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n September, the giant retail monopolist, Amazon, announced its intention to build a second corporate headquarters in Someplace, North America. Where’s that? Aha, that’s the trick in a corporate game called “Fleece the Taxpayer.” CEO Jeff Bezos demanded that every place submit a list of bribes (excuse me, “incentives”) they would pay to get Amazon to put what he calls HQ2 in their place. Yes, the haughty Amazonian royals actually
commanded our public officials to bring all the jewels, gold and other taxpayer booty they have and kiss Bezos’s ring just to be considered for HQ2. In one stroke, taxpayers all across America were pitted against each other in a bidding war. Amazon even listed specific incentives that each supplicant should offer. First was a “business-friendly environment.” Then, urging hopefuls to “think big” when offering freebies, the directive demanded contributions of “land, site preparation, tax exemptions, relocation grants, workforce grants, utility grants, and fee reductions.” Surely no self-respecting civic official would willingly play the sucker in such a demeaning, sell-out-the-public scam. Ha! Officials from 238 cities,
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regions and states have so far rushed to Bezos’s corporate castle to woo and grovel in the perverse hope that Amazon might choose their taxpayers to rip off. Amazon announced that it has narrowed the actual contenders down to 20 cities, so they will now be compelled to jack up their bribe offers. That’s the whole purpose of the HQ2 game that this corporate huckster has been running on us. In fact, Amazon’s site-location team had decided from the start which half-dozen or so cities would be most profitable for the giant. The whole search is a “scAmazon,” snookering cities into spending millions on a rigged game only Amazon will win. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 10 , 2018 5
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land in favor of liberal drilling policies that decrease habitat and outdoor recreational opportunities isn’t making any plan stronger, and when looked at in totality with other sweeping changes that the Department of Interior is proposing across the West, it could actually lead to a place that we’ve successfully avoided: A listed bird that severely impacts our Western economy and way of life. Ultimately, what is so troubling about Hickenlooper’s apparent aboutface on this critical wildlife management issue is not just the other 350-plus species in sagebrush country and a bird that are now at greater risk, it’s that if he’s willing to flip on this issue for special interests, what else is he willing to do for the Trump administration at the cost of Colorado and the West? We hope that is not true, and the Governor will reconsider his new position and honor the deal as he did in 2015. But if he decides to keep backing President Trump’s haphazard approach to managing public lands, we would be glad to invite the outdoor industry to hold its lucrative trade show in Montana, where it will find a much more supportive climate than the one Hickenlooper and Trump seem to be teaming up to create in Colorado. Jayson O’Neill is the Deputy Director of the Montana-based Western Values Project, a nonprofit that works to defend public lands and hold policymakers and special interests accountable. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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he Boulder City Council has done some astonishingly stupid things when it steps outside of its core areas of incompetence, which include managing growth, development, traffic and the public purse. But the Council’s decision to sue ExxonMobil and Suncor sets a new record for stupid local politician tricks. And a new record for intellectual dishonesty in public life. The City’s case against ExxonMobil and Suncor is based on the legal theory used in similar suits against oil companies brought by New York, San Francisco and several other left coast cities. Which is the same theory that was successfully used in product liability suits brought against tobacco companies: that the companies knew for decades that their products were doing great harm and that they not only deliberately hid knowledge of the dangers, but lied about them in order to stay in business and keep their obscene profits rolling in. Exxon and Suncor “knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis” and are responsible for “billions of tons of the excess greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere,” the suit claims. And “by hiding what they knew about, and affirmatively misrepresenting the dangers of unabated fossil fuel use, the defendants protected fossil fuel demand, and obstructed the changes needed to prevent or at least minimize the impact of climate change.” Boulder’s suit hangs on a skeleton of lies. Lie no. 1: That there is a legal and moral equivalence between tobacco and fossil fuels. Tobacco is an inherently addictive drug with extraordinarily lethal longterm health effects and virtually no uses apart from the pleasure it gives its users. If it were to disappear tomorrow, there would be no noticeable changes in American life, other than making 40 or 50 million exsmokers crabby. Fossil fuels — oil, natural gas and coal — are not inherently addictive. They’re critical to survival. They are currently only slightly less critical to survival than food and water. If they were to disappear tomorrow, civilization as we know it would collapse in a matter of weeks, and within a year, Boulder Weekly
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half the people reading this column could well have died from starvation or lack of heat and electricity in the winter. Lie no. 2: ExxonMobil and Suncor tricked people into using their products by withholding infor-
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the transition to non-fossil fuel ener- Boulder was burning with antigy. nuclear activism. Would Boulder No, it didn’t. The folks most have gotten behind a transition to responsible for blocking America’s nuclear energy if it had seen Exxon’s transition to non-fossil fuels were studies at the time? Fat chance. the American environmentalists and But that was then, what about green-washed Marxists who killed now? the expansion of the American Even without the benefit of nuclear power industry in the ExxonMobil’s secret studies, the 1970s. Boulder City Council has been aware In the 1970s the only practical of the potential consequences of non-fossil fuel replacement for fossil- global warming for at least a generafuel-generated electricity was nuclear tion. power, and at the time the United But that hasn’t stopped it from States was well on the way to replac- pursuing policies that have increased ing coal-burning power plants with the consumption of fossil fuels withnuclear ones. in the city. But then the Especially in environmental recent years. movement According to launched an allstatistics compiled RESPONSIBLE out attack on by the Boulder FOR BLOCKING nuclear power, County Clerk’s AMERICA’S TRANSITION which, with the office, between Three Mile 2006 and 2016, TO NON-FOSSIL Island disaster the number of FUELS WERE THE providing a decicars and trucks ENVIRONMENTALISTS sive shove, resultregistered by resied in the canceldents in the City WHO KILLED THE lation of dozens of Boulder grew EXPANSION OF THE of nuclear plants. from 57,492 to NUCLEAR POWER Utilities turned to 65,676, an coal and natural increase of 8,184 INDUSTRY. gas to meet in a decade. But increasing that doesn’t tell demand for electhe whole story. tricity. That’s because three-fourths of The upshot was that annual coal those vehicles were added between consumption by U.S. electric utilities 2012 and 2016 — the period during rose from 390 million tons in 1974 which the City Council was putting to more than a billion tons in 2005. the pedal to the metal in terms of During the same period, natural gas approving more in-fill development use by electric utilities rose from 3.4 and supposedly affordable housing. trillion cubic feet a year to 6.5 trilIn-fill development was supposed lion cubic feet. Today, thanks to the to make people less dependent on the fracking revolution, U.S. utilities are automobile. burning less coal (679 million tons It didn’t work out that way. The in 2016) and more natural gas added population growth directly (nearly 10 trillion cubic feet in translated into more cars and trucks 2016). and more traffic — and, of course, a The explosion in U.S. coal and greater demand for gasoline. natural gas use by utilities caused by It wasn’t Exxon’s meddling that their inability to transition to nuclear caused this, it was the City Council’s. power resulted in the addition of an The tragic flaw of democracies estimated 40 or 50 billion tons of dating back to the Athenian polis carbon dioxide to the atmosphere isn’t hubris. It’s ingratitude. And that wouldn’t be there if the transinowhere is it on more brazen display tion had been made. than in the way Boulder’s elected Lie no. 4: Boulder would have officials treat those like ExxonMobil acted differently if in the 1970s and and Suncor who make their way of 1980s it had only known what life possible. ExxonMobil knew then. This opinion column does not necessariDuring the 1970s and 1980s, ly reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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I have spent roughly three months in Boulder now. As a Dutch researcher I have been trying to get to know the community. I realized that, to truly understand Boulder’s dynamic community, I would have to spend a lifetime in this city. Nevertheless, I picked up a few basics. Most importantly, you are an extraordinarily caring community. You are willing to set aside time, expertise and money to help your community as well as the natural environment. Voluntarily joining the City’s working groups to share your expertise, proves a true commitment to the values you have as a person and a city. Being the first city in the nation with a carbon tax pushed and approved by its citizens, shows a willingness to invest in improving the environment. The research I have done in the past three months focused on the municipalization effort. This is another example of Boulder’s culture of care and commitment. The effort that started in 2010 was always expected to be a struggle. It was known that Xcel Energy is a powerful utility because of the profits it makes. It was also known that the company’s practices are deeply rooted in the state’s regulatory bodies. And it was known that the electricity Xcel Energy provides has a vital role in daily lives and in the economy of the state. Despite knowing what challenges the City would face, it held on to its values and voted to explore municipalization. There was a clear enthusiasm starting the municipalization effort. Volunteers joined different working groups to model and negotiate. Different groups in the community educated city staff, council and the public on the issue. The public approved an increase in taxes to further explore municipalizing. All these efforts aimed at democratizing energy systems and increase renewable energy. All along Boulder was hoping to come out of the effort being a David-and-Goliath example for other communities. The effort has taken eight years and David is getting tired. Although it was expected to be a costly, complex and time-consuming process, the setbacks have dispirited many in the community. What started out as an exciting challenge, is now seen as a hopeless struggle that splits the community. Those that critique municipalization focus on the costs of the effort and question the City’s capabilities. Moreover, they point out the progress Xcel has been making in increasing their share of renewables. Those that advocate municipalization blame Xcel Boulder Weekly
for not being cooperative and delaying the hard work the City is doing. I would advise the community to step away from the negativity that has overshadowed the exploration. The community should think about the values that are the foundation of the municipalization effort. The two main reasons were to increase renewables and have more local control. Although Xcel is slowly investing more in renewable energy, the company still prioritizes pleasing its shareholders over providing what is best for its customers. Besides, having any influence over the company’s actions remains a complicated process. But, the way forward is not to keep focusing on the wrong-doings of this investor-owned utility, a monopoly that has power over and roots in state legislation and regulation. It is time to do what the community in Boulder is best at: be engaged in political processes, educate your political leaders and trust in their hard work. During the municipalization effort, the City has engaged the public for a long time. However, as the legal processes continued an information vacuum emerged. This clearly decreased the community’s level of trust in the City and its capabilities. The City has admitted it made a mistake in allowing this to happen. The City is trying to re-engage the community in its efforts. To best support the City and the democratic decision made in 2017, it needs a community that trusts in the City and participates in its efforts in a critical yet constructive manner. The City should be as transparent and objective in presenting its results to rebuild trust. This eventually allows the City to speak up to Xcel and in court to make their bold and righteous claims. Mara de Patar/Boulder, graduate student researching energy democracy
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The curious aspect of walls in human history — Hadrian’s Wall, the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall — as remnants of past efforts to keep the alien “other” at bay and reminders that fading empires eventually fall, is that they are now reduced to being tourist attractions. In this light, Donald Trump’s Great Southern Border Wall has to be regarded as a last-ditch effort to halt an inevitable demographic shift in America’s long-standing sense of entitlement and white supremacy. This is also the motivation behind Republican efforts for voter suppression and authoritarian, anti-democratic rule. Failure here for them is not an option. Robert Porath/Boulder
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before voters. But due to a last-minute compromise between Gov. John Hickenlooper and Rep. Jared Polis, who had bankrolled the signaturegathering effort, the measures were scrapped at the final hour, literally. Soon after the failure to turn in the more than a quarter-million signatures, Boulder Weekly received an email sent to supporters of the measures from Nick Passanante, the campaign director for Safe. Clean. Colorado., the group funded by Polis that controlled the measures. In the email, Passanante wrote, “We simply did not have the financial backing to make that happen. In fact, we were being actively blocked by three of the largest national enviro groups in the nation — Sierra Club, Environment America, and to a lesser extent LCV [League of Conservation Voters].” So what’s going to happen this time around as we approach Election Day? Based on history, it only makes sense to question if Sierra Club national will again use its influence to try and defeat 2018’s 2,500-foot setback initiative. While it’s too early to say, there is reason for concern. Sierra Club national has long supported and has received financial support from oil and gas activities. In 2002, Sierra Club launched its Beyond Coal campaign, which sought to replace coal-fired power plants with those that used primarily natural gas. Beyond Coal was a direct response to the Bush administration’s plans to build 150 new coal-fired power plants. The effort galvanized environmentalists, and resulted in support for switching coal-fired plants to natural gas, which emits about half the carbon dioxide when burned. This approach seemed a good common sense compromise until research beginning in 2010 found that methane leaking from natural gas activity may well speed global warming even beyond the impacts of burning coal. In addition, the Beyond Coal push for more natural gas extraction via fracking also had the side effect of helping to double U.S. oil production because, for the past decade, natural gas is largely being produced from wells that are primarily associated with oil extraction. Dry gas is not economic to produce at current prices. But the embrace of natural gas seems to have been about more than just a shift away from coal. There were financial implications for Sierra Club national.
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n April 14, the Colorado chapter of Sierra Club officially endorsed Ballot Initiative 97, which, if passed, would require all new oil and gas operations to be sited at least 2,500 feet away from schools, homes, hospitals and other structures where sensitive populations may be, as well as water sources. In its endorsement, the Colorado Sierra Club cited several critiques often used by those opposed to fracking: existing setbacks of 500 and 1,000 feet were set arbitrarily and are ineffective; recent explosions and incidents at oil and gas sites mandate tougher restrictions; oil and gas operations increase pollution; and renewable energy is expanding. The endorsement included a bit about how Joel Dyer the chapter “appreciates” that those with rights associated with mineral interests should be allowed to profit from those interests, but that it shouldn’t be at the expense of surface-owners’ rights. Will Walters, chair of the chapter’s executive committee, said in the endorsement that oil and gas operations emit millions of tons of poisonous material, which can result in “deadly explosions, asthma attacks, increased cancer risk and water pollution.” “Initiative 97 would move [oil and gas operations] a safer distance from playgrounds and rivers, while still allowing modern horizontal drills to extract shale oil and methane,” Walters said. “The Sierra Club supports this win-win science-based solution to protect health, safety and the environment without harming the economy.” The endorsement might surprise people who remember what happened in the 2014 push for two ballot initiatives designed to protect citizens from the hazards of oil and gas extraction. At that time, it was Sierra Club that was said to have played a part in killing those initiatives. Petitions for the two 2014 ballot measures, one that would’ve increased setbacks to 2,000 feet, garnered more than enough signatures to put the issues Boulder Weekly
The national organization has received donations from several entities that have positions explicitly stating their opposition to coal and embrace of a shift to natural gas. Since 2009, Sierra club has accepted over $10 million from Sea Change Foundation, a major funder of environmental nonprofits started by two energy investors, and over $6 million from The Energy Foundation, a group that funnels money between donors and organizations and which also supports the extraction and use of natural gas. Between 2007 and 2010, Sierra Club accepted $26 million from persons or groups associated with Chesapeake Energy, one of the largest frackers of natural gas in the world. When it was reported Sierra Club was set to receive $30 million more from Chesapeake, there was such strong public outcry that the group declined the additional money. Sierra Club expressed regret for accepting the donation from Chesapeake, but then turned around and accepted a $50 million pledge from Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City and outspoken advocate of natural gas and fracking. In 2012, Bloomberg wrote in an op-ed, “The production of shale gas through fracking is the most significant development in the U.S. energy sector in generations.” Sierra Club national also reported donations from ExxonMobil, Chevron and Duke Energy in 2012. So if Sierra Club has such strong financial ties to natural gas extraction and fracking, how did one of its state chapters end up supporting an initiative that some of its donors and the oil and gas industry will likely spend millions of dollars trying to defeat this fall? Did it go rogue, or has Sierra Club national shifted its official policy on natural gas? When asked to clarify Sierra Club’s stance, Sarah Burton, Sierra Club’s PAC director, issued BW a statement, reading, “The Sierra Club supports Colorado Sierra Club’s endorsement of Ballot Initiative 97. As Coloradans know firsthand, there is no manner to make oil and gas operations safe, so at absolute minimum, we must prevent them from threatening our schools, our homes, and our families.” That’s not an endorsement of the initiative, it’s an endorsement of the state chapter’s right to endorse the initiative. Hillary Larson, communications director for Colorado Sierra Club, says, “More often than not, local ballot measures and initiatives are endorsed or opposed by the state chapter rather than national.” She adds that “local chapters can take a stance on issues that national does not currently have a policy on, but, if there’s a potential conflict, we would contact the folks working on the national campaign to make sure there were no concerns.” When asked if this was one of those issues where the local chapter may disagree with the national organization, and thus require approval, Larson said, “No, Colorado Sierra Club did not seek approval to endorse this ballot initiative, nor did we need to.” May 10, 2018 11
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Some students at Naropa believe the current administration handles some issues differently than the university’s founder Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (left) would have.
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n the morning of March 14 at Naropa University, roughly 80 students, faculty and administrators gathered in a circle under the branches of an ancient sycamore towering over the Arapahoe campus green. One by one, 17 attendees took turns reading facts about gun violence, followed by a gong, and then a moment of silence in memory of each of the students killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a month earlier. The student-led walkout — one of thousands organized at high schools and colleges across the country with the goal of raising awareness about gun violence — ended with a song and a bow, a tradition at the Buddhist-inspired university. As people dispersed, a few walked into the adjacent parking lot and witnessed an unexpected scene: A man wearing an American flag hockey mask stood on top of his car, music blaring from the stereo as he mimicked shooting into the sky with his hands, according to Shannon Aulabaugh, public information officer for the Boulder Police Department. The individual — a Naropa student engaging in a counter-protest in support of Second Amendment rights — was soon “confronted” by a member of the faculty, told he was suspended, and then sent home, according to Aulabaugh. Later that day, Naropa President Charles Lief sent an email to the Naropa community announcing that the student was suspended, as his “actions and behaviors have been deemed to be in violation of the University’s code of conduct and went far beyond any form of reasonable expression.” Due to the “seriousness of this incident,” Lief explained that the student would be prohibited from setting foot on campus without permission and that the administration had filed a report with police. Boulder Weekly
While a Boulder police officer did respond to the incident, Aulabaugh says he took no action and assigned no case number as “there was no crime committed.” Legal or not, Lief ’s email noted the “trauma experienced by many” on campus as a result of the “very ugly and troubling incident,” and included links to care providers for any students who might benefit from counseling. (None of the multiple student eye-witnesses of the incident were willing to speak on the record to Boulder Weekly, and President Lief requested that all communications to faculty be routed through his office.) Ethan Au Green, a Naropa graduate student and one of the main organizers of the March 14 walkout said the purpose of the walkout wasn’t to come up with specific policy proposals, but to raise awareness and urge action on gun violence. Two weeks prior to the event, President Lief sent an email to the Naropa community saying that the administration “fully supports the student-led initiatives that are honestly and courageously tak-
ing on the gun lobby” and is “proud to be aligned with this righteous cause.” This overwhelming support made the episode in the parking lot that much more surprising to Au Green. Though he wasn’t an eyewitness, he has spoken to those who were, and feels deeply affected by it. “My first reaction was shock,” he says, describing his emotional state when first hearing the news. “My second response, honestly, was gratitude, because no one was physically injured.” Next, when Au Green learned how “people of color, especially women, felt specifically targeted and traumatized” by the incident, he felt angry and sad. This targeting of people of color, also mentioned in the president’s email, appears to be related to the music played by the student wearing the hockey mask, which Aulabaugh says was characterized by witnesses as “racially insensitive.” While Au Green supports the suspension and is in favor of the restorative justice process currently being carried out by the administration, he also feels “compassion for everyone involved and the responsibility to pursue further dialogue.” Lief wrote in an email to BW that restorative justice is an “alternative dispute resolution process ... focused on bringing together willing parties who have been aggrieved or are believed to have perpetrated an offense in an effort to achieve some form See NAROPA Page 14
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of reconciliation.” As a private institution, Naropa reserves the right to A March 14 walkout at Naropa was in formulate its own policies and determine which actions protest of gun or statements may or may not constitute a violation of violence and in memory of victims the school’s code of conduct, and thus require restorative of the Marjory justice proceedings. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting While President Lief didn’t answer questions as to in Parkland, Florida. what rules the student may have broken, the school’s Code of Conduct lists several “prohibited acts,” including, “threatening or causing non-physical abuse of or abusive behavior toward another person, including, but not limited to verbal or written statements that constitute a form of expression not protected by the First Amendment, such as obscenities, fighting words or defamation.” The code defines non-physical as “having or creating an effect of intimidation hostility or demeaning [sic]” in a situation where “someone uses their physical presence to menace another, although no physical contact occurs.” While the code doesn’t elaborate on the meaning of “menace,” the first entry in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “a show of intention to inflict harm,” and the second is “an annoying person.” Unless Naropa is taking emotional harm into account, the first definition doesn’t quite apply. It also seems unlikely that Naropa would suspend a student simply for being annoying, since, depending on one’s point of view, any and all protest might reasonably be considered so. What is certain is that Naropa issued the student an interim suspension, which the Code says may be imposed to “insure the safety and well-being of members of the Naropa University community,” protect property, or prevent “threat of disruption or interference with the normal operations of the university.” On April 26, Naropa hosted a “Restorative Practices Healing and Peace Conference,” which included the suspended student and 10 community members who either witnessed the counter-protest or have been involved with the follow-up response. Au Green was present at the two-hour meeting and says an agreement was reached that will end the student’s six-week suspension, so long as he adheres to the stipulations. “I feel happy and relieved to have reached a sense of closure on this ordeal,” Au Green says. While Au Green agrees with the administration that the student’s actions were out of line and warranted a suspension, others see things differently. Eugene (name changed for privacy), a Naropa student studying Buddhism, doesn’t support the school’s handling of the event in the parking lot, while he didn’t witness it. “If it was somebody making direct threats, that should be dealt with because that’s actually illegal,” he says. “But just shooting [fingers] into the air? I mean it sounds like he didn’t really threaten anyone, he just kind of ruffled feathers and went against the grain.” Boulder Weekly
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Eugene believes Naropa’s founder, Tibetan Buddhist scholar Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, may have had a very different way of dealing with the counter-protest than the current administration. A proponent of “crazy wisdom,” who passed away in 1987 at the age of 48, Trungpa defied many stereotypical assumptions about the serene demeanor of Buddhist practitioners. David Wilde, a follower of Trungpa, published an account in the Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 2004 of an incident from the early 1970s at a “redneck bar” in rural Pennsylvania with Wilde, Trungpa and a few of his students. Earlier that day, Wilde had given Trungpa a water pistol as a joke, and during the meal, Trungpa repeatedly squirted the waitress until she threw them out of the establishment. On their way out, the group passed a pool table where a patron was setting up for a shot, and Trungpa deliberately jostled the pool players elbow so he’d miss, earning a few curses in return. In the parking lot, as the group sat in the car ready to leave, the pool player appeared pointing a rifle at Trungpa through the open window. He called the meditation master a racial slur and threatened to blow his head off. “Go ahead, shoot,” Trungpa replied and then drew his water pistol to squirt the man. “Go ahead, shoot. Are you chicken?” Stunned, the pool player just stood there, rifle in hand, as the group slowly backed out of the parking lot and off into the Pennsylvania night. Trungpa isn’t the only early Naropian who Eugene says would disagree with the school’s disciplinary approach these days. Specifically, he mentions beat authors Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs as examples of the rough-around-the-edges personalities who originally inspired the college. A popular photo shows the pair engaged in a mock knife fight, holding real knives. Maintaining that he’s not a “right-winger,” Eugene believes guns are a “neutral thing,” and that there’s a difference between firearms and violence. “You can use a gun to commit violence, but you can use all sorts of other things,” he says. When asked if he thinks his opinion on guns is in the minority at Naropa, he says, “probably.” But he adds that, because of the dominant culture at Naropa and in Boulder, there is no way of knowing, since “people don’t really advertise that they’re into guns for fear of being labeled something.” “I know that there are lots of other people at Naropa who shoot guns because I’ve gone shooting with them,” he says. Though supportive of the Second Amendment, Eugene acknowledges that mass shootings are “kind of a new thing,” calling them “our new modern neuroses.” He also believes the average gun-control advocate has good intentions. However, he feels that the administration’s response to the counter-protest went too far. “The Naropa thing, I think, is like, if somebody feels uncomfortable, that’s the issue,” Eugene says. “Not if you did anything wrong, but how other people interpret it.” While the incident is long over and the student is going through the restorative justice process, questions remain, such as what kind of “racially offensive” music did he play while he stood on his car? And, ultimately, what’s the line between “reasonable expression” at Naropa and a violation of policy? It’s clear that the administration allows protests, as evidenced by its endorsement of the walkout against gun violence. Indeed, in President Lief ’s email to the community prior to the event, he went so far as to ensure prospective students that “participation in peaceful protest or acts of civil disobedience will not impact our admissions decision, regardless of any misguided disciplinary actions that might be taken by high school administrators or others in positions of power.” If the student had simply held a sign advocating for gun rights, would he have been suspended? If pointing fingers into the air in the shape of guns is a threatening act, does that also apply to raised fists? If covering one’s face with an American flag hockey mask is prohibited, how about the black bandannas worn by Antifa? From the campuses of private universities such as Naropa, to taxpayer-funded public forums, the difference between free expression protected by the First Amendment and speech and actions deemed too threatening and offensive to be condoned is one of the most controversial — and important — political discussions of the day. While Naropa University is a private college answerable only to its own policies, the incident reminds us that the line between which words, behaviors and positions are acceptable and which are not remains blurry. Boulder Weekly
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guess I’ve become the diversity per‘Rare Air Talks’ brings the son,” Jamie Logan says from her outdoor community tohome in North Boulder. “Everything gether through thoughtproviking conversations. feels really good in my life, so I thought my story would be a good story for all the other weird kids that feel like they don’t fit in.” On one hand, her story starts in Yosemite Valley in the late 1960s. That was when she went by Jim, not Jamie, and slept under a tarp at Camp 4 with five other teenage dudes squished like sardines. Come dawn, they’d pool their climbing gear on the picnic table and decide who was going to climb what that day. Often it was Logan who climbed through the hardest sections, and it wasn’t long before his name reached climbing circles across the nation, eventually paired with adjectives like “pioneer” and “legend.” “We were young, and we were so excited about all of it,” Logan recalls. “We would build campfires and sit around them, eulogizing all of the heroes of the time: Layton Kor, Royal Robbins, Chuck Pratt and Yvon Chouinard. ... We didn’t understand we were the best climbers of anywhere in the country.” On the other hand, her story starts in Boulder several decades later when, as an American Alpine Club board member, she opted to wear a dress to an annual club dinner. It was then, about six years ago, Jamie started transitioning to life as a woman. “I was so afraid of [transitioning] my whole life,” she says, recalling as early as 12 the desire to wear women’s clothing. In Yosemite as a teenager, Boulder Weekly
where only macho men and zero they do or what they look like, we’re women populated the campsite, Logan just agnostic.’ ... But when the commuhid her inclinations. She told Climbing nity actually started to take a closer Magazine, “It made me feel screwed up look at itself, we realized we weren’t and weird, like there was something being all that inclusive. On the conwrong with me.” trary, we were being pretty exclusive.” Which is why she’s going to share When Benitez watched this realizaher story on stage at the first installation first dawn on the industry a few tion of Dispatch Radio’s “Rare Air years ago, he says inclusion measures Talks” series on May 17. were “really focused on gender diversity Russ Rizzo, co-founder of the and ethnic diversity. Now we’re getting Boulder-based Dispatch Radio, says to the place and time that’s really excitbringing Logan on the show is the per- ing, where we’re also going to start fect opportunity to spark a discussion including the conversation around about inclusivity and diversity in the LGBTQ communities and how that’s a outdoor industry at large. “There are component of our industry as well.” people out there really wanting to have Logan, who has spoken at LGBTQ that conversation,” he says. climbing events in recent years like In 2016 Rizzo, Cory Feign and Kelly HomoClimbtastic, a national queer McConnell founded Dispatch Radio as climbing convention, believes the outan adventure-story podcasting platform. door industry’s inclusivity movement Since then they’ve published conversa“mirrors the transition happening in tions with a medley of adventure athletes American culture.” Storytelling, Rizzo believes, “makes and outdoor industry figures, typically recorded while drinking beer and loung- you think or makes you feel something.” He wants people to leave “Rare ing on red couches that line an Air Talks” feeling like Airstream inside The “they’ve plugged into a Studio (Boulder)’s collabcommunity and taken a orative working space. ON THE BILL: breath of fresh air, like Their new series, ‘ Rare Air Talks’ “Rare Air Talks,” will they’ve connected with Speaker Series. 6:30 take the Airstream podsomeone on a new level.” p.m. Thursday, May 17, The Studio (Boulder), cast recordings one step Other speakers on 3550 Frontier Ave., further, inviting speakers the first night include Suite A2. rareairtalks. com on a stage each month creator of Natives to address a theme and Outdoors Len Necefer, including audience founder of No Man’s members’ input as they ask questions Land Film Festival Aisha Weinhold, and react to the discussions. Outdoor Afro representative Kriste “We love getting people in person, Peoples, and OUT There Adventure feeling the magic in that,” Rizzo says. executive director Elyse Rylander. “We also love the potential of get“The outdoor industry is truly the ting it out there for everyone. When podcast platform,” Benitez says, alludyou get [all our speakers and partners] ing to a rich history of oral tradition together in a room with fans and peothat spans fireside story performances ple who are excited about them and to philosophical mountaintop convertheir ideas for the night, cool, magical sations. “I perceive us to be an emergthings can happen.” ing political voice; I think that’s treLuis Benitez, director of the mendously important right now.” Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry For whomever attends the event or Office, will take the stage alongside listens afterwards, Benitez says, “I want Logan at the inaugural event where the to see action provoked. If you come, theme is “Diversity and Inclusion.” As come with questions. Come with an a six-time Mt. Everest summiteer and open mind and an open heart. Be willnow Colorado’s political voice in outing to engage in the conversation and if door recreation matters, Benitez doesn’t you listen to it later, and something shy away from difficult conversations sparks your interest or gets you angry about the state of the outdoor industry. or makes you more passionate … now “We never really accepted the is not the time to sit back and think responsibility that we should have as a someone else is going to take care of pretty big economy and a pretty big these things. Now is the time for actiecosystem, that we have to drive these vation, involvement and engagement conversations because we are so big and on every level.” we have to set a good example,” he Logan says the message she hopes says. listeners leave with is uplifting. “I think “I think for the longest time we’ve that’s the main story: If you do what looked at the outdoor industry through you need to do to take care of yourself a very ethnocentric lens,” Benitez conand be happy and respect other people, tinues. “It’s been much more of, ‘We then they’ll respect you. That’s my don’t care who really recreates or what lived experience.” Boulder Weekly
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All 19 of the oil paintings Clyfford Still composed while at Yaddo artists’ retreat were created on green window shade, a measure Still took to save money.
new friends to paint for How an artists’ retreat forged the abstract path of Clyfford Still by Caitlin Rockett
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ometime in late July 1934, a 29-yearold Clyfford Still packed his car with a few art supplies — rolls of green window shade in tow as frugal canvases — and drove from Washington State College (now university) to Saratoga Springs, New York, where he would spend the next month at an artists’ retreat known as Yaddo. A graduate student at the time, Still was as yet unknown to the art world — or to the world in general, really. But Still’s passion for painting, his raw and boundless talent, was a force so undeniable that this unknown artist with humble roots in the drought-stricken, destitute homesteads of early 20th-century North
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Dakota found himself among the crème de la crème of the American creative set at Yaddo. “There are 25 artists here but only five of us are painters,” Still wrote to his college president, Ernest Holland, two weeks after arriving at Yaddo. “The remainder are composers, writers and sculptors. A most brilliant company. I seem to be the only member who hasn’t a national reputation. You can well imagine my elation at the trust that has been placed in me. You will see at Yaddo 700 acres [sic] of magnificent woods, lovely lakes, cascades, terraces, rose gardens and fountains. All, however, dominated by a great and beautiful mansion where we are cared for like princes.” At Yaddo, Still, and every other guest, was
provided a private bedroom and studio where they could work without interruption between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. There were no studio visits permitted outside of visiting hours, and no visitors were permitted to stay overnight. Breakfasts and dinners were communal, and impromptu performances by other guests (composers the likes of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein spent summers at Yaddo) were common. So it’s no surprise that it was at this magnificent home in upstate New York — while the Depression sent families to the soup line, winds blew the very earth out from under farmers in the Great Plains and fascism threatened the great American experiment — where Clyfford
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Still found the path that would lead him to his destiny as a forefather of abstract expressionism. It was at Yaddo where Still, for the first time, was free to simply “dream, think and paint.” The artist who would later remove himself from the art world was far from reclusive at any point in his life; he made friends at Yaddo who helped him, indirectly, shift his artistic focus away from straightforward depictions of everyday Western American life to the haunting, immersive works of abstraction that now define his career. In an exhibition curated by Washington State University professor emerita Patricia Failing, the Clyfford Still Museum is now showing the 19 oil sketches Still created during his two summer stays at Yaddo in 1934 and ’35 in an exhibit called A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Still considered these years “among the very important moments in the development of my life’s works ... the beginning of moving away from painting as reacting to what one sees from outside to [a] concept of painting as inner comprehension.” As evidenced by Denver’s museum dedicated to the man’s work, Still stipulated in his will that his enormous archive of work remain complete — a mandate not out of arrogance but of conviction. He believed that was the only way to truly see an artist’s vision and progression. Failing, who has curated two shows at the Clyfford Still Museum, says this is evident in Still’s Yaddo works. “One thing that’s very fortuitous about this particular exhibition is you get to see all the Yaddo paintings at once in kind of ideal conditions,” she says. “You can really appreciate them formally even though they are basically little oil sketches.” And while the lion’s share of the 19 works in the Yaddo collection are “little oil sketches,” most of them in the 10-by-10-inches range, there are some larger bread crumbs that led to Still’s later preoccupation with massive works of abstraction. “I think as he moves into more abstract compositions, [the paintings] are more engaging on different kinds of levels,” Failing says. “He’s moving through a sort of sign system, from kind of symbols to iconic signs and then on to an approach to painting as a kind of visual metaphor. I think it’s very consistent with the way he envisioned his own practice and development. You have to see the sweep of Boulder Weekly
things to understand how the process worked out for him conceptually and formally.” The Yaddo works were the first where Still made figures the focus of his work instead of landscape. Though the figures still represented the America that Still knew deeply — he grew up on a family wheat farm in Alberta, Canada — they were represented in a way that spoke to the greater human condition. In PH-644 (Still never titled his works), an exhausted farmer with bloodied hands drapes himself over a tractor in a kind of Dust Bowl crucifix. Other bloodied farm hands appear, often against dramatic skies of black and red. in PH-953, a threshing machine seems to be stalking a farmer and his help, flecks of red outlining parts of the machine as though it has already tasted blood. Still was clearly influenced by more than just his rural upbringing. While a student at Washington State College, he read works by Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. In works like PH-414, Still seems to comment on Schopenhauer’s argument (drawn originally from Aristotle) that women exist solely for the propagation of the species and are “deformities, but ones which occur in the ordinary course of nature.” Still’s painting depicts a man and a woman standing with stalks of wheat. The man is emaciated but has enlarged genitals, while the woman is stunted, deformed, her breasts reaching toward her navel. Unlike artists such as Edvard Munch, who used his art to paint women’s lives as restricted to sex, procreation and death — creatures who lived solely to distract men from work and greater pursuits — Still’s depiction of the procreative drive presents women as tragic figures, stuck with their male counterparts in an endless cycle of growth, death and rebirth. In the years immediately following his summers at Yaddo, Still’s work began to take on the abstract aesthetic, with human figures becoming little more than mere suggestions (what he called the “lifeline,” a simple vertical line, would become a motif in many of Still’s works) married with tools and machinery. PH-342 (one of those larger
bread crumbs) combines a tractor harrow with an abstract human figure. A Light of His Own gives viewers a chance to explore the man behind the paintings. He made connections with fellow Yaddo guests, and even with some of their friends and family members, which carried on well past his time at the artists’ colony. While there he hobknobbed with composers Dante © City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
Fiorillo and Roy Harris and novelist James T. Ferrel, whom Still called “friends Yaddo has given me to paint for.” Martha Gruening, a lawyer, journalist, literary critic and associate of W.E.B. Du Bois, introduced Still to her sister, Clara Stillman, also a literary critic and a first-wave feminist; Stillman and Still corresponded for more than a decade. While Still’s self-imposed exclusion from the art world is the most talked-about piece of his story, it’s his time at Yaddo, immersed with artists of all disciplines, which paved the way for the introspective, nonfigurative art that defines Clyfford Still. It is, without question, remarkable to move through the museum and see the point at which Still found his stride.
ON THE BILL: A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 9.
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he 31st MahlerFest is all about late artistic transformations. The 2018 festival begins Monday, May 14, and culminates Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, with concerts in Macky Auditorium featuring one of Mahler’s major orchestral works, Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the earth). It will be paired with the Seventh Symphony of Jean Sibelius. Both works represent a farewell in music: Sibelius because he did not write another symphony in the remaining 24 years of his life, and Mahler because Das Lied von der Erde ends with a movement titled “The Farewell.” Beyond the orchestra concerts, the festival week includes other events, among them two chamber music concerts: a ticketed concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 16 at the Dairy Arts Center, and a free concert at 2 p.m. Friday, May 18 in the Academy Chapel. Other events open to the public include rehearsals, a scholarly symposium and pre-concert lectures. (See the full schedule and list of performers at mahlerfest.org/mahlerfest-xxxi/). For the third year, the festival also offers a Mahler Conducting Fellowship. Kenneth Woods, the festival artistic director, says the expansion of MahlerFest is a result of Mahler’s increasing popularity. “At first, MahlerFest may have been the only Boulder Weekly
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t’s always noteworthy when a local author makes Boulder proud by releasing a book that gains national attention. When that book sheds light on a topic that lies firmly at the forefront of the current political agenda, our pride doubles. Such is the case with longtime Boulder resident Don Koplen’s recently released novel, Jewboy of the South. The focus of Koplen’s semi-autobiographical novel is race relations, and his fresh approach to perhaps the most stubborn stain on the American narrative provides new hope that the actions of those committed to justice will inevitably overcome the bigotry that we have struggled to eliminate from our culture since its inception. Jewboy of the South is the story of a Jewish teenager (Donny) who has grown up in a time and place (mid-20th century Virginia) where bigotry toward blacks and Jews was a powerful force in the culture. So much so that local law enforcement adopted a “don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up” approach to the trial of a black man wrongly accused of murder. As is the case in the present day and age, the only antidote for injustice is love. In this case, it’s the love of a Jewish teenager for a fatherly carpenter who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who also happens to be black. The parallels between the plight of Thomas Eldridge — “Mr. E” — and present day African Americans on the wrong road at the wrong time are uncanny. Jewboy of the South is a Steven Kinglike thriller that is at times painful and frightening to read, yet so compelling that the reader is called to face the pain and fear, and read on. In that sense, Koplen has done nothing less than provide a Boulder Weekly
ON THE BILL: Don Koplen — Jewboy of the South. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, Trident Booksellers and Café, 940 Pearl St., Boulder. Also at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 10, “Local Authors, Local Stories,” Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder. Jewboy of the South is available at jewboyofthesouth.com and amazon.com.
model for an entire nation to follow as we address the pain and fear surrounding our recently re-exposed racist character. In a recent interview with Boulder Weekly, Koplen offered a hint of what attendees of his upcoming book signing will experience. (Full disclosure: I’ve known Don Koplen for several years.) Boulder Weekly: The protagonist in your story is named Donny. How much of this character’s journey through his coming of age and adolescence is autobiographical? Don Koplen: I could not have written this book had I not grown up Jewish in the ’60s in a textile mill and tobacco-centric Southern city of 100 Jewish families and 50,000 mostly racist whites and poor black southern Baptists, and had I not been part of a family store that was a crossroads of contact between whites and blacks. The beauty of an autobiographical novel is that you can explore, hide, expand on and fantasize the truths and untruths of your life within the story. BW: Donny’s relationship with a falsely accused black man conveys the empathy that Jews have in general with other groups that have dealt with the injustice of bigotry. Why does the Jewish culture seem to champion the African American struggle for justice? DK: In Judaism’s Passover story, we were slaves in Egypt. We were oppressed. We are commanded to tell the story of our slavery every year, generation after generation. The surprise would be if we were not empathetic to African-American oppression, and, for that matter, the struggle of any persecuted group. BW: In what ways has the bigotry you experienced as a child shaped you into the
man who wrote this book? DK: My Western-born wife says that I often mention if people are black or white. I ran from Judaism and stifling racism. It has taken me a long time to see the deep, spiritual beauty of Judaism. I was always a sensitive, curious and loving boy, and the South forced me to see without rose-colored glasses. I couldn’t ignore racism and brutality and ignorance and meanness. I have tried to live a life like Donny in the book; I never forget Judaism’s central message of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, by repairing my own wounds as well as the injustices in the world. BW: Would you agree that the current administration has caused a rise in bigotry? And if so, why do you think America was so ready to move in a more bigoted direction? DK: No, it hasn’t caused a rise in bigotry. What Trump has done is to expose and encourage the bigotry that exists in other parts of the country, as well as the South. The Civil War is the example of the fear that some whites have of not being the masters of America. Starting with Nixon, the GOP realized that the South was fertile ground for co-opting the white working class. Republicans exploited their fears to the point that they continue to vote against their own interests. BW: Clearly, the reason to write a book about injustice is to expose and, hopefully, eradicate it — or at least lessen it. With your book coming out at a time in our country’s history during which bigotry seems to be on the rise, do you feel more or less hopeful about the prospects of fighting bigotry? DK: Somehow both. I think the younger people I know, for the most part, are sick of bigotry and want a peaceful world. I am also afraid that if Trump’s words and behaviors become normalized, that bigotry could thrive. Yes, the book is about injustice. But it’s also about the beauty of carpentry; the loving-kindness and heroism that thrived in an oppressed black community, in both men and women; the struggle to find a Jewish identity within the contradictions and teachings of the religion; and learning how to live alongside racists, by looking more deeply into people’s hearts and souls.
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a r t s & culture Sing out, Mama Rose
Longmont Theatre Company delivers ‘Gypsy’ just in time for Mother’s Day by Amanda Moutinho
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few years ago, thanks to the advent of reality TV, the stage mom trope had a moment in the sun. Dance Moms and Toddlers and Tiaras showcased pushy moms (and dads) playing mind games to advance their kids’ careers or miming dance moves offstage to remind their 3-year-old to twirl the baton just right. But before these shows entered the narrative, one stage mom reigned supreme: Mama Rose. Now playing at Longmont Theatre Company through May 19, Gypsy tells the true story of famed burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and how her relentless mother, Rose, schemed her daughter into quently dreary world. Because of its the spotlight. It’s a show about a thirst vaudeville setting, the show includes for a better life and the all-American entertainment throwbacks like Shirley dream of making it big. Temple-esque performances, tap dancThe story starts in the early 1920s on ing and even the classic two-person cow the dwindling vaudeville circuit. Rose’s costume. main focus is on her daughter, Baby June, But the show is darker than it first becoming a star. Supporting June are her appears. At its core, it explores the less-talented sister Louise, who would human condition of wanting attention eventually adopt the stage and love, be it as a parent or name Gypsy Rose Lee, and a child. It’s about parents a group of other child who sacrifice it all for their ON THE BILL: actors. When the kids outchildren’s benefit — even Gypsy — presented grow the acts and June though their actions might by Longmont Theatre Company. pursues her own dreams, be more selfish than they Longmont Rose shifts her focus to think, and it’s about the Performing Arts Louise, who eventually necessity and pain it takes Complex, 513 Main St., Longmont. turns to stripping to make to break away from a parthe big bucks. ent. Gypsy is frequently With Mother’s Day credited among the most classic shows right around the corner, Gypsy shows the ups and downs of parenthood and, ultiof musical theater, and its hit “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is con- mately, it’s a show anyone can relate to, as sidered one of the greatest show tunes of a parent or child, in showbiz or not. It’s a big show with multiple set all time. It debuted in 1959 with music changes and a large cast, and Longmont by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. Theatre Company puts on a great producConsidering the talent of its creators, it’s tion, brimming with energy and close no wonder the show holds up more than attention to detail. 60 years later. With the punchy music of Mama Rose is one of the most covStern matched with the smart wordplay eted roles in all of musical theater. of Sondheim, Gypsy is a toe-tapping Originated by the legendary Ethel show that captures the golden age of Merman, the character has been played musical theater. by Bette Midler, Angela Lansbury, Along with the classic soundtrack, Bernadette Peters and Patti Lupone. Gypsy is full of charming, wholesome Rose is cutthroat, ambitious, calculating fun — always welcome in today’s freand hungry for fame. Underneath those Boulder Weekly
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layers, she’s a vulnerable, unfulfilled woman. Longmont Company veteran Melissa Fike takes on the role and turns out a wonderful performance. With star quality and a big voice to match, Fike perfectly fits the needs of the role, and works well as the glue of the show. Supporting Rose is Emily Gerhard as the titular character. Louise/Gypsy has a complicated relationship with her mother, at first both dependent on and prey to her mother’s manipulation. The show follows her as she grows into a confident woman with her own career, and Gerhard brings grace and pizzazz to the role, with a lovely voice to boot. The cast of supporting actors also give noteworthy performances. Alex White plays grown-up June and is a pleasure to watch. M. Shane Grant is wonderful as the sincere patriarch of the show, Herbie. The supporting cast of newsboys, showgirls and the rest of the chorus are also a delight — that includes the gaggle of talented child actors who grace the stage. Emma Hecht gives a standout performance as Baby June, as she cartwheels and squeaks her way across the stage, easily receiving the biggest laughs of the night. While Gypsy immortalizes Gypsy Rose Lee’s rise to fame, it also gives credit to the ones behind the scenes. After all, sometimes Mama Rose, and mothers just like her, simply want their turn in the spotlight, too.
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MAKING MOVIES — WITH ALEX CUBA. MONDAY, MAY 14, ETOWN HALL, 1535 SPRUCE ST., BOULDER. TICKETS $15, ETOWN.ORG. see EVENTS Page 32 Ethereum Dance Co. presents: Labyrinth. 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder. John Ramer Photography Ether is “a medium that, in the wave theory of light, permeates all space and transmits transverse waves.” It’s the space between all things that connects all things. That’s what Ethereum Dance Co. does — they work to connect people through innovative and exploratory performances. On May 11, join the dance company for an immersive performance and guided tour on the sacred grounds of the StarHouse. Accompanied by modern dancers and interwoven with the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, ethereal vocals, harmonium and bamboo flute, this holistic performance is meant to heal the soul.Tickets are $35 and must be purchased in advance. No late entry will be permitted. Plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early. Tickets at ethereumdanceco.org
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American Music Icons — The King of Pop Rescurrected: A Theatrical Michael Jackson Experience.
A Journey in Sound and Movement — with Will Clipman, James Marienthal and Kimberly Braun.
5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, Nevei Kodesh Sanctuary, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder.
Eric Weber (Denver. CO)
It’ll be nine years this June since the King of Pop passed, just weeks before he was to embark on his career-capping run of performances at the O2 Arena in London. For those who never got the chance to see MJ perform his magic live, take heart: we’ve still got Sonny G. This Denver-based, Las Vegas entertainer will have you wondering if you’re seeing a ghost. This is a world-class tribute to Michael Jackson, featuring a live band, iconic costumes and original choreography that recreate Jackson’s legendary showmanship in an unbelievable two-hour experience. VIP tickets are $35, which includes cast meet-and-greet and photos. Regular full price tickets are $25 and student/senior tickets are $20. tickets.thedairy.org/online/
Pan-global percus- Courtesy of Will Clipman sionist and seventime Grammy nominee Will Clipman is best known for his 35 recordings with Boulder-based record label Silver Wave Records, and for his 30-year collaboration with Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai. James Marienthal is the founder and producer of Silver Wave. Together, on May 16, Clipman and Marienthal will create a sonic atmosphere that is both meditative and trance-dance groovy. Throw in Kimberly Braun’s serene and spiritual vocals and you’ve got a sound that’s going to take you on a spiritual journey. Tickets are $15 at facebook.com/ events/161656667833036
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Thursday, May 10 Music The Dear Landlords. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Hall & Oates. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100. Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Joseph Kasprzyk, Silver Steven, Allie Chipkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lexi Weege — with Maya Bennett. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. John Mieras. 6 p.m. Brewmented, 900 S. Hover St., Unit C, Longmont, 720-699-0214. Kevin Boehnke. 7 p.m. Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Savage Love Live! 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Walker & Royce. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Youth Pop A Capella (Ages 7 to 12). 4 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Events Adultology: Oils, Vinegars, Spices and Marinades. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BoulderReads Tutor Training. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Comedian Leonard Ouzts. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-3071777. Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Conversations in English Thursdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Genealogy: Sharing Help and Research Experience. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
Head to the Boulder Farmers Market on Wednesday, May 16 to learn about birds with Out and About with the CU Museum.
THURSDAY, MAY 10
TUESDAY, MAY 15
50 Years of Moore’s Law.
Women Leading Regenerative Summit.
Engineering, Math & Physics Library, 135, 2300 Colorado Ave., Boulder. More dates through May 23.
8:30 a.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.
In 1968, the IEEE Device Research Conference was held at the University of Colorado Boulder. At that conference, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove and Robert Noyce founded the Intel Corporation. This exhibit details important events in the creation of the modern computer, Silicon Valley, as well as selections from our collection about the history of the computer, Silicon Valley and the future of microprocessor design.
SUNDAY, MAY 12 Power, Grace, Wisdom, and Wonder: The Physics of Wonder Woman!
Rocky Flats Living Library. 1:15 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
9:30 a.m. Duane Physics and Astrophysics, G1B30, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
Friday, May 11
SUNDAY, MAY 13
Music
Memory Cafe: Early Stage Program.
Bach for Babies, a Benefit Concert. 7 p.m. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 7077 Harvest Road, Boulder, 303-530-4422.
1:30 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), BioLounge, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
Britt Margit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Crescent City Connection. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Memory Cafes are welcoming events where people living with memory loss and their care partners can come together for socialization, education and inspiration. Join us for enjoyable, informal and supportive programs each month.
The Women Leading Regenerative Summit features an all-star lineup of dynamic and successful women who exemplify a regenerative shift and holistic thinking in commerce. This full day of highly interactive and dynamic sharing will focus on developing actions a business can take to improve its positive benefit to people and planet, while still building a robust bottom line.
Webinar: Decreasing the Interest Rate to Stimulate Investments | Effective or Not? Noon. Visit register.gotowebinar.com/ register/3634950646006891265 to register.
In this webinar, Professor Tom Thibodeau, professor and CU real estate academic director at the Leeds School of Business, will discuss his findings on the curious relationship between interest rates and capital expenditures on income producing properties.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Out and About with the CU Museum! Boulder Farmers Market. 4 p.m. 13th Street between Canyon and Arapahoe. The CU Museum of Natural History’s educators bring hands-on activities, teaching materials and activities to the the Boulder Farmers Market to teach about birds!
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As Patents on Sex Drugs Expire, a New $1 Pill Takes the Spotlight A patented pill costing less than $1 a dose stands to help millions of men with failing sex lives; no prescription will be required By Ray Wilson Associated Health Press AHP− A new sex pill is set to take the spotlight with the Cialis patent expiring next month. But unlike the former, it won’t require a prescription and is priced just under a $1 a dose. The new pill called Vesele is part of a new class of performance enhancers for men, which work instantaneously on the body and mind triggering arousal and firmer, harder erections. Formulated with a special compound known as an “accelerator”, Vesele can transport its active ingredients faster and more efficiently into the blood stream, where it begins to work its magic. The patented ingredient blend initiates a process known as vasodilation, which causes arteries and vessels throughout the body to expand. This allows blood to flow directly to penis and genitals, resulting in harder erections which last longer. Cialis and Viagra are based around a simlilar concept. But what makes Vesele so remarkable, and what these other sex pills can’t do, is that also directs a small portion of this blood flow to the brain, which creates feelings of intense arousal. In laymen’s terms, users become incredibly excited and turned on. This is why the makers of Vesele say their pill has worked so effectively in clinical trials. It stimulates the two most important organs for great sex, the penis and the brain.
The Brain Erection Connection Until now, medical researchers did not fully understand the brain-erection connection. It has now been made clear with Vesele. When both are supplied with a constant blood flow, men are harder and firmer for longer...and have unbelievable sex drives. “Most of the research and treatment methods for men’s sexual failures have focused on physiological factors and have neglected the emotional ones. For the leading sex drugs to work, like Cialis and Viagra, you need visual stimulation” explains Dr. Henry Esber, the creator of Vesele. “And although they work for some men, the majority experience absolutely no fulfillment during sex. According to research published by the National Institute of Health, 50% of men taking these drugs stop responding or can’t tolerate their side effects... and on top of that they spend $50 per pill and it doesn’t even work half the time. This is what makes Vesele so different and effective. It floods the blood stream with key ingredients which cause arteries all over the body to expand. The patented accelerator speeds up this process even more.
The result is a rush of blood flow to the penis and brain, helping to create an impressive erection and a surging desire for sex. Often, this is all men need to get going. And when taken regularly, many men say they are energized and aroused all day.”
Great Sex At Any Age With the conclusion of their latest human clinical use survey trial, Dr. Esber and his team are now offering Vesele in the US. And regardless of the market, its sales are exploding. Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be. In the trial above, as compared to baseline, men taking Vesele saw a staggering 85% improvement in erection hardness over a four-month period. Their erections also lasted twice as long. These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners. Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing. They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.
Faster Absorption into the Blood Stream Vesele is made up of three specialized ingredients: two clinical strength vasodilators and a patented absorption enhancer often called an accelerator. According to an enormous amount of clinical data, each is very safe. Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration. And although there are many theories as to why this happens (including a loss in testosterone) one thing is certain, inadequate blood flow is virtually always to blame. That’s why sex drug manufacturers focus on blood flow, it makes your erection hard. But what’s more surprising, and what these manufacturers have failed to consider, is that lack of blood flow can also kill your sex drive. That’s because blood supplies energy for the brain. This energy is required for creating brainwaves that cause excitability and arousal. Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that lead to both the brain and penis. The extreme concentration of the ingredients combined with the accelerator ensures that this process starts quickly. The sexual benefits of Vesele are also multiplied as its ingredients build up in the system over time. This is why many men take it every single day.
Expiring Patent Opens the Door to a New Sex Pill: Vesele is a new pill that cost just $1 a dose does not require a prescription. It works on both body and mind to increase arousal and erection hardness.
Recent Studies Show Positive Effects on Women In the same study referenced throughout, Vesele was also shown to have an amazing (and somewhat surprising) effect on women too. That’s because the same arteries and vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the brain and genitals are the same in men and women. “In our most recent study, women taking Vesele saw a stunning 52% improvement in arousal and sex drive. Perhaps more impressive, they also experienced a 57% improvement in lubrication. You can imagine why some couples are taking Vesele together. Everything feels better. Everything works better. Everyone performs better. It’s truly amazing.”
A New Frontier of NonPrescription Sex Pills With daily use, Vesele is helping men (and women) restore failing sex lives and overcome sexual lets downs without side effect or expense. Through a patented absorption enhancer, the Vesele formula hits the bloodstream quickly, resulting in phenomenal improvements in erection firmness and hardness. By boosting blood flow to the brain, users also experience sexual urges and arousal they often haven’t felt in years.
Where to Find Vesele This is the official release of Vesele in Colorado. As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to any memory loss sufferer who calls within the next 48 hours. A special hotline number and discounted pricing has been created for all Colorado residents. Discounts will be available starting today at 6:00AM and will automatically be applied to all callers. Your Toll-Free Hotline number is 1-800-682-9544 and will only be open for the next 48 hours. Only a limited discounted supply of Vesele is currently available in your region.
THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS NOT TYPICAL.
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Kurt Keilbach
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Opens May 11. Through June 2. Always... Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 20. Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through July 8. The Audience. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 13.
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Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 27. Gypsy — presented by Longmont Theatre Company. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through May 20. Incorruptible — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Through May 19. Macbeth. 7:30 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Through May 27. Man of La Mancha. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse,4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through June 17. The Who’s Tommy. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 27.
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Regarded by many as the greatest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success while secretly yearning for her own. Gypsy is now playing at Longmont Performing Arts Center through May 20. See page 29 for a review of the production.
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El Javi. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Futurebirds. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Courtesy of Boulder Book Store
Jane Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family’s history of mental illness and the trauma of her past. By age 30 she became the first woman to climb the state’s 100 highest peaks. Parnell will speak about her book Off Trail at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Ghost Light (Tommy Hamilton + Holly Bowling). 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Highway 50. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Johnny Johnston. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Johnny Long & Friends (Featuring Maynard Mills). 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Leah Grams Johnson. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Many Mountains. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Monocle. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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The Nick Willis Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
w/ Dave Tamkin
Pops on Ice: Rock Live Music and Ice Skating. 6:30 p.m. CU Boulder Recreation Center, 1835 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-257-1746.
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5/20 12 AnnuAl All-StAr tribute to bob DylAn 5/21 Radio Taping: Hiss Golden Messenger & Chris Hillman 5/26 Cosmic Co-Creation 5/31 Full Concert: Ottmar Liebert
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Sensory Friendly Concert. 5:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Smokepurpp. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Zuma & Prine Cuts. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Events Art Night Out & Art Market featuring Chicano Heat. 5 p.m. Old Town, Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1261. Alice’s Aerial Wonderland. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272.
Thursday, May 10 Boulder Poetry Slam. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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Dani Antman — Wired for God. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
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Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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Wheeler Light. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Jane Parnell — Off Trail. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Colorado Chocolate Festival. 4 p.m. Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver. Conversaciones en Español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ethereum Dance Co. presents: Labyrinth. 7 p.m. The Starhouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 401-450-2006. Free Legal Clinic. 3 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Haunting History of Longmont. 6:30 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Fourth Street between Main
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Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13. Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19. Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through August 12. Melting — by Marietta Patricia Leis. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby & Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens May 11. Through June 17. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Mixed Media Drawing and Watercolor — by Ileana Barbu. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through June 29. Mixed Media Painting — by Frederick Pichon. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through June 29. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through May 28.
During the summers of 1934 and 1935, Clyfford Still was a guest at Yaddo, the artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. Still wrote that he began to “move away from painting as reacting to that which one sees from outside,” toward a “concept of painting as inner comprehension.” A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo features 19 small paintings Still created at Yaddo. See the exhibition now through Sept. 19 at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Read about the exhibit on page 22.
Resounding Roar — Charles E. Burchfield. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 29. Stampede: Animals in Art. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 19.
One End of the Forest — by David Bahr. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens May 11. Through June 17.
Wood & Stone, Substance & Spirit — by Rebecca Davis and Roger Asay. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens May 11. Through June 17.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.
Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.
Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16.
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Across the Sea: Music by Sousa, Grundman, Mendelssohn, Milhaud, and More. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-478-3044. Bootstrap Brewery Tour. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Coop and The Chicken Pluckers. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Dead Side. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Defunkt Railroad. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. eTown Presents: Paul Kimbiris EP Release Show — with Foxfeather, The Fremonts. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Fem Fest 2018. 2 p.m. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Flynn And The Electric Co. — with Tilia Americana. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. 36 May 10 , 2018
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Longmont Symphony: Divas through the Decades. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796. Ozomatli. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Pamlico Sound — with GrooveaLicious, Hugh Manatee. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Quemando. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Zoe Berman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events 6th Annual Mother’s Day Eve — with The Pump and Dump Show. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Alice’s Aerial Wonderland. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
BoulderReads Learner Celebration. 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Colorado Chocolate Festival. 10 a.m. Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E. 58th Ave., Denver. Father-Daughter, Mother-Son Dance. 6 p.m. Green Valley Ranch Recreation Center, 4890 Argonne Way, Denver, 303-789-1447. Fresh Flower Pop-Up Party and Reception/ Tribute to Betty Woodman. 2 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Mother’s Day Dinner at BookCliff Vineyards. 6:30 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder, 303-499-7301. Sparks & Spirits. 7:30 p.m. Art Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 970-646-5306. Western Views Book Club. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sunday, May 13 Music Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Band. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303652-4186. Boulder Weekly
events Boulder Children’s Chorale: Come to My Garden — A Mother’s Day Concert. 4 p.m. Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Certain Drops of Salt: Songs of Truth and Tears. 5 p.m. The Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-473-8337. International Music Fest. 1 p.m. Driscoll Green, University of Denver, 2055 E. Evans Ave., Denver, 804-837-0936. Leah Grams Johnson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2013731.
Events Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Tuesday, May 15 Music
Library Concert Series Presents: l Rocky Mountain Composers Concert. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Beer Dinner: Odell Brewing Co. 7:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868.
Mozart’s “Solemn Vespers,” K. 339. 10:30 a.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770,.
Leah Mosier. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Music in the Galleries: Patterson/Sutton Duo. 1 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 720-354-4880. Outlaw Yoga. 10:30 a.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Sophie Nevill. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Synesthesia Chamber Music! 4 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. When Particles Collide. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720201-3731. Events Mom Eats Free Mother’s Day Brunch. 11 a.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 303530-5400. Mother’s Day Brunch. 9 a.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2882. Mother’s Day Tea. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4407666. Mother’s Day Wildflower Hike at Rabbit Mountain. 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, Boulder. The King of Pop Resurrected: A Theatrical Michael Jackson Experience! 5:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 702-329-2584. Wine & Cupcake Pairing at BookCliff Vineyards for Mother’s Day. 1 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder, 303-449-9463. Monday, May 14 Music Carnaval: The Tour featuring Making Movies and Alex Cuba. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Certain Drops of Salt: Songs of Truth and Tears. 7 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.
New Moon Cacao Ceremony and Sacred Sound Bath. 6 p.m. Green Light Reiki Healing and Chakra Balancing, 1574 York St., Denver, 303-522-8460. Sango with Kaelin Ellis, Shanye. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series: Jesse Jones & Craig Butterfield: Folk Chamber Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
5/11 Deborah Stafford & State of Affairs 5/12 So What Brothers 5/18 Funkiphino
Dairy Presents: MahlerFest XXXI. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Jazzetry Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Journey in Sound and Movement. 7 p.m. Nevei Kodesh Sanctuary, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 303-257-8924. Wednesday Night Jazz Combos Concert. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Events Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Mmmwhah’s Vocal Improvisation Playshop Series —with Roy Willey. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, Workshop Studio, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110.
Flatirons Mineral Club. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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The O’Connor Brothers Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
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Devin Baize. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Monday Night Jazz Combos Concert. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.
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I Spy Beaks and Feet! 10 p.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder. Mountain Flower Goat Yoga and Beer. 6:30 p.m. Romero’s K9 Club and Taphouse, 985 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 301-938-3953.
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Cold Night by Chris Norris I see him, maybe a 100 yds off, drunkenly moving from car to car checking to see if anyone left a door unlocked. Nope. Then he sees my truck in the distance and makes a beeline. I remember that my windows are too darkly tinted, that he can’t see me, sitting behind the wheel. I feel safe, and thoughtful. As he reaches for my door, I open it into him with as much force as I can muster. From behind the door, I jump out, yelling. It is cold. I see that I have opened a cut in his forehead.
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t was just another 200-pie day for chef Christine Carr at Boulder’s Tip Top Savory Pies, spreading buttery dough with a rolling pin, making fillings from scratch and vigilantly watching the crusted gems in the oven. These are not your standard, foot-wide American pies you slice into wedges on Thanksgiving, but rather 5-inch round pies served warm. It’s not a knife-and-fork deal. You hold the pie and nibble in from one edge. You also won’t find cherries, pecans, chocolate or anything sweet inside. The flaky crust is packed with savory
Tip Top Savory Pies aims to nuture Boulder’s savory pie culture from scratch flavors like cauliflower tikka masala, sweet potato, chorizo and cheese, and steak and ale. Tip Top started because founder and co-owner Robert Morrow was homesick for the tastes of his native New Zealand. “Robert could never get his hands on a good savory pie like he ate at home. He was always disappointed, so he started the company,” says Carr, who co-owns Tip Top. “As a trained chef I was really passionate about finding great vintage recipes and recreating them. I had visited England after going to culinary school and fell in love with Cornish pasties. They were
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available everywhere as an on-the-go meal. It’s the same in New Zealand,” she says. Christine Carr The tiny food company crafts 11 varieties makes savory of pies in a Boulder kitchen. The anti-chicken pies via Boulder’s TIp Top pot pie is full of chicken — not gravy and Savory Pies. peas. My favorite Tip Top meal-in-a-crust is the substantial cauliflower tikka masala pie. The filling includes fresh spices (from Savory Spice Shop), chickpeas and onions in a creamy tomato-based sauce. A close second is the wonderful mushroom pie absolutely jammed with chunks of sautéed fungi. Other savory fillings include spinach, caramelized onions and Gruyere cheese, and egg, sausage and bacon breakfast pies. “I make a pastry from scratch from 100 percent butter and unbleached flour. I call it ‘rough puff ’ because it is halfway between a short crust and a puff pastry,” says Carr, who trained at New York’s French Culinary Institute. Newly available are Carr’s gluten-free, crustless Naked Pies in many of the same flavors. “They may be crustless but they’re definitely not flavorless,” she says. Tip Top pies are available at The Point Café On the Hill in Boulder, the new Updog Café in Gunbarrel, Niwot’s Old Oak Coffeehouse, and the Denver Distillery.
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pie. The nostalgic recipe that flashed on the screen is actually a pretty good one from noted Los Angeles baker Evan Kleiman. ... A recent tweet by the Rolling Stones and Keith Richards may explain the source of the guitarist’s unlikely longevity: “NO BUSTING THE CRUST! On every tour, the one thing Keith Richards must have in his dressing room is his beloved shepherd’s pie. Strict instructions — no one is to ‘bust the crust’ but Keith. The first slice is his slice.”
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Alex Seidel won the Best Chef: Southwest award at this week’s James Beard Awards for his culinary efforts at Mercantile Dining & Provision, Fruition, and Fruition Farm and Creamery. He had been nominated in the category every year for the past decade. ... Boulder’s Chef Ann Foundation presents the Real School Food Challenge May 16 at Denver’s Zeppelin Station: four chefs will prepare the best USDA-approved school lunch possible for $1.25 per meal. chefannfoundation.org. ... The food world is coming to Colorado for the second summer in a row. If you don’t want to be disappointed, get tickets now for Slow Food Nations, July 13-15 in Denver. The gathering offers 50 free and ticketed events, tastings and workshops about sustainably sourced victuals. Colorado Fare, a cool dinner in the middle of Larimer Square, features Colorado ingredients and beverages. slowfoodnations.org. ... Boulder’s Centro and Denver’s Lola host dinners May 22 and 23 to raise money to bring the Slow Food Mexico contingent to Denver for Slow Food Nations. They’ll feature Mexican regional cuisine from chefs Benedicta Alejo Vargas (Michoacan), Johnny Curiel (Guadalajara), Julio Gaspar (Oaxaca) and Lola’s Jamey Fader. loladenver.com/events. ... Golden’s Pangea Coffee Roasters created a special
blend for Mental Health Month in May called Freudian Sips with proceeds benefitting Mental Health Colorado. ... It’s not fake news: the North American Meat Institute really is pushing “beefshi” — sushi made with beef — such as a reuben roll and Texas asade sushi with roast beef rolled with cilantro, slivered jalapenos and cotija cheese.
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You may have already unknowingly tasted Boulder-made Cholaca. It is a key ingredient in chocolate beers brewed by more than 85 American craft breweries. Cholaca is 100 percent sustainably sourced cacao in liquid form, lightly sweetened with coconut sugar with no preservatives, emulsifiers or additives. It’s vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. When I recently got to sip it I was wowed by the ideal chocolate flavor. I told myself it was a nutrient-rich superfood and a pretty good mood improver. Best of all was adding a fortifying Cholaca shot to my morning mug of Ethiopian Harrar.
Words to chew on
“As I go along, I add in texture, almost like a composer chooses which instruments to use. Tomatoes, brown sugar, vinegar. I balance sweetness with acid. Major with minor. I imagine I’m creating a concerto, with a main voice speaking, backed up by the other instruments, carefully balanced. They all have to make sense together to make that dish sing. And honestly, we use that term all the time in the kitchen. ‘Does it sing?’” — Chef Susan Feniger John Lehndorff was the founding editor of Pie Times and spokesperson for National Pie Day. He hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, kgnu.org). Listen to podcasts at: news.kgnu.org/category/radionibbles Boulder Weekly
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ryce Licht never saw it coming. He had left Colorado, left CU, traveled around South America, moved to Los Angeles, then back to Boulder, and had applied for a grant to do graphic design for small businesses in Europe. He got the grant, but it wasn’t where he wanted to go — Spain, as he had learned Spanish throughout his travels — it was to the boot a little to the east. Yes, Licht was the only person ever to be bummed out to get a grant to live and work in Italy for a year. “I knew nothing about Italy,” he says. “I knew very little about Italian food. I don’t think I knew what gelato was at that point. Maybe I knew the word, but I definitely had never had it. “Then I got to Italy and just fell in love with it.” Indeed, he fell in love with all of it — the small community outside Venice in northeastern Italy, in which lived; a woman, Giulia, whom he eventually married; and, of course, the region’s decadent gelato. So one year in Italy became three and a half, and before Bryce and Giulia got married, they took a trip back to Boulder and noticed no one was doing gelato like the Italians. And given the appeal of graphic design jobs were losing their luster — “Sitting in front of a computer for 12 hours a day is not amazing,” Licht says — the two plotted how to shift into the gelato game. As luck would have it, the first graphic design client Licht had on his work grant in Italy was a gelato store, whose owners were happy to teach Bryce and Giulia how to make the frozen treat. Boulder Weekly
It was harder than it looked. “They showed us. More importantly they showed us how to formulate recipes,” Licht says. “What a lot of people don’t understand about gelato ... is it’s kind of like chemistry. It’s not like you can just wing it and make what you want and hope that it’s going to work. There are a lot of things to consider, and it comes down to a balance of water, solids, fats, sugar — different types of sugar have different effects on the gelato; how hard it’s going to freeze, how soft it’s going to freeze. So you have to know how to do that to even create a new recipe. “People ask us, ‘Did somebody pass you Courtesy of FIor di Latte down the recipes, are they like old family recipes?,’ Well, kind of, but that’s only a starting point. Even if you had a recipe, if you ever wanted to alter it or make a new one, you’d have to understand those principles of how to balance a recipe. That’s what they taught us.” There was a lot of trial and error in the early going. When the Lichts returned to Boulder, they bought a gelato maker and rented a spot in a commissary. They began selling their gelato wholesale, then secured a booth at the Boulder Farmers Market. Those humble beginnings provided several benefits: the ability to work in small batches, connections to the local farming community and the chance to see how people received their gelato. It also provided the chance for screw-ups. A batch of Palisade peaches were wasted when they dumped too much rosemary in the gelato mix, “where it actually, like, burned your throat going down,” Licht says. But with time, the edges of the business and the craft of gelato-making smoothed out. Just five or so years after starting, they have their original brick-and-mortar shop on Pearl Street, Fior di Latte, and then another just a few blocks west on Pearl. Two shops followed in Denver, and more are in the works. Licht estimates they have about 140 flavors rotating throughout the year, which they base on seasonal availability of ingredients and start developing weeks before they hit the gelato bins. Some unique current flavors include coconut lime ash, avocado strawberry, forest berries, mango and mescal, Thai iced tea, and one made with blackberry jam and bits of kouign-amman from Moxie Bread Co. That diversity is a uniquely American spin on the Italian treat, Licht says. It’s a natural result of Bryce and Giulia’s relationships with the food and Italian culture. “My wife, she’s the traditional Italian, wants it to be the best representation of her cuisine. ... I like to push the limits a little more,” Licht says. “I think that’s kind of a cool thing about American cuisine; chefs in the U.S., they have a little bit more room to play around with tradition, whereas in Italy, we serve some flavors here that Italians, it’s changing now, but six years ago, you’d name a flavor like what we’re doing now and they’d say, ‘That’s not gelato. Why are you doing that?’” One such Italian critic is Giulia’s father. “Her mom loves everything we do” Licht says. “Her dad is incredibly traditional. He comes into the shop, he goes, ‘Where’s the hazelnut, where’s the pistachio?’ He doesn’t want to hear about salted caramel. The Italians that live here though get it a lot more. They like the experimentation.” Too, for many Americans, their perception of gelato is informed by trips they’ve taken to Italy. Licht says he’s had a lot of it, and he thinks the product Fior di Latte puts out is comparable with anything you can find overseas. “Gelato in Italy, in general it’s hit or miss, and people think, ‘Oh, well, I went to Italy, and we went to Florence and Rome and Venice, and we got gelato three times a day, it was amazing.’ Yeah, I mean everything’s going to taste amazing in Rome, Florence and Venice because of the context. But a lot of gelato shops in Italy, it’s kind of like … coffee here, where there’s a lot of really good coffee and there’s a lot of really bad coffee, and the same is true for gelato in Italy,” Licht says. Gelato also carries with it, in the U.S. at least, a perception that because it’s sultry and indulgent-tasting and available only in “specialty” stores and aisles, that it’s less healthy or more expensive than ice cream. Licht says, however, the only real difference is in the ratio of the recipes: ice cream has more cream than milk, gelato has more milk. It actually lowers the amount of salt and fat. So yes, gelato is a food that has a lot of strings attached, and a lot of expectations for what it should be. But the best thing about it — and the gelato at Fior di Latte — is that you take one bite, and none of it seems to matter. Boulder Weekly
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ome full circle” might be our most overused idiom to describe one’s journey through life, but not without good cause. Think about it; how often have we arrived at a destination only to realize that the roots of this flower took hold years ago? Maybe that’s why a sly smile comes over John Fiorilli when he thinks back to the beer that got him into the industry. “Guinness,” Fiorilli says in his rata-tat East Coast cadence. “Guinness was the first one someone turned me on to: ‘Oh, wow! There is just, like, this whole spectrum of beer.” Fiorilli isn’t the only one whose eyes were opened by the iconic Irish stout, but considering Fiorilli is now in charge of Stout Month, Mountain Sun’s annual celebration of the roasty brew, his introductory beer certainly carries significance. If you’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a pint or three at one of the five Mountain Sun outposts along the Front Range, you have Fiorilli to thank; he’s been the director of brewing operations since 2009. His current base is Vine Street Pub & Brewery in Denver — where the majority of Mountain Sun beer is brewed — but Fiorilli’s journey didn’t start there; it began at the original Mountain Sun on Pearl Street where Fiorilli learned craft beer went well beyond an Irish staple. “I thought I was into craft beer,” Fiorilli says. “But that was really eyeopening to me.” Then Mountain Sun brewers Mike Boulder Weekly
Altman, Chris Fish, Kurt Meyer and Dave Chichura got Fiorilli into homebrewing and the interest went from hobby to passion. Fiorilli stuck around long enough to help open up Southern Sun in 2002, but the brewing world called and Fiorilli answered. First, in Eugene, Oregon, where Fiorilli worked one year at a homebrew shop while waiting for a brewery position to open up. In 2004, one did, and Fiorilli headed east, this time to Bear, Delaware, where he started working as Ric Hoffman’s assistant at a rustic, English-style brewery: Stewart’s Brewing Company. “We did a lot of open fermentation, which is very uncommon,” Fiorilli recounts. “Some of the techniques and stuff we did there I haven’t seen in any other breweries.” And, as Fiorilli points out, “you can make the most award-winning beer on the most antiquated system.” That help landed him a gig at Flying Fish Brewing Company in Cherry Hills, New Jersey; a 12,000-barrel-per-year package brewery, where he worked alongside head brewer Casey Hughes. And with some serious brewing experience — and a few Great American Beer Festival medals — under his belt, Fiorilli returned to the Centennial State just in time for Mountain Sun’s Vine Street expansion, where he’s been since 2009. And so we return to the beginning: the homebrewer who now commands a 5,000-barrel-per-year facility still recalls how it all started, more or less, with a pint of Guinness all those years ago. Poetic, isn’t it?
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BAD HAIR DAY CONFIRMED Well, it’s official. The bad hair summit is on. In the coming weeks, the two men on planet Earth who happen to sport the two worst looking haircuts in existence will sit down across from each other and try not to laugh while they attempt to thwart a nuclear war. That’s right. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are squaring off in what can only be described as hair diplomacy. Maybe it all makes sense. You know, like warring gangs using break-dancing to challenge each other instead of resorting to drive-bys. Only in this case, it’s two megalomaniacs avoiding a nuclear war by challenging each other to a worst hairdo contest. Finally there is a real reason to support Trump. There has never been a politician who stood a better chance to bring about peace by way of the top of his heinous-looking head. Good luck, Donald. Don’t change a thing. Those shaved sidewalls don’t stand a chance against your exotic swirls over bald spot patterns.
YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE TOP FIVE THINGS MILLENIALS ARE FREAKING OUT ABOUT A new study from the American Psychiatric Association concluded that millenials are the most anxious generation. You don’t say? Is it possible, do you think, that crippling amounts of student debt — like tens of thousands of dollars, at least — are stressing people out? And that robots are going to replace most jobs, and college degrees may just be a big hole millenials dug themselves because their parents told them, “You have to get a college education?” Do you think the fact that a lobotomized orangutan is the president of the country might be freaking out young people — who, mind you, have their whole lives ahead of them? How about the fact that a sheet of ice the size of Delaware just flew off Antarctica, the coral reefs are dying and the world’s temperature continues to rise? Maybe millenials would calm down if institutions like the freaking Centers for Disease Control would stop doing things like posting photos on the internet of a poppyseed muffin with the prompt “Ticks can be the size of a poppyseed. Can you spot all 5 ticks in this photo?” Millenials have enough shit to deal with, they don’t need to be worried about eating ticks, CDC. What’s that? Baby Boomers are doing OK? We would’ve never guessed that a generation that fouled up democracy, killed the planet, hoarded all the money and, incidentally, single-handedly kept L.L. Bean in business is doing OK. Boulder Weekly
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: The Torah is a primary sacred
text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Born under the sign of Taurus,
Edmund Wilson was a renowned twentieth-century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: It’s possible you could pass for normal
in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” Luckily for
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you, Cancerian, quite a few LIBRA fragments of paradise are SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: gathering in your vicinity. Vincent van Gogh’s It’ll be like a big happy painting The Starry reunion of tiny miracles all Night hangs on a wall in coalescing to create a subGo to RealAstrology.com to check out New York’s Museum of stantial dose of sublimity. Modern Art. He created Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Will you be ready to deal it in 1889 while living in HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE with this much radiance? a French asylum. Around HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes Will you be receptive to that same time, 129 years are also available by phone at so much relaxing freedom? ago, a sheepherder in 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. I hope and pray you won’t Wyoming created a sourmake a cowardly retreat dough starter that is still into the trendy cynicism fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my judirefrigerator and uses it to make pancakes. In the coming cious advice: Be insistent on pleasure! Be voracious for joy! weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths! drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do. They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. They will be excited and they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul. They will draw inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on Planet Earth.
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn — also known as Father Time — is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.
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twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it! And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic. Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said. “Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded. Flaunt
their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.” “OK!” I said.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Now is a favorable time to discuss
in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about. It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand in behalf of compassionate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has authorized you to be a winsome agent of change.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In his 1931 painting The Persistence
of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached. Tip #3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them.
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Dear Dan: I’m a 37-year-old male. I’ve been with my wife for 15 years. I know that passion transitions in a long-term relationship, but I’m having a hard time finishing lately. Yes, I’m on SSRIs — antidepressants — but that has only exacerbated the issue. We all know that a lot of people who own a vagina enjoy foreplay to help the orgasms along. Will foreplay help people who own a penis get to the moment faster? I’m pretty sure I know the answer, and I figured you’re the one to ask what the best foreplay options are because your sexual knowledge is vast and you regularly deal with two penises at a time. As someone who pleasures a penis and who has a penis that is pleasured, what is the best preparation to get guys off before the insertion happens? —Seeking Weapons Of Male Penile Satisfaction Dear SWOMPS: Foreplay isn’t just for vagina-havers, SWOMPS! Penishavers have nerve endings all over their bodies — inside ’em, too — and while many younger men don’t require much in the way of foreplay, older men and/or men taking SSRIs often benefit from additional forms of stimulation both prior to intercourse and during intercourse. Like tit play. I know some men can’t go there because that tit-play shit — like feelings, musicals, sit-ups, and voting for
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women — could turn you gay. But if you’re up for it, SWOMPS, have the wife play with or even clamp your tits, and then shove a plug in your ass that stimulates your prostate while also remembering to engage what’s often called “the largest sex organ”: your brainz. Talk dirty to each other! If you’re already proficient at JV dirty talk — telling ’em what you’re about to do (“I’m going to fuck the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you’re doing (“I’m fucking the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you did (“I fucked the shit out of you”) — move on to varsity dirty talk: Talk about your fantasies, awesome experiences you’ve had in the past, things you’d like to try or try again with your partner. To get your dick there — to push past those SSRIs — fire on all cylinders (tits, hole, brain, mouth, and cock) before and during insertion. Dear Dan: I’m a 32-year-old English guy, and this morning I was diagnosed as HIV-positive. I’m in a bit of a state. I haven’t told anyone, and I needed to get it out. I’m in a long-term, mostly monogamous
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relationship, but my boyfriend is overseas for work at the moment, so I can’t really talk to him about it. So I’m talking to you. —Diagnosed And Dazed And Confused Dear DADAC: I’m so sorry, DADAC. I hope you have a friend you can confide in, because you need a shoulder to cry on and I can’t provide that for you here. What I can provide is some perspective. I’m just a little older than you — OK, I’m a whole lot older than you. I came out in the summer of 1981—and two years later, healthy, young gay men started to sicken and die. During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, learning you were HIV-positive meant you had a year or two to live. Today, a person with HIV is expected to live a normal life span — so long as they have access to treatment and they’re taking their meds. And once you’re on meds, DADAC, your viral load will fall to undetectable levels and you won’t be able to pass HIV on to anyone else (undetectable = uninfectious).
Arguably, your boyfriend and your other sex partners are safer now that you know than they were before you were diagnosed. Because it’s not HIV-positive men on meds who are infecting people, it’s men who aren’t on meds because they don’t know they’re HIV-positive. I don’t mean to minimize your distress, DADAC. The news you just received is distressing and life changing. But it’s not as distressing as it was three decades ago, and it doesn’t mean your life is over. I remember holding a boyfriend on the day he was diagnosed as HIV-positive more than 25 years ago, both of us weeping uncontrollably. His diagnosis meant he was going to die soon. Yours doesn’t. You have a lot of time left, and if you get into treatment and take your meds, DADAC, you will live a long and healthy life, a life filled with love, connection, and intimacy. Spend some time feeling sorry for yourself, feel the fuck out of those feelings, and then go live your life — live it for all the guys who didn’t get to celebrate their 33rd birthdays. P.S. Don’t wait until your boyfriend returns to tell him. He needs to get tested right away. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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Embracing the new era of weed moms
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t’s a beautiful time of year. The days are getting longer, I can get stoned in a sundress, and Mother’s Day is upon us. Considering all the time you spend not calling your mom back, this day serves as an important reminder that you would not be here if it weren’t for the woman who quite literally brought you into this world. I mean where else would you have developed that deeply ingrained sense of entitlement that only comes from your mom telling you how special you are every day of your childhood? In the spirit of the holiday, I’d like to express my gratitude that I am not a mom (thanks, Plan B!) and also give a shoutout to the women who are. After all, growing, birthing and raising decent humans is really hard and pretty much everyone takes that unpaid emotional labor for granted. Based on what I’ve seen on social media in the past few years, I think we all need to chill out on the harsh judgments we throw
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at moms. Now, I’m not a mom, so if you disagree with anything I’m about to say and find yourself thinking, “She has no idea what it’s like to raise children!!” well, you can calm down because I completely agree with you on that part. My only credentials are that I’m 28, the age when all my Facebook friends stopped posting photos of succulents and latte art and started posting bump selfies and gender reveal announcements. Ever since the people around me started getting pregnant on purpose, I’ve been constantly exposed to “wine mom” memes and comment threads filled with women like “sounds like our house lol!” If you didn’t know, moms are boozy. Apparently they always have been, but millennial moms are taking it to the next level by wrapping up their low-key alcohol addictions into a Pinterest-perfect aesthetic. And honestly, that’s chill if it’s what you’re into. As long as your kids are safe and your life isn’t spiraling out of control, being a mom is tough and if you need a glass or three of chardonnay to take the edge off, you do you. As a society, we totally accept that alcohol is an inherent part of mommy culture, but do we feel the same way about moms who use marijuana? Today, moms are smoking weed like never before to deal with everything from anxiety and postpartum depression to the daily stresses of child-rearing. As the industry expands and more states legalize it, the “stoner mom” market has the potential to disrupt the industry. Some companies have already been inspired to introduce mom-friendly cannabis products. Unfortunately, the stigma around marijuana still stands, especially when you com-
bine it with the unfair standards and pressure we already place on moms, making it hard for anyone to talk openly about the benefits. That’s a shame because we also don’t talk about how stay-at-home moms experience higher rates of depression, which alcohol increases because of the way it interacts with certain neurotransmitters. So the mommy wine everyone jokes about is actually making moms feel worse, not better. Cannabis doesn’t have that effect and can improve symptoms of depression. Instead of ostracizing moms or threatening to take their kids away for smoking pot, we should be offering them edibles and vape pens, not just wine glasses and pill bottles. Sorry, wine moms, but you had your moment. We should embrace the new era of weed moms. I’m not suggesting that groups of moms should drive around with a fat blunt, hotboxing their minivans while the kids are at lacrosse practice (although if that is a thing, please let me join your group. Maintaining a vast social life as an adult is hard and I’d almost consider having a kid if it means more friends), but we should definitely chill when it comes to how we judge the way some women choose to deal with stress. So don’t forget to call your mom and send her the right kinds of flowers. After all, Mother’s Day is the day to congratulate her on her life’s greatest achievement: you. My mom passed away when I was 14, so remember, if you don’t treat her nicely, just know that I will be there to get her stoned and take her to brunch and listen to all the drama in her book club and win her over and she won’t even love you the same anymore.
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he next battle in the war to end the war on marijuana will be fought on June 26 in Oklahoma. June 26 is the date of Oklahoma’s primary election. It’s also the date on which Oklahomans vote on State Question 788, an initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the state. Supporters of the initiative collected their signatures in 2016 — they needed 66,000 valid ones — and had hoped to be on the
ballot that year. They had enough, but they couldn’t get their petition certified in time for the 2016 ballot. Under Oklahoma law, that meant the governor would decide when the vote on the initiative would take place. Last January, Governor Mary Fallin decided it would take place during the June 26 primary. Primaries usually are relatively low turnout affairs, especially among younger voters, who nationally are overwhelmingly in favor of legalization. However, the initiative’s supporters seem OK with the date. “I would say the sooner the better,” said
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Chip Paul, a co-founder of Oklahomans for Health, the group that sponsored the petition. One reason that he seems cool with the date may be that a Sooner Poll taken in January showed that the initiative had 62 percent support. That may be low by national standards, where support for medical marijuana typically clocks in at 80 to 90 percent, but for a state as socially conservative as Oklahoma (Oklahoma was one of the last three states to end alcohol prohibition within its borders if memory serves) it seems pretty solid. The Oklahoma initiative goes farther than other medical marijuana initiatives in a couple of ways. For one thing, it doesn’t include a laundry list of conditions for which medical marijuana can be prescribed. The decision to write a patient a prescription for a particular condition is left entirely up to the patient’s doctor. (A doctor’s recommendation would also be necessary for obtaining a state-issued medical marijuana license.) A license holder would have to be at least 18 years old and would be allowed to legally possess up to 3 ounces of pot on their person or 8 ounces at home, six mature plants, and six seedlings. The limits can be increased by individual counties or cities. A person who is caught with up to 1.5 ounces and doesn’t have a license but can state a medical condition is subject to a $400 fine. This last provision appears to have prompted one member of the state legislature to claim the initiative would legalize recreational marijuana in the state. It wouldn’t do that, but it would effectively decriminalize possession in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, in Missouri, supporters of two medical marijuana initiatives handed in
their signatures last week, and both seem to have far more signatures than they need to make the ballot. Both initiatives took the form of amendments to the state constitution, and require 160,000 valid signatures to make the ballot with a minimum number of signatures coming from each of the state’s congressional districts. Supporters of the Find The Cure initiative turned in 300,000 signatures, and those backing the New Approach Missouri initiative turned in 372,483 signatures. If both make the ballot and pass, the one getting the most votes will take precedence. Supporters of the Missouri Patient Care Act, which would change state statutes, were also collecting signatures. They needed just under 100,000 to make ballot. No word on how they’re doing yet. And just to make things even more interesting, the Missouri House of Representatives recently passed its own medical marijuana legalization bill by a 112 to 44 vote. Senate action is still needed. Then there’s Maine. Maine voters passed a recreational legalization initiative in 2016, over the objections of Maine’s pot prohibitionist dead-ender governor Paul LePage. But LePage isn’t into that will-of-the-people stuff. So when the state legislature passed the enabling legislation for commercial production and sale, he vetoed the bill. So the legislature passed a second bill that addressed some of the (disingenuous) objections LePage raised to the first bill. Then LePage vetoed that one as well. With that, the legislature had its fill of LePage’s obstructionism. On May 2, both houses of the legislature voted to override his veto — by 109-39 in the House and 28-6 in the Senate.
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We have - 30-60 Minute Office Visits over 1000 - Body Composition Analysis 5 Star - Computer Stations to Complete the Online Application Medical Cannabis for Comprehensive Health Reviews! in Our Office - Cannabis nurses on staff for follow-up care - Follow-up Services for Further Questions About Treatment Plans - Follow our blog at www.holoshealth.org for latest information, FAQs and more on the use of Medical Cannabis Boulder: 3000 Center Green Dr, #210, 80301• Denver: 1127 N. Pennsylvania St., 80203 By Appointment Only M-F • Online Appointments Available at www.holoshealth.org or CALL (720) 273-3568