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ne of the lucky things about being rich is that you automatically become handsome, your jokes are hilarious and politicians treat you with fawning deference.

On the other hand, the unlucky thing about being poor is that... well, you’re poor. And society generally treats you poorly. Indeed, morally corrupt right-wing officials in Washington and across the country are pushing the idea

that poor people must be punished, as if debilitating poverty is not punishment enough. One especially ugly example of this is spreading through hundreds of school districts — an abhorrent practice called “lunch shaming.”

From first-grade through senior class, most schools make families pay for their kids’ cafeteria lunch, and a computer program alerts cashiers when a student’s lunch account is unpaid — a shortfall that nearly always involves poverty-level kids. Rather than dealing with this discretely, school systems have taken to publicly humiliating children whom the computer tags as having a meal debt.

Some schools literally take an indebted student’s tray of food away, making a show of dumping the lunch in the trash in front of everyone.

Some remove the hot food from

the child’s tray, replacing it with a cold sandwich of white bread and a slice of cheese, claiming that this socalled “sandwich” meets federal nutrition standards.

Others actually brand the offenders, using markers to write “I need lunch money” on the poor kids’ arms!

Nearly half of America’s school districts use some form of shaming and stigmatizing, embarrassing children to tears.

What educational lesson is this teaching? And what’s the matter with school boards and lawmakers who are either allowing or directly causing this abuse, using lunch to punish the poor?

Being poor means you lack money; being mean to the poor means you lack a soul.

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

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ad news, anti-GMO-ers. It isn’t Big Ag and Monsanto that’s been ruining your dinner. It’s Big Organic Ag. You don’t have to take my word for this. Consult The Washington Post.

The Post recently took time off from its busy schedule of trying to “get Trump,” to print two devastating reports by staff writer Peter Whoriskey on abuses in the organic food industry — one of which focuses on the Aurora Organic Dairy in Weld County.

The dairy’s operation stretches across “miles of pastures and feedlots” north of Greeley, according to the Post.

The complex “is home to more than 15,000 cows, making it more than 100 times the size of a typical organic herd.”

For producing organic milk, “the critical issue is grazing,” The Post said.

To be in accordance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), “organic dairies are required to allow the cows to graze daily throughout the growing season — that is, the cows are supposed to be grass-fed, not confined to barns and feedlots.”

In order for milk to receive and maintain USDA Organic certification, it has to come from cows who graze in organic-compliant pastures at least 120 days during the growing season.

“But during visits by The Washington Post to Aurora’s High Plains complex across eight days last year, signs of grazing were sparse, at best, The Post said.

“Aurora said its animals were out on pasture day and night, but during most Post visits the number of cows seen on pasture number only in the hundreds.

At no point was any more than 10 percent of the herd out. A high-resolution satellite photo taken in mid-July by Digital Globe, a space imagery vendor, shows a typical situation — only a few hundred on pasture.”

“In response,” The Post said, “Aurora spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele dismissed The Post’s visits as anomalies and ‘drive-bys.’”

The Post also had Aurora’s milk and the milk from seven other conventional and organic dairies blind-tested by Virginia Tech University scientists for components that are indicators of grassfeeding: conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid.

CLA and alpha-linolenic acid are higher in milk from grass-fed cows; linoleic acid is lower.

The milks The Post tested included samples from an organic dairy in northern Maryland that feeds its herd entirely from the pasture, unlike most large organic dairies that supplement pasture grazing and pasture-grown fodder with (organically grown) corn, soybeans and other grains. It also tested milk from Ohio-based Snowville Creamery, which also emphasizes pasture grazing, organic milks from Horizon and Organic Valley, and conventionally produced see DANISH PLAN Page 7

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The northern Maryland and Snowville milks finished first and second respectively.

On two of the three measures, CLA and linoleic acid, Aurora’s milk “was pretty much the same as conventional milk,” The Post said. On the the third measure, alpha-linolenic acid, “Aurora ranked slightly better than the conventional milks but below the other ‘USDA Organic’ samples.”

Aurora isn’t the only organic dairy The Post suspects shorted its cows’ grazing days. The story said that on a visit to Texas and New Mexico in 2015, a Post reporter saw empty pastures similar to Aurora’s at seven large organic dairies.

Aurora insists its cows exceeded the 120-day minimum grazing requirement, despite The Post’s findings. Its claim would be more credible if 10 years ago a USDA investigation of it hadn’t found “willful violations” of organic rules, including that for three years Aurora “failed to provide a total feed ration that included pasture,” according to The Post, which also noted the USDA proposed revoking Aurora’s organic status at the time.

The case was settled by the Dairy entering into a consent agreement, which called on it to make “major changes.”

Producing milk that meets the USDA Organic standard costs about twice as much as producing conventional milk, both because of the grazing requirement and because when the cows aren’t grazing, any other feed they get must be organic — grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers or use of GMO varieties.

And since about 90 percent of the corn and soybeans produced in the U.S. comes from GMO varieties, it explains why a lot of organic corn and soybeans are imported.

Make that supposedly organic corn and soybeans.

Which brings us to The Post’s second investigative story. The paper found that 36 million pounds (18,000 tons) of ordinary Ukrainian soybeans, which had been fumigated with aluminum phosphide, a pesticide forbidden by organic regulations, had been re-labeled as “organic,” which increased their value by $4 million.

After being contacted by The Post, the story said, “the broker for the soybeans, Annapolis-based Global Natural, emailed a statement saying it may have been ‘provided with false certification documents’ regarding some grain shipments from Eastern Europe.” About 21 million pounds of the soybeans have Boulder Weekly

already been distributed to customers.

The story didn’t say to whom.

The Post found two similar cases involving 92 million pounds (46,000 tons) of fraudulently labeled corn from Romania. All three shipments had passed through Turkey, “now one of the largest exporters of organic products to the United States.”

“The imported corn and soybean shipments examined by The Post were largely destined to become animal feed

and enter the supply chain for some of the largest organic food industries,” The Post said. It added that “at least half ” of organic corn and soybeans come from overseas.

So why don’t government inspectors catch this sort of fraud? Maybe it’s because most of the inspections are done by private parties who are hired and paid by the folks being inspected, not the USDA. (The Aurora Dairy inspectors had day jobs with the Colorado

Department of Agriculture, but pulled down about $13,000 a year for inspecting the dairy. Most of the inspections were announced weeks in advance.)

What The Washington Post stories suggest is that in addition to the “USDA Organic” and “GMO-free” labels on organic milk, eggs, chicken and meats there ought to be one more: caveat emptor!

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elected representatives. So exercise your rights in a democracy to contact Gardner and tell him the health care bill he is writing is a life-and-death matter! Make sure the Senate bill provides affordable health care to all Americans. We don’t need another tax break for the rich; we need everyone covered by health insurance. The few minutes you spend contacting Gardner could help save the lives of over 40,000 Americans.

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CPW is compromised

The Trans-Pacific Partnership may be dead, but other current and pending trade agreements pose comparable threats to democracy, jobs and the environment.

President Trump will soon launch his long-promised renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump called NAFTA a “disaster” and vowed to do something about it. However, it’s easy to imagine things going badly.

Since Congress may become involved, we need to know where our elected representatives, including Congressman Jared Polis, stand on this important issue.

For millions of workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, NAFTA has been a true disaster. Nearly a million, mostly manufacturing, U.S. jobs were lost and wages fell as “maquiladora” factories popped up throughout Mexico.

Meanwhile, NAFTA devastated Mexican agriculture by facilitating subsidized U.S. corn imports destroying the livelihoods of millions of Mexican farmers and workers who then came to the U.S. desperately seeking employment. Trade-related job losses and immigration became potent 2016 campaign issues.

Under NAFTA’s Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime, foreign corporations can sue governments for “compensation” if environmental, public health and labor laws reduce “expected” corporate profits. These suits can intimidate governments and undermine public policy down to the local level. Under NAFTA, corporations have more rights than countries and communities.

Since changes to NAFTA may require congressional approval, we need to know whether our representatives will vote for people and the environment or side with big money interests. Will Congressman Polis back “fair trade” that puts people first, enhances local employment and protects our environment or will he back corporate power over the rights and welfare of his constituents? Please contact Mr. Polis and ask him where he stands on NAFTA. Ken Bonetti/Boulder

Part 5 of Rico Moore’s series Off Target [Re: News, “New potential motives for the killing of bears and mountain lions emerge,” May 11] reveals the duplicitous nature of Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) planned slaughter of mountain lions and bears. Now, we learn CPW has contracted with USDA Wildlife Services to trap live animals so CPW can kill some with firearms. Clever... using our tax dollars to kill our wildlife.

There are other salient points in Moore’s exposé. The study supporting the CPW slaughter was funded largely by the oil and gas industry, anxious to divert attention from their responsibility for environmental damage and loss of wildlife habitat. Add to this, the distinct possibility that CPW is relocating “nuisance” bears to the very area in which they are proposing to kill bears and you have their slick trick to avoid the bad PR from killing bears in town.

The CPW must be held accountable for their self-serving and deceptive management decisions. This arrogant decisionmaking by a state agency is unacceptable.

The CPW has completely undermined its credibility and trustworthiness as a state agency to the point that it has severely impacted its ability to fulfill its mission.

Thank you for exposing the CPW. More Moore!

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Colorado lawmakers vote to give charter schools ‘equal’ share of local public education funds

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a move with little national precedent, the Colorado legislature approved a bill this month that requires school districts to share money raised from local tax increases with charter schools.

By the 2019-20 school year, school districts will be required to distribute 95 percent of those tax dollars — called mill levy overrides, which amount to about $34 million annually — equitably among the district’s public schools, including charter and innovation schools. Or, districts may devise a plan that adequately demonstrates they’re benefitting all district students with the funds.

It is the first bill in the U.S. that equalizes mill levy funding between traditional and charter public schools, according to the Colorado League of Charter Schools. The bill received bipartisan support and was hailed by school reform advocates as a long-overdue step in the direction toward equitable funding.

But critics, including some legislators, teachers’ unions and educators, say the bill carries a host of problems — that it’s unconstitutional because it subverts local control of school funding; that it will reduce public school programs; and that charter schools won’t have to spend the funds on the projects stipulated by the tax.

The bill’s passage coincides with a national debate over school choice and vouchers, which new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently said was a tenet in the plan to overhaul public education. The most recent prospective federal budget lessens public education spending by close to $9 billion, while nearly $500 million is slated for charter school and voucher programs.

“That is the movement,” says State Sen. Nancy Todd (D-Aurora), who voted against the bill. “And 10 May 25 , 2017

what we ended up doing in Colorado was similar to that. We said, ‘Let’s take away from K-12 and give it to charter schools without any understanding of what the present agreements are.”

• • • • In Colorado, anyone can create a charter school.

Parents, teachers or community groups can enter into a “charter” contract with a local district or the Colorado Charter School Institute, an independent state agency.

“School-centered governance, autonomy and a clear design for how and what students will learn are the essential characteristics of a charter school,” according to the state Department of Education.

Teachers at charter schools need not be accredited, and charters can be managed by for-profit companies.

Charters also automatically receive a number of waivers that allow them to circumvent state education mandates regarding competitive bidding for services; textbook and education programming choices; and accepting gifts and donations.

According to the state, that flexibility allows charter schools to develop curriculum outside of normal district templates, in the pursuit of “new, innovative” ways to educate students.

Charter schools, as public schools, receive 100 percent of the funding that is allocated every year by the state legislature for things like operating expenses and capital reserves. They also often receive start-up grants from state and federal agencies and are eligible to receive state funds for capital improvements like building and construction costs.

One major source of school funding comes from mill levies, which tax $1 per every $1,000 of a person’s assessed property value. These funds are distributed equally to both traditional and charter public schools.

But what charter schools don’t get (yet) is money

raised at the school district level through The Colorado legislature bonds and mill levy recently passed a bill overrides (taxes addithat will require school districts to share local tional to the mill levy). tax revenues with Bonds cover capital charter schools. improvements, and mill levy overrides cover operational expenses like teacher salaries, textbook purchasing, computer equipment and more. Either way, voters must approve both bonds and overrides.

That’s where critics of sharing mill levy overrides with charter schools take issue. If mill levy overrides pay for teacher salaries and textbooks, but charter schools aren’t required to have accredited teachers or standardized education programming, how does a district ensure that those funds are not just being spent on unaccredited teachers who happen to be the charter principal’s buddy or textbooks being sold by the board president’s company? But safeguards exist, proponents of the bill say, and so there’s no reason to withhold funds from public charter schools.

Despite such risks, other lawmakers saw this milllevy-override scenario as an unequal gap in funding for charter schools, and two bills were presented in the last legislative cycle to dispense that override money to charters. One, Senate Bill 61, was defeated because it didn’t require any improvements to the way charter schools report their finances.

The other, House Bill 1375, passed the day after SB 61 was defeated, with only four state senators voting no. It included a stipulation that requires charter schools to publish key financial documents such as their annual budget, audited financial statements, salary schedules, check registers, tax documents and more.

The bill, which Gov. John Hickenlooper is expectBoulder Weekly

ed to sign, will now require districts to distribute 95 percent of mill levy override funds equally between traditional public schools and charters, or come up with an equivalent spending plan.

(Bonds, by the way, for capital improvements are still not required to be distributed to charter schools.)

About one-third of districts in Colorado currently distribute these funds to charter schools, including St. Vrain Valley School District. Boulder Valley School District (BVSD), however, says it will “review the details and options available” before the law takes effect in 2019-20.

“I think that the impact on us is about a half-million dollars, which is a huge amount of money, and we will have to find that [somewhere else],” says Tina Meuh, Boulder Valley Education Association (BVEA) president.

In a district with a nine-figure annual operating budget, and where voters approved a $576 million bond in 2015, a half-million dollars reallocated within BVSD may not seem like a lot.

But critics of the bill say districts across the state — including BVSD — need every penny they can get, and just because some can weather it better than others, doesn’t make it a good fit.

Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association (CEA), the state teachers’ union, which took a “neutral” stance on this bill, says the impact might be smaller than anticipated.

“A lot of our largest districts in the Denver metro area already share (mill levy overrides), and a lot of our districts don’t have charter schools or mill levies.

The vast majority of our districts are not going to see a change,” Dallman says.

Sen. Todd agrees, but also suggests that’s not the point.

“Cherry Creek will not feel the pain nearly as much as Aurora will,” Todd says, adding that the 38 rural districts in Colorado (out of 178) were never consulted on this bill. These districts, with shoestring education budgets, will feel the greatest effect, she says.

Todd, who was a teacher for 25 years, is one of the four senators to vote against the bill. The other three all have public education backgrounds as well: Michael Merrifield (D-Colorado Springs) was a music teacher for 30 years; Andy Kerry (D-Lakewood) was an educator for 15 years; and Matt Jones (D-Longmont) is the son of educators.

Meuh says to just look at the impact on individual districts belies the widespread implications of the bill.

“When we talk about ‘equalizing’ (funding), we’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, because we’re taking from one Boulder Weekly

district to pay another,” Meuh says.

“Sometimes people talk about at the state level that Boulder has so much and their community is so generous, why don’t we take some of that money and give it elsewhere in the state? …

When we have money the state owes to its public schools and then that goes to the Charter School Institute and then it goes out to for-profit charter schools, that’s an example of money now being funneled by the state.”

• • • • Todd says HB 1375 “wasn’t about charter schools, it was about local con-

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trol.” If you limit local control of school funding, she says, you violate the Colorado Constitution.

Nevertheless, there is disagreement on the constitutionality of the bill. And there’s reason to believe both sides as the Colorado Constitution includes vague wording about funding.

The Constitution requires the state legislature to create a “thorough and uniform” system of public education, and mandates that voter-approved boards of directors “shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.”

That doesn’t sound like it has an impact on mill levy overrides, but in 2013, the Colorado State Supreme Court ruled in State v. Lobato, one of the highest profile education cases in the Court’s history, that the current “thorough and uniform” system of public education “also affords local school districts control over locally-raised funds and therefore over instruction in the public schools.”

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“It ensures that parents of charter public school students — parents who are also taxpayers — are not left wondering why their children are not receiving the same funding for their public education as their neighbor’s children simply because their neighbor chose a traditional public school,” Schaller wrote in an email.

Dallman says the CEA believes allowing districts to develop a “plan” for allocating this money will retain some measure of local control. Still, “I imagine that there will likely be a lawsuit filed by someone out there who feels like 1375 interferes with their right to local control,” she says.

Losing some local control of mill levy override spending, Todd says, also indicates lawmakers don’t trust school districts to effectively allocate money and negotiate contracts.

“If it is an authorized charter school in their district, they of course want their kids to be successful, they of course want the same benefits to be given to those children,” Todd says. “If the bill was under the assumption [that districts] don’t know how to work with charter schools, that was a real slap in the face to the administrators and schools boards.”

Meuh from BVEA agrees, saying BVSD has cultivated unique relationships with its charter schools and will now have to absorb a one-size-fits-all approach to funding.

“All charter schools are not the same,” Mueh says. “We have unique relationships in terms of services like special ed that we share, and we’ve worked hard to negotiate those charters.”

Schaller, however, says the principle of distributing mill levy override funds to charter schools is above the nuance involved in school funding negotiations.

“Ensuring that all of Colorado’s public school children receive equal funding for their public education really shouldn’t be up for negotiation,” he says.

• • • • The bill increases transparency for charter schools in two regards: financial disclosures and waivers.

Though many charter schools already voluntarily make their financial documents — from budgets to salary schedules to check registers — available to the public online, the bill now requires it.

“Charter schools have made it really difficult to determine how much money they get in terms of gifts, grants and donations, and those will now be published,” CEA’s Dallman says. “The premise of a charter school is, ‘We can educate students better for less money,’ (but) you have schools like Denver School of Science and Technology that got $14 million since 2011 in gifts.”

HB 1375 also requires charter schools to list the waivers of state education standards they invoke. The state, the Charter School Institute and a statewide association of charter schools will now create a standardized description of the waivers they automatically receive — choice of textbooks, hiring non-accredited Boulder Weekly

teachers, relaxing competitive bidding processes for goods and services, etc. — and rationales for why charter schools should get these waivers. These will be posted on each charter’s website.

That is, charter schools still get the waivers of certain education mandates, they just have to put it on their website if it’s not already there.

Dallman calls the waiver requirement a “huge benefit” because it’s been “a big mystery when a charter school gets a waiver and ... how they intended to meet the intended requirements of the law.”

But Todd says it comes back to allowing charter schools to operate outside of what is required of traditional public schools while receiving an equal share of money.

“We can look at that and say charter schools opt out and have waivers for various things, whether it’s teacher evaluation or whatever the case may be,” she says. “But if you’re going to say, ‘Let’s play even [with funding]’, then let’s do that [with waivers].”

Though the bill does increase transparency rules for charter schools, they will not be required to spend override money on the programs it was approved for — they’ll only need to use that money on the students that would have used the program.

For instance, if a mill levy override raises money for fifth grade science classes, a charter school can choose to not participate in the district’s fifth grade science program, but still receive the money as long as it uses it for fifth grade students who might take a science class. In Colorado, that could mean the difference between learning about the melting Antarctic ice sheet from a NOAA scientist or learning about why America should be increasing its exploration for oil and gas from an Anadarko Petroleum employee, depending on where you go to school.

But Schaller says this stipulation in the bill does not defeat the purpose of mill levy overrides, which exist to raise funds for specific programs.

“Those funds would still need to be used for the student population for which it was intended,” Schaller wrote. “This ensures that charters can fund programming that best fits their unique mission and model while still serving the students for whom the money was received.”

The bill, lastly, sets up an “equalization fund” for public charter schools that are not certified by districts, but by the state’s Charter School Institute. The general assembly will appropriate money to it as they see fit in a process to be determined later, and Schaller says it would take about $15 million to equally fund these schools.

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Meuh says the bill may change how motivated charter schools are to help pass mills and bonds in the future.

“Our charters are partners with mills and bonds,” Mueh says. “But who knows when a state mandates your relationship? Now we’re half a million dollars in the hole, and [only] parts of the relationship are required by the state, so how will that change how we work together with our charters, and how will that change how they support passing bonds?”

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charter schools, rather it’s always been about equality — equal access, equal funding, equal standards. Whether HB 1375 is a step toward accomplishing that, and if it will receive any legal challenge, is to be determined. But as education offerings grow to include charter, innovation, for-profit and online schools, and as state and federal budgets drastically change school funding, what constitutes the “thorough and uniform” public education required by the Colorado Constitution is changing by the school year.

public education financing are at best no concern to school reform advocates, Todd says, and at worst, are part of the design.

“There’s no question that there is a motivation by certain groups that want to see public education fail and want to see that charter schools are reigning supreme,” she says. “Some people say charter schools do so much better, but statistically that’s not true. And there are some that do a great job.”

But the debate about school reform has never been about the quality of

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Africa is a large continent with 54 countries, large and small, so choosing a destination isn’t easy. If you don’t want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, but want to explore a mountainous area by trekking or hiking, South Africa is an option. It’s a surprisingly mountainous country, and also features a spectacular coastline that rivals the West Coast of the U.S. An online search will give you many hut-to-hut trekking and hiking options.

South Africa’s world renowned Garden Route was recently picked as one of the top ten hiking destinations for 2017 by National Geographic; its soaring Drakensberg mountains and stunning coastal hikes make it irresistible. If you want a wildlife photo safari, there are several preserves where herds of elephants, zebras, giraffes, impalas, antelopes, Cape buffalo and hyenas roam — with lions and leopards lurking nearby.

But South Africa is far more than a place for safaris and trekking. Its turbulent past, and former President Nelson Mandela’s role in the end of apartheid, are also intriguing if not inspirational.

Above: Fog hangs over Drakensberg Sentinel Mountain; zebras graze alongside impalas at a game preserve. Below: South Africa’s coastline offers mountainous views.

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You will find a very young democracy that is still evolving politically while struggling with a fractious racial legacy. Interracial social activities and marriage were illegal during apartheid.

People of mixed race lived separately from both blacks and whites, who were also segregated. Though the country is 70 percent black or mixed race, it was ruled, economically dominated and oppressed by the 30 percent white population.

Anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela emerged from a 27-year prison sentence in1990 preaching forgiveness and reconciliation. He achieved a relatively non-violent, almost miraculous transition to democracy. Mandela started one of the most successful renewable energy programs in the world, and built 3 million small homes with solar hot water systems for the poor.

Although reduced, economic segregation and racism persist today. While relations among the races are improving, the existing political administration is a hindrance to forward progress. Current President Jacob Zuma faces nearly universal disapproval because of rampant nepotism and corruption. He faces 783 charges of corruption by members of his own party, the dominant African National Congress, as well as charges by political opponents. While many South Africans still live in poverty and the unemployment rate is 27 percent, Zuma spent $16 million from taxpayer funds on upgrading his personal compound and claimed his Olympic-size pool was for fire mitigation.

A court has ordered Zuma to repay at least $650,000.

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for fracking is a mystery. Bribery is suspected to have influenced both decisions. Zuma and his cohorts own Shell stock and will directly benefit.

Financial markets worldwide have reduced South Africa’s credit rating to junk status as a result.

There were nation-wide demonstrations opposing Zuma while my travel companion and I were in South Africa. Many want Zuma to resign now, rather than waiting for the next election in two years.

Even though Zuma is trying to ally himself with China and Russia, and blames the U.S. and U.K. for his problems, we found the Englishspeaking country to be very welcoming to Americans.

Cape Town is a beautiful city on the Western Cape beside the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, while Durban on the Eastern Cape has a hilly setting and beaches bordered by the warm Indian ocean; you will want to visit and use both cities as bases for your adventures. If you can, plan to hike in the lush mountains and along the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to explore the magnificent coast-

enjoys 300 days of sun every year, Zuma would like to spend $73 billion Top: Arch Rock is situated in the heart of the on nuclear plants built by Russia. The Garden Route. Bottom: Economist has said South Africa cannot The Whale Trail hut on the East Cape acafford the Russian-built plants. commodates up to 12 South Africa’s production of renewpeople. able energy has been very successful, producing power cheaper than coal, and would be economical and sufficient for at least 20 years. Even though renewable energy would be much more affordable, line.

Zuma fired cabinet members who opposed the nucleThe highest peaks, the Drakensberg Mountains, ar deal, while allying himself with people who will be are the most popular area for exploring South Africa’s enriched by the nuclear plan. He has also signed an expansive horizons. This mountain range is closest to agreement with Shell oil to begin hydraulic fracturing Durban, which is also close to the famous Kruger and operations to extract natural gas in pristine wilderness Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Parks. You can stay in nice lodges areas, one of which is a water-scarce desert. Where near the Royal Natal National Park entrance to the Zuma will get the trillions of gallons of water needed Drakensberg and enjoy moderate but spectacular day

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Two excellent and very popular ocean-front East Cape treks are the strenuous Otter Trail, and the moderate-to-easy Whale Trail. Both offer hut-to-hut backpacking and slackpacking. We chose the easier Whale Trail with huts that accommodate up to 12 people. You have to make your reservations around a year in advance to secure coveted spots for these treks. Our guide hired the park employees to transport our gear and food, and we slackpacked with day-packs. The oceanside huts are in excellent condition, cleaned daily and well-placed for stunning ocean views on highly scenic bays and cliffs. You will need very warm weather to brave the 57-degree Atlantic Ocean, though the tide pools are warmer and shark free. The huts feature well-equipped kitchens and indoor cooking and dining facilities, and hot showers. The Otter Trail includes similar hut options but much more challenging climbs and descents on exciting high cliffs.

Visiting a game reserve and seeing the dazzling array of wild animals in their natural habitat is a must. Kruger National Park is the most famous, but is busier than the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Both feature beautiful African landscapes and herds of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, impalas, Cape buffalo, hyenas, and elusive lions, leopards and cheetahs. Bird watching is also superb, with common and rare species. You will want binoculars and a photo telescopic lens.

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For “Lupita,” artist Ramiro Gomez was inspired by a former museum janitor. Due to vandalism, the sculpture has now been removed until a better location can be found.

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hen the Denver Art Museum invited artist Ramiro Gomez to contribute to an exhibit featuring Latino artists, he knew right away he wanted to make his work siterelevant. When he met Lupita, a member of the museum’s custodial staff, he found his inspiration.

“I didn’t know what it would turn into when I met her,” Gomez says. “The more I talked to her, the more I connected to her and the more I found comfort within her.”

In many ways, Lupita reminded Gomez of his mother, who also works as a custodian, and their immediate connection allowed the work to become a collaboration. Gomez shadowed Lupita at work for a day, where he learned about her family and the tiring tasks of her job. He wanted his art to portray the hidden labor behind the country’s most prestigious institutions.

But by the time he began working on his installation for Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, the museum had switched janitorial contractors and Lupita no longer worked there. Gomez knew he needed to reflect the turmoil the switch created in Lupita’s life, even after receiving pushback.

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“It’s uncomfortable to be an artist painting about this work in spaces that treat the workers themselves as disposable,” Gomez says.

“There’s an irony with it, the fact that my work is now displayed inside this museum where Lupita was my focus.”

Gomez’s final installation in the exhibit became a series of paintings and sculptures.

The paintings displayed inside the museum explore Lupita’s identity primarily as a mother, daughter and sister, as well as a domestic worker. Gomez also set up two bronze figures of Lupita’s image outside the museum in an effort to shatter her previous invisibility, using bronze to symbolize the eternity of Lupita’s presence at the Denver Art Museum.

“It might seem like a simple figure, but there is nothing simple about an immigrant person’s existence, especially in these times,” Gomez wrote in a Facebook post reflecting on his installation. “This is for those little moments that won’t be recorded in history otherwise, the simple acts of labor that contribute whether we recognize them or not. She no longer works there but I choose to recognize that Lupita was here, that the custodian is present.” see NARRATIVES Page 24

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Although Lupita and her story are at the forefront of Gomez’s work, she is representative of the Jaime Carrejo millions of people who work physically demanding questions the physical border jobs to help aid the success of institutions like the divisions in his piece Denver Art Museum. Throughout the installation, “One-Way Mirror.”

Gomez decided to leave Lupita faceless. It’s a technique he likes to employ so that his pieces become doorways into the life of an entire community, instead of being representative of a single story.

“Facelessness allows someone to dig a little deeper and explore within themselves,” Gomez says. “I’m trying my best to create empathy, create a moment of reflection and contemplation for the viewers... ‘Lupita’ for me is a symbol of something greater that is happening.”

“Mi tierra” is Spanish for “my land,” and the Mi Tierra exhibit demonstrates how 13 different artists explore space in the American West. There is no common theme between the 13 installations other than they represent how Latinos in the United States experience space and displacement differently. The installations also reflect how Latino individuals have adopted a land that may or may not accept their presence, and have called it home.

Artist Jaime Carrejo grew up in El Paso prior to the strengthening of the border in 2008, which allowed him to experience the land between the United States and Mexico as continuous. While Carrejo was away at graduate school and teaching at the College of Wooster in Ohio, he always looked forward to visiting home and looking out over the Rio Grande, a landscape that bridged the flamboyant colors of the houses in Juarez with the suburbs in El Paso. But when he came home in 2009, the once-uninterrupted landscape was now divided by a corrugated-metal wall. After spending several years reflecting on the significance of this new physical division, Carrejo began working “One-Way Mirror.”

The installation is made up of two videos filmed by the artist, one broadcasting a sunrise in Mexico and the other a sunset in the United States. The videos are separated by a 10-foot-tall divider made of one-way surveillance glass, which at times appears translucent and at other times opaque. Standing next to the 10-foot wall at the art exhibit feels intimidating, but after realizing the border fence between El Paso and Juarez ranges from about 18- to 21-feet tall, one can’t help but feel overwhelmed.

“It’s really monstrous architecture, it really goes through a lot of the South West,” Carrejo says. “The main overarching theme is what does that type of architecture say about us as a people? When that architecture is a reflection of us, I think there’s some really tough questions we have to ask about ourselves.”

Carrejo worked on the project from 2015 into the summer of 2016, at a time of growing hostility toward Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Although the intention of “One-Way Mirror” remained unchanged, the impact of the work heightened.

Carrejo wants spectators to contextualize the dimensions of the fence at the exhibit, contrasting it to the 40-foot border wall the Trump administration wants to build.

Man-made constructions like the border wall also inspired artist Daniela Edburg’s piece in Mi Tierra. She explores how artificiality breaks our relationship with the natural world; By focusing on nationality, we forget about the natural process of change. In “Uprooted,” Edburg widens the scope of the immigration disBoulder Weekly

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Visiting Artist, familiarizing herself with the people and geographical makeup of Colorado. She visited different regions, interacting with both the people ferent representations of life in the Western United and landscape across the state. This inspired her to States. By inviting its audience to analyze the narcontrast the history of seven natural elements — ratives often absent in portrayals of Latino life, Mi cheat grass, lichen, river rock, red rock, tornadoes, Tierra is threading the agency of Mexican immigrassland and alpaca — with people living in grants and Mexican Americans back into the conColorado. versation, depicting the reality behind their experi“The way we perceive time is completely rel- ences. ative,” said Edburg during the Hamilton Visiting Artist lecture at DU. “In ‘Uprooted,’ one story is told from the perspective of a rock, from the perspective of a plant, an animal and then human time. Even within animal, human, botanical or geological time — it’s still different whether you’re taking the long view and looking at it as a species, or if you’re looking at individual stories and individual life spans.”

“Uprooted” is set up to resemble an old Victorian home; hanging on a wall are nine portraits of individuals Edburg met in Colorado but who have roots in other parts of the world. Each individual is holding one of the seven natural elements as a way to parallel the natural process of change and adaptation in both nature and people.

The artwork of Gomez, Carrejo, Edburg and others in Mi Tierra is meant to illicit an understanding of the Latino experience, and since it opened to the public in February, the exhibit has received a lot of positive feedback.

However, art can also draw backlash and shortly after the opening, Gomez’s bronze figure, “Lupita,” located outside of the entrance of the museum was vandalized with chalk.

Then recently, the same bronze figure was tackled and ripped off the ground, influencing the museum to remove it completely until a safer spot is found.

Gomez has taken both of these occurrences of vandalism as a developing part of the artwork; as a way to highlight the strong sentiments against a group of people or culture, in this case the working-class Latino community.

“Turbulent times call for art that isn’t an just asset that collects value for a collector or museum, art that isn’t just a pretty picture on a wall,” Gomez says.

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rogger isn’t the kind of band you might assume it is just from hearing the name.

Then again, it’s not exactly not what you might assume either.

Collins Dictionary defines “progger” as a “fan of progressive rock music.” The petulant sarcasm machines who fuel Urban Dictionary define a progger similarly, adding that prog is “a music style which is pretentious as fuck in which solos go on for like two weeks.”

Jokes and bad taste in music aside, it’s true: Prog has always taken hits for its grandeur, for its esoteric lyrics, for its theatrical fusion of classical music with the raw power and accessibility of rock ‘n’ roll.

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Progger front man Brian Donohoe says the band’s name was a joke (the product of playing Frogger and listening to a bit of prog), but the moniker — and their winding, multifaceted sound — has prompted the question more than once: how does Donohoe define prog?

“I think it comes down to the [composition],” the saxophonist/keyboardist says over a Skype interview. “I don’t blame people for thinking prog rock is pretentious and stupid, because there’s a lot of music out there that’s sophisticated for the sake of being sophisticated, but it doesn’t actually sound good. That’s the reason a lot of people don’t think they like jazz, it’s the reason a lot of people don’t think they like prog rock, and frankly I don’t blame them.”

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by Caitlin Rockett But Progger isn’t prog. Not exactly.

While the Austin-born band certainly embraces the non-standard time signatures and elaborate chord progressions that typify traditional progressive rock, Progger deals in instrumental jazz/funk fusion, taking more cues from Herbie Hancock than from David Gilmour.

But maybe we’re just splitting hairs.

These musically demanding subgenres share more values than not: Both developed in the late 1960s as part of the building counterculture rebellion happening stateside and in the U.K., and both require a Clapton-like mastery of an instrument and a deep understanding of music theory (learned or innate). Prog rock masters Emerson, Lake and Palmer regularly incorporated jazz improvisation sessions into their shows. (Check out the 1974 California jam on YouTube for a taste.)

More to the point, great progressive music — be it rock, be it jazz fusion — always achieves that paramount characteristic of rock ‘n’ roll: mass appeal.

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Progger explores the erudite edges of jazz without taking listeners on the kind of raucous and formless journey that can characterize the more avant-garde examples of the genre. The band sweetens the pot by dropping those smooth chords over dirty funk beats with just a hint of the building, swirling psychedelic sounds of prog rock.

Or, as one fan commented on Progger’s Bandcamp page, “some days you just need a soundtrack you can pilot a spaceship in a high-speed chase through a funky asteroid field to.”

“There is a prog element to it,” Donohoe concedes. “I mean, we have Iron Maiden-ish duel guitar harmonies and that’s super prog rock-y.” (Steve Harris of Iron Maiden was a progger, leading the metal band to cover Jethro Tull’s “Cross-Eyed Mary” and Beckett’s “Rainbow’s Gold” before offering up their own prog-tinged concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son in 1988.)

“If it doesn’t sound good it’s not good, no matter how sophisticated it is,”

Donohoe says. “You’ve got a composer like (French impressionist) Maurice Ravel who had the most sophisticated harmonic palate of anyone who’s ever lived, but everything he made sounds beautiful because aesthetic was first priority. That’s the thing I’ve always tried to emphasize for Progger.”

Since its inception in 2011, the band has morphed from an Austin-based project to a multi time zone collection of in-demand touring and session musicians who have played alongside Grammy-award winners like Erykah Badu, Snarky Puppy and Chrisette Michele.

The band is finding some traction after releasing their third studio album, Scattering, last year.

Scattering marks the band’s expansion into a bicoastal project, featuring band members based in Austin, where Donohoe studied jazz at the University of North Texas, and members in New York, most notably percussionist Nate Werth and keyboardist Justin Stanton, both of contemporary jazz darlings Snarky Puppy.

With some help from Ropeadope, the band’s record label, Progger is even getting some international attention without ever having toured outside of the U.S. and Canada. The band’s stats on Spotify show that behind Manhattan and Brooklyn, folks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, are jamming to Progger the most. Next up on the list: Austin and Denver.

“I would love for Progger to get to the point where it’s really got its own two feet, [and] at least in the niche industry [become] a household name,” Donohoe says. “I think we’re actually approaching a tipping point for that. I think it’ll be selfsustaining in the next couple of years.”

Since the group is comprised of fulltime freelance musicians moving in different scenes across the country, Donohoe says Progger rarely hits the road for more than two weeks at a time.

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nother summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua.

For those unfamiliar with the silent era, a quick primer: Movies didn’t always talk. True, we now call them silent movies, but they were never silent. Always accompanied by music — often in the form of improvisational piano — these films were free from the tyranny of spoken language. Their language was a universal one: images. And because of that, they were loved all over the world and by every walk of life. Millions across the globe saw the faces of Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, and claimed them as their own.

All movies have the remarkable ability to transport us back in time but silent cinema, in particular, has the ability to transport us to a magical time. Not a simpler time, but maybe a more comforting one. One where the pictures didn’t talk, they danced.

And with live music and Chautauqua’s barnlike auditorium, the 32nd summer of silents is just the place you’ll want to be. From swashbuckling action with Douglas Fairbanks, The Three Musketeers ( June 28), to the famous house at 221B Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes (August 9), to a classic piece of American literature, The Scarlet Letter ( July 26), there are plenty of discoveries awaiting moviegoers this summer.

The greatest discoveries always seem to belong to the clowns, particularly the three silent comedians whose stars burn eternal: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

None burned brighter than Charlie Chaplin and his Little Tramp character — at one time the most recognized figure in the world. The Tramp was

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cially 1918’s Shoulder Arms with the Tramp finding himself as a hero, or the clown, in the trenches of World War I. Also featured are 1921’s The Idle Class, with Chaplin playing a dual role of the Tramp and a rich drunk, PHOTO and 1922’s Pay Day, with Chaplin trying to finance his wife and fund a night in the bar.

All three of these shorts show that a good story should be no longer or shorter than necessary, and none of these films feel bloated or exhausted. They are exactly as they should be, as are the two films featured on Harold Lloyd Comedy Night ( July 19): 1922’s Grandma’s Boy and 1921’s A Sailor-Made Man. Though history has often pitted College with Buster Keaton Chaplin’s Tramp against Buster PHOTO Keaton’s Great Stone Face in a battle for silent supremacy, it was actually Harold Lloyd’s popular Glasses character that gave Chaplin his only real box office contention. Both Chaplin and Lloyd are similar in their use of comedic gags to develop character, while also mining their well-known characters for laughs. But due to a lack of available prints in circulation during the mid-to-late 20th century, Lloyd’s star dimmed in the shuffle of cinema history.

A Sailor-Made Man with Harold Lloyd Thankfully, Lloyd’s films have been restored to their proper glory and are in regular rotation at places like Chautauqua, where crowds can once again experience their excitement, hilarity and invention.

But no series of silents is ever complete without Keaton, and Chautauqua has a double-dose programmed this summer: 1929’s Spite Marriage (Aug. 2) and 1927’s College (Aug. 17). Both movies were made during the advent of sound (Keaton actually wanted Spite Marriage to be The Idle Class with Charlie Chaplin his first talkie) and to compete with the latest craze in moviegoing, Keaton ups the physicality of his gags, Chautauqua’s Charlie Chaplin proving that the true power of cinema Comedy Night ( July 5) all come from is the ability to show, not tell. the comedian’s least prolific but most While the summer cinema scene refined period. With the Little Tramp has no shortage of whiz-bang effects, achieving iconic status, Chaplin was dazzling lights and sounds, and plenty afforded the luxury to refine his style of bombast, few movies at the multiby adding healthy dollops of pathos to plex have the level of visual storytellthe comedy. The results catapulted ing that these silents bring to the Chaplin not just to comedic legend table. Audiences of all ages have been but top-tier filmmaker as well. enjoying them for generations. It’s a This is evident in the films featradition worth passing down. tured on Chautauqua’s program, espe-

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It’s that time of year again — time to welcome summer with the 30th annual Boulder Creek Festival. The three-day event features a wide variety of festivities including art shows, a beer garden, a food court and carnival rides. More than 500 vendors will showcase community arts and crafts, healthy alternatives and technology.

Check out any of the three stages to catch music and dance performances by more than 60 different groups like local favorites FACE and Hazel Miller. For decades, the Boulder Creek Fest has showcased and celebrated the uniqueness of the Boulder community and this year is no different.

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Feminism & Co. Weekend. May 25-27, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Come celebrate the last decade of exploring art, sex and politics through the lens of gender at the MCA in Denver with lectures, exhibit openings and an all-day music and performance lineup. Elissa Auther and Gillian Silverman will explore how the feminism movement has transformed over the last decade into a popular phenomenon. MCA will open its summer exhibits Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP and Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Enjoy the museum’s rooftop terrace and check out live performances from a Girls Rock Denver, Pussy Bros comedy hour and more. Explore the museum during the day and stay late into the night with DJ sets and Everybody’s Free Dance Party to finish out the festival. Tickets range from $5-$15; some performances have adult content.

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Stop Making Sense. 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 26, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Courtesy Boulder Theater In 1983, director Jonathan Demme filmed a Talking Heads performance at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, creating the 1984 concert movie Stop Making Sense. Frontman David Byrne appears first, the rest of the band trickles in while the crew frantically finishes setting up. There’s dancing, costume changes, Byrne in an enormous suit, and music, lots of music.

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Thursday, May 25 Erin A. Tripp — Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks: (Boulder, Colorado). 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Community Breathwork with Live Music. 6:30 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434.

Monday, May 29 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, May 30

DeadPhish Orchestra. 10 a.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Michael Bellmont Presents Songwriters In The Round.

7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Bird Marathe and Rushi Vyas. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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

Spend your summer learning more about the plants that surround you with Erin A. Tripp’s new book Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks: (Boulder Colorado). Meet Tripp at Boulder Book Store on May 25.

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues.

7 p.m. POR Wine House, 836 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386.

Sean Flynn. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

The Secret Stage Presents David and Enion Tiller of Taarka. 9 p.m. Blooming Beets Kitchen, 3303 30th St., Boulder, 303-443-3479.

TEEBS with Free The Robots, Lefto. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Tiffanie DeBartolo — God-Shaped Hole. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, May 31 Claire Dederer — Love and Trouble. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Friday, May 26 Music After Midnight. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Aya Maguire & Shanna In A Dress. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Adult Ukulele & Songwriting Bootcamp.

6 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Beginning Flamenco. 6:30 p.m. Kay Carol Gallery & Priscila Working Art Studio, Longmont, 303-956-0703.

Block 1750 Presents: Street Cyphers. 6 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778.

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder, 262-719-8795.

Boom! 6 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434.

Citizen Dan Returns. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. see EVENTS Page 34

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Cultural Cul-de-sac: An Evening with Mathias Kessler Exhibition Event. 5 p.m.

Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8688.

Nature Park Grand Opening. 8:30 p.m.

Running River School, 1370 Forest Park Circle, Lafayette, 303-499-2059.

Skanson & Hansen’s Magical Mystery Adventure. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8472.

Smokes & Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Spring Flowers in a Unique Sculpture Garden. 6 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

Springtime Celebration. 6:15 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

Cabaret. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 25.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239.

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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.

If life has been disappointing you lately, forget it, and stop into Miners Alley Playhouse for Cabaret, playing through June 25.

Travelers of the Lost Dimension. Denver Performing Arts Complex, Stanley Marketplace, 2501 Dallas St., Aurora, 720-865-4239.

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Dance Nia. 6 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4800.

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DeadPhish Orchestra. 10 a.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

The Home Groove Band. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386.

Live Latin and American Music. 6 p.m. Casa Alegre, 1006 Pine St., Louisville, 303-665-2833.

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

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Nick O’Connor Trio. 8 p.m.

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One Flew West + My Body Sings Electric.

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

Ravin’Wolf Acoustic Mountain Blues. 6 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Tilia Americana with The Farmer Sisters and Julie Stratton. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-412-8604.

Stop Making Sense Movie Night. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Tasting Room Open. 4 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Saturday, May 27 Music The Arena Rock All Stars. 9 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122.

Dylan Gebbia Richards: Eclipse. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St.,

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

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

Through June 18.

The Western: An Epic in Art and Film Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 10.

Launch Pad. 2 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-393-0434.

Michael Batdorf. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 208-351-3274.

Michelle Roderick Duo. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Mighty Twisters. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

New Family Dog String Band & The Mile High Horns. 9 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7:30 p.m.

Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386.

The Rayo Brothers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 337-781-3088.

Rubber Souls with Swashbuckling Doctors. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Save the Hats! 11 a.m. Koenig Alumni Center, 1202 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-2281.

Steve French & Friends Present: Pajama Party. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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

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

Sunday, May 28 Music Brian Parton. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-944-6854.

Dusty Green Bones Band. 6 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Espresso! 9:30 a.m. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-875-7514.

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz & Swing. 5 p.m.

Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-875-7514.

Kort McCumber with Beth Wilberger. 2 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Longmont, 303-258-6910.

New Family Dog. 5 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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Next Generation 18 and Under Open Mic. 1 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Denny Driscoll & Friends. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Advanced Adobe After Effects HandsOn Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Rico Jones Quartet. 3 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Funk Knuf. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Louisville Farmers Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.

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Deja Blu. 9 p.m. The Wild Game Longmont, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

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

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

Taylor Shae. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-204-8767.

KGNU Quarterly Underwriter Networking Event. 6 p.m. KGNU Community Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder.

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I’ll Fly Away — Ashley Hope Carlisle. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through June 11.

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright.

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

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

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

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

Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

303-443-2122. Through May 29.

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

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

Reverence Academy of Dance Spring Recital. 6 p.m. Nevin Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-661-0719.

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

Thursday June 8

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As Weber discovers, and us with him, Wilson was Senator John F. Kennedy’s TV aide for the historic 1960 debate between Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon. It was Wilson who selected the thin pole lectern that favored Kennedy’s tailored suit. It was Wilson who applied make-up to Kennedy’s already tan visage. And it was Wilson who gave the estimated 70 million viewers at home a visual of what a president should look like. Many believe this was the moment that swung the election in Kennedy’s favor, which is in no small thanks to Wilson’s personal touches.

Those touches have rippled forth, making it safe to say that Wilson, either wittingly or not, made a significant contribution to Last remaining archivist modern politics.

Jeff Roth searches Again, how to convey that in 500 words? the New York Times morgue in Obit.

That’s what Weber and the team behind the New York Times obituary department are up against, and in the new documentary from Vanessa Gould, Obit, that job looks both stressful and like a hell of a lot of fun. Sure, the dayin-day-out job of writing about death certainly puts one in touch with their mortality, but this team of five writers, two editors and two archivists are not actually concerned with death, but with life. While the rest of the Times reporters gather all the news that’s fit to print, these writers provide the history that informs the rest of the paper.

Obit, which is executive produced by Boulder filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, not only places a face to the obituary bylines, it walks the audience through the ins and outs of the obituary game. From a visit to the Times’ morgue, where old clippings and pictures are stored for future obituaries, to the meetings where it is decided which obituaries will run. Some talk about how they construct their obituaries — Margalit Fox gives a particularly colorful breakdown of how she wrote about a typewriter repairman — while others talk about the nuts and bolts of the job.

If nothing else, Obit shows the hard work these writers go through to get these articles right. For many, these words will be the last line of their lives; a task these writers do not take lightly. While the Times has roughly 1,700 obituaries written in advance for notable figures, the true work of the job happens when a name hits the desk at 9 in the morning. Sometimes that person had one of the biggest hands in the political landscape of the last 55 years. That’s all the history that’s fit to print.

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afayette has always been a go-to in Boulder County for Mexican food, and that hasn’t changed; tortas and tacos flow freely at Efrain’s, Santiagos, and Taco Aya Yay. But about five years ago, a rather stagnant strip mall on the south end of Public Road in Lafayette suddenly developed into an epicenter for Asian food. Now, this land flows with curry and ramen.

At the corner of Waneka Parkway and S. Public Road sits Panang Thai Cuisine, a colorful and cozy café-type joint serving up traditional Thai dishes. Packed with customers on a rainy Monday night, strings of multi-colored lights giving the interior a warm glow, the sweet and spicy smell of curry flooding the nostrils just outside the door, it was hard to deny the call of Panang.

Thai food has become beloved the world over, showing up on international lists of the world’s best food.

So perhaps it’s not so strange that one of the loudest proponents (and foremost authorities) on Thai food is a Michelin-starred chef from Australia named David Thompson. Thompson’s love of Thai food began after a trip to Thailand in the late ’80s.

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The complexity sometimes comes from the fusion that naturally happens to cuisine as foreigners bring a taste of their homeland on their travels.

In many cities in Thailand, street stalls often serve up hybrid Thai, Chinese and Malay dishes.

One such hybrid is nasi goreng, a fried rice dish that originated in Indonesia, but has found a home in Malaysian, Singaporean, Bruneian and even Dutch cuisine.

The dish is as simple as its name, usually made up of onion, garlic, carrots, cabbage, shrimp paste, chicken, prawns and a fried egg on top.

In Thailand, nasi goreng is often called khao phat (fried rice in Thai), but at Panang Thai it was nasi goreng on the menu, but with a Thai flair. The rice was stir-fried with tomato, onion, mixed peas, egg, tomato sauce and, because Thailand is the Land of Pineapples, little chunks of the sweet fruit.

Panang Thai serves this comfort food with no frills, but none are needed. That’s the great thing about comfort food: The thrills are built in. Drop on a bit of the chili sauce, and you’ve got a sweet, savory and spicy number that will open the sinuses and soothe the soul.

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Panang Thai Cuisine makes nasi goreng its own were no books to study. Eventually, Thompson found a teacher, and in 2000 was commissioned by the Thai government to consult at the Suan Dusit academy of Thai cooking, where he instructed chefs in the preparation of authentic Thai dishes.

“Thai food ain’t about simplicity,” Thompson told The Guardian in 2010. “It’s about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord, it’s got to have a smooth surface but it doesn’t matter what’s happening underneath. Simplicity isn’t the dictum here, at all. Some Westerners think it’s a jumble of flavors, but to a

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Oversized chocolate-coated cookie sandwiches filled with buttercream frosting star in the cookie department at Button Rock Bakery. The shelves are stocked with big chocolate chip rounds, tall coconut-y macaroons, subtle French macaron, and spicy, sugar-crunchy gingersnap cookies that are soft in the middle.

I love lamination, the process of layering butter into dough, and Button Rock scratch-makes the dough for a stellar flaky croissant filled with almond paste and dusted with powdered sugar.

Nearly everything created at Button Rock Bakery from the cake pops to the lemon bars is a little larger than life including the story of its birth. “I don’t do small. I think of my desserts as classic, family-style shareable treats,” Jamie Lachel says.

The 31-year-old pastry chef and her husband, Larry, co-own the bakery in Lyons. A second Button Rock bakery opened this year on Valentine’s Day at 95th and Arapahoe in Lafayette. The best-selling items in Lyons are sugar see NIBBLES Page 44

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Button Rock Bakery is not one of those bakeries that specializes in only pie or muffin tops or cinnamon rolls. “I’m too interested in all the aspects of a bakery. I like making a little bit of everything,” Lachel says. The roster includes a full line of gluten-free baked goods plus peppermint brownies and Boston crème pie (which is really a cake).

On the savory side, Button Rock’s Susan France house-baked sourdough focaccia is used for loaded breakfast and lunch sandwiches.

Leftover bread is used for a rare treat, strata — essentially an eggy, savory bread pudding/ quiche fusion with cheese and green onions.

Button Rock is a classic neighborhood bakery, a place connected to people’s lives as they come for sweets to celebrate and commemorate the happy and sad major events of their lives.

Jamie Lachel spent a few years in the Midwest before growing up in Lyons.

The bakery’s name originated because of the couple’s affection for Button Rock Preserve near town. She was willing to sit down briefly at the Lafayette shop to talk about the pastry, family and the pleasures of being too busy.

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Q: Did you learn baking from your mom?

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Q: How did you start your baking career?

A: My first real job at 15 was at Einstein’s Bagels. I like being on my feet and busy. I can’t picture sitting in a cubicle. My father made me get a degree in hospitality at Colorado State before I could go study pastry at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America). I was angry at him at the time, but he was absolutely right. It was essential because I wanted my own place. I wanted to do things the way I wanted to do them. see NIBBLES Page 46

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Q: How did you end up opening the bakery in Lyons?

A: I met Tony — he’s a chef who has been in the food business for 20 years, we got married and decided to settle back in Colorado. We were getting ready to open the bakery when the September 2013 flood happened. I had a 6-month-old baby at the time so having some time off was OK. We finally opened on December 3, 2013.

Q: You seem to like having a lot going on at the same time.

A: In my first year in business, I was pregnant again, we were raising a kid and opening a bakery. I finished a wedding cake, went into labor, had my daughter and was back at work in two weeks.

Q: How do you juggle family and baked goods?

A: Tony runs Lyons. I manage the Lafayette shop. We high-five

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Everybody is talking about the latest viral sandwich idea: A giant cucumber pickle used like a hot dog bun for smoked pulled pork in barbecue sauce. They should be talking about the fusion of two of life’s greatest hits — that would be pie and beer.

Two Niwot businesses — Powder Keg Brewing and My Mom’s Pie, have collaborated on two saison-style ales. Bumbleberry and Raspberry Rhubarb are brewed using My Mom’s Pie fruit filling. The pie-ale is being poured at the brewery. ... Growler USA has opened at 1071 Courtesy Road in Louisville with 100 taps pouring beer, wine, cider and kombucha. ... Turley’s Kitchen has closed, ending a saga launched in 1977 when Paul and Jim Turley opened the Good Earth Restaurant at 17th and Pearl in 1977. I know because I applied for a kitchen job there... and didn’t get it. I’ll always remember the turkey cashew sandwich and the aroma of the orange-love spiced tea at that location, eventually named The Harvest, and then Turley’s.

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Open Door co-owners Michael Badaracca, Billy McDivitt and Andy Riedel hit the Boulder County beer scene a little over a year ago without a brick and mortar store. Their focus was distribution first, location second. In fact, my first introduction to Open Susan France Door’s brews came via Mountain Sun’s Stout Month with their Over the Moon Milk Stout (5.6 percent ABV) featured as a guest tap. Over

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Over the Moon must have been a Stout Month hit because as quickly as it came, it went. It would be another month before my associate would get to Open Door try the brew at Left Brew Co.’s Hand’s Hops+Handrails Chef Operating Officer Billy McDivitt festival and fall in love as well.

And now, thanks to Longmont’s trendy new neighborhood, Prospect New Town, Open Door has a taproom to feature their offerings. Just don’t expect to tour the facility or see how the sausage is made; Open Door is still contracting the brewing aspect of the business with Sleeping Giant down in Aurora. Instead, Open Door — named by Reidel back in his college days when home brewing in his apartment would steam the place up — is strictly aimed at the communal aspect of drinking the product. There is a patio out front, a large room for parties, an annex full of picnic tables and even an attractive rooftop patio for drinking with a view. There’s also a series of doors scattered around for décor, in case you forgot the name of the place.

Though Open Door offers plenty for everyone, including their Short Arms IPA (6 percent), the pre-Prohibition cream ale, Libertas (4.8 percent), the imperial pale lager, Übertas (8.1 percent) and the cream ale, Arminius (5 percent), they shine when it comes to the stouts, particularly for their session-ability. Over the Moon (5.6 percent) — your standard milk stout with a dash of vanilla — lays the base while Fly Me to the Moon, Chai-L & Error and Elatha all play variations on a theme. For Fly Me to the Moon, that theme is dark chocolate-covered cherries. For Chai-L & Error, it’s chai spice. If you’re not a fan of chai, this is not the beer for you; if you are, welcome to Beervana. My personal favorite is Elatha, brewed in honor of St. Patty’s day and includes 3 pounds of dry mint in the batch. It’s a McDonald’s Chocolate Shamrock Shake with legs and a booze backbone.

While the Colorado beer scene continues to grow by leaps and bounds, each brewery will have to carve out their niche in the business. So far, it looks like stouts are the way to go at Open Door Brew Co. With a base this good, who knows what they are capable of coming up with.

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“Sin” is a puerile concept in my eyes, so I don’t normally use it to discuss grown-up concerns. But if you give me permission to invoke it in a jokey, ironic way, I’ll recommend that you cultivate more surprising, interesting and original sins. In other words, Aries, it’s high time to get bored with your predictable ways of stirring up a ruckus. Ask God or Life to bring you some really evocative mischief that will show you what you’ve been missing and lead you to your next robust learning experience.

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yourself. Luckily, there are forces in your life that are conspiring to help make sure you do it.

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It would also be balm for your primal worries and medicine for your outworn dogmas and an antidote for your comfortable illusions. Do you have the time and money necessary to make a pilgrimage to a place you regard as holy? How about a jaunt to a rousing sanctuary? Or an excursion to an exotic refuge that will shock you in friendly, healing ways? I hope that you will at least read a book about the territory that you may one day call your home away from home.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: By now I’m sure you have tuned in

to the rumblings in your deep self. Should you be concerned? Maybe a little, but I think the more reasonable attitude is curiosity. Even though the shaking is getting stronger and louder, it’s also becoming more melodic.

The power that’s being unleashed will almost certainly turn out to be far more curative than destructive. The light it emits may at first look murky but will eventually bloom like a thousand moons. Maintain your sweet poise. Keep the graceful faith.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Life is inviting you to decode riddles about togetherness that could boost your emotional intelligence and earn you the right to enjoy lyrical new expressions of intimacy. Will you accept the invitation?

Are you willing to transcend your habitual responses for the sake of your growth-inducing relationships? Are you interested in developing a greater capacity for collaboration and synergy? Would you be open to making a vulnerable fool of yourself if it helped your important alliances to fulfill their dormant potential? Be brave and empathetic, Sagittarius. Be creative and humble and affectionate.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “In youth we feel richer for every

JUNE 21-JULY 22: In your mind’s eye, drift back in

time to a turning point in your past that didn’t go the way you’d hoped. But don’t dwell on the disappointment.

Instead, change the memory. Visualize yourself then and there, but imagine you’re in possession of all the wisdom you have gathered since then. Next, picture an alternative ending to the old story — a finale in which you manage to pull off a much better result. Bask in this transformed state of mind for five minutes. Repeat the whole exercise at least once a day for the next two weeks. It will generate good medicine that will produce a creative breakthrough no later than mid-June.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: You’re being invited to boost

your commitment to life and become a more vivid version of yourself. If you refuse the invitation, it will later return as a challenge. If you avoid that challenge, it will eventually circle back around to you as a demand. So I encourage you to respond now, while it’s still an invitation. To gather the information you’ll need, ask yourself these questions: What types of self-development are you “saving for later”? Are you harboring any mediocre goals or desires that dampen your lust for life? Do you tone down or hold back your ambitions for fear they would hurt or offend people you care about?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Dear Dream Doctor: I dreamed

that a crowd of people had decided to break through a locked door using a long, thick wooden plank as a battering ram. The only problem was, I was lying on top of the plank, half-asleep. By the time I realized what was up, the agitated crowd was already at work smashing at the door. Luckily for me, it went well. The door got bashed in and I wasn’t hurt. What does my dream mean? — Nervous Virgo.” Dear Virgo: Here’s my interpretation: It’s time to knock down a barrier, but you’re not convinced you’re ready or can do it all by

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new illusion,” wrote author Anne Sophie Swetchine.

“In maturer years, for every one we lose.” While that may be generally true, I think that even 20-something Capricorns are likely to fall into the latter category in the coming weeks. Whatever your age, I foresee you shouting something akin to “Hallelujah!” or “Thank God!” or “Boomshakalaka flashbang!” as you purge disempowering fantasies that have kept you in bondage and naive beliefs that have led you astray.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “There are no green thumbs or

black thumbs,” wrote horticulturalist Henry Mitchell in a message you were destined to hear at this exact moment. “There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way.’ You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.” Happy Defiance Time to you, Aquarius! In the coming weeks, I hope you will express the most determined and disciplined fertility ever!

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: I believe it may be the right time to tinker with or repair a foundation; to dig down to the bottom of an old resource and consider transforming it at its roots. Why? After all this time, that foundation or resource needs your fresh attention. It could be lacking a nutrient that has gradually disappeared. Maybe it would flourish better if it got the benefit of the wisdom you have gained since it first became useful for you. Only you have the power to discern the real reasons, Pisces — and they may not be immediately apparent. Be tender and patient and candid as you explore.

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— Ruminating About Consensual Kinks Dear RACK: Restricting someone’s air intake is always dangerous, RACK, and while we all too often hear about people dying during solo breath play, aka “auto-erotic asphyxiation” (an activity no one should engage in ever), we rarely hear about someone dying during partnered breath play. (I recently discussed partnered breath play with Amp from Watts the Safeword, a kinkfriendly sex-ed YouTube channel. Look up Episode 533 at savagelovecast.com.)

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in Seattle. “I don’t think you’ll find any lawyer who would draft such an agreement. Even if an agreement were executed, it is not going to constitute a complete defense if something goes wrong. There are principles of criminal liability for the consequences of our decisions, as well as public-policy concerns about people engaging in extremely dangerous behaviors, that make it impossible to just walk away if something goes wrong.” Another concern: Signing such a document could make breath play more dangerous, not less. “A person who had such a waiver might be tempted to push the boundaries even further,” Meryhew says.

And now the pro-Dom perspective...

“As consenting adults, we assume the risks involved in this type of kink,” says Mistress Elena, a professional Dominant. “But if you harm your partner or they become scared, shamed, shocked or, even worse, gravely injured, it’s the Dom’s problem. At any time, the submissive can change their mind.

Some cases have been classified as ‘rape’ or ‘torture’ afterward, even though consent was initially given. It’s our job as Dominants/Tops/Leads to make sure everyone is safe, consenting and capable.”

Dear Dan: I’m a 32-year-old guy, my gal is 34, and we’ve been together for two years. Every time we get it on or she goes down on me (though not when I eat her out), my mind wanders to fantasies involving porno chicks, exes or local baristas. A certain amount of this is normal, but I’m concerned that this now happens every time. When I’m about to come, I shift my mind back to my partner and we have a hot climax, but I feel guilty. Advice?

— Guilty Over Nebulous Ecstasy Dear GONE: I’ve been asked what biases advice columnists have. Do we favor questions from women? (No, women are just likelier to ask for advice.) Are we more sympathetic to women? (Most advice columnists are women, so...) Are we likelier to respond

to a question that opens with a compliment? (Of course.) But the solvable problem is our biggest bias. Some people write in with problems that they’ll need an exorcist, a special prosecutor, a time machine or some combo of all three to solve. I could fill the column week after week with unsolvable problems, and my answers would all be variations on the shrug emoji.

Your letter, GONE, is a good example of the solvable problem — a letter likelier to make it into the column — and, as is often the case, the solution to your problem is right there in your letter. You’re able to “shift [your] mind” back to your partner when you’re about to come, and when you eat her out, your mind doesn’t wander at all. My advice: Make the shift earlier/often and engage in more activities that force you to focus (like eating her out). Problem solved.

P.S. A lot of people allow their mind to wander a bit during sex — supplementing the present sensations with memories, fantasies, local baristas, etc. If it keeps you hard/wet/game and isn’t perceptible (if you don’t start mumbling coffee orders), your partner benefits from your wanderings.

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by Sarah Haas

Law and order

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n the afternoon of March 11, I was sitting in the waiting room of my neighborhood dispensary watching people go in and out, occasionally staring blankly at a poster on the wall — a black and white drawing of a paradisiacal field of marijuana plants being harvested by a happy couple. Sitting in that waiting room has become a part of my weekly routine, an errand that had worked its way into my life with a casualness I’d been taking for granted.

While in the dispensary that day I heard fellow customers in waiting talking about the day’s news. Not more than an hour earlier, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had issued a directive to the Department of Justice to enforce and prosecute the letter of drug law. In the context of the administration’s law and order rhetoric, it seemed an inevitable move to return to zerotolerance prosecution and mandatory minimum sentencing. But, in that it was a 180-degree reversal of the Obama administration’s criminal reform agenda, it was shocking nonetheless.

In just one moment of eavesdropping, my upcoming transaction was turned on its head. Just like that, $16 for a gram of weed was back to being a federal misdemeanor punishable by a minimum of a year in prison, a $1,000 fine and my name in the public record. It felt appropriate to be in that waiting room and having that thought, on the verge of making the most controversial of purchases, as if my existential crisis was part and parcel of one we, as a nation, are grappling with.

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Not since early purchases made in Colorado’s legal market did the transaction seem so tenuous. Once again the discrepancy between state and federal law cloaked the whole endeavor. But this time around it promises to play out with the authoritarian fervor of the 1970s, a time before I was born when the war on drugs was first declared — when drugs were public enemy number one.

Maybe back then this scheme made sense. Maybe once upon a time the criminalization of drugs could have been considered a worthy experiment to see if drugs really could be extinguished in favor of a sober society. But we tried it and it didn’t work, not for its stated goals at least. Drug use remained constant, prison populations skyrocketed and communities across the country struggled to survive the financial and human costs.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder made a statement in direct response to Session’s directive saying as much, and bluntly too, calling his tough-on-crime policies “dumb” and characterizing those instituting them as “voices who have not only been discredited, but until now have been relegated to the fringes of this debate.”

He is not exaggerating. More than 70 percent of Americans are in favor of the legalization of marijuana and more than 52 percent admit to using it. Maybe from where Sessions sits, this is what a major drug problem looks like: one that is spreading like a contagion through the country, one that only law and order can stop. But from where I’m sitting in the waiting room of my neighborhood dispensary, things look

quite different.

I see a bunch of people who have all, made the decision to buy some pot. In that process, I’m sure they reflected, just like I have, asking intimate and private questions about the implications of whatever choice they make, wondering about the politics of their own use, the science of how these substances affect the function of their bodies and minds and whether the use of drugs compromises one’s moral standing.

From where I sit, this all seems very democratic, as if it were our modern drug crisis that Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he was penning the introduction to the Federalist Papers, his plea to the people of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution, in which he wrote: “It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”

I don’t care who you are — whether you put essential oils in your water, take a Tylenol for your headaches, smoke cigarettes or shoot heroin, if you don’t eat gluten or you rub aluminum dioxide in your armpits so you don’t sweat — each and every one of us uses some form of a drug. This is not to invoke or set up a judgment, but merely to point out just how personal the subject matter of drugs really is.

It’s more intimate than love, than sex even, because we cannot share what it’s like for us to experience an altered state with another person. It’s a truly individual experience and yes, sometimes I need or want someone to tell me what to do and what not to do. But, sitting in the waiting room watching people go in and out, sometimes spotting that bucolic poster on the wall — I just want to say no to law and order and seek instead the order that is springing naturally from our ongoing cultural evolution.

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Candidates and Legionnaires discover the pot issue (in a good way)

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here were two interesting developments recently that show how American public opinion is shifting on marijuana — one involving an Ohio Supreme Court justice and the other involving the American

That is new. When it comes to marijuana, most American politicians have a) campaigned as drug war showboats, b) run from the issue like frightened mice or c) ignored the issue altogether and hoped no one noticed.

Legion.

The concept of trying to win Wikimedia Commons/Ohio Progressive The Supreme Court justice is statewide elected office by runWilliam O’Neill, a Democrat. ning on ending the war on pot Last week he delivered a prepared hasn’t been done before — unless speech to the Wayne County you happened to be a Libertarian (south of Cleveland) Democratic or other minor party candidate.

Party in which he called for the Yet that appears to be what legalization and taxation of mariO’Neill is contemplating. The juana in Ohio, according to the fact that his legalization message Associated Press. was delivered as part of prepared He also called for releasing all remarks at a Democratic Party non-violent marijuana offenders event rather than as an incidental aside strongly suggests he’s serifrom prison. ous about it.

“The time has come for new And making legalization a thinking,” he said. “We regulate major issue in Ohio may not be and tax alcohol and tobacco and as quixotic as conventional politiimprison people for smoking cal wisdom might suppose. grass.”

Assuming the views of Ohio What made these remarks voters aren’t much different from interesting, other than the fact those of other Americans on pot, that a state Supreme Court justhere should be overwhelming tice made them, is that O’Neill is support for legalization among considering stepping down from the bench and Democrats, which is important running for Ohio governor next year.

Ohio Supreme Court justice WilHe said the Democratic Party needed new since O’Neill will be running in a liam O’Neill is conideas in 2018 if it wanted to knock off Democratic primary. If he gets sidering running for state governor on Republicans, who control all branches of Ohio’s traction from the issue, it will a pro-pot platform. state government. push the other Democrats toward Well, O’Neill has a new idea, alright — not supporting legalization. that marijuana should be legalized, regulated And if legalization becomes a and taxed, nor that non-violent pot offenders major issue in the Democratic should be let out of prison, but that a serious guberna- primary, it could spill over into the general election. torial candidate in a major state can run on a proI can’t think of a single case of marijuana legalizalegalization platform. tion becoming a major issue in a statewide campaign

for public office, but if O’Neill’s political instincts are correct, that might be about to change.

And that could be a big deal, because there is nothing that could more quickly bring the war on pot to an end than drug war dead-ender candidates for public office losing elections.

What came out of the American Legion, the country’s largest veterans’ organization, isn’t nearly as dramatic, but still represents a major shift in thinking.

The Legion sent a letter to the White House last month that, among other things, called on the Trump Administration “to clear the way for clinical research in the cutting edge areas of cannabinoid receptor research” by changing marijuana’s status from a Schedule I controlled substance to a status that will allow research on its value for treating veterans with traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Legion’s national director of veterans affairs and rehabilitation says the request speaks to a catch22 regarding the feds’ pot policy.

“On one hand the government claims there is no federally approved scientific evidence to support cannabis being used in a medical environment, so they refuse to consider reclassifying it,” he told The Denver Post. “And on the other hand they refused to permit scientific research because it’s a Schedule I substance.”

While emphasizing that the Legion isn’t calling for legalization, Joe Plenzler, its director of media relations, said it’s time the federal government “took action to remove barriers to scientific research on this very important subject.”

When it comes to marijuana legalization, the Legion isn’t exactly planning to hold a joint Fourth of July picnic with NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project. But when a conservative organization of its stature quits stone-walling on pot and announces it’s ready to follow the science, it means the drive to end reefer madness is gaining irreversible legitimacy.

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THIS KINDA SOUNDS FAMILIAR Amazon has become a compendium of anything anyone could ever want. Well, the shopping experience just got a little bit better: Amazon is now opening a bookstore in New York City. As the Vice President of Amazon Books told the New York Times, “We call this a physical extension of Amazon.com.”

What a novel idea — no pun

TRUMP DRINKING GAME SUSPENDED Alright all you drinking game aficionados, the Trump drinking game has now been officially suspended for safety purposes. It seems that the president’s recent foreign trip was simply too much.

As most of you know, the rules were simple: every time Trump said something stupid or inappropriate, you had to shotgun a can of beer.

For those who started playing the game on inauguration day, the consequences have been harsh. It is now estimated that more than 3 million Americans have lost their jobs because they have been continuously drunk since Jan. 20. Those still employed have gained an average of 112 pounds.

But if that wasn’t bad enough, according to media reports, 12,000 game players have been admitted to the hospital for alcohol poisoning since Trump landed in Saudi Arabia. And still it got worse. When Trump announced that he had just flown into Israel from the Middle East and then started telling the world press that he never told the Russians it was an Israeli-controlled informant whose cover he blew — this of course was the first time anyone had confirmed that it was Israeli intelligence operation — Benjamin Netanyahu, a renowned drinking-game player, pulled a can of Old Milwaukee from his jacket and shotgunned away. He then passed out, hit his head and has been in the hospital ever since. The game’s creators had scheduled a meeting to discuss possible stoppage of the game when Trump showed up at the Vatican wearing a gold wreath on his head à la Caesar.

Before it could be stopped, no less than a dozen Trump drinking gamers actually exploded.

The game has now been suspended indefinitely, but there is talk of a post impeachment game wherein players knock back a shot of tequila every time Pence insults someone in the LGBTQ community. Caution is urged.

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Huh, maybe if this “bookstore” idea caught on, then other kinds of stores would open. Imagine if instead of opening iTunes, you could go into a business and browse through physical objects that played

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intended. Amazon is really leading the way with giving people what they want: a physical space that you can walk into and browse through book titles. You can pick up the book and turn the pages in your hand instead of just clicking and scrolling. And you can interact with other human

music. Or wow, what if Netflix opened a brick and mortar store that allowed customers to search through shelves of movies, allowing someone to find an obscure title they’ve never heard of.

And wouldn’t it be cool if all these shops were next to each other?

It’d be like the internet, except real life.

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