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his year’s freakish presidential election has now devolved into an ethnic brouhaha between two foreigners: A Mexican and a German. The “Mexican” is Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S. federal judge who was born, raised and educated in Indiana. The German is Donald Drumpf, aka the Republican nominee for president. He has two fraud cases against him in Judge Curiel’s court, and Donnie recently became unhinged over the idea that “a

foreigner” would be allowed to pass judgment on an upstanding American citizen like him. But, wait — Curiel is a full-blooded American citizen! No, cried The Donald, “He’s a Mexican,” pointing to the jurist’s family heritage. But, wait again — Donnie himself is not pureblooded Americano. (Only Native Americans can claim that, and even they immigrated from afar centuries ago.) In fact, his grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, immigrated to the U.S. from Kallstadt, Germany, about 120 years ago and anglicized his name from Drumpf to Trump. Still, the GOP’s nativist and racist 2016 flag bearer insists that even though we Americans are proud to be a nation of immigrants, an American with Mexican genes should be disqualified from overseeing the fraud trials, for he’d inherently be biased against the candidate who has promised to “build a wall” between the U.S. and Mexico. So,

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does his screwy claim that one’s background trumps one’s commitment to fairness also mean that a MuslimAmerican judge should be disqualified from any trial of Trump’s wrongdoings, since he has promised to ban all Muslim immigrants from entering the U.S.? “Absolutely,” says the GOP’s presidential wannabe. Finally, it’s time to say the obvious: Donald is not just plainspoken, nor is he merely trying to get media coverage. He is deranged, a manic threat to anyone he dislikes, which is everyone not named Trump or Drumpf. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 16, 2016 5

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Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. San Bernadino. Umqua Community College in Oregon. In the AME Church in South Carolina and in many more places — 175 such mass shootings just in this year so far. We seem to be a nation quivering in fear and hoping to placate our fear by being prepared to annihilate all comers, but this means instead that we enable more attackers rather than being prepared to handle them. The Orlando shooter killed 50 outright with more in the hospital fighting for their lives. He wasn’t stopped for more than three hours, despite a highly militarized SWAT team, and despite a highly permissive Second Amendment and a heavily armed populace. It is time to end this experiment with transmogrifying the entire U.S. into Tombstone Territory with everyone armed to the teeth, prepared to either be a bad guy or take out a bad guy. It is not working. It is time to try learning new relational skills, new competencies that can de-escalate conflict, that can help those who are mentally ill, that can disarm those who might come in proximity to our children, to our friends, to our family members. These skills are not rocket science and are studied to make emergency room personnel more effective, to enable mental health workers to be safer without weapons. This is available and is so much more adaptive than our hyperarmed, aggressive culture that breeds more and more of these utterly avoidable tragedies. Boulder Weekly

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he working class is invisible in this country much of the time. But in election years, the white folks in this demographic are discussed ad nauseam by political reporters. This discussion is rather annoying to Jack Metzger, a core member of the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies and a retired Professor of Humanities from Roosevelt University in Chicago. Metzger says that when the discussion of class migrates from social scientists, “with their ‘operational definitions’ and facility with math” to the pundits, you get a lot of “loose stereotypes and class-prejudiced assumptions.” It has turned into “a low-level one-sided cultural class war” where “the narrating class” surmises that working-class whites are “America’s perpetual bigot class.” Pulitzer Prize-winning progressive columnist Connie Schultz has said many reporters and columnists associate Donald Trump and his buddy Sarah Palin with white working-class ignorance and bigotry. A Cleveland Plain Dealer writer proclaimed: “Thanks to Trump, the entire Palin clan is now back in the spotlight they so crave. Come July, Republican National Convention organizers should house the whole dysfunctional family in a trailer park in Ashtabula [Ohio].” This angered Schultz since both of her grandmothers lived some of their lives in trailer homes in Ashtabula. She noted that “since Donald Trump’s charade of a candidacy caught fire, I have heard many fellow liberals freely toss around the terms ‘white trash’ and ‘trailer trash.’ These are people who would never dream of telling a racist joke, but they think nothing of ridiculing those of lesser economic means. Every group has its ‘other.’ For too many white intellectuals, it’s the working class.” Metzger says that, unlike Schultz, “most of the narrating class are from solidly middle-class backgrounds with little or no experience of working-class people of any color.” He says, from his reading and experience, the outright classist remarks are “relatively rare” and “for the most part class-prejudiced assumptions are based on professional middle-class ignorance and misunderstanding.” Metzger argues the mainstream commentators are sloppy and superficial. For example, they tend to define “working class” as people without bachelor’s Boulder Weekly

degrees. Metzger says many of these commentators don’t realize that nearly 70 percent of all adult whites don’t have bachelor’s degrees. They assume that most whites are college educated like themselves and that white people who have graduated from college are less bigoted and narrow-minded than people who have not. He says, “As a college professor, I very much hope this assumption is valid, but I could find no solid evidence that it is.” Metzger says there is a class-based blame-shifting (“It’s not us, it’s those rednecks!”), which helps perpetuate racism and other systems of oppression. The rather invisible but “well-documented institutional racism that involves banks denying mortgages, employers not hiring blacks, and landlords refusing and/or exploiting black renters is not generally carried out by poor and working-class whites, but by white middleclass professionals.” Nate Silver, in a May 3 posting on his FiveThirtyEight website, says Trump voters are economically better off than most Americans: “The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000, based on estimates derived from exit polls and Census Bureau data. That’s lower than the $91,000 median for Kasich voters. But it’s well above the national median household income of about $56,000. It’s also higher than the median income for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters, which is around $61,000 for both.” Republican voters are wealthier overall than Democratic voters and richer people are more likely to vote, particularly in primaries and caucuses. Silver said that that while turnout considerably increased overall from four years ago, there’s no sign of an especially heavy turnout among “working-class” or lowerincome Republicans. The median income for Clinton and Sanders voters — $61,000 for both candidates — was close to the overall median income in each state. Silver estimates that about 27 percent of American households had incomes under $30,000 last year. By comparison, 20 percent of Clinton voters did, as did 18 percent of Sanders supporters. But only 12 percent see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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The Orlando shooting was a direct attack on equality, diversity and freedom; it was an act of terror against all Americans. Most tragically it snuffed out dozens of vibrant lives too soon, and darkened countless others. My heartfelt sympathy is with the victims as well as their families, friends and the city of Orlando. My thoughts also remain with the entire LGBT community. Our community has been the target of hate and terror, and it is tragic that members of the community who want to give blood to help their friends are unjustifiably prevented from doing so despite the need. While we mourn those lost, we must continue to be resilient. We, as a community, know that love will always prevail over hate. Rep. Jared Polis is a co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus | To To reduce is ordinary and the first openly gay parent to serve in Congress.

One Colorado on the Orlando tragedy

Our hearts and minds are with those in Orlando, Florida. Lesbian,

gay, bisexual, transgender and queer night clubs have historically been safe spaces for people facing homophobia and transphobia, and it is within these spaces we have organized for civil rights and fought for equality. This tragedy is a stark reminder that the battle to end violence against LGBTQ people is far from over. We are shocked and devastated by the horrible shooting that occurred and our hearts are with the victims and families who have been impacted by this horrific act of violence targeting the LGBTQ community in Orlando. We cannot let this sensless act of violence drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community and our Muslim allies. The answer to hatred is love and unity, not more hatred. We will not allow this to silence the LGBTQ community, or make us go into hiding. Dave Montez, One Colorado

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support by lesser breeds. Kevin of Trump voters have incomes below $30,000. utter contempt for Not just a new standardWilliamson in waterexpresses filtration. Almost all of Trump’s voters were people living in “downscale communiTHE STANDARD. non-Hispanic whites. The median house- ties” in Appalachia and the Rust Belt. hold income for non-Hispanic whites is He talks about welfare dependency, drug about $62,000, still quite lower than the and alcohol addiction, and family anar$72,000 median for Trump voters. chy using the same type of language Silver says that “although about 44 which was deployed against black “welpercent of Trump supporters have colfare queens” by Saint Reagan: lege degrees, according to exit polls — “Nothing happened to them. There lower than the 50 percent for Cruz supwasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t porters or 64 percent for Kasich supa war or a famine or a plague or a forporters — that’s still higher than the 33 eign occupation. ... The truth about percent of non-Hispanic white adults, or these dysfunctional, downscale commuthe 29 percent of American adults overnities is that they deserve to die. all, who have at least a bachelor’s Economically, they are negative assets. degree.” Morally, they are indefensible. The white Nevertheless, economic anxiety is American underclass is in thrall to a widespread. Big majorities of vicious, selfish culture whose main prodRepublicans in every state said they’re ucts are misery and used heroin needles.” “very worried” about the condition of This country is full of “downscale the U.S. economy, according to exit polls, communities.” For decades, incomes have and these voters have been more likely stagnated and more people are looking for to vote for Trump. fewer jobs. This election year, Americans Meanwhile at America’s most presti- — both working class and middle class — gious conservative magazine, The want this to be discussed. National Review, people are going into This opinion column does not necessarily conniptions over Donald Trump and his reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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towards passing laws which bring more respect and equality to those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. As a member of the LGBT community, I am deeply saddened at the unjust loss of brothers and sisters in Florida. May they rest in peace, and may their families be comforted and may we all continue working towards increasing safety, security and equality for all. Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver

Help native tribes protect wild lands

Just over the Colorado border in Utah — and it’s good to remember these borders are artificial, especially when it comes to use of public lands — leaders from five Native American tribes, the Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mountain, Pueblo of Zuni and the Ute Indian, have together founded the Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition in an effort to conserve 1.9 million acres of ancestral land on the Colorado Plateau. This land is adjacent to Canyonlands and Glen Canyon and includes Valley of the Gods, some amazing canyon country, areas that still have wilderness character and more than 100,000 historic archeological sites. The tribes are urging President Obama to make this land a National Monument, especially crucial now as so much of the wonderful country in Utah is under threat. This land is currently unprotected and Utah politicians are fighting to keep Bears Ears from becoming a Monument. Please support this cause by signing the petition to President Obama found at bearsearscoalition. org/action. I also urge all Coloradans who love wilderness and canyon country to join the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), and the Grand Canyon Trust, both of which are excellent organizations fighting a tough battle to preserve wild lands in Utah and the Colorado Plateau. Joan Harvey/Boulder

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Defenders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) say the trade deal will protect the world’s oceans and fisheries. Unfortunately, that claim fails to withstand a careful reading of the TPP text. Supposedly, the TPP includes commitments to combat illegal fishing and prohibit harmful fisheries subsidies, both of which contribute to severe over harvesting. However, the TPP contains no specific binding provisions to ensure compliance. Worse yet, the TPP could stimulate trade in illegally caught fish such as Chilean sea bass by expanding market access to traditional transshipment ports in Singapore and Malaysia. Rather than obligating countries to abide by trade-related provisions of existing regional fisheries management organizations intended to prevent commerce in illegally caught fish, the TPP merely calls on countries to “endeavor not to undermine” the documentation schemes needed to ensure compliance. International trade in shark fins and commercial whaling are major drivers of the rapid worldwide depletion of these populations. TPP members Peru and Mexico are among the world’s largest exporters of shark fins. TPP members Malaysia and Vietnam are among the world’s top shark fin importers. TPP member Japan has killed more whales than any other nation since the 1985 moratorium on commercial whaling, and continues to kill hundreds each year, allegedly for “scientific” purposes. Although the TPP’s environment chapter says each Party “shall ... promote the long-term conservation of sharks ... and marine mammals,” the chapter includes no binding requirements to prohibit shark finning. Nor does the chapter mention commercial whaling, much less require any prohibitions on that practice. Faith that TPP will protect endangered sea life seems to be misplaced. Please tell Congressman Polis (303-484-9596) to vote “No” on the TPP. Betty Ball/Boulder

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hen it comes to the ballot initiatives being put forward this election cycle — at least the ones pertaining to oil and gas extraction — you often hear them referred to with terms like “community rights” or “local government authority.” But unlike in the past, those terms are being applied to a variety of initiatives, including one that would actually prevent communities from creating local ordinances to protect themselves from oil and gas extraction in close proximity to their homes, schools and hospitals. As a result, signing a petition in 2016 has become a rather confusing exercise wherein “signer beware” seems an appropriate warning. Not surprisingly to many observers of the ongoing and heated battle over frack-

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ing in Colorado, this confusion due to the blurring of such terms doesn’t appear to be an accident. Over the past five years, the terms “community rights” and “local authority ” have become closely tied to the various citizen-driven initiatives written to allow local communities or even counties the right to ban or

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news delay fracking or otherwise regulate oil and gas extraction within their jurisdictions. This explains why these terms so often find their way into the official or popular titles of such citizen efforts. This year’s initiatives with that same intent are no exception. • • • Initiative #40 is most often referred to as “The Colorado Community Rights Amendment” or the “Local Governance Amendment.” It has been put forward as a project of Coloradans for Community Rights. Proponents of Initiative #40 claim the amendment addresses the conflicts that exist between the fundamental rights of communities, people and the environment, and the excessive legal authority that politicians have wrongly granted to corporations. They further claim #40 would not only allow local communities to ban or otherwise regulate oil and gas extraction, but also allow local governments to control all industrial activity as well as other things, such as allowing communities to set their own minimum wage limits. Another initiative designed to empower local authority to regulate oil and gas extraction is also currently gathering signatures. Initiative #75, titled “Local Government Authority to Regulate Oil and Gas Development,” was put forward by Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development (CREED). Proponents of #75 say it would give local governments the ability to protect citizens from the harmful industrial processes of oil and gas extraction by allowing a community to ban them within city limits or otherwise apply local regulations stricter than current state regulations. CREED is also gathering signatures for Initiative #78 titled “Mandatory Setbacks From Oil and Gas Development,” which, if it makes the ballot and then passes, would force the oil and gas industry to leave a 2,500-foot buffer or “setback” between oil and gas drilling/production operations and homes, schools and hospitals. CREED says the size of the buffer zone was determined based on health studies. • • • In the past, anyone supporting the effort to put an initiative on the ballot giving citizens and local governments more control over the oil and gas industry simply had to listen for the code words “community rights” or “local control” coming out of the signature gatherer’s mouth and then sign the Boulder Weekly

petition. But times have changed and so have the oil and gas industry’s strategies. There is another ballot measure making the rounds this year, Initiative #138. The popular title for #138 is “Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Development.” I know, sounds familiar right? As you can see, #138’s informal title

is shockingly similar to Initiative #75’s title of “Local Government Authority to Regulate Oil and Gas Development.” It certainly seems bizarre and more than a little inappropriate for the Secretary of State’s office, which oversees such matters, to have allowed two initiatives collecting signatures at the exact same time to be operating under virtually identical names.

This name debacle is a recipe for a range of signature-gathering disasters from mere confusion to outright deception. So just how similar are the two initiatives in what they are seeking to accomplish? While the names may be virtually identical, they are, in fact, opposites. See SIGNER BEWARE Page 13

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Initiative #138 says the followfracking activity was occurring ing: and how much opposition there “Shall there be an amendment was to drilling tight shale formato the Colorado constitution stattions via fracking. Colorado was ing that local governments may rated “red.” enact and enforce local laws and Martini recently returned to regulations concerning oil and gas Colorado and his old friend development or operations so long Chad Vorthman at the Farm as the laws and regulations are no Bureau. Martini’s new title is more restrictive than, and do not vice president of advocacy and, conflict with, state laws or regulaof course, designated representations?” tive of Initiative #138. At first blush, it’s hard to • • • understand the point of passing The pedigree of Initiative this initiative. The Colorado #138 raises the question of Supreme Court pretty much just whether or not it’s just a coinmade this the law of the land cidence that this oil-and-gas– when it struck down both the industry friendly initiative fracking ban in Longmont and sells itself with a nearly identiFort Collins’ moratorium. It is cal name to the one already Past special investigations by Boulder Weekly provide a more complete explanation of how the oil simply redundant to that ruling. being used by Initiative #75, a and gas industry runs the state of Colorado and why Democrats and Republicans alike are working And obviously, despite its citizen effort that is attempting to defeat citizen initiatives for local control over oil and gas extraction. deceptive title, for all practical to accomplish the exact oppopurposes, the goal of #138 is to As you may recall from previous Boulder Weekly site outcome as #138. eliminate all rights of all local governments to reguinvestigations, Vital for Colorado has strong ties to And does it seem a well thought out strategy late oil and gas extraction in any way that is contrary Josh Penry and his EIS Solutions consulting firm as for petition gatherers for #138 to be, according to to the state’s oversight, which the industry largely well as to Penry’s wife Kristin Strohm who runs the numerous citizen accounts, concentrating their controls due to its outsized influence over our govercontroversial Common Sense Policy Roundtable efforts in places like Boulder County and Denver? nor and state house. In short, pass #138 and nothing (CSPR), which works with both Vital and the Koch Places where support for the oil and gas industry’s changes. Brothers. Strohm runs CSPR through her position at desire to restrict community rights so fracking So what’s the point? Starboard Group, one of the nation’s leading fundcan be done in neighborhoods is at its absolute Good question. raising organizations for conservative causes and lowest? According to the Secretary of State’s office, the Republican political campaigns. DeSmogBlog and Wouldn’t it make more sense to gather signatures designated representatives of Initiative #138 are Greenpeace have referred to Penry and Strohm as the in places like Weld and Garfield counties or Pueblo Shawn Martini and Scott Prestidge. The lineage of nation’s “power couple of fracking.” and Colorado Springs where some people might be these two “designated representatives” tells you all you For a more complete explanation of how the oil more receptive to signing away their communities’ need to know about Initiative #138. and gas industry runs the state of Colorado and why rights for the benefit of oil and gas industry profits in Prestidge is the energy industry director of the establishment Democrats and Republicans alike are exchange for the industry’s promise of permanent Denver Area Chamber of Commerce where he works working behind the scenes to defeat citizen initiatives jobs, a promise we now know was only temporary? for political operative Kelly Brough. You may remem- like #78, #75 and #40, please read Boulder Weekly’s These oil industry operatives’ choice of where to ber Brough from Boulder Weekly’s “Behind the curtwo previous investigations, “Who killed the vote on solicit signatures really did seem odd until we started tain” investigation. She is the former Gov. fracking” (tinyurl.com/hueauwu) from Sept. 17, 2015 hearing from people who claim that after signing a Hickenlooper staffer who is a member of Colorado and “Behind the curtain” (tinyurl.com/zvf877d) from petition they thought would amend the constitution Concern, the state’s most influential organization Oct. 2, 2014. to allow local fracking bans, they now fear they may This is the circle in which Prestidge operates. when it comes to pushing for unfettered oil and gas have mistakenly signed Initiative #138. He currently sits on the board of Vital for extraction. It’s the kind of mistake that should rarely if ever Colorado along with several members of Colorado She is, or was last year, also on the Advisory happen with proper oversight from the Secretary of Concern, including its Executive Director Mike Committee for CRED, the pro-oil-and-gas group State’s office. Kopp. funded by Anadarko Petroleum and Noble Energy. At the end of the day, it’s the responsibility of each Chad Vorthman, executive vice president of the CRED pays for many of the pro-fracking comof us to read and make sure we know what we are Colorado Farm Bureau, is also on the board of Vital mercials that inundate the airwaves these days. signing. If you believe you signed the wrong petition, CRED also paid for the pro-fracking “energy and for Colorado and the advisory Committee for then by all means take the time to sign the right one. environment” section that previously ran in the CRED, which brings us to Shawn Martini. The stories floating around about $1,000 fines for Denver Post leading up to the 2012 elections in an A few years back, Martini was director of comsigning more than one “local regulation of oil and effort to turn back the anti-fracking citizens initiamunications at the Colorado Farm Bureau. But he gas” petition are just more deception aimed at tives that year. took a four-year hiatus to be the senior communicaColorado citizens. If you feel like a petitioner has Brough also sat on the board of Vital for intentionally deceived you, take their name and tions director for an outfit called HBW Resources, Colorado, a pro-oil-and-gas front group workreport them to the Secretary of State’s office. There is LLC out of Houston. At HBW, one of Martini’s ing to defeat citizen opposition to unfettered always a very slim chance that someone in that office tasks was to pen a fracking blog that kept track of oil and gas extraction in their communities, might even write it down. anti-fracking activism around the country for the including previous and current citizen initiaBut for now, I’m afraid signer beware is your best benefit of HBW’s oil industry clients. The blog rated tives such as #75, #78 and #40. strategy. states red, yellow or green based on how much antiBoulder Weekly

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Feeds Food Drive raised more than 2,500 meals. In total the organization has provided 2 million meals nationwide since its inception. “It started with one food drive and two bands,” Levy says. “Now we work with dozens of bands and dozens of artists, hosting food drives almost every week.” In addition, the Conscious Alliance has broadened its services. More than simply providing food, the ultimate goal is to provide quality food and nutrition education with the help of natural food companies such as Justin’s, KIND Snacks and Plum Organics. “What started as emergency food relief has really turned into nutrition and exercise education and the opportunity to start youth empowerment programs as well,” Levy says. “Diabetes is high everywhere in America, and it starts with the food we fuel our bodies with. We believe in eating healthy and that every child deserves healthy, nutritious food that will help fuel them for the rest of their lives and lay the ground work for all of the amazing things that they will accomplish in their lives.” In this vein, they prefer donations of low-sodium and organic canned foods and explicitly won’t accept ramen noodles in exchange for a poster. Conscious Alliance works most closely with Pine Ridge Reservation, located about six hours ON THE BILL: Conscious Alliance Summer Concert from Boulder in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Series. June 16-Sept. 10. Their immersion into the reservation’s culture is Various locations around Colorado. Check out successful due to what Levy describes as a threeconsciousalliance.org/ tier approach, which includes providing food, events/ for a full listing. along with nutrition education and cultural empowerment workshops. “With consistent work with the community at Pine Ridge and in having employees there, we are developing programs to work around nutrition and exercise, around gardening, around healthy eating programs as well as cultural programs,” Levy says. The participation from fans and supporters who come out to shows, donate food and help with Conscious Alliance’s endeavors, of course, makes the work at Pine Ridge possible. “The fans have been super supportive and receptive,” Lerner says. “We see more and more people in line to donate food every night. Over the years the fans have made a difference, and that’s what it’s all about.” The people at Conscious Alliance look to accomplish more than just their 100,000-meal goal this summer. For Levy, it’s also about community engagement. “Whether they’re going to Electric Forest or Vertex [Festival in Buena Vista, Colorado], we want people to look out for Conscious Alliance and just learn how to engage in their local community as well, whether it’s Conscious Alliance or not,” he says. “There are amazing organizations out there, and it’s important for people to find something that they’re passionate about.” The Conscious Alliance booth will be at more than 15 concerts and festivals this summer throughout Colorado and the rest of the country. Levy, for one, is optimistic the organization will reach its goal. “I don’t want to put a ceiling on what Conscious Alliance can accomplish in the future,” Levy says. “Inherently people want to give back — they just need to be given the opportunity.” Boulder Weekly

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ost forms of rock climbing are a lot like dancing — almost balletic in the delicate, precise, graceful moves involved. A beautiful waltz with the rock. And then there’s offwidth climbing, which involves cracks too large for a fist and too small to accommodate the entire body. It’s like that pack of boys in junior high who would stand in a circle, jumping and screaming, skanking and moshing their way along to their favorite punk band. There is blood and there are bruises. It’s not pretty, and you’ve got to be a bit of a masochist to enjoy it. But Pamela Pack, one of the most accomplished offwidth climbers, male or female, in the world, has always been a bit of a masochist.

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Whether it’s mapping and surveying the ocean floor off the coast of Alaska, putting her body through six hours of training a day, or making a name for herself in the brutal world of offwidth climbing, she is With more than 50 female offwidth first ascents under her belt, no stranger to pain. Pamela Pack is known as the Queen of Offwidth climbing. Since 2008, Pack has sought North America’s most challenging After an injury sidelined her childhood gyminverted and vertical offwidth nastics dreams, Pack discovered a different outlet climbs. She has more than 50 female offwidth for her physically masochistic tendencies through first ascents under her belt and in 2009 was the a 21-day Colorado Outward Bound course in recipient of Climbing Magazine’s Golden Piton Award for establishing Gabriel 5.13c, a 65-foot the North San Juan range. “It was also the first time I had been hiking inverted offwidth roof in Zion National Park. in the mountains, used an ice-axe or even worn Pack is widely hailed as the Queen of Offwidth Climbing. But her reign almost never got see OFFWIDTH Page 20 a chance to begin. June 16 , 2016 19

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hiking boots,” she says. “It the deaths of renowned climbers Craig Luebben changed my life dramaticaland John Bachar. ly. I immediately fell in love “I wanted to get the FA with climbing, the mounfor Luebben and Bachar in tains and living outdoors.” their memory. I cried when Her introduction to the I clipped the anchor — it world of outdoor adventure was a very emotional expeled Pack on a whirlwind ride, sea kayaking in Mexico rience for me,” she explains, and along 500 miles of the and it led her on a pilgrimInside Passage of South age of sorts to repeat East Alaska, as well as a Luebben’s top 10 desert offthree-month stint living in widths in honor of his the Sierra Nevadas. memory and role in her life. Pack tried everything Now Pack hopes to from white water kayaking pass on the gift of mentorto windsurfing. ship with her involvement “But always returned to After developing signs of Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome, Park thought her climbing days were over. with the HERA That is, until she found offwitdth climbing. climbing,” she says. Foundation, an organizaHowever, after a partiction devoted to raising ularly challenging winter of mixed climbing and boul- Vedauwoo where she learned the precise technique of money and awareness for ovarian cancer. Their dering, Pack couldn’t ignore the excruciating and offwidth climbing, because like the aforementioned Climb4Life Boulder event on June 25 will be a full troublesome signs of Chronic Exertional skanking, as brutal and haphazard as it may appear, day of hiking, yoga and climbing with a silent aucCompartment Syndrome (CECS). there is actually technique involved. And as Scarpelli tion and dinner to follow. The event will help “The more I trained, the more painful my foredescribes, “the brutality of wide cracks, it disguises the HERA raise funds for Johns Hopkins University arms became,” she explains. “I started having noticecraft … the brutality of it, the struggle of it, makes it researchers studying ovarian cancer. able difficulty with fine motor skills — it became seem like there’s no art to it, and there’s no craft to it, Pack is new to HERA, but thrilled to be a part of harder to crimp and eventually I couldn’t even hold a but if you think that, you’re on the wrong path.” it this year, truly believing in founder Sean Patrick’s pen. Finally, it got to a point where I needed help But Pack had found her path. statement that “the skills women learn in climbing — prying my hands off my ice-tools after a day ice“It was more than an obsession — I felt like I dis- problem solving, risk taking and confidence in their climbing in Ouray, Colorado.” covered what I was born to do. I spent the entire sum- decision making — will enable them to climb all the mountains in their lives.” Surgery was the recommended course of action. mer in Vedauwoo learning the art of offwidth and And with her numerous setbacks of CECS, multiAnd after consulting with four surgeons, Pam finally never looked back,” she says. “I had always loved ple ruptured discs, knocked out teeth, dislocated ribs, scheduled her appointment. But after considering the climbing, but I pursued offwidth with a passion I had a torn ACL, a bite from a bat — to name a few injucomplications, she canceled the surgery the day before never experienced before.” ries — stalkers, and the devastating loss of her menand decided it was time to give up climbing. Pack was quickly welcomed into the small offtors, Pam has demonstrated her ability to surmount width community as she made a name for herself. “I was devastated,” she says, “So, the next day I the mountains in her life, continuing the forward purbought a mountain bike and decided to sell my And with her first ascent (FA) of Gabriel, Pack suit of her passion, undeterred by hindrances threatclimbing gear. But I just couldn’t sell my gear. I showed the world she was a force to be reckoned ening to stop her. just could not stand the thought of not climbing with, in all her 5-foot-3-inch, 110-pound glory. “And ultimately I just have such tremendous pasanymore.” Ascending Gabriel required offwidth techniques that had not been invented yet, giving Pack “the possibility But the dangers of climbing and the irreparable sion for wide crack climbing,” she says. “It’s the source damage it caused to her body were too hard to ignore. for unlimited creativity and experimentation.” There of my finest moments — mentally, physically and was no other route that required the full body inverAnd then she found a guidebook for Vedauwoo, emotionally.” sion style of climbing within a squeeze chimney for Wyoming, and her life changed. In it were pictures of A passion she can thank her parents for. which Gabriel is famous. Craig Luebben and Bob Scarpelli, offwidth masters “My parents have probably regretted sending me Pack accomplished this with a broken rib and and revolutionaries. Their non-crimping style gave on that [Colorado Outward Bound] course ever since,” pneumonia. But she was determined to make the Pam pause for thought. she says. “I’m not sure anyone’s parents want them to She set off for a week in the offwidth mecca of ascent, having recently lost important mentors with grow up to be a professional offwidth climber?”

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alia Motley grew up in a world of nostalgia. Her mom was a connoisseur of vintage clothing and her dad a jazz musician. Through her life, she developed an affinity for the past and a nagging feeling of being born in the wrong decade. “Perhaps I feel misplaced in our time. ... Taking more time to savor life is very appealing to me, which I think is very prevalent in earlier decades. Everything is so fast paced these days, I like to slow my roll sometimes,” she says with a laugh. As a remedy, she works as a pinup model and full-time burlesque dancer, known by the name Bang Bang Von Loola. A “pinup” is simply described as a poster or image showcasing a celebrity or sex symbol designed to be displayed in some fashion. It can also refer to the model in the picture. Nowadays the term most commonly refers to the Boulder Weekly

women and the style of its heyday in the 1920s-’50s. Motley is one of the many ladies featured in the new documentary Pin Up! The Movie, which follows the blossoming modern-day pinup culture of Colorado. On June 19, the film premieres on Front Range at License No. 1 in the Boulderado. Pin Up! explores the many facets of the genre, including burlesque, rockabilly and roller derby, and it follows contestants as they compete in the pinup contest at the 1940’s WWII Era Ball, which happens this year on June 18 at the Boulder Municipal Airport. The documentary is directed by Longmont’s Kathleen M. Ryan, who is an associate professor at University of Colorado Boulder. Pin Up! came about after Ryan stumbled on the community after her last film Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II, about the unsung women who volunteered for the Navy under the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. For her latest project,

Ryan says she wanted to analyze a subculture that is “all about accepting yourself and embracing diversity in beauty.” Ryan was struck by the inclusiveness of the movement and the celebration of individuality. It’s not an exclusive club; all body types, genders, orientations and ethnicities are welcome. Each member has a different reason for embodying the pinup girl lifestyle. Boulderite Emilie Johnson, who’s also in the film, was drawn to it during high school. Not only did the clothes appeal to her, but so did the power dynamic of the women she saw in the classic Hollywood films. “I never had a body shape that fit into the normal fashion that every other girl could fit into it,” Johnson says. “Pinup fashion matched my body and it matched the way I felt and how I thought I see PINUP Page 24

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ollen season seems to be getting the best of Neil Finn when Boulder Weekly catches him on a day off at home in Auckland, periodically interrupting a 20-minute interview with sneezes and sniffles. It’s late autumn in New Zealand, and Finn is preparing to trade in the cool ocean breezes of the Southern Ocean for a few days of hot and dry Colorado late spring; a main stage appearance at Telluride, and two nights at Boulder Theater.

time for it. And it was anything but a convenient valise for shelved songs. Worked over by producer and Mercury Rev veteran Dave Fridmann (Sparklehorse, Sleater-Kinney, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), Dizzy Heights luxuriates in various swoons of girl-chorus vocal meringue (“Impressions,” “Divebomber”), city-dreaming string pads (“Dizzy Heights”), colliding airborne sonic fragments (“White Lies and Alibis,” probably the album’s best track) and airtight crafted pop-perfec-

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tion (“In My Blood,” the album’s other best track). Crowded House fans (or for that matter, even late-era Split Enz diehards) will recognize Finn’s uncanny knack for coaxing depth from lyrical economy. The record seduces the listener into piecing the whole cinematic trip together as a kind of concept album, its thematic artery pulsing beneath Fridmann’s buffet of sumptuous sonic gravies. Not the record that Neil Finn fans probably expected, which, as Finn points out, is kind of the point. “Some of the songs were relatively intact from the way I envisioned them, but some of them went through a large transition because of Dave’s presence,” he says. “He made a few big calls on a few of them, and I sort of welcome a strong presence in the studio. You sort of leave expectations behind — and it doesn’t always work out, sometimes your original ideas still stand up well. “I think [what is] good for making your music feel more open and inviting is to have somebody else bring their own aesthetic. It makes more cracks for the light to come through somehow.”

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At the time, Finn was reading the biography of Neil Young, relating to an anecdote about how different people wanted different things out of Young’s music. Some only wanted him to do acoustic, others only his “jammy” stuff. Hesitant to compare himself to Young, Finn can relate. “Sometimes people get a little flummoxed by the production aspects, if it’s not what they’re expecting. They

have an idea of how they would like to hear my songs presented,” he says. “There’s still people who think — rightly or wrongly — it’s only stuff I do with Split Enz or Crowded House, or stuff I do with my brother, people who only want to listen to solo work. I think there’s misapprehension sometimes about what the name on the record means. Really, I see it as a continuous body of work.” Boulder Weekly

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about American culmedia is so focused in ON THE BILL: Neil Finn with Liam Finn. 6:30 p.m. ture and being a on sculpting news for Tuesday, June 21 and musician, music individuals more as a Wednesday, June 22, would be right on the form of entertainBoulder Theater, 2032 14th St., 303-786-7030. Price: top of the list. But ment. There’s a lack $34.50 balcony, $39.50 certainly in terms of of perspective in reserved, $49.50 gold circle its contribution to the America to what the way that the world rest of the world is listens to music and like and to what relates to art ... film, drama ... all of America is in terms of its place in the that, has had an incredible contribuworld.” tion. And still does. Can we thank Rupert Murdoch for “I think the main thing, coming in Donald Trump? “I think they’re mining the same from the outside ... the [American]

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thing; playing to lowest common denominator all the time. They see that as a very powerful position to be [in], and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is certainly based in a large part on that. I think Trump’s playing to the same audience; they’re probably enjoying each other’s company, I’d say. “I still believe that the dust will settle at some point, when it comes down to a decision about how the people will want to be represented, there will be ... some sense that will prevail. “But that’s just my opinion.”

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Finn brings his current touring band to Colorado, which includes his wife Sharon on bass and son Liam on guitar. Hardly the first well-tenured musician to enlist his family as a backing band, we still wonder if the process was a relatively natural evolution. “It’s been an easy transition in some ways,” Finn says, “because we didn’t push it. Liam had his own thing going so we don’t get to do it often, but we’ve been working on some music together so the timing is good. And we discovered by accident that my wife Sharon and I could play music together (late bloomers!). “I kinda love it,” Finn adds. “It feels entirely natural and the music feels really good playing together. And a chance to hang out, while being conscious of not allowing it to become... y’know, weird sensitivities and things with family members. It encourages me to get zen about the process of rehearsing and so on.” Finn also obliquely teases out some news about Crowded House; he told the Guardian a couple of years ago that there may be some news about the onagain off-again band, and he reiterated that to us. “There is going to be some good news for the Crowded House hardcore by the end of the year; some re-issues and some quite cool things coming out that would fall into the category of ‘rare buried treasures,’ but there may be some songs along with that,” he says. “I’m just trying to make sure that everything comes out is of good quality and has a reason to exist, and it isn’t just a rehash of something or inferior versions of stuff that’s already out there.” Finn’s stateside history extends all the way back the early 1980s, when Split Enz was trying to beat the clock breaking into the U.S. radio market before the band fell apart (and didn’t quite make it). He brings his troupe to the high country this coming week at the cusp of an election year. In the best of times, it’s a cheerfully dysfunctional yearlong fugue of TV ad dollars sloshing up against the craggy shores of ideological hellscapes. This year it promises a national tantrum of epochbruising proportion, the Future of Humanity and the Dignity of All Men teetering uncomfortably somewhere between a remorselessly nondescript pantsuit and the weather-resistant arch of a peach-hued hairpiece, a fallen angel’s truncated wing. Finn is as erudite an interview as he is a punctual and incisive songwriter, so we couldn’t resist asking him to riff on American culture. We’re Americans; deep down, we really do care what foreigners think of us. “I mean, got a lot of things I love

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t’s a wonderful the singers’ parts and, life for Jake in one case, telling a Heggie right now. singer who added a As the comtouch he liked, “Keep poser of two that!” highly successful Heggie and Scheer operas, Dead Man approached It’s a Walking (2000) and Wonderful Life knowMoby Dick (2010), he ing that it is a deeply finds that commissions loved film. for his works keep “I initially was coming. worried about the “People keep asking iconic nature of the me,” he says. “A comfilm,” Scheer says of mission is a huge gift.” his adaptation for the Now he is in operatic stage. “But in Boulder to work on his for a penny, in for a latest opera, based on pound, you just dive Frank Capra’s beloved in and do it. In opera 1946 film It’s a what’s carrying the Wonderful Life. Joining marrow of the matter him for work at the is the music. So the CU NOW offers composers the opportunity to workshop new operas prior to University of Colorado their first productions. point is, how do you New Opera Workshop, distill those images (CU NOW) are libret[of the film] into a ON THE BILL: CU New tist Gene Scheer and staff from the musical language that allows music to do Opera Workshop Workshop: Houston Grand Opera, where the finished what it does best — to communicate the It’s a Wonderful Life by Jake opera will have its premiere in December. emotional landscape of the story.” Heggie. 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 17, 2 p.m. Sunday, June 19, Under Leigh Holman, director of CU’s “Our goal,” Heggie adds, “was to create ATLAS Black Box Theater, CU Eklund Opera Program, CU NOW offers magic, beauty, drama, great passion and tell Roser ATLAS Building. composers the opportunity to workshop this story that people know from the film, Composers Fellows’ Initiative Performances of student new operas prior to their first productions. but to tell it in a very fresh way. Gene has opera compositions. 7:30 p.m. For more than two weeks, they try out their found a very magical way to tell the story. Saturday, June 18, Music new works with CU student singers and It’s surprising and it’s completely different Theatre, CU Imig Music Building. other support staff, seeing what works and from the film. It’s fresh and innovative and what doesn’t, making changes as they go. it inspired me enormously. The worst mis“This is the only place that offers such take you could make would be to try to put the an extensive opportunity to work on [a movie on the stage.” new] piece, a full cast at your disposal every single day,” Scheer agrees. “I love the idea of people seeing it fresh and Heggie says. “To all the people who have made this possible, being surprised,” he says. “For those who have seen the film and CU NOW and Holman and the people here, it’s just an love the film, like I do, part of the fun of it is to be surprised.” enormous feeling of gratitude.” CU NOW is thriving at a time when there is an abunAfter 18 days of intensive work, CU NOW will present dance of new opera being written in this country. One reason performances of selected scenes from It’s a Wonderful Life on for American opera’s recent success is the use of subjects that Friday, June 17 and Sunday, June 19 in the ATLAS Black are part of our shared American culture. For example, recent Box Theater. Between those two performances, CU NOW seasons have seen premieres of operas on Manchurian will also present scenes by CU student composers on June 18 Candidate (by Kevin Puts, Minnesota Opera), JFK (David T. in the Imig Music Theatre. All three performances are free Little, Ft. Worth Opera), Dolores Claiborne (Tobias Picker, and open to the public. San Francisco), Cold Mountain ( Jennifer Higdon, Santa Fe), “We started making cuts and changes right away, the first The Scarlet Letter (Lori Laitman, Opera Colorado) and The Shining (Paul Moravec, Minnesota Opera). day,” Heggie says. “To be able to do this much work [before “It’s a very exciting time,” Heggie says. “[American opera] the premiere] is an enormous gift. You have to get a general has blossomed and flowered into something really remarkable.” view of what’s working and what’s not, as you revise. Heggie has no doubt about the importance of CU NOW “The only way to learn about a piece is to see it on stage, in the creative process. “Before the workshop, it’s all abstract,” with an audience. That’s why Broadway shows do weeks of he says. “The opportunity to hear it really sung by different previews, because the final character in any theater piece is color voices and the different range of voices is huge. the audience.” “If, hopefully, it’s successful in December, a lot of that In the rehearsal I attended, Heggie was making could be attributed to the fact that we had this time in detailed changes in the score — adding or cutting one or Boulder.” two measures here and there, changing individual notes in Boulder Weekly

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about the people living inside mobile homes, their but she takes them far beyond that initial prompting. stories, their purpose and their dreams. “Who live in For her, color is a language capable of storytelling and these 10’ x 60’ boxes?” she asks. Who is it that lives on she takes advantage of the vast range of pigments to wheels? “Wheels can symbolize a measure of indepen- tell each painting’s tale. dence, and a portable American dream, ready to move Inspired by color theorist Charles Hawthorne, at a moment’s notice with no tethers to the ground Chambers experiences the world in color. When she beneath them.” first views something, she notices the contrasts The American dream usually signifies the sort of between lights and darks, then moves on to other freedom that allows for upward mobility, for prosperi- details like the shapes of objects or the shades of blue ty as achieved through hard work in a society with and brown in a puddle. In each painting, Chambers few barriers. For many, it Lindy Chambers tries not to use the same is symbolized by the color twice, a testament to prospect of homeownerpainting what she truly ship or retirement or the sees. acquisition of possessions, Her color choices are but it is not built on also strategic, using it to notions of wealth and blend together a range of advancement alone. At its styles that don’t ordinarily root, the American dream lie together on the same represents the intangible canvas. Each painting has aspects of optimism and strong elements of abstract the innate capabilities of and impressionist techevery individual to sucniques, as well as forms ceed on their own terms. that are cartoon-like in Many say that characcharacter. teristic optimism is being The most important challenged, perhaps most things are portrayed in notably acknowledged by abstract color — the trees, President Obama in his the homes, but mostly the inaugural address when animals. Chambers doesn’t “Night Theif” he urged Americans not include the human inhabto heed the “nagging fear itants in her paintings, that America’s decline is instead their life is ON THE BILL: Ten by inevitable, and that the next generaimbued by the character of the critSixty. The Dairy Arts Center, tion must lower its sights.” Almost ters and what they say about their 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303eight years later, that pessimistic outhuman hosts. 440-7826. Through July 4. Exhibition reception, Friday, look is still palpably familiar. “The animals in the yards that June 17, 5 p.m. However, Chambers does not portray people have are mostly goats because it as grim, but rather as a beautiful they are pets and food,” Chambers return to simplicity. says. “The dogs are mostly stray and The American dream, she says, is not dead or gone, flea ridden and that is a little sad, but it is interesting it’s just hiding out of plain sight. She explains that artthat they live like that, that they don’t particularly care ists are seers whose job it is to notice what the rest of for the animals because it costs money, but they are a us miss, to point it out and offer visual explanations. part of their homes.” Chambers offers that description in color and In stark contrast are the objects shown strewn light. The initial palette for her work is inspired by about the yards — tires, cans and all kinds of trash. the paint on the mobile homes themselves, often Each is depicted as a line drawing, painted in a conpainted in the bright colors characteristic of Mexico, sistent shade of beige that pops in contrast to the oth-

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10 Years Gone: Led Zeppelin Tribute. 10 p.m. 3 Margaritas, 1268 Hover St., Longmont, 303-772-8486.

Euro Dance Party. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Hi Water. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Hippo Temple EP Release Show. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Honeytree Duo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Igor & The Red Elvises. 8 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

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

Celtic Session Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

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7 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

11 a.m. Sunday, June 19, Courthouse Lawn, Pearl Street Mall, 1200-1400 Blocks, Boulder.

9 a.m. Saturday, June 18, Boulder Municipal Airport, 3300 Airport Road, Boulder, 303-441-3108.

The Boulder Jewish Festival is kicking off its 22nd annual celebration of all things Jewish. This free event will cover two blocks of downtown Boulder, with booths offering everything from local artwork to a variety of kosher dishes. Community rabbis and spiritual nonprofits will be available for questions and conversations, while the kiddos have a variety of games and crafts to keep them busy. The schedule is packed with live entertainment including groups like Hal Aqua and The Lost Tribe, Boulder Israeli Dance and the Hebrew Chorale. — Katie Porter

Those looking for some free family time this weekend can head over to the airport for Boulder’s aviation event. Get an up-andclose look at displays of antique, experimental and acrobatic aircraft and helicopters, many of which you can sit in for photo ops. For those excited to get a bird’s eye view, helicopter tour tickets will also be available for purchase. Plus, a kid-friendly craft area put on by Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum offers rocket building and flight simulators. At 6:30 a.m. there will be a sunrise hot air balloon launch for the early birds. — Katie Porter

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Los Cheesies. 6:30 p.m. Sancho’s Mexican Restaurant, 2850 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-440-0228. Megan Burtt Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Megan Metheney and Rebekah West in Concert. 7:30 p.m. Star House, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

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SEAN RENNER 8PM THERESA PETERSON & PAMELA MACHALA 9PM

Open Jam, Boogie Nights Free. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Lindy Chambers

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Selby Clyman Duo. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

Sherefe, Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Stonebelly. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Take Down The Door. 6:30 p.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Vinyl Night, Bring your own album. 7 p.m.

12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720638-1623. Zahatar. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Events Almost Holy. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

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Iggy Pop: Live in Basel. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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41st Annual Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.

Ten by Sixty, now at The Dairy, imagines the modern-day American dream. Read more on page 30.

Germany vs. Poland. 1 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

TUESDAY JUNE 21 8PM

25th Annual Colorado Watercolor Society State Exhibition. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.

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

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L’attesa. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Olympic Day with Boulder Road Runners. 5:30 a.m. Potts Track Field at University of Colorado, Boulder. Friday, June 17 Music Blue Crewe. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Boulder Sound Lab. 10 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458. Chuck Lamb Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

A Rotation of Six Video Works by Six International Artists from Collection (Anonymous). Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-4432122. Through June 12.

Glassworks. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 25. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 9. Jeff Richards. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 30.

Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Robert Castellino. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 30. SEED: Disperse. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25. Ten by Sixty. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 4. Tethered. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 26. Why We Dance. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 14. Women of Abstract Expressionism . Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.

Jackson Cloud. 8:30 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298.

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

Keith Rea. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Lauie D. 6 p.m. Mod Market, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-494-1655. Left Coast Country. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Leo Kottke & Keller Williams. 7 p.m. Chautauqua

theater The Comedy of Errors. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 7.

Defunkt Railroad. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Equivocation. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 6.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Dechen Hawk, Colin Robinson and Jarrard Menard. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017.

Great American Taxi. 8 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.

Biloxi Blues. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 26.

Foxfeather. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.

Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Mu-

Corey Rezner. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Downtown Summer Concert Series. 6 p.m. 400 Block, East of Main, Fourth Ave. between Main St. and Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-651-8484.

seum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 3.

Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Monocle Duo. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap see EVENTS Page 36

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Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues follows a young Army recruit’s experience during World War II. Check it out at Miner’s Alley through June 26.

The Improvised Shakespeare Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through June 26. The Sound of Music. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through June 26.

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Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Courtesy of Boulder Book Store

Art Good Times. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Quemando. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Samples. 6 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main St. and Fourth Ave., Longmont. Steady Flow with The Mighty Pines. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sunshinefest. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Thomas Gronberg. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

If you’re a local author stop into the Boulder Book Store on June 20.

Thumpin’. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Wallpaper House Band. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683. The Workshy. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Wrong Side Right. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Events Almost Holy. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Exhibition Reception for H. Jennings Sheffield, Lindy Chambers and SEED: Disperse. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Fun on the Farm: Earthworms — Underground Gardeners. 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Boulder, 303776-8688. L’attesa. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Other F Word. 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Reception Dave Kennedy Landscape Paintings. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Saturday, June 18 Music Augustus. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Austrian Connection. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Barrel of Blues and The Constant Tourists. 2 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Ben There. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Bhatki Explotion. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Blackalicious. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Bonnie and the Clydes. 10 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Brian Parton. 12 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. BurnsTwice. 7 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Carry Me Ohio. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Cat Jerky. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. The Clarks. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E.

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Friday, June 17

Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Saturday, June 18

Tuesday, June 21

Carolyn Lunn. 10 a.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.

Steven Karl, Tim Early and Jessica Comola. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, June 20

Local Authors Open House. 7 p.m. Boulder

Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010 Coop and the Chicken Pluckers. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. DJ Dirty Sanchez. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Foxfeather. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Fremonts, Sloane Michael, Jay Martin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

PG Lengsfelder — Beautiful to the Bone. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, June 22 Barbara Cohn — Calmer Waters. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sanitas Fest. 3 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave, Unit A, Boulder, 303-998-2895. The Seers. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. She Grooves. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sound Travels. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Tim Ostdiek Band. 8 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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

Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Gina Sobel. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

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Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Jack Hadley. 11 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D-1, Boulder, 303-443-1822. Jacob Green. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Jake Bergstrom. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. James Faulk, Stonebelly. 9:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Johanna Winkel. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. John Prine. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. The Johnny O Band. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Kirk Margoles and Friends. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Last Year’s Model. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Lauie D. 6 p.m. Mod Market, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-494-1655.

12Degree is Turning 3. 12 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. 1940s WWII Era Ball. 5 p.m. Boulder Airport, 3393 Airport Road, Boulder. 720-924-1945. Almost Holy. 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Barbecue, Blues & Brews. 11 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D-1, Boulder, 303-443-1822. Goldilocks. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Iggy Pop: Live in Basel. 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. L’attesa. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Ninth Annual Prospect Artists Studio Tour. 11 a.m. Prospect New Town, Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 720-252-7787. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-3798299. Sunday, June 19 Music

Magpie Zero. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Bluegrass Jam. 2 p.m. Black Canyon Distillery, 13710 Deere Court, Unit B, Longmont, 720-209-9701.

Max Wagner. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

MojoMama. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Dusty Stray. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Paper Moonshine. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE.

James Speiser. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

The Acoustic Mountain Sagebrush Blues Duo Ravin’wolf. 11 a.m. Louisville Farmers’ Market at Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.

Jon Ridnell Duo. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. see EVENTS Page 38

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

Matt Flaherty. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

The Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Hinder, Like A Storm, Brad Ray. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Policulture. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Jalbatross (Ryan Jalbert Of The Motet). 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Ran Off the Rooster. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Neil Finn. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Sean Renner, Theresa Peterson and Pamela Machala. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Open Jam Hosted by: Lady and The Gentlemen. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Snow Tha Product. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Wil Swindler Organ Trio. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Wild Road. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Prairie Scholars Open Mic. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303774-7698.

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Mini Me. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-6298. Sound Bites. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 718-965-8951. Super Magick. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Events Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. The Phenom. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tuesday, June 21 Music Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Irin Poellot and Pat Holmberg. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898. Live Music. 8:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Neil Finn. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. The Prairie Scholars Sushi Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303-684-8383. Zyzzyx, Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Events The Congressman. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Gurukulam. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Historic Mine Hike. 9 a.m. Nature Hike, 1734 Spruce St., Boulder. Oil Demonstration by Linda Faul. 11 a.m. Longmont YMCA, 950 Lashley St., Longmont, 303776-0370. Topher Downham to Present on Boulder County Accessible Trails. 2 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898.

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‘Warcraft’ is pretty, ugly and pretty ugly  by Ryan Syrek

o me, one scene above all other defines Warcraft, a movie as breathtakingly nonsensical as it is irresponsibly chaotic. A young, generic hero who can sometimes burp blue flame, named Khadgar (Ben Schnetzer), stands in front of a pulsating box of gelatinous black goop. A door opens in the goopy box. Khadgar, with no hint of intentional comedic timing, asks a robed magic dude, “So... should I go in?” To which the robed magic dude says, “I don’t know. This has never happened before.” And that is Warcraft to me: A series of WTF moments blended with acting so impotent that full audiences now have permanent erectile dysfunction. As someone who has never played the video game Warcraft, this synopsis is going to be a train wreck. And not the good kind, where, like, a caboose filled with bunnies spills out everywhere for free cuddles. This will be the gross kind, where toxic goo spills everywhere and doesn’t even turn anyone into a superhero. Alright, so apparently, fearsome orc warriors, who look like Relentlessly stupid, huge orc things fight dumb humans in chaotic weird battles that involve magic that seems to be barfed at super-steroid propeople in different colors. It’s bad and weird, man. fessional wrestlers with the worst underbites ever, invade a realm filled with humans in order to kill them. That’s it. That’s the entirety of the plot. Now, some orcs are good and feel bad about people-murder; they’re light-skinned. Some orcs are bad; they’re green-skinned. I don’t think this was some kind of coded racial commentary, but it was done so that people like me could understand why some of the orcs were hitting other orcs with big hammers and how they decided which orcs to hit. The humans... God, I legitimately don’t know where to start. Um, one of them is called Lothar (Travis Fimmel), and he seems really angry, probably because he still has a mullet. And there’s something called a “Guardian” named Medivh (Ben Foster), who doesn’t actually seem to guard anything and gets really bad acne after peeing green magic into a blue pool. And there’s something about a portal that has to be closed from each side or something. Look, it’s mostly just a lot of loud noises and people barfing colored magic air. The one good thing is that the orc’s eyes are really well done. I’m serious! For the longest time, the “uncanny valley” that existed in making CGI characters seem “real” had to do with this strange, off-putting deadness in their eyes. I didn’t feel like the orcs were actively trying to steal my soul from my body when they had close-ups. So that was good! Also good was... nothing else in the movie. I am told that fans of the video game are enjoying Warcraft. Awesome! I loved Duncan Jones’ Moon and am totally rooting for the guy. I also know that films like this, by their very nature, have to deal in a great amount of fan service. I’m just not a fan, and there is nothing in it for non-fans. At all. So, oh dear God did I hate this movie. One day, there will be a video game adaptation than unites lovers of This review first the original genre and movie lovers. This is not that day. appeared in the The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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‘L’attesa’ is a ghost story for the living by Michael J. Casey

y grandmother once told me the ON THE BILL: greatest pain ever felt was felt by a L’attesa (The Wait). June 16–18, The Boedecker parent burying her own child. Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Nothing could feel more unnatural. Boulder, 303-440-7825, Losing a loved one is tragic; losing a thedairy.org. child is devastation. That devastation has come to Anna ( Juliette Binoche) as she buries her adult son, Giuseppe, just days before Easter. Adding a wrinkle to this scenario is Jeanne (Lou de Laâge), Giuseppe’s Parisian girlfriend currently en route to Anna’s Italian villa where she and Giuseppe planned to spend the holiday. Unfortunately, Jeanne and Giuseppe’s communication is less than stellar. She leaves several voicemails, but hears nothing in return. When Jeanne arrives at the villa, Anna does not tell her of Giuseppe’s untimely fate, and instead informs her that an unnamed relative has passed. With little else to do, Jeanne strikes up a relationship with Anna, trying to comfort her while she waits for Godot. L’attesa (The Wait) is 35-year-old Piero Messina’s first feature film as director, Juliette Binoche gives a moving performance with and the young Italian shows a little dialogue in L’attesa. capable hand at visual storytelling. He ought to; he learned from one of the best: Paolo Sorrentino, whose The Great Beauty had Messina in the role of assistant director. Sorrentino is one of the more fascinating figures to come out of European cinema in the past decade, and Messina has clearly picked up some pointers. The visuals of L’attesa are stunning and exquisitely shot. The performances are expertly calibrated. Binoche, playing her role in both French and Italian, is aces in any language and Messina provides a definite sense of place. But what Messina failed to grab from Sorrentino is also what separates L’attesa from more exciting and penetrating works of cinema. Messina has no knack for pacing and no sense of mystery; both of which make Sorrentino’s films hallmarks of European cinema. Though set during the Easter holiday, L’attesa opens with Giuseppe’s funeral but never manages to move out of mourning into assumption. Instead, Giuseppe’s presence, or lack thereof, haunts these women. Anna refuses to move on while Jeanne doesn’t know she needs to. Messina explores these perspectives at a deliberate and languid pace, mostly to the movie’s detriment. In other situations this approach would be necessary, but with performers of this magnitude, silence says so much more. And indeed, large chunks of the movie unfold with little dialogue, Binoche’s face doing most of the heavy lifting. Just one of many reasons that Bincohe’s three-decade long career in cinema is one of acclaim. How long Messina’s career will last has yet to be determined. But as long as he continues to pick valuable collaborators, it is no doubt that he will be able to work out some of the clumsier kinks in his narrative. Here’s to hoping that moviegoers won’t have to wait too long.

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va Paleckova spent half a year developing the waffle batter for Blooming Beets Kitchen. Waffles are a little trickier when they’re not only glutenfree but grain-free too. With a friend and co-worker, Paleckova experimented with different combinations of nut flours and egg and oils, trying to create a batter that would rise into the perfect waffle: crispy on the outside, light and chewy on the inside. Sometimes they would think they got the batter just right, but scaling the recipe up for a commercial kitchen would send the cooks back to the drawing board. And then the waffle maker broke. So they made pancakes for a while, which proved even harder. “Every time you put it on [the skillet] it would be like a different pancake; sometimes it would rise, sometimes not. We thought, ‘What are we doing wrong?’” Palechova remembers. The two of us are sitting in a sunny corner booth in the back of Blooming Beets Kitchen on 30th Street, and we’re about to eat a waffle — a salted caramel, coconut ice cream, hazelnut spread waffle that’s just been added to the eatery’s lineup of desserts. It turns out that what they were doing “wrong” with the batter could be as simple as the size of the eggs. “It was traumatic,” Palechova says. But the Czech native refused to give up. In fact, Blooming Beets Kitchen itself is a testament to Palechova’s determination. A little more than two years ago, Palechova was listless and devoid of passion working in a corporate job. She had developed a fascination with not just healthy eating but “clean” eating, foods that were free from processed ingredients like

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waffle batter right. The end result is a waffle made mostly of in-house ground raw organic cashews mixed with coconut oil, avocado oil, eggs, organic maple syrup and a bit of coconut flour. “After about half a year making the batter basically every day, I would say a good 180 iterations, you make it every day and sometimes twice a day for both shifts [we got it right],” Palechova says. “Just little tiny tweaks; a little more of this, a little less of this. “And sometimes it still isn’t right.” But someone from the kitchen has just brought us a split order of the new waffles, and it’s a little hard to believe they don’t nail this every time. As I sink my fork into the first fluffy bite, Palechova tells me about the ice cream, made at Cows Gone Coconut in Longmont, which produces their coconut milk in-house. It is as creamy and decadent as any Häagen-Dazs treat, and the slowly hardening caramel provides a light crunch with just the right touch of saltiness. Speaking of, the caramel is made with Himalayan sea salt, coconut oil, almond butter and maple syrup, and the hazelnut spread covering the waffle is made of 100 percent chocolate, egg yolks, coconut palm sugar, coconut milk, avocado oil, almond flour and coconut flour. As I finish my waffle, I shamelessly drag a finger through a trail of leftover caramel. There’s a faint sweet spiciness in there, like cinnamon. Palechova isn’t a fan of the cinnamon, and thinks she’ll make sure the cooks don’t add it again. I drag my finger through the leftover caramel again. She laughs. “Well, as long as you like it.”

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The tumbler of chilled, unadulterated watermelon essence was a revelation, one of a handful of food memories from the past I can call up and taste in my mind with no hesitation. It was the perfect foil and counterpoint to the complexly seasoned filled dosas and stews. I’ve only occasionally encountered watermelon juice in the years since. I figured: How hard could it be to make? I don’t have a juicer so I attacked the watermelon with a serrated knife and started running chunks through the blender. I strained it through a colanJohn Lendorff der and got a thin smoothielike consistency. The puree or juice can be frozen in cubes to make a sort of sorbet. If you use a strainer or cheesecloth you end up with this pure reddish, pinkish liquid that speaks to you on a hot summer day. If you wish your watermelonade to speak louder, use it as a base for a cocktail enhanced with a Boulder County-distilled vodka.

The Cherry Bag Secret

In one of my diverse gigs I write about growing and selling fruits and veggies for the national trade publicaWatermelon makes a great mixer for a summery tion Produce Business. In cocktail. talking to retailers for the magazine I asked them about the relatively recent use of colorfully printed plastic standup bags used extensively now to sell grapes and especially cherries. I was told that the sales of cherries in supermarkets had increased significantly in part because of the bags and not because they’re pretty. Many shoppers don’t realize they don’t have to buy the whole bag of Bing or Rainier cherries. You can empty the bag, pick the cherries and put them in a standard paper or plastic bag in the quantity you need. That directive obviously doesn’t apply at farmers’ markets, where stone fruit is often sold by the bag. By the way, Colorado’s Western Slope growers are predicting a record year for peaches, apricots and cherries.

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Superfoods that enhance health are hot this year. According to a recent report from Datassential MenuTrends, the fastest growing vegetables that appeared on fast casual restaurant menus were not lettuce, tomatoes or potatoes (although they remain the top three produce items). With growth of 140 percent, butternut squash is huge, followed by lots of roasted cauliflower (80 percent), kale (41 percent), garbanzo beans (35 percent) and zucchini (35 percent). Close behind are edamame, baby spinach and beets.

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aise your hand if customers regularly come in and ask for a good Cabernet.” I recently issued this directive to a group of 40 sommeliers, retailers and other wine industry insiders from across Washington, D.C. Unsurprisingly, just about every hand shot up. I quickly spoke again. “Raise your hand again if customers frequently come in and ask for a good Chardonnay.” Again, just about every hand went up. “Now,” I continued, “raise your hand if a single customer has asked for Grenache or Mourvedre in the past month.” Not a single hand went up. “What about Carignan? Piquepoul?” While several attendees chuckled, no hands were raised. The 40 industry insiders had gathered to explore the market’s support for the 22 grape varieties that hail from France’s Rhone Wikimedia Commons Valley. Several dozen wine producers from across the United States who embrace these varieties were in town, so I moderated a panel discussion among eight of them. I opened with this thought experiment to illustrate how gutsy it is to focus on unusual varieties. Sure, oenophiles recognize that one can only drink so much Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc. But the average consumer is unfamiliar with — and intimidated by — Rhone varieties like Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre. I left with the distinct feeling that things are changing, fast. Consider the surging popularity of serious rosé. While consumers once associated domestic rosé with cheap, sweet “blush” wines like Sutter Home’s White Zinfandel, more and more domestic rosé is dry and refreshing. Many of America’s top pink wines are produced from red Rhône varieties, mimicking the storied rosés of Provence. Jason Haas, the general manager of Tablas Creek in Paso Robles, California, offered attendees his Patelin de Tablas rosé, a blend of Grenache, Mourvèdre, and Counoise. Haas has increased production of rosé over each of the last several years, but can barely keep up with demand. He’s convinced that because consumers now know that nothing beats a crisp rosé on a hot summer day, they’ll become more comfortable with Rhone varieties. Knowledgeable, approachable sommeliers are also promoting Rhone varieties. Once upon a time, high-end restaurants employed snooty sommeliers who pushed expensive, predictable wines. Today, however, high-end restaurants are staffed with hip sommeliers who are better described as wine educators. They listen to what consumers want. And most of these sommeliers are quite fond of the Rhone Valley and its imitators. Last year, wine writer W. Blake Gray made a compelling case that most steakhouse patrons are looking for “a Grenache/Syrah blend, but they want it to be called Cabernet.” He’s right. At steakhouses, especially, nothing pleases more patrons than a dark, spicy red, without a strong tannic structure. This came up while attendees tasted a Grenache from William Allen, the vintner behind Two Shepherds. One sommelier attending the panel discussion jumped in to argue that steakhouse patrons have always been asking for Grenache, Syrah and red Rhone blends — just not by their names. Now that sommeliers almost universally pay attention to customers, he expects restaurant sales of Rhone varieties to rise. Virtually everyone agreed. Trend-setting consumers are also beginning to look for wines sourced from California’s oldest vineyards, many of which include a host of Rhone varieties. While these wines are typically blends, many are just a single variety. David Gates, who heads up vineyard operations for Ridge, brought attendees a Carignan from Buchignani Ranch, a site that was planted over 25 years, beginning in 1927. Consumers are flocking to wines like this because they’re jewels of an earlier time and show there’s more to California than Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. Producers who focus on Rhone varieties still have their work cut out for them. But for good reason, they’re increasingly optimistic. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com. His columns are housed at Grape Collective. Boulder Weekly

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able time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior. I don’t mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty. You’ll refrain from forcing storylines to unfold before they’re ready, and you’ll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree “Because I said so.” Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”

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My long-term predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you’ll become bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You’ll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy. 5. You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: “How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: “Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going.” I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I’m confident you will track them down — especially if you’re willing to be lost.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

Your homework is to write a story about the life you’re going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages, although it’s fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life? 4. What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: According to an old Chinese proverb, if

you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest that this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity — such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen or Sharpie, as well as off-putting ironic monikers like Poker Face and Stonewall. Instead, gravitate toward lively choices like Dazzler, FluxLuster, Hoochie-Coochie, or FreeBorn.

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During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency and authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life’s master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017. It’s time to find or create your ultimate power spot.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Have you ever made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven’t, your yearnings probably aren’t deep enough. Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That’s the weird news. The good news is that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: The prison population in the U.S. is over 2 million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000 and

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Dear Dan: I’ve been dating a nice guy for a month or so. Sex is good, and we’re faulty compatible in other ways, too. He told me he likes to wear diapers. He said he doesn’t want me to do it with him, but that every once in a while he likes to wear them because it makes him feel “safe.” He said that this odd behavior isn’t sexual for him, but I have trouble believing him. I’m not sure how I feel about this. He also said that it embarrasses him and he wishes it wasn’t something he needed. If you have any insight into what to ask © LaRae Lobdell him or how to make sure I can keep him satisfied sexually as we move forward (if we do), it would be appreciated. — Do I Ask Pooper Everything Respectfully, Sir? Dear DIAPERS: You shouldn’t assume (contra your sign-off ) that Potential New Boyfriend (PNB) is pooping his diapers. Most guys who are ABDL (adult baby/diaper lover) are interested only in wetting themselves, if that. (Some only wear, never fill.) It sounds like PNB is struggling with

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kink- and/or sex-shame, DIAPERS, and the assumption you’ve made about the extent of his diaper play might put him on the defensive. Even if your assumption is accurate, it could still put him on the defensive. Moving on… You have a hard time believing PNB when he says there’s nothing sexual about his interest in diapers, and that makes two of us. Seeing as he’s already succumbed to shame where his kink is concerned — or it might be more accurate to say he hasn’t dug himself out from under the shame almost all kinksters struggle with initially — he is very likely weighed down by the sex-negativity that comes bundled with kink-shame. So he may have told you there’s nothing sexual about his thing for diapers because he thinks it makes his diapers

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seem less sordid. That said, DIAPERS, “this makes me feel safe” and “this makes my dick hard” aren’t mutually exclusive phenomena. Both can be true. (And if diapers really do make adults feel safe — and I wanna see data on that — we could rebrand them as “portable individual safe spaces” and make them available at our better universities.) Another clue there’s something sexual about this thing for diapers: not wanting you around while he wears them. Maybe diapers are something he enjoys wearing during alone time, or maybe the sight of him in diapers makes the sexual aspect hard to deny. (“Is that an enormous rattle in your diaper or are you just happy to see me?”) I would advise you to say some vaguely affirming things (“Your diaper thing doesn’t bother me, and wouldn’t even if it were sexual”) without pressuring him to include you at diaper time. Don’t rush things — relationship-wise

or diaper-wise — and focus on establishing a mutually satisfying sexual rapport/repertoire. P.S. I think you meant “fairly compatible” not “faulty compatible.” Normally I would correct a mistake like this before printing a letter — but I rather liked your accidental phrase. A loving and functional-but-imperfect relationship — really the best we can hope for — could be described as faulty compatible. SPEAKING OF ABDL: Residents of Mount Prospect, Illinois, are upset about a new shop that caters to diaper lovers in their community. Tykables sells grown-up-size diapers, rocking chairs and cribs. The Chicago Tribune reports that some residents are uncomfortable because the shop — which has no signage and soon-to-be-frosted windows — is near schools, parks and other places where “children gather.” Mount Prospect is a suburb, so there are schools or parks near just about everything. And there’s a gun shop a couple blocks away from a large public park and an elementary school — and no one ever walked into a school and started diapering students to death. Maybe worry about the real threat to your kids, Mount Prospect?

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sat down to talk with Terri Robnett on the standing beliefs in the process. banks of Boulder Creek, and it wasn’t long Where others get impatient, she remains combefore a gust of thick, dank cannabis smoke posed (although still passionate and fiery in advowafted past our noses. She breathed in deeply. cating for these issues). She explains to me that “I just love that smell,” she says, a heartfelt over the years she has come to expect incremental smile spreading across her face. changes because she understands how difficult Robnett is the founder and executive director of change can be on a personal, let alone governmenthe Cannabis Patients Alliance, an organization that tal, level. works to protect and advance the rights of medical “I try to be sympathetic with people as they reckmarijuana patients by “changing hearts and minds, on with the end of prohibition,” Robnett says. one conversation at a time.” It is in this capacity that “[During prohibition regulators] were given an she sits on Boulder’s Marijuana Advisory Panel as it impossible task [to try to stop marijuana use] as prepares a lengthy society got around The Highs and Lows of the Weed Business/Channel 4 list of recommendathe laws, time and tions to present to time again,” she City Council at the says. “I try to imagend of the summer. ine them arresting After sitting people [who sold through several and used marijuameetings, I reached na], treating them like criminals and out to Robnett in the sort of justificahopes that she could tions that must help me make sense have accompanied of all that policy that. Then marijuawork. Laughing, she na’s legal status quotes Otto von changes and they Bismarck, “If you are left wondering like laws and sausag- Terri Robnett, founder and executive director of the Cannabis Patients Alliance. what it was all for. es, you should never It only makes sense watch either one being made.” that prohibitionist sentiments linger in some way or Robnett has a lot of experience trudging through another, out of justification for past action or habit.” policy and has been instrumental in passing pieces of The end of prohibition brings the morality of legislation at both the state and local level. She worked weed into a new era. But she worries that instead of on Amendment 20, which legalized medical marijuana moving beyond that arbitrary moral framework, peoand, more recently, on Jack’s Law, which allows stuple are merely replacing it with new types of blame dents to take medical marijuana while at school. In — that cannabis is unsafe or risky business. essence, she has been making sausage for decades. Listening to her talk, I was reminded of Thinking Involvement in all this policy work gives Robnett Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a sociology a unique vantage point as she stands at the fulcrum book that uncovers many logical fallacies common in of the paradigm shift of cannabis, watching as legalhuman cognition. When confronted with a difficult ization replaces prohibition and challenges longproblem requiring effort to answer, we will often

substitute it with an easier question and solve that instead, never realizing the substitution. This becomes the troubling source of many of the biases that infect our thinking. I’m not sure if Robnett sees herself this way, but I see her as a watchdog who points out when policymakers are using flawed logic to defend fear-based policies. I admire the courage this takes, especially because Robnett often stands alone at the table as an advocate for medical patients and home cultivation, without the backing of money or the lobbying power of the retail industry. Robnett is positioned in what is commonly referred to as the “gray” area of marijuana — the combination of the white, legal market and the black, illicit market. “Gray” suggests home cultivation is not totally legal and, for Robnett, this is the epitome of the residual bias toward cannabis. “It may not be highly regulated, it may not be taxed, but it is not only legal, but a constitutional right in Colorado,” she says. “There seems to be a push to shut down and limit caregivers and patients, the gray area, as if it was just a bridge from one phase to the next, but it is more than that. It is a patient’s right, and we have to preserve the right to home cultivation.” Many medical marijuana patients can only get their needs met from caregiver relationships. Whether it’s an issue of access to a particular strain, getting sufficient quantity or ensuring the affordability of the plant, the home cultivation market meets needs that the retail industry cannot. Robnett worries that as industry becomes more regulated, developed and ingrained in the mechanisms of legal marijuana, money will take precedence over what she refers to as love, or the medicinal qualities of a beautiful plant. “A lot of this will shake out over time,” she says, “but we need to be careful that we don’t go backwards in the process.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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efore the Las Vegas ReviewJournal was against legalizing recreational marijuana in Nevada, it was for it. All in, lean in for it. On May 30, 2014, as legalization advocates began circulating a petition to put recreational marijuana on the Nevada ballot, the Review-Journal published an editorial titled “Legalizing recreational pot is good policy.” It said, “Nevada voters have an opportunity to end America’s costly drug war,” called the legalization initiative “an important step forward in fixing a failed policy” and concluded that “If you are presented with the petition, and you’re a Casino hot shot registered voter, sign it.” Sheldon Adelson is a fan of booze and A lot of people took the paper’s gambling but not advice. The petition circulators had little marijuana. trouble collecting the 101,000-plus signatures they needed. A year later, in a July 26, 2015 editorial, the war’s hoarier talking points and lies — including this Review-Journal added that it supported legalization gem of a paragraph: “not only because of the supreme costs related to “Marijuana contains nearly 500 dangerous chempolicing, prosecuting, and incarcerating drug offend- icals when inhaled or ingested, including about five ers — not to mention the tragic (and preventable) times more tars and other cancer-causing agents cost in human lives — but also due to the inescapthan tobacco smoke. Cancer, respiratory diseases, able fact that no amount of government pressure has mental illness, birth defects, reproductive problems, ever reduced demand for illegal drugs in the United and irreversible brain damage are all linked to mariStates.” juana.” And on November 29, 2015, the Review-Journal For the record, coffee contains more than 1,000 urged all presidential candidates to support removing compounds with scary sounding names. And the marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled “pot smoke is more carcinogenic than tobacco” chestSubstances Act. nut was debunked in 2005 by Dr. Donald Tashkin of But now the Review-Journal is singing a different the UCLA medical school after spending much of tune. his professional career trying to prove that pot was In a June 7, 2016 editorial titled “Pot legalization indeed carcinogenic. a bad bet for Nevada,” the paper opined that “recreAnd a few weeks ago, an exhaustive study spanational weed comes with health, safety, and social ning decades concluded that the only long-term costs that make legalizing marijuana a dangerous health risk it could associate with pot was periodonproposal for Nevadans.” tal disease — prompting one commentator to remark The editorial goes on to cite most of the drug that smoking pot was about as risky as not flossing.

So what prompted the Review-Journal to come down with a case of raving reefer madness? Hint: It wasn’t an epiphany on the road to Damascus — or even Winnemucca. It turns out that last year the paper was bought by multi-billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who in the past has poured millions of dollars into efforts to keep marijuana illegal. Adelson paid $140 million for the Review-Journal. Legalization advocates were quick to make the obvious point about Adelson’s anti-pot crusade, which is that his concern about addiction is self-servingly selective. The guy’s fortune is built on pushing gambling and alcohol at his pleasure palaces, both of which are more addictive than pot and, in the case of alcohol at least, orders of magnitude more deadly. If he were prevented from selling either, his financial empire would collapse. But Adelson’s hypocrisy is beside the point. What matters is that what happens in Vegas is unlikely to stay in Vegas this year. Recreational marijuana legalization initiatives in Massachusetts and Maine are already running into well-organized and well-funded opposition, as in a medical marijuana initiative in Florida. Chances are, Adelson money is helping to fund all of them. If those initiatives lose, chances are we will be revisiting legalization in Colorado, and not in a good way. Legalization advocates do not have to match Adelson dollar for dollar to prevail, but they have to have sufficient funds to get their message out and counter his lies. The lead organization in this year’s legalization campaign in Nevada and several other states is the Marijuana Policy Project (www.mpp. org). It’s going to need millions of dollars more than it has to fight a multi-front war. If you want to see marijuana made legal, and kept legal, you better get some skin in the game. Starting now.

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Remember star charts? Not the astrological kind that speaks of your destiny and gives you direction for your next move in life. But those poster boards that hung on the wall in kindergarten, or maybe on the refrigerator at home, also known as rewards charts or behavioral charts or I’ll-make-you-do-what-I-want-oryou-won’t-get-a-sticker charts. You Wikimedia Commons remember, your teacher or parent would give you a star if you “completed homework” or “raised hand before speaking” or even “didn’t pick your nose” and “went potty in the toilet.” Now do you remember? If not, the new program from Boulder Parks and Rec and Boulder Police Department should jog your memory. Last week, the City announced the “Boulder Stars” program to ticket children ages 3-18 for “offenses” of good behavior. Such “offenses” could be wearing bicycle helmets, obeying crosswalk rules or engaging in a community-positive activity. Cops will now be going around Boulder looking for this good behavior and handing out stars, redeemable for a free day pass at any City park or pool. So now we’re in the day and age where not only does each kid get a trophy at the end of a soccer game, but they also get a gold star from the cops for, well, pretty much common sense; for behavior that doesn’t need to be rewarded, only expected. Pretty soon our entire society won’t be able to bend over and tie their shoe without someone patting them on the back. No word yet on when they’ll institute a program that rewards gold stars to the police offers who properly allocate their gold stars.

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In this newsroom we all just let out a “whoop!” and a “hooray!” with a fist pump into the air and a click of the heels. The World Health Organization (WHO) just ruled there is “no conclusive evidence” that coffee causes cancer. What a sigh of relief for these here journalists who more or less survive on the hubristic, efficacious, delectaWikimedia Commons/Julius Schorzman ble, compulsory, euphoric (we could go on) drink, un-contrary to popular belief, believe it or not. In fact, coffee may even help us by reducing the risk of certain cancers. What a sigh of relief. We’ve been doing all right. In the report, WHO did say, however, that “very hot” drinks are likely carcinogenic, which is maybe where some of the coffee confusion came in. Apparently any drink over 149 degrees Fahrenheit is a “probable cause” of esophageal cancer, but it doesn’t actually matter what the drink is. Be it water, tea, coffee or even chocolate, any drink that hot could cause tumors in your esophagus. So, while we’re over here jumping for joy that our 5 cups of coffee a day aren’t doing any harm, we are also remembering to blow a little bit before sipping. Sucks for those of those who like scalding cups of liquid. (Hey WHO, maybe hot drinks don’t cause tumors, just burn marks on the esophagus?) Now all we need is for WHO to reverse its thoughts on smoking tobacco so we can get back to the mostly accurate stereotype of writers who thrive and survive on a diet of coffee and cigarettes. Wait, what? 62 June 16, 2016

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