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Five questions for the director of the COGCC

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t 9:05 a.m. on July 31, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) will be holding a public meeting at CU School of Public Affairs in the Terrace Room, 1380 Lawrence St. #500 in Denver. It is my hope that at this meeting, Jeff Robbins, the director of the COGCC will be asked a few simple questions that will tell us everything we need to know about him, and the guy who appointed him to his current position, Governor Jared Polis.

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global warming is real and impacted by human activity?

Second question: Do you believe that global warming is a threat to the environment and/or the public’s health and welfare?

Question number three: Do you believe that oil and gas extraction and the subsequent burning of fossil fuels contributes to the problem of global warming?

These are all basic yes-or-no questions that anyone who is not an actual climate change denier will answer in the affirmative. To say no to any of these questions would put JULY 25, 2019

Robbins in opposition to nearly every climate scientist in the world, the platform of the Democratic Party and the stated public positions of his boss, Polis. So, assuming his answers are yes, yes and yes, there is just one more question he needs to answer.

Last question: Do you agree that SB 181 — the bill recently signed by Polis as he was declaring the oil and gas wars over — makes it allowable and the responsibility of the COGCC to restrict the production of oil and gas in Colorado “from a see DYERTIMES Page 7

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he world is facing the prospect of “climate apartheid,” where “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer,” according to a report

by Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

He warns of responding to climate change with an “over-reliance on the private sector.” As an example, he cited something that has already happened: “When Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on New York in 2012, stranding low-income and vulnerable New Yorkers without access to power and health care, the Goldman Sachs headquarters was protected by tens of thousands of its own sandbags and power from its generator.”

This is a civilizational upheaval.

Alston says, “Climate change threatens to undo the last 50 years of progress in development, global health and poverty reduction... Yet democracy and the rule of law, as well as a wide range of civil and political rights are every bit at risk. The risk of community discontent, of growing inequality, and of even greater levels of deprivation among some groups, will likely stimulate nationalist, xenophobic, racist and other responses.”

Alston continues, “Maintaining a balanced approach to civil and political rights will be extremely complex.”

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entific studies to demonstrate that climate change is threatening the basics of food, water, health and housing for hundreds of millions of people around the planet. Developing countries will bear approximately 75 percent of the costs of climate change, the report noted, even though the poorest half of the world’s population contributes just 10 percent of global carbon emissions.

He is critical of the “patently inadequate” steps taken by nation states, businesses, NGOs and even the UN, noting that they are “entirely disproportionate to the urgency and magnitude of the threat.” Alston doesn’t criticize Donald Trump for being ineffective in combatting climate change but for actually making things worse. He said Trump “has placed former lobbyists in oversight roles, adopted industry talking points, presided over an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations and is actively silencing and obfuscating climate science.”

Alston says there needs to be “deep structural changes in the world economy... A robust social safety net will be the best response to the unavoidable harms that climate change will bring.”

He stressed that “(t)his crisis should be a catalyst for states to fulfill long ignored economic and social rights, including to social security and access to food, health care, shelter and decent work.”

Alston is right to stress that you have to fight for economic and social justice at the same time as you combat BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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climate change. That is the message of the Green New Deal (GND) resolution in Congress introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey. The bill ties a green energy transition to a demand for full employment. It calls for the creation of “high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security for all people of the United States.” It also supports ending restrictions on unionization and collective bargaining.

This is a great beginning. The GND isn’t a policy proposal but a set of principles that will guide the drafting of policies. Unfortunately, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (AFL-CIO) Energy Committee released an open letter to OcasioCortez and Markey criticizing the proposal on the grounds that it “could cause immediate harm to millions of our members and their families.”

But a growing number of union locals have come out in support of the GND. The second-largest Central Labor Council in the country, the AFL-CIO’s L.A. County Federation of Labor, came out in support of the GND. The GND proposes to “achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers.”

However, some workers are skeptical about renewable jobs, saying renewable energy firms have been less generous than the oil and gas industry on wages. They have good reason to be concerned. Activists in the labor movement say there never has been an actual “just transition.” For example, when new environmental regulations promoted low-sulfur mining, Appalachian union mines closed down and non-union surface mines started up out West.

Communities in Appalachia suffered a great deal and then the coal companies filed for bankruptcy and stopped contributing to health care and pension funds.

Joe Uehlein, a lifelong union member who is an environmental activist, founded the Labor Network for Sustainability (labor4sustainability.org), which builds bridges between the labor and environmental movements. He says climate change is the real job killer, not the GND. He argues that the GND’s federal BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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jobs guarantee “is the best way to tighten labor markets, which then forces wages and benefits up because companies are competing to get the best workers. That allows unions then to do their core function the best, which is negotiate good contracts that ripple through the economy.”

We don’t have too much time to save the world. The Green New Deal is a tremendous opportunity to do that. In the process, we can also create a new world.

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formation if necessary to protect public health, safety, and welfare, the environment, or wildlife resources” as the wording in the bill states?

Which, of course, brings us back to the first three questions.

Based upon the language in SB 181, it shouldn’t be possible for the director of the COGCC or the governor of Colorado for that matter, to answer yes to the first three questions followed by a no to the fourth.

If the director of the COGCC is not allowing local governments

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to block future permits for oil wells based on their negative impacts on global warming, which has adverse impacts on the environment and human health and welfare, then the director of the COGCC would appear to be failing to enforce the law as amended by SB 181.

Polis appointed Robbins and Polis is therefore responsible for Robbins’ actions as director. If we have learned anything in the Trump era, it’s watch what politicians do not what they say.

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Dick Dunn’s letter (Re: “Fixing Robocalls would require thought,” July 11, 2019), in response to Paul Danish’s essay on robocalls (Re: “A modest proposal for combating the plague of robocalls,” The Danish Plan, June 20, 2019), claims that there are only two reasons for robocalls: (1) the technology permits spoofing a call’s origin, and (2) Americans are extremely gullible.

The first is true. The second reason is partly true, except that a significant component of this supposed “gullibility” might be more accurately characterized as “elder abuse.”

But there is a third dynamic going on, and it has been part of the spamming business model for decades.

Most businesses don’t themselves robocall, they try to get by on the cheap by hiring other (shady) businesses who have the tools and databases (and lawyers) to spam us all. The sociopathic marketer who hires the sociopathic spammer usually believes the advertiser is not liable for the illegal acts of their hired hand (except that in court they find out they are).

Thus there is a market for robocalling services. And that market is sufficiently large that new business customers cannot ascertain the effectiveness of robocalling, so they try it. Maybe they get some business out of it, but suppose they don’t. In that case, they realize that robocalling doesn’t work for them, and so they stop doing business with the robocaller.

But the robocaller has been paid whether there are results or not, and can find another business sucker and do it all over again, making money every time, using the same database of telephone numbers (or these days, just dialing every possible number sequentially, over and over).

The point being that telephone end-users don’t need to respond at all, yet there will still be a market of (business) suckers for the robocallers.

It’s a business-to-business scam that can go on for a long time. All of us telephone subscribers are merely its collateral damage, whether we respond or not.

Most robocallers are now using voice-activated technology. Simply answering the phone with a “hello” I

tells them them that the telephone number they just called has a live human at its end, which makes that number a valuable commodity to use again, or to add to a rentable (or sellable) database.

One simple strategy to combat this is to answer, but say nothing. A human calling will eventually say something, and you can then begin a conversation. The robocaller machinery will usually hang up, and not know what caused the failure.

Doug McKenna/Boulder

A movement to save the planet

After reading the June 13-19 Boulder Weekly I feel compelled to write. Jared Polis’s celebration of the end of the “war” over oil and gas drilling couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Senate Bill 181 gives more local power to communities to regulate oil and gas drilling, but the only way to prevent climate destruction and protect our communities is to stop drilling, refining and burning fossil fuels.

Emissions from fracking amount to 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions per year. There is no safe setback for our communities.

We’ve had over thirty years of science backing the need to change our way of life yet the industry has done little. In 1978 the Datsun B210 got 45 miles to the gallon. It was not the only car with this efficiency, but it was an economical alternative to gas guzzling automobiles. The technology was dropped during the Reagan years and here we are 40 years later with the only fuelefficient cars beyond the budget of the average American. Greed is the reason. Greed is the root cause of global warming.

It’s hard for me to feel sorry for the oil and gas industry when they had over 30 years to invest in alternative energy. Now we stand at the brink of disaster and yet little has changed.

The Earth is a beautiful place and the only home we know. Everyone needs to join the movement to save our planet. Reduce, reuse and recycle is the environmentalist’s practice.

Boulder is the perfect town for walking, biking and bussing. Standing up to the fossil fuel industry is not making war; it’s a social movement to save the planet.

Sara Hersh/Nederland BOULDER WEEKLY

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A tale of two travelers

The unsolved killing of a wolf in 2009 is a cautionary tale for the one now running wild in Colorado

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gray wolf has appeared in Colorado and is running free in the Rockies. On July 8, the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (CPW) released photos of a dark male wolf ranging through a green mountain valley in Jackson County, Colorado. The following day, Governor Jared Polis tweeted a video of the wolf that was filmed by a private citizen. The wolf is wearing a radio telemetry collar, evidence that it likely has ventured to our state from the wolf packs in and around Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park.

By most estimations, the wolf has likely moved south looking for a mate in an area where many suitable partners once lived. But that is no longer the case as wolves in Colorado were driven to extinction decades ago by systematic hunting, trapping and poisoning, as well as loss of habitat and prey to agriculture and extractive industries.

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east of the southeastern boundary of Yellowstone.

The wolf, known as 1084M, is a 3-year-old male, according to Ellen Brandell, doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University who works with the Yellowstone Wolf Project. The wolf is wearing a radio telemetry collar, which requires researchers to be within 10 miles to locate him, according to Sara DiRienzo of the Wyoming Fish and Game Department (WFG). The last recorded location information for wolf 1084M was taken in February in central Wyoming. Following that contact, wolf 1084M appears to have dispersed out of the area where WFG monitors the pack.

According to a 2018 report by the WFG, the Snake River Pack had a minimum size of six wolves that year. One wolf from that pack was hunted and killed, which is legal in parts of Wyoming. Further, two other wolves were known to have dispersed from the pack in 2018, according to the report.

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the Colorado border. It isn’t rare for a wolf to travel such distances, but it is rare for one to survive so long considering the multiple threats posed by people including everything from being shot or hit by a car to being illegally poisoned.

Further blocking the path of wolves headed to Colorado from the Yellowstone area is how they are managed in Wyoming.

The USFWS protects wolves under the Endangered Species Act except in Wyoming, where, in 2017, they were removed from the Endangered Species List (ESL) and management of the species was returned to the state. As a result, outside of trophy hunting management zones, where wolves can legally be hunted, they are considered predatory animals and can be killed year-round without a license. Wolves can also be trapped and killed in Wyoming.

In 2018 alone, people killed 158 of the estimated 368 known living wolves in Wyoming. Of those, 64 wolves were killed in connection with domestic livestock conflict (70 head of livestock were killed BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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by wolves); 42 wolves were killed as “predatory animals” by the public (12 were trapped as such); 39 were killed by trophy hunters; and 6 others were illegally killed.

So, it goes without saying, it’s not easy for a wolf to make it hundreds of miles across the Wyoming shooting range and trapping gauntlet to the protections afforded by Colorado should it get here.

Wolves are still protected in Colorado, and harassing, injuring or killing a wolf — except in “self-defense” — is a federal crime subject to fines of up to $100,000 and sentences of up to one year in prison, according to Rebecca CPW. Because wolves are on the ESL, they are under the management of the USFWS, and therefore CPW plays a supporting role.

In what must have been a pleasant surprise, wolf 1084M appeared in Colorado just after the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund received approval to begin gathering signatures for the 2019 ballot measure, Initiative 107, which if approved by the people of Colorado, will mandate the restoration of wolves to the western part of the state.

Proponents of the reintroduction say that even though wolves such as 1084M make their way into Colorado, it is not enough to restore them to their long-lost homeland because threats from humans, as mentioned above (and described below), make that highly unlikely. Wolves have been dispersing from the Northern Rockies since being reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 without a viable wolf pack forming in Colorado.

Though unlikely, it’s not impossible there is a female wolf that 1084M might find in some remote wilderness area in Colorado. But there is one lone female wolf the male from the Snake River Pack will certainly not encounter. That wolf, known as the Mill Creek disperser (SW341F), made her way into Colorado in 2009. After having ranged over 1,000 miles to establish her own territory, she was illegally poisoned and killed in Rio Blanco County, in northwestern Colorado, less than 5 miles from the northeastern corner of CPW’s Piceance Basin Predator Control Plan area boundary. After a twoyear long investigation by the USFWS Law Enforcement Division, the case went unsolved and was closed.

It remains to be seen if the same fate that befell the wolf from the Mill Creek pack will befall 1084M, but a look at the 2009 killing serves as a cautionary tale for those managing the Snake River wolf now running wild through the Colorado Rockies.

THE UNSOLVED KILLING OF THE MILL CREEK WOLF On July 2, 2008, the young female wolf wildlife authorities referred to as the Mill Creek disperser broadcast her first GPS location from the mountains south of Livingston, Montana. This would be the first of many locations her collar would reveal to researchers in the area. But her signal went silent on Sept. 24 of that year when she headed south in search of her own territory and likely a mate. While BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

no one knows the exact makeup of her journey — what she ate, where she slept, what trials she encountered — GPS information from her collar, which was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) helps produce a map of her travels.

First, she went south through Gallatin National Forest into Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park. She then moved further south, spending time in the mountains northwest of Cody before heading still further south to the Wind River mountain range. It was near this same area in the town of South Pass at the Southern end of the Winds that wolf 1084M’s location was last recorded. Similarly, back in 2009 the Mill Creek disperser continued STEVE HILLEBRAND, USFWS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

her journey south from near South Pass, all the way to Interstate 80 in Wyoming, where she abruptly turned around and headed back northwest.

Maybe it was the massive trucks barreling past on the highway, or maybe just something instinctual, but she went all the way to Bear Lake on the Idaho-Utah border before once again heading south along the mountains east of Salt Lake City, where millions of people went about their daily lives unaware of her presence. Eventually she turned left for Colorado, passing through Vernal, Utah. And on Feb. 2, 2009, she entered Moffat County, in the far northwestern part of our state.

Needless to say, she didn’t stop to take a selfie.

She continued on her way to Routt County, past Hayden, and then further south to Eagle County, where her collar broadcast her location on Feb. 20.

“The Mill Creek disperser is now in Colorado!” reads an email circulated amongst wildlife agency officials (the sender of this message’s name is redacted as they appear to have been a private citizen who was very enthusiastic about the news.) An I

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email string was released by the USFWS as a result of a FOIA request. The female wolf remained in an area less than 10 miles north of Wolcott and due east of Piney Peak, for about a week.

As she was making her way northeast through Colorado, a conversation within the wildlife agencies now overseeing her journey was underway, according to the emails. “This is very exciting news — [but biologically meaningless],” wrote Ed Bangs, then wolf recovery coordinator for the USFWS, on Feb. 21.

It was around this time that a different kind of conversation was unfolding, between the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW, now the wildlife section of CPW) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (WS), which is often contracted to do predator control for ranchers and others.

“Confirmation on your wolf report,” wrote David Moreno, Grand Junction district supervisor of WS to Ron Velarde, then Northwest Region Manager for the CDOW. “Looks like the same wolf you were talking about a few weeks ago, is now the one near Avon... Let me know what your plan is?”

“I have no plan,” Velarde replied, “and as of ten minutes ago neither does our Directors Staff [sic].”

Later that afternoon, Moreno responded: “I know Ron. As your friend and counterpart (Of another agency), I would like you to give it some thought. I foresee some rancher, angry as hell, trying to have something done after his $12,000 bull was killed or maimed by these ‘endangered species.’

He will be screaming and want something done, and you know that the USFWS will be nowhere in sight. Again, you will find yourself trying to explain to this rancher why you can not do a damn thing about the problem while he wants someone’s head on a platter. Just food for thought Ron. I know we will eventually have to deal with this issue.”

WS declined an interview request with Moreno, but stated, “[Its] mission is to help resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.” WS added this can be a difficult balance, “and those experiencing wildlife damage can sometimes become frustrated with our and other agencies’ efforts to resolve conflicts in a way that ensures the long-term health and stability of our native wildlife. Our employees strive to understand and address the public’s concerns regarding wildlife damage management issues.”

In the emails, Velarde replied to Moreno that he understood the USFWS would pay for any livestock damage caused by the wolf, “and then you can ‘handle’ the problem.” Moreno then asked how he was to do this, but Velarde didn’t directly respond to the question, only reiterating the assertion that the USFWS would compensate for any damages caused by the Mill Creek disperser, who, soon after this conversation was making her way through Grand County, Colorado, near Kremmling.

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the entire Medicine Bow mountain range. After this, she returned to Colorado to Larimer County, in the upper reaches of the Cache la Poudre River from where she then headed west.

By this time, Shane Briggs, then CDOW wildlife conservation programs supervisor, wrote to the group of federal and state wildlife officials that, “the CDOW has determined that we do not want to get involved with the monitoring of this wolf,” adding if “she gets into trouble,” they’d work with USFWS and [WS] to help, “but otherwise we would like to leave her alone as much as possible.” Briggs went on to state that their field operations manager asked about the potential threat M-44s, aka coyote getters/ cyanide bombs, posed to the Mill Creek disperser, wondering if there was coordination with WS, “as they evidently have a lot of M-44s set north of I-70.”

These poison-dispersing M-44s look like a sprinkler head buried in the ground but are actually loaded with an explosive charge containing sodium cyanide that is designed to blast into the mouth and nostrils of wild animals, especially coyotes, and kill them. However, these devices have killed domestic pets like family dogs. One particularly grim instance occurred in Idaho in March 2017 when an M-44 exploded in the face of a 14-year-old boy and his dog as they were walking near their home.

The 90-pound dog, “who was writhing in pain on the ground,” died in front of the boy, who himself was seriously injured, but survived the poisoning, according to a Reuters report. M-44s are currently used by WS in Colorado on private lands. As a result of Amendment 14, passed unanimously by Coloradans in 1996, M-44s are banned from public lands in the state.

But it wouldn’t be an M-44 loaded with an explosive charge of sodium cyanide that would end up killing the female wolf from the far away Mill Creek pack who had found her way to Colorado. It was a far deadlier poison designed for predators, sodium monoflouroacetate, aka Compound 1080.

In a chapter on Compound 1080 titled, “Biography of a master poison,” from the 1971 book Slaughter the Animals, Poison the Earth by Jack Olsen, an in-depth history of Compound 1080 is given. According to Olsen, beginning with Polish scientists in the 1930s that were trying to develop an improved tear gas, different flouroacetate compounds began being developed for poisoning purposes. The U.S. Army made extensive tests of the synthetic sodium monofluoroacetate for a rodenticide in wars, according to Olsen.

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early use, the chemical killed 42,000 rats in a single day in the Philippines.” Continued experimentation revealed the effectiveness of 1080 in killing canines, “and the USFWS began wholesale use of the poison as a predacide, purchasing the chemical from the Monsanto Company under the trade name ‘1080,’” according to Olsen’s exposé.

According to a WS report on predacides, Compound 1080 began being used in the U.S. for killing canids in the mid-1940s as the, “preferred toxicant in meat bait stations used in Western states to reduce coyote populations that preyed on domestic livestock.” Meat bait stations are comprised of pieces of poisoned meat, often injected with a solution of poison. Use of meat bait stations continued until 1964, when approximately 16,000 toxic bait

tore the tent ropes down when she got tangled in ’em, then took off and went down over a cliff.”

USFWS Special Agent Terry Grosz says illegal Compound 1080 use got to the point that in many investigations, he was concerned for his agents because they were getting so much exposure. “[W]e had one female agent that basically was retired from the service because it pretty well destroyed her,” Grosz says, adding he had several other agents, that got too much exposure to chemicals including Compound 1080, that it just about destroyed their livers. “A lot of these chemicals were so illegally used and in such quantities that if you got downwind of some of these poisoned bait stations, you were asking for it,” he says.

Grosz says that some of the bait carcasses were so heavily loaded with pesticides when discovered they’d be surrounded WIKIMEDIA COMMONS by nearly a dozen dead eagles. He’s seen carcasses so heavily loaded with poisons that an animal, such as a coyote or an eagle, would have died with a mouth full of scavenged meat on top of the carcass they were feeding on.

Sometimes, he adds, coyotes would eat the poisoned meat first, die and then be scavenged by an eagle, which would die by secondary poisoning.

Grosz says that when Compound 1080 was legal, users of it would stockpile it, and when it became illegal in 1972 (except when put in rarely used, specialized livestock collars), then the price would go up, “so a lot of those individuals made pretty good money selling chemicals that were very hard to get a hold of or restricted,” he says.

In 1991, USFWS and Environmental Protection Agency agents raided a lab in Wyoming, where a predator control officer had been selling illegal and restricted poisons, including Compound stations were placed by the USFWS’s predator and 1080, to ranchers in northwestern Colorado, rodent control program, according to the report.

Wyoming and Texas.

Following this, use of 1080 declined until 1972 The Mill Creek disperser had traveled hunwhen a presidential executive order banned it with dreds of miles through Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, the 1977 exception of use in experimental livestock Utah and Colorado, and was now heading toward protection collars on cattle, a practice that rarely northwestern Colorado. Toward the end of March was effective.

2009, she once again headed through Routt Olsen writes of a USFWS biologist who in County, then through Garfield County, and on into 1948 wrote that the “spasm period” of Compound Rio Blanco County and the end of her journey.

1080, “seems unduly violent. With coyotes, sympOn April 4, 2009, a message came through the toms may be delayed from one to several hours... email chain, “It doesn’t look good... I think she After emesis [vomiting] the animals generally pass may be dead... Her locations show that she has through a period of excitement — cowering, yelping, or violently running as though in fear — before been in the same spot since noon on 3/31... My fingers are crossed that she is feeding on roadkill falling in convulsions.”

Olsen gives an account of a government trapper but it just doesn’t seem likely since her locations are all extremely clustered... I’m assuming someone who spoke of the numerous dogs he saw poisoned will go out there to check it out... If you could let by 1080, “They get nervous, start chasing around.

Then they start yelping and screaming, and running me know what happens as soon as you find out I’d back and forth; they’ll run into a tree or a fence or a appreciate it.”

Bangs then alerted USFWS and CDOW offiwall, bounce back, and run into ’em again... Once cials. The next day, a special agent in the law when I was in a sheep camp a 1080 dog came into enforcement division of the USFWS received the the tent, mussed all over it, vomited, peed all over, JULY 25, 2019

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information that the young female wolf may have died. The following day, April 6, a search party including CDOW officers and the USFWS special agent located the Mill Creek disperser, dead, approximately 100 yards north of Rio Blanco County Road 60 on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

“The wolf carcass was found on a steep slope, facing uphill, body extended,” the USFWS report of investigation reads. An initial scan revealed no metals, such as bullets, in her body. “A layer of snow had accumulated on the skyward side of the carcass, and upon turning the wolf over, no snow was found beneath it,” the report reads.

The search team then performed a “cursory search” of the area and found nothing obvious that may have caused the wolf ’s death, such as other animal carcasses, potential poison baits or other devices, according to the report.

According to GPS coordinates and BLM grazing allotment records, the Mill Creek disperser died on the Upper Thirteen Mile grazing allotment, but just before dying had traveled into the bordering Thirteen Mile grazing allotment to the north. The last GPS coordinates surrounding the area of her death are scattered, as if she was frantically running back and forth as she painfully died. The GPS coordinates of her movement reveal she had made her way from the south, along Highway 13 north of Rifle and south of Meeker.

The end of the Mill Creek disperser’s life had come, but the story of her life had just begun. Soon after, her body was sent for a necropsy, and the USFWS special agent received the full set of GPS coordinates downloaded from the collar by researchers.

The necropsy revealed the 80-pound wolf was poisoned by Compound 1080, and that she had meat in her stomach at the time of her death. Additional genetic analysis indicated this meat was from both horse and mule deer. “This suggests the wolf had recently ingested either horse or mule deer tissue contaminated with the toxic substance sodium monoflouroacetate (Compound 1080),” according to the report, which further stated an M-44 didn’t appear to be the cause. But it wasn’t until Jan. 11, 2011 — a year and a half later — that USFWS officials publicly BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

released information disclosing the wolf was poisoned.

USFWS special agents then interviewed Moreno, the Grand Junction district supervisor of WS, who had earlier suggested there needed to be a plan for dealing with the wolf. He advised the agents that predator control was practiced by his organization in the area in which the wolf was killed, including aerial gunning, the setting of snares and traps, and the use of toxicants, according to the USFWS report.

These toxicants included M-44s and Compound 1080 in livestock protection collars, but Moreno noted 1080 was not then utilized in Colorado. “Moreno stated he mostly serves sheep producers for canid predator control in the Rio Blanco County area. ... Stated WS does not have any contracts in the specific area where the wolf in this investigation was found dead,” according to the report.

As noted above, Compound 1080 is used by WS in livestock protection collars, but according to WS, Compound 1080 is illegal for use in Colorado by WS, “or any certified pest control operator.” WS further stated Compound 1080 is not housed in any WS Colorado facility.

At the same time, a CDOW public information official advised CDOW staff to remain “quiet” until they got an indication the media was aware of the situation, according to emails obtained via an open records request. “Once that happens, expect a high level of ‘environmentalist versus rancher’ kind of stuff ... and that’s a debate we cannot afford to be caught in.”

According to the CDOW (now CPW) report of investigation, on April 10, 2009, CDOW Officer Bailey Franklin received information from the USFWS special agent that the wolf had spent a considerable amount of time in one particular area along the west side of Highway 13 between Meeker and Rifle, and preliminary results indicated she had been poisoned. The USFWS special agent suspected the wolf had possibly been feeding on a carcass at that location.

That afternoon, Officer Franklin went to the location and discovered several sheep carcasses, which he gathered as evidence. Upon driving away from the site, between the sheep I

carcasses and where the Mill Creek disperser was found dead, he saw a dead coyote in the ditch near the highway, stopped and, noticing no evidence of blunt trauma as from a speeding car, suspected it might have been poisoned and collected it for toxicology testing. But according to the USFWS, records of such testing don’t exist and aren’t mentioned in the investigation report. Thus, it appears toxicology reports of the carcasses were either never done or disappeared.

Later that month, Officer Franklin wrote to the USFWS special agent that he had noticed a pile of deer or elk hair, “that looks like it has been plucked” in a pile next to three jugs of antifreeze, also toxic to canids, according to an email released via open records request. The location was between the site of the sheep carcasses and where the wolf died. The USFWS special agent said they would check it out, but there is no mention of the antifreeze jugs in the USFWS report of investigation. Antifreeze, which is sweet-tasting to canids, can be used as a liquid base to make a Compound 1080 liquid solution, which can then be injected into meat for use as a poison bait trap.

The USFWS Law Enforcement division then embarked on an investigation into the killing of the Mill Creek disperser, an animal protected under the ESA. A heavily redacted report of the investigation details covert operations and interviews with sheep producers in the area that won’t be discussed here to protect privacy.

But despite USFWS’ lengthy investigation, the agency closed the case without any prosecution.

According to Grosz, the USFWS would have to prove any allegations against a person suspected of killing the female wolf beyond a reasonable doubt, “if you’re going to take them criminally. And if you can’t do that, the U.S. Attorneys won’t touch the case.” It appears that this high standard was never met during the investigation of the wolf ’s death.

Even so, the story of the unsolved killing of the female wolf from the Mill Creek pack in Montana serves as a cautionary tale for the current wolf in Colorado, wolf 1084M. But as illustrated by the death of the Mill Creek disperser, he has his work cut out for him, with a lot of people who not only don’t want him around, but also likely want him dead.

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A rallying cry

Jewish activists protest U.S. immigration policies while still debating the terminology being used

by Angela K. Evans

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aurel Eckhouse’s grandmother almost didn’t make it to the U.S. Born in 1920, she fled Nazi Germany for London in 1933 as a Jewish refugee. Following the death of her mother, she tried to leave Europe altogether in 1939 to join her father in the U.S. boarding the SS Athenia with 500 other Jewish refugees in Glasgow.

Only a few days into the journey, a German submarine torpedoed the ship, killing 117 civilians in what would later be deemed a war crime. But Eckhouse’s grandmother survived aboard a life boat, returning to Glasgow, where she boarded another ship and arrived safely in the U.S. “The story that I grew up with is that the life that I have exists because she found safety in this country,” Eckhouse says. “And it’s an atrocity that people are coming to this country and instead of finding safety, are finding danger at the hands of the government.”

Eckhouse is part of a growing movement of Jewish activists taking a stand against current U.S. immigration policies and practices at the southern border and in detention facilities around the country, as reports of overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and lack of health care, leading to death in some cases, come pouring in. Around the country, these activists are protesting under the slogan “never again.”

“Never again is something that’s repeated over and over and over again in Jewish education,” Eckhouse says. “It means that Jews have a particular knowledge, I won’t say unique, but a particular knowledge of the ways that state persecution can look and of the horrors that can lead to. And for that reason, we have a particular responsibility to stand up when people are under threat.”

The movement, formally Never Again Action, organized quickly at the end of June, first protesting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in New Jersey, where 36 protesters were arrested. There have been rallies at other facilities across the nation and at ICE headquarters in Washington D.C. since, which have shut down government offices as protestors make human chains and refuse to leave. On Thursday, July 18, Eckhouse and other organizers led a protest under the Never Again banner outside of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner’s office in downtown Denver.

Eckhouse says part of the impetus behind Never Again Action is to take back the narrative playing out in U.S. politics over the appropriateness of certain terminology, redirecting the conversation toward the treatment of migrants by the U.S. government.

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remarks made by Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez describing the conditions she observed at detention facilities along the border as concentration camps, as other politicians and government officials criticize the comparison between the U.S. and Nazi Germany.

The debate over terminology is also playing out within Jewish communities across the country.

“Some people who have either lived through [the Holocaust] or are direct decedents, find the comparisons morally reprehensible. And others who have lived through that or are direct decedents ... are wanting to use that term because they want to really highlight how bad things are,” says Rabbi Marc Soloway from Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder. “Trauma and ancestral inherited trauma affect people in different ways.”

Evette Lutman, rabbi at B’nai Havurah congregation in Denver, personally doesn’t support using the term concentration camp or even the slogan never again in reference to what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border, in detention facilities around the country or at the hands of ICE. What’s happenNEVER AGAIN ACTION protesters outside of Sen. Cory Gardner’s Denver office on July 18.

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ing here and now is not the same as what led to the Holocaust, she says, and “by comparing it you demean what it was that actually did happen to the Jews.”

Others don’t see it that way. For many of the never again protesters, drawing parallels between then and now is exactly the point.

“We don’t have extermination camps yet and hopefully we never will,” says Alan Rosenfeld of Boulder. “But we have camps that are holding people from different nationalities or ethnicities and holding them in really degrading, disgusting, abusive conditions. That’s exactly what happened. The children and grandchildren of survivors have the obligation to make sure that it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

Rosenfeld’s dad was born in Berlin in 1920 and it was only through using illegal visas to get to France and then South America that he escaped the Nazis. “It’s no different,” Rosenfeld says. “There were lots of Jews who could have survived except America did not let them come in.”

Citing the SS St. Louis, which carried hundreds of Jewish refugees from Europe only to be denied and sent back, Rosenfeld says, “This is personal.

Someone should have done this [for us] so we have to do it.”

Approximately 250 of the SS St. Louis passengers later died as the Nazis moved throughout Europe.

Rosenfeld is no stranger to the sensitivities surrounding terms associated with the Holocaust.

Growing up his dad was adamant that he wasn’t a survivor because he never spent time in the camps.

Still, Rosenfeld personally uses the term concentration camp to describe what’s happening in detention facilities.

It’s not only terms like concentration camp that can be triggering for some people within the Jewish community, Soloway adds. News of immigration “round ups” can be deeply upsetting as well. One congregate told him that, “It actually made her shake with trauma memory because her father was ‘rounded up,’” he says. “There are some very difficult tropes out there that are very triggering for people.”

Although he doesn’t necessarily adhere to the narrative that current conditions forecast the level of atrocities that played out in the Holocaust, Soloway is supportive of the Never Again Action protests, as they are in line with Jewish teachings to welcome the stranger.

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concentration camp,” he says. “It’s a commitment that we as a people have made, not just for our own people but for all people who are targets of victimization and dehumanization.”

Since June 2018, after news of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border broke, Rosenfeld and Soloway have been leading what they call a Moral Minyan every month outside the GEO detention facility in Aurora, the next one scheduled in August. In Judaism, a gathering of 10 Jewish adults — a minyan — is required to say certain Jewish prayers, and the Moral Minyan gathers people to pray and sing in solidarity with the detainees held inside. The services have also concluded with the blowing of a shofar, a ram’s horn historically used to begin battles for liberation.

The shofar is also being used at Never Again Action protests around the country, including the one in Denver. Although Rabbi Lutman may not agree with some of the terminology being used, she also can’t be silent, which is why she chose to speak at the protest in Denver and blow the shofar as a rallying cry, encouraging other Jewish people to join her.

“We don’t have a choice whether or not we speak out about this,” she says.

“We know what it was like to be taken away in the middle of the night. We know what it was like to be separated from our children, we know what it was like to be put into camps and we know what it was like to be singled out and persecuted. We also know what it was like when we came to another country and asked for safe passage and nobody wanted us, not even the United States.”

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which migrants are being treated.

“Sometimes using these terms will bring debate about the term and its appropriateness rather than focusing on civil rights or human rights violations,” Greene says. “Whether you want to call them detention camps, internment camps or concentration camps, the most important thing is to respond to the fact that people are being detained, and that’s unethical.”

Eckhouse agrees. In many ways, debating terminology is the wrong conversation to be having.

“People can disagree with goodwill about what is exactly the right word to use for a particular situation, but in large part, the conversation about whether [or not] these are concentration camps is a distraction from the reality that our government right now is committing atrocities against people because of their national origin,” she says.

Growing up in an undocumented family, Laura Peniche, an immigration activist and DACA recipient who spoke at the Denver event, witnessed first-hand how the stress, fear and anxiety took its toll on her parents’ health and that of her community.

Denied access to work permits, driver’s licenses, a livable wage and health care, all adds up, she says.

“Denying people these basic rights is a way of denying people [humanity],” she says. “It puts you in a subhuman category.”

But watching the Jewish community protest in Denver last week gives her hope. Seeing people of faith block traffic and risk arrest for policies that don’t directly affect them is a relief, she says.

“It’s crazy how we’re all connected through history, [through] these things that have happened and are still happening,” Peniche says. “There are so many moments in history where we wish we could have gone back and done things differently. This is such a key moment where we can still change the course of history.”

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ishing books and magazines tend to lock in a certain archetype: a fisherman clad in expensive gear surrounded by pristine wilderness marveling in the beauty and peace nature provides. But in his new book, Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures in the 21st Century, writer Matt L. Miller shares a different vision of fishing and fishermen.

“I love to fish, but I didn’t want it to be about fly fishing and the deeper meaning of life. There are many books that do that already,” he says.

“I think it’s a skewed way of looking at the world and of looking at fishing. On the fringes, outside the pages of magazines, you’ll find some really interesting stuff happening.”

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He looked at fishermen who had shifted focus from catching large game to tiny minnows. He monitored

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Fishing Through the Apocalypse also led Miller to take a hard look at the environmental pressures facing fishing, from warming waters, species dying out at alarming rates, loss of public lands and the barriers for the survival of fish species, such as the existence of man-made dams blocking migration pathways.

To help improve conditions, Miller implores fishermen to learn more about the creatures they’re catching and the environments they depend on for survival. The more fishermen learn about issues like water flow, food supply and seasonal movement, the better and richer experience for the fisherman and the fish, Miller believes.

“Anglers can’t afford to be ecologically illiterate or we’ll lose fishing,” he says. “It’s as simple as that.”

Miller is hopeful for the future, and he adamantly strays away from the “doom and gloom” tone environmental protection can take. He still believes there is time to choose the world we want to live in. As his book title suggests, conditions might be bleak, but opportunities still abound.

“If you were coming [to Earth] as a completely unbiased observer from outer space, and you saw it a few thousand years ago and you saw it today, you would say, ‘This is the end times,’” he says. “But I think, if you have a fishing rod and an open mind, you can still enjoy it.”

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Annie Booth says,

‘Hello, Boulder’

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The Denver-based jazz pianist, bringing her trio to the Boulder Theater to open the Joey Alexander show, talks about her main piano inspiration, jazz education, the current state of the art form and pairing French poetry with swing. (It works!)

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ianist Annie Booth has to think a minute or two to recall the last time she trundled her trio up the (unbuckled) highway to

play Boulder.

“Um…I think we played a trio gig at Caffé Sole like… a year ago, maybe?”

For lack of appropriate stages or audience or demographics or a combination of everything, some have characterized Boulder as something of a jazz desert. (Well, maybe that’s overstated, and for the faithful, the complaint is not particularly new.

Subject for another time.)

Suffice to say that the almost-30-year-old, Westminster native has been blessing the vibrant Denver jazz scene at places like Nocturne, Dazzle and Elway’s Cherry Creek for several years now.

Voted Best in Denver — Jazz Category by Westword three of the last four years, recipient of the 2017 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers’ Award, with three full-length albums and a faithful following, Booth is one of the bright lights on the Denver scene, and why should Denver have all the fun?

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chamber orchestra staged “Flowers of Evil,” a multi-movement suite of original music scored to the poetry of 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire at the Dairy Arts Center. Set against woodwinds, brass, her own trio and soprano vocalist Kathryn Radakovich, Booth’s compositional gifts bloomed ecstatically, from ruminative tone poems to buoyant, one-arm-free swing passages to lithe, gentle cafe intimacies. A far cry from her day gig — trio jazz, blues and ballads and standards on a club stage — “Flowers of Evil” displays Booth’s carefully drawn and fully informed strategic ambitions, that delicate embrace between the free spirit of jazz and the discipline of a meticulously crafted ensemble.

And true to her love from back in her high school days, French poetry.

Until recently, the piece was a little hard to track down online, tucked away on YouTube and unmentioned on her own site. But the entire composition, well-filmed and recorded, is now up on her site, and Booth says she’s working on getting support together to commit the piece to an album next year.

“It was a pretty big project,” she says. “I had been kind of dreaming about it for a long time, then I had the chance to go to the Banff Center in Alberta in March of 2017, be an artist-inresidence and just compose for two weeks. That was an amazing experience, and yeah, it was a lot of time and love and energy that went into it.

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“There was a little bit of self-doubt, I think; it was an ensemble that I had never written for, and I had written for strings a little bit in the past (but not really), so there was just so many textures and so many colors that I had to work with. I guess I’d call it ‘chamber jazz,’ and a lot of thinking about what the evening was going to be like, what would segue into what. So it was a challenge, but that was what made it fun.”

And when did “fun” and “jazz” become mutually exclusive, anyway?

Apart from her playing and complete immersion into the composer’s oeuvre (she writes everything down... everything), Booth is also a product of, and a I

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vigorous proponent of, jazz education.

She started her jazz studies with the nonprofit Colorado Conservatory for Jazz Studies (CCJS), a program for empowering young people to explore and perform jazz music started by the acclaimed Denver jazz drummer Paul Romaine and his wife, Chris, in 1999, and went on to get a Bachelor’s of Music at University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. She is now on the CCJS Board, and actually started a program on her own for young women called SheBop. “[Paul and Chris] just saw a need for an augmented jazz education in the area, like, more than what the kids could get in their high school programs. And a chance

kind of all over the place in jazz history.

Later I would have to go back and fill in the gaps, but I must have gotten a CD or something from the library from Brad Mehldau, and there was just something about it that I found really beautiful, that really spoke to me.

“It was similar to what I heard in Bill Evans’ music — some influence of classical music, inspired tonality, almost living in harmony. Creating beautiful melodies out of a rich harmonic framework. And even though I was just getting started

playing jazz, I knew that was the world I wanted to live in.”

Don’t even try that “jazz is a dying art form” stuff on Booth. Shorter attention spans. Sampling. Economics.

Demographics. Pssshhh. Don’t go there; it won’t fly.

“Y’know, you hear that a lot. Jazz audiences are dying off and all that stuff.

But you know, I look at... me. Someone on the ground, and a millennial, I see the music thriving, and even a generation below me, the kids are so into it,

and they’re so talented. They’re soaking up all this stuff on YouTube, which was just getting off the ground when I graduated. They have all this music at their fingertips.

“And for my generation, I see a lot of young people coming out to see live jazz.

They know it’s jazz. They’re not being tricked into it. (Y’know, market it as something else, then give ’em a little jazz…)

“I don’t know if ‘revival’ is the right word... but I think the music is in safe hands.”

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YOUNG PEOPLE COMING OUT TO SEE LIVE JAZZ. THEY’RE NOT BEING TRICKED INTO IT.” — ANNIE BOOTH

for kids to connect with professional musicians in the area, kind of like it was done in the old days — the master/ apprentice model, which had kind of gone away because it’s kind of not OK anymore for high schoolers to hang out in smoky bars, that kind of thing.

“And it’s amazing. Over the past 20 years, hundreds of musicians have come out of the program, many have become professional jazz musicians, and even those who don’t become professionals take with them the love and appreciation for jazz music, and also the skills we learn as jazz musicians; things like improvising, learning to express yourself, work with others, be a leader, accept criticism.

And probably most importantly, it’s really helped to create a strong community.”

For her part, she credits some of the masters of 50 years ago (Bill Evans, for one) as her influences, sometimes absorbing their style and technique out of chronological sequence, but one in particular stands out.

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Saving the cats

After losing his house in last year’s California wildfires, A.A. Bondy returns with an album of beautiful, heartrending ambient blues

by Caitlin Rockett

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he day after A.A. Bondy finished his latest album, Enderness, his house burned in the Woolsey Fire that ate up nearly 100,000 acres of land in southern California.

“It was a weird week,” Bondy says over the phone. He’s back in California to play some shows in support of Enderness, but homebase is Mississippi for the time being. He’s lived there before and calls it “the easiest way through,” though that’s about the best explanation he’s got.

“There was this goose that I’ve been feeding for years,” Bondy says of his former home in California. “I lived on a small man-made lake. And the goose would show up every spring and stick around.

Sometimes he stayed through the winter, but according to my neighbors he’d been coming there for a decade or something. I found him dead in the road that week.”

Then a marine combat veteran shot and killed 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, just across the street from where Bondy purchased a turntable to listen to the new record on vinyl.

And then his house burned down. He saved his cats, his computer, a few notebooks. Himself.

“I don’t know how linked these types of things are, but I definitely felt… I don’t know. It was a weird week.”

Bondy’s not one to look away from the weird or the tragic. He deals in it almost exclusively, building a solo career on dark musings and murder ballads, starting with 2007’s American Hearts.

The blues and folk sounds that typify his solo work are a stark departure from the music he made with his alternative rock band Verbena, which caught the attention of Dave Grohl back in the late ’90s. Bondy’s been clear — in a way that’s very telling of his personality — about how difficult that piece of his life was, likening the experience to being “an infant in a crib full of bats.”

Bondy put a full eight years between his last full-length release, 2011’s Believers, and Enderness.

“I don’t really even feel like it was time

off,” he says. “I felt like music time was over, you know? By and large I just couldn’t connect with anything that I was working on. I was just walking around feeding the birds and running and all kinds of other little things that over time added up to maybe some kind of... we won’t call it knowledge, but I guess I learned a thing or two.”

He managed to pick up where he left off and somehow start in a wholly unexplored place at the same time. With Believers, Bondy moved toward a different form of storytelling, favoring a lyrical style that made suggestions more than statements. Enderness sees the full realization of Bondy’s capacity as a storyteller, one who can weave a narrative out of internet speak and phrases so short, so brutal, they give Hemmingway a run for his money (minus the misogyny).

“Murder is more entertaining/ Than peace ever will be/ To a killer/ Hungry hearted killers/ Everywhere I go/ Walking the streets,” he sings in “Killers 3,” a kind of waltz dedicated to the end of the world.

Finding the guitar wasn’t serving him anymore, Bondy put it down for Enderness and fiddled with keys and synthesizers to create something that might

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be called ambient blues, if such distinctions matter at all.

It is a faded, well worn kind of sadness that Bondy offers up on Enderness.

The title of the album itself feels like a concept, like enderness is a way we can feel — not quite finished, not quite tender.

Bondy’s got an acute distaste for the ways of the modern world, the overconnection, the dramatization, the commercialization. Yet, he finds a way to move through this world as an artist, making music that is equal parts inviting and chilling.

And while he’s keen to talk, he’d really rather not pick his albums apart. So we don’t. We talk about how weird it is that nature documentaries use dramatic musical sequences to create emotion when a seal pup tries to escape a shark, but not when a swallow attacks an insect. We talk about Annie Dillard’s book, The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. We discuss climate change and the way young women right now all wear the same denim shorts that give them the same denim wedgie. I mention that life has thrown me some lemons, and he suggests we take our stock and head to the veranda for some drinks — then he genuinely asks me what’s going on, and I genuinely answer.

We talk about what you do when your house is burning down, literally and figuratively, and the best we can come up with is: you save the cats.

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s Romeo and Juliet a romance or a tragedy? It probably says a lot about the human condition that an overwhelming number of people see Romeo and Juliet’s relationship as one of the most epic romances of all time and, thus, the play as either a pure romance or perhaps a tragically-tinged one. All of this despite the fact that Romeo and Juliet has been adjudged a tragedy by Shakespeare scholars for centuries and, next to Hamlet, has one of the highest and most impactful main character body counts of any of the Bard’s works.

It would seem that Christopher DuVal, director of the 62nd Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, is a proud member of Team Tragedy. A quick read through the director’s notes discloses DuVal’s belief that Romeo and Juliet is far more Melpomeme than Thalia. DuVal’s position finds admittedly obvious support in Amanda Giguere’s accompanying dramaturg’s notes that tie the play’s “violent delights have violent ends” admonition to a broader view of Romeo and Juliet less as a love story and more as an exploration of violence and its effects on society.

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into battle. Actors don’t so much deliver their lines as shoot them from their mouths machine-gun style, and every pause is the smallest breath between fusillades of language and action. Under DuVal’s hyper-aggressive direction there are no unheated exchanges.

All of which makes Dante Rossi’s Romeo that much more perplexing.

While the other actors seem to have a bet on who can gnash the most teeth and rend the most clothing, Rossi’s Romeo appears to have stumbled in from an unaired episode of Seinfeld. His unexpected acting choices inject some much needed levity into the otherwise dour proceedings, but the incongruity can be jarring at times. Seeing Kramer trade blows with Tybalt will do that.

In case you’ve somehow never been exposed to the most famous tragical romantical of all time, Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet (Madison Hart) is a Capulet. The two families are the Hatfields and McCoys of their time, yet Romeo falls anvil-hard for Juliet the first time he lays eyes on her, and Juliet reciprocates his affections. With the help of Friar Laurence (Gareth Saxe — excellent), who hopes the union will end the families’ feud, the two young teens quickly marry in secret.

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Before they can publicize their nuptials, more people on both sides die leading to Romeo’s exile and, ultimately, some of the most memorable and heart wrenching death scenes of all time.

Is this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet the best I’ve ever seen? No. Is it the worst? Far from it. Which means it’s squarely in the middle third of the bell curve as one might statistically expect. It will thrill some, leave some less than satisfied, and serve as a perfectly serviceable introduction to live Shakespeare for many audience members.

Director Duval succeeds at the exceedingly difficult task of putting his own stamp on material this well-known and well-worn. Whether that vision will thrill or disappoint remains the province of each audience member. Those who share DuVal’s preoccupation with violence and would swear on a stack of Riversides that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy tangentially touching on romance will, I suppose, enjoy it significantly more than those who find the play more a tale of love than a tale of woe.

The opportunity to see Romeo and Juliet performed outside under a starry sky, though, cannot be overvalued. Like going to at least one concert at Red Rocks, seeing at least one Shakespeare play at the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre on the University of Colorado’s campus should be on every one in Boulder County’s bucket list.

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MEET THE ARTIST: STRING INSTALLATION BY ANDREW HUFFMAN.

COLORADO WOMEN IN BLUES SHOWCASE.

TOOTS & THE MAYTALS.

Squeeze in a little art during your lunch break this Friday at One Boulder Plaza.

Meet artist Andrew Huffman and see his string installation on display. Huffman’s use of vibrant color and layering creates an ever-changing piece, which morphs as the viewer moves around it and changes their perspective. Huffman says his work “interacts with physical spaces and time, while anticipating air itself as a functional medium worthy of being called subject-matter.” The installation will be on display until Aug. 23, but July 26 is your chance to chat with Huffman about his work.

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“Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you,” B.B. King once said. “I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.”

You’re sure to feel uplifted at the Colorado Women in Blues Showcase on Sunday, July 28 at Dickens Opera House. There are nearly a dozen acts on the bill: The Bridget Kelly Band, Cara Lippman, Cat Rhodes and Taylor Shae, to name a few. Each artist will perform two songs, and merchandise will be available to purchase. The event will raise funds to support autism awareness and research, the National Women in Blues organization, and Pikes Peak Blues Community.

If you’ve ever heard frontman Toots Hibbert’s soulful voice, you know why he’s been compared to Otis Redding and landing on ‘Rolling Stone’s’ list of the 100 Greatest Singers. Since the band’s formation in the early ’60s, The Maytals have written some of the biggest hits in reggae history, including “Pressure Drop,” “Sweet And Dandy” and “54-46 (That’s My Number).” After four decades on stage, Toots can still give you goosebumps with his rich vocals, and the band will still make you shake your rump.

11:30 a.m. Friday, July 26, One Boulder Plaza, 13th St. between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street, Boulder.

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THURSDAY, JULY 25

Kyle Ashcraft The Tune Up at Full Cycle Friday, July 26 7–10 PM Happy Hour till 7pm every Friday!

Bob Barrick, Dominick Antonelli, Ruby Begay. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

FRIDAY, JULY 26

1795 Pearl St., Boulder, Co 80302 www.tuneupboulder.com

Gingerbomb — Company Tour Opening Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

THUR. JULY 25 12:30 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 2:30 PM

INCOMING! 7:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 8:30 PM

LASER SHOW: PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON FRI. JULY 26 8:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 9:30 PM

LIQUID SKY: THE AGE OF AQUARIUS 11:00 PM

LIQUID SKY: KID CUDI MAN ON THE MOON SAT. JULY 27 1:00 PM

MAX GOES TO THE MOON & LASER GALACTIC ODYSSEY 2:30 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 7:00 PM

CAPCOM GO! THE APOLLO STORY 8:30 PM

BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:00 PM

LASER SHOW: PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SUN. JULY 28 1:00 PM

DREAM TO FLY 2:30 PM

STARS AND MOONS 4:00 PM

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SATURDAY, JULY 27 Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Eileen Ivers Universal Roots. 7:30 p.m.

Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Summer of Discovery: Mmmwhah! Poetry Jam. 7:30 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

SUNDAY, JULY 28

Hymn For Her — with The Deer, Che Apalache (Argentina, Patio Set), High Country Hustle (Patio Set). 7:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Women Write Inside Out. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Jon Pickett. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

MONDAY, JULY 29

Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

KGNU’s Youth Radio Workshop for Teens!

10 a.m. KGNU Community Radio, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-4885, kgnu.org.

Tracey Carisch thought she had it all. But one night, a panic attack sent her questioning everything about her life. That’s when she and her husband made a decision that shocked their family and friends: They sold everything they owned, pulled their three young daughters out of school and became a family of wandering globetrotters. Loaded with hilarious mishaps as well as deeply meaningful revelations, ‘Excess Baggage’ chronicles the Carisch family’s 18-month adventure across six continents. See Carisch speak about her new book at Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Knot Rock, Felonius Smith Trio. 6:30 p.m. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-499-1665.

Los Coast. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Lunar Vacation. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Orchard Lounge. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Summer Music Series. 7 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Third Ave., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m. Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, JULY 30 Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Tracey Carisch — Excess Baggage. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — The Overstory. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Matthew L. Miller — Fishing Through the Apocalypse. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Symphonie Fantastique. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Through July 26, chautauqua.com.

Events Arts & Artisans, It Takes Hustle. 9 a.m.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Bear Cubs Camp. 10:30 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Garden Work Hour. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

More library events at calendar.boulderlibrary. org.

Jeff Dye. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Through July 28, comedyworks.com.

Lil Flyers Aerial Summer Camps (ages 5-7). 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272, frequentlyflyers.org.

Open Mic ­­— with Tony Crank. 6 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

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Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

Eben G. Fine Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

No-Edge Evening: Creative Happy Hour.

5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

INCOMING!

Karl Marlantes — Deep River. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

JULY 25, 2019

Rocky Mountain AAZK Comedy Night. 6 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver, 720-337-1400.

Summer Camp: Pop-Up Paper Art. 1 p.m.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374, longmontcolorado.gov.

Thursday Night Salsa in Denver. 6:45 p.m. The Highland’s Events Center, 3550 N. Federal Blvd., Denver.

To Mars and Beyond! Vacation Bible School. 9 a.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Music Adam Lopez Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Amon Tobin presents Two Fingers DJ Set — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Andrew Finn Magill Irish Duo. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

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Big Band Swing Dance. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

The Black Lillies. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Butcher Brown. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Candlebox. 7 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Dog City Disco, Musketeer Gripweed.

9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Downtown Summer Concerts. 6 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Flyin’ Hot Saucers. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. see EVENTS Page 30

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Abstracted Facts — Digital systems in design, painting and sculpture. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens July 19. Through Sept. 1.

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‘Light and Shadow,’ now showing at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through Aug. 4, features new work by Denver-based sculptor and draftsman Richard Stephenson. The exploration of the interplay of light and shadow offers museum visitors the opportunity to experience a changing array of images in both two and three dimensions.

A·MAZE·D. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 1.

Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight For The Eyes.

Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden.

Through Sept. 15.

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Breaking Ground — Alice Stone Collins, Saxon Martinez and Pam Rogers. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through July 28.

Clark Richert: Pattern and Dimensions. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Sept. 15.

Climate Ribbon. Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through Aug. 28.

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Boulder In The Round Featuring Hunter Stone Theresa Peterson & Anna Morsett of The Still Tide

Elements — The Boulder Potters’ Guild: 50 years and counting. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Through. Aug. 4.

Evan Cantor, New Work (oil paintings). Seeds Cafe (Boulder Public Library), 1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder. Through July 31.

Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

Eyes On: Jonathan Saiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

Radio Show Taping

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Fiber Art by Dianna VanderDoes. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Sept. 6.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

Radio Show Taping

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The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Aug. 18.

The Light Show. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 2020.

Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

The museum has numerous permanent and temporary exhibits, including Railroads in Lyons; Lyons Newspapers; Tiny Stories: Art of the Dollhouse; Native American Artifacts; The Flood of 2013 and more.

MONUMENTAL — coproduced by Black Cube and the Denver Theatre District. Through Jan. 31. For times and locations, denvertheatredistrict. com/event/monumental/.

Alex McLeod: NPC Hell. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through July 28.

PACK-IT-UP. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 23.

Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Sept. 1.

Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

ReLove: Colorado Mosaic Artists Group Exhibit. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder.

Through Aug. 17.

Richard Stephenson: Light and Shadow.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 4.

Ruckus Rodeo: Pop Art & Cowboy Culture.

Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America.

Denver Art Museum, Anschutz Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 25.

Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.

Watercolor by Anne Gifford. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Sept. 6.

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Live Music Fridays. 7 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

Wylie. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Eighth Ave., Denver, 505-273-7363. Through July 28.

Lost Dog Street Band — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Events Louisville Downtown Street Faire. 5:30 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, Louisville.

Bridget Kelly Band. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Lucas Wolf, Takenobu. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

The Mighty Twisters. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486.

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

Retro ’80s Tribute Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Shawn Cunnane Solo Acoustic. 6:30 p.m.

La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.

Tilian. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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Meet the Artist: String Installation by Andrew Huffman. 11:30 a.m. One Boulder Plaza, 13th St. between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street, Boulder.

Realities and Fictions: An Evening of Magic with Max Davidson & Scotty Wiese. 7:30 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

SATURDAY, JULY 27 Music 21 Savage. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

The Appleseed Cast. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Art Fest. 9 a.m. Cheesman Park, 1599 E.

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Cary Morin. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Drumming with Horses. Noon. Medicine Horse Program, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 707-599-1908.

Dylan LeBlanc. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Halfway There (Bon Jovi Tribute) — with ’90s Till Dawn. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. see EVENTS Page 32

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Hannah Jane Kile. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

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In ‘King Charles III,’ playwright Mike Bartlett uses Shakespearean verse to envision a near future where personal privacy, public betrayals and a threat to free press collide in the days following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.This Tony nominated play is not to be missed. Nowing playing at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival through Aug. 11. (Pictured Casey Andree [William] and Emily Van Fleet [Catherine] in rehearsal for ‘King Charles III.’)

Joe Dutka. 5 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Joey Alexander — with Annie Booth Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Kind Hearted Strangers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

Lyrics Born with Boss Eagle. 6 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.

Mad Dog Blues. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Pete Lewis Positive Charge Band. 7 p.m.

Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

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

The Soundpost Sessions: Scabaret & Zoe Berman. 8 p.m. La Vita Bella Cafe, 471 Main St., Longmont, 720-204-4525.

Thunderpussy — with Black Pistol Fire.

The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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

The UMS. 12 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Through July 28.

Events Fifth Annual Longmont Songwriters’ Festival. 4 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

The Carnival of the Indies Book Sale. 11 a.m. Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-900-8349.

Comedy Open Mic Saturday Night. 6:30 p.m. The Tune Up at Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002.

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

Spanish/English Storytime: Read and Play in Spanish. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

More children’s library events at calendar. boulderlibrary.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 28 Music Bootstrap LOCO Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Colorado Women in Blues Showcase.

12:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Data Science and the Beatles: Using data to resolve the Lennon-McCartney authorship dispute. 6 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 703-684-1221.

The Delta Sonics Duo. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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As You Like It. University Theater, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 10.

Beauty and the Beast. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Sept. 21.

Building the Wall. Curious Theater Company.

1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through July 27.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Buell Theater, Denver Center for Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through July 28.

Cinderella and Her Barely Godmother. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Saturdays and Sundays only through Aug. 5 Crowns. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 4.

Emma. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Aug. 18.

It’s Not Me, It’s You — presented by The Second City. Denver Center for Performing Arts, 1345 Champa St., Garner Galleria Theater.

Through Aug. 25.

King Charles III. University Theatre Building 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through Aug. 11.

The Merry Wives of Windsor — presented by Longmont Theatre Company. Appearing at indoor and outdoor venues across the northern Front Range. Through Aug. 11, longmonttheatre.org

Mixed Taste. Seawell Ballroom, Denver Center for Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Aug. 21.

Nirvamlet — presented by Band of Toughs.

Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Through Aug. 3.

Nunsense. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, through Sept. 29.

Romeo and Juliet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado. Through Aug. 10.

Thoroughly Modern Millie ­— presented by CenterStage Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through July 28.

Tarzan The Musical. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Aug. 25.

Twelfth Night. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, Boulder. Through Aug. 11.

The Wedding Singer — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through Aug. 4.

You Can’t Take It With You (student production). Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 4.

Easy Lovin. 3 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Rodrigo y Gabriela. Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York St., Denver.

FEED: Dreams. 6 p.m. Lone Hawk Farm, 10790 North 49th St., Longmont, 720-468-0487.

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

Finn O’Sullivan — with Jeff Benjamin. 3 p.m. Sanitas Brewing, 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder, 303-442-4130.

GRENDEL — with Striplicker, Glass Apple Bonzai, Esoterik. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

John Prine and the Colorado Symphony — with I’m With Her. 7 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Vansire & BOYO. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Events Boulder Comedy Show (2 shows). 7 and 9:15 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. A Place to B, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Lughnasad/ Lammas — The Witches Harvest. 10 a.m. Panera Bread, 425 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont.

Magnificent Mozart Mini-Festival II. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Sunnyside Yoga and Wellness Festival.

8:30 a.m. Fox Street Compound, 725 W. 39th Ave., Denver, 303-242-2554.

The Matt, Patrick & Joey Trio. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Trace Adkins. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

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Experience Naropa OPEN HOUSE Discover. Connect. Engage.

Friday, August 2nd 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Nalanda Campus 6287 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO

For more information and to RSVP visit: Naropa.edu/experience-naropa

On August 2nd, Naropa University will throw open its doors to prospective graduate and undergraduate students from across the country and around the world at Experience Naropa—a whirlwind of activity designed to open minds, spark creativity, and begin to create the bonds of community.

Tour campus, attend sample classes, and meet students and faculty who are changing the world for the better. Come for the answers to your questions, and stick around for an engaging afternoon full of lively activities and passionate people.

For prospective students, family, and friends.

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Open Range Competition Teams Summer Day Camps Classes & Private Lessons

Target & Hunting Full Service Retail Pro Shop & Service Recurve & Compound

High Altitude Archery 455 Weaver Park Rd #500 Longmont, CO 80501 720-491-3309

Scientists Mary Powers snorkels in ‘The Serengeti Rules,’ an HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Simons Science Sandbox, and Passion Planet Ltd production.

Thursday, July 25 ‘Ghost Fleet.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

‘Mirai.’ 2:30 and 7 p.m. Boedecker.

Thursday Cinema: ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.’ 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Thursday Cinema: ‘Wall-E’ Family Viewing. 5 p.m.

Boulder Public Library Main Branch.

Thursday Cinema Local Filmmakers’ Showcase: ‘Mondo Hollywood’ (120 min.) 6 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, July 26 Friday Family Film: ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ (NR), 110 Minutes. 2 p.m.

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

‘Ghost Fleet.’ 2:30 and 6:45 p.m. Boedecker.

‘Mirai.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.

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Truth in Comedy. 7 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-946-1388.

eTown Live Radio Show Taping:

MONDAY, JULY 29

Presented by 105.5 The Colorado Sound

Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

& Laura Gibson

Boulder In-The-Round - Hunter Stone, Theresa Peterson & The Still Tide Nick Forster’s Hippy Bluegrass Church Full Concert: Kyle Donovan & Bonnie and the Clydes eTown Live Radio Show Taping: Darrell Scott & Kaia Kater

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Wednesday, July 30 Free Movies in the Courtyard: ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ (2018). 6:30 p.m. 836 Main St., Louisville.

‘The Mollycoddle’ (1920) — with Hank Troy, piano. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

‘Photograph.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.

‘Romeo and Juliet Royal Ballet.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker.

Sci-Fi Film Series: ‘Jurassic Park.’ 7 p.m. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000.

‘Serengeti Rules.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker.

TimeBank Movie Night: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ (episodes 1 and 2). 6 p.m. 3335 Chisholm Trail, Boulder.

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Toots & The Maytals. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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Monday, July 29 ‘Romeo and Juliet Royal Ballet.’ 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Kids Films: ‘Zootopia.’ 10 a.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

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Saturday, July 27 ‘Ghost Fleet.’ 5:30 p.m. Boedecker.

‘Mirai.’ 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Boedecker.

‘Showgirls.’ 8:45 p.m. Boedecker.

Summer of Discovery: Movie: ‘E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial.’ 4 p.m. Boulder Library Main Branch.

3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

9 p.m. NoBo Corner Library.

Sunday, July 28 ‘Drop City.’ 4:30 p.m. Boedecker.

‘Romeo and Juliet Royal Ballet.’ 1 p.m. Boedecker.

Fast Heart Mart, Wild Faith. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Frank Iero and The Future Violents. 7 p.m.

Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Hot Mulligan. 6 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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“Mis Pininos”/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

All Ages Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Dance Intensive-Longmont. 8:30 a.m.

Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

Dance Intensive-Longmont. 8:30 a.m.

Airborne Dance, 1816 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-684-3717.

FAF Youth Arts Workshop. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Dancing, Movement, Music, Community and Chocolate! Every Tuesday! Come dance with us!! 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 608-332-4355.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Drop In Tech Help. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Summer of Discovery: Get Organized for School. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

First Session: Everything before you hit record. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100; 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

TUESDAY, JULY 30 Music Ana Corral, Hana Kahn, Jared Janzen.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Ben Sparaco and The New Effect — with Special Guests. 7:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

CMA Jazz Combos. 8 a.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Crown The Empire: Rage Fest — with Attila. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Dip. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Jeff and Paige Festival Plaza Concert.

10:30 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200.

Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with The Waifs & Jim Lauderdale presented by 105.5 The Colorado Sound. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Open Mic. 3 p.m. Vic’s Espresso, 1055 Courtesy Road, Louisville, 303-440-8209.

Open Mic — with Andy Eppler. 6 p.m.

Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Pinky Pinky. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Spose. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Events ‘What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living,’ a TED Talk by Suleika Jaouad. 10:30 a.m. Golden West Senior Living, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder, 303-939-0883.

Boulder Teen Friendly Map Project. 1 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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; 12:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Spirit Nia Dance. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Music A.A. Bondy. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Finn O’Sullivan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Halleway. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Hayes Carll. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Igor & The Red Elvises. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Jordyn Pepper, The Knotty G’s. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

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

Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060.

Raven Black. 8 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

RE:Search featuring Defunk — with Mikey Thunder, Jordan Polovina and Special Guests. 8:30 p.m. Venue Information, Cervantes’ Other Side 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Suzanne Vega. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

U.S. Tygers. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 720-865-0800.

Events Aerial Dance Festival 2019. 9 a.m.

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272.

BoulderReads Tutor Roundtable. 2 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Mad Scientist Day: Ice Cream in a Bag. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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Thursday July 25

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w/ The deer, che aPalache (argenTina – PaTio seT) & high counTry husTle (PaTio seT)

Friday July 26

buTcher brown

losT dog sTreeT band

sunday July 28

smrTdeaTh, lil loTus & guccihighwaTers

w/ dirTy revival

dobre broThers live (early show)

Friday, saTurday & sunday augusT 2-4 @ sunrise ranch in loveland

arise music FesTival Friday augusT 9

unlimiTed graviTy

w/ FunKsTaTiK, mZg, mom n dad & since Juleye

Friday augusT 16

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Zebbler encanTi eXPerience

w/ sumThin sumThin & unTiTld

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Friday augusT 23

isaiah sharKey

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saTurday augusT 24

bass Physics

w/ coFresi, megan hamilTon & caTParTy

Thursday augusT 29

bone diggers

w/ maTT hecKler & casPer allen

saTurday July 27

w/ david FredericK & yung Kell

Tuesday July 30

ben sParaco & The new eFFecT w/ lasT humans & digg

wednesday July 31 re: search

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w/ memba, lyFTd (laTe seT) & Jordan Polovina

Thursday augusT 1

Jay cobb anderson band FeaT John craigie & brad Parsons w/ nirvana’s unPlugged PerFormed by members oF ParT & Parcel, mama magnolia & analog son (laTe seT) on The PaTio: sTrings and The boX, cooney & Friends: Tmd & banshee Tree

Friday augusT 2

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FeaT miKe dillon, brian haas & James singleTon w/ dandu & Friends FeaT casey russell (magic beans), bryanT williams (manycolors), dylan Johnson & sean dandurand (dandu)

sunday augusT 4

Pooch FesT

wednesday augusT 7 re: search

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(duFFrey X biolumigen X Kll smTh) w/ 5am, ThoughT Process (laTe seT) & Jordan Polovina

Thursday augusT 8

The billy Failing band

Paul simon’s greaTesT hiTs eXPlored FeaT lebo (alo), JenniFer harTswicK & James casey (Trey anasTasio band), reed maThis (golden gaTe wingmen), JeFF Franca (Thievery corPoraTion), danny eisenberg & scoTT rager w/ hearTbyrne (TalKing heads TribuTe)

w/ 300 days, dirTy grass Players (PaTio seT) & Pierce edens (PaTio seT)

Saturday auguSt 31 • poSt phiSh Show

delvon lamarr organ Trio & neal Francis

herbie hancocK TribuTe

FeaT members oF moTeT & big giganTic

Friday sePTember 6

inFeKT, mvrda & samPliFire Thursday & Friday sePTember 12-13

suicidegirls

blacKhearT burlesque

saTurday sePTember 14

The movemenT

w/ ProJecT 432, arise rooTs, a-mac & The heighT

Friday September 20 • dual venue! balloon PoP

waX Tailor (dJ seT), blocKhead

liTTle PeoPle, yPPah, naTasha KmeTo, arms and sleePers, & cnJr

saTurday sePTember 21

marK Farina & chrisTian marTin

Friday augusT 9

The commonhearT

FeaT James casey (Trey anasTasio band) w/ Two Faces wesT & genuine reverie

saTurday augusT 10

w/ The solTones on The PaTio: hachey’s haus (homemade songs & beaTs From scoTT hachey oF magic beans)

wednesday augusT 14 re: search

arTiFaKTs

w/ Thug scouTs (FeaT members oF TemPlo & beaK nasTy), midicinal & Jordan Polovina

Thursday augusT 15

PicK & howl

w/ Julian davis & The siTuaTion (oF JeFF ausTin band – PaTio seT), buFFalo commons (laTe seT), Tara rose & The real deal (PaTio seT)

Friday augusT 16

collidoscoPe & melody lines

w/ TelemeTry, FloaTgoaT & mr. bugaTTi

saTurday augusT 17

a deiTch Family aFFair

The geeK X vrv

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Friday sePTember 27

The Tomorrow PeoPle

wednesday sePTember 25 re: search

w/ Poldoore, Jordan Polovina & Juschill

eminence ensemble

Tuesday augusT 20

wednesday augusT 21

w/ dog ciTy disco

re: search

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w/ eXo (laTe seT) & Jordan Polovina

aPPalachia on The rocKs w/ The wooKs, laid bacK counTry PicKer & chelsea nolan

sunday ocTober 6

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Friday & saTurday ocTober 11-12

The new masTersounds w/ ghosT-noTe

hucci

Thursday augusT 22

ThaT damn sasquaTch dave waTTs (The moTeT)

PicKin’ on TalKing heads FeaT Tyler granT w/ KaTharsis, highland ramblers (PaTio seT), Jacob moss & maTT FlaherTy oF ParK & Parcel (PaTio seT)

Friday augusT 23

mass relay

wednesday ocTober 16

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saTurday ocTober 19

The new orleans susPecTs & cris Jacobs band

big K.r.i.T.

cycles PresenTs

The game show

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saTurday november 9

anders osborne sunday november 17

hillToP hoods w/ adrian eagle

saTurday augusT 24

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illi (Awkwafina) has come home to China. Specifically Changchun — a city she left at the age of 6, when her father relocated his wife and daughter to the U.S. in search of a better life and more opportunity. That was 25 years ago, and there is nothing about Changchun Billi recognizes anymore. Towering Las Vegas-style high-rises and construction cranes pock the sky; neon signs of multi-national chains line the streets. Gone is the China Billi once knew, including the garden behind her grandmother’s home; leveled and replaced with a colorful arch, a piece of public art that will no doubt anchor another shopping mall. Erasure through consumerism isn’t a fate reserved strictly for Americans.

Cancer brings Billi here, her grandmother’s. Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzen) is in her 80s and treatment is not an option. She only has a few months to live; only Nai Nai doesn’t know it.

Keeping with Chinese custom, Nai Nai’s doctor and sister conspire to keep the death sentence from her. They tell her she is in good health and send her home. The sister puts out the call to the family, and they all return to China under the ruse of a wedding — Billi’s cousin and his girlfriend of three months — the perfect cover for everyone to say goodbye without dragging Nai Nai’s spirits down.

There is an interesting connection between Nai Nai’s cancer and a China in transition, but it’s not a connection writer/director Lulu Wang belabors. It’s simply there, part of the canvas on which Wang paints her personal story, The Farewell.

Wang’s focus is on Nai Nai and Billi — one life ending and another life waiting to begin. She beautifully contrasts Billi’s dour depression with Nai Nai’s high spirits. Nai Nai takes the stairs when she can, exercises exuberantly and sports a smile in practically every scene. Billi solemnly hunches forward with the weight of inevitability on her shoulders. She looks like she might burst into tears at any minute and not be able to stop. As does the rest of the family, but it is imperative not to tip Nai Nai off, less she becomes despondent and depressed.

Hence, The Farewell’s central question: What good comes of a truth that hurts? Billi takes the American stance: Nai Nai should know, and that knowledge will inform her actions. But Billi learns that truth is far from comforting and doesn’t always set you free.

Halfway through, you start to wonder if she would like someone to lie to her, if for no other reason than to make her feel better.

All this talk of death and lies might lead you to believe The Farewell is a dour affair.

It’s not; the movie is lighthearted, lovely and joyous. Weaving each scene with genuine humor and everyday beauty, Wang turns the stickier parts of life into an uplifting catharsis. All movies are constructs, and thus movies are lies in one form or another. But The Farewell is one of the truest and most beautiful lies you will see this year.

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It’s loaded with pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, onion, mushroom and cheese. The crust is impressive — it crackles and chews just right, and doesn’t bend to the massive amount of toppings. $19.50-$27.50

Nick-N-Willy’s Pizza 801 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-9898 ick-N-Willy’s is a Pearl Street staple.

Although the by-theslice pizza and takeaway pies are the main attraction, the shop has a sneaky good sandwich menu, including The Natural. Nick-NWilly’s takes chicken right out of the rotisserie, slices it up and piles it onto white or wheat bread.

That’s topped with spinach, sprouts, roma tomatoes, fresh mozzarella slices, sunflower seeds and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. You don’t have to get the chicken, by the way, but it’s smoky, tender and satisfying. $6.25-$8.75.

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Skip Cheerios and start the day with onigiri, al pastor and pastirma

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BREAKFAST COMES tin all shapes and sizes in Boulder County, from miso soup to croissants to pupusas.

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Even going out for ’cakes, eggs and bacon doesn’t push the same buttons it does in February.

Rather than skip it entirely, I’ve been pushing the envelope breakfastwise. Duty, dietary belief and habit be damned.

That’s how I found myself eating onigiri and sipping miso at Dry Storage one recent a.m. Chef Kelly Whitaker’s new Boulder cafe/bakery dishes soft rice balls filled with smoked salmon with umami-rich soup.

Eating it alongside heirloom wheat toast and preserves was a cool, novel day-starter.

Stopping by Breakfast Champion, Boulder’s Turkish cafe and bakery, reminded me that there is an alternative universe where people linger over breakfast.

The eatery earns its name with the Turkish Breakfast that is designed for two people to share. A metal tray boasts a piece of cheese, boiled eggs, some olives with tomato and cucumber. There are thin-sliced pastirma — dried spiced beef — and rounds of salami with walnuts and red pepper relish and a filo-wrapped cheese roll. The coffee or tea keeps coming as you spread cardamom-scented, sesame-seeded bread with honey, clotted cream, Nutella and jam.

The French know nibbling, too. Le French Café (near McGuckin Hardware) serves good quiche, omelets and crepes, but I went for Le Petit Dejeuner. That simple, satisfying ritual offers a freshly baked half baguette and a plain croissant with butter and jam to contemplate with milky coffee.

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eat in Boulder before 9 a.m. I could have chosen more conventional huevos rancheros but I took the barbacoa and al pastor tacos instead at La Choza on North Broadway. We’re talking two warm, soft corn tortillas wrapped around bites of juicy, fall-apart shredded cheek and marinated pork with pineapple, respectively. Topped with tomato, chopped onion and cilantro, and dressed with any of the five salsas of varying heat levels, these were a whole different kind of eye-opener.

At the Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, I rediscovered what a great hash brown alternative rice can be. The breakfast fried rice is sautéed with pork belly, chopped green onions, carrots, onions and peas with a craveable char sui glaze and an over-easy egg as “sauce” on top.

The summer’s not over. I hear congee is on the menu at Aperitivo in Gunbarrel. That’s Asian rice porridge in a savory broth with ginger, green onion, crispy garlic, mushrooms and a poached egg. And, at Ado’s Kitchen on the Hill the folks dish breakfast pupusas and sweet, caramelized plantain with mashed beans, Salvadorian crema and eggs.

Contrary to advertising, a so-called “good breakfast” is really a wide range of omnivorous possibilities. Some chilly morning in September, that bowl of warm oatmeal with fruit and nuts will sound just perfect again.

Summer Food Gossip A company called Epogee is trying to sell food fat replacers called EPGs (esterified propoxylated glycerols) which can cut calories and fat by up to 92 percent “without impacting taste or texture.” This has been tried before. Google “Olestra gastric distress.” … Horchata, sesame, whiskey, salted caramel and unicorn ice cream flavors saw the most sales growth in 2018, according to Square. For the record, a unicorn is a belief system, not a flavor. … I may be more millennial than you. I took the “How millennial are you?” online quiz. Since I’ve tasted avocado toast, quinoa, pumpkin spice lattes, matcha cake, poke, La Croix, overnight oats, sushi burritos, rolled ice cream, rosé wine, bone broth, almond butter, boba and a waffle sandwich, I was rated “YAS almost millennial.” It was research, not hipness. I only missed a few items such as a unicorn Frappuccino and a rainbow I

bagel. … Umami is big this year. Innova Marketing’s top 2019 flavor trends (for older folks) include non-sweet “earthy tones” like matcha, seaweed and dried mushrooms.

How to Smoke an Egg If you are settling for just smoked bacon in the morning you clearly aren’t smoking enough. To smoke eggs, preheat your pellet smoker to 225 degrees and place a dozen eggs (or less) on the grill or in a pan. Cover and allow them to smoke for about two hours to get hardboiled eggs. If you like them softer, pull them out earlier. To stop the cooking put them in an ice water bath, which also makes them easier to peel.

Taste of the Week I didn’t realize I knew zilch about baklava until I visited the Istanbul Cafe and Bakery in Denver. Forget the cookiecutter version you find so often at restaurants with a few layers of walnut-filled filo dough drenched in honey syrup. There are always at least seven baklava variations in different shapes available, and the folks behind the counter are happy for you to sample them all. They include dozens of layers of buttered, see-through filo dough with either chopped or ground pistachios inside. Kadayif uses shredded filo instead of sheets, and Sobiyet involves a cream layer on top of the dough layers, nuts and syrup. The baklava is shipped frozen from Turkey and baked here, and the eatery also produces breads, Turkish rolls and surprisingly chewy Turkish ice cream.

For a lively debate, you can discuss whether baklava was invented in Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Lebanon or any of several other Mediterranean nations that claim it.

Words to Chew On “The majority of people still crack an egg and drop it into searingly hot oil or fat and continue to cook it on high heat.

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f you’ve sucked down an energy shot, it was likely a 5-Hour Energy, it was likely 2 a.m., you were likely at a truck stop off an interstate, you may have been behind the wheel of a UHaul and you very likely held your nose and muttered under your breath, “Why am I doing this?”

And, you probably crashed before five hours were up. Not the car, hopefully.

After that, you likely never tried one again.

Ethan Hirshberg knows this, which is why he created an organic, all-natural energy shot that actually works. It’s the latest in a line of shots, under the Ethan’s label, that inject real ingredients into a much-maligned beverage. There’s Ethan’s MCT shots, apple cider vinegar shots, and now energy shots with green tea and guayusa, a tree native to the Amazon that’s long been brewed for its stimulative effects but has largely been ignored by the U.S. mainstream energy drink market.

“The thing about guayusa for whatever reason is the lift is so different,” Hirshberg says. “The main thing people tend to complain about with traditional energy shots besides the taste is just that it’s huge spike and a massive crash. Guayusa is really the best way I’ve found to eliminate that in a natural way.”

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Figuring out just how much guayusa and green tea to put into the shot to make it taste good, retain its relative health benefits and, most importantly, provide a boost of energy was a years-long process. Hirshberg says he tried “every energy shot ever created,” which “wasn’t a fun couple months.” Using responsibly sourced, organic ingredients while still providing an energy boost was a process of research, trial and error.

“We played with a million different ratios,” he says. “We also tried yerba mate … but we actually didn’t like the effect yerba mate was having with significant dosages. We found what we think is the optimal combination of green tea and guayusa so you don’t end up crashing down in the end.”

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In Boulder County, he found a robust group of natural foods pioneers willing, and even eager, to help him grow his business.

“You have this wide range of knowledge and experience in this community and then it’s all tied together by definitely the sense of a common mission. …

“People have been super generous with their time, getting coffee or making introductions or you name it. And over the last year I’ve been able to pass that along to some earlier stage companies.”

Those connections have helped him conquer obstacles inherent in producing an all-natural food product.

Because Ethan’s uses real food, its subject to the seasonality of food growing, natural disasters, social disturbances and more.

“We had a random unforeseen spike in the cost of blueberry juice and one of the energy shots is pomegranate blueberry,” Hirshberg says, giving credit to the biggest name in guayusa energy drinks, RUNA, which, by virtue of its early success, “made it easier to get a hold of organic guayusa.”

In just a few years, Hirshberg has grown Ethan’s into a regional brand (the Mountain West) with a handful of full-time employees and a much larger group of part-time employees and BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

consultants. He says his past experience in the natural foods space has helped him learn “what not to do” when launching new products and growing a company, which has led him to craft a company in his unique image.

“In terms of personnel I’ve opted less for experience and more for passion and drive. That’s manifested with a pretty young team. I wouldn’t hesitate to say we make a lot of mistakes,” he says.

He produces the energy shots in the U.S., and doesn’t use plastic in his packaging. And he’s done it in a space — energy shots — that seemed saturated, or at least, seemingly, in low demand.

“I’ve been told on more than a few occasions just to stay away from [producing] energy shots,” Hirshberg says.

“Whether it’s because 5-Hour will buy your shelf space or it’s been tried before. Ultimately, after all this time spent on it, we felt like we created a product that was better than any other out there. As I’m showing it to retailers that’s been the case.”

What’s next for Ethan’s? Hirshberg says, “anything I see that looks remotely interesting I order and try it,” to see what effects other natural ingredients might have and what can be incorporated into his line of shots.

Given that energy shots were such a blind spot for natural foods producers before Ethan’s launched its line, the next item the brand comes out with is just as likely to upturn expectations.

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Profiles in brew: Michael Memsic and Chris Coyne of Sanitas Brewing Company

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hen it comes to cities, few have a magnet buried deep underground quite like Boulder. Take the two co-founders of Sanitas Brewing Company, Michael Memsic and Chris Coyne: Memsic, originally from the Bay Area (and with dreams of playing for the Oakland A’s), came to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1999 and hasn’t left since. Coming from the opposite coast, Coyne grew up in Massachusetts and landed in Boulder during a cross-country trip of National Park hopping.

Both were homebrewers from a young age, both worked a variety of positions at other breweries — Oskar Blues Grill & Brew in Lyons for Memsic; Berkshire Brewing Company in Deerfield, Massachusetts, for Coyne — and both ended up working at Boulder Beer for roughly a decade before moving on to what Memsic calls, “my passion, my play, my long-term goal.”

Their own brewery: Sanitas — a source of sleepless nights and a canvas for their creativity.

“We had enough courage, and we begged, borrowed and stole enough to get ourselves a shell of a brewery and see if we could run a business,” Memsic says.

For Coyne, Sanitas is, “the ability to be creative on a much more fundamental level,” pointing out that a key component of their success is how they split the business: Coyne as chief of brewing operations and Memsic as CEO and COURTESY OF SANITAS BREWING COMPANY sales director.

“I was ready to get out of boots,” Memsic explains.

When Sanitas Brewing (named after Mount Sanitas roughly 5 miles west of the brewery) opened in 2013, Coyne and Memsic immediately carved out a niche with their packaged black IPA and saison — the first saison canned in Colorado.

Over the past six years, more have followed and now Sanitas continues to stand out in a consistently crowded field with a commitment to creativity without over-leveraging themselves.

“In 2017 we released six total SKUs [stock keeping units],” Memsic says. “Last year we went to 14 SKUs and this year will be 25–30 SKUs, all in cans.

“But we’re not making the big commitments like we were making in our first year or two,” Memsic continues. “Like: This is going to be around forever. ... If it’s successful, let’s keep making it. If we can make it better, let’s make it better. If it doesn’t sell, let’s try something else.”

Keeping pace with an increasingly fickle market is a challenging area for brewers big and small, but, as Memsic points out, Sanitas is smaller, and thus more nimble, than regional breweries. Coyne adds that their facility is big enough and capable of scaling up a beer if it works.

“We want to live in between, and if something catches fire, let’s run with it,” Memsic says.

And there is a lot in that “in-between.”

“There’s so much more to running a brewery than just liquid,” Coyne says with a smile. “I think we both know that much more profoundly now than we ever did.”

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Missouri area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and August 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: I predict that between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

SCORPIO

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Scorpio poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That’s one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic, and rejected all of them. But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1.

Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”).

5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).

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SAGITTARIUS

TAURUS

MAY 21-JUNE 20: Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood, or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key, or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Your emotional intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: The Queen of North America and Europe called me on the phone. At least that’s how she identified herself. “I have a message for your Leo readers,” she told me. “Why Leo?” I asked. “Because I’m a Leo myself,” she replied, “and I know what my tribe needs to know right now.” I said, “OK. Give it to me.” “Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris,” she said. “Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding. Be irresistible but not envy-inducing.”

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Congrats, Virgo! You are beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: It’s conceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World five hundred years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the thirteenth century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: When the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.” Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m naming the crocodile as your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive. (Read more about crocs: tinyurl. com/ToughAndRobust.)

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “My only hope is that one day I can love myself as much as I love you.” Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I’m offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love. You’ve passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your self-love. I bet you’ll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “Poems can bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. “They let us know . . . that we are not alone — but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I am a poly nonbinary person, and I’ve been seeing this guy in a BDSM context for about six months. About two times a month, he canes me and destroys my ass, I get to call him “daddy,” and I get fucked in mind-blowing ways. In the beginning, I expressed interest in dating (with more emotional investment), and he said he didn’t have the mental space for it but he’d be interested in trying to develop something eventually. So we’ve played and had fun, and I’m starting to get feels for this guy… buuuuut… he’s given me no indication he’s interested in anything beyond our current arrangement. I’ve said, “Hey, let’s schedule a date,” something like dinner, coffee, a walk around the fucking block, but he just wants to fuck, no talking. What he wants isn’t what I’m looking for, so I decided to take my business elsewhere and focus my energy on my other relationships. Well, his mom just got diagnosed with cancer and has a couple months to live. He’s devastated. What are

the ethics of breaking up here? I dislike just ghosting, but he’s got other friends and lovers to support him. He doesn’t really need me. But he does on occasion send little “thinking of you” texts. So am I able to ghost him? Do I owe him a conversation about wants and needs?

I’d like to be friends — I am part of a small kinky community, I’m friends with some of his fuck buddies, and I’m going to run into him again — but this isn’t a time in his life when he should be worrying about the feelings of a now-and-then spanking partner.

—Ghosting Has Obvious Shortcomings That Suck Dear GHOSTS: You’ve constructed a false choice for yourself, GHOSTS: either initiate a conversation about your wants and needs or ghost him. But there’s no need for a wants-and-needs convo, as you’ve already had that conversation (more than once) and his don’t align with

yours. So instead of disappearing on him, you can simply respond to his “thinking of you” texts with short, thoughtful, compassionate texts of your own. (“Thinking of you, too, especially at this difficult time.”)

The odds that he’ll want to meet up in the next few months seem slim, and you can always claim a scheduling conflict if he should ask to get together.

Being friendly is the trick to remaining friends after a casual sexual arrangement ends. Kindly acknowledging someone’s texts — or greeting someone in public — doesn’t obligate you to sleep with (or submit to) them again. And while in most cases I would advise a person to be direct… in this case, I think you should simply step back. Calling him to say, “Hey, I know your mom has cancer and is dying, but I needed to tell you I’m not interested in fucking around anymore, OK?” will make you seem self-involved, thoughtless,

and uncaring — you know, not the kind of person someone wants to remain friends with after a casual sexual arrangement ends.

Now, if you were this man’s primary partner, GHOSTS, and you’d been thinking about ending the relationship before he got the news about his mother, I would encourage you to wait a few months and love and support him through this process.

(Unless the relationship was abusive, of course, which this one wasn’t.) But you’re just a FWB — a “friend with bruises,” in your case — and this man has other friends and lovers around him, people whose support he can rely on during this difficult time.

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annabis is having a moment in the nation’s capitol. This week, lawmakers in Washington D.C. introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, and, in a separate event, spoke in favor of a bill to allow cannabis businesses access to banks.

On July 23, Sen. Cory Gardner and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) spoke before the Senate Banking Committee in favor of a bill that would give legally operating marijuana businesses access to banks, while also protecting those banks from federal penalties.

The bill, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, has bipartisan support and 31 co-sponsors.

Its fate awaits judgment by the Senate Banking Committee. A partner bill in the House has 206 sponsors and action will likely be taken later this year.

In another event, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) introduced the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, which would bring sweeping changes to marijuana policy and attempt to rectify past injustices of marijuana policy enforcement.

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“Times have changed — marijuana should not be a crime,” said Harris in a press release. “We need to start regulating marijuana, and expunge marijuana convictions from the records of millions of Americans so they can get on with their lives. As marijuana becomes legal across the country, we must make sure everyone — especially communities of color that have been disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs — has a real opportunity to participate in this growing industry.”

The bill would do many things if passed: It would (1) Decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act; (2) Require federal courts to expunge prior convictions and allow prior offenders to ask for revocation of their convictions or re-

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hearings; (3) Put a 5 percent sales tax on marijuana and marijuana products, the proceeds of which would go into a fund that would benefit people “most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs” and cannabis entrepreneurs; (4) Prohibit the denial of any federal public benefit based on use or possession of marijuana; and (5) Provide that the use or possession of marijuana, or conviction of marijuana-related offenses, will have no adverse impact on immigration cases.

“Despite the legalization of marijuana in states across the country, those with criminal convictions for marijuana still face second class citizenship. Their vote, access to education, employment and housing are all negatively impacted,” said Nadler in a press release.

“Racially motivated enforcement of marijuana laws has disproportionally impacted communities of color. It’s past time to right this wrong nationwide and work to view marijuana use as an issue of personal choice and public health, not criminal behavior.

Of the Democratic presidential candidates, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Tulsi Gabbard are co-sponsors of the bill.

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volution in action, Joe Biden edition… It seems to have dawned on Biden that his role in creating the war on drugs and the mass incarceration of millions (of disproportionately black and brown) Americans could be a deal-breaker with Democratic presidential primary voters… Time for his views to evolve, or flip-flop as we used to say… On July 23, the Biden campaign put out a position paper on criminal justice reform, including (lame) marijuana reform… Most Dem candidates want to drop marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and end pot prohibition at the federal level… Biden wants to decriminalize (not legalize) the use of cannabis… Instead of dropping marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, he wants to reclassify it from a Schedule I drug like heroin to a Schedule II drug like fentanyl, “so researchers can study its positive and negative impacts,” he says… New Jersey Senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker had a succinct reaction: “The proud architect of a failed system is not the right person to fix it.”… That kinda says it all, Bidenwise…

Speaking of marijuana research… There’s a study out of Israel, a country where it’s actually done, on marijuana’s potential as an anti-cancer drug… It turns out there were some promising results, but it’s complicated… Researchers at the Technion, Israel’s institute of technology in Haifa, did a cell study in which they tested 12 whole cannabis extracts (extracts of an entire pot plant that contains all of the dozens of different cannabinoids found in the particular plant in different proportions) on 12 human cancer cell lines… Five extracts had strong anti-cancer properties for a number of cancer types, but there was a lot of variability… In one case, two different forms of prostate cancer cells were found to be vulnerable to two entirely different

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Let 100 studies bloom… There are a clutch of other marijuana studies out too… Researchers in Spain at the Universities of Zaragoza and Valencia think CBD is a PUBLIC DOMAIN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

promising candidate for helping people kick cocaine and methamphetamine addictions… Other studies have suggested CBD could help people trying to kick alcohol and opiods… Researchers at the University of Georgia and Syracuse University wanted to know if web searches related to alcohol declined in states that legalized marijuana… It turns out they did… But searches related to

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tobacco products increased… The study also found that there was a “significant decrease” in marijuana searchers among the young after a state legalizes…

Economists at universities in Oregon, Montana, California and Colorado (CU Denver) analyzed federal data on pot use among 1.4 million high school students from 1993 to 2017… They found pot use declined 8 percent among teens in states that legalized recreational marijuana… The study appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics…The results seem consistent with the finding of reduced marijuana web searches among youth that the Georgia and Syracuse researchers found…

There are studies, then there are polls… A Marst Poll done for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service found legalizing marijuana was more popular with Americans than most other ideas being touted by Democratic presidential candidates…

Pollsters asked pollees whether they thought each of 20 proposals was “a good idea or a bad idea”… 63 percent said “legalizing marijuana nationally” was a good idea; 32 percent thought it was a bad idea… legalizing pot was the fourth most popular “good idea” on the list… It edged out a wealth tax that had 62 percent support, and was more popular than banning assault rifles (57 percent), a $15 minimum wage (56 percent), free college tuition (53 percent), getting rid of the electoral college (42 percent), providing reparations for slavery (27 percent), and a $1,000 a month Universal Basic Income (26 percent)… The three ideas more popular than marijuana legalization were background checks for all gun purchases (89 percent), Medicare for all as an alternative to private insurance, but not as a replacement (70 percent), and government regulation of drug prices (67 percent).

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