some of its employees, one thing is clear: The company most definitely could have saved money and reputation and had no trouble getting passengers to give up their seat had it been a little more creative.

Think about it. United’s re-effingaccommodating of the poor guy who got his head slammed while being dragged from his seat has cost the company nearly $300 million in stock value.

We won’t even count the millions in chump change that United will be paying out in attorney’s fees and an eventual settlement. Just imagine if the company, knowing what it knows now, could go back in time and reoffer incentives to get passengers to voluntarily give up their seats. Remember, anything less than $300 million is a good deal.

How about this offer: For the first four people who give up your seats, we’ll buy you a private island, a $5 million dollar yacht to commute from the closest airport and give you free flights back and forth to your island for life.

Figuring takers would die within 60 years and searching the web for “private island’s for sale,” United would have saved itself 262.5 million with that offer. Or how about this: The first four off the plane get U2 to play live at their birthday party anywhere in the world and you can bring along 1,000 friends all expenses paid for a week. That would have saved $290 million. Or how about this one: Get off the damn plain and we’ll buy each of you your own private jet, fly you to your destination and let you sell the jet and keep the money.

Again, hundreds of millions in savings and way more fun than dragging some poor guy down the isle of a plane. Oh, how friendly the skies could have been with the power of hindsight.

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Obviously, hours of scientific science stuff went into studying this phenomenon. And as journalists, sometimes it’s hard to convey these science-y findings because of all the jargon, math, charts, tests tubes and Pythagorean theorems involved in these reports. But we’ve slaved over just the right way to explain these findings to you, our loyal readers. Listen carefully:

Shoelaces come undone because when you walk the knot becomes loose, therefore untying the laces. Woah. Are you still with us? Or did we lose you around the knot becoming loose because of walking?

Now there’s no word of what innovation this groundbreaking scientific discovery will lead to.

We’re sure someone has poured millions into further follow up experiments to forever end the untying of shoelaces.

Here at Boulder Weekly, we’d like to toss in our solutions: padlocks, silly putty, super glue, pipe cleaners, duct tape, double knots, rubber bands, rope, zip ties, or just wear sandals. The choice is up to you.

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