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5 THE HIGHROAD: Should we entrust our school children to corporate profiteers?

6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Time for the next step in health care 6 GUEST COLUMN: How the Trump administration targets immigrants 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 33 ARTS & CULTURE: ‘Classically Jazz,’ Mahler’s Ninth and violinist Gil Shaham will end the CMF season 37 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 45 POETRY: by P. Ivan Young 46 SCREEN: ‘Valerian’ is fun interrupted by French foibles 47 FILM: Uncovering riches in ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’ 49 T HE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in Boulder County this week 59 DRINK: Tour de Brew: Gunbarrel Brewing Company 62 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 63 S AVAGE LOVE: Boys come and go, but sisters are forever 65 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Boulder’s Daniel McQueen is set to launch for alien worlds 67 CANNABIS CORNER: Pot and the press: 100 years of fake news 61 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: An irreverent view of the world Boulder Weekly

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July 27, 2017 Volume XXIV, Number 51 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Highroad Should we entrust our school children to corporate profiteers?

by Jim Hightower

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etsy DeVos and her hubby, Dick, are lucky enough to have inherited a big chunk of the multibillion-dollar fortune that Daddy DeVos amassed through his shady Amway corporation. But what they’ve done with their Amway money is certainly not the American Way. The DeVos couple are part of the Koch brothers’ coterie, pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country’s

one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.

In particular, Ms. DeVos has spent years and millions of dollars spreading the right-wing’s ideological nonsense that our tax-dollars should even be given to private schools that exclude people of color and the poor, as well as to profiteering schools known to cheat students and taxpayers.

Bizarrely, Donald Trump chose this vehement opponent of public education to head-up the agency in charge of — guess what — public education. Rather than working to help improve our public schools, the Trump-DeVos duo wants to take $20 billion from their federal funding and give it to corporate chains.

To see the “efficiency” of this scheme, look to Arizona, where State Senate President Steve Yarborough pushed privatization into law. One of

Arizona’s corporatized schools, called ACSTO, pays its executive director $125,000. His name is Steve Yarborough. ACSTO also pays millions of dollars to another for-profit corporation named HY Processing to handle administrative chores. The “Y ” in HY stands for Yarborough.

And ACSTO pays $52,000 per year in rent to its landlord. Yes, Steve Yarborough.

As Wall Street banksters, drug company gougers, airline fee fixers and so many others have taught us over and over, most corporate executives are paid big bucks to take every shortcut to cheat and do whatever to squeeze out another dime in profits. Why would we entrust our school children to them?

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

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the anderson files Time for the next step in health care

by Dave Anderson

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e have been told over health care funds and by raising perand over that the sonal income taxes on the top 5 perUnited States has the cent of income earners, instituting a best health care system progressive excise tax on payroll and on the planet. This self-employment income, and taxing notion is contradicted by numerous unearned income and stock and bond empirical studies over the decades. For transactions. many years, the Commonwealth This bill is in the spirit of the Fund’s survey of health care systems in Medicare law passed in 1968. Max 11 wealthy nations has shown that the Fine, an architect of Medicare, told U.S. is an outlier among the advanced the Intercept that the program wasn’t industrial nations. The fund’s 2017 intended to cover only the elderly report notes that the U.S. health care population and that expanding it to all system ranks last in overall perforAmericans was the ultimate goal. mance, and is at or near the bottom on Fine says that three years after the access, administrative efficiency, equity enactment of Medicare, a Committee and health care outcomes. of 100 leading Americans was formed The Affordable Care Act to campaign for single-payer. The (Obamacare) has campaign leaders helped many but were United Auto it also has left 28 Workers president million Americans Walter Reuther, THAT USED TO BE THE completely uninDr. Michael sured and tens of DeBakey, National PROPONENT OF SINGLEmillions more Urban League PAYER HAS BEEN with unaffordable president Whitney gaps in their covYoung, and Mary LARGELY CAPTURED BY erage, like co-payLasker, a leader in THE INTERESTS WHO ments and deductthe formation and ibles and uncovfunding of the THINK SINGLE-PAYER ered services.

National Institutes WILL DESTROY THEIR While the batof Health. The tle in Washington announcement of PROFITS.” over Obamacare the campaign was — VIJAY DAS rages on, more front page news in and more the New York Americans want a Times and other genuinely universal newspapers. plan and are now backing a Senator Ted Kennedy had a single“single-payer” health care system, payer bill with 36 co-sponsors. where one public health insurance proThe movement for single-payer has gram would cover everybody. The U.S. “risen and fallen over the years,” Fine has one federal program like that for says. Unfortunately, the Democratic people over 65 called Medicare.

Party headed in a rightward direction In the House of Representatives, a and turned to private insurance to single-payer bill has gained the support cover more people. of a majority of Democrats.

But now times are changing again.

Congressman John Conyers A recent nationwide poll, conduct(D-Michigan) introduced the ed by the Associated Press in partnerExpanded and Improved Medicare for ship with the NORC Center for All Act (H.R. 676), which would proPublic Affairs Research, shows that vide every U.S. resident with free med- there has been a dramatic shift to the ically necessary care including primary left with 62 percent of the public care and prevention, dietary and nutriagreeing that it is “the federal government’s responsibility to make sure that tional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental all Americans have health care coverage.” Eighty percent of Democrats health services, dental services and vision care.

It would be paid for with existing see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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guest column How the Trump administration targets immigrants

by Lisa Rosenberg

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he Trump administration has yet to break ground for its promised border wall to keep the undocumented out of the United States, but by embarking on a campaign of misinformation and secrecy, it is rapidly moving forward with efforts to target and deport immigrants already here. To advance the false narrative that the undocumented community includes an outsized and particularly dangerous set of criminals, the Administration ignores data that shows that high rates of immigration actually coincide with reduced crime rates, and that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than those born in the United States. As Alex Nowrasteh of the libertarian Cato Institute noted, “It is absurd to highlight the crimes committed by a small group of people without reporting on the crimes committed by everybody.” The misleading use of crime data not only results in questionable policy decisions, but also could lead to unwarranted fear of immigrants and an uptick in hate-crimes against them.

Such fear-mongering appears to be behind the new office for Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) recently launched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). VOICE will share selective data about alleged criminals’ immigration and custody status, but will omit information on other crimes, including crimes in which immigrants are victims. VOICE stems from the President’s Executive Order on internal safety and immigration

enforcement, which also decreed that Privacy Act protections do not apply to the undocumented. The result is that when VOICE shares information about immigrants, their right to legally challenge potentially erroneous disclosures may be curtailed. The implications could be devastating for individuals who are wrongly targeted, especially given this administration’s track record with the facts.

The launch of the VOICE office comes on the heels of other efforts by the administration to manipulate facts to support misleading conclusions about immigration enforcement. In an apparent effort to name and shame, the White House ordered ICE to release weekly reports highlighting jurisdictions it claimed did not comply with requests to keep undocumented individuals in custody for up to 48 hours beyond their scheduled release — so-called “detainer requests.” Law enforcement officials in counties nationwide described the data as “unfair and misleading” and openly disputed ICE’s claims. Because complying with detainer requests has been held to be unconstitutional, jurisdictions also objected to the reports’ mischaracterization that they were not complying with federal law.

Responding to pressure, ICE has temporarily suspended publication of its misleading weekly reports, but is now concealing data about its own immigration investigations and enforcement with its illegitimate decision to withhold informasee GUEST COLUMN Page 7

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GUEST COLUMN from Page 6

tion previously released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

To be sure, the immigration enforcement and deportation machine grew to new levels under a cloak of secrecy during the Obama administration, with serious policy consequences that resonate today. Rights groups litigated with ICE for years to obtain information about its controversial deportation and fingerprint program, known as Secure Communities, which required local law enforcement to forward the digital fingerprints of everyone they booked, regardless of citizenship. ICE then used the information to determine who could be deported.

To this day, the FBI continues to expand the massive biometrics database that grew dramatically under the Secure Communities program, and ICE’s ability to issue detainer requests continues because local law enforcement still forwards biometric information about suspects in custody.

Still, the disinformation efforts linked to expanding criminalization of immigrants under Trump contribute to the conclusion that immigrants are being targeted and deported arbitrarily: immigrants like DREAMer Daniela Vargas, who was detained after speaking publicly about her father’s detention; Maribel

Trujillo Diaz, a mother whose children are U.S. citizens, whose only crime was being undocumented; Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, who was brought to the United States when she was a teen and, despite knowing her use of a fake social security card to work in the U.S. could put her at risk, went to her eighth annual check-in with immigration officials and was deported; and Juan Manuel MontesBojorquez, deported despite his status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

This administration has a choice. It can continue its disinformation cam-

paign around immigration, exacerbating mistrust of government and allowing the skepticism that surrounds immigration to bleed into other arenas of federal law enforcement. Or it can respond to public demands for information with accurate and timely data, resulting in stronger public policy, safer communities and respect for the rule of law.

Lisa Rosenberg is the Executive Director of OpenTheGovernment, a coalition advancing transparency for government accountability.

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

the anderson files THE ANDERSON FILES from Page 6

have this view. Only 22 percent of Democrats want to keep Obamacare as it is, and 64 percent favor changes to the law.

Influential Democrats are joining in. In June, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts told the Wall Street Journal that “President Obama tried to move us forward with health care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts. Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is singlepayer.”

This month, former Vice President Al Gore said, “The private sector has not shown any ability to provide good, affordable health care for all. I believe we ought to have single-payer health care.”

These are hopeful developments.

But Vijay Das, a strategist for the progressive think tank Demos, argues there will be significant opposition from the Democratic Party establishment.

He says, “It’s partly because the party that used to be the proponent of single-payer has been largely captured by the interests who think single-payer will destroy their profits.”

In Colorado last year, Democratic consultants with links to the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign helped raise a lot of money to defeat Amendment 69, a single-payer ballot measure in Colorado.

The fight for single-payer will be fierce. We can’t wait for politicians to decide whether it is politically safe.

They need to be pushed. Ultimately, social change comes from the grassroots.

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

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letters Danish right on Russia

Mr. Danish’s analysis of the inner workings of the Russian plan [Re: “What the Russians were really up to,” Danish Plan, July 20, 2017] is the most cogent, calm, clear, complete and sensible look at what the Russians are really doing with their attack upon our country that I have read or heard so far in any news from anywhere. I’m going to go read it again, for the third time.

Thank you, Mr. Danish.

William Spain/Boulder

Making future improvements

Thank you for your article by Sarah Haas, “Yet to be decided” published on July 20. In that piece, several issues were raised about the cultural grants program administered by our office on behalf of the Boulder Arts Commission.

Readers of the article may be left with what we believe to be an inaccurate impression: that the City is not focused on financial support to smaller arts organizations. In 2017, Boulder increased the cultural grants budget by 50 percent, with a total of about $675,000 to be allocated to several categories of grants. The Boulder Arts Commission chose to fund a variety of organizations in this grant cycle, large and small. Far from “overlooking” smaller groups, the jury panel was able to fund 45 small organizations and individual artists — compared to 29 last year. The specific organization that was cited in the article, Boulder Creative Collective (BCC), was scored very highly by the community members who sat on the jury.

Unfortunately, there was not enough funding in the budget to offer the BCC a grant this year. I am reaching out to organizational leaders to learn more about their perspective.

Everyone’s experience of the process will be valuable in making future improvements.

So, our thanks go out to your reporter, and all the people she interviewed, for helping our cultural leaders to advocate passionately for the arts and the role culture continues to play in our economy and society.

Matt Chasansky/Manager of the Office of Arts and Culture

Get your facts straight on prairie dogs

This is in response to Rochelle Rittmaster’s letter [Re: “An Open Letter to Fish & Wildlife Service, Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, JeffCo Commissioners,” Letters, July 8 July 27 , 2017

20, 2017].

It is pretty clear that Ms. Rittmaster is not familiar with the specifics about the relocation plans for the Longmont prairie dogs onto the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge, or otherwise she would know that these animals will be relocated nearly a mile away from the Central Operable Unit (COU). She would also know that there are already prairie dogs living on this piece of land and, should any prairie dogs come within the boundaries of the COU, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services will remove and control these prairie dogs.

No agency (nor prairie dog advocates) is going to put the lives of prairie dogs above the wellbeing of people.

And we do not fight so hard to find relocation sites to move prairie dogs only to jeopardize the health and lives of these animals.

To suggest otherwise is simply ludicrous.

Nicole Huntley/Prairie Protection Colorado, Broomfield chapter

An open letter to the Boulder County Commissioners

It has been nearly five years since the pressure of a deeply concerned and mobilized public forced the suspension of oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. From the last well pad drilled on Boulder County open space in August 2012 until the present, the people have battled in every available political venue to protect our families, our environment and our basic human and democratic rights. We have been unable to find a moral remedy to an industry that kills people.

Those of us with a long history of defending Boulder County from this industry are not the same community activists we were when this issue created the first grassroots mobilizations across the Front Range. We have learned that the system is designed to protect the industry and its profits and that the dominant political parties and environmental organizations loyal to those parties serve as the system’s mouthpieces. We are not naïve, misled, or defeated.

For five years we have appealed to you for leadership and accountability.

We have enacted local, protective laws to defend our families from an industry that is lethal, deceitful and without a single concern for our lives or wellbeing. We attended community meetings, appealed to our representatives, held peaceful demonstrations, and presented you with every manner of scientific evidence showing fracking’s harms to Boulder Weekly

Boulder County. At the end of all of this, you have decided to cooperate with the courts, the state and the leaders of your political party rather than with the moral and just demands of the public, our environment and the global climate. This is not acceptable for anyone who places themselves in an office of public trust and responsibility.

Understanding that you have continued to promote fictitious statements about “responsible oil and gas development,” we are forced to issue the following, immediate demands.

1. Enact the Boulder County Climate Bill of Rights and Protections; utilize the pro bono legal defense offered to you by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

2. End your misrepresentations that attempt to greenwash fracking and its lethal nature. All your regulations cannot make it safe.

3. Join with the public to launch a broad mobilization against all laws, politicians and political parties that disrespect our environment and our fundamental rights.

4. If you are unwilling for any reason to adopt the Climate Bill of Rights and to join with and defend the public, place the measure to a vote of the Boulder County public and consider resigning to make room for another who is ready to lead in these critical times.

We are the mothers, fathers, workers, grandparents and community members of Boulder County who see no moral reason to cooperate with the laws and industry that harm us and the rights of Boulder County. We demand a public statement from you immediately on these critical matters.

We understand your current role as gravely irresponsible and urge you to join with us. Morality, the environment and future generations demand that you take a stand. In your absence, we, the people of Boulder County, will make that stand directly ourselves.

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Single-payer health care is a no-go

Last year the creation of a singlepayer health care program was one of the promises made by Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign. The question is, can the U.S. government be trusted to manage the roughly $3.4 trillion that Americans spend each year on health care? That question is easily answered by examining how efficiently the government runs existing programs Boulder Weekly

related to health care. Let’s examine Medicare, Medicaid and VA health care services.

Let’s start with Medicare and Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that in 2014, $60 billion of American taxpayer money, or more than 10 percent of Medicare’s total budget, was lost to fraud, waste, abuse and improper payments. To make matters worse, the overly complicated processes that doctors and hospitals have to endure when working with Medicare is causing many of them to turn away from the program.

Let’s move on to the Veterans’ Health Administration. The VHA is America’s largest integrated health care system, serving 9 million enrolled veterans each year. Since it covers only 9 million people it should be simple compared to covering 320 million people, right?

According to a CNN story from July 2016, a commission tasked by Congress reported that billions of dollars pumped into the VA since a wait-list scandal erupted two years ago have failed to relieve many of the problems in delivering health care to veterans. In some cases, the report points out where so-called improvements to the VA system may have actually made things worse. It also highlights a variety of “deficiencies” that contribute to health care issues within the agency, including flawed governance, insufficient staffing, inadequate facilities, antiquated IT systems and inefficient use of employees.

Right here in Aurora, Colorado, a new VA hospital is currently under construction. This new facility once expected to cost $604 million is now estimated to cost nearly $1.7 billion.

Last year in our beautiful state of Colorado, Amendment 69 appeared our November ballot. The amendment would have created a $36 billion single-payer health care system funded by a 10 percent payroll tax. It was soundly defeated by 78.7 percent of voters.

Let’s round things up with a look at how responsible the federal government has been financially. The national debt is $19.9 trillion. The interest paid on the U.S. debt last year was $432,649,652,901 or $13,719 per second.

Now tell me again why it would be a good idea to give the government another $3.4 trillion in taxes and trust them to manage our health care spending.

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by Joel Dyer Editor’s note — On April 5, Boulder Weekly was the first news organization to break the story about the Trump/Russian/Turkey connections, including President Vladimir Putin, to Ekim Alptekin, the Turkish man who paid President Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn more than $500,000 for lobbying.

Approximately three weeks after BW first published its story titled “The Russian connections to Flynn’s Turkish benefactor,” Politico reported much of the same information in a story titled “Flynn’s Turkish Lobbying linked to Russia” in which the news organization claimed the information was “previously unreported.” After being contacted, Politico agreed to remove the “previously unreported” wording from their article, an acknowledgment that Boulder Weekly had, in fact, broken the story.

The following analysis represents Boulder Weekly’s continued investigation into the Trump/Russia/Turkey connections and again, this article is breaking several pieces of previously unreported information.

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uring a 2014 installment of CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted, “...without American leadership organizing Europe and the world, you see people like Putin, who has an economy the size of Italy — he’s playing a poker game with a pair of 2s and winning.”

Graham’s down-home analysis is both correct and more pertinent to today’s endless Trump/Russia news cycle than has been reported.

The Russian GDP is barely half that of France these days, despite the fact the Russians produce more natural gas than anyone on Earth with the exception of the U.S., while also being the third largest producer of oil.

The Russian GDP has contracted to less than one-tenth of that of the U.S. and it no longer ranks in the top 10 of global economies, according to the 2017 estimates of the International Monetary Fund.

A pair of 2s may be overstating it.

In many ways, Russia has become a failed state.

An incredible 87 percent of the country’s wealth is now owned by the richest 10 percent. There has been 10 July 27, 2017

speculation of late that Russian President Vladimir Putin is now the richest man in the world, and he’s not the only one of his countrymen who has prospered this century from what has become one of the world’s largest kleptocracies.

What all this adds up to is that a dangerous transformation has occurred. Russia has gone from being a global superpower to a somewhat insignificant state — not counting its nuclear arsenal — with a failing economy. But somewhere during this devolution, Russia became something else: the world’s most significant, dangerous, well-armed, well-funded and most profitable cartel in the world.

To understand the unfolding Trump/Russia scandal, we must take off our Cold War blinders and see Russia as it truly is today: a cartel of wealthy oligarchs from Russia, Azerbaijan and Turkey manipulating the world’s political systems in order to maintain its cash flow, which, for the most part, stems from the sale of natural resources. Or put another way, the Trump/ Russia scandal and the DNC/Clinton campaign email hacking was never about global politics. It was simply a matter of money, and more specifically, the money Putin and his fellow kleptocrats derive from the export of their respective countries’ oil and natural gas.

rely on shipping as the principle means of delivDonald Trump was the perfect instrument for ering their liquid gold to Vladimir Putin’s 2016 the EU markets, whether attack on his longtime nemesis Hillary it’s oil or liquefied natural Clinton and American gas, and both require the democracy. use of massive and expensive tankers. Because this form of transport is considerably more expensive than delivery by pipeline, and the process of liquifying natural gas also adds expense to the process, Russia has a decided advantage when it comes to pricing its hydrocarbons. So long as pipelines connect Russia’s oil and gas to Europe, it is unlikely that the governments of Europe will be tempted to purchase their fossil fuels elsewhere in any significant quantity. The additional cost would find its way into nearly every aspect of the European economy from food production to transportation to manufacturing and would likely be devastating to the already fragile EU economy.

But while the pipelines are Russia’s competitive strength, they are also its point of vulnerability.

Just ask Hillary Clinton.

Putin’s cash cow

Since early in the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle, it’s been obvious that Russia and the Putin cartel preferred anyone other than Hillary Clinton to win the election. And while elements of this cartel have economically supported Donald Trump and/or those close to him both before and during the recent election cycle, it’s still unclear if they did so because they believed he could actually win or they were simply using him as a convenient vehicle to embarrass and discredit Hillary Clinton, who they expected to win.

Most media speculation on the motive behind Putin’s dislike of Clinton has centered around her hawkish views that made her a greater threat to Russia’s interventions in places like Syria, Georgia and Ukraine than other candidates.

Through an old Cold War lens of two superpowers jostling for world domination based on their polit-

Fulfilling Europe’s energy needs is Putin’s primary source of income, both personally and for the nation he oversees.

Russia is the largest supplier of oil and natural gas to Europe. It accounts for 32 percent of Europe’s oil supply and nearly 40 percent of its natural gas. As of 2016, Europe imports 88 percent of the oil and gas it uses.

Because of Europe’s heavy dependence on Putin’s Russian cartel for its oil and gas needs, it is impossible to overstate the importance of the pipelines that carry Russia’s fossil fuels to Europe. There are many oil and gas producers in the world, including the United States and countries in the Middle East, that badly want to tap into the lucrative European market. But to do so at this time, these countries would have to

Putin’s long-running feud with the Clintons

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ical ideologies — communism verses democracy — this would make sense. But we no longer live in that world. The new Cold War is about who gets the most money out of which resources being sold to what countries, and that determines the ultimate winner on the global stage. This is the war that Clinton was waging against Russia as U.S. Secretary of State and Putin knew she would continue it if elected president.

But Putin’s seeming hatred of Clinton predated her attempts to economically isolate his country and cut off his cartel’s cash flow.

In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, then-President Bill Clinton intervened in Russia’s political system and its election process in far more egregious ways than what Russia is currently accused of doing in our most recent election.

Viewed through the lens of the 2016 election cycle and what is now occurring Wikimedia Commons within the Trump administration, the following passage from a Sept. 22, 1993 Los Angeles Times story takes on new significance.

“President Clinton offered enthusiastic support Tuesday to Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s decision to suspend Parliament, saying Yeltsin was trying to ensure that economic and political reforms will continue. “‘There is no question that President Yeltsin acted in response to a constitutional crisis that had reached a critical impasse and had paralyzed the political process,’ Clinton said in a written statement.”

Clinton’s was a shocking response to an elected leader who had just suspended his country’s elected parliament.

Under President Clinton, the U.S. meddling in Russia’s elections was massive. When it appeared Yeltsin was going to lose the election by a large margin, Clinton sent campaign strategists and lots of cash to Russia to make sure he won. As the U.S. pushed privatization under Yeltsin, the transfer of wealth to the oligarchs began in earnest, leaving the Russian people hungry and hopeless.

Things in Russia got so bad, thanks in no small way to Clinton’s misguided policies and support of the corrupt Yeltsin, that the actual life expectancy of Russian men fell from 64 years of age to 58 and women from 74 to 71 years. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, who published the mortality research, this downward spiral in life expectancy had never been seen before in an industrialized nation during peacetime. Clinton’s interference in Russia’s affairs allowed a struggling economy to be further raped by everyone from the oligarchs to U.S. investment banks, and it was all done at the expense of the Russian people.

In an article in January of this year, The Guardian summed up this period of Clinton meddling in Russian politics: “Without the chaos and deprivations of the U.S.-backed Yeltsin era, Putinism would surely not have established itself.”

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Putin literally took power in response to U.S. meddling in Russian elections by Bill Clinton’s administration. Granted he took the mess and corruption and made it worse while personally capitalizing on it, but it was nonetheless a mess largely orchestrated by a Clinton and in Putin’s world, a Clinton has been trying to oust him one way or another ever since.

If it wasn’t Bill in the ’90s, it was Hillary taking aim at him as secretary of state.

So should it really come as a surprise that Putin, the former KGB mastermind, would have a bad taste in his mouth for any future Clinton administration?

Not really.

Cut off the head Remember all the election controversy around Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks and her refusal to release the transcripts of those speeches? Well, WikiLeaks eventually released some of them for her and lo and behold if Russia and its natural gas exports weren’t right at the heart of Clinton’s message.

One transcript from a speech in July of 2014 reads, “We are now energy independent, something we have hoped for and worked for over many, many years. That gives us tools we didn’t have before.

And it also gives us the opportunity not only to invest those resources in more manufacturing and other activities that benefit us directly here at home, but to be a bulwark with our supplies against the kind of intimidation we see going on from Russia.”

Hillary Clinton spent much of her time as Newsweek summed up U.S. Secretary of State the content of Clinton’s trying to undermine Putin’s ability to sell paid speeches, several of natural gas to which dealt with Russia European countries. and its energy exports, as being “the equivalent of a Molotov cocktail directed ‘right at the source of Russia’s wealth.’”

Clinton wanted to use U.S. oil and gas exports to weaken Russia’s grip over Europe, but she knew that the United States’ ability to export that much oil and gas was years away and that it would be difficult for its oil and liquefied natural gas to compete with Russia’s low price point due to its pipeline advantage over our tankers. So she used her position as secretary of state to launch other, broader attacks on Putin’s energy cartel.

The September 2014 issue of Mother Jones reported that Clinton had spent a significant amount of time during her tenure as secretary of state opening up shale oil and gas plays all around the world for U.S. oil and gas companies. She encouraged countries all over the world to quickly begin fracking their own shale resources.

Environmentalists were obviously concerned with this use of the State Department, which eventually

created a 63-employee division to encourage the fracking of tight shale around the world. But Clinton was doing more than just the bidding of the major oil and gas corporations that had always supported her and her husband’s political ambitions. Right or wrong — and the newer science would lean toward the latter — Clinton saw natural gas as a clean energy fuel that would aid in the fight against global warming. But more importantly to the current political crisis we are facing, she also saw it as a tool to destroy Putin’s cartel and weaken his authoritarian grip on Russia. In her mind it was a win-win that would write the next chapter of global history with her as the principal author.

“This is a moment of profound change,” she said during an oft-quoted speech before a crowd at Georgetown University in 2012. “Countries that used to depend on others for their energy are now producers. How will this shape world events? Who will benefit, and who will not? ... The answers to these questions are being written right now, and we intend to play a major role.”

As for who “will not” benefit, Putin was first on the list... and he knew it.

As secretary of state, Clinton used other political avenues as well to isolate Russia.

Part of the strategy of the U.S. and its allies included, to the chagrin of Putin, an increased courtship of former Soviet bloc countries with the ability to impact Russia’s hydrocarbon exports either by their geography or because they offered alternative supplies.

Under U.S. leadership, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began to discuss the possible inclusion of countries like Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

In 2010, NATO also began to develop a strategy for its energy security role. According to a 2016 article in the Oil and Gas Journal, energy security has become a NATO priority “in light of Russia’s assertive posture and ongoing threats emanating from the Middle East.”

One of NATO’s top energy security priorities is protecting the South Caucasus and Caspian basin, areas with substantial natural gas reserves that are viewed as an alternative source to Russia for European consumption. There are two pipelines in that region that EU countries and the U.S. believe are critical to combating Russia’s grip on the European natural gas market: the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) for oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (also known as South Caucasus Pipeline, (SCP) for gas. These two pipelines will eventually connect to the Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP), which will cross Turkey and should be completed by 2018.

Before we get bogged down in pipeline overload, here’s a simplified explanation.

Azerbaijan has substantial natural gas reserves in its Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian Sea. Europe wants access to a gas supply other than Russia and Shah Deniz II fits the bill perfectly. So a series of pipelines are being linked together to get natural gas from Azerbaijan across Georgia and Turkey and eventually to Italy by way of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline.

This pipeline route that is intended to thwart Europe’s over-dependence on Russian natural gas is known as the Southern Gas Corridor. More on that in a moment.

Another attempt to weaken Russia’s stranglehold on Europe’s gas market occurred in 2014 when the See DIPLOMACY Page 12

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EU signed an agreement with Ukraine that started the ball rolling toward that country’s possible 2020 entry into the Union.

While many in the media saw the efforts of the U.S., NATO and EU as nothing more than the West’s desire to prop up these new fledgling democracies against any efforts of their former Russian overseer to reclaim them as satellite states, Putin understood the efforts for what they were — a well-thought-out plan to destroy his cartel’s primary revenue stream, thereby weakening his control over Russia.

Of all the former Soviet states that Putin could not allow to fall under the control of the U.S. or EU, Ukraine was most important, at least in the short run.

That’s because Ukraine was Putin’s pipeline to Europe, literally. More than 70 percent of Russia’s natural gas makes its way to European markets via pipelines running through Ukraine. It was the head of Putin’s pipeline snake and he knew Clinton and her allies intended to cut it off.

Ukraine a catalyst for 2016 election meddling The U.S. and EU’s courtship of Ukraine intensified during Clinton’s time leading the State Department. As a result of those efforts, the majority of Ukrainians wanted to see their country distance itself from Russia while increasing ties to or even joining the EU. This embrace of the West posed a serious threat to Putin’s oil and gas operations.

With the majority of his product passing through Ukraine by way of pipelines, a Western-aligned Ukraine or worse, a NATO- or EU-member-state Ukraine, would give Putin’s adversaries an unacceptable level of control over Russia’s most important commodity.

To defend his pipelines as well as his country’s historical military buffer zone from the West, Putin propped up pro-Moscow Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who in return maintained loyalty to Russia despite the desires of the majority of the Ukrainian populace. This political and economic disconnect created a volatile political situation for Yanukovych, who looked to Putin for guidance. What he got was Paul Manafort, a seasoned political operator who was said to have been paid as much as $12 million for his services to Yanukovych.

Manafort would eventually become Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, the first of many strange ties between members of Putin’s cartel and the Trump camp. But in the end, even Manafort could not save his Ukrainian client.

In 2013, when it came time to vote on a pending EU association agreement, Yanukovych rejected the agreement, choosing instead to pursue a Russian loan bailout and still closer ties with Putin. This led to bloody protests in the streets and eventually the occupation of Kiev’s Independence Square. By 2014 the violence had brought Ukraine to the brink of civil war.

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fied, but at least make sense from Putin’s perspective.

The oil and gas motive for Russia’s election meddling is even reflected in more specific aspects of the cyber attack.

For instance, why was it Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s emails that were hacked?

After Clinton left her post as secretary of state, it was Podesta who began consulting with the State Department on how shale gas could be used as a foreign policy tool to enhance U.S. efforts to diversify Europe’s oil and gas supply.

Podesta eventually became Obama’s energy adviser. In other words, he picked up where Clinton left off in the effort to create a global shale gas revolution that would ultimately diminish Putin’s political influence and his profits from oil and gas sales. Who better to embarrass and disasylum. He is still wanted for treason credit with hacked emails if you are in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin out to get even for As much as 70 The ouster of Yanukovych and the Western meddling in his cartel’s business percent of the natural election of pro-West president Petro affairs? gas Russia sells to Europe moves through Poroshenko was viewed by Putin, Protecting his oil and gas network pipelines in Ukraine. understandably so, as an assault on appears to be a primary motive behind Russia’s geographic buffer against its Putin’s interference in our election, but it NATO enemies as well as the hijacking of his oil and also explains his overt efforts to try to weaken the gas distribution system to Europe. He had been NATO alliance and his support for right-wing politipushed far enough. cal parties in Europe that desire to exit or otherwise In 2014, through a series of well-documented weaken the EU. though often-denied military actions, Putin seized As for Putin’s support of Trump, the Russian presCrimea and other territory from Ukraine. Crimea ident seems to be getting all he bargained for. We then held a controversial and, by all accounts, rigged have seen the reality-show president support Putin’s vote wherein 87 percent of its population declared positions through his distancing of the U.S. from its Crimea a part of Russia, not Ukraine. The West was NATO partners to his cheering on Brexit and his outraged, or at least acted so, by Putin’s aggression. In support for hyper-conservative, anti-EU Marine Le response, the U.S. and several European nations Pen’s presidential run in France. imposed harsh sanctions on Russia.

There is only one area wherein Donald Trump But nobody stopped buying Putin’s oil and gas. seems out of step with Vladimir Putin. Trump has publicly touted his support for the previously The sanctions did harm Russia’s ability to replendescribed Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), a position ish its reserves by drilling for new oil and gas fields.

Its ability to finance such activity and partner with that, at least on the surface, would seem to be a signifWestern companies in new exploration is still tied up icant threat to Putin’s oil and gas cash cow. In fact, due to sanctions over Ukraine.

Trump has held up his support for the SGC as proof Perhaps the best example of the sanctions’ impact that he is not in Putin’s pocket. is the now-on-hold, $500 billion deal to develop 63.7 But a closer look at this supposed alternative to million acres of land ExxonMobile controls in partRussian gas for the European market exposes the real nership with Russian-government-owned Rosneft. scope of the Putin cartel and its many financial conObservers have questioned whether this single masnections to the current U.S. president. sive deal could have been the motive for Putin’s election meddling in the U.S. in 2016. As evidence, they Trump and the mythology of the are quick to point to Trump’s appointment of former Southern Gas Corridor ExxonMobile CEO Rex Tillerson, a seeming friend To understand Trump’s position within Russia’s assault on our democracy in 2016, we have to underand previous business partner of Putin’s, as secretary stand the connections between the players involved in of state. But such a limited explanation for Russia’s the creation of the SGC and their economic ties to attacks on Clinton and support for Trump fails to the U.S. president. explain Putin’s other efforts to disrupt Western As stated previously, Europe has long felt vulnerademocracies. ble due to its heavy dependance upon Russian oil and Ukraine’s courtship by the U.S., NATO and EU, gas. In response to this threat, the European and the sanctions that ultimately resulted, are yet Commission created an initiative to find an alternative another reason for Putin to dislike Hillary Clinton. source for natural gas and then develop a pipeline sysWhen Ukraine is added to all her other efforts to negatively impact Putin’s oil and gas business, Russia’s tem that could deliver that gas to Europe at a price competitive to that currently being paid to Russia. unprecedented assault on Clinton and its underminEurope found its alternative source for gas in the ing of our democratic values may not have been justiBoulder Weekly

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Shah Deniz field, located in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan.

To get the Azeri gas to Europe, the plan calls for a $45 billion dollar investment to connect the existing South Caucasus Pipeline to the currently under construction Trans-Anatolian Pipeline, which would then connect to the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline.

In total, these three pipelines make up the SGC, which will cover 2,200 miles from the Caspian Sea to Italy and be capable of transporting 2.1–4.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas per year.

At $6 to $7 per MMBtu, that would represent a substantial annual loss to Putin and Russia. But there is a reason the Russian president isn’t worried about the impact of this new gas route to Europe.

To understand Putin’s confidence and the reach of his cartel, a good starting point is the recently discovered and controversial meeting between Trump surrogates Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner with five persons including several Russians promising to give them dirt on Hillary Clinton that came straight out of the Kremlin. Rather than rehashing the details of this meeting, which has been previously and extensively covered by other news outlets, the purpose within this discussion of the SGC is to establish Trump’s close ties to the Agalarovs.

According to emails released by Donald Trump, Jr., the meeting was the brainchild of close Putin ally Aras Agalarov, a billionaire oligarch who was born in Azerbaijan and now spends much of his time in Russia. Aras, along with his son Emin, owns a development company called Crocus Group. One of the emails to Trump, Jr. reads, “Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. The Emin Agalarov (left) who Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras helped set up the controversial meeting this morning and in their meeting offered to provide with Donald Trump, Jr. the Trump campaign with some official documents and was married to the President of Azerbaijan’s information that would incriminate Hillary and her daughter Leyla. His dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father Aras (right) pictured with Russian father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive Prime Minister Dmitry information but is part of Russia and its government’s Medvedev (pointing) is The three pipelines that comprise the Southern Gas Corridor are expected to offer Europe a way to shrink its dependence on Russian gas.

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support for Mr. Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin.”

Aras Agalarov has been called “Putin’s builder.” His son Emin is often referred to as a pop star and he is certainly that, but he is also a wealthy oligarch in his own right and his company has built a number of significant projects in Azerbaijan.

Aras hosted Trump’s Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013, paying Trump an estimated $12 million for the privilege. During that period in Moscow, Trump also had substantive talks with the Agalarovs about building a Trump Tower in Moscow at the site of their Crocus City development.

Azerbaijan, and another Trump Tower Until 2015, Emin was married to Leyla Aliyev, the daughter of Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev, who controls the alternative to Russia’s natural gas source in the Caspian Sea. Despite their divorce, Emin and Leyla remain close and both are raising their children.

President Aliyev runs what the U.S. State Department refers to as one of the world’s most corrupt and authoritarian regimes. The U.S. largely supports the corrupt Aliyev government because of its potential to fill the pipeline of the SGC and because the U.S. is allowed to use a military base in the country, which aids in the Afghanistan theater.

President Aliyev makes just over $200,000 a year, yet his family owns hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate from Baku to Dubai to London. Aliyev succeeded his father, Heydar, who was president for 10 years before him. Heydar Aliyev was a former Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru KGB officer with close ties to the Kremlin.

They say there are only a few families who profit from the vast corruption of this energyrich nation. One is obviously the Aliyev family, another is the Mammadovs, who also hold a variety of appointed government positions in Azerbaijan.

When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists went through the Panama Papers — a collection of One oil rich oligarch documents released in 2016 by WikiLeaks that show to another. Putin and Aliyev have many offshore shell companies — it found a number of conshared interest nections between the Mammadovs and Aliyevs includincluding a desire to move gas through the ing companies apparently set up to benefit the next Southern Gas Corridor. generation of both families by seemingly helping them control large stakes in the Azerbaijan’s mining and energy industries as well as tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate.

The Washington Post reported that Leyla Aliyev, her sister and then 11-year old brother owned $75 million worth of upscale real estate in Dubai. The only question was whether her father, President Aliyev, or her father-in-law, Aras “Putin’s builder” Agalarov, had purchased the properties in the Aliyev children’s names.

Courtesy Azerbaijan American Alliance Both Emin and Leyla definitively declined to answer the Post.

A new generation Azeri oligarch with close ties to the Aliyevs is Anar Mammadov, the son of the Azerbaijan transport minister who has been tied to questionable dealings in the transportation, banking, development and oil and gas industries. He is also the person who built the Trump Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan, paying millions to the current U.S. president for the use of his name.

A New Yorker investigation found that the Trump Tower Baku is now empty and its questionable construction in a poor location may have been used to benefit, among others, oligarchs tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Other evidence has Controversial oligarch Anar Mammadov built a Trump raised questions about money laundering during Tower in Baku. the building’s construction.

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Adding to the irony of using Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field as the alternative source to Russia’s natural gas is the fact that Lukoil is one of the largest operators in the field and will be producing a good deal of any gas that moves through the pipelines of the SGC. Lukoil also happens to be one of Russia’s largest oil companies.

Socar, the state oil and gas company of Azerbaijan, will also be developing the Shah Deniz II. It has offices and economic interests in 13 countries, most along the SGC. Socar is investing $20 billion in energy and chemical projects in Turkey alone, making it the single largest foreign investor in Turkey. The company has its share of Aliyevs and Mammadovs in posiLeyla Aliyev is the tions of power, and watchdog group Global Witness daughter or Azerbaijan President has called the company out for its lack of transparency Ilhan Aliyev. She was on who is actually profiting from Socar’s oil and gas previously married to Russian oligarch Emin sales.

Agalarov.

What is clear is that the Aliyevs, Mammadovs and those close to Turkey’s ruling Erdogan family have created a vast web of oil and gas and construction partnerships, all of which seem to be rolling in cash even though the SGC is still under construction. But before getting to Turkey, the SGC goes through Georgia.

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Georgia, and yet another Trump Tower On its way from Azerbaijan to Turkey, the SGC runs through the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In 2012, Trump stood beside then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as he signed an agreement to put his name on two towers being constructed by Silk Road Group (SRG). SRG is one of Georgia’s largest conglomerates. It has its hand in fuel transport, energy and even has contracts to move U.S. military supplies from Iraq to Afghanistan.

According to the Center for American Progress, “The [Trump] project quickly stalled, however, after Saakashvili’s party lost the parliamentary elections in 2012.

Saakashvili’s successor, Bidzina Ivanishvili, criticized the Trump-Silk Road deal and complained, ‘It was kind of like a trick. [The previous government] gave him money and they both played along, Saakashivli (sic) and Trump. And, as you know, Saakashvili was the master of lies. I don’t know what project this is, I’ve never been seriously interested. We won’t do anything based on such fairy tales.’”

In January 2017, just prior to taking office, it was announced that Trump had pulled out of the $250 million deal. It is unclear how much he was paid between 2011 and 2017 or the reasons to exit the project. For now, the project represents just another financial payout to Trump from a country involved in the SGC.

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Turkey, Trump Towers and so much more Moving along through the SGC kleptocracies we come to Turkey, perhaps the most critical stretch along the SGC as the country has positioned itself as the new central hub for all natural gas flowing to Europe.

In Turkey, all power now resides with the family of Turkish president and strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has seriously limited Turkey’s status as a democracy following a failed coup attempt against him in 2016.

Erdogan, like the other rulers along the corridor, has been oft-accused of enriching himself via corruption. His son-in-law Berat Albayrak is the head of Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. Bilal Erdogan, the president’s son, has fallen under the shadow of investigations for corruption and money laundering in both Turkey and Italy.

There is a web of tangled finances between Erdogan, his family and his inner circle in Turkey, and Socor and members of the Azerbaijan kleptocracy, along with the occasional Russian thrown in for good measure. Together they own oil companies and media companies and pipeline companies and hotels and anything else you can think of.

The best unscrambling of this financial mess to date has been done via a sixmonth-long investigative project titled “The Pipeline of the Three Regimes” by l’Espresso magazine, the Italian partner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

As seems to be the case in every country crossed by the SGC, Turkey also has a See DIPLOMACY Page 16

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Trump Tower that pays him millions of dollars just to use his name. But in Turkey, the money trail to Trump runs deeper.

You may recall that Trump’s original national security advisor, Michael Flynn, got into trouble after he was forced to belatedly declare more than a half million dollars he had received from a Turkish businessman named Ekim Alptekin (See Boulder Weekly, “The Russian connections to Michael Flynn’s Turkish benefactor”).

The money was eventually said to have been paid for lobbying that could benefit the Erdogan government. Alptekin claimed he was representing an Israeli oil and gas company that wanted to ship its natural gas to Turkey. Alptekin would eventually set up a meeting at the Essex House hotel in New York City between Flynn and Turkish energy minister Berat Albayrak among others. It has been reported that the meeting was a discussion of how to spirit Fethullah Gulen, a cleric Erdogan blamed for the failed 2016 coup attempt, back to Turkey without going through normal deportation proceedures.

But perhaps most damaging of the potential money trails between Turkey and Trump is an email chain that has thus far escaped media scrutiny. The emails in question were leaked from the account of Erdogan son-in-law Berat Albayrak as part of a dump of 57,934 of the energy minister’s emails released by WikiLeaks in December 2016.

A little background. In 2014, a recording of telephone calls reportedly between President Erdogan and his son Bilal was released on the internet. The recordings appeared to be conversations between the two men discussing possible ways to hide vast amounts of money.

The release of the recordings caused protest in the streets and sparked calls for Erdogan to step down. Both the president and his son claimed the recordings were fabricated.

In late 2015, Bilal Erdogan moved to Italy. Members of the Turkish opposition party claimed it was to avoid corruption investigations stemming from the 2014 recordings. Whatever his reason for moving to Italy, Bilal soon found himself being investigated for money laundering by Italian authorities, who had been told that Bilal had brought vast amounts of money with him to Italy. The charges were eventually dropped in September 2016.

It is this background that makes the email that turned up Berat Albayrak’s account so interesting. The email is to a Bilal Erdogan from Halil I Danismaz and dated June 21, 2013. The subject line reads “confidentiality agreement.” The following is an excerpt of text translated by Google. It’s a little rough but gets the point across.

“This building is located at 315 W35th St., NY, NY There is a building with Ave. The New Yorker Hotel we visited with you. NYC noble. 15 floors .. Both commercial and residential .. It is a super building but we have to go in and make a cost calculation. Everything is clear to the week. This is an agency, direct Trump Int’l. They show buildings that are not listed on the market.”

This email is part of a four email chain between Elena A. Baronoff of Trump International, whose title at the bottom of her emails is International Ambassador of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Director of Sales & Marketing Trump International.

The content of the emails appears to show that Bilal Erdogan was looking for an empty multistory building in New York City to purchase. He appears to have a surrogate looking at properties, which include an empty 14-story building at 315 W. 35th Street. The search is being conducted through Trump International and the parties have been asked to sign a confidentiality agreement concerning the building on 35th Street.

It is unclear if the building was purchased by Bilal or an entity controlled by him, but the timing is striking considering he would soon be accused of attempting to hide or launder large amounts of money and that he was using a Trump company for his real estate needs.

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As if all this apparent corruption and interaction between the oligarchs of Russia, including Putin, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Trump isn’t enough to throw doubt into the SGC’s ability to counter Russia’s stranglehold on the European natural gas market. There is still one more important link between Russia and the kleptocracies of the SGC that should fully dispel any belief that Putin’s cartel will be harmed by the West’s grand plan to circumvent it. By the time the gas reaches Italy via the SGC, most or all of it will likely be the same Russian gas that used to pass through Ukraine.

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It is likely that the Turkish Stream pipeline will cross through Crimean territorial waters — waters still claimed by Ukraine. But that is obviously not a problem for Putin, since Russia currently controls Crimea.

When it’s all said and done, Russia will continue to move its gas to Europe, albeit through Turkey rather than Ukraine. Critics of the SGC concept have long argued that Turkey can easily use all the gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field — whose reserves, researchers say have been wildly overestimated — to supply its own rapidly growing natural gas needs. If that is true, then it will need the Russian gas that used to pass through Ukraine to serve its European customers.

Putin must be laughing all the way to the bank.

It is also likely that once the Turkish Stream pipeline connects to the SGC, Putin may suddenly be quite willing to discuss Russian withdrawal from Crimea provided his new pipeline is grandfathered into any deal. Such an arrangement would lift the crippling sanctions against his country and allow his cartel to start drilling with the likes of ExxonMobile once again.

There really is no longer a question about Trump’s economic ties to Russia.

One news organization after another has documented his long three-decade relationship with Russian investors. His properties have long been filled with wealthy residents of the former Soviet Union. Trump’s world was and is the parking lot for oligarch cash.

What we now need to understand is how these wealthy kleptocrats from Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan intend to use him to further their fortunes. One thing seems clear: oil and gas will likely be at the center of that story.

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Imperial, a Costa Rican “We are very aggressive on the efficiency of beer company, brought its “water positive beer” our processes,” Alatorre says. “By consolidating project to Colorado our production runs, we’re getting 50 percent to further offset water usage. more beer for the water we are wasting.”

But it takes a lot more than internal water conservation to be considered an air brand.

In order to achieve water positivity, the Costa Rican company brought its project to Colorado in order to further offset its already lowered water usage.

Nevermind the fact that Colorado ranks second in number of breweries nationally, Imperial focused on the Centennial State due to its environmental awareness and willingness to conserve water, a factor that Macias says Colorado shares with Costa Rica.

“Boulder in particular is an environmentally conscious community that has very similar values, like [Costa Rica],” Macias states.

Imperial teamed up with nonprofit Colorado Water Trust (CWT) to add the water positive factor into its conservation equation, investing an undisclosed amount of money into the existing Yampa River project run by the trust.

However, adding water to any Colorado water stream is quite complicated, which makes Imperial’s claim of water positive beer a little murky.

“Under Colorado water law, water is property interest separate and distinct from land ownership,” says Amy Beatie, executive director of CWT. “You can have an entire river running through your property and not be entitled to dip a bucket in it and take a drop out of that river.”

Much like carbon credits are used by industrial companies to offset their carbon footprint, water in Colorado is subjected to a marketplace structure where someone can buy rights to a certain section or amount of water in a stream with little restriction as to how much they can use.

“Colorado law doesn’t have a requirement that a river stay flowing,” Beatie says. “In fact, we have a constitutional provision that says ‘the right to divert the unappropriated waters of the State of Colorado shall never be denied.’”

With the Colorado water rights system set firmly in place, the main goal of water conservation by CWT is to buy water rights from private owners and make sure the water stays in the stream. With help from Imperial, CWT has already bought 1,200 acre-feet (391 million gallons) this year for the Yampa, and may buy more at the end of the season.

Unless water rights in Colorado change, this is what being water positive looks like: not necessarily adding any new water, but recovering and protecting the water that is otherwise used by private owners.

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Tierro Lee, producer and co-founder of the Arise Festival and a guy who lives deep in the tangled mechanics of festivalstaging details, couldn’t resist a chuckle when asked about the Fyre debacle, even if he seemed to chalk it up to insufficient see ARISE Page 26

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“That was just an embarrassment,” he says. “Here’s the thing: it is a challenge to organize the amount of people and the amount of equipment necessary to do this. The Arise Festival is very blessed to have Paul Bassis on one side of this, who’s been doing it for 25 years, and on the other hand me ... I’m of the opinion that you can do nothing too far in advance. We do things so far in advance — we’re already making plans for next year.

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remarked) to be out out to those acts and on its own. Kidding making sure that aside, mounting and Arise is on their ON THE BILL: ARISE Music Festival — with Atmosphere, sustaining a sizeable radar,” Lee says. “And Tipper, Lettuce, Beats Antique, multi-day arts festival, we’re learning how to Ani DiFranco, Rising establishing a reputado that further and Appalachia and others.

August 4-6, Sunrise Ranch, tion in the ever-burfurther in advance, Loveland, 100 Sunrise Ranch geoning music- and every year.

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across, it’s a lot easier to get some of these national acts.

“And I would say also that [headliner] Ani DiFranco was very excited about being on the same bill as Tipper, as well as the same bill as Rising Appalachia.

She was happy to get the call, and we’re really happy to have her.”

Anyone would be, but maybe The Righteous Babe is the right headliner for These Times. Arise is invested many ways deep in progressive values around social justice, community empowerment and environmental sustainability. Based as it is around issues and attitudes and lifestyle markers familiar and friendly to a progressive audience, in some ways the festival as a social statement was coasting downwind with a reliably sympathetic audience... some of which, in 2017, may feel a little more current on the wire these days, searching for more kinetics at a time when those values are being routinely marginalized and foreclosed from on high.

So, in times like these, does Arise need to be a little aggressive in its political texture?

“Someone asked me the other day a similar question,” Lee says, “and I hadn’t really thought about it until then. I think that the [purpose] of an event like Arise is that it’s more than a concert, more than an arts fair, more than a marketplace. It’s an expression of the current culture, or at the very least an opportunity for artistic expression, and artistic expression often mirrors what’s going in the cultural stew.

“And I think, in a Trump age, people can use this experience more than ever,” he says. “People want to talk to each other, they want to hear from each other, they want to get out of their individual bubbles and let the ideas flow across all these boundaries.”

Still, this is not an event where you’re likely to encounter a lot of Breitbart comments-section types, diehard Trump supporters or Confederate flag wavers. Can an event like this bridge the social divide that seems to yawn deeper and be less navigable now more than ever? Or is this just the same bubble, drawn larger?

“That’s an interesting question, and I think we will see,” Lee admits. “One of the things that have propelled me to manage these types of gatherings over the past 20 years is meeting all kinds of people along the way. ... I have a guy who works with us, he’s ex-military.

And now he’s running one of the support groups for men at the Arise Wisdom Village. Real positivity, real healthy.

“So, I think you gotta have your arms open wide enough. So I do hope and I do believe that we’ll reach all kinds of folks across these lines, including the political ones.”

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hen Steve Earle looks in the mirror, he doesn’t see his bald head, his graying beard or his 62-year-old body. No, when the country rock legend comes to stand in front of the mirror he raises his gaze to look his 20-year-old self in the eye.

“Maybe I’m delusional, but I just don’t see myself as I am... I just don’t feel that old,” he says before offering a litany of ailments that beg the contrary, a list of the aches and pains he’s accumulated over the years living a life on the road. But all of that’s gotten better, on account of all the yoga, he says. “My biceps actually do look like I’m 20.”

Despite what he sees in the mirror, Earle is a grizzled guy and his music is an appropriately gnarled expression of all he’s weathered in his life. It’s been a life spent on the edges of society, and he wears his bruises see EARLE Page 30

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In the album’s liner notes, Earle Earle’s always taken a no-nonsense writes: “I’ve been attending an awful lot stance on life, and he shares what he of funerals lately and maybe that alone goes through freely. There’s almost explains my sudden need to acknowlnothing he won’t talk about, no story he edge where I come from, to revisit the hasn’t told — from his early days stand- solid foundation upon which I have ing in the air traf- Ted Barron constructed this fic control tower house of cards of with his dad, to mine.” his middle years The album is a spent in the tribute to those depths of heroin with whom he has addiction, to his shared his life and always tenuous, music, and it’s strict and ongoing Earle at his poetic two-decade long best. For most of sobriety. Earle’s his career it was life is an open the sound of book.

Earle’s unique Historically, breed of country this sort of tenarock that tended cious honesty has to garner attennot been rewarded tion, but now the by society, and so music is more folk artists and humble, secondary poets like Earle to Earle’s lyrical are left at the fringes prowess — lyrics laid — a curse in that it’s a out like stanzas of an ON THE BILL: Steve Earle placement that comes epic tale. & The Dukes. 8 p.m. Friday, with loneliness, but a There’s no better Aug. 4, Boulder Theater, blessing in that it example than in the 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Tickets $25-$30. offers searing insight album closer, into what we as “Goodbye humans share.

Michelangelo,” Earle’s But lately, the coweulogy to his recently boy’s bravado has fallen into society’s passed mentor and friend Guy Clark. high graces. He’d hate this comparison, In bidding farewell to his “maestro” he but Earle is a bit like Bizarro World’s evokes an artistry reminiscent of Walt President Trump, appealing to blue-col- Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” lar America with a no-holds-barred wherein the poet laments: demeanor. But where Trump will, as “But O heart! heart! heart!/O the Earle says, “do whatever it takes to get bleeding drops of red/Where on the the working man to vote against his deck my Captain lies/Fallen cold and own interests,” Earle is only interested dead.” in offering his art to the people who are Likewise, Earle constructs his lines as bruised and battered by life as he is. with the same attention to literary When it comes to the alt-countrydevice and detail, but instead of relegatAmericana tradition Earle is part of, ing them to the pages of poetry, he lets the one he helped to build, he’s been them loose to ramble around inside a served well by his ability to turn his soft country melody: outcast status into the hero’s tale, and, “So long my captain, adios/Sail over the course of his career, to turn the upon the sea of ghosts/Chase the white outcast into the mainstream. The result whale to the end/Bring the story back is a compendium of songs that speak to again.” broader themes of life in America — The entire album is an exemplar of the literature of Earle — the outlaw the kind that sound best when wafting through the beer-stained and humid air poet. He’s long been a man of the writof a dark bar, muddled just a little by all ten word, not just with lyrics but with fiction, theater and poetry, including an the peanuts padding the floor. entire year spent documenting his life His latest album sounds just as in haikus. good, although the youthful arrogance Nearly a decade ago, Earle was of Earle’s rock ‘n’ roll is notably diminquoted by the New York Times as saying ished in favor of a more reflective tone. he believed that in the wake of the So You Wanna Be an Outlaw is a look Beatles and Bob Dylan he realized it backwards at what it was like to go might be possible to create songs that from 20 to 62 and back again, Earle looking at the boy he sees in the mirror could be “literature that you can consume while driving in your car.” Now, who is defiantly charging ahead at the just months after Bob Dylan was life laid out in front of him.

awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Earle says he “totally supports” the broad recognition of that once far-out idea that music claims and deserves the erudition of fine art.

“Bob Dylan basically invented my job,” he says. “I like to think that what I am doing is literature and Bob just legitimized that for all of us. ... Dylan was trying to write stuff that held up to fringe poets and the beats, and he did it. Sure, other people were trying to do it too (notably for Earle, Cole Porter), but Dylan, well, he was just better than everybody else. He really was a genius.”

Genius is not a term Earle uses lightly, saying it’s got nothing to do with smarts but rather the performance of something at such a high level that it allows for it to become something that never existed before. By that measure, Earle, having spent a life defining himself by the rules he breaks — and why he breaks them — is a genius of outlaw.

But genius is also elusive and requires constant nourishment for its satisfaction. At 62, Earle is still after it.

But this isn’t about him versus the world, it’s about making peace with what lies deep inside himself.

Around two years ago, or about “20 years after I should have,” Earle started practicing yoga as a sort of invocation of meditation and prayer. As these things go, it came to be through a rather synchronistic chain of events — taking a fall in a river on a fishing trip, meeting Ram Dass on his 60th birthday, being connected with a yoga teacher back home in New York. But, Earle brushes over the specifics only to say, eagerly and resolutely: “Yoga changed my life. It’s a big deal.”

You have to rummage a bit to figure out just how his six-day-a-week practice has affected him. The fruit seems to be mostly in little, mundane accomplishments. Like the fact that Earle has at last found a home and no, it’s not in his famed 40-foot-long Eagle tour bus but in his Manhattan apartment with his wife and 7-year-old son.

“I still love the road and I am still at peace with it — which is good because if you’re not, it will kill you, and fairly quickly, too,” he says. “But I love New York and 13 years after moving there it feels like home — I miss it when I am gone and I cherish it when I’m there.

New York has a way of staying still and yet you still feel like you’re moving.”

It’s not the same Earle that we’ve gotten used to and he admits it — his life is changing in profound ways. It’s no longer just a story about sobriety, or quitting smoking or about a harried life fighting against The Man. It’s about what happens, as Ram Dass would say, here and now.

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‘Classically Jazz,’ Mahler’s Ninth and violinist Gil Shaham will end the season

ON THE BILL: Colorado Music Festival Final Week.

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hen you plan a summer festival, you want to end on a high note. And this year, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) will end on three separate high notes that bring the 40th anniversary season to a grand conclusion, July 30–Aug. 4.

The first: former CMF first-clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan returns to Boulder to perform the Copland Clarinet Concerto on a program titled Classically Jazz, Sunday, July 30; the second: Zeitouni leads the Superstar violinist Gil Festival Orchestra in Mahler’s Shaham will perform Symphony No. 9, last performed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony during at CMF more than 20 years ago, CMF’s final week.

Thursday, Aug. 3; and the third: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, performed by super-star soloist Gil and Boulder’s many Mahler fans, it is also part of the 40thShaham, described by Zeitouni as “a wonderanniversary celebration of the festival’s past. ful man and musician,” Friday, Aug. 4.

“One piece that never completed [Christie’s] symphonic “The idea for the last week is to do somecycle was Mahler Nine,” Zeitouni says. “So it is there this thing for the orchestra — and [Mahler’s year as a completion of the work that was started before Ninth] is a piece that they’ve all been dying to me.” play — and something for our patrons in the The last major work he completed, Mahler’s Ninth is form of a major guest artist,” Zeitouni says. regarded as both the greatest of his symphonies and a form “One concert is more about the orchestra, and of farewell. But Zeitouni, who is stepping down as full-time one is a gift to the audience.” music director of the CMF, says that is not the message of Classically Jazz, coming at the beginning of the program. “No matter how we interpret this music, there the week, is a program that Zeitouni “had so is no hidden message,” he says. much fun doing, to have the jazz influence “When I planned this I didn’t know that my role would with the symphony orchestra,” he says. In be changing at CMF. I chose this because it’s an indisputaddition to the Copland Concerto, the proable masterpiece. And any time I surveyed the musicians, gram includes works by European composers this came back as the piece they were looking forward to deeply influenced by American jazz: music the most to play.” from Three Penny Opera by Kurt Weill and The summer’s final concert is an all-Beethoven program Creation of the World by Darius Milhaud. And with Shaham playing the violin Concerto as the first half, there will be other American works, too: two Joplin rags, and the Symphony No. 7 as the second. “I like the fact that Leonard Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, and the concerto is paired with the Seventh Symphony because Gershwin’s Lullaby for Strings.

Beethoven’s Seventh is so festive, it’s the proper piece for an evening like this,” Zeitouni says. “And to get a guest artist Allakhverdyan was the CMF’s principal clarinet for five like Gil Shaham to close our season is a coup.” years, and today is principal with the Los Angeles Shaham has played the Beethoven Concerto many Philharmonic. “I’m really excited to do Copland again,” he times, but it is a piece he always relishes. “It was this says.

Scored for only strings, piano and harp, the concerto has incredible slash of inspiration,” he says. “[Beethoven] was a composer in the zone, churning out one immortal master“two very different parts,” he explains: “A gorgeous slow piece after another. part, and a really jazzy second part, connected by a very challenging and awesome-sounding cadenza.

“With the Violin Concerto, every phrase is a surprise, “I just hope my reed works! Going into high altitudes and yet it’s perfect, it’s exactly the way it should be. I was can be tricky,” Allakhverdyan says. thinking of one passage where the violin freezes on a high Before the Classically Jazz program, Allakhverdyan note, on a trill, and time stops. The cellist imitates a drum will appear with CMF musicians to perform Brahms’ lus- beat repeating one very dissonant note — there’s something cious Clarinet Quintet on a chamber music concert about that that’s so fresh. You realize it was perfect, it Saturday, July 29. On the same program are Tchaikovsky’s couldn’t have been any other way.”

“Autumn Song” and Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat for piano While this concert ends Zeitouni’s role as music direcand winds. tor, he will continue as a frequent guest conductor. And he It has been more than 20 years since Mahler’s Ninth looks back on the season with pleasure. was performed at CMF, and it was not part of the Mahler “I’m looking at this summer with sort of a pride at what cycle that former music director Michael Christie started in we did and what we will do,” he says.

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hich is more feminist: is, in fact, the spectral projection of shouting from the Hamlet’s dead father and, therefore, to rooftops that the be believed or, rather, a Dickensian Colorado fragment of underdone potato that Shakespeare Festival’s should not spur vengeful action of any production of Hamlet this season feasort. tures a female Hamlet — a Hamlette, if Feigning madness to keep Claudius you will — or not mentioning it at all? and his coterie — which includes Is a female Hamlet a cause for celebraJennifer Koskinen tion of barriers broken and ceilings smashed, or should the casting choice be viewed, in this day and age, as an expected affirmation of just what a long way women have come in their quest for equality in what remains decidedly a man’s world?

Enjoy your social justice Zen koan for the day.

Fair warning for anyone ill at ease with the notion of a Hamlet who sports a vagina. It’s not just Hamlet (Lenne Klingaman) that Director Carolyn Howarth has gender-bent. A handful of other male characters, most notably Laertes (Ava Kostia), are played by women in the CSF’s take on one of the most Claudius’ chief advisor Polonius famous, most often quoted (Rodney Lizcano) and Hamlet’s childand, frankly, best plays ever hood friends and fellow students written. For anyone — and Rosencrantz (Michael Bouchard) and I truly hope you’re the vast Guildenstern (Sean Scrutchins) — off majority — who couldn’t of her scent, Hamlet works to detercare a drib or drab about mine her uncle/stepfather’s guilt and whether Hamlet is played by a pointer also plays a bracing game of will-theyor setter, Howarth’s or-won’t-they with casting choice defiPolonius’ daughter, nitely doesn’t Ophelia (Emelie ON THE BILL: Hamlet. diminish Hamlet O’Hara). A skull Colorado Shakespeare Festival at and, in certain cases, soliloquy, an accithe University of Colorado breathes freshness dental murder and a Boulder, www.coloradoshakes. org. Through Aug. 13. into a few of the poison-enlivened mustier bits. duel later, Hamlet remains *SPOILER a melancholy Dane, ALERT* pretty a mad princess, a child mourning the much everybody dies in a series of recent, untimely death of her father, the scenes that is the spiritual great-greatKing, and a begrudging stepdaughter to great-grandfather of the Red Wedding an uncle, Claudius (Gary Wright), who in Game of Thrones. swooped in too soon to claim both the Howarth’s Hamlet is set during a crown and Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude vaguely Edwardian Denmark winter.

(Mare Trevathan, always a pleasure).

Towering, white, Aspen-like trees domWhen the ghost of the King (Sam inate the performance space. Snow Gregory, commanding as ever) appears blankets the stage and more than once and explains to Hamlet that Claudius fills the air. The set and lighting design murdered him, Hamlet refuses rash

by Stephen C. Jones boldly reinforce action and instead concocts an intricate Hamlet’s themes of isolation and exposcheme to confirm whether ghost dad sure and serve as both marvelous backBoulder Weekly

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For being such a memorably tragic character, Ophelia doesn’t actually appear on stage very often. It is imperative, then, that the actress playing her succeeds in capturing the audience’s attention immediately and never lets it go. O’Hara, who impressed me tremendously in both The Comedy of Errors and Troilus and Cressida last CSF season, absolutely owns Ophelia. If your heart doesn’t break, at least just a skosh, when Ophelia goes mad with grief and kills herself, you’re a tougher tough guy than I. Also returning from last year’s CSF, Lizcano once again earns some of the biggest reactions from the crowd. He stole virtually every scene in 2016’s Equivocation, and he’s as good if not better as Polonius.

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Colorado Music Festival — The Planets 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 27, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-442-3282.

NASA/Public Domain Gustav Holst’s classic symphony comes to Chautauqua, accompanied by elaborately choreographed visual animation on the big screen, presented by Colorado Music Festival. Witness the awe-inspiring and timeless musical portrait of the final frontier. The program includes a world premiere by the 2017 Click! Commissioning club composer Julian Wachner, and Alexander Scriabin’s “The Poem of Ecstasy.” Tickets: $12-$54.

—Alvaro Sanchez

Eighth Annual YMCA Strong Kids Triathlon 9 a.m. Saturday, July 29, YMCA of Boulder Valley, 2800 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 303-664- David Mays of Hoffer Photography 5455.

Still going strong after eight years, the YMCA of Boulder Valley will host hundreds of young athletes ranging from ages 2-15 on Saturday to swim, pedal and run through a kid-friendly triathlon aimed at erasing the daunting pressure of competitive events. All events are age-based and all participants get a T-shirt and a medal. There is space for 300 participants, and spots are filling up. YMCA members: $23, non-members: $33 —Alvaro Sanchez

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For tea lovers, it doesn’t get any better than sipping the favored drink in a hand-crafted teahouse donated by Boulder’s sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

This organized tea festival has been a Boulder tradition for more than 15 years, attracting tea drinkers from all over. In the 2017 installment, tea enthusiasts can take part in numerous activities such as seminars, a tea dinner, a small bazaar, and the popular children’s tea party.

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See the exhibit at The Dairy Arts Center through July 30.

Beyond Thought — Steve Mason. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 30.

Dasha Shishkin: Tram Pam Pam. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.

Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 27.

Divas — Leona Lazar. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Through July 29.

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Illustration, Design, Art & Photraphy by Michael Hamers. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 29.

Jenny Morgan: SKINDEEP. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 27.

Tones Latinos/Latino Hues. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through July 30.

Mauro Giaconi: Cae a plomo/falls to lead.

Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 10.

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

Modern America. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through July 30.

Paper on Paper: The Art of Chine-Collé.

Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.

Paper.Works. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 20.

Rituals — Mark Alan Francis. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through July 30.

Seriously Audacious Situational Surrealism — Hone Williams. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 30.

Stan Meyer: Poetic Presence. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Aug. 6.

Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31.

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

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright.

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

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Thursday, July 27 Music

Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 naropa.edu/aligned Main St., Louisville, 720-365-0695.

Bent Knee. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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

Ian Levy Presents: An Evening of Reflection and Optimism. 7 p.m. Dazzle, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

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

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

Levitt Pavilion Concert Series: Whiskey Shivers — with Garrett Lebeau and R.L. Cole & His Angels. 7:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.

Chuck Lamb. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Lindsey Buckingham. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

DJ Tomas Residency. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation International Competition Finals. 2 p.m. Denver University, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 719-572-5716.

The Grass is Dead & The Wooks — with Canyon Collected and One Grass Two Grass. 8 p.m.

Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Grateful Dead Summer Dance Party — with Peak2Peak. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 720-668-8833.

Music & Magic on the West Patio. 10 a.m.

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-6050.

Mux Mool Implied Lines EP Release Party. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Open Mic Night hosted by Brian Rezac. 6:30

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of Boulder, Naropa Bill Karelis — Like a Snow Lion in Its Prime. All day. Boulder Book combines Store, 1107 PearlaSt., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

naropa.edu/alignedUniversity Western liberal arts Kevin Kelley — A Time of Lies.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 education with Eastern Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

July 29 wisdomSaturday, practices.

Dina Elenbogen. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Monday, July 31

Possessed by Paul James. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Psydecar (Dub/Reggae) — with Mono Verde.

9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Saddle Of Southern Darkness. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103.

Savoy. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909.

Test Kitchen: the Concert. 7:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Thursday Nights with Franklin & Friends. 9 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 West 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-4269.

Turner Jackson Love, Aaron Cohen, Digisaurus,

Jennifer Frankfurter

So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

Tuesday, Aug. 1 Eric Fischman. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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

Dina Elenbogen is author of the memoir Drawn from Water and the poetry collection Apples of the Earth. Catch her at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe on Saturday, July 29.

Matt Richtel — Dead on Arrival.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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events Deezie Brown, Proz Taylor. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516.

Events Mario the Maker Magician. 2 and 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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The Mavericks — with The Last Bandoleros.

6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.

McPherson Live Music. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 303-652-0199.

Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Show.

8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Orange Blossom Special’s “Loud, Live, & In A Dive.” 9 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 949-456-3632.

NT Live: Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika. 7 p.m. Denver Pavilions 15, 500 16th St., Denver, 888-888-8888.

Part & Parcel. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

Synergy Dance Collective. 7 p.m. Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Ave., Boulder, 303-257-8924.

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

Friday, July 28 Music Annual Colorado Day Concert. 6 p.m. Fairmount Funeral Home & Cemetery, 430 S. Quebec St., Denver, 303-399-0692.

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

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

Bodies We’ve Buried. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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

Camila. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.

Chuck Lamb Acoustic Fusion Quartet. 6:30 and 9 p.m. Dazzle, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Clandestine Amigo. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-622-5021.

Cotton Club to Cafe Society: Lush Life of the ’30s & ’40s. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Downtown Longmont Summer Concerts. 6 p.m.

Intersection of Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303-651-8482.

Dusty Stray Farewell Colorado Show + Jonathan’s Birthday Bash. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Eddie Ifft: The Bingle All the Way Tour. 8 p.m.

Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Rastasaurus — with Apex Vibe, Envy Alo, DJ Bloodpresshah. 8:15 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

RGV Songwriters in the Round. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Stephen Marchionda. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Terminal Bar’s Summer Concert Series. 5 p.m.

Union Station Terminal Bar, 1701 Wynkoop St., Denver, 720-460-3701.

Thumpin’ Band. 9:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver, 303-433-1000.

Tre3Hau5 presents DJ SCOTTY BOY. 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln St. Station, 775 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-885-8589.

Events Cowgirl’s Ball & Dinner. 6 p.m. Boulder County Fair Grounds Fair Garden, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Family Films. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-6050.

Friday Night Weird: Double Feature & BBQ. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Louisville Street Faire. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 720-236-5206.

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

Propaganda: A Comedy Show featuring Michelle Biloon & Justine Marino. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Saturday, July 29 Music

Friday Lunch — with the Denver Jazz Ladies.

11 a.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Barrel of Blues. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Co., 400 West S. Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-398-8172.

Funk Knuf. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boris Allakhverdyan. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Brunch — with Anthony Russo Band. 10:30 a.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Live Music Painter Gallery Opening — with Scramble Campbell. 6 p.m. The Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-263-0748.

Live Patio Music — Heartstring Hunters. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Malai Llama featuring Jennifer Hartswick (of Trey Anastasio Band). 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-

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L’Estrange Menagerie: A Sexy Circus. 11 p.m.

The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Amadou & Mariam. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Kitty Crimes & Jay Triiiple: B-Side Music Fridays. 5 p.m. Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Jules Lieb, Owner, Morning Glory Cafe

Shelvis and the Roustabouts. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Final. 8:30 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Herbie Hancock Tribute. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Ces Cru. 7 p.m. The Roxy Theatre, 2549 Welton St., Denver, 720-242-9782.

Defunkt Railroad. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

The Delta Sonics. 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

DJ Icey. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Don’t Yell At Me... Episode One Gazillion. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Drumming for Jared — Fundraiser. 2 p.m. Boulder Drum Studio, 1320 Pearl St., Suite 107, Boulder, 303-402-1500. see EVENTS Page 40

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Firedancer (Dave Matthews Band Tribute). 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 720-668-8833.

For The Love Of Punk Presents: Rayner. 9 p.m.

Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-861-9103.

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

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ In Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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Hello Dollface. 9 p.m. Underground Music Showcase, 140 S. Broadway, Denver.

Company, 4699 Nautilus Court, Suite 104, Boulder, 775-434-5815.

Easy Lovin. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Louisville Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. Downtown Louisville, 916 Main St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.

Elder Grown. 6 p.m. Underground Music Showcase, 140 S. Broadway, Denver.

Meet in the Street. 11 a.m. 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-534-6161.

Escaping Pavement. 5 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Mexican Rodeo at the 148th Boulder County Fair. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

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

Rococo: An Evening of Competitive Singing and Musical Pizzazz! 6:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-6121.

Herbie Hancock Tribute featuring Dominic Lalli (Big Gigantic). 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Ignatius Reilly — with Jeff Crosby & The Refugees and Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

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Jul-IPA. 12 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Anything Goes. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 1.

Eufórquestra — with We’s Us: Levitt Pavilion Concert Series. 7:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.

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Broadway Bound. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Aug. 20.

Live Music: Dean Himes. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239.

Through Aug. 6.

Live Patio Music: Farmer Sisters. 5:30 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra Plays Disney. 6 p.m. Dazzle, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Hamlet. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 13.

Next Level MC Battles. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 19.

Possessed by Paul James. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

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The Eduardo Garcia Story Q & A with Eduardo and director, Phillip Baribeau

RockyGrass. 9 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0848.

Julius Caesar. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 12.

Scott Martin/Alicia Baker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Little Mermaid. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044.

Spiral Cell. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Vince Neil. 8 p.m. Elitch Gardens, 2000 Elitch Circle, Denver, 303-595-4386.

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The Whitney Houston Songbook. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075.

Zac Brown Band. 7 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver.

Zac Brown Band After-show featuring Blue Water Highway Band. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Events Cheese with Altitude: American Cheese Society’s 34th Annual Conference & Competition.

7 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 720-328-2788.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720379-8299.

The Summer Day Party Series. 2 p.m. Lincoln Station Bar, 776 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-885-8589.

Truth & Talent Show. 6:30 p.m. Casey Middle School, 1301 High St., Boulder, 303-415-0272.

Video Lighting Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Sunday, July 30 Music

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash.

Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 6.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 13.

The Taming of the Shrew. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 13.

Making Movies — with Jyemo Club: Levitt Pavilion Concert Series. 7:30 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver.

Movies at the Symphony. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Naropa University Creative Music Workshop.

9 a.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

Outlier — with Providence, Enemy In I, Enlighten The Masses. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 13th Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder.

RockyGrass (Sunday Pass). 9 a.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0848.

Chevelle. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Sunday Brunch Live Music — with David Booker. 11:30 a.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423.

City Park Jazz. 6 p.m. City Park Pavilion, 1700 N. York St., Denver, 303-744-1004.

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Fifth Annual Cheesman Park Art Fest. 9 a.m.

Cheesman Park, Denver, 505-550-2471.

Classically Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Gun & Hoses Relay Challenge. 12 p.m. Boulder County Fair, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

TICKETS: eTOWN.org

Highlands Square Summer Sidewalk Sale. 10 a.m. Highlands Sqaure, W. 32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard, Denver.

Dale Bruning and Jude Hibler Present the Timeless Music of Cole Porter. 5 p.m. Dazzle, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Jeoparbee Game Show. 5:30 p.m. Asher Brewing

Hello Dollface. 9 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 334-470-3611.

Blues and BBQ with Chance. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Dance at the Dairy. 8 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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SNAP! ’90s Dance Party, hosted by DJ A-L (The Soul Pros/Future Classic Music). 9 p.m.

Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Spectacle — with kLL sMTH, Nobide. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Radio Show Taping

Miner’s Alley Playhouse presents part three of Neil Simon’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy Broadway Bound. Eugene and his older brother Stanley are trying to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while coping with their parents’ break-up and eventual divorce.

Footloose: The Musical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 3.

Naropa University Creative Music Workshop.

9 a.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

Film Screening & Q+A

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Dinner with Sarah Slaton (of Edison). 6 p.m.

Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Vinyl Sundays with the Denver Kush Club. 12 p.m. Spangalang Brewery, 2736 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1276.

Warbly Jets. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Events 2017 CPRA Rodeo. 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairsee EVENTS Page 42

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Ballerina. 11 a.m. Dabble Paint and Sip Studio, 2330 Main St., Unit E, Longmont, 303-827-3523.

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Fifth Annual Cheesman Park Art Fest. 9 a.m.

Cheesman Park, Denver, 505-550-2471.

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

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY JULY 27 8PM

GRUPO CHEGANDO LÁ AND FRANCISCO MARQUES FRIDAY JULY 28 8PM

RIO GRANDE VALLEY SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND SATURDAY JULY 29 8PM

THE HEARTSTRING HUNTERS WITH ANDREW STURTZ SUNDAY JULY 30

CHRISTOPHER LAUGHREY 8PM THE CLEARWINGS 9PM MONDAY JULY 31 8PM “SO YOU’RE A POET” PRESENTS

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Lucky Mutt Strut Fun Walk/Run! 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Kendrick Lamar

Peruvian Festival. 9 a.m. Columbus Park, 1501 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 303-408-8148.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 29, Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, 303-405-1100.

TriWizard Tournament. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

It’s been five years since Kendrick Lamar played in Denver, but finally, the hip-hop icon is set to hit the Pepsi Center on July 29. Although he has played in Winter Park and Greenwood Village, Lamar’s last Denver show took place at the Ogden Theater in 2012. Since then, Lamar has been building his fan base at an exponential rate with hopeful anthems like “Alright” and funkadelic jams like “King Kunta.” Hailed by Pitchfork as “a widescreen masterpiece of rap,” Lamar’s newest release DAMN has revamped the genre with yet another showcase of his uncanny lyrical ability.

Monday, July 31 Music Bandshell Boogie. 7 p.m. Boulder BandshellCentral Park Downtown Boulder, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-971-1972.

Concert in the Park-Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Harlow Platts Community Park/Viele Lake, 1496 Gillaspie Drive, Boulder.

Concerts in the Park. 7 p.m. Central Park, 1739 Broadway, Boulder.

Lamar will be joined on stage by RnB singer D.R.A.M and fellow hip-hop artist Travis Scott.

D.R.A.M is a creamy voiced singer from Hampton, Virginia, who’s been very busy these past few years. Along with releasing his latest album Big Baby D.RA.M. in October of last year, the singer has been featured on the track “Andromeda” for the Gorillaz’ Humanz album and “Freefall” with Connor Pearson. Travis Scott, a rap artist from Houston, Texas, is still riding the wave of his last album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, and has announced two new projects for 2017: a collaborative album with Quavo of rap group Migos, and a solo project dubbed AstroWorld.

—Alvaro Sanchez

Creep Stare. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Lucinda Williams. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Music on Pine Street. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

Naropa University Creative Music Workshop.

9 a.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

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

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Prospect Sound Bites presents Mojomama. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-249-4492.

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Noches de Verano: Tango at the Teahouse. 6 p.m. Courtyard north of the Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-718-4798.

Tuesday, August 1

So. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Fat Tuesdays w/ Struttin’ & Steady Flow. 8 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Meek Mill & Yo Gotti. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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Naropa University Creative Music Workshop. 9 a.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303444-0202.

Slothrust. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 720-668-8833.

Songwriters in the Round. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Vinyl Mondays. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Events 2017 Farm to Table Dinner.

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2017 Westernaires. 7 p.m.

Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Arts Caravan Presents: 3 Ring Workshop: 5. 7 p.m.

Rackhouse Pub, 2875 Blake St., Denver, 720-570-7824.

Black & Blu: Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-4269.

Free Beginner Argentine Tango Class.

6 p.m. Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-938-0716.

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10 a.m. Courtyard Denver Cherry Creek, 1475 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 832-671-4046.

Mystery of the Golden Mustache. 11 a.m. Adams Mystery Playhouse, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver,

Boulder Weekly staff pick Mario the Maker Magician 2 p.m. July 27, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 917-6050662.

More than just a magician, Mario the Maker Magician is also an inventor who teaches kids about electronics and robotics as part of the Maker Movement, a STEM-based initiative.

Using DIY technology and good ol’ fashioned slapstick comedy, Mario creates an engaging and unique venture into the world of science and magic, blurring the lines between the two subjects and delivering a heart-warming performance that kids will remember. Mario has made appearances on Sesame Street and Sunny Side Up on NBCUniversal’s Sprout Channel and was part of the creative team for David Blaine’s first North American tour earlier this year. He and his wife bought a 1971 Volkswagen van to tour the country, bringing their kids along with them.

Tickets: $10 children under 12, $20 adults.

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Coolest Meditation Ever: Antarctica 12.12.12.

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Durandal. 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

En Garde Duo — with Rocco Williams & Eunha

Negative Approach, Bloodclot. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 720771-4940.

Open Mic — with the Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m.

SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303774-7698.

Spicy Lounge: Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m.

Alchemy of Movement Studios, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.

Stephen Stills & Judy Collins. 6:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.

Tuesday Tapping and Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Events 2017 Ballet on Horseback. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. see EVENTS Page 44

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2017 Vail Dance Festival. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Ballet, 1075 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-837-8888.

Doppelgängers! Improv Showcase. 8 p.m.

Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver, 970-481-7918.

Film Screening: America Divided: A Class Divide. 11 a.m. Open Media Foundation, 700 Kalamath St., Denver, 720-222-0160.

Logan St., Denver, 720-668-8833.

The Next Stage NOW Presents: Sunset Cinema. 6 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

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

Wednesday, August 2 Music

Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Plaza beside Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-499-6363.

12’’s Of Love: All Vinyl — with DJ Gary Givant and DJ A-L. 7 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483

Ashley Koett, Juan Birch. 9 p.m. Boulder

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Dazzle + Odell Brewery: Beer & Menu Pairing. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver, 303-839-5102.

Dinner with El Javi (Flamenco Guitar). 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver, 303-993-8023.

Free Phish Stream. 5:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516.

Guns N’ Roses: Not In This Lifetime Tour.

7 p.m. Sports Authority Field, 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle, Denver.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Jonathan Fritzen, Darren Rahn. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

Keef Duster. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Leopold & His Fiction. 8 p.m. Lion’s Lair Lounge, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-320-9200.

Naropa University Creative Music Workshop. 9 a.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

P-Nuckle. 7 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Phish Livestream from Madison Square Garden. 4 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868.

RE: Search featuring Eliot Lipp & Borahm Lee (Break Science) — with Mikey Thunder, Jubee. 8:30 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Reggae Night. 9 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108.

Rocky Mountain Jewgrass. 6:30 p.m.

Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Stone Deaf, Strange Heavens, The Coffis Brothers. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

A Tribe Called Red. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Tunisia. 6 p.m. Village at the Peaks, 1250 S. Hover St., Longmont, 720-438-2500.

Wednesday Acoustic Open Mic Hosted by Captain Flashback. 4 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-4269.

Events 2017 BMX Stunt Bikes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Black Cat Farm Specialties: 2017 FOD. 6:30 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

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Movie Under the Moon. 8 p.m. Governors Park, 410 W. Seventh Ave., Denver, 303-861-9463.

Spite Marriage starring Buster Keaton — with The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Swing Dancing. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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Visiting the Neighborhood

by P. Ivan Young

The entrance at the back of the complex led onto a road, where an upended couch tilted into a ditch and a washing machine gleamed avocado beneath pine needles.

From the end, you turned left and left again, then cut a trail to find the cul-de-sac of bright brick houses. We’d walk as far as we dared before a man pushing a mower might stop to ask, “whadda you boys need?”

That was a question we could never answer.

I loved the name of the place, White Hall, imagined that each interior was a stretch of marble perfect wall adorned by smiling photos of the family. Our own halls were brailled with nail holes of former tenants, the spackled rounds of fists.

But doesn’t longing clarify the body?

The boys I left behind: Tommy, wearing the World War II trenching tool; Danny, whose father, so much older than the other parents, died in his recliner one sunny afternoon while watching baseball; Duke, who stole his mother’s car and crashed into a wall. Boys who knew when you were posing, waiting for someone to say, “smile.” Boys who, on those latch-key days, held themselves in narrow passages when no one was there to show them what to do. “ You can’t go home again,” said Thomas Wolfe, and you can’t put your hand in the same river twice. Change is relentless. But we can still, in memory, go back to where we were. This poem is by P. Ivan Young, who lives in Omaha. It was first published in The Cortland Review. His most recent book is Smell of Salt, Ghost of Rain, from Brick House Books. —Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2013 by P. Ivan Young, “Visiting the Neighborhood,” from The Cortland Review, (No. 59, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of P. Ivan Young and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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Because writer/director Luc Besson is infinitely more obsessed with bringing bonkers sci-fi spectacle to life than remembering black people exist or that women can think, Valerian doesn’t have a plot so much as a “plot.” Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and his partner, Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne), are intergalactic space agents sent to retrieve a creature that’s the last of its kind. In doing so, they stumble across a conspiracy that involves the destruction of a planet full of skinny nekked white folks, the treachery of a corrupt commander (Clive Owen) and the exploitation of Rihanna by a batshit Ethan Hawke. And when Ethan Hawke gives the best performance in your movie by a few dozen light years, you’ve got some real, real bad acting in your movie.

Valerian falls into the Sucker Punch pit: It is undeniably effin’ stunning, oftentimes relentlessly fun and just so blatantly awful to huge swaths of the human race. The minute you surrender to the nonsense exuberance of a tiny dragon that poops nuclear pearls, you are forced to watch Valerian “flirt” with Laureline by talking down to her about how many space-ladies he has space-boned. The second you relax to enjoy a funky chase sequence filled with trippy whackjob aliens, you must immediately suffer through a horrifyingly exploitive sequence where Rhianna, literally the only black woman with a substantive speaking role in the film, does a seductive sexydance for Valerian, reducing the footprint of people of color in this alt-future to “they sing, dance and help nice white people do their jobs.”

Besson is a gifted visual storyteller. Because the writing, especially the “Holy George Lucas” cringe-worthy dialogue, is so bad, bad, bad, when Valerian shuts up and focuses on non-humans or just the madcap action, it becomes the sort of pulp space-opera shenanigans that can be deeply satisfying. The quest to be “taken seriously” means that sci-fi often uses advanced special effect technology to depict things as “realistically” as possible, forgetting that part of the genre’s appeal is the inherent silliness. Valerian embraces the goofy but also embraces the grossest regressive elements of its source material. As it stands, the City of a Thousand Planets is a $200-million towering testimony to mediocrity.

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How did we get here?

Well, for the first half-century of cinema, movies were thought of as disposable entertainment. Features, shorts and newsreels were shipped from theater to theater with no real concern for protection or preservation. When one theater was done screening the show, they packed up the reels and sent them off to the next theater in line.

But when it came to the Canadian Gold Rush town of Dawson City — located on the Yukon River, roughly 173 miles south of the Arctic Circle — there was no next in line. Film reels arrived in Dawson City with no forwarding address, no return carriage to send them back to Hollywood, just the simple instructions to destroy the print following its theatrical run. Since early film was constructed with silver nitrate, destruction was as simple as a small spark. Those that survived incineration were either tossed into the Yukon River or locked up in a nearby bank.

Then one day in the 1930s, all remaining film prints were used to fill in a rec center pool in Dawson City. The movies, along with mountains of dirt, rested and waited until the 1970s when a construction team unearthed the 533 buried reels representing 372 different films and newsreels. All were thought to be lost. Now here they were, preserved and protected by the Yukon’s permafrost.

Composed primarily of these recovered images, Dawson City: Frozen Time isn’t just the simple telling of these movies, but of the time they come from. Director Bill Morrison presents his story atmospherically and emotionally; easily making connections between the Gold Rush and Hollywood, baseball and politics, labor unions and factory bosses, even past business and current politics — Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, made his first fortune as a real estate mogul during this period, with a brothel no less.

Morrison forgoes standard narration and dialogue, opting to relay information via subtitles and emotion via Alex Somer’s hypnotic and enveloping score. The result is a powerful stream-of-consciousness construction that carries viewers down a dreamy path into our collective history. It’s not one you’ll want to miss.

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They’re crispy on the outside and filled with hearty, steaming potato on the inside. The seasoning is understated, just salt and pepper, letting the vegetable and crispy skin bring the flavor. If that’s not enough, ketchup, spicy ketchup and garlic mayo are served on the side. $7

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A famous buttermilk biscuit with homemade strawberry rhubarb jam from Lucile’s Restaurant.

Below, Katsu Ramen in Aurora, and the hot chili pepper sauce condiment at Panang Thai Cuisine in Lafayette, which adds a savory flavor.

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s a former dining critic, I don’t like to admit that there is one restaurant I like to visit for the ketchup. I dine at another place largely because there is a jar of peanut butter on every table. There are many Boulder and Denver eateries I’d visit just for the condiments, not the cuisine.

Admittedly, lines between condiment, side dish and dipping sauce can get blurry, but in this case I’m talking about the “free” ce tabletop condiments available, from conventional mustard and hot n Fran a s sauces to more exotic ethnic flavor enhancers. I’m especially taken by ones that are house-made.

I like to play with my food but I taste the food first. It’s an insult to the cook if you douse your entrée in hot sauce before the first taste. The exception is when the tabletop is adorned with all manner of marinades, jams and such, signaling that personalizing the fare, bite by bite, is part of the charm at this establishment.

True, condiments are flavor jumper cables, but safe use is essential. I’ve seen some great palates cauterized by egregious abuse of condiments, especially wasabi. It’s a condiment, people, not a side dish.

Some of my favorite restaurant condiments may also be ones you love.

At the Boulder-born Lucile’s Creole Café I’m a fan of the housemade ketchup and strawberry rhubarb jam. At Dot’s Diner there’s a squeeze bot-

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tle of seedless red raspberry jam on the table for biscuits and at Beau Jo’s Pizza, it’s bottles of honey that turn leftover crust into dessert.

It’s not a restaurant, but who doesn’t slurp up the basil lime sauce on the counter at the Sister’s Kitchen dumpling booth at the Boulder County Farmers Market? And while they are not actually on the table, the bar of salsas, limes, radishes and chilies at Sancho’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant really float my boat on everything from a lengua (beef tongue) taco to a California burrito filled with steak and french fries. The same is true of the raison d’etre for the Chicago-style hot dog at Mustard’s Last Stand: onions, pickle relish, pickle spear, tomato, sport peppers and celery salt.

In Lafayette, a huge bowl of noodle soup at Pho Café is made to be tweaked with a platter of herbs, veggies, bean sprouts, peppers and limes, plus bottles of vinegar, hot chile and sweet hoisin.

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Craveable condimental attractions in Denver range from the house-made mustards dished with diverse sausages at Euclid Hall to the Jif Creamy Peanut Butter jar on every table at Annie’s Café. They include the umami-rich tabletop jars of chile oil, chile flakes, sesame seeds and more at Ace Eat Serve, the ping-pong-focused Denver eatery, and the black vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce and chopped garlic available to make dumpling dipping sauce at Lao Wang Noodle House.

And, I will willingly trek to Aurora for the mint, tamarind and coconut chutneys and spicy pickle at Masalaa Indian restaurant and the fermented fish sauce and vinegar with onions to put on lumpia and sisig at the Filipino cafe, the Sunburst Grill.

P.S.: Let’s debunk a condiment myth.

Commercial mayonnaise does not need to be refrigerated any more than ketchup, mustard and hot sauce. Of course, you may prefer chilled mayo on your burger.

Got a favorite restaurant condiment? Let me know: nibbles@boulderweekly.com.

Label Conscious

Look for newly introduced symbols from two national organizations with Boulder ties to soon adorn craft ales and certain restaurants.

The Boulder-based Brewers Association recently introduced the new independent craft brewer seal — a beer-bottle shape flipped upside-down — to help you discern whether an IPA is lovingly crafted down the street at an independent brewery or produced by a mega-brewer who bought a larger craft brewery.

Small craft brewers represent 99 percent of the 5,300-plus breweries in the U.S., although they brew only 12 percent of the beer consumed.

The nonprofit Good Food Media Network, co-founded by Boulder’s Sara Brito, has launched the Good Food 100 Restaurants, a new annual list of eateries from casual dining to fancy fare, judged on how sustainably chefs run their restaurants. The Good Food 100 assesses food purchasing practices, including the use of locally produced

and sustainably grown ingredients.

Boulder is the most represented small city on the inaugural list, which includes Basta, Boulder Valley School District, Frasca, Fresh Thymes Eatery, Julia’s Kitchen, Next Door, River and Woods, Salt, The Kitchen, University of Colorado Boulder and Wild Standard. See the complete list at: goodfood100restaurants.org

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A new breakfast and lunch place, The Biscuit Bar, has quietly opened at 579 E. South Boulder Road in Louisville near Alfalfa’s Market. Besides various big breakfast biscuits, the menu features a fried chicken and cheddar biscuit, a pulled pork, cheddar and apple butter biscuit and a Monte Cristo biscuit. The all-important house condiments include bacon jam and jalapeno apricot preserves. ... The nation’s premier consumer cheese-tasting opportunity for 2017 is the American Cheese Society’s Festival of Cheese, July 29 at the Colorado Convention Center, with hundreds of artisan cheeses plus crackers, charcuterie, craft cider and a bargain artisan cheese sale. Tickets: cheesesociety.org/conference/cheese-with-altitude. ... Frasca, Black Cat, Jill’s, Flagstaff House, Boulder Cork and the Greenbriar Inn are honored for their wine expertise in the Wine Spectator’s 2017 Restaurant Awards. ... The Boulder County Fair runs July 28 to Aug. 6 in Longmont. Food events include the Boulder Craft Spirits Festival and competition (4-8 p.m. July 29) and a farm-to-table dinner with Farmer Girl restaurant and Blackbelly Market (6 p.m. July 31). Details under “special events” at bouldercountyfair.org.

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“Julia Child used to say that you have to be happy when you cook for the food to be good, and you also have to be happy in the eating and sharing of the food with family and friends.

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lackbelly Butcher Shop chef Mike Fortin and butcher Nate Singer are in the middle of a “primal dinner.” Singer, who just broke down the ribs of a locally raised lamb in front of a small crowd of diners, cracks open a Gennessee Light and shows off the wide variety of meats curing in a walk-in refrigerator — ‘nduja, bacon, lardo and more.

There’s a bin labeled “dog meat,” and I ask if that’s a cutesy name for some future sausage or goulash mix, but no, it’s just going to be really good dog food.

Fortin, meanwhile, works in a small kitchen with three cooks preparing a four-course meal from the lamb Singer broke down. He already sent out the first course: a barbecue lamb slider on a sweet potato roll with celery root slaw. Now, Fortin assembles the second course — grilled lamb loin, cubed and arranged with melon chunks, lamb salami, tahini and lemon labneh — on 50 plates stretched out across the workspace.

The entire kitchen staff comes together to serve the food, and Fortin gives a little speech about the dish.

Singer talked earlier about where the lamb came from, the rancher who raised it, and how he likes the flavor from older lamb, mutton technically.

The whole presentation, taking place beside Blackbelly’s main restaurant (the butcher shop and restaurant are separate, although under the same umbrella), is designed to bring the virtues of sustainability directly to consumers on their plate. It’s a cause Fortin and Singer are passionate about.

“The utilization of your community butcher has been lost, you know, in the communities today that we all live in,” Singer says. “It’s just like your barber, dude. Same deal — people are going to Walmart to get their hair cut and buying their meat in the same damn store. It’s terriBoulder Weekly

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At 30, Singer is ambitious and confident. He grew up working at his family’s steakhouse, eventually perfecting a hybrid style of butchery that leans more toward whole-animal European-style butchery as opposed to the U.S.-Department-of-Agriculture style that blocks out cuts like the boxy borders of Western states.

The biggest knock on what Singer and Fortin preach might be price. People shop at Walmart, or buy discount meat, for a reason. That’s one reason why the butcher shop uses cuts of meat that have lost some prestige, or else never had any prestige to begin with. It reduces some of that cost barrier to entry. The other eason is that while the restaurant next door, run by Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg, will take the pricey cuts like the New York strip and filet, the butcher shop is tasked with utilizing, and selling, the remainder of the animal. The monthly primal dinners are intended to teach guests how to use the butcher shop as a resource, and “introduce people to new sections of that primal of the animal that they’re not normally familiar with,” Fortin says.

Goat meat provides a good example of what Fortin and Singer are talking about. Singer says raising goats

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makes farms sustainable, Left to right, Butcher as the animals act as Nate Singer and weed killers and rototillButcher Shop chef Mike Fortin hard at ers, allowing ranchers to work prepping food. grow grass for the much more resource-dependent lambs. Though goat meat is one of the most commonly eaten meats in the world, it hasn’t cracked through in the U.S. So Singer will order goats from his lamb supplier in order to help that farm be sustainable. That goat will be picked for prime cuts by the main restaurant, and the butcher shop will end up with the shoulders or ribs.

From there, it can end up in a variety of dishes, but recently Fortin braised it with simple spices and threw it on a sandwich alongside preserved lemon chèvre and olive tapenade.

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transplant from New Hampshire, is softspoken, and his method poses a counterpoint to Singer’s energy.

Singer apprenticed under several top charcuterie producers, and has turned that knowledge into a wide-ranging program that includes custom sausage-making. Curing allows him to use the random cuts of meat the shop gets. A charcoal ham terrine, for instance, was built from pork parts, dried horseradish and charcoal spice (derived from coconut husks), and creates a beautiful black slice with specks of white fat and pink ham. The aesthetics of the final product matter, Singer says.

“You can’t put a pig in a case and expect it to sell, it has to be appealing to people, you know, especially when it’s a lesser cut of an animal,” he says.

Singer believes that people support the things on which they spend money.

Even if they might not get a primo cut or as much quantity as they would at a chain grocer, they’re getting exceptional quality at a local butcher shop for the price.

“We don’t just make up prices out of our ass and put them on a piece of meat,” he says. “The price is made off a farmer that’s being sustainable so he can keep doing it year after year in the community.

We make our price to be sustainable as a butcher shop in the community year after year, and the community itself has to come in and support that, get behind that and understand you’re not going to be eating an 18-ounce rib-eye everyday. It’s higher quality, less quantity of meat.”

There are those who will argue that any consumption of animal meat isn’t really sustainable, unless the per-person average consumption is cut back to something that’s never going to happen in America; like, once a week. Animals, particularly cows and lamb, require tons of natural resources, so it’s worth asking if raising animals for meat in today’s America can really be sustainable.

“That’s the ranchers’ job, man,”

Singer says. “It’s their job to be sustainable and charge a price for their animals that’s sustainable, ... and not deplete the land and actually build the land. ... We only work with ranchers that are sustainable and biodynamic.”

Singer, at least, believes every entity along the chain of consumers must be responsible for maintaining sustainability.

That shared responsibility creates a codependent cycle. But consumer tastes need to change, he says.

“I know in the last 15 years, the sale of rib-eyes and New Yorks and tenderloins and all that has gone up like 5, 6 percent, whereas the consumption for the chuck and the lesser parts of the body have gone down like 25 percent because nobody is cooking at home anymore,” Singer says. “Everybody’s going to restaurants, and restaurants are cooking middles. When people do cook nowadays, they’re in a hurry, so they’re not making stews, they’re not making braises, they’re not feeding their families like they used to, therefore the utilization of whole animals isn’t what it used to be in America.”

Buying into the system requires trust, Fortin says. Running primal dinners and rotating new cuts of meat in front of people builds trust. Once a relationship is established, though, it’s off to the races, Fortin says.

“People just go for it,” he says. “They understand, in a way, what we’re doing, that we’re trying to utilize everything. It’s like you can eat everything. We’re trying to show them how they can do that, and not to be afraid of it in a restaurant, how to shop for it here and also how to utilize it at home with simple cooking methods and such.”

How much each guest at the primal dinner took away from the butchery demonstration and dinner is anyone’s guess — but they definitely left knowing they have a resource in Blackbelly. It’s up to them if they want to use it.

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Gunbarrel Brewing Company, so called to invoke the rugged and wild spirit of the West, is Boulder County’s latest craft brewery and though it has a small following now, there is plenty of room to grow. Sitting atop 5.5 acres, this 20,000-square-foot space is large and waiting to be filled. According to their investment strategy, Gunbarrel Brewing currently utilizes a 10-barrel brewing system but has room to stretch out to a full 200-barrel brew house.

Though it’s located in a large and somewhat empty space in one of the county’s many office parks, the beers at Gunbarrel Brewing are neighborhood friendly. There aren’t a lot of gimmicks at Gunbarrel Brewing, just a solid slate of easy drinking beers that’ll climb all over you if you’re not watching your back.

Take the Scotch ale, Begbie (6.2 percent alcohol by volume), for example. Named after Trainspotting’s heroin-abstaining, hard-drinking, explosively violent psychopath, Begbie is low in bitterness and hops, high in sweet malty deliciousness. Concocted with crystal, chocolate, pale and Munich malts, among others, and a dash of fuggles hops, Begbie is the perfect drinking companion. Just make sure to switch before this Scotch embodies his namesake and turns on that deadly dime.

Owners Jamie and Marie Fox must have a thing for fighters because their export-style stout, Milo of Croton (8.3 percent), bears the name of an ancient Greek wrestler. Crystal, chocolate and pale malts all make another appearance, as do flaked and roasted barley, with some fuggles and apollo hops.

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ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Are you feeling as daring about

romance as I suspect? If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-for-word or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine?

We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solidgold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: You still have a wound that never

formed a proper scar. (We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention. Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle. All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire in your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In his poem “The Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary. As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: During the four years he worked

on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece?

Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker. Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion — as long as it’s not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “The purpose of art is to lay bare

the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN

JUNE 21-JULY 22: For many years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: You’re in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. 1) A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born. 2) An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets.

3) The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

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AQUARIUS

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Do you really have to be the flashy

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Aquarian novelist James Joyce had

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king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Dear Hard Worker: Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness. Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation. Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun, and pleasure — or else! No excuses will be accepted.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: If extraterrestrial beings land their space ship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras. Right now, at least, you’re nobler than the rest

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of us, and more sparkly, too. You’re dealing smartly with your personal share of the world’s suffering, and your day-to-day decisions are based more on love than fear.

You’re not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than everyone else to laugh at the craziness that surrounds us. And even if aliens don’t appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring? I hope not. If you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you’re used to.

a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.”

My challenge to you, Aquarius — in accordance with the astrological omens — is to prove Joyce wrong.

Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Years after he had begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. “I am learning to see,” he wrote. “I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.” Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won’t happen like magic. You can’t just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive — if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that’s flowing towards you — you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

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Dear Dan: I’m a reader in Kansas with two teenage daughters, 16 and 18.

My girls recently met a boy where they work and both took an interest in him.

The 18-year-old was devastated that he was more interested in her younger sister. I spoke to the 16-year-old about it, which is when I found out this boy is going to be a sophomore in college. The fact that he’s interested in a 16-year-old is a red flag. I asked the 16-year-old to keep her distance.

She agreed, but I saw a shirtless photo he sent her. I don’t know what other photos he’s sent and I don’t know what she’s sent him, but I immediately removed all photo apps from her phone. The girls have had public fights about this boy. They’ve made peace with each other, but now my 18-year-old wants to date him. I can’t control the actions of an 18-year-old but 1) it seem likely this guy is a complete creep and 2) isn’t her relationship with her sister more important?

—Knowing A Numbskull Stalks Adorable Sisters Dear KANSAS: 1) I’m not ready to pronounce this guy a creep — at least not for the age difference. It sounds like he met your daughters someplace they’re all working this summer, which is a lot less icky than some college boy creeping on high-school girls via Instagram. And you say this boy is going to be a sophomore in college, KANSAS, but don’t give his age. There are 30-year-old college sophomores, of course, but if this boy went straight to college from high school, that would make him 19 years old. If your 16-yearold is closing in on 17, this guy could be “older” by two years and change.

While I can understand why you wouldn’t want your younger daughter dating college boys, I think you are overreacting to the age difference — and it’s a moot issue, as he’s no longer pursuing your younger daughter.

1.5) You know what is creepy?

Pursuing a pair of sisters. The possibility of conflict was so predictable, it was likely a motivating factor for him.

Getting off on drama and public fights isn’t a crime, but it is a red flag.

2) You ordered your 16-year-old to stop seeing this guy and deleted apps from her phone. (It’s cute you think your daughter isn’t tech-savvy enough to re-download and hide all the same apps.) You should warn your daughter about the risks of sexting — it may be legal for her to have sex (16 is the age of consent in Kansas), but she could face child porn charges for sending photos and this boy could wind up on a Boulder Weekly

sex-offender registry for receiving them.

(Laws meant to protect young people from being exploited are routinely used to punish them.) But don’t attempt to micromanage your daughters’ love lives.

Parental disapproval has a way of driving teenagers into each other’s arms, KANSAS. If you don’t want your daughters having a fuck-you-mom

threesome with this guy before the summer is over, you’ll let them work through this on their own — but go ahead and stitch “boys come and go but sisters are forever” on a couple of pillows and put them on their beds.

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Boulder’s Daniel McQueen is set to launch for alien worlds “Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door.

Let’s go.” — E.E. Cummings

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and everything happens all at once.”

Normally when Gallimore gives these talks he does it purely from a place of curiosity, to present what he has found to be theoretically possible — to safely subject a human to an extended-state DMT experience through intravenous injection. But this crowd isn’t just made of academics or psychonauts tickled by fanciful ideas — this is a room full of people ready to stick the pen into the apple and take a hit.

After Gallimore left the stage, Daniel McQueen, the host of the event and owner of consciousness company Medicinal Mindfulness, took his place.

hort, bald and with a beer in hand, Dr. Andrew Gallimore stood in front of a packed house about to deliver his buzzworthy talk: “Talking with Aliens: DMT and the search for Extra Dimensional Intelligence.” But he didn’t open with the easy hook, he did’t tell a story about the elvish critters he and countless others have met in the DMT state. No. He began with something much more mundane, something much more... Boulder. He started with a green apple and a pen.

Public domain On the Thursday before the event, Gallimore was standing in line at Safeway where he’d gone to buy some razors (re: the meticulously bald head) when he noticed the gentleman in front of him purchasing what was to Gallimore an odd pair of items.

Of course, everyone in the room listening to Gallimore recount this story knew these to be the bare essential tools needed to make a smoking pipe in a pinch. But the good doctor described the scene with such an infantilelike curiosity and attention to detail that the room listened in awe as he revealed the inner workings of his highly attuned scientific mind.

He wondered aloud about how the shopper came With his master’s degree in transpersonal counseling to buy these two items — specifically as if on a list, psychology from Naropa and a lifetime of both or were they the bizarre result of a more haphazard exploring psychedelic worlds and guiding others shopping trip? He told of the moment the gentleman through them, it was surprising to see McQueen pushed the pen into the fruity flesh with a mix of shiver a bit when he found the podium. horror and sheer delight.

As firmly as he believed in what he was about to “My aim is to give you all the information I have, propose, he knew it was equally far out: McQueen is to give you full disclosure,” he said, suggesting that dead set on actualizing extended-state DMT experiwhat we do with it is up to us. And then, just like ences, right here in Boulder. that, he dropped the storyline and went on to talk McQueen immediately admits the barriers that he about the nature of reality, about the consensual and his growing team will confront, most notably the world as illusion and about DMT as an access point fact that the drug is nationally and internationally into understanding “the hyper dimensionality of real- prohibited. But he also acknowledges that more subity as one in which everything connects to everything tle barriers — namely that an extended-state DMT

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experience as a way to explore alien worlds is going to be a tough sell to the scientific community, let alone to the Food and Drug Administration.

“In pursuing an understanding of DMT and the worlds the ‘spirit molecule’ makes apparent, we will not be regarded as serious scientists,” he says in his speech. “But perhaps it is better not to get too entangled with how we get this approved by the mainstream, but to consider how psychedelics might alter the mainstream instead.

“Yes, there will be stigmas we must confront in engaging this idea, but our goal must be to make this congruent with science, not restricted by it. We are self-empowered healers and explorers of the Strassman/McKenna lineage, trailblazers and tricksters who are as concerned with safety as we are with pushing the limits of life as we know it.”

McQueen’s vision is strong and vivid, reinforced with maps of what the “launchpad” for DMT experiences would look like, an established and growing team of strategic partners and a fundraising campaign seeking $100,000 to get the idea off the ground.

Dr. Gallimore stood in the back corner of the room, wearing a fixed expression of disbelief, which he later affirms as an accurate interpretation. It’s a look that summarizes the difference between a scientist questing after an explanation of reality and all its possibilities, and jumping into the untested waters of an extendedDMT experience.

But there’s also something nagging at him, something about the grand vision that bothers him a bit. It’s only an intellectual objection, at best a point of pride that’s not really worth mentioning.

Later, though, he does, saying he appreciates the therapeutic approach to drugs and thinks it’s important to explain how they can help us pharmacologically, but he has to wonder why science doesn’t equally legitimize the exploration of alien worlds and, as such, life as we know it.

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by Paul Danish

Pot and the press: 100 years of fake news

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hris, a budtender in Steamboat Springs and an aspiring freelance writer, had a great post on The Weed Blog last week. It ought to be required reading for everyone in the mainstream press who writes about marijuana.

Chris reveals a dirty little secret about journalism that has been hiding in plain sight for at least a generation: When mainstream journalists write about marijuana, they often find it almost irresistible to treat the topic flippantly.

“The media seems incapable of treating a marijuana story professionally,” he writes.

“60 Minutes, a news [program] steeped in credibility, is not even capable of doing a cannabis story they do not sensationalize or passively ridicule. Every story they have done since 2009 is full of ridiculous puns like ‘high turnout for pot,’ ‘marijuana store is high on profits’ or ‘burning the midnight hash oil.’

“If that was the type of headline you saw for a story regarding race or sexuality, people would be extremely offended. The media has a responsibility to offer the facts ... and to stop turning every story on marijuana into a damn joke,” he adds.

No kiddin’.

The situation isn’t quite as dire as Chris makes it out to be. Today there are journalists who will play a marijuana story straight — but there are plenty who don’t.

And up until a few years ago the situation was very much as Chris describes it. During the ’80s and ’90s I was involved in a couple early attempts to petition legalization initiatives onto the Colorado ballot. Getting any coverage was difficult; getting coverage that didn’t involve ridicule or a freak-show spin on the story was nearly impossible.

But in one important respect, Chris is way too easy on the press.

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If Trump wanted a smoking gun example of fake news in which almost the entire American mainstream media has been willingly complicit, it would be the way the mainstream media has covered marijuana for the last 100 years.

The “coverage” has gone far beyond mere spin and distortions to brazen lies, demonization and de-legitimization of both marijuana and its users.

The truth is the war on drugs, and the war on

marijuana in particular, is almost entirely a creation of the American press — with William Randolph Hearst’s papers being the leading perpetrators.

Here are some examples of the sort of stuff that used to appear in Hearst’s papers during the 20-year run-up to the start of pot prohibition in 1937 (all examples taken from Jack Herer’s book The Emperor Wears No Clothes): —“NEW DOPE LURE, MARIJUANA, HAS MANY VICTIMS. Called ‘Silly Smoke’... It Soon

Becomes Murder Smoke in Cigarettes.”

—“MARIHUANA MAKES FIENDS OF BOYS IN 30 DAYS; HASHEESH GOADS USERS TO BLOOD-LUST.” —“Declaring that marijuana smoking is ‘taking our youth like wildfire,’ Mr. Anslinger [head of the Federal Narcotics Bureau] said: ‘If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana he would drop dead of fright.’

This is not an overstatement. Users of the marihuana weed are committing a large percentage of the atrocious crimes blotting the daily picture of American life It is reducing thousands of Boys to CRIMINAL INSANITY.” And then there was the racism. Hearst’s papers and other yellow journals would routinely run stories portraying “Negros” and Mexicans as frenzied beasts who regularly raped white women under the influence of marijuana and jazz music.

After Nixon started the war on drugs, the anti-marijuana narrative was updated and repackaged, but the substance remained the same.

Marihuana became marijuana.

Hippies took the place of “Negros” (which didn’t keep blacks from being targeted).

Jazz became rock ‘n’ roll.

Marijuana stopped being “The Assassin of Youth” and became the “Gateway Drug” to other drugs that were the assassins of youth.

And so on.

And through it all America’s brain-dead media kept uncritically reporting the drug-war lies – which to an extent it still does.

The American press would have you believe that the concept of fake news was something that Trump dreamed up. Well, it isn’t, and the way the mainstream media has covered marijuana for the past 100 years is the apotheosis of it.

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TEENAGE BOYS SHOW RESPECT TO LOST, JABBERING MAN ON STAGE When a senile man appeared on stage of the Boy Scouts of America 2017 National Scout Jamboree this week, the thousands of respectful young men in attendance listened patiently and with courtesy as the man spewed garbage and stroked his own ego.

It wasn’t clear, according to those familiar with the situation, if the senile man knew where he was: addressing a large gathering of impressionable children that have shown dedication to being productive members of society.

The senile man pointed out the “press” will call the crowd of 45,000 people only about 200. And that it set a record. Guardians for the man said he’s always going off about setting records.

Instead of telling the group of children about becoming a successful adult, the man compared our nation’s government to a cesspool, then a sewer and then wondered aloud why there wasn’t “more loyalty.”

The senile man then went on a rant about William

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(IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world Levitt, saying the notorious developer who famously refused to sell his homes to black people, “had a very interesting life,” and said his only fault was that he got “bored” with his life of yachts.

In true crazy person style, the man concluded his speech to the mouth-agape audience by declaring they’ll be saying “Merry Christmas again when they go shopping,” and that “they” have been downplaying that.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

PUT A RING ON IT It’s officially the dog days of summer — where temperatures are sweltering, chaos and catastrophe can ensue, or more technically the star Sirius rises before the sun (#themoreyouknow). It’s also the height of wedding season for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, although some in the Southern Hemisphere don’t want to be left out. For example, the two British field guides who were the first to get married at a field station on the Antarctic territory claimed by the U.K. The ceremony made headlines at home, all publications commenting on the bride’s dress, the bottom half of which was fabricated out of an old tent. It was one for the history books.

Not that it was the first Antarctic wedding in his-

tory, as at least some adventuresome couples have been hitched there before. (Why have a scuba wedding surrounded by undersea creatures if you can pose with penguins to get the perfect living-roomwall-worthy shot?) What’s significant is that this was the first official wedding to take place in the British Antarctic Territory, weddings being a new service the British Foreign & Commonwealth announced in October 2016 (and outlined on the governments webpage).

Nevermind the fact that the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, of which the U.K. is a member, doesn’t really recognize any claims to territory on the southernmost continent, or the fact that Chile and Argentina both dispute the U.K.’s claims to the pie-sliver of land stretching from the Antarctic Peninsula down to the South Pole. Was this just a fun life and style story for the folks back home? Or a subtle statement about the U.K.’s Antarctic diplomacy? Nothing says “mine” like making a marriage official.

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