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Highroad Why Bernie will, should and must stay in the race

by Jim Hightower

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urprisingly, this week’s prize for Stupidest Political Comment in the presidential race doesn’t go to Donnie Trump or Ted Cruz.

Rather, that honor goes to the clueless cognoscenti of conventional political wisdom. They’ve made a unilateral decision that Bernie Sanders must now quit the race for the Democratic nomination.

Why? Because, they say: “He can’t win.”

Actually, he already has. Sanders’ vivid populist vision, unabashed idealism and big ideas for restoring America to its own people have (1) jerked the presidential debate out of the hands of status quo corporatists, (2) revitalized the class consciousness and relevance of the Democratic Party, (3) energized millions of young people to get involved and (4) proven that Democrats don’t have to sell out to big corporate donors to run for office.

Bernie has substantively, even profoundly, changed American politics for the better, which is why he’s gaining more and more support and keeps winning delegates. From the start, he said: “This campaign is not about me.” It’s a chance for voters who’ve been disregarded and discarded to forge a new political revolution that will continue to grow beyond this election and create a true people’s government.

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Order fear that, and they know that this year’s nomination is still very much up for grabs, so they’re stupidly trying to shove Sanders out before other states vote. But Bernie and the mass movement he’s fostering aren’t about to quit. They’ll organize in every primary still to come, be a major force at the Democratic convention and keep pushing their ideals and policies in the general election and beyond.

That’s what real politics should be — not merely a vacuous campaign to elect a personality, but a momentous democratic movement fighting for the common good.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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danish plan Forget Nablus and mediation — there’s a better choice for sister city

By Paul Danish

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bout 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of the two sides together to settle their differences through constructive dialogue leading to mutual understanding.

The effort bombed of course. All the participants (except maybe the clueless mediators) knew going in that the conflict over abortion was not the product of mutual misunderstanding but of mutual understanding of irreconcilable differences.

Each side knew exactly where the other side was coming from. They understood each other’s positions perfectly, found them mutually loathsome, rejected them categorically and left determined to carry on the fight, probably more convinced than ever of the moral righteousness of their respective causes, having seen the other side close up.

The abortion wars are not susceptible to mediation and conflict resolution, because they are based on foundational religious and political beliefs. Pro-life activists believe they are on a mission from God; pro-choice activists believe they are on a mission to defend natural rights and the Constitution.

As it was with abortion, so it is with Nablus.

Which is why I think the City Council’s decision to deal with the third outbreak of the Nablus sister city conflict by spending $10,000 on a mediator charged with getting the sides to resolve their differences is a similar fool’s errand that’s likely to end with a similar pratfall.

The Nablus sister city conflict is not going to be solved by a mediator any more than the underlying IsraeliPalestinian conflict is going to be solved by a mediator.

The pro- and anti-Nablus sides both understand that the sister cities issue is just a small skirmish in the broader dispute, but one that could have outsized consequences.

If Boulder enters into a sisterly relationship with Nablus, a city that demonstrably considers itself at war not just with Israel but with the Jewish 6 April 28, 2016

people, that marinates its children in anti-Semitism and the theology of Jihad, that celebrates suicide attacks on civilians and embraces the worst pathologies of militant Islam, it will mean Boulder is taking sides in the conflict, legitimizing the conduct of the Palestinians, delegitimizing Israel and setting an example for other cities to follow.

It’s inconceivable that both the sister city advocates and opponents don’t know this, and I find it very hard to believe that the City Council doesn’t as well.

Establishing a sister city relationship with Nablus at this time would be like establishing a sister city relationship with Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge ran the place.

That much the City Council does know, and thus the mediation charade — which is just a lame attempt to kick the can down the road in the hope that the problem will go away. It won’t. And if there’s the least bit of doubt that the putative mediation effort is a charade, consider this: The representatives of the two sides to the mediation will not be picked by the parties themselves, but by the city manager and a couple of council members. That strikes me as an attempt to rig the game to produce a “compromise” that the City Council might embrace, but which the parties will (correctly) consider a manipulated outcome.

The City Council should say no to Nablus. Now. And save the City a few dollars and a lot of brain damage.

But if Boulder has its heart set on establishing a sister city relationship with a city whose ideas and values differ from its own in a lot of areas, how about establishing a relationship with a city that Boulderites could visit without having to fear for their lives — especially if they happened to be Jewish.

Or one where casually dressed Boulder female tourists can walk the streets unescorted without fear of being raped by the local home boys waving an exculpatory fatwa from their trash-talking mullah.

Or one where blowing yourself up see DANISH PLAN Page 7

guest column Listening through a prism

by Ken Toltz

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eaders of Haley Gray’s April 14, 2016 “Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project heads back to council” might have been surprised when just four days later the matter was removed from Boulder City Council’s April 19th agenda. Gray reported that although 2013 opposition to the proposal caused the Boulder City Council hearing to “drag on for more than five hours” — “this time around might be different.” Still, in removing it from the agenda, City Council passed a resolution for a “facilitated discussion” with a budget of $10,000.

Boulder City Council members might also have believed that the “hundreds of hours” the Boulder Nablus Sister City Project (BNSCP) cited in its new application devoted to opponent outreach and engagement, had indeed tempered if not completely dissipated the opposition. Indeed Boulder’s City Council Subcommittee on Sister Cities (councilmembers Lisa Morzel, Mary Young and Jan Burton) had endorsed moving the application to a full Council vote, which in municipal government practice is essentially a recommendation to pass the application as it met established criteria.

Media coverage seemed to portray BNSCP Board Chair Essrea Cherin and City Council members caught by complete surprise despite the 2013 track record and a late surge of opponent emails, phone calls, requests for meetings and letters to the editor. From my perspective though, everyone’s surprise and reaction, jerking the matter off Council’s agenda at the 11th hour

illustrates a phenomenon I label, “listening through a prism.”

Just as light entering a prism becomes refracted and distorted, words uttered by opponents of Boulder-Nablus Sister City are heard on the basis of the listener’s prism of experience and beliefs.

Board chair Cherin said recently that her main motivation in promoting Nablus, “is primarily because of my own journey, in terms of having spent time in Palestine and recognizing that the people of Palestine are portrayed quite the opposite of how they are in real life, in mainstream media ... the people of the United States need to have opportunities to get to know Palestinians.”

Yet, Cherin claimed she was really “taken aback” that opponents “did not shift their views very much” when the application was reintroduced this year.

Opponents still believe that BNSCP has political motives.

At Boulder City Council’s Sister City Subcommittee meeting on Feb. 12, 2016, she was closely questioned about her expectations of opposition to the most recent proposal. She persuaded the subcommittee that other than a few “conservative Jews” most of the 2013 opponents were now on board. In fact, the three councilmembers and BNSCP engaged in an extensive discussion on “getting Rabbis” to write letters testifying in favor of passing the application.

Councilmembers Morzel, Young and Burton also seemed to be listening through a prism at the Feb. 12 subcommittee meeting. Just prior to calling the BNSCP representatives into the room, see GUEST COLUMN Page 7

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among civilians is considered a crime against humanity and an offense before the almighty instead of a martyr’s ticket to paradise.

Or one where the main university does not have a student government run by religious crazies engaged in recruiting human bomb and jihadi wannabes from among their classmates.

Or one that you can visit without

having to obtain a passport and fly halfway around the world.

Or one where even if the locals think Boulderites are infidels, heretics and unbelievers, they aren’t going to cut your throat for expressing some real, imagined, or theoretical blasphemy in their presence.

Or one that, like Nablus, is full of people who have a studied contempt for

Boulder values, but who, unlike the residents of Nablus, have sworn to fight to the death to defend Boulderites’ right to hold them — and who in many cases have done so.

Happily there is such a city, and establishing a sister city relationship with it would probably do more to create meaningful people-to-people friendship and mutual understanding

among believers and non-believers than sister city relationships with a dozen Nabluses could ever hope to do.

Of course, chances are members of Boulder’s sister city committee would recoil in horror at the mere mention of its name: Colorado Springs.

This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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and after reviewing the new application with City staff, each councilmember declared their support for moving the application forward.

Despite Cherin’s assurances, 10 local Boulder-area rabbis co-signed an April email to Council expressing unanimous opposition. They opposed the establishment of Nablus as Boulder’s Sister City, “on grounds that there have not been real and meaningful attempts to reach out and develop partnerships with leaders of Boulder’s Jewish community.”

Cherin in subcommittee testimony had cited by name, a local rabbi (one of the 10 who subsequently co-signed the email) as a supporter who might indeed testify in person if City Council held another public hearing. A case of listening through the prism?

An even more egregious example of this phenomenon is the description councilmembers Morzel and Young used in describing the tone/content of opposition communications and public comments.

Opponents have presented several very detailed points of contention and concern with the request to formalize BNSCP’s current people-to-people programs in Nablus. They and I for example, have identified a concern that terrorist acts committed by Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians have been acclaimed at a Nablus university and in Nablus public squares.

Disturbingly however, opponents were referred to resorting to “hate speech” and “racism” by Morzel and Young.

My experience with this issue and my own outreach efforts tell me though, what concerned citizens of Boulder now need are opportunities to listen to each other while recognizing we all possess that prism of experience and personal beliefs.

Continuing to force this proposal through in this divisive atmosphere is a terrible basis to begin a new Sister City relationship. And despite the good will of Boulder City Council, this shouldn’t require city funding to facilitate. We should be able to set an example of respectful listening which recognizes our common humanity as we move forward.

Ken Toltz lives in Boulder, studied and lived in Israel via the CU-Boulder International Education program.

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It is unfortunate that Boulder Weekly, once again, wrote a story about proposed anti-energy ballot initiatives without even trying to get the other side’s perspective [Re: “Signature Time,” April 21].

If it had, readers would’ve learned that Tricia Olson’s claim that these measures would not mean a “ban on fracking in Colorado” was disingenuous.

In February, Ms. Olson told antifracking supporters on a conference call that when it came to a measure allowing local governments to pass regulations, this would permit a “full-fledged ban on fracking (tinyurl.com/gqox8or).

That is her group’s intent, and that is in fact what these measures would do.

Under the 2,500-foot setback proposal, for instance, at least 87 percent of all new oil and natural gas development would be eliminated in Weld County alone. This would wipe out an industry that has a $32 billion annual economic impact in the state, supports more than 100,000 jobs and contributes $1.2 billion in public revenue, including hundreds of millions of dollars to schools.

These measures also permit local government to take land from Colorado citizens, putting private property rights in jeopardy and potentially costing taxpayers billions of dollars in compensation lawsuits.

Colorado has had 10 rulemakings since 2010, which has resulted in the toughest oil and natural gas regulations in the country. The governor’s oil and gas task force, through an 18-month, bipartisan, collaborative process, made nine recommendations for rule changes, seven of which passed unanimously.

The COGCC recently adopted regulations that went even further than the task force’s recommendations.

These new rules should have a chance to work before we use ballot initiatives to change the state constitution.

Karen Crummy/ Director of Communications Protecting Colorado’s Environment, Economy, and Energy Independence Editor’s note: As a rule we don’t like to respond to letters to the editor as it is your voice and your opinion and we don’t mind if you disagree or even don’t like us. But in this instance I would like to point out that many of the things that are being thrown out here as facts that Boulder Weekly didn’t bother to collect and report have

been collected and reported on by this newspaper in the last 90 or so articles we have written in the past five years about oil and gas extraction. First, the article in question states clearly that the local control initiative would allow communities to prohibit, limit or impose moratoriums on oil and gas development. As the article also clearly stated, Olson was insistent that neither initiative would mean a ban on drilling in Colorado. This is also true.

A community could choose to ban drilling or allow it within its city limits but neither initiative would allow anyone to ban drilling for the state.

And for the record: We are well aware of our state’s claims about its oil and gas regulations being the toughest, and we have explained why they are woefully inadequate and who paid to have them remain that way. We are aware of the industry’s claims about its economic importance to the state and the “permanent” jobs it claims to create, and we have researched and explained how exaggerated they are.

We are aware of how the studies of setback impacts to the industry were created by CU’s Leeds School of Business, and we just won a significant journalism award for our investigation into the process, which showed it is quite deceptive on several levels and is largely an industry spin. And finally, we are well aware of the Governor’s task force, who was on it, why they were chosen, and what it actually accomplished which, even according to the non-industry members of the task force you praise, was little to nothing. We are aware because we have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours investigating and reporting on these issues.

We suggest you go back and read the information we have provided to the public on the issues you are writing about and the claims you are making. If you find any errors in this body of work, please let us know promptly so we can correct them. So far, no one has found any and it isn’t for the industry’s lack of effort. And as for including the other side, don’t blame us, it seems everyone from the COGCC to the Governor to the oil and gas industry has decided they don’t like the hard questions we ask so they’ve stopped picking up the phone. We didn’t stop calling.

—Joel Dyer, Editor

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letters by assuring that no one gets sick or dies as a result of lack of access to quality health care. Mr. Smith did not offer a website where readers can learn how they can learn more about Colorado Care and ways of being supportive, including sharing the website with their friends. The website is: www.

ColoradoCare.org Barry Karlin/Lafayette

A tune for Nablus

I have one thing to communicate in support of Nablus as our new sister city.

It is a song I heard years ago at a presentation by Barbara Petzen, who was speaking about her experiences connecting Israeli and Palestinian youth up on campus at the Center for Asian Studies.

No words could better describe!

Warning. It is as infectious as Zika and you won’t be able to get it out of your mind for a long time! Bukra fil mish mish. See the music video on YouTube.

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www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/ vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2921.html) A truly bold plan would ensure that we citizens of Colorado are not left with the injury of an overheated planet and the insult of having to pay for Xcel’s stranded coal plants that helped put us there.

Phil Wardwell/Erie Clarification: In our article “Signature time,” April 21, the third paragraph contained this sentence:

“Although CREED considered an initiative with a 4,000-foot setback, the 2,500 feet is based on health studies done within the state of Colorado, which found that people begin experiencing significant health impacts when oil and gas facilities are located within a half of a mile of an occupied structure.” This statement was based on information provided by Tricia Olson during our interview. After further review, as a matter of clarification the paragraph has been changed online to read: “Although

CREED considered an initiative with a 4,000-foot setback, the 2,500 feet, according to Tricia Olson, executive director of CREED, is based on health studies done within the state of Colorado, which found that there were enough toxins at that distance to potentially have health impacts. And although other studies show impacts can be felt at much greater distances, “We selected 2,500 feet because we thought that would protect most Coloradans,” Olson says.”

Xcel’s Plan: Not That Bold

Recently, Xcel customers received a glossy postcard touting Xcel’s “Bold Energy Plan for Colorado.”

Unfortunately, it did not explain how Xcel plans to keep its coal plants running now that all three of its major coal suppliers are bankrupt.

It did not indicate any plan for reducing Xcel’s 55 percent dependence on coal for generating electricity in Colorado. Xcel unwisely counted on burning coal for many years in one plant until 2069.

It did mention a “Solar Connect” program that would allow customers to buy solar electricity from Xcel. I believe sources of renewable energy production should not be owned or controlled by Xcel. Xcel will always be motivated to favor the sources it owns, and to choke off competition. Economists call this a “perverse incentive” — an incentive to do something not in the public interest.

In a conflict between Xcel’s ratepayers and Xcel’s stockholders, Xcel will always prefer its stockholders.

Xcel’s massive new filings at the Public Utilities Commission are complex, but may be designed to lock-in profits for Xcel while locking-out independent solar installers, or even rolling back rooftop solar benefits for all of us, as recently happened in Nevada. (lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jan/12/ nv-energy-puc-price-solar-energybeyond-residents/.

My main concern, though, is Xcel’s lack of a truly “bold plan.” A genuinely bold plan would give us a glide path to nearly 100 percent renewable energy, with a timeline. Studies show that this is possible (thesolutionsproject.org and Boulder Weekly

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n 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that the energy demands of all technological civilizations would eventually exceed the natural resources of their home planet. Continued development would require that they build enormous structures in space to capture more of the energy released by their sun, a concept now known as a Dyson sphere. Such structures might be found if they temporarily blocked some starlight, or if they glowed with excess heat.

Combing through observations from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at Yale University recently found a mysterious signal they can’t yet explain, and the internet is buzzing with the idea that it might be an alien megastructure.

For the past several years, Tabetha Boyajian has helped organize the efforts of astronomy enthusiasts through Yale’s Planet Hunters project.

Whatever blocked the starlight was too big and The idea was to enlist thousands of eyeballs to look too irregular to be a planet. Jupiter would only cover 1 for interesting signals from the 150,000 stars that the percent of the sun’s light, and it would create the same Kepler telescope was searching for planets. The Kepler dip at regular intervals for each orbit. Boyajian and team used computer algorithms to sift through all of her team recently published a scientific paper outlinthe observations, so Planet Hunters was a hedge ing the evidence for and against the many possible against the possibility that the computers might miss explanations. Their best guess is that it may have been something interesting. The algorithms were great at a swarm of comets, but they still can’t rule out an alien finding the expected signals, but megastructure. To unravel this they were no match for the mystery they need more observahuman brain when it came to tions, but Kepler stopped monifinding the unexpected. toring the star in 2013.

Kepler measured the bright“The fact that the star is varyBLOCKED THE STARLIGHT ness of each target star every half ing in brightness unpredictably WAS TOO BIG AND TOO hour for four years. A few percent suggests that you’d really like to of the targets showed the expectwatch it as continuously as you IRREGULAR TO BE A ed signal, small dips in light that can,” says Tim Brown, principal PLANET. ... THEIR BEST appeared when a planet passed in scientist for the Las Cumbres front of the star for several hours Observatory Global Telescope GUESS IS THAT IT MAY during each orbit. The rest of the (LCOGT) network. Brown HAVE BEEN A SWARM OF targets showed myriad ways that moved to Boulder in 1972 for stars can change their brightness graduate studies in astrophysics at COMETS, BUT THEY STILL the University of Colorado. He over time, from explosions and CAN’T RULE OUT AN ALIEN spent most of his career working flares to spots and pulsations. But at NCAR, until a unique opporone star defied categorization: MEGASTRUCTURE.” tunity arose in 2006. An old KIC 8462852, also known as friend had recently retired from a Tabby’s star. For most of the four highly successful career working years its brightness stayed remarkfor several technology companies, ably constant, until halfway through the mission when 15 percent of the light disapand he dreamed of building a robotic observatory with peared for nearly a week. Just before the end of the telescopes all around the planet. Brown spent the next mission it happened again, with several large dips seven years turning that dream into a reality. spread over a few months.

LCOGT now has 18 robotic telescopes on six

continents, and operates them as a single scientific instrument. “If you have something that changes with time, then we’re interested,” Brown says.

Traditional observatories are ill-equipped to study timevariable phenomena. Brown suggests an analogy with a dentist’s office: You set up an appointment six months in advance, show up on the specified day and get the work done. But LCOGT is more like a fast food restaurant: You show up whenever you like, order what you want, and get it almost immediately.

Although it was originally conceived as a private facility, LCOGT now sells some of its telescope time to other astronomers who need its unique capabilities. Users simply specify what observations they want and when they should be executed. The request is submitted to an automated queue system, and a notification is sent by email when the observations are completed.

With observatories all around the globe, there are always telescopes under dark skies. As long as it isn’t cloudy, observations are happening 24/7.

If you need to measure the brightness of a star once a day for a few years, LCOGT is pretty much the only facility that can do it.

Which brings us back to Tabby’s star. Boyajian and her team are launching a Kickstarter campaign in early May. Their goal is to raise funds for telescope time on LCOGT. The idea is to keep an eye on the brightness of KIC 8462852, searching for additional dips that may identify the source of the mysterious signal found by the Kepler telescope.

“Almost everybody is interested in what’s going on in the sky at an instinctive level,” Brown says. “If you can find a way to harness that natural interest and gather a few pennies from everybody who owns an iPhone, it would make a huge difference in the funding picture for astronomy.”

Planet Hunters crowd-sourced the discovery of the most mysterious star in the galaxy, and now Boyajian will crowd-fund new observations with LCOGT to find out whether it is surrounded by a swarm of comets or an alien megastructure. Even Freeman Dyson would be impressed by the convergence of technologies that made all of this possible.

Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder, Colorado. His nonprofit organization accepts contributions to support future Lab Notes columns at labnotes.whitedwarf.org

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First place awards went to Boulder Weekly editorial staffers Joel Dyer, Caitlin Rockett, Matt Cortina, Angela K. Evans and Amanda Moutinho in the special section category for Behind the Curtain, Sept. 7 “Our countywide endorsements and analysis covering all ballot questions and candidates” preceding the November 3 election.

Joel Dyer also won first place for his personal column “DyerTimes” and took another first for political enterprise reporting for “Behind the Curtain,” an in-depth investigation that linked questionable practices at the University of Not one more, Dec. 10 Colorado’s Leeds School of Business to the money and influence trail of the oil and gas industry and the state’s largest campaign contributors.

Matt Cortina and Angela K. Evans won for general reporting/series or package for “The Dark Side of Immigration,” their series that humanized the complicated issue of immigration through the voices of people in Colorado. “A Misdirection, Oct. 22 cry for help” profiled a family of six, wherein the father and husband was arrested and detained at gunpoint even though immigration officials were looking for someone else. “Someone like me” profiled an immigration activist who is working tirelessly to help those in danger of deportation, even though she herself currently faces the same fate. “Home again” profiled a Latino man who had spent the better part of a year living in a church basement after claiming sanctuary. And “Not one more” profiled Muslim immigrant detainees on Boulder County ’s Tr ue Independent Voice / FREE / www.boulder weekly.com / December 10 - 16, 2015

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Matt Cortina also took first place in business general reporting for “Wine county” about Boulder County wineries and their award-winning wines; in business enterprise reporting for “Ghost stories” chronicling the history of Rocky Flats Lounge following its fire; in education enterprise reporting for “Misdirection,” his investigation into the school reform movement’s takeover of the Thompson school board; and in legal general reporting for “Hoosier ruckus” about the uproar over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Act at a time when Colorado’s legislature was contemplating a similar law.

Caitlin Rockett was awarded first place in arts and entertainment criticism for her music coverage which included “Throw down your preconceived notions” about Jake Schepps and the banjo’s place in music, “Some things you just can’t ignore” about 30 years with the Indigo Girls and “The tribal music of our time” about the South American duo Lulacruza.

Angela K. Evans won in agriculture general reporting for “The possible effect of best management practices in agriculture” about a CSU study that could result in a net zero greenhouse gas emission rate from agriculture in the Great Plains.

Dave Kirby took first in sports enterprise reporting for “Petitioning the overseers,” his first-person account of rafting the San Juan river for more than 20 years. He also won first in the single-story in arts and entertainment category with “Souls remembered and forgotten” profiling musician Steve Wilson and the unlikely inspiration behind his album Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Mollie Putzig was awarded first in science general reporting for “Capturing carbon,” her story about a new treatment process for wastewater developed by researchers at the University of Colorado.

Second Place Mark Goodman took second in front page design for “Hightide,” BW’s Feb. 26 cover depicting heroin addiction.

Caitlin Rockett in business general reporting for “Veterans helping veterans sometimes” about the breakdown of the Longmont-based organization Veterans Helping Veterans Now. Cassie Moore in health enterprise reporting for “Quadriplegic patient afraid hospital will deport him to Mexico.”

Cecelia Gilboy in politics enterprise reporting for “With the passage of HB 1057, have democrats once again killed your right to vote on fracking, this time in 2016?”

Christi Turner in agriculture general reporting for “So-called organic marijuana.”

Matt Cortina in general reporting/series or package for “Selling points” about the plight of owners of manufactured homes in Boulder.

Elizabeth Miller in legal enterprise reporting for “Still lost in limbo” about Native-American Olympian Jim Thorpe and his family’s struggle to move his

remains. She also won in sports enterprise reporting for “Open doors, open eyes and change lives” about the “Rewilding” project.

Noel Phillips for agriculture enterprise reporting in “20 years behind Europe” about diverting waste from landfills through anaerobic digestion.

Third Place Matt Cortina won a third place award for news reporting/single story for “Hightide” about rising heroin use in Boulder County. He also won in legal general reporting for “On the right track” about oil-train regulations.

Angela K. Evans in agriculture general reporting for “Collaboration at its finest” about the FRESH: Art farm exhibit at the Hightide, Feb. 26 Firehouse Art Center in Longmont.

Caitlin Rockett in health general reporting for “Climbing for Carleen” about raising funds for the American Liver Foundation through mountain climbing. She also won in education general reporting for “Statewide survey sheds light on health experiences of LGB but not T high school students for the first Out of the shadows, time”; in news feature for March 12 “Out of the shadows” about LGBTQ seniors in Boulder County; and in politics enterprise reporting for “Insufficient data” about Boulder’s controversial right-sizing project.

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Katy Neusteter, Russell Mendell and Christian O’Rourke in environment enterprise reporting for their on the ground coverage of COP21 in the series “Dateline Paris.”

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Jim Eastman was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2000 and has since experienced kidney failure that leaves him relying on dialysis to survive.

JIM EASTMAN NEEDS a new kidney. But so do 1,941 other people in Colorado and Wyoming according to the Donor Alliance, a nonprofit organ and tissue procurement organization. That’s a lot of competition, which helps explain why a good number of the folks in need of a kidney transplant have been waiting for more than five years. It also helps to explain why Eastman and his wife Ruthie, who live in Niwot, decided to take their search for a new organ into their own hands.

Writing on the back windshield of a car isn’t that unusual. We see it all the time: “Seniors 2016,” “For Sale,” “Just Married,” “Wash Me.” But when we see “Husband Needs Kidney” plastered across the back window of a Subaru, it gets our attention. And that is exactly what Ruthie Eastman was counting on when she had those words and the couple’s phone number put on her car, where she intends to leave them until Jim’s new kidney is in place.

Eastman’s kidney has been deteriorating from an autoimmune disease called IgA nephropathy since 2000. Even back then, he showed his penchant for taking matters into his own hands rather than waiting for the “experts” to bail him out.

That year, Eastman decided to compare 15 years of personal test results he had received from his annual doctor’s visits. After close inspection, he noticed his creatinine levels had been steadily increasing. Creatinine is the castoff

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product of creatine phosphate, which is found in muscle tissue, but more importantly, it is a by-product that is handled by the kidneys. So when the levels are rising, it is a good indication that kidney function is decreasing.

Eastman brought the information and his concerns to his doctor, who in turn sent him to a nephroloEastman has spent 8 hours a day on kidney dialysis at home since August 2014. gist, aka a kidney doctor who performed a biopsy and determined that Eastman did indeed have the autoimmune disease. tricky business.

In August 2014, Eastman reached end-stage renal There are only two legal ways to get an organ disease, which is a technical way of saying his kidneys transplant in the United States. The first is to sign up failed. Ever since then, he’s been on dialysis and wait- on the aforementioned transplant list through the ing for a match on the transplant list along with a DMV and wait for a deceased donor who matches few thousand other people. your body’s criteria. But for people like Eastman, who Eastman is on peritoneal dialysis, which can be is 66, that pathway has gotten more difficult in recent administered at home through a machine in his bedyears. room. He has to be hooked up to it for eight hours As part of the Affordable Care Act, the national each night. During the day, the toxins in his body scoring method for donors and recipients changed in build up causing him nausea, achiness, weariness and November 2014. These changes mean that younger a host of other symptoms when he is active, causing people in need of organs are prioritized because their Eastman to feel like he has a hangover. Fortunately, bodies are more likely to accept a donated organ. So he has Medicare; otherwise it would be difficult to Eastman’s age pushes him even further back on the have paid for the $12,000 machine along with the list. But he isn’t complaining. annual bills of about $100,000 per year for his treat“It’s probably fair,” he says, “because what they’re ment. trying to do is have the absolute best outcomes with While he’s glad to have access to this lifesaving their limited resources.” treatment, it’s easy to see why he would prefer a Which brings us to the other way to obtain an transplant that would free him from the machine and organ legally; from a living donor who matches the his activity-induced hangover. But transplants are patient’s criteria and who willingly offers up their Boulder Weekly

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kidney. Organs received from such living donors tend to last about twice as long, and are about 50 percent less likely to be rejected. “And that’s why we have the sign on the back of the car,” Eastman says.

But he and Ruthie have done far more than just writing on their cars. They have launched an all out exposure campaign. An active social couple, the pair began to spread the word about their need for a healthy kidney. In October 2014, they launched a website, jimskidneycampaign.org.

It was only after these efforts that they decided to put their requests for help on the back windshields of Ruthie’s Subaru and his pickup.

Eleven individuals have come forth so far to offer their help to the Eastmans. Four of these were complete strangers who called Ruthie’s number from the back of her Subaru. Which raises the obvious question: Who are these people who would offer a kidney to a complete stranger after reading a message for help on the back of a car?

Longmont resident, Jamie Martinez, recently called Ruthie to offer her kidney after seeing the sign on the car. She had never met or heard of the Eastmans prior to her call. But she had her reasons.

Martinez’ father is living with kidney failure, but doesn’t want a new kidney. He’s functioning well on dialysis, and when Martinez offered him her kidney See NEED KIDNEY Page 16

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he told her he would rather stay on dialysis than undergo surgery.

Martinez’ aunt is also living with kidney disease, and Martinez tested to see if she was a match for her. But when Martinez offered, her aunt also declined her offer.

“To each their own,” Martinez says, “but I figured that I have a spare kidney.”

Donating a life-sustaining organ is not a light decision for anyone, and to do so for someone that you’ve never met is clearly a leap of faith beyond most people’s comprehension. But Martinez familiarized herself with the process and its risks when she was preparing to offer her kidney to her family members, and as a result, is determined in her decision to give away one of her kidneys.

Additionally, Martinez says that knowing she doesn’t want to have any more children helped her make the choice to donate to someone in need.

Pregnancy puts extra strain on the kidneys, and having both kidneys in full operation is important for expecting mothers.

Martinez was driving down Foothills Parkway a few weeks ago when she saw the sign on the back of the Ruthie’s car. It was that simple. She called the number and asked if she could help. Martinez is on a kidney donor registry, but would prefer to donate to someone in need locally. She says that as a single mother, the logistics of travelling somewhere across the nation and undergoing surgery creates a lot of complications.

“I guess that was the biggest push for me is, you know, this lady’s driving in my town and her husband needs a kidney. And I find out they’re from south Longmont — I wouldn’t have to go anywhere.”

Martinez is currently in contact with the Eastmans’ living donor coordinator to schedule an appointment for

screening. If she and Eastman are a match, he will receive one of her kidneys.

“It’s a life-affirming process,” Eastman says of the offers he’s received. “It’s very heart-warming, the caring that people have.”

But caring is no guarantee that Jim Eastman’s long wait is nearing its end.

Unfortunately, out of the eleven individuals who have called the number, seven have taken the in-depth screening process required to offer their kidney, but none have so far been a viable option. Yet, Eastman is undeterred.

“It’s humbling to have people care that much, when you have prided yourself on being self-sufficient all your life and all of the sudden you can’t be,” he says. Humbled by the offers, he now wants to give back.

Eastman believes that a sense of community among people with kidney disease is a critical part of a healthy recovery process.

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news “There’s a real need for support in that area,” he says. When he was contemplating dialysis before beginning the process, he wasn’t permitted to speak to any current dialysis patients because of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA regulations are designed to protect the confidentiality of patients in the health care system.

But these policies also isolated Eastman from speaking with anyone who had experienced dialysis firsthand.

“Because of the medical laws, none of my professionals that were treating me gave me the name of someone I can talk to,” Eastman says.

The isolation of this experience has motivated Eastman to volunteer to support other people who are experiencing feelings of seclusion in their medical treatment.

“Overarchingly, it’s found that peer support in general has been really beneficial in a number of chronic disease states,” says Kelli Collins, senior director of patient services for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). The foundation facilitates a mentorship program for individuals beginning kidney dialysis or who are considering donating a kidney.

Kidney disease symptoms often don’t present themselves until the disease has progressed to its end stages, at which point the owner of the kidneys is faced with dialysis for the rest of their life until they receive a transplant. This leaves prospective patients to face the sudden and life-changing decision to undergo dialysis, often with no one to talk to about it besides their health care professionals.

Mentors with the NKF are all individuals who are either living with kidney failure or who have experienced a transplant, and that first-hand experience can help them provide answers to questions that medical staff may not know how to respond to.

“The doctors and nurses can certainly tell you all the nuts and bolts, but the patients will tell you kind of the nitty gritty,” Collins says. “I think it’s really just been powerful for people to have a connection with somebody who has kind of walked in their shoes and can really understand what they’re facing.”

For now, Jim Eastman has no choice but to wait and hope for a new kidney — a life free of being attached to a machine eight hours out of every day and a cure for his endless kidneyinduced hangover. But having to wait doesn’t translate to not taking action.

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He’ll continue to look for that perfect donor match whether it’s online or via a message on the back of the family vehicles. And he’ll continue to reach out and try to bring comfort and knowledge to those who are going through the same difficulties he has faced and continues to face. And he will wait optimistically, because he now knows that his new kidney may be just a phone call from a stranger away.

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Ruthie Eastman at the number on the back of her car at 303-775-7151.

While the Eastmans would love to be the recipient of a kidney, not all organs are matches. If a donor does not match the medical criteria to donate their kidney to Jim Eastman, but still wants to donate an organ to someone in need, they can enter a federal paired exchange database through the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. This data-

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However, after hearing oral arguments from all parties in March, Judge Coffin denied the federal government and several fossil fuel companies’ request for case dismissal and upheld the youth’s constitutional right to bring the case. In doing so, the activists hope to gain stricter federal regulations of the oil and gas industry, specifically curbing carbon dioxide emissions.

“The fact that we’ve made it this far is crazy as it is. And finding ways to remind the world that we’re fighting for a just cause makes the industry terrified,” says Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a 15-year-old Boulder resident and a plaintiff in the case.

The youth argue this case is about their constitutional right to life, liberty and property, and they are fighting for a cleaner atmosphere for both themselves as well as future generations. While this case has been brought in a federal court in Eugene, the group has similar cases in other states as well.

RYSE youth council takes on pipelines and the federal government

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They claim the government has known about the dangerous release of carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuels, yet has failed to take precautions to curtail impacts while watching the emissions double over the past 50 years. In November, numerous oil and gas companies asked to join the lawsuit and be listed as defen-

Martinez is currently in the appeals process of a similar case in Colorado asking for a statewide moratorium on fracking until it can be proven not to adversely impact community health and wildlife, nor have other negative environmental impacts.

Martinez first became involved in activism nine years ago when he was 6, and spoke at a climate rally in Boulder. In 2012, he joined Our Children’s Trust, the organization which helped bring the federal case to court. In 2014, Martinez founded Rising Youth for Sustainable Environment (RYSE), a youth council, which is an offshoot of Earth Guardians, a Boulder-based climate-activism organization that has branches across the globe.

“We don’t really see young people getting involved and engaged in our political system,” Martinez says. “Having access to [Our Children’s Trust] that was supporting us and making the difference, taking action around that was really, really powerful.”

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“It’s the same movement. We’re fighting for the same thing,” Martinez

says. “I think after these youth leadership trainings, people are going to be able to use the lawsuit to really take their leadership and apply it to something else.”

Two council members, Iris Fen Gillingham and Aidan Ferris, are fighting the same war in the political battlefield at protests against proposed oil pipelines in their home state of New York.

“New York is facing an onslaught

of fossil fuel infrastructure at a time when we really need to be investing in renewables,” Gillingham says. “So as a young person, I feel it is my responsibility to prevent these pipelines and not allow my generation to be locked into a future dependent on energy extraction.”

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Through its members’ efforts across the nation, RYSE helps make outcomes like the court case in Oregon possible as it serves as a coordinating body for youth movements. Whether through court cases or protests, the council seeks to inspire other young people to speak up and see who will listen.

“I think, as a youth, it’s really nice to have people who are just like ‘I want to hear what you have to say,’” Gillingham says. “Sometimes for young people there’s just a basic straightforwardness that we can lay out and people listen to that.”

The Oregon lawsuit will proceed in court with another hearing by Judge Ann Aiken, who takes over the case in response to Coffin’s retirement this year. For now, the plaintiffs have only won permission to argue the case in court.

Although the focus right now is on training youth to fight climate change within their own communities, Martinez says RYSE hopes to bridge movements, working alongside Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and other climate change campaigns, which are all fighting for a safer, healthier future for generations to come. Yet, in a time when young voices can be easily overshadowed, RYSE and Earth Guardians provide both the platform and a community to join in a united force against climate change.

“In this work, it can get really, really depressing,” Martinez says. “It’s a really heavy issue we’re dealing with, and being able to connect with other empowered young people who are fighting for the same thing just fuels our fire, keeps us going, keeps us inspired, keeps us ready to take action.”

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Leo Scribner doesn’t let his type-1 diabetes stop him from pursuing activities, including mountain biking, here seen with his brother Hugh on spring break 2016.

The new normal Casey Middle School athlete is thriving despite type-1 diabetes

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eo Scribner is like your average 12-year-old about to finish the seventh grade — decked out with a snapback, a hoodie and skateboard — in every way except two. He’ll dominate you in the swimming pool, and he won’t let his type-1 diabetes stop him.

Leo’s been swimming since he was 6, when his mom, Carol, signed him up for lessons. The family went to Chesapeake Bay every summer to fish and crab by Carol’s mom’s cottage, so she wanted him to be safe in those deep, murky waters. At first, he only swam in the summer, but he was good and he was competitive, so he started doing it year-round at the age of 9.

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going to the bathroom all the time. He had trouble breathing, and his weight dropped to about 60 pounds from the low 70s. When Leo’s symptoms got too severe to ignore, he took a day off from school and Carol took him to the doctor.

They knew it was diabetes right away.

“You gotta go down to Children’s [Hospital],” the doctor told Carol. She expected to get an appointment the following day, but the doctor said it had to happen immediately.

When they got there, Leo’s blood sugar was nearly 10 times higher than normal levels. He was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, and Carol called Leo’s dad, Tom, to break the news. She says they went into autopilot, talking to doctors and nurses, going to classes about diabetes education, learning what they had to do.

“I was kind of in shock,” Leo says.

He handled the diagnosis about as well as a 10-year-old can, though. The day after he heard

the news, he told his dad he would overcome the limitations. But first, he had to deal with the uncertainty of what it meant for his swimming.

“I thought that was kind of the end of it, and that I wouldn’t be able to do more sports or anything like that,” Leo says. “But the doctors said I could do anything.”

For the first three months after his diagnosis, Leo used an insulin pen. He’d test his blood sugar, calculate manually how much insulin he needed, and then he’d give himself a shot. He had to do this every time he ate — sometimes five or six times a day. Then he switched to a pump that attaches to his arm and connects to a monitor over Wi-Fi. He tests his blood sugar seven or eight times a day, inputs how many calories he’s eating, and the monitor tells the pump how much insulin to dispense. Leo only has to change the pump every three days, and, most importantly, it’s waterproof.

“It kinda just worked out,” Leo says about fitting his insulin monitoring into his routine.

“Usually, I’ll be fine, but if my blood sugar is low I’ll just have a snack.”

Leo had to adjust to his new routine quickly, because the Colorado state swimming championships were only six months out from his diagnosis. He trained relentlessly, hitting the pool see THRIVING Page 26

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twice a day at times, scrutinizing every meter and 200-meter breaststroke. He bit of food he ate. He was so deterskateboards for fun and joined the mined to win; then, on race day, he cross-country team; his mile is down to barely lost the 50-meter breaststroke 6 minutes, 10 seconds. to his best friend. Even so, he was surHe’s even planning to run the prised when he found out his friend BolderBoulder on Memorial Day. was seeded above him for the next “When you run the BolderBoulder day’s 100-meter. this year,” Carol says to her son, “You’re “Leo, you’re better at the 100 than gonna have to find somebody else to the 50,” his dad told Carol Scribner run with other than him. “He just barely mom and dad beat you in the 50. I because neither one think you can win in of us can keep up the 100.” with you.”

Leo thought he The diabetes could win, too, but will always be he had no idea how there, but Leo is he was doing once he taking it in stride, got in the pool. The monitoring his swim goggles and the blood sugar, watchsplashing limited his ing what he eats, peripheral vision to never getting comthe point where he placent. He’s dilicouldn’t see the other gent about it when racers, so he just he’s training, at pushed. He thought home or out with he was neck-andfriends, like the neck with them until post-practice Leo Scribner swimming in the Boulder he finished — then Starbucks run a Reservoir. he realized how far couple days ago when his insulin behind everyone else pump failed.

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artha Russo didn’t always dream of being an artist.

As an accomplished field hockey player, Russo took a year off from Princeton University in 1984 to try out for the U.S. Olympic team. On the final day of tryouts, she suffered a career-ending knee injury.

“I was heartbroken,” Russo says. “They said I really shouldn’t play running sports anymore, which was really devastating.”

Russo spent the rest of the year studying in Italy, which sparked her interest in art. Upon returning to school, she enrolled in ceramics classes.

“Ceramics really just became my new sport,” she says.

Russo honed her craft with the tenacity of an Olympic athlete. She made up for her lack of knowledge and experience with sheer discipline.

Twenty-five years later, Russo’s new ceramics exhibit, coalescere, follows her quarter-century career, telling the story of her artistic growth and personal journey.

Now showing at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), coalescere explores Russo’s interest in the idea that two opposites are actually one in the same. The theme doesn’t just influence her sculptures — it pervades the exhibition, her creative process and her life.

The exhibition begins with “Phagocytosis”, a recent work that combines her past and present styles. The giant, cell-like ball of metal and clay

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invites the audience to explore it on all sides. Like much of her work, “Phagocytosis” lies somewhere between abstract and recognizable.

The piece was inspired in part by Russo’s experience at Princeton, where she studied biology and psychology. Bodily, psychological and scientific subject matter would later feature prominently in her work.

The word “Phagocytosis”, which comes from the Greek “to devour,” also foreshadows Russo’s unexpected consumption by art.

Russo features many of her early works in the beginning of the exhibition.

These works, specifically “Yon,” “Vagus” and “Drop,” combine referAbove and left: “Phagocytosis” is both abstract and recognizences to the able, like much of Russo’s work. body with a nailbiting fragility.

The result is a These stomachs represent both that of the sense of the impermanence audience and of Russo herself. She says that of ourselves and our bodies — a feeling which she’d like the audience to feel her work first — was no doubt inspired by her injury. to experience it on a gut level before conceptual“Yon” takes the form of two stomachs conizing it — another reason she likes to keep her nected by a long, esophagus-like tube. The forms ambiguous.

15-foot-long ceramic sculpture, which lies “I’m really going for visceral reactions. That’s directly on the ground, could be stepped on and the most important thing to me, that you feel it destroyed at any moment. in your body,” Russo says. “It’s really like you’re “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” see COALESCERE Page 30 Russo says. “It may fall apart during the show.”

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University of Colorado Boulder in the early ’90s, she found This relationship between seemingly opposite concepts freedom in turning her mind off, trusting her gut and focushas always intrigued Russo. During her time at Princeton, ing on the process of creating, above all else. she was exposed to the work of the Greek philosopher “There was all this banter about post-modernism. I did Heraclitus, who argued that opposites are really just a hair not even know what modernism really was, and I felt queasy apart. Opposites aren’t binary, he said — they’re really two when asked about what I was making and ends of a single spectrum. why,” Russo says. “Really, all I knew was that For Russo, something clicked. She realON THE BILL: Martha I loved to retreat to my studio and make ized that work and creativity, or routine and Russo: coalescere. things.” spontaneity, were really not opposites.

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“That’s when the best stuff starts to hap“Nomos” is the centerpiece of the exhibipen,” Russo says. “It’s almost like you try to tion and marks the turning point of Russo’s artistic developget yourself tired to the point where you’re really making ment. In graduate school, Russo began to handcraft footsomething.” long, tube-like sculptures from porcelain. She became a oneRusso has continued making pieces for “Nomos” for the woman factory, churning them out religiously with no clear past 25 years. She’s used multiple tons of clay and has purpose. amassed thousands of pieces.

“I had no idea what I was doing — I just liked making The current incarnation, at BMoCA, is the largest yet. them,” Russo says. “It was the quickest thing I could make.”

Russo worked with a team of engineers to create the wall Their production turned obsessive as Russo moved her that holds the pieces. They make up a sea that engulfs the studio into CU’s kiln shed to increase her output, and it viewer on three sides. Though the pieces are all porcelain, as became her Master of Fine Arts exhibition. a whole, “Nomos” is soft and organic. If “Phagocytosis” looks One night, while squid fishing with her siblings in Rhode like it’s from another world, “Nomos” is another world.

Island, Russo looked into the water to find their boat comShe often thinks about a conversation she had in graduate pletely surrounded in a sea of squid, and “Nomos” was born. school in which a professor told her, “‘You gotta do this stuff She realized she could reproduce the effect of the squids for a long time. Then you’ll start believing it, and then other by sticking hundreds of the porcelain tubes into a peg board. people will.’

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“I feel like I’m at that moment in my life,” Russo says. “I’ve been doing it a long time and I believe it.”

With this additional confidence, Russo’s work has continued to become bigger, lighter, more complex and more playful. The three new works that make up the majority of the final section, “Cavea-Culina,” “Lightness of Being (Settled),” and “Chute” take risks by challenging our notions of what ceramics ought to be by playing with space and incorporating unconventional media.

Noting that the average person looks at a piece of art for only a few seconds, Russo says she wanted to make pieces that would require the viewer to slow down and investigate them.

All three pieces incorporate everyday objects from Russo’s life, some of which are covered in clay and fired.

They engage the audience and make use of space in ways ordinary sculptures do not.

“Cavea-Culina” is based around a large lab bench (previously used in Russo’s studio) with surreal, cell-like life-forms that emanate light from within. Viewers are also encouraged to open other drawers, revealing a number of miniature exhibits, each with its own style (light-based, organic, liquid, etc.).

“Lightness of Being (Settled)” features a multitude of found objects converted into porcelain sculptures and spaced out along a long, curved wall.

Russo resurrects the unnecessary clutter from her home, making the heavy weightless and the fleeting permanent.

“Chute” concludes the exhibition. It consists of many white, unglazed and broken ceramic pieces in the shapes of various bones and body parts sitting on a metal chute. Though they’re glued in place, the pieces appear to be sliding down the chute.

Asked about the meaning, Russo jokes, “I’m going down the chute, honey. I’m 54.”

Inspired by a recent shoulder injury, “Chute” is another comment on decay and the impermanence of life. Unlike her early work, which makes the same point, “Chute” does so with a sense of humor.

What really differentiates Russo’s recent work is that it not only accepts dissonance, it uses it. Her work allows us to feel complex things, or to laugh at death. Russo has the courage to present life as it is — contradictory and absurd — and to leave it at that.

“If you do enough stuff, no matter how tricky it is, you have this confidence,” Russo says. “You know it’s going to be fine.”

While coalescere showcases work from her 25 year career, Russo hesitates to call it a retrospective.

“In a lot of ways I feel like I’m just getting started.”

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Left to right: “Lightness of Being (Settled),“ “Chute” and “Cavea-Culina” are Russo’s three newest works.

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s a kid in the 1970s, Missy “I’ve evolved as a musician,” she Raines didn’t have a lot of says. “I’m not just playing bass and female bluegrass role modthinking about just that, but I’m els. thinking about the whole band and “I come from a genre what’s going on and trying to think that, up until the last 20 years or so, about the whole production of it was very male dominated,” Raines when we’re playing. And when you says. “And so I grew up in a time think that way a lot, I think it makes when there weren’t many women you sharper, and you’re just hearing doing what I’m doing.” more and all that.”

But now looking back as a woman Another new aspect of Raines’ in her 50s, Raines has forged her own music is her increasing use of vocals. path and become a pioneer in her She stretches her own singing voice own right. With seven “Bass Player of more these days than she has in the the Year” awards to her name, from past. the International Bluegrass Music “I’ve gotten more comfortable Association, Raines is both the only singing,” she confirms. “I would never woman to have won the award and really consider myself a singer, but I has won it more than any other perfeel like I can sing if I pick out the After years in bluegrass, Missy Raines is still pushing her own musical boundaries. son. She has two albums under her right song. ... I pick out good materibelt, including her newest release al. I have a knack for that, but I’m New Frontier, and plans to release house, and so I wanted to pick it up and learn it,” not one of those people that just can more music later this year. she says. sing any style. I definitely have my limit of kind of As Raines continues to evolve as a musician, Raines took to the instrument. But unfortustyles that I sing, but that’s cool because it’s she’s learned lessons in and out of the music indus- nately, her father passed away when she was 20 uniquely mine.” try. years old, before she had the opportunity to ask She says her next album will feature more of “I think that the hardest thing for a woman at him when or how he learned to play. her own singing and songwriting. any age is to ignore what the world is saying Her thirst for music continued, though. And in “Ideally, you’re always sort of looking for and about what we’re supposed to be, what we’re sup- 1990, she and her husband, fellow musician Ben listening to the world to see what it’s going to tell posed to look like, what we’re supposed to be Surratt, moved to Nashville and 26 years later they you — it’s going to speak to you and then you can doing, and how we’re supposed to be pursuing still call it home. go write about it,” she says. our lives,” she says. “And the hardest thing is just “We made that move so that we could both Although her music may be changing, the way to ignore that and to do what it is we know is pursue music fulltime in a way that we hadn’t been Raines feels about performing remains the same. right.” able to previously,” Raines says. “We’d been living She describes the feeling of being on stage as terriRaines’ roots in music began as a child when par- in Charlottesville, Virginia, but we came here on a fying but fantastic. When on stage, she says she ents would bring her to bluegrass concerts regularly. prayer and a promise. I mean, we had no money. I feels like it’s what she was meant to do.

She started playing bass after her father brought one had a gig, but there wasn’t anything necessarily “I just got to try to get my head in a really good home. Before that day, she didn’t even know that her waiting for us. We just kind of built it as we came.” space,” she says. “I just try to get all the negative father could play the instrument and the novelty of For Raines, each new album is an exploration thoughts out or all of the doubt or all of the worry the bass intrigued her. of sorts. Although she has always had a role in and all of that out of the way and just try to get “I’d been playing guitar and piano, and then writing the music on her records, her latest album, into a place where I can get out of my own way there was suddenly this huge instrument in the New Frontier, is entirely original material. and play.”

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enver-based, indie rock band, DeVotchKa is no stranger to unconventional projects. With multiple original albums, the band has also scored movies including Little Miss Sunshine and I Love You Phillip Morris, and has frequently shared the Red Rocks stage with the Colorado Symphony. But when given their most recent project of adapting the musical score of Sweeney DeVotchKa embers Tom Hagerman, Jeanie Schroder and Shawn King get a chance to play violin, tuba and drums, respectively, alongside the actors on stage.

Todd for the Denver Center of Performing Arts (DCPA), they were warned that this was no simple task. “[Music Director Gregg Coffin] read us the riot act and said, ‘You guys are about to take on a monster score that everyone in musical theater is insanely attached to and hopes to do someday in some professional way,’” says Shawn King of DeVotchka.

Instead of deterring the band, this warning inspired them to do their homework and dissect the music written by theater legend Stephen Sondheim. Members Sweeney Todd sings a heartfelt ballad to his razors King, Jeanie Schroder in “My Friends,” a song which King says is tense, and Tom Hagerman scary and beautiful. studied multiple productions of the musical, combing through notes and lyrics to fully encapsulate the feeling of the DeVotchKa added an indie, gypsy punk twist to the classic 1987 musical. show in order to put their own unique spin on it.

“I can’t lie, there was a steep learning curve,” King says.

The final product can now be seen at the DCPA through May 15. revenge on those who’ve wronged him — plus, a side plot of capitalistic canniDeVotchKa is not the first to remix Sondheim’s 1979 musical. In 2004, the balism, but that’s beside the point. The musical tells a macabre tale and does so 10-person Broadway production had each character play their own instrument with a twisted sense of humor. Combined with their gypsy punk vibe and theon stage. In 2015, there was a prog-metal version in Washington and earlier atrical stage shows, DeVotchKa and Sweeney are an ideal pairing. this year an all-male production in California by gay and lesbian company “As far as stories go, I don’t know if DeVotchKa would be good with any Theater Out. Sweeney Todd tells the story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who seeks see DEVOTCHKA Page 36

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kind of sweet musical, like Brigadoon or Oklahoma,” member Jeanie Schroder says with ON THE BILL: Sweeney Todd. Denver Performing a laugh.

Arts Complex, 1345 With the musical set in 1800 London, Champa St., Denver, 720King says there were a lot of instruments 865-4239. Through May 15. and tones that matched the band’s style. In addition to the typical orchestral instruments, the DeVotchKa rendition relies on the mandolin, French horn, trumpet, electric guitar, tuba and the bandoneon (which Schroder calls the whorehouse accordion).

But it was also the band’s sensitivity that made them a good fit to adapt Sweeney.

“The score goes from insanely cacophonous, fast, noisy to incredibly delicate and emotional,” King says. “It has to do with not just our style but with our palette. They went hand in hand.”

There are various differences when composing a record versus a musical — for instance a musical is driven by story and character. Throughout the process, King says he’s pondered questions including, “Why are we so invested in this psychopath?” Or “Why is the music bringing us to tears?” The answers to those questions were then translated in the music, making sound choices more pointed.

“There are these devices that happen in musical theater that might not happen in indie rock,” King says. “You might have a long passage of a glockenspiel in a rock song that we would do and that would become part of the flavor of the song. But in musical theater, it may have this real punctuation of surprise or an ‘a ha’ moment.”

Along with composing, the band members also play in the pit with the rest of the orchestra. And the three nabbed some stage time playing the tuba, drums and violin right alongside the cast in various numbers.

After their stint at the DCPA, the band will be heading to the recording studio and influences from their Sweeney experience might pop up on their new record, Schroder says. In a similar way, playing with the Colorado Symphony impacted their last album 100 Lovers.

“The arrangements have been a lot more lush,” she says. “We have new ideas like, ‘Oh we could put chimes there, or we could bring in someone on a bass clarinet, and that would be a neat texture to the sound.’”

For King, the overall goal of the Sweeney production was to take something unfamiliar to them and pull it off with integrity. It’s in pursuing these uncustomary projects that justifies calling DeVotchKa “a different kind of band,” he says.

“There’s always been a desire to keep doing things that are fresh. We don’t plan on going anywhere. We always wanna be making records as DeVotcKa but we want to be challenged in new ways too.”

In June, DeVotchKa heads back to Red Rocks to share the stage with the Colorado Symphony for the fifth time. And if it all bodes well, the band would be happy to have a similar reoccurring relationship with adapting Sondheim in the future.

“I’d love to,” King says. “That’s a goal right there.”

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The new musical supergroup AndersonPonty band will rock out the Boulder Theater on May 4th with their fusion of prog rock, jazz and violin. The band is headlined by Jon Anderson, the former lead vocalist and songwriter of the prog rock band Yes, and Jean-Luc Ponty, a classically trained violinist who has expanded his repertoire to jazz and rock, and is a pioneer of the electric violin. The two have been wanting to collaborate since the 1980s, and they finally did last year on their first album, Better Late Than Never. The two powerhouses are sure to provide a great night of music.

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Late Night At The Museum. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Our Open Space Lands: Scenarios for the Future. 5:30 p.m. Sustainability Energy and Environment Complex, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder.

Spare Parts. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Friday, April 29 Music

Thursday April 28th

THE ARISTOCATS “R & B Rock” FREE ADMISSION

Wednesday May 4th

WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING

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Thursday May 5th

ZUMA “A TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG” FREE ADMISSION

Friday May 6th

THE RAILSPLITTERS “Bluegrass and beyond”

Saturday May 7th

SOUL SACRIFICE “A TRIBUTE TO SANTANA, WAR AND MORE” “Classic Rock”

Wednesday May 11th

WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING

RANDALL DUBIS BAND “Blues” FREE ADMISSION

Thursday May 12th

Arthur Lee Land. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Banshee Tree. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Bourbon Street Jazz. 6 p.m. Bourbon Street, 328 McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, 303-955-0845.

Cary Morin. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Contraband. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Full Belly. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Groove a Licious. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Gumbo Le Funque. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Jacob Green. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623.

Jay Stott. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Jesse Garland Show. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

The Long Run: A Tribute to The Eagles. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Louisville Singing Seniors. 2:30 p.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-444-3967.

Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Matthew Zalkind and CU Cello Studio. 3 p.m. Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

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The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

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Vinyl Night — Bring Your Own Album. 7 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Ragged Union. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Realtalk. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Rebecca Folsom. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Richard Cheese And Lounge Against The Machine, The Lucky Stars. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Shel. 7 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303-823-0848.

Taarka. 7 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-546-3572.

Tyler T. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

2016 Boulder Valley School District: The Art of Students and Teacher Exhibition. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through April 29.

“Nomos,” Martha Russo

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 24.

Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303776-6050. Through May 1.

Acrylic Painting by Lori Mattina. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Through May 28.

BMoCA’s coalescere explores Martha Russo’s 25year career. Read more about the exhibit and Russo on page 29

Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.

Glass Mosaics by Delcia Litt. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.

Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300.

Through June 25.

Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122.

Through June 12.

Mountain Standard Clay. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 12.

The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver,

303-298-7554. Through June 5.

Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1.

Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Aug. 7.

Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 5.

Sangeeta Reddy: Fractured Landscapes of the West. BMoCA at Macky, 285, University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 29.

Stone Mosaics by Susan A. Judy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.

UPlift! by Joshua Goss. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through May 13.

Whitecatpink, Bourgeois Girl. 6 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.

Spare Parts. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Zach Shaffer. 5 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

Saturday, April 30

Events 15th Street Design District Crawl. 5 p.m. 15th Street Design District, 1701-1750 15th St., Boulder.

Comedy for Cambio at the Copacabana. 6 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

The Point. 9 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Music Autumn Marie. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Banshee Tree. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Bill Mckay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Blues on Tap. 6 p.m. Bourbon Street, 328 McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, 303-955-0845.

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Dechen Hawk Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Thursday, April 28

DJ Staxx. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

Andrew K Peterson, Reed Bye, Ella Longpre.

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

The Farmer Sisters. 5 p.m. Goorin Hat Shop, 943 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-4287.

Gramophone in Space Featuring Gangsterish. 10 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

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

Hippie Buckaroos. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

JC and The Deadly Sins. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Jerry Granelli/Art Lande Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

John Kadlecik Band. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Kort McCumber. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

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

Lexi Weege. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Julia Hastings-Black — Remixology. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, April 29 Naropa Anthology Reading — Antinomies.

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

Saturday, April 30 Independent Bookstore Day — Kids Party. 1 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Ravin’wolf Live: The Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues Guitar Duo. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Shelvis & The Roustabouts. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Stolen Moonshine. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Mark Gerzon — The Reunited States of America. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Poets Dominique Christina, Toluwanimi Obiwole and Suizi Q. Smith. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Wednesday, May 4

Monday, May 2

Rocky Mountain Steam Fest. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

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

Spare Parts. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Starting Worker Co-ops: Tools, Strategies, and Platforms for Success. 12 p.m. Environmental Design Building, Room 134, CU Campus, 1060 18th St., Boulder, 720-331-9036.

Sunday, May 1 Music

Tony Saccomanno RNB Project. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Arthur Lee Land. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Annual May Day Celebration and World Laughter Day. 9 a.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.

Dr. Tony Wagner “Creating Innovators.” 2 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Dream Kitchens Tour. 10 a.m. Various locations around Boulder County, 303-444-3636.

Lonely Are the Brave. 10 a.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Love Thy Nature. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Markmaking and Drum Leaf Book Binding with Laura Wait. 9:30 a.m. Book Arts League at Ewing Farm, 1915 N. 95th St., Lafayette, 609-844-1200.

My Golden Days. 3:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Ocean Rangers Volunteer Training. 9 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Tuesday, May 3

David Barsamian. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Sydow, Scott. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Events

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

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

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tyler T. Duo. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on April 30 by stopping by the Boulder Book Store to support literature and local business.

Independent Bookstore Day — Adult Party.

3 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Muskateer Gripweed. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

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Chris Howard — Night Speed. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Warheart Women: The Heorine’s Journey.

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

Craig Cornett and the Phast and Reckless. 4:30 p.m.

Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

David Williams & Ellie Brown. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Greg Schochet and Katie Glassman. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

House of Joy. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

Intuit Band. 7:45 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Jet Set. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Kari Jorgensen. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Cyrano — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, 720-509-1000.

Through April 30.

Our Town — presented by The Upstart Crow.

The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through May 7.

Peter and the Star Catcher. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 14.

DeVotchKa reimagines the “Demon Sweeney Todd. Denver Performing Arts Com- Barber of Fleet Street” — now playplex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. ing at the DCPA through May 15. Read more about the latest Sweeney Todd Through May 15. reincarnation on page 35 This Aunt is Not a Cockroach — presented

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EVENTS from Page 42 Let The Beat Speak. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Amelia. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Wine Glass Painting Class. 2 p.m. Sip Beer & Wine Cafe, 2810 E. College Ave., Boulder, 303-544-2000.

The Miner’s Ghost. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Annual May Day Celebration and World Laughter Day. 9 a.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.

Monday, May 2

Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

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

Giselle: Royal Ballet. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Bonnie and the Clydes. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

That Captain Band. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

May Day Celebration. 10 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder, 303-678-6214.

Maus Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Andrew Lange, Serpent Foot, Empress, Grave Moss.

6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

May Day Frolic. 5 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Face. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Rocky Mountain Steam Fest. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Sean Sweeney and the 5th wheel. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

The Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass.

1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Events Mothers and Daughters. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Tuesday, May 3 Music

Jalbatross. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Jeff Lambert. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

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

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Pat Fiddles All-Star John Hartford Tribute. 8:30 p.m.

The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298.

The Prairie Scholars. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Trio Con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Wildflowers of Boulder County Slide Program. 6 p.m.

Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Wednesday, May 4 Music Andersonponty Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Catfish Kray Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Dead Set. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Live Music. 8:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Longmont Jazz Allstarts. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Mountain Meadow String Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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

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Seth Phillips. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Waka Flocka Flame, Mayhem. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Wallpaper House Band. 6 p.m. Brew Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Events Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary. 4:30 p.m.

The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

One More Time. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Richard M. Berlin is a doctor and poet, or a poet and doctor, and in this poem from his book Practice, from Brick Road Poetry Press, he honors the wisdom each of us gains through experience. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

A Lobsterman Looks at the Sea His new hip healed in, we’re working on a bluff, talking doctors and health care reform as we shove a new propane tank into place.

A shape on the surface catches his eye: “Right whale,” he says, but I can only see endless swells rolling in from the east.

He points out the gradations of gray and green that mark deep ledge, the tide’s shape along the islands and rocks, the whale’s glistening back suddenly in focus.

I react with the same surprise my patients feel when I observe what they can’t see— a sudden shift in gaze, or a crease in a cheek, understanding how a doctor becomes like a man who has spent sixty years on a lobster boat, watching the world swim fast and shining, right before his eyes.

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Poem copyright ©2015 by Richard M. Berlin, “A Lobsterman Looks at the Sea,” from Practice, (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Richard M. Berlin and the publisher.

Introduction copyright © 2015 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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veryone has a story to tell, but stories are fragile and can easily be forgotten. They must be cared for and saved for future generations. And if not for historical purposes, then for cultural ones.

That is the hope behind Forgotten Jewels, a new 30-minute documentary from the Boulder-based filmmaking team of dancer Judy Kreith and documentarian Robin Truesdale. The story they tell is a personal one and of historical significance: the story of

was a teenager. [My mother] mentioned a few different things about the ways they survived in Havana. But, truthfully, she really didn’t tell me a lot until I really started to dig a little bit deeper into her story.

“There was just so little known,” Kreith continues. “As I came to find out how little people knew, I realized that I’d have to be the one to try to uncover it while the refugees that were there were still alive.”

With little archival material to draw on, Kreith had to tailor Forgotten Courtesy of Marion Krieth’s Personal Collection Jewels to an oral history of the period. And for that, she needed help. Enter Truesdale, a documentarian who has been in the business for about 12 years.

After Marion told Truesdale her story, Kreith sought out other refugees to paint a larger picture of the time.

“The war years were so desperate for so many people,” Kreith says. “The fact Forgotten Jewels tells the story of Judy Krieth’s mother, Marion, who fled from Nazi-occupied Europe to Cuba. that right there in Havana, they had found a way to actually bring in enough Kreith’s mother, Marion, who, at the money to support their families age of 14, fled Nazi-occupied Europe throughout the war. ... The amazing and found sanctuary in Havana, Cuba. part of the story: so many of the diaMarion was one of 6,000 European mond merchants that learned the trade Jewish refugees who found safe haven in Havana later went on to become in Cuba, where Batista’s government very, very well known and very estabtook in anyone who could pay their lished diamond people. Whether it way. For these refugees, Cuba was sup- was in Belgium, New York or back in posed to be a stopover before heading Israel.” to the United States, but on Dec. 7, But getting the subjects to open up 1941, the U.S. entered the war, and on camera wasn’t easy. As Kreith says, Marion and her fellow refugees were the diamond industry is very hushstuck. hush, and she had a hard time getting The need for money and work the male subjects to discuss the war arose and since many of the refugees years. Thankfully, the female particihad worked in the diamond industry pants wanted to be apart of documentin Europe, it only made sense to coning their history and were more forthtinue the tradition. Almost overnight, coming in the interviews.

Havana entered the diamond business.

“The women tended to be more “I started to do research in Havana open to telling the story,” Kreith says. and came to find out that almost no “I worked on trying to interview a few one knew about the industry,” Kreith different men from that period, and says. “I was actually aware of it since I they just didn’t seem to have the same Boulder Weekly

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motivation to “Both of us really dive in.” would really Kreith and like to keep Truesdale have some space in a fascinating the film,” story to tell, Kreith says. but it is not “There is a yet complete. chance to get a Before little introspecForgotten tive about the Robin Truesdale (top) and Judy Krieth (bottom) Jewels comes to progression of a theater near the story.” you, it needs a few finishing touches How much the audience’s input and that is where the Boulder audiwill affect the final outcome of ence comes in. Forgotten Jewels will Forgotten Jewels is entirely up to Kreith screen April 30 at the Boulder Public and Truesdale. But filmmaking is a Library, and Kreith and Truesdale will collaborative art form, and sometimes ask the audience for feedback about the audience plays a role in that colthe project. laboration.

“I’ve done this before with another “It is kind of ambitious,” Truesdale film [A Beautiful Equation, 2014], says with a laugh. “It is amazing how where I screened it at far ambition can get ON THE BILL: Forgotten you. Because [we’re] the library and then Jewels. 2 p.m. Saturday, April just these two women we opened up a dis30, Boulder Library Canyon Theater.

Ninth Street and in Boulder, and we’re cussion after the Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, finding that people screening with the forgottenjewelsfilm.com. are so receptive to audience and have this, and we’re getpeople give their ting lots of calls and comments,” Truesdale explains. “We’ll also pass out emails and people asking us more a sheet with some very brief questions about the project. It’s helping carry us that will help us find out what direcforward, it’s really great.” tion we’re going in.”

Kreith and Truesdale are counting Both Kreith and Truesdale are on the support of the Boulder cominterested to see how much backmunity, and in many ways, they ground and content the audience is already have it. Truesdale’s walking looking for. But their overall goal is group, the Boulder Ramblers, will the same: Tell a personal story and host a pre-screening stroll down find away to connect it to the audiBoulder Creek to the Boulder Public ence.

Library. All are welcome.

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It’s a place where we hear stories about family and traditions as told through anecdotes, pictures and recipes. In a good cookbook, we can almost smell the sautéing onion and feel the pastry dough in our hands.

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The sisters, also known as Jennifer, Jessica and Jill Emich, have created a beautiful cookbook with gluten-free and paleo recipes that allow the reader into their lives as well as their kitchen.

There are more than 100 recipes in the book, ranging from breakfast to dessert, and highlighting the organic, the freerange, the grass-fed and all things natural. There’s no better

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by Matt Cortina cookbook for the Boulder County lifestyle than Eat Drink Shine, because within its pages are recipes and stories that resonate with the pulse of this place where food and community merge.

We hear the stories of how cancer rattled, but then galvanized the sisters; how a previous restaurant set the foundation for the creation of Shine, allowing time for personal and culinary growth; we hear about the creation of families and the role food has played in their homes; and we hear how the dishes and unique vibe at Shine came to be — and how we can recreate a bit of that magic in our own homes.

A perfect example of bringing the Shine philosophy home is the recipe for the baked avocado cups. Here’s a yummy concoction of simple ingredients, prepared with a pinch of inspiration, that can become a souland appetite-filling way to start the day. Eggs are cracked and dropped into the crevasses of pitted avocados, placed in a skillet and baked with light herb and dressing. What you get is a delicious, balanced breakfast that plays with temperature and texture, while using the natural cup provided by the avocado.

Or consider the simple wonder of bone broth. Eat Drink Shine artfully provides the blueprint for breaking down carcasses, bones and veggies into the superfood that is bone broth. It’s tasty, easy to do and provides an opportunity to eliminate waste and use all your resources to their full poten-

tial. And it doesn’t hurt that bone broth has some very impressive health benefits.

The sisters’ cookbook also has several excellent soup recipes that are easy to whip up and carry unique healthful qualities, like the vegan wild mushroom bisque. Jennifer writes this bisque gives her a “burst of nourishment and warmth in her belly,” while Jessica describes how the act of hunting for mushrooms in the Colorado mountains is “one of the quickest ways for me to connect with the earth, with my spirit, and my gratitude for all that is available to us.” And this is just one of many examples how this cookbook applies the idea of health to food, spirit and the environment.

But “simple” isn’t a required ingredient in Eat Drink Shine. There is a wide array of recipes meant to inspire home cooks toward something more involved, and possibly more rewarding. These dishes include the seared pork chops with braised cabbage and fennel, the seafood stew with basil pesto and the dairy-free fried chicken. There are plenty of vegetarian recipes, as well.

And Eat Drink Shine doesn’t skimp on desserts. There are recipes for banana chocolate mousse, grain-free beet brownies and “good for you” jello.

What makes the Shine cookbook even more enjoyable are the beautiful photos that accompany each entry. The dishes are bright and colorful, artfully arranged and photographed in casual lighting, inspiring the would-be cook to embrace the beauty of food and the wholesomeness and artistry of home cooking.

Eat Drink Shine is meant to be a kitchen companion and it is just that.

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JULIA HERZ DIVES DEEP INTO MATCHING SUDS AND SUPPER IN A NEW BOOK

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Voyageur Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group

ulia Herz hadn’t really planned on spending her life in beer, but she’s thrilled it worked out that way.

Herz is the craft beer program director for the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which puts on the annual Great American Beer Festival. She’s a veteran beer judge, co-author of the organization’s free CraftBeer.com “Beer & Food Course,” and a Certified Cicerone. (A cicerone is to beer as a sommelier is to wine.)

More critically, she’s a life-long home brewer.

The idea of a serious beer and food pairing book had been percolating for many years, but it took a natural disaster to start Herz writing.

“When we were displaced after the Lyons flood and living in an apartment, I decided to take it on. It gave me something to focus on,” she says. Three years later, she released Beer Pairing: The Essential Guide from the Pairing Pros (Voyageur Press) cowritten by Gwen Conley, director of brewery production and quality assurance at California’s Lost Abbey brewing.

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go with an American IPA,” Herz says.

“Others might pick a malty ale with some sweetness to balance the sharpness and salt of the cheese.

“Some food-beer matches are home runs and others are train wrecks. With a home run pairing, 1 + 1 = 5. The combination makes each other better.”

Q: Do you remember your first sip of beer?

A: My first taste of beer? It was probably one of my dad’s. He liked to drink Canadian beers, especially Labatt’s. My brother had a beer can collection so [when] we would go out to eat, my parents would have a beer and he would get the cans.

Q: What was your original career?

A: I had studied journalism and got an internship at CNN. I worked my way up to associate producer. It was a good job, but I realized it wasn’t for me.

Q: How did you end up in beer in Boulder?

A: I quit CNN and a girlfriend and I travelled around the country for about a year. We camped on National Forest land and came into town to visit brewpubs. When they got here we volunteered at the Great American Beer Festival at Currigan Hall. Eventually I moved back here.

Q: Don’t personal taste quirks rule which ale we match with a filet mignon?

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How can you have exactly the same taste experience as me? You can start to narrow down what works for your palate. Our book is a practical guide to pairing food with beer, how ingredients interplay and some of the science behind taste.

Q: Why do hops matter so much?

A: It’s all about balance and complexity. It’s like when you make sautéed fish with butter and lemon. The lemon juice provides acid to balance the richness of the butter, and it brightens and sharpens the flavor.

Q: Have things changed for women in brewing?

A: That mentality that ‘beer is a man’s beverage’ is fading. About 32 percent of craft beer is bought by women versus only 20 percent of mass market domestic beers. Beer making is changing. About 21 percent of the leadership positions at craft brewing companies are now women. Beer has no gender.

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Fisher and I were chatting about the wisdom — or foolishness — of loading up a restaurant wine list with small-production, unfamiliar offerings.

Sure, Americans have fallen for wine. We surpassed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation in 2010 and have been drinking more each year. But consumers still feel most comfortable with major grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc. And most stick with easily recognized brands, like Duckhorn, Kendall-Jackson and Chateau Ste. Michelle.

In restaurants and wine bars across the country, however, a growing number of courageous sommeliers are eschewing these obvious choices and gently guiding patrons outside their comfort zones. These efforts are having an impact. Thanks in no small part to people like Fisher, Americans are beginning to embrace the unknown.

Consider Ripple’s by-the-glass list. It’s home to 40 different wines, including an unusual blend of Vermentino and Grenache Blanc from maverick California vintner Steve Edmunds; an orange wine from Channing Daughters on Long Island; and a Teroldego from superstar Italian winemaker Elisabetta Foradori.

“From the beginning, one of our biggest Susan France things was that we wanted people to be able to taste different wines — and that’s why we have so many by the glass,” Fisher explained. “It’s so our customers can explore what different wines taste like with foods. You can do half glasses if you want; it’s all about tasting and seeing what you like and maybe discovering something new.”

The focus on food is echoed by David McCarus, the proprietor of a boutique wine disRestaurateurs are urging people to tribution agency in South Carolina. While the think outside the wine glass and try general manager and beverage director of FIG, new things. an award-winning restaurant in Charleston, he focused on the interaction of wine with food and the role wine should play at the table. And he saw how eager consumers were to learn.

When McCarus moved to Charleston from San Francisco in 2012, he wasn’t sure he would find a receptive clientele.

“I didn’t know if there was an appetite in town,” he explained. “But I had a strong enough belief that people would understand the wine program if it made the food taste better. Consumers might not know what they’re looking for. They might not really know what they want. But if the wine and food can combine into this organic dance — and it makes sense while it’s happening — people will be comfortable. And people will come back.”

McCarus saw his patrons come back again and again. A successful wine program satisfies virtually every customer, of course, so McCarus made sure to always have something for everyone, even if it was obscure and didn’t match the exact request.

“My point was always, ‘Why don’t we try this?’” he continued. “So If someone comes in and asks for a glass of Pinot Grigio, we can say, ‘No, we don’t have a glass of Pinot Grigio, but we have this beautiful Erbaluce from Piedmont made by this great producer and it’s really delicious, and it will be really good with your fish.’”

What McCarus and Fisher have done isn’t unique. Nationwide, more and more sommeliers are showcasing small-production, interesting wines — and providing opportunities for people to try things that aren’t available at the local supermarket.

They’re acting as educators, eager to share their palates and preferences with their customers.

The wine world is vast. And thanks to this work, Americans are beginning to make all sorts of discoveries.

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The oracle I’m about to present may be controversial. It contains advice that most astrologers would never dare to offer an Aries. But I believe you are more receptive than usual to this challenge, and I am also convinced that you especially need it right now. Are you ready to be pushed further than I have ever pushed you? Study this quote from novelist Mark Z. Danielewski: “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati.”

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“Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell.” That noble truth was uttered by Libran philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and I bet it will be especially meaningful for most of you during the rest of 2016. The bad news is that in the past few months you’ve had to reconnoiter your own hell a little more than you would have liked, even if it has been pretty damn interesting. The good news is that these explorations will soon be winding down. The fantastic news is that you are already getting glimpses of how to use what you’ve been learning. You’ll be well-prepared when the time comes to start constructing a new heaven.

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Every available option will weaken his or her position. I propose that we coin a new word that means the opposite of zugzwang: “zugfrei,” which shall hereafter signify a situation in which every choice you have in front of you is a positive or constructive one; you cannot make a wrong move. I think this captures the essence of the coming days for you, Scorpio.

MAY 21-JUNE 20: “Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself?” asks poet B. Damani. If you posed that question to me right now, I would reply, “Yes, Gemini. You are still a hero if the only person you save is yourself.” If you asked me to elaborate, I’d say, “In fact, saving yourself is the only way you can be a hero right now. You can’t rescue or fix or rehabilitate anyone else unless and until you can rescue and fix and rehabilitate yourself.” If you pushed me to provide you with a hint about how you should approach this challenge, I’d be bold and finish with a flourish: “Now I dare you to be the kind of hero you have always feared was beyond your capacity.”

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whom we can be as open as possible,” declares psychotherapist Thomas Moore. I agree. Our mental health thrives when we can have candid conversations with free spirits who don’t censor themselves and don’t expect us to water down what we say. This is always true, of course, but it will be an absolute necessity for you in the coming weeks. So I suggest that you do everything you can to put yourself in the company of curious minds that love to hear and tell the truth.

Look for opportunities to express yourself with extra clarity and depth. “To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion,” says Moore, “but it involves courage and risk.”

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: How do plants reproduce? They generate seeds that are designed to travel. Dandelion and orchid seeds are so light they can drift long distances through the air. Milkweed seeds are a bit heavier, but are easily carried by the wind. Foxglove and sycamore seeds are so buoyant they can float on flowing water. Birds and other animals serve as transportation for burdock seeds, which hook onto feather and fur. Fruit seeds may be eaten by animals and later excreted, fully intact, far from their original homes. I hope this meditation stimulates you to think creatively about dispersing your own metaphorical seeds, Capricorn. It’s time for you to vividly express your essence, make your mark, spread your influence.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: I watched a video of a helicopter pilot

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VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Show me a man who isn’t a slave,” wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca. “One is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.” Commenting on Seneca’s thought, blogger Ryan Holiday says, “I’m disappointed in my enslavement to self-doubt, to my resentment towards those that I dislike, to the power that the favor and approval of certain people hold over me.” What about you, Virgo? Are there any emotional states or bedeviling thoughts or addictive desires that you’re a slave to? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to emancipate yourself. As you do, remember this: There’s a difference between being compulsively driven by a delusion and lovingly devoted to a worthy goal.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,” said philosopher Simone Weil. I hope that prod makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, Aquarius. I hope it motivates you to get busy investigating some of your vague ideas and fuzzy self-images and confused intentions. It will soon be high time for you to ask for more empathy and acknowledgment from those whose opinions matter to you. You’re overdue to be more appreciated, to be seen for who you really are. But before any of that good stuff can happen, you will have to engage in a flurry of introspection. You’ve got to clarify and deepen your relationship with yourself.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,” said writer Mark Twain.

That’s excellent advice for you to apply and explore in the coming weeks. Much of the time, the knowledge you have accumulated and the skills you have developed are supreme assets. But for the immediate future, they could obstruct you from learning the lessons you need most.

For instance, they might trick you into thinking you are smarter than you really are. Or they could cause you to miss simple and seemingly obvious truths that your sophisticated perspective is too proud to notice. Be a humble student, my dear.

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Dear Dan: I have a friend who is getting married. She’s cheated on every guy she’s been with, including her last three husbands. This will be her fourth marriage. I’m sure she’s fed the new guy a million reasons why her first three marriages didn’t work out. She’s obviously a sex fiend, but she’s not kinky. And here’s the punch line: I found her fiancé’s profile on Fetlife, and he has some hardcore fetishes — even by my standards! I’m sure his kinks are going unexplored within their relationship/engagement and that they will go unexplored once they’re married, as my © LaRae Lobdell friend has been horrified during discussions of my attendance at BDSM events.

I know your rule is generally to “stay the fuck out of it,” but I have a rule that goes like this: “I would like to know that the person I’m dating is a serial cheater who’s probably after me for my money.”

So do I warn the guy?

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Fetlife looking for someone to diaper him, and she’s probably cheating on him already. If your friend is still a dishonest, lying, heartbreaking cheat — if she’s still making monogamous commitments she cannot keep — why stop her from marrying a man who is already cheating on her or is likely to cheat on her shortly after the wedding? To gently paraphrase William Shakespeare: “Let thee not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

Watching these two walk down the aisle will be like watching two drunk drivers speed around a closed racetrack. Maybe they’ll crash, maybe they won’t; maybe they’ll die in a fire, maybe they’ll get out alive. But so long as no one else is gonna get hurt, why risk your own neck trying to pull these fuckers over?

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Dear Dan: My father is a friendly, kind, all-around good guy. We get along well and always have. But I now have to avoid all political discussions with him. He was always a bit socially conservative, but now he gets a lot of batshit crazy and simply dumb ideas from the scourge of our nation today: Fox News. How can we stop the dumbing down of our society by Fox News, Dan? We have to do something about this malady!

— Anonymous Dear Anonymous: “Anonymous is right — Fox News is a malady, one that I’ve often joked is worse than Ebola,” says the documentary filmmaker Jen Senko. “It destroys families and has torn apart the country. That’s pretty powerful.”

Here’s what Senko did about it: She made The Brainwashing of My Dad, a terrific documentary exploring how Fox News and other right-wing media turned her mild-mannered, nonpolitical father into a ranting, raving, right-wing fanatic.

“We need to stigmatize ‘Faux News,’” Senko says. “I make it a point when I walk into a restaurant or some other public place and they have on Faux News of politely asking them to turn it off. I write to news outlets when they try to emulate Fox and complain.”

But how do you get your own dad to turn off Fox News?

“Speaking to loved ones is important but it’s difficult,” Senko says.

“You have to approach them in a calm way, starting the conversation on neutral ground. Sometimes just getting them out of the house and away from the TV helps. There is a group called Hear Yourself Think (hearyourselfthink.org) that focuses on deprogramming Fox News viewers. You will find plenty of advice there. But if you can sit down with your loved one and tell them you are concerned about their anger and their worry and you feel that Fox News is helping to generate that, it can be a conversation opener.

You can also get them to try to watch our movie!”

Go to thebrainwashingofmydad. com and watch the trailer to learn more about Senko’s terrific film. And you can — and you should — follow Senko on Twitter @Jen_Senko.

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

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olorado and Washington were the first demand ... In Washington licensed sales accounted for states in the country, and the world for only about 30 percent of the market in 2014 ... most that matter, to legalize cannabis for adult agree that Colorado’s lower prices have done more to use, almost simultaneously implementing make life harder for organized crime.” unique systems for the legal production, While industry experts agree, they also offer altersale and consumption of marijuana. native and complementary explanations.

Although different, the regulatory systems shared The first is that Colorado made it is easier for a common goal — businesses to be Susan France to make drug use compliant by safe and transparimplementing a ent while simultatracking system neously reducing that is integrated diversion from the with business needs legal cannabis maras well as regulatoket to minors and ry system portals. the black market.

Colorado Under that Marijuana common goal, both Enforcement states entered the Division Director Jim Burak said at national and intera February meetnational spotlight ing in Boulder as each implethat the agency is mented distinct not only responsiregulatory frameConor Clarke, The Dandelion and Native Roots employee, serves up ble for preventing works that would clients at the counter. diversion, but is determine whether increasingly or not their efforts looked at to provide data and analysis on the cannawere successful, launching a competition of sorts. bis markets.

This is because the department is A February article in the Economist titled “Reeferegulatory Challenges,” found that Colorado accountable to the public to prove that it is ensuring has been more successful in suppressing illicit activity, their safety and to the state government which is primarily attributing that to the state’s lower tax rate. playing a crucial role in broader legalization considColorado taxes cannabis sales at 28 percent, lower erations across the country and world. than Washington which set its rate at 44 percent.

“If we are going to legalize cannabis in the United Colorado generates an average retail price of $15/ States, then we better do this responsibly,” says Kyle gram and Washington of $25/gram, both above the Sherman, CEO of Flowhub, a seed-to-sale tracking black market average of $10/gram. company deeply ingrained in Colorado’s industry and “The effect on crime seems to have been as one increasingly endorsed by regulators. “If we are going would predict,” the article states. “Colorado’s authorito legalize it and convince regulators and the federal ties reckon licensed sales — about 90 metric tons a government that this is a good idea we need to show year — now meet 70 percent of total estimated that we are tracking things and that there is transpar-

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ency. Not to mention that they need to be able to tax it properly.”

Sherman says that Washington state “is failing” in comparison. He says the system in place there, BioTrackTHC, is tasked with even more rigorous tracking requirements than those in Colorado, but the system lacks the integrity of Colorado’s tracking system, METRC, in both design and implementation.

This opens the possibility of inversion, in which illegal growers push their product into the legal retail market without being taxed, negatively affecting prices and surpassing the intention and methods of regulation.

Trek Hollnagel, CEO of Dope Magazine and Washington cannabis entrepreneur, agrees with Sherman and also suggests a second explanation.

“Colorado had a very well established and regulated medical market [prior to legalization]. We had nothing. We had no rules,” Hollnagel says. “I was in the medical market before all of this and all you had to do was basically throw a license up and you could grow it and sell it pretty much whenever, wherever. ...

“There are so many people right now that used to be medical that weren’t given a path to transition into recreational. They are, like, ‘screw it.’ I’ve got my medical card, and I will just keep it and keep growing, but sell it on the black market.”

Proponents of legalization argue that regulation is the only way to make drug use safe and transparent, while simultaneously reducing diversion to illegal markets. In order for this to be successful, the industry and regulators must strike a difficult balance — to share that goal and to work together towards it.

“The people who run cannabis businesses want to be compliant,” Sherman says. “They want to push things forward. There is no partnership between the industry and the government or anything, but it needs to be a phenomenal cooperation in order to be effective.”

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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cannabis corner

by Paul Danish

Finally, Congress gets ranked on its pot votes

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ORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, for those who have developed longterm memory problems) did something really interesting to celebrate B Cory Gardner 4/20 this year: It put out a Congressional Scorecard.

B Michael Bennet Interest groups have been ranking Senators and Congressmen by how they Jared Polis A vote on particular bills for decades, but NORML’s scorecard may be the first one Doug Lamborn D put out by a pro-marijuana group that I can recall.

NORML didn’t have a lot to work with, since there are relatively few bills concerning pot introduced in Congress, and those that are tend to be bottled up in committee. So while there are over a dozen pieces of marijuana legislation pending before Congress, no bill has been voted on, either on the floor or in committee. means the member opposed legalization or any sigHowever, a number of marijuana-related amendnificant reform. ments to bills have been voted on, and NORML was Interestingly, with one exception, both the able to use these in compiling its scorecard — three in Democrats and Republicans in the Colorado congresthe Senate and three in the House. It supplemented sional delegation got high marks. these with whether a member had sponsored or coBoth of Colorado’s Senators, Democrat Michael sponsored legislation specific to federal marijuana law Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, received “B” reform, whether or not a member had sponsored mar- grades. ijuana-related amendments, and provided a grade for Although neither Bennet nor Gardner voted on members’ public statements or testimony, if it could any of the three amendments NORML used in its find any. rating system, both sponsored or co-sponsored mariIt then translated the votes, sponsorships and juana reform bills. statements into a letter grade.

Gardner was the sponsor and Bennet a co-sponsor An “A” grade means the member declared his or of the Therapeutic Hemp Medical Access Act of her support for the legalization and regulation of mar- 2015. ijuana by adults. A “B” grade means the member in Bennet also co-sponsored SB 683, dubbed favor of states being allowed to legalize recreation pot CARERS. Gardner co-sponsored the Industrial without federal interference. A “C” means the memHemp Farming Act of 2015 and the Marijuana ber supported legalizing medical marijuana and/or Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2015. Passage of decriminalizing marijuana use. the latter would have enormous benefits for A “D” means the member expressed no support Colorado’s burgeoning marijuana industry.

On the House side, Boulder’s Democratic for any significant marijuana reform, while an “F”

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Congressman Jared Polis got an “A” rating, as did Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who represents the 7th Congressional District in western Adams and northern Jefferson counties.

Both have favored marijuana legalization and voted “yes” on the three House amendments NORML used in its scorecard: The McClintock/Polis Amendment (co-sponsored by Polis), which would have kept the Department of Justice from interfering with state-specific recreational marijuana laws, the Rohrabacher/Farr Amendment, which would have done the same thing for medical marijuana, and the Blumenauer Amendment, which would have allowed Veterans Affairs doctors to prescribe medical marijuana in states where it’s allowed.

Polis has also co-sponsored or sponsored six other marijuana reform bills or amendments. Perlmutter co-sponsored five.

Four other members of the Colorado House delegation received “B” grades: Democrats Diana DeGette (Denver), and Republicans Scott Tipton (Cortez), Mike Coffman (Aurora) and Ken Buck (Greeley).

Of the four, the most interesting is Buck, who actively worked against Amendment 64 before he was elected to Congress in 2014. Buck voted “yes” on the McClintock/Polis and Rohrabacher/Farr amendments and co-sponsored the Industrial Hemp Farming Act and the Charlotte’s Web Medical Access Act. Earlier this month, he told me he favored giving marijuana businesses access to banking. He also said that although he opposed Amendment 64, now it’s passed, he wanted to make it work properly.

Republican Doug Lamborn (Colorado Springs) got a “D.” He voted against all three amendments used in the rating system, sponsored no bills and had nothing to say about marijuana reform.

Lamborn’s outlier ranking in the delegation is telling. Even six years ago, it would have been mainstream.

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It may come as a surprise, but not everyone like hugs. Think about it. How do you react when you see those large arms barreling towards you, waiting to envelope you in their strength, unable to escape the hair and body odors that come with it?

Do you flinch? Grimace? Stay stiff hoping it won’t last too long? We sure do. Does it stress you out? Maybe it’s just us. Actually, it probably is just us since there are several studies that show hugging raises oxytocin levels in the brain and helps children emotionally develop.

Wikimedia Commons/Joshua Reynolds However, unlike most humans, dogs don’t like hugs.

According to a study published in Psychology Today, hugs raise dogs’ anxiety levels. Wrapping those firm, ripped arms around a dog in the chokehold you call a hug immobilizes them. Dogs are animals “designed for swift running” to escape threats, and hugging stresses them the eff out.

Don’t believe us? Here are the symptoms of doggy stress: turning their head away from the hugger, licking lips or the person’s face, flattening their ears against their head or closing their eyes, among others signs. So, while these same reactions in humans may be a sign of enjoyment, they are sure signs your dog doesn’t like hugs. So cut it out! The study suggests petting and words of affirmation are better terms of endearment for your furry friend.

YOU SAY POTATO, I SAY POTATO

Although Kobe Bryant was unable to save the LA Lakers from the team’s downfall following their last championship win in 2010 or his personal reputation after the 2003 rape-allegations brought against him by a Colorado hotel employee, it looks as if he’s able to save at least one thing as he heads into retirement — the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck. You know, the red semi-truck that hauls that 6-ton Russet potato around the country seeking charitable contributions and raising awareness for Wikimedia Commons/Keith Allison Idaho’s signature root vegetable.

Yeah, that Great Big Idaho Potato Truck.

It’s rumored the Lakers star asked an ESPN reporter, who also happens to be a spokesperson for the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC), about the truck’s whereabouts before a recent interview. And since then, IPC CEO Frank Muir has argued the celebrity’s acknowledgment of the truck necessitates the IPC’s indefinite funding of the truck’s national tour instead of frying the operation after this year. The current tour covers 25,000 miles and is budgeted to cost the state $70,000. It has scheduled appearances at the Kentucky Derby and on a floating barge in the New York Harbor.

Whew. Glad they aren’t cancelling that.

So let’s give credit where credit is due. Thanks Black Mamba for your storied 20-year NBA career, for all those mind-blowing dunks that left us curious if the defender was still alive, for showing off in especially clutch game-ending plays and for that 81-point game and several other 60-plus ones, including your last. And while you couldn’t stop your own retirement, you were able to stop the Great Big Idaho Potato Truck’s. For that we’re eternally grateful.

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