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nsanity reigns. The inmates are now officially in charge of the national asylum. Hidebound Donald Trump partisans keep insisting that their man is not certifiably insane, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. But surely some of them finally must admit that his snatching immigrant children from their parents’ arms at the Mexican border and incarcerating the tykes for weeks in warehouse cages far away from
any contact with mom and dad — is the epitome of Kafkaesque insanity. Trump’s political assault on kids, toddlers and even infants is so cuckoo crazy that it’s infectious. In June, for example, Fox News Trumpeteer Laura Ingraham dismissed reality by declaring that the children’s holding cells “are essentially summer camps.” Then, her sister Fox News commentator, Ann Coulter, babbled that the reality of Trump troopers seizing and terrifying kiddos was not actually happening: “Those child actors weeping and crying on all the other networks 24/7 right now, don’t fall for it, Mr. President.” For his part, our immigrant-bashing Mr. President began to rant like a dotty old geezer that he would not allow “these people” be given any legal avenue to address their plight. “No
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Judges or Court Cases,” he barked in a series of tweets. “Tell the people ‘OUT,’ and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn.” Old Man Trump is not only a callous grump, but he’s also gone completely screwy about the essential role of the rule of law in our nation. In fact, if you stood on the front lawn of his Mar-a-Lago resort, he might have you removed by force, but you’d have access to a court to plead your case and seek justice. That’s the American way, whether an autocratic property owner likes it or not. Unless, of course, his highness arbitrarily nullifies 230 years of legal protections for the people’s democratic rights. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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t seems like only yesterday when and it’s what makes our county great. But Comrade Trump was stealing the on election day, those same Klansmen do presidential election. We all now not have the right to pull on their hoods know he had plenty of help from and go walk around on a public sidewalk Vladimir, but Russia’s use of social in front of a polling station in a black media and hacking are only the most neighborhood. The reason is simple. talked about anti-democratic, dirty tactics Such activity would be interfering with Trump and his foreign handlers used in the civil rights of the black voters in that 2016. area who have the right to cast their vote On multiple occasions, Trump urged in an atmosphere free of intimidation. his supporters (read: white men) to go There are many such instances where and stand or sit at inner city polling plac- rights conflict. You have the right to es (read: black polling places) to “make smoke but my right to not be subjected sure it’s on the up and up.” Having not to second-hand smoke trumps that right. been born yesterday, we all know that In the same way, people being paid this was simply Trump code for inciting and/or organized by the oil and gas his supporters to try and suppress the industry to act like they are protesting against the setback initiative because they black vote via intimidation. It’s an old love oil have every political tactic free of right to do so in technology so it public. But that wasn’t deemed sexy IF THE MOTIVE FOR does not necessarily enough for the anti-setback protestors give them the right media to spend to do so aggressively much time coverbeing mobilized to follow right on top of peoing it back then. around signature gatherple trying to gather Well, it’s hapers is for the purpose of signatures. In other pening again right suppressing the number words, if the motive here on the Front of signatures gathered, for anti-setback Range, only this then it’s no different from time it’s the oil and protestors being gas industry that mobilized to follow the KKK sending out has borrowed this around signature hooded white racists to disgusting page out gatherers is for the polling stations in black of the Trump/ purpose of suppressneighborhoods. And it’s Russia dirty tricks ing the number of not legal. playbook in its signatures gathered, effort to prevent then this is no difcitizens of Colorado ferent than the from exercising their KKK sending out right to vote on the 2,500-foot oil hooded white racists to polling stations and gas setback known as Initiative 97. in black neighborhoods. And it’s not You may have noticed when you legal. went to exercise your legally protected Citizens of Colorado have the constidemocratic right to gather signatures on tutional right in this state to gather siga petition and/or sign such a petition natures or sign petitions to place initiaregarding the 2,500-foot oil and gas settives on the ballot in an atmosphere free back that there was a group of pro-oilof intimidation. industry protesters located at the same We’ll be writing more about this in location. This was not a coincidence. The the near future, but I wanted to get question is, was it a violation of your civil something out to the public as soon as rights for which you can and should seek possible because the deadline for signing a remedy? the setback petition is rapidly approachThink of it this way. We live in ing. America. So if a handful of KKK memFrom what we have seen here at the bers want to pull on their hoods and paper, it appears that oil industry employwalk down a public sidewalk peacefully, ees are being encouraged by their employthey have every right to do so. It’s called ers to contact oil industry-funded front the right of free speech and expression, groups with the locations of setback iniBoulder Weekly
tiative gatherers when they see them. It is logical to assume that since protestors/ intimidators for the industry soon thereafter show up at the reported location, the front group is strategically deploying its paid and/or volunteer protestors for only one reason: to suppress the number of signatures gathered at that location. Attempting to suppress such signatures is absolutely no different under the law than attempts to suppress votes. So who exactly, in this scenario, may be breaking the law? If all parties understand what is going to happen when the location is texted to the industry front group, it seems that the oil industry employee, the company who told them to call in the location, the industry front group and the pro-oil protestors/intimidators could all likely be named as defendants in any civil rights violation lawsuit brought by signature gatherers, those who signed while being intimidated or those who wanted to sign but were prevented from exercising their constitutionally protected right via intimidation tactics. Obviously a suit such as this could deliver tens of millions of dollars, so finding an attorney to take it on seems realistic. And considering the electronic communications that we now know exists between the parties perpetrating this anti-democratic activity, the evidence is likely readily available even after the bad guys read this column and hit delete. One would think that Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman would be all over this gross violation of people’s rights, but she’s not. In fact, she appears to have no interest whatsoever in taking on potential violations being funded and coordinated by the exact same people and corporations who filled her campaign coffers and put her into her current job, presumably for situations just like this. That being the case, it likely now falls to local DAs to do something about it... and, of course, to you. As I’ve previously noted and which is being reaffirmed almost daily thanks to Comrade Trump, there is a blue wave
coming in November. The oil industry knows it will be nearly impossible to stop Initiative 97 from passing if it makes the ballot in this political climate, so out of desperation it has turned to intimidation to keep you from signing a petition that will allow the vote to occur. And their bag of dirty tricks will absolutely work, unless all of you get involved. Please stop being intimidated. Sign a petition if you haven’t because there are only a few weeks left to do so. Next, grab your phone and start taking photos of the pro-oil intimidators and ask them for their names. Chances are the cowards will refuse to give you their names but they can be identified later from the photos or the license plates on their cars if you happen to jot those down. Then call the police and let them know your civil rights have been violated and you want to press charges. And finally, ask how you can become a volunteer signature gatherer and go get 20 people you know to sign your petition. Hang on to the photos you take after giving them to the police and I’m sure someone will let you know where to send them once a central repository is established. If everyone reading this column will grab one friend and both of you sign a petition, you will be voting on the setback initiative come November. I’d sure hate to be one of those guys whose part-time, summer job pretending to be an oil and gas industry enthusiast turned out to be an invitation into a massive civil rights lawsuit. They just might want to consider a different career path that doesn’t involve trying to stop people from getting to vote on an initiative that could save the lives of their children and grandchildren along with the planet on which we all live. Don’t let the oil and gas industry cheaters win. We are already living one nightmare because the manipulation of our political system gave us Trump. Don’t let it happen again. Sign a 2,500-foot setback petition and put these anti-democratic bastards in their place. July 19 , 2018 5
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it gets too hot, and for plutonium “too hot” isn’t very hot at all. The friction from a lathe used in shaping the trigger can ignite it. To prevent this from happening, the lathes at Rocky Flats were kept in air-tight glove boxes that were flooded with a non-flammable gas while the lathes were in operation. Insanely, the glove boxes contained parts that could burn, like Plexiglas and the built-in rubber gloves. The fire started when a worker opened a glove box before the plutonium in it had cooled down. The plutonium caught fire and set the glove box aflame. The burning box set off other boxes, and before long the entire room was engulfed. The fire burned for hours, and a large black plume rose from the conflagration. Plant officials announced that no plutonium got off the plant site as a result of the fire. Ed Martel, a radiochemist at NCAR at the time, was skeptical. So he and a graduate student working in his lab collected soil samples from as far away as 30 miles downwind. Lo and behold, they found elevated levels of plutonium in it. Martel concluded that the folks running Rocky Flats had some splainin’ to do, and said so. Eventually a strangled voice was heard emanating from the executive bunker: “It’s not the fire; it’s the barrels.” “The barrels?” inquiring minds asked. (The phrase WTF hadn’t been invented yet.) It emerged that when plutonium triggers are being machined, they have to be continuously lubricated to keep the lathes from binding up. The lubricating oil gets contaminated with plutonium shavings. Rocky Flats’ way of handling the waste oil was to pour it into 55-gallon steel drums and store them in an open field. But rust never sleeps. After a couple of years, some of the barrels corroded and started to leak. Rocky Flats’ way of dealing with the leaks was to deploy a couple of guys to pour oil out of the rusting barrels into new barrels. Eventually more than 3,000 barrels of plutonium-laced machine tool oil piled up. see DANISH PLAN Page 7
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(I think I was the first reporter to electron and a single neutron. However write about the barrels. Then there are two additional isotopes: deuCongressman Tim Wirth leaked a terium, which has two neutrons, and report on them to me a few days before tritium, which has three. Tritium is it came out.) radioactive and has uses in making Eventually the barrels and thounuclear weapons. But that was a big sands of cubic yards of the soil they had secret at the time. been sitting on were shipped off to the When Dr. Johnson announced what nuclear plant at Hanford, Washington, he had found, Rocky Flats management for disposal (whatever that meant), and was beside itself. At first it tried to an asphalt patch was put over the site. claim there was no tritium at Rocky You might say they paved purgatory Flats. That lasted for about 24 hours. and made it a parking lot. Eventually Then they put out a story saying that they dug up the site at least two more the tritium had come into Rocky Flats times and shipped additional soil to in a shipment of nuclear “scrap” that Hanford. had been sent to Rocky Flats from the Years later it emerged that blaming Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. The the elevated levels of plutonium that scrap included heavy water — H2O in Martel first found on the leaking barwhich the H consisted of tritium rels was misleading. The plant’s suits instead of ordinary hydrogen — and were right when that when a tech they said that minopened the container he carelessly imal amounts of THE TAKEAWAY poured the water plutonium from from the barrel affair down a drain. The the 1969 fire had was that the people water ran into a blown off the plant running the plant were stream that eventusite. But Rocky insanely negligent in ally ran into Flats had an earlier how they handled Broomfield’s reserplutonium fire in voir. 1957, which had radioactive industrial produced much They intimated waste that was a normore airborne pluthat the tritium mal product of their spill was a freak tonium contamioperations. And it nation. At the time accident — but turned out it wasn’t Rocky Flats manthey built holding temporary insanity agement and the ponds to prevent Atomic Energy such a thing from either. Commission flatly happening again. denied that there At the time we had had been any off-site no way of knowing contamination from it. Martel’s whether it was a fluke or not. Years collection of soil samples after the later we found out it was no fluke. 1969 fire revealed the truth about the At any rate, Dr. Johnson continued fire of ’57. his investigations. Plant management The takeaway from the barrel affair vehemently objected to this. Dr. was that the people running the plant Johnson was eventually sacked by the were insanely negligent in how they Jefferson County Commissioners — handled radioactive industrial waste evidently for being overly curious. that was a normal product of their If you happen to be in the atom operations. And it turned out it wasn’t bomb business, tritium is kind of a temporary insanity either. multi-purpose secret sauce. A few The first tritium incident: Not long grams of it can make a plutonium after the barrel affair came to light, the bomb (or trigger) more powerful, which director of the Jefferson County Health means less plutonium is needed to Department, Dr. Carl Johnson, started make the trigger and that the trigger monitoring streams flowing out of can be miniaturized. Rocky Flats for radioactive nasties. And None of this was widely known at darned if he didn’t find some elevated the time, so the accidental release of trilevels of tritium in some of the samples. tium from Lawrence Livermore scrap Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen. yarn stood up for a long time. But the Isotopes are chemically identical vertruth is tritium was and is an essential sions of an element that differ in the component of the triggers Rocky Flats number of neutrons they have in their was making, and the people who ran nucleuses. The most common isotope of hydrogen consists of a proton, an see DANISH PLAN Page 8 Boulder Weekly
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Rocky Flats did not want that known. So they lied. The second tritium incident: Fast forward to 2004. The Rocky Flats cleanup was winding down. And as part of finishing the work, workers did a final sweep of the soil covering one of the two Rocky Flats landfills, which held thousands of tons of waste (some of it mildly radioactive but with relatively short half-lives). The landfills had been declared secure enough that the radioactive stuff wouldn’t leak out until it had a chance to decay into harmless elements. But the guys doing the final sweep found tritium on the surface of the landfill. This was reported at a meeting of the Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments. The reaction of most of the members of the coalition was “how interesting, let’s move on,” but the disclosure set off my crap detector. So I started interrogating the guy who made the report about where the tritium came from, how it got into the landfill, how it could have leaked out, and so on. The guy didn’t answer my questions, which I repeated several times. He didn’t dodge them. He didn’t say “No comment,” or “I can’t answer that,” or “I don’t know.” He just didn’t answer them. He just stood mute. Complete stonewall. I had never had that sort of a response before, either as an elected official or a reporter. Now as radioactive materials go, tritium is relatively benign. Its radiation can be stopped by a piece of paper, it has a relatively short half-life, and it usually is encountered as part of a water molecule, which means that if you happen to drink it, chances are you’ll piss it out or sweat it out in a few days. The tritium on the surface of the landfill would have quickly evaporated and been diluted by water vapor in the air to natural levels. But the incident showed that when it came to tritium Rocky Flats management was still hiding something. The obvious follow-up question was what else were they hiding — about the contents of the landfill and the cleanup generally. I’ve been wondering about it for 14 years now, and about why the guy clammed up like he did. At least he wasn’t lying. The pylon cores: One day I got a call from a couple of guys at Xcel Energy who wanted to have lunch and talk about an issue they had regarding
Rocky Flats. It turned out Xcel needed to install a high tension power line along Indiana Street on the east side of Rocky Flats in order to adequately serve Broomfield’s new Flatirons Crossing shopping center; malls of Flatirons Crossing’s size suck a lot of juice. Xcel needed to put one of their pylons on Rocky Flats ground near the plant’s east gate. Installing the pylon would require drilling down 40 or 50 feet to bedrock. They wanted to know if I had any objections. I told them I didn’t, but that if they were drilling to bedrock, I wondered if they could save the material they were taking out of the holes so that it could be analyzed for radioactive nasties that might be migrating out of the plant in ground water. They had no problem with that and said they would do it. A couple of weeks later I got a call from them informing me that they had told Rocky Flats officials about my request, and that it had been rejected out of hand. The obvious question is why didn’t the folks who were in charge of the clean-up want obviously useful information about possible contamination to be collected — especially since the clean-up was going to leave a lot of underground contamination in place? The obvious answer is corporate greed and ass-covering — that they were continuing Rocky Flats’ grand tradition of covering up sloppy and negligent behavior in the handling of radioactive materials, that the cores might have revealed that radionuclides were in the groundwater seeping off the plant site, despite the claims that the problem was under control. But I think the obvious answer is insufficient, and that there is something more involved as well, which explains a lot of the secrecy and lying. You can learn a lot about people and institutions by going through their garbage. In the case of Rocky Flats, that might include how to make atomic bombs, how to miniaturize them, and how to mass produce them, among other things. That sort of information should be closely held, even if it causes increased risks to the people around the plant — because it could cause orders of magnitude greater risks in the wrong hands. (By the same token, it means that Rocky Flats’ shit, slop and piss way of handling its waste wasn’t just an environmental lapse but a national see DANISH PLAN Page 9
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security lapse as well.) After Dr. Johnson discovered tritium in the waste stream, samples were taken from the sediments in several of the surrounding streams and reservoirs, and a number of long-lived isotopes were found in them, including Americium. Chances are environmentalists would immediately ask what dangers to public health does Americium pose? A foreign intelligence service of a nuclear wannabe nation might ask what’s Americium used for in American nuclear weapons? Do we need it if we’re going to make our own? In 2002 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found the body of a deer “harvested” on Rocky Flats contained isotopes of plutonium and Americium, and the relatively rare Uranium 233 and 234. Fish and Wildlife wanted to know how much deer meat you would have to eat over a 70-year lifespan to increase your risk of getting cancer (62 pounds a year, they concluded.) A spook would want to know what Uranium 233 and 234 were doing in the deer; Rocky Flats’ triggers were made of plutonium, so what was the Uranium used for? The same sort of questions were almost certainly asked when Dr. Johnson first announced his tritium discovery. Rocky Flats managers were certainly aware that the plant’s garbage could spill nuclear secrets, so they properly tried to keep its content hidden — by lying about it if necessary. Greed and ass-covering may have played a role in this. But so did civic responsibility and patriotism, I think. The non-cleanup cleanup: The Rocky Flats cleanup was not as thorough as the feds would like you to think it was. Miles of underground pipes that moved radioactive materials between buildings were left in place because it was too daunting, and too expensive to remove them — even though it was known that they had radioactive residues in them and that some of them had leaked. In some cases the only remediation was that if they were in tunnels they were grouted. In other cases nothing was done. Which means that as time goes by there may be environmental hazards and U.S. nuclear secrets leaking out of them for decades. Think of the old plant site not as a remediated superfund site, but as a 410acre buried nuclear garbage can full of poisons and secrets that need to be guarded. The plant site is supposed to Boulder Weekly
remain fenced and closed. But memories are short, and within a few decades a generation will arise that knows not all the shit that went on at Rocky Flats and what is still buried there, and what might be seeping out, and will start treating even the plant site as a picnic ground. When I was on RFCLOG I argued that decent respect for both the
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Rocky Flats is supposed to be a national wildlife sanctuary, not a national recreation area. How about giving the critters a genuine sanctuary, instead of having hundreds of thousands of tourists a year traipsing through their space? What kind of a sanctuary is that? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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n any given Monday, about a dozen people gather around a conference table on the second floor of the Boulder Public Library. There are people from Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Tibet, Eastern Europe, Nepal and Ethiopia. All have a different story to tell, but all are studying to become U.S. citizens. For the last 14 years, Anita Stuehler has been teaching free citizenship classes at the library, not a requirement for naturalization, but a helpful tool for people at any stage in the process. “[The classes] are to help people go in for their interview more confident and more sure of what’s going on,” Stuehler says. “You can have someone come in here with a PhD from Canada and speaks perfect English, or you can have someone who has escaped from Tibet and can’t even write their own name. And it’s usually somewhere in between.” Since 2012, there has been a 35-percent increase in the number of citizenship applications, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), but the number of individuals naturalized has remained roughly the same, with 700,000-750,000 people becoming citizens each year. Last year, more than 6,300 people were naturalized in Colorado and Wyoming. The year before it was almost 9,000, and in 2015, more than 9,500 people in the two states became citizens. Stuehler, a retired librarian, has developed her own curriculum, organized in five or six notebooks she keeps at home. A lifetime lover of history, she uses the materials USCIS provides and attends training sessions at the USCIS offices in Centennial, but she also depends on her own research. In May, she joined 82 other people for a day-long seminar about “creating and maintaining a comprehensive adult citizenship education program.” Stuehler adapts the class each week, depending on the needs of the people who attend, but generally has a fourto-six-month curriculum she follows. The majority of time is spent going over the 100 questions people could be asked as part of their naturalization interview. The questions range from geography, to history, to political process and government. Over time, the questions have changed, Stuehler says, most recently in 2008 when Barack Obama became president. See CITIZENSHIP Page 12
Marion Mackay (left) became an assistant in Anita Stuehler’s (right) free citizenship classes after taking the class herself around eight years ago.
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Angela K. Evans
Crystal, from Durango, Mexico, listens as teaching assistant Marion Mackay goes over some of the 100 questions that can be asked during a USCIS naturalization interview.
CITIZENSHIP from Page 11
“A lot of them are a bit more abstract now, whereas before it was just what is the name of the ship the pilgrims were on. There’s one answer to that,” she says. Now questions include more political theory, such as, “What is the rule of law? It’s just not a straight answer,” she says. Questions can be about the economy (When are taxes due? What is the economic system of the U.S?); history (What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803? What did Susan B. Anthony do?); or geography (Name one Angela K. Evans state that borders Canada. Name one U.S. territory). Potential citizens have to know the name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Speaker of the House, as well as their state and federal representatives, positions that can change over the course of studying while waiting for an interview. Right now, the Boulder students know Jared Polis as their U.S. Representative, but come November, he could be the governor. But roughly one-third of the questions are about the U.S. Constitution, and Stuehler says the majority of her classes center around the founding document. “Even if they don’t take the class, just from the questions, they will know more about the Constitution than most Americans,” she says. Stuehler tries to avoid getting too political in the class, but that doesn’t stop her from expounding on her deep belief in the beauty of the Constitution and the freedoms it affords. 12 July 19, 2018
“If you think about it, when was it written?” she asks the class, reiterating one of the questions they could be asked in their citizenship interview. “The Constitution was written in 1787. Things were very different in the world then. Think how different they are. And yet this Constitution continues to rule this country, all these years later. It’s pretty amazing. There are a whole lot of laws that have changed, but the Constitution, the ruling document, the supreme law of the land, has only been changed 27 times since 1787. “What are those 27 changes called?” she asks, as the class responds in unison: “Amendments.” “What are the first 10 Amendments called?” “The Bill of Rights.” One regular attendee interrupts Stuehler’s line of questioning and looks directly at me. “We want to say thank you to Anita and Marion (Stuehler’s assistant). They teach everything about the Constitution and about the government, and that’s how we are going to be better,” he says. Everyone else around the table nods their head in agreement, looking up at Stuehler. “It’s just great to be here with you guys. It’s just the highlight of my week, every week, no matter what happens in my life, when I come here with you, it lightens my soul. It really does,” she says. “OK, so, Commander in Chief...” The new topic brings up a barrage of questions about executive powers, declarations of war and cur-
rent events. “It can all be confusing,” Stuehler explains. “So all I can keep saying is once you get the right to vote, get involved so if there’s something you don’t understand or something you want to see changed, get involved. That’s how civil rights changed, how women got the right to vote, that’s how slavery ended, that’s what changes things, is the people speaking up and that’s one of the freedoms that we have.” The right to vote is a primary reason people in the class are applying to become citizens. That and the security citizenship affords. “There’s a security, to be honest. I will be able to vote, and I already have a voice but it’s not heard, but now I [will] have the power to say, ‘I can vote,’” a student named Crystal says. “The past election, I didn’t feel like I could do anything. I mean, I could say whatever I wanted, but no one was going to pay attention to it.” Crystal moved to the U.S. from Durango, Mexico, in 1996 when she was 11 years old. Her dad had lived in the U.S. most of his life, qualifying for amnesty under President Reagan’s immigration reform in the mid-1980s. One of 10 siblings, Crystal and her family first lived in California before moving to Boulder. She graduated from Boulder High and has lived in the area ever since with a lawful permanent resident card, set to expire next year. Instead of renewing, she’s decided it’s time to naturalize. “I’m from Mexico, I didn’t want that to go away,” Crystal says. “I understand now that’s not how it is. I can still be Mexican and also a U.S. citizen.” Her mom became a citizen three years ago, as are most of her siblings, except two who live and work in Mexico. “Now that I have a son, I need to be more secure, established, to feel safe,” she says. “I want to become a U.S. citizen so I can teach my son the right to vote.” Stuehler is joined each week by an assistant, See CITIZENSHIP Page 14
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Marion Mackay, who became a citizen eight years ago after taking the class at the library. Originally from Canada, Mackay has lived in Boulder since 1975. “She asked me so many questions, I told her she has to stay,” Stuehler says. When a new student walks in, somewhat unsure of what’s going on, Mackay takes her aside to sign her in, gives her some studying materials and makes sure she’s eligible to apply for naturalization, although this is not a requirement to attend the class. Have you lived in the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident (a green card) for at least five years? Have you been in the U.S. continuously for the last two-and-a-half years? “They want to feel like they belong,” Mackay says about why people apply to become citizens. “That’s how I felt.” “The decision to become a citizen is a very personal one, it’s an individual choice. So is the decision to take classes,” says Debbie Cannon, public affairs officer at the Centennial USCIS office. Some people in the Boulder class have already turned in their application and are waiting to hear when their interview will be scheduled. Others are still working on their application, continuing to study while they make sure they have all the correct information and the finances to pay for it. When Stuehler started teaching the class, the application fee to become a citizen was $450. Now it’s $725, last raised in 2016. According to USCIS, the average wait time to process a citizenship application is 9.7 months. Some people in Stuehler’s class have been coming for a few years as they slowly move through the process, others come when they find out their interview date, leaving them about a month to study all 100 questions. “I really didn’t know what to study. It’s always easier to memorize after I understand all the historical background or political background,” says Caitlyn Ko, who took the class and became a citizen last year. “Studying really helped me to understand, not only memorize the questions.” Originally from South Korea, Ko 14 July 19, 2018
has lived in Boulder the past seven years and, since becoming a citizen, has finished graduate school and applied for government jobs, a luxury afforded only to citizens. “I can have more opportunities, same as other Americans,” she says. “I feel so safe and secure.” Recently a grandmother from Tibet, who moved to Boulder six years ago to help take care of her grandchildren, didn’t pass the test on the first try on account of her English. When Stuehler tells the class, the group lets out a collective, sympathetic sigh. Stuehler reassures them, however: the grandmother is dedicated, and still has a second chance at passing the interview before she would have to reapply, paying the $725 all over again. The same day, another student brings in cake for the whole class to celebrate her recent citizenship. Her interview only lasted 12 minutes, she says, as other students prod her for details. The interviewer was nice, but professional, only looking her in the eyes twice, she says. Out of the 100 questions the group studies each week, only six are asked at the naturalization interview, at the most 10, as each person is allowed to miss four. “We don’t use the word test, it sounds intimidating,” Mackay says. The new citizen answered the first six questions correctly and quickly passed the English proficiency portion, where she read a sentence out loud in English and then wrote a different sentence the interviewer read out loud to her. Then she answered questions about her specific application before he took out a large stamp, stamped a few papers and handed them to her. She’s visibly excited recounting the moment she realized she passed. “Glad you were there to experience the excitement of a new citizen,” Stuehler tells me later. “It is always like this when they come back to tell the class about their interview. I have been asked many times why I have spent almost every Monday teaching the class for the last 14 years. And I have to say to see someone so excited about becoming a citizen is the main reason why.” Boulder Weekly
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The lawsuits A total of three lawsuits have been filed separately against CPW, Wildlife Services and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, respectively, relative to CPW’s predator control plans. The lawsuit brought by WildEarth Guardians against CPW in Denver County District Court alleges the plans don’t meet the scientific research exemption of Colorado’s trapping ban and are therefore illegal, amongst other allegations. This suit is awaiting judgment. Another separate lawsuit filed in March by the Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society of the U.S. and WildEarth Guardians against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alleges environmental requirements were bypassed in USFWS’ funding and facilitating CPW’s two predator control plans. This case is working its way through federal court. A third lawsuit filed by the Center of Biological Diversity, Western Environmental Law Center and WildEarth Guardians, alleged Wildlife Services’ original Environmental Assessment (EA) failed to fully analyze the environmental impacts of its destruction of wildlife in Colorado. As a result, the two sides came to a stay agreement, which ordered Wildlife Services to complete the EA process anew before it could perform any work for CPW’s aforementioned predator control plans. This process resulted in Wildlife Services issuing a finding of no significant impact and final EA just days before the Piceance plan was set to begin in early May of this year, effectively green-lighting Wildlife Services’ assistance of CPW. But according to Keirn, Wildlife Services made no substantive change to the EA since the stay agreement. Stuart Wilcox, attorney for WildEarth Guardians, says for the second time Wildlife Services has rushed out a faulty EA to insulate its decision Boulder Weekly
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to participate in the senseless CPW killing plans. “But this assessment fares no better as it continues to struggle to meet a preordained outcome that is not supported by any of the available data, namely that Wildlife Services’ lethal predator control activities are anything but a cruel, ineffective sham based on discredited ideas,” Wilcox says. As an additional result of the agreement, the environmental groups had until June 24 to decide whether to reopen the case and challenge Wildlife Services’ new EA. And according to Wilcox, the environmental groups did just that, filing a motion for a leave to
Wildlife Services have killed 17 black bears this year as part of Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s predator management plans in the Piceance Basin.
re-open the case, which was accepted by the court at the end of June, meaning that the environmental groups’ lawsuit against Wildlife Services for its predator damage management work in Colorado — including its work on behalf of CPW in the Piceance — is once again active. And a recent court decision in Idaho may have implications for this lawsuit.
A federal judge ruled that for years, Wildlife Services responded to requests from Idaho livestock producers to kill or remove predators like coyotes that threaten their herds. And when Wildlife Services decided to expand its operations to kill or remove predators to game animals and protected species, it prepared a draft EA and circulated it to various agencies and the public. In her judgment, Judge Lynn Wynmill states that draft prompted numerous critical comments, especially from other governmental agencies with long experience and expertise in managing game animals and protected species. According to the judgment, the agencies all commented that the Draft EA was not an objective analysis of the environmental impacts. The BLM commented Wildlife Services’ Idaho EA does not read like a real analysis of the potential predator damage management outside of lethal methods. “Instead, it sounds like a pre-decisional defense of lethal methods, and fails to consider the real benefits of alternative approaches,” according to the BLM. According to Wilcox, the predator damage management plan in Idaho is essentially the same as the one currently under legal challenge in Colorado. Wilcox says Wildlife Services really doesn’t want to prepare Environmental Impact Statements for such plans, which are far more extensive than an EA, “because the only reason Wildlife Services still exists the way that it does is that they operate in the shadows, they don’t wrestle with the science because what they do doesn’t work.” And if they did do that, Wilcox says, then they’d be done. “Things would have to change, and they’re not interested in changing.” It remains to be seen if the federal judge hearing the lawsuit against Wildlife Services in Colorado will come to a similar conclusion as Judge Wynmill in Idaho regarding Wildlife Services’ Colorado predator damage management EA, and subsequently, Wildlife Services’ assistance with CPW’s predator control plans. But none of these lawsuits have been able to halt CPW and Wildlife Services from going ahead with their plans. And apparently this means killing mother bears and orphaning — or killing — their cubs. July 19, 2018 17
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t’s late morning, and the temperature’s already in the 80s — typical autumn weather for Utah. I cram enough food for a small Boy Scouts troop and four gallons of water into the packs under the seat, frame and handlebars of my rental Surly Karate Monkey mountain bike. Next, I bungee my tent and sleeping bag onto the rack over the rear wheel and jam the rest of my clothes and other indispensables into my frame pack. All told, I’ve got about 40 pounds on the bike and another 40 on my back. Immediately, the stone-studded Flint Trail — the
BIKE-PACKING THE MAZE And deciding not to die by Josh Schlossberg first leg of my three-day excursion — drops downhill, and the Maze District opens up 1,000 feet below like a drained seabed, all flats, shelves and upthrusts as far as the eye can see. The grade is so steep I ride the brakes to keep myself from careening off the sheer edge onto the next switchback 50 feet below me, as the road winds like a dusty rattlesnake past juniper and pinyon pine to the valley floor. The Maze District of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park is one of the most dangerous destinaBoulder Weekly
tions in the U.S. The rugged terrain, punishing temperature fluctuQ: What do you get ations, and sheer, utter when you combine a man, a bike, 10 remoteness keep all pounds of water, but a fraction of the 20 pounds of food, and a dangerously greater Park’s half-milremote desert landlion annual visitors scape? from risking their A: A life lesson or necks in this secluded two. land of slot canyons and dry washes, cliff faces and standing stones. Directions to the Maze: Take the Hanksville, Utah, exit off I-70, follow Highway 24 south for 50 miles, then hang a left to churn along a washed out, sandy road for another 50 until you reach the Hans Flat Ranger Station, the most remote National Park Service facility in the lower 48. From there, buck along another 14 miles of bedrock “road” at an average 5 miles per hour and — unless you’ve got a 4x4 vehicle, mountain bike or mule — you’ve reached the end of your journey. However, if you keep going, the Flint Trail plummets you 800 feet down over the first mile to deposit you smack-dab in a betwitching stonescape of dizzying cinnamon cliffs, scabby boulders, and beneath it all: the red earth, cracked and shattered like a gargansee THE MAZE Page 22
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tuan lobster’s shell smashed by a colossal hammer. Jeep trails and barely-marked hiking routes thread you deeper into the Maze, where you pass features such as the Chocolate Drops’ steep slabs, the Coyote and Roadrunner hoodoos of the Land of Standing Rocks, and — 30 miles later — the Doll House and its fairytale spires. As isolated as the Maze is, with hardly any water besides the nearly inaccessible Colorado River, no one in his or her right mind should go out there. And certainly not on a bicycle. And definitely not alone. But I didn’t get the memo. * * * * After a half hour of pure downhill on the Flint Trail, the road levels out to cut through some low hills and I pedal along, hunched over from my pack, my perineum smushed against the plastic saddle (you should know the tip of my penis felt numb for the days that followed). I realize if I stop short, the momentum may very well toss me head over heels, though with some luck I’ll land safely on my pack like a tortoise on its shell. Two miles later, I take a left at a junction and, after another two, reach the Golden Stairs campsite, where I break down the bike and set up my tent in the caramel sand among gnarled junipers and pinyon pines. On foot now, I follow cairns through dwarf woods until I reach a narrow stretch of white rock called China Neck. Like I were on a desert runway, 800-foot cliffs drop off on either side of the rock — to the west it falls into the purple, mauve and pale yellow humps and fins of Ernie’s Country; to the east is the deep cleft of the Colorado River, and further off, the more frequented Needles District (a few dozen miles as the crow flies, over 200 by road). The next morning, after a quick breakfast, I pack up the bike with my day supplies and set off toward Maze Overlook, 12.3 miles away, planning to return to Golden Stairs again for tonight’s sleep. It’s hotter than the day before — in the low 90s — the sun glaring at me like a bloodshot eye as I pedal along the alternatingly rocky, rutted and sandy road. After an hour, I cross a dry stream-
bed known as Big Spring Wash and, sweating through every article of clothing from my bandanna down to my socks, figure it’s time to get out of the sun for a bit. I push the bike through deep ochre sand and sit on a rock shelf under the shade of a 30-foot cliff. As I sip water and munch potato chips, I recall my conversation the previous day with the Ranger at Hans Flat. Josh Schlossberg
* * * * “Been two deaths in the Park over the last two weeks,” the Ranger — a sunbrowned woman in her late 40s — said as she filled out my permit. “In the Maze?” I hadn’t heard of any deaths down there. “Island in the Sky,” she replied, referring to the Park’s most popular district, where I’d previously seen scores of elderly and less-than-fit people exerting themselves under a treacherous sun. “We did have an incident out here last week with a backpacker who got lost, ran out of water, and had to be evacuated,” she added. “Wow.” I feigned awe, unsure why she was telling me this. “Another reason to never go off trail.” She inquired about my route and I laid it out for her. “Speaking of Maze Overlook,” she said, frowning, “I was out there the other day with an intern and even though she had been drinking plenty of water, she started showing the first signs of heat exhaustion.” The point of the story wasn’t clear, but I pretended to ponder it. She wrote down a description of my clothes and the color of my tent. Then she asked to take a picture of the soles of my boots, presumably to track me in case I got lost. “All about safety,” she said, the lines deepening on her forehead as she held up the camera. * * * * The Ranger’s scare tactics hadn’t worked at the time, but as I sit in the shade watching the sandstone hills bake in the sun, distorting the air above them, I feel a creeping sense of unease. While I’ve explored plenty of deserts over the years, I’ve almost always done so on foot, which requires less exertion than churning a heavy bike up slopes and through sand. I imagine a little cloud cover would help, but the sky is naked blue. I guzzle more water and look at my Boulder Weekly
map: I’ve only gone a pathetic five miles from Golden Stairs. Which means roughly another five to Maze Overlook, followed by a mile-long steep decline on foot and another two to the Harvest Scene petroglyphs. Then the return hike and 10-mile pedal back to the campsite — a trek, but I’ve done far worse. I lounge on the rock, rusty cliffs rising a few hundred yards away like the hulls of capsized sea tankers. I feel pretty good, except for a sour taste in my mouth. It occurs to me that it might be the onset of heat exhaustion — my heart fires off, what if... — but then I remember I forgot to brush my teeth. False alarm, sure, but I take it as a good reminder to refresh my memory with the actual symptoms. I whip out my Wilderness Medical Association Field Guide and open to the section on “Heat Problems,” which informs me that sweat losses can “easily exceed two liters per hour during moderate exercise in hot environments.” No problem: As long as I keep hydrating and replenishing my salts, I’ll be fine. Except, it goes on to explain, that heat stroke — “a severe, life-threatening rise in body temperature” — isn’t always preceded by heat exhaustion. And I’ve still got a total of seven hours to go through this demon hatchery of a landscape incubated by the scorching bulb of an unrelenting sun. I blink and hear my eyelids rasp as they cling and uncling like Velcro. If I get heat stroke out here and have the clarity of mind to send out an SOS via my satellite messenger, the estimated best-case scenario would be a few hours before help could arrive and — short of an airlift — another four before I get to the hospital. Barring that, a slow and unpleasant death. Of course all that’s silly: I’ve wandered deserts for years and never even felt faint. The well-meaning Ranger simply planted a seed of doubt in my brain, which, despite the lack of moisture, sprouted into a paranoid fruit ripe for the plucking. A chipmunk squeezes out from a hole in the rock, racing from shadow to shadow to perch on the branch of a pinyon pine. Hmm, even the locals know enough to stay out of the sun Boulder Weekly
today. All at once, my confidence leaks out of me like air from a busted bike tire. As much as I want to penetrate further into the Maze’s adobe heart, the sun’s rays are so powerful that they appear to be stripping the red from the rock like paint thinner. I’m fit and I’m trained and got everything I need, but this far from civilization, this time of year, I just might be out of my element. All alone, there’s no room for error — one misstep and I’m toast. Literally. I take another Josh Schlossberg sip of water and ask myself if this is really how I want to die. • • • • Back at the Golden Stairs that evening, I sit my sore ass on a rock and watch the sun set like a hunk of molten iron through a welder’s mask. Listening to the scissor snaps of crickets, I feel like a coward, loser and wimp rolled up in one. I’m ashamed because I bailed. I never made it to Maze Overlook. A desert cottontail hops out from under a juniper and side-eyes me from a few feet away, ears erect like flags on a mailbox. It occurs to me that this critter doesn’t see itself at the Golden Stairs campsite in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park in the State of Utah in the southwestern United States on the continent of North America on planet Earth. It’s just here — always here — the only place that ever was, the only place that could ever be. Indeed, we’re the only species with the compulsion to name places in nature — be it a canyon, mountain range or ocean — and in so doing, we simultaneously, paradoxically, lay claim to it while making a clear distinction between it and ourselves. It dawns on me that my fixation with Maze Overlook was less about experiencing the location itself and more about this need to conquer, to hold myself apart and above. That’s when I realize it was OK that I’d turned back. That the ultimate goal of my excursions isn’t to get anywhere in particular, but to immerse myself in the few blank spaces left on the map, so I can remember what it feels like — if only for a moment — to be a part of “here,” the land from which I came, and to which I’ll one day return (hopefully later than sooner, and not as burnt toast).
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ndrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the New Orleans native chose music over science, the class stuck with him. “It’s one of those things you don’t pursue but you’re glad you took a 101 in it,” he tells me over the phone from Indiana, where his tour has landed for the moment. “You’re on a plane and you see a river system and there are those pieces that are no longer part of the moving system; they end up as lakes, oxbow lakes — false rivers. At some point it’s likely the meander of the river will reconnect that piece but for now it’s just this beautiful piece on its own, this scar. I think it’s a nice metaphor for this record.” The record, False River, is Duhon’s first new release in five years, since 2013’s Grammy-nominated (Best Engineered Album) The Moorings. “These songs that were once part of the ever-changing, moving thing have now kind of found their static home as tracks, but also [as part] of the ongoing love story,” Duhon says of False River. “I think this record is perhaps a letter that I’ve been writing for a long time to a lover who’s no longer my counterpart, no longer my partner. I think in that way it’s a nice metaphor for the record.” It’s a nice metaphor for life in general; pieces of our human river systems break away from the whole, only to be reunited later on down the road, whether that’s an old lover or a childhood friend, a job opportunity we thought was gone forever or the healing of a frayed relationship with a parent. To get mathematical about it, the apparent randomness in every complex system is actually guided by patterns, feedback loops, repetition and self-organization. Life looks chaotic, but Duhon teases apart the meaning in the disarray.
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And that kind of work can surely take five years. In that time, Duhon found something he hadn’t had before: a cohesive band. To record The Moorings, Duhon hired New Orleans musicians Myles Weeks on bass and Hunter Holder G. Maxwell Zemanovic on drums. “They were just hired to learn these songs they didn’t know before the recording session. You expect that relationship to end once the studio session is over; you pay ’em their rate and thank ’em for doing their job and move on,” Duhon says. “But we got along well and they were the best musicians I’d ever played with. When I had gigs I asked them about [playing with me] and before I knew it we had spent four years on the road crossing the American landscape [together].” Duhon says he thinks there was an unspoken collective goal between the trio, a drive to create something together. “I think it was because we all knew the experience we had making The Moorings Andrew Duhon developed proved to all of us that we needed to spend his new album, False River, with East Nashville the time to hone songs that would become a producer Eric Masse, who record that we would make as a band that had Duhon says helped him “skirt that edge between seen the miles, and not just making a stock classic and tasteful, but record, so to speak.” also brave and new and fresh and cool.” Working with Weeks and Zemanovic pushed Duhon’s songwriting on False River in new directions. “They are much better musicians than I am,” Duhon says see DUHON Page 26
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with a laugh, adding that Zemanovic got hired to drum for Miranda Lambert’s band soon after False River was laid down. “I’m blindly throwing things at the wall, but [Weeks and Zemanovic] are great listeners with seasoned ears. From a guitar idea to a melody I might sing differently on one night of a show, it would be their guttural grunts of pleasure that would make me stick a pin in something. The lyrics remain my focus. I believe my path is about being a writer, but without those guys this record wouldn’t be as musically matured. The growth is due in large part to the direction and the help I got from those two guys inspiring brave musical choices.” The trio also got help from Eric Masse, an East Nashville producer who’s worked with country musicians like Miranda Lambert (see: Zemanovic’s new gig) and Charlie Worsham, but also local indie outfits like Escondido, prog rockers like At the Drive-In’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez and high-profile pop stars like Kesha. Much like the formation of Duhon’s band, Hunter Holder finding Masse was a stroke of luck... or fate, however you want to look at it. But it started like many great things start: with an afternoon beer at a dive bar in Nashville. Duhon just happened to overhear another patron say he was from Louisiana, and the normally reserved Duhon decided to strike up a conversation. “I told him, ‘I’m looking for the next Ethan Johns who isn’t Ethan Johns yet — The EastNashville Ethan Johns who doesn’t charge what Ethan Johns charges.’ He said, ‘You need Eric Masse.’” Duhon had been searching for the right producer for two years at this point. “How does that search work? I’m not sure,” ON THE BILL: Andrew Duhon says. “I think you just listen to records Duhon Trio. 7 p.m. Sunday, and you say, ‘I like this and it’s new enough July 29, Gold Hill Inn, 401 that the producer isn’t dead. Who else did they Main St., Boulder. Tickets are $10, goldhillinn.com produce?’ See if you can follow that to some tasteful vein that’s a common thread through these records that you assume isn’t by chance but by the producer. So many reasons why you can like a record: The room was great. The musicians were great. A songwriter or a band leader could have come in with ideas already. That searching made it hard for me to nail down someone to work with.” Calling Masse was a “last ditch effort” that paid off, even if Masse didn’t return Duhon’s phone call for a week. “When he finally got back to me he said, ‘Sorry, dude, I was hunting in the mountains of Montana. What’s up?’” Masse’s approach to record-producing has that same laid back sensibility. He’s got a studio in the garage in the back of his house he calls The Casino, because, as he told Duhon in that first phone call, it’s where he “gambles with the careers of artists.” “Then he let out a belly laugh and I knew he was the one because if he was ready to joke about something that heavy, then he not only understood the gravity of it but he also had a sense of humor about it, and I think that’s how I was ready to approach it too.” False River highlights the musical cliff that Masse and Duhon jumped off together, offering up more than just another songwriter record out of Nashville. Blending Duhon’s buttery vocals and Delta blues sensibilities with Masse’s eclectic musical proclivities, the record is a fresh take on the timeless experience of losing love and finding yourself. It’s a new chapter for Duhon, not only as a songwriter but also as a human searching for all those human things like love and belonging, roots and family. He’s spent the past two years on the road touring, and he’s unlikely to stop doing that any time soon, but he is wondering what’s next. “In my future I will have a more settled existence where I can grow maybe a half-acre of something, own some land, maybe it will involve some offspring; I don’t know yet,” Duhon admits. “It’s a pretty selfish life to travel and write songs. I love to share what I find and create but in essence I think it’s a pretty selfish way to be. I’d like to balance the insular, creative songwriter guy with a guy who’s a little older, a little grayer, hopefully a little wiser and more patient, perhaps the guy who could impart wisdom and freedom for a kid to live their own life.” Boulder Weekly
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Arguing with Something My Dharma Teacher Said by James R. Merrill
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here was a bumper sticker in Colorado in the 90’s that said, “Shit Happens” — you remember the one? The next one was a very clever retort: Nothing Happens. But you wouldn’t get it unless you were part of an in-group, the new age western Buddhists of Boulder — really anyone of the Nihilist persuasion that holds: man’s place in the universe is not just puny, but non-existent; nothing real in his mind. I’d be driving around Boulder visualizing world peace, trying to determine if I really exist, or only in a dream of driving — always a possibility in my hippie west coast groove; I’d be tooling down Arapahoe Boulevard in my ’84 Volvo wagon, blithely reading bumper stickers, such as another favorite of the day, “Visualize Whirled Peas”. I can see trees swaying overhead, recoiling from the fierce winds blowing down Boulder Canyon, off the Front Range. I could be back there now — it’s my mind, so why not go? I’ve just spied a squirrel tip-toeing,
ballerina style, across the high wire stretched over College Blvd. And I’m pondering the koan I just read on a woman’s T-shirt that said: “Stop Staring at My Breasts”. She opened the door of her apartment to show me a car she had for sale in the paper. Now I’m thinking about her breasts, so basically I bought the car without giving it a second look. Back to driving my old beater on its last legs and I’m worried if that squirrel is going to make his way across the wire, or even if he is really there. That’s silly, of course he’s there. But is he in a dream of his own illusion, or is it only we humans who are tripping through this life of illusion? So then I start a dialog with my dharma teacher. Actually he wasn’t there. But he had told me that it is my obstinate ego that is clinging to the notion of reality. And then, “Boom!” — I tailgated the guy in front of me who’s stopped at the railroad tracks while I’m looking up at a squirrel and arguing with something my dharma teacher told me.
James R. Merrill attended Naropa Institute (as it was called then) from 1989-91 in the MFA Poetics program. He is now a poet and retired teacher in Salem, Oregon, where he moved to from Boulder in 1999.
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Waiting for birdsongs
Kina Grannis on creating authenticity in the music industry by Sara McCrea
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ongwriter Kina Grannis has learned to let songs creep up on her. They always have a way of finding her — even if she’s not consciously aware of their meaning when they fly from her mouth for the first time. She says if she tries to make herself sit down and write, the songs stay hidden. If she makes space for them, they come. Grannis is preparing to travel across the U.S. and Europe for her album In the Waiting, which she released at the end of June. Containing ethereal ballads of longing and loneliness, the record is the first Grannis produced on her own, making it one she believes represents her at her most honest and vulnerable. “It’s a lot of firsts for me,” Grannis says. “I’ve been slowly making it over this past year, and it’s been a lot of growing and a lot of reflecting and just trying to figure out how to do life better. I think all of my albums have reflected where I am in life.” In the same way that songs seem to find the 32-year-old musician, the producing process came to her subconsciously. She’s worked with professional producers in the past, but it was through fiddling with various instruments and vocal airing while recording that she stumbled on the process of producing the album on her own. “I have finally found that place where I know who I am musically and I know what I want my music to sound like,” Grannis says. “It’s not a super clean, shiny album, but it is pretty much just me sitting in my home. There are a lot of bird sounds coming through the window.” While the album may not be polished, the nostalgic and dreamy tone of Grannis’ songs give the melodies a Boulder Weekly
ON THE BILL: Kina Grannis — with Imaginary Future. 7 p.m. Sunday, July 22, Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tickets are $22.50.
wistful shimmer. The album, at its core, presents as a meditation on the passing of time. In part, the album came out of a long period of personal waiting Grannis experienced in 2015. During the tour behind her album Elements, Grannis and her band found themselves detained in Jakarta, Indonesia, after discovering unexpected problems with their work visas. The musicians were told they could be held in jail for five years, but ultimately were fined and released after 100 days. In the meantime, all they could do was wait. “It was definitely the scariest, saddest time of my life, and also the most powerful and beautiful time of my life,” Grannis says. “Living in a state where there’s no certainty and you have your freedom and the people you love taken away from you, it really starts to put things in perspective.” Grannis says that though the first month was the most difficult, she was able to ground herself in meditation and gratitude, practices that she has carried with her as she continues her career. “Once I stopped resisting what was happening, I started finding immense gratitude for things like being alive,” Grannis says. “If we’re breathing, we can use our bodies, our families are alive — we’re so lucky.” Grannis’ success in the music industry came suddenly and in full force by way of a Doritos-sponsored contest for songwriters to be featured at the 2007 Super Bowl. After getting through the first round of the competition, Grannis decided to start a YouTube channel and make a video for every day the competition continued.
“I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” she says. Grannis won the contest, and before the performance, her younger sister pulled her aside and said, “Kina, this is the moment. From now on you get to do music for your life. That’s so amazing.” It appeared as though she had achieved her dream: a major record label wanted to produce her work. But six months later, Grannis felt reality setting in and her dream beginning to unravel. The label didn’t want to release the album she had written. Instead, they suggested she either co-write a new album — something she felt took away from the personal nature and magic of songwriting — or, if she wouldn’t become the type of artist they wanted her to be, she could leave. With her supporters from around the world on YouTube, Grannis felt it was an easy choice. A decade later, her channel has 1.3 million subscribers. “For the last 10 years I’ve been doing music entirely because of these people who have been listening and supporting me,” Grannis says. “All of a sudden last year it felt so clear to me to just call it what it is. It’s not that I’ve been an independent artist this whole time. I’ve been supported by my listeners around the world, and so I wanted to take it to a new level.” Creating her own record label, KG Records, using the website Patreon, Grannis found a way to stay true to the type of artist she wants to be, as well as a way to maintain an authentic relationship with her followers through her videos. One follower recently told Grannis that listening to her music was a form of meditation. Another compared it to therapy. Above all, what the songwriter hopes the audience takes away from her music is hope. “It’s so easy to get lost in our world and feel alone, but there’s something about feeling understood or seen in something you’re going through or having a feeling articulated that makes you think, ‘I’m not alone.’” July 19 , 2018 29
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hakespeare purists shake their fists and gnash their teeth when a Shakespeare festival includes works by playwrights other than the Bard. From a pedantic perspective, they certainly have a point. After all, one would be justifiably irate if one were to attend an ice cream festival only to be told that, on that particular day, the only available comestible was fried chicken. What the purists fail to realize, having long ago fallen in love with Shakespeare’s works, is that ol’ Will can be scary for the uninitiated. The older English, the convoluted plots and the carousel of characters sometimes make Shakespeare, dare I say, difficult to appreciate. Even for card-carrying Bard Heads, certain plays require refresher readings prior to the show to ensure optimal enjoyment. For years, in an effort to lure a wider audience, festival producers included more modern plays that dovetail thematically or topically with the Shakespeare on display. Think of them as “gateway plays.” The Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) has long subscribed to this modus, and Producing Artistic Director Tim Orr’s
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Scott Coopwood (left) dazzles as Cyrano in the Colorado Shakespeare Festivals presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac.
as confident as he is, Cyrano is always in the shadow of his very own, rather larger-than-large nose. It is this prominently protuberant proboscis that keeps him from telling the love of his life, Roxane (Brynn Tucker), how he feels about her. Cyrano’s love for Roxane runs so deep that when she tells him that she is smitten with a young, good-looking but somewhat simple member of Cyrano’s regiment, Christian (Marco Robinson), Cyrano decides to assist Christian with wooing Roxane by telling him exactly what to say to her. Cyrano whispers his words to Christian from the bushes, and Christian proclaims them to Roxane standing above them on her balcony. Cyrano sends Roxane letters in Christian’s name. Soon enough, decision to produce Cyrano de Bergerac Roxane is in love with Christian’s this season should attain the desired face and Cyrano’s words. goal of turning more of the As much fun as the various epiShakespeare wary into at least the sodes of swordplay are — all credit to Shakespeare curious. Fight Director Christopher DuVal Though it is set in 1640, Cyrano and his Assistant Fight Director de Bergerac was first produced at the Benaiah Anderson — it is the wordvery end of the 19th century, making play that truly defines Cyrano de it thoroughly more Bergerac. Playwright modern, and thereEdmond Rostand’s fore decidedly more words, as translated accessible, than by Anthony ON THE BILL: Cyrano de Shakespeare’s plays Burgess, are witty Bergerac — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. and weightless yet written 300 or so University of Colorado Boulder, punctilious and years earlier. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, even profound, and Cyrano’s central www.cupresents.org. Through Aug. 11. Tickets start at $20. the CSF cast seems conceit of the intelto savor speaking ligent but unattractthem as much as ive man acting as audiences will enjoy the “voice” for the hearing them. Local favorite Michael handsome but stupid man to help Bouchard plays a baker with deluhim win the affections of a lady has echoed through pop culture seeming- sions of eloquence, and as usual, the impression he makes far exceeds the ly since the play debuted. For a parnumber of minutes he actually ticularly excellent film adaptation, appears on stage. As Roxane, Tucker check out 1987’s Steve Martinclearly relishes the choice dialogue starring Roxanne. and delivers it impeccably. Cyrano (Scott Coopwood) is a No actor, however, outstrips Scott warrior-poet in the classic mold. Early Coopwood. Last season, after feeling on, in one of the play’s best scenes, he he was miscast as Petruchio in The composes a rhyming ballad while Taming of the Shrew, I warmed to simultaneously dueling another man. Coopwood in Julius Caesar. He seemed As their swords clash, Cyrano recites even more comfortable in his supporthis extemporaneous poetry, which ing role in this season’s Love’s Labour’s includes regular reminders that when Lost. As Cyrano, Coopwood positively the poem ends so will his opponent. dazzles. His assured, playful and laySoon after, Cyrano jauntily heads off ered performance is more than reason to fight 100 men single-handedly. He would seem to be the kind of man that enough to buy a ticket for Cyrano de Bergerac. women want and men want to be, but Boulder Weekly
a r t s & culture When the human world is a mess
BDT Stage provides some summer fun with ‘The Little Mermaid’ by Amanda Moutinho
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n the fourth consecutive day of “too hot” this summer, an afternoon at the beach starts to sound real nice. But, living in this landlocked state, sometimes the only reasonable escape is a daydream: imagining the sand between your toes, seagulls flying overhead, crabs scuttling along the shore, and maybe, in the depths of Glenn Ross the water, a magical world that sings about the joys of the sea. While the glory of a real beach day is hard to beat, BDT Stage’s summer production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid can satiate the craving. Now playing through Sept. 8, The Little Mermaid musical brings to life the 1989 Disney film and subsequent 2008 Broadway musical. The classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale follows King Triton’s youngest mer-daughter Ariel, who yearns to be in the human world. When she falls in love with two-legged Prince Eric, she makes a deal with auntie sea witch Ursula, trading her voice for a pair of bottom limbs. Now she has three days to make Eric fall in love with her before becoming Ursula’s slave for eternity. When considering the purpose of the show, talking crab babysitter Sebastian sums up The Little Mermaid perfectly: “The human world, it’s a mess,” he sings. “Life under the sea is better than anything they’ve got up there.” While those words were true in the late ’80s, they still hold plenty of weight for modern audiences who deal Boulder Weekly
with heart palpitations at the sight of every new headline. So when you’re looking for escapism, The Little Mermaid is welcome, light-hearted fare. Moreover, it’s a fun-filled show packed with joy and theatrical razzle dazzle. The perfect family-friendly event needs to be entertaining for both adults and children. The Little Mermaid captures young imaginations, and the show’s whimsy transports
adults to their childhood. The show is a pleasing affair for both Disney lovers and theater diehards. One of its strengths, which can be tricky to navigate, is its addition of new material. The Little Mermaid is an exemplary model of adding new songs that match the quality of the old classics. The new songs give more space to the supporting characters, like Ursula’s murder ballad “I Want the Good Times Back,” Eric’s lovely ode to his mystery love “Her Voice,” and Scuttle’s knee-slapping jig “Positoovity.” The new additions reinvigorate the classics, making the show feel like a fresh offering. Always the most fun part of any Disney-cartoon-turned-stage-musical is the creation of a fantasy world on
ON THE BILL: Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, bdtstage.com. Through Sept. 8.
stage. Challenges are opportunities for magic in the theater, and The Little Mermaid works hard to bring alive an ocean of sea creatures and the mermaids who swim throughout. How they achieve these effects is just another nod to the greatness of theater. Two of the highlights of the show are the wonderful costuming and props. Obviously, there’s a lot of fun to be had when personifying animals, and the costume department takes every liberty. The night is filled with glitter, lights, sequins, wigs, feathers, ruffles, masks and an endless parade of colors. Joined with the use of some amusing puppetry, the show is enchanting to watch. The technical elements of the production are strong, but the show would only go so far without a stellar cast to back them up. In the starring role, BDT Stage newcomer Lillian Buonocore is a dazzling Ariel. She possesses the charisma and comedic chops for the role, and she presents Ariel with the impeccable Disney princess lilt. She rounds out her performance with powerful-yet-delicate vocals that are resonant. Buonocore is well-matched with Cole LaFonte playing Eric. LaFonte brings authenticity and heart to the role of the dashing prince charming. And flawlessly cast in the role of arguably the best Disney villain is BDT Stage mainstay Alicia K. Meyers, who infuses Ursula with malevolent charm and a knockout voice. The show also features a kooky band of supporting characters including Flounder (played by Chas Lederer), Scuttle (Bob Hoppe) and Sebastian (Anthony P. McGlaun). The mark of a good show is leaving the theater feeling lighter and happier than when you walked in, kind of like a good afternoon at the beach. While we may not have access to miles of shoreline or its real underwater worlds around here, The Little Mermaid is a sweet summer treat that is just as refreshing.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY JULY 19 8PM
“DUELING DUOS” STRANGBYRDS W/ MARK VIATOR AND SUSAN MAXEY FRIDAY JULY 20 8PM
THE NOISY RESIDENTS W/ YES DADDY & NASTY GUY BUSINESS CARD SATURDAY JULY 21 8PM
WOMEN IN SONG
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SHAWN TAYLOR 8PM FUTURE THINGS 9PM MONDAY JULY 23
LINDSAY CLARK 8PM HANNAH JANE KILE 9PM TUESDAY JULY 24
THE LAND OF DEBORAH 8PM TIM OSTDIEK 9PM BEN HANNA 10PM WEDNESDAY JULY 25
CALEB MILLER 8PM THE BRANDOLIN (BRANDON HAGEN) 9PM THURSDAY JULY 26
BOB BARRICK 8PM MISTI BERNARD 9PM LUCAS SWAFFORD 10PM FRIDAY JULY 27
TARA VELARDE 9PM ANJI KAT & CHRISTOPHER CESTA 10PM
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BOMBINO — WITH ATOMGA.
7 P.M. TUESDAY, JULY 24, BOULDER THEATER, 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER. TICKETS ARE $18-$20.
EXPLORE THE VASTNESS OF THE SAHARA THROUGH THE MEDITATIVE AND EARTHY SOUNDS OF NIGER-BASED GUITARIST BOMBINO.
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CENTERSTAGE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS ‘CABARET.’ July 21-29, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org Molly Steele
Spend a night in the Kit Kat Club with CenterStage Theatre Company’s production of Cabaret. Set in Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power, Cabaret follows a nightclub singer, an American writer and a dynamic cast of characters as they sing classics including “Maybe This Time.” Join CenterStage again for a fundraiser to support student scholarships and the Colorado Immigration Rights Coalition on Monday, July 23 at the CenterStage Blackbox (901 Front St., Louisville). Performers and CenterStage alumni Marcos Ospina, Vidushi Goyal, Chloe Vuillermoz and more will host Not Apologizing, a benefit concert featuring acoustic originals and covers. Tickets are $10 at the door. —Sara McCrea
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SANITAS TACO FEST.
CMF’S FESTIVAL OF DINNERS: DINE AND DANCE.
12 p.m., Saturday, July 21. 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, sanitastacofest.com
6 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, Shine Restaurant and Potion Bar, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.
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What could more McIntosh refreshing in summer than beer, good music and gourmet tacos? The Sanitas Taco Fest offers all three and more. Along with more than 30 varieties of tacos to choose from and a live concert, the festival also offers a showing of Lucha Libre wrestling matches narrated by stand-up comedians. General admission is $15 per person, which includes one beer and one taco, with access to the wrestling and music shows. A VIP ticket for $39 offers five tacos and three beers, as well as access to a VIP lounge in the brewery and a deck view of the entertainment. Kids 12 and under get in free. —Sara McCrea
The Blissful Sisters, Emich triplets Jessica, Jill and Jennifer, are dedicating their restaurant on a Wednesday night to an evening of dining and dancing. Colorado Music Festival musicians will provide music throughout the dinner hour. After dinner, dance to a DJ. Menu choices include (but are certainly not limited to) local mushroom bisque, wild salmon, chèvre and local tomato ravioli and raw honey coconut ice cream. Space is limited. Tickets are $100 per person, $15 to dance only. A cash bar will be available. brownpapertickets.com/ event/3396414
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events Thursday, July 19 Music Dueling Duos: Strangebyrds — with Mark Viator and Susan Maxey. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Video Marketing: Creating Professional Videos on Your Smartphone. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
CMF: Fresh Fridays — Scheherazade. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Friday, July 20
DrinkDrankPunk, Leftover Sermon. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Music
Aya Maguire: Art, Music and Farewell. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Bethel Steele and Shawn Taylor. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720204-6064.
California Kind. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
The Campfire Vendetta. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Clandestine Amigo. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Colorado Music Festival: Scheherazade. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Christine Barbosa. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.
Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-499-1665. The Flyin A’s. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Funk Knuf and Signel-Z: Longmont Jazz Fest Opening Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Gasoline Lollipops. Louisville Street Faire, Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville. Kalu and The Electric Joint. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Lindsey Saunders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Live Music and Drinks on the Deck. 6 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. The Mighty Twisters. 9:15 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486. see EVENTS Page 34
The Eldridge Band (Album Release). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Framing the Red. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. Harmony and Brad. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Linsdey Saunders. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Louisville Summer Concerts in the Park: That Damn Sasquatch. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-335-4581. Randy Hansen Band: Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Spoudazo Concert. 7 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399. Tenth Mountain Division — with New Family Dog String Band and Special Guests. 7:15 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. The Who Do’s. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Events 929PRL Happy Hour. 5 p.m. 929 PRL, 929 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-499-3647. Aerial Futures: Constructed Landscapes. 6 p.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. All About Dolls Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Andy Irons: Kissed By God. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 508-309-2893. More show times at thedairy.org. Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 970-302-7130. Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Craft Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Explore the Baha’i Faith. 6:30 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 107 E. Geneseo St., Lafayette. The Guardians. 2 and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 508-309-2893. More showtimes at thedairy.org. Joel Kim Booster. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. More show times at comedyworks.com. NIA: Parent and Child Class. 10 a.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4752. Third Thursday Improv Show. 7 p.m. Wesley Foundation Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-588-0550. Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandoori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 970-302-7130. Urban Market. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467.
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UPCOMING SHOWS Saturday, July 21 – 8:00 pm, Por Wine House, Louisville - FREE SHOW Saturday, August 4 – 5:30 pm, Arise Music Festival, Loveland Tickets can be purchased at: http://arisefestival.com/tickets/
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Mile High Global Bazaar. 11 a.m. Skyline Park, 1100 16th Street Mall, Denver, 720-272-7467. Through July 22. Mojomama. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.
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Nice Work Jazz Combo — with Heidi Schmidt. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Gina Wohlsdorf’s breakout novel Security was praised as “scary, gory, kinky, and experimental” (Booklist), and “an ingeniously plotted, postmodern granddaughter of an Agatha Christie novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Her new novel, Blood Highway, features the same shocking twists and turns, with a feisty young heroine locked in a desperate fight to survive. Wohlsdorf will speak about Blood Highway at Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m.
The Noisy Residents — with Yes Daddy and Nasty Guy Business Card. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Silent Bear Solo/Songwriter Series. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Streetlight Manifesto presents: Keasbey Nights. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Events 5280EDM Presents: AvtrHaus. 10 p.m. Thee Haus Ov Where Gallery, 100 Kalamath St., Denver. Adult Open Gym — with PJ. 5:30 p.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.
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Steve Raymer — Somewhere West of Lonely. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Up All Night Thrillers — with Jenny Milchman, Sandra Block, Carter Wilson and Randall Silvis, Mystery Thriller Book Talks and Signing. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, EVENTS Page ? 2526 E.see Colfax Ave., Denver.
Global Dance Festival. Noon. Sports Authority Field at Mile High, 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle, Denver, 720-258-3000.
TJ Anderson — The Art of Health Hacking. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
A Kidsummer Night’s Dream. 7:30 p.m. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette. Through July 22.
Friday, July 20
Leon: The Professional. 8:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Saving Brinton. 2 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org. John Muir, The Unruly Mystic. 7 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-579-1049. Saturday, July 21 Music 107.9 KBPI presents: In the Whale. 11 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Acoustic Prayers for Evening. 5 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Bettman and Halpin. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette. Burning Bush Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-651-2499.
Romance and Rosé Book Party. 6:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. David Keplinger — Another City: Poems. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Poetry Writer’s Workshop. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Saturday, July 21 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver. Andrew Shaffer — Hope Never Dies. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Monday, July 23 So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Paige Embry — Our Native Bees. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tuesday, July 24 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Active Minds Lecture — Puerto Rico. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Finn O’Sullivan. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Timothy Zahn — Thrawn: Alliances. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Randi Hunter Epstein — Aroused. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, July 25 Joanna Luloff & Gina Wohlsdorf — Remind Me Again What Happened and Blood Highway. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Randi Hutter Epstein — Aroused. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Castlecomer. 9:30 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Cleanzed Soul, Lords of Destruction. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. CMF: American Strings. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Crawfish Boil — with Guerrilla Fanfare. 6:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Defunkt Railroad. 10 p.m. World Famous Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder. Duos Night. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. George Nelson. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ In Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
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Hindsight Classic Rock. 8 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Mass Hipsteria. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875. Passenger. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Rooster: Alice In Chains Tribute. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Streetlight Manifesto presents: Everything Goes Numb. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Women in Song hosted by Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events
Denver Summer Tequila Tasting Festival. 4 p.m. The Cetlic on Market, 1400 Market St., Denver, 312-600-9035. Adobe After Effects Hands-On Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863. Butterflies and Other Flying Creatures. 9:30 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, Nederland. Global Dance Festival. 3 p.m. Sports Authority Field at Mile High, 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle, Denver, 720-258-3000. Jefferson Park Farm and Flea Market. 10 a.m. Jefferson Park Farm and Flea Market, 2901 W. 25th Ave., Denver.
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Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. Amuse Yeux. Foothills Art Center, Community Gallery, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Aug. 12. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22.
Perilous Journeys. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through July 29.
Echo Trail — by Laura Ahola-Young. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Aug. 19.
Pink Progression. Metropolitan State University, Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Through Aug. 18.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Highlights from the Collection. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Honey — by Kristen Hatgi Sink. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.
Kinetic Iterations — Sherman Finch and Jiffer Harriman. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29.
Nature Photography by Kirk Fry. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31.
A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through Sept. 19.
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 16.
Like a Hammer — by Jeffrey Gibson. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 12. LineScapes — by Ayn Hanna. Dairy Arts Center, MacMillan Family Lobby, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29.
Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw/Cherokee), Like A Hammer, is now showing at Denver Art Museum. Pictured: Elk hide, glass beads, artificial sinew, wool blanket, metal studs, steel, found pinewood block, and fur; 56 x 24 x 11 in. Collection of Tracy Richelle High and Roman Johnson. Courtesy of Marc Straus Gallery, New York.
Paintings by Vivienne Douglas. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery,1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Aug. 31. Patrice Renee Washington: Charts, Parts, and Holders. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26.
A Place in History. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 28.
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Processing — by Roberto Juarez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 16. Resounding Roar — by Charles E. Burchfield. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 29. RUST — by Madeleine Dodge. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29. Slow Mover. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 19. Transmission — by Derrick Adams. Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Aug. 26. TreeHouses: Look Who’s Living in the Trees! Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.
THURSDAY JULY 19 10:00 AM
WE ARE STARS 2:00 PM
BELLA GAIA - BEAUTIFUL EARTH 7:00 PM
LIVE TALK: ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDING 8:30 PM
LASER THAT 90’S LASER SHOW FRIDAY JULY 20 8:00 PM
SUPER VOLCANOES Orthodox Food Festival. 11 a.m. Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral, 349 E. 47th Ave., Denver.
The Music Of The Beatles For Kids. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.
Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St. (in back of school), Lyons, 303-823-5925.
RiNo Sunday Urban Market. 12 p.m. Infinite Monkey Theorem, 3200 Larimer St., Denver, 303736-8376.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Shawn Taylor. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Summer Heritage Evening: Flora and Fauna. 4 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder. Twisted Pine Brewing’s 23rd Anniversary! 12 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder. Sunday, July 22 Music City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. CMF: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Future Things. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kina Grannis. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Long Gone John. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lynn Tredeau, Rachel LaFond, & Kathryn Kaye, Live in Concert. 4 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 208-258-9836.
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Events Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org. Colombian Independence Festival. 11 a.m. War Memorial Park (in front of Capitol building), 100 E. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-288-0360. Essential Cinema: Hugo. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. More show times at thedairy.org. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007. Intro to Brazilian Drumming: 4-weekly classees. 6:30 p.m. Intercambio Uniting Communities, 4735 Walnut St., Suite B, Boulder, 415-694-376. Irish Tales Along the Trails. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Monday, July 23 Music Bandshell Boogie 2018. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 310-658-6587.
Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Children’s SRP: Woodpeckers Drum to the Beat! 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. English Beat. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Hannah Jane Kile. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Hommage à Debussy: Lisa Harrington and Matt Goodrich, piano duo. 7 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Lindsay Clark. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. TajMo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. Events Chautauqua Community Annual Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Chess Club. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 36
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LIQUID SKY COLD PLAY 11:00 PM
LASER FLOYD: THE WALL SATURDAY JULY 21 1:00 PM
WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
STARS AND LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY SUNDAY JULY 22 1:00 PM
LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
STARS AND GALAXIES 4:00 PM
HABITAT EARTH TUESDAY JULY 24 10:00 AM
DYNAMIC EARTH 2:00 PM
DREAM TO FLY WEDNESDAY JULY 25 10:00 AM
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Legit Knits @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
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The inspiration behind the hit film Roxanne, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac has it all: passion, panache and thrilling swordplay. Cyrano, witty and proud but crippled by insecurity, secretly pines for Roxanne — but she has her eyes on handsome, empty-headed Christian. With a beating heart as big as its title character’s nose, Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the greatest love stories ever written. See page 30 for a review of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production.
Open Mic/Jam — with Tom Kendrot, Jam and Jiggatones. 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-378-3292. So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Younger Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, July 24 Music Ben Hanna. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Bombino. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Children’s Dances. 6:15 p.m. Plaza beside the Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363. The Land of Deborah. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. TajMo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. Tim Ostdiek. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Adult Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
9 to 5 The Musical — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Aug. 5.
Lend Me a Tenor. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Opens July 13. Through Aug. 19.
The Arsonists — presented by Benchmark Theatre. 40 West Arts District, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through July 21.
Love’s Labour’s Lost — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave, Boulder. Through Aug. 12.
The Bridges of Madison County. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 5. Cabaret — presented by CenterStage Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 29. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. 7:30 p.m. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through July 21. Cyrano de Bergerac — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave., Boulder. Through Aug. 11. Disney’s The Little Mermaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 8. Into the Woods. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Aug. 5.
Newsies. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Aug. 26. The Producers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30. Richard III. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 11. Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Aug. 5. You Can’t Take It With You — presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre Building, University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Opens July 20. Through Aug. 12.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Lorax. 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer of Discovery: Meet and Bleat: Mountain Flower Dairy Goats. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wednesday, July 25 Music Animal Collective (performing Sung Tongs). 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Brandolin (Brandon Hagen). 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Caleb Miller. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Conduct Yourself Workshop. 10:30 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-665-0599.
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David Coile and Friends: A Co-Writers Showcase. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
The Escape. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org.
2018 FOD: Dine and Dance. 6 p.m. Shine Restaurant and Potion Bar, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-665-0599, ext. 110.
The Gospel According to Andre. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. More show times at thedairy.org.
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
High Crimes Book Group. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Melissa Etheridge. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens - York Street, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.
Home Decor Sewing Camp. 9 a.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245.
Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Summer Concert Series: Tunisia. 6:30 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-438-2500. Events Adult Dance Classes. 5 p.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Unit 111, Lafayette, 303-524-5405. Conversations in English Wednesdays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Lap Babies. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Son of the Sheik (1926) — with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. So You Think You Can Dance Camp. 8:30 a.m. Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303485-5020. Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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he year’s best films thus far — writer/director Ari Aster’s Hereditary and writer/director Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You — have two major similarities: They are both savagely terrifying and aggressively confident in their divisively ambitious third acts. Whereas Aster kept his gaze on demons that haunt minds and families, Riley’s film is a hallucinatory punk-rock chimera composed of equal parts Get Out and Idiocracy. Nimbly unwilling to limit its capital-L Loud social condemnation to just one subject, Sorry to Bother You is a Swiss-armyknife criticism of modern existence. Literal enough to defy misreading and ludicrous enough to demand repeat viewing, it’s the kind of gift too rarely opened by American audiences. Desperate for employment, Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) applies to work with his buddy, Salvador ( Jermaine Fowler), at a telemarketing company that will feel very accurately depicted — despite Riley’s surreal sheen — to anyone who has tragically spent time there. For the first time in his life, Cassius is praised and acknowledged, shooting up the ranks while his colleague, Squeeze (Steven Yeun), fights to establish a union for the lowest-paid workers. Although Detroit (Tessa Thompson), a perWatching Sorry to Bother You is something like going formance artist and Cassius’s girlfriend, has her to church and laughing as reservations, it’s not until a party thrown by bilyou realize how damned we all are. lionaire Steve Lift (Armie Hammer) that the true depraved insanity is revealed. Most narrative confrontations of economic disparity and corporate exploitation segregate out aspects of race, but Sorry to Bother You isn’t most narratives. As the film wildly gallops to its hyperbolic conclusion, the heaping helpings of hilarity leave room for unmitigated rage as dessert. Stanfield continues to prove that live-wire intensity doesn’t require megawatt acting. As he showed in Get Out and routinely demonstrates in FX’s Atlanta, charisma can be laid-back and tortured peril can be restrained. Here he is downright Kafkaesque, effortlessly blessing impossible scenarios with inherent plausibility. Thompson is transcendent, while Hammer once more leverages his Ken-doll appearance to subversive effect. There is a moment late in the film when Squeeze lays out the depressing, inarguable indictment that is at the core of the movie’s message. That message will reverberate in minds long after the credits roll, echoing over increasingly limited coverage of children still separated from their parents at the U.S. southern border or repeating as if a musical refrain as a Justice who has been an unrepentant activist for the rights of corporations over the rights of human beings is nominated to a lifetime appointment. Sorry to Bother You isn’t a skewing satire of one societal sin but a rollicking accusation of our unwillingness to recognize myriad unpalatable horrors that we drown in daily. It’s also gorgeous to look at, electric to listen to and crucial to discuss. To call it a minor miracle is to strip the blood, sweat and tears that Riley wove into this transcendent experience, but profound revelations and insights may be the closest to holy we humans can get. Thus, watching Sorry to Bother You is something like going to church and laughing as you realize how damned we all are. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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Kid, you’re gonna go far
It’s painful and awkward but ‘Eighth Grade’ is all heart by Michael J. Casey
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eet Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher); she’s 13, lives in a suburban home with ON THE BILL: Eighth Grade. Opens July 27. her single father ( Josh Hamilton) Century Theater, 1700 and is about as put together as you 29th St., Boulder, 303might expect a 13-year-old to be. 444-0583 Practically bursting at the seams with personality, thoughts and feelings, Kayla has transformed her living spaces into a physical manifestation of her inner mantras. Her mirror is covered with Post-It notes — all containing some form of positive reinforcement — and her school notebooks are bursting with columns of goals and how to attain them. Both provide the basis of her web video series, half howto, half digital diary — each one is an unedited, first-take success. If she were two decades older, Kayla would make for a firstrate life coach. The only thing standing in her way is adolescence. She isn’t as skinny as the popular girls, doesn’t have stunning social skills or the attention of her crush, Riley (Daniel Zolghadri), a mumbling teen so disinterested with the world he barely registers a pulse until sex is mentioned. In another movie, Kayla might be the fat friend (though she is hardly overweight) or a mere punchline. Eighth Grade is not that movie. Here, Kayla is the beginning, middle and end. She tries to make friends at school, but it doesn’t go well. She meets a friendly kid ( Jake Ryan) at a pool party, but she’d rather stare at Riley’s low-slung swim trunks. She makes friends with a group of high school seniors, but that carries myriad problems to navigate. It’s not easy being 13, but neither is being 14, 15, 16... Written and directed by Bo Burnham (a multi-hyphenate stand-up comedian), Eighth Grade is a neo-realist look at the average suburban American middle schooler with inflections of a horror film. Some scenes you identify with — but with the distance of 10, 20, maybe 30 years — others transport you back to those awful years and make your whole body cringe. Then there’s a situation Kayla unknowingly places herself in, and you see what’s coming a mile away. The world is littered with mines. In between all these moments, Kayla records her web videos. And though they don’t directly comment on the action, it’s foolish not to read them that way. The two most profound of these are the ones that open and close Eighth Grade. Not much has changed between the two videos, but there is a sense that much has changed in Kayla. Eighth Grade tracks these micro changes with a macro lens. Bolstered by Fisher’s remarkably selfless performance, Burnham’s camera zeroes in on the rhymes that accompany life’s pattern, blending the significant with the mundane and capturing something that is both familiar and strange. It’s a beautiful experience, even if it does take you back to so many of those moments you’d rather forget.
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iège waffles are the koning of Belgian waffles, perfect for snacking at any time of day; luckily for us, Boulder-based Vafle has crafted a mind-numbingly delicious take on the centuries-old Liège waffle, which we just-so-happened-upon while getting a cup of joe at Neptune Mountaineering one day. Handmade in town from organic and plant-based ingredients, the brioche-like dough of a Vafle is laced with half-melted chunks of pearl sugar. In line with traditional Liège wafflemaking, the folks at Vafle use active yeast, not baking powder, for leavening. The dough is allowed to cold ferment overnight and then infused with pearl sugar imported from Belgium in an authentic Liège waffle iron. The caramelized sugar creates a slightly bitter contrast to the buttery waffle dough. There’s even a gluten-free version. Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, the only way they could improve this waffle is to put it in a compostable package — which they do. $3.50.
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f you’re looking for fish tacos around Boulder County, may we suggest Zolo? Their redfish tacos are dynamite. Chunks of tender, moist fish are charred and tossed in a tomatillo salsa. The fish is served alongside flour tortillas, smoked serrano aioli, crema, a zippy house slaw, cotija cheese and some very good black beans. You’ll construct the taco yourself, which gets harder after you finish your second coin-style margarita. $19.
Just BE Kitchen 2364 15th St., Denver, justbekitchen.com verything served at Just BE Kitchen is gluten-, grain- and refined sugar-free, and while we rejoice in the fact that so many establishments are catering to a wide-variety of dietary needs, we couldn’t help but wonder: how good can a grain-free tortilla be? Really damn good, turns out. A “paleo” tortilla holds together an insane amount of fluffy scrambled eggs, savory sausage, sweet potato hash, mildly spicy pork (or veggie) green chili, “cheddar” wiz, jalapeños, scallions and fresh cilantro. We even added a bit of chicken, just to really measure tensile strength. Not only did the tortilla hold this monster together, it retained the soft-but-chewy texture of a traditional tortilla, easily helping us shovel forkful after forkful into our mouths. $13.
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nibbles BY JOHN LEHNDORFF
Massaging salad greens rubs some cooks the wrong way
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n one of my singular childhood memories, my mom stands at the kitchen counter in the old, white house. She is up to her wrists in a bowl of salad. I recall her talking about massaging the lettuce leaves with olive oil first before adding the other ingredients. It was supposed to make the salad taste better, or at least feel more relaxed. My sister Lisa remembers in more detail. “You coat the lettuce, tomato and cucumbers with oil first. Then you add salt, black pepper and a little sugar and massage lightly, then add vinegar and
massage again. Taste and adjust seasonings.” All that massaging made my dad happy. He preferred day-old wilted, soft salad to anything crisp and fresh. My brother Peter has a different memory. “Mom used to kill salads by putting too much dressing on the whole salad and then toss it with her hands. It was more like a slaw,” he said. Full disclosure requires me to admit that I’ve been known to settle for bottled dressing on bagged baby spinach. However, when I do make a green tossed salad from scratch I typically take Mom’s advice and coat the greens with oil, usually store-brand extra virgin olive. I never massage the tomatoes, radishes or other additions, and instead just toss them in at the end. I skip the sugar. It’s a quick rubdown, not deep tissue work. I save the Rolfing for elderly kale leaves. When I asked two chefs whether it was a good idea to oil the greens, one gave it a thumbs-up. The other insisted that if the greens you are using are so tough they need a shiatsu treatment, you may need fresher, younger, tender lettuce, arugula or greens. Massaging breaks down the cellular structure. One source even suggested starting with the vinegar and letting the leaves marinate and tenderize a while. I settled the internal vinaigrette debate last week when I had some goodlooking romaine in the house. I took a couple of crisp leaves and massaged them with oil, tore them up and added vinegar, salt and pepper. Two other leaves got coated see NIBBLES Page 44
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with vinegar and salt before becoming salad. With two bowls before me, I alternately tasted Salad 1 and Salad 2. There was a subtle distinction, with Salad 2 seeming softer and tangy-tasting. Salad 1 had a little more crunch and a mellower taste. I still liked it better than Salad 2. Frankly, both salads needed some grated Parmesan. A recent national survey by porch.com breathlessly revealed that 60 percent of millennials don’t know how to make a salad dressing from scratch. I bet more than 60 percent of all Americans of any age can’t make a green salad with a vinaigrette. Salad can be a composed work of art but it doesn’t have to be a big deal. First, get the freshest lettuce or greens possible. Gently rinse them by immersing them in a bowl or sink of cool water. They will wilt from too much handling and bending. It’s important to dry the leaves completely on a towel or use a salad spinner. Next, rub the leaves with olive oil. If you want to live it up, try some hazelnut oil. Then break the leaves into bite-sized pieces and not giant leaves that have to be cut to be eaten. The other ingredients should be roughly the same size. Add the lemon juice or vinegar — apple cider, red wine, rice or balsamic — plus kosher salt and fresh-ground black pepper. Toss and serve dressed and not with the dressing on the side. How do you dress for success? There is an old saying that it takes four people to dress a salad: a wise one for the salt, a mad one for the black pepper, a miser for the vinegar or lemon juice, and a generous one for the olive oil. That is, vinaigrette is roughly three parts oil to one part vinegar or lemon juice, and I usually add more olive oil... not to mention herbs, nuts and diverse produce. Make it, taste it, adjust it, repeat as needed.
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Arcana has added the Colorado Brunch Drink (CBD) to its brunch menu. The beverage includes Strega (Italian herb liqueur), basil, tonic water and hemp-derived CBD extract from Louisville’s Bluebird Botanicals. ... At the recent Dead & Company Boulder concerts, Celestial Seasonings introduced a Grateful Deadthemed black tea: Ramble on Rose. ... Northern California’s Vitality Bowls has opened at 2525 Arapahoe Ave. The bowls, smoothies, juices, soups, panini and salads include superfoods like acerola, mangosteen, camu camu, moringa, maca, etc. ... Calling all pie crafters. I want to judge your pie at the Hygiene Hay Days pie contest on Aug. 4. hygienecommunityassociation.org ... Williams-Sonoma has introduced three pancake mixes from Denver-based Snooze A.M. Eatery: Plain Jane Buttermilk, Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, and the famous Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes. ... Boulder’s food scene attracted more kudos in a recent Washington Post feature: “At Shine Restaurant & Potion Bar, my friend Sarah said, ‘It’s a sign of an excellent menu that you’re paralyzed by all the good choices,’ which is how I felt in general about dining in Boulder.” The writer also praised Bramble & Hare, Pizzeria Locale, Savory Spice Shop, Boulder County Farmers Market and Sweet Cow Ice Cream.
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An unlikely Colorado collaboration has produced the most refreshing beverage I’ve tasted in many hot summers. Pickle artisans The Real Dill joined forces with Stem Ciders to produce A Salted Cucumber, a fusion of apple juice, cucumber juice, sea salt, and cascade and citra hops. The bright, lager-like hard cider is only mildly sweet and nearly perfect on a hot day at Denver’s Slow Food Nations gathering. A Salted Cucumber is available in cans and on tap at Stem Cider’s Acreage restaurant in Lafayette. Meanwhile, The Real Dill also supplies its Jalapeño Honey Dills to Denver’s Sweet Action Ice Cream to make Honey Jalapeño Pickle ice cream. I haven’t tasted that mash-up yet.
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How New York City kitchens taught OAK’s Steve Redzikowski to elevate his cooking by Matt Cortina Photos courtesy of OAK
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nly in New York could this happen: Steve Redzikowski’s older brother goes off to join the Marines. He tells Steve, “You need a job, you’re taking my job.” “OK,” Redzikowski says. So Redzikowski works at the pizza joint in the New York City suburb in which he grew up. He’s 15. A couple years go by, he says to himself, “I really like this cooking thing. Let me try this in an actual sit-down restaurant. I tried it, and I just loved it.” So he works at a mom-and-pop shop, but after a while, he yearns for more. He remembers his parents telling him, “If you want to do something right, surround your-
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self with great people and then you yourself will be great. If you do anything, pick the best people and try to pick their brain.” Enter New York City. (That’s what Redzikowski does). He takes his parents’ advice to heart too, because he sets his sights on Le Cirque, the nowdefunct, but oncerenowned restaurant that helped launched the careers of Daniel Boulud, Geoffrey Zakarian and more. Redzikowski drives into the city on a Saturday. He walks to the kitchen door and tells the sous-chef, a massive, German guy, “I’ll do anything, whatever you need.” Nothing. So he comes back the next week, then the next, then the next. And on that fourth week, the sous-chef says, “‘OK, you’ll start on vegetable prep.”
Steve Redzikowski is bringing some of what he left behind in New York City to OAK next week.
“I remember my brother saying if they give you vegetable prep — carrots, potatoes, onions — you peel them faster than anybody in the kitchen and you’ll move up,” Redzikowski says. “So I remember they gave me cases of potatoes, carrots, and I would just peel them like my life depended on it. And they noticed it. People notice hard work, and they start talking about it. “(The chef ) said, ‘Why don’t you come back next week?’ and I said, ‘OK, thank you, appreciate it,’ and he said, ‘You’re not getting paid though,’ and I said, ‘That’s OK.’ So I came back for three months, doing prep on the weekends, and finally he said, ‘If I pay you, will you move here and take a job here?’ He said, see REDZIKOWSKI Page 48
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‘Once you get in here, you’re basically mine,’ is what he said. And he meant it. I said, ‘Absolutely. I’ll take a job next week. I’ll pack my bags right now.’” By the time Redzikowski is 19, he’s working as the kitchen’s saucier. Quiet and hard-working, getting the benefit of learning under the kitchen management, the other cooks take notice of Redzikowski’s astronomical rise. “And I remember everyone in the kitchen hated my guts, and it was because I shut my mouth and ran my butt off,” Redzikowski says. So this is where it really gets New Yorky. Almost three years into his time at Le Cirque, the sous-chef pulls Redzikowski aside and tells him, “You’re never going to be manager here. You only know what you know from what I’ve shown you here. You need to do something else.” “I was like, ‘Oh God, did I do something wrong?’” Redzikowski says. No, the souschef says, “I just want you to push yourself.” So he literally walks Redzikowski down to the two-Michelin-starred Jean-Georges, and tells Chef JeanGeorges Vongerichten, “You need to hire this kid, he’s a hard worker. He’ll do whatever you ask.” Jean-Georges says, “OK.” Redzikowski recalls, “Basically, I was hand-delivered.” The rest, as they say, is history. The experience indeed proved to be fruitful for the young chef, and helped Redzikowski begin to envision what would become OAK at fourteenth in Boulder. At Jean-Georges, there was a focus on aesthetic, so much so that cuts had to be measured and uniform, or else they were tossed, resulting in hours of labor. “They would hand you recipe sheets. Literally if it said, ‘Cut this to a medium dice,’ there was a picture of an item with a medium dice on it. And you would sit there for hours just cutting celery root into perfect dice and just throwing away tons and tons of scrap and trim. ... Now, I’m like let’s use the whole product. I hate to say this, but I don’t care if it’s perfectly square. I just want it to be cooked right and taste good.” That idea likely formed at Le Cirque, where baskets of fresh produce
lined the 25 steps up to the restaurant, so guests could smell and visualize what was in-season and what would be on their plates. Redzikowski remembers Le Cirque’s famed restaurateur Sirio Maccioni handing bags of produce to guests as they left the restaurant. It instilled a commitment to showcasing in-season goods that we now take for granted, but was a revelation for Redzikowski. “Truffle season would come, and that was the first time I’d seen white truffles. I said, ‘Why don’t we always have these on the menu?’ And everyone looked at me like, ‘Listen numb-nuts, they’re not available all year.’ And then I was like, ‘I get it.’” Being exposed to New York’s culinary world, often through secondhand stories from other cooks who tried restaurants around town, clarified Redzikowski’s vision for how to elevate in-season produce into a fine dining. “One thing I learned in New York that stuck with me — it’s corny, but it stuck — I remember being there and all the cooks above me, they went to eat at someplace, and they said they saw so much kung fu in something. And I was like, ‘What the hell does that mean?’ And basically I learned it’s the chef taking an ingredient and then doing their twist on it and doing something a little outside the box. I don’t think OAK by any means reinvents the wheel, but when we think of a new dish, we say, ‘Let’s try to make this with a little twist on what we do so someone thinks I can’t just make this at home.’” Now well-established as one of the few place in Boulder County where one can get truly fine, creative, fresh culinary experiences in a more relaxed setting (and with a lower bill), Redzikowski is bringing New York to us. After hearing several of his cooks say they hadn’t been to New York, Redzikowski had the idea to bring in pastrami from Katz’s Deli, steaks and burgers from butchers Pat Lafrieda’s, Hudson Valley foie gras (which Redzikowski says is the best in the world), and other classic New York items. OAK will add some fresh Colorado meat and produce, put their own house techniques to them, and serve them from July 23-25. Only in New York? Maybe not. Boulder Weekly
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start at $35. westybrewfest.com Avery Brewing 25th Anniversary Party (Avery Brewing Company, 4910 Nautilus Court North, Boulder) Aug. 4, 12–5 p.m. — Sample beers from their highly-sought barrel-aged series — including the release of #50, Raspberry Truffale — to verticals of the discontinued, but never forgotten, demon series: The Beast, Samael and Mephistopheles. “This year’s anniversary party is a tribute to the beers that got us to 25 years and to the beers that will write our future,” says Adam Avery, CEO and founder of Avery Brewing Co. Ticket start at $40. averybrewing.com/events/25th-anniversary-party Odd13 Fourth Anniversary Party (Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette) Aug. 2-5 — Not content to be hemmed in for a single day of celebration, Odd13 is celebrating its fourth anniversary with three days of themed events: Barrel Day (Aug. 2), India Pale Ale Day (Aug. 4) and The Main Event (Aug. 5). From Brett beers to a dry-hopped wild ale, there will be plenty to please your palate. Prices vary. odd13brewing.com Liquid Mechanics Fourth Anniversary Bash (Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 U.S. Highway 287, Unit 100, Lafayette) Aug. 17–18 — Proud recipients of two gold medals at last months U.S. Open Beer Championship — for the Amber Altbier and Beast of Bourbon — LMX will be celebrating in style. Among the 20-plus beers being poured, Beast of Bourbon will make an appearance, as will a Piña Colada Kölsch. liquidmechanicsbrewing.com/ events
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Forget Helsinki, the U.S. president has compromised much more than the last shred of American respectability left in the world. Following the jaw-dropping press conference between Donny and Vlad that left Democrats annoyingly telling Republicans “I told you so,” a group of doctors warned other doctors not to use the cognitive impairment test the president purportedly aced last year, at least according to the now-embroiled-in-his-own-controversy White House doctor Ronny Jackson. C’mon, you remember it, don’t you? Donny “got 30 out of 30 on that exam,” Ronny said at the time. “I think that there’s no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues.” Which led Donny to later describe himself as “a very stable genius,” despite his apparent inability to say the word “wouldn’t” instead of “would.” During all the hub-bub surrounding Donny’s health exam, so much of the test, if not all of it, was published online that now a slew of doctors are saying it has been compromised and can no longer be used to establish mental stability for your Uncle Earl, your grandma’s cat, or Donny for that matter. Way to go, Ronny. We’ll just add the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (the official name of the Ronny/ Donny test) to the long list of things Donny has spoiled since taking office, along with tanning (now every time we see someone walking into a tanning booth, we can’t help but peg them as Donny–supporters and democracy wreckers) and golf. (When Obama played, it was cool. We even managed to try and watch it on TV from time to time. Now, every time we see a gulf club it takes everything in our power not to grab it and smash the ever-present-Donny-on-TV with it.)
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Your key theme right now is growth. Let’s dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not all growth is good for you. It may stretch you too far too fast — beyond your capacity to integrate and use it. 2. Some growth that is good for you doesn’t feel good to you. It might force you to transcend comforts that are making you stagnant, and that can be painful. 3. Some growth that’s good for you may meet resistance from people close to you; they might prefer you to remain just as you are, and may even experience your growth as a problem. 4. Some growth that isn’t particularly good for you may feel pretty good. For instance, you could enjoy working to improve a capacity or skill that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. 5. Some growth is good for you in some ways, and not so good in other ways. You have to decide if the trade-off is worth it. 6. Some growth is utterly healthy for you, feels pleasurable and inspires other people.
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mouth, Taurus. You can’t sit down and settle into a commanding new power spot with someone else’s butt. Capisce? I also want to tell you that it’s best if you don’t try to dream with someone else’s heart, nor should you imagine you can fine-tune your relationship with yourself by pushing someone else to change. But here’s an odd fact: You can enhance your possibility for success by harnessing or borrowing or basking in other people’s luck. Especially in the coming weeks.
you ready to expand your vision of what’s possible for you to accomplish? The current astrological omens suggest that the next two months will be an excellent time to commit yourself to a Great Work that you will give your best to for the rest of your long life!
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What’s the biggest lie in my life? There are several candidates. Here’s one: I pretend I’m nonchalant about one of my greatest failures; I act as if I’m not distressed by the fact that the music I’ve created has never received the listenership it should it have. How about you, Sagittarius? What’s the biggest lie in your life? What’s most false or dishonest or evasive about you? Whatever it is, the immediate future will be a favorable time to transform your relationship with it. You now have extraordinary power
to tell yourself liberating truths. Three weeks from now, you could be a more authentic version of yourself than you’ve ever been.
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and then you go through phases when you don’t know what you need until you stumble upon it. At times like those, you’re wise not to harbor fixed ideas about what you need or where to hunt for what you need. Metaphorically speaking, a holy grail might show up in a thrift store. An eccentric stranger may provide you with an accidental epiphany at a bus stop or a convenience store. Who knows? A crucial clue may even jump out at you from a spam email or a reality TV show. I suspect that the next two weeks might be one of those odd grace periods for you.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Reverse psychology” is when you con-
vince people to do what you wish they would do by shrewdly suggesting that they do the opposite of what you wish they would do. “Reverse censorship” is when you write or speak the very words or ideas that you have been forbidden to express. “Reverse cynicism” is acting like it’s chic to express glee, positivity and enthusiasm. “Reverse egotism” is bragging about what you don’t have and can’t do. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out all these reversals, as well as any other constructive or amusing reversals you can dream up.
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to a friend that there was only one Commandment she ever obeyed: “Consider the Lilies.” Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki told his English-speaking students that the proper Japanese translation for “I love you” is “tsuki ga tottemo aoi naa,” which literally means “The moon is so blue tonight.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m advising you to be inspired by Dickinson and Soseki. More than any other time in 2018, your duty in the coming weeks is to be lyrical, sensual, aesthetic, imaginative and festively non-literal.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22: I pay tribute to your dizzying courage, you wise fool. I stage-whisper “Congratulations!” as you slip away from your hypnotic routine and wander out to the edge of mysterious joy. With a crazy grin of encouragement and my fist pressed against my chest, I salute your efforts to transcend your past. I praise and exalt you for demonstrating that freedom is never permanent but must be reclaimed and reinvented on a regular basis. I cheer you on as you avoid every temptation to repeat yourself, demean yourself and chain yourself.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22:
I’m feeling a bit helpless as I watch you messing with that bad-but-good stuff that is so wrong-but-right for you. I am rendered equally inert as I observe you playing with the strong-but-weak stuff that’s interesting but probably irrelevant. I fidget and sigh as I monitor the classy-but-trashy influence that’s angling for your attention; and the supposedly fast-moving process that’s creeping along so slowly; and the seemingly obvious truth that would offer you a much better lesson if only you would see it for the chewy riddle that it is. What should I do about my predicament? Is there any way I can give you a boost? Maybe the best assistance I can offer is to describe to you what I see.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Psychologist Paul Ekman has compiled
an extensive atlas of how emotions are revealed in our faces. “Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,” he has written, “much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because your assignment in the coming weeks — should you choose to accept it — is to explore and experiment with your entire repertoire of smiles. I’m confident that life will conspire to help you carry out this task. More than at any time since your birthday in 2015, this is the season for unleashing your smiles.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Lucky vibes are coalescing in your vicin-
ity. Scouts and recruiters are hovering. Helpers, fairy godmothers, and future playmates are growing restless waiting for you to ask them for favors. Therefore, I hereby authorize you to be imperious, regal, and overflowing with self-respect. I encourage you to seize exactly what you want, not what you’re “supposed” to want. Or else be considerate, appropriate, modest and full of harmonious caution. Cut! Cut! Delete that “be considerate” sentence. The Libra part of me tricked me into saying it. And this is one time when people of the Libra persuasion are allowed to be free from the compulsion to balance and moderate. You have a mandate to be the show, not watch the show.
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Dear Dan: Longtime Savage Love fanboy with a bit of a conundrum — and it’s your fault! I’m a bi man in my 30s. To use Charles M. Blow’s word, my bisexuality is “lopsided.” This means that I fall in love with women exclusively, but I love to have sex with men occasionally. My current girlfriend not only approves, she likes to join in. We have a great kinky sex life, and at times we invite a hot bi dude to join us. You keep saying that to counter bisexual erasure, it is the duty of every bisexual to come out of the closet. If I were a “proper” bisexual, i.e., romantically interested in men also, that would be no problem — my family and work and social circles are extremely liberal. However, your advice to us kinksters and people in open relationships is that we probably shouldn’t come out to our parents or colleagues, since when it comes to sex, it’s advisable to operate on a need-to-know basis. While I agree with this completely — my mother doesn’t need to know my girlfriend pegs me — the rule keeps me in the closet as well. Since I’m only sexually interested in men, wouldn’t I be revealing facts about my sex life if I came out as bi? I also wouldn’t want to mislead gay men into thinking that I’m available for romantic relationships with them. So which rule is more important: the duty to come out as a
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bisexual or the advice to operate on a need-to-know basis when it comes to your sex life? —Bisexual Leaning Out Warily Dear BLOW: There’s nothing improper about your bisexuality, BLOW — or Charles M. Blow’s bisexuality, or the bisexuality of other “lopsided” bisexuals. While the idea that bisexuals are equally attracted to men and women sexually and romantically used to be pushed by a lot of bi activists (“I fall in love with people, not genitals!”), it didn’t reflect the lived/ fucked/sucked experience of most bisexuals. Like you and Blow (heteroromantic bisexuals), many bisexuals have a strong preference for either women or men as romantic partners. My recently “gay married” bisexual friend Eric, however, is one of those biromantic bisexuals. This popular misconception — that bisexuals are indifferent to gender (and more highly evolved than all those genital-obsessed monosexuals) — left many people who were having sex with
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men and women feeling as if they didn’t have an identity. Not straight, not gay, and disqualified from bi. But thanks to bisexuals like Blow coming out and owning their bisexuality and their lopsidedness, a more nuanced and inclusive understanding of bisexuality has taken root. That nuance is reflected in bisexual activist Robyn Ochs’s definition of bisexuality: “I call myself bisexual,” Ochs says, “because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted — romantically and/or sexually — to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.” Lopsided or not, BLOW, you’re a proper bisexual, and if you’re in a position to come out to your family and friends, you should. And rest assured, telling people you’re bi doesn’t mean you’re divulging details about your sex life. You’re disclosing your sexual orientation, not detailing your sexual practices. You can tell someone you’re
attracted to men and women — at the same time, in your case, if not in the same way — without telling them about the hot bi dudes you and the girlfriend bed together. And if you and the girlfriend are perceived to be monogamous, and you want to keep it that way, you can allow people to continue to make that assumption. Finally, BLOW, most gay men are aware that bi guys usually aren’t romantically interested in other men. And that’s fine — so long as heteroromantic bi guys don’t mislead us, most gay men are down to fuck. (And gay men who won’t date homo-romantic or bi-romantic men? You guys are missing out. My friend Eric was a hot, hung, adventurous catch. Congrats, Christian!) And since you’re partnered and presumed to be monogamous, you’re also presumed to be unavailable. But if you’re worried a gay friend might hire a hit man to off the girlfriend so he can have a shot at your heart, come out to him as hetero-romantic at the same time you come out to him as bi. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org. On the Lovecast, it’s hard to date when you’re a sexuality professor: savagelovecast. com.
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by Sidni West
THC tolerance break: Week one
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ast week, I wrote about the benefits of taking a THC tolerance break. I wanted to take the space to reexamine my relationship with cannabis and the role it plays in my life, as well as increase my cannabinoid receptors so I could enjoy the feeling of being truly high again. Creative Commons There’s a lot of debate around marijuana addiction. Personally, I don’t even like to associate one with the other because I believe that marijuana is an exit drug and can be an incredibly powerful healing mechanism for people struggling with addictions to more dangerous substances, like opioids, alcohol, prescription drugs, etc. However, with any drug, once someone uses it often enough, the brain becomes accustomed to it. And once tolerance sets in, dependence can form. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an estimated 2.7 million Americans meet the diagnostic criteria for marijuana dependence, second only to alcohol dependence. So while it’s nowhere near as extreme or comparable to alcohol or heroin withdrawal, quitting can cause withdrawal symptoms in heavy, frequent users. This has been my experience so far. I have an addictive personality. I’m quick to get obsessive over things that bring me instant gratification, including toxic behaviors, substances and boys
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who want to ruin my life. I chain-smoked Marlboro Lights for six years before quitting cold turkey, and I’ve been to treatment for eating disorders, so I have experience with overcoming addiction and the messy road to recovery. While I don’t consider myself addicted to marijuana because it’s not affecting my quality of life and I don’t feel like it’s something I absolutely have to do, abstaining from it has been a little trickier than I anticipated because up until now it’s just been so habitual. One week in and I haven’t felt any different physically. My appetite hasn’t changed, and I’m not lethargic or in any pain. There are no addictive compounds to cannabis, so everything I’ve experienced is psychological. I usually smoke to unwind and transition from work to relaxation, so I’ve been a little more irritable in the evenings. The aspect of my life that’s been most heavily affected by my tolerance experiment has been my sleep schedule. I don’t feel tired at night when I’m not stoned, so it takes longer to fall asleep. I go to bed at 10 p.m. and then lie awake for the next three or four hours, wondering why I’m so tired but can’t sleep. Even when I take melatonin to aid in falling asleep, it only lasts for
a couple hours before being jolted awake by an intense, vivid nightmare. I realized that as a stoner, I rarely ever dreamt at all. This is because of marijuana’s characteristic dream suppression. Apparently, this resurgence of dreams is common among former stoners because weed suppresses your REM sleep and when you’ve been taking a drug that suppresses a certain phenomenon for a while, that phenomenon will come back stronger when you stop using that drug. The same rebound effect is noticeable in people who take a lot of sleeping pills. If they stop taking those, they often get very strange and intense dreams. It’s basically like my brain has gone into sprint-dreammode to catch up on everything I missed while I’ve been smoking, which is why my dreams are so intense. It’s been unpleasant, but bearable and I’m hoping it will subside in a few more days. I think the most important thing so far has been making a plan and committing to it. I set a date and then gathered all of my vape pens, flower and paraphernalia to store out of sight so I wasn’t tempted. The first 2-5 days felt a little awkward to go about my normal routine sans pot. It’s not that I have a problem staying busy, but smoking weed always lessened my anxiety over my busy schedule, so forcing myself to cope in a different way has been an adjustment. So as much as I miss reaching an instantaneously chill mood after work and blissfully sleeping for eight hours a night, I think it’s healthier for me right now to face these things without reaching for my bong. At the end of the day though, the most exciting thing about a tolerance break is giving myself something to look forward to by treating marijuana as a reward, as opposed to a coping mechanism.
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approach taken in the bill sponsored by Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner and Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, which calls for suspending marijuana enforcement under the Controlled Substances Act in those states that have legalized it. So can marijuana legalization put O’Rourke over the top? Maybe. O’Rourke is running a pretty populist campaign. That probably resonates with a lot of Texans this year, and marijuana legalization fits in nicely with that theme. It invites Texans to get in touch with their inner maverick. O’Rourke’s platform is that of a liberal Democrat with the Bernie Sanders hard socialist edge filed off. For the most part he has avoided stands that would alienate the state’s conservative leaning moderates, who this year may decide the election. Until a couple of days ago, that is. Following the Helsinki summit press conference, O’Rourke quickly called for Trump’s impeachment.
That may be more than a lot of Texans who have misgivings about Trump are ready to swallow. Cruz immediately pounced, accusing O’Rourke of “partisan extremism” that “may resonate great in Hollywood, but doesn’t reflect the views of the vast majority of Texans.” If O’Rourke beats Cruz, or even plays him close, by running a marijuanacentric campaign, it will be a huge victory for the legalization movement. On the other hand, if Cruz wins, it will show that a states’ rights Republican can walk away from the Republican Party’s zerotolerance, just-say-no tradition on marijuana and live to tell about it. Cruz-O’Rourke will be one of the most interesting contests this election cycle. Willie Nelson also made a bit of news on the Fourth as well. Both he and O’Rourke made pro-immigrant remarks, but then Willie used his wife’s Twitter account to send President Trump a message: “Let’s go down to a border detention center together to better understand what’s happening down there?! Let’s talk!” If Trump has a lick of sense, he’ll jump at the invite. A Willie Nelson-Donald Trump Summit. A Texan and a New Yorker actually talking to each other. They could even meet on Willie’s tour bus, the Honeysuckle Rose, with only translators present. (One speaks Texan and the other speaks New York, so translators would be necessary.) A variety of issues would be discussed, naturally, and, who knows, if they hit it off, maybe even a “Weed with Willie” moment could happen. Hey, if Trump could hit it off with Little Rocket Man, anything is possible. Eat your heart out, Vlad.
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