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Here and There, Part 2: Deportation is only the beginning of the story

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BOULDERGANIC:

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Highroad A clueless dealmaker’s deal goes down

by Jim Hightower

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hy? That’s the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders’ relentless push to demonize and kill Obamacare.

After all, the GOP bragged that they now control the legislative game and would quickly knock Obama’s trademark reform out of the park. And their star slugger was on deck — Donnie Trump, the self-proclaimed

Dealmaker Extraordinaire! He assured his fawning political cronies that selling his “repeal and replace” plan to Congress was no different than selling memberships in his luxury golf resorts.

“It’s the same thing,” he insisted.

“Really, it is.”

So, why did he fail? Most media speculation has focused on the real estate mogul’s inability to grasp the nuances of legislating. True, but the fundamental cause of the embarrassing public collapse of the Trumpcare plan was not about process, but substance.

As a master huckster, Trump could probably sell BS to a feedlot — but this bill was far more repugnant than the stinkiest load of BS. It gutted health care coverage for millions, while also sneaking in nearly a trillion-dollar tax cut for huge corporations and Wall Street speculators.

Even some Republican lawmakers gagged on the stench. But the real story is that the American people themselves — including many working-class voters who had believed Trump was actually going to help them — got a whiff of the nasty stuff he was peddling. Alerted by grassroots groups like Our Revolution and Indivisible, a mass rebellion erupted in the home districts of Republican congress critters who were selling out the health of America’s workaday majority.

As the protests spread and dozens of GOP lawmakers washed their hands of his bill, Trump was exposed as a clueless dealmaker, repeatedly asking his staff: “Is this really a good bill?”

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the anderson files What we need to learn from Viking economics

by Dave Anderson

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n these days of Trumpian madness, George Lakey offers hope for progressives looking for strategies of social change. He has written a wonderful book entitled Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got it Right — and How We Can, Too (Melville House, 2016), which is both scholarly and warmly personal.

Lakey recently retired from Swarthmore College where he was Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change. He has spent a lot of time off and on for decades in Scandinavia where he learned about “the Nordic model” of economy which consistently places Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden at the top tier of international ratings for education, abundance of jobs, health care and even happiness.

It all started in 1959 when a 21-year-old Lakey fell in love with Berit Mathiesen, a Norwegian woman he had met at a Quaker student project. He sailed to Norway to marry her and ended up living, studying and working there.

In the 1960s, the couple came back to the U.S., and Lakey became a sociologist and activist. He went south to train civil rights workers in nonviolence and civil disobedience. During the Vietnam War, he sailed through the war zone on a Quaker peace ship to deliver medical supplies and publicize the anti-war movement. He has led over 1,500 workshops on social change and education on five continents. He has co-founded and led numerous organizations and campaigns for justice and peace. He has written for Waging Nonviolence, Common Dreams, and YES! Magazine.

Lakey says the Nordic countries don’t have welfare states in the sense of the U.S. word welfare. For Americans, welfare refers to social services which are stingy, means-tested programs for the poor that aren’t properly funded and are vulnerable to political attack because they are resented by many who live just above the poverty line.

By contrast, Lakey says the Nordics have “universal service states.”

Everyone receives high-quality, publicly-financed health care, child care, education, transportation and pensions.

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The people who benefit the most are the political majority composed of the working and middle classes. If a politician proposes to undermine the quality of the universal systems, the majority launches a defense.

He describes what this system looks like: “In Norway, all babies can be born in birth centers and hospitals without regard to income, and all moms and dads can take time off from work with pay to take care of the young ones. All parents have access to day care. All parents, whatever their means, automatically get a family allowance for children below the age of 18. This applies to all adopted children, and to same-sex parents.

“Education is free to all, as is retraining for a new job and support while looking for one. Public transportation is subsidized for all, and so are tickets to the new opera house in Oslo.”

The Nordic model emphasizes economic security, efficiency and productivity. Lakey contrasts this to the U.S. economy model based on insecurity, high unemployment and a fear of poverty and hunger.

Lakey says the Nordic countries’ high taxes and regulation do not stifle business and entrepreneurship. Their productivity rates are much higher than ours — and they have a shorter workweek.

The rate of start-up firms in Norway and Denmark is markedly higher than the U.S. Researchers from the U.S. found that Nordic entrepreneurs are greater risk-takers because they don’t worry about old student debt, retirement and medical expenses.

Scandinavians understand that entrepreneurs aren’t the only “job creators.”

Lakey notes, “Although Nordics value the vision, risk and innovation contributed by entrepreneurs, they have a more complicated view of who lays the golden eggs. For one thing, they think the workers do a very large share of the egg-laying, which is why they invest so heavily in human capital and get higher productivity from their workers than in many countries. For another thing, their track record with see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

guest column Regulating their way to destruction

By Cliff Willmeng

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n Colorado, politicians gave up the idea of sane conversation regarding oil and gas drilling, climate change and the general preservation of the environment some time ago. It’s really no mystery. As the fossil fuel industry was welcomed to the state with bipartisan public relations campaigns, the world scientific community was issuing alarms about the survival of the very planet.

Undeterred and faithful to their party leadership, various administrators from the state down to the municipal level took up their scripts with varying degrees of enthusiasm. This has played out with increasing contradiction and death defying logic across the state up until the present moment.

The latest officials to advance this industry-oriented narrative are the Boulder County Commissioners. On March 23, Elise Jones, Cindy Domenico and Deb Garner, all calling themselves, “environmentalists” of one kind or another, voted in favor of regulations that champion the drilling of at least 1,800 oil and gas wells across Boulder County. To be sure, they are selling these talking points hard, with glowing quotes from each commissioner that call the regulations “comprehensive,” “inclusive” and “protective.” The only problem is that the regulations have no basis in scientific reality. Every commissioner admits within their script that instead of

comprehensive protection of the people, the environment and our climate, the priority of the regulations was to appease the state and the industry that controls it.

The commissioners are once again attempting to turn Boulder County into a major industrial center, a leading producer of ozone pollution, volatile organic compounds, and greenhouse gas emissions. They’re not alone either.

While Donald Trump denies climate change at the nation’s capital, the commissioners are about to deny it here in Boulder County. Have no fear. While the drilling will contribute to a full spectrum of human health problems and environmental destruction, it’ll at least not significantly offend Anadarko Petroleum and the state legislature.

It’s no different at the state capital either, which is of course where any conscientious person addressing the commissioners on this topic is sent to find remedy. In the same year Dr. Lisa McKenzie found that children living within 10 miles of oil and gas activity are at significantly increased risk for childhood leukemia, State Representative Mike Foote introduced legislation to protect youth by moving wells away from schools. The setback distance, which he argues is going to ease the toxic burden, is less than a quarter mile. It makes for a decent feel see GUEST COLUMN Page 8

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cooperatives, state-owned and municipal-owned enterprises gives them a positive perception of other sources of egg-laying.”

Lakey acknowledges that the Nordic countries aren’t utopias. There is discrimination against the Sami, the nomadic Indigenous people of Scandinavia. As immigration rates rose, there was an increase in racism and xenophobia. Statoil, the oil company mostly owned by the Norwegian government, has been a major investor in the Canadian tar sands. However, Lakey argues that Scandinavians are responding to these problems. The Sami have made significant progress.

The public forced Statoil to divest from its tar sands holdings. Public opinion polls show that there is con-

siderable support for immigrants and ethnic diversity.

He emphasizes that the Nordic “universal services” states aren’t the result of some cultural quirk but emerged in response to an ugly social order with “a huge wealth gap, major poverty and a pretend democracy.” It took many decades of hard struggle by militant labor movements and social democratic parties to end the dominance of an arrogant economic elite.

We can also fight our 1 percent and win. Look at what our labor and civil rights movements accomplished in the past. We can take charge of our country and make big changes.

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good measure at least, as it’s likely Foote doesn’t even expect the measure to pass. As long ago as 2013, he told concerned residents of Lafayette, “Nothing passes the Colorado legislature that oil and gas does not want passed.”

Fortunately, people in growing numbers are rejecting the insane conversations of 21st-century Republican Party climate denial and the regular Democratic Party enabling of the fossil fuel industry. Boulder County residents in particular haven’t been able to fully drink this Kool-Aid and new rounds of thoughtful, conscientious and informed organizing is taking place. People, perhaps growing impatient with the comprehensive lack of answers from politicians, or perhaps taking up the spirit galvanized at Standing Rock are beginning to train in nonviolent civil disobedience.

Across the eastern county and in the city of Boulder itself, people are learning and ready to say, “No more.”

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If the commissioners are committed to administering the destruction of the County, they’ll have to do so by employing acts of violence and legal coercion against Boulder County residents through the same police force their tax dollars fund. These are the traditional means to break people in times of great social contradiction, and it will place the commissioners in the same historic role as other officials presiding over such times. Respecting the state and industry, when people are no longer willing to play along, carry their own costs.

To all of those ready to fight like your lives depend on it and protect Boulder County from the drills and the administrators giving them open space, thank you. In these times the world needs you more than ever. To those of you wondering what it means to join a genuine movement, we hope to find you at our side.

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letters Disappointed in commissioners

I am gravely disappointed that the Boulder County Commissioners are not following the will of their constituents to ban fracking. Both Longmont and Lafayette citizens already VOTED to ban. Yes, the state government has usurped the power to protect our own local environment and it is undemocratic, illegitimate and immoral to subject our people to the health risks; to subject the land and air to pollution; and push further climate change, just so that more profits can be extracted from the Earth. We won’t stand by while the risk increases for our children to get asthma or leukemia, or be born prematurely or while our natural right to a clean and healthy environment is stripped away from us.

Know that we will not give up, even if the County Commissioners seem to have. Their political powers are supposed to be derived from those very people who voted against fracking — not the Democratic Party, the Colorado state government or the oil and gas industry. They need to take a stand, even if it means lawsuits, and pass the Climate Bill of Rights, guaranteeing our right to a healthy climate and protecting those engaged in direct action to protect our climate from arrest.

Al Gore says, “Fight as though the world depends on it.” It does. Fracking is just the tip of the iceberg. The loss of our community rights to enforce our will for a clean environment is making us a colony of the oil and gas industry in our state. We want to prevent our families from be destroyed by disease, our communities from being repressed by the corporate agenda, our water and air from defilement. We will continue to fight as though the world depends on it.

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A year and half ago, the Guerrero family left everything behind in Aurora, Colorado.

Restarting in Mexico has been a challenge, but at least they’re together.

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

Eventually, Sofia had little choice but to take her three youngest children, all U.S. citizens, to Mexico in an effort to keep the family together. Needless to say, it’s been a very difficult transition for them.

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

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riving in Mexico can be chaotic. The traffic in Mexico City is crushing as millions of cars ignore lane lines and swerve around each other in a frenzied dance.

Though the road from Mexico City to the mountainous town of Ixmiquilpan is virtually empty, the chaos returns as my translator drives into the town center on narrow cobblestone and pothole-filled streets. A sedan carrying more people than seat-belts cuts in front of us, a large Denver Bronco’s decal decorating the back window, a good omen I’m thinking to myself.

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Mexico City, Ixmiquilpan, including the surrounding mountain villages, is home to 94,000 people, a third of whom speak an indigenous language.

Water parks line the highway leading into town and help account for why tourism is the area’s only major industry. The Mexican central bank estimates that more than $100 million comes into the local economy from money sent back from family members living outside of Mexico.

Sofia and Luis live in a two-story concrete block house in a small neighborhood off of a partially paved road. They complain about the erratic traffic as we park. Both learned to drive in the U.S., and it’s one of many adjustments they’ve had to make since returning to Mexico.

A large metal door opens into a dark living area, shades drawn to block out the powerful sun that would quickly overheat the small home. Bright, lime-green chipped paint covers the walls. The home is relatively bare, moving boxes still stacked in the corner.

When Sofia first arrived in Ixmiquilpan, she still hoped the move wouldn’t be permanent. Even a year and a half later, they only have the fundamentals: a table and chairs, couches and bunkbeds for the girls. Their clothes are hung on a single rod propped up between stacks of old milk cartons; Shoes are piled on the floor beneath. A mattress on a simple wooden frame sits in one corner of Sofia and Luis’ room. Next to it, an old milk crate on its side functions as both a nightstand and a dresser for Lucy’s clothes. It’s covered by a red piece of cloth with a framed photo of Sofia and Luis in front of a Christmas tree in their old home back in Aurora. Toddlers Andy and Jenny pose with them.

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Sofia shows me her wedding dress, wrapped in plastic and stored in one of several suitcases under the bed. “See, I kept my luggage in case I get to go back,” she says.

Downstairs, framed wedding photos are displayed on top of moving boxes covered by another tapestry, underneath a mounted flat screen TV. They had a large framed wedding photo, but it was lost in a suitcase that somehow never made it to Mexico.

Important files are stacked on top of the fridge in the kitchen. The stove stands against one wall, a simple metal shelf with two burners connected to a fuel line running from the back patio, which also serves as an open air laundry room, with a metal staircase leading to the second floor.

This is all that is left of their old life back in the U.S. Sofia sold most of their belongings in yard sales before leaving Aurora. She sold most of Luis’ tools, all the furniture and Melody’s bicycle, something the 9-year-old especially misses. They only kept what could fit in suitcases or be packed in Luis’ work truck, which they hired a friend to drive down to Ixmiquilpan for them.

“I miss everything,” Sofia says. “Denver is special.

My kids were born there, they grew up there. We made our life there.”

• • • • After a heart-rending goodbye with her oldest child Andy in Denver, Sofia, Melody and Lucy took comfort in a joyful welcome in Ixmiquilpan when they first arrived.

“I don’t know what it feels like to win the lottery because I’ve never won,” Luis says. “But when I saw them I think it was way better than winning the lottery ... It’s happier to be with your kids and with your family.”

However, the celebratory reunion was short-lived.

In reality, many of the family’s challenges were only beginning.

Like Luis, returning to Mexico wasn’t a homecoming for Sofia. She had also crossed the U.S. southern border as a teenager, leaving behind what she describes as a difficult childhood, full of responsibility and violence both at home and in the world.

Given Sofia’s complicated family history, the decision to settle in Ixmiquilpan near her parents wasn’t easy and the reunification has been difficult. In many ways, Sofia and Luis have less support and community in Mexico than they ever did in the U.S. “There were way more people who took me to the airport in Denver to say goodbye than there were people here in Mexico to welcome me back,” Sofia says. “That’s what makes me sad. In the U.S. there was always someone. And I feel alone here.”

The family may have been mostly back together in Mexico, but as time passed, neither Sofia nor Luis could find reliable work. Sofia set up a food cart at the end of their street, making whatever money she could. Luis picked up odd jobs at construction sites here and there, but it’s an industry largely reliant on who you know and who you’ve worked with before — relationships Luis spent the last 20 years building in the U.S., while he knew no one in Ixmiquilpan.

“I know how to work but it’s frustrating to start from scratch,” he says.

In the U.S., he spent decades building trust with contractors. Starting by cleaning up job sites, then Boulder Weekly

mixing cement, he eventually learned how to frame a house, install drywall and paint. In Mexico, the bosses asked him why he spent time being so precise in his measurements.

“That’s how I learned to work, with rules. In the U.S. if you don’t respect the rules then you don’t pass inspection,” he says. “And I won’t change how I do things, because then I wouldn’t be true to myself. It wouldn’t be me.”

Luis says he used to make up to $80 a day working in the U.S. All of a sudden he was making less than $10 a day. When someone stole the battery from their car parked outside the house, Luis had to work for a week to get the money to pay for a new one.

“Here you have to make small payments to get a pair of tennis shoes,” he says. “And if you’re paying for them slowly, then once you’re done paying for them, the tennis shoes are all worn out so you have to start all over.”

Enrolling the girls in school was another obstacle Sofia faced. Transferring credits from their schools in Colorado proved difficult. She also had to “make contacts” at certain schools to even give Jenny and Melody the chance of taking entrance exams. The tests were challenging for both girls, mostly because of new Spanish vocabulary and Mexican history. Melody especially had excelled in school in Colorado, and now she found herself struggling to understand basic concepts.

“It’s not like when you come from Mexico to the U.S. and they have programs like ESL and they separate them according to their needs,” Sofia says. “They don’t have that here.”

Sofia constantly questions her decision to move the girls to Mexico, afraid that they will fall behind in school, that it will be her fault if they aren’t able to advance.

“In the U.S. they care more for the kids, they give them more attention, they teach them more and the schools are safer,” she says. “The teachers are more committed. I was not worried about them at school.

They would give them food, they had a complete schedule.”

Jenny started high school in Ixmiquilpan, at a technical school studying computer science.

The first day of school, Jenny had butterflies wondering if it would be the same as school in Colorado.

She says it’s something Andy hasn’t seen his she always wondered family since August 2015, about, even when visitwhen he visited them in Ixmiquilpan. From left to ing her grandparents in right: Jenny, Lucy, Luis, Mexico. She realized Sofia, Melody and Andy very quickly it was not the same. No lockers, no hallways, no school dances, no changing classes.

With only 45 students in her program compared to more than 2,000 students at Aurora Central High, she struggled to make friends. In Colorado, she played the flute and always planned to play in the high school band with her best friend. The school in Mexico doesn’t have a band.

“It was hard,” Jenny says about starting school. Her teachers treated her differently, she says, like someone learning Spanish for the first time, despite the fact she has spoken the language since birth. They’d go over sentences word by word, words letter by letter. “It’s frustrating,” she says.

The high school is 25 minutes away, requiring two separate van rides to get there, each way costing 14 pesos, 28 for the day, 140 ($7.5) for the week. Add that to the cost of registration, books and other supplies plus additional charges for tests, and it’s almost too much for Sofia and Luis. Then there’s the additional cleaning fees each family must pay if the parents can’t come on the designated day to clean their kids’ schools themselves.

“You have to go. If you don’t go they charge you 100 pesos. And when you work the day you get 150 pesos,” Luis says. “Everything is about money here. If we were in the U.S. we wouldn’t have all these needs.”

Eventually, Sofia and Luis felt like they had no choice but to sell the truck to save money on gas. They advertised it for $30,000 pesos (approximately $1,600) in the window. Soon after, Luis got a call from a man saying he had taken his daughters and demanding the exact amount of money that was on the truck window to ensure their safe return.

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— threats of kidnapping and extortion were too commonplace for them to expend their resources.

“The U.S. is safer than being here, even having to worry about immigration,” he says.

• • • • While the rest of his family tried to figure out their new life in Mexico, Andy was left to figure out his own way in Colorado. At first he questioned his decision to stay behind, but spending summers with his grandparents, Andy witnessed life firsthand in Ixmiquilpan. He saw a life of six-day work weeks and church on Sunday, repetitive days, weeks and years that were hardly distinguished from each other.

“I don’t want to do the same thing over and over for 20 years, 30 years, 40,” he says. “I’m like my dad, we like doing different things. We don’t like doing the same thing over and over. ...

“I saw no hope down in Mexico.”

Andy set his sights on college, willing to make whatever sacrifice was necessary. He was, in large part, inspired by Luis, who before being put in immigration detention was helping Andy apply for academic college prep scholarships. The time they spent together doing this was special, which made it all the more painful when Andy was awarded $25,000 from the Boys Hope Girls Hope Academy and Luis wasn’t there to celebrate.

When Sofia and his sisters first left, Andy was offered a place to stay at the Boys Hope residential center at little to no cost. They would have provided shelter, food and even clothes when Andy needed it.

But Andy refused.

“I wanted the taste of responsibility. I wanted to know what it will feel like in five years when I’m on my own,” Andy says. He pauses and looks down at the table for a moment. “I didn’t get the taste, I got the full meal.”

Andy bounced around different living situations, staying with his uncle and cousins, then with some friends and their parents. He usually paid rent and bought his own food, bearing the responsibility of a young adult first out on his own while still in high school. He often had little privacy, sleeping on the floor or in makeshift rooms in closets. He was often frustrated, watching other teenagers fight with their parents or do just enough to get by in school. He was angry that they could hug and kiss their parents and he couldn’t, frustrated by what he perceived as their 12 April 6, 2017

ingratitude.

In order to escape, he stayed at school as long as possible most days to study, sometimes until after 8 p.m., or whenever they kicked him out. And he picked up a job at Jack in the Box, struggling to make it on minimum wage.

“That was good, but I gained weight eating a lot of burgers,” he says with a slight chuckle. “And then I realized this wasn’t going to help. I was just working to pay, working to pay.”

Still, he refused help from his parents, insisting any extra money they had be spent on his little sisters.

He told his mom, “If you ever send me money, I’m not going to accept it. No matter what condition I’m in, even if I’m sleeping outside on the corner, I’m not going to accept it because you have my three little sisters. I want you to look out for them.”

Sofia was mad, but Andy was unmoved. Instead, he quit his job at the fast food restaurant and started a new one at Best Buy. He also cleaned one house that Sofia’s former company still contracted with. He sent the money he earned cleaning to his mom in Mexico.

Though resolute in his decision, in retrospect he also acknowledges in some ways it was prideful to refuse help.

Sofia’s conversations with Andy over the phone tore her apart. When Andy asked advice for “a friend,” Sofia knew it was for him — when he didn’t have a place to sleep, when he was sick and didn’t know what medicine to take, when he struggled and called his mom for help, but still tried not to worry her.

“What hurts me the most is to be far from him. I don’t want him to think that I left him. I don’t want him to think that I love his sisters more than him, because God knows that’s not true,” Sofia says. “I just wanted the best for everyone.”

Despite his hardships and loneliness, Andy finished his junior year, applied for colleges early, and made plans to visit his family in Ixmiquilpan for summer break.

After several months apart, he spent the entire summer of 2015 with them.

“I know it wasn’t like being back home here, but being with them was the best thing,” he says.

He took his parents to buy bunk beds for the girls’ room and took them out to dinner. They went to the water park and sat around in the evening watching TV. He encouraged Jenny and Melody to speak to

Lucy in English, Left: Even after a hard afraid that the toddler day’s work drywalling, with plaster still in his would lose her bilinhair, being with his gual skills. “I want her family means everything to Luis. Right: Luis and his to have that language daughters explore their to fall back on in case new town. anything happens,” he says.

Everything made sense again. Andy fell back into his role as oldest sibling and son, so much so that he didn’t want to come back to Colorado. But then toward the end of the summer, he checked his email and found his first college acceptance letter, and he knew he had to leave. The family celebrated together, and threw Andy an early 17th birthday party.

Then it was time to say goodbye.

“That was the worst part,” Andy says.

• • • • Frustrated by the lack of work and the growing anxiety over his girls’ safety, around Mother’s Day 2016 Luis went to visit his dad in Nuevo León. He found himself in the cemetery again, seated at his mom’s grave in a state of grief once more. Just a year earlier, he had sat there with his dad, agonizing over whether or not he should try and cross the border once again. Knowing his girls deserved more was always on his mind. This time, Luis decided he needed to try again. He didn’t see any other option. If he could make it back to Colorado, Sofia could send the girls back to their friends and schools — back home.

But he knew it was impossible for him to make the journey on his own, no matter how well he knew the way. Human smugglers and drug traffickers — narcos, Luis calls them — control the routes, often demanding large payments in return for safe passage. Luis paid a friend of a friend to help avoid the drug cartels and cross safely, but instead the man delivered Luis into their hands.

“The plan they had for me was not to kidnap me or anything like that. Their plan for me was to work for them, to give me drugs and make me cross the border,” he says. “They told me I have to work for them and if not they’re going to kill me.”

Luis says they made copies of his Mexican ID and took all the money he had with him, although he had hidden his bank cards in his underwear.They took him deep into the woods where he saw people beating others with wooden panels, demanding that they carry Boulder Weekly

backpacks full of drugs across the border.

Luis says they told him they would send him to Matamoros, a border town on the northeastern coast of Mexico, then they would make him cross at night and in a few days he’d be in Houston, free to do whatever he pleased. But he had heard too many stories to believe these promises. He knew that often times once the drugs are delivered, the cartel would take the mula — the drug smuggler — back to Mexico to do the same journey all over again.

Luis rarely drinks alcohol, let alone partakes in any other sort of drug use. He couldn’t fathom a life tied up with the cartels, even if it meant he would eventually be able to return to the U.S. Plus, there was always the chance he’d be caught with the drugs by American officials, further tainting his U.S. record and complicating any possibility of legally returning to Aurora.

After the meeting in the woods, he says the cartel took him to a hotel for the night, leaving a guard to watch him.

Angela K. Evans But in the middle of the night, Luis was able to escape, hiding out in a nearby church until morning. He called Sofia and asked her to put money in the bank account, enough to hire a taxi to take him back to Monterrey where he could catch a bus to Ixmiquilpan. He knew he could never try to cross the border without papers again. If the cartel ever saw him again, he wouldn’t escape with his life. He knew that he was leaving Nuevo León for good, never to return to his mom’s grave or his childhood home.

“I think when you write this article, people will think, ‘This guy is lying,’” he says. “But maybe people will read it and they also went through things and they will know this is reality. If I have gone through things like this, there are people that have been through worse things. You never know what can be worse.”

On a rare day off, Luis wakes up Sunday • • • • morning refreshed to On a Sunday morning three months later, Luis make breakfast for his daughters. wakes up refreshed. Clapping his hands together in the kitchen, he announces he’s going to make breakfast for everyone. Sofia is already at work managing a restaurant at a local hotel, finally securing a stable job the week before I arrive.

Luis stands at the small kitchen counter next to the sink, carefully cutting onions, peppers and sausages to make his girls omelettes. He also boils water to make his coffee, the first cup of many for the day.

Luis drinks coffee relentlessly. Here, it’s Nescafé in small clay mugs. He reminisces about his early mornings in Aurora — making a large pot of coffee at home, then stopping by the 7-11 on his way to the job site for more, filling an extra large cup to the brim. He needs to find bigger mugs, he says, draining his cup.

As we talk, the girls eat and then move to the couch. With the TV on in the background, Melody covers her schoolbooks in plastic, Jenny looks at her phone. But several times I glance over and can tell they are intently listening to their dad’s stories.

A small ice cream truck circles around the block outside playing jack-in-the-box music louder and louder. Lucy stands on the couch and looks out the window, watching for it to pass by.

Luis has the day off from work and it’s the first time I’ve seen him without specks of plaster covering his clothes, even dotting his hair. He would like to start his own construction company again, this time in Mexico. But it’s almost impossible now that he sold his work truck and shares a small red hatchback with Sofia. For about a month, he’s been helping to build medical offices close by and the boss recently noticed the precision he uses whether he is framing or putting up drywall.

As a result, his boss has offered him work whenever there is a job.

While this potential for more consistent work is promising, Luis knows nothing in Mexico is guaranteed. “Maybe I will work this week and then next week and maybe for a month. But what if I don’t have more work for a week or two? Where do you get the money from?” he says. “But I believe better times will come.”

To be continued.

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NEWS Air Flynn

The Russian connections to Michael Flynn’s Turkish benefactor

by Joel Dyer

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n early March, President Trump’s former national security adviser and campaign trail confidant Michael Flynn registered as a “foreign agent” with the Department of Justice. The reason Flynn filed this particular paperwork stemmed from his namesake firm having been paid approximately $450,000 of a $530,000 contract to work for Inovo BV, a Dutch consulting firm, during a threemonth period in 2016 spanning from September to November.

Inovo has strong ties to the Republic of Turkey. It is part of a group of companies overseen by Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin who acknowledges that he, along with his company, put up the funds that found their way to Flynn.

To date, news reports have focused on Alptekin’s close relationship to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and have suggested the money was paid to influence the Trump administration’s positions on Turkey’s political interests. Alptekin claims the money was paid to Flynn to evaluate geopolitical concerns of one of his clients having to do with a gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey.

The news media has also speculated that Alptekin and his Turkish political connections are primarily interested in using Flynn as a channel to convince the Trump administration to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Turkish cleric who Erdogan claims was at the center of the failed coup to overthrow his government in July 2016. Gulen currently resides in rural Pennsylvania and has denied any involvement in the coup.

In recent days, it has even been reported that early Trump supporter and former CIA director James Woolsey Jr. claims to have attended a meeting allegedly arranged by Alptekin in which Flynn and Turkish officials openly discussed kidnapping Gulen and spiriting him out of the U.S. Boulder Weekly

All this is to say there is certainly circumstantial evidence to suggest that Gulen was indeed a focal point of Alptekin’s relationship to Flynn. But the controversial cleric was not the only Turkish political issue likely being influenced by the payments and perhaps, in the big picture, not even the most important one.

This Boulder Weekly investigation has found a web of previously unreported connections between Alptekin, Russia and others with interesting ties to the Trump administration and even Trump himself — including Russian oligarchs, United Arab Emirates (UAE) real estate developers, Russian banking scandals and even Vladimir Putin having made appearances in Alptekin’s past business dealings. And based on Alptekin’s interviews conducted with publications in Turkey, it seems that he has had contact with more members of the Trump inner circle than just Michael Flynn.

On Nov. 13, 2016, just five days after the U.S. presidential elections, Alptekin told the Hurriyet Daily News — a newspaper owned by Turkish billionaire Aydın Dogan, the developer of the Trump Towers Istanbul — in regards to Trump, “We have spoken with his advisers and security team to understand what their vision is for the Middle East and Syria.”

“Advisers and security team” certainly sounds like he had contacts with more Trump insiders than just Michael Flynn.

And consider this revelation from the same interview. When pressed by the reporter as to why he had so much confidence in Trump being the best choice

for U.S. president when it comes to Turkey’s interests, Alptekin said, “First of all, we have more than a feeling for what vision they have for this region. We know who these people are; we know what their backgrounds are. We have a good idea who will be considered for some critical positions and who [we] will deal with.”

More than a feeling indeed. Five days after the U.S. election and Alptekin claims to already know people within Trump’s inner circle as well as who the newly elected U.S. president is going to name to several critical positions. That’s far more than the American people knew about Trump’s future plans at that time.

But Alptekin’s inside information doesn’t end there. He seems to already know Trump’s intentions for Syria.

He told Hurriyet, “...It has been a consistent U.S. policy objective to have a Syria without al-Assad. But there are realities on the ground. When you look at the U.S., Russia, Turkey triangle with the current and upcoming leadership, I see a more fruitful and more productive prospect than Clinton, with Putin and Erdogan sitting together. ... By the way, the Russian-U.S. partnership and the

Russian-Turkish partnership will be at best transactional. ... Problems in the neighborhood create a necessity to cooperate together. The new administration has indicated through various statements and articles that it values this strategic relationship and will discuss a shared vision for the region. I think that with this strategic relationship and enjoying a transactional productive relationship with Russia will bring better results on the ground in Syria.”

It could be argued that from this and other interviews in Turkish media, Alptekin’s primary interest in influencing the Trump administration may have been to facilitate a temporary unified front in Syria consisting of Russia, the U.S. and Turkey — with an emphasis on excluding the Kurds who are currently fighting ISIS with the support of the U.S. This motive is particularly important in light of recent changes in U.S. foreign policy toward Syria wherein Alptekin’s prediction for a closer U.S./Russia/ Turkey alliance seems to be unfolding even as this article is being written.

As of April 4, U.S. Secretary of State See FLYNN Page 16

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Rex Tillerson is in Ankara, Turkey, meeting with officials of that country including President Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how best to attack the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, ISIS’ proclaimed capital, without including Kurdish forces, at least that’s the stated Turkish reason for the meeting.

Yildirim has previously made statements in the press that the U.S. risks permanently damaging its relationship with Turkey should it continue to support the Kurdish forces. Alptekin’s statements in Turkish media have been similar. He told Hurriyet, “angering 80 million Turks over a tactical interest in a small geographical area in Syria with 20,000 members of the PYD [Democratic Union Party] does not make sense to me. We know it is an [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK affiliate, and they know it too.”

Turkey has long considered the PKK and PYD to be Kurdish terrorist organizations. The U.S. has always considered them allies in their military efforts in Iraq and Syria.

Historical tensions in the region explain Turkey’s and Alptekin’s view of the Kurds, but why does Alptekin seem so cozy with Russia and so sure that Trump and Russia will form a productive alliance?

While we can’t know the answer to that question for certain, we can look at Alptekin’s prior interactions with powerful Russian interests for clues.

EA Group Alptekin runs an umbrella company called EA Group. Within that organization are several companies specializing in specific industries.

He is executive vice president and chairman of the board of Eclipse Aerospace Inc. Also under the EA Group umbrella he owns real estate and defense companies in Turkey, including EA Construction and ATH Defense and Security Solutions A.S. His bio also claims he is a major investor in several other leading companies.

So Alptekin is apparently an arms dealer. According to industry literature, ATH Defense and Security Solutions provides “a large spectrum of products including Aerospace and Avionics Systems, Electric and Electronic systems, Ships and Vessels, Explosives, Ammunitions, Land Systems, Naval Systems, Missiles and Ground to Air Defense Systems, Homeland Security Systems, Simulation and Training Systems, Digital Video-Audio Transmission Systems, Night Vision, Surveillance and Counter Surveillance, etc.”

ATH works in several regions around the world and provides security and firepower for companies as well as countries. It is unclear which countries provide ATH with its weaponry but in the world of arms dealers it’s usually whichever country can get them what they need to fill an order — the U.S., Russia, Germany, etc.

As for real estate, Alptekin’s companies have built several very high-end projects in Turkey to date including at least two high-rise buildings and a condo project wherein individual units sell for over a million dollars.

They are a serious player in the global real estate market.

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Emaar is the company behind the famed Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building at more than 160 floors. It’s the building made famous in the Mission Impossible movie wherein Tom Cruise spent some time scaling its exterior. But more importantly, in 2007 the building was still under construction and Emaar founder and chairman Mohomed Alabbar was still considering branding opportunities for his new creation. In a recent interview with What’s on Dubai, Alabbar says that while the building was being constructed, he met with Donald Trump who at that time was attempting to convince him that he should pay Trump an annual fee to use his name on the new tower.

This is the business world wherein Alptekin has been operating for years.

Over time, Eclipse aviation failed to deliver its light jets in the number and at the low cost it had promised. Many of those who had put up significant down payments sought to get their money back.

Alptekin’s ownership of Eclipse Aerospace Original investors like Bill Gates were long Inc. that is most revealing. gone. The company had spent nearly $2 This screenshot of Connecting the dots within the ownbillion and was heading for bankruptcy. a 2008 clip from ership of Eclipse is a wild ride to be sure.

That’s when things got really strange.

AVweb shows Russian President The company was founded in 1998 by Supposedly, as a way to save the comVladimir Putin former Microsoft employee Vern Raburn pany, ETIRC decided to sink another checking out an Eclipse Aviation who solicited a major investment from his $100 to $150 million dollars into Eclipse, jet. old boss Bill Gates who became one of making ETIRC the company’s largest the company’s major shareholders. shareholder. In fact, ETIRC, along with Eclipse was launched with the expectation another company called Martilio Holdings that it would revolutionize the light private jet industry. Limited, reportedly owned nearly 70 percent of The idea was to produce 1,000 small, two-engine jets a Eclipse at that time. year at a price of $800,000 each, a tiny fraction of what Pieper took over as CEO in 2008 with a boldother private jets cost at the time. sounding plan.

The company’s vision drew interest from all over By the end of that year, Eclipse had filed for the world, particularly with Gates’ name attached to Chapter 11 bankruptcy with an interesting strategy for the project. More than 2,600 planes were ordered. reorganizing the business. Eclipse was going to build a By 2003 a new investor had appeared. European new manufacturing plant in Ulyanovsk, Russia by way Technology and Investment Research Company of a new $205 million loan from Russian state bank (ETIRC) was interested in running an air taxi service VEB. Several media accounts from the Netherlands, and selling Eclipse jets in Turkey, Russia and Ukraine, Turkey and Russia at the time indicated that a full as well as other Commonwealth of Independent States $100 million of the investment was being personally (CIS) countries. guaranteed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. A ETIRC was an investment company founded by September 2008 article in AVweb, an aviation magatechnology pioneer Roel Pieper of the Netherlands and zine, showed a photo of Putin inspecting an Eclipse jet Russian businessman and oligarch Evgeny Bolotin who in front of TV cameras. Court documents concerning goes by Daniel Bolotin in most of his business dealings the Eclipse bankruptcy filed in Delaware also indicate with the West. By 2006, ETIRC was referring to that Eclipse was interacting with Putin who had perAlptekin as its Turkish business partner in Eclipse. sonally approved the deal.

In May 2007, ETIRC signed another deal with a So the known major players in Eclipse by 2008 Turkish twist. This time it formed a joint venture with were Pieper, Bolotin, Putin, Martilio, Atasay (a partner Atasay, one of the most successful luxury goods and real of Emaar) and Alptekin. But that would soon be estate companies in Turkey. Atasay placed an order for changing.

The global banking crisis hit in full force in late 120 Eclipse model 500 jets with an option for 60 more.

2008 and ETIRC’s reorganization plan fell apart. VEB The new venture was to control all sales and services never produced the funds and Eclipse was forced into while also offering a jet taxi service throughout the Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Back to that in a moment. region.

Another casualty of the banking crisis was Russia’s Atasay CEO Cihan Kamer is also a well-connected Svyaz-Bank. The collapse of Svyaz-Bank was one of businessman with significant political influence. In a the largest financial disasters to hit the Russian banking press release announcing the new venture with Eclipse, system. According to bank investigators, the bank failed Atasay also noted that it had entered a $1 billion partbecause it had been using a scheme for playing the nership in Turkey with Emaar Properties and planned securities markets. The bank bought securities then to spend another $5 billion with Emaar over the next took out loans on them, repossessed them and used its five years. Emaar Properties is the largest developer in money to buy more securities. The technique was the world and is located in Dubai, UAE. Boulder Weekly

repeated until the bank became extremely overexposed to the markets and had to develop yet another scheme for hiding its overexposure from the central bank’s regulators.

It’s hard to say exactly what the improprieties of Svyaz-Bank were based on the translated descriptions from Russian banking documents, but it suffices to say they were serious.

A investigation into Svyaz-Bank found that it had created nine “technical companies” which were secretly owned by Svyaz-Bank and used to invest in ventures and buy securities with fully uncollateralized loans. One of the banks’ nine technical companies was Martilio Holdings Limited, the investor in Eclipse which owned nearly 15 percent of the company.

Martilio is a Cypress-based company, which can be seen having ties to numerous other Cypress-based business entities via the Panama Papers, which were released by WikiLeaks in early 2016. The Panama Papers have been used by journalists to expose a vast network of offshore banking that is being used to shelter profits and/or launder ill-gotten gains from around the world. Cypress has become perhaps best Promotional photo: DEIK Foreign known as the banking system preferred by Economic Relations Board wealthy Russians for hiding their money and getting it out of Russia.

But the collapse of Svyaz-Bank exposed more than just Martilio. It also sparked an investigation into the $150 million loan given to ETIRC founding oligarch Daniel Bolotin. That loan also appears to have been made without any collateral backing. And it was not the only unsecured loan to find its way to ETIRC from Svyaz-Bank. Bank regulators found that several uncollateralized loans appear to have been made to ETIRC projects launched by Pieper and Bolotin, including nearly $40 million for a publishing venture and a GPS system manufacturing company, both of which failed.

These unsecured loans are apparently still under investigation, although no one has ever Ekim Alptekin is the Turkish businessman at the heart of the been charged with a crime. One bank official Michael Flynn controversy. described what happened at Eclipse as a great “technology scheme” where tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars were loaned just as the company went into bankruptcy. All the money vanished and no one seems to know where it went.

Those who follow the money-laundering world have noted that such bankruptcies can be an effective way to hide or clean money. That’s not to say that is what happened in this case.

So what ultimately happened to Eclipse?

In August 2009, one lone bidder offered to purchase Eclipse Aviation out of Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The lone bid was for $40 million and came from Eclipse Aerospace, Ekim Alptekin’s newly created company. Nearly a billion dollars in debt was wiped out by the bankruptcy and even Alptekin has admitted he was thrilled to be able to buy what he saw as billions in research and development, licensing and other assets for a song.

In 2010, Sikorsky Aircraft invested in Eclipse. In 2015, Eclipse merged with Kestrel Aircraft to form a new company called One Aviation. There is quite a history and an intriguing collection of business partners in the long, troubled path of Eclipse.

Ekim Alptekin has been called a mystery man. But it seems that he is only a mystery to most of us here in the U.S. who have only recently been introduced to his business dealings and influence through the belated filing of paperwork by disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Does Alptekin represent a smoking gun in the unfolding Trump/Russia scandal?

He is one of the few people with confirmed contacts and financial payments into the Trump inner circle, but how important he turns out to be to the overall story is still unclear. Alptekin represents a strange intersection between Turkey, Russia and the Trump administration.

And if his statements in the Turkish press from November of last year are to be believed, then he may have played a critical role in determining what happens next in Syria, and that makes him an important player on the world stage. That’s why we must leave no stone unturned in determining all of the parties Alptekin has been speaking for, exactly what policies he has been advocating and who, besides Flynn, within the Trump orbit he has been in contact with. The lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees, along with all those still trapped in war-torn Syria, may well be hanging in the balance.

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possible solutions to mitigate these he annual Conference effects. on World Affairs has “Policies by themselves are not never shied away from necessarily going to solve the probdifficult topics, and this lem of the U.S. contribution to cliyear is no different. mate change because there’s only so Several of the panels tackle issues of much you can do with policy. climate change and sustainability, problems that beg for concrete soluDemand for consumption of energy tions in an uncertain world. and other resources is still a major Panelists in a variety of fields, from factor in climate change,” says panelactivists to NASA employees, plan ist William Ryerson. “So changing to dissect these topics in an effort to behavior at the individual and family make sense of the environment level is critically important.”

Fred Haberman, Richard McCarthy and Bill Ryerson (left to right) are speakers on various both locally and abroad.

Ryerson is the founder of the environmental panels at this year’s CWA. In one panel, Food Insecurity in Population Media Center, which utithe Midst of Plenty, experts will nomic development,” he says. lizes entertainment-education strateaddress access to healthy foods, even in the middle of “Food insecurity speaks to questions of access,” pan- gies to positively influence decision making and social food deserts. Research done by the Food and elist Richard McCarthy says in an email interview. A norms in regards to family planning, HIV prevention, Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2015 fundamental problem for America, according to child nutrition and environmental protection by creating found that more than 790 million people are food inseMcCarthy, is our obsession with scale and speed, which characters the audience can use as role models. cure globally. In the U.S., households with children are has produced the large chain supermarkets that sell As part of the panel, Ryerson hopes to specifically more likely to be food insecure, leaving 13 million chilmostly processed foods with unhealthy ingredients. discuss family planning, a topic he says is often left out dren across our nation unsure of “Both encourage waste,” he of international discussions about climate change prewhere their next meal might explains. “With big food, waste vention, but can have a larger impact on our carbon legacome from, according to Feeding is big too. With our quest for cies than people realize.

America. perception and risk mitigation, “Since Americans have high per capita carbon “Today, more than 42 million we send far too much (40 perfootprints, a decision by an American couple to have people in the United States live cent) of our food to landfill. We one less child is a contribution to reducing their carin food-insecure households,” are trapped in a consumer culbon legacy. That is, if I remember correctly, 5.7 times panelist Fred Haberman says in an email interview. “Yet, ture, not a conserver culture. Both behaviors and attigreater than the combination of all the technological our country produces more than enough food to feed tudes must shift.” ‘fixes’ they might do, like changing the lights, insulatthese people with healthy, nutritious food.”

McCarthy currently works as the director at Slow ing the house, using solar panels, driving a hybrid Through his marketing agency, Haberman proFood USA, which strives to “change the world through vehicle,” Ryerson says. motes pioneers supporting social change, including food that is good, clean and fair for all,” he says.

He also cites Bryan O’Neil who has done research at such food companies as Organic Valley and Annie’s.

In addition to food scarcity, severe droughts, extreme the University of Colorado Boulder that shows that a He also co-founded Urban Organics, an aquaponics weather, rising sea levels and changing environments all global effort on family planning could result in 16 to 29 contribute to an increasing number of “climate refufarm that uses 98 percent less water than a traditional percent of the change that is needed to avoid catagees,” people forced to flee their homes as a result of agricultural system. strophic climate change. e Tim ited global warming. In Climate Refugees: The Human “Agricultural sustainability is critical for the future These issues may seem “big picture,” but these Lim health of our planet, and can be viewed as a key ingredi- Cost of Climate Change, experts will address how clipanels will help explain how to make an impact as mate change impacts human populations, as well as ent in helping to solve food insecurity and spur ecoan individual. Up To

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But then an infant lets out a little half-hearted cry in the background — one of those perfunctory pouts children produce when they are just a little vexed — not because anything is wrong, but because dad’s on the phone.

Huston’s a father and a husband. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he works at Northwestern University. Granted, his job at the university is to oversee an outdoors program, but it’s still a fairly normal job.

Huston’s polar exploits have landed him on a small panel at the Conference on World Affairs called Mind Over Matter: Strength and Fitness.

“I think the mind over matter piece is a really interesting topic because it is so easy to be negative or feel like you don’t have control over variables in life — in an expedition or at home.” He pauses and turns his head away from the phone.

“Don’t pull on that... come here... reach back there and grab it.”

Parenting is an everyday adventure, the seemingly mundane kind that we tend to take for granted. It’s another journey where “mind over matter” becomes a mantra, a battle cry.

For his polar expeditions — perhaps his parenting, too — Huston lays out long-term training plans where the work and conditions are similar to those he

CWA panels explore the how and why of uncommon journeys

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hen you’re talking to John Huston, you wouldn’t think he’s crazy — at least not at first. His voice is evenkeeled and gentle as he explains how he and a team of Norwegians took a 72-day, 1,400-mile expedition by dogsled and ski to recreate the first successful trip to the South Pole. Like the team Roald Amundsen led, Huston and his band of explorers carried only 1911-style food, clothing and equipment.

That was in 2005.

Then he casually recounts another full-length ski expedition to the South Pole at the end of 2007, navigating 720 miles over 57 days.

In 2009, he and Tyler Fish were the first Americans to take an unsupported (there were no resupplies on the journey) ski expedition to the North Pole. In 2013, he and a team skijored through 600 miles of Ellesmere Island in Canada, retracing century-old expedition routes and documenting the Arctic frontier.

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will face on the actual excursion.

“I think it’s important to have progressions to not get overwhelmed. Overall success builds upon small successes,” Huston says.

He points to his North Pole expedition with Tyler Fish. They knew the sleds for their actual trip were going to weigh in at around 300 pounds, so during their year of training, they pulled sleds that were 375 pounds.

“We put ourselves through the wringer intentionally so when we started the expedition we would feel comfortable,” he explains.

Maybe Fish and Huston weren’t exactly comfortable, but their training created a sense of confidence, an understanding that this madness was manageable.

Confidence is key on an expedition with a notoriously difficult start. The vast majority of expeditions to the North Pole fail within the first week; there’s very little sunlight and temperatures hover around minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit while massive rubble fields create an ice-block obstacle course.

But it’s not just these otherworldly ventures that require preparation and confidence. Life in general offers us problem after problem, and much like the icy rubble of the North Pole, we have to navigate the obstacles to reach our destination.

“It’s easy to be negative, and negative energy spirals upon itself very quickly,” Huston says. “Whatever you’re gonna do, give yourself the chance to be successful early on. If you’re gonna run 3 miles and you’ve never done it, run the first mile and be comfortable with that success. With big mental challenges, the key see CWA Page 22

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Still, it’s easy to wonder why anyone would put themselves through such extreme The Importance of Adventure. 3 p.m. Friday scenarios. There’s glory, sure, but there are April 14, Old Main Chapel. other ways — ones that don’t threaten life and limb — to achieve glory.

No, undertaking an adventure should always be about the experience.

Huston will sit on another panel to discuss the importance of adventure — all adventures in life, big and small.

“On a smaller level, I think adventure is a great way to detach from the freight train of society,” he says. “There’s so much info coming at us from computers and cell phones, telling us what to do and what to think about. Adventure gives us choice, freedom from the tentacles of everyday life, and the opportunity to develop and gain perspectives.”

Lena Gutschank, a world-renowed circus performer and producer, will join Courtesy of Lena Gutschank/Frank Huston on the Importance of Adventure Weidemeier panel.

“Adventure is a big word,” Gutschank says. “I kind of feel like adventures only exist in the future. You think of something that seems challenging and exciting to you and it sounds like an adventure. It’s the unknown and you’re uncertain of how it will go. It’s hard to know if you’re prepared for it.”

The German native found herself enamored with circus performance at age 4 after seeing a youth circus program. She began training at 8 years old, particularly in contortion, and headed to Berlin — a five-hour drive from her hometown — to attend the National Circus School.

“It sounded very adventurous to many people around me when I told them, but then I feel like once I started that adventure, it kind of just became little events that came one after the other,” she says. “You’re just living in that moment. If I’m thinking about my first days at circus school, you arrive and you have a little room in this boarding school house. You unpack your suitcase then it’s the next day. You have to get up, you have to brush your teeth, pack your stuff, know where to go and then you go. It’s kind of hard to still feel the adventure in every day life once you’re there.”

Even adventures become commonplace.

Gutschank believes there are three phases to an adventure. The first one is to decide to do it. This is the ice-block rubble field Huston encountered in the North Pole — you can sink or swim here, move forward or turn around. It’s easy to just say no or to avoid the challenge out of fear and uncertainty.

“But [there’s also] the excitement and the hope that you come out of this adventure maybe differently or with a different experience,” Gutschank says.

The second phase is the adventure itself. You’re in the middle of it now, whatever it is, and you’re pushing through. It becomes a chain of events, and perhaps becomes a little difficult to remember why you’re doing this in the first place.

“The third phase is how you reflect on what you’ve experienced,” Gutschank says. “Coming back to the question of why adventure is important; I think it’s that reflection that you do afterwards. How was I before I started this adventure and how did it change me? What did I learn? What surprised me?”

Gutschank explored a new facet of circus performance last year when she was given the opportunity to produce an entertainment project in Japan.

“I would definitely call it an adventure, even looking back at it simply because it asked things of me that I wasn’t sure I was able to do,” she says with a laugh.

And this is a woman who isn’t afraid to do acrobatics from a hoop hanging 50 feet in the air.

As Huston says, “Adventure keeps life interesting, that’s for sure.”

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ne of the great pleasures of living in Boulder is once again upon us with the 69th iteration of the Conference on World Affairs (CWA). For the uninitiated, the conference is a weeklong discussion of “all things conceivable” as the late, great Roger Ebert put it. Free and open to the public, CWA features 100ish speakers and performers talking business, politics, science, media and the arts on 200 panels. Some are serious, some are silly, but all are worthy of your time.

Of those 200 panels, one that draws significant attention year after year is Cinema Interruptus: a shot-by-shot dissection and discussion of a movie hosted by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert.

Ebert first came to the conference in 1970 and fell in love with the city, returning year after year to talk about anything that was thrown at him. In 1975, Ebert began hosting the Cinema Interruptus program and the popularity of the event quickly turned it into a cornerstone of the conference.

The Interruptus was a lively and engaging event.

And not just because Ebert was a grade-A talker but because the audience was allowed equal participation. If anyone in the room saw something and wanted to chime in, they merely had to yell, “Stop!” and were given the floor. Sometimes the discussion completely changed the meaning of a scene, taking 24 April 6, 2017

something that was once familiar and exploding it into something wholly new. Other times, the offered opinion was too much of a stretch to make much sense. Either way, it didn’t really matter if what was said was profound or silly, it was the act of participation that made the analysis exciting. CWA’s founder, Howard Higman, called it “democracy in the dark.”

In 2006, Ebert hosted his last Interruptus analyzing Robert Altman’s 1973 elegy The Long Goodbye. In 2011, the name of Cinema Interruptus was changed to honor the man who started it, but the format remains unchanged.

This year’s Interruptus host is another Chicago critic, Josh Larsen.

Currently, Larsen is the cohost on WBEZ’s weekly movie review radio show/podcast, Filmspotting; a critic and editor for Think Christian, a digital magazine on faith and culture; and a prolific writer with his years of criticism available on his website, LarsenOnFilm.com.

“In school, I was always interested in writing and obsessed with movies,” Larsen tells Boulder Weekly.

“Eventually, the two kind of merged.”

He started at a local weekly paper while still in

college, working as a reporter covering the local city council and community, in addition to a weekly film column. That evolved into a full-time career as a movie critic at a larger paper for a couple of years.

“Then things spiraled down back in reverse because the newspaper really started struggling,” he says.

Larsen managed to navigate the murky waters of the newspaper industry and found inroads through writing online and for the radio. Both display his ability to get to the beating heart of any movie and convey that understanding with engagement and joy — making his appearance at CWA all the more exciting.

“From my understanding of it, [Ebert Interruptus] sounds like a good mixture of leading a course but also fostering the sort of discussion and conversation we try to have on the show,” Larsen says. “And bringing a critical observation is something I’ve been trying to do since the beginning. ...

It definitely sounds like something that should be a lot of fun and hopefully I can bring some experience to the table.”

It doesn’t hurt that Larsen’s pick for this year’s Boulder Weekly

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movie is also one he claims he can dissect in his sleep: Wes Anderson’s 1998 Film critic Josh Larson hosts Ebert Interruptus at this year’s comedy Rushmore.

CWA, leading a discussion of The film tells the tale of eccentric Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. teenage-prep-school student, Max Fischer ( Jason Schwartzman in his debut role), who is hopelessly in love with his school, Rushmore, and the new Anderson.” first grade teacher, Ms. Cross (Olivia Rushmore screens uninterrupted Williams). Unfortunately for Max, Ms. Monday, April 10 in CU’s Visual Arts Cross has also drawn the attention of a Complex with some thoughts on the local industrialist millionaire, Herman movie from Larsen. Then on Tuesday Blume (Bill Murray). in Muenzinger, Larsen will host part Anyone who has seen a movie by one of the Interruptus with the second Wes Anderson — The Royal part held in Hale 270 on Wednesday.

Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, The All three programs start at 3:30 p.m.

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Anderson constructs screen during CWA. 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, CU’s Visual Arts Complex. these films with preHere are two more Interruptus 1, 3:30 p.m. cision and each frame you won’t want to Tuesday, April 11, Muenzinger Auditorium. Interruptus 2, 3:30 of Rushmore contains miss. p.m., Wednesday, April 12, hidden gems waiting Equity — Hale 270. Free and open to the public. to be discovered.

Thursday, April 13, “Those are the 5:00 p.m., Old Main movies I always want Chapel. Screenwriter to revisit; I think most people do too,” and playwright Amy Fox returns to Larsen says. “The thing about CWA with her latest film starring Anderson is, the humor doesn’t just Anna Gunn as a investment banker trycome from punch lines that you can ing to climb the corporate ladder while memorize. Or lines of dialogue that you a previous investment threatens to ruin can say along with the characters. ... It’s her. also in the visual composition, and it’s Tower — Friday, April 14, noon, in the layers of comedy that are going Visual Arts Complex. Few documentaon in any given scene. ries are this inventive and this engaging.

“I think that’s what makes Executive producer Amy Rapp will [Rushmore] ripe for something like the speak following this tour de force recreInterruptus as well, because that’s the ation and exploration of the 1966 whole idea, right? To look very closely, shooting at the University of Texas at carefully, at every frame of what’s going Austin. on here. I can’t think of many filmmakMichael J. Casey is the chair of the ers who are better suited for that than CWA film subcommittee.

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overtones Camaraderie of weirdness

Sean Lennon is the yin to Les Claypool’s yang in The Claypool Lennon Delirium

by Alan Sculley

S

ean Lennon didn’t expect that when his band, The Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger, got the opportunity to open a tour in summer 2015 for Primus it would lead to anything more than a little more exposure for his band and a chance to get to know the members of Primus.

Instead, in just a matter of months, that tour led to a new band, The Charlotte Kemp Muhl Claypool Lennon Delirium, an album as that entity (the 2016 release Monolith of Phobos) and a creative partnership with the leader of Primus, Les Claypool.

Looking back now, Lennon realizes the signs of musical and personal compatibility were there from the first time he jammed with the Primus bassist/singer during some down time on that summer 2015 tour.

Claypool casually invited Lennon to what he called a “jamboree,” but when Lennon got there, Claypool was playing his bass alone.

“I went from thinking we were just going to have some kind of community drum circle to realizing it was going to be me and Les jamming in a little room, and I was kind of nervous because he was somebody I kind of looked up to when I was young,” Lennon recalls. “So I definitely was nervous. But apparently that jam was the one that sort of got me in the door because he was like, ‘Hey, you’re playing some cool stuff.’

“But I think it made sense because we both share a lot of tastes in terms of certain kinds of notes, like minor flat fives and flat nines and these kinds of notes that a lot of people try to avoid, we tend to like a lot,” he says. “So I think there was a sort of camaraderie of weirdness.”

Of course, what’s weird to one person may feel normal to the next. But it Boulder Weekly

is true that both Claypool and Lennon (the son of Beatle John Lennon and Yoko Ono) have frequently been seen as a bit offbeat with their music.

Primus is known for the idiosyncratic bass work of Claypool, the quirky melodies of the group’s music and the odd characters and stories that sometimes populate the band’s lyrics.

Lennon, especially in The Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger, has shown a

talent for accessible pop melodicism, but he’s also done his share of musical projects that were a bit off of the mainstream path, including working with Ono on a variety of her projects, doing a stint in the group Cibo Matto and the improv duo Mystical Weapons.

Looking back on the making of Monolith of Phobos, Lennon can see why his musical sensibilities blended well with Claypool’s.

“I think there was a natural chemistry between Les’ very rhythmical, rhythm-forward, kind of, like, stompy instincts and my sort of ... more songwrite-y chordal instincts,” Lennon says.

“And that kind of fused in a good way... I sort of felt like there was a salt and pepper balance going on in terms of what I could offer the music. ” The music the duo made — most of the instruments on the album are played by Claypool and Lennon — sounds like a true blend of the two

ON THE BILL: The Claypool Lennon Delirium.

6:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16, Red Rocks Ampitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. 8:30 p.m., Monday, May 17, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

men behind the project.

Like Primus (as well as Claypool’s various other projects), there is an offkilter quality to songs like “Cricket and the Genie (Movement I, The Delirium),” “Mr. Wright,” “Breath of a Salesman” and the title track. Melodies and pop hooks soften the edges, suggesting Lennon inherited some of his father’s musical gifts. The result is a sound that blends psychedelic and progressive rock elements, but is also more accessible and inviting than the jagged and jumpy music for which Claypool is known.

The Claypool Lennon Delirium toured extensively last year, and now will open two shows for Primus, May 16 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and May 17 at Fox Theatre in Boulder.

Fans can expect to hear a good number of the songs from Monolith of Phobos, and maybe songs Claypool and Lennon have done for their other bands and projects.

Live, The Claypool Lennon Delirium will be a four piece, which Lennon says figures to give the songs a bit of a different feel in the live setting.

“Certainly it’s going to be different to the degree that we have a drummer, this guy Paul Baldi, who’s an amazing drummer, a much, much better drummer than I am,” Lennon says. “And our keyboardist, Money Mark (Mark Ramos Nishita), who’s an old friend of mine, he used to play with the Beasties (Beastie Boys). I’ve wanted to be in a band with him since I was like 18. So it’s actually kind of a dream come true to play with him, and he’s definitely got his own flavor, because Les and I played most of the stuff on the record ... It’s a confluence of four people kind of really rocking out together versus me and Les overdubbing in a studio.”

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evin Patrick Hughes wants to be a doorman for classical music.

The conductor of the Boulder Symphony has a mission to break down barriers that might keep people from coming to symphony concerts. “We believe that classical music speaks to everybody,” he says for both himself and the orchestra.

“You need a doorman, somebody standing there showing you in, welcoming you into an environment that’s comfortable,” he says. “We feature local composers and performers as much as possible. I think those things help show people the door in.”

That mission is evident in the Boulder Symphony’s next concert, “Day of Reckoning,” to be performed Saturday, April 8. The soloist will be Cody Garrison, a local pianist who will be making his first concerto appearance with an orchestra. There will be the world premiere of As Lightening Flashes

by Elizabeth Anne Comninellis, a recent University of Colorado Boulder graduate. And her score includes a solo for concertmaster Yin-Feng Keynes Chen, another CU graduate who lives in the Boulder area.

Hughes has chosen a particularly accessible program for classical newbies: Berlioz’s Romantic fever-dream, Symphonie Fantastique, which he says “has everything;” Liszt’s fiery Todtentanz (Dance of Death) for piano and orchestra; and Comninellis’s new work, which Hughes expects to be “a big smash with our audience.”

The Boulder Symphony has put their outreach mission into action in various ways. They use a mascot based on Mozart to show people that composers are just like you and me. They offer introductory lectures at 6:15 p.m. before most concerts, including Saturday; music lessons and school visits by orchestra members; and an apprenticeship program for high school students.

Tickets are free to all students K-12 and college students with a valid ID. It all seems to work. “When we do surveys, we get a lot of people who don’t normally go to classical music concerts, who are trying it out for the first time,” Hughes says. He likes to tell about a man who heard the orchestra during a fundraiser in Macy’s, playing the Star Wars main theme.

“He couldn’t get it out of his mind for months,” Hughes explains. “He made a resolution to start going to more performances. And then he noticed that there is a rich plethora of [classical music] offerings right under Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: ”Day of Reckoning,” presented by Boulder Symphony: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique; Liszt’s Todtentanz; Elizabeth Anne Comninellis’ As Lightening Flashes. 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8, First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720-3831610, bouldersymphony.org.

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his nose, and he didn’t know that.”

Turning to Saturday’s concert, Hughes says the Berlioz “is the epitome of a great symphony that is so much more than a symphony.” The story behind the piece is one anyone can understand, he says: a young man who becomes infatuated with an actress he sees on stage. And so he writes a crazy piece to get her attention, where she is represented by a theme that is heard in every movement.

It sounds very romantic, but the denouement — where he imagines that he murders her, is executed and meets her in a hellish afterlife — was pretty terrifying to the actress.

“He was insane,” Hughes says. “It’s like the musical version of stalking.

“But with this program, people can really appreciate what Berlioz was thinking and what he was intending to do with this symphony.”

Like the demonic final movement of the symphony, Liszt’s Todtentanz uses the “Dies irae” theme, a chant from the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead that conjures visions of the final judgment. The text of the chant, translated “Day of wrath,” describes the day of judgment when “the doomed can no more flee from the fires of misery.”

Liszt weaves the gloomy chant melody into a Romantic fabric with a virtu-

oso piano part. “It’s an amazing piece,” Hughes says. “And we have an incredible piano soloist, Cody Garrison, who has been our opera accompanist. Many of these collaborative pianists are just the best musicians in the world!”

An affiliate faculty member and staff accompanist at Metropolitan State University, Garrison has accompanied opera rehearsals for Opera Colorado and singers around the country as well as Boulder Symphony. But with all of that experience, “this is the first time he will be soloing with orchestra,” Hughes says. “He’s incredibly excited!”

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas, Comninellis holds a master’s in composition from CU Boulder. “One of the members of the orchestra recommended her,” Hughes says. “She’s a really talented composer.

“I love it that I can’t find a composer to compare her to. There’s a little bit of Respighi in it. It’s a really beautiful piece, and she has a very unique voice. I think it will be a wonderful contrast to the Liszt and the Berlioz.”

The concert will be “just an incredible experience, especially for people that think classical music is hoity-toity,” Hughes says.

And if it’s your first visit to the symphony, he’s ready to hold the door for you.

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In today’s jazz scene, Courtesy of Will Peter and Will Ander- Anderson Trio son are recognized as a some of the best clarinet and saxophone players.

Having headlined at venues like The Blue Note and The Kennedy Center, and performed with The Jimmy Heath Big Band and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, they are not strangers to the big stage. Both trained at Juilliard, the brothers have been hailed by The New York Times as “virtuosos” of their craft.

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Poetry Showcase Moder Sam Cook

Old Main Chapel Hometown Conversation: Facing the Affordable Housing Crisis: Boulder and Beyond Paula Bland

Joe Hagan

Andrew Heben

Betsey Martens Moderator: Dorothy Rupert

9:00-1 3115

Moder

9:00-1 3117

6:00-6:50 Fiske Planetarium 2957 The Emotional and Artis- tic Resonance of Science

Followed by Full Dome Screening of Kenji Williams’ Moder BELLA GAIA Michelle Thaller 9:00-1

Michelle Thaller 3107 6:00-7:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM

2958 KGNU: Rebroadcast of “Burning Issues in Inter- national Development” Moder Pablo Better 9:00-1

Edward Elmendorf 3116

Fred Haberman

William Ryerson

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7:30-9:00 Macky Auditorium 2961 Jazz Concert Musical Director: Brad Goode

Cyrille Aimée

Bijoux Barbosa

Rony Barrak

Claire Daly

Helen De La Rosa

Adrean Farrugia

Ernie Watts Guest Soloist: Kinan Azmeh Introduction: Robert S. Shay

9:45-11:00 Hellems 252 3106 What Water is Trying to Tell Us Kerry Emanuel

Eric Lindstrom Moderator: Chet Tchozewski

9:30-10:45 Eaton Humanities 150 3156 Bridging Divides: It’s Time to Listen

Ellen Sweets

Anita Sarkeesian

Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides

David Wilcox Moderator: Michael Zerella

10:00-10:50 ATLAS Black Box 3207 Origin Stories 8:30-9:25 UMC 235 Artistic Director: Kenji 3056 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Williams Tiny Houses and Livable Choreographer: Irina Cities

Akulenko Liz Blake

Dance Artist: Donna Mejia

Andrew Heben

Lina D’Albero

Emma Scholz 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium

Sara Varro 3111 Will Congress Ever Work Leah Woods Again?

Alternate Members: Janet Breslin-Smith

Hadley Kamminga-Peck

Michael Franc

Morgan Mulholand

Heather Hurlburt

Timothy Wirth 10:00-10:50 Ekeley E1B20 Moderator: Scott Adler 3206 Do Your Brain a Favor: Spend Time Outdoors 9:00-9:50 UMC Center Ballroom John Huston 3102 Debate: A Thriving Econ- Mary Reynolds Thompson omy: Should Government Florence Williams

Weigh In or Get Out of Moderator: Andrew Shoemaker

the Way?

Stephen Moore 11:00-12:20 Macky Auditorium

Marshall Steinbaum 3311 Nationalism Returns to Moderator: Joel Dyer America Michael Franc 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom

Maurizio Geri 3113 Keeping Culture and

Steven Vertovec Traditions Alive Moderator: Alan Rudy Julie Landsman

Shadia Marhaban 11:00-11:50 UMC Center Ballroom

Sofía Villarreal-Castañeda 3300 Food Series Keynote Ad G. Willow Wilson dress: Why Food Matters; Moderator: Paul Fishback Nourishing Our Bodies and the Land 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Rick Bayless 3114 Brexit and the Future of Debra Eschmeyer the EU Moderator: Sheila Dietrich Maurizio Geri

Steven Hayward 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom

Bill Marmon 3313 What Keeps Business

Roger Walton Leaders Up at Night Moderator: Joe Jupille Mike Cordano

Martha Clark Goss 9:00-10:20 UMC 235

Mark Gyetvay 3115 The Future of Music:

Roger Walton Its Rock and its Role in Moderator: Peter Braun Society Allison Del Fium 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom

Adrean Farrugia 3314 Rx for Income Inequality

James Viator Larry Greenwood

Ernie Watts

Joe Hagan Moderator: Bill Obermeier

Pia Orrenius

Reza Ramazani 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Jeffrey Zax 3117 The Medium is the

Movie-What’s the 11:00-12:20 UMC 235

Message?

3315 Watchdogs, Whistleblow Laurence Brahm ers and Wikileaks

Amy Fox Gabrielle Appleby

Pooh Kaye

Arthur Grim

Josh Larsen

Karuna Jaggar Moderator: Beverly Silva

Joe Sexton Moderator: Hillary Hall 9:00-10:40 Boulder High School 3107 Life in the 22nd Century 11:00-11:50 Old Main Chapel David Grinspoon 3306 YIMBY: Yes! In My Back

Seth Shostak Yard

Michelle Thaller Peter Frumhoff Moderator: Laura Duncan

Andrew Heben Moderator: Molly Tayer 9:00-10:20 Gold Biosciences A2B70 3116 Bioengineering: Designer 3:00-4:20 UMC 235

Babies and More 3715 The Career Less Traveled

Ellen Jorgensen Allison Del Fium

Kathryn Medler

Eugene Sepulveda

Eliot Peper

Frank Strasburger Moderator: Amy Howard

James Tanabe Moderator: Megan Mangum

WEDNESDAY

11:00-11:50 ATLAS Black Box 3307 Origin Stories Artistic Director: Kenji Williams

Choreographer: Irina

Akulenko

Dance Artist: Donna Mejia

Lina D’Albero

Emma Scholz

Sara Varro

Leah Woods

Alternate Members:

Hadley Kamminga-Peck

Morgan Mulholand

12:00-1:20 ATLAS Black Box 3416 Nuclear Triad: How Many

Nukes Does It Take?

Joe Cirincione

Heather Hurlburt

Robert Kaufman Moderator: Matthew Hurst 12:00-12:50 Chemistry 142 3407 How Damaged is America’s Worldwide Reputation?

Kinan Azmeh

Amar Bakshi

Peter Rupert Lighte

Shadia Marhaban Moderator: Nikhil Mankekar

12:00-12:50 Muenzinger Auditorium 3406 Torture: Human Rights and Wrongs Janet Breslin-Smith

Mark Fallon Moderator: Chris Allan

12:55-2:25 Boulder High School 3466 The Party’s Over: The Future of Political Parties Guy Benson

Steven Hayward

Vicki Huddleston

Joe Sexton Moderator: Dave Ramsey 1:00-1:50 3502

UMC Center Ballroom CAR Walter Orr Roberts U Distinguished Lecture: Hurricanes, Climate, and Culture: How We Cope with Natural Disasters Kerry Emanuel Moderator: Steven Leigh Introduction: Jim Hurrell 1:00-2:20 3513

UMC East Ballroom L et’s Eat Real Food, Mostly Vegetables, Not Too Much Michiel Bakker

Ann Cooper

Piper Davis

Kathryn Medler Moderator: Sara Brito 1:00-1:50 3504

UMC West Ballroom stronomy “Honey, check A out the new neighbors!”

Seth Shostak

Gerrit Verschuur Moderator: Bill Rigler 1:00-2:20 3515

UMC 235 I s it Time to Dump the Electoral College?

John Nichols

James Viator

Timothy Wirth Moderator: Andy Schultheiss 1:00-2:20 3516

Old Main Chapel overty: What’s Really P Needed Deliana Garcia

Lara Gilmore

Andrew Heben Moderator: Jan Burton 1:00-1:50 3506

Hale 270 limate Refugees: The C Human Cost of Climate Change Liz Blake

Eric Lindstrom

William Ryerson Moderator: Max Boykoff 2:00-3:20 3616

ATLAS Black Box he End of Globalization T As We Know It Pablo Better

Laurence Brahm

Larry Greenwood

Reza Ramazani Moderator: Andres Snaider

2:00-3:20 3617

Chemistry 140 Finding Your Passion Cyrille Aimée

Joe Hagan

John Huston

Ernie Watts Moderator: Steve Eisler 2:00-2:50 3606

Eaton Humanities 1B50 Deutschlands wechselnde Rolle in der internationalen Politik (In German) Lena Gutschank

Jerry Michalski Moderator: Ulla Merz

5:30-6:50 3966

Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater The Courage to Leap into the Unknown Special CWA@Night off-campus event Free and open to the public; advance registration required on the CWA website

Chris Borland

John Huston

Ty Tashiro

Lizz Winstead Moderator: Paul Cure

9:35-11:05 Boulder High School 4166 Three’s a Crowd: Russia,

China, and the US

Maggie Chen

Joe Cirincione

Peter Rupert Lighte Moderator: Kristen Lewis

10:30-12:00 CU Art Museum 4266 MFA Exhibition and Curatorial Conversation Heidi Zuckerman

11:00-12:15 Macky Auditorium 4301 U.S. Immigration: Give Me 5:30-7:30 Leeds S125 Your Tired and Poor 3986 The Promise of the CircuDeliana Garcia lar Economy 3:00-4:20 Macky Auditorium

Vicki Huddleston Co-sponsored by the LEEDS 3711 Trump’s First 100 Days: Reza Ramazani School CESR and the Boul- Moderator: Christina Sue

Are We Great Yet? der Chamber

Mark Fallon

Jonathan Koehn

Robert Kaufman 11:00-12:15 UMC Center Ballroom

Eric Lombardi

Stephen Moore 4302 Sex with Robots: What’s

Mark Meaney

John Nichols Not to Like?

April Rinne Moderator: Scott Schaefer Karuna Jaggar Moderator: Brian Coppom

Joe Sexton 3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom

Seth Shostak 3712 The Pursuit of Happiness 7:00-9:00 Old Main Chapel

Ty Tashiro 3987 Film/Talkback: Music of Moderator: David Spiro Claire Daly Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and

Mark Gyetvay the Silk Road Ensemble

Julie Landsman 11:00-12:15 UMC East Ballroom Kinan Azmeh

Ty Tashiro 4303 Food Insecurity in the Moderator: Ralph Gregory Midst of Plenty Michiel Bakker 3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom

Lara Gilmore 3713 The Opposite of Fast

Fred Haberman Food: the Rise of Urban

Richard McCarthy 8:30-9:25 KGNU Radio Casual Moderator: Ellen Sweets 4056 88.5 FM/1390 AM Deann Bayless Getting Outside

Debra Eschmeyer 11:00-12:15 UMC West Ballroom John Huston

Richard McCarthy 4304 The Global Refugee Crisis

Mary Reynolds Thompson

Kimbal Musk Gabrielle Appleby Moderator: Clay Fong

Pia Orrenius 9:30-10:45 Macky Auditorium

Steven Vertovec 4151 A Green Light for Israel?

3:00-3:50 UMC West Ballroom Sofía Villarreal-Castañeda Neil Diamant 3704 Taxes: I Don’t Want to Pay Moderator: Tamar Larsen

Robert Kaufman for Your Government

Micha Kurz Michael Franc 11:00-12:15 UMC 235

George Rishmawi

Marshall Steinbaum 4305 Women in Science: Moderator: Essrea Cherin Moderator: Sloan Speck

Needed Now More Than

Ever?

9:30-10:45 UMC Center Ballroom

Ellen Jorgensen 4152 Democrats: Who We Are 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 Kathryn Medler Now 3715 The Career Less Traveled

Roger Walton Heather Hurlburt Allison Del Fium

Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides

John Nichols

Eugene Sepulveda Moderator: Shirley Berg

Eugene Sepulveda

Frank Strasburger

Marshall Steinbaum

James Tanabe 11:00-12:15 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Lara Lee Hullinghorst Moderator: Megan Mangum 4307 Changing Careers: Keeping Your Options Open 9:30-10:45 UMC East Ballroom 3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel Lena Gutschank 4153 Chefs Collaborative: How 3717 Law and Society Ellie Schafer to Create a Better Food Gabrielle Appleby

James Tanabe System

Neil Diamant

Gerrit Verschuur BDeann Bayless

James Viator Moderator: Dan Powers

Rick Bayless Moderator: Bill Rogers

Piper Davis 11:00-12:15 Eaton Humanities 1B50

Richard McCarthy 3:00-4:20 Hellems 252 4306 Gender Equity-Until It Moderator: Sylvia Tawse 3716 Future of Medicine: Rains Glass Combating Disease Liz Blake 9:30-10:45 UMC West Ballroom Edward Elmendorf

Martha Clark Goss 4154 Do Student Athletes Get a

Joel Gallant Julie Landsman Raw Deal?

Karuna Jaggar

Mary Reynolds Thompson Chris Borland

Ellen Jorgensen Moderator: Mindy Pantiel

Mike Cordano Moderator: Lloyd Gelman

Joe Sexton 11:30-12:45 ATLAS Black Box Moderator: Llen Pomeroy 3:00-3:50 Muenzinger E0046 4456 The Promise of the Shar3707 Environment vs. ing Economy 9:30-10:45 UMC 235

Economics Dan Delurey 4155 T

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Dan Delurey

Jerry Michalski Immigration

Peter Frumhoff

April Rinne Guy Benson Moderator: Daniel Kaffine

Eugene Sepulveda

Pablo Better Moderator: Suzanne Jones

Bill Marmon 3:30-4:50 Chemistry 140 Pia Orrenius 3766 Mental Health: Stepping 12:30-1:45 UMC East Ballroom Moderator: Lee Shainis Out of the Darkness 4463 Business Can Have a ConChris Borland science and Still Thrive 9:30-10:45 Old Main Chapel

Sam Cook Liz Blake 4157 The Magical Intersection

Arthur Grim Morrow Cater of Art and Science

Lloyd Sederer Charlie Menzie Amy Fox Moderator: Howie Wolf Moderator: Tom Galey

Sidney Perkowitz

Michelle Thaller 3:30-5:30 Hale 270 12:30-1:20 Macky Auditorium Moderator: Lawrence Carlson 3786 Ebert Interruptus II: 4450 Howard Higman MemoRushmore rial Plenary: The View 9:30-10:45 Museum Collections W100

Josh Larsen from Hanoi 4156 Give Peace A Chance: Moderator: Michael Casey Ted Osius International Conflict Moderator: Herbert Covert Resolution 4:00-5:20 UMC Aspen Room Laurence Brahm 3816 Speed Chatting: 7 Speak12:30-1:45 UMC Center Ballroom Maurizio Geri ers, 7 minutes, 7 times!

4452 Thanks, Obama

Shadia Marhaban Helen De La Rosa Mark Fallon Moderator: Alison Castel

Heather Hansen

Michael Franc

Anita Sarkeesian

Ellie Schafer

Ellen Sweets Moderator: Bob Morehouse

Michelle Thaller

David Wilcox Moderator: Justin Veach

THURSDAY

12:30-1:45 UMC East Ballroom 4453 American Institutions:

The Republic at Risk

Steven Hayward

Heather Hurlburt

James Viator

Timothy Wirth Moderator: Dan Gould

12:30-1:45 UMC West Ballroom 4454 Singularity: When the Real World Becomes Westworld Eliot Peper Sidney Perkowitz Seth Shostak

Roger Walton Moderator: Christopher Sarson

12:30-1:45 UMC 235 4455 Improvisation: It Happens...

Cyrille Aimée

Rony Barrak

Heather Hansen

Pooh Kaye

Ernie Watts

David Wilcox Moderator: Howie Movshovitz

12:30-1:45 Old Main Chapel 4456 Young and Bored of Being Young and Bored Anita Sarkeesian

Ty Tashiro

G. Willow Wilson Moderator: Dana Cooksey 1:20-2:50 4566

2:00-3:15 UMC 235 4705 Astronomy’s New Toys

David Grinspoon

Eric Lindstrom

Michelle Thaller

Gerrit Verschuur Moderator: Joel Parker 2:00-3:15 4707

Old Main Chapel Redefining Masculinity Allison Del Flum Joel Gallant Frank Strasburger James Tanabe Moderator: Bobby Brown 2:00-2:50 4706

2:00-3:15 4608

Boulder High School he Road Less Traveled: 3:00-3:50 T Exceptional Career Paths 4706 Chris Borland Sam Cook John Huston Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides Moderator: Dana Cooksey

2:00-3:15 UMC Center Ballroom

4612 Alternative Medicine:

How We Heal

Ourselves

Aaron Balick Bwire Chirangi Damaris Maria Grossmann 3:30-4:45 4752 Matthew Nelson Moderator: Lloyd Gelman

ATLAS Black Box rigin Stories O Artistic Director: Kenji Williams Choreographer: Irina Akulenko Dance Artist: Donna Mejia Lina D’ Albero Emma Scholz Sara Varro Leah Woods Alternate Members: Hadley Kamminga-Peck Morgan Mulholand Gold Biosciences A2B70 hinese Scholars Take C on Climate Change Fang Bu Ruixia Guo Yingsha Jiang Xiaoyu Xu

ATLAS Black Box rigin Stories O Artistic Director: Kenji Williams Choreographer: Irina Akulenko Dance Artist: Donna Mejia Lina D’ Albero Emma Scholz Sara Varro Leah Woods Alternate Members: Hadley Kamminga-Peck Morgan Mulholand

UMC Center Ballroom .S. Foreign Policy: The U Winning Move is Not to Play?

Janet Breslin-Smith Joe Cirincione Heather Hurlburt Robert Kaufman Moderator: Tom Zeiler

5:00-7:00 4936

5:30-6:20 4955

Old Main Chapel ilm/Talkback: Equity F Amy Fox

UMC Center Ballroom pocalypse: How the A Book of Revelation Still Haunts Contemporary Politics Elaine Pagels Moderator: Sam Boyd 5:30-6:45 4956

Hale 270 ometown ConversaH tion: The Love Hate Relationship with Sanctuary Cities Jose Beteta

Eugene Sepulveda

G. Willow Wilson

Amy Zuckerman Moderator: Stan Garnett 6:00-7:00 4957

KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM ebroadcast of “What R Keeps Business Leaders

Up at Night”

Mike Cordano

Martha Clark Goss

Mark Gyetvay

Roger Walton Moderator: Peter Braun 7:30-9:30 4985

7:30-9:30 4986

UMC Center Ballroom ilm/Talkback: Stop MoF tion, Animation, Painted Frames and Animated Shorts Pooh Kaye Old Main Chapel ilm/Talkback: SearchF ing For Shangri-La: Can You Find It? Laurence Brahm

FRIDAY

9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5112 Here’s How I’d Defeat ISIS Lauren Fish

Robert Kaufman

Greg Young Moderator: Barry Baer

9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 5113 Non-Voters: Can’t, Won’t, Couldn’t Be Bothered Gabrielle Appleby

Michael Franc

Steven Hayward Ellie Schafer 3:30-4:45 Museum Collections W100

Moderator: Sabrina Sideris 4756 Grow Up! But How?

Becoming an Adult 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Allison Del Flum 2:00-3:15 UMC Center Ballroom 5114 Space Ethics: Asking the Karuna Jagger 4602 Implications of a U.S. ReTough Questions Frank Strasburger treat from International David Grinspoon Moderator: Alphonse Keasley Alliances

Michelle Thaller Edward Elmendorg

Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides 4:00-4:50 Macky Auditorium Maurizio Geri Moderator: Robert Pasnau 4800 Molly Ivins Memorial Larry Greenwood Plenary: Laughing Mat Timothy Wirth ters: How to Use Humor 9:00-10:20 UMC 235 Moderator: Carl Tinstman Why Public Opinion Has to Activate and Educate 5115 Turned Against Trade Lizz Winstead 2:00-3:15 UMC East Ballroom Maggie Chen Moderator: Ron Bostwick 4603 he Future of Food; A T

Mike Cordano Taste of Things to Come

Larry Greenwood 5:00-6:15 UMC West Ballroom Michiel Bakker

Mark Gyetvay 4904 Protecting Those Most Debra Eschmeyer Moderator: Andy Baker

Vulnerable

Lara Gilmore

Deliana Garcia

Fred Haberman 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel

Arthur Grim Moderator: Paul Repetto 5116 The Human Desire for

Mei-Ling McNamara Narrative

William Ryerson 2:00-3:15 UMC West Ballroom Amy Fox 4604 Deregulation: Good for Moderator: Betsey Martens

Eric Lindstrom Business, What About

Mary Reynolds Thompson Consumers?

G. Willow Wilson Michael Franc Moderator: Malinda Miller Martha Clark Goss Steven Hayward Marshall Steinbaum Moderator: Phil Weiser 2:00-3:30 4611

Macky Auditorium J azz Master Class Cyrille Aimée Rony Barrak Claire Daly Helen De La Rosa Adrean Farrugia Ernie Watts

The 69th

9:00-9:50 5106

ATLAS Black Box ulnerabilidades de la V Comunidad Hispanohablante en la América del Presidente Trump (In Spanish) Pablo Better

Jerry Michalski

Sofía Villarreal-Castañeda Moderator: Mary Young

11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel 5316 Finding Friendship Frank Strasburger

Ellen Sweets

Ty Tashiro Moderator: Bette Erickson

11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 5317 “Hacktivism” and Cyber Security Mike Cordano

Martha Clark Goss

Eliot Peper

Anita Sarkeesian Moderator: Erin Frazier

2:00-3:20 5616

Chemistry 140 he Media Elected T Trump But He Still Hates Them Guy Benson

John Nichols

Eugene Sepulveda Moderator: Paul Voakes

Macky Auditorium he Self in “Selfie”: IdenT tity in the Social Media 9:00-10:20 ATLAS 100 Age 5117 Books That Changed Laurence Brahm

My Life

Sam Cook

Laurence Brahm

Chris Moody

Allison Del Fium Ty Tashiro

Peter Rupert Lighte 12:00-2:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20

Sidney Perkowitz 5446 Film/Talkback: Tower, Moderator: Matt Duncan

William Ryerson with Executive Producer 3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom Moderator: Ellen Mahoney

Amy Rapp 5712 What the U.S. Can Learn

Amy Rapp From My Country 9:00-10:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Cyrille Aimée 5119 Schools and Tomorrow’s 12:30-1:20 ATLAS 100 Workforce 5466 Geopolitical Divergence Pablo Better Manuel Laguna Within Islam

Helen De La Rosa

Pia Orrenius Janet Breslin-Smith

Adrean Farrugia

James Viator

Shadia Marhaban

Mei-Ling McNamaran Moderator: Todd Gleeson Moderator: Julia Halaby 3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 9:00-10:20 Gold Biosciences A2B70 1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium 5713 The Future of Water: Our 5118 omen in National W 5511 America’s (Un)changing Most Precious Resource Security Relationship with Russia Peter Frumhoff Janet Breslin-Smith Joe Cirincione

Martha Clark Goss Joe Cirincione

Edward Elmendorf

Fred Haberman

Heather Hurlburt

Robert Kaufman

Reza Ramazani Moderator: Ginny Corsi

Bill Marmon Moderator: Lynn Guissinger

Sarah Wilson Sokhey 9:00-9:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 3:00-4:20 UMC West Ballroom 5107 Mind Over Matter: 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5704 Minimum Wage: The Strength and Fitness 5512 Trump’s Nationalist 99% Need a Raise Chris Borland Economic Agenda Pia Orrenius

John Huston DMichael Franc

Michael Franc Moderator: Randi Stroh

Pia Orrenius Moderator: Janet Beardsley

Reza Ramazani 10:00-11:30 Grusin Hall Moderator: Nicholas Flores 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 5216 Jazz Dynamics 5715 Trouble in the South Musical Director: Brad 1:00-1:50 UMC East Ballroom China Sea Goode 5503 Net Neutrality: Internet Neil Diamant

Cyrille Aimée Inequality

Robert Kaufman

Rony Barrak

Mike Cordano

Peter Rupert Lighte

Claire Daly

Jerry Michalski

Shadia Marhaban

Helen De La Rosa Moderator: Andy Franklin Moderator: Isabella Steinhauer

Adrean Farrugia

Zach Mama 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel

Ernie Watts 5514 Technology in Develop- 5717 The Importance of ing Countries: What We Adventure 11:00-11:50 Macky Auditorium Take for Granted

Lena Gutschank 5301 Guitar Jam Bernard Amadei

John Huston

David Grinspoon

Pablo Better

Eric Lindstrom

James Viator

Fred Haberman Moderator: Mary Ann Mahoney

Roger Walton

Danielle Osler

David Wilcox Moderator: Eliza Woloson 3:00-3:50 ATLAS Black Box 5706 A.I. May Not Kill All Our 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1:00-2:20 UMC 235 Jobs, But It Will Change 5312 Ripped From the 5515 How Politics Derailed Many

Headlines Science

Danielle Osler

Dan Delurey Peter Frumhoff

Roger Walton

Neil Diamant

David Grinspoon Moderator: Daniel Atkins

Steven Hayward

Michelle Thaller

Karuna Jaggar

Gerrit Verschuur 3:00-4:20 Eaton Humanities 150

Bill Marmon Moderator: Alice Madden 5716 Put the STEAM into

Joe Sexton STEM Education, Just Moderator: Al Manzi 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box Add ART 5516 Dance/Music Improv Heather Hansen 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom

with Aerial

Pooh Kaye 5313 Two Steps Forward, One Rony Barrak

Kathryn Medler Back?: LGBTQ Rights

Claire Daly

Sidney Perkowitz Joel Gallant

Helen De La Rosa Moderator: Alexis Halkovic

Ellie Schafer

Lena Gutschank

Eugene Sepulveda

Heather Hansen 3:00-3:50 Education 220 Moderator: Amy Zuckerman

Pooh Kaye 5707 AIDS: Forgotten But Not

Ana Prada Gone 11:00-12:20 UMC 235

Nancy Smith

Edward Elmendorf 5315 Trade Deals: Job

James Tanabe

Joel Gallant Creators, Job Killers, or Ernie Watts Moderator: Charles Steinberg Strategic Imperatives

David Wilcox Maggie Chen 3:00-4:20 Hellems 252

Larry Greenwood 5718 Global Demographics:

Heather Hurlburt Living Longer and Dying

John Nichols Less Moderator: Rita Mahoney

Deliana Garcia

Robert McNown

William Ryerson

Conference on WORLD AFFAIRS

3:00-4:20 5711

EVENTS from Page 30

Thursday, April 6 Music Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. 8:30 p.m.

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

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

The Magic of Benny Goodman — The Peter and Will Anderson Trio. 7 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 303-807-8735.

Outback Saloon Open Mic Night. 9 p.m.

Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 573569-0370.

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

Wired: An Electro-Acoustic Series. 2 p.m.

The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 585-319-8005.

ZOSO. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events Celebrate Wild Boulder. 5 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-8811.

Exposure Film Project: When Hip-Hop meets the Outdoors. 3 p.m. University Memorial Center (Room 245), 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 954-242-8213.

Jon Kedrowski: Sleeping on the Summits.

7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Library Lab. 9 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mountain Kids Storytime. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

words

Courtesy Boulder Book Store/Skyler Williams

Erik Weihenmayer has many milestones under his belt ­— notably, he’s the first blind person to ever summit Mount Everest.

He details his latest conquest, kayaking the Grand Canyon in his new book, No Barriers.

673 30th St., Boulder Corner of 30th & Baseline in Williams Village Shopping Center

Thursday, April 6 Erik Weihenmayer — No Barriers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Sunday, April 9 Carolina Ebeid, Lauren Camp and Jennifer Foerster. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303495-3303.

Khadijah Queen, Andre Hoilette and Rowland Saifi. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Monday, April 10

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

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

Tuesday, April 11

(between Moe’s BBQ & Gameforce)

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NEW HOURS: 10AM - 7PM DAILY where music comes to play

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

A Celebration of Poetry. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Wednesday, April 12 CU MFA Showcase: Sarah Jedd. 7 p.m.

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

BOB MOULD

(solo electric) Sat 04.15 Oriental Theater $27 advance

theater

Courtesy of Arvada Center/P. Switzer Photography

Moves at Midnight (Formerly Trichome) Live Band Dance Party. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

TINARIWEN

w/special guest Dengue Fever Sat 04.08 Oriental Theater $32 advance

Royal Academy of Dance Exams. 9 a.m.

Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.

Friday, April 7 Music Art of Vocal Freedom Singers’ Showcase!

6:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Bonnie and the Clydes. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Euforquestra with Electric Toast. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Jazz. 3:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

Joe Teichman. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive Unit 20, Boulder, 303-396-1898. see EVENTS Page 36

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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar takes over the Arvada Center Stage through April 16. Read BW’s review online at boulderweekly.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Through April 16.

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

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

Marc Maron: The Too Real Tour at Boulder Theater. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder, 303523-1117.

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

Through May 7.

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NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. Viriditas, 4939 Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 303523-1117.

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

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through June 24.

Special eTown Taping at Georgia Theatre: JJ Grey & Cicada Rhythm. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696.

Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Through May 31.

Zarzuela and Goyescas by Granados. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 970-379-7539.

Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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

Catch the last week of Denver Art Museum’s the Star Wars and the Power of Costume, and may the force be with you.

Dance Nia on Friday Nights at LRC. 6 p.m.

Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Home: American photography at the CU Art Museum. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 15.

First Friday Films: February Edition. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Impossible Humans: The International Collection. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. CarolSilks, 4593 Broadway, Boulder, 303523-1117.

Storytime with Dalcroze Eurhythmics. 11 a.m. Longmont Public LIbrary, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.

Saturday, April 8 Music Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “The Beat.” 7:30 p.m. City of Longmont Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

Boulder Symphony — “Day of Reckoning.”

7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720-383-1610.

Linda Scholes, Carpe Diem, Jeffco Teacher Solo Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wad-

Getur Goat anfd Howlin’ Goatzzzzz. 7:30 p.m. The Dickens Opera, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-7339.

The Many Faces of the Altius Quartet. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Quemando Salsa Party. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 720-218-3822.

Carrie Newcomer. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Sherefe — Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Clouds & Mountains. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

Tenth Mountain Division with Miles over Mountains. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Colorado Mormon Chorale and Orchestra: Lamb of God. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-859-5895.

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Cranford Hollow. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Eminence Ensemble with Sixty Minute Men. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Basquiat Before Basquiat East 12th Street, 1979-1980.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through May 7.

TRIUMPH: Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Events Camera Movement: Dollies, Sliders and Jibs. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range

sworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 7.

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

Meetings in Isolation — Anna Olsson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 30.

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

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

Once Removed: Photography by Evan Anderman. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through April 23.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 20.

Signature — Bug. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

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

Star Wars and the Power of Costume.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 9.

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

Through Aug. 31.

Transmission — Michelle Robinson. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 9.

Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 7.

St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Easter at Zolo Grill All Month Long. 10 a.m.

Zolo Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-0444.

Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-661-1460.

Most Likely To Succeed Film Screening. 7 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-666-4361.

Rattlesnake Hike. 10 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, 15140 N. 55th St., Longmont, 303-678-6200.

Royal Academy of Dance Exams. 9 a.m.

Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.

Saturday Dance Series. 9:30 a.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020b 21st St., Boulder, 401-450-2006.

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

Spaceship Earth. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. see EVENTS Page 38

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con Brio w/ runniKine

saturday april 8

phoFFMan/BecK Quartet Feat paul hoFFMan & anders BecK, Billy strinGs & saMson GrisMan w/ Grant FarM

thursday april 13

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Feat BlacKalicious (chieF Xcel & GiFt oF GaB), lyrics Born & lateeF (latryX) w/ los & J.o.B.

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Friday april 7

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saturday april 8

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Monday april 10

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w/ rhyMesiGht & Kid veGa$

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Feat Music By dJ BrooKlyn2BiGG X dJ Blasian

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MiGhty tree presents

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w/ BeaK nasty & notorious conduct

thursday april 20 (early show)

w/ stay tuned & rooKe5

w/ cousin stiZZ

dJ Ktone’s annual denver Got neXt

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MiGhty tree presents

saturday april 15

Murs & Zion i sunday april 16

Monday april 17

Method Man & redMan

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Friday april 21

wednesday april 19

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w/ JuBee Feat Brisco Jones, reason the citiZen, planes!, write Minded & david FredericK

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4/28: the huMan eXperience, MiKe love, Ben silver (orchard lounGe), saQi, Janover, tierro Band Feat BridGet law oF elephant revival, saM Klass & unFold Music 4/29: ott, sodown, orGone, Monophonics, MiKey thunder, FunKstatiK & truFeelZ

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diGaBle planets sunday May 28

diZZy wriGht Friday april 21

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(triBute to Blue note Guitarist Grant Green) Feat eddie roBerts (the new Mastersounds), alan evans (soulive, Kdtu), chris spies, aleX scott, nicK Gerlach (turBo suit) w/ dJ Marcos Boricua

saturday april 22

ruMpKe Mountain Boys w/ cascade crescendo & canyon collected

Monday april 24

Monday niGht MenaGerie Feat laiKa Beats, scotty does Know, Bossillator & twoMood

tuesday april 25

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wednesday april 26

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Feat the GeeK X vrv w/ lucid vision, MiKey thunder, staXX & JuBee

thursday april 27

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w/ taylor FredericK’s phiscuits Feat MeMBers oF eMinence enseMBle, yaMn, dynohunter & the holler! (patio set)

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events Voice Over Boot Camp with Rachel Alena.

10 a.m. Boulder Writing Studio, 777 Pearl Street, Suite 211, Boulder.

Sunday, April 9

Music

Music Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “The Beat.” 2:30 p.m. Seveth-Day Adventist Church Boulder, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

Choral Compline. 9 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-4425246.

Shine Potions Present: Jeff & Paige. 4 p.m.

Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Sing in the Park. 11 a.m. North Boulder Park, 800 Ninth St., Boulder, 303-6166404.

Events Bringing Palm Sunday to Life. 9:30 a.m.

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303443-2503.

Tuesday, April 11 Live Music at Upslope Brewing Company. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

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

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

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

Wednesday, April 12 Music

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Dance Nia on Sunday mornings at LRC. 11 a.m.

Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-4408007.

Humanistic Passover Seder. 4 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg, Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Ben Hammond. 6:30 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720885-1234.

Drop-In Acoustic Jam — Every Wednesday. 6 p.m.

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-4428292.

Flatirons Terrace Welcomes Performer Jim Kurty. 4 p.m.

Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0594.

Hot Buttered Rum with Yarn. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4470095.

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Palm Sunday Procession. 9:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Open Mic Night at Sanitas Brewing Company. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit 1, Boulder, 303442-4130.

The Beloved. 4 p.m. Naropa University Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 413-652-2211.

Reggae Night at the Boulder House. 9 p.m.

Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303997-4108.

Monday, April 10

Events

Music

Colorado Women in the Progressive Era with Tom Thomas, Ph.D. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Events Beginning Tap Dance. 6 p.m. Viriditas Dance Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder, 720-561-5967.

Screening and Discussion of Killing Gaza with Filmmaker and Journalist Max Blumenthal. 7 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, University of Colorado, Boulder, 720-509-3378.

Country Line Dancing. 6:30 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-5615967.

Swing Dance Lessons. 6:30 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720379-8299.

Swing Dancing. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-7747698.

Royal Academy of Dance Exams. 9 a.m.

Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Dr., Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719.

Video Producing 101. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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One evening my father sat me down, spoke in the exaggerated tone adults adapt for children, asked if I knew who he was.

Admiral Nimitz, of course, though I knew nothing of his command of the Pacific Fleet and was less impressed than if he’d landed a horseshoe.

He was a calm man, a useful attribute for sending young men to their deaths.

The only time I saw him upset, raccoons had invaded from their hideouts in the hills, attacked the goldfish in his pond, leaving muddy footprints as they escaped.

As far as I knew, this was his only defeat.

American Life in Poetry: Column 625: Nearly all of us have a story about once brushing up against somebody famous. On their honeymoon my father and mother went to New York City where they rode up in a hotel elevator with the famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. My father talked about those heady few moments for the rest of his life.

Here’s Carol V. Davis of Los Angeles, pitching horseshoes with an admiral. This poem is from her most recent book, Because I Cannot Leave This Body, from Truman State University Press. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2016 by Carol V. Davis, “Admiral Nimitz,” from Because I Cannot Leave This Body, (Truman State University Press, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Carol V. Davis and the publisher. Poem first appeared in Atlanta Review, (Vol. XXII, no.2, Spring/Summer 2016). Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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David Byrne was contacted Opens April 7. Sie Film Center, by a color guard team looking 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720to license one of his songs, he 381-0813, denverfilm.org. Tickets hadn’t the foggiest idea what color guard was. start at $7.

The swirling flags, the twirling batons, the spinning rifles, the dance choreography all set to pre-recorded music was foreign to him, but one performance was enough to change all that. Enchanted, Byrne set to work to transform color guard performances from halftime entertainment to the main event.

And that is exactly what Contemporary Color is. For this impressive spectacle of light and sound, Byrne recruited color guard teams from 10 schools, paired them with 10 musicians and put on one hell of a show in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

Thankfully, Byrne brought along documentarians Bill and Turner Ross to capture it all on camera, including a healthy amount of backstage energy and interviews with the performers. The result is not just spectacular to watch, but heartwarming. For most of the kids, this is the last time they will perform these Color guard takes the main stage in the documentary Contemporary Color. routines with lifelong friends.

College and the real world await, and though color guard shaped who they are, it will most likely not follow.

The Turner brothers excel at documentary filmmaking, and Contemporary Color is no exception. While the colorful images steal the show, it is the interviews with the students that stick with you long after the movie ends. Some give personal stories, others simply express excitement. The Turners choose not to identify each student, instead allowing their stories and their passion to speak for a larger group.

They turn individual stories into a collective experience.

In many ways, the arts have always been a product of the privileged class indulging their egos and predilections. Beautiful people making beautiful things with substantial backing dominate many forms of commercial arts, but they’re not the only kind out there. Often we forget the arts are not just a form of expression, but a form of escape. A chance for individuals on the margins to find a collective that thinks like they do, acts like they do and feels like they do. High school is tough for just about everybody, but for many kids, band, choir, theater and color guard are places where they can go, be accepted for who they are and make something in the meantime. It may not last forever, but it matters for right now.

If there is a single image in Contemporary Color that drives that point home, it can be found when the New Jersey high school team, Black Watch, takes the floor.

The students all lie on the ground in an arranged pattern waiting for the music to begin. The camera finds two hands grasping each other tightly in anticipation, anxiety and excitement. One hand pats the other as if to say, “It’s going to be great.

You’re going to be great.” How lucky these kids were to find each other.

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ou may have noticed that menus are shrinking. No, that’s not an index card on your table, that’s the menu.

People like it that way, both consumers and restaurateurs. Technomic Inc., an allthings-food consulting firm, found that the total number of menu items at the nation’s top 500 restaurant chains declined by 7 percent from 2013 to 2014.

It’s clichéd, but quality over quantity is the law of the restaurant land. In this day and age, millennials (a demographic businesses across the board clamor to please while simultaneously blaming for everything that sucks) value high-quality, low-cost local food.

And frankly, who doesn’t value high-quality, lowcost local food? Age demographic be damned.

Eateries with small menus are capable of serving customers faster. They’re able to add more locally sourced ingredients because the number of dishes is fewer. A restaurant can emphasize a few items and

really make them sing.

The small menu tactic is one of the tricks at Black Pepper Pho. When you head to a pho restaurant, you’ve pretty much decided what you want to eat. That being said, heading to Black Pepper doesn’t mean you have to order pho.

Those who crave noodles but aren’t interested in soup might consider trying a dry noodle dish, called bún in Vietnamese (pronounced boon, like soon, much like pho is pronounced fuh, like duh). Contrary to the name, the noodles aren’t dry but simply drained and served at room temperature underneath grilled meat (never fear, tofu’s an option too), lettuce, cucumber, bean sprouts, carrot, daikon, mint, cilantro and shallots.

Best part? There’s a built-in appetizer of egg rolls with every bowl of bún — thin, crispy, golden cylinders of delight placed at the side of your bowl for enjoyment throughout your meal.

(Deep Dish Digression: Food history buffs have determined egg rolls were created by Chinese restaurateurs in the U.S. in the 1930s. The more you know!)

Maybe the egg rolls aren’t even really the best part.

It’s pretty rare to walk into a place and not have to worry about your allergies. All of the food at Black Pepper is free of MSG, GMOs and nuts. And if you’ve got 99 problems and one of them is intolerance to gluten, Black Pepper is your haven.

It should be noted that the small-menu tactic is employed in tandem with the cozy-space tactic at Black Pepper. The smaller space — not crowded, mind you — gives servers the opportunity to see all of their guests at a glance, and gives guests a homey atmosphere in which to dine. It all adds up to great service in a great atmosphere.

So just remember: Size isn’t everything.

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Right. If you are laughing to yourself, don’t feel bad: You have a lot of company. Lafayette — Boulder’s cousin twice-removed on the other side of Louisville — has not been on the culinary radar for long. For many years, diners drove to Lafayette for Mexican food the way they headed to Louisville for Italian-American eats, but that was about it. Things have changed dramatically in both cities.

It’s Lafayette’s turn for a food boom. The city has room for more eateries, the leases are more affordable and parking is not the hassle it is in downtown Boulder or Louisville. Lafayette picked up steam when the Big Red F group opened The Post Brewing Company, drawing crowds for see NIBBLES Page 46

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fried chicken, pie and award-winning beer since the day it opened.

Now, eateries are opening almost every month, but you have to know what to look for in neighborhoods around the city. The focus is South Public Road, Lafayette’s Main Street, where recently opened restaurants include a second location for Fort Collins’ whiskey- and bacon-centric William Oliver’s Publick House, and self-described “non pretentious eatery” Community (with a giant flaming caldron on the patio).

Nearby is the canine-focused Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House, (in a former Sonic Drive In). The happily relocated Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Susan France Restaurant has good ethnicdining neighbors with Udon Kaisha, Panang Thai and Pho Café less than 100 yards away.

Coming soon on South Public Road are the Black Diamond Restaurant & Tap House as well as Chocolaterie Stam, the first Colorado location for a nine-store Midwestern chocolate maker. In June, the new Lafayette Farmers Market will be open every Thursday evening on South Public Road.

Out near Wal-Mart on U.S. Highway 287 more food attractions are popping up. At the new U-Turn BBQ, you can sit and eat at the brewery/ barbecue, but six-packs and smoked ribs are also served through its drive-thru window. That Lafayette neighborhood includes the Isabelle Farm Store, open year-round selling local produce, meats, dairy products, breads and gifts. Nearby

is another recent opening, Above: Danny Robbins, service manager at Sushi Aji, and two old favorCommunity restaurant ites — Proto’s Pizza and Below: Ras Kassas owner Tsehay Hailu Mumtaz Mediterranean Food.

U-Turn joins a first class Lafayette craft ale roster that includes The Post, Front Range Brewing, Liquid Mechanics and Odd13 Brewing.

Muffins, cakes and all-important pies are on the menu at Button Rock Bakery, which just opened near Morning Glory Café in the area around the 95th Street and Arapahoe Road crossroads. Lunada Cantina and Reelfish Fish & Chips have joined the Super Mini Walnut Café and the Brewing Market in the same shopping center as Atlas Valley Purveyors, a cool market that is part grocery/ liquor store and part pharmacy.

Lafayette is still a hotbed of Mexican cuisine but the veteran restaurants like Santiago’s, Efrain’s and Senor Gomez have company. The Taco Wagon parked outside El Mercado grocery store on South Public Road dishes righteous carne asada tacos on warm corn tortillas with cilantro, lime and salsa.

South Boulder road has seen the opening of two new authentic taco spots — La Esperanza Taqueria and Tacos Aya Yay. Boulder’s FATE Brewing Company will open a secsee NIBBLES Page 48

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What is American food really? That’s the subtext for an upcoming volume for libraries and classrooms called We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food. The editors are soliciting contributions on hundreds of categories and I have my eye on these: Fluffernutter, Bialy, Frog Eye Salad, Red Eye Gravy, Shoofly Pie and Watergate Salad. My New England childhood featured Fluffernutters — peanut butter and Courtesy of Etai’s Cafe Marshmallow Fluff sandwiched between slices of squishy, white bread — until Mom realized it was just dessert disguised as lunch and cut the Fluff. Modern Fluffernutter upgrades add Nutella and banana. Others brulee the marshmallow with a hand torch for a subtle s’mores nuance. The whole sandwich can also be dipped in egg and milk and French toasted.

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Has your grocery shopping experience been lacking in the fun department lately? Lucky’s Market, 695 S. Broadway, hosts its first Sip ‘n Stroll 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 6 featuring $2 pints of beer, tacos, live music and patio games. The Boulder-based supermarket chain recently opened its 24th store. ... Chef Dakota Soifer of Boulder’s Café Labne Toast is on the Aion cooked at March 28’s Taste of Colorado press menu at Etai’s Cafe event in Washington, D.C. using ingredients from in the Denver Central Market. the state. Soifer served a savory tart using chilies from Pueblo, caramelized onions and Haystack chèvre cheese. The crust was made with flour ground from Colorado grain. ... The Taste of Pearl on April 23 features tastings of 15 Boulder restaurants and 15 Colorado wineries at 15 stores and galleries.

Contributing eateries include Frasca, Flagstaff House, Salt, Riffs, Aji and Jax with beverages from Bookcliff Vineyards, Decadent Saint Winery, Deviant Spirits and J&L Distilling. tasteofpearl.com. ... Lafayette’s Three Leaf Farm hosts a Mead Making Workshop on June 3 ... Thinking about drinking at every American brewery? In 2016, the number of breweries rose 16.6 percent to 5,301, including 3,132 microbreweries, 1,916 brew pubs, 186 regional craft breweries, and 67 large or otherwise non-craft brewers, according to the Boulder-based Brewers Association.

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Toast is the, uh, the “New Toast.” Who knew avocado-spread toast was such a big thing on menus across the country? My new favorite meal toast is the Labne Toast served at Etai’s Café and bakery in the hip new food hall, Denver Central Market. Izzio’s artisan toast is spread with labne (yogurt cheese) and a dukkah, a minced salad of mint, flat-leaf parsley and cilantro plus pecans, almonds, pomegranate molasses and olive oil. Another toast — 100 percent rye — is topped with smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill and sweet-tart Austrian cucumber salad. The café’s Love Toast features house-ground almond butter, fresh berries, local honey and bee pollen. Etai’s Café is part of the Baron family of local food businesses including Louisville-based Izzio’s (formerly Udi’s) artisan bread company.

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here is something that has been weighing on my mind these days, and it’s my weight. More and more of it seems to show up and to be frank, I’m not sure why. As far as I’m concerned, I’m a model of healthy living. The mileage on this frame is so low it’s practically new, thanks to the amount of time I spend on my rear end watching movies, drinking beer and writing about both. Sure, I’ve had it for a few decades, but I swear I only used it to walk to the bar for a beer and then to the store to buy more candy bars.

Unfortunately, what works for used cars doesn’t garner me any brownie points, and my associate is convinced it’s high time I get out there and whip this flabby sack of crap into something resembling a healthy human being. Luckily, there’s a place in Longmont that has my number, a place where I can recoup for my next workout while quaffing a delicious craft beer: Shoes & Brews.

Opened in 2014, Shoes & Brews is both a retail running shop and a bar rolled into one. The Susan France building, located next to the St. Vrain Creek just off of Pratt Parkway, features a “mullet” layout (their word, not mine) with the business in the front and a party in the back. They open at noon, seven days a week, for all your exercise and running needs.

But my favorite, the post-run recovery beer, is what makes Shoes & Brews particularly attractive.

Shoes & Brews Assistant Manager and Creative Ninja Ingrid Jones It’s more bar than brewery — theirs is a one-barrel system — with their tap wall featuring at least 20 offerings of Colorado’s finest, some of which are very hard to track down, and two brews of their own. When I last relaxed after a run — OK, jog — I started with their HefYeah (5.5% ABV), a thirst quenching hefeweizen with a touch of honey on the nose, which my associate found to be most enjoyable. She particularly liked the hef ’s light and effervescent body, which is a product of the Weihenstephan yeast — the most popular German wheat beer strain used worldwide.

I leaned a little more toward the Red Red Rye (5.8%), an ale that tamps down hops in favor of a round and aromatic malt that goes down smooth, real smooth. I know the name is a play on UB40’s 1983 reggae hit, but The Stones were playing in the brewery that afternoon and it was a perfect combination of oral and aural pleasure.

With beer like this, I may learn to love running yet. And on April 8, I’ll get a chance to test out my conviction when Shoes & Brews sponsors a 5K Brew Fest race. The race starts at Left Hand Brewing at 10 a.m. and ends at Shoes & Brews whenever I can manage to drag my clunker across the line. Thank heavens there is an after party.

Registration is $35 and it includes beer, a pint glass and a bunch of other stuff you’ll want to check out.

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YOUR MEMORIES. What comes to mind when I suggest that? Here are my thoughts on the subject. To FREE YOUR MEMORIES, you could change the way you talk and feel about your past. Re-examine your assumptions about your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain how and why they happened. Here’s another way to FREE YOUR MEMORIES: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at you once upon a time, let it go.

In fact, declare a general amnesty for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to FREE YOURSELF OF MEMORIES that hold you back. Are there any tales you tell yourself about the past that undermine your dreams about the future? Stop telling yourself those tales.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: How big is your vocabulary? Twenty

thousand words? Thirty thousand? Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative use of language ... to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow ... to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you. If you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You may not turn into a silvertongued persuader, but you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own interests.

LEO

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by Sarah Haas

The moral of the story is not that John Mayer did drugs, found God and started smoking weed

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ou remember him, John Mayer from the 2000s, the understated pop hunk with the hollowed eyes who somehow managed to woo us even though we swore we wouldn’t succumb to his poppy seductions. We hoped that behind his sly smile was something deeper, a vulnerability maybe, something that would justify being able to sing along to his litany of songs inspired by his at times excessively boyish sexuality.

Easily, he made it through his teenage years, flirting with conventional success and enduring the pangs of a succession of young loves won and lost on the public stage of celebrity. Eventually though, he would succumb to the alluring thrills of stardom and the mania produced by a majestic rise to the top of the music world’s A-list.

The fall of our pop hero came in 2010 with two unsavory interviews in Rolling Stone and Playboy that were so unpalatable they stirred a wave of ire. In retreat, Mayer took a hiatus from society for bucolic Montana and got to searching his soul.

Now, out of the woods and nearing 40, Mayer speaks about his time in the abyss of self-reflection with soul-baring authenticity, readily offering admissions about the likes of his on-again-off-again relationship with pop goddess Katy Perry, his adventures in therapy and his abandonment of booze. Instead, he says, he is “actually very thoughtfully entering cannabis life.”

His new album The Search for Everything is an ambitiously authentic tribute to the trip that brought him to rock bottom, what it’s been like spinning in the muck and about the immutable call to atonement.

But now that he’s climbed his way back to the top he sounds like a happy guy, better for the turbulent waters he’s endured.

So what was it that brought Mayer across the threshold and who was it that held the lonely bache-

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lor’s hand along the way? It turns out it was the guys he hung out with at his side gig, his glorified summer job playing lead guitar for Dead & Company, a 2015 regeneration of the Grateful Dead in a mashup of original members and more modern additions. “The feeling of inclusion that I have with this band — they saved my life,” he recently told The New York Times.

In the article, the statements about pot and the Dead are offered causally as asides (literally parenthetically) with an understandable eagerness to get on to what the pop star is up to now that he’s back (music videos with pandas).

But the declaration that a band “saved his life” is

important, as pivotal as it is profound. The Grateful Dead didn’t keep him from his biological end, but from abandoning his hero’s quest.

In finding home at center stage of Dead & Company, Mayer encountered wise and practiced guides to accompany along the path of artistic rebirth — to rescue the soul from imprisonment.

With variations this pattern is found everywhere along the history of the Grateful Dead: It is the trip beyond the mind, that collection of fragmentary concepts we call the normal world, that leads to liberation and re-entry.

The Grateful Dead, the progenitor of psychedelic rock, did not come by the genre accidentally. Both by induction and effect their music is a sonic exploration in psychedelic journeys, sometimes drug induced, always a genuine attempt to make manifest the soul through music.

The moral of the story is not that Mayer did drugs, found God and started smoking weed, but rather that he had a psychedelic inspired experience from which he emerged a very human and triumphant hero.

The Search for Everything is Mayer’s telling of that journey, separate from the Grateful Dead but still of it. It’s rooted in ordinary stories of a boy growing up, longing for love and acceptance. It’s a simple embrace of the messiness of life found through a journey into the unknown.

As Mayer steps out for The Search for Everything world tour and for his upcoming 20 show run with Dead & Company this summer (including two shows at Folsom Field) his personal reemergence is quickly becoming part of a broader one. Like a Grateful Dead jam rippling through the crowd or like relaxing social attitudes to cannabis sweeping across the globe, Mayer has come to both own and earn his spot as the modern front man of both movements.

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by Paul Danish

Is America’s Team going green?

J

erry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, may have just stumbled on a way to make the Cowboys America’s Team again.

And it involves marijuana.

According to multiple press reports, Jones told a recent meeting of National Football League team owners in Phoenix that he wants the league to get rid of any and all of its penalties related to marijuana use.

The report is unofficial — the meeting was closed — but Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reported the source was a person who heard Jones’ remarks at an executive session of the league’s Finance and Compensation Committees.

The NFL bans players from using marijuana regardless of whether it is legal for either recreational or medical purposes in a team’s state. Every player in the league is drug tested at least once a season, and those who have flunked a test or are caught with pot are tested more often. Players who flunk a test are fined and receive counseling. Under the current policy, a player can be suspended after a fourth failed test.

According to Sports Illustrated, for every player suspended, five to 10 others enter and exit the league’s “intervention program.”

Some of the other owners initially reacted to Jones’ proposal by pointing out that the issue falls under the league’s collective bargaining agreement with the NFL players association, which isn’t up for re-negotiation until 2020. Which sounds like a nice way of kicking the can down the road.

However, last February in the state-of-the-league address, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suggested negotiations could begin earlier.

“We sent the union last spring, several pages of issues we wanted to address,” Goodell said. “As the

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league and as ownership and I expect — and we put on that list drug policy as one of those issues — so we would love to engage, but I think what we’re seeing is a reason why we should all sit down and get at the table and begin negotiations so that if we want to reach a different policy on either the drug policy or any other matter, we can all begin that earlier and do it in a way that’s responsible.”

Not exactly an economy of words there, but you get the idea.

Both the players association and a growing number of ex-players have been pushing for the league to lighten up on pot, including former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer and former New Orleans Saints and Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, a Heisman Trophy winner who endured multiple suspensions — and who claims to hold the world’s record for the number of drug tests taken — at more than 500.

But Jones entering the fray could be a game changer. The Dallas Cowboys’ owner is considered one of the most powerful men in professional sports.

His opinions carry a lot of weight, and he is not shy about sharing them.

It’s not clear what prompted Jones to raise the issue at this time. The fact that three Cowboys players — linebacker Rolando McClain, and defensive ends Demarcus Lawrence and Randy Gregory — were hit with suspensions for substance abuse violations last season may have been a factor. If Sports Illustrated’s rule of five to 10 “interventions” for every suspension holds, anywhere from a quarter to a half of the Cowboys may have been caught inhaling.

The fact that public opinion on marijuana has undergone a sea change — multiple polls have found about six in 10 Americans want to see recreational marijuana legalized — almost certainly was a factor as well. At least eight of the NFL’s 32 teams — the Broncos, Seahawks, 49ers, Raiders, Chargers, Rams, Patriots and Redskins — are in towns with legal recreational marijuana. About 15 more, including teams in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, Illinois and Arizona are in states where medical marijuana in some form is legal.

And there is a third possible factor as well: The need for the NFL to attract younger fans. Americans aged 18 to 30 are overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing pot; Americans over 65 are the only age group still opposed to legalization.

Jones is a smart enough businessman to know that a continuation of the league’s anti-pot policy isn’t winning it many new fans among the young — and that coming out in favor of junking that policy is going to make him, and by extension the Cowboys, very popular among a lot of millennials and post-millenials.

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DE-OPERATIONALIZING A PRESIDENCY Merriam Webster is like an old friend. It’s always there when you need it, when you can’t recall something you know you’ve learned before. It’s ready to settle any dispute you may have with a coworker, and it’s most definitely not afraid to tell it like it is.

Take for example the way it told Ivanka Trump what the word complicit really means. Or the next day when it pointed out that no, Steve Bannon, de-operationalize is not a word no matter what you thought your role on the National Security

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(IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world Council is... we mean was. But these are just the latest examples of the dictionary taking the new president and his gubbins (foolish or futile people) to task. Like most of the country, Merriam Webster seem to be bumfuzzled (confused, perplexed, flustered) by the new administration’s taradiddle (fib or pretentious nonsense) that seems to be taking the nation windershins (in a left-handed

or contrary direction) of its values. It’s as if the dictionary is yelling, “Gardlygoo!” (a warning cry used when it was customary to throw slops from the window), making sure we all notice the billingsgate (coarsely abusive language) spewing from the White House that very may well lead Donald J. Trump to snickersnee (engage in cut-and-thrust-fighting with knives) with Kim Jong-un. It gives us a collywobbles (bellyache) just thinking about it. If we ever feel like the world is slipping further cattywampus (askew, awry) from reality, we just have to turn to Merriam Webster for help. Thanks, MW, for always being there when we need you. #wordsmatter.

TIME TO SEND IN THE BIG GUN OK, this North Korea thing is getting out of control. We have an inbred baby-brained leader with his tiny fat fingers on the nuclear button of a device he’ll likely one day mistake for his PlayStation controller and blow up the whole world, or at least Seoul. On the other side we’ve got a strongjawed Texas oilman, Rex “I hate Andrea Mitchell” Tillerson, whose response to inbred boy is to say, “We Wikimedia Commons/OPEN ain’t talking Sports about North Korea no more. We’ve said all we’re going to say.”

Tillerson’s position is made all the more odd because he hasn’t said one damn thing since he became Secretary of State. How can silence be “saying all we’re going to say.” How does he think that makes imbred baby ruler feel? What if maniacal chubby boy throws a tantrum and kills a few million people? This thing’s gone far enough. It’s time to stop messing around and call in the big gun to do some serious negotiating — big gun as in Dennis Rodman. Maybe it’s his crazy hair cut or the fact that he can’t spell his own name, but whatever the reason, Rodman and baby brain are on the same wave wavelength. If anyone can talk us out of a nuclear war, it’s the Rodman. And hell, don’t you think putting Dennis Rodman into Trump’s inner circle seems somehow right? Perfect fit.

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