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Highroad Why did Trump back off from his Mexican border tax? by Jim Hightower

ften, when world powers pick fights with seemingly powerless countries, they learn that even small dogs have sharp teeth — as President Trump is finding out in his ill-fated war with Mexico. His scheme to wall off Mexico is collapsing because most people here in the U.S. think it’s stupid — some twothirds of the public say they just won’t buy his $21 billion boondoggle. But

Mexicans are the ones blunting Trump’s other major attack on them — an attempt to slap a 20-percent border tax on products shipped into the U.S. “Nobody knows more about trade than me,” The Donald crowed during his presidential run. Narcissistic hyperbole aside, it turns out that Mexican farmers do know a lot more about corn than he does — and they know that a lot of U.S.Mexico trade consists of corn. Until NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), Mexico was a corn exporter. But such grain trading giants as Cargill wrote provisions into NAFTA to rig the rules to let them grab Mexico’s corn market. This drove hundreds of thousands of Mexican producers out of business and made Mexico — where corn originated — dependent on imports from the U.S. But now, Mexicans are turning that

imported corn into a political weapon against Trump’s trade bluster. Rather than buy from the U.S., they’re negotiating to import corn from Brazil, and even more significant, they’re planning to invest in their own farmers to make Mexico self-sufficient again in this important crop. Their counter-offensive has caused apoplexy among congressional Republicans from the U.S. corn belt. About 75 percent of Iowa’s corn, for example, goes to Mexico, and losing that market would devastate Iowa’s economy. So the “little dog” bit Trump on the rump, and the Big Dog has now backed away from his border-tax idea — having learned that even farmers know more about trade than he does. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 11 , 2017 5

guest column Are House Republicans murderers? by Brian Litwin

t is time for consequences. A time in nursing homes are covered by for the members of the U.S. House Medicaid; it covers 44 percent of all chilof Representatives who voted for dren with special health-care needs, nearly this abomination of a health care law half of all births, as well as half of all to feel the earth shake beneath their women with serious disabilities. This cut feet. It does not matter that they know to Medicaid is done so that the wealthiest what just passed does not have a snowamong us can receive a massive tax cut on ball’s chance in hell of passing the the backs of those who are the neediest Republican-controlled Senate. It does not and most vulnerable amongst us. It also matter if they intendrolls back state-byed for it to be a state Medicaid starting block for expansion which negotiations. And millions of REPUBLICANS covers it does not matter low income they intended to Americans without PRESENTED THE AHCA give President anywhere else to Trump’s fragile ego turn. Without their IN A WAY THAT SHOWED a win. What mathealth insurance ters is intent. What coverage, untold THE TRUE HORRORS is their intent? numbers of AND UNTOLD DEATHS Americans will die Murder. Don’t because they made believe me? Let’s THAT WILL BEFALL OUR the grave mistake take a look at how of being poor. murder in the first FELLOW AMERICANS, Insurance comdegree is defined panies would also by the Colorado YOU WOULD NEVER be able to charge Revised Statute older Americans (18-3-102): A SUPPORT IT. upwards of five deliberate, intentional killing of times the price they another; or, causing would an 18-yearsomeone’s death by knowingly old; eliminate required coverage, called engaging in conduct that creates a essential health benefits, including materserious risk of death, because of an attinity care, mental health and prescription tude of malice and extreme indifference to drugs; and charge more or deny coverage the value of human life. to people who have pre-existing condiUnder the American Health Care Act tions, such as cancer, diabetes or arthritis. (AHCA), for one full year Planned As for the consequences, need I repeat Parenthood would no longer receive federal myself? funding. Planned Parenthood serves This is the quintessential definition of approximately 2.5 million people, mainly having an attitude of malice and extreme women, 60 percent of whom are relying on indifference to the value of human life. If government programs like Medicaid. A the Republicans presented the bill in a Guttmacher report found that, among way that showed the true horrors and women who receive care from a family untold deaths that will befall our fellow planning center like Planned Parenthood, Americans, you would never support it. nearly four in 10 report that it is their only You would be outraged and red in the face source of health care. Planned Parenthood mad. So why do you continue to support provides preventive care services such as them? This is a heartless, callous and danwell-woman exams, breast and cervical gerous piece of legislation that completely cancer screenings, vaccinations and birth reveals the Republican Party’s true colors. control. For many women, removing these The time to act is now, pick up your screenings will undoubtedly lead to untold phone and call your members of Congress numbers of people finding out that they and tell them what you think they should have cancer at far too late of a stage to be be doing with this repugnant piece of legtreated. People will needlessly die. islation. The next time there is an elecMedicaid will be cut by $880 billion tion, sentence them with your vote. even though it is a lifeline for approxiBrian Litwin describes himself as an mately 70 million Americans, many of outraged citizen living in Longmont. whom rely on it for long-term health serThis opinion column does not necessarily vices. Nearly two-thirds of all Americans reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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danish plan What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking by Paul Danish

ast Sunday’s Daily Camera mits. Had they continued to stall, they contained an op-ed piece very likely would be looking at a court signed by all three Boulder order and maybe contempt of court County Commissioners proceedings after that, not to mention explaining to their constitudamage suits from oil companies and ents, yet again, why they can’t impose a property owners. moratorium or an outright ban on oil This prodded the commissioners to and gas production in Boulder County finally adopt new regulations on — as the local anti-fracking cult conMarch 23. They are so deliberately tinues to demand. Kafkaesque and over-reaching that The brief answer, in case you’ve they will likely get sued by the oil and been in a persistent gas industry for vegetative state exceeding their for the past year, authority. is the rule of law. None of which OK, one more REGULATIONS has kept the countime: ty’s green-washed ARE SO DELIBERATELY Last year, the rads from calling KAFKAESQUE AND Colorado the commissioners Supreme Court sell-outs to Big Oil OVER-REACHING THAT declared protractand demanding THEY WILL LIKELY ed and serial morthey ban drilling GET SUED BY THE OIL atoriums on oil anyway instead of and gas drilling, adopting regulaAND GAS INDUSTRY like Boulder tions that attempt FOR EXCEEDING THEIR County’s, were to strangle it in red AUTHORITY. both unconstitutape. tional and a violaThat’s because tion of state law. the rads don’t give a The commissioners’ justifirat’s ass about what’s legal, of course. To cation for their endless moratorithem fracking is just an issue to organize ums — their re-writings of their oil around. So they’ve kept up their political and gas regulations — was so transpar- exhibitionism for the six weeks since the new regulations were adopted. ently bogus that Colorado Attorney Which led the commissioners to General Cynthia Coffman sued the commissioners to force them to start see DANISH PLAN Page 7 accepting applications for drilling per-

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write their op-ed explaining their actions to the people, which is a fine example of the political dictum that “when you’re explaining you’re losing.” “The bottom line is that the state does not allow local governments to prohibit oil and gas development,” they wrote. They then appended a list of 16 things they’re doing “to protect our residents and the environment.” The full list appears below: 1. Promoting energy efficiency in homes and businesses and launching a Fossil Free Pilot (sic) to reduce fossil fuel use. 2. Implementing a carbon sequestration pilot project. 3. Helping to launch a new Clean Energy Credit Union. 4. Organizing the Colorado Communities for Climate Action coalition. 5. Continuing regular local inspections of all oil and gas wells in Boulder County. 6. Establishing an air monitoring station to measure baseline air quality. 7. Launching a new monitoring program to test water wells. 8. Continuing to lobby at the legislature for needed changes in state law. 9. Filing a brief to support the legal challenge to Amendment 71. 10. Supporting ballot initiatives advocating local control over oil and gas. 11. Advocating for the Air Quality Control Commission to strengthen rules on leak detection and repair. 12. Pushing the COGCC to adopt a new rule limiting C scale noise and vibrations during well drilling. 13. Pursuing a lawsuit to hold industry accountable for the hazards and costs of climate change. 14. Filing a brief in support of the Martinez (Earth Guardians) lawsuit. 15. Supporting other local lawsuits (e.g., Triple Creek, Weld Air and Water) by filing supportive briefs. 16. Calling on all oil and gas operators (in the wake of the Firestone tragedy) to shut down vertical wells until they can guarantee there are no safety risks. Whatever. It’s embarrassing to

watch chronologically adult politicians do that much meaningless virtue signaling in public. The truth is there is one thing the Commissioners can do if they want to stop oil and gas drilling in Boulder County: Buy the freaking mineral rights. Start an underground open space program. Ask the voters to approve a tax increase to pay for it. If the voters don’t want to put some skin in the game, then maybe the issue isn’t as important to them as the activists make it out to be. If the voters do approve it, then you have a real way of dealing with the issue. There’s a second way to pay for buying mineral rights as well. There are a number of oil and gas leases on County open space. Sooner or later the lease-holders are going to drill new wells on them. The County gets royalties on any of the oil and gas produced from them; oil and gas royalties are typically 12 to 18 percent. Use any tax dollars and royalty revenue to buy the mineral rights closest to subdivisions and natural areas where drilling can have genuinely serious impacts. And here’s a third thing they could try. State law sets the minimum distance new oil and gas wells have to be set back from subdivisions, schools, hospitals and other public buildings, and local governments can’t change the set-backs. But state law is silent on how far new subdivisions and other development has to be from existing oil and gas wells. The County could try amending its land use regulations to require new construction to be farther from existing wells. And quit treating oilmen as the enemy. It’s decadent to defame and demean the people who make Boulder County’s cozy auto-dependent, natural gas-heated, suburban lifestyle possible. It’s stupid too, when they have as much clout as they do under state law. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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single family/duplex types; mobile homes; 3-bedroom ranch houses occupied by eight? Wouldn’t you like to know who others have dealt with, who they’ve gotten a fair shake from versus the shakedown? If BW readers read these reviews and act accordingly, BW could give recognition to those already exemplary landlords while providing impetus for others to improve customer relations and business practices! BW could go further: best playground (for small and big kids); best slacklining trees (scratch that, too much environmental strain on a couple good trees); best city councilors (yes, elections do that but could be straw poll on performance between elections?); best county commissioners/state legislators (field narrows... considerably); best local utility (OK, let’s not go there now); best fracking company (if we don’t have the right to decline, can’t we at least pick the best one?). Possibilities are considerable, potential benefits: immense. Use the creative powers of BW staff, with input from interested readers, to come up with some “social change categories” for BoB to make Boulder better! Robi Robichaud/Boulder

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Here we go again. Paul Danish’s love affair with Big Ag, in particular regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food, reflects true loyalty and a strident voice committed to the cause of feeding the world’s everexpanding population. In his most recent rant [Re: Danish Plan, April 27] he asserts that there is “scientific consensus” on the safety of GMO foods. He also says there’s a “sustained, global assault on scientific agriculture and genetically engineered crops.” To begin with, consensus is not defined by Danish. According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, about 89 percent of scientists polled stated their beliefs that GMO foods are safe. Eighty-nine percent is not unanimity, and we don’t know how this cohort of scientists was selected. We can be certain, however, that none of these scientists reside in any of the 38 countries worldwide that have banned the cultivation of genetically modified crops. For consumers who demand that food nourish them as nature intended, the arguments employed by organizations of scientists concerning safety are not compelling or comforting. There are levels of safety, and risk assessment is used in GMO safety studies just as it is in determining safe levels of exposure to mercury from eating fish, for examBoulder Weekly

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Health concerns resurface with public opening of Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge

by Josh Schlossberg

ossing 20 coins in the air and all of them coming up heads. Getting struck by lightning this year. Making it as a movie star. Each of these events is estimated to have a one in a million chance of happening to you. Your risk of getting cancer from visiting the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is “far below” even these odds, according to Carl Spreng, state project manager of Rocky Flats for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). The manufacture of nuclear weapon triggers at the Rocky Flats Plant from 1952-1989 dispersed varying levels of radioactive plutonium, uranium and other toxic chemicals into the soil and groundwater. Some of those contaminants have since spread onto the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge — 4,883 acres of open space surrounding the former facility site, which sits 10 miles south of Boulder. The question isn’t whether pollutants exist on Refuge lands, but whether they’ve accumulated to levels high enough to warrant keeping the public out. And though the Refuge’s public opening in 2019 seems inevitable, some community members and organizations disagree with government agencies that contaminants on the land pose no threat to future visitors. Much of North American soil already has background levels of plutonium from nuclear bomb tests conducted in the 1950s and early ’60s. However, due to high winds, erosion, surface water runoff and possibly even 10 May 11, 2017

routine operations at Rocky Flats, additional plutonium and other contaminants have found their way onto Refuge lands and beyond. Some scientists think fires at the plant in 1957 and 1969 spread pollutants as far as Denver, 16 miles away. At times, during the 37 years of the facility’s operation, contaminated runoff flowed through Walnut and Woman Creeks — both running through the Refuge — into Standley Lake, the current drinking water supply for Westminster, Thornton and Northglenn, and the Great Western Reservoir, Broomfield’s former source of drinking water. Both of these bodies of water have “low but measurable concentrations of contamination from 5-10 inches deep in the sediments,” according to CDPHE, though the state has determined Standley Lake’s water to be safe for drinking. “Essentially uncontaminated,” is how Scott Surovchak, legacy site manager of Rocky Flats for the Department of Energy (DOE), described Refuge lands in his April 2015 presentation to the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, an entity providing local government and community oversight of Rocky Flats. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), too, deems the levels of Refuge pollution to be so low that it can safely be opened for “unlimited use and unrestricted exposure.”

Technically, the Refuge is already open to visitors, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has led guided tours since 2015. However, by the summer of 2019, the agency plans to start construction of a visitor center and 20 miles of trails, after which the public will be allowed in without escort. Despite budget cuts and staffing reductions in the Mountain-Prairie Region of the USFWS — which includes Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska — the project is moving forward thanks to a $8.3 million appropriation from DOE. The funding will cover building the visitor center and exhibits, creating access roads and trails, installing water, sewer and utility lines, and defraying some maintenance costs, according to Ryan Moehring, public

affairs officer for USFWS MountainPrairie Region. Many locals are excited for the hiking, biking, horseback riding and hunting opportunities in this unique ecosystem made up of a variety of native plant species. It’s offset by impressive views and is so close to a major metropolitan area. But not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.

Coming clean Several local groups, including Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, Rocky Flats Downwinders and Rocky Flats Right to Know, oppose the public opening of the Refuge, citing concerns with residual, and potentially ongoing, contamination. So does Jon Lipsky, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Boulder Weekly

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special agent who led the 1989 raid on Rocky Flats for alleged environmental crimes. The plant was shuttered shortly thereafter, and the investigation culminated in Rockwell International pleading guilty to illegal storage and disposal of radioactive wastes, receiving an $18.5 million fine. “Humans should not be allowed on the Refuge,” says Lipsky, who considers his involvement with Rocky Flats nearly three decades later to be “unfinished business.” Having retired from the FBI in 2004, Lipsky now spends much of his free time archiving Rocky Flats-related public documents on the website The Ambushed Grand Jury (RockyFlatsAmbushedGrandJury.com), also the title of a book that details some of the controversies surrounding the federal grand jury investigation of Rocky Flats and the sealing of the case’s records. Lipsky is legally barred from discussing any private information gathered during the grand jury investigation, but he is free to talk about anything on the public record. One of his concerns is that the 10-year, $7 billion cleanup that ended in 2006 wasn’t completed to appropriate standards, such as those outlined in the Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual, or MARSSIM. The Department of Defense, DOE, EPA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission use MARSSIM, as “guidance on how to demonstrate that a site is in compliance with a radiation dose- or risk-based regulation.” MARSSIM recommends 100 percent coverage for scanning areas with a “potential for radioactive contamination.” But a 2011 letter from CDPHE and EPA to David Lucas, manager of the Refuge for USFWS, explains that, instead of following MARSSIM, “the approved site cleanup strategy was to remove contamination to a 90 percent confidence level, meaning confidence that at least 90 percent of the contamination had been remediated to agreed-upon levels.” One reason stated in the letter for the standards was that MARSSIM was developed after the cleanup had already begun. Another reason was that MARSSIM was “sure to find ‘hot spots’ ... the extent and severity of which would then require investigation and potentially cleanup action.” Citing costs and the need to meet the cleanup schedule, DOE chose not to apply MARSSIM. At an April 17 meeting of the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council in Broomfield, Frazer Lockhart, who led the DOE cleanup, said that while the cleanup was a success, the agency “did not clean up every piece of contamination on site. We were not required to.” The former facility site and the most contaminated adjacent lands make up the 1,300-acre Central Operable Unit (COU) managed by DOE and is offlimits to the public. The DOE acknowledged in a 2016 fact sheet that some of the COU soil has “low levels” of radioactive plutonium and americium, volatile organic comBoulder Weekly

potential health impacts from visiting the Refuge, including that environmental sampling “may not have accurately characterized the amounts or distribution of hazardous substances ... which could lead to either an overestimation or an underestimation of risk posed by these substances.” When a series of ponds used to collect liquid waste near the former facility site sprung a leak, contractors started spraying some of the plutonium-laced liquid in various spots around Rocky Flats, including the buffer zone or POU, which is now the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Spray Irrigation at Rocky Flats, a 1987 report by George H. Setlock, health, safety and environment supervisor for Rockwell International, states pounds, metals, landfill waste containing that “treated sanitary effluent has been hazardous waste and depleted uranium, spray irrigated at various Rocky Flats A view of the Rocky and groundwater contaminant plumes buffer zone locations since December Flats facility in 1995. The land is now containing nitrates, uranium and volatile 1979.” Setlock estimates that 70-80 scheduled to organic compounds. million gallons per year were sprayed. become a recreational area. The U.S. Government Accountability In 1992, Rockwell pled guilty to Office (GAO) issued a report in 2006 that illegal treatment and storage of hazardbrings up concerns that DOE “did not ous wastes and several Clean Water Act complete all of the cleanup verification activities it violations, including having “knowingly violated conhad planned.” ditions and limitations” in terms of the spraying. “DOE’s failure to conduct independent assessDOE’s Scott Surovchak points to a 105-acre secments is particularly troubling because of the importion of Rocky Flats known as the West Spray Field, tance of the cleanup and residual contamination data,” or Operable Unit 11 (OU 11), located in the buffer the report, Nuclear Cleanup of Rocky Flats, found. zone/Refuge. The highest reading of plutonium on “These data were not only the basis for EPA’s and the site was 2.2 pCi/g, with DOE concluding in a Colorado’s approvals of the accelerated cleanup 1995 report that there is “no evidence to indicate the actions, but also the foundation for EPA’s and existence of an imminent threat of a release of hazardColorado’s pending decisions about the overall suffious or radioactive constituents from OU 11 to the ciency of the site’s cleanup.” environment.” Surovchak also notes that the area known as the Gaining ground East Spray Field is “mainly” within the Central Following the closure of Rocky Flats the lands Operable Unit, though “some portions may be within that were to become the Refuge — known as the the POU (the Refuge).” “buffer zone” or Peripheral Operable Unit (POU) — were placed on the EPA’s list of Superfund sites, an Blame it on the rain inventory of the most contaminated spots in the Government agencies emphasize that the Refuge nation in need of cleanup. They were delisted in 2007 is safe for public use. Yet the most recent soil sample upon establishment of the Refuge, after the agency taken at the Refuge was in 2006. Has anything determined that they were “in a state that is protective changed since then? of human health and the environment, where unreIn its 2006 report, the GAO determined that stricted and unlimited use can be allowed,” according “contaminants move around the site, and potentially to USFWS’s Ryan Moehring. off site, by surface-soil erosion, wind or surface water.” The CDPHE concurs. “Only three surface soil The DOE’s Rocky Flats fact sheet mentions areas measurements were above 12 picocuries per gram where soil is contaminated with “low levels” of pluto(pCi/g), the concentration that corresponds to a lifenium and americium, which could “affect surface time excess cancer risk of one in a million for a wildwater quality if the soils were disturbed to the extent life refuge worker,” Spreng says. that erosion could mobilize the contaminants.” The highest readings of plutonium on the Refuge A 2006 USFWS survey prepared by Mark were 20 pCi/g (picocurie per gram, a trillionth of a Sattelberg, contaminant biologist, states that contamicurie or the amount of radioactivity in a gram of radi- nation at the former facility site “may be brought to um), with a Refuge average of 1.1 pCi/g, which the surface by erosion or slumping of slopes,” and sugSpreng says “equates to below a one in a million risk gests that the Refuge staff should review all DOE for any exposure scenario, including residential.” monitoring. Superfund guidance requires remediation of areas Burrowing animals, such as prairie dogs, routinely thought to present a cancer risk greater than one in move soil around at Rocky Flats, though the prairie 10,000. dogs that used to live on the former facility site died The DOE’s 1997 Superfund Record of Decision mentions some “uncertainties” with its assessment of See REFUGE Page 12 May 11, 2017 11

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of the plague 10 to 15 years ago, according to Surovchak. One colony remains active inside the Refuge. CDPHE has determined that shallow groundwater at Rocky Flats is contaminated, yet due to the geology at the site, it’s “very unlikely” that it has moved into drinking water aquifers. Colorado’s dry climate also helps prevent the plume from spreading. Though, sometimes, it rains. M. Iggy Litaor worked from 1990-95 as senior soil scientist for EG&G, the main contractor for Rocky Flats after Rockwell. He is currently a professor of environmental sciences at Tel-Hai College in Israel and returns to Boulder often. On May 17, 1995, heavy rains “created a significant amount of plutonium transport across the soilscape” at Rocky Flats, Litaor says. “For sure, plutonium, americium and other goodies have been remobilized.” Despite the geology, he says that the 1995 rains “opened up my mind to the fact that under certain hydrological circumstances, groundwater can rise all the way to the surface.” And then came the flood of 2013. Because of it, Litaor says, “rethinking needs to be done about the potential mobility of actinides [radioactive elements] in the soil of Rocky Flats.” “New work that will put some light on ... the potential of actinide movement in times of climate instability, should be conducted in Rocky Flats, and should be open to the public to read, to scrutinize and make their own judgment,” he says. Litaor doesn’t oppose recreational use of the Refuge. Still, from what he knows about Rocky Flats, he wouldn’t let his kids play there. “I have a hard time seeing a cyclist going through this terrain with knobby tires getting dust into the air. It’s crazy,” he says. “It’s absolutely crazy.”

Hot on the trail? Twenty miles of trails are planned for the Refuge along with a proposal to link up with the Rocky Mountain Greenway from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to Rocky Mountain National Park. Soil samples will be taken before trail construction begins. Steve Watts, executive director of Boulder Mountainbike Alliance, is excited about the trails, which he sees as a great opportunity to take pressure off other local bike routes. “We’re going to advocate for maximizing the trail user experience on that property,” Watts says, advocacy that has involved working with USFWS to develop the trail system. When asked about potential health risks, Watts says that, “organizationally, our stance is that we do not have concerns.” “We look at risk in a holistic way, and there’s certainly more risk of death traveling to trails in a car than any potential risk you’d have from exposure to any radiation that might be found anywhere on that property,” he says. “I certainly would take my nieces and nephews and recreate on this property.” 12 May 11, 2017

founder LeRoy Moore, point out that the study didn’t include thyroid cancer. “It’s a disappointment to find out that our state health department isn’t taking care of public health,” Moore says. “They’ve been misleading the public about radiation harm for a long time.” Spreng says that CDPHE left thyroid cancer out of the study because “the main risk of inhaled plutonium is cancer of the lung, liver, bone and bone marrow.” However, because of public concern, he says the agency will draft a supplement that “includes an analysis of the incidence of thyroid cancer in communities around Rocky Flats.” Federal and state agencies maintain that only “low levels” of plutonium can be found in the Refuge soil. Yet the health impacts of small doses of radiaWhile local children are expected tion are unclear. to hike on the trails, none of them The DOE’s 1997 Superfund Record The Rocky Flats site in June 2011 after initial will be doing so as a Boulder Valley of Decision for Rocky Flats acknowlcleanup had been School District (BVSD) sponsored edges that “basic uncertainties exist conducted. field trip. when applying risk factors to radiation Citing “strong concern by some dose or radionuclide uptake,” including scientists and others, as to the health the “extrapolation of risks from high and safety of the Rocky Flats site,” the doses of radiation (for example, those susBVSD Board of Education decided on March 14 that tained by atomic bomb survivors or uranium miners) no “sanctioned field trip to the Rocky Flats site to much lower doses,” such as those that may be involving district students is permitted” until further found in the Refuge. notice. The 2006 USFWS survey acknowledges that there is “no literature in the scientific journals that follows Bill of health the long-term chronic exposure to low-level radiation, USFWS will be holding its fourth and final Rocky in particular over several generations.” Flats Sharing Session, “Safety Concerns and Risk “Because of this unknown,” the report cautions, “it Management,” on Monday, May 15 at the Arvada is imperative that the Refuge staff pay attention to the Center from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Officials from DOE, reproductive success of wildlife on the Refuge and EPA, CDPHE and USFWS will speak about potennote any unusual diseases, tumors or malformations tial health risks at the Refuge and take public comduring normal operations on the Refuge.” ment. Cancer isn’t the only potential health impact from Two major questions linger when it comes to radiation. The Agency for Toxic Substances and health concerns at Rocky Flats: Has contamination Disease Registry has determined that plutonium can impacted downwind communities? And, is it safe to impact the immune systems of laboratory animals and visit the Refuge? has raised questions about whether exposure can Metropolitan State University of Denver is conimpact fertility or cause birth defects. ducting an ongoing survey of individuals who lived In a 2012 article in ScienceDaily, Anders Møller, downwind of Rocky Flats from 1952 to 1996. As of co-author of a 2012 study on low-level radioactivity November 2016, 1,745 self-reported surveys resulted published in Biological Reviews, says that his analysis in 848 reports of cancer, with 414 of those cancers of 46 peer-reviewed studies “provides evidence that designated as “rare,” typically occurring in 15 out of there is no threshold below which there are no effects 100,000 people. The survey can be found at rockyof radiation.” flatsdownwinders.com/health-survey. “We’re kind of like Flint, Michigan,” says Lipsky, The second-most reported cancer in the survey is the former FBI agent, drawing a parallel between lead contamination of the city’s drinking water supply and thyroid cancer, ranked ninth nationally. Studies have drawn a link between thyroid cancer and exposure to Rocky Flats. “The government exists because, in part, alpha radiation emitted from plutonium. it’s also (there) to protect its citizens. In this case we’re A 2016 CDPHE evaluation of cancer cases expenot being protected at all.” rienced by people living downwind of Rocky Flats In Lipsky’s opinion, the main purpose of opening found that the “incidence of all cancers combined for the Refuge to the public is to “make it look like Rocky both adults and children was no different in the comFlats is not dangerous anymore.” munities surrounding Rocky Flats than would be If all goes as planned, and the Refuge opens to expected based on cancer rates in the remainder of the public recreation in 2019, whether it’s safe or not is Metro Denver area for 1990-2014.” a judgment people will have to make for themCritics, such as Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice selves. Boulder Weekly

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Off Target: Part 5

New potential motives for the killing of bears and mountain lions emerge by Rico Moore Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s two predator management plans have been ensnared in contention and doubt regarding their scientific legitimacy and underlying purpose since being unanimously approved by CPW Commissioners in December 2016 (see Boulder Weekly’s Off Target: Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). The two plans in question are the Upper Arkansas River and Piceance Basin predator control plans. The plans call for the killing of Colorado’s iconic mountain lions and black bears in what is alleged to be an attempt to more rapidly increase mule deer populations in areas where they’re already steadily increasing. Critics assert that cumulative impacts from oil and gas extraction are far more likely the reason for the mule deer’s struggles than predation. As a result of these disparate opinions, two lawsuits challenging the plans have been filed.

ail Keirn, public affairs official with the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services (WS), confirmed the agency began efforts to capture and remove or relocate black bears and mountain lions on behalf of Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) in the Piceance Basin predator control area on May 1. According to Keirn, snares are being used to live capture animals, “and at that point,” she says, “CPW makes the determination of what species is in the snare, and whether or not it’s a female with cubs or an adult.” CPW’s plan states family groups will not be killed, but relocated. However, if the animal is a target adult animal, Keirn says, that animal will be killed with a firearm. WildEarth Guardians have a pending lawsuit challenging the legality of killing a trapped animal as Boulder Weekly

Keirn describes. But as of Tuesday, May 9, Denver County District Judge Robert L. McGahey Jr. denied WildEarth Guardians’ motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in that lawsuit, which would have halted the killing of mountain lions and bears under the predator plans until the merits of the lawsuit are heard. The requested restraining order and injunction were deemed necessary by those proposing it because CPW plans to kill upwards of 40 mountain lions and bears in the Piceance area over the next month and a half. It’s possible the killing will be over before the lawsuit can be concluded. On May 9, BW asked Keirn whether or not any mountain lions or bears had already been killed as a function of the Piceance Basin predator control plan. She said she could not confirm that. CPW did not respond to BW’s request for that same information prior to press time. But the previously mentioned lawsuit against CPW’s predator control plans isn’t the only one. On April 12, Matt Bishop and John Mellgren of Western Environmental Law Center, along with Stuart Wilcox, staff attorney for WildEarth Guardians, joined forces on behalf of WildEarth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit against WS in U.S. District Court. WS has been contracted by CPW, primarily with federal aid funds for wildlife restoration, to carry out the killing of mountain lions and black bears as a part of the predator control plans. According to Bethany Cotton, WildEarth Guardians wildlife program director, the lawsuit against WS argues the federal wildlife-killing program failed to fully analyze the environmental impacts of its destruction of wildlife in Colorado.

In addition to its plans “Wildlife Services is to kill hundreds of once again using taxmountain lions and black bears to increase payer dollars to kill mule deer populations, native wildlife while CPW has also increased the number of hunting ignoring science and licenses for the public opinion,” says predators. Cotton, adding, “The public is entitled to know the full environmental impacts of publicly funded, scientifically unsound and ethically bankrupt wildlife killing.” And according to the Western Environmental Law Center’s Bishop, “The best available science reveals loss of habitat from oil and gas development is the driving factor in mule deer decline, not predation from black bears and mountain lions.” WS refused to comment due to the pending litigation. Relative to Bishop’s assertion that habitat impact from oil and gas activity is to blame for mule deer declines, a recent open records request by BW discovered CPW’s Piceance Basin mule deer research is primarily funded by the oil and gas industry. This is the very research used to justify the CPW-approved predator control plans, which lay no blame whatsoever on the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction for the mule deer’s troubles, and instead calls for the deaths of hundreds of mountain lions and bears to increase the deer population. This is also the same research CPW used to garner its $3.4 million federal aid in wildlife restoration grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which is covering 75 percent of the total ($4.6 million) cost of its predator See PREDATORS Page 16

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plans. Of the total $2.95 million that has funded CPW’s mule deer research in the Piceance Basin since 2007, $1.6 million, or 54 percent came directly from oil and gas companies, with another $1.19 million coming from oil and gas industry proceeds via the state’s severance tax between 2008-11. Marathon Energy kicked in $40,000; Shell Oil $165,000; Williams Energy $172,000; $333,135 came from Encana Oil and Gas Corporation, while $851,316 came from ExxonMobil Corporation. In addition, another $150,000 in 2008-09 came from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). As for non-oil and gas funding, CPW received $35,000 from the Mule Deer Association, and $15,000 from the Mule Deer Foundation. Not only does the oil and gas industry own the mineral rights under the Piceance Basin, a significant portion of the surface rights to the area’s private lands where the predator control area is being carried out are owned by Encana Oil and Gas Corporation and Exxon Mobil Corporation. These are the top two private funders of CPW’s mule deer research, which found oil and gas activity was not having an impact on deer populations — a finding that is contrary to what other scientists believe to be true. • • • • Obviously this funding pattern doesn’t unequivocally mean CPW is exhibiting funding bias on behalf of the oil and gas industry. However, in the context of the predator control plans, where CPW’s own earlier and non-oil and gas funded research concluded that oil and gas extraction and suburban development, not predators, are the primary drivers of mule deer population decline, it certainly looks bad. And that has huge ramifications in a state where citizens love their large predators and would, no doubt, be disturbed to find out that funding bias might well be influencing CPW’s decision to kill hundreds of mountain lions and black bears. In 2016, a non-oil and gas funded study conducted by CPW and Colorado State University (CSU) researchers found that increases in oil and gas activity — such as drilling rigs, well pads, pipelines, processing and transfer facilities, and roads — and residential development on deer ranges are not compatible with the goal of maintaining highly productive mule deer populations. The study was funded by CPW’s auction and raffle grant program, which comes as a result of proceeds from conservation nonprofits intended for the study of big game species in Colorado. Another lingering question — besides whether or not the funding sources influence research results — concerns the predator plans’ lack of a predator population baseline, which is to say, how many black bear and mountain lions are currently in the control areas. CPW has admitted it doesn’t know. Critics point out that without a scientifically accurate base number for the predators, it is impossible to know if they are really to blame for the mule deer population decline or if they are being over-killed by the CPW control plans 16 May 11 , 2017

black bear populations are, “biologically insignificant and will have little to no influence on the much larger population.” Yet CPW has consistently admitted they have no specific population estimates of bear and mountain lion populations for either of the predator control areas, which would seem to disqualify Anderson’s claim. Simply put, if you don’t know how many predators there are to begin with, then you can’t know that killing hundreds of them will be “biologically insignificant” in those areas or at larger regional levels. This all leads to the question, why isn’t CPW devoting a portion of the millions of dollars in federal wildlife restoration aid it receives from USFWS or the millions it gets from the oil and gas industry to develop more accurate predator population estimates? The answer may be because to the detriment of the ecosystem. A CPW doesn’t want to know. number of critics, including biologists, Anderson’s affidavit fails to Recent research shows human-bear conflicts have questioned why CPW didn’t use address another important and oddly are not a good a portion of its oil and gas industry overlooked component of the measurement for bear populations. funds intended for mule deer research Piceance Basin predator plan, namely, to more accurately determine mounthe impact of having relocated “nuitain lion and black bear populations sance” black bears from other areas prior to ordering the slaughter of an unknown perinto the Piceance Basin predator control area for sevcentage of the predator population currently residing eral years. Apparently, Anderson was made aware of in the control area. this relocation process only after the Parks and CPW’s lack of black bear and mountain lion popWildlife Commission approved the plans in ulation data is an important element of the two lawDecember 2016, and after he had already applied for a suits. Both CPW and WS are mandated to preserve $483,220 grant from the USFWS. One could argue the proper ecological balance of the environment in all that if bears are being relocated into an area at the management actions, and a shocking confirmation of same time they are being killed in that area to reduce this lack of baseline information occurred when their population, and the left hand seems unaware of Chuck Anderson, CPW mammals research section what the right hand is doing, someone may need to leader and Piceance Basin predator control plan prinhit the breaks until CPW gets its facts straight. cipal investigator, told BW he believes there are actuRon Velarde, CPW Northwest Region manager, ally fewer mountain lions and more mule deer in the confirmed to BW that black bears have been routinely Piceance Basin predator control plan area than CPW relocated to the Piceance Basin predator control area has estimated. Why such revelations from within the for at least the last five years, primarily during the CPW have failed to halt the killing of Colorado’s spring and summer, which are the very same seasons most spectacular wildlife species until the science during which CPW claims to have seen increased catches up to the execution orders is a mystery. But black bear predation on mule deer fawns — somesome most certainly will point to CPW’s close oil and thing they hope to fix by killing bears and mountain gas industry ties and funding. lions. In an affidavit attached to the lawsuit that recently CPW refused to release records of black bear relosaw its request for a temporary restraining order discations to the Piceance Basin to BW under Colorado’s missed, Mat Alldredge, CPW researcher and Upper open records law, citing Colorado Revised Statutes, Arkansas River Predator control plan principal invesstating release of that information “would be contrary tigator, states that no mountain lions have been killed to the public interest.” by contract houndsmen or WS this year in the Upper This apparent oversight leaves unclear whether or Arkansas River area, and the earliest that mountain not any of the bears CPW plans to kill or has killed are the same as those they relocated to the predator lions would be killed as part of the plan is January control area themselves in an effort to prevent those 2018. His affidavit goes on to add that killing mounbears from having to be destroyed. It’s hard to believe tain lions will only be done with a good understandthat CPW could really be this poorly organized, ing of current population levels, adding more logistiwhich raises the question of what other explanation, cally feasible approaches to estimate populations of aside from gross incompetence, could account for its bears and mountain lions at the state level do not actions with regard to the relocated bears. exist, and that he has been actively researching new Could it be that CPW has set up a way to avoid approaches for the last five years. Anderson also submitted an affidavit, claiming the bad public relations by relocating black bears to the Piceance Basin predator control plan has been designed such that changes in the mountain lion and See PREDATORS Page 18 Boulder Weekly

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bears and mountain lions. However, CPW is not liable for damages by coyotes. CPW is also liable for damages caused to agricultural resources by mule deer and elk, and in fact, according to CPW data, elk and deer often cost CPW more in damage payouts than mountain lions, while black bears tend to cost CPW the most. With regard to mountain lions, in CPW’s current (2004) Mountain Lion Management Plan, which includes the Piceance Basin, they note that mountain lion damage to domestic livestock has been significant, and that most of the damage being done is to domestic sheep. To reduce livestock conflicts, CPW decided mountain lion populations in the area in question would be reduced, assuming a correlation, which is likely part of the reason Anderson noted the Piceance Predator Control Plan would reduce livestock conflicts. BW reviewed all available CPW Annual Game Damage Reports between 2009-16, and found that over the eightyear period in the area covered by the Piceance Basin Predator Control Plan, an average of 86 percent of total payments were for damage reportedly caused by black bears and mountain lions to domestic sheep. And in the same period, the same area was responsible for 28 percent of the state’s overall livestock damage payouts. It’s a considerable percentage of damage payments considering the area comprises only 6 percent of the state’s total game damage areas. According to CPW’s Human-Bear Conflict Report issued in late December 2015, black bear predation on domestic sheep usually begins in May and peaks in July. This timing makes sense because it follows the period when black bears have just left their dens and are in a state of near starvation because they’ve been in hibernation, and there’s not yet a lot of new forage for them to eat at that time. It’s likely not a coincidence that this is the exact time of year when CPW plans to be killing the Piceance’s black bears. This effort to reduce livestock damage payouts to sheepherders, which comes solely at the cost of already-

Preventing cub starvation is one of the reasons spring killing of bears is discouraged.

stressed black bears and mountain lions, appears to be in conflict with the spirit of Colorado House Bill 15-1304 that caused the Human-Bear Conflict Report to be issued by CPW. Rep. Steve Lebsock (D-Northglenn) who put the bill forward, says its intent was to prevent the killing of black bears because of human conflicts, including those with livestock, not to justify killing black bears. Lebsock’s bill was crafted in response to an earlier bill proposal that would have expanded spring bear hunting, which Lebsock says would have conflicted with a statewide initiative passed in the 1990s that prevents the killing of bears in spring, because, Lebsock says, “When you hunt bears in the spring, the momma bears have the baby bears tagging along, and if you kill the momma bear, then the baby bears starve to death.” Lebsock’s legislation required CPW to come up with solutions such as the 2015 report, that identified ways to mitigate human-bear conflicts so that bears aren’t always just euthanized, but that human impacts and behavior are also accounted for and addressed. “What we need to realize,” Lebsock says, “is that inevitably there are going to be some conflicts [between people and bears] because our population in Colorado is growing, and we are developing into areas of the state that have historically been wild areas previously undeveloped.” Which brings us full circle back to the non-oil and gas funded research of CPW which found, as Lebsock confirms, not only does suburban expansion into previously wild areas increase human-black bear conflicts, it also decreases mule deer populations, and even more so when the cumulative impacts of oil and gas extraction are added to the equation. The 2015 Human-Bear Conflict Boulder Weekly

Report says that payments for domestic sheep killed by bears is the largest component of CPW damage costs, rising significantly when natural bear forage is limited. It’s a cost that CPW may be attempting to pre-empt in the Piceance Basin, by killing upwards of 40 bears and mountain lions. But again, it seems to fly in the face of Lebsock’s bill, which was an attempt to pay damages in order to prevent the killing of bears, which is the exact opposite of CPW’s current actions. Another disturbing piece of research coming out of CPW also points to an additional potential flaw in the agency’s management of the black bear population. It stems from the fact that CPW uses human-bear conflicts to estimate bear populations and therefore to set hunting license quotas for bears. A recent six-year study conducted by CPW carnivore and ungulate researcher Heather Johnson found that increasing bear-human conflicts do not mean the bear population is growing, but that bears are adapting to take advantage of urban expansion, which, a Denver Post article covering the study notes, “will compel a rethinking of Colorado’s current approach of boosting bear hunting based on the number of conflicts reported in an area.” Over the course of six years in Johnson’s study area, she found a 60 percent decline in the female bear population. She also established that rising temperatures around dens and urban development in black bear habitat shorten hibernation, which creates more conflicts with people. And if increased suburban expansion leads to decreased bear populations and more human-bear conflicts, as Johnson found, then CPW’s policy of determining bear hunting quotas based on these conflicts may be actually causing bear populations to decline exponentially. In January 2017, the bear hunting quotas in the Piceance Basin area were increased by CPW. Their quota increase proposal states, “The goal has been to reduce these bear populations and to indirectly reduce the number of human-bear conflicts,” adding, “This approach provides opportunities for bears to be harvested by hunters rather than killed for conflict or as road kills.” Without even knowing how many bears are currently in the Piceance Basin, adding all of these layers of opportunities to destroy the area’s bears seems short-sighted at best, and could yield disastrous consequences for bears based on CPW’s own non-oil and gas funded research. And the same goes for mountain Boulder Weekly

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giant picture of a 9-year-old kid is projected onto the east wall of Denver’s flagship REI. He’s wearing a backwards hat, a popped collar and a smug look on his face, the word “Phresh” scrawled across the screen in ’90s Nintendo-style font. College freshman Ani Yahzid stands just below it, in front of a room full of outdoor recreation professionals working to increase diversity in the outdoors. Turning to face the crowd he says, “That’s me, 10 years ago, and back then there were three things I thought were cool: whatever my friends thought was cool, whatever my friends did and Lil’ Wayne. So, I’m curious, as a group of people here because you want to get kids like that outdoors, what would you do to make it happen?” Dozens of hands shoot up into the air naming off all kinds of elaborate schemes almost self-defeating in their complexity: “Get Lil’ Wayne to make a music video outdoors!” someone shouts. “Start a citywide program to bus kids from inner cities to parks!” says another. “Kids look up to their teachers,” one guy yells. “If we can get their teachers to advocate for the outdoors then they’ll want to get outdoors too.” To this one, Yahzid can’t help but laugh. Just a week earlier he’d said that if there’s one thing that will never be cool, it’s whatever adults and teachers do. “I don’t want to get kids outdoors, I want kids to want to get outdoors,” he’d said. “People overthink

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things and get ahead of themselves, wanting to know about impacts and gear and what we’ll do next, but none of that is really what this is about. What I am trying to do is super simple — it’s about exploration, art, adventure and literally nothing else.” But somewhere along the line the project got complicated — probably because Yahzid, looking for support and funding, started massaging his Exposure Film Project as an attempt to “diversify the face of the Courtesy of Ani Yahzid

outdoors by encouraging more multicultural urban youth to get outside.” Yahzid meant the description to be bland and generic, but has since found the phrasing to tempt people to politicize and racialize his project. So, patiently and repeatedly, Yahzid finds see NATURE Page 26

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himself explaining that the Exposure Film Project isn’t about black or white, rich or poor. “There will be no, ‘Hey! We’re black and we love nature!’ anywhere in this project,” he says. “I don’t like to think about that type of stuff. In fact, I think demographics separate us more than they bring us together. This race stuff, it’s just negative and it’s not significant to me or to this project. In my opinion, kids already have this passion for nature inside of them — yes, all kids. All I’m trying to do is validate that they think it’s dope because I do too.” At its heart, Yahzid’s project is a documentary-in-the-making about what happens when two people who have never left Atlanta spend two weeks outdoors in Washington’s Olympic National Park. Yahzid will act as a behind-the-scenes guide, making sure everyone has the right gear, enough food and a reasonable expectation of safety, but he’ll spend the bulk of the two-week trip silently behind the camera, letting the guys choose their own adventures. His goal is to create the conditions for them to develop a deep and authentic relationship with nature on their own terms and to capture that in a film that can connect to people back home in Atlanta. Yahzid’s quest to communicate what is so cool about the outdoors is not new but dates back to his early elementary school days. He remembers being a kid who was glued to the TV, watching hour after hour of made-for-TV documentaries on Animal Planet. He would sit there enthralled by the footage of creatures roaming their natural habitats while his sisters and cousins grumbled and moaned about being subjected to his decidedly uncool fascinations. Luckily, it was only a matter of time before “nature lifted off the screen and became real.” He tells the story easily and fondly. He was just 6 years old when he went on his first hike in the North Georgia mountains at the southernmost tip of the Appalachian Range. His parents, busy working and taking care of the family, had enrolled him in a Boys and Girls Club that had, coincidentally, just starting taking kids hiking on Saturdays. He remembers his first trip well — it was still dark outside when his parents woke him up at 5 a.m. to get him to the bus by 6. He vaguely remembers the groggy, two-hour bus ride along steepening roads. Vividly, he remembers the joy of stepping out into nature for the very first time: the smell of the humid forest air, the quiet he had never known before and the coolness of the snow, the first he’d ever seen, collecting

at the top of a mountain. “Until that trip, I never realized how different it is to be in nature than it is to look at it on a screen,” Yahzid says. “I wanted to go home and tell everyone all about it, but it turns out it’s really hard to explain.” You still hear the frustration in his voice and that’s because still, to this day, he is plagued by what is lost in translation. But, just as it torments him, it also inspires him. Pointing to his bag on the floor, he talks about the first camera he ever had, one he still carries around with him to this day, a small Sony digital point and shoot. It has this super macro function that made it so that young Yahzid could get up really close to something, like a chipmunk or a flower, and take a picture. “No matter what I took a picture of or how it turned out, I would always think it was amazing,” he says, throwing his head back in laughter. “Which is funny because looking back, it was just a bunch of shots of birds so far away you could barely make them out in the branches.” Sure, the camera has its limits, but it did enough to keep him not only interested, but increasingly curious. So, when on a longer trip, a guide brought along his own camera, a DSLR with a zoom lens, Yahzid was mesmerized. He watched as the guide focused his lens on a bird in a bush and snapped a picture, which he showed him seconds later. “That picture changed my life,” Yahzid says. “In my pictures, birds were just these little dots, but in his the bird filled the entirety of the frame in a detail that I had only seen before on TV. Looking at the picture more closely, I saw that the bird had a berry in his mouth, a detail that neither the guide nor I meant to capture. It was mindopening.” Ten years later, Yahzid still seems just as captivated by that berry as he was as a kid, as if it represents the entirety of his artistic quest. There was something concrete about a berry nestled in a beak, a detail he could capture that could help him communicate the grandeur of what he was experiencing. With that picture, Ani Yahzid the artist was born, and for the rest of his life he would experience nature through the lens so that he could share what he loved with people back home. Now a freshman at the University of Colorado studying biology and business, Yahzid spends most of his free time walking around outside taking pictures and shooting film. In October 2016 he was out at Chautauqua when he came across an adult black bear. He Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE could feel his heart racing as he zoomed in with his Canon DSLR, taking shot after shot, making sure to capture this, his first encounter with a mountain predator. Later that night, he uploaded a video clip of “Chunky” the black bear to his Instagram feed and 1,500 miles away in Atlanta, his childhood friend, hip hop artist Namaste, couldn’t believe his eyes. Although the two hadn’t talked for years, Namaste didn’t hesitate to reach out to Yahzid. “I was in the market for someone to make visuals for my song, ‘Dark Time,’ and when I saw that bear video I knew he was the guy,” he says. “I liked that he was Courtesy of Ani Yahzid in a whole other field, that he doesn’t make videos for artists, he’s more extreme than that. Plus, he’s an artist who sees the natural beauty in an area and has a way of drawing attention to the little things with the angles he uses and the way he edits. He’s got that thing you just can’t teach.” Namaste isn’t a trained artist either — he says his poetry is something innate. He’s always been observant of nature, attracted to its little details, just like Yahzid. With so much in common, the two were eager to work together, and Yahzid booked a flight to Atlanta to shoot their first video. Namaste had the perfect idea for the location — a little piece of nature where he frequently wrote. “My friend has this big backyard with a patio overlooking a golf course so you get these open views, but also lots of trees,” Namaste says. “There’s this slick little stream, like a current of water had passed through, nothing too big, but you could tell it was something water had carved. I like to write out there, especially in the fall, almost winter, because the leaves were changing and falling. I would just sit there and write, all day.” Yahzid gawfs at the description. “It’s not nature,” he says. “There were buildings in every shot so we just couldn’t use it. It was way too urban. But, that’s when we started playing with the idea of what it would be like to film Namaste making art in some real nature, and so the Exposure Film Project was born.” Like Yahzid, Namaste and his producer, Keylan (who will also be joining in on the trip) both attribute their initial interest in the natural world to picBoulder Weekly

tures, specifically the pre-installed wallpaper on their MacBooks, and are eager to experience it for themselves. Understandably, they’re also nervous, about smelling bad and being out in the cold, but mostly about just stepping into the unknown. “I’m anxious, but mostly excited,” Namaste says. “I feel like people are so numb: Where is the excitement for the things that surround you? We are on a planet floating in outer space with a bunch of stuff that other planets don’t have. Why wouldn’t you want to experience this? If you really think about it, you’re alive for such a short period of time. Do you want to live or do you want to just waste away in the matrix?” A bit more quiet and to the point, Keelan adds that he’s interested in what it’s like to connect to the earth. “We have gotten so detached from the natural world and that worries me,” he says. “Even if I don’t totally understand why.” Eventually, Yahzid will have to sit down and sift through the footage to compile three short films about the experience. He’s already in conversation with various film festivals about potential screenings to be supplemented with social media campaigns focused on audiences in Atlanta. But, for now, everyone is concentrating on getting ready for their June trip to Washington, trying to enjoy the adventure as it unfolds, and making a last ditch fundraising effort through their ongoing Indiegogo campaign. Of course, Yahzid made a video for the campaign, the final minute an extended scene of him staring blankly into the camera. At first he tries to write it off, saying he was just trying to find something else to say, searching for the perfect last words. But then he takes a little more responsibility for his editing decision. “I guess I left it in the video because it’s a very authentic moment of uncertainty and that’s what this trip is all about,” he says. “My goal is to capture those sort of true emotions, the stuff that people normally try to hide, what people don’t want you to see. When you’re outdoors, it doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO or just some guy, we’re all equally humbled when we sit around a fire under the night sky.”

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hen first walking into BMoCA’s latest show, Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception, none of the pieces seem to relate to one another. There are various mediums from photography to sculpture, a lounge area, a mini fridge and even a skull in an aquarium. The seeming chaos of ideas creates an intentional illusion of reality in Austrian-born artist Mathias Kessler’s exhibition. In the show, Kessler creates a wunderkramer, or a “cabinet of curiosities.” “I would say to anyone walking in that you’re going to be walking in between kind of reality and fantasy. And see BMOCA Page 30

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what that is, what one’s reality and which one’s fantasy, is really up to you to kind of discover,” says Mardee Goff, curator at BMoCA. Now showing through May 29, Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception is Kessler’s first solo exhibit in America. In the exhibit, he challenges and examines humanity’s relationship with and connection to the environment. While that theme may seem grandiose and complicated, it allows much room for interpretation, which is Kessler’s intention. “I ask a lot of questions and people can answer them or (recognize that) whatever they see in it should be fairly open-ended,” he says. “I realized some time ago that I can’t control it anyway. People will make up their own minds, it’s just the way it should be, actually. And I hope for that.” While the pieces in the exhibit may not seem to be connected at first, the undertones of each relate back to perception. “Touching Antiquity” is a piece on an iPad that allows the viewer to use the Smithsonian Museum’s website see BMOCA Page 31

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to view Hiram Power’s sculpture “Greek Slave.” Goff questions which experience is more real: seeing a sculpture up on a pedestal or experiencing the piece digitally, providing a close-up look and the ability to zoom in and out and move the perspective. The way we experience art has been the same for many years, but this piece offers a new way to engage with it. Another piece in the show deals in illusion. At first “Sunset in Simulacrum_03” seems like the ideal tropical sunset, the perfect place for a vacation: relaxing, beautiful and serene. But as beautiful as the scene is, it is actually computer-generated, challenging the viewer’s perception of natural beauty. In a more sinister-looking piece, “Nowhere to be Found,” coral slowly eats away at a human skull, which rests in a living aquarium. “The skull is being disintegrated,” Goff explains. “It’s being eaten by the coral and eventually it would be completely engulfed and gone. So it further punctuates our human mortality, the reality of the mortality of our image and our mark on this world, and how there is a much larger force at work.” In the aquarium, nature is taking from humans, as we have been taking from nature for hundreds of years. “I think of it as a visceral experience where the viewer can engage in a reality that happens in front of their eyes...” Kessler says. “The skull submerged in the seawater with corals colonizing it and covering it, I think of it as an image of death, but also a process of life and an artificial ecosystem that evolves in front of you.” Nature is a common theme throughout Kessler’s pieces. For “Ilulissant 011_03” and “Ilulissant S010,” Kessler took a boat trip off the coast of Greenland in the middle of the night to capture images of icebergs. He used massive amounts of wattage to light up the icebergs for the photographs, creating a stark contrast between the white ice and the ink-black sky. In his work, Kessler attempts to go beyond simply showing images of the natural world by challenging our preconceived notions. “For me, I’m trying to look into the image of nature, how we see nature,” he says. “If you live in Boulder, you live in the greenest city in America, that’s what you guys claim. So there’s this image of Boulder being the greenest city, having a great Boulder Weekly

outdoors experience. But then also looking at the darker side of how we use nature, be it climate change, energy production, be it suburban development and how cities enclose onto nature and the usage of land.”` Many of the pieces in the show have been exhibited before, but Kessler says that these pieces are viewed differently as the world changes. According to Kessler, art

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has a dual purpose, and this exhibit checks both boxes. “I think art should fulfill an aesthetic pleasure on one hand but the art also should reflect on our times,” Kessler says. Considering the current political atmosphere, Kessler and many of his exhibit’s viewers believe the pieces achieve new meaning and are more relevant now than ever.

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s a touring musician, Nicki where else she needs to go. Bluhm is used to spending In a few days, Bluhm and her mom more than half the year on will drive out to Music City, but first the road — staying at difshe has to finish saying goodbye to ferent hotels in different California — to the people and places cities — enough to turn the unfamiliar that have always been home. As soon as into the status quo. But since her divorce she gets to Nashville, she’ll step back in 2015, Bluhm hasn’t been touring into the studio to record her fifth much, so it’s a surprise when she has to album, the first one full of her own think for a minute before answering a songs. question about where she’s calling from. The album will be the culmination of “Lagunitas, California,” she says, her journey through the past two-and-afinally, followed by a long exhale all tanhalf years since the end of her marriage gled up with a sigh of relief. “I woke up to Mother Hips frontman Tim Bluhm. this morning in the dark and I was like, She doesn’t talk in much detail about ‘What bed am I in right now?’” what it was like to untangle herself from She explains that her husband, both perfor the first time in a sonally and professionlong time, what draws ally, but she admits the ON THE BILL: Ryan Adams & The Infamous Stringdusters her from one place to separation was both big with special guest Nicki another isn’t the grind and extreme, acting like Bluhm. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, of trying to make it in a split down the midJune 20, Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater, 18300 W. the biz but a search for dle of her own selfAlameda Parkway, Morrison, something more etheunderstanding. 720-865-2494. real: herself. Her stupor “I married Tim doesn’t come from a when I was 26, and at woman overwhelmed, but a woman that age I didn’t really have a grip on becoming, occupying that fleeting who I was or what was happening in my moment of transition when a person is life,” she says. “We had fused together, totally in-between here and there. Tim and I. So, I guess if I’ve been lookSave for a few suitcases at the foot of ing for anything, it’s been for who I am... her friend’s guest bed in Lagunitas, all of without anybody.” Bluhm’s belongings are boxed in a truck As a musician, there are a lot of on its way to Nashville, Tennessee. things that Bluhm is known for, but flyBluhm says that when she needed it ing solo certainly hasn’t been one of most, Nashville was ready to take her in them. She’s known for being Tim’s partlike an old friend, giving her a full heart ner, for the warm vocals she lays in harand pocket full of songs. Bluhm’s on the mony with her alt-county/bluegrass way to somewhere new, not because she band The Gramblers, and for accompahas to leave, but because she has somenying some of the biggest names in rock Boulder Weekly

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‘n’ roll like Phil Lesh, Ryan Adams, The Rolling Stones and, this June, with Joan Baez. It wasn’t fear that kept Bluhm from playing alone — she says being a woman in rock ‘n’ roll means you have to work hard, be hungry, play tough. Long ago, she learned to think of fear as a guide, not a deterrent. What was keeping her from flying was being underneath someone else’s wings. “I feel like I was such a good student of Tim — I really wanted to do everything right, to make him proud and succeed. But, with him, every song I wrote he helped me to finish, and so now I’m shifting to see how I can express in a way that is going to unfold the second layer of me. And really, that’s about learning to trust myself.” Her first solo show was just before the new year, on Dec. 29, in a small theater in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. At sound check, she posed for a casual selfie to post on Instagram — no makeup, hair pulled back, standing in front of dozens of empty rows in a theater. “I’m on at 7 p.m. SHARP,” she writes and adds #nbsolo, punctuated with a wide-eyed, straight-lipped emoticon, in perfect mimicry of the smile hesitantly hanging from her face. Nicki admits she was scared and says she followed that fear right out to center stage. She remembers how quiet it was, hearing her footsteps as she walked to the single chair, how loudly she could hear her heartbeat as she pulled the guitar strap across her shoulder. “Walking out in front of a crowd of people with one guitar and a bunch of break-up songs is about as vulnerable as you can get,” she says. And that’s exactly what she’s been looking for. May 11 , 2017 33

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The beloved DJ keeps bringing clarinets to the rave by Caitlin Rockett

ast year, Simon Green found Green as a bassist, he says he picked up everything needs a counterbalance, and himself in that most universal the bass because “it was the last roll to besides, as the man himself phrased it of experiences: Green turned be filled in the band.” He’s a pianist on Twitter recently, “where else you 40 and lost his father, his last first.) The live set up adds warmth to gonna see a clarinet in the rave?” living parent. His mother had the contemplative, mellow vibe of his Migration, perhaps more than any passed just a couple of years before. records. of his previous albums, displays both Green was touring relentlessly at But Green’s never forgotten his sides of Green’s musical coin. Tracks the time, so much so that he’d decided roots as a DJ, forged in the fires of the like “Outlier” and “Bambro Koyo to pull up the roots he’d planted in New ’90s club scene in the U.K. Ganda” build up to drop club-heavy York and go full nomad because “there In the past four years, Green has beats, as does the first single, “No was no point in paying rent anywhere.” spun DJ sets at both Vinyl and Beta in Reason,” Green’s collaboration with pal Always on the move, his parents Denver, and the Fox Theatre here in Nick Murphy. gone, his two sisters living in Australia Boulder. He has a standing residency at Besides giving Green the foundaand some family back in his native Output in Brooklyn. As a DJ, Green taps tion for the album’s theme, his constant England, Green began to dive into the into the more primal sounds of dance, movement last year played a hand in concepts of “movement and Neil Krug developing the album’s sound. transitory [events], the idea “I was making music in airport of people moving, their lounges and tour buses until I got setinfluence and environment. tled,” Green says. “A lot of the record All of these ideas, these was achieved in this way. kind of geographical con“There’s a lot cepts.” to be said for ON THE BILL: Bonobo The result was the being in a stable & Nick Murphy (Chet Faker). 7 p.m. Friday, May album Migration. studio when 12, Red Rocks Green is the type of you’re rested,” he Amphitheatre, 18300 West celebrity most folks adds. “But I Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. wouldn’t know if they think the headpassed him on the street. space of being in He’s routinely tucked away an airport at 7 behind decks, his face often a.m. when you obscured in the shadowy haven’t slept is still valid as a resource. ambience of clubs. But after So even though it’s not as comfort17 years on the scene, he’s able, it’s still valid to be feeding off become one of the most experiences when you’ve got the club widely played producers on ringing in your ear from the night the planet. before. A lot of ideas came from that Under the moniker point.” Bonobo (a name he regrets, from deep house Green still tours at what could reaSimon Green, the man behind Bonobo, is not by the way, as people ask to reggaeton. sonably be called a relentless pace, but actually — in any way — him about monkeys... a lot), While his he’s got a home base in Los Angeles an expert on monkeys. Green traverses broad musirecords have set now, where he lives “on the more reclucal terrain, deftly fusing jazz the standard for sive side of the trees” and avoids the and hip-hop, folk and house, the post-party, Hollywood cliché. Good friend and classical and soul. cerebral vibes of downtempo electronic, renowned producer Jon Hopkins lives His work often evokes the stylings the classification does a disservice to just across the street, so Green recruited of ’60s French jazz maestros like drum- the versatility and breadth of Green’s him to play piano on the title track of mer Aldo Romano and double bass work — and frustrates the man himself. Migration. mastermind Henri Texier (whose “There was a comment on my Home base notwithstanding, Green danceable “Les Là-Bas” received a gen- Instragram when I posted a little video shows no signs of slowing down. He tle remix from Green in 2016) while of recording strings in my house, and has tour dates lined up through remaining accessible and inventive. someone was like, ‘Finally, you’re going November of this year, and he’ll mainOver time, Green’s compositions have back to the real music. I don’t think you tain his once-a-month, two-hour DJ set grown in scope and nuance, bringing in should be doing all of this synthesizer for online radio station NST. He more live instrumentation and powerful stuff.’ recently launched Outlier, a catch-all female vocals such as Erykah Badu, “This isn’t about one thing or project for the things Green loves to do: Bajka and Andreya Triana. another — it’s about all of it,” Green small festivals, all-nighters, parties, In 2004, Green reworked his catasays. “Some people will not engage in radio shows, and maybe — just maybe log for a live touring ensemble — a the DJ aspect and dancier side and get — a label one day. miniature orchestra, really — featuring upset when confronted with that aspect No, Green won’t slow down, horns, woodwinds, guitarists, percusof what I do if they only engage with because you see, a migration never realsionists and vocalists, with Green the sort of vocal-led stuff. Some people ly ends. The seasons change and sudswitching between the decks and bass come over to both sides.” denly it’s time to start the process all guitar. (Though many fans think of Alpha and omega, yin and yang — over again. Boulder Weekly

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‘Secret Garden’ disappoints at DCPA by Amanda Moutinho

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oes everyone who dies become a ghost?” It’s a complicated question posed by Mary Lennox to her uncle Archibald Craven. Mary recently lost her parents to cholera, and Archibald lost his wife during childbirth 10 years prior. While both navigate life in the lonely world, each are frequently reminded of all they have lost. “They’re only a ghost if someone still alive holds on to them,” Archibold replies. And it’s that background of death and grief against which The Secret Garden takes place. Now playing at the DCPA through May 28, the show tells the story of newly orphaned Mary traveling halfway across the world from her home in India to her uncle’s house in England. Plagued by the memory of his wife, Archibald can barely tend to himself, let alone his niece. So, alone in a creepy mansion, Mary entertains herself any way she can. Through her wanderings, she unlocks the mysteries of the house, discovering her bedridden cousin and a forgotten garden left behind by his mother. The show is based on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which also spawned several movie adaptations. The musical hit Broadway in 1991 and took home three Tony Awards. More than a quarter century since its inception, the musical feels dated. While in no way does it need to be modern or progressive, it falls short of being a classic. And the show’s lofty ambitions might be to blame. Burnett’s original story focuses on the children, making the parents players in the background, but the musical gives the adults more stage time. While exploring grief and loss through multiple characters makes the story more dynamic, by attempting so

much, the show falls flat. The list of characters is long and substantial and includes several secondary roles. Fitting in so many people and giving each their own song and chance to shine takes crucial time away from the main characters, making them weaker as a consequence. Character motivations get muddled in passing; storylines are picked up and dropped without development, and the web of relationships is cluttered. And if the main cast isn’t enough, the chorus of ghosts takes the stage every few minutes. Instead of sticking to the most essential players and songs, important plot points get lost in the shuffle and touching moments don’t make an impact. The result is a show suffocated by excess. With a length of just over two hours, The Secret Garden might have benefitted from a Les Miserables opera-style treatment, or at least a similarly long runtime. Among the show’s many elements, the music and lyrics are its strength. Twinkling melodies and heartfelt lyrics dance throughout the show. Certain songs

infuse the show with moments of drama and emotion, while others capitalize off of the catchy, tongue-twisting rhymes of childhood. The musicality is built into the poetic wordplay. In one of the show’s most haunting songs, Mary sings, “I heard someone crying, who, though, could it be? Maybe it was mother, calling out, come see. Maybe ON THE BILL: The Secret Garden. it was father, all alone and Denver Performing lost and cold. I heard someArts Complex, 1345 one crying. Maybe it was Champa St., Denver, 720-865me.” 4239. Through May The Denver Center’s 28. cast delivers a strong production of the show. The large chorus and principal cast members are all talented, but the performance of the night goes to Carey Rebecca Brown as the ghostly mistress of the manor, Lily Craven. As a mysterious figure, Brown is on stage often, but with only a few spoken lines, she conveyed wisdom through a look or nod. Leading many of the prettiest songs, Brown dazzles with each number. Along with the cast, the technical elements excelled. The costumes are beautiful and detailed, giving a modern yet classic take on the time period of the show. The set design is intricate and varied. As the show jumps from location to location, there is a seamless flow between them, with some lush scenes and magical moments sprinkled throughout. As the name suggests, the show deals heavily with nature. When Mary stumbles upon her aunt’s oncethriving garden, she works to restore it to its former glory. The symbolism is not easily lost on the audience — the cycle of life, the process of grief, the rebirth after darkness. And while the show bites off more than it can chew, it serves as a nice reminder — just because a plant wilts, with a little love and care it can come back to life.

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One of Boulder County’s local Wikimedia Commons/NASA legends returns home with a new book. NASA astronaut and Longmont-native Vance Brand stops by the Stewart Auditorium with his autobiography Flying Higher and Faster. Brand began in the military flying planes and soon blasted off to bigger prospects, flying in four space missions. Listen to Brand talk about space, growing up in the area and the future of human space flight. Don’t forget to check out Longmont Museum’s display of photos highlighting Brand’s legacy and the museum’s moon rock, which Brand donated in 2006.

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Treat mom this Mother’s Day with a trip to Boulder Ballet’s production of 2 Witches & A Prince. The two witches represent good and evil, who try to help and defeat the Prince at every turn as he tries to win the heart of various maidens Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel. But the fairy tale cameos don’t stop there; you’ll see stepsisters, dragons, dwarves, fairies and more. Featuring original music commissioned by Boulder Ballet and composed by local artist Brian Golden, the show is family fun for all.

Humanity Needs Dreamers:photo A Visit with Marie Curie 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie’s life takes center stage in the new film Humanity Needs Dreamers. Stop by the Dairy for a screening and a Q&A with Boulder-based scholar and performer Susan Marie Frontczak and filmmaker Jen Myronuk. The film follows Curie from her childhood in Poland to her ground-breaking research in France on polonium and radium. Winner of two Nobel Prizes, Curie is one of the most brilliant minds of the past century, but this event transcends history. It highlights the importance of women in the STEM professions both now and in the future.

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Music Amoramora with The Alcapones & The Jive Tribe. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Andrew Wynne. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-3650695.

Andrew Schelling — Tracks Along the Left Coast. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. CU Undergrad Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Boulder Swing Collective. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Saturday, May 13 MD Friedman and Sara Berkeley Tolchin & Open Reading. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Carry Me Ohio and Francis and the Wolf. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Free Range Marmot. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Hazel Miller and Friends. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Loose Canon Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Monday, May 15 The Radium Girls tells the story of women in the early 20th century who worked in the radium-dial factories before the effects of radium poisoning were known. Hear more from the book’s author, Kate Moore, on May 17 at the Boulder Book Store.

Michelle Roderick. 6:30 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Open Mic Night Hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Cultural Cul-de-sac: OFF Cinema presents “’twas always darkest closest the sun.” 5 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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Music Art Night Out: Quemando. 5 p.m. Festival Plaza, 309 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1261. Block 1750 Presents: Street Cyphers. 6 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778. Bo DePeña. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910. Caribou Mountain Collective. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

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Barbara Bonner — Inspiring Courage. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

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

Dr. Fresch. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

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

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

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Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

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The Heartstring Hunters CD Release Party. 7 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive Unit 20, Boulder, 303-3961898.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 19. The Secret Garden. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through May 28. She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange — presented by Square Product Theatre. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through May 13.

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story The Secret Garden takes the stage at DCPA through May 28. Read BW’s review on page 37.

Monty Python’s Spamalot. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-7725200. Through May 14.

The Malai Llama feat. Jen Hartswick. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Testament of Mary — presented by Goddess Here Productions. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 13.

May Daze Festival feat. Kathars!s, Shakedown Street, Dead Floyd. 12 a.m. Owsley’s Golden Road,

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

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Basquiat Before Basquiat East 12th Street, 1979-1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 14.

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

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

Tony & Jose Live Music. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-4428292.

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

WhiteWater Ramble. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303258-3637.

Colorado Mosaic Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through June 2.

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Dylan Gebbia Richards: Eclipse. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29.

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

Artist’s Opening Reception — Sean Nichols, with Igaus Davis. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

I’ll Fly Away — Ashley Hope Carlisle. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 11.

Crank it Forward. 7 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303301-2972. Dance Nia. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

Mathias Kessler: Artifacts & Other Errors of Perception. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 29. Mi Tierra. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 22. Dylan Gebbia Richards manipulates 700 pounds of wax in his latest show, Eclipse, now showing at BMoCA through the May 29.

FamilySong Music Class. 11 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-641-8901.

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Once Removed: Photography by Evan Anderman. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through May 19. Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-

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

Five Year Anniversary Party. 5 p.m. The Specific, 2305 Canyon Blvd., Suite 102, Boulder, 303-4425911.

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

VIva!VIVA — Celebrating 15 Years of Ageless Entertainment. 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Tran-‘zi-sh(e)n & ‘Chanj. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 18.

WOW!’s Family Dance Party. 6 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Saturday, May 13 Music Abigail Dowd. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-365-0695. Aristocats. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Ashley’s CD Release Concert. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-499-9119. Bella Duro. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

May Daze Festival feat. Kathars!s, Shakedown Street, Dead Floyd. 12 a.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Son Volt. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

VIva!VIVA — Celebrating 15 Years of Ageless Entertainment. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

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Dave Honig. 5:15 p.m. Bistrot Des Artistes, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-9599.

Marks Midnight Carnival Show. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

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Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-3798299. Second Annual Not Too Fancy Fest. 3 p.m. Mudrock’s Tap & Tavern, 585 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 720-890-7900. Second Annual Rocky Mountain Tree Fest Featuring Greener Grounds and Jaden Carlson. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Third Anniversary Patio Kickoff Party. 4 p.m. Por

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Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

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

An Evening With Primus. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Flatiron Stomp. 7 p.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-5353. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Events Birding Boulder County Through the Seasons. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Canopy Demo Day. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Theater,

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Opening Reception of MediaLive’s Ongoing Exhibitions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jazz Ensembles and Jazz Combos. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303396-1898. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-4940.

Party on the Patio. 6:30 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1850 29th Street, Suite 1004, Boulder, 303952-7080.

Open Mic with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303774-7698.

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Colorado Music Festival — Mile High Gala. 5:30 p.m. Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg, Boulder, 303-9981900. Discovery Days Science Program. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. FamilySong Music Class. 10 a.m. The Art Underground, 901 Front St., Louisville, 303-641-8901. Screening of Metahaven’s Information Skies + Panel Discussion. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Wednesday, May 17 Music Amon Amarth. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Blues & Bourbon with Barrel of Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 720-398-8172. The Claypool Lennon Delirium. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Drop-In Acoustic Jam — Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. HeartSound Sanctuary Gathering. 7:30 p.m. Elevated Yoga, 324 Main St., Suite A, Longmont, 720-526-9986. MoJazz Duo. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Snoozy Moon. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. “Unfinished and Unheard” The Mahlerfest Chamber Concert! 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Events Comedy at Tandoori. 8 p.m. Tandoori Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130. Discovery Days Science Program. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Identifying X-739: The Story of a Returning Korean War MIA. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4850. Sex, Lies, and Data Mining: Workshop with R. Luke DuBois. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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uardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 feels like a suitor who discovered that his beloved enjoys chocolate and then filled an Olympic-sized swimming pool with Hershey’s kisses. Writer/director James Gunn identified what worked in his first film — a quirky blend of funky music, ample humor and bonkers sci-fi elements — and then set out to bludgeon his audience to death with the very things they adored, like some kind of Greek tragedy. You liked dancing baby Groot? Prepare to die via adorbs tree-boogieing! Enjoy Drax’s deadpan comedy? Watch him endearingly call a woman ugly 50 times! Enjoy a well-conceived narrative? Sadly, nobody blew kisses at the plot of the first film, so Vol. 2 forgot to include one. The first sequence is the best in the whole shebang, as Groot (still Vin Diesel) drops it like it’s autumn while Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (David Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) fight a space Cthulhu. Shortly thereafter, Ego (Kurt Russell) shows up, reveals he’s Peter’s long-lost father and whisks most of the gang away to a planet that is a living extension of Ego himself. Meanwhile, Nebula (Karen Gillan) is still trying to kill Gamora, and Yondu (Michael Rooker) is facing a mutiny from his space pirates. Like a Friday at the office, everyone looks very busy but isn’t actually doing much work. “Character trumps all” sounds like an accurate guiding dictum but is partial malarky. Everything that happens in Vol. 2 feels like B-plots involving well-developed A-holes. OK, mostly well-developed A-holes; Gamora is a world-destroying badass who can use a spaceship’s severed cannons as a shoulder-mounted personal defense weapon, but her arc is largely reduced to “will she/won’t she” rom-com bullshit with Quill. Somewhat delightfully, Rocket and Yondu have the most growth and depth, while newcomer Mantis (Pom Klementieff ) draws the short straw as Ego’s emotional fluffer. Visually, Vol. 2 is something special. Often looking like it was hand-painted by a 1970s sci-fi aficionado on potent peyote, the film is awash in WTF aliens and seizure-inducing lights and colors. If Marvel Studios is being slammed for its uninspired visual sameness across its vast spate of movies, Guardians of the Galaxy remains the asterisked exception. Gunn also walks on the weird side of the nowobligatory cameos and references to other Marvel properties, choosing to dot backgrounds and small scenes with characters whose primary power is compelling audience members to Google “Who was that supposed to be?” From the “trying too hard” soundtrack to the overlong, sappy conclusion, Vol. 2 is painfully and obviously trying to give everyone what they want, attempting to replicate an experience that can’t be replicated without the element of surprise. Nothing truly fails to work, even if it never quite smoothly functions. The result is in-your-face pleasantness and fun that is substantially better than most sequels but a cut below the benchmark this series unfairly set for itself. If the next installment has one of those “plot” things and a bit more self-restraint, we’ll all be praising how space got its Groot back. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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uch like Steve Buscemi, chicken salad has long been typecast. It plays a supporting role in picnics and Sunday brunches, baby showers and corporate catered lunches. Like Buscemi, it gives a solid performance every time. But Buscemi showed the world he was capable of more than the role of the harmless weirdo/creepy sociopath with his turn in Boardwalk Empire, and chicken salad is equally capable of rising above its status as the meal you eat in front of your computer at work. Culinarily speaking, chicken salad can pin a red carnation on an expensive three-piece, pin-stripped suit and whoa, daddy: Good-bye Carl Showalter, hello Nucky Thompson. Seems questionable, right? Chicken salad is the dish you make out of leftovers and condiments. It’s pre-packaged and sold with crackers in gas stations. But chicken salad is a blank slate, easily dressed up by adding fruits instead of relish, or swapping mayonnaise for Greek yogurt. You can blacken the chicken and add spicy peppers for a punch, or roast the chicken and blend in almonds, strawberry and grapes for a sweet variation. Switch white bread for ciabatta, a multi-grain wheat or sourdough. For those unconvinced, let Arcana make a believer of you. Arcana is a new player in Boulder’s food scene, but it’s made itself known in a short amount of time, winning best new restaurant in this year’s Best of Boulder awards, not to mention getting a write-in in multiple categories: best restaurant ambience, American restaurant, dessert, overall restaurant, fine dining and business lunch. Damn, Arcana. Boulder’s been talking about you, which is kind of funny, since arcana is a secret. No, really.

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egrets? I have a few... including the fact that I didn’t get goat until late in my culinary life. Like a lot of folks I preferred to wrinkle my nose at the idea rather than actually taste it. Finally, I discovered chèvre, the creamy, spreadable fresh goat cheese that is tart and clean tasting. In other words, it didn’t betray any dreaded “goatiness.” It took me longer to venture sampling goat meat — the No. 1 consumed meat in the world — at a Jamaican eatery in Denver along with plantains in a hot gravy with really hot peppers. And all it took was one taste of sweet cajeta — goat’s milk caramel — to make me a fan. Perhaps the easiest goat introduction of all may be in the form of densely creamy chocolate goat milk fudge. Goats are finally having their moment in the sun, literally and figuratively. Once a rare ran n F sa Su

imported commodity, local goat cheese fills shelves at almost every supermarket and atop salads at myriad restaurants. Goat’s milk is now widely available. Goat meat is on the menu every week at the Boulder County Farmers Market (even if the majority of shoppers are too scared to taste it). This spring saw the birth of a bevy of baby goat yoga classes and the summer ahead promises goat cheese-making classes and vacations on goat farms. Here’s a quick go-to guide to local goat encounters of all sorts.

Goat’s Milk Cheeses to Sample

Buena Vista Bleu and Cheddar Avalanche Cheese: Chèvre, goat cheddar, Midnight Blue and Cabra Blanca; avalanchecheese.com Ugly Goat Milk Co.: Chèvre, feta, ricotta and soft-ripened Ugly Ash Broken Shovels Farm: Chèvre with smoked salt, ricotta, Icelandic-style yogurt “cheese” and soft-ripened Dark Moon

Goat cheese-making classes see NIBBLES Page 52

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Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy Head Cheese Maker Jackie Chang in the creamery. NIBBLES from Page 51

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ing down goat’s milk. It’s a close relative of the cow’s milk confection, dulce de leche. Keenesburg’s Ugly Goat Milk Co. produces pounds of chocolate walnut fudge, an old family recipe that starts with super-creamy fresh goat’s milk. The fudge is available at Denver’s New World Cheese, Wine and Whey, and Il Porcellino Salumi. Better yet, schedule a visit to the farm, the cheese, the goats and the fudge. uglygoatco.com. The following dessert recipe comes

from Longmont’s Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy.

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Crust: 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/4 cup sugar 4 tablespoons melted butter Filling: 12 ounces Haystack Boulder Chèvre 12 ounces cream cheese 3 cups dairy sour cream

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1 1/2 cup sugar 3 eggs Zest and juice of 2 lemons Zest and juice of 1 orange To make the crust, combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter and press into a 9-inch springform pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until crust sets up. To make the filling, combine the chèvre, cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and the zest and juice of lemon and orange, then cream in mixer until fluffy. Pour gently into pre-baked crust and bake at 275 degrees for two hours until puffed and cooked in center. Let it cool completely before removing from pan. Refrigerate for several hours prior to serving. Plate with fresh berry compote, lemon curd or cajeta.

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Opening this summer: French Quarter Brasserie, 1207 Pearl St., former site of Woody Creek Bakery, Paradise Bakery and one of my long ago employers, Potter’s. ... The latest location for Boulder’s The Kitchen will be the fifth Kitchen Next Door restaurant opening this summer in Longmont in the Village of the Peaks. ... The Colorado-based Einstein Bros. chain is offering the novelty Espresso Buzz Bagel containing 32 milligrams of caffeine. ... A recent issue of the Wall Street Journal listed six “canned beers with cachet” including three from Boulder County: Upslope Imperial IPA, Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale and Left Hand Milk Stout. ... The Wednesday night Boulder County Farmers Market on 13th Street between Canyon and Arapahoe in Boulder is open for the season including a beer garden and live music plus the usual asparagus, bok choy, honey, plant starts, pea shoots, rhubarb and greens. ... Boulder Culinary Gardeners’ annual plant sale is 8 a.m.-3 p.m. May 13 at 988 N. 75th St. featuring local organically grown plants including heirloom and hybrid vegetables, flowers and herbs.

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your full glory. For once in your life, you have cosmic clearance to ask for everything you want without apology. This is the LATER you have been saving yourself for. Here comes the reward for the hard work you’ve been doing that no one has completely appreciated. If the universe has any prohibitions or inhibitions to impose, I don’t know what they are. If old karma has been preventing the influx of special dispensations and helpful X-factors, I suspect that old karma has at least temporarily been neutralized.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22: “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. “I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” In my opinion, that may be one of the most radical vows ever formulated. Is it even possible for us human beings to gracefully manage our unruly flow of feelings? What you do in the coming weeks could provide evidence that the answer to that question might be yes. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now in a position to learn more about this high art than ever before.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Africa’s highest mountain is Mount

Kilimanjaro. Though it’s near the equator, its peak is covered year-round with glaciers. In 2001, scientists predicted that global warming would melt them all by 2015. But that hasn’t happened. The ice cap is still receding slowly. It could endure for a while, even though it will eventually disappear. Let’s borrow this scenario as a metaphor for your use, Virgo. First, consider the possibility that a certain thaw in your personal sphere isn’t unfolding as quickly as you anticipated. Second, ruminate on the likelihood that it will, however, ultimately come to pass. Third, adjust your plans accordingly.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Will sex be humdrum and pre-

Your interest in wandering out to the frontiers of erotic play could rise quite high. You may be animated and experimental in your approach to intimate communion, whether it’s with another person or with yourself. Need any suggestions? Check out the “butterflies-in-flight” position or the “spinning wheel of roses” maneuver. Try the “hum-and-chuckle kissing dare” or the “churning radiance while riding the rain cloud” move. Or just invent your own variations and give them funny names that add to the adventure.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Right now the word “simplicity” is irrelevant. You’ve got silky profundities to play with, slippery complications to relish and lyrical labyrinths to wander around in. I hope you use these opportunities to tap into more of your subterranean powers. From what I can discern, your deep dark intelligence is ready to provide you with a host of fresh clues about who you really are and where you need to go. P.S.: You can become better friends with the shadows without compromising your relationship to the light.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You can bake your shoes in the

oven at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, but that won’t turn them into loaves of bread. Know what I’m saying, Sagittarius? Just because a chicken has wings doesn’t mean it can fly over the rainbow. Catch my drift? You’ll never create a silk purse out of dental floss and dead leaves. That’s why I offer you the following advice: In the next two weeks, do your best to avoid paper tigers, red herrings, fool’s gold, fake news, Trojan horses, straw men, pink elephants, convincing pretenders and invisible bridges. There’ll be a reward if you do: close encounters with shockingly beautiful honesty and authenticity that will be among your most useful blessings of 2017.

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Dear Dan: My husband is nearly 20 years older than me, which was never an issue early in our relationship. However, for approximately the last eight years, we have not been able to have fulfilling sex because my husband can’t keep an erection for more than a few thrusts. I love my husband and I am committed to our family, but I miss full PIV sex. I’m still fairly young and I enjoy sex, but I feel like I am mourning the death of my sex life. I miss the intimate connection and powerful feeling of © Rachel Robinson sex with a man. My husband tries to please me, but oral sex is just OK and toys don’t have the same effect. We have tried Viagra a few times, but it gave him a terrible headache. I try to brush it off because I don’t want to embarrass him. I am curious about casual relationships, but I fear they wouldn’t stay casual. Also, I would feel guilty being with another man even though my husband said I could do it one time. On one hand, I feel like I should be able to have a fulfilling sex life. But on the other hand, I don’t want to be a cheater. — Now On To Having Awkwardly

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Realistic Discussions Dear NOTHARD: It’s not cheating if you have your husband’s permission, NOTHARD, but fucking another man could still blow up your marriage — even if you manage to keep it casual. Story time: I knew this straight couple. They were good together, they loved each other, and they had a strong sexual connection. (Spoiler alert: my use of the past tense.) The woman was all about monogamy, but her boyfriend had always wanted to have a threesome. She didn’t want to be the reason he never got to do something he’d been fantasizing about since age 13, so she told her boyfriend that if the opportunity ever presented itself, he could go for it. So long as the sex was safe and he was honest with her, he could have a threesome one time. The opportunity presented itself, the sex was safe, he was honest — and my friend spent a week ricocheting

between devastated and furious before finally dumping her devastated and flummoxed boyfriend. During a drunken postmortem, my friend told me she wanted her boyfriend to be able to do it but didn’t want him to actually do it. She didn’t want to be the reason he couldn’t; she wanted to be the reason he didn’t. So her permission to have a threesome “one time” was a test (one he didn’t know he was taking) and a trap (one he couldn’t escape from). I urged my friend to take her boyfriend back — if he would have her — but he’d touched another woman with the tip of his penis (two women, actually), which meant he didn’t love her the way she thought he did, the way she deserved to be loved, etc., and consequently he couldn’t be allowed to touch her with the tip of his penis ever again. Back to you, NOTHARD: My first reaction to your letter was “You’ve got your husband’s OK to fuck some other dude — go for it.” Then I reread your letter and thought, “Wait, this could be a test and a trap.” You say you’ve brushed off the issue to spare your hus-

band’s feelings, but he may sense it’s an issue and, consciously or subconsciously, this is his way of finding out. If you take him up on his offer “one time,” and you make the mistake of being honest with him about it, he may be just as devastated as my friend was. So don’t take your husband up on his offer — not yet. Have a few more conversations about your sex life instead and address nonmonogamy/ openness generally, not nonmonogamy/openness as a work-around for his dick. There may be some solo adventures he’d like to have, there may be invigorating new sexual adventures you could enjoy as a couple (maybe he’d love to go down on two women at once?), or he may rescind or restate his offer to let you fuck some other dude one time. Get clarity — crystal clarity — before proceeding. Finally, NOTHARD, there are other erectile dysfunction drugs out there, drugs that may not have the same side effects for your husband. And low to very low doses of Viagra — doses less likely to induce a headache — are effective for some men. Good luck. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.

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by Sarah Haas

A day in the life of Barrett Rogers

arrett Rogers is a pretty normal guy. He lives with his wife in Big Elk Meadows, about 10 miles outside of Lyons. Every morning he wakes up to the sounds of the forest before driving down the canyon to his two-room office and workshop — the new digs for his new business, Black Pine Design. The company uses photography, construction and design to create everything from marketing to in-store features for local businesses. The air inside smells of cannabis and sawdust. Barrett Rogers While his helper is hard at work with a jigsaw in the next room, Rogers sits working at his computer in the back room, designing new product prototypes which he’ll later program his laser to build. More than half of the room is taken up by the cutting machine, an expensive and vital tool for this entrepreneurial designer, but also his favorite toy. Later, he’ll show me how it works, a bright red light shooting down into a thin piece of wood, sending the smell of burning wood through the air as it imprints my name in a blocky, western font. I find myself surprisingly mesmerized by it all, but it’s nothing close to the glee it conjures in Rogers — and he gets to play with his toy everyday. With that sort of enthusiasm, I’m not surprised when he tells me he’d had trouble keeping jobs before starting to work in the cannabis industry — he’s definitely the artistic type with a penchant for the path less traveled.

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Rogers spent his childhood in Massachusetts building things or else taking them apart — either way he was a restless kid, brimming with curiosity. The combination lends him his inventive spirit, but has also proven a challenge, especially when it comes to things like finishing college, which he eventually did, getting a degree in industrial design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn that took seven years. “I am doing what I do now because I get bored easily,” he says. “I’ve realized that the reason I can’t keep a job isn’t because I can’t do the work and perform, it’s because it gets so monotonous that I have to do something new to feel alive. The cannabis industry is that: there’s new products to invent, new design challenges to meet, new marketing to push and new problems to solve.” His entrance into the industry came accidentally, doing odd jobs for Seven Ten Labs and a few small dispensaries in Colorado. In all of his meandering over the years, it turns out that Rogers had picked up an impressive repertoire of skills that proved useful to the burgeoning and rapidly evolving industry. He took product pictures, built display cases for emerging products like shatter and wax, and eventually started doing entire custom designs for retail stores. As the market matures, Rogers notices that there is a lot more competition, but also a lot more freedom for designers and photographers like him to put their own unique sensibilities into their design. Rogers says

the early days of slapping a pot leaf on a container and calling it marketing are long gone as the industry seeks more subtle and creative ways to brand and market their products in an increasingly crowded marketplace. “Don’t get me wrong, I love weed,” Rogers says. “I really do, but I do not like the pot leaf. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just fallout from not wanting to get pulled over by police for having a pot leaf sticker on my car, but I think the utility of that as a symbol is waning, at least in Colorado’s market.” Whether in design or photography, Rogers distinguishes and explains his work as “world building,” using various techniques to catch viewers’ peripheral attention and transport them to an alternate reality. His first experiments began in 2006 when he was building architectural models in New York. Everyday he would sneak a few figurines out of his pocket and reassemble them in various nooks, crannies and holes in the wall and leave them for an unsuspecting passerby to discover. To this day, he still uses figurines in his shoots. Just by adding two plastic dolls and a miniature umbrella, he’ll transform a piece of shatter into a sandy beach. He carries the literal notion of world building into more technical projects too, stacking 40 or more shots, one on top of the other, until it looks like you could walk right into the photograph and go adventuring among the trichomes. To get the shot, he keeps his process as close to his intention as possible. Unlike most cannabis photographers, Rogers doesn’t shoot cannabis in the light, he thinks the filters you have to use under the florescent light of grow rooms mutes too much color. Instead, he turns off the light and rummages around the plants, searching for the perfect bud and the perfect shot. “Everything has its own best instance of getting shot,” he says. “I guess I just prefer taking the long way to get there.”

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here he goes again. Mob never made it to New Jersey. A couple weeks ago, New Jersey Calling marijuana a “poison” is an affront to the Governor Chris Christie was speaking at a commonly understood meaning of the word. To do so forum on substance abuse hosted by the New is intellectually dishonest and dangerous. When you Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton call something a poison that doesn’t fall within the when the subject of marijuana legalization came up. commonly understood meaning of the word, you The mere mention of the subject Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen causes Christie’s head to explode, and right on cue, it did. “This is beyond stupidity,” he said of legalization. “We are in the midst of the public health crisis on opiates. But people are saying pot’s OK. This is nothing more than crazy liberals who want to say everything’s OK. “People like Nick Scutari and Steve Sweeney and Phil Murphy (New Jersey pols who favor legalization) want to bring this poison, legalized, into this state under the premise that, well, it doesn’t matter because people can buy it illegally anyway,” Christie continued. “Then why not legalize heroin? I mean, their argument fails just on that basis. Let’s legalize cocaine. Let’s legalize angel dust. Let’s legalize all of it. What’s the difference?” Good point there, governor. And while we’re at it, let’s legalize alcohol, which, like hero- degrade the meaning of the word as a warning. in, cocaine, and angel dust — and unlike marijuana — For instance, if you were to slap a skull and crossis a substance several thousand people a year fatally bones on soft drinks and label them poisons (as some overdose on. And, also unlike marijuana, those subof Boulder’s more unhinged nanny-statists and food stances are physiologically addictive, and figure in an cranks probably would like to do, you’d take a big step enormous amount of violent behavior. toward conflating them with, say, paint thinner, which Oh, come to think of it, we did legalize alcohol, or makes people regard the warnings on things like paintre-legalize alcohol after we banned it for 12 years. We thinner more casually. re-legalized it because prohibition’s consequences It’s the same with drugs. When guys like Christie turned out to be more onerous than alcohol’s. Among call marijuana a poison and conflate it with heroin and those consequences was the rise of organized crime, a methamphetamines, they devalue their warnings about point Christie seems to keep overlooking. Maybe the the hard drugs, which really are dangerous.

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And in the case of marijuana, the devaluation will be almost instantaneous. That’s because over half of American adults have tried marijuana at least once in their lives, and most have concluded from first-hand experience that when it comes to pot, Christie doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Christie’s attitudes on pot really matter if the Trump administration is serious about fighting opioid abuse. That’s because Trump appointed him to chair a committee to come up with a strategy for fighting the opioid epidemic. If Christie doesn’t know the difference between marijuana and opioids, any strategy he comes up with will be ludicrously delusional. When it comes to marijuana, for Christie, “beyond stupid” is an inspirational state. The guy’s still stuck on stupid after all these years. He’s stuck on stupid politically too. Christie’s attitude toward marijuana legalization in New Jersey is “over my dead body.” “You’re damned right I’m the only impediment [to legalizing marijuana in New Jersey],” he recently crowed. “And I am going to remain the only impediment until January of 2018.” Pro-legalization lawmakers are planning to run a legalization bill in the state legislature in 2018 as soon as he leaves the building. (New Jersey’s gubernatorial and legislative elections will take place in November 2017. A statewide poll found 58 percent of New Jerseyans support replacing prohibition with regulation — and that’s according to a poll taken in 2015. It’s almost certainly higher today. More recent polling puts Christie’s approval ratings at around 20 percent. The Marijuana Policy Project says polling suggests he’s “out of touch with his constituents.” And how.

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This is one of those times. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) managed to piss off North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by going on the TV program Morning Joe and calling him a “whack job.” He also referred to Kim as “a crazed maniac.” As the casting of insults go, it’s pretty boring stuff. We’re guessing Gardner also dances like a white guy and eats a lot of potato salad. Despite the blasé quality of Gardner’s insults, they did manage to

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We don’t know what being accused of having lost basic judgment and body hair means, but it beats the hell out of Gardner’s insults. But really, is this about whose insults are best? We don’t think so. In the name of foreign relations, BW would like to say that in this instance, both sides are absolutely right. And as for Morning Joe, it must be weird to know that the two most insane, narcissistic leaders in the world watch you religiously, Kim and Trump. The only thing weirder would be if Mika and Joe were shacking up.

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