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xciting news, people! The Republican Party’s establishment has a secret plan to stop its bluecollar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is codenamed: “Operation Paul Ryan.” Good grief, the GOP’s old-line clique of congressional bulls, corporate funders, lobbyists and right-wing think tanks is

as confused as goats on astroturf when it comes to grasping a core part of Trump’s appeal. He’s reaching out to longtime Republican voters who’ve finally realized that it’s the party’s own Wall Street elites who knocked them down economically and the party’s insider cadre of K-Street influence peddlers who’ve shut them out politically. The party powers are insisting that The Donald is winning only because he’s drawing voters who are ignorant, racist, xenophobic and misogynist. In fact, he’s drawing huge numbers of disaffected Republicans who are mainly anti the party’s own power players. Far from being Koch-headed, laissez-faire ideologues, these voters like Trump’s opposition to job-busting trade scams, his mocking of big-money campaign donations, his call to hike taxes on Wall Street’s pampered hedge-funders, his support for Social Security, etc. For these voters, “Operation Paul

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Ryan” is a dud, a farce... and an insult. Rep. Ryan has long been the kept-darling of the Wall Street/K Street crowd. The obtuse establishment snootily calls him “serious” presidential material, only because he champions such plutocratic policies as privatizing Social Security, cutting taxes on the super-rich, deregulating Wall Street and turning Medicare into a voucher system. The only thing serious about Ryan’s agenda is that it’s a dead-serious loser with the great majority of Americans. Trying to knock-off Trump for Ryan is a sign of the GOP’s irreversible decline into cluelessness and political irrelevance. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 7, 2016 5

the anderson files Good judgment or Clinton by Dave Anderson

here hasn’t been much seriSahara, she has advocated for military ous debate about foreign solutions to complex political probpolicy in the presidential lems, backed authoritarian allies and race. The Republicans prom- occupying armies, dismissed war ise endless war and offer crimes, and opposed political involveonly bluster and B.S. The Democratic ment by the United Nations and its race has been somewhat better. agencies.” Hillary Clinton says she has more Clinton’s recent speech before the experience in foreign policy because hawkish American Israel Public Affairs she was Secretary of State, whereas Committee (AIPAC) was disappointing. Bernie Sanders argues that he has betAmerican Jewish leader Henry ter judgment, citing his preference for Siegman calls her “AIPAC’s Panderer-Indiplomacy and his criticism of “regime Chief.” Siegman is the president of the change” interventions and the miliU.S./Middle East Project, was the exectary-industrial complex. utive director of the American Jewish Earlier in the year, Peace Action — Congress from 1978 to 1994, and is a the largest peace organization in the leader of the Synagogue Council of United States — announced its America. endorsement of Sanders for president. She promised that she would protect Israel from the The group is the “threat” of a UN descendant of two Security Council other mass U.S. resolution demandpeace organizaing an end to the tions: the National IS QUITE occupation of the Committee for a DIFFERENT FROM West Bank. Sane Nuclear Siegman notes, Policy (SANE) and CLINTON’S. MANY “She said she the Nuclear PROGRESSIVE ANALYSTS would insist that Weapons Freeze HAVE CRITICIZED HER Campaign. This is Palestinians can the first time in achieve statehood FOR BEING A MILITARIST over two decades only in negotiations AS U.S. SENATOR AND they have endorsed with (Israeli Prime SECRETARY OF STATE. a presidential canMinister) didate. Netanyahu. Yet Peace Action even President praised Sanders’ Obama, who until opposition to both Iraq wars, recently held that same view, finally support of legislation to reduce spendrealized the absurdity of that demand ing on nuclear weapons, strong backing following Netanyahu’s declaration durof the Iran agreement, votes to curb ing the last Knesset elections that military spending, and championing of Palestinians will not live to see a state diplomacy over war. Before Peace of their own while he is Israel’s prime Action’s board of directors voted overminister.” whelmingly to have the organization’s Siegman says that in her speech, Peace PAC back the Sanders campaign, “she managed to avoid even a single an online poll of Peace Action’s memsentence that acknowledges the subbers revealed support for endorsement jugation, disenfranchisement and by 85 percent of the respondents. humiliation Palestinians have been Sanders’ record is quite different subjected to in the half-century of from Clinton’s. Many progressive ana- Israel’s occupation.” lysts have criticized her for being a He said that was a real contrast to militarist as U.S. senator and what Bernie Sanders said in a speech Secretary of State. For example, polit- AIPAC did not allow him to deliver to ical scientist Stephen Zunes says, its delegates via Skype. (In 2012, AIPAC “Her hawkish views go well beyond allowed GOP presidential candidates her strident support for the U.S. inva- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to sion of Iraq in 2003 and subsequent address their gathering by video link). occupation and counter-insurgency see ANDERSON FILES Page 7 war. From Afghanistan to Western

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Paul Danish truly sounds as though he is running for office in his March 31 piece [Re: “Boulder, Uber, Google and traffic] about transportation in Boulder. Incredible though it may be, I almost agree with him. For quite some time now I have been nonplussed at the automobile density around Boulder. Unlike the city where I live, Boulder’s traffic management seems to be enlightened (no pun intended) and reasonably evenhanded. Most drivers “live and let live” (but not all cyclists), responding well to buses stopping, etc. Danish has a good point in discrediting further capacity expansion. There is an old, tried and true adage in the planning profession referring to the “tragedy of the commons,” whereby unused capacity lasts only until the concrete dries. I was deeply involved in T-Rex in Southeast Denver, and I explained to all who would listen that even if I-25 were widened to 32 lanes, it would be jammed at least during rush hours. Why? Because drivers think, aha! The highway is wider and I can get downtown faster. Unfortunately, about 100,000 other drivers feel the same way; and the new T-Rex highway can only accommodate 75,000 cars. The real trick is to change personal habits. About 80 percent of cars go by with but one occupant. We are so accustomed to hopping the gas pump for every errand, visit and appointment. It’s ingrained. We’re lazy. Granted, things are different during winter weather. But congestion pricing, higher parking tariffs and narrower roads have only so much effect. Driving, for exam-

ple, in Ireland can expose the futility of these ideas, even with smaller cars. I have proposed with tongue only half in cheek that the number of license plates be rationed. Americans would probably endure that for about fifteen seconds. They do not realize that driving is a privilege — to us it is a right, period. And the working poor would suffer disproportionately were registration fees raised significantly. Another regressive tax is not the answer. Smaller and more numerous buses –— think Disneyworld-style jitneys — or mini-trains a la Dallas/Fort Worth airport could help in and around the urban core. Beyond that, street design such as traffic circles, raised crosswalks, etc., only irritate motorists more. Land use patterns takes decades to change; I yearn for a finer-grained mix of uses militating against six stops to shop for six kinds of items. Perhaps the only thing able to lighten the road load is us. Higher petroleum prices and more electric cars still means more cars. I wonder if in a way the cyclists have something — the concept of priority right-of-way for all of them and dedicated center lanes (12feet wide, not 3) could help, in warmer weather. When I see a four-car garage and an additional vehicle in the driveway at a residence I cringe. Every five people seem to “need” seven cars? Good luck, Paul Danish. Maybe next you can even find a way to get drivers to stop for stop signs. Gregory Iwan/Longmont see LETTERS Page 7

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A belated thank-you to Joel Dyer for his column “We need GE backbones” in the March 17 issue. Well said! I also have really appreciated your in-depth reporting on the conservative, behind-the-scenes network in Colorado and many other issues you cover that are of interest to the progressive community. All the best, Chris Hoffman/Boulder

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I have a serious question to ask the Boulder Library Foundation. You can spend in excess of $150,000 on state of the art fabrication equipment and machinery for the new Makerspace BLDG 61 but we are unable to get any of the software that we need to run all the new machinery installed on the second floor computers. All the software we are asking for is free and open source. Inkscape,

Blender, Google Sketchup, FreeCAD, Scultptris, just to name a few. There could be one new icon added to the desktop of the second floor station. A 3-D folder, in that folder a whole array of free and open source 3-D and graphics programs ready to go. I do not understand why it is so hard for the Library I.T. department to install the software we need. Their major and only objection to the thought from I.T. was that programs need to be updated from time to time.

Well yeah as with everything, so the objection amounts to we would have to do extra work. You can spend over $150,000 on equipment, but refuse to get us the tools to run the machinery that are free. Am I the only one who sees the idiocy of this? Here is a really nice tool but you can not have the free tools to run them. An explanation would be nice. Frank Edgar/Boulder

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According to The Intercept, few in the broadcast media covered Sanders’ speech. The full text is at https://berniesanders.com/sanders-outlines-middle-east-policy/. “To be successful, we have to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people, where in Gaza, they suffer from an unemployment rate of 44 percent — the highest in the world — and a poverty rate nearly equal to that,” Sanders said. He called for an end to the economic blockade of Gaza. Israel, he argued, is compounding the suffering with its own aggressive policies. Sanders called on Netanyahu to pull back settlements in the West Bank and turn over hundreds of millions of shekels in tax revenue to Palestinians. Peace, he also said,” will mean a sustainable and equitable distribution of precious water resources so that Israel and Palestine can both thrive as neighbors ... Right now, Israel controls 80 percent of the water reserves in the West Bank. Inadequate water supply has contributed to the degradation and desertification of Palestinian land. A lasting peace will have to recognize Palestinians are entitled to control their own lives, and there is nothing human life needs more than water.” Sanders said security meant “achieving self-determination, civil rights, and economic well being for the Palestinian people.” He also criticized Palestinian leadership (particularly Hamas for its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians), Iran and Arab regimes. Throughout his career, he has been a strong supporter of a two-state solution. Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for president but he is also the candidate who speaks most honestly about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With his heartfelt, blunt and pragmatic speech on the Middle East, he indicates that he could be a great president. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly Boulder Weekly

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he past few years have marked a broadenThe Peer 2 Peer initiative was launched in 2015 in trouble. ing in the conversation about race and and currently involves 17 universities, including The RETIRE It program has been hosting events policing in the United States. The disproDrexel, in competition with each other to develop the between retired and active police officers and stuportionate number of young black men most effective program to build trust between millen- dents of West Catholic Prep in Philadelphia as part and women being shot by police has led to nials and law enforcement. of its efforts to build a different type of relationship the creation of Black Lives Matter and numerous Drexel’s entry in the competition is the Real between police and youth. These events include talks protests. Those developments have helped to shed Education to Inspire the Right Engagement by police officers, team building events and poetry light on this glaring example of racial inequity within (RETIRE It) campaign, which will work in West slams. An event on Mar. 4 of this year focused on the justice system. Philadelphia to improve interactions between the officer decision-making in situations that involve In 2015 alone, American police officers shot and cops and the community. Dorland believes the curescalation of force. killed 1,134 people. Despite comprising only 2 perrent news cycle regarding police shootings of young “We’re just trying to start a dialogue between law cent of the population of the U.S., enforcement and millennials to sort Courtesy of Kallie Dorland black males between the ages of 15 of work through the issues that are and 34 represent 15 percent of those currently popping up,” Dorland deaths. Adjusting for population, says. this means that young black males META also conducts surveys are nine times more likely to be and focus groups in West killed by police than any other Philadelphia in order to collect data demographic group in America. that they’ll present before the While there is no single, simple Department of Justice in June. solution to this complex problem, Some of this research includes data one former Boulder resident believes on optimizing the effectiveness of she has found a way to make at least social media use. some progress. The RETIRE It campaign is Kallie Dorland is currently a designed to examine the current student at Drexel University where conversation that’s happening in she is a member of META consultthe community, whether in personal ing, a student-created consulting discourse or over social media, and firm currently working with the facilitate progress as opposed to Justice Department on a program conflict. Part of Dorland’s motivacalled Peer 2 Peer. The goal of Peer tion to join the campaign was the 2 Peer is to create an active dialogue conversation that she was seeing on Kallie Dorland grew up in Boulder but is now working to bridge the gap between millennials between law enforcement and the social media, which was consistentand police at Drexel University in Philadelphia. communities they serve as a means ly more argumentative than conto deconstruct negativity in the structive. relationship between the two. “It’s really about creating that dia“Anytime you are sitting with logue and getting people together and someone and having a conversation, saying, ‘OK, we admit there might be that helps you create a more coma problem here; what is that problem plex idea of that person in your and how can we fix it?’” she says. “As mind. And that can help you not opposed to just, you know, people rely on stereotypes as much,” says yelling at each other on social media.” Dorland, who is currently helping to Dorland is not laboring under repair the frayed bonds of trust the impression that the efforts of a between teenagers and police in West Philadelphia. black people from Ferguson to Chicago to Baltimore student-run consulting group over a single semester Dorland, 20, grew up in Boulder where she to Milwaukee demonstrates the clear need of improv- will fix the issue, which has deep roots, but she recalls personally having positive interactions with ing communications and relations between cops and does believe the efforts taking place are meaningful police, but she knows that was not the case for young people. And she believes that one of the best steps to combating racial inequality. everyone in her hometown. While the community ways to accomplish this is to get young people talking Just as she knows the problem of racial bias in that she now works in is demographically more among themselves in a constructive manner by way of policing can be found in every community across the diverse than Boulder — 43 percent of nation, she also believes that solutions, such as the social media or other avenues. Philadelphians are black compared to 0.9 percent of one she is currently working on, are equally universal “I think the Department of Justice wanted to do Boulder residents — she says issues of racial ineqin geographic terms. Dorland says the steps that the this because they wanted millennials talking to other uity are ubiquitous across the nation. RETIRE It campaign is taking in Philadelphia could millennials,” she says, “and I think that’s coming off The consulting firm Hillard Heintze published an of the incidents in Ferguson and Baltimore.” work equally well in Boulder. extra-departmental analysis of the Boulder Police “They’re not specifically events that are only posDorland asserts that members of the community Department in February 2016. Their research found sible in Philadelphia, they’re events that can be done she works in have mistrust in the justice system that in traffic and misdemeanor citations, racial bias on any scale in any city,” she says. because the interactions they have with law enforcewas evident. In Boulder, a black person is about twice ment nearly always occur when they’ve done someMETA will present the RETIRE It campaign as likely to be ticketed than would be expected based thing wrong or are perceived to have done something and its findings before the Department of Justice on community demographics, and Boulder’s black in Washington, D.C., in June alongside the 16 wrong. She believes interactions separate from puniresidents are arrested at a rate 4.8 times that of nonother universities participating in the Peer 2 Peer tive instances build stronger citizen-police relations black residents. by contextualizing officers outside of a sense of being competition.

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ight before scientist Gill Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Pratt left his post as the lead The two met while both appearing on a robotics researcher for the public television show in 1996, as U.S. Department of Defense apparent adversaries given McChesney last August, he published a was a renowned media critic and paper explaining what he sees as the Nichols a budding journalist. In reality, coming Cambrian explosion of robotics, the two more or less saw eye to eye and a moment akin to the event more than have worked together ever since. People 500 million years ago where a diversity Get Ready is their sixth book. of animal and plant life exploded into With their most recent work, the existence in a relatively short period of coauthors were formulating an entirely time. In the realm of technology and different book, McChesney says, when robotics, as devices increasingly become Nichols returned to the U.S. after a telecapable of doing what humans do, such communications conference in Germany an explosion could mean the automain the middle of 2014. Nichols observed tion of entire industries, making workBrent Nicasio ers obsolete and inequality even worse. Although no one, including Pratt, can predict when this explosion will take place, it’s closer than ever before. Consider driverless cars, virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri and Google’s Alexa, or Tay the Microsoft chat bot who, after hours of interacting with other users on Twitter, began spouting racist, hateful and conspiratorial ideas in late March. And these are only the technologies making their way into headlines. To put it more succinctly, “We are not in charge,” write coauthors Robert McChesney and John Nichols in their new book People Get Ready: the Fight Robert McChesney against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy. “... Every decision that matters about our lives is being made by a corporate CEO or a campaign donor or a programmer or a hacker or someone else that we have never met.” By exploring the impending technological revolution in the context of our current economic and political environment, McChesney and Nichols assert the increasing automation of our econthat most of the experts spoke about omy, coupled with the corporate takeautomation and robotification of indusover of our government, will have protries, and agreed it was a fast-approachfound implications for ing inevitability. What society if left became increasingly ON THE BILL: Robert McChesney and John unchecked. apparent from these disNichols. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, “At that point we cussions was the disApril 14, First have to rethink the placement of thousands Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., economy so that techif not millions of workBoulder, 303-442-1781. 7:30 nologies and the beneers by technology, which p.m. Friday, April 15, fits we have don’t work carries the potential to Alliance Center, 1536 Wynkoop St., Denver, 303to punish people — drastically change our 405-6780. Tickets $15 in make their lives miseraentire culture in a rather advance, $20 day of. ble — but rather work short period of time. to enhance all our “Generally, [there lives,” McChesney says. was] a sense that some“And that’s the great political struggle.” how it would just work itself out,” McChesney is a professor of comNichols says. “I just didn’t buy that. ... I munication specializing in media histo- don’t believe there is an app that is ry, policy and social change at the going to make it all better.” University of Illinois UrbanaReturning home, the lack of dialogue Champaign. And Nichols is a veteran surrounding this very topic in the U.S. national affairs correspondent for The political conversation left him in awe. Nation and associate editor of The “I was so powerfully struck by the

notion that none of our political leaders seemed to be talking about it and none of our media elites were talking about it,” Nichols says. “There was no popular discourse about what everybody says is going to be one of the most radical transformations for humanity since the industrial revolution.” So the authors began researching — pulling together economic theory, political history and technology experts, as they watched the unfolding 2016 presidential election and the average citizen’s reaction to it. Writing throughout last summer and into the fall, McChesney Robin Holland

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and Nichols didn’t necessarily expect candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to make it as far as they have. But they knew the growing inequality, combined with the corporate influence and dominance of the American political system, would eventually lead to a tipping point of citizen unrest. “We wrote the book really anticipating a political moment coming in the fairly near future where growing inequality, growing unemployment and underemployment — all sorts of issues of democratic decline and economic stagnation were going to be huge issues,” McChesney says. “But we didn’t quite anticipate that it would happen this quickly.” “There were logical conclusions that extended from our research,” Nichols adds. “When you have changes this radical, when you really do move into a new age, in an industrial sense, in an

economic sense, in a social sense, people are going to get shaken by that. ... The people themselves are rocking the political process, they are pushing and pulling and making demands on it because they can feel the changes that are taking place and they are trying to assert themselves.” It’s not about curbing technological progress in the hopes of maintaining society as we know it, McChesney and Nichols argue. It’s about recognizing the impending change and making smart decisions regarding it. “We barely bother to think about what it all means,” the authors write. “This limits necessary questioning about whether we have the wherewithal and the authority to accept good change, reject bad change, and forge our own change.” And this is where a strong democracy comes in for McChesney and Nichols. A democracy where corporate lobbying and financial influence aren’t dictating the decisions made in Washington. Where voter turnout reaches 70 or 80 percent, rather than hovering just around 50 percent. Where our social infrastructure functions in a way that people can manage the technological transition successfully. “If we don’t couple technological progress with real democracy we run the real risk of ending up in a situation where everything about our lives has been transformed but we’ve had very little say in it,” Nichols says. “If you have a strong democracy — get rid of corruption — you can solve any problem in the most humane and rational manor possible,” McChesney adds. “If you don’t have a strong democracy you are on a very slippery slope in times of crisis.” McChesney seems aware some of this may come across as alarmist. But he also believes the survival of our species and intelligent life is at stake, which necessitates the seriousness of their statements. The authors’ goal isn’t to scare people with thoughts of a dystopian future. Rather, People Get Ready seeks to alert people to their role as citizens capable of addressing the issues at hand. “The good news is that we have the capacity now to actually solve the problems and create a world that is extraordinary. Not perfect, but democratic, fair, just, extraordinary,” McChesney concludes. “Or we have the possibility to go very much in the current direction we are going in, which is greater oligarchy and inequality and lack of democracy with all the attending problems growing worse. Those are the choices we face.” April 7, 2016 9

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proposal by Denver’s water authority to expand Gross Reservoir in Boulder County is in the approval process, and concerned citizens and environmental groups met Monday, April 4 to discuss how to halt the initiative. Gary Wockner, executive director of Save the Colorado, and Chris Barre, president of The Environmental Group (TEG), gave a presentation to a packed room at Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place. The two discussed the current state of the reservoir expansion, also called the Moffat Collection System Project. The proposal would increase the Gross Dam from about 340 feet to 465 feet high, which would nearly triple capacity to approximately 114,000 acre-feet. If passed and completed, the enlarged dam could result in up to five billion gallons of new water diversion, and some creeks in multiple states would see up to 80 percent of their water drained, Wockner said. It would have major environmental and social impacts in Boulder, Summit and Grand Counties among others. The proposal was brought forth by Denver Water over 10 years ago, and the water authority needs to gain several permits before any ground is struck. That process could take up to six years, Wockner said, and each step is challengeable in court. Required permits would include those from the

state of Colorado and the Army Corps of Engineers, which are expected by the end of this summer. After and if those are granted, Denver Water would need the approval of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and most importantly, something called a 1041 permit from the Boulder County Commissioners.

which will see “no benefit” from the expansion. He added that the expansion “would be the largest construction project in a specifically designated ecologically sensitive area,” in the county’s history. In fact, Wockner laid out the potential detriments of the project, which in addition to the further drain-

Citizens gather to discuss Gross Reservoir expansion by Matt Cortina

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Wockner said Denver Water and the commissioners are at “loggerheads” over whether the authority needs to file for that permit. The 1041 powers allow certain counties in Colorado, including Boulder County, to make decisions on infrastructure, natural resources and more (including dam and reservoir construction). The Colorado Department of Local Affairs’ website states that the “general intention of these powers is to allow for local governments to maintain their control over particular development projects even where the development project has statewide impacts.” Barre said the fact that Denver Water wants to create a major environmental impact in Boulder County, let alone the communities across the West that rely on Colorado River water, is “a direct insult” to the county’s residents,

ing of the “most dammed and diverted river on the planet,” include the destruction of 200,000 trees; major noise and air pollution; a major influx in truck traffic on small roads (tens of thousands of truck trips up mostly Coal Creek Canyon); and the potential destruction of animal habitats and populations, among other issues. Wockner called Denver Water’s mitigation plan “laughable,” and said the project would leave the area’s homes majorly devalued as the environment in the area becomes a “denuded wasteland.” At the core of the issue is Denver Water’s claim that it needs to secure more water for its users, which serves over one million people in the Denver metro area. However, Wockner pointed out statistics from the agency itself that showed Denver has reduced water usage by 20 per-

cent overall, even as the population in the area has increased 10 percent. The decision on the reservoir will likely come down to the county commissioners, Wockner said, but that decision is two to three years away at least. Several years ago, the Boulder County commissioners rejected an Intergovernmental Agreement for the expansion after being offered several million dollars and some land outside of the county in exchange for the right to expand the reservoir. There are numerous alternatives to the Gross Reservoir expansion, Wockner said, the most viable of which is enhanced conservation efforts. If Denver Water spent the $350 million proposed for the reservoir expansion on conservation instead, Wockner said the agency would have more than enough water for decades to come. There are also the possibilities of diverting water from the South Platte River instead of the Colorado, and looking at other storage facilities that won’t have as large of an environmental impact. For now, all parties will await the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision on whether or not to grant the Section 404 Clean Water Act Permit. That permit cannot be granted, according to the Clean Water Act, if the proposed construction has a practicable alternative that is less harmful to the environment, or if the nation’s waters would be significantly degraded. In short, that ruling will tell us a lot. March 31, 2016 11

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Opponents also claimed each small business in Colorado the legislation would grant too would need to pay an average of much discretion to the Colorado $3,165 in additional taxes if they Business groups opposed a tax haven bill for the second consecutive year, ignoring benefits to Colorado’s small businesses. Department of Revenue to make were to pick up the tab for decisions on what constitutes a income lost to tax haven exploitalegitimate business practice and tion. which countries would be considAs to the question of whether ered tax havens. such tax loopholes create an unfair While business organizations disadvantage for smaller businesswere quick to discuss the bill’s es, Furman says, “CACI hasn’t supposed negative impacts on heard that claim from any of our multi-national corporations opersmall businesses, nor has NFIB ating in Colorado, the effects the heard that claim from any of their bill would have on the state’s small small businesses.” businesses seemed to be missing from the main argugroup has a listing on the Center for Media and The federal and Colorado chapters of PIRG ment against the legislation. Democracy’s SourceWatch, an online encyclopedia supported a similar tax haven bill last year, HB Spearheading the opposition against 1275 was the profiling the people, organizations and issues currently 1346. Furman pointed out that a U.S. PIRG report Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry shaping the public agenda. from October 2015 “specifically targeted ... compa(CACI), a private nonprofit, funded solely by its “ ... [T]he group has been shown to lobby on nies that our governor himself had recruited to members. CACI’s board of directors includes the issues that favor large corporate interests and run come here.” CEO of Miller International, the Colorado president counter to the interests of small businesses,” the listAmong those targeted companies were Newmont of AT&T, and other employees of businesses such as ing reads, citing two sources to backup this claim: an Mining in Greenwood Village (an at-large executive Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Xcel Energy and investigative piece from the Washington Post from committee member of CACI works as a state governThe Boeing Company. 2005, and a survey of small business owners from ment affairs manager for Newmont Mining), Arrow Other organizations opposing HB 1275 included 2012. “News reports have also found that NFIB, Electronics in Centennial, CH2M Hill in Englewood, oil and gas industry groups, like the American which tells the IRS it is a ‘non-partisan’ service orgaDavita in Denver, Level Three Communications in Petroleum Institute/ Colorado Petroleum Council, the nization, engages in partisan politics, and receives mil- Broomfield and Western Union in Meridian. Colorado Oil & Gas Association and the Colorado lions in hidden contributions.” “These are companies that come here and employ Petroleum Association. There were also groups repreHidden contributions aside, NFIB’s publically dis- hundreds and hundreds of employees,” Furman says. senting pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, closed contributions are enough to raise eyebrows. “How is it that one organization (U.S. PIRG) is going including the Colorado BioScience Association and The group has accepted more than $4 million since to be targeting the same companies that the governor PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and 2010 from Crossroads GPS, a group affiliated with has been trying to bring here, the governor whose priManufacturers of America), as well as multi-national Republican political operative Karl Rove that overority is economic development for our state? Why is companies with Colorado offices like NESTLE, whelmingly endorses and financially supports there a belief that these companies are now holding Siemens, Johnson and Johnson and Takeda Republican candidates. They also received $1.5 milmillions of dollars in tax havens?” Pharmaceuticals. lion in 2012 from Freedom Partners, an organization Because it’s all too probable that is the case, as tax run by Koch brothers’ loyalists that Politico described When asked about how this bill had any negative avoidance or “planning” as it is sometimes called, is impact on small business in Colorado, Loren Furman, in 2013 as the “Koch brothers’ secret bank.” completely legal unless laws such as 1275 are passed, While CACI and the NFIB stand firmly behind CACI’s senior vice president of state and federal relaand “shell” companies often hide the names of indithe idea that HB 1275 was bad for all business, other tions, simply responds that her organization wasn’t viduals and businesses hiding money. In January of research tells a different story. alone in opposing 1275. this year, Newmont Mining told Colorado Public In 2015, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group “Well, I will tell you the National Federation of Radio that while there were “inaccuracies” in the U.S. (U.S. PIRG) released a study looking at the potential Independent Business (NFIB) opposed this bill,” she PIRG report regarding the details of their offshore says. “NFIB represents, I believe, 90,000 small busiimpact of corporate tax dodging on America’s small business, they do hold one entity in Cypress, eight in ness across the state, so it wasn’t just CACI and our businesses. the Netherlands and two in Bermuda. 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The Food-Health Connection

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April 2016 Events At Marty’s Meals, our mission of improving the health and vitality of your four-legged companions extends to providing optimal pet care information and educational events. We network with leading integrative veterinarians and specialists, pet food nutritionists, respected natural health products manufacturers, pet behaviorists and force-free trainers to bring you broad knowledge in holistic care for the pets you love.

We look forward to meeting you and your pets at a Marty’s event this month! Using Hemp-based CBD & Cannabinoids in Pet Healthcare Saturday, April 9: 2:00 – 3:00pm By Tisha Casida | CEO, That’s Natural! Animals and humans alike can benefit from naturally occurring phytocannabinoids (like CBD), that are extracted from the cannabis and hemp plants. Tisha speaks about the latest health research and applications involving phytocannabinoids for health and wellbeing. ThatsNatural.info

Benefits of Using Essential Oils with Your Pets Saturday, April 16: 11:15am – 12:15pm By Frances Fitzgerald Cleveland | Founder, FrogWorks Frances was certified at the Institute of Dynamic Aromatherapy and International School of Animal Aromatics; and studied with Animal Aromatics pioneer, Caroline Ingraham. She recently trained zookeepers in the use of essential oils. Her groundbreaking Aromatherapy work at The Denver Zoo with orangutans, gorillas and black crested macaques was covered in the Denver Post and L.A.Times. FrogWorks offers pure, organically grown, wild-crafted oils and services for people and animals. FrogWorks.us

Restoring Vibrant Dog Health with Chiropractic Care Tuesday, April 26: 6:00 – 7:00pm By Dr. Jason Orowitz, DC | Boulder Sol Chiropractic Is your dog stiff, unable to move his neck in one direction, slow in rising from rest? Does he drag his feet, whimper or act aggressive or sensitive to the touch? He may have suffered from a subluxation – a spinal misalignment. Dr. Orowitz is a Certified Animal Chiropractor, specializing in care for dogs, cats and horses. His talk will focus on optimal canine diets and exercise, and how to detect signs of pain and other symptoms where chiropractic could help. BoulderSol.com

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t was nearly 20 years ago when Sandy Bosben walked into a Santa Fe, New Mexico, coffee shop for a cup of joe and walked out with Marty, a rescue dog scheduled to be euthanized. He was just 6 months old and deeply scarred from brawling with other dogs. Bosben did what any of us do when we bring a pet into the fold of our family: she nursed him back to health through a number of visits to the vet and fed him the best food possible — chicken mixed with high-quality kibble. And soon enough, Marty started to get some spring back in his step. But four years down the road, Bosben noticed that Marty’s health seemed to be deteriorating. He ended up having ligament surgery on both hind legs, and she discovered he had a degenerative joint disorder. Traditional medicine and surgery helped Marty, but what really changed his life was surprising. “A friend gave me some recipes... she’d initially given them to me for my cats. I couldn’t stand the smell of the litter box, and ever since I changed the cat food the box didn’t smell,” Bosben says. “She said she thought she had something to help Marty, so we tried it, and within a week he was like a different dog.” The friend was Zarna Carter, an internationally known animal nutrition specialist who taught Bosben how to create raw- and gently-cooked dog food. Bosben saw the difference it made in Marty’s life — he lived to be 16 — and wondered if such dietary changes could make a difference in the lives of other four-legged family members. So Bosben started Marty’s Meals in Santa Fe in May of 2013, based solely around the principle of feeding house pets a diet that more closely resembles one they would eat in the wild. There’s no dry kibble here. The business has been so successful Bosben was

able to open a second store here in Boulder earlier this year. Even with a second store in another state, the business model has stayed the same: create dog and cat Marty’s Meals are made with food fit for human consumption, which is no foods made primarily with small deal in the pet food industry. The brand just went regional, opening a meat or poultry, organic store on Glenwood Drive in Boulder. vegetables and grains and Marty’s Meals works with holistic veterinarian all-natural additives like fish Dee Blanco to develop recipes that not only provide oil, dolomite, kelp and Vitamin C. Their meats are the nutrients pets need — without added vitamins, locally raised and antibiotic- and hormone-free. Everything in Marty’s Meals pet food is fit for human which can be hard for animals to absorb — but also account for pets with beef or poultry allergies. consumption. In addition to the holistic vets she works with on “We think we’re doing this great loving thing, giving my dog this high-quality, grain-free food,” Bosben Marty’s Meal’s recipes, Bosben points to Juliette De says. “We love our animals. We’ve taken them into our Bairacli Levy’s lifetime of research, which recommended a natural diet of raw foods, not the processed homes. But what we’ve been told is best [to feed them] is very misleading. We’re told that kibble cleans foods that abound in grocery and pet stores today. “It isn’t about spoiling your dog; it’s about feeding their teeth, but dental health not only happens in your a species-appropriate diet,” Bosben says. “It’s about mouth but in your gut.” being a guardian that’s going to help them be a We’re fed messages about what we should buy for healthy [pet], to contribute to health and longevity.” our pets as often as we’re fed messages about what we Bosben places as much focus on creating quality should purchase for ourselves. The pet food industry pet food as she does on keeping her business regional, is intricately tied to the giant companies that produce which helps keep prices down. She opened a new processed foods for humans. In 2015, J.M. Smucker store in Boulder because she can drive to Boulder, and — makers of their namesake jam, Folgers coffee, Jif because Boulder embraces a culture that understands peanut butter, Pillsbury and Crisco — purchased Big the connection between food and health — even for Heart Pet Brands, maker of Meow Mix, Milk-Bone their pets. and Kibbles ‘n Bits. In 2014, Mars — yup, the candy And while Bosben agrees you shouldn’t feed your maker — bought Iams and Eukanuba, adding to their pets processed cheese and beef jerky every day, the pet-brand holdings, which already included Whiskas term “human food” strikes her as a little odd. and Pedigree. “Are wolves eating human food? Are coyotes?” she Dry pet foods, according to Bosben, cook the asks. “We don’t thrive on processed food. There’s a nutrients out of the food, requiring necessary nutrireason Whole Foods calls itself Whole Foods.” ents to be readded.

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Summer’s creeping in on Boulder, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more snow days to be had. If you’re up for an adventure, Powder South Heli Skiing in Boulder can set you up for an experience you’ll never forget in the untouched hills of the Chilean Andes.

Boulder’s very own Powder South offers the Andes experience by Tom Winter

he mountains are the spine of the continent. They run for thousands of miles, in places jagged and impassible, in others friendlier, with passes guarded by large volcanoes that vent steam and spit lava. These are empty landscapes. Traveled by few, buffeted by storms. Exotic, yes, but also welcoming and closer than you think. It’s hard to think about Courtesy of Tom Winter skiing and powder days and cold feet and runny noses in the middle of July. But when the temperature in Boulder starts to kiss 100, then perhaps it’s time to think and plan and dream a bit. To consider the unlikely journey south — south to the snow of the Chilean Andes. The Andes, and the untouched powder they shelter, is the raison d’être for Powder South Heli Skiing. You wouldn’t expect an Andean helicopter-skiing company to have roots in Boulder, but their northern offices are here — on Sumac Avenue, to be exact, and they’re exactly the kind of purveyor of dreams you need on a hot summer evening when the itch to ski or snowboard down a Boulder Weekly

mountain starts to tingle in your spine. Because July in the Andes is good — very good —and heli skiing in the Andes is even better than that. To understand how this dream of flying and skiing in one of the world’s greatest mountain ranges started, you have to start with the dreamer himself: Rodrigo Mujica. Mujica, a mountain guide with the international association IFMGA/ UIAGM, launched Powder South with fellow Chilean and former Olympic skier Joaquin Oyarzun in 2002. A guide and mountaineer for more than 30 years, Mujica has done a lot of impressive ascents as well as other adventures, including the first eastwest traverse of the northern Patagonia Ice Cap. But it was the downhill potential of the Andes that captured his imagination. “I was in Alaska for 14 years,” recalls Mujica, who came to Boulder by way of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, before his travels took him to California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, where he currently resides while also retaining an office in Boulder.

During his time in Alaska, Mujica became acquainted with famed Alpine skier and mountaineer Doug Coombs, who essentially launched the heli-skiing industry when he helped found Valdez Heli-Ski Guides in Alaska in 1994. “I helped Doug Coombs, saw the [heli] operation there and then I went back to Chile and realized that the existing heli-ski operations were really poor,” Mujica says. “You could spend all day waiting for a run or two.” Of course, the whole advantage to heli skiing is, or should be, the fact that you don’t have to wait. You fly, get dropped off at the top of a mountain and then, by the time you reach the bottom, the helicopter is ready to take you back to the top again. This downhill inspiration was unlikely for a guy who had made his living as a mountaineering guide with outfits like Jackson Hole’s legendary Exum, focusing on taking clients up the mountain rather than down. But it was a stroke of genius, given the rudimentary state of affairs of heli skiing in the Andes. Furthermore, the vast terrain, huge vertical drop and excellent stable snow conditions were ideal for heli skiing, which complemented the limited ski resort options in the Southern Hemisphere. “The Andes have huge terrain,” Mujica notes. see HELI SKI Page 20

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thus making Chile a better option for those who wish to get as many runs in during a week as possible. “Chile is a bit more dependable,” Mujica says. “But we had a very good seven weeks of operations in Argentina last year. It’s all new, and more of an exploration. The terrain is higher and harder to land on.” But regardless of where you go in the Andes, even if you don’t choose to fly with Powder South and instead opt to ski in one of the resorts or maybe hike a peak or two, Mujica says that everyone with a passion for skiing and snowboarding should try to make turns in the Andes at least once in their life. “You should give it a try,” he says. “It is hard for people to give their summer toys up, but if you love powder, then you will love to ski powder in the middle of the summer. The Andes have definitely been the best skiing in my life.”

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SANGEETA REDDY’S FRACTURED LANDSCAPES OF THE WEST BY SARAH HAAS

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eeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows, illuminating columns of dust and warming the cool air coming off the thick rock walls. Music from “Red Canyon, River, Sky”/ Sangeeta Reddy student ensembles drifts through the building adding a soundtrack for visitors to the art show in the main gallery, Sangeeta Reddy’s Fractured Landscapes of the West, a show by Boulder’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The paintings transform the entranceway to Macky’s main auditorium from an in-between room into a destination in its own right. The paintings glow under the spotlights in blocks of tan, brown, crimson and blue. The colors are laid in careful shapes, some sharp and angular, others rotund and billowing. From far away, you can make out a landscape, but just barely, not because it’s not obvious, but because it’s unusual to see a mountain or bluff from all its angles at once. It is as if the viewer is a part of the landscape, walking through and around it. But, standing still at the foot of a towering canvas is a feeling of being small, not insignificant, but humbled by the landscape depicted above.

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“That is how you feel when you are in that landscape. This body of work distills it down to that experience,” Reddy says. “It is something so much larger than you, the landscape, so if some measure of that feeling of awe comes through, then I think that is a very happy accident that I can’t consciously recreate.“ Upon closer inspection, the details of the painting gain prominence. Fractures in the rock are depicted violently by jagged lines and extreme angles. Each shape in the composition is made of brush strokes that express the movement of the painter’s hand, indicating the direction of the motion in each feature of the landscape. The paintings look like a mix between Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso — the bridge between the impressionism of the 19th century and the cubism that defined the early 20th. In the work of these two artists, one can track the deconstruction of nature into a system of basic forms. Cézanne’s earliest works drew from the impressionists, who incorporated the passage of time into a painting. Toward the end of Cézanne’s life and career, he went one step further, allowing not just for the movement of time, see FROZEN TIME Page 24

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One of her subjects in the show is Ship Rock, a 1,500Reddy grew up in India in Hyderabad on the Deccan foot eroded volcanic plume towering above the high-desert Plateau, the oldest volcanic flats on Earth. She spent her plain of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico’s San Juan childhood playing among the huge, gray boulders that dotted County. The English name for the formation derives from the land, remnants of the mountains that eroded long ago. the peak’s resemblance to an enormous 19th-century clipper With a strong connection to the nature and geology of ship; while the Navajo name for the peak, Tsé Bit’a’í or her homeland, Reddy first came to the United States in 1978. “winged rock,” refers to the legend of the great bird that Based on her past in India and after watching a few Western brought the Navajo from the north to their present lands. movies, she thought she understood the American West, but Whether imagined as sails or wings, the mountain has a nothing prepared her for her first trip to the deserts of Utah character of flight, emphasized by the dikes radiating from its and New Mexico or for the profound impact those places would have on her art. base, where lines of liquid lava once spewed up through the Up until 2000, Reddy’s paintearth rather than pouring from Courtesy of Sangeeta Reddy ings were modern, abstract and the volcano’s mouth. minimalist, each Reddy’s “Ship Rock #5” capcanvas sparsely tures the iconic landmark as spaON THE BILL: populated with cious, voluminous and bigger Sangeeta Reddy: shapes and lines than life. It depicts the rock jutFractured Landscapes meant to draw the ting out of the earth as the sky of the West. BMoCA at Macky, 285 University viewer into a medshrinks toward the top edge of Ave., Boulder, 303-492itative contemplathe canvas. Flattened lines break 8423. Through May 29. tion. Her art was up the otherwise uninterrupted driven by an perspective of the earth, disruptIndian philosophy ing the illusion of continuous that she studied in college — the space. idea that separateness is an illuThe overall feeling is tumulsion and that all perspectives tuous, a reminder that although serve to define the whole of the mountain appears fixed and which we are all a part. But she unchanging to the viewer, it is actually the embodiment of movement of the earth, on a time always struggled with the abstract ideas getting too far out. “The idea was that nothing defines or confines,” Reddy scale far beyond the ticking of a clock. The painting shows says. “Instead, you arrive at the description of a thing by the stillness of the land while pointing to the events of their saying what it is not. When you cannot subtract any more, creation, both tectonic and minute. This interpretation of time then you have arrived at the description of what something is geologic, so vast that it imagines rock as a liquid flowing is. I thought it would be interesting to try to work towards over millions of years. the idea. But how do you represent something that defies “You are looking up at these landmarks and they are larger than life,” Reddy says. “They have this stillness as you walk representation?” The land, she says, drew her back to physical reality. into them. Nothing moves, literally, nothing moves. But you Reddy’s first landscapes — like “Ghost Ranch know that they were made because of these huge tectonic Formations” in 2002 — a pastel on sandpaper, are literal movements — rocks have broken and thrust up and twisted interpretations of the landscape that show a place as a prod— all of this is frozen in time in that rock. uct of its features, with sky at the top, earth below and a “And then after that, for another million years, there is a prominent landscape feature squarely in the center. slow erosion that takes place, this slow movement of cracking There is some whimsy in the paintings, a hint of moveand expanding. There is a lot of activity that has happened that ment in the thin brush strokes that compose the piece, is latent in all of this stillness. That is what I hope to capture.” Boulder Weekly

BUZZ reminders to the viewer that the paintings were made outdoors allowing the painter to capture the subtle passing of time. But Reddy felt these early works didn’t incorporate the larger philosophies that drove her to make art in the first place. Instead, the paintings seemed more like taking a picture, a snapshot of a moment that fell short of conveying an experience. Reddy decided to give herself time and distance from the landscapes and returned home for the seclusion of her studio. For six weeks, she closed herself in with only a few pictures of the landscapes and her memory for reference. She quickly abandoned plein air techniques and replaced that realism for simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes, characteristic of cubism. “I decided what I was after couldn’t be captured by standing in one spot,” Reddy says. “Instead I imagined that I was a bird, just going in and out of the mountains so that I could collect a lot of perspectives simultaneously. “If I were looking at one part of the painting from a high view, then I could also see the view from the ground and see some formations from the very top. I did this so many times that immersion became really intense. I was seeing all kinds of different angles by which I could draw and work on these landscapes at once.” The resulting expressions of the desert are full of movement and imagination. Grounded to reality in their earthy hues, but simultaneously pushed back to the fantastical with surprising pops of crimson and cobalt. Some of the colors are so vivid it is easy to assume they must be a figment of the artist’s imagination. Reddy says if one is patient enough to sit, wait and witness the land with an open mind, the colors will appear. “It’s like fiction,” Reddy says. “A lot of it is real but overlooked. So the artist has to exaggerate and infuse reality with emotion. Things have to be extrapolated and exaggerated in order to give it that alternate reality. The colors are there, but deep in the reflections of your mind. You have to take what is there and then you have to go on a flight of imagination.” In a particularly colorful piece, “Red Canyon, River Sky,” bright ribbons of blue and red run across the canvas. The red looks like arteries, the blue like rivers and waterfalls. Both colors take prominence, symbolizing the vital relationship of the landscape, the movement of earth and of water. Occasionally, the cobalt is applied in short upward strokes as if in Boulder Weekly

defiance of gravity — a powerful and subtle reminder of the endless drought of the desert and the sacredness of life amid its sparse presence. The show contains only a few years of work but comes from a lineage that goes far beyond. Each piece in Reddy’s exhibition features a different fragment of the land in an attempt to convey its unique character. “I thought about painting land-

scapes a lot, but I never really felt competent to do it.” Reddy says. “Locked in my studio, I thought to myself, ‘I am in my 50s, I can do whatever I want,’ and it really took the pressure off. When you take that pressure off you let it just come out however it wants to — without judging it is the hardest part, but if you are able to do that then you are completely free.” The success of the show is felt by

standing in the middle of the gallery. There, among her body of work, is a serene feeling of unity with the earth and of the awe it inspires. “One by one it feels so little and if you stop to look at those little pieces it can feel underwhelming,” Reddy says. “Then, four years later, I can look back at a body of work that somehow captures what I was after, not just piece by piece, but all together.”

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obert Olson has changed the Longmont performance of Verdi’s Requiem that was given in Denver. Symphony, and the Longmont Symphony has “It was really good,” Olson says. “After the performance, one changed him. of the musicians in the symphony came up to me and said, “I’m very, very proud of what we’ve done over ‘That was just the most inspiring experience of my life.’” three decades,” says the director who brought the Olson says it really hit him that his clarity didn’t matter Longmont Symphony Orchestra (LSO) from a group of if the musicians weren’t inspired. After that, he says, “I took raw amateurs who had to be led measure by measure a completely different approach to my time on the podium through Stravinsky’s Firebird to a first-rate community there.” orchestra that tackles major repertoire unafraid. And along Kay Lloyd, the LSO’s executive director and principal the way, he says he learned something, too. flutist, praises both sides of Olson’s conducting. “From the With a concert on Saturday (7:30 p.m. April 9, Vance musician’s perspective, his conducting is very clear,” she Brand Civic Auditorium, Longmont), Olson will step down says. “His transitions are just so seamless, and that is very after 33 years as the orchestra’s important with a community Courtesy of LSO music director — more than half orchestra.” the LSO’s 50 years of existence. But she also praises his He will return in the fall to con“innate ability to bring the most duct the opening concert of the amazing music out of a commu2016–17 50th anniversary season, nity orchestra. He inspires us, and but most of the concerts during really brings out the best about the year will be conducted by canthe music.” didates to take his position. In one way, the concert on Saturday’s concert brings to an Saturday will close a circle for end a season-long exploration of Olson with the LSO. He proRussian music. The major work grammed the Shostakovich very will be Tchaikovsky’s über-popuearly in his years with the orcheslar Piano Concerto, performed tra, and he says it was a mistake with pianist Chih-Long Hu, at that time. whom Olson has known for many “It was way too early for the years. Other works on the prodevelopment of the orchestra to gram will be the March and do that piece,” he says. “So the Scherzo from Prokofiev’s Love for only time in my 33 years with Three Oranges, familiar from its that orchestra, a member of the use in TV shows and commerboard said to me after the concials; Shostakovich’s youthful cert, ‘Please don’t do anything like Symphony No. 1, written when he that again.’ And she was right to was just 19; and one non-Russian say that, because the performance Robert Olson celebrates 33 years with the Longmont work, the Intermezzo from was not worthy of being on the Symphony Orchestra with Tchaikovsky. Leoncavallo’s I pagliacci. concert.” Leoncavallo’s very Italian You can be certain that this Intermezzo is on the otherwise all-Russian program, Olson time, the Longmont Symphony is ready for Shostakovich’s says, “as a favor for a very close friend.” First, which is one of Olson’s favorite pieces. “I like it If this doesn’t sound like a valedictory program for an because there’s so much chamber music,” he says. “It’s a very outgoing maestro, that’s because Olson doesn’t like to think transparent work, (which is) just the opposite [of about making a grand exit. “That’s not in my personality,” Shostakovich’s best known symphonies].” he says. “It would be fine with me just to quietly go away.” Olson recalls one more element of his success in He points to two elements in his success. For one, he Longmont, and that is the support he has received from the made it a point to bring in good soloists and make sure the community — and, in spite of his one misstep with players knew how to accompany well. “Our skill level was Shostakovich, the orchestra boards. “I’ve just been blessed pretty basic (at first), but I told the orchestra, ‘We’re going with wonderful boards over the years,” he says. to provide one of the best accompaniments our soloists can Longmont is the second high-profile conducting posiget.’ The orchestra became quite proud of that.” tion in Colorado that Olson has given up. Last year he The other element he mentions is a lesson that he ended his 28-year tenure as founding director of the learned from the orchestra. “I always took great pride in Colorado MahlerFest, which will welcome new artistic being a clear technical conductor,” he says. “Nobody was director Kenneth Woods in May. Olson lives in Kansas ever going to feel lost.” City, where he will continue to teach at the University of Then, early in his tenure at the LSO, he put together a Missouri, Kansas City. Boulder Weekly

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of design and sewing experience, create one garment and one accessory each. Tanja’s daughter, Boulder High School senior Audrey Leonard, will be competing this year for the fourth time. “We have a lot of workshops, and you see what other people are doing, and it prompts you to think of other ideas of what to use,” Audrey says. “And you start becoming much more aware of what you’re throwing away on a daily basis.” Audrey will be attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City next year to study fashion design. For this year’s competition, she is making a romper out of coffee filters. In previous years, she has made outfits out of bike inner tubes, shopping bags from, bubble wrap and candy wrappers. “I knew I wanted to use the bubble wrap because we had so much of it in our house, but I couldn’t really think of something I wanted to do with it because it kept being so thick, and I didn’t want to look like a marshmallow man or something,” Audrey says. “So that one definitely took the most innovation for me to come up with what I wanted to do.” The middle school participants are judged sepasee RUNWAY Page 30

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The Mindful Workplace Series Mindfully Together: Creating Cultures of Inclusivity at Work

(and Disrupting Ones that Aren’t) with founder of Center for Transformative Change,

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Social Change & The Future Of Resilience Exploring the Intersections of Social & Ecological Justice

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rately from the high school participants. And both groups have a winner and a runner-up, who each receive a photo shoot with a local photographer. There are also awards for innovation, functionality, creativity and construction. Audrey has won the award for functionality every year she has participated. “Sometimes a design is so functional that they just say that kid should win functionality and not be the overall winner because this other outfit is so amazing that, even though it’s not functional or the use of material isn’t that incredible; it just looks cool,” Tanja says. The participants typically begin colColby Evans lecting their found materials from their homes and their parents’ workplaces. The designers are prohibited from buying any materials — even the lining of their garments must be made out of recycled items. “They figure out how the material works,” Tanja says. “Often times they have a material that does not drape the way they think it should drape, so then they have to change their design idea. So it’s just a continuous process, but not that much different from making clothing [with traditional materials].” Audrey says participating in Recycled Runway has impacted her decision to study fashion design. She has learned to Gaby Gutierrez wearing recycled tissue paper and gum wrappers. be less of a perfectionist by allowing the materials to dictate the design instead of creating a design and trying to manipulate the materials to fit it. “It definitely allowed me to be more creative because it pushes you to think outside of the box because you have to figure out how to work with different materials or think of what will look cool in different shapes,” Audrey says. “Like I couldn’t have made a flowy dress out of bike inner tubes, so I had to think about what else I wanted to make out of it.” Colby Evans The participants walk away with more than just prizes. They gain the ability to construct a garment along with other skills and values they can apply to everyday life. “They learn trouble shooting,” Tanja says. “They learn to deal with challenges because every single year we have challenges where kids, at the last minute, can’t figure out how to put something together or it falls apart right before the show. And they have to stay calm, and we have to put it back together again.” Another takeaway for the competitors is self-confidence. Unless they choose not to, or they construct a garment intended for someone of the opposite gender, most of the participants Presley Church in her outfit of vinyl banners and mesh. model their own clothing. “When you’re right about to go on and you look at yourself in the mirror, you see your full outfit on and your hair and makeup done, and you just see that all those hours actually created something really beautiful and that you’ve accomplished something that you actually really like and that you’re proud of,” Audrey says. The rules allow anyone of eligibility to participate in the competition as many times as they desire. Competitors are chosen based on their applications, which outline their design ideas. “When they first come in, they’re quiet, and just standing around and not really knowing what to do,” Tanja says. “And then they grow each time. And then when it culminates, and they’re standing on stage and have a big smile on their face because they’re so excited about what they made, it’s really fun. It’s really the most amazing part.” Boulder Weekly

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Bach's St. Matthew Passion In an unprecedented collaboration, the Boulder Phil, along with Central City Opera, Boulder Bach Festival and the CU College of Music present a semi-staged realization of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece—a very human drama that examines core matters of faith, spirituality and life itself.

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A semi-staged production with: Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Butterman, Music Director Central City Opera Robert Neu, Stage Director Boulder Bach Festival Chorus Zachary Carrettin, Artistic Director Jason St. Claire, Guest Chorus Master CU Boulder University Singers CU Boulder University Choir Dr. Gregory Gentry, Chorus Master Boulder Children’s Chorale Kate Klotz, Artistic Director Derek Chester, Evangelist Stephen Morscheck, Jesus Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, Soprano Abigail Nims, Alto Kyle Stegall, Tenor Ryan Kuster, Bass Boulder Weekly

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THE FRONT BOTTOMS, BRICK + MORTAT, DIET CIG. 7:30 P.M. MONDAY, APRIL 11, BOULDER THEATER, 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER, 303-786-7030. Thursday, April 7 SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly. com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Music Ash Ganely. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. David Booker. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Earth to Aaron Release Party. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine Street, Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal with Cycles. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Genna & Jesse. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Justin Roth. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Ladies Night featuring The Retrosonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Infected Mushroom. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Jeffrey Foucault. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. see EVENTS Page 34

7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Think

What happens when fact-based science meets the free-flowing forms of art? Innovation. Bridging the gap between very different subjects can, in fact, help create a new unique approach to taking on problems of varying natures. Dance of Art and Science, a talk by Jeffrey Kiehl and Marda Kirn, will emphasize the creativity in two very different disciplines and explain how together, they can provide a new perspective on seeing and crafting a better future. Both presenters are involved in environmental work, and one of the many topics they will be discussing is the collaboration of art and science in relation to topics like climate change. — Chelsea Abdullah

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Futura — presented by The Catamounts

Stories of Change Gala: An Evening for Haiti

The Nomad Playhouse 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through April 16.

7 p.m. Saturday, April 9, Wellshire Events Center, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-759-5333.

Imagine a future where paper and pen are scarce and words are crafted strictly through typed out fonts. The flourish of a pen stroke is nothing but a distant memory, and all published texts are now gathered into a collective digital cloud. Welcome to the world of Futura, a play by Jordan Harrison, Pulitzer Prize finalist and writer on Orange is the New Black. The play’s main character, a rogue professor set on avenging her missing husband, decides to rebel not through actions, but words. Stop by the Nomad for a thought-provoking evening of theater presented by The Catamounts. — Chelsea Abdullah

Help the Colorado Haiti Courtesy of Colorado Haiti Project Project, based in Louisville, kick off their 2016 fundraising efforts by attending this interactive gala. Featuring stories from Haiti, a margarita tasting, sit-down dinner, live and silent auctions, and live music by the Paul Shin Trio, this night is sure to be inspiring, powerful and fun. The Colorado Haiti Project was founded in 1989 by three Episcopal priests and the nonprofit works with rural Haitian communities in an effort to combat extreme poverty through educational opportunities, access to clean water, job training and public health initiatives.

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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 544 County Road, Louisville, 303-665-8770. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillery, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696. Open Stage. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Selby Clyman Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Events Joshua Goss & Chris Campbell. 5:30 p.m. Fine Art Associates Boulder, 1949 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-413-1000. Late Night At The Museum. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Friday, April 8 Music Anders Osborne. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Brian Rezac. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Clisset & Company. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. David Nemo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Doc Haze. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Early Music Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Elle Carpenter. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Face. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Spring Fever Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303-8230848. Full Belly Band. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Heartstring Hunters. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Honeytree Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Jacob Green. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Jockomo. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Manic Focus, Late Night Radio, Toy Box. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Potcheen. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Samples. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Save our City: A Doors Tribute. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. 34 April 7, 2016

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24.

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Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Through May 1. Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 17.

Sangeeta Reddy explores landscapes with her exhibit at Macky. Read more about Reddy’s work on Critical Focus: Lanny page 23. DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Plein Air Pastel Painting by Sandra HaberArt, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. korn. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, Through June 5. 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1. Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art MuPhantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum seum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, Through June 25. 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

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

Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12.

Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7.

The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.

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

Pastel Paintings by Diane Wood. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1.

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

Spiritual Rez. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sync, Fili and Kakes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tim Ostdiek. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Tom Waits For No Man. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Tony Monaco And Fareed Haque Featuring Greg Fundis. 7 p.m. Boulder Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-443-3889. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Uglys, Black Market Translation, Foxtrot. 7 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145. The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Events Art Monastery Sharing. 8 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Contemporary Tibetan Art Installation: Artist Gonkar Gyatso. 2 p.m. Boulder Creative Collective, 2500 47th St. Unit 10, Boulder. Little Shop of Horrors. 9 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Trail Safety for Dogs. 9 a.m. Sawhill Ponds Trailhead, Boulder, 303-413-7200.

Wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains. 2:30 p.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-444-3967. Saturday, April 9 Music The Applebutter Express, The Sweet Lillies. 7:30 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. The Aristocats. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Banshee Tree. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Blake & Groves Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Blake & Groves Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. Dale Cisek Band. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Davy Allard with Don Cleason. 5 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Deadset. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

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events Felonius Smith & Steve Sheldon. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Dixie Longate’s Never Wear a Tube Top... Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through April 24.

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

Futura — presented by The Catamounts. Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through April 16.

Honeypuddle: A Led Zeppelin Tribute. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Newsies. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through April 9.

Jackson Cloud. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

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

James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Many Mountains. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Mokomba Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mozart Requiem with St. Martins Chamber Choir. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Quilombo, DJ Javi. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Rachel and the Ruckus. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Sylvia. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through April 10. You Can’t Take it With You. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044. Through May 1.

Digg. 12 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Where to Invade Next. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Farm Sisters. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Sunday, April 10

Japanese Ensemble. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

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

Random Rab, Lapa, Moon Frog. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

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

Scott Vonn. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Sean Lucy. 8 p.m. Ax and Oar, 160 E. Main St., Lyons, 303-747-3795. Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Spiritual Rez. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Tallgrass. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Willis Alan Ramsey Live in Concert. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163. The Winchester Local. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298. Events The Lady in the Van. 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Love Thy Nature. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rattlesnake Hike. 10 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, Boulder, 303-678-6200. SALSA Loteria. 7 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-666-4361. Boulder Weekly

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Spring Arts Day. 1 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder.

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CWA Poetry Slam Showcase. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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Storybooks on Stage — presented by Stories on Stage. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Sunday, April 10 Dan Jurafsky — The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, April 11 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Lisa McMann — Island of Dragons. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, April 13 MFA Reading Stephanie Couey. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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efore you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed. That line of thinking motivates director Jean-Marc Vallée’s latest film, Demolition, a movie that focuses on the self-destruction required to survive a tragedy. Demolition opens with Davis Mitchell ( Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife, Julia (Heather Lind), driving to work. Julia tries to talk to her husband, but Mitchell’s mind is elsewhere: work, politics, the weather, an attractive waitress at the lunch counter he frequents, who knows. Whatever it is, it has him and his marriage does not. “The refrigerator is leaking,” she tells him. “The refrigerator is leaking,” he repeats, slowly and with deliberate accentuation. Gone are the white-hot days of passion, the joys of discovery and that all-consuming feeling this person is the one. Their marriage has progressed to a stage where both parties take the other for granted. Their history is deep, their love is complex, but their attention is waning. Then a car runs a red light and strikes them, killing Julia in the process. Mitchell emerges from the accident unscathed, save for some of Julia’s blood splattered on his shirt and shoes. At the hospital, he tries to purchase peanut M&Ms from a vending machine, but as luck would have it, they get stuck. Some time later, Mitchell sits down to write a complaint letter to the vending machine company about his stuck bag of Peanut M&Ms and the situation in which he tried to procure them. But Mitchell doesn’t simply write a letter; he pours forth his heart and tells his story. He writes of Julia, of the accident, of his family, of his work, of his deepest thoughts and secret observations, of everything. Mitchell becomes a fountain of thought, one that moves fluidly through the interior and exterior aspects of his life. Vallée’s direction keeps pace with Mitchell’s stream of consciousness, building layers of observation on top of vast emotions. Mitchell writes several complaint letters to the vending machine company, but these letters turn out to be the tip of Demolition’s iceberg. Though the movie occasionally teeters precariously on the edge of cliché — Mitchell does meet the woman (Naomi Watts) who answers his letters, he does have a falling out with his in-laws and he does self-destruct publically — Vallée and screenwriter Bryan Sipe manage to avoid pitfalls that would undercut their larger construct. Their focus is the aftermath, the grief involved and how complicated it is to truly move on. That is because love, and the people we love, contain multitudes. The more Mitchell reflects on his marriage, the more he realizes how much he missed. Some of it was his fault; some of it was not. These truths must be unpacked before Mitchell can move on. But moving on doesn’t always mean moving past. The past is a companion that remains with us whether we want it or not. Resolution isn’t about leaving that past behind, but learning to walk hand-in-hand with it.

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urry-N-Kebob has to be The baingan bharta was a freeCurry-N-Kebob. one of Boulder’s most for-all of comfort. Thick tomato 3050 28th St., Boulder, 720-328-4696. beloved hidden gems. It’s and onion sauce was mixed in with hidden because it’s evanescent eggplant and cream. scrunched between a Papa The sauce brought out the fruity John’s and a Quizno’s, and despite how hard Peyton flavor of the eggplant, and the sauce tasted Manning tries, he’s not going to win me or many slightly sweet. There were also big green peas others over with that “Better Ingredients, Better that provided a nice crunch and a beautiful aesPizza” junk. Curry-N-Kebob is also a delightfully thetic, and the general “OK, I’ll settle for this” modest name — their food is good enough to call flavor of pea. With naan and billowy rice, it was themselves “Vindaloo” or “Spice” or “Momo” or hard to stop the gorging. something, but they went simple and fun and The goat vindaloo was a lot less exotic than it endearing. seems, and certainly less exotic than the “Exotic And that’s also an easy way to describe their dishes” whiteboard on which the dish was listed food and their restaurant — it’s comfortable and indicated. That said, it’s easy to mess up goat meat, lively but not loud; the food is inexpensive and and it’s hard to make it taste exceptional. At best, simple but abundant and delicious with a lot going the goat is going to be passable, and surrounded by on beneath the veneer. It is comfort food to the other stars, it might even be something you reach max, yet there are opportunities to branch out into for. Goat’s main appeal is that it’s a cheap protein. something unique. I reached for those unique dish- In all these ways and more, goat meat is a lot like es on a recent trip, having had (and resoundingly Mark Ruffalo. endorse) the standard curry and Northern Indian The vindaloo curry had a deep, brown, earthy and Bangladeshi dishes they have lunch and dinner flavor, while the goat meat was generally mild. It specials on every day. was extremely well prepared without a trace of the So, I ordered the tandoori duck, the goat vingrease that drips off goat meat in the cooking prodaloo and the baingan bharta. I also had a side of cess. In fact, the goat was so mild that the best naan and a samosa. bits were the chunks that still had a little fat The tandoori duck was exciting. A large half remaining — those were salty, fatty, moist and duck was slathered in a thick tomato sauce. The downright fantastic. I’m not sure if I’d go out of sauce had very deep flavors, almost like chocolate, my way to order it again, nor is that really the and so it came off like mole. The meat underneath implication at Curry-N-Kebob, but it was a good the sauce had a thin shell from the tandoor, and the detour, and a demonstration of the sort of home meat inside was dark and tender. There were also cooking the restaurant is capable of. thick slices of lightly sautéed peppers and onion, So whether you want goat, duck, lamb, curry or whatever, you’re basically assured of a simple, cheap and with a selection of three-out-of-four heat, the and excellent meal at Curry-N-Kebob. That’s why dish had a ton of elements to love: spice, savory it’s such a local favorite. meat, crunchy vegetables and smoky cocoa sauce.

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eople talk a lot about ham and pineapple pizza, barbecue chicken pizza and crusts topped with sardines, artichokes, ricotta salata and arugula, but every national poll reiterates one immutable truth: Pepperoni remains the No. 1 by John Lehndorff pizza topping in the United States. We love that puddle of hot pepperoni juice. Results of a 2016 Harris Poll on pizza topping preferences shows that pepperoni is at No. 1, followed by sausage, mushrooms and cheese/plain. Least favorite toppings include anchovies, mushrooms, pineapple and onions. I grew up in Massachusetts where pepperoni was a birthright and

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almost all pizza was local, non-chain and considered “Italian” cuisine. As an adult, I discovered the harsh reality. In his book How Italian Food Conquered the World, John Mariani writes that pepperoni is really an early 20th-century food invented by ItalianAmericans to mimic pricier cured, peppery salami from southern Italy. If you say the word “peperoni” with one “p,” Italians think you are talking about “big bell peppers.” Blame the Canadians for the pineapple. With the dawn of authentic Neapolitan pizzerias in the U.S. spinning traditional pies from wood-fired ovens, pepperoni has become salami non grata. Recent research from Packaged Facts shows that prosciutto as a pizza topping has increased 27 percent since 2010. Diners are offered hot soppressata, lardo or guanciale and other salumi variations but never pepperoni. A few artisan salumi places now cure their own “authentic” pepperoni, but none of these is “the new pepperoni.” No topping will ever likely match the universality of that red pork and beef salami with the salty, fatty, smoky and hot appeal. Hungry? I researched Colorado pizzeria history for AAA a few years ago and came up with a trail of cool spots starting with Carl’s Pizza in Denver, the state’s first real pizzeria. Other stops include Buenos Aires Pizzeria (Denver), Virgilio’s Pizzeria (Littleton), the original Pizzeria Locale (Boulder) and Dolce Sicilia Bakery (Wheat Ridge). Some of them are even openly pepperoni-friendly. Read more at: colorado.aaa.com/encompass/ archives-2014/online-feature-on-crustwe-trust)

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dorm favorites in a Ramen Burger: One all-beef teriyaki patty, Chiu Chow aioli, chili-infused shredded cabbage, carrot, onion and basil on a ramen noodle bun. Unrelated side note: The Ramen Burger Café opened recently in Jakarta, Indonesia. ... Relieve tax day stress with Peggy Markel at her Moroccan cooking class April 15 at Boulder’s new culinary space, Food Lab, 1825 Pearl St. The class includes a seated dinner with wines; foodlabboulder.com. ... Plan ahead: 23rd annual Colorado BBQ Challenge, June 16-19, Frisco, townoffrisco.com.

A Nibbles throwback to 1998

Here’s an excerpt from a Nibbles column in the Daily Camera, December 1998: “This is my kitchen primeval. This is where I made my first lasagna, ate cereal every morning and sipped coffee before my father’s funeral. In this cramped shrine, my mother, Rose Lehndorff, cooked tens of thousands of meals — meatloaf, Portuguese pork chops, macaroni and cheese — for 45 years. We pack the kitchen last, trying to maintain the family hearth — even as the movers, packers, friends and real estate agents wait.” What was the single best thing you learned about cooking from your mother in the kitchen? Dads and grandparents count the same. Pass along your memory, and I’ll share it in my upcoming Mother’s Day column. Keep it to 50 words or under, please. E-mail: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

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I wish there was a way to make this recipe more complicated than it is, but it is impossible. Here is how you make frico, or pan-toasted cheese crisps, and one of the most delicious things you didn’t know you knew how to make. Step One: Heat a dry nonstick pan over medium heat. Step Two: Sprinkle shaved Parmesan cheese in a small circle. Wait till it starts to lightly brown and flip or simply eat. Top a Caesar salad. Dip it in ham salad. Step Three: There is no Step Three. Go back to step one and make more. Variations: Try another dry, aged cheese. As the great novelist Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote: “Many’s the long night I dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”

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French artist Henri Matisse (18691954) is regarded as one of the greats, in the same league as Picasso and Kandinsky. Even in his 80s, he was still creating marvels that one critic said seemed “to come from the springtime of the world.” As unique as his work was, he was happy to acknowledge the fact that he thrived on the influence of other artists. And yet he also treasured the primal power of his innocence. He trusted his childlike wonder. “You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté,” he said. “It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.” These are good, sweet thoughts for you to keep in mind right now, Aries.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus-born Kurt Gödel (19061978) was among history’s greatest logicians. His mastery of rational thought enabled him to exert a major influence on scientific thinking in the 20th century. Yet he also had an irrational fear of being poisoned, which made him avoid food unless his wife cooked it. One of the morals of his story is that reason and delusion may get all mixed up in the same location. Sound analysis and crazy superstition can get so tangled they’re hard to unravel. The coming week will be an excellent time to meditate on how this phenomenon might be at work in you. You now have an extraordinary power to figure out which is which, and then take steps to banish the crazy, superstitious, fearful stuff.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: For a time, pioneer physicist Albert Einstein served as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. On one occasion, a student complained to him, “The questions on this year’s exam are the same as last year’s.” Einstein agreed that they were, then added, “but this year all the answers are different.” I’m seeing a similar situation in your life, Gemini. For you, too, the questions on this year’s final exam are virtually identical to last year’s final exam — and yet every one of the answers has changed. Enjoy the riddle.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Your personal oracle for the coming weeks is a fable from 2,600 years ago. It was originally written by the Greek storyteller Aesop, and later translated by Joseph Jacobs. As the tale begins, a dog has discovered a hunk of raw meat lying on the ground. He’s clenching his treasure in his mouth as he scurries home to enjoy it in peace. On the way, he trots along a wooden plank that crosses a rapidly flowing stream. Gazing down, he sees his reflection in the water below. What? He imagines it’s another dog with another slab of meat. He tries to snatch away this bonus treat, but in doing so, drops his own meat. It falls into the stream and is whisked away. The moral of the fable: “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: “I never get lost because I don’t know where I am going,” said the Japanese poet known as Ikkyu. I stop short of endorsing this perspective for full-time, long-term use, but I think it suits you fine for right now. According to my astrological projections, you can gather the exact lessons you need simply by wandering around playfully, driven by cheerful curiosity about the sparkly sights — and not too concerned with what they mean. P.S. Don’t worry if the map you’re consulting doesn’t seem to match the territory you’re exploring.

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In his poem “The Snowmass Cycle,” Stephen Dunn declares that everyone “should experience the double fire, of what he wants and shouldn’t have.” I foresee a rich opportunity coming up for you to do just that, Scorpio. And yes, I do regard it as rich, even marvelous, despite the fact that it may initially evoke some intense poignance. Be glad for this crisp revelation about a strong longing whose fulfillment would be no damn good for you!

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “When I look at my life I realize that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgment but failures of feeling.” Writer Jeanette Winterson said that, and I’m passing it on to you at the exact moment you need to hear it. Right now, you are brave enough and strong enough to deal with the possibility that maybe you’re not doing all you can to cultivate maximum emotional intelligence. You are primed to take action and make big changes if you discover

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood says that sadness is often at the root of anger. Feelings of loss and disappointment and heartache are the more primary emotions, and rage is a reflexive response to them. But sadness often makes us feel vulnerable, while rage gives us at least the illusion of being strong, and so most of us prefer the latter. But Welwood suggests that tuning in to the sadness almost always leads to a more expansive understanding of your predicament; and it often provides the opportunity for a more profound self-transformation. I invite you to apply these meditations to your own life, Capricorn. The time is right.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In the coming weeks, it’s especially

important for you to not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates people — both those you respect and those you don’t fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively assume either the best or the worst about anyone. If you hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empathy must be turned up all the way.

PISCES

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better than believing it’s effortless, ceaseless bliss,” says author Eric LeMay. That’s advice I hope you’ll keep close at hand in the coming weeks, Pisces. The time will be right for you to exert tremendous effort in behalf of everything you love dearly — to sweat and struggle and strain as you create higher, deeper versions of your most essential relationships. Please remember this, though: The hard labor you engage in should be fueled by your ingenuity and your creative imagination. Play and experiment and enjoy yourself as you sweat and struggle and strain!

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Dear Dan: I am a twentysomething, straight, cis-female expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest — and, until now, unrealized — fantasy: Nazi roleplay? He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. (Even though I’ve instructed him to watch The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as a Jewish neo-Nazi, to get a better grasp on my relationship with Judaism. To be clear, I am not actually a neo-Nazi © LaRae Lobdell — just your garden-variety self-hating Jew.) This persists even though we’ve spoken about my anti-Zionist politics. Evidently he was indoctrinated from a young age with a hyperapologetic history curriculum. I appreciate that he thinks it was wrong for the SS to slaughter my family, but it’s not like he did it himself. I know it sounds really fucked up, but I promise this isn’t coming from a place of deep-seated selfloathing. Even if it were, it’s not like we’d be hurting anybody. We’re both in good psychological working condition, and neither of us is an actual bigot. I would try to

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get to know him better, but we are so different (there’s a big age difference) and I don’t really see our relationship being much more than ze sex. — National Socialist Pretend Party Dear NSPP: “Sex writers get all the really good religion questions,” says Mark Oppenheimer. “Can we trade mailboxes sometime soon? I’m tired of dealing with all the questions about why evangelicals support a thricemarried misogynist realityTV star who never goes to church.” Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times and is cohost of Unorthodox, an “irreverent podcast about Jews and other people” (tabletmag.com/unorthodox). I invited Oppenheimer to weigh in because I am, sadly, not Jewish

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myself. ( Jewishness is conferred through matrilineal descent, your mom — or, if you’re Reform, either parent — has to be Jewish for you to be Jewish, so all those blowjobs I gave to my first Jewish boyfriend were for nothing. No birthright trip for me.) “First off, I think that Die Fraulein should make her kinky proposal ASAP,” Oppenheimer says. “Given the ‘hyperapologetic’ curriculum that her Teutonic stud has absorbed, he is probably going to freak out no matter when she asks him to incinerate — er, tie her up and fuck her. On the other hand, if he’s open and kink-positive, he’ll probably be down for whatever. But it’s all or nothing in a case like this. She can’t win him over by persuading him that she’s not one of those uptight, unforgiving Jewesses who is still hung up on the destruction of European Jewry.” While your kink didn’t really faze Oppenheimer (it’s not exactly unheard of ), NSPP, your discomfort with your

own Judaism did. “In her letter, she assures us that she is ‘secular,’ ‘anti-Zionist,’ and ‘gardenvariety self-hating’ — then jokingly compares herself to the Jewish white supremacist (played by Ryan Gosling in that movie) who in real life killed himself after the New York Times outed him as a Jew,” Oppenheimer says. “Now, all of us (especially homos and Yids) know something about self-loathing, and I think Jews are entitled to any and all views on Israel, and — again — I am not troubled by her kink. That said, I do think she needs to get to a happier place about her own heritage. Just as it’s not good for black people to be uncomfortable with being black, or for queer people to wish they weren’t queer, it’s not healthy, or attractive, for Jews or Jewesses (we are taking back the term) to have such obvious discomfort with their Jewish heritage.” And finally, NSPP, I shared your letter with a German friend of mine, just to see how it might play with someone who benefited from a hyperapologetic history curriculum. Would he do something like this? “Not in six million years.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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by Sarah Haas

Drug policy is a race issue and also a human issue

hen I was a student at the James attests to the success of Amendment 64 in University of Colorado I sat on the boosting local communities and economies. And when steps of Libby Hall with all my she talks to CU later this month she will argue that white friends with a pound of weed success shouldn’t just be measured in dollar signs or by in between us, rolling joints as the diminution of illicit market activity. We have to CUPD (University of Colorado Boulder Police look at it from a racial standpoint, too. Department) walked by and told us to put the weed “This is a race issue, but it’s also a human issue,” away,” says Wanda James, a James says. “If you are a Courtesy of Wanda James social justice activist and human being that is just payowner of Denver’s Simply ing attention even a little bit, Pure dispensary. “My brother it doesn’t take more than a got 10 years for doing that in minute to just say, ‘wait a California and the only difminute, this isn’t right. It ference between me and my doesn’t seem correct that brother was our zip code.” black and brown people are James is the first black still being arrested and yet the woman to own a dispensary white guys in the industry are in Colorado and her business making billions. It’s an issue.’” is her politics. Not only does Arrests for marijuana posshe fight to create a successful session, cultivation and distribution in Colorado fell dracannabis company (her first matically after the implemenmedical dispensary suspended tation of Amendment 64, operations in 2012 when it dropping by as much as 95 was unable to get a bank percent from 2011 to 2014, account), but for drug policy according to data analyzed by reform. the Drug Policy Alliance, a This year, James is a keynational advocacy leader for note speaker at the 2016 drug policy reform. Cannabis Symposium, a While this represents teach-in on an ancient medic- Social justice and marijuana activist Wanda James will speak at CU’s Cannabis Symposium on progress in the effort to inal plant and sensible drug 4/20. policy. The event, hosted by decriminalize marijuana, it Students for Sensible Drug also masks lurking problems. Policy and the Cultural Events Board, is to be held on Racial bias persists in marijuana arrests, with blacks April 20 at the University’s Memorial Center. twice as likely to be cited for marijuana, despite equal 4/20 is a notorious day in CU’s history, known consumption rates. Within the industry, bias persists, more for massive smoke outs and reactionary campus too. closures than for civil action. This year’s non-consumpWhen any industry becomes regulated, barriers to tion event strives to turn the day into a more producentry inevitably sprout. Any new business owner tive occasion that redirects the campus’s conversation requires capital for start up expenses, documentation of away from mere consumption and toward the interlink- cash and product flow, and legal filing with the state’s ing of drug policy and social justice. Department of Revenue.

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James says that Colorado officials have gone above and beyond, in a bad way. For people who have prior, drug-related felony convictions, including marijuana offenses, state law denies them employment opportunities within the marijuana industry for up to 10 years. The code also makes room for more discretionary decisions, leaving it up to the Licensing Authority to withhold a license based on other types of convictions or moral character and standing. “Even if you had the money to be able to be a part of the industry and get your licenses, there is a really good chance that because of prior arrests and the different kinds of barriers that are set up, you would not be able to be an owner in this industry,” James says. “So that knocks out a large amount of people of color in the first place.” The Licensing Authority can use its discretion the other way, too, and grant a license to a person if his or her felony conviction would not be a felony if the person were convicted of the offense on the date he or she applied. This wiggle room in the law creates opportunity for it to be unfairly applied and is often at the root of instances of institutional racism. “These are very easy fixes,” James says. “Drop the requirements against felons from entering the industry. Done. It doesn’t even require a vote or anything else. Just drop it.” James recalls a time when she was a student at CU, when she was angry about “some injustice or other” and explained to her African American Studies professor that “the system is broken.” “He told me the system is never broken,” James says. “‘You have to ask yourself who applied the system and who does the system work for?’ When you start asking yourself who the system works for, you realize that it’s not broken at all.” James’s anger not only drives her, but is the bedrock of an intense and inspiring optimism. This early in legalization in Colorado, she doesn’t think it is too late to adjust the system toward the benefit of the many and to offer reparations to those unfairly damaged by drug laws.

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olorado’s neo-prohibitionists and marijuana re-criminalizers have come up with an invidious new two-pronged strategy with which to attack legal marijuana in Colorado. The core of the strategy is to limit the THC content of pot to 15 or 16 percent by law. Prong one is a bill introduced in the state legislature by Kathleen Conti (R-Greenwood Village, Littleton) that would limit the THC content of

“retail marijuana or retail marijuana products” to 15 percent THC. It would also require a special label on marijuana or marijuana products containing more than 10 percent THC that would state: “Warning: The health impacts of marijuana with a THC potency of above 10 percent are unknown.” Prong two is a state ballot initiative that would also cap the potency of pot (at 16 percent instead of Conti’s 15 percent) and would also require a product label — one that reads like something straight out of Reefer Madness. (More about that in a moment.) Conti says the bill is needed because the THC content of marijuana legally sold in Colorado aver-

ages about 17 percent and “all the studies that have been done on THC levels have been done on THC levels between 2 and 8 percent ... and we really don’t know that we’ve gotten the true feel on the health risks associated with that marijuana.” Ah, the unknown impacts and high risk associated with today’s super-duper high potency pot. This is just a new variant on the “this is not your father’s marijuana” narrative that marijuana prohibitionists have been pushing since the 1980s. It’s a garbage argument, of course. It’s like arguing the country ought to return to alcohol prohibition because some types of booze — scotch, bourbon, vodka, gin and brandy, for instance — contain more than 10 times as much alcohol as beer. The inconvenient little truth the neo-prohibitionists ignore is that if the only pot that’s available is low-potency, users will smoke more of it. What’s really going on here? Marijuana industry compliance professional Mark Slaugh told the Denver Post that Conti’s bill “threatens to wipe out infused product manufacturers, and its language is unclear as to what to do with edibles.” Josh Hindi of Dabble Extracts, a concentrates company, agrees. The THC limit in the bill “would remove concentrates in total from any kind of retail operation.” Since edibles were about 45 percent of the Colorado marijuana market in 2014 (the first year of legalization), it’s pretty obvious that the real agenda of Conti’s bill and the companion ballot initiative is to initiate a process of step-by-step recriminalization, not a concern about supposedly unknown health risks.

If there is any doubt about this, consider how the proposed initiative treats the “health risks” question. According to the Post, it would require all recreational pot products to carry a label warning users about “identified health risks” — including “birth defects and reduced brain development,” risks to the brain and behavioral development of babies, breathing difficulties, “permanent loss of abilities” (whatever that means), mood swings, impaired thinking and body movement, depression, temporary paranoia, anxiety and “potential for long-term addiction.” Oddly, halitosis, jock itch, toe-nail fungus, dandruff and the heartbreak of psoriasis were inexplicably omitted. Since the initiative is in the form of a state constitutional amendment, its “reefer madness” characterization of the effects of marijuana use would be written into the state constitution if it were to pass — laying the legal and ideological foundation for marijuana recriminalization. (For the record, the laundry list of so-called “known health risks” is a mash-up of latter-day junk science and hoary lies about marijuana, some of which pot prohibitionists have been telling since 1937.) In order to get on the November ballot the initiative proponents must collect 98,492 validated signatures of registered Colorado voters. What are their chances of getting them? Better than you might suppose. The initiative has the support of Smart Colorado, the creepy anti-marijuana organization that opposed Proposition 64 in 2012. Smart Colorado is the local arm of a national organization that has some big money contributors behind it — guys with enough dough to pay for a petition drive out of petty cash. I suspect a lot of pot users think that legalization is a done deal in Colorado that can’t be undone. They shouldn’t get too complacent about that. The re-crim gang is making its move.

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WE’RE NOT SCIENTISTS, BUT… The City of Longmont has a bit of a problem with its emergency alert system. You see, there is this magnificent family of ospreys living in a massive nest on top of one of those poles built to hold just such a nest. Unfortunately, some brain surgeon put this nesting pole about 50 feet from one of the city’s emergency sirens. This is a particularly important issue right now because it’s that time of year when the emergency sirens are blasting in order to test their readiness to warn us about Wikimedia Commons things like tornadoes and floods. The sirens put out 3,200 watts of screeching audio power for three minutes every time they are tested. And now the city is concerned that the blasting might disturb the nesting birds. You think? Just in case its hunch is right, the city has promised the public that it will keep an eye on the situation to monitor what happens when the siren goes off. Now, we’re not scientists, but we think we’re pretty sure what’s going to happen. It’s going to be a lot like what happens when some dumbass with an air horn sneaks up behind you while you’re lazily relaxing, half asleep in your lawn chair, sticks the horn next to your head and lets it rip. That’s to say, when the siren goes off, that family of ospreys is going to crap itself and leave half their feathers behind as they stumble all over each other trying to get the heck out of Dodge. But we could be wrong. Maybe the whole bird family will simply duck and cover or maybe they are already deaf from the last time the siren went off and they won’t notice. Anything could happen... not.

SARAH, YOU HYPOCRITE Sarah Palin is pissed. It seems that rapper Azealia Banks launched into a profanity-laced twitter rant against the former Alaska governor, which included the suggestion that Palin should be Wikimedia Commons sexually assaulted. Palin is so offended that someone would suggest something so threatening that she insists she is going to sue Banks. Now, while we certainly don’t condone Azealia’s irresponsible use of social media and we do agree with Palin that such threats made in the public square can indeed be a danger, we’d just like to point out that Palin isn’t really the right person to be complaining. Some of you may remember a few years back when Sarah Palin stirred up her own controversy by putting out a map of the United States showing which members of Congress were not properly supportive of gun rights, aka gun-nuts-like-Sarah rights. She irresponsibly marked her map with bull’s-eyes, including one in Arizona depicting former Congresswoman “Gabby” Giffords. A short time later Giffords and several others were gunned down by someone who was all for gun-nuts rights. People in glass houses. 62 April 7, 2016

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